skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I tend to think of commercial software in two categories: the stuff that realistically needs to have a service component, and the stuff that works entirely independently.

In my case, I pay subscriptions for things like Strava or Duolingo – software that realistically needs to have a service component and where I want the extra features. I don't really mind this model – the service component is key to their operation and there are offline-only alternatives available. Paying a regular fee is reasonable for software that has an ongoing cost for the seller.

Similarly, there are a bunch of mostly-offline apps that I'm happy to pay a one-off fee for – things like Sublime Text, Dash or BetterTouchTool in my case. Games too, for the most part. I like the model that offers maybe a limited number of future updates free-of-charge, after which another license or an upgrade is needed.

I think the frustration you feel is for software that tries to straddle these categories unnecessarily. Like 1Password – a totally fine software package that worked great for me offline, but which I would now need to subscribe to if I want to continue using it, despite having zero interest in connected features.

Adobe is the worst at this though – I have literally negative interest in any of the "cloud connectivity" features or whatever. They actively make the product worse for me, but they will refuse to take my money in exchange for a one-off license to use software they sell. So now I have the stupid-ass spyware running on my machine in order to bombard me with shitty ads for other things they sell. I hate it.

There is little more annoying that wanting to buy something—and I'm not talking about cheaping out on it either—and having the seller actively refuse to sell it to you. And I think that's where the feeling of frustration comes from – the constant feeling of something trying to trick and manipulate you into becoming a more profitable customer for them by making your experience worse.
I'm not sure. Yes, latest macOS versions do have their share of misguided decisions, but at least most of the time it still feels like it's built by people knowing what they're doing and what their users need. It feels like there's some sort of contention going on between those who want shitloads of whitespace and other attributes of "UI like an art piece", and those who want their users to have great, empowering, and easy to use tools.
Don't let MS tell you where to save your files.
C:\docs (or similar) will always work (until nothing is stored locally).

Avoid the "My Computer" paradigm.
Basque is a different beast, totally. An orphaned language that some say it has some Iberian or even North-African roots… However, is not an indoeuropeas languages, a gem on its own.

Having said that, the push for normalization of the Basque has mad some Basques angry because they don’t speak “standard” Basque.
Sort of - and the JVM has been a thing on webservers since WebSphere and Tomcat. But never quite achieved the ease of use. I'm not aware of a service you can just chuck a jar at and your webservice spins up on your (sub) domain?

Jython has been a casualty of the 2 => 3 transition.
I think that's pretty much a given.
I have heard you can just bribe a cop to sign it off and you don't have to have it removed at all.
Wasm is not only for browsers. There is wasmer, for example.

The author is saying that you will be able to replace docker (I think comparing to kubernetes is wrong) with wasm, because it can run code sandboxed.

Another example is a plugin ecosystem using wasm. Your go program would be able to load plugins written in c, lua or any other language that compiles to wasm.
> Having a hot centre is a terrible idea for anyone using a mouse because you have to carefully move the mouse into the centre of the display with precision and accuracy.

It's even worse than "just" moving the mouse to the centre of the screen, you have to target a position that changes according to the number of applications open.
You mean like the author says, at the end of the article:

> I compare WebAssembly to K8s, but really it's more like processes and private namespaces. So one answer to the question as initially posed is that no, WebAssembly is not the next Kubernetes; that next thing is waiting to be built, though I know of a few organizations that have started already.

> One thing does seem clear to me though: WebAssembly will be at the bottom of the new thing,

Edit: formatting
I really doubt anyone can do it. Nobody who started in adulthood has done it. Even if we talk of those starting as kids - plenty have tried hard and 'only' reached Master level.
Thank you for this extract. Iv seen many past meta analysis on the 7 to 14 day impairment but no difference after that. Based on these findings i use marijuana regularly but never in periods of need of high output like fundraising, product release date sprint etc...
There are a lot of parts of life when you have a lot of stress but you don't actually need to be on your top game you just need to show up for those periods weed is amazing.
I take it that you are referring to the tech world. Then Richard Gabriel (https://www.dreamsongs.com/) and Gerald Weinberger come to mind first. Joel Spolsky wrote quite a few interesting essays.

If you are not just referring to the tech world, then there is an awful lot out there. Start with Montaigne, maybe, and work your way forward chronologically.
That's not quite how I understood it

> Do the cutout in feature space, not the original input space.

I think they do the cutout in the original input space, based on examples they show, e.g. they mask parts of text and grey out parts of an image.

> and make the network predict the missing part

I think predict the latent representation (as you say in (2)), but not of the missing part, but of the whole corrupted sample, and require it to be close to latent representation of the original input done by the teacher.
I never said that Basque is a dialect. I’m saying that some Basque nationalists have used language or even DNA to divide the society between what they consider Basque, and the other ones.
This is extraordinary. The sample edits given at the end of the article go far beyond normal editorial changes. They completely change the meaning and content of the poem. It is a _different poem_.

This comment about the editor struck me:

> "Now, when I bring this subject up among a certain crowd, they bristle. They become very defensive of Martin and downright antagonistic toward me while they list the many ways in which he is a wonderful man..."

Does anyone know more about the relationship between Bukowski and Martin, and why Martin would be revered today? Why he would have supporters? Why he would even need supporters? (It seems odd that he'd have any role that meant he needed either detractors or fans; either seems a mistake in an editor.)
They did look at the statistics and the statistics say women are more likely to be injured because they are more likely to walk.

"An analysis of Sweden’s snow clearance practices showed that it disadvantaged women, who were more likely to walk, while employment districts where men predominantly worked were more likely to have streets plowed first."

> What about the emergency doctors trying to reach patients on roads that are not cleared?

Generally not a problem, snow is cleared from roads quite promptly all over Scandinavia.

I've lived in Norway for nearly forty years and have never been able to call my employer saying that I can't get to work (22 km away) because of snow or ice. It has never even been a cause of me being late for work.
No, 1 performance + 4 efficiency cores. It feels like just adding up the count is a bit of a cheat though.
> When you have your own hardware, you can really only try one thing at a time.

How so? What would prevent you from hiring 5-10 people for Ops heavy stuff and getting a bit more hardware resources and doing those things in staging environments with load tests and whatnot? I mean, isn't that how you should do things, regardless of where your infra and software is?
It seems that they allow you to pick which region(s) to deploy to. What are you missing at that point?

Is it because you need to be able to defer responsibility to a legal entity of the EU?
KaiOS devices have all those features, they are just slow and not as convenient as on a smartphone.
I think Racket Edition would be more faithful to original SICP spirit.
Not sure to what extent this applies to you?

To my mind, paying for an ongoing service (e.g. translation, or video streaming, or Strava, or whatever) is a reasonable use case for a subscription – if that’s something that suits your end user. (it could also be paid for by individual small payments – or tokens – as suggested elsewhere.)

I think the frustration is predominately in companies shifting payment for a piece of software from a single payment to a subscription, which over the previous typical lifespan of a single software purchase then costs significantly more. Sure, they bolt on superfluous ‘cloud solutions’, but fundamentally it just feels like an MBA somewhere figured out that they can make more money with a repeating subscription than a single one-off payment – and now they’ve all jumped into it.

Of course, it also has the benefit of protecting better against piracy – though I suspect this isn’t the primary driver for the change.
Oh my, I'm not the only one! I occasionally have a dream that, at the end of a semester, I'm not going to pass because I forgot about some class! The realization, upon awakening, that I'm not in college anymore is wonderful ;)
Your link is also broken
While you're correct, I think the problem is that the way the line is phrased seems to imply "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that for love." Even knowing Meatloaf's intention, the whole song seems to be suggesting that there's something his lover is begging him to do that he outright refuses. I doubt she's asking him to "forget the way she feels," or "screw around," so it feels like there's a question left unanswered. The Wikipedia article for the song even touches on this ambiguity with the debate between Steinman and Meatloaf over the use of the word "but" versus "and" in the line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27d_Do_Anything_for_Love_(Bu...
Also, let's not talk about when you buy a product (that you would usually only buy once or once every couple years or so) and then you get bombarded with ads for the same type of product for weeks on end.

Like, I'm not collecting fridges, I just bought one.
> Andorra is the oldest country in Europe whose borders haven't changed since it was created (1278)

San Marino is older, but I'm not sure if its borders have changed.
On thing I'm missing, is there an object store that works well with fly.io?

Where do you store user uploaded content?
It makes a great router.
Not really. The problem is the term "UI/UX".
Lovely! "Your credit card number is the thin plastic line between us and chaos".

I agree I'm thinking also making people pay for stuff is important. It's hardly like fly.io don't have a good reputation, I trust them and it does seem reasonable requirement to help them stop people destroying their platform with crypto mining!
Are you some kind of remote-sensing doctor that can tell someone is "very ill" based on... probably your desire to dismiss his views. As if it had any relevance.

He said that he was "back to my regular self", other than feeling fatigue, and was cautiously optimistic about his prospects in 2020 after a lengthy struggle with autoimmune issues and addiction to a prescription drug.
Although it would be a world very different from ours, I wonder what the consequences of an ad-ban would be? You create a business or service, but the only way an individual could discover it is by intentionally going out and seeking that information (perhaps you've made a new washing machine, and they seek out information for washing machines).

Perhaps specialised 'discovery' services would pop up for people wondering what sorts of new stuff/services was out there?

On the surface of it, I'd assume that if reaching out to customers to 'let them know you exist' via advertisements was prohibited, the amount of innovation and investment into products would decrease. But at the same time, the amount of money allocatable to product development within a given budget would increase, as you wouldn't have to expend so much on marketing (which in some cases, dwarfs the cost of R&D). But maybe the markets would just adapt anyways. Seems a fun thought experiment.
> It also removes privacy protections: Facebook is required to ask permission to track you on iOS.

I think they are require to ask permission to track you using iOS API. They still track you based on what you access on Facebook.
He might have meant the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora
Maybe I’ve been lucky and only worked in well-resourced corporations, but across a ~15 year career in the private sector, I can barely think of any examples where this is the case.

Ironically, a far greater pain point (in my experience) has been poor interchangeability and access to cloud storage solutions between internal and external collaborators.
Corners are much easier to reach than the centre of the screen.
> Targeted ads are not the same as tracked ads. Shoe HN posts are targeted ads.

I don't believe that's considered targeted advertising under the DSA. If you're not dynamically selecting an ad to display based on data you have on me, it's not a targeted ad. It's just a contextual ad. A shoe HN post is static, can be read by anyone, there's no targeting logic involved, and you have no personal or behavioral data based on which to target.

"An ad that's meant to be appealing to white male software engineers 25-35 years old" isn't a targeted ad unless there's a system that serves it specifically to the target market.

EDIT: To support my point, the first proposal for Article 2b I found in the DSA documents:

Article 2b

Targeting of digital advertising

1. Providers of information society services shall not collect or
process personal data as defined in Article 4, point (1), of
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 for the purpose of targeting the
recipients to whom advertisements are displayed.

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, for the purpose
of targeting the recipients to whom advertisements for commercial
purposes are displayed, providers of information society services
may only collect and use the personal data of recipients who have
given their consent as defined in Article 4, point (11), of
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 explicitly to such collection and use.
[..]
Previous conversation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29205301
>>I've lived in Norway for nearly forty years and have never been able to call my employer saying that I can't get to work (22 km away) because of snow or ice. It has never even been a cause of me being late for work.

That's how it should be really. Having lived in some really cold countries, people just....go about with their day. Snow on the road? Have winter tyres and/or chains, it's really not a big deal.

Now I live in the UK and it's hilarious(and sad) to see offices, schools and kindergadens close when there is FROST on the road - not even snow, just the temperatures are below zero, things are a bit frozen, so my kindergarden calls me up not to come in today because they determined it's too dangerous for parents to drive in. Like....what??? I know everyone in this country uses summer tyres all year round but sheesh, just....get a grip(pun not intended). When there is actual snow on the road(and I mean like....1 inch of it) it's like apocalypse hit, police advise people not to leave their homes, no one knows how to drive(or if they do they inevitably drive 3mph, even thought he road has been cleared and salted)......I know it's "unusual", but it's not like Egypt where they see snow once in 20 years - it does snow pretty much every year for a few days.
I had them in my high school equivalent in Poland. We were encouraged to take a part in it.
>Minimalism is about getting out of people's way.

Nothing says minimalism as shoving a 80 pixels dock in people's face. :))
Here is current taskbar https://i.imgur.com/GkAfOMx.png , this is minimalist.
No, we’re seeing a rise of mask-holes who choose to inflict violence on their neighbors by failing to wear masks. And that because of the freedom not to wear masks, they can inflict harm on, even kill their neighbors because they claim we all have a right to freedom of face. The refrigerated containers full of bodies are a sign of a free and healthy democracy. Well, not that kind of healthy.

It’s not that governments are trying to control the people, it’s that half the population broke the fucking social contract because they didn’t want to be inconvenienced. And if half the people can’t manage one silly temporary rule to protect others, how can I ever trust them?
What are the physical security implications of using Fly.io and other edge computing services?

Is some shady ISP colocation as safe as highly secured AWS and Azure data centers?
While word replacements and omissions are bad enough, I totally fail to understand why anyone would have thought that these meandering additions were a good thing? How is this even editing?

Edit: While substitutions and what you do, when your Mom sees you writing a piece and points at a word, asking, if you maybe could do without it, are a not so much a necessary thing, the writer of this comment doesn't fully understand how this is the professional accomplishment that it is. Last Christmas, I didn't go skiing. How is this even editing? ;-)
But back then, you were rarely paying for the software directly, you were paying for hardware.
I'd love to check out your service if you care to share the name here?
I happen to be visiting Stockholm this week. I don't know much about their snow-clearing practices, but I've been surprised by the amount of ice that is allowed to remain on roads and walkways. The sidewalks are in fair condition—though I slipped and totally wiped out this morning (not a common occurrence for me) when I was hurrying to enter a building. What really caught my attention is the thick layer of ice on roads, including at crosswalks. It's clear that they aren't using much road salt here, if any. I guess that is probably for environmental reasons.
Thanks. Using it!
> who is this for?

It brings them, more or less, to feature-parity with Heroku. If you cared about the differentiators for Fly (which, at a glance, seem to be better support for global reach and Docker, and less fiddling with Postgres) but were kept away by their lack of database on the free tier, now you probably want to give it a spin.

If you don't care for Heroku-style deployments, because you're happy managing your own infra, then this is not for you.
Are you cancelling the service? Or are you just stopping paying? If they’re still providing the service you just aren’t paying then I don’t know if that puts you in the wrong.
Intel to Invest at Least $20B in New Chip Factories in Ohio
> And it's working: instead of talking about the companies trying to abuse your data and implementing horrible popups that don't do what the law says they should, you're now upset at the regulators.

Actually I'm upset at both the companies using dark patterns and the horribly designed cookie regulations.
Also "algorithn".
Yes! They can be solved as a puzzle, but should you happen to know some linguistic concepts or be familiar with, out of lack of better words, lesser-known languages like Navajo, Armenian or so on, it helps too.
No, I never said that Catalan is a dialect, it is indeed a language.

But Catalan nationalists are even trying to remove all Spanish from the education [1][2] even by disobeying court sentences.

If you compare the situation between Catalan and Galicia. You can see it clearly. Galician is not used by most people nor politicians as a political tool. Catalan is sadly being used as such.

[1] https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20211123/sentencia-2...

[2] https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-parlament-catala...
FWIW, as a BE engineer with ~3 YOE, I recently got three full-remote startup offers between $200-210k. These were from companies based on the West Coast, though, so I'm not sure whether or not that's relevant to you. (I wasn't looking at stuff based out east, for time zone reasons.)
I have to disagree. It's tempting to reduce a language to just a means of communication, but it's one of the things that make us human.

The language you speak when you grow up forms your cultural identity. I'm not sure which came first, that the language structure formed the culture or that the culture formed the language, but I think there's some truth to the statement.

A language is the key to another culture, and it's the first step to understanding them.

Anyway, braf gweld siaradwr Cymraeg arall yma! (nice to see another Welsh speaker here!)
My bad, they're a little outside Mesopotamia. Skimmed over the map of where Maykop is located.

They're close enough they were obviously influenced by them 4k years ago though.
I have xfce4 setup with a center bar for years now and your comment made me realize I should just drag it left
I remember him from Fight Club and House MD. He was good.
Even though I don't like paying for software monthly, I think that the JetBrains suite of tools is an example of how this can be a fair deal.

100€/year for tools I use professionally every day and that improve my business is a no-brainer to me. Also I really like the way the prices go down if you use it for more than a year.
Linux 5.4.173 LTS Kernel has been released
If I remember correctly, Chrome started this minimalism sh*t. It was kinda make sense as most people like me only had one single 17" CRT with 1027x768 resolution by that time and thus the screen estate was quite limited. But not things have changed a lot. Most people now have one or more 24" LCD with 1920x1080 resolution at least. For myself, I have two 27" 4K ones. So screen estate is no longer a problem any more but such ridiculous trends are not going away but getting worse and worse. Hamburg menu becomes everywhere and the tabs are most likely with huge icons/ribbons but still no place for menus, even there is more than enough space. So the result is that even though there is sufficient space, uses likely still need to click at least one time more to do what we could easily do in the past. Making it worse, such BS is not only limited to software but also expanded to hardware designs. Bought a TV recently, in general I'm happy with the image quality etc., but the remote drove me nuts: it removed video source button along with whole bunch of other buttons. Now I have to press at least 5 times to get to the video source... and such disaster is called optimization...

And you were right, I'm on the verge to ditch Windows but unfortunately, there are something cannot run on Linux yet...
SICP should be shelved into the museum of the great CS courses.
It served its purpose in its generation (the early batches like 1990s were already electrical engineers).Even Discrete-Math was just an experimental collection of concepts for them[1]. My mad respect and admiration to those professors at MIT.

We moved on. Assuming we have completed nand2tetris[https://www.nand2tetris.org/], we should instead be focussing on something like HtDP[2], or maybe like how they do at Brown using Pyret[3] or my favourite, how they teach programming at CMU - C with training wheels[5][6]

SICP as a second course, will then be fun to those passionate about mariad applications in the midst of innovation decades.

Javascript (and sometimes Python) won't give you the insight these courses were designed for. To learn programming? Absoutely NO.

[1]http://www.aduni.org/courses/
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18890417
[3]https://www.pyret.org/
[4]https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/local/sml/common/smlguide/inde...
[5]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15499160
[6]https://bitbucket.org/c0-lang/docs/wiki/Home
Linux 5.10.93 LTS Kernel has been released
FWIW, in Netherlands, bicycle paths are cleared first in the few times there is snowfall.