skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Professor, is it true that Holmes is a Notepad++ user?
Miss Excel Creates Viral TikTok Content
I purchased a 350 year old roadmap for my locality. It was still usable. The main roads, town placements and landscape features don't shift much!
Which is kinda strange because the "pixel" art of those days was never intended to be rendered as blocky pixels, but designed to make use of the CRT's softness.
I no longer use the Pinephone because of the aforementioned issues, however at that time, I'm pretty sure I was at the latest and greatest firmware version available (which one that specifically was opensource or proprietary, I can't remember).
The experience was so horrid, I just quit using it all together and never looked back. But maybe if things have improved, I should give it a shot again.
Both your comments indicate that you regard everyone here as some kind of homogonous group who share the same views - whilst you are somehow outside or different.

That's a bit like sitting in a traffic jam complaining about the other cars. You are one of us and probably not a huge outlier either in most regard.

I don't know why you have ended up with a me vs them perception but it's probably fairly unhealthy and I hope it's something you carry around in real life as well.
ZFS. It made filesystems and Software RAID elegant and accessible with an elegant interface and a pleasure to work with.
It offers all the features that one would want in a file system without many shiny bloat.

Scrubs

Distributed parity

Hot spares

Encryption

Snapshots

Compression

Quotas

All in an intuitive way that led to an almost cult like following in the Unix/Linux admin world.
There's no name calling, "stupid" is the exact word you used. I'm stupider than a lawyer when it comes to all the details of contract law, because I didn't study it as much as they do. If you aren't a lawyer, then you probably are too. Again, nothing wrong with admitting it. You and I can't know everything. It's actually arrogant and insulting to claim that you know more than a skilled lawyer or attorney just because you wrote some code, I would suggest not doing that.

>There seems to be a modern confusion that the folks NOT doing any of the work in writing code have all sorts of rights with respect to it (or time of a dev to fix their bugs). False.

I'm sorry but this makes no sense, it's weird how often I see this sentiment in open source. If you hired a lawyer to represent you and give you legal advice and defend you and court (which is multiple full time jobs) then you're paying them to do a job for you. You're not giving any of your rights away. You don't have to choose to hire SF Conservancy, you can hire another firm.
Trusting trust all the way down: How do you trust your assembler to output the exact machine code corresponding to the source? How do you trust whatever program you might use to do the validation? Ok, let's skip the assembler and write machine code directly. How do you trust the program you use to write that machine code? How do you even trust the firmware will execute your machine code in the way you intend?
> And do you thinkt he cons on the SCOTUS are satisfied with this? They’ll be glad to ban abortion nationwide completely. They’re not gonna leave it to the states.

On what basis? Do you think they’ll make up a right to override state abortion laws the way Roe did?
The more surprising thing about `Array.prototype.sort` is that it both sorts the array in place and returns the (now-sorted) array. You can go a long time writing `const arr2 = arr1.sort()` without realizing that what you're doing is wrong, and the code you're writing is misleading readers about what it does.
Global Chip Shortage’s Latest Worry: Too Few Chips for Chip-Making
It's safe to say that never again will I buy a laptop with a display which can't scale properly to integers (2 or higher). If it's a 15 inch laptop, 4K is the absolute minimum resolution I'm going for.

Even after using a 27 inch 4K display with an abhorrent 163 PPI , I can't imagine using a display with lesser PPI. No matter what tricks (anti aliasing) you use, the fonts will look like shit compared to fonts on a retina display.
Agreed, anyone who brings up the culture war between Emacs and Vim users is acting as an agent of discord. I love and appreciate Vim users and love and appreciate Emacs users. I "use" both thanks to evil, an Emacs package that brings vim emulation to Emacs.
On my mind of late is the degree to which human social trust cannot be replaced by money and rank in social media.

A well-established method in discussion is of course to state agreement or some degree of agreement (if possible) with the opposing view, then to ask questions about it.[1]

However, the commitment to having a discussion depends on a) trust, b) honesty, c) mutual goodwill, and d) the suitability of the medium of discussion.

The values of a) and d) cannot be substituted. But they can be gamed and monetised.

> distrustful word fight

Social media is a monetisable distrustful word fight.

= = =

[1] https://iep.utm.edu/socrates/#SH3b
_ Socrates thought of himself as a "midwife" for lucid thought. Of course, he was put to death.
CSS frameworks are the worst. It's a lot of effort for a cookie-cutter look and feel, and I'd rather have something functional first.

It is a badge of pride to have blue underlined hyperlinks that turn purple if you've been to them before.
Because the EU isn't forcing Spain to do the right thing lol.

Now seriously, in residential buildings there's no obligation, only recommendations, as per the latest "regulations": NTP 215(1988) for smoke detectors, NTP 40 (1983) for fire detectors, and NTP 41 (1983) for fire alarms. [0] Industrial and office buildings are way more tightly regulated, though.

Spain lags in that sense vs. most of Western Europe [1].

"Different building materials and building codes": I'd say that the heavy concrete-brick construction style in most urban housing limits the damage of fire. While anecdotal, I've seen a few fires in Spain, and generally they're mostly a scare and self contained to one or few units.

"Cost": for smoke detectors the cost is very low, yet they're still relatively uncommon. Sprinklers are generally limited to office buildings. Sprinklers are very expensive though, especially for old buildings.

"Business/politics": most of WE is ahead of Spain, so hardly US specific lobbying/awareness.

"Rescue/fire suppression": not different from WE.

Just install some smoke detector yourself for your unit. If you're renting ask the owner to ask in the next "comunidad de vecinos" to pool money to install them in common areas. You may even install them yourself in common areas: if they're concealed enough, nobody would care.

[0] https://saludlaboralydiscapacidad.org/salud-laboral/gestion-...

[1] https://www.modernbuildingalliance.eu/EU-fire-safety-guide
“Did I miss what the old California Dream was?”

I grew up in NorCal, and I had the same reaction. That said, I’m in the NYC metro area now and there is a California dream here, and it always starts with the ‘better’, sunnier and warmer weather.
Another example is NetBSD's httpd, bozohttpd, which can use Lua, or any interpreter, to run CGI scripts. Lua is included in the NetBSD userland. (OpenBSD by contrast includes Perl.)
Even if you learn SwiftUI, and get a Kotlin developer for Android, you'll still need a web developer for those who just want a web app. Notion, Spotify, Hulu, etc, all have web apps. Even Gmail still has a web app, albeit an extremely poor one, which goes to show how much work multi-platform support is. The benefit of frameworks like Ionic is to support multiple platforms without having to maintain multiple codebases. So as the gap shrinks between native and web, it starts making more sense to just write a single web app
no code systems let you hire cheap replaceable folk instead of highly paid technical folk.

Does it? Anecdotally and based on observation, people who know their way around, for example, PowerBI and can use it solve problems earn the same as people who know their way around Python or JavaScript. And people who really understand PowerBI and actually use it to its full potential can charge every bit as much as talented programmers.
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We've decided to add Kotlin to our stack for server-side development. Experienced Java developers who want to get into Kotlin are also welcome to apply. As much as I enjoy Ruby on Rails (and it's definitely helped us succeed), refactoring is becoming more painful the larger our code base becomes (using Sorbet helps, but can only take us so far). We intend to use Kotlin for the new products we're launching as well as to rewrite selected components of our existing system where it makes sense. I haven't coded in a statically typed language in years, but I've been writing Kotlin lately, and it feels surprisingly productive.

We haven't decided on a web framework yet. I don't mind Spring Boot, but investigating lighter weight alternatives would be great too (you can tell I have many battle scars from dealing with framework upgrades). We use PostgreSQL as our DB server. On the front-end, we mainly render plain HTML, but use Vue.js on the pages that need more interactivity - this role is more focused on the back-end, but front-end skills are welcome too. As you can see from our no-nonsense stack, we prefer to keep things simple with robust, proven technologies, so we can focus on solving client issues.

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Yes, exactly, and nomenclature borrowed from the parent. (This is another throwaway, and I am responding.)

> > "...all about making $$ for the firm. If the strategies developed..."

The topic here is on offers to new hires -- not value delivered after time and work invested. Offers at market rate -- even in the FAANG world -- are not at 7 figures (6 zeros), definitely not at 10x that, and certainly not before the new employee has done anything worthwhile for the firm. There are individuals who do get such offers, but they are rare, they have done remarkable things previously, and they have a reputation they can bring to any conversation about compensation. Their market is not representative.
Yes, and that has been done in the past. It comes at the cost of lower power production, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nuclear_Generating_Stati...
Dired is an abomination filling up your buffer list as you traverse directories.
> the main thing you're getting out of the VPS is the static IP.

Yes, that and RDNS.

> If you're paying for that, why not just pay for a static IP at home?

That’s a good question. I too hear that mail providers consider IP blocks assigned to VPS providers less trustworthy than others. The reasons I don’t take the ISP/dedicated server route, aside from price, are:

• VPS providers are not tied to my physical location. If I move, I probably can’t take my ISP’s static IP with me (I may even move to somewhere they don’t service). Conversely, if I want to switch away from a local ISP, the selection of alternatives is extremely limited.

• Risk of neighboring IPs reducing the reputation of the block exists with server companies and local ISPs as well. I concede that the problem is probably worse with VPSes, but I hope to mitigate it somewhat by avoiding bottom‐of‐the‐barrel providers and by the fact that my own IP will never be used to spam.

• I’m somewhat worried about the possibility of DDOS, and VPS companies provide a lot of cheap bandwidth, so in case of attack I might be able to salvage the situation with careful firewalling on the VPS.
ha, christianity is nothing but a way of social signalling purity. So they can get away with being nasty brutish selfish beings.
The world suddenly makes sense if you consider that the majority of people are complete asshats who would kill you for a sandwich and never think on it again -as long as they can get away with it.
Building a niche Strava-like platform can be done.

I started https://intervals.icu about 3 years ago to scratch a cycling itch and learn Vue.js. It has evolved into an analysis and planning tool for all sports. I have avoided segments because I get data from Strava (and Garmin/Suunto/Polar etc.) and that is very much their bread and butter.

Intervals.icu suddenly got popular about 18 months or so ago and I had to decide to drop it or spend my whole vacation doing devops work. It also started to cost real money to run. So I started a Patreon and then implemented Stripe. Lots of people have been nice enough to signup for the optional subscription (tx guys!). But I will probably add premium features in future to encourage more signups.

It is a lot of work! Large amounts of data to process and store and lots of support (have to put less bugs in the platform!). My next steps are to make this not just me.

Intervals.icu has an open API and a number of apps already integrate with it.
But I think this is still a point against it. Its maybe not "fair" but if the regulators can't be trusted to properly maintain and protect nuclear power installations isn't that something that has to be accounted for?
Character: "I need to wee-wee"

DM: "Roll 1d100, open-ended."
Reviving Httpstatuses.com (Now: Httpstatuses.io)
I mean, it was still clearly low-res. CRTs and smaller screen sized helped, but you could still see the pixels.
lay off the weed
It's generally the things inside that burn first, not the building itself.

I've seen some raging fires in concrete buildings.
Purism Librem 14 review (part 1): The ethical flagship
I am not a ux expert (and I have been using linux extensively for multiple years) but I don't quite see what is wrong with the linked interfaces.

I find it nice that the cancel is visually separated away, most important primary actions are prominent and in the top right.

I find gnome to be quite nice and friendly compared to five years ago when I'd always jump to a KDE desktop first thing.
Polling shows both sides of the aisle support reining in Big Tech
All the really cheap hosts have PHP installed for you.

Not saying they are good, but someone starting out wouldn’t ever start installing things like that.
If you use something else as a source of truth, for example generate your definitions from protobuf or openapi spec, why would it get desynchronised?

I’ve done a couple of openapi-based systems recently and it’s a pretty good experience. I can generate server and client stubs next to models in various languages.
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"Hu-ho"

Rolls 1d100 on the Plasma Critical hit table.

"you Large or Superlarge?"

"nope"

Rolls 66.

Give me your sheet.
3.0 has been in the works for years but doesn't look like it will ever see the light of day.
When Haircuts Were Illegal
OK I'll answer you, but I want you to introspect on your bet. What if you're 100% wrong? What would it mean about your priors? Think about that before continuing, if you're capable. Really stop and think about this...

...

...

...

Alright welcome back. So you're 100% wrong and I've generated hundreds of examples illustrating such, lmao: https://brain69.substack.com/
People who “really understand PowerBI and actually use it to it's full potential” are, on top of other skills, talented programmers proficient in a niche functional language, so it's not really surprising that they can charge every bit as much as talented programmers.

(Of course, not sure what this says about “no code” platforms except that the label is usually a lie.)
To improve user experience, regulate online advertising.

Widespread use of ad blockers hints at what users actually want. (Not what developers say they want.)

I get the most from the web by using a text-only browser that does not run Javascript. Page retrieval is fast and generally consistent in speed.
Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs (2011)
This project is really interesting!
I have thought of the same issue too.
Looking forward for the updates.
I disagree on the crystal dice. I don't think I would be happy if a game design chose to use them, but at least the idea is cool, because who doesn't love barrels? They're historical! They're fantasy! They're still used today!

Beer? Or gunpowder? Or maybe even a hiding place!
On the backend, I use Python and C, however rather than use yet another underpowered slow tempting language I opted to use JavaScript for the front end views.

We deliver the HTML to the client, hydrate, and everything works seamlessly.

Since the static and dynamic views are built from the same code, we never have to worry about any disjunction where they fall out of sync.

Also hot reloading a live JS view is a lot faster than restarting the Django server, and refreshing the page.

It’s not that the team doesn’t want to learn Mako or Jinja or another language (heck one of our members designed their own language for fun) but it’s simpler and better to use JS.

If it was another project maybe the trade offs would work out differently though.
It's really interesting. Reading the comments look like the primary reason to not maintaining friendship is mobility. I always suspected that humans are not well adjusted to that, think about what was a terrible punish back in time, exile.

Exile meant loosing your friends and family network and I think we experience a mild form on this in current times (not nearly as bad)

I'd never made strong bounds at work, my friends are the same as I grew up but I'm still living in my hometown (except for brief periods of working outside) and a lot of them are also here, so it's easy to maintain that friendship.
This is interesting for a first comment. Aren’t we all calm in our posting nothing?

Or is this a preemptive assumption of non-calm that you want to help get back to calm?
This should of course be kept, but remember to be kind - the user who has proposed the deletion appears to be a school child. Their account is young, they've apparently applied to be an admin, while creating a lot of noise. They're still getting the hang of things.
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Both our front and back ends are coded in TypeScript. We believe in end-to-end testing and have therefore used Playwright to handle an automated E2E test script which runs before deployments.

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Wanting to use same tools for backend and frontend is one of the reasons.

IMO, there's only one gain to SSR and that's the one you can instantly feel when using the app - it's that the page load seems faster. That's it. Added benefit is that your app/site can be indexed by search engines since there's no XHR going on that has to fetch additional data for that first request.

Using the argument that dev does not have to learn something else in the technology world - I never liked that reasoning. We, developers, use tools. Languages are tools. I, and many that I worked with, learn multiple langues over the time, whether they want to or not. I don't know a developer that doesn't know, at least, how to use CSS next to using JavaScript. That's simply what our area of work requires. If one refuses, doesn't want to or can't learn an additional tool - well, is that a developer or code plumber?
What's so special about Safari/537.36? The number doesn't appear to have any real meaning as it doesn't change.
Rendering doesn't have to mean generating bitmap pixels. In any case, the pixels you generate would get compressed before going over the wire. The HTML document can be viewed as an especially convoluted vector representation of the scene (in this case, a tree) that compresses things like text very efficiently.

RDP does stuff like this to more efficiently transmit window contents over the wire, AFAIK - they're not just sending bitmaps.