skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand and agree with your point but hey, I got a lot of benefit from learning Latin, arguably more than I got for learning Lisp (which was is what I used for the first 10 years of my career. It was a fun and quite lucrative period).

For graduates of my (very small) high school, Classics was the number one choice of college major and though I'm not in close touch with all of them I never heard any of them claim that they had made a mistake.

Cobol is sort of like Lisp* in that regard: the options are quite limited, but as the supply is too you'll probably do better than fine financially.

* wow is it painful to write that.
Yes. What English-speaking world calls "passport" is what in Russian is literally "abroad-passport".
Right, this is the OVH “tower” data center design. Here’s a google maps link to the OVH Strasbourg site
https://goo.gl/maps/rQjir8byKNwMDZrm9 with (from south to north) SBG1 (a collection of shipping containers), SBG2 (a figure 8 shape), and SBG3 (a box).

The idea of the tower design is to take ambient air in through the outside walls, through I think just one row of servers, then into a central void where convection pulls the air out.
For the curious, this was changed in the AP style guide sometime between 2019-2020.

Not making a value statement, just sharing.
I feel like an old man yelling at clouds, but I actually like CSS, with classes, specifity, and the cascade.

Maybe the difference is that other people build apps with lots of components. When I write HTML I mostly build web pages - a lot of text, some images, and maybe a menu.

I need to be able to tweak properties among a lot of different elements at the same time. E.g. change the font face on all elements in the main area, change the color of all links that are not special links, rotate all titles and underline them, and so on. It's an iterative approach, as I evolve the design in HTML (I don't have a designer team that hands me a psd I just have to copy). To do this with Tailwind, you'd have to use components, and you'd have to add another layer of abstraction to affect the right components together.

And I know nobody really uses CSS Zen Garden style themes - but it is great to be able to take a HTML snippet and use it in another project with minimal changes and a different CSS design.

CSS has shortcomings - it's missing a way to "include", it could have more complex selectors, it can get unwieldy in larger projects - but it is also does a couple of things really well.
No, probably too complacent. Those are just not an issue in most civilized countries, or at worst a once-a-year event.
yes, you get the points but looks like the first words by the author in this article. Is the joke just that no one will read the actual article?
The Netflix plan I pay for allows two simultaneous views and permits different profiles. On what possible ground should it matter what physical location those two screens are viewed at?
You could get a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo and use a TV/projector as a display.
Necktie – a simple DOM binding tool
Necktie is a library that binds your logic to the Document Object Model elements in an easy way. It has only 3kB (UMD, minified).
It's interesting to note that my Indian wife had trouble wrapping her head around the concept of appreciating the meaty flavor of a hamburger with minimal seasoning when she first came to the United States
If you're interested in a more personal talk [0], he gave one near the end of last year about what he does in his life to get into the right mindset.

As usual, a disclaimer that I am the host of these conferences.

[0] https://media.handmade-seattle.com/developing-a-handmade-min...
A band aid makes a better cover as it doesn't leave gluey residue on what's already a crummy camera.
So does mining for gold. What's his point? Bitcoin will always be around, there are hundreds of other coins ready for daily transaction and they're somewhat already pegged to Bitcoin.
I thought that the lesson of this assignment was something that they never mentioned: all this public information that the students manually googled is available for automated passive surveillance to record, look up, and store.
Apple's card wouldn't seem so bad to me if they didn't treat debt to Apple differently [0] & lock people out of all of their Apple services when there's a payment overdue. It's crappy enough to be behind on bills without that sort of pile-on, not to mention the Kafka-esque process of fixing the issue.

[0] https://dcurt.is/apple-card-can-disable-your-icloud-account
> Sometimes I just want to work while sitting comfortably on the couch.

Grab some paper and a pencil and use it as non-screen time. Else you can find yourself spending too long on a poor posture on furniture that's designed for lean-back, not lean-in.
I'm going to regret participating under a link with a racially charged bait, but I'm curious:

What's the reason Ars Technica capitalizes the one ethnicity and not the other?

Actual question, not a native speaker.
Unless your job is to teach Latin :). Quite a few schools around the world are teaching Latin or even Ancient Greek.

Are Latin and Ancient Greek dead? Ostensibly yes. But not useless. Besides teaching, there is a tremendous amount of books and texts written in Latin and Ancient Greek. To study them, one would invariably need to learn the language.
Don't feed trolls, and don't look at the first comment as being the "best". It's there because it's the only top level comment. Downvote and post a better top level comment.
Many years ago I went into my local bank to change my ATM daily withdrawal limit. Somehow the person behind the desk managed to change the name on my account to "Mr Mr" (but not change my withdrawal limit), so, along comes a new card in that name a couple of days later.

It took 4 reissued cards to get my name back.

Then they charged me for the extra cards. It took a short conversation with the bank manager to fix that.

I guess it's true that computers just let you make mistakes faster (look at the names
on the cards).

Edit: No, apparently the cards had numbers/names inconsistently Photoshopped for privacy. My bad.
Maybe this question just reveals that I don't totally understand the underlying system here, but what stops the archaeologist from just unwrapping the sarcophagus off-chain? They don't get paid by the contract, but what if someone who is interested in my secret just pays them in cash?
The No-Fly List[1] has been a two decades long quagmire that has put thousands of people into a situation where they're banned from travelling despite doing nothing wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#Vulnerabilities
I believe each one needed a unique Google account, so no.

The coupons had seeds embedded in the paper, and they were however put into a compostable bin, so hopefully they're flowers somewhere.
> Don't make the appointment if you can't dedicate your attention

maybe the CEO is swamped and needs to hire people so he can dedicate attention.

I'm assuming the best, but if my assumptions are true, the CEO should have said upfront that they are growing fast and he may need to personally help with support during the interview.
Let's say you are mistaken for a wanted robber and arrested and later acquitted or have the charges dropped, when that record is expunged, there is a legal duty for the government to destroy all records related to that arrest.

If they don't, you have political and legal recourse. A third-party company doesn't have the same legal obligation, nor does the public have any democratic control over that organization. Data companies have institutional pressures to preserve data at all costs, not to be proactive in destroying records of innocent folks.
I hear people complain about the cost of "gas fees" for Ethereum. Does this require paying those to keep the dead man switch alive?
It will get ported to WebGL/GPU with WebAssembly, it is still Web.

I also do prefer native, yet as mentioned, web browsers or web widgets as GUI toolkits are a fact and aren't going away.

Specially if everyone keeps pushing packaged ChromeOS apps, aka Electron.
Definitely 3+

I grab a new one every couple of years when I see one with advantageous terms. I typically only use a couple of them at a time, but I keep the old ones around because: why not? Having more available credit is only a good thing.
I recommend anyone looking for a TV get a signage TV and a chromecast/pi/computer instead of a smart tv.

I noticed a lot of smart tvs are underspecced for their own operating system and lag horribly. My parents TV takes like 2 minutes to start.
FWIW, I use emacs(with evil) inside tmux, so you can keep your flow if you are willing to invest in the transition.
Lol. My former bank sent my debit cards to my former home for 10 years.

My mortgage, checking, etc statements all got to my home addressed correctly. They held both mortgages and “fixed” it a dozen times.
Semiconductor Design Consolidation: MIPS – RISC-V
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/us/california-school-board-re...
911 calls from Amazon show emotional distress and suicide threats (2019)
Not a lot of junk mail when I was there, but the middle old address (59 Temple Place) no longer exists, so I had some help from Greg KH to remove it from Linux.

When I was there I would get a fair amount of mail from people in prisons, and we'd send them books.
There is also this package:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/dray

Though it looks like it is for Raylib 3.0 (latest is 3.5).
I would like to request a Safari extension if possible.
"An Archaeologist is a third-party, disinterested, incentivized service provider. They operate the Archaeologist server, post bonds in SARCO, resurrect files when needed, and are rewarded for good behavior (They are also harshly punished for bad behavior)."

"After spinning up an Archaeologist server, the operator must set their own parameters for minimum digging fees, minimum bounty, and maximum resurrection time. This will allow the Embalmer to see the minimum price in SARCO that an Archaeologist will accept in order to be cursed."

I really don't know if this is real or parody
The 3rd Industrial Revolution
"'The Great Grey City, brooking no rival, imposed its dominion upon a reach of country larger than many a kingdom of the Old World. For thousands of miles beyond its con­ fines was its influence felt…

It was Empire, the resistless subjugation of all this central world of the lakes and the prairies. Here, mid-most in the land, beat the Heart of the Nation, whence inevitably must come its immeasurable power, its infinite, infinite, inexhaustible vitality…

In its capacity boundless, in its courage indomitable; subduing the wilderness in a sin­gle generation, defying calamity, and through the flame and debris of a common­ wealth in ashes, rising suddenly renewed, formidable, and Titanic.'

Frank Norris, The Pit"
At least my Polish bank absolutely doesn't have any problem sending me my cards to a foreign address. I have to set it as my main address on the web portal though, request a card, and then it arrives where it should.
Sparrow will trade stocks for you while you sleep
Without knowing the context it's impossible to say if it was user error or application error. I don't see it as a fair write up.
Also offers are not symmetric for the same role. A candidate can receive and evaluate multiple offers and pick the best one. Companies cannot send out multiple offers for the same role and pick the best candidate that responds.
Some discussion about the plausibility of lembas here: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/56044/lemb...
So we know that these large companies use mainframes, in part, because they've always used mainframes. But it also seems like there are compelling reasons now in terms of large amounts of memory & compute & I/O & speciality co-processors. So how come it's not a sexy thing now? Having a ton of compute + memory + I/O in AWS/GCP/Azure can be really, really expensive... I'd love to know a cost comparison.

Is it even possible for an ordinary person to rent a VM on one of these machines and do some compute? If I have a startup that needs to crunch a bunch of models or would have an easier time running some system centrally versus having to have the skills & time to create a purely distributed system, why aren't mainframes a good/better/easier option? How come AWS doesn't have any? Does IBM have quick/easy on-ramps to hosted mainframes via Softlayer (I can't find them if they do)?
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A reminder that by carrying company hardware as your primary personal phone, you are giving up the ability to keep any aspect of your private life secret from your employer should they choose to investigate a leak, accusation, etc.
fyi for the curious: $100 in the 1920s fluctuated but is around $1500 today

some other proto-FI literature:

"Your Money or Your Life", 1992, Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, book version of their 1986 workshop.

stretching the definition/purpose financial independence quite a bit, The And and the Grasshopper fable, Aesop, 500's BCE.
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Thanks!

But having just read the 1953 Mad Magazine 'Superduperman' (https://forgottenawesome.blogspot.com/2017/07/superduperman....), I don't notice any reference to the dangers posed by Super(duper)man's ejaculation!
Not sure if it was just a temp measure during the pandemic, but last May I renewed my driving CA license completely online, and they mailed it to my home address; no visit to DMV was necessary.
Show HN: how I realized that Payments – At the Core – Are a Natural Network
Same thing with YouTube. Anecdote: yesterday I popped open youtube to see a video of the President of my country drooling during a state visit. After the 20s video was finished my recommendations were immediately flooded with links for the far-right party's propaganda channel on youtube, complete with inflammatory titles and fake news. For fuck's sake, how much longer will we put up with this? How much longer will we let our political process be undermined so that private companies can make a few more pennies?
I’d suggest for future reference getting a passport card.

It meets all identity requirements and has the benefit of not providing your address.
If they're in the US, a lot of financially smart and motivated people can play Credit Card games to maximize on their miles / rewards for purchases such as like 3% cash back on some purchases.
His reason for why they don't need it was they are 'under the delusion of “hitting it big and needing to be able to scale 100x”.'

To be fair, as a kubernetes consultant, he's probably not qualified to determine whether or not they will hit it big.

What he probably is qualified for is to determine if they were to serve 100x their current load, would they be well served by kubernetes.
This is now resolved for me
Their justification is that it's okay for black people form an identity behind their race, so they capitalize Black to emphasize they're talking about the Black identity. Yet they say whites can't because reasons.

In reality, it's all an attempt to exploit the societal fear of racism in order for minorities to gain power and justify anti-white discrimination and shaming.
Actual answer:

Until recently, most publications didn't capitalize "white" or "black", but capitalized everything else ("Indian", "Native American", "Asian", etc.).

Recently, there has been increasing recognition that Black isn't just a (lowercase) skin color, but an identity like the rest and thus ought to be given the same capital-letter-recognition "Black". A large number of publications have made this change in the past couple years.

The reason "white" still isn't capitalized is because many people are uncomfortable recognizing white identity -- because in the past and still ongoing, that is often linked to white supremacism.

So as long as capitalizing "White" continues to carry (even unintended) associations of white supremacism, it's probable that most publications will keep it lowercase.

To be clear, I'm not expressing any opinions here as to whether this is right or wrong or desirable or not (edit: or even whether white identity exists). This is just a description of the reasons for things currently.
Along the lines of what you point out, I've noticed that the word 'read' often causes misparsing - but you don't realize until you've read on for a bit more and realize that the sentence doesn't make any sense. At that point you read the sentence twice again and realize that it was using the other meaning of read.

This is something that I've run into commonly enough that I try to write 'read' only for the present tense 'read a book', and 'redd' for the past tense 'redd the email.'
> My homophobic boss didn't like that I had this on my own server and didn't get approval to share it first...

> When I left that job, I pulled them offline...

Sounds like the first boss had the right idea...and obviously not the homophobia.
If I have a Netflix account and I (post-pandemic) go to an ANB rental I would be pissed if my account didn't work there.

I subscribed the first month Netflix came to Denmark (my country) and I kept the subscription up for a decade until they started to degrade the stream too much. They fixed that and I eventually came back but stuff like that would turn me of for good.
Yeah, given the sorts of comments that gain traction around here, I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not.
What if the company’s rules, principles, etc. are immoral, unethical, or otherwise bad for the company’s long-term viability?
Some people consider tailwind/inline styles to be easier to read because it's all right there in the file.

Others view compartmentalisation as important to ease of reading, letting them focus on one level at a time.

I wonder how well the preferences for tailwind align with people's views on unit tests in the same source file?
Software switches are always hackable. Never ever rely on one.

Half of hacking exploits would go away if there was a physical write enable switch on device ROMs.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Feeding trolls like this actually does more damage than they do. A flagkilled comment with no replies is the proper outcome for the GP—it's what minimizes damage to the container. We can come along and ban the account later.

In egregious cases, heads-ups to hn@ycombinator.com are welcome.
I think the damage to democracy is done by low interest rates (QE). US was lucky to not be affected by wars and hate for a long time, but they existed before tech companies, like Facebook, especially when the financial system was centralized and corrupt.
> In addition, research shows that the audio quality is just as important as video quality when judging the overall “quality” and “presence” of the conference experience

Audio transmits 80% of the intellectual content. That's why when your TV news crosses to an outside broadcast unit, and there's no sound but the vision is perfect, they give up and go back to the studio until they get audio.
Saved you a click:

'Bitcoin uses more electricity per transaction than any other method known to mankind,' Gates said.
They are doing it to disambiguate between the color black, and identity Black. [0]

If your question is "why not african-american"? It's likely because not every black person is from Africa, or is American. Personally I think African-American is a poor term and Black American is better (if they're American, obviously).

[0]: https://apnews.com/article/71386b46dbff8190e71493a763e8f45a
Which is strange, given that most direct-mail marketing companies include de-duplication as part of their service.
Book wise I’d suggest Bobiverse by denis taylor, permutation city and zendegi by greg egan, and fall by stevenson.
Oh, wait, are we including phone interviews in this? That changes it. I guess if this is all remote interviewing then that would make sense.
It may have been that there was no winning position for HK.
There is a speed impact but it's mostly negligible, especially on modern hardware. The main reason is that building an entire operating system requires enormous investment beyond what most companies are willing to spend. But Google seems to be willing. And even if you succeed, people will inevitably chase you on Linux app compatibility.

Some well known open-source examples are seL4 and RedoxOS.
So, is it during, as the HN title (currently) states, or due to, as the linked-to article (and the referenced article at https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/economy/nearly-half-of-...) claim?

I don’t see any support (such as comparative numbers from 2019) for the due to claim in either article.
Yeah. Google Pay works the same way.
It's for family budgeting and trust. We generally ask/inform if we are going to spend more than $100 on any given project/item. This helps both of us realize if it's a need or want. That way if I mention I'm going to get a new video game, I'll be stopped if its the third one in a month. Or if she wants new luggage, is it because it is needed or is it desired because it's a new color that is available.

You might make enough money to not really need this kind of consent. That's great if you do. For us, it is just a small check to help us get to our goals.
Identity politics killed all rational thought and debate in America
Thanks for all the replies, which are hardly satisfying for my employer.
In general, and for my job especially, I am absolutely this person. However, as soon as I'm talking to any form of customer support I pretend to know nearly nothing about tech and try to stop myself from diagnosing the problem (at least out loud). Often the person I'm talking to has no real agency to make changes to the organization and me explaining what is wrong or trying to give them more details just confuses them. I'll still guide the conversation gently if I feel they are veering off into something wrong/unrelated but I've been "trained" by multiple experiences to just play dumb and try to move through the system as quickly as possible.
That's mostly a misconception, Wayland implementations don't need to start from scratch. Weston and wlroots are minimal from-scratch implementations, but GNOME and KDE for example do their implementations by re-using most of the code from their X compositor.
Haha - you are right, and it is why git submodules have warts. One thing I will say for them - at least you know explicitly which commits of your dependencies you are using.
No, it doesn't work like this. I have several bare-metal (with Heztner, I use OVH for DNS), it's been over 10 years already. I know that if I only rent one machine in one location, I'm asking for trouble. Based on my experience, I would say that every 2-6 years something dies in a server. A disk, a controller, a fan, you name it. It's rare to have servers running for longer than 7 years without any issues, and they're outdated by that time anyway so they need to be migrated to a new machine.

So, as a bare minimum, you rent at least two different machines at two different locations for each project and make offsite backups. It's still way less expensive than AWS.

If I don't need a powerful server and just need to spin some instances for testing or small projects, I use Hetzner Cloud, it's ridiculously cheap.
If we were discussing a school which offered programming, I would agree.

We aren't. So I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Please don't feed the trolls. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429910