skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree on your main point, in a weaker wording: 'LaTeX resumes/CVs rarely make sense', but not for the reason you gave, and I disagree with not using LaTeX in general for technical information.

The reason I think LaTeX resumes/CVs rarely make sense is that there are a number of HR departments that require them in MS Word format (often this is a SharePoint house and yes, I think that bizarre, but that is what I've found). LaTeX can be converted to Word doc, but in my experience always requires tweaking.

For sharing technical work, I think it depends on your audience.

A connected team with a decent wiki or document generation pipline authoring informal technical how-tos or status intended for the team only? Then some flavor of markdown (I prefer Creole) can make perfect sense.

Authoring anything for team external use should use a well defined community standard (rustdoc, rst, etc.) if what's being documented is specific to that community (Rust code, Python code, etc.).

Authoring anything of a more technical nature (papers, how-tos to be delivered to a client, CONOPS) should be authored in a pipeline that starts with a text based format, so that you can put it under good version control (opinionated, but SharePoint/Word do not count for that for me). I prefer LaTeX for that format. Some prefer Docbook, some DITA, and I've even seen a TOML version. This gets you version control, document section re-use, and fine-grained control over document layout.

Note I said should.

Some potential barriers to that are:

* Skillsets - the rest of the team does not know Docbook, DITA, or LaTeX and may be resistant to learn. This will make it a hard sell to management.

* Time - The project does not have the budget or scope to change how documentation is being done, according to management. In reality, this pipeline will save time in editing, and improve quality delivered to the client or end customer.

* NIH/NIMBY - Not Invented Here and it's more obstinate brother, Not In My Backyard. If your shop has always done it a certain way, then the team may be resistant to changing. Especially if the way it has been done is reflective of a Windows world (MS Word, MS PowerPoint). If management is part of this problem, move. Only partially kidding, but a good document pipeline will be a hard sell.

What do you do if you cannot sell a good document pipeline?

You could version control your MS Word documents in Git through conversion[1], but this means you might lose some of the little tweaks your manager did to improve quality/put their stamp on the doc.

Another option is that MS Word has track changes, and you may be stuck with a combination of track changes and SharePoint/Confluence versioning.

Another option, which I've never tried, is to unzip the MS .docx file into a folder (each .docx file is a zip of a bunch of files, most them text), git version control that folder, and re-zip it up when needed. Not sure how well git diffs will work in this situation though. My guess it probably not well, but maybe better than nothing.

[1] https://blog.front-matter.io/mfenner/using-microsoft-word-wi...
My bipolar disorder is managed quite nicely with a low dose of Quetiapine. It's been a life saver.

Some people really have a problem with psychiatry and psychiatric meds. The following claim is suspect.

> the pharmaceutical industry, has inflicted iatrogenic harm on millions of people

What is verifiably true is psychiatric medications have helped millions of people. But you can't tell that to people who have an agenda against psychiatry and psychiatric meds.
The International Criminal Court; the ICJ is a different court with jurisdiction over nations, not individuals.
By "well-measured," I meant it's not long and rambly like most written material produced and consumed on HN. It covers a lot of different (though related) subjects in a short package and it was fun to read.
Then it's time to build yourself a greenhouse
I've been on the frontpage before and my logs indicate that the peak load was somewhere north of 350 requests/sec though the non-peak (while still on the frontpage) was typically 10-20 requests/second. That is for a very simple page consisting of an html document, css, an image, a favicon and no javascript (eg https://calpaterson.com/printers.html). If you can serve from a reverse proxy cache locally that will be fine but if some PHP/Python/NodeJS is running on each request you can run into trouble with the small servers people typically use for their side-project's website.
I think not giving the option to configure DNS servers or outright ignoring configured DNS servers to be incredibly hostile. Redirecting unencrypted DNS traffic is a defensive escalation. Putting your arms up as a fist comes at your face is not a hostile action.
Far right and far left are virtually indistingushable in the tactics they use IMO.

Just one side gets a pass by many people, the other not so much.
Show HN: What do you think about my new document organizer?
Having my resume in LaTeX offers a nice perk I haven't seen mentioned in the replies yet: under each section you can put a ton of different bullet points all commented out, and simply uncomment the most relevant ones for each job you're applying to.
Fall of Saigon
The author didn't really mean "real world" here. That is a misnomer. The article is about explaining why productivity gains have slowed even in the face of better software techniques. Machine learning has possibly made YouTube more addictive than it otherwise would have been, but this isn't increasing aggregate economic output for the world. It's just concentrating ad revenue in Google accounts, where it used to be spread between many more content distribution platforms.
This would be slightly less appalling if PayPal weren't so ban-happy towards people and organizations who weren't actually doing anything wrong. But as it stands, their false positive rate and false negative rate are both unacceptably high.
Agreed. I'd also add that other car manufacturers have made tradeoffs on safety issues for decades.

So I wonder if it's more about Telsa capitalizing on the hype of self driving cars (with the expensive self-driving add-on) in the short term and less about him misunderstanding the magnitude of difficulty.

Telsa is using the proceeds from that add-on to make them seem more profitable and fund the actual development. It's smart in some aspects, but very risky to consumers and Telsa.
That icon was called a "throbber". The name came from the original icon used back when the browser was called Mosaic NetScape (and the early Netscape Navigator days): a simple blocky purple N with a 90s pixel bevel effect on it. When animated the bevel would alternate between "sticking out" and "going in" to the plane of the screen, causing the N to appear to "throb". The name stuck, and all browser icons that animated to indicate network activity came to be called "throbbers".

I liked throbbers because they signalled "ok, I'm going to the network to fetch what you asked for" as opposed to the hourglass cursor which indicated ordinary computer activity. It was Windows 98 that ruined the experience and thrill of "going to the network", because Microsoft decided that the web and the local desktop should merge into a single, seamless experience. They seemed not to understand that the network was fundamentally different, and in many ways more dangerous, than the local PC because it is almost always, as we say today, someone else's computer; and that the end user should be made aware of and encouraged to respect that difference.

I think the nostalgia for the feeling of navigating cyberspace is part of what inspires art movements like vaporwave, with its incorporation of 90s GUI elements in its aesthetic. In the 90s, there was always this ambient feeling of "this boxy beige Macintosh isn't a sleek Ono-Sendai cyberdeck, but it's an acceptable interim substitute until you get a cyberdeck which could be any day now". We were sort of roleplaying at being a part of sort of a beta version of Gibson's tragically hip cyberfuture, not realizing that we were ultimately being sold the shitty parts of that future without any of the cool parts. It's kind of like the joke about Bill Gates in hell: the cool stuff was just the demo.
Heya, no thanks very much for mentioning this. There a lot of pro users who have great set ups which we take a lot of inspiration from. The fact of the matter is a lot of teams don’t use linux necessary and it won’t make sense for those people to have complicated setup. we make that productive set up for them just easier to do
JavaScript actually has a nice syntax for this, called "template literals", specifically "tagged template literals" that can be used to represent things like SQL or GraphQL queries [0]:

const sql = require('mssql')
const query = sql.query`select * from mytable where id = ${value}`

[0]: https://github.com/tediousjs/node-mssql
Furthermore, I’d describe GP’s comment as encouraging ‘pro-drop’ rather than any ‘voice’. (Though I suspect the technical details of syntactic terminology are somewhat irrelevant for résumé-writing.)
FortressOne is a free, open-source arena FPS game
That is why I use hand tools. For most one of items, it’s not slower. And I’m actually shaping and joining wood instead of spending most time adjusting machines. I’ve got enough of that in my day job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_dissolved_solids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_public_opinion_o...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140203074515/http://www.aei.or... (p.58: "Do you approve or disapprove of the current U.S. military action in Afghanistan?")
It doesn't sound clear at all. It sounds nothing like an operating system.
Wait till it can ID shoplifting, and people get added to a shared database of blacklisted shoppers.

You can steal no problem, but one day you'll be approached and asked to leave upon entering almost anywhere.
Antibiotic Novobiocin found to kill tumor cells with DNA-repair glitch
Mental health is the next big workplace issue
As usual with quirky resumes, I think a lot of people are missing the point. Nobody is suggesting that we all start using rustdoc for our resumes.

It's a fun, different way of presenting a resume. The fact that it made it to the front page of HN means it worked at what it was intended to do: be seen by a bunch of prospective employers and stand out.
Correct. Rationality is Bounded. That fact won a Nobel Prize - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon

The recommendation of the theory is if you cant be rational about a specific problem pick another problem, preferably a simpler problem.

Unfortunately lots of chimps in the troupe are incapable of doing that and therefore we shall always have drama.
It is good to be aware of history.

> The capture of the city was preceded by Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of almost all American civilian and military personnel in Saigon, along with tens of thousands of South Vietnamese civilians who had been associated with the Republic of Vietnam. A few Americans chose not to be evacuated. United States ground combat units had left South Vietnam more than two years prior to the fall of Saigon and were not available to assist with either the defense of Saigon or the evacuation.

Note what did not happen in Kabul.
I wonder if your comment says more about how you choose to see the name rather than any inherent meaning.

Personally, I only see it as the old name for lead. Interesting to see how others are wired.
Linking to Greenwald really isn't helping your case...
A Woman Hid Her Pregnancy from Big Data (2014)
In the early 2000's, I did my company's payroll using a Sony phone (maybe an M600c — the one from the James Bond film), while on a hydrofoil between Hong Kong and Macau. At the time I thought, "The future is finally here!"
Normalize masks? Let them figure my face from that!
The biggest issue with Vim is that early learners feel punished and feel slower using it than their original tool. That post about quitting is hilarious, I just found it a a few weeks ago :P

We're working hard to make sure users don't feel punished when switching to SigmaOS, and only feeling faster from there. Part of the inspiration is from Vim, but that doesn't mean we aren't learning from its mistakes :)
Personally, I like merge commits. I often merge feature branches even if I could do a fast-forward, because the merge commit explicitly documents the set of patches that made up a feature. The question isn't really about merge vs. rebase; you should use both.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a merge commit that says "merge feature-xyz into master"; you get a neat side path in the commit graph that contains the changes that made up xyz. Once you merge a branch however, you should delete it. Don't merge branches multiple times, and don't merge master into your feature branches.

You want to think of features as sets of individual logical changes, ie. patch series. I nearly always rewrite the commits in a branch before I merge it, to create a clean patch series. That usually means I also rebase the changes, but it's not always necessary.
Linked to your wifi, paid by you
Saying China is as impartial as Japan, German, and Italy when it comes to foreign affairs involving the US is either incredibly naive or disingenuous. It doesn’t itself prove Chinese involvement, but there’s a clear history of tension between the American and Chinese governments.
You can use the Vimium extension for chrome. Works great and is cross platform, been using it for years.

Also, most other OSes have native splitting of windows.
Rails choosing not to provide a standard auth solution is 100% the right call. There are a wide variety of auth scenarios, and Devise is highly opinionated. If you're doing a pretty standard B2C type system where you have individual users, Devise fits well, but when you get to more B2B multi tenant with users spanning tenants, and more complicated workflows with users managing other users, Devise breaks down quickly.
> If you pick the right registrar, you can easily get your hands on a wildcard DNS cert as well through Let's Encrypt.

I, sadly, went for Namecheap, and they don't integrate with let's encrypt :(

I know I could use the http challenge solver, but I would have to expose a publicly-available endpoint and I would prefer to avoid that !
Since I could only find one mention of the word taxi in the article, can someone in the comments explain to me the specifics of how taxi companies can be profitable (both in cities with and without medallions) whereas Uber can't?
The FuzzyLog: A Partially Ordered Shared Log (2018) [pdf]
I kept using Symbian until the end, Symbian Belle was quite nice, and with PIPS and Qt, Symbian C++ wasn't that bad.

Also jumped into Windows Phones, as its development experience was miles ahead (still is) from whatever comes out of Google.

With exception of Android, I never needed a "gaming rig/server configuration" for mobile development.

Anyway it is what it is.
Yes, yes they did.
I think most game styles do not fit the "open source" development model. Mainly because games often need a "surprise effect" when released and that is a poorly fit for open development and also because it is easier to contribute code than convince an artist to contribute art tailored to a very specific style.

RTS and games like Wesnoth are an exception: they are born a certain way and slowly evolve through contributions to a point where they sometimes finally became very interesting. I have high hopes for the future of 0ad.
I get the vision. You're building Superhuman but for browsers. Power tools for power users who are willing to invest the $$ and the effort to reimagine the most frequently used tool on their computer. Bravo!
which many more people will be killed on the rise in the name of technological progress.

Seeing as car crashes are the leading cause of deaths from people aged 1-54, it may be an improvement from the status quo

More than 38,000 people die every year in crashes on U.S. roadways. The U.S. traffic fatality rate is 12.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. An additional 4.4 million are injured seriously enough to require medical attention. Road crashes are the leading cause of death in the U.S. for people aged 1-54.
We all operate with abstractions and simplifications - because it's impractical (and actually impossible given the complexity of the world) to process end evaluate every single detail.

Dealing with contradictions in our own beliefs (paradoxes) is a part of life. The rational approach is to accept that and "fuse" those beliefs carefully, not (a) accept one and reject the others or (b) avoid the topic entirely.
Alpha Preview: Modern JavaScript in Rails 7 Without Webpack (DHH)
>The 2008 recession wasn't caused by lack of regulation, on the contrary it was caused by regulation that forced banks to give out loans that they otherwise wouldn't...

The purpose of banks is to give out loans and earn interest. 2007 financial crisis forced central banks and governments to introduce more financial regulation and protection mechanisms.

And the purpose of money is to be spent or invested. Hoarding cash is almost always bad because inflation eats your savings.

See this article and chart about Purchasing Power of the U.S. Dollar Over Time: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/purchasing-power-of-the-u-s...

And read this article about The risks of hoarding cash: https://www.privatebanking.hsbc.com/wih/investments-Insights...
That's very well possible but there are numerous workaround for that that would still allow you to uniquely identify a phone. Regardless: the push to identify people out and about, the push to tie those identities to online behavior is real and relentless, and relatively little is done to curb this. Personally I think all of these transaction should be done only with consenting adults or by - presumably properly overseen - law enforcement acting after they obtained a warrant.
oo those are my favorite types of games as well.. along with things like Frostpunk, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Ceasar, EU4, CK3 etc.

I've never heard of Settlers before, any other games of a similar mould?
It's annoying that "bikeshedding" isn't properly attributed to C. Northcote Parkinson. And it's not really tech jargon, it's management jargon (same as "ask") - a type of jargon I find much more irritating.
Good for Waymo and hopefully Google keeps up this science project. But it's a very limited and almost as perfect an environment as you could have outside of a controlled test area. Those who were saying L4/5 would be decades at least away seem to be those who were on the right track. Kids growing up today are going to have to learn to drive.
The original justification famously turned out to be complete nonsense, but Iraqi citizens are better off today than they were in 2002. That came with a huge cost, mostly born by Iraqi citizens, but it is true.
Depending on the tech skills of the organizations, your ISP(s) may have to run BGP on your behalf--even if the IPv6 is yours. (Not sure if that's even a thing.)
TDD Conference 2021 – TDD Manifesto – Daniel Moka
Why is this comment thread veering off to "American exceptionalism"?. The straigtforward answer as to why the title says "Many americans..." is that they conducted a nation-wide survey of americans. They could have done a global survey, but they didn't, probably because:

1. it would be much more expensive and logistically challenging (eg. localizing the questions)

2. the readership of the media company that commissioned the survey is mostly american

It's not because of "American exceptionalism" or whatever.
It is my belief that the most ideal form of truly self driving vehicles will not happen until a time when vehicles can talk to each other on the road to make each other aware of position and speed data. I don't think this has to be full GPS coordinates at all. This is about short range relative position information.

A mesh network of vehicles on the road would add the ability for vehicles to become aware of far more than a human driver can ever know. For example, if cars become aware of a problem a few km/miles ahead, they can all adjust speed way before encountering the constriction in order to optimize for traffic flow (or safety, etc.).

Of course, this does not adequately deal with pedestrians, bikes, pets, fallen trees, debris on the road, etc.

Not saying cars would exclusively use the mesh network as the sole method for navigation, they have to be highly capable without it. The mesh network would be an enhancement layer. On highways this would allow for optimization that would bring forth some potentially nice benefits. For example, I can envision reducing emissions through traffic flow optimization.

Remember that electric cars still produce emissions, just not necessarily directly while driving. The energy has to come from somewhere and, unless we build a massive number of nuclear plants, that somewhere will likely include a significant percentage of coal and natural gas power plants.

The timeline for this utopia is likely in the 20+ year range. I say this because of the simple reality of car and truck ownership. People who are buying cars today are not going to dispose of them in ten years. A car that is new today will likely enter into the used market in 8 to 10 years and be around another 5 to 10. The situation is different with commercial vehicles. Commercial trucks tend to have longer service lives by either design or maintenance. So, yeah, 20 to 30 years seems reasonable.
The problem is that US is like a 800 pound gorilla, you cannot afford to piss of the US.
What disappoints me is that the Rails team fell for this madness in the first place. Rails in particular has planted its flag on the maximize server-side work camp for the sake of overall tool simplicity. It seems like the Rails team was getting insecure of all the JS hype and "is Rails dying" articles and decided to start chasing trends. I called this the second they shoved webpacker into Rails6 and am not at all surprised this is where we are.
That's a bold claim considering Homebrew has been wildly successful on Mac & been doing the whole rolling release thing the entire time. Everything in the world is tradeoffs so I can also say "Arch is for the professional who understands the pitfalls of random OS distro updates/patches to upstream packages that don't get updated for years".
> To a nerd, that avoidance is a very bad thing, because a nerd prides himself on knowing the details. So the marketing message that avoids details and tries to sell some "powers" that work "out of the box" hurts the ego of the nerd. This feeling of hurt is certainly an emotion, so I wouldn't say nerds are less emotional!

Also, "nerds" often arrogantly feel like they're superior (e.g. smarter, more knowledgeable, better able to figure things out than anybody), so marketing that feeds their egos in that way will likely be more successful. However, the precise way these feelings manifest themselves is different than a lot of other groups, so more broadly targeted marketing may fail.
Just because, I'll try.

Saddam Hussein was a pariah and was no longer a convenient leader to have around in such a volatile region. It would have been political untenable to support him and potentially dangerous to leave him around. If he started to get desperate or his weakened status allowed another actor to gain significant sway with in the region then there could be wider regional issues.

Now with hindsight we know the region became massively more volatile and is even more a collection of fractured and nearly failed states.

Could a strategy have been developed to remove Saddam and encourage a less dangerous Iraq, seems doubtful as it really sounds like it would always be a gamble. And could it have been done while being lead by government that's in a 4 year election cycle, very doubtful, need quick action to get that sweet re-election after all.

For the record I was not a supporter of the war. Nor am I from the USA :)
Sure there’s a way out. Elect representatives who will vote to outlaw the use of facial recognition and other tracking technologies.
Gandi and OVH.