skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes the only thing in common you have is where you work and this isn't enough to keep the realtionship going after they have left. With real friends you'll have some other common experiences that help maintain the bond. So, yes, the amount of quality time spent together out of a forced situation, such as sharing office space, is a big factor.
Agree, but the API should have a standard - hence my question. Making your site available via an API would be awesome!
Speaking for France as I am not too familiar with other countries, no, commercial mail here is distributed manually by people living in poverty who get stacks of junk to distribute every morning. The post office here is a public service that is getting increasingly privatized, losing a bit more of service quality and goodwill every time (if your only KPI is "distribute your stash of mail the fastest way possible", some things like leaving a receipt for a package and fixing off-by one addresses get lost in the race).

You can opt-out of the junk with a sticker on your mailbox anyway.
I’m with both of you and I don’t think what you two are saying is mutually exclusive. I’m kind of a performance nut (often working with teams, I’m the guy that introduces everyone to a profiler) and, in my N=small experience, PMs are opposed to spending time on performance optimization precisely because most people are bad at it and it takes an undefined amount of time for unknown performance gains.

When I take an hour to profile and analyze some request and say “I think we can cut this thing’s response time by 80% by optimizing $X, which will result in an overall page load time reduction of 3s”, that’s way easier to sell than “I want to figure out why this page load is so slow” and then reporting back a week later with “shrug I optimized 5 things and it didn’t get faster. Dunno.”
Ask HN: How long will it take for GraphQL(or else) to take over REST?
I’m a fan of nuclear, and I suspect you’re right. The reasons people say they oppose even existing nuclear (cost, waste, safety) don’t usually pass scrutiny. I suspect it is primarily due to their association with nuclear weapons. It instills a pretty deep fear, which I don’t entirely blame them for. ...however it has pretty terrible health, environmental, and economic consequences to prioritize nuclear phase out over fossil fuels (especially coal).
It seems more likely that he isn't up to the job and should be replaced. Political factions ensured his rise to the position knew this.
To clarify - these are “free” apps with paid upgrade.

Basically some free users when presented with “you need to upgrade to use this” will leave a bad review. And that is 100% logical: some users believe that all online software should be free. And they never pay for software at all (since their company or school pays, etc. - but they don’t).
it's not a marathon, but a permanent olympics
Why would he be put in handcuffs instead of just being fired? It's literally pieces of paper for God's sake. He would go to jail because you didn't receive your Chess By Mail fast enough?
I don’t think efficiency matters much in this case, but more robust and concise code is better. Most commands either take a file as a unnamed argument or you can just do something like <filename. But I agree, there may be commands where passing the file name is awkward (eg. jq)
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Sending typescript to a FIFO seems odd. Sure you can see live input rather than following a line at a time with tail -f but you also lose persistence. To share something live I'd just use tmux or screen, granted if you want to ensure the observer has read only access there may be a couple more steps than using a FIFO.
> Yahoo would give Microsoft dominance in Web banner ads used by corporate brand advertisers

Wow for some reason I believed that by 2008 Google was already the dominant online ads player
No. As it is I can still go to other sellers if I want to, if Amazon were nationalized then you might not have any other choice.
So I'm not alone. I felt that too!
The first joke oneliner I learned, circa 1980:

1: gotta light?

No match.

Quickly followed by:

2: Could you beat up superman?

No match.

Oh, the days when csh was cool and not retro.
Honestly it is pretty crazy how old Yahoo is and they are still hanging on.
And super importantly an ECS is not necessarily data-oriented.
Right. I wonder how much competition Amazon has eliminated over the years with their shady business practices. That competition may have driven innovation even further.
Well, perhaps I'm in the minority group but the best mentors I have had are:

- W. Richard Stevens

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

- Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

- ...

Yes, I'm talking about books :)
DeJoy was literally having them tear mail sorting machines out of their facilities, having them discarded in trash bins, and then cut hours for workers.

Try again.
xclip and xsel for X11: xclip -o | jq
If you withdraw cash you are actually helping the bank.
I imagine there must be other countries with similar rules, just as the opposite is true. For example in the US, in general whatever two parties freely agree to is litigatable, even if scribbled with a pencil on the back of a shopping bag. The units or language used are not constrained.

In California, and probably other states, a verbal contract is binding (though proving what was said can be tough).
Please, please, please drop the internal SSD myth.

That isn't true, and has never been true, ever. That is a complete bullshit story made up by a YouTuber who saw that the SSD didn't show up under Linux back when the T2 Macs were released (because it didn't have a compatible driver) and decided that must mean Apple were "blocking Linux".

All internal Mac SSDs work fine under Linux these days and have for years. I have a local branch with preparatory work to bring up the M1 SSDs already (requires some driver refactoring to do it properly).
Glitter Text
I'm more than a little disturbed by that response, can you back that bold accusation up with some references?

I _need_ to read more about this (about to begin a migration to AWS, not retail though).
Info about what products sell well? Amazon has a thriving white label business and they can use it to decide what to make.
I wouldn't believe this if I hadn't seen it myself — my mom's Christmas card to me was returned to her as "not deliverable as addressed" two weeks ago with intermediate postmarks from Feb and March. My address was perfectly legible and complete. Her return address was effectively:

A. [her first initial]
123 Main [missing Street]
55555 [just the zip, no city/state]

She brought it on a plane to me last week.
That's really interesting—I'm not much of a crosswords fan, but I had never even considered the idea that there are "dialects" in what crosswords clues & answers could be.
Do not use the USPS for anything important:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usps-postal-service-employee-ch...

https://triblive.com/local/south-hills/2nd-local-postal-work...

https://www.postaltimes.com/postalnews/mailman-throws-away-m...

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nj-postal-worker-accused-of-thro...

https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/postal-worker-fired-for...

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2020/10/06/wyoming-mail-carrier...

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/09/25/postal-w...

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/09/11/video-shows-po...

https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/virginia-beach/mailman-...

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/immigrants-in-elko-...
Against the Grain argues that many of those "natural" problems you mentioned are a result of fiddling with nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_Hist...
I was more thinking in terms of what you could readily hire programmers for around that time. Definitely did not mean to imply that Windows was the actual better tech stack, just that for various business reasons going with Microsoft may well have been a better choice.

Though in regard to tech stacks, I also thought X.com might've been using .NET and (if that had been the case) then to my mind it was the better option, compared to what many people were using for scrappy Linux web backends in that era – PHP (which I say as someone who wrote his first web backend in PHP). But after looking up the timelines, I realize that this wasn't the case. Musk was replaced as CEO in 2000 and .NET was released in 2002.
I just saw this in real-time this past month with cat food.
A 24pk of Rx Renal cat food went from 5.8oz to 5.1oz[1]. I buy two packs at a time and what used to cost $113.76 is now $114.72 Effectively they're charging me an extra buck to keep 33.6oz (5.7 old-cans / 6.5 new-cans) of cat food from me.

[1] https://www.chewy.com/royal-canin-veterinary-diet-renal/dp/2...
my experience is.. our lives are complicated and we should trust ourselves more and not try to optimize

a lot of us are lonely and it makes everything sensitive, maybe your colleagues don't stay in touch because they think you didn't stay in touch

it's subtle and fragile and I think we should find more strength within ourselves
The type of person that considers getting a safe for cash isn't looking at cryptocurrencies.
Safer and more Secure? Ask the users to run cargo install X or whatever the cargo equivalent of pip install is.

Even more secure than that? Upload a signed tarball to multiple mirrors and generate the tarball from a public got repo in a reproducible manner.

Ideal? Publish to the distro repositories and leverage the process that these guys have in place (I know their audience mostly runs macbooks, but that's a different problem to solve).
Thanks! Will try that path : )
Man, lung cancer and stomach cancer are two of the worst ways to go...
Would you say the issue maybe is that there has not been an easy way to implement the various standards?

If we had this automated for web devs the uptake would be much better?
That might happen to some products, yes. No different from any other tax. I don't see a fundamental problem.
I actually thought of DigitalOcean first when I saw the title of the article. I somehow always end up clicking sign up instead of sign in.
What stores are you going to that have third party sellers? A better analogy is a mall.
"too big to fail" means that a business has friends in the legislature and can keep on acting like the local affluent drunk teenager who somehow manages to crash all their parents cars without getting a DUI.

If we have businesses that are "too big to fail" then why bother having a market economy?
Efficiency Is the Enemy
This is true, if you lose 25€ per year, you will just save 25€ per year more, which actually makes the problem worse.
> I'm not with these people because I want to be friends with them, I'm with them because I want to earn a living.

False dichotomy. Building relationships and earning a living aren't mutually exclusive.

Building healthy, lasting relationships with your peers isn't necessarily required to get a job done, but it certainly makes it more enjoyable. Of course not everyone is going to be interested in authentic relationships at work, but that doesn't mean that nobody wants to be friends at the office.

If you can only view your work peers as pure business interactions, you're missing out.
If your company is taking off, why are you trying to change tools?

Tools just need to be good enough. Put your energy into building your the important parts of your business. Good luck.
I had to cancel a planned trip to the Amazon rain forest in 1998 because of lariam. I was on day 3 of the week long regimen in preparation, but by then the unwanted, horrifying thoughts and images invading my head were terrifying. No experience like that before or since. I learned then that one of the side effects is potential suicide.

I opted to prolong my visits to other destinations with lower malaria risk. Glad to know it has since been banned.
"...since both the DPRK and China do in fact have elections that the vast majority of citizens vote in"

Pretty much just lol to that one. So you're telling me the NK people elected Kim? And Chinese elected Xi? Lol.

Exploited? A country like Poland is doing many times better than it did 30 years ago. IT sector, agriculture, tourism, etc. Every Eastern European country is on the up. Ukraine as well. Because the cost of living is cheaper, the cost of labor is cheaper is as well.
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Electric cars? Perhaps. Self-driving cars? Not so much.
Propaganda and Other Lies We Tell
> That's entirely BS. To contribute to these projects (my experience is contributing to Git), you need to respect a dozen conventions that seem to come from another age. Just subscribing to the mailing list is not trivial for somebody in their twenties that never had to do something like that

This belief that people aren't able to figure out things on their own is the problem. You're basically telling people that it's hard and they'll never figure it out. You're telling people that there are so many things they need to do that they'll never be able to do them.

Have you ever considered that these statements themselves are ones that drive away potential contributors? Why not let people make their own judgment about the process after they've gone through it instead of adding your own bias to it?

> And then you need to find somewhere that explain the conventions to try and contribute and figure out how to configure your email client, how to get a patch for your commits, how to insert your patch in your email, how to write an acceptable email subject and an acceptable email body and how it relates to your commit message, who you should CC, how to handle multi-commits contributions, how to answer emails (while respecting another half-dozen conventions)

This is all described in the submitting patches[1] document in the source tree. It even links to an interactive tutorial regarding how to set up git-send-email[2]

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

[2] https://git-send-email.io/
this was my entire experience in San Francisco with almost everyone I met. i’m not that introverted, people seemed to like me and hang out with me at work. Once they or I left, I essentially never heard from any of them again.

I noticed this in other people too. Their entire social circles revolved around work. People had weddings that essentially only co workers went to.

Those years were the loneliest of my life.
Because he is actively sabotaging a corporation he is supposed to lead. That's why. He had them tear out tens of millions of dollars of custom-built, automatic sorting equipment to sort by hand without adding staff or increasing hours in an attempt to slow down mail delivery.
Which is never going to fly upstream :)

I have a branch adding proper NVMe platform device support based on some work by Armd. It's currently blocked on some driver deps (clock/power) and I'm working on a hypervisor for reverse engineering for now, but once those do go in (other people are working on them) it should be simple to bring up properly.
In my rural area, one of the "last mile" problems is that there's now an extra leg. Since the small local post offices no longer hand-sort mail, but drive it to a larger hub post office that has the address OCR machines to auto-sort it, a cross-town letter that used to be delivered same day or next day now takes 3 days or more due to the extra round trip. Add that on top of all the extra work the USPS is doing with pandemic-related package shipment and I'm sure there is a lot of backlog at many points in the system.
The problem with the NPM ecosystem is really dire because know-nothing programmers who write JS plug in to that ecosystem and write bad code, and then the know-nothing programmers who don't write JS come along, too, and say look how bad JS is.

JS is plenty fast and can be used for "large, complicated programs"[1] just fine. The problem with most JS written today is in programmer practices—the way that the community associated with NodeJS pushes one other to write code (which is, ironically, not even a good fit for the JavaScript language). It turns out that how you write code actually matters (which is the central point of the article here to begin with...)

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20070127104743/http://www.spread...
Because Fukushima provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for politicians to go against the local energy giants without them being able to gain the upper hand in the inevitable fight about the narrative in the local media. This is all power politics.
I have 4-5 Macs now, access to tens more and had many in the past and just one broke down or had actual OS problems. YMMV.
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That last bit is an "innovation" I would (and have, when I could) pay many for to avoid.
My mailman knows where I live, can enter the building with a key and knows my door.
Amazon contractors keep calling me an hour ahead "will I be there?" then can't deliver the parcel to a nearby post office when I'm not. Over the last year of work-from-home this wasn't much of an issue but when you have a regular office job it can take a few days to get that parcel.
The Obama administration had them remove a massive amount of sorting machines too. Those are letter sorting machines. Letter volume is down to literally the lowest it had ever been. There is a reason they are getting ripped out.
Back in 2000, Telefonica bought Lycos for 12,5B$... A few years later were sold again for a few millions
Sweden has the lowest traffic related deaths of any country [1]. There must be something to it, however it's strange how lackluster the government response was to covid in comparison.

Edit: You think our covid restrictions was successful?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero#Outcomes
Maybe I remember it wrong but even in 2008 I felt that there was at that point some question of what ... Yahoo was / would be.

IIRC Yahoo at that point was a big name that wasn't irrelevant, but whatever they would be in the future seemed like it would have be be akin to creating new product(s) / company / sea change type move.

It was hard to imagine them becoming worth 66% more anytime near that time (even without hindsight).
Somehow people miss that. Smh
This is precisely the kind of tech I’ve always imagined to be needed for hoverboards.

Not those dumb things with WHEELS. The actual skateboard (sans wheels) hovering a couple inches off the ground.

I’ve always wanted one and at 33, looks like I’m gonna have to be the one to do research and development in this area (should my side projects come to fruition and net me the startup capital).
sea spray? Britain isn't a narrow coastal strip.
Much of Africa's banking infrastructure is handled by cell phones.
Yet another reason why suburbia is expensive and not sustainable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUeqxXwCA0
What? Who are you responding to? I said it helps one relax and/or gives satisfaction, and then you said "it doesn't do that" (using a personal anecdote as evidence?) but then your last sentence suggests you did actually experience those things you said you didn't? I can't understand what your point was here.
It's an interesting cultural problem. Whether it changes more with time or from country to country is not clear to me and would be interesting to do research around.

For example, I grew up in the USSR and I saw how my parents' colleagues were practically all very close friends. Both my parents worked in academia. Someone's birthday was usually a big noisy gathering of the whole department of the research institute where they worked, plus some more friends from previous organizations and of course some classmates. Yes, at times it was that insane!

Looking back now I realize what has been lost. Why though - I have no idea.
If we just look at deaths then sure, this could be right. However malaria is something we know how to tackle and isn’t that expensive. It’d be much more efficient to cure malaria than to eliminate all motor accidents.
If you buy stocks, someone else sells stocks and has the same problem as you.
Any mention of specific APIs misses the point.

It's fine if they want don't want to implement everything.

The point is that if they don't get to simultaneously say:

1. The Web is a viable way to compete with native apps (which they explicitly said in defense in a current court case).
2. While not implementing features necessary to compete.
3. While not allowing anyone else to build a browser for iOS that implements the features necessary to compete.
That summer my girlfriend at the time and I were laughing at the different combinations of possible combined companies. Yahoogle was one. This one would have been Microhoo
There was that whole situation with people voting by mail in unprecedented numbers and an ongoing generation defining pandemic that resulted in a shift from retail to online shopping. On top of continued attacks on the USPS by politicians training for lobbying careers.
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You can delete the security questions after setup.
Volta shows promise and I like that it's fast. But to me it seems like it will be hard to adopt until it supports `.node-version` file (a working standard among node version managers). For example, while some may want to use Volta, others will likely be using `nvm`. And a project's CI likely uses `nvm`. Volta has `volta` property for `package.json` to pin the node and npm version. That's nice and more specific than the `engines` property which can be a range of versions. But it would be better to keep things DRY and leverage the working standard for how node version managers keep track of the node version. (Otherwise a project has to maintain node version information in multiple places.)

https://github.com/volta-cli/volta/issues/959
at the time Yahoo owned something like 30% of Alibaba, which, today, would be worth maybe $200B.
I am a UIUX product designer, and this was left intentional.

The idea is that benefit of having a better CTA for SIGNUP far outweighs the friction/cost for the obscure SIGNIN.

Existing Users can also be trained and conditioned to look for the sign in. They will not get away since they are existing customer (SaaS).

However, once a prospective new lead bounces out, most likely they will not convert anymore (counting remarkerting aside)
But they aren’t hanging on, Yahoo! is owned by Verizon.

Why Verizon would buy a site like Yahoo is still a mystery to me, but they own a lot of other junk as well.
Anecdote: I mail small packages regularly using USPS. I buy and print a label, apply it to the package, and drop in a blue box.

I've had a fantastic experience. Very few lost packages, and quick arrival times: 2-3 days if in the region, 4-5 days to somewhere far away but domestic (eg California from NC). 1-2 weeks to Europe, 3-4 to Asia or Australia.
I use autohotkey to script some of my favorite things, which is another great way to get good use out of the command line on various systems where I don't necessarily need/want to set up a .bashrc.

hotkey: "du-m"

Use: Sort directories by usage:

du -m --max-depth=1 | sort -n

hotkey: "wpinfo"

Use: gets basic WordPress site info:

code for AHK

::wpinfo::
(
echo Home URL $(wp option get home) ; echo Site URL $(wp option get siteurl);echo "###
Plugins ###"; wp plugin list;echo "### Themes ###"; wp theme list;echo "### Users ###";
wp user list; echo "### Roles ###"; wp role list; wp core verify-checksums
)

hotkey: awk(1-5)

use: saves me typing something I fat finger every. single. time.

awk '{ print $1 }'

awk '{ print $2 }'

awk '{ print $3 }' etc

AHK:

::awk1::awk '{{} print $1 {}}'

There are others but these are the ones that come to mind. The main thing isn't the scripts but the automation. And AHK can save a ton of error-prone typing or copy/pasting in these scenarios.
The signature algorithm uses the same hash, so there isn't any meaningful opening there. :)