skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Happened to the Classics as well. I suppose that's how they become classic, through loss of what is not as strong.

The logs of Magellan's voyage--one of the real knight-errants of Spain, who took inspiration from fiction and made it fact--were also lost, I think burned because the mutineers, who returned to Spain, allied with the survivors who brought the treasured spice, and didn't want the truth to come to light. So Pigafetta, the author, rewrote them from memory.
Are you in a region that isn't supported? I can buy it from Canada :/
For a while a long time ago I used the monoprice action cam (discontinued). It looked like a bike light, didn’t have stabilization but had an easy to use big switch on the top. Worked well enough but along with my bike light it was another thing to charge and I didn’t have time to go through all my footage.

Recently I’ve attached my go pro and it being much newer is better and digital stabilization but the battery life isn’t great.

So I usually ride without. But I have a cell phone in my pocket..
Rent is attained by controlling access to capital that you own, according to the state.

Wages are attained by selling your labor to someone else.

Which is it?
Boring Is Best! When you have junior programmers joining/leaving teams, consistent, boring code written in one Boring PL according to Boring Code Conventions is like driving on a freeway in one straight direction with auto-pilot on.

Clever code written in half-a-dozen Cool PL's is like driving for your life in sharply turning mountain roads with no guard-rails - something guaranteed to become cataclysmic as your number of issues/escalations rise and rise, your tech debt becomes an un-surmountable mountain and you watch your hair turn grey before you are middle-aged.
This might just be an assumption. We'd need to compare with childless couples. As a datapoint of one, I'm getting close to 40, just over 10 years of marriage without children, and this article describes my experience eerily well and has given me real pause.
This is tying ever more byzantine verbal knots trying to argue you didn't create a strawman to argue against (you did), and adding to that, sinking to personal abuse hoping it improves the quality of the argument (it doesn't).

There are multiple interpretations of "Add this to the list of dark patterns". The asinine paraphrase of this to "a new dark pattern", especially coupled to the absurdly rigid thinking of the explanation offered, is not merely one of many interpretations; it is the least likely, because the general case of Hobson's choice and its related dilemmas have been recognised for centuries. Ergo, we can trivially reject that interpretation. The author might instead merely be suggesting this is their first personal recognition of such a pattern, or they could be imagining a list of specific instances of major tech companies deploying such a pattern, or offering simply a figure of speech to say "this is a dark pattern", and several other variations besides.

Tip: the world is not a fucking Lisp machine.

In light of which, the cheap crack about "reading comprehension" looks even more sophomoric.

What's more, none of that invalidates the actual point, viz. it is one.
One idea I've seen is running through translation services. IE, convert to spanish and then back to english. But unless we have good offline services, it defeats the point.
For first version I'm just using http://aspell.net english dictionary, but I can easily switch to a custom word list. Will research best options.
Pandoc completely solves any of the issues mentioned about markdown for scientific writing.

it works flawlessly, and it unarguably way cleaner than writing in plain latex

How can anyone

- tell me

- that this

- list

Is harder to read:

\begin{itemize}

\item than this

\item unintuitive

\item mess

\end{itemize}
Hi pjc50, are you Scottish?
I agree. That probably do require spending a fair bit of time to build confidence and skills. But they also benefit from some deliberate practice/skills building as opposed to just repeating some of the same mistakes over and over again.
RIP CHOCOLATE BALK BRED

Using all letters giving a score of 227/380

There should be some hints on how to increase my score? Is this based on the word rarity?
> and also most of the ads just simply disappear if JS is not running.

since we are talking about the future I'd like to point out that they can always serve ads from the origin domain without javascript.

I mean the anti-adblock battle will evolve until each page we visit is a single image file that we have to OCR to remove ads. then we will need AI, and they will have captchas that will ask which breakfast cereal is the best.

you can stay ahead of the curve but it's always moving forward.
Oh people have tried - here are a few https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10239235/are-there-any-l...

I vaguely remember quite liking bish when I saw it years ago https://github.com/tdenniston/bish but it looks like no commits in 6 years.

This shelljs thing looks more promising, but really tedious to use https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs - shell.rm('-rf', 'out/Release'); I'd rather suffer proper bash than have to do that sort of thing.

Nothing seems to have really caught on so far. Bash is easy to learn and hack on, and before you know it, that simple install.sh that started out moving a few files around is 5000 lines, unmaintainable, and critical to bootstrapping your software :)
But there’s no slider. Typically you slide the instance size for other reasons.

Here’s the thing: either you care about it (and you can game the sizing of the instance) or you dont and you run kubernetes.

But you if you don’t care then it doesn’t matter. There’s no slider for you to care about. It is not extra overhead.
> People were telling each other about these.

I've seen this argument a lot, especially by technically minded folks.

When you say "telling each other" what do you mean exactly? Do you think businesses just magically get talked about with zero investment in marketing dollars?

I get the sense that lots of people in the HN community don't realize when they read an article from <insert tech company engineering blog> that this is marketing dollars at work.

> But as a rule it definitely appears to be.

By your "rule", sure. I understand the gripe with marketing from the consumer perspective, but pretending is inherently evil because it (1) invades your personal attention and (2) you think people are going to organically talk about products or services they don't know exist is a pretty myopic view of marketing as a whole.
> For a lot of people their career is just a way to get paid. As long as they don't get fired that's enough for them.

When that’s the target for hiring and the majority of people in professional practice any attempts to aggressively improve are frequently met with friction and do more to put your job at risk than just coasting. That’s why so many developers have side projects where they can be as ambitious as they wish completely disconnected from the boring professional work designed for 25%-ile.
This attitude is something I associate with very junior developers.

"Hey you know your morning check in, this is the one true holy way that every company in the world should do it"

it's not even that it's not probably a good way to run stand-up. But the hubris is pretty extreme.
You are reading it backwards. Citizens of those countries don't need this waiver to travel into Schengen countries. The other 59 countries who can currently travel visa-free will need the waiver.
Drag and drop is an Anti-Feature here. Please just make it type entry.
JFR is one skill I haven't put into my toolbelt yet. I really enjoyed this as it helps you understand whats happening below the layer of user-interface abstraction, and I'll probably send the link to the infographic around the team.
> Could they consider this malware and add the client IP to blacklists?

Do malware developers consider the countermeasure softwate created to resist them to be malware as well?
This weekend our traveling family was denied entry to a children’s musical in Madison, WI (Overture) because our three year old didn’t have a negative test results within the last 72 hours.

Entire family masked (was required) and entirely vaccinated adults (2x Moderna).

Ha! I guess we were a threat to community spread.
> I feel like we were all talking about microservices, and chaos engineering, I personally wanted decent service discovery (I still do).

One day a startup will bring CORBA Name Service or Web Service Repository, in yaml, and it will be great.
I mean... we're interviewing and it's about as close to begging as a company can get.

- We allow any code submission in lieu of having to do something custom for us (adds quite a bit of time and cost to review)

- We pay you for the time interviewing

- We have all interviewers send thank you emails afterwards

- We offer to give you specific feedback about why we decline to make an offer if we decline

- We accept re-applications in 12 months - 6 if you can show meaningful self improvement (ex: bootcamps, school, specific projects, addressing feedback from above)

- We have above normal pay/benefits for the area we're in

Basically - we spend between 3 and 5 grand on each interviewee just for time spent, not accounting for the initial lead generation time and not accounting for the bonus we pay for recommendations from current staff when hired (12-20k in that case, depending on level).
Nursing homes aren’t full of childless people.
Do (hired) developers code? There is no commitment or dedication in software today and it shows from the sloppiness and intrusiveness, to the wholly undifferentiated design. There is just too much easy money that has attracted too many random people. "Developers" overestimate their value too much, and they better enjoy it while it lasts
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One minor note: jekyll definitely was not first to introduce front matter (though they may have introduced yaml front matter?).

I am sure that at least pyblosxom had it earlier: https://pyblosxom.github.io/Documentation/1.5/writing_entrie...

Here's the earliest surviving commit showing blog entry front matter in 2002: https://github.com/pyblosxom/pyblosxom/blob/f80cdb42eb37ee0e...

My recollection is that blosxom (a perl blogging engine) had front matter as well, but I can't find any evidence of it.
Twitter suspended hundreds of fake Chinese propaganda accounts
One of the best standup habits we had was just posting quickly in a slack channel at a certain time saying, "no update", or "blocked", it was low touch.

I have always thought that a standup is just a way of being micro managed. If an engineer is blocked, why would they not just figure out how to get unblocked? Isnt that their job?
The infrastructure in place at the old - soon to be decommissioned - power stations are to be re-developed for storage of the every increasing supply of renewables. Australia has one of the highest uptake of residential PV and its massive potential in solar and wind generation for the generation of hydrogen and ammonia has triggered a significant investment in renewables. FFI https://ffi.com.au/ a subsidiary of Fortescue, Australia's third largest iron miner, is investing billions in renewables in Australia today.
90s which ended in 2000/2001
It's a SUPER useful skill (IMO). Essential in doing java performance diagnostics.
Not in the European Union as that is not allowed:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2004/38/oj

> Without prejudice to the provisions on travel documents applicable to national border controls, Member States shall grant Union citizens leave to enter their territory with a valid identity card or passport
> I would submit that any language that reaches the level of adoption that Java does will be considered boring.

I know of nobody who would call Javascript or C++ boring ;). Or compare COBOL (boring) with Fortran if you prefer something from the past.
I suspect this how a large part of web UI spam occurs. Selenium combined with the latest browsers provide almost perfect control over a real web browser. It makes me wonder if this is how Google tests its "I am not a bot" test. Basically, generate billions of actions -- surfing a web UI -- with slightly different mouse movements (Selenium). Then, use machine learning to generate a network to differentiate between robots and humans. (The humans training data would come from a highly quality population... like all Googlers using internal Google assets/websites.)
Another factor might be differences in libido...something that's not as big a factor with the relationship is new, as both are more willing to meet in the middle. I'm in the middle of the LAST difference in Libido in our marriage (she's hit menopause, my Testosterone is waning, but not as fast as hers)...and it's literally the only friction point in an otherwise wonderful marriage. Money is better, kids are moving on, and I can see that eventually our libidos will again be in alignment.

I also see why the old guy divorces his longtime wife for the younger, fresher, gal...and by the time SHE'S hitting menopause, he's there too. I don't see that happening in my case, but if there were other issues in a marriage, I could see how it might be a stronger lever to getting out of that marriage.
For context, gorhill is the author of uBlock Origin.

And for context on MV3, see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
This becomes funnier when you consider the brethren of the Asu must be the Asurs because they specialize in forging.
There is a big difference between finding work for yourself and finding enough work to keep a whole team employed, as you would be doing if you ran an agency.
uBlock already blocks stuff like Plausible analytics based on what's in the code, even if it runs on the parent site. Would this be any different?
"I had a boating accident" is a pretty common response.
WASI? there are already prototypes of running .net in WASI that might make it for .net 7

And WASM is already supported, app size about 1MB including runtime and GC
Of course, that is why the only solution I think will work is making fossil fuels 10x more costly. Without $20/gallon gas/petrol at the pumps and $10k flights, I do not think we see any meaningful impact to environmental problems.

But until then, the music will keep playing and everyone is will keep dancing.
how the fck does a webview gobble up a whole 12 mib?
Thanks for playing! Right now the score is calculated by letter value multiplied by word length so longer words score more points. Open to feedback on this as wasn't sure best scoring.
> In the beginning, there was HTML, and it was good.

No, it's really not. It is excessively verbose for human usage, and too loose for computer usage. It's a hack.

For human usage, Markdown is pretty decent. For computer usage, an S-expression–based HTML would have been preferable:

(html
(head (title "Hello world!")
(meta ((http-equiv content-type)
(content text/html)
(charset utf-8))))
(body ((bgcolor white))
(h1 "Hello world!")
(p "This is my first webpage.")))
Well, yes - and for this use case I consider apng.

But my point was, that the main use case of gif, were short videos and animations, people shared. And for this, I am glad that webm seems now broadly avaiable for that role.
How the Fleksy SDK Is Distributed Using the Swift Package Manager
I see a mix of elderly people who are very happy and people who are bitter and actively do not want to hear any good news about the world because they would rather be mad. And America right now really has a lot of sophisticated people working hard to take advantage of the latter, amplifying it and making it worse. It makes me really sad and angry, and I think about strategies to avoid it happening to me as I get older. Anyone got good ideas?
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In the Start Menu? Have you never seen the ads for Candy Crush?
This bit makes me think of HN people and UBI:

> Wells : I remember the situation with regard to the technical intelligentsia several decades ago. At that time the technical intelligentsia was numerically small, but there was much to do and every engineer, technician and intellectual found his opportunity. That is why the technical intelligentsia was the least revolutionary class. Now, however, there is a superabundance of technical intellectuals, and their mentality has changed very sharply. The skilled man, who would formerly never listen to revolutionary talk, is now greatly interested in it. Recently I was dining with the Royal Society, our great English scientific society. The President's speech was a speech for social planning and scientific control. Thirty years ago, they would not have listened to what I say to them now. Today, the man at the head of the Royal Society holds revolutionary views and insists on the scientific reorganisation of human society. Mentality changes. Your class-war propaganda has not kept pace with these facts.

Seems to me that technical dev type people are indeed becoming abundant, and many are entertaining the notion of UBI, myself included. Not long ago, I would have thought it silly to even consider.
I genuinely believe the number might be that high in my area.

We have regular events organized by people who like bicycling where they deliberately drive on the road and then stop to create huge traffic jams. The organizers proclaim that this is to demonstrate for their right of way on the road. But obviously the government disagrees and banned them, so people will post suggestions on Facebook and then people will "spontaneously" go on a bicycle trip together and block a main road on Friday evening.

If you don't believe in their cause, that's mainly a huge provocation to everyone else. Especially because these events regularly ignore traffic rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling)

"Because Critical Mass takes place without an official route or sanction, participants in some cities have sometimes practiced a tactic known as "corking" in order to maintain the cohesion of the group. This tactic consists of a few riders blocking traffic from side roads so that the mass can freely proceed through red lights without interruption"

"criticized to be contrary to Critical Mass' claim that "we are traffic", since ordinary traffic does not have the right to go through intersections once the traffic signal has changed to red"

"an event known as "Critical Manners" was created as a response to Critical Mass. Critical Manners rides through the city on the second Friday of the month, with riders encouraged to obey all traffic laws such as stopping at red lights and signaling"

If you have a counter-event that encourages people to obey the law, that might be a hint as to how the majority views your event ;)
> In short, this is just the usual mainstream media pandering.

Pandering to whom? I'd agree that it's a mostly a standard list, but I was surprised to find it in mainstream publication. I was impressed that the list was presented seemingly accurately and without much condescension. I felt that it was actually intended to explain why (some) anti-vaxxers act they way they do, rather than to make the audience feel superior. Along with recent NYT article like this one (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.htm...) I get the sense that there is a change in the media landscape that allows these articles to be published now.
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Five years ago I might have said this was a "dis" or "flame" article. Now I too see the benefits of java while simultaneously feeling it's a bloated and verbose language.

We have a tendency to believe that everything we produce needs to be "high quality" but that is a subjective measure. Sometimes we just need to write a program that can be handed off and maintained by the next set of devlopers. For that, java is a useful tool.

Programming languages are just tools. You will have your favorite to use but that doesn't mean it's the one you should be using on most jobs.
Another similar formulation: Venkatesh Rao says people are now divided into those living above the API and those living below the API. Those below the API are the software-driven humans.
Java programs are usually daemons and internally use a logging library, per default stdout is set up as one output for logging. One can usually configure the logging with the log4j or logback config files and even suppress stdout.
These sort of posts crack me up as it's another person jumping on a bandwagon they don't understand, but are also really sad, as it's taking a lot of otherwise talented people and ruining them.

> being relieved of the responsibility for producing a quality product

I've seen this sort of elitism in candidates and I've made the mistake of hiring them. It turns out they're just not very good at all, and they blame their failures on anything but themselves, stunting their self-growth professionally and interpersonally.
Ok I guess dog is overstating it when there are Mack Bolan books out there, but on the other hand it is definitely not that you can point to the movies and say Well of course they're masterpieces! Just look at the book!
> People were mad that Maisel threatened a lawsuit in a case where there's a strong, obvious argument for fair use.

A legal argument, yes. Which can be tested in a court; it's his right to do so, isn't it?

He's the rights holder of a famous image and they used it commercially without permission. Dealing with it legally is not inappropriate, IMO.

Like I say, I think if they'd asked him nicely before just either assuming they had the right, or alternately assuming he'd be OK with it, they might have had a different outcome. They did not.
This will probably settle with many new small companies succeeding at software products. The interests align beatifully when the SWE are de owners of the business.
I agree with what you wrote, but at the same time I dislike how energy-intensive the web is. It doesn't _have_ to be, but it is nowadays. Going back to somewhat native GUI's is a step in the right direction in my opinion, at least in some aspects.
I have earned a certain capital selling my labour. That capital is now working for me (some rent, bounds, etc). Why you think that someone doing these is a parasite?
I'm glad you like the recipe :-)

What if you have a function "f" that takes like 10 arguments and you need to pass it to a function "g" that expects as input a function takes 8 arguments.

@partial
def f(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9, p10):
return "stuff"

g(f(..., p4=1, p7=2))
# seems nicer than
g(lambda p1, p2, p3, p5, p6, p8, p9, p10: f(p1, p2, p3, 1, p5, p6, 2, p8, p9, p10))
Thanks a lot for expanding. I had no idea IBM was present at the creation, like some spirit of evil ;)

Netscape Navigator handling images was also a Big Deal(tm). Of course, there could have been a graphical (X) gopher client that showed images, but just like the people who like gopher and gemini now dislike images, I suspect it was the same then (think of the bandwidth!)

It's hard to convey how intensely cool it felt to be part of the early web, and images, differently sized and colored fonts were a big part of it.