skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO most of the skill that makes good designers, good photographers and good typography isn't groundbreaking at all.

It is about having a very unobstructed and experienced feeling on how shapes and colors affect people, how information is read visually and so on. This can become complicated if you dive deep into the way our brain works or into the different cultural, political and historical connotations connected to certain visual languages and elements — however just developing a sense for how to manipulate shapes and colors in order to achieve visual goals is much more fundamental to the practical parts of the profession than any elaborate theory.
Plus access to public places via QR codes verifying you have been vaccinated / recently tested negative.
>>> It's not hard to code, children do it.

I think a paradox of programming is that we know it's easy, yet we also know that a certain fraction of people -- perhaps a majority -- will never grasp how to do it effectively. And the ones who can do it well enough to get paid for it, aren't sticking around in low paying administrative jobs.

And coding well enough to really replace a spreadsheet without making something even worse is yet a higher level of programming skill.

Given the virtually ubiquitous knowledge that programming skill is of market value, I think the existing proportion of people who can program is indicative of how many people are potentially capable of it. I don't know a single manager or engineer who doesn't think that learning a little bit of Python would be useful.
The only thing I wasn't able to do without so far is SMS 2nd factor. Dumbphone is enough for that.

I don't mind if banks/govs require use of some protocol. But forcing use of specific apps goes against past achievements to make public institutions use open formats and protocols, so I reject that where possible, or complain.

It should not be acceptable. I still remember times when people had to pirate MS office to be able to open some .doc from their gov, or use MS windows to run some proprietary form filling software. That's mostly a thing of the past, thankfully. "My-app or highway" attitude feels like a setback in that regard.
The public broadcast service in my country is getting extra funding from the EU to fight disinformation on top of its existing 400 million euro budget. The provincial broadcasts network has successfully lobbied the regional government for funding for an "AI" project to measure online viewership counts in order to help them transition to an online presence which has been absent to this day as there budget is exclusively dependent on what outdated topset boxes record as the most watched tv channel. Spitting in the face of every person trying to be the local Joe Rogan in their living room studio. Funny how they think that the current peasant revolt is fuelled by disinformation by Putin.
Great, it means more System 9 and less UNIX.
Indeed. Excel gets a lot of (pretty deserved, actually) shit from our industry, but the reality is that Excel does what computers are meant to do: enable users to create sophisticated applications[0] that solve their problems with no coding expertise required, nor kowtowing to some developer, with the option to onramp into adding some code via macros.

Excel is the most widely used programming environment on earth because it is so good at it. That said, I think the fact that we haven't made anything better speaks to the change in philosophy our industry has undergone, from one where we wanted to enable users with computing to one where we want to herd and farm them for money.

[0] yes, both 'sophisticated' and 'application' are defined pretty loosely here.
You know you wouldn't have to make use of functionality just because it's there, right?
See also: The Digital Imprimatur, https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
As a frontend developer, I love to run applications in production, being able to get a terminal to my server, setup metrics, and do all these devopsy things.

But it is a totally different experience from doing this with Appengine, Heroku, Tsuru, etc... than with a custom in house built kubernetes plus a thousand custom home made tools and 10 different repositories with custom undocumented YAML files and another 3000 "gotchas" of things that don't work yet, we're on it, we need to migrate to the new version,etc.

So I symphatize with the parent comment in the sense that, in this custom built mountain of stuff, I don't want to do deveops... if you give me an easy to use, well tested, well documented, stable production infrastructure as the ones I mentioend, then I'm all in.

I also agree with you on your last paragraphs about not exposing the raw thing to the developers. This is the key.

The problem is when the systems gurus want you to understand to the same level everything they understand, your frontend coworkers want you to be on the latest of every library, your product manager wants you to perfectly understand the product, your manager expect you to be the best at dealing with people, and you still have to smile and be happy about team building... oh, and don't forget the Agile Coach expecting you to also be good at all the team dynamics and card games.

I'm all in in operating the applications my team builds. Having to operate custom in house kubernetes clusterfucks is not my job.
Imagine for a moment you're an Apple exec who gets to see real usage numbers and revenue numbers per platform and is on board with the current company belief system.

You see MacOS devices completely dwarfed in both users and profit per user by iOS devices.

As that executive, who keep in mind probably doesn't share your opinions on open technology or they would never have got into that position. What decisions would you be making on the direction of their platforms.

I can't help but think we're only going one way and it's not towards something more open.
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Is this the future of gaming?
Maybe this is. You can in fact run this on your local computer and still get the high frame rates. A potato can do it too! This simple yet addictive game could be the future. Move the paddle with the arrow keys and eliminate your enemies! Check it out now!
thanks, I was going to try it, but for some reason that application needs access to my contacts
> if you are still junior engineer. Rather, it is worrying. I always remind people to learn something first before you try to teach other people.

The curse of knowledge is also a thing: An expert might have a harder time explaining things to a novice. A novice can more easily explains things to a fellow novice.

And if someone gets something wrong on the internet, sooner or later someone else will point it out. #XKCD386
Re: Android, I tried to log out of YouTube on my phone yesterday. It said "Sure, as long as you don't mind logging out of GMail too." I was taken aback by this -- I didn't realise this was a hostage situation.
GitHub's dependabot is causing a ton of "spam" in our frontend (Angular) repositories, as it seemingly opens 1-5 PRs per day to bump random dependencies. I really hope this does not become common practice for our Go repositories.

Is there an option to tell dependabot "make one PR per week at most, please, and bundle your changes"?
My thoughts exactly. Easy to sit atop an ivory tower to look down upon deflate 32 years later. No denying it’s usefulness though.
> here is no “public good” from getting vaccinated, it’s solely for personal benefit

You can save more hospital beds for people ?
Beating the L1 cache with value speculation
The pdp11 is oddly interesting to me. Never used one or touched one. But the instruction set is interesting in so many ways. It looks like something I could actually write code for and not spend the whole time in anger.
On the other hand, plenty of species developed fins and did not give up only because they were outcompeted by someone else.

But the ocean is a big place. Tree tops in the savannah may not be as important resource.
I think they would avoid doing that at all costs - their defense in court has always been "it's our algorithms", because if they had to admit "it was one of our employees" they would be liable.

There's ongoing antitrust lawsuits about them pushing their own services (e.g. Docs) in front of competitors, and some fuckery with Shopping. Their defense leans heavily on the statement that they didn't do it on purpose or manually, but that their algorithm considers their services the best. For that they need to lift the veil a bit on their algorithms (and iirc there is an outstanding court order for that one already).
This was during the reign of noted loon Ballmer, so probably not a great idea. Remember this? https://www.cultofmac.com/501138/apple-history-steve-ballmer...
Perhaps after a few generations there is damage that would otherwise have been protected; or maybe the unmethylated FTO protects from adverse weather / environmental conditions that are not normally present in greenhouses.

Either of those could prove catastrophic, so I don't think yours is a noob question - unfortunately, I am also a noob.
No long required and regex search (not that it is needed here). Plus it searches GitLab too. (I think there is a repo limit though based on popular repos)

https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+7FDE623822FC...
You mean MongoDB Compass?

https://www.mongodb.com/products/compass
Learn in-depth about your mind and relationships through analytics
Yes, I understand that, but how do I _know_ if I am using this functionality?

In this case, it is the ability for an app to install and execute arbitrary code that hasn't been reviewed. I download an update to DoodleJump and it installs some malware on my device. I'd be none the wiser.

I don't want that stress, which is why I chose an Apple device. It protects me from that scenario.
You said "I don't see anywhere people are saying it was actually SWAT" and I'm pointing you to where the article implies actual SWAT was involved, with their use of a photo of an actual SWAT team.
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Don't iOS apps check in with Apple periodically for permission to run?
> Write simpler formulas.

Excel's formula language seems deliberately designed to prevent that.
I would suggest "if we can see two eyes that are closed and there wasn't a change made within the past 5 seconds".
It is nothing to be amazed, other than we are finally able to enjoy such type systems in mainstream languages.

PL/I and Algol 68 were equally powerfull, or if you research into was being done in Xerox PARC workstations.

If anything, we are 30 years too late for where we could have been if it wasn't for UNIX winning the worstation market.
Part of that is the Node / JS ecosystem that churns out libraries for every tiny thing. The Go ecosystem is a lot more streamlined; adding dependencies is frowned upon, building small libraries is frowned upon, etc.

That said, if it's just version bumps then they should be bundled. But what about security issues? Those need to be fixed and updated asap.
Things are actually much much worse today in regards to testing. I don't think Microsoft even has testers for Windows these days, they just push updates to users and and force them to test.
Adrian Chadd – RSS Enhancements to the FreeBSD Network Stack (2014)
> What are the costs? I can buy an iPhone or an Android phone and switch pretty easily can’t I?

Software would need to be repurchased if it's even available on the other platform. Maybe you could but I know I couldn't easily or cheaply switch.
With Sailfish you also have to give up all the security advancements in Android/iOS, in both good and bad. You can do what you want more freely, but also each app has equal access to all your data. Unless they've implemented some access control in the later versions, but I haven't heard about it.
The reason is signal integrity. Running a high speed signal (never mind a bus of 64+ of them) through a connector is hard and takes a lot of power because the connector can seriously degrade the signals. LPDDR can be low power because it doesn't have a "memory stick" abstraction, just memory chips and controllers. It's not the resistance that kills the signal, it's the inductance and the impedance mismatching.
Neat, but as TFA says, not useful.

Objective-S makes URIs useful: http://objective.st/URIs/
I think nothing really changed. They only provided clearer explanation on what they are collecting and why, even though it's still not as clear as it needs to be.
Many angry people dislike any politician.

And of course we all know the real reason why Priti Patel rubs so many people up the wrong way... she's a non-white daughter of immigrants.
You have to come up with the modicum of empathy to put yourself in the shoes of the users to be able to understand why they are angry.

• You must acknowledge that privacy is a basic human right.¹ Maybe you were brought up in a culture where these rights don't count; well, here's your opportunity to learn and grow. Maybe you have simply forgotten your school lessons, that's not good and the blame falls squarely on your shoulders then.

• The users were promised UI improvements and an eighth zoom button, instead they got malicious software and bad treatment from the new owners.

• Look at what Muse originally planned, not what they compromised to after the public push-back.

• There is a person at Muse named Daniel Ray who is a sociopath and lacks the basic decency/internal filter in communicating with other people and utter lack of self-preservation for avoiding bad consequences for himself, such that he thinks that threatening a software developer on public Github with doxxing him into the gulag is an acceptable thing to do.

¹ Let's see how these rephrases violating some other human rights feel: "I really don't get the wailing and gnashing of teeth against even the principle of forced castration and hysterectomy." "I really don't get the wailing and gnashing of teeth against even the principle of trading and using chattel slaves."
Regarding the environment and humans decreasing the Earth's ability to sustain life, the tech community doesn't seem to pick up on the pattern that technology augments the users' goals and values. As long as our culture values growth, extraction, externalizing costs, comfort, and convenience, technology that makes that system more efficient may decrease pollution in one element, but it makes the system more efficient. That is, we pollute and decrease Earth's ability to sustain life more efficiently.

When Watt made his steam engine, coal use went up. Uber was supposed to lower congestion and miles driven but they went up. We repeat the pattern over and over. The "father" of the Green Revolution, on winning the Nobel Prize said

> "The green revolution has won a temporary success in man’s war against hunger and deprivation; it has given man a breathing space. If fully implemented, the revolution can provide sufficient food for sustenance during the next three decades. But the frightening power of human reproduction must also be curbed; otherwise the success of the green revolution will be ephemeral only.

> Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the “Population Monster”. . . Since man is potentially a rational being, however, I am confident that within the next two decades he will recognize the self-destructive course he steers along the road of irresponsible population growth…"

He understood the value of technology as well as anyone in theory and practice. He recognized that we have to change our values from growth to enjoying what we have, from externalizing costs to responsibility, and so on or technology will keep exacerbating and augmenting our problems. That pattern includes nuclear, electric vehicles, and space travel. They may solve local problems, but they exacerbate the systemic effect. Electric vehicles, for example, make sense as a tactic under the strategy of reducing vehicles. Nuclear makes sense only as a tactic under the strategy of lowering power consumption. But we keep valuing producing more cars and energy.

This community seems over and over again to miss the systemic and unintended side effects. If we had clean fusion under our current values, we wouldn't live as we do today only cleaner. We would grow again until we hit more limits and had to live again under scarcity or natural calamity. Borlaug worked the second half his career to help people see the consequences of helping solve only part of our system but not the system.

If we have to stop growing at some point, at least acknowledging the laws of thermodynamics, the sooner we do it, with the smaller number of people, the more abundance we can live with. The more people we have, the harder to limit ourselves. If we don't, nature will, as we all know.
I've interpreted it as obvious satire
I think this is a huge problem for many people born in the past 30 years. We see all these amazing people on (social) media and compare ourselves to them if they're the same sex, or feel attracted to them. I can only imagine what it does to the body image of 14yo girls. In a somewhat similar vein, boys in puberty masturbate to porn that sets completely unrealistic expectations with regards to their partners and experiences in real life. It is a huge, and I think not often-enough talked about, problem. I hope we will find a solution some day, but I have no idea what it could be.
I just wish there would be a -fsafe compiler flag instead of having to deal with all the sanitizers and debug mode flags, but it is what it is.
This is an old video, from 2014 as noted in the title, but pretty short at about 30 minutes length, and certainly interesting. It's about Receive Side Scaling in FreeBSD.
Alternatively, more land can be reforested and given back to wildlife.
The value of doing a little
Hinduphobic guy does not like current Govt. What are the odds!!
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to Acquire First Sample
Another Smalltalk fan!
HN hug of death already
XP SP3 was about to hit the market as M$ went into security overdrive mode.
Congrats on the launch. HubSpot has an API for their data, it’s a bit messy (has 3 different versions and some parts are at v1, some at v2, etc).
Say I want to develop an app to help a HubSpot user understand their data better.
Can hotglue be used by a dev with no knowledge of this API, to pull out all of the HubSpot data of a specific client, including historical events (such as deal stages, email interactions, site visits, form submissions)?
Sooner or later we just use algorithms to generate girls for you, so you can have whatever you wish to have.
I can assure you this was exactly the case. The original was done in C and then compiled. Phil then would optimize it by hand resulting in highly optimized asm code. All the DOS versions were done this way. That was the genius of Phil Katz. The first VAX version was done in C and that code was then ported to the first unix variants at which time it was moved to 32 bit and the extended attributes fields were added.
It's the Ibi~~~s... (nsfw language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-OpFjHRbE
It’s funny that we software developers have been so coddled into thinking that we don’t need unions because we get paid enough for our work. Yet we all know and see these oversteps by companies, taking away our very ability to work our trade as we see fit, piece by piece, inch by inch.

I support the EFF, but that’s basically all I know how to do. Imagine if Google’s software developers went on strike every time they tried to pull another AMP on the open web?
I feel that the only reason Microsoft survived the 2000s was their deep entrenchment into the enterprise. If the same continued in the 2010s, they would likely be on life support by now.
> if this change is beneficial to plants, why has it not occurred already by natural mutation?

Because plants in the wild aren't selected for producing as much rice/tuber as possible. They're selected for being able to survive and reproduce, which only goes hand-in-hand up to a point, after which the plant would just be wasting nutrients.

The amount of nutrients available to a plant in the wild might also be far from 'greenhouse conditions', so even if it was beneficial to the plants they wouldn't be able to do so anyways.
The rules include a limited exception for educational purposes, which Swift Playgrounds also falls under.
Pure objectivity doesn't really exist.
As long as the hardware runs Linux, I'm going to overwrite the operating system, so I'm indifferent. I've bought all my recent computers used from Craigslist and Linux runs great on all of them.
Hello World Example in Pandas API for Apache Spark
Iggy Pop keeps a Moluccan Cockatoo called BiggyPop. He has a bunch of videos of Biggy judging and rocking out to music if he likes it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a7TGxn3cVU

https://www.instagram.com/biggypop/

They're clearly smart birds and it's no wonder a bin lid presents little challenge in the wild.

They also have the bite force of a Husky[1], which makes them pretty scary in the wild and not a great choice as a pet for most.

[1]: https://beakcraze.com/can-a-cockatoo-bite-your-finger-off/#H...
Created throwaway account just to provide some insight.
In terms of attractiveness, what you see on the internet is usually the top 1% of females, as there's strong effects of "winner takes all" when it comes to attention from the opposite sex.
Now, highly ranking females on the internet are getting hit on by hundreds or even thousands of possible male suitors, and the ones with blue ticks, fame/money/clout are the ones taking those girls on dates. Again, winner takes all dynamic.
On the flip side you can argue that it's not mentally healthy for those girls and their relationships, but internet addiction does bad things to ones brain. For young guys/girls it makes them depressed as it paints unrealistic standards and tricks the brain into believing lies.
My humble advice for men is to work on themselves, improve one's sexual marketplace value and then look for a partner. My advice for attractive females is to be careful of capitalizing too much on their juvenile looks... Once accustomed to a lavish lifestyle, it's depressing when eventually one comes down from the pedestal.
That's a soft restatement of 1: Is it not a "local" step
I really hope Dave2D does a review of this laptop to increase awareness about it. It's a great concept and they deserve success
I love the idea of needing to replace the laptop to upgrade RAM. /sarc
I added 20 hours of flying to one of my work trips to ensure i DIDN'T enter US airspace.

I'm sure that there are plenty of nice people in the US, but that country as a whole is bug F#$% crazy in my mind. I felt safer in Argentina and Ecuador than the thought of going into the US.
Sustainable Founder Motivations
How many people in the world starve because rice and potatoes are too expensive for them? Outright famines are becoming very rare and those that still happen tend to be caused by logistical problems.

We have been galloping into the "obesity is a bigger problem than starvation" territory for decades and we are not far from the end position. Everywhere but Subsaharan Africa, an obesity pandemics is raging. We should not ignore its cost, either human or financial. A wealthy society which suffers from a lot of obesity is de facto impoverished, too.

I would like us to concentrate on lowering the price of foods that contain more nutrients. Things like avocados have become less available to the poor in the last decades, thus stripping them of valuable source of protein, fat and vitamines.