skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine the carpenters were like programmers. You bought a chair.

Except no carpenters ever gives out chairs for free let alone thousands and millions of them for free. And then they get abused for making a shoddy chair even though sometimes it is the best thing available in the market for free.

There is an amazing video editing program for Linux called shotcut. Absolutely and 100% free. It may not be finished but The commercial version of it on Windows costs anything from hundreds to thousands of dollars per month yet this is the comment I came across from a person today(1):

> It’s even named SHOTCUT so similar to SHORTCUT. The only reason i stay with it is because i only know how to edit on it. @shotcut, if you are reading this, i hope you have a bad day.

I've read similar comments on vlc, audacity, etc. The amount of complaints and lack of appreciation of OSS projects is absolutely mind boggling to me, yet we keep getting new amazing software for free.

(1) https://forum.shotcut.org/t/move-more-clips-at-a-time/10105
This is a common confusion. Google homophobic encryption and you'll find quite a number of results.
If the elites don't want the rest of us trying to figure out their conspiracies, perhaps they could stop conspiring.

The founding of the federal reserve springs to mind...
Individuals are more ready to take risks than institutions.

To me this was the most damning indictment of all. Once founders leave a compnay (or an institution), as BalajiS says, they become a shell of their former selves,with the individuals mostly in for self-preservation rather than set out fulfill the purpose of the institution.
Is it though? You don't hear about any of the Chinese malign activities on the mainstream media outside of the lab leak theory. On most social media you get deranked or chastised for bringing them up.
This might be showing a difference in our age and/or when we were exposed to Windows UI, but I think the Windows UI peaked at Windows 2000.

Crisp 2D with borders, separations, edges, UI elements were not hidden, obvious scroll bars, AND distinct colouring.

As you referenced 'Classic Mode', it was VERY close to Win2k UI, but not the same.
Put a stack of 3x4 index cards in you back pocket, and write thing down as needed. In the evening, (eg when you pull keys/wallet out of the pocket) review the cards briefly and toss the used once into trash unless you really need to keep one.

This is a low-commitment device that still achieves half the benefits of really writing things down.
Lol. Got me.
I live in Canada, and I've seen people put on 6+ month waitlists for (a) MRI after a concussion to make sure there's no internal bleeding (which can kill in a single day), (b) MRI after a stroke to diagnose the root cause, (c) ACL replacement surgery.

Universal healthcare is great, but when you're in a 2-party system and one party undermines it whenever they're in power, the result is terrible.
Except you can? The courts (in the US) have consistently ruled that you have no expectation of privacy in the public square. ALPRs on police cars are perfectly legal if there’s no laws prohibiting them.
APL was special among the early languages in that it had memory management, implicit types, highly optimized support for multidimensional array operations, and composable functions. It was the language for anything mathematical. The characterset was actually a plus: it allowed the experienced user to read it as one reads math, which in turn made experimentation and algorithm optimization extremely fast. The downsides of course being the technical debt at all levels of the stack: from the files filled with code which one is wise to not touch, to the characters which date back to the days of pressing backspace on a typewriter to combine multiple symbols, to the machinations necessary to roll out interpreted code to someone else's system...

Well, since the rise of Matlab (and now Numpy) there are alternatives which fill APL's niche, but I do miss the elegance of everything being an array.
The fact that in many countries the trend is towards downward mobility being more common it's no wonder that people don't believe things that were never true to begin with.
> a "third world country with a Gucci belt" (as someone put it) for everyone except the 1%

The median American is much richer than the median European.
This might not mean what you'd expect at a glance. The agreement here seems to be that IBM has sold all relevant IP for APL2[0] to Log-On Software[1], which will now be offering essentially the same product and some level of support.

For some time now APL2 has only barely been under active development, so it's not clear whether this will lead to more or less effort to develop the product. First released in 1984, APL2 is now far from the leading edge of APL development. For example, APLs began adding control structures to free programmers from using Branch (Goto) for control flow in the mid-1990s (late, I know!). APL2 still doesn't have them. Dyalog (my former employer) is pretty clearly the front-runner for commercial APL at this point; APL+Win also sees some level of development and NARS2000 and April are some non-commercial efforts to check out.

[0] https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL2

[1] https://log-on.com/2021/01/26/log-on-software-announces-log-...
Per hyrums law, this would mean that essentially all changes should result in a major version bump, which defeats the purpose.
I've been tempted to get one of those for my coding hours as I'm back in the office and can't use the whiteboard I have at home (on top of having a hefty amount of technical books and articles I want to get through in PDF), but I had doubts on the refresh rate and the cost. The feedback from the thread quite convinced me.
Another thing, you used to be able to easily a) create a local account, b) create a domain account, c) create a default profile that new accounts used.

The new and improved setup gave us a crap start menu (apps vs programs etc), all sorts of crap defaults that no one would ever want, endless advertising disguised as "helpful" prompts. Did you know internet explorer is 10x faster than chrome? Did you know IE has been replaced by edge which is even faster than IE was? etc
Maybe you did, but I don't think that's true of the general population. He seems to have increased in popularity since.
Does it matter? The important part is that you can manage it long term, and taking it once a week is sustainable.
The remarkable tablet allows me to go sit under a tree and design system diagrams or draw mindmaps. And then recover them for reference later. It's particularly helpful for work-thinking. For personal thoughts, having written/drawn them is often enough to cement them and I'll reference them months/years later as a novelty.

But the core of all this is that the sitting-under-a-tree-habit came after the device. Before, it was a bit of a romantic idea I'd tried with moleskines, but it didn't really scratch my itches.
Ask HN: What's the main block to your smartphone longevity?
Over the years I realised that we all have different reasons to replace our smarphones. I was curious to hear what could make a change in their longevity. These devices have an environmental impact during their production, it's important to use them as long as possible. Apple deciding to bring iOS 15 on the iPhone 6S is problably one best ecological move they could do (hoping the perfs will be fine).

So, what was the reason to replace your previous smartphone?

Too slow? Battery life? Deprecated software? Wanting shining new specs/features? Costly repairs?
Here, this might help: https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall

It's in my HN handle. I stand behind all my posts.

I've got links to a couple of dozen, in there (at least). Maybe over 30. I tend to toss one onto the pile, every now and then. I don't keep count. I don't fork other people's stuff. I'm the original author of all of it. I'm a bit...obsessive. My GH Activity Graph has been solid green, for a few years. I stay busy.

A couple of the projects are sort of "WIP," but you will note that they are also highly polished. A number of repos are legacy repos for shipping apps that have been retired.

I have been shipping software for my entire adult life, and finishing projects is my "at rest" state.

Right now, the other tab in my browser is a Confluence page, describing a project I'm developing (not open-source). It's a slog. I hate writing documentation.

But complete documentation is a big part of "finishing" software.

That project won't be done for months. I'm enhancing the documentation for an API that I wrote (the backend server), so the developer working on the dashboard can get his work done.
Wow, the bias in this article is unbelievably blatant:

"[Amazon is] preventing Google’s tracking system FLoC — or Federated Learning of Cohorts — from gathering valuable data reflecting the products people research in Amazon’s vast e-commerce universe"

Compare with, e.g.:

"Amazon is taking steps to protect its user's privacy by blocking Google's heavy-handed overreach in leveraging its Chrome browser to spy on user's personal shopping habits and sell that information to other retailers".

(Note: I'm not saying my rewrite is unbiased. It's not. It's just biased in a different direction to highlight the contrast.)
The default sync app works fine with WINE without any tweaking, for what it's worth. Been using it on Fedora for a few months.
So many stories about Freenode's demise and that guy who killed it for the lulz.

Do we still feed attention seeking behaviour?

Surely this has finished now that everything got switched off?
I'm aware of NOMAD, fond memories in fact :)

Yes, they are somewhat niche. Mendix got bought out by Siemens, Betty Blocks is an interesting dutch start-up. I came across all three of them in the last year and they've made me re-consider my point of view towards no-code/low code environments, which I used to believe are niche and/or toys. I think they are entering the mainstream and will find a spot somewhere between 'excel' and proper programming (in so far as stringing together API calls is still proper programming ;) ).
Here is the Microsoft support document that this article is based on: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-...

Windows 10 Home and Pro has a "Retirement Date" listed as 10/14/2025.
Hotel rooms have also shot through the roof in rates. There's huge pent up demand for vacations, given the year of lockdown people have gone through. I booked trips to San Diego and Honolulu recently, and prices were close to double what I would have expected. It will be interesting to see how this all ends up.
How do I opt my access point out of Google Location services?
It wasn’t a medical emergency. He visited his Primary Care physician, who recommended an MRI, which was performed at a hospital.

In the U.S. it’s possible (but not widely known) that you can shop around for medical imaging like MRIs. (My wife has saved thousands of dollars doing this.) Hospitals often run these as profit centers so the markup is quite steep.
This is Google's problem to figure out (how we should opt-out, or if it should be a opt-in service), the fact that you are putting the responsibility on the user is crazy in itself. We are talking of a billion dollar company tracking the location of your own router against your will and without permission.
Of course, if you went to school in the northern United States, you learned the Civil War was about slavery disguised as state's rights.

But yeah, 5th through 10th grade history, there was no nuance, just "this is what happened, this is History, this is the textbook, this will be on the test, the end."
A handful of excellent grade 9-12 teachers would have you do primary source research[1], and there you might get some conflicting sources, but you just discarded the sources that didn't work with your thesis topic. (See how this works? Thesis first, then sources...)

It was only once I was in college that we really got into some of the nuance of multiple sources and working from the ground up instead of the top down.

[1] Specific examples that I recall: did an astronaut biography in 5th grade, I interviewed my grandparents on 1930s Depression-era life in 9th grade; I did a primary sources (newspaper on microfilm) paper in my college sophomore year (14th grade) on the The Rainhill Locomotive Trials of 1829 in London, England.
Lego Great Ball Contraption: FiveTilted Rings
long live John McAfee
Careful, google bans Web extensions that interferes with ads (AdNaseum). Only problem is ad blockers got too popular before they made Chrome.
You're still operating under the notion that the BBC is Real Journalism, a grand institution that can be trusted as a source of well-researched, professionally vetted information. This hasn't been true for a long time, and this article is only a mild example of why. Most mainstream news sources have rotted away to being glorified tabloids at this point, and while the BBC may have rotted less, it's still in poor shape.
Sheesh. SSIDs can only be 32 characters total. This new 19 character limit after reserving 13 of them doesn't leave a lot of room to play with for the rest of the name. Someone should start looking for an "_internationalization" flag now.
April last year, when this whole thing hit, we had people under throwaway accounts including myself speaking about this on HN, and as expected we hit a roadblock because anecdotes aren't data and whatever, so we were downvoted, called conspiracy theorists and other nonsense. There's ultimately nothing for any of us to gain in lying that we've been asked, by our doctors, going back to October of 2019, whether or not we've been to Wuhan (asked specifically and point blank).

There's a lot more that we know than we are willing to share because HN just isn't a good platform for this sort of discussion anymore. It's too politicized and too many bruised, sensitive egos that can't handle contrary thinking. So for the rest of you, you'll have to get used to constantly having to shift and re-evaluate what you think you "know" and how you feel about a certain thing today, and the kind of statements and comments you've made in the past based on events that you think did or did not happen (because you've been told, and you believe what you're being told by the big media) when, in fact, it may turn out that the "truth" was factually incorrect or hidden from you to begin with.

Take it however you may, just please don't shoot the messenger.
Omg, I am the king of moleskin unused notebooks.

What was awesome though was when my then 3 year old daughter found one of the moleskins and a pen and did a bunch of scribbles on every 10 pages or so.

I truly love that little moleskin.

I just recently (last week) bought an outdoor log with graph paper and some other logs....

Your comment makes me want to prove you (myself) wrong and actually use it.

I've always been impressed with the. Various engineers I have worked with, like John Blair of nerflix... he is really fn today keeping a solid tech journal
Fast Grants, but to fight climate change?
> But the timing was definitely odd.

A nasty cold or flu hitting in the middle of cold and flu season isn’t that odd, as timing goes.

Sure, in 2020 it’s a coincidence that naturally raises the “was it COVID?” question, but not really odd timing if it wasn’t.
It's both the hospital and insurance provider's fault. In my opinion it's absurd that non-emergency care costs can be adjusted after the fact.

Imagine if a car repair shop could quote you $500 for a fix, then after the repair is done, you've paid, and you get your car back, they say "actually it's $5000, and we'll send you to collections if you don't pay." Non-emergency medical services should be required to follow a similar model, and none of the vague "you agree to pay far, far extra if we don't think to tell you about it ahead of time" bullshit that pretty much everyone has had to deal with.
I believe the article means "lack of imagination from business", for which I'll strongly agree as a European who migrated a while ago. In my personal experience you have either wannapreneurs trying to break through with minimal budgets, or large investments in established companies. They don't seem to mix though, business people go for safer things than trying to build the next Google. Raising money for a prototype, even if it's making some money, is almost impossible or at the very best will land you with very bad terms.
> You mean launching Google when we have Altavista?

google was miles ahead of altavista.

> Launching FB when we have LiveJournal

FB was miles ahead of LiveJournal.

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a trend appears…
It is a difficult problem because there is no one price to show. Almost every user might be shown a different price.

To my knowledge, at many orgs, insurance is actually funded directly by the employer; they do not contribute to a massive general pool along with other orgs. That individual employer helps set rates and coverage for their individual plan, and they might hire a big payer (insurance company) like Blue Cross Blue Shield to administer the plan that they created. This means that every single employer might have different payment rules and rates for a given procedure or item, and rates can also be hospital dependent or provider dependent. Additionally, many insurance companies require pre-approval (prior authorization AKA prior auth) for more expensive procedures or procedures / meds that are being prescribed outside of normal practice. This requires the provider (doctor) to call the payer (insurance provider), explain the situation, and see if a certain procedure will be covered. Before this is done, it is impossible to quote a price. Finally, we also have a class of people without insurance.

So can real time price quotes be done? Maybe, but it would be a lot of work. The big payers do have API endpoints you can hit to get coverage information for a given user and I believe pricing data for a given procedure for that user. There are also clearing houses of sorts which can help you route traffic to the right endpoint. You would still need to get pricing data from hospitals which largely aren't interconnected for users without insurance and also deal with the prior auth situation.
Quitting has its place and what I would avoid is absolutist thinking. You don't need to finish everything that you start. Sometimes you don't even want that as a goal like when exploring or developing prototypes. The only reason that, "only start what you're going to finish" sounds good is because people tend to imagine finishing a project the way they imagined it would be when they started. There is also the story of the person that toils away year after year on a project that probably isn't going to have the outcome they intended. Then again there are people that toil for years that seem hopeless only to make a major breakthrough. There's a lot of uncertainty in the world. No one path is certain.
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I hope they create a competitor to HN next. That would siphon away most of the people who create throwaway accounts here to complain about HN's 'liberal bias' and 'cancel culture'
The "Right to Repair" is crucial for the future development of the agricultural sector. John Deere is dominant in this market. This is a pretty good interview that asks the right questions.
Nvidia Launches the Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial Module
No, the insurance companies did not force the hospital to do this.

Insurance companies deserve plenty of criticism: cherry picking, lemon dropping, leveraging the low feedback coefficient of their industry to sell one thing and deliver another, a failure to control long term cost growth, the list goes on. But insurance companies do not deserve criticism for this. This one is on the hospital, plain and simple. Normally this hustle would have been checked by an insurance company, yes, but that doesn't excuse it in the slightest.
In Kip Thorne’s book about Interstellar he talks about what they had to do to make something that would work for a movie. They had to choose a specific mass and rotation speed that doesn’t really exist in nature or the image would not be something that would be intelligible to the viewer and work for the story. This includes the tidal effect in the film. In the end they were making a science fiction film and not writing a scientific paper.
I think your parent is saying that the quote was given ASSUMING insurance. So when the bill was formally given, it didn't match the quote because the quote was given under false-assumptions (about insurance).
Yeahhhh, but Amazon makes a ton off their own ad business and is trying to turn everyone's personal devices into a mesh network they own. They don't give af about user privacy.
That's exactly how I would describe my own situation. From the outside looking in, people with less economic means think that my situation is "perfect", and that it equates to no worries(it does not).

Job loss is the only big worry, and even in that situation it wouldn't be difficult to find a similar job with similar pay. I know that is a comfort that not everyone(or most people) has. Knowing that this seems to be "as good as it gets" when compared to the majority of Americans is what makes me very, very sad.
Note that the median net worth of an American household is ~120k.

Obviously $1500 is a lot of money and it's not easy to come up with for normal folks and obviously there are millions of poor people, but the US is one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, and it's sometimes overemphasized how broke the average American is. Other than a few small European countries, the US has the highest median household incomes in the world, higher than any other large country like Germany, France, the UK, Canada, Japan, or Australia.
I'm sorry to hear that, but it's not quite relevant to the point that the parent was making about Europe.

For what it's worth, I live in the UK which has similar woes to how you describe Canada's two-party system. However we do normally get seen quickly for things which are a threat to life---but elective operations can take much longer. Mental health issues are also dealt with sluggishly at best.
That's because Chrome banned it.
Writing text by hand is certainly slower than typing.

Unless you're filling out a form or writing an essay in school, handwritten things should use more symbolic language. Use a shorthand of words and images and arrows and circles that are meaningful to you. Whether or not someone else (or even you later) can read it is really a secondary concern.
Problem is if you are not of good background then working hard is the only way to reduce the risk of falling futher down on the ladder.

You see, it's the perfect world for the top aristocracies. They have a world in which

- it's harder and harder to the lower echelons to climb up the pole;

- it's a lot easy to fall down the pole due to a number of reasons that ordinary people don't have control in (Financial crisis, terminal illness, etc.)

- For the top dogs, they actually gain from some of the reasons listed above. Guess who gained a lot from the financial crisis and where did all those huge medical bills go?

The result:

- Top aristocracies are the safest guys

- Everyone below (including the small aristocratics) is subject to huge risks of falling down, and the lower you are, the more risk you bear. Of course, unless when you are already at the bottom.

- So everyone has to work super hard, not to climb up, but NOT to drop down.
The next coming months are crucial.

I imagine most members of Hacker News feel like they probably do pretty well financially.

Even if you think that way, your quality of life could potentially take a massive leap if you are able to retain your current salary and move to a lower cost area.

Don't waste a once in a lifetime opportunity for you and your family.
IT Literally Grows on Trees
Your last point on the correct code running, ugh. I haven't gotten better at it even thought I'm aware of it more now. Had an incredibly persistent linting config issue just last week, turns out I had the wrong config open for editing in vim.