skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walkability isn't a binary thing I guess. I'm in a pleasant but unexciting town (population 12K) in the UK and everybody is in walking distance of the schools, the supermarket, parks and leisure centre. Most houses here are 3 or 4 bedroom (but probably small compared to US family houses and gardens aren't huge), but you do really need to drive to say get to many types of shops, a cinema or any restaurant that isn't an Indian or Chinese for example. I get the impression that most people drive to work (most jobs are in larger towns nearby, some come be reached by train but not all). I suppose there is a balance between house prices, space and the level of walkability and like many families here, this is the compromise we've gone for.
> High levels of screen time in early childhood also appear to negatively impact academic and social outcomes in the long-term [9].

seems highly dubious when there is an entire economy that sprung out of people who were exposed to computers at an early age.
I'm using the GUI simply because I like `org-mode` inline images. It's just a cosmetic reason, really. It would be 99.99% functional from a terminal.
>We don't need to keep living inside screens — especially ones controlled by Mark. We don't need to accept Facebook's domination of the digital world.

Right! No body is forcing you. Ironically, these kinds of anxious reactions are symptoms of the very same pathological gregariousness that is the problem with social media in the first place.
>Worse case you can buy expensive dyndns.

DONT USE DYNAMIC IP's for mail-servers, never ever!
Yeah it's just transport and travel that naturally outgrows the pace of walking and cycling, it's just technological progress.
> If Tox does not have an app on iOS store, that, as of now, makes it impossible for me to suggest it to approx. 60% of my friends

If iOS does not allow 3rd party programs on "their" phones (or GPL'ed software on their "store"), that, as of now, makes it impossible for me to suggest it to 100% of my friends. It's easy to shift the blame on volunteer developers when you have a multi-billion corporation making their lives miserable (see also the background notification issue on iOS).

Also, mostly rich people use iPhones. The rest of us use cheap Android devices or dumb phones... iPhones are non-existent in my social circles, except for the odd second-hand-with-broken-screen iPhone someone got for free.
Tantrums are a normal part of development. Too many might be a behavioral problem, but it is flatly not true and flies in the face of all childhood development studies to say they should never happen.

I have observed, as many other parents have as well, that if the kids spend too much time in front of the screen (> 20 minutes, give or take), they become resistant, moodier, and worse behaved. This is not true if we're playing a board game or having reading time. So, I think a bit of moderation is important.

Incidentally, since having kids, I've also noticed that I am short-tempered if I spend too much time in front of the screen, a good reminder to take a walk a few times during the day.
I'm in the process of DAFT right now. I got lucky and found a decent place at a decent rate in the center of Amsterdam (this rate is only really affordable because I work in tech, though). I've taken exactly one taxi ride so far (airport to airbnb with lots of luggage). Every other time I've walked, cycled, or taken public transit (OV Chipkaart is really great). It feels great to just...be around people.
I personally hate angular1 architecture(I did not tried the rest), some of my reasons are

1 instead of pure code you use markup like ng-repeat , ng-if , this causes weird bugs and weird errors and not clear scoping issue. I prefer the old react architecture(not sure if modern react is still sane) where instead of ng-repat item in items you could have pure JS code like items.foreach(renderItem(,,,)).
It is a personal opinion but I prefer to see my code to run when I debug rather that my markup getting "compiled" under the hood and not seeing the actual code.

2 I dislike the error mesages, the stack traces are useless

3 the performance is terrible, it is super easy as a SPA grows to get too much updates triggering , this might have been solved with new versions and maybe a more component oriented architecture but still the way data binding and update cycles works is pure performance insanity.

4 sometimes shit does not work, maybe you have a typo and you get no warning, maybe there is some scope conflict, maybe you forgot to add some attribute, maybe the data-binding fails and you need to always apply "that workaround" but I wasted a lot of time on problems like "why is this element not updating", at least the devs could add some extra checks and warn when something is not right, I manage to write some code and add this extra checks but is not that well tested.

This is personal opinion, angularjs is not targeted for developers like me, I worked with Qt, GTK, Windows Forms and WPF, I think i done a bit of MFC, Flex4, React , Swing and angular is the worst one for my personal taste. I thin Flex4, Qt and WPF are better architected and more powerfull, you can do simple and modareate things fast but you still have flexibility to do everything. With angular you can do Hello World fast, after that it is a pain, and a giant pain when you need to maintain a fea years old code base made by a newb angular dev team.
Also see:

The Air Force has a plan to make jet fuel out of air (thedrive.com)

109 points by nradov 11 days ago | 98 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28968859
More earlier submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=toothycat.net

Nerdy CS-related exploits with a nerdy game are clearly ideal HN fodder.
You purchase the rights.
I think that's a pretty good point about maturity. If it's just working people use it without talking much. Similar to Ruby on Rails (RoR) for example, although Angular still changes a lot more than Rails these days.

Another point going into the same direction especially for Angular: It's a very important framework for big enterprises in industries like banking & insurance and probably more I'm not aware of. There are large networks of developers organized in isolated or self-hosted GitHub Enterprise or GitLab instances of enterprises working with Angular, but most of them are not able to talk publicly about it.

I'm sure there are hidden projects based on React, Vue or Svelte too, but I have the feeling the biggest enterprises rely a lot on Angular but don't talk about it, which skews the way people perceive the overall framework landscape.
To be more popular Emacs needs to be easier to get started with and easier to extend. If I have to read a whole book or learn an entire new programming language, I'm not going to put the time in. If any time I search for "how to do x", I get a disjointed mess of "but spacemacs...", "in prelude...", "this custom elisp snippet..." where every piece of advice can be potentially incompatible with any past or future modification that I've done - then the effort and frustration doesn't seem worth for a text editor / org tool.
1. Sysadmins had to find new careers after cloud providers destroyed their livelihood.

2. cloud providers try very hard to lock you in, by offering all sorts of advanced goodies. They tend to come with a learning curve, and they all accumulate. Sooner or later someone comes up with cross-provider solutions, and they too have learning curves.

3. inventing new ecosystems means creating new work for advocates and ninjas. You don't become a rockstar by diligently doing what has been done before, but by finding (or inventing) a niche and becoming a guru.

4. some problems are indeed hard to solve, and the more products try to do that, they more they get complex.

5. everyone thinks they will have Facebook-scale problems, even when they never will.
Maybe you are just bad at writing clearly.
Unless something has changed in the past years, Signal and Matrix have this in common that any room you join displays your identifier for every one to see (phone number / MXID) publicly, leading to problems of harassment/spam.

But i entirely agree with your point that relying on a single actor for updates/security is really the worst.
And why are they perceiving it as a vice? Try looking at religion/morality as a social engineering framework and it's obvious.
I took a quick look, it seems like all the postings are London or New York. What's the feeling internally about remote hires? I'm assuming that's still out of fashion in finance and Beacon feels the same?
To clarify, I use the GUI version of Emacs as well, but I never interact with the buttons or UI quirks mentioned in the article.
And it only supports assignment statements and keyword statements. What’s a “keyword statement”?
Because of internal immigration. Due to povery, lack of investments and lack of opportunities, the countryside there is becoming empty fast as everyone moves from the villages/small cities to the 3-5 big metro areas in the country with top universities and cushy skilled desk-jobs instead of bumming around in rural areas begging for low paying manual labor type jobs.

In western europe, rural areas and small towns, although boring AF, usually have some trade schools or small collages and local industries of their own that still keep locals there and sometimes attract foreigners so not everyone has to scram to the big cities, although big cities there have major housing issues too.
> A seamless way to drop-in to an existing server-side web framework without wanting to take over routing and other such things

These days, I would first check whether I can get away with just using web components, typically with lit for convenience. The reason being that web components are a browser standard, which means that if you do it right, you get an opportunity to escape the hamster wheel of keeping up with new frameworks.

That web components are often adequate to do the job is evidenced by Adobe releasing their web version of Photoshop based on web components and lit.
god, i hope you’re kidding
In Martinez, CA (SF Bay Area) where most of Northern California oil refineries are located, didnt see any gas price dropped until a couple month after the 1980 election.
It's not life, it's your typical bike-shedding. React is being used on much larger teams all the time without spending months on arguing whether react-router is the right choice. I don't think I have ever spent more than ten minutes on choosing which library concoction works best for a given project.

In less dysfunctional organizations you go with whatever the technical lead specified.
I was just in Italy and it seemed like all the restaurants were packed every night. They're not cheap. How are people able to eat out so much in EU on these salaries?
Yes, it will become exactly the same as any other educational toy. They play a bit and then stop.

And even if you put games there, games are not created equals. Some games make them happy, engaged and they stop playing them fairly easy. Other games makes them grumpy, angry and they will act out when you want them to end.
https://archive.md/WtGL1

Is it part of the joke that this page is empty without JS and contains dozens of fingerprinted resources, many of them from Facebook's CDN?

Edit: BTW, mbasic.facebook.com is one of the most accessible and compatible sites out of all the big leagues.
Fun fact, the author of the thread can be considered the father of XBox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Blackley
Since when does stock value reflect the ethical concerns about a company?

In any case, best wishes.
Exactly, why compromise on a sub 2k€ machine when a haas VF-1 only costs 46k€?

Oh right, because at that point it's cheaper to just pay the 80€ setup fees for a single CNC machined part on xometry.
> Screens are extremely addictive to kids. (Adults too, I suppose, but that's their own responsibility.)

No, wrong. What can be addictive is the content displayed by the screen and the eventual interaction that the kid have with this content.

Put a kid in front of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viOkh9al0xM (`This is the Train Driver's/engineers/operator/conductors view from the Bergen Line and the Famous Flåm Railway in Norway in Northern Europe.`), and start a 30s countdown: the kid will have left the screen before, guaranteed.
Read it and thoroughly enjoyed it.
> reality is not a

A. You don't know this, because it's (quite possibly) unprovable

B. Charitably, it was meant as a metaphor
No input. All output. Missing something …
you seemed sure.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/10/08/Reagan-lifts-ban-on-...
When I set out to learn Emacs in the year ~2001 or so, I just did C-h t in order to launch the builtin tutorial. IMHO that can still be a viable way to get started.

Spacemacs might be nice but it’s in no way required in order to be productive with Emacs. My personal .emacs file is only 32 lines long (28 lines of comments are not counted).
Cost of vintage workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support
Ask HN: How did you improve your communication skills
> Mitochondrial DNA seems to be passed down from generation to generation exclusively by the mother; sperm contributes nothing

How do mitochondria evolve if they are just clones passed down from mothers? Or rather, how come there are not huge differences between populations of people whose mitochondria evolved in different direction but can never mix?
There's countless of other questions and concerns this article brings up in my view. You must really give benefit of the doubt to Pfizer to not expect there to be something wrong with the final data.
Your information is wrong. I wouldn't worry about fat so much, and if it's leaking into the pan, you're not eating it.

The real issue is sugar. The body uses or passes most fat. Sugar historically was hard to come by so the body stores it. I recently moved to the Midwest and am shocked at the addition of sugar to everything. And at the size of people.
Yes. http://onlineslangdictionary.com/
> Right! No body is forcing you

Kind of. Workplaces, schools, academic environments definitely force the usage of some tool over another, or spending more or less time on screens. I am thankful that my new university uses BigBlueButton and hybrid teaching, since I spent the past two years on Microsoft Teams.
That reasoning illustrates the problem exactly. You should have read the article until the last line, I'll quote it here for you:

> That is our failure, and it's a failure brought about to a large extent by bad policy that tells us we can't have nice things, because nice things are for the rich
> Start a site on Neocities, share photos on Pixelfed, or write your thoughts on Write.as — to name a few.

This would be a more convincing pitch if it didn't end with "now just use different centralized services that nobody uses".

We need protocols, not platform capitalism. We need easy self-hosting, not reliance on third-party middle men and rent-seekers.

I should be able to click an app on my computer and have my own web page running in seconds, that anyone can find and follow.

The fact we don't is how platforms like Facebook are able to dominate, and the even worse fact is this was deliberate.
Exactly, but I fear that government is a step away to ask for ID for any online service. Median age in politics is pretty old and regarding security and experience from the last 20 years suggest they are also easily scared.

While you might forgive someone working for interior ministries, this is an automatism towards fearful stupidity. Benefits don't play are role here, it is exclusively about any potential security benefit, doesn't matter how small.

Sadly signal is based on phone numbers which I dislike, but other messengers should take note here.
As a parent, the pacification thing is very useful sometimes! Toys don't pacify as reliably and if you are in a situation where you need or want to pay attention to other adults undisturbed but your child is there, then I totally understand the usage of screens in that way. Obviously you can try and arrange your life to avoid such situations but they do crop up. Work meetings with an ill child at home spring to mind!

On the other hand, I did find that the more time you give your child playing with toys uninterrupted, the more their attention span for that improves.
Is this only referring to executive meetings, project meetings, or what? Most meetings I'm in finish within 30 minutes so doubling that to sit and read notes sounds pointless, even if it reduces total meetings by half.

Wait, wait, in Amazon form:

Is the scope 100% executive meetings? ~65% of my meetings are under 30 minutes, so the Amazon way seems inefficient.
South Australia sets world record in solar generated electricity
I think Spacemacs helps with getting started.

For a newcomer there is a "curse of Emacs", helm? ivy? ido? Wnat to do Python? elpy, lsp, etc

It's easy to get confused and just give up. Having a curated config like Spacemacs helps to get it working out of the box IMO.
First pill to treat Covid gets approval in UK
Hi again, I am sorry that he called you unprofessional. That shouldn't have happened. So I am sorry. His frustration may have been based on a cultural misunderstanding.

In Germany, whenever you sign up for a product or a service where there is likely to be an ID check or a validity check, people here know that they need to use their full legal name, even if it is a really long name, or if they have middle name(s) that are part of their legal name. It they are using a credit card, that name needs to match, too. For a German sysadmin, it would be unprofessional to not use the same name as is on their legal ID/payment information.

I know that some cultures may abbreviate parts of their middle/last names, so it's understandable that customers from these countries may not be aware of how important it is in Germany for names to match exactly.

I know that this issue isn't just an issue in Germany. I used to work in a retail store, and my store was very serious about preventing credit card fraud. We regularly did NOT let people buy things if their name on their ID didn't match the name on their credit card. I also had several Brazilian friends in the USA who had similar issues, and they learned to always use the version of their names on their passports for everything.

We will likely still be strict about customers' information matching their IDs/payment information. He's right that we will likely not change this any time soon. However, I am sorry that his answer came off as abrasive and impolite. -Katie
I and many others over the years have just stopped going to Facebook, not because of Principles or whatever, but just because it's the same shit every day. I don't know anyone anymore that obsessively uses Facebook or Instagram (I know, anecdotal). "The youth" is on more entertainment-focused things like tiktok, and people that want to keep in the loop (and argue about it) go to twitter.

But I don't feel like people are beholden to anyone. But again, that's purely anecdotal. People who are unaware and/or indifferent are more at risk.
There is no friendship in crony-capitalism and there is especially no love. It's all about money and connection to money. As soon as you lose your money, your 'friends' disappear. The more money you have, the harder your friends have to act when around you and the more they secretly hate you because of it. Over time, the persona which people present to others becomes completely disconnected from their true self to the point that they eventually forget who they are completely. They present a superficial veneer of agreeableness but underneath all that lies a suppressed, psychopathic monster.

In crony-capitalism everyone is an actor 24/7 and nobody is actually living their lives except the poor who are sometimes able to live out their miserable lives in a genuine way.
To be fair, the parent said "impractical to navigate using a common stereo UI" which doesn't have much to do with the capaciousness of a library, more about how easy it is to browse/search/find/choose what you want.

Some stereos have pretty small, monochrome displays. For example this seems to get mentioned a lot in the UK, partly because they are advertised through mainstream channels at older listeners: https://www.brennan.co.uk/

Dunno if you call them "common".
I see. So you were forced but found an alternative. That's great to hear.
>I moved from LA to Dublin then back to San Diego for a year (bad idea, that!) then back to Dublin and recently to a dirt cheap place an hour away from Dublin

I'm sure all those long distance flights help the planet a great deal.
Only if they actively go after all … otherwise it is a political use of me-too. Just another corruption case we do not agree but let the most powerful one or in power to be ok.

Pointless. In a sense. Used. In another sense.

It is dangerous to read chinese sanctioned news.
Malfeasance by Google. It can kill a website with a snap of its fingers.
My cynical view is that if you put not nice people into nice places, you make the places not nice, not the other way around. 99% of the time.
And the one child with adverse effects was removed from the study, so general public doesn't have to worry.
Just because I hate it doesn't mean I can't profit off of it.
Truncated title:

>‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support

>Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty
Pixelfed and Mastodon are listed, and they are both ActivityPub.
Yes, but back then it was called Sealbait and it was used to test loyalty. They would write enticing headlines on the outside of sealed correspondence to entice the couriers to break the seal.
I bought a behringer UMC-22 this week for ~$60. I went down a huge rabbit hole, and it seems like at about $120 you run into the focusrite Scarlett (solo, I needed two channels so $169), and for an upgrade of $20, you can get the new Universal Audio Volt II (again, I needed two channels, the solo channel is cheaper).

My use case is remote guitar lessons. I need an instrument in and a microphone in. My Microphone is the Audio Technica ATR2100 I bought a few years back.

After doing a lot of research, I bought the behringer with the agreement that if I use it enough and it’s a limiting factor on what I’m doing, I will upgrade to the UA Volt II when it actually is on sale and not just pre-order. But the limiting factor in my signal chain is the compression on Skype… so I just went with a cheapie interface it gets the job done. There is some noise I pick up when monitoring with Sony MDR-V6’s and I need the volume up pretty high to get good direct monitoring levels, but overall testing has gone well.

Again, if I had a more important use case or I was recording, I’d spend for the focusrite or just wait for the UA Volt II. But this is “Streets Ahead” of just using a laptop mic with my electric guitar unplugged (or to my headphones) because my kid is sleeping. The other option I had was just to swap between microphone and guitar, but that made lessons awkward.
In 2018, the current leader Xi removed the two term limit, and allowed himself to stay for life. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-43361276
Of course the particular technique is irrelevant (to me at least).

I most enjoy working with people who care deeply about their work, and in my experience, those people are often (not always), people who also care about being efficient. In fact, if you're writing code at 120 wpm, maybe you've found a technique worth sharing and teaching! :-)
> “In fact, their relationship did become sexual at one point.”

Lost me here.

I have a few acquaintances who I know who are very interesting, but unconventional. I struggle sometimes with interpreting what they say. He/she confusion (from a native speaker) for example.

I am interested in the case where there is no sexual dimension of the friendship (at least from one person), but where social landscape presents fluid sexuality as background noise.

I’m dealing. I was interested in the discussion of friendship and less so discussion of long game hookups. Haha