skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I got paid a lot to transform projects that used abusively Excel sheets.

I wonder where all this money came from.

I also got paid a lot to transform projects that abused excel, among other things. The usual truth was that, without excel (or, on other projects, without their tortured python scripts, or without the off-the-shelf software modded to death), these companies would never have built a business successful enough to pay entire teams for months or years before any returns.

> having programmers that want to unfuck a mess of macro AND speaking your foreign language

I mean, at which point did the idea "Oh, that language is so weird that very few can possibly speak it _and_ learn to program" start to make sense to you?

Did it ever occur to you that my foreign language was the first language of a whole lot of people living in my country, and that maybe there are a few good universities here?
There's now ngn/k[0] for a free implementation of K6. The author prefers K6 to Shakti, which is K9. And there are a number of other open-source K dialects and array languages as well[1]. For learning about K, the recently-created K wiki[2] is a great resource.

[0] https://codeberg.org/ngn/k

[1] https://aplwiki.com/wiki/List_of_open-source_array_languages

[2] https://k.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
It's not rocket science, either. I would know, I work for premium support.

Every time I see an unexpected bill of thousands of dollars, it's because the customer poorly architected their infrastructure.

People seemingly want the freedom of complete control without the responsibility that comes with having that much control.
Perhaps people think that basing your choice of browser on a minor point like the arbitrary location of tab close buttons is questionable. On second thought, that is a very HN type of reasoning so… I can’t explain it.
The submitter's profile page still says it was submitted "2 days ago". I assume that it got stuck in the spam queue and someone approved it 2 hours ago.
Pipewire (which is being released in mainstream distros since this summer) has mostly/entirely fixed these issues. On my particular end (Arch, for gaming) it's 100% perfect with no latency

Edit: Pipewire is a new system AND a "drop-in" replacement for any of PulseAudio/Alsa/JACK (just add whichever package you want and it will replace that particular audio stack with Pipewire's replacement)
What the CIA did not tell about its War on Terror
Not American (I'm in the Netherlands) so I wouldn't know, but looking at the graphs it seems like there are a lot of contagions happening.

I was getting take out a couple of weeks ago and a woman brought her coughing child to the restaurant, which doesn't seem great, so I have noticed people being less alert now that a significant portion of people has been vaccinated here.

>Arguably, retrofitting every important building in the country to be well ventilated is a challenge on a similar scale to changing our deeply ingrained unhealthy cultural habits.

Yeah, I hadn't looked at it that way, but that's indeed a big task.
The problem in the example is excessive contrast that interrupts the visual connectivity of related elements. Stop using party-colored themes and the highlighting is less objectionable
How much of Apple’s current security measures were a result of 9/11? The parking garage, tailgating, and badging everywhere i always thought were due to Apple’s culture of secrecy.
Nice idea. I personally can't go back to that day via something like this but I appreciate the historical necessity for such things in the age of the internet and information.
I've read many scathing critiques of intel services preferring SIGINT over HUMINT. Hard to disagree.
Skimming code is a legitimate task. At a large/FAANG company you will often have a 400k sloc code base and only a vague idea which bits of code you need to study more intensively to find out what you need.
So you're not winning the argument to take away my medical freedom, so now you want to tell me how I'm supposed to post on here? Addicted to tyranny much?
This is reasonable.
Some people believe that phrase had good intentions.

Other people, like the NYTimes, believe it literally means abolish the police: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
I moved to Finland, and soon settled into a routine of going twice a week. Generally a session lasts for an hour or ninety-minutes:

* Take a shower.

* Go to the sauna, and sit there for 10-15 minutes. Temperature around 95-100.

* Come out, drink a beer, sometimes in the lobby, sometimes on the balcony, sometimes outdoors wrapped in a towel. The latter is especially satisfying in winter when the outdoor temperature is -15, -20, or so.

* Have a shower, and go back inside.

The process repeats 2-4 times, until I'm nice and relaxed. Monday & Friday is my average routine, but if friends are coming over I might do an extra session.
I find 100F to be pretty warm for the hot tub, after 15 minutes I'm too warm and ready to get out (or sit up on the top step to cool off).

We usually keep it at 101F in the winter (since it feels nice to walk out in the cold and soak for 15 minutes) and 98 in the summer -- at 97 I can stay in indefinitely, but my wife gets cold at 15 minutes, so 98 is a compromise.

I wonder if a 100 degree hot tub has a similar benefit as a hot sauna.
Neither the Windows IO API or even the low-level NTFS APIs map cleanly to POSIX semantics. It means you can’t just forward calls from the subsystem to the IO stack, you need to actively marshal them to and fro. This, in addition to certain operations just being plain more expensive on Windows/NTFS (opening files, creating processes) due to different programming paradigms/approaches just give a very high impedance mismatch that makes performant IO highly unlikely by nature for anything trying to run on top the existing system rather than virtualized.
Right, but laws enforced selectively based on feelings is its own form of tyranny.
Many many years ago I got kicked out of student halls at university. I used to keep my stuff in my lockers and sleep in the bathing rooms all night. If people tried to use one I'd yell "In the bath". One time I slept in a student lounge behind some sofas and very late a couple came in and made out, and I remained as still as I could. As they left the girl said "I could swear there was someone else in there" haha.
It's a little disingenuous to use 20 years of history to say it's a more significant event and then using the follow on results. In another 18.5 years, people could be talking about how the pandemic triggered the second US Civil War, or led to a complete reimagination of US race relations, or ushered in a communist takeover or something.
Multi device is in beta now
Yea, but WSL1 has basically seen no new features or meaningful fixes since WSL2 was introduced.
Not that I care much about internet points but I'm trying to understand why this is being so heavily downvoted as every reply I got is either agreeing or kind of agreeing with me.

This is not a criticism for Proton, I find that getting this performance on an emulated environment is nothing short than a miracle looking from 5~10 years ago.

My only intention was to set expectation accordingly for new users. And I stand by everything I've said. My hope is that in 5 years this comment will be completely outdated and new users can have compatibility and performance on par with windows, even on bad hardware.
Bad for him, good for you, I guess.

Additionally, I think it only reveals the lack of ability to do a mixed architecture product, given that 64 bit Windows does support 32 bit binaries as well. Just like Visual Studio has been doing since VS 2015.

Apparently your competitor wasn't in the position of doing a polyglot project as workaround.

Although maybe that wasn't something that the customer would be open to.
I love this. I usually hit them with a GDPR request but this is pretty good as well.
Fresh air is usually nicer than stale, old air. And when one sweats out "old water" it gets replaced by the fresh water one intakes. I bet if we collected enough sweat from sauna-goers and sprinters we would find things in it that you would rather have not in your body. Of course, I can already hear the chorus of indolence cheer "there's no science to support this claim" and yet there is also no science to deny it. The body is a gigantic circulatory system, out with the old, in with the new, I don't see why it would be any different with sweat.
Most hardware features need that kind of adoption to work.

It's mandatory for thunderbolt 4.
You only get a few tries, there’s no bruteforce
On the other hand "precisar" in Portuguese is "to need", Spanish like French is "to specify" ... keeping a slew of these cognates straight between English/Spanish/Portuguese is a harder part of dealing with all three.
> I was at work at Apple in IL2 (Building 2 of the Infinite Loop campus.)

You were at work at 6-7AM?
Quick anecdote: One of IBM's guys got back from Cupertino (Taligent was across the street from Apple) (I worked for IBM in Austin) and had his head in his hands. He kept repeating "they think mice only have one button".
17/100k It is straight from the prescribing information.

Similar nonzero observations have been made in other national studies with sufficiently large samples.[1]

Some countries have added additional content around it to the prescribing info [2].

Scientific consensus is that the risk is clearly is lower than covid.

Another rare but acknowledged side effect is mycarditis.

We can quibble about the rates but they do exist.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

https://healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/hc-s...

https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/06/10/covid-vaccin...
All news sites were down, I remember thinking it was before dawn for Australians, so I tried one of their news sites, and it worked...
Something seems off. I use current FF on HN all the time and never had a problem editing comments. Perhaps your session is messed up?
No. When its super hot and getting towards the end, the mind starts to say 'stupid me, its too much heat from the oversized heater' but when I am back to rational, I don't think thats the case. I just don't think I am saving that much time, so not sure if it was necessary.
Got downflamed for stating this below so you have my + ;)
>So you're not winning the argument to take away my medical freedom

That wasn't what I was trying to do at all, and I can't really see how you could get that from my initial reply, so I don't think we are going to agree on anything here, have a nice day.
> Secondly, I'm not convinced that mass surveillance is entirely ineffective. Wholly I agree that it's illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, overwrought, wicked expensive, and overreaching. But in our reform efforts, I want an account of how our intelligence services performed. I simply cannot believe that there haven't been many more attempted terrorist attacks.

When the US government takes away its citizens' rights (of which privacy is one), the onus is on the government to justify this action. We cannot just assume surveillance works, the government has to prove it--show us the examples. Luckily we know just how effective these programs are and, as the authors here correctly point out, the answer is "not much." [1]

From the link in the article, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board concluded in 2014,

> Moreover, we are aware of no instance in which the program directly contributed to the discovery of a previously unknown terrorist plot or the disruption of a terrorist attack. [1]

[1] https://documents.pclob.gov/prod/Documents/OversightReport/e...

EDIT: As to the question of 'what's at stake with privacy rights?', there are great films [2], talks [3], and reading [4] on what's at stake with privacy.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matter...

[4] https://bookshop.org/books/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalis...
The extent to which a device relies on the battery as a capacitor even when plugged in depends on both the peak current draw of the device, and the size of the charger.

Smaller devices like phones tend to be paired with downright tiny chargers, but modern smartphone SoCs can draw a lot of power in short bursts (cf. all the controversy about Apple trying to prevent brown-outs when operating the phone with a worn-out battery). Apple's laptops are usually paired with power bricks that roughly match the maximum sustained power draw of the laptop. Windows gaming laptops tend to ship with power bricks that are 2-3x larger than any Apple power brick.
The Matrix was a metaphor for transgender identity, director confirms (2020)
As I wrote, we are already seeing this. Tow truck companies sell ALPR data to aggregators. Ring and Amazon are collecting security camera data. Please explain what legislation you would propose.
We don't actually need to worry about your obvious question, because it doesn't work. Yours is hypothetical. (And hypothetical questions can be interesting. Also, it can be good to have answers while they're still hypothetical, because sometimes they quit being hypothetical, sometimes very abruptly. But for the current discussion, we can reject mass surveillance on pragmatic grounds without worrying about the theoretical.)
I think that is just because we haven't served it to them. Serve it a few years and then tell what it is. Could solve that issue. Also I wonder how well decent breed of dog compares to beef, chicken and pork from ecological and economic perspective.

Only animals I'm against eating is hominids like apes, monkeys and humans. And that is only because of pathogens.
Really cool resource. Small nit: the time in the upper right hand corner being off by an hour is killing me (not literally).
GreenWithEnvy is such a NVIDIA-focused utility
If you use high contrast it breaks css
Syntax highlighting is more than the article is mentioning, it seems author comment is focused on old highlighters. Once when you get used to one theme brain is not even noticing, unless as shown in example colors are highly offending to aesthetic (the one in the article is hurting my brain). In modern editors as VSCode there is a huge range of adjustments.
Nowadays we can do more than just see what are commands, keywords, increments ... we can see unused variables/import, mistyped variable, see bracket that are not closed, comments, etc.

With syntax highlighters can be applied same rule as with UI, pleasing interface make it more usable.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/aesthetic-usability-effect/
I had a guy ask for $5 to buy cigarettes and beer. I gave it to him. Too often, I can't buy honesty at any price.
(created alt cause of HN's idiotic "posting too fast" - how dare I have a conversation with people online)

I don't understand what I said somehow excludes helping in other ways.

My views are probably a bit more radical, in that I think that everyone should have free food. Homeless, homeful, working, unemployed, citizen, foreigner. Everyone. No exceptions. And, we already have a basis to maintain this system - SNAP.

So when I talked about how to help those whom are experiencing homelessness combined with debilitating mental illnesses, I'm talking of making that program... Not by destroying other programs.
Wow, incredible website packed with tons of pictures and info. I know a lot about genetics and I am impressed at the depth of these phenotypes and elucidation of the genetics.

Absolutely perfect for HN
I don't see how that explains a way to prevent anyone from using facial recognition technology.
Holy moly, Apple owns all of 17 . * . * . * (workaround for HN formatting)? Wow. That's over 16 million IP addresses. Fun.
Probably overloaded. One of the channels had signal for a few seconds for me.
I wonder if there is calculations where dogs would fall on axis of chicken, pork and beef. Probably around pork, but which side and what sort of diets would be allowable.
Could you explain how this would work?
Yea and no.

Consider mathematical notation. That digit 2 could mean “power of 2” if it’s small and upper right of an object; “index 2” if small and bottom right. “Multiply by 2” if regular sized and to the left - very confusing! Indeed, it is very confusing if you are not versed in the accepted syntax of math expressions.

But if you are used to it, there’s no confusion - it’s just a very concise and useful way to express various concepts.

K is similar.
A news story from September 2002:

> CBS News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.

* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plans-for-iraq-attack-began-on-...
When I started into computers syntax highlight wasn't even a thing, hence why certain languages use uppercase keywords as way to marking them.

For me syntax highlighting hate is nothing more than luddism.
Firefox was/is trying to be a top browser in global market share. The "core userbase" is irrelevant to this mission. You wouldn't really even talk about Chrome's "core userbase" because they aren't trying to make a niche community happy, they are trying to best serve their billions of users, something that the author of this piece clearly knows nothing about - eg, when your userbase is this large, the only meaningful form of feedback is statistical analysis. Telemetry is of course the best option but if you wanted to know what "people were saying" you wouldn't be operating at the level of reading individual posts, you'd be looking for trends on social media platforms.
The existence of the tablet shows that it's not the device size but rather the app experience that's the limiting factor.

I've tried using an iPad but it's no match for the power, control and flexibility of a full desktop/laptop device, and the larger iPad has an even bigger screen than some smaller notebooks.
This. I can even give a concrete example of it. I noticed a charge to my bank account from Amazon and knew I didn’t buy anything. I went to the Amazon app and saw there were no orders. I thought maybe my prime renewed today so o tried to find that on mobile. I could not find it easily so I immediately went to my laptop and found it in 2 clicks via the Amazon website. To me the web is really great when there is enough screen real estate to keep information out of nested menus.
How do I disable syntax highlighting in JetBrains IDEs? I can choose all kinds of color schemes, but there is no predefined "Plain" color scheme. I would have to create a new scheme and go through each syntax element and reset the color manually.
Luddism is concern about the dangers of technology. Ignore them at your peril.
In that case, why you lying by not mentioning the FDA is telling people not to take ivermectin intended for _horses_ and _cows_? [0] Or that calls to poison control centers involving ivermectin are up by a huge amount, and that the drug has repeatedly failed clinical trials for COVID? [1]

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[0]: https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/1429050070243192839

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/health/covid-ivermectin-p...
Well, I'll speak up for this. These changes are great and way overdue. GDPR is really a uniquely terrible law, a textbook example of how not to write competent law. Really they should just repeal it entirely but moderating it in this way is a close second. Way too much stuff is ambiguous, and consumers never cared at all - witness the total lack of enforcement on US-only firms and the total lack of people in Europe refusing to sign up for such services despite that.

GDPR was never much more than a PR move by the Commission to please the sort of people commissioners care about, with a side helping of protectionism. It was never a priority for actual British citizens, as polling confirmed many times over the years. The typical person has much bigger concerns and finds endless consent requests and cookie pop-ups annoying. Nobody outside of the HN set is going to worry about this change.
Do they have this in PDF form?
This seems like an anticompetitive practice

Even if its toward an open source federated network that has no head and can host marginalized content

The implementation here seems to be an anticompetitive practice, which is sanctionable by governments in the US
If you’re going to write about how terrible a platform is, make sure your presenting it in a responsive way. This is a pain to use on my phone
How to keep your phone charged and useful in a natural disaster
The Benghazi Attack on September 11 2012
This needs to be archived but I have no interest in rewatching it. That day, I was a 14 year old kid across the ocean. I had just gotten home from school and was watching my favorite youth program when the guy said there has been a plane crash in NYC. I switched to CNN (or maybe Euronews?) and saw the first tower burning. Then, on live TV, on the other side of Atlantic, I watched as the second plane crashed into the second tower and later how the towers came down.
Writing this brings tears into my eyes.
> Naturally, those variants were ignored, as Kernighan had a message to sell.

Those variants were "ignored" because they largely didn't exist. Kernighan's essay was written in 1981. The first release of Turbo Pascal wasn't until 1983. The Extended Pascal standard wasn't released until 1990.
You can also go out for a run on a hot day during the summer and sweat your ass off. Feels bad and good at the same time.
>>Maybe you are a mom who is changing an infant

I'm a father who has been changing infants in public bathrooms for quite a while and I'm sorry, but that's a crazy argument. Absolutely completely 10000% bonkers.

>>(because they can sometimes be off-putting)

Your chances of running into a non-trans off-putting person in a public bathroom are several orders of magnitude higher. If I'm changing my baby and a drunk dude stumbles into the bathroom I'm feeling all tense, but only because they might be an actual threat, even accidentally(stumble and trip or something). But hey, it's a public bathroom - should we ban people that make me uncomfortable in public places?

Like, you're literally making the same argument as people saying that gay people shouldn't be allowed to display affection in public because it can make them uncomfortable - and why should you prioritise their emotions over your own?? Think of the children!!! /s

>> and having a trans person enter the room is disturbing enough

How. Please explain how is that disturbing. In fact how can you even tell someone is trans unless you

1) asked - and why would you in a public bathroom

2) looked them in the pants, and probably even that is not a good indicator.

Do you imagine that all trans people look like men in drag or something? Have you ever met a trans person outside of a South Park episode?

>>You might say, well whatever, she's transphobic

She is transfobic in your specific example, because she's immediately judging someone without any reason. Same as if she was uncomfortable with a black lady walking in - we would call that racist, and I would say her emotional state about black people is unfortunately worth exactly jack shit and we shouldn't care about it.
> If an employee is not getting paid by an employer, that is between the employee, the employer, and the state department of labor.

In NL you can forget about that. It use to be that you could stick some "fictional" company between you and your employees and get out of jail free for everything, including salaries. Jobs 1-4 hours per week made it extra unlikely for any employee to run the extra mile after they were left without a name, address or phone number after about 3 months. Taking the bankrupt company to court was expensive and unlikely to work. People don't take a 2 hour job unless they need the money.

Now the obligation to pay salaries applies all the way up the food chain.