skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a purely practical political point of view, none of those things can be banned outright without an _enormous_ political backlash, so the approach has to be slow improvement and phaseout. Crypto-mining, on the other hand, could be banned tomorrow, with virtually no political fallout.
Ask HN: What code do you consider as clean code?
obviously this is something debatable and subjective but there's always some common basis that everyone agrees on. do you have any good examples of code you wrote or saw on Github that you consider as state of the art code? what makes it so great? if you are reading someone else's code how do you want it to be written/structured (preferably JS examples)
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Apparently fire codes don’t exist in this dudes mind.
They still might have a telly, just never watch the Beeb.
Dangerous ice storm, heavy snowfall and potential travel woes expected
I often get BBC "you're not in the UK, can't watch' messages.
Fine.
Can't pay, won't pay.
Drive to a colo? Most colos have 'remote hands' where you can have an onsite tech do stuff for you. There's also OOB management tools you can use (assuming the hardware isn't toast).

AWS is really expensive if you have the skills to managed hardware yourself.
Yes, the current government is in complete shambles, but the arguments against funding the BBC with a TV License have been made for many years. It's not just hot air from Number 10 trying to prevent bad headlines. Netflix has proven that the subscription model is perfectly viable, meaning there's little justification to make someone a criminal for watching late night shopping channels without first having paid the BBC.
https://www.dnb.nl/actueel/algemeen-nieuws/dnbulletin-2022/b...

It is in Dutch but there is a link to English PDF.

DNB is the Dutch equivalent of the Fed.
Very cool!

Do you have insight into why modern operating systems consume gigabytes of disk space and require so many system resources?
Detected all my cheddars as Gruyère…
> That the design would have looked legitimate to internet users in the ‘90’s

This is false. It did not look “legitimate “ even in the 90s.
except that it doesn't ... e.g. switching workspaces on mac ist ctrl+arrow.
The mathematical secrets of Pascal’s triangle – Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi
I’m thinking vertical integration where you write your code on VS, host it and collaborate on GitHub, and deploy to Azure. I always thought GitHub was a hedge for Azure against the other cloud providers.
And it isn't just old Microsoft tech. For one, he holds a world record high score for Tempest. For another, he's done some very cool projects with addressable LED strips: the Tiki Umbrella and Atomic Lamp are spectacular! It is his projects that sent me down the LED rabbit hole, though my weapon of choice ended up being the WLED project.
> It’s a difficult spot to be in, the reality is that smalls towns across the country were decimated between the 1990s - 2020s. Most of it was policies sending stuff over seas and reducing wealth creation in rural towns (where factories used to run).

I’d put this further back. Manufacturing is part of it but not everyone worked in factories before and the post-WWII white flight was part of the setup. There are two related parts to that:

On the city side, that took on a lot of unfavorable trade offs – reducing tax revenues, converting neighborhoods into unproductive freeways and parking, greater expense and demand for roads, etc.

On the personal side, cars lock in a lot of personal expense both up front and ongoing (how many people are one expensive repair away from potentially losing their job?), and force other choices like needing to live somewhere with storage space, deal with the health impacts, etc.

I think that combination left things quite brittle and a lot of it is time-delayed by a decade or two, at which point it’s much harder to reverse. Losing a factory hurts but so did losing most of the workers a generation earlier, and the resulting economic climate from both makes finding replacements harder.
Closer. The user-agents running Bitcoin (nodes) are performing an algorithm that was purposely designed such that all such user-agents are mutually distrusting.
I believe they are not "Julia-first" jobs but at least the job market is now aware that Julia exists. It's a start.
worth baring in mind that there's a lot of extra paid by the employer on top of the "gross" salary someone gets in Europe (especially in France) that someone in the US would have to cover by himself (hence why i't typical to see double that amount for someone in the US).
"desktop environment" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
Seems snappier, no downsides so far.
I don’t think conflating inclusivity and/or diversity action with specific product issues is helpful or comes off well here.
> When papers like the Sun and Mail are the most popular in the UK I think it's hard to agree that Britain overall is left leaning

"Left leaning" is of course relative. Some claim that Tony Blair is right wing, and Corbyn is the "middle ground". If you claim that then sure Britian is overall right-of-corbyn.

But if you take the standard "Lab/Lib/SNP/Green" is left leaning, and "Tory/UKIP/BNP" is right leaning, then as the left have have a majority every election it's quite reasonable to believe what the facts say.

Take one look at the election results and you can see there is a constant majority that's "left"

A lot of the complaints stems from a perceived view that UKIP were overrepresented on Question Time in the run up to 2015. That's no defence for the claim the BBC is "pro establishment", as Farage and indeed Brexit was quite clearly anti establishment.
had to downgrade, still many bugs with WSL.
This makes no sense.

"Most chips go in the trash without ever mining a block" that's your own choice, isn't it? If you don't want to waste the product you bought, don't trash it?

"This is just more [nonsense] crypto theory" I do not invest in cryptocurrency. I bought socks for like 2BTC back in the good old days when it wasn't yet apparent (to me at least) that bitcoin was going to be a major problem; bitcoin was interesting technology for teenage me back in 2012. I'm not some delusional trader that is making profit off the backs of everyone's climate and wants to justify mining. See basically everything else I said above. In particular the part where I said "Note I'm not saying this is necessarily a good idea, it seems ripe for abuse [...] but I am interested from a technological standpoint." The person was making technological arguments, not some nonsense about "crypto theory".

"If you find me a way..." Do you own a computer? There, turn it on during winter, have fun gaming. Now you're generating heat using electricity that you'd consume for gaming regardless.
If the BBC is the only thing stopping the UK from becoming a failed state then God help us. Or, we could simply carry on without it and not really notice.

I'm going with the latter.
English version https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-toilet-in-modern-tanks-like...
I save articles from HN to read later, but then those get decoupled from the HN discussions I might want to come back to and check out after reading the articles.

I would, then, usually paste the article URL to the HN Search page [0] to find the relevant discussion. After doing that a few times, it started to get old, and I thought I’d create a quick Shortcut to get me the first search result from any URL passed to it.

After using it, I thought I’d share it here to spare anyone who’d find it useful the few minutes it would take to create it, and I was happy I didn’t have to install a browser extension for something this simple.

In case you’ve never added a shared Shortcut before, here’s [1] how to enable them. You can then run it from the share sheet when sharing a URL from anywhere, or by running the Shortcut directly if you have a URL in your clipboard.

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com
[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210628
This is also a problem if they don’t have good oversight: the developers often cut corners or build something which will look good when they’re selling units but costs more to maintain.
The Roman roads that last a long time are outliers. Most Roman roads are long gone.
I also have 2 Win 10 machines at home, and my current plan is to wait until at least the fall of 2022 before updating to Win 11, if not longer.

Maybe something will come along and change my mind, but at the moment I've seen no compelling reason to update, and I value stability over shiny latest.

The last major super annoying bug of Windows 10 (windows moving around on a multi-monitor setup when coming back from sleep or monitors off) was fixed with the 21H2 update, so I'm good.

Other than "free offer", do you have a specific reason to want Windows 11?
Now this leads to question that it only solves problem for that road.

What about all the other roads you use? Maybe solution would be to mandate tracking on all traffic? So you would pay what you use, with pedestrians being billed for maintenance of sidewalk, the motorist, heavy traffic and bicyclist the road with some reasonable multiplier.
Ethereum's proof of stake currently has a quarter million validators, so it's arguably a bit more secure and decentralized than one dude with an Excel sheet.
" There are lots of frameworks out there for making websites. You've probably encountered them. Well, Qbix is different. It was designed from the ground up to power social apps.".
To me it looks more like a web app than an OS.
>A month-old ransomware attack is still causing administrative chaos for millions of people, including 20,000 public transit workers in the New York City metro area, public service workers in Cleveland, employees of FedEx and Whole Foods, and medical workers across the country who were already dealing with an omicron surge that has filled hospitals and exacerbated worker shortages.

I was surprised when it first happened there wasn't more publicity. To find out it is still going on a month later is jaw dropping.
Don't fall for the mistake that everyone voting for X is as polarised or 'extreme' as the activists campaigning for X.
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> When you get to this scale, tools like Kubernetes make more sense.

If you look at the details[0], servers are really "just" 6k$ per month. A lot of that goes towards the databases, which you can't optimize much with k8s, so the optimization potential overall is already rather limited. If you then need a consultant or a developer to do the migration, you'll quickly outspend any potential savings.

I'm a fan of k8s, but this is really a showcase for hardware being (comparatively) cheap and the scale that you can go to with conventional hardware.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSk...
i will never financially recover from this
But pigeons still do it better: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1388594078837878788
My ICQ is even lower (1508789) but I envy his old skool website.
> Even for software where ‘zero bugs’ was important they’d just delete a whole bunch of bugs and see if any bounce (come back). Eventually people get sick of refilling so they get to zero but bounce by exhausting the very people eying time help them.

The open-source equivalent of this behaviour is "stale bots" that close or lock issues with no activity. Or "moving discussion to a separate tracker", with all bugs getting closed and a polite request to re-open them. Or a "locking bugs older than X months, please open a new one if still applicable".

Sure, opening it again isn't a big deal. Re-opening all bugs ever opened by all humans is just pointless work for no obvious benefit.

Having zero open issues should never be a goal, any mature project has open issues. Trying to reach zero is chasing a number that won't make a product better; it's just a number.
We are now the alien species in a forgettiable early season episode of Star Trek TNG.
Former soldier builds a castle on a hillside in Wales
I like to leave htop, lnav and s-tui on one of my i3 wokspaces - works well for me. I do remember appreciating the task manager back in my windows days in the 90s though.
Do you have any articles where I can read about this?
You would think that suggestions for the Azure site would at least get a better treatment. It's not Windows, it's supposed to be Microsoft's cash cow, right?

But no.

During the last year, a Microsoft PM called Gloridel Morales has thoroughly gone through hundreds of Developer Community suggestion for Azure Devops, and closed each and every one of them. Quite rudely. Just check out each and every link in [0]

Some were suggestion from fellow Microsoft people.

She did it using the following eyebrow-raising text, quoted below, suggesting either that Gloridel Morales and her team have no idea how to manage themselves by prioritizing a backlog of requests, or that her paycheck/review depends on having a clean backlog.

Thank you for taking the time to share your feature suggestion. Due to the high volume of suggestions in our queue, we are not able to respond personally to every suggestion. As a result, we depend on the community to validate the request via votes and comments. Suggestions that the community doesn't prioritize, we close out in order to maintain a manageable list of suggestions. It is our policy to close suggestions that are inactive in the community based on no change to customer comments or votes in the last 90+ days. We love your enthusiasm for our product and hope you will continue submitting ideas for the community to validate. [1]

That's just one example, it's the same for almost all requests in [0].

The bit about "suggestions that are inactive for 90 days" might have looked good on Github with its somewhat primitive but sensible community around issue discussions, but the developercommunity site is inundated with garbage issues, making it almost impossible to search for proper issues.

That's just for Azure though. I must say that a couple of bugs I opened there for the Microsoft C++ compiler actually got prioritized and fixed in the last couple of years. Others were ignored.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=+Gloridel+Morales+%5BMSFT%5D...

[1] https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/add-previous-b...
This is just exasperating. Pro privacy? You’re responsible for child abuse. Every time you think the current British government can’t sink any lower…
I upgraded 3 days ago, no regrets.

Actually, I did a fresh install, and saved the iso on a bootable USB stick just in case it sucked and I had to downgrade.
> It's an odd leap from electricity prices to carbon tax to basic income. . . Don't increase prices like so many in Germany feel would be the right thing to do, it only impacts those who can't afford better housing

The "odd leap" from carbon tax to basic income is exactly to address this issue of the cost to the less well-off. In a tremendously simpler, more effective, and freer way than detailed bans of particular uses of energy which also have successful industries with strong lobbies behind them.
5k in French taxes to run a non profit site, why?
I don't see any major pros or cons in upgrading to Windows 11 and I'm happy with Windows 10 Pro, so I'm going to hold off until I see something compelling or when October 14, 2025 is around the corner, when official support for Windows 10 is supposed to end.
Except that 80 percent of American millionaires are first generation affluent.
Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Millionaire-Next-Door-Surprising-Am...
There are many very successful people with chronic mental health conditions that at times impair their cognition to the point of debility. Like, re-read your comment with Simone Biles in mind, who is arguably the most successful gymnast ever but did spend extensive time constantly sleeping while depressed and demotivated and broken down. Quoting her, "At one point I slept so much because, for me, it was the closest thing to death without harming myself. It was an escape from all of my thoughts, from the world, from what I was dealing with."

You can't deny that Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, Virginia Woolf, Robin Williams, Marylin Monroe, Chester Bennington, Ernest Hemmingway and many others were successful despite their struggles, and those are just those for whom those internal struggles resulted in something obvious to the public. For physical issues, there's Avicii who got quite successful while touring with many serious health problems. In the field of business we have to remember that for currently active entrepreneurs there are strong incentives to hide any issues (e.g. Elon Musk has years earlier admitted struggles with depression and/or bipolar disorder, but IMHO we won't get reliable information about their extent until after he retires or dies), but there are earlier examples like Ted Turner, founder of CNN; and of course there's the famous case of Aaron Swartz as a cofounder of Reddit. Here's a study https://www.michaelafreemanmd.com/Research_files/Are%20Entre... showing that entrepreneurs have a higher rate of mental health conditions than the general public.

So I believe that your argument is based on false expectations.
I'm in a similar boat. I've bought three "teach yourself maths" books, and I'm just going through them, doing the problems with pen and paper, old school style.
Whether the knowledge it will cross over to coding is a different question, but I'm actually really enjoying it so far. In fairness, I've hardly ever needed any kind of maths skills when coding so far.
Are crows using tools "nature"?
I feel the complete opposite way about BBC news.
BBC shows, documentaries and radio programmes are some of the best worldwide. But BBC news is often either notoriously pro-government (especially since 2016, when Cameron dictated that government appoints the BBC board) or with a ridiculous view on impartiality for anything else (the infamous "if we discuss earth's curvature we have to invite a flat earther for balance" approach).
It's running a proof-of-stake network in parallel to the main chain, which is still running proof-of-work. The proof-of-stake network has been running for a bit over a year and has $30 billion in ETH deposited. Code for merging the two networks and eliminating mining is on a public test net right now. Previous upgrades have gone live within a year of the launch of their public test nets.
UK produces more varieties. Of course it depends what "great cheese" is defined as - naming is a lot looser in the UK - but a cheese DB without UK (and definitely Italy too) is missing a lot.
also, BGP-MP added so many new options with regards to NLRI that it can be used for many, many different use cases.

For instance, BGP can be used as an mac learning mechanism (EVPN), It can be used to communicate MPLS LSP's, it can even be used for source routing.
The race towards renewable energy is creating new cybersecurity risks
IMO the problem with the Ori is none of them were charismatic. Even Adria, the most "human" of the group, was a bore.

The Goa'uld on the other hand were flamboyant and arrogant and even charismatic. You wouldn't root for them -- most of the time -- but they were damn fun to watch (and to see defeated).
The UK disagrees
No, but you use it to exchange titles at low cost with a global market.
CEO of Coinbase?
Totally agree, beyond the pale. My experience predates the Feedback Hub, but I’ve only heard it has gotten worse after my tenure. I assume bugs would still get copied into a separate internal bug tracking which has an edit history. I assume it was an overzealous contractor with a cultural misunderstanding.
I think dependency hell is inevitable and every language coming up with their own solution for packaging and dependency handling is just making it worse and at the cases like this just catastrophic.
> but there's always some common basis that everyone agrees on.

I am really curious what this is because I have been with 4 organizations now and despite all doing things very differently, they insist that they are doing things according to "industry standard."

I have even had a few cases of two senior devs reviewing my PR at the same time and going back and forth to tell me to revert what the other dev had me put in, with both coming from prestigious companies.
> Drinking alone in public is shunned even worse.

It is most definitely not shunned in American dive bars, nor anywhere in Central/Eastern Europe, nor in a hotel bar anywhere in the world.

Getting shit-faced by yourself in public is frowned upon because it’s annoying, but flying solo on a barstool is as common as can be, and nobody has any problem with it in many, many places.
Catholicism strictly forbids suicide, I grew up being taught you could go to hell if you commit suicide. I assume it is similar for the other mainstream branches of Christianity. I'm no longer religious, and I understand where you are coming from questioning what ought to qualify as a cult versus a religion, because there are some cases where the difference isn't too clear (besides membership numbers). But any belief system that is actively encouraging suicide has clearly crossed a line.
The damage inflicted onto roads by vehicles goes up by the fourth power of the vehicles weight. So, should average citizens be on the hook for most road repairs, or should those who utilize extremely heavy trucks?

Furthermore, as society progresses, we're not going to need so many roads. Either we'll technologically eclipse them, or sociologically we'll reorient our society towards walking and biking. I don't see us having nearly the amount of road maintenance in future as we do now.
Coinflip chance whether this is cryptography, or cryptocurrency, these days!
That reminds me of this comic strip: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/KvypGc1
There is a lack of knowledge about money here.

- Some countries are undergoing hyperinflation in which the value of their money decreases daily. Authoritative governments implement currency controls which prevent free market exchange for other currencies, and so citizens are forced to hold worthless bills.

- Electronic banking is mass surveilled and your bank and credit card companies are selling your data.

- The yield on a 10 year US treasury note is 1.79%. The interest rate on a Bank of America savings account is 0.01% APY. There is no "risk-free" return for savings in today's world; people are increasingly pushed to take risk just to keep up with inflation.

Everyone living in Western democracies think good times will last forever, that this kind of debt and money creation is sustainable, and that the party will never end.
I think you'll find that, in practice, there are many pages that fit "between" other pages in other languages. As random example, say English Wikipedia has "Matrix multiplication", "Strassen Algorithm" and "Coppersmith-Winegrad Algorithm" pages, whereas the German Wikipedia might have a "Matrix Multiplication Algorithms" page (this is not the current reality, but it could be).

This makes sense, because if one wiki has, say, 60% of the content (and depth) of some other wiki, it will break it down into pages differently.

Being able to speak both languages, I often find it instructive to browse the pages on a subject on both English and German Wikipedia, as the structure and depth of the material will often vary either way. It's sometimes unfortunate, but other times also possibly warranted that these wikis cover subjects to a different degree.
If you look at the GP comment they replied to (quote below), it‘s fairly clear that they didn’t mean this to be a recipe that will make you successful, but simply commonalities that may make success more likely.

> Doing what successful people do increases your odds of success.
Four, actually, if they are to have off-work days.
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