skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Mail has a drop down menu to convert the mail to plaintext. Format-->Make Plain Text, it's even got a hotkey CMD+SHIFT+T. You can even default it to be in plain text under Composing settings in the Preferences.
there's some incredible vent trolling content on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5AkIfgioA4
Aside from not working well on devices that didn't yet exist when this was built, I'm having a hard time coming up with reasons why I don't like this design. I'm sure there are accessibility issues and other things that would be addressed now, but as for layout I still like it.
Thank you! I actually did consider doing exactly what you said. Early on, I decided one my goals for the project would be to make it easy to swap back and forth between Mongita and PyMongo/MongoDB. For me, that meant getting as close as possible to their implementation and using things like BSON, ObjectIds, etc. For that, I sacrificed some performance but I think most people who would use something like Mongita would prefer a faithful reproduction over a few clock cycles.

I could be wrong on that though.
Bandwidth and storage were more constrained.
Good...this should have been done sooner considering all the accusations.
Why do I have to pick one? It's not a binary thing. Why can't developers say it's free to use under these circumstances, but not under others? Isn't that precisely the freedom you are otherwise championing?

The only reason Google opposes the AGPL is financial. Read their explanations. So, while you're right that Google is not 'stiffing' the developers whose software they're using, by their campaign against the one license that can be used by developers to make money, they are making the OSS world weaker--especially for programmers from developing countries who don't have the luxury of large blocks of time to write software on the side unless they can benefit from a license like the AGPL.
Eh, maybe they do have some existing integration with a big customer, but they already tried this with https://discord.com/developers/docs/game-sdk/discord-voice and it doesn't seem to get any new features or updates, plus you can't submit new games to the store to use it.
Everyone's milage varies. I stopped wearing a watch when I started carrying a keitai (mobile phone) in the early 90s. This was a switch from at least 15 years of continuous watch wearing.

I bought an Apple Watch 0 shortly after they came out just to see what all the fuss was. My intent was to get a feeling for it, return it within the free return window, and then buy v3 or so when they "got it right" and I thought of something I'd like to write for it.

On day three or four I started driving to work without the watch -- wearing one wasn't muscle memory. When I realized it I turned around and went and got it. It was already that important. That's when I realized it would be a big deal.

In my case I was in a job where I had lots of meetings and calls; so I could use the silent reminders, check (filtered) messages in a meeting without pulling out my phone, and screen calls the same way. I was a single parent so couldn't just leave my phone at my desk when in a meeting.

In the pandemic I've been at home and have a different job where I don't have many appointments. For that case the watch would be less useful....except I'm a convert to the exercise features, and I often run out to the shops without phone, wallet or keys. But, as it sounds for you too, those later features only work because I was already a convert.
I checked the alternatives to AlternativeTo, but they didn't provide good alternatives to AlternativeTo. Can you suggest an alternative?
Python with one computer = Pure Joy

Python shared to two or more computers utterly devastating. I left python a long time ago when I couldn't get my code to easily repeat on three of my computers at three locations for work. I also tried a simple program to use on 100 computers at 40 different locations was a disaster (Luckily no one knew)

I actually used Racket and it was a the easiest packaging system I ever used and had smooth sailing on projects that I used for pet projects that saved me tons of time.
>I'm definitely not an expert,

I think that's something we can both agree on.
There's a period of Beatles songs that were released in both mono and stereo and IIRC the mono productions are sometimes preferable. Some of those early stero productions are really busy and make use of the technology like they thought it would be a fad
Parents just equip them with an iPhone or Apple Watch instead.
Very much this, though newer stove designs and emissions controls help remarkably with this.

Specifically particulat matter / PM2.5 emissions, the same factor that causes most concern in wildfire smoke.
I find the most difficult question of consciousness is why am I inside my brain and not someone else’s.

Out of the billions of people somehow I control only my brain.
Technology extends but also amputates.

https://stream.syscoi.com/2019/05/30/marshall-mcluhan-extens...
It's a social skill. Once you break past the facade that everybody partakes in you realize it makes people like you.

I used to think and act the same way. I'd never talk, I kept to myself, and didn't feel the need to talk about frivolous things. Then I realized I had no friends.
I did the same, but based on the code style we used, more like `Dim foo = True` vs `var foo = true;`

Honestly, because of how much VisualStudio auto-completes code, the biggest practical difference that cause me grief was semi-colons: spend a day working in one language, and spend the next day constantly getting the other language wrong.

I remember back in maybe C#5 days there were somethings that I thought VB was nicer for (though I can't remember or find what they were now), but spending the last years working with modern versions (C#7.3 or C#8) there's nothing at all I miss from VB.
Why deny credit? Plenty of economists before Baumol (and not a few after) failed to appreciate this phenomenon. As the name suggests, it's a phenomenon about cost moderating the effects of supply and demand, and it's clearly not a trivial result of analysis involving only those two. It's worth understanding in its own right, and AFAIK is typically taught for that reason in Econ 102.
From what I’ve read, it’s really a matter of branding and marketing that’s resulted in filecoin having a larger market cap.
The framework you choose doesn't even matter that much. You're unlikely to even a notice a difference and changing from one to another is often as easily as selecting it from a drop-down (or editing a file) and recompiling.

Yes, you can get into situations where something you're doing needs one or the other but it's very rare.
Apparently the answer is in the rule book as well (from the WP article):

"The set had rules for two different games, anti-monopolist and a monopolist. The anti-monopolist rules reward all during wealth creation while the monopolist rules had the goal of forming monopolies and forcing opponents out of the game. A win in the anti-monopolist or Single Tax version (later called "Prosperity"), was when the player having the lowest monetary amount has doubled his original stake."
A friend of mine recently said:

> The 10x programmer is a myth, it's just that corporate collaborative software development practices routinely produce teams of >10 that get less done than a single competent developer working independently

My theory is this is one of the main benefits of hiring a consultant. They can cut through bureaucracy.
Augmented reality will exacerbate our unhealthy relationship with technology
AR as we're currently thinking about it will be a nightmare.
I'm looking for 'X' is to Neo4j as Sqlite is to SQL
any suggestions for what project is X?
It saddens me that the Guestbook ain't working.
If memory serves 56K was pretty widespread in _availability_ by 1998. I worked at a small local ISP in San Diego from 95ish to 97ish and they were available at the tail end of my time there.

You're right that it was rare to get full 56Kbps especially on the early modems and especially on the dreaded winmodems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmodem).

All that said, I also seem to recall that at least in major cities 56Kbps never really went anywhere as cable modems started becoming widely available.
So... Youtube essentially just bought this award then right? Seems kind of pathetic...
Multitask UI is still horrible. I sometimes creates new Safari windows in mistake, closing them and return to correct window is not an easy task.
You must have good eyes then, or more likely you have a really big phone.
Suggestion: allow a list as an alternative to (or maybe even instead of) a gallery.

Too many titles start with the same text, and the gallery doesn't allow the user to see the full title except with a (slow or non-existent, depending on the platform) mouseover.

Update: I see that the dedicated brand pages are more useful than general search results, but it's very hard to navigate the list of brands (although obviously you can go directly to a brand by typing your own URL).
Graduate Instruction and Research (Iverson, 1954)
So UWB trades off accuracy for range. But the range issue is rendered moot by the fact there's a huge iDevice network. Nice..
And kids will continue to die from them, if you want to be that absolute about the topic.
>Revoking awards from 25 years ago [...] will make secularism look partisan

Dawkins's second tweet, disparaging a political party to defend himself against replies to his offensive first tweet, looks partisan already.
Anecdotally when I've had to show developers how to start with .NET Core the problem isn't the SDK (install dot.net at the website) or which template to use (i.e. just tell them to pick that one) its C#. This is especially true if they come from a JS, Python or Go background. I say this as someone who does doesn't mind C# and thinks its pretty capable once the learning curve has passed.

At one stage I had a JS developer just try the F# template instead and the difference was stark. Explained to them Async F# - Promise JS, Module F# - Module JS, showed them a unit test example and they were writing production code in two weeks to a month. It made me realise that over the years there is a lot of knowledge I just take for granted that many beginners just don't have especially now when there are much friendlier languages for beginners. Things like dependency injection, how it resolves based on types, and which framework to use and why, mocking framework choice (vs simple stub functions), can only mock interfaces and why, the class structure and how you should group functions into appropriate classes, abstract classes vs interface default methods, LINQ vs OO style coding, nullability annotations all over the place, OO design patterns, the need for Resharper or equivalent unless you can write C# syntax from scratch, the list goes on and on. With most C# apps there is a lot of knowledge assumed and baked in which can be daunting for a newcomer. C# is not alone here I understand that - the same thing can be said for other languages too. But it has made it harder than it needs to be especially when it is actually a good platform but C# scares many developers away especially as it adds more and more features on top.

Litmus test for a language to me: Does it need an IDE and tooling to be productive in? The more tooling it needs the more complex IMO the underlying language is in syntax and complexity. Complicated refactoring tools? If so its probably too complex for a beginner especially now that the language space has quite a bit of competition. As an example watching a developer do this in a previous role in F# you just create a new file and cut and paste the functions around; in C# the dev's I've had usually resort to Resharper and a full blown IDE to extract variables/methods, do code generation, and basic refactorings unless they want a lot of manual work.
That may be true, but a state of ambiguity is as good as saying its covered by GPL ... no organisation is going to look at that and say "that's fine, let's use it".

In fact, state of ambiguity is the worst for everyone because neither will users be able assume they can exercise their free software rights. So everyone loses.
Does the Freedom Forum Institute do societally beneficial things or are they just a prestige laundering service?
Tada! Apple officially announced that RAM capacity is 8GB/16GB (for the first time to announce it?)
thank you for directing my attention to the mistake.

I mistakenly took your phrase "if you want to be pedantic" to mean that I was being pedantic, but inadequately so, a common just desserts.

now, if you want to be pedantic, which you seem to, you might wish to say that I did not mistake your phrase but in fact I chose the most common usage of that phrase as its clear meaning, and you could have been more clear simply by saying "not to be pedantic, but...", as my comment was clearly not focused on model numbers but on real issues of substance, and your comment was focused on pedantry.
Burning the wood is taking carbon that would've been largely recycled as in ground biomass and converting it to heat + carbon oxides + particulates. There's an equivalent amount of carbon at all times, but the form it's in matters a lot.
People need a myth to justify insane salaries and compensation.

Usually the difference between a high performer and a mediocre one is a combo of talent and leadership. You can’t have one without the other.
> that would require the developer to maintain a source repository for Loki under the AGPL.

Is that a problem? Fork it on github, and update the repository every once in a while or upon request.
>Making sure that my PATH variables were set up correctly

This is a pretty common issue to run into with developer tooling on Windows, regardless of the language.

It would be nice if the go installer added its install dir to the PATH automatically like some tools do. But so much dev tooling on Windows does not you will need to know how to edit your PATH eventually.
I hope I never know the deep, dark agony of having an American Humanist of the Year Award recalled over a tweet.

Is the title vacant? Does it default to the second best American Humanist of 1996? Do they have to get the 1996 panel back together and revote? What if some of them have died since then?
“Super-reflective white paint is 'like a passive air conditioner'”
Milan Kundera's "Unbearable Whiteness of This Paint"
Sad! It's as if we might need some kind of simple portable assembly, one which straightforwardly translates simple constructs and formulas to the target machine code. Like, well, C used to be in 1975.

Jokes aside, I wonder if some kind of -Ox option could be standardized to switch off all optimizations, like -O0, and also guarantee no code rewriting for whatever other purposes.

Hand-crafting constant-time algorithms in assembly is even more error-prone.
Everybody Hates “FLoC”
> I am not providing software via the network. I'm providing JSON (or protobuf or whatever), in response to questions.

That's one way to look at it, but I think it's a distinction without a difference.

Take as an example a GPL library wrapped with a thin IPC interface (that is open sourced) which is used by a separate proprietary program running in its own process. Is this okay? What if they're running on two separate and independent microcontroller cores connected over the same memory bus? What about over a serial link? Add a few more OSI layers and you get to the AGPL.

In the end it's a matter of degree and its up to the author to decide where they want that line drawn for their project.
What’s exciting is the range of options Cloudflare offers for essentially the same thing.

They really are pressing to become the backbone to easy app development. I easily see it and am especially looking forward to the more and more originless options.

I am interested in seeing pricing but another (no offense Cloudflare folks) annoying in-the-dark beta.

To spat off a few ways someone could do similar image stuff, all roughly with them pretty effectively, varying trade-offs of course (origin load, no origin, cost, etc...):

- Current image resize plan ($)

- Custom Origin Resizer + normal CF cache everything

- Custom Origin Resizer + tiered CF cache everything

- Custom Origin Resizer and Mirage/Polish whatever on their +plans

- Custom Origin Resizer + cache everything + ignore query strings via custom cache keys (Enterprise)

- Custom Origin Resizer + cache everything + ignore query strings via worker script to make custom cache keys

- Store the image in an array buffer in their KV store

- Worker + a WASM binding that resizes the image on the fly (they made this as a WebAssembly proof of concept)

- Now this new custom thing.

Very cool.. Love the flexibility and range.
This is funny -- my class project in Semantics of Programming Languages in '88 at Univeristy of Illinois was essentially "Forth in Lisp".
These airtags have a couple of nice features: AR finder and the ability for anyone to adopt the protocol in their bluetooth stack. But I already have a bunch of tiles so I'd have to use both apps and know which one to use.

The big benefit is there are more people with iPhones than there are people with iPhones+android who are running the tile app.

Tile also has two useful form factors: a wallet-sized flat one and a tiny button for things like TV remotes.

If Tile didn't have replaceable batteries this would be a bigger threat (if you have to replace your tag, there's an opportunity to switch vendors).

Still, I do expect them to crush tile in the long run. Then again I've been surprised Tile has made it this far at all, so they might figure it out.
I re-read my comment and do see a lot of "my" and "I" in there. I should have thought about that more.

WHO failed in their societal obligation by diminishing their credibility. The misinformation may have increased mask supply to critical workers for a short period, but at the cost of strengthening the anti-maskers' message in the long run. And that cost was much larger IMO.

They created a long-term problem in order to fix a short-term one.

> You can't expect an entity like WHO to solely care about you as a person.

No, of course not. My whole point here is that WHO did the PR equivalent of that CEO who chases quarterly earnings at the expense of their company's future. Except instead of money, they did it with public confidence.
$600 per ton is how much they are paying to remove it, not how much the externality is. Economists like Nordhaus (who won a Nobel for his work) who have done empirical work to quantify the level of externality have estimated $50-70 a ton as more reasonable numbers.
Also, it’s _possible_ that things got “cheaper” simply because the costs have been externalized.
Author here. My goal with that one-liner was to convey immediately what it is - an embedded database that implements the PyMongo/MongoDB API.

Is it semantically perfect? Probably not. Will Mongita be useful to Python developers who are accustomed to saving their data in idiosyncratic JSON files because they don't want the overhead of a MongoDB server? Maybe! I hope so.
Roger Wilco
The example I always give is “which is a better computer: your smartphone or a cloud server?”

The answer is neither. There are tradeoffs for each.
4 days ago, over 300 points, over 200 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26832589
Where does Blackberry's QNX and other car platforms fall in / relate to this ecosystem?
People like you and the OP are rather rare among users. Most people just do not care about the data collection or the Electron-ness. They just want to use Discord.
Was it enabled before? What happened?
Here's an interesting blog post from 3 years ago titled "How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users using WebRTC" [1]. I guess the number of connections has increased in the meanwhile.

[1] https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-handles-two-and-half-mi...
I feel this is extrajudicial punishment. Whether james charles is guilty or not, youtube should not have the power to be both judge and jury and executioner.
Like the last bit. As many have observed a good movie is more about the sound than the sight.

But has it actually run on bare metal or just qemu I wonder. Anyway good music.
Let's say I'm a bad actor in us. I hear about this event in China and I start to do the 2nd chain. You'll think that China region was doing that 25% but maybe they were only doing 1% and I did the other 24%.

They're is literally no way to know what really happen.
Adobe apps aren't introduced well at presentation, is there any battles?
> If “imperfect substitution” is so high for software developers, why is their income distribution far less skewed than that of entertainers? Because of geography.
> While music and TV stars can be broadcast from and to anywhere, software engineers can only work in one place.

The author understands that SWEs relocate right? And that while remote work is "modern" many companies are completely internationally located.
Maybe this should be formalized as a corollary of Cunningham's Law.
But that's just theory... It's not guaranteed to happen in practice, right?
Just tape over the air holes it needs to transmit the sound waves.
Not to mention the real issues with trust & safety and other legal issues with ugc.
I still think Tile lost out on a gigantic market by not making it easier for hardware manufacturers to integrate into their ecosystem.

They should have been practically begging oems to embed it.
Most people are using something like laravel or rails that has auth scaffolding built in for you, so both outsourcing and rolling your own are obscure dirt road paths that are rarely suggested.
Even if you completely ignore whatever sponsorship YouTube has with the organization, the sheer idea of awarding YouTube a prize related to freedom of expression/freedom of speech is what's laughable.

I suspect some people think the only possible reason YouTube could win this award is because of the sponsorship of the award ceremony. Because how else would you explain it?
I remember I first heard about Discord as a Vent/Teamspeak/Raidcall competitor, and I'm pretty sure that was intended from the beginning.
I read textbooks on my standard entry-level model iPad (eighth generation). It's a pretty good experience. PDFs fit on the screen decently well and I can annotate with the pencil.

ePubs are nice too, since they can reflow.
Zero knowledge proofs are the solution for verifying a vote was counted correctly without revealing what the vote actually was.
I hypothesise that you’ll find a big variance in backend languages based on when the companies were started.

Companies started 10 years ago tend to have Java / Ruby backends, but companies started in the past 2-3 years will often have NodeJS/Typescript backends.
Why would you subject yourself to that? Just have them come over and help you carry your heavy tower and even heavier CRT to LAN at their house, even if it’s a mile away (me and friends literally did this in Fremont, CA - though I believe it might have been a bit less than a mile)
Git from the Bottom Up (2008)