skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will and I can only see it going to being shutdown. With the many PC gamers, Xbox and PlayStation gamers not even realising it existed in the first place.
Alternative solution:

> find the Teams icon in the Taskbar, right click and Quit.

...and never open Teams again!
I see an authentication pop-up and groan. If I leave it there it'll time out, if I hit 'escape' or my login fails I'll get some generic HTTP server error screen. No password reset box, no contact form, no OAuth/SSO login button.
That's like saying Florida has vaccine passports because Biden said the US will. The individual emirates, like Dubai, have even more independence than US states. I actually live in Dubai and there's zero usage of vaccine passports for anything. The emirate of Abu Dhabi is very big on them, but Abu Dhabi is not Dubai in the same way Washington DC is not Texas.
That's exactly the problem with what Agile has become. The only way to get the ear of a bad management is to talk about how you can be EVEN FASTER.
Name any creature in the world, and I'll name a human who can make you more of them, for a price.

It's especially ironic because the very dogs in question were engineered by humans over vast generations, with a genetic engineering technique called selective breeding.

Dogs aren't just built, they're designed.
But if you're making those claims while your top performers are the ones putting in undocumented additional hours and pressuring others to do the same, then I insist that is toxic behavior.

What if your peers actually worked 2 hours a day, and accomplished a lot more than you when you worked 8 hours a day? Would you feel pressured to put in more hours? Would this be toxic?
Running doesn't burn as much as you think because your muscles store energy elastically on the eccentric phase of each step. This removes a lot of energy needed for the subsequent concentric part.

Contrast this with cycling which is pretty much all concentric contractions.
Food delivery battle royale; you order a pizza, five competing companies send out their delivery robots. Only the winner gets paid.
Actually, I came here to submit my link but after seeing the interaction rate I found that I am wrong. Happy Birthday, HN.
Crypto projects will solve the slow obsolete methods of investing because with cryptocurrencies many around the world have the opportunity to invest with both small and large money.
Hey Robbie - glad to see you. Yes, the iOS app was transferred prior to Nabu Casa ramping up their current approach.

Too bad; if you hung on you could have gotten some $$$ for it. It would have made me happy to see you financially rewarded as you did contribute a lot early on.
My guess is that the graphical designers are to blame for this – and of course whatever PM signed off on that.
Nope, Visual Studio for Mac started as a rebranded Mono thing after Xamarin acquisition.

Since then, the amount of plugins shared with Visual Studio has increased, which is a reason why Microsoft started pushing to write them in C# instead of COM.

Currently it is being rewritten, and should be mostly completly unrelated to Mono Develop by .NET 7 release.
Guns? Boring. Flamethrowers? High velocity spinny disks? Sign me up!
Oh, it’s that and also anger at folks who don’t take prosocial steps like wearing a mask, justifying being antisocial to “those” kind of people…

…and the blame cycle goes round and round. Break the cycle! Be nice to people who don’t deserve it!
This shouldn't be a big problem as you can use configuration management such Ansible to get around. In case of bastion loss you can simply create a new instance and run the script to recover your instances.
Hmm ... maybe that was my problem too. Someday I will hook up my oscilloscope to a microphone somehow and measure round trip latency for different setups.
I'm not an economics expert, but I spent some time in that industry and it's like I was on another planet. I think the VC-unfriendliness of defense isn't just an industry norm, it's a direct byproduct of the really weird structure of that market. I can't think of another industry where...

1. There are almost as many sellers as there are buyers (if not more sellers than buyers).

2. Virtually all revenue comes from contract-based programs.

3. The IT+personel security needs are so high that you can only outsource substantial work to other players in the same industry, or firms that specialize in working with the industry, so cutting costs by outsourcing doesn't work as well as it does elsewhere.

That very small pool of buyers can kick the can down the road whenever they want, so a huge chunk of money has to go into simply predicting when your company's next payday will happen. When your forecasts are wrong, you have to spend a bunch of time laying off employees who no longer have anything to do. Or it goes the other way, and you have to frantically recruit the best engineers you can find, and shuffle them all through a rigorous (read: expensive) background check process. Oh, and on the topic of background checks- don't forget that you have insane security needs, even by tech industry standards.

All of this makes for an environment that just isn't VC-friendly. Overhead is high, revenue is unpredictable, and the industry is designed that way. No amount of genius management/engineering can change that.
Europe, Russia and the US should all de-escalate enough to avoid a devastating nuclear war, yes.

To be fair, the only one even considering using nuclear weapons seems to be you, here on HN. No military or political planners are considering it because nobody wants to see Europe devastated in a nuclear war, and everyone understands this, which is why -- if there is war, hopefully not! -- it won't be nuclear.

If you think about it, YOU, an Ukrainian, don't really want Ukraine to attack Russia with nukes. Why? Because then you'd be dead, plain and simple.
> On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry (hotornot.com)
> 67 points by matt on Feb 19, 2007 | hide | 3 comments

Was curious about this post. Found it here [1]. Reading this was interesting and felt a bit like going back in a time-machine. Hot or Not was a fantastic site -because it inspired a lot of my friends and myself in the early 2000s to build similar things. One thing I didn't realise is how much money the site was making then. Wikipedia claims it was doing $7m in revs in 2008

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070419061100/http://james.hoto...
Pair programming has been great for me, for reasons other people said as well as the fact that it’s much easier to focus/not procrastinate when you keep each other to task.
> Of course, all the testing agencies are collecting DNA. The records will be somewhere.

Sorry buddy, you obviously have no idea how expensive it would be either sequence the DNA coming back with millions of covid tests OR store millions of swabs in conditions to preserve said DNA, for future sequencing. There's absolutely no way "all the testing agencies are collecting DNA".
That may be a valid argument to not push them all to the side every time, but it isn't a valid argument for intentionally worsening the problem.
I understand and agree on this, BUT I feel like we are not at the point where Slack could decide autonomously which threads deserve their own channel.

Usually, in our workspace, it's the person leading the discussion that at some points decide to redirect the talk somewhere else
This is supposed to be ... easier to read than `x := val ? foo() : bar()`? Really?
I loved both the original dune games - Dune the Video game with its mix of story and adventure and light strategy; and of course the seminal Dune II.

But it's 2022 and I'm not 14 years old anymore and time is a precious resource. I'm not sure I'm up for a game where all the levels are monotone barren orange desert. I think that's partially what killed homeworld deserts of kharak for me, and this game looks like its doubling or even trippling in on it.

In 1992, background of orange and gray was just fine; we focused on the tactical layer of units and obstacles. In that sense, the low graphics of Dune II were an advantage. Here, the desert is clearly quite lovingly made and vies for attention... but that attention is really not rewarded - even in a 2 minute trailer, I got bored and started forwarding, which may be an ominous sign. I guess we'll see if gameplay mechanics sufficiently compensate.

That being said... I love the story, world, atmosphere of Dune franchise in general - so here's hoping! :-)
The main issue was that looking at the actual content meant visiting a different website, there was no way to see photos and videos in gallery view like you would on Facebook for example.

The difference with HN is that HN is not mainly for media. However HN isn’t great either. The button to collapse threads in on top of the thread in a 16x16-pixel touch target. Good luck finding it when you’re 12 comments down.

For being a text comment-only website, the HN experience is pretty poor. The only good thing HN has got going on technically is that it’s super fast. Heck it still doesn’t offer dark mode when it would literally be 7 additional lines of CSS.
The religious families are extremely small on average /s
> The side walk that the strollers, canes and wheelchairs use on a daily basis. Usually when I see this, I just knock the things over and push them out of the way.

Way better approach is to take phone and send complain to company that runs these. At least in our city, they do in fact end contracts with people who park them wrong. The threat and actual drivers who lost the ability to use scooters makes others park better.
It is already happening with the FOSS POSIX competition on IoT platforms anyway.
I’m curious about your stated reason for being there. Dubai gives Humanitarian visas to foreigners? To work in its own country (which then means it’s admitting it needs help)? I guess the host company is Dubaian? With all sincerity, I’m curious.
>FreeBSD does not excel on the server side. I don't know any companies that even use it and I spent the last decade consulting with hundreds of companies.

Examples come to mind: Whatsapp and Hotmail used to use it before being acquired by companies with their own tech stacks. Netflix's streaming service is based on it. Pfsense was based on it at one time, not sure if it still is. Juniper uses it. If you go check out the FreeBSD Foundation donations pages you'll see Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, and others.

Reality is that on the server and in the data center all I need from an OS is a near posix userland and wired network and storage drivers.
Combining machine learning and computational chemistry (2021)
I adored the original Outpost, I had no idea there was a semi-related sequel!

Between that and Alpha Centauri, I was spoiled by "last ditch effort by humanity to survive by colonizing another star system" games. I wish I could play something similar from modern times.

Surviving Mars, and Ad Aspera were both fun to play, but unfortunately neither held my attention for long.
An insane tenure denial story
I find that interesting, and also concerning.. but I suppose it depends on the office culture.

I tried to ignore my peers and direct reports salaries when I first moved into management... I lost an employee after 2 years when another place offered him a 80% raise.

At that point, I realized I couldn't count on a 3rd party to properly evaluate an employee's worth, and I started to take an active role in ensuring people are paid as close to market as we could afford (though, as a non-profit, we struggle to compete for technical talent)
Shock and Awe
Now that's something else. Do you remember where you read that? I'd love to know more.
Felicity Ace fire: A cargo ship carrying 4k cars caught fire
Hungry but rich and privileged people, to be precise.
In favour of paired programming
That’s quite the presumptions. Anyway Are you suggesting it’s wise to take what the Russian media and government says at face value? While I do enjoy learning and reading different perspectives, I don’t appreciate recommendations with large red flags about integrity of the logic. Nor do I appreciate being negged. So thank you sir and good day to you.
I'm a FreeBSD developer and run FreeBSD on my desktop, and MacOS on my laptop. I have not had a great experience with any *nix other than MacOS on a laptop.

My main objection to MacOS & why I don't run it on my desktop is that I can't configure window management exactly how I want it, like I can with KDE or LXDE. Most of what I can't do centers around muscle memory for window management tricks involving mouse buttons and modifier keys. This goes away on a laptop with a trackpad, since the muscle memory is different with a trackpad than with a mouse.
At the minimum: fuel.

In 1940, the French lost half their strongest armored formations, and subsequently their country, through an inability to supply fuel in a timely manner under combat conditions.

An F-35A is a ~$150M weapon system. An F/A-18E/F ~$60M. Both useless without fuel.
What's the "early promise of the internet" to you?

That should probably be a whole separate post of its own! In fact, I'd encourage you, if you're interested, to consider writing up something on the topic and submit it as a new post. I think there's a lot to dig into with regards to what we all thought the "early promise of the Internet" was, and analyze it in terms of where we were wrong, where we've fallen short of the ideas, and - maybe most importantly - where there's room to take specific action(s) to get "back on the rails" so to speak.
Let's get specific.

Maybe your suggestion might be a cataclysmic -1000 calories per day, either by (a) skipping a large lunch completely and not changing exercise, or (b) by doing those two hours of hard exercise and not changing diet. That person will tend to lose around two pounds a week either way over the long term. (Of course I don't really know what numbers you have in mind.)

But losing two pounds a week is insane.

So let's look at safer, more normal behavior. Call it -300 calories per day: either cutting diet by a medium order of fries each day (and keeping exercise fixed) or doing 40 minutes of moderate exercise (and keeping diet fixed). Then the person will tend to lose a pound about every 12 days over the long term. That is still rapid weight loss either way.

If the same person starts riding a bike 40 minutes a day but doesn't count calories, the results could be anything. They could easily put on weight. Who knows?
Don't forget Phelps also spends most of his exercise time in water. The body expends energy to maintain thermal equilibrium, and water absorbs heat much more quickly than the air. With several hours of swimming each day, that energy will add up.
People who want to be contacted from HN already put contact info in their profile. Everyone else doesn't. Seems to work just fine.

I'm glad you had fun building it... it just doesn't seem to be solving a problem.
I'm pretty skeptical of folks who disregard basic human kindness, inserts their own hate for whatever it is they are concerned about and tries to disguise that as caring for others.

Whatever happens to "scarce economy of delivery drivers" is going to happen.

Clearing the sidewalk is just being nice to everyone.
>Given that, I don't think I have ever read anything good about the UAE

There are 10 million people living in the UAE, 90% of which are expats. Lots of them live comfortable lives in the sense that they do what most people do - get jobs, have kids, do their daily routine, meet their friends, and all that regular stuff. They live normal regular lives and find fulfillment in those things.

It's no different than anywhere else in the world. If you live in UAE you'll find plenty of positive stories.

One thing I always laugh about is that my parents (who live outside of the USA) will text me asking about housing prices in my area, bad weather (that happened in a different state), some protest downtown (that I didn't even hear about), riots from police brutality and if it affects me, etc. But nobody seems to know that my neighborhood had a pot-luck where all the kids were having fun and the parents got a chance to meet each other and get to know the new people in the community.

It's no different living outside of UAE and hearing about UAE.
I know someone - a relative of my wife - with 3 young kids that has sex (more or less) daily. She wasn’t bragging when she told me. To be fair, she has a smoking body. The other half, not so much.

My wife and I just have one 4 month old but we’re making an effort to have sex the days that we can. It’s not easy with a kid at this age! We maybe get one nap in the evening. After the baby goes to bed my wife usually needs to pump and get to sleep early enough so she gets enough before the baby wakes.
POSIX will be still around, because UNIX compatibility, but not necessarily on top of Linux.
Your claim is that it is all right wing people becoming anti-social in unrelated areas?
That's a lot of maybes. You said in your initial comment that you fight racism and slavery there every day, so... are you there on humanitarian reasons? Part of an NGO?
I don't know if it causes people to have less sex. However, I do agree it could be a slippery slope to addiction. I stopped watching a week or two ago and I have urges daily. Can't say for sure this is real addiction but it definitely could lead there for many.
>I wouldn't say it is _highly_ debatable

It is highly debatable - that some people happen to think letting conversations die because they can't find when someone is trying to engage them is ... certainly a different way of interacting with the world than is normal
>> Or a naturalist tale of trying to turn the desert green?

What about a naturalist tale of keeping the desert as it is, and resisting the urge to destroy it for the supposed benefit of the humans? I recently read Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (highly recommended), and I'm reminded of the start of the ninth chapter:

"This would be good country," a tourist says to me, "if only you had some water."
He's from Cleveland, Ohio.
"If we had water here," I reply, "this country wound not be what it is. It would be like Ohio, wet and humid and hydrological, all covered with cabbage farms and golf courses. Instead of this lovely barren desert we would have only another blooming garden state, like New Jersey. You see what I mean?"
"If you had more water more people could live here."
"Yes sir. And where then would people go when they wanted to see something besides people?"
"I see what you mean. Still, I wouldn't want to live here. So dry and desolate. Nice for pictures but my God I'm glad I don't have to live here."
"I'm glad too, sir. We're in perfect agreement. You wouldn't want to live here, I wouldn't want to live in Cleveland. We're both satisfied with the arrangement as it is. Why change it?"
"Agreed."
We shake hands and the tourist from Ohio goes away pleased, as I am pleased, each of us thinking he has taught the other something new.

What about a naturalist tale about restricting the spread of development and conserving nature as it is?
I think this speaks more to their decline and gimmicky quality than their ubiquity. People try it out VR, have fun, and are over it quickly.

If we look on Steam, less than 5% of users have a VR headset. And Steam users are outliers already.

There are probably more CRT monitors in use than VR headsets.
I don’t really use Reddit anymore, I’m just talking about their initial migration that everyone hated. Back then it wasn’t so user hostile, it was just a modernization effort with ajaxed loading and some initial bugs. Then things got worse instead of getting better.
Ship carrying Porsches and Bentleys ablaze near Azores, towing boats en route
Everyone is having sex.

It just is more likely for a man to only have 1-2 partners before settling down with one. While a female may have had 2-10x that number by the time they settle down.

Its that 1/8 of men that have many partners, while 4/8 woman have many partners.

A man can be a sl*t too.

But you'll find that these days a young man is more likely to want to start a family than a young woman. And this has been proven over and over again by studies.
Yes, let's make innocent people crash their cars! That'll teach the people who left the scooters there a lesson!
I was very excited about Soylent years ago...until I tried it. I really disliked the flavor, so wouldn't have stuck with it regardless, but what really surprised me was how much I enjoy the act of sitting down and eating a meal. Soylent filled me up, but it never satiated me. Regardless of the time savings and predictability, I missed the act of eating, if that makes sense.
> IMHO a manned mission to Mars makes almost zero sense

That's certainty not an opinion most people interest in space agree with.

And Musk doesn't want to start with a colony.
That is precisely the best reason to reject a job.
These surveys tend to lump the primarily heterosexual and the primarily homosexual into the same dataset. It's unhelpful since it means we barely show up in the tables.
Funny that old things like basic HTTP auth are regularly rediscovered by developers.

There are also other flavours of authentication that can be used in this context, like Digest, supported by all major browsers and only sending hashed passwords (even on plain http connections).
I think you should for the same reason that I find it rude to wear sunglasses indoors. Basically if you want to engage with me I want you to be fully engaged: eyes, face, voice.
You literally can't step into any public place here, and that may include a grocery store, without a proof of vaccination, and a recent PCR test.

PCR tests cost 50 AED, and you have to pass them in between weekly, to bi-weekly.

UAE has world's highest vaccination rate.

I classify that sentiment into the same loony bin as people who cry "there is no Democracy in USA!" and then run to China.
Anybody who has taken a long break from porn can back this up 100%, and it's obvious when you think about it. How sexually motivated are you after release, and the fact that porn makes it easy and free and low effort will obviously have an impact on that motivation to put in the effort.

If I could give 2 pieces of advice to all young people (men in particular) it would be to stay off dating apps and leave the porn alone. Go talk to women in real life, as long as you're not trying to get laid with a 30 second conversation you can build those connections up over time and you'll see the difference it makes.
Looks like a great accessible review of computational chemistry (and applied ML in that space) for anyone interested in this field coming from a CS or math background
Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix
> If the added benefit of causing people more inconvenience is that they push for problems to be fixed, I don’t think it’s fair to cause that inconvenience with the intent of using that to solve the problem. I think it’s a manipulative tactic. That is my idea of what “punishment” we’re talking about.

We are talking about the same punishment.

If fixing the pages would reduce the amount of times people would have to manually fix page encodings locally, just working around the problem leaves the punishment in place for more people.

You express that you are being manipulated to prompt webmasters to solve the underlying problem, even though many more people would benefit from not having to manually work around it.
Technology Advances, Shortages Seen for Wire Bonders
Startup PR Tips: Where to Start with PR
Well, that's because threads are just first citizen in Zulip, even more than in Slack!

Basically, a thread is visible at a first glance from the UI, while that's not true in Slack. Also, you can kinda replicate Zulip structure by just using channels with naming conventions, so you have:
- generic channels, e.g. for status update for many stakeholders
- specific channels for each feature
- threads in each channel where you discuss a single point