skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be quite a huge and significant step in the web becoming a single stack or implementation, rather than a set of open standards with various interoperable implementations.
Unethical, maybe. Though, how ethical should one be in war when the enemy is a tyrant?

The signals to rebellion start slow: you pester and annoy the enemy to let them know they have tread on the wrong turf. You try to inform them, then you try to concede points for shared ground. Once the enemy has decided that your advancements and ground meeting are to their advantage, and continue to gain ground is what we identify as skirmishes and battle starts. You ambush, you destroy logistical routes, you make it difficult for the enemy perceive that this ground is worthwhile.

At what point do you fire the cannons? At what point does the normally docile rest of society join you to arm your rebellious battlements?

I think you are witnessing the populous arming their cannons. You can object, but you can't object that the enemy is closer than ever.
I thought this said Bing mail at first sight.

Why is there no Bing mail? I guess Microsoft doesn't want to cannibalize their Outlook offering... but Bing mail would probably appeal to an entirely different crowd.
That's just rent seeking.
I believe IME can be completely separate, though I'm not 100% certain. It might depend a bit on the platform.
The mind boggling phenomena in tech is that Twitter is essentially required now...to get a job...this is not hyperbole. The number of threads I've seen where SV companies are hiring exclusively on Twitter, and looking for a very specific type of person (well described in your post) is alarming to say the least.

EDIT: This mostly only applies to very specific positions (mostly design positions). I'm not insinuating that these companies are literally requiring Twitter. It's a bit more complex than that.
Doctoring the Doctorate
I went on a kick of replying (and sometimes declining) meetings without agendas, asking "what is the agenda for this?"

And sometimes with an agenda, I will try to reply and resolve whatever it was about asynchronously. There have been several meetings avoided when I replied with something like "this sounds like known bug #1234" or "here's the wiki page documenting this: is there something else not covered?".

My # meetings went down after I started doing this. Maybe it changed the culture in a good way, or maybe people got tired of me and stopped inviting me to meetings.. but either way seems like success.
Teeth in skeletons from the Middle Ages seem fine. It is later ones, after bringing sugar back from the Americas, that have lots of cavities and missing teeth.
That's not possible. Physically speaking
Let a thousand flowers bloom https://gigamonkeys.com/flowers/
Just a heads up, Reddit now rate limits edits. Many redact tools out there have not adapted yet unfortunately.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/mg077m/not_even_...
that was fun. nuff said.
I’m not sure what you mean. I’ve read a variety of papers and articles on this topic. Are you referring to the user that replied to me?
Same stunt being pulled in American courts except getting slapped down. Speaking of future generations, imagine duty of care being applied to abortion policy...
One of the other commenters said:

[snip]The English used to feel pretty uncomfortable about yanks grinning away at everything[/snip]

That surprised me, since our cultural norms largely stemmed from there.

So what would account for the difference? It must've come about after we split as a country.

I wonder if it's our Declaration of Independence including "the pursuit of Happiness". See:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Nowhere else in the world (up until then, anyway) gave as its founding commandment that being happy was an indicator of a life well-lived.

Thus, perhaps, while other places reserve the effort of smiling for the emotion of irrepressible joy, Americans -- to prove they're living a good life -- present a smile.
I had similar thoughts as the parent, then your point came to my mind, next thing I thought was perhaps not storage capacity but maybe smaller form factor of the stick itself.

Clearly I was wrong, but confusion can happen with just saying "smaller", many meanings are there for that word.
Ask HN: Mainframe developer resources/communities recommendations
Hello all,

My name is Dylan Lee, and I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Tennessee.

I am working on a research project focused on building a greater understanding of the technical barriers faced by mainframe developers when developing in COBOL.

In an attempt to complete an exhaustive web search and ensure we are fully covering all of the COBOL-based forums and community hubs, we thought who better to ask than the developers themselves. With all that said...

What are the different sites/forums/chat-rooms that you use to ask questions and find answers when developing COBOL?

What are some existing resources for COBOL’s common bugs and technical barriers?

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Game Builder Garage hides powerful programming tools behind a cute interface
Or maybe it is extremely wasteful and expensive to run 5 different water pipes, 5 different sewer pipes, 5 different electrical lines, 5 different natural gas pipes, and 5 different fiber lines to each house.
Came here to suggest the same. If you hit the gears on the left and choose view: compact and graph: cost you can get a decent overview of the hot spots in complicated queries quickly.
Where'd you give up//feel disproven?
I've always thought this was a terrible quote that has led people to create half arsed contracts, bad validation, and all round buggy software.

"Be strict in what you accept and what you return." is a better methodology.

You're right, look at what a dumpster fire HTML and general HTTP servers are under the hood as a result of building protocols on top of sloppy text formats.
I am split on the "judicial overreach" issue ...

... if lawmakers / govt. is not doing it for you, and you are aggrieved, aren't courts just another available means at a citizen's disposal, to effect change?
I know it’s a controversial topic, but it is philosophically interesting that the court would rule about future generations and their rights but simultaneously pass on the rights of humans about to leave the womb (who are atomistically more real than ‘future generations’).
Kudos to Andreas! I will definitely try Serenity.

Hopefully this activity going on will help make alternative operating systems popular like Haiku popular among developers.
No reason not to play the game, honestly. Even if it takes waiting an hour on hold (highly unlikely), a mere $20 discount on service is like earning $240/hour.
They seem to know that.

I didn't, though. Thanks!
In the US smiling wasn't as prevalent, at least in photographs. Look at any Civil War era picture and nobody is smiling in their portraits. I'm not sure when that started. I read somewhere that back then people thought people who smiled all the time were "simple minded." Now I can't help thinking that every time I see some marketing copy with some model smiling while playing with soap or something.
There's literally no system on the planet anywhere near as exploreable, as extensible, as extension-able. The DOM is the only software paradigm that has given users an honest fair shake, basically ever.

There's a very vocal bitter camp of haters, that keep saying the DOM has to go. But they come bearing nothing. They have no suggestions. They rarely have well qualified, well explained grievances. Never ending brushfire wars, started by these little arsonists, sowing anger. It's tiring, it's so hard for those who do respect, who do think the DOM can be used well, to combat.

The DOM isn't the highest most pleasurable dev experience. And plenty of websites do a terrible job with it. But it's crazy flexible, amazingly powerful, and the base ideas are simple & flexible. Calling it a plague is headshaking sad.
Sometimes I can tell where my ESL coworkers learned English based on phrasing and idioms. It would be interesting to come across someone who honed English skills with such a domain-specific application.
Ouch ...

... now -that- would be a can of worms ...
> at a citizen's disposal

sorry but how are courts at my disposal?
I believe in strong environmental laws, but the idea that you have to protect people from "future harm" is absurd. How exactly do you do that? I understand that this is in Australia so their laws may be different, but the idea that you can sue someone because of possible future damage is legislating predicting the future.

In SF, when the DA refuses to prosecute a criminal and that criminal goes on to kill another person, did that DA fail to protect that victim from future harm? How far does this protection from the future go on?

The idea also seems to go in the face of abortion, because a fetus will grow into a human. So does that mean that you need to protect the fetus from harm now because it will be a person in the future?

There are just too many absurd situations that this result opens up, I agree that we need strong environmental laws but this is going too far into prophecy and fortune telling and opens up a lot of unintended consequences of what it means to "protect the future".
The reason for that is HN is not for direct profit, has a charter, is not afraid to moderate content, via flag, and to bar people, via marking them as dead, and actively hunts spam and trolls.

If Twitter/FB were to do this, they'll have 1/5th the customer base but will have more sane content.
I have no credentials, so correct me. Do the high 5G frequencies (Frequency Range 2) lend themselves to tiny cells with no contention? I'm talking a radio for every ~50/100 subscribers or so, placed on light posts and telephone poles.
I pass a couple regularly, at/near farms outsite the city. There's grass growing, it gets less sunlight than it would without the solar panels but it gets enough light for the grass. The grass seems to be used for hay or something like that.

Many plants don't need direct sunlight, they do well with the diffuse light from the clouds. Of course those won't be happy in your desert climate where the sun is strong, they're more the likely to grow well in my native Norway, where there's little direct sun but a lot of diffuse light.
Verizon now offers 5G home internet in the few areas where mmWave is available.

https://www.verizon.com/5g/home/
> but it is philosophically interesting

... very.-
Well, weed being legal on the west coast helps. :)
Not Russian but my wife is - grew up there until college age. She was saying this exact thing a couple weeks ago (which is why I took interest in this article): that smiling at a stranger will cause them to dismiss you as stupid. So I'd say Yes.
Going back to your question, then why bother with the other stuff?

Not everyone wants fiat. Not now, not eventually. They are able to obtain goods and services in crypto. They are able to pay developers, buy games, invest in other crypto/projects ensuring the success or perception of success of people they like, control crypto networks with voting power, create exchanges and other infrastructure. There is no "eventually buy a multimillion dollar house how do I do that inconspicuously or maybe I can buy it with crypto in the future". It's just recognizing that it is possible whenever you want, but also not a priority or a necessary addition to what people value in this world.

It's fungible enough for all the purposes that many individuals with dirty crypto or organizations with dirty crypto care about.
Are you talking about any particular type of job here? I'm still pretty new to software engineering game and haven't heard about this yet.
I do not understand how the proposed warp drive could help with moving a ship. It sounds more like a "time dilation device" to shorten the travel time for the crew than a setup to make moving through space actually easier.

Would you mind explaining?
I'm not familiar with those services, do they not provide POP3, SMTP, IMAP addresses? I've been using my own email setup for ~15 years, but have recently considered looking into some of these online services. I'd require the ability to use a local client to connect, however. Now you have me a little concerned.
And the home page design is very heavily inspired by https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/
I don't know - two people getting interrupted frequently seem to be multiplying by zero to me.

Sometimes complex problems just require focused thought. Distractions detract focused thought. It's still possible to work through most problems when heavily distracted, but why the argument here? Legitimately, it baffles me. I do think devs over hype the importance of software development (generally speaking), but if an individual needs focus to solve a problem, be it math, software, economics, whatever - why would we argue that they don't actually need to be that focused?
You hate to do it but one jas to agree with the ISP here, from a "is this really the internet you want?" perspective.

its odd however that consumers using middleware to pirate media was seen as the isps responsibility. Vhs and the 80s and 90s come to mind as analogous infringement.

short of forcing a consumer to use a proprietary isp os, theres no plugging the leaky ship
Honestly CryptoTwitter, the part that isn't all scams, is the only tolerable part of twitter I've found. It's mostly shitposts and jokes, with the occasional good deed like raising money for people in unfortunate circumstances. Every other community I've encountered on Twitter is a dumpster fire. A perpetual competition to see who is the most oppressed.
> Being polite is better than not being polite.

And if it is those aforementioned bad actors who get to define and gatekeep what it means to be "polite"?
Careful with the Canadian system: it never actually checks for employability.

The degree doesn't have to be recognized for it to be counted in the score. That's how you end up with "Engineers" driving taxis that are incapable of passing the PE exam (they are free to enroll, but would have to re-take pretty much the whole degree to have a shot at passing it).
This is the new normal for Electron-based apps on macOS. The Electron framework itself is ~350 MB when targeting both Intel- and M1-based Macs.
I suggest this version of the Greenland story, written by a chemist in fluent German:

https://www.spektrum.de/news/schwermetall-quecksilber-in-gro...

As far as I can tell, (1) there's absolutely nothing suspicious about the ML translation into English, and (2) there's no easy or reliable way to find the original article, given only the translation.

This bizarre query can find it (as the 3rd result). I don't think any "natural" query can.

https://www.google.com/search?q="42"+"2015"+"2018"+"Nature+G...

For convenience:

"Melting glaciers in southwest Greenland wash up to 42 tons of mercury per year into the surrounding rivers. That is around ten percent of the total mercury transported by rivers into the ocean worldwide, reports a team led by Jon R. Hawkings from Florida State University in Tallahassee. The poisonous heavy metal presumably comes from the rock at the bottom of the glacier, writes the working group in "Nature Geoscience". In 2015 and 2018, she examined three rivers that carry meltwater from the ice cap to the sea. The mercury concentrations there were at least ten times higher than in an average river - and comparable to waters that were heavily polluted by industry."

"In Greenland, however, humans are only indirectly involved. Measurements of meltwater from the top of the glacier show that the metal did not come from there. That would have indicated that it would have been deposited from the air and thus from technical sources. But the mercury probably comes from the rock under the glacier. Greenland's rock is gradually being crushed by the slowly creeping ice. This process also releases ore deposits, and thus metals such as mercury. However, people are not completely uninvolved. As a result of climate change, Greenland's ice is melting faster and faster, and more meltwater is getting under the glacier and leaching out the crushed ore."

"The finding shows that natural sources of heavy metal could also react sensitively to climate change, writes the Hawkings team. In addition, such sources are much more difficult to reduce than industrial emissions. Mercury is a particularly problematic environmental toxin because it is so toxic and primarily accumulates in the food chain in the form of methylmercury. The mercury from the glacier is particularly dangerous for indigenous communities, where fish and other marine animals make up a high proportion of the food. But in Germany too, fish contains considerable amounts of mercury compounds, primarily tuna, shark and eel. Small children and pregnant women should therefore avoid such fish."
Another story of

Anyone can get involved in just about anything on the internet

Some of those people are misguided or unstable or actively malicious

Chaos ensues in all its various forms

We humans are just an interesting bunch. With a technology that gives everyone access and a voice, we get to see the whole range of human behavior.
The same way that masks don't prevent COVID.
cursed idea: use that one picrew you know the one
My main issue with Twitter is that you follow people, but those people have different interests. So I may follow @JohnSmith because he’s a known dev in the JS community and tweets about JS, but he also tweets about his country’s politics, what he ate at lunch, and engage in heated debats about pineapple on pizza I don’t care about.

Twitter recently introduced topics, so that you can follow one topic that aggregates lots of tweets from various people.
This is not what I want: I’d like to follow @JohnSmith, but only for the JS content.

As someone who tweets, I’d like some sort of kafka-ish topic queues: I would post tweets about JS in the JS queue, and tweets about Italian food in that other queue, so that people could follow the queues they want. In the end I don’t tweet on either topic because I’m afraid I’ll deceive people who followed me for the other content.
The purpose of various government bodies are not simply to all be equal tools for citizen desires. At least in the United States, each branch is "co-equal," and "checked and balanced." This is on purpose. A particular branch has the power to perform certain activities, while other branches don't.
It needs more than efficiency. It's a great way to produce flavor and nutrient-dense food, but is almost unusable for calorie-dense food. That has to change before it's more than an interesting idea.
I think its fair to note, but its still consistent in my mind - existing people have rights, we acknolwedge virtual people have some rights, and that there's consequentially going to be a category of virtual people that are unrealizeable people due to rights we grant current people.

That's consistent with the fact that we allow current people to use resources future people could possibly use, but we are trying to strive a balance between those who do and those who might exist.
Scientists at Wuhan lab in Covid probe admitted being bitten by bats
wouldn't a philosophical/legal framework like "reckless endangerment" apply here? there's a line at which harm to future generations becomes reckless
I have just browsed much of Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington by Glenn Seaborg, a Nobelist in Chemistry. He quoted in passing Tom Landry's dictum that "You can't think and smile at the same time.", but in the context of saying that some can: Enrico Fermi was always smiling, and always thinking.
... as in, you have them available to you?
Gap is not grid-gap, and what was added was specifically for gap in flex containers.
"very Apple-esque" is one way to put it. It's a nearly direct clone of this page: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/
Snakes on a plane, the Geekquel
Same here. You're welcome to make a Mac-exclusive mail client, but you're gonna have a damn hard time making anyone care about it when only 7% of the active computer-using market is capable of installing your app...
Certainly on Windows, IME and accessibility are separate; IME is done through TSF as you mentioned, whereas accessibility is done through UI Automation.
Poet: Endlessly Generating Increasingly Complex and Diverse Learning Environment
You could say the same sentence but replace 'judicial overreach' with 'legislative incompetence'.

I suggest the problem is that the legislature is filled with cognitive dissonance on this issue, prepared to say one thing [in law] - for the votes - and do another - for the votes.

That requires the judiciary to sort out the mess.
I think you have been using Twitter the wrong way.
You're probably about to be massively downvoted.

A lot of people around here have difficulty with the idea of communicating what they're doing, and marketing of any level.
If the body cleared the virus, then what it chose is effective whether that’s the spike or the nucleocapsid.

It is actually more likely to be robust than vaccine induced immunity.

The claims about superiority of vaccine induced immunity that I’ve seen all rely on antibody counts, and in the very short term that may very well be true - but the importance of T-cells is not sufficiently well characterized to say it with certainty.
Andreas has been making videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/videos) sharing his journey: technical ones working on some part of the system, as well as more personal ones talking about his philosophy, struggles and moments of joy.

I'm just one of many but I'm guessing his sincerity combined with his technical abilities make it all very compelling to watch and contribute with money or code, even though the system isn't at a point where you would want to use it.

Basically: it's a fun, open, ambitious project whose story is being told mainly through videos, with a kind and interesting person behind it.
I daresay Serenity might have the edge on Abaco and perhaps even Dillo. Servo I totally forgot. I didn't realise KHTML was still a thing.
Yep,

Deregulation made air travel cheap, commonplace and miserable. I took Greyhound across the country several times in t70s. The quality of travel in airplanes is essentially at that level - but much faster of course. The 1950-70s were an era of regulated private monopolies. Those regulation stood in the way of all sorts of progress but also gave a substantial portion of the working class a middle class income.

I'm not going to argue whether one was better than the other because the change was inevitable, we'll never change back, just "change forward" to some further situation.
Not really, though a promotional logo and link were added to the website at one point.
I can’t explain it either, just that it was confirmed in both cases by medical staff. She is pregnant, so they are extra careful.
Yes, although the GBZ80 is distinct from the regular Z80 in several ways -- among other differences, it has no IX or IY registers, and no alternate register bank.
Finally got around to hacking up my own mod for factorio a month or so ago (bigger cargo wagons). As with the rest of their work, the "how to make a mod" process and documentation is exemplary. There's accurate documentation for everything, pretty much, provided by the developers, and kept up to date.

Contrasted with other games where "the community" and developers request docs and examples be taken down if someone tries to publish such; it's all the more wonderful.
apple only? and $7 a month? lmfao this is worthless
Prosecutors and regulators have discretion to ignore any harms you suffer. But you still have the right to file a lawsuit.
MOXIE Might Be the Most Exciting Thing Perseverance Has Brought to Mars
Joel "started"/was part of the conspiracy theory by running a marathon in Antarctica; he wasn't a conspiracy theorist himself.