skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the circumstances it seems reasonable to assume a programming teacher can use a program without it being foolproof enough that my mom can use it. Further, if they wanted more features (usability-wise or otherwise), they are also knowledgeable enough to ask for them, unlike an average user. Still, the students even asked clarifying questions, the author wrote. And yet they came up with a 2-hour estimate.

Of course nobody is going to come to a consultancy firm to ask for a command line utility that technically solves the problem. That's an entirely different situation you're describing.
Or elderly people who do not have mobile phones, or have one but never use it, or forget to take it, or shut it off.

It is strange to get rid of them they are still working phones.

My mother finds phone screens hard to see, the phone hard to hear. She can't hear it ring or assumes it's something else. If it is near her the sound startles her and makes her jump.

To our generation it's like telling us mobile phones will be discontinued in favour of the a technology.
> it frees them from choosing "correct" English identifiers

Even if you have fluent English skills, sometimes translations just confuse the issue. It's sometimes better to use an untranslated word instead of introducing ambiguity, especially when a term originates from a local law.
Brazil’s Far-Right Disinformation Pushers Find a Safe Space on Telegram
People are really bad with long term planning. Your average 20 year old doesn't know anything about pensions and considers themselves to be indestructible.

It would be ridiculously easy to just copy the US and do away with the social welfare system. See how many will actually save for their retirement lol.
I just fear the radiation which might come out. I believe loosing a home and a leg is better than getting irradiated. It would probably ruin my nighttime sleep for the rest of my life if my body would start glowing in the dark, you know :-]

I am a proponent of nuclear power generation nevertheless.
Not the parent, but given they are moving to Obsidian I'd say it's motivated by a desire to self-host and rely less on cloud services.
Printers were the bane of my existence when I was responsible for maintaining a small business's computer stuff. They all ran shitty Windows PCs with varying versions. One day one of the accountant's computers started crashing on boot, and after a hell of a long time, I found that some Epson printer driver had set a registry key that didn't revert upon uninstallation, and that crippled the machine.

I wonder if in your case, your old printer relied on either 32-bit kernel extensions (I don't know if that's a thing), or if it relied on one of the deprecated Kernel Programming Interfaces such as IOUSBFamily. I also wonder if a printer driver falls into a category of deprecated extensions that are silently reported by the OS, because most do pop up an alert of some kind.

https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/
Same in vanilla emacs.
Absolutely! Being related isn't enough to be sure that nothing malicious is happening. Also, without the account holder opting in, there could be things left behind they'd rather not share.
Also used in the UK to create virtual TV studios, notably for sports programmes where the pundits sit in a green-screen studio and impressive real-time backdrops are created around them. This allows a single physical studio to support multiple programmes using a range of different virtual assets. See [0] for a range of the different things Unreal is used for apart from games.

[0] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events/build-for-architec...
> It's over the top to call that "open source in name only"

App updates roll out and the 'source' doesnt change for 11 months? Thats 'real open source'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26345937
Top 5 GitHub pull request integration (opiniated)
Like CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter [1]? :-) You are very much correct.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28712667
Note that I'm not the person who originally brought this up.

I'm posting that because (a) I believe that is the issue referred to, (b) if you look at the reactions there is definitely a lot of "why would you even want this", there is the "lower cognitive load", and they did go ahead with a release in which it was broken, even though it was reported before the release was finalized.
The proposed community still has non-anonymous members who could accrue good standing, it just also allows anonymous posting.
> degrading the user experience for those of us who love “not being free” or whatever silly slogans people want to use.

Speaking of silly slogans, how does my freedom to install an app on MY device degrade your experience?
The EU definitely has a say. It's true that Finland can choose to leave the EU, but it's disingenuous to say that EU doesn't have a say.

However "having a say" goes even further, because Wolt operates also outside the EU. Any country it operates in will have a clear say. Even countries it doesn't operate in will have a say if they have leverage over any of the countries where Wolt operates in. So in this case, the US will have a say, even though Wolt doesn't even operate in the US.
paperwork is simple and reliable: https://openpaper.work/en/
The point is high value DBA from those places do not want to get jobs in those places. They want to get jobs in high COL places like London because they are nicer places for young well off engineers to live.
APL/array languages.
If solving a problem in an unconventional or novel way (assuming legal) has a business value, that will absolutely get someone by in life.

I don't understand what the term "cheating" means in a post-school context.
For those who scan and file digitally:

Are you worried about data security/malware at all? How do you protect your data?

Maybe I listened to too many Darknet Diaries episodes, but recently I've been thinking more about how to protect my personal digital documents. All it takes is one bad link or fishing email. Once a virus/trojan/ransomware is on the system, the attacker has a lot of leverage with everything scanned and neatly filed.

My idea is to use a separate laptop for archiving digital documents that is never connected to the Internet. Still a thought experiment at this point so I can't speak to the practicality (backups, etc.) of this yet.
By this you mean an actual physical self-incrementing ink stamp?

I’ve not heard of this before but it’s cool!
I did a teamtreehouse or codeacademy course on Python maybe 6 or 7 years ago, but that was all - not even a single project. Mainly my programming experience existed because when I was a teenager I would create scripts for ultima online using EUO [0] and a few times Simba[1]. Also I managed an ecommerce operation for a few years, so I dealt with coders and eventually code.

Actually, I started this project in VBA after my partner insisted on it because he had those sheets with all the parameters for the model already in excel, and also a GUI he had created for the input. I accepted because I had taken a course on it @ uni, but soon felt the need for an easier way to program, and that's when I decided to go to Python.

0: http://www.easyuo.com/
1: https://wizzup.org/simba/
I just commit everything into my note git repository.

I thought I need a OCR, but my folder structure is enough.

It’s simple reliable and will exist in 20 years.
Indeed, it opens up the topic to a wider question - why are some things counted as crimes and others not?

For example, why isn't wage theft included in the NCVS?

Surface-level answer: because in most jurisdictions, it's not a criminal offense. Steal $100 from your employer? Go to jail. Your employer requires unpaid overtime adding up to $1,000? A slap on the wrist at best.

Yet employees are victims to billions of dollars of wage theft every year! "Sixty-eight percent of the surveyed workers experienced at least one pay-related violation in the week prior to the survey. On average the workers in the three cities lost a total of $2,634 annually due to workplace violations, out of an average income of $17,616, which translates into wage theft of fifteen percent of income." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft . Does the NCVS list that over half of employees are victims of wage theft?

Why, it's almost as if the laws were structured against poor people in favor of business. Hmm, and ethnic minorities are overrepresented in the poor population.

What about the illegal collusion between Silicon Valley companies to suppress worker wages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... . Were all 64,000 employees counted as victims in the NCVS? Again, no, because that was a civil suit, not a crime that the police should be involved in.

But again, why is it under civil law, not criminal? (There's no hint that this wage theft is due to racism.)

Or, were the events leading to the lead poisoning of the water of Flint, MI and its coverups a crime? If so, why isn't the population of Flint included as victims? If not, why not?

Or, in discussions related to the 'school-prison nexus', when disproportionate disciplinary actions are taken against students of color, are those students counted as victims? Why or why not?

You are correct. All this inconvenient data indeed makes people dismiss the 'simple "the police are racist"' and replace it with "the system is both racist and biased in favor of the rich".
In Greece, delivery in all stores is free (ie included in the price). To go from "free" to "3 EUR" when the average order is 5-7 EUR is unworkable and you'll never be able to compete.
Since we’re terrans not protoss, this is an assault galleon, not a carrier.
Do you take yourself to be an illusion?
Are you joking? Should candidates install spyware?
I'm not looking for a comforting fantasy, I'd just like to not phrase things in a way that implies that a group identity perpetuated something that clearly many or most didn't agree with, vocally, and with their ballots. I've just noted that your comments seem quite insistent on trying to find that a group holds fault, but that's the very thing I'm stating is not logically valid. Did every German want what happened over the middle of the 20th century? No-one thinks that it wasn't 'the Germans' who did things - but thinking that's 'German nature', or that we should 'remember that was Germans!' is massively offensive to those who tried to resist, and I believe, just a leaky abstraction. Sometimes trying to cast your net around an abstraction, your definitions can lose more utility than you gain with the abstraction. Instead of 'white' - I could point at colonial descendents[1], the Boer, or Christians being the most racist group and racially motivated in that period - in the aggregate, it would be mostly correct, but in the application, it misleads and misinforms. What does "Remember the WHITE perpetrators did this!" achieve when we're a generation past when we proved that wasn't true? I'm after a more refined viewpoint that doesn't play with identity politics, but instead realises that power and disinformation are capable of growing in any soil. The banality of evil is the lesson, not attempting to racially classify people.

[1] Not all white people here are 'colonial' like you'd imagine - see the Highland clearances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
I feel that, and hear the same thing. I initially went through this 2 years ago, but gave up on finding a psychiatrist pretty quickly. Thankfully my Uni's nurse practitioner was able to help, and hooked up a prescription. Since then, I've just been going to whatever clinics are nearby, and they mostly seem fine with renewing. My guess is that there was one, or more likely a series of events that have caused you to seriously consider wtf is going on, possibly life de-railing events, and I wish you the best of luck.
This is a very sensitive topic and the article is coming from a tabloid, not bringing any trust and objectiveness to the table. Having said that, the article does not convince me the model and the data are the real problem and cannot be solved, but current events are strongly suggesting a case of "we don't like what the data shows".

There are mentions of very bad policing practices (to call it politely), but there is no call for action in that direction. Why? The only 2 possible actions in regards to police are the extremes, "abolish the police" and "leave them do anything they want, no matter how bad it is"? Why there is no call to put policing back in the service of citizens, not as city paid thugs as they are in some cases?
Does it cover the costs of you guests illegally downloading stuff? I've ran into that one myself (in Germany the host can have it dismissed when you can prove it wasn't you).
Twitter Blue is being offered at 3$
Well that's just utterly overcomplicated and overengineered. No way they could produce that at scale for dirt cheap for underdeveloped remote areas, which is what this sort of thing would be the best application for.

Compared to this project that's essentially a few rings and a bike transmission.
Non-ASCII identifiers can be useful for maths too. E.g. I use λ sometimes, especially in Python where "lambda" is a keyword. (I have AutoHotKey and Espanso hotstrings to make typing such symbols easy.)
The result is that everything will look and feel slightly off, as the recreation of native elements will never be quite perfect.
Your points help with discounting the claim that long lines read faster. But that does not say anything about OP's claim that short lines are better.

I'm not convinced by OP's argument "New York Times does it": pretty much any book does the opposite.

Perhaps we need more/better research.

For what it's worth, I set my screen to be very wide when I write because I like to write each sentence on a single line: it allows me to easily spot sentences that are too long, a mistake I often make.
"here's a computer, please implement a function in $languageOnYouCV that receives two words and returns true if they are anagrams of each other, false otherwise, if time permits add some unit tests" seems to fulfill that need just as well, and should be quick enough that being in the room or not is more about what makes the candidate more comfortable and gives the most insight for the interviewer.
Now we just need Loom to be released!
Everything important, which was not already send by e-mail, is e-mailed to myself. I use gmail. When something is still on paper, I make a photo. If it is just a file I got from another medium, I just attach it.

For note taking I prefer apple notes, but every once in a while, I just email the important notes.

Why e-mail? Because it is an open standard, it will be readable in the far far future. I can easily migrate to another provider, or make backups with imap functionality. I backup my gmail with another gmail account which I check yearly to keep it alive.

Email is also something which I always have at hand: on my phone, but I can also email to myself on another computer or from another account.

Mail search in gmail is also quite alright.
Can anyone recommend either an English or Spanish translation of this book?
People from China are not isolated though: they can study and spend time abroad, form social connections before returning to China if they so prefer.
> You're cherry picking your own source[0]

That's his thing. He makes broad to the point of indefensible claims, backs them up with a laundry list of tangentially related links, almost always from the news (and we all know how much the news loves to report "the whole truth"), and then when he gets called out he moves goalposts around muddies the waters and does all sorts of tricks that are SOP when arguing in bad faith. If he were not constantly arguing for viewpoints that more or less correlate with the net average HN user his posts would have been defaulted to dead long ago. I think he believes his own BS so it's debatable whether he is technically arguing in bad faith but it sure fails the duck test.

The only way to win is to not engage.
More details and photos from the Auction House:

https://www.johnmoran.com/?p=7272
A modern take on an old idea. Nearly 100 years ago airships were carrying biplanes that they could launch and recover, allowing the biplanes to reach places that were out of range from airports.

Here's a biplane being launched [1]. Here's a returning biplane docking [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTGBFY82Gik

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FIm5qt5JrQ
Maybe a case of shortsightedness, thinking, that they need to solve it in a javascript single page app framework and then forgot the basics about client server architecture, sending the solutions to the frontend, to check them right there. A beginner mistake.
As a potential employee I would never agree to this. If you want me to put in two hours, I do expect to have progressed further into the interview than "you are one of 400 candidates, here's your test!".
While I appreciate its simplicity, private data on the internet is messier than it sounds, and almost impossible _not_ to collect it (server logs store the ip by default for example). In particular, 13bananas.com has outbound connections to stats.wp.com (prompty blocked by uBlock Origin) and to bandcamp.com. Also, uBlock Origin seems to log access to Google Analytics through a bandcamp script.

Sonnet.io seems to be less chatty, except for the requests to Heroku.

Congrats on you game! It looks really nice, and I wish you the best of lucks!
I agree but it should avoid being geared towards pushing any particular political agenda or it would cynically hypocritical. Debate on most college campuses is missing and has been replaced by childish histrionics. The problem is that faculty and administrators have stopped leading culture and have given-in and condone irrational behavior of poorly-raised, infantile, sheltered children who don't know anything.
That's a lazy comment. Please explain when you have something substantial to say, instead of just baiting.
At least the retailer with a 40 % market share can't deposit the money overseas to some hedge fund because it's a co-op.
For me it's just painfully slow.
As I am living an almost mouse free life, automatically setting the input focus at the window (or input field) that I am currently looking on, would be a very nice comfort feature.

Last time I researched this, I could not find a solution, that works on Linux and also has widescreen support.

Will definitely check out this python package.
I'm so confused. What do these do? I don't see the point in wearing glasses that track your eyes... Or are these more like google glasses?
You can be happy when your companies are bought and you can invest in a new round of (local) startups.
I think there was a strong cohort of scientists using matlab, and python and numpy adopt the same language conventions. Going from matlab to python is effortless.

Moreover, scientists are typically so-so programmers so not having to worry about complexities like dereferencing pointers, specifying types etc, makes the language much easier to pick up.
At least three reasons:

1) A whole lot of propaganda effort has gone into spreading anti-union sentiment for at least over a century, from the very deep pockets of the richest private actors in the world, like Amazon. Since they managed to capture half the politicians, it has become a culture war issue to the point that being pro and anti union is more a marker of personal identity than a reasoned position.

2) Historically, America's largest unions were often controlled by organized crime, which prevented competition and fixed prices at an artificially high level so mob bosses could get a cut and "consultants" who didn't actually do anything could be put on payroll so someone who owned 20 houses without having a real job could deflect scrutiny from the IRS. Since a lot of what was priced so high because of this was public works construction, it impacted everyone, and gave unions generally a bad reputation.

3) People like me who have never been in a "real" union, but still might have stupid one-off college jobs that nonetheless required you to join a union, have their only exposure come through something ineffective that isn't providing any actual benefits but is taking a cut of your already low pay anyway. For whatever reason, I had to join a union to work at Disneyland, but that didn't prevent me from making $10 an hour, didn't prevent my friend from practically getting her leg burned off and having it blamed on her with no disability assistance, and didn't prevent me from getting laid off when they downsized entertainment.

On the other hand, my dad was a plumber and his union seemed to bring him real benefit. But in a white collar environment like Hacker News, or pretty much anywhere you're likely to hang out on the Internet, anyone who has ever been in a union at all was more likely in something like the Disneyland union.
I think there should be an introduction to vaccines in highschool biology. We have known for several decades that people fear shots and that political upstarts will take advantage of that.

My own conclusion is we need the general population to have fundamental understanding of what a vaccine is. And that microchips need energy sources.
IPsec also has transport mode if you don’t need a whole VPN.
I'm all for police protecting citizens in crime zones.

I imagine Walnut Creek is a lot like Marin County these days.

My county has very little crime. We basically have east San Rafael, and Marin City.

It seems like too many roving cops have made those two areas worse. Maybe instead of roaming around they just show up quick when called?

As to the other 90% of my county, I can't even call them cops anymore.

They are Revenue Collectors period. They drive around, hide behind hedges, and look for traffic violations, and most are minor.
They contribute the evaluation and time-boxing
I encourage everybody to go there, it is amazing. And Salar de Uyuni is close to there. Just amazing.
> top of the pile

MRU cache, if you will
Well, that's a much better reply, thank you.
And yes, I agree - the numbers aren't directly comparable, but thank you for making it much clearer why.
Wow, what a dystopian nightmare of a world you're suggesting.
Calling for targets some time in the future is exactly the sort of "blah blah blah" BS people are sick of. Why even bother? :(
I love coding on a huge 40 inch screen: the main reason is that I can view an entire file without scrolling. Less mental overhead to move your hands means more brainpower is left to do useful work.
For short documents (~1-3 pages) I use a scanning app on my iPhone to scan them as a PDF, after which I store them in my Password Manager (which can also store docs), with appropriate filenames and tags for easy searching.
There’s nothing wrong with more energy. People seem to assume that we need X amount of energy and if we can provide X amount of energy with one source or the other, we don’t need any more energy. That’s ridiculous. Energy is a commodity like anything else, and when you have more of it, you can do more stuff.
> https://lwn.net/Articles/874174/ is a discussion of the current state of the world - Fedora is considering removing support for it in a future release

Subscriber link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/874174/693a5853d33f4b45/
You probably also want a setting to detect slow networks and disable it there in case the user is tethering etc.