skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were moving out before those rent increases. The problem is the kind of boutique retail people seem to want in cities isn't profitable; even the older midsized or speciality chains got edged out by national ones. This is kind of like wondering what happened to all those computer places back in the 80s and 90s that would build you custom PCs.

And HN did its part to kill it too. Can't have music shops when you destroy physical music as a concept; can't have bookstores when no one wants to buy books. Movie sales and rentals? Internet. Electronics? Online category killers. Second hand stores? Ebay.

The rent jacking up is an issue too, but even if it were lower, you still wont get businesses. There's been a big change in retail overall due to the hyperefficiency of the internet; the kind of stores that existed pre-net can't compete.
bro, i learned that from Titanic...
I coincidentally discovered a similar situation yesterday, when attempting to identify a dazed hornet. Comparing it to specimen photos of presumably dead hornets, it was very hard to match them, as they had their wings and body arranged in a different way.
He likes the name
That's a lot of the buzz in TEFL communities I've seen. Not sure if it's true, but the panic is definitely there.

With the rising xenophobia in China, I wouldn't advise people to do TEFL there anyways.
Is there any desktop machine I could buy off the shelf, in 2021, and OpenBSD would just work on it?
And what about Dillo?

https://www.dillo.org/
Yeah, average Joe in your examples here isn’t being given the whole picture. I’m not sure what your point actually is; are you saying that since Story Points don’t help you specifically, they’re a waste? Don’t you get how myopic that is?
If some of the components such as RAM were made replaceable, that wouldn't be the OEM's problem. They could still ship only a few configurations. When you decided the original RAM or storage isn't enough, you'd just ask your local shop to upgrade.

I'm not even asking for upgradeable CPUs or GPUs. Those could be a bit complicated on laptops due to chipset compatibility, power and thermal design issues, etc. But RAM is relatively cheap, can be made relatively easy to replace, and is a common thing to run low on. The same pretty much goes for storage. It seems weird and counter-productive to have components like that be soldered in and non-replaceable even by a professional.
If you're into fully fanless PCs and don't mind paying a premium, Monster Labo are the only ones to my knowledge selling cases capable of dissipating the 300W+ that a full gaming desktop will generate: https://www.monsterlabo.com/shop
There’s also quite a scorn in parts of the open source world for UX and design in general.

Attempts at making software more approachable are accused of dumbing down or prioritising form over function. There’s an attitude that it’s not ‘real work’ if you don’t have to memorise tonnes of inscrutable commands or spend ages tinkering with config files.
It's been the age of rising seas for 20,000 years.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Lev...
Pretty common in Japan, if I recall correctly.
I do not know the details, but my experience with accounting regulations, is that there's likely to be a lot of heavy-duty checks and balances. I doubt it would be anywhere near as simple as I stated. Remember that I am not an expert in this field.
Why would you invest in anything in australia when you can just buy houses and sit back and watch the government encouraged returns accumulate?
I think calling the type of natural numbers ℕ instead of Natural is causing the confusion. Students would be less tempted to write

{1,2} ⊆ Natural

as the right side looks like a type name rather than a value . Haskell helps to maintain the distinction by using capitals for type names and lower case for variable names.

I would seem natural to write:

naturals :: Set Natural
naturals = {0,1..}
{1,2} ⊆ naturals
That’s an implementation detail.
Love the idea and your past (passed?) projects. My condolences.

I’ve built something similar, called Project Cemetery [0], with the hopes of giving all of us a place to pay our respects to the side projects that have passed. Sadly, it just wasn’t meant for this world either. Only projects of mine are listed, although I’d still gladly post submissions!

[0] https://projectcemetery.com
Is that a thunderstorm coming? macOS 11.6, 12, and Apple Silicon Macs
So then, what do you advise to do? Give up?
To the people downvoting this:

WPF is complete, done, never to be changed again according to Microsoft. But nevetheless they have recently started fixing bugs for .NET 6. Notably not the one where returning from the Windows 10 lock screen made the application freeze. They called that production-ready for .NET 5. [1]

WinForms is a mess. They reinvented the wheel when porting it from .NET Framework by changing APIs, then noticing that this wasn't a good idea because porting applications from .NET Framework would become a complete rewrite which would make WinForms on .NET pointless. So they stopped changing the APIs halfway through, which makes it still necessary to rewrite complex UIs. [3] The WinForms designer in Visual Studio does not work with third-party controls (even your own) when targeting .NET 5/6. You need to sign an NDA to get access to internal VS APIs to do that. They call that production-ready. [2]

WinUI 3 is missing a lot of controls and features. But because Windows 11 needed to be released, they implemented the bare minimum that they needed for themselves and called it production-ready.

It's a mess. A huge mess when developing a desktop UI application larger than a calculator.

1: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/2158

2: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/windows-forms-designer...

> We are working closely with the control vendors such as Progress Telerik, DevExpress and GrapeCity on supporting their controls in the Windows Forms designer in the nearest future for .NET Core and .NET 5 projects. We are also collaborating with ActiPro, Infragistics, and SyncFusion.

Situation unchanged, no access to the APIs without an NDA.

3: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/w...
Well there goes their a/b results.
It won't run MS Teams, right?
According to the article, the main difference between GPLv2 and GPLv3 is that having the Secure Boot unlocking process wipe the disk, and therefore destroy the proprietary software installation is kosher under the GPLv2, while v3 requires the proprietary software needs to continue working.

I would argue v2 is even better, because it forces unlocked phones to use alternatives to Android (that is, the proprietary Google Servics), like Lineage, while avoiding turning billions of phones into bricks.
Holy shit... By the way, there's a weird-ass Korean adult animation about a dystopian world that has (tried to) solve their energy crisis by burning human feces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachi_%26_Ssipak

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972542/

Maybe those researchers have been inspired from that movie. Ah, how life imitates art...

The plot (highly NSFW by the way):

"Somewhere in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have somehow engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars" to citizens, which in turn also makes them constipated. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading black market Juicybars. Through a chain of events involving their porn-director acquaintance Jimmy the Freak, they meet a porn star named Beautiful, who gets a pink ring inside her butt which makes her defecations rewarded by exceptional quantities of Juicybars. For that reason, Beautiful is also wanted by the violent blue mutants known as the Diaper Gang (led by the Diaper King), the police (most notably the cyborg police officer Geko), and others."
Then you might have an inexperienced manager or moderator. All it takes is "Hey John, I didn't hear you in the discussion yet. What are your thoughts?". "If there was 1 thing we should improve, what do you think it should be?". Stuff like that. I know even then it's sometimes hard, but at least you should try pulling things out of them.
What reasonable compromises do you have in mind?

From context you must mean something Norway hasn't done or tried to do (otherwise Norway wouldn't be "pretty hypocritical") and if the word hypocritical is to be meaningful (not "something everyone is all the time"), such compromises must exist.

The Kyoto protocol makes me sad.

EDIT: No, wait, perhaps I get it.

You're not contrasting hypocritical with "not hypocritical" as I thought, but rather with other bad traits, right?

So Norway is spending oil income on things like building Tesla's car business and Wärtsilä's electric ship engines, and that's hypocritical, while (name other country) has a large profitable construction business that burns lots of oil on fixed construction sites, and that country is not spending its tax income on subsidising electric companies that take on Komatsu and Caterpillar. The other country is then (in your opinion) somehow bad, but not hypocriticial. And that's the contrast. Is that it?
This does not match my experience at all. Debian stable is hands down the most robust and well tested collection of software I have ever used. All issues have been on my end - either hardware failure or my own ignorance while mucking about in the configs.

LibreOffice specifically had serious stability issues a few years ago but has been much better lately. You could run Microsoft Office under Wine all along though (or use Google Docs, etc). Nothing preventing you from paying for stable software in that particular case.

Admittedly 3D graphics (not 2D office applications) can be rocky depending on your vendor. I've had good luck with AMD lately (but not in the past). That's entirely the fault of the vendors (AMD & Nvidia) though. Integrated Intel is and always has been absolutely flawless.
> I'd like to remind everyone that PHP originally used strlen() as a hashing function: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/70691

You speak of this as it should be something that is relevant for the state of PHP and the community that uses it to this day.

It is not. The community moved on, maybe it's time the haters did as well.
Custom keyboards are expensive. The benefit of the GMMK Pro is you can easily install new switches as it's hotswappable. This lets you have a lot more options for switches than most companies give you. I personally find MX Browns kinda meh.
Doom was basically the end for Amiga gaming. There were still some noteworthy Amiga games after that, but it was the point where chunky graphics modes definitively were shown to be necessary to keep up.
I recently went fanless by getting a Ryzen 7 mini pc (ASUS PN-50) and installing the mainboard in a fanless aftermarket case[0]. Works great. The CPU idles around 45C which is actually quite a bit cooler than with the original air cooled ASUS case.

[0] https://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.deta...
I am totally moved! Keep stuff like this coming. https://fopeez.com/
China has terrible demographics right now. Their population will get old and their economic dominance will disappear. As a CCP politician you will have a big angry mob knocking at your door who believed that you were the one bringing them to prosperity.
What the post author is measuring is simply the absence of momentum and passion from whoever was curating the news/communication at the time. A company with dedicated staff for this purpose would have kept the news flowing regularly for PR reasons.
This is another interesting take:

> As I was completing drafting on this article, the Linux Foundation sent me a rejection letter for my talk about this issue at their annual Open Source Summit (taking place this September 2021), and simultaneously announced McCoy will speak on this matter instead. I invite McCoy to not take the easy way out of presenting his work unquestioned to a friendly audience. I would be glad to come to the Open Source Summit in September and debate McCoy publicly on this issue during this session. I believe the audience would benefit from hearing more than just the anti-software-repair view of this issue.
Missing the point. Everyone else is using software to solve problems they never had before, and failing to use it makes you the one out.

When your kids’ friends send a request to all their social media contacts list, it takes extra effort for your kids’ friends to realise your kids are one of the few people who aren’t in that list and need to be contacted separately.

Is that fair? No.

Is it nice? No.

Is it fun? No.

Is it malicious? No.

Is it a lack of interest on the part of your kids’ friends? No.

Is it a reason for your kids to secretly make their own accounts without you knowing about it? Yes.
I don’t think so.

It’s quite simple: where do the profits come from?

Other people, who by definition will lose money because crypto doesn’t create value.

A large amount of people will hold the bags of worthless currencies while a few laugh their asses off in their lambo’s.
..yeah, that's why we are all talking about Mastodon and Diaspora right now, because there was a massive hole they rushed in to fill. Funny how even on HN people have completely forgotten about the former; I haven't seen it on the feed here in weeks.

Youtube is untenable, lol. Hey everyone, the Ipod was untenable! Everyone is moving to Microsoft Zune! Ninja is going to livestream on Mixer, that will teach Twitch!

This is like the Death of Wal-mart or something, people constantly proclaim it but it keeps chugging along.
Same here. As of 18.04LTS Ubuntu has been more stable than Windows 7 ever was for me.
You should rethink starting that company. I can think of a half dozen shows I'm interested in, and all of them are exclusive to their streaming service. I don't see that trend changing anytime soon.
Agree completely.

The tough part for me has been experiencing a team like that, then moving and having no idea how to help create a similar environment with my new team. Any tips?
Something along this approach has been used in "modern" house hydraulics in the last few years here in Italy, though not common, as it is used only AFAIK in self standing houses (not apartments buildings).

In practice there is a reservoir where the "almost clean" waste water (i.e. what comes out of the bath sink, bidet and shower/bath tub) is accumulated.

Toilets are fed by a pump with water coming from this reservoir, in practice you use the same water two times.
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Try searching something along the lines of 'museum quality' print. It's a vague pointer from my side but should help you.

Another great advice is to make a high quality scan. High resolution, full color. Output it to TIF file format. That should give you a file that you can print anywhere.

So you need to take care and archive the printed one _and_ the digital one.
Snowcrash - the full reality release. Coming soon to a town near you.

Tickets available to purchase via your local Mayor.
> The vast majority of instructors I've had prefer not noticing the broad trends that cultivated the soil for its people to prosper.

I observe a trend away from this, at least here in Germany. A symptom of this is that museums and exhibitions nowadays put things into a much broader context than previously. Typically by explaining how far the raw materials of what is shown had travelled (eg. the blue of medieval illuminated manuscripts coming from Afgan lapis lazuli). But of course, there is much room for more improvement.

The most important cause for the spacial and termporal devisions we observe in the disciplin of history has nothing to do with exclusive ideology, but it is the fact that any research across such subdisciplinary borders is much more difficult than inside a subdisciplin. In case of ancient Greece: It is already very difficult to establish a good enough proficiency in Ancient Greek and Latin to study the "European" sources as well as accumulating the expert knowledge about the multiple aspects of the narrower Greek history.

My ambition was to gather expert knowledge in my research fields, but integrate that, at least when I was teaching students, into a wide horizon, where I rely on the expert knowledge of others.

This brings me to your question about good reads: My caveat is that I am all but an expert about the eastward influence of Ancient Greek culture. What I know I catched from various books.

If you can read German, you might be interested in the "Fischer Weltgeschichte"[1], published in 36 volumns from 1965 to 1983 (vol. 5, 6 and 16 are relevant for your question). However, they need to be read with not only one but some grains of salt, because much of their contents is outdated. Nevertheless, their authors have been leading experts in their fields of study at the time. So the books are still often much better than more recent introductions.

For the history of Central Asia a very nice overview is Susan Whitfield's "Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes"[2]. It is not specific about the Greek influence to the East, but if you are new to this topic, it is perhaps a better idea to start broader.

I first learned, if I remember it correctly, about the Greeco-Roman high relief travelling eastwards, when reading E.H. Gombrich: "The Story of Art"[3] -- the best introduction into global art history I know of.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Weltgeschichte

[2] ISBN-10: 0500021570, ISBN-13: ‎978-0500021576.

[3] "The Story of Art" was first published in 1950 and is still available. There exists a cheap pocket edition in smaller sizes, small font and small images, which I cannot recommend: the illustrations are too small. Go for the normal edition. Chances are good that you find a cheap one at your local Antiquarian bookshop.
Research and algo design was where most of the 3- and 5-point tickets came from. I think I remember a couple with more points, but not many.

Given the "about one hour of work, give or take" target point value we used, there weren't many tasks which had more points than that.
The United States of Amazon then?
Coming from the mathematics side of things,

> In a math class, we typically tell students that ℕ is a set.

I think the approach is a bit glib. There are some caveats—a student with more mathematical experience would think of ℕ as a set, or a type, or as objects in various categories.

It’s also worth asking a student what 1∪2 is. Most people will look at that and just tilt their head, even though common foundations for mathematics treat 1 and 2 as sets. It turns out most people don’t want to work in foundations, and want to think of 1 and 2 as non-sets. The same applies in the other direction, upwards, when you think of ℕ as a type (even though it is also a set).
Firejail is the solution to the author's concerns.

I only would suggest a whitelist based approach instead of a blacklist approach.
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> Isn't this also true of Twitter? Why always such unique hate for FB?

Twitter also gets criticized a lot, people talk about leaving Twitter all the time. The main difference with Facebook is probably that for many people, it covers more things, is more integral and thus harder to leave.
The careers of many people (not just technical) who work in a business relying on the technology these days would not exist in the same way without open source and free software (that whatever product or software you are currently to make those comments relies on).

There's nothing wrong with criticism, but to give simplistic arguments (if they can be called arguments event) and say that it's "low quality" or "will not work" is just absolutely incorrect. But when it gets defended you call it "attacks the ego of many people"? That's just ridicules.
Remember, when something is too good to be true, it isn’t true, at least not in its entirety.
Deleting Code to Double the Performance of My Trivial Objective-S Tasks Back End
I think one of the biggest indications of failure (because it’s been morphed into something shit by all these business manager types, and not because it’s fundamentally flawed) is the fact that we have dedicated “scrum masters” that never rotate.
I think the way the Manifesto and early community around it lent itself to this inversion is this:

(1) The Manifesto is written in non-actionable terms.

(2) Many of the same people that initially attached themselves to the manifesto were already pitching canned processes, that may have been the outcome of agile process where they originated but did not put the critical feedback mechanisms more prominently than the low-level processes. So, those became the actionable versions of “Agile”.

It would be so much better if instead of the “X over Y” language, the Manifesto has spent a few words talking about how the less important things were subordinated to the more important ones.

The weird thing is that continuous, bottom-up, empirically-based process improvement wasn't an unknown concept at the time the Manifesto was written. It wouldn't have been hard for it to reference more concrete, actionable, concepts and practices.
My point is that they are often as relevant to reality as the flying spaghetti monster to spaghetti. Read my previous comments dump whatever you have in memory in an s3 bucket? Story point 0-give me 10 minutes. Then why did it take a week and a half? Cause someone from another team across the world has to grant permissions which was 3 days of discussions, then the VPN was messed up, which took another 2 teams on the other end of the planet 4 days to fix, 10 minutes to code it and 10 minutes for the cicd pipeline to deploy it. 0 story points, right. That's my entire problem with evangelistic crap like (fr)agile, story points, sprints, epics and so on: they do not reflect reality in any shape or form.
The agile manifesto was the problem. It's a vague as hell set of proscriptions that everybody could project their own ideas on to that got turned into a pseudo-religion.

I once had it used against me to justify not writing tests ("processes and tools!"). We had meetings about bugs instead. Seriously. Complain all you like about perversion, that was a perfectly valid interpretation coz those hallowed commandments are, frankly, ill-defined bollocks.

The principles are better but still suffer the same problem. If the most efficient way to convey information in a dev team is face to face why don't you come over here and I'll whisper my pull request in your ear. Jesus.

There's no point complaining about the perversion of a thing that was never very specific about what it wanted to be in the first place.

Once people (especially managers) get specific about what agile means to them it turns out it means very different things to different people. This is entirely the fault of the originators.

One benefit of Scrum (the catholic church to agile's christian sect) was that it was proscriptive and was specific. Unfortunately it's also a bit shit and its practitioner-priests LOVE to tell you that if it isnt working, well, You Probably Just Weren't Doing It Correctly.
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Yes. Windows Internals 7th edition https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-Developer-Refe...
The classical “shit sandwich”.
So what was the fraud?
Live Recording is the new Gigging
Though from a few videos it's got an incredibly primitive UI that mainly uses the side buttons instead of the big touchscreen. The interface seems much more apt for a feature phone than a smartphone. (Though I realize there can be some niche demand for a non-touchscreen Linux phone with a hardware keyboard... Maybe that's what might be more achievable in the FOSS Linux hobbyist scene than something like the Pinephone or the Librem 5.)