skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I need internal checks and flexible testing, I create testing types. So, instead of "Null", I let the test pass a "TestIgnore" type object and react to that accordingly.

These types should be clearly meant to be used ONLY in testing environments.
Sounds like how I imagine Facebook is, some reheated Hell where you get to see how great things are for your ex- every day.
The reason we write software is to save us time :-). The way I do it is :

- download (free) video game tiles

- upload them to https://www.pixelartcss.com/ to turn them into CSS

- use this tool (kindly made by thecodingfox a few days ago) to place the tiles on a grid and create the whole image from the CSS returned by pixelartcss : https://www.thecodingfox.com/interactive/pixel-world-editor/
People say go all-in when you're young because it gets harder when you're older. I just wanted to mention that this is true and it happened to me and many of my friends. I'm so glad I went all-in when I was younger to establish my career and get wealthy because nowadays with a family it's much harder.. this let me focus on my family rather than work.

I think one of the most important thing you could do is get a great network and surround yourself with amazing people. What's hot in the moment changes every few years, but great connections stay for a long time. Also, being close to amazing people that are very talented means that you'll get to see new trends coming and always be on top of it.
Thank you for sharing this. Can Fastmail employees read your email?
I sense an underlying assumption along the lines of "industry is better at organizing capital and labor to deliver a product/service than government"

the truth of which depends on many things, including

- how "better" is defined,

- the timescale of the product/service,

- the value creation/capture equation of the product/service,

- the robustness of the product/service to disruption

- the delivery cost vs profit margin distribution (some customers cost more to serve than others, think rural mail delivery vs urban)

On any number of these, it isn't clear that the development of space tech from say 1935 to 2000 would have been faster if private industry was in charge.

vs. now, when lots of the basic tech exists (Musk's rockets are based on Soviet missile tech, if I remember) ALONG WITH a proven market for that tech, yes, it does become more feasible for a commercial venture to leverage that existing tech/knowledge to create a product for the existing market.
Seems to work well in Germany, though.
That's the entire point: to force you to see a problem they feel is ignored. Go tell them your feelings on free speech, I'm sure they'll listen.
> There is really nothing you could do with a car to prompt the car maker to take it from you.

Maybe not take it from you, but with new cars that are always connected (Tesla et. al). They can certainly make them quite terrible if they want to... access to superchargers has been removed when "owners" use unauthorized work shops for instance.
Mainly with Windows’ own renderers (ClearType, GDI+, &c.), but in order to be unambiguously sure I did deliberately calculate and craft a quite simple example on one occasion, pixelwise.

You’re quite right about the value of stronger hinting at such sizes.
I think what they are saying is that based upon ones posts/likes etc the social media algorithms display similar stuff (which is obvious, it is the way tailed advertising works). That is the echo chamber.
Hardware failure is virtually impossible to deal identify and deal with from software, because the validation relies on the same unreliable hardware.

If you want to harden your stuff against that category of errors, then the solution exists with in hardware. RF-shielding and ECC memory for starters.
We’ll the bottom would be everyone on the earliest possible day and then no one has an advantage. Seems like a good thing.
Most of you have (so far) recommended Fastmail. Can Fastmail employees access your messages? If they can, how do you mitigate or avoid that risk?
This reminds me of the "how do we stop people watching pron on the internet?" thing back in the 90's when we first starting giving people internet-connected computers.

The answer, of course, was: "the same way you stop them reading a pron magazine at their desk".

But because it was all new, and there was technology involved, there were lots of people who felt there should be some technological answer to this.

So, yeah, I agree with the article: Adding process to solve a management problem from a pathological minority case is never the right answer.

How would you solve this situation if the interview process wasn't remote? Being remote changes almost nothing about the situation, after all.
Why Augmented Reality (not virtual reality) will be the Gateway to the Metaverse
Capitalism "creates" efficiency by driving under-performers to change or driving them out of the market.

Efficiency means not doing unnecessary things, not employing unnecessary people. They may have been doing something useful, or just something that someone thought was important.

The important point is the question of what exactly you are being efficient at doing. As you drive towards a particular Pareto optimization, economic forces have changed what you need to optimize for, perhaps driven by your own optimization. The limiting factors have changed.

If the moat of required competencies and capital allocation is large enough, you can hide a lot of inefficiencies (aka your boss's friends) for quite a long time.

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Edit: people can comment about crony capitalism etc if they like, my comment is not meant to be comprehensive, merely observational.
Are you overreacting? In my opinion, depending on how long the suspension lasts, you may be, though not necessarily. You sent unsolicited bulk e-mail. That is spam. It is possible that your mail helped some people, but anyone who had set up their own filtering to prevent the original mail from coming through would then only see it because of your followup, and additionally the "To" list may well have been spoofed as well and not reflect who the original mail was actually sent to. Google have a responsibility to prevent spam from being sent through their systems, and if this suspension is the minimal they can do to stop your spam, it was the right thing for Google to do, and you would see the same with a lot of other e-mail providers as well. However, if this suspension lasts beyond the point where you are clearly aware of it and can make sure you do not repeat that, then no, as far as I am concerned you will no longer be overreacting and should look to avoid Google in the future.
Developing for Silverlight was also great, full power of abstractions like LINQ and the BCL, with the holy grail of two way design to code and back with Blend and Visual Studio.

Technically a big pity that the market wouldn't accept a Microsoft platform for competitive reasons, but I can also well understand that. Just a shame the wonderful technical platform was lost and we ended up with the lost decade of Javascript front ends.
I wasn't commenting on state or market forces.

I was replying to a very insightful comment saying "Why would anyone build a rocket??"
That’s when the people with the guns don’t have to actually shoot anyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Bangladesh_coup_d%27%C3%A...

Petitioning the existing organs of government, even with a shoddy legal theory, isn’t a coup, bloodless or otherwise.
But having a function spanning five pages isn't smart practice, regardless of OOP or Functional style.
Sure, let’s do that. Where can I sell my data?
...no?

In The Expanse it was rocks from the belt coated in "stolen" Mars stealth material.

Luna's a UN colony, practically on Earth's doorstep, not a beligerent.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the reference.
I've gotten a 7 day ban just for being a member of a group. Never posted, never up or down voted. Just a member. Banned for 7 days. I'm Reddit user 2,200 or so, never had even a warning about anything. I'm lucky they didn't permanently ban my account
Really nice execution! How is it monetized though? I don't see any ads, only an "upsell" to a native app but it also appears to be free?

Edit: I see the ad sidebar now. FYI on my first visit I played for several minutes and this never opened
This is very true and it is already having an effect. The amount of posts in the development sub reddit has declined so much it is borderline dead. For example the front page of r/javascript is mostly days old posts which means I can visit it once a week and not really miss anything and it has 1,873,376 subscribers! It seems people have recognized that the post quality was garbage and moved on to greener pastures. It truly is the end of an era. I got banned from r/webdev because some said "using PHP is stupid" and I replied "that is ignorant and that the comment itself was stupid" and I got banned for that and I never looked back.

Good riddance reddit.
From your same link it does not say un-rendered readability was a secondary goal, it says the exact opposite:

> The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.

This also fits with the ordering from the second paragraph:

> Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.

Markdown has always included rendering capability as a goal but I think GP is right, Markdown was never intended to be an always render first format just because it included the capability to render.
> I don't really understand people staying in abusive job situations like this.

I'm working to get out of a job that turned into this once our (lovely) manager bailed and exposed our team to the incompetence of our current leadership.

I'm having to HEAVILY fight my gut instinct by leaving, because I was raised in poverty and grew up as a disabled lesbian back when those things created more issues than they do now. I'm also from a rural area and neither of my parents have college degrees.

I may logically know that I (as someone with credentials and a decent skill set) have every right to leave and it's in my best interest to do so, but it conflicts with literally decades of messaging I've got telling me I'm lucky to be allowed where I am at all and seeing those around me be punished for standing up for themselves.

I was also abused by my parents, and that's another angle: People who are used to abuse don't think it's that bad, and I'd wager there's a fair number of people who have just never had a decent work situation. If you're going to be abused, at least pick an abuser you know and can work around.

Humans are pattern recognition/social machines, and if you only expose humans to dysfunctional patterns, they'll assume the problem is them. If you design a society, it's pretty easy to get yourself a group of people who are open to being exploited.
Very impressive. Congrats to you both. It is an excellent idea, and it would be nice to see a lot more inspired by this. Thanks for sharing.
3rd URL is broken. You have an extra `n` on the end. It should be:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7542326
In practice people will accuse non-pornographic LGBT educational resources of being pornography and breaking the law. Pornography is subjective, and straight people have historically tried to say that any information about gay sex or being trans is pornographic. This just hurts queer youth by depriving them of resources and forums to talk about their experiences
Wow that looks bad.

Another thing I've seen is rims with the spoke nipples pulling so hard that the rim material was flowing upwards, so you got all these little bulges (they definitely weren't designed like that, not all of the spokes had them).
Not really. Small-scale sustainable farms produce more food per hectare than industrial farming. However, they are usually less profitable, since they need more manpower per hectare.
Efficiency in terms of money earned is not the same as efficiency in terms of food produced, and with a growing population and a diminishing area of arable land, one seems more critical than the other, especially when you consider that industrial farming tends to destroy topsoil and emits quite a bit of CO2, whereas small-scale sustainable farming usually does the opposite.
I've had that happen. I have my own domain, but some of my family just have it set to forward to gmail and they've had mail service disabled intermittently because of spam coming from the domain account.
People don’t use public VPNs for work. The tunnel terminates in the same network that the physical office is on. And using a public VPN from a work machine for privacy is a very bad idea. That’s grounds for termination if they catch you and possibly an even worse issue if the company ends up under investigation for any reason. They’re going to take a very close look at anything of yours they can get access to since it won’t have ended up in normal audit logs.
No one wants to buy the data from cheapskates.
My account was permanently suspended for "threatening violence" when I said that the reddit admins are enabling pedophiles. Aimee Challenor used to be an employee of reddit, hired without any background check or scrutiny. I wonder how many others like that are still in employ.
> and surely Mozilla would have benefited?

What does Mozilla do where that would have benefited them financially?
I've definitely created a new account recently over VPN, posted a single question in a linux forum and then found the account was shadow banned.
Thomas Cromwell was the most prominent spymaster of Tudor times and letters to him feature heavily here. So not all of it is bulk surveillance, some of it seems to be old-fashioned human intelligence gathering.
I would imagine it takes the form of a government "porting server", where anyone can query an email address and receive back a different target email address.

All people sending email will be required by law to first consult the porting server to determine where to send email. It could be as simple as an http endpoint. Total development costs and running costs could be pretty low - low enough that the government can argue it is more than paid for from increased tax revenue from mail providers.
Could you provide links? We have similar rules so I'm a bit surprised...
I've been saying that this type of thing would be happening increasingly often. The government wants to control people's money. In the future, you will need a license to sell company shares and other private property and only the top 0.01% elite will be able to get such a license... The media will gaslight the public into thinking this is normal and 'for the public good' or to protect investors from making bad decisions.

For any law, there will always be a group of richer people just above the victimized group who will support it to protect their wealth at the expense of the poorer group. They will trick/coerce people from the lower classes into playing along. The bottom class will keep getting destroyed, one layer at a time until only the 0.01% richest people have all of what little remains of the nation's wealth... The numbers will be bigger and more concentrated than ever but the real economic value underlying those numbers will be smaller than ever because almost everyone else will be unemployed and living in the metaverse using as little energy as possible.

Maybe in the longer term, the economy won't be able to afford letting people unplug themselves from the metaverse and disconnecting their Soylent feeding tubes... The media will demonize the anti-feeding-tubers as selfish terrorists. Heck, they won't even be against feeding tubes, they will be demonized for being against the feeding tube mandates.

The best escape I can see are cryptocurrencies but it will take some time to make a transition to the extent that people are creating real value around them. It's not really the case now IMO.
Google is simply not a very reliable business partner for tech. I have a decade worth of experience in the Danish public sector, where I’ve had plenty of great experiences with both Amazon and Microsoft. I know that a lot of people would prefer things to be open source, but part of what you pay for in an Enterprise Organisation is availability of support. When AWS first entered the European market, most of what they sold in the support side was rather automated. Which just couldn’t compete with what Microsoft sells, where Seattle will call you with updates every hour on the hour if you’re a big enough customer. This is a big part of why Azure managed to capture the market share it did under the nose of AWS, the other part being that once you buy Office365 well… Anyway, I’ve never seen a huge tech company change their ways as quick as Amazon did, and today they’re actually ahead of Microsoft in terms of compliance with EU legislation and Enterprise support.

Google mean while has the same business-to-business support that it does for private customers like the author here. For some services it’s because Google doesn’t care, but they do care about Education and they still can’t figure out how to readjust to be a valuable business partner even when they actually want to sell you something.

So my best advice to anyone using Google services would be to find a better vendor as quick as possible. It’s completely ridiculous that you can lose your business account over someone replying to a spam mail.

Just imagine if Microsoft kicked the Danish government out of Office365 every time one of our employees did something silly in their emails. I know there is a difference between us as individuals and the Danish governed, but the point in trying to make is that there isn’t, not to Google at least. So maybe they are just a terrible vendor?

This is all anecdotal by the way. I haven’t seen anyone complain about getting locked out of their azure essential subscription, so in my eyes that is simply a safer way to pay for g-suite type services than g-suite. That being said, I do personally host my domain and DNS stuff on their own separate accounts at their own separate vendors, both privately and professionally, exactly because you want that stuff to remain unaffected by everything else.
Moderate libertarians hate welfare programs but their parties rarely win so their candidates often run under the GOP. The GOP just likes the status quo.
> I’m looking through the list of the heads of nasa ... But why did none of them try what spacex is doing?

There’s no scenario where NASA or a NASA administrator could do what SpaceX is doing, well or poorly. That’s not their role.

That said. Charles Bolden pushed back on congress with regards to SLS as much as was practical. (I imagine other administrators did too, in their way) Congress wanted a jobs program and is getting a jobs program, and in that situation the NASA administrator can just say “this is not what we need” and be polite when congress ignores his recommendations. It’s more complicated than that, but not by much…
They lost the opportunity of calling it Tinderin.
Because limited rentals are mostly banned, and being caught on a violation is quite bad.
Iowa. Former Iowans here. The nation's politics have screwed Iowa, with it being the first primary state all manner of overt attempts of political favoritism occurs in there. The economy is screwed left, right, and sideways with all the attempts at political favoritism. And the intellectual mind there is equally turned around with large helpings of religious infringement on world views, and a material amount of corporate shenanigans because Iowa is tax favorable for corporate headquarters - most the Insurance and large publishing has corporate headquarters there.
This pretty much exactly describes my (ab)usage of tabs. I had a tab open with the HN submission for the death of Google Reader for two years, because there were so many interesting replacement suggestions. I finally admitted that Google had ruined RSS for me, and closed the tab.

Thank you for the OneTab elevator pitch. I'll give it a try.
Most hardware failure is extremely intermittent, otherwise it almost instantly result in a crash. ECC etc helps, but you still run into manufacturing defects etc.

That said, I agree you can’t guarantee everything is working via software but detecting hardware failure via software is simply good practice.
Thanks! (Both of you).
The calculator will be useful if you need to know how to choose a hard drive for the DVR or microSD card for the security camera.
hmm, the tab management page of one tab is interesting, but it is only available if i move tabs into onetab. i'd like the ability to manage tabs like that, assign them to groups, move them to windows, etc while all the tabs are open. i remember the original firefox container feature had something like that.
The first step to discovering whether an idea that seems good is actually good is to review it at another date, which necessitates writing it down.
I’d like to expand on some thoughts I had in another thread that provoked some interesting discussion:

If the protests are peaceful, the government should not shut them down. But at what point do the economic impacts of a protest cross a line such that they aren’t peaceful?

I personally feel that the slippery slope runs in both directions:

* The government expanding its power to block more protests is a slippery slope.

* The public expanding their power such that less people can cause more economic damage is a slippery slope.

This really seems like a situation with no good options.
You might be interested in other senses of the word “equality”, as your confusion seems to stem from assuming one particular sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_of_outcome
Most of the important points have already been posted, so let me give you a different piece of advice:

Be nice to people. Remember who is good to you.
> It's the slowest of the large names in PHP.

No, in 2022 it seems it's not. Just seen this benchmark today: Laravel is the 2nd fastest, after Kirby (but Kirby is static text files CMS so it's not really comparable). Not sure what exactly they've tested and it's probably not super realistic, but still it's far from calling Laravel the slowest.

https://twitter.com/getkirby/status/1493538621768581120
> Dev Ops is very much a mixed bag.

Have any examples of issues while doing DevOps? For that type of work, in my own perception, I deal 100% of the time with text (be it error messages, or automation code).
You have two jobs (2017)
Its a great tool to combat nefarious personae (both bots and humans). Its like a tarpit for smtpd/sshd (spamd on OpenBSD). Reddit is a free service to use, so it stands within reason their support dept. (which you'd contact concerning (shadow)bans) is sub-par. For paid subscribers, I would want my money (and time) back.
Make a photo id for everybody you interview?
I’ve been using old.reddit and RES and the UX, at least, has been consistent.
You can eliminate the word "just" from my sentence, I agree it makes it a stronger sentence, thanks for the edit.

You don't seem to be writing to be understood, which is of course your right, but I feel foolish for trying to understand now.
Tesla's (and increasingly all cars) are software with attached motors and they don't need to seize them physically to take them. Or disable supercharging, etc.

Just like your fridge may not dispense water if you buy the wrong filter. Or your random IOT enabled device will refuse to work if you don't let it phone home with surveillance data.
I’ve never heard of someone being their own registrar. Was this hard to set up?