skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't alt.barney.die.die.die.die have more dies? I don't remember exactly

Usenet was a cost to ISPs unfortunately. But, it wasn't centrally controlled or moderated either. It also was minimally technical to use, which served as a good filter.

But I guess reddit's subreddits may be the best alternative with viewership and specific groups/areas.

You know... it should be possible with tagging to take something like twitter reddit, and generate "views" that are groups. Maybe make some spec with three letters, maybe R and an S, and heck another S for the hell of it.

Balkanization and content gardens/API walls block integration of like minded content.
Google lives and does by its distributed build system. Most devs don’t even have exactly have code on their local workstation either—it comes via remotely mounting a file system.

But 99.9% of the builds happen remotely. So local vs remote code just isn’t that relevant.

It is also true that Google spends millions and millions on its dev environment every year, so this isn’t your average “no code on laptops” situation.
Found an interesting one: https://www.zdnet.com/article/another-real-world-example-of-...

Also, a favorite: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...
Discussion on Colorless Async
Then do the organizing and rewrite befor you submit the comment or include your updated thoughts in a way that marks them as new and leaves the original content.

I often add an edit immediately after I post, but unless it is fixing a typo, I always mark the edits.
Show HN: Entitlements – GitHub's modular IAM system
This is a reflection of a poor commenting system. I would prefer for every online commenting system, including HN's, to allow one to see the version history of a comment. As things stand right now, commenting systems are biased in favor of revisionists.
Wait, you're complaining that earthboundkid is sucking the fun out of an Isaac Asimov story by dissecting the ideas held within it? I think you may find you have accidentally arrived at the wrong party.
TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are two different things. Secure Boot has been enforced by default for the better part of a decade now with the major consumer Linux distros supporting it, and can be disabled in the BIOS setup.

SecureBoot prevents a very dangerous set of persistent rootkits that are completely invisible to the OS, not sure why tech savvy folks are against it for the vast majority of computer users, even Linux ones. Many UEFI setups allow you to add your own keys to the EFI and self-sign.

>Linux always boots perfectly fine with TPM hardware support disabled, even when there actually is such a chip built in

That would mean Linux is less secure in that scenario since the TPM is used to secure store things like hard drive encryption keys.
Every time this comes up, lots of people start with the assumption that coding problems have a large amount of false negatives.

Because of this perceived "truth", I had the same worry when we started to implement a coding problem. Rather than guess, we decided to measure it: for the first six months, we used a wide filter (50% pass rate, actually like 65-80% of people who didn't cheat).

What we found was that there were zero candidates in the bottom 66% who passed the rest of the interviews. The plagiarism detector also had no false positives (based on manual review). So at least on this sample, we found that we could screen out about 80% of applicants without having _any_ false negatives.

I'm sure there are some bad employers misusing coding tests, just like with any tool, but I have to imagine many others have done similar experiments and found their tests to be effective.
There is a utility called InControl [1] that will manipulate some registry keys for you to pin your machine to a specific major version and feature update release. In other words, it can prevent automatic upgrades to a future Windows version.

[1] https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm
Surely a Dropbox upload wasn‘t the only version you had. Couldn‘t you restore easily?
The top 15 schools according to the report are UVa, Yale, CMU, MIT, UCLA, UPenn, Rice, Caltech, UCSD, Swarthmore, UC Boulder, Columbia, Stanford, USC, and UIUC.
I'm tiring of this thread.

I never asked for or requested input on how we deploy code/manage our servers. I was asking questions about an IDE vs vscode and gave 1 example of trying to do the same thing in both of them. Had I known so many people would come out of the woodwork to tell me I'm doing it wrong without any idea of how our stack works I wouldn't have mentioned it.

I have no aversion to running shell commands and you are being disingenuous by saying that. I have a problem with manually doing a step that I can automate. I write and run shell scripts all the time for one-off process but seeing the code I've actively writing in an environment that can run it is not one of those cases. In fact, anyone doing that manually is just being silly or obstinate. If you aren't automating something that you do 100's+ times a day then I question your skills.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/display-zoom-missing-wi...
Nightfall was also a 13,000 word short story, which was turned into a novella. Many, including me, consider it much tighter. That looks to be about 3-4x the length of The Last Question, though, so I think you're still well justified.
Ask HN: How do I choose? Amazon vs. Late Stage Startup
Alright, so this is piggybacking a bit off a recent discussion about friction at BigCo. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669338

But I have a situation I would like to hear more opinions on because I honestly have no idea what to do.

A little context about me:
- I am in my mid 20s, with no dependents.
- I have only done software consulting as full-time employment. So this would be my first in-house software engineer position.
- I have been contracting with Amazon for the past year.

Coming up in the next 2 weeks, I have a big decision on whether I should accept an offer from Amazon or Small Co (300 employees, 10+ years). The Amazon compensation would be around 20-30k higher per year but I am also really excited by the product that Small Co. is out to build and having worked on the Amazon team for a year I know that the work is un-fulfilling but easy.

Ultimately here is my question: Are the things I learn while building out a brand new product at Small Co worth more long term in my career than the compensation and brand name provided by Big Tech Co?

Additionally, I was told I only passed the interview because I had worked for the team and done well but was a sub-par interviewee. Should I take the barrier to entry into consideration here?

EDIT: For a little more context on Small Co, I would be on a small team (<8 engineers) spinning up a brand new product and not working on their main product.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to respond!
The point is that people in their free time, can break into systems that cost millions in design to keep those people out.

For me, the homebrew community is the reason why I have a career in technology in the first place. Breaking into things you're not supposed to is fun, and teaches a lot of practical knowledge.
Yes this works for me.

Even dumping my thoughts into a note-taking app(I use Roam) helps me a lot.
Maybe, but this needs to be solved for each language/platform. Anyway, I didn't say it wouldn't work, I said it wouldn't work soon.
That's pretty much it, but I would add that since medicine in the American sphere of influence is a cornered market the goal is always to deny care, so the patients are more desperate and pay higher prices. Endgame is a billionaire paying his whole billion-dollar fortune for a loaf of bread because he's starving. First you have to corner the market, then deny food, then eventually yes, eventually he will in fact pay a billion dollars for a loaf of bread, I fucking guarantee it.
>Your xps have 100gbs ram bandwidth?

No but at least the ram is not soldered onto the board and can be upgraded easily.

>10 hours battery life?

maybe 6 hours but i never used it without a charger, so not an issue. also the battery is user replaceable.

>Superb handling of fractional ui scaling?

Windows has better UI scaling. I can scale the UI or fonts alone up to 200% in 10% increments. I have visual problem so i can tell you without a shadow of a doubt macos is waaaaay more limited. you have like 4 scaling options only.

couple this with the complete lack of contrast or affordance in the latest flatsh*t FisherPriceOS and its a disaster.

>Perfect trackpad?

I use a mouse. trackpad is good enough, no issues. it does have a 4k touch screen. perfect is a subjective thing.

>Single cable charger? (Maybe) no(t)

Yes it does

>Unix?

Can run a VM of any linux distro, dual boot any intel compatible linux distro or windows subsystem for linux. One of the benefits of having more than 8gb of ram and 256gb ssd ;)

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all this plus 1tb SSD 16gb of ram, dedicated gpu, 4k display

also you need an apple account to install apps from the appstore, most apps get deprecated every 5 years because apple needs to sell new hardware, complete lack respect for backwards compat, where i can run pretty much any windows app from the last 20 years and sometimes more.
Serving a static css or js is fractions of a ms in cpu time though, generating a dynamic page is 10’s-100’s of ms
Yes. Nextcloud has its own upgrade tool. This is what happens:

1. You get a mail from your installation about the new version. Also desktop and mobile apps notify you.

2. You go to your "Settings -> Overview" click a button, enter your password. Upgrade starts.

3. Wait some.

4. "Disable maintenance mode and continue upgrade" button appears. Click it.

5. You're greeted with a "Start upgrade" button. Click it.

6. Wait some.

7. Page refreshes and you continue where you left.

No terminal, no commands, nothing.

I sometimes do it in the middle of the day. Nobody ever said, "Hey, uh, Nextcloud down?" yet.

Installation of the client is equally easy. You just need a URL addition to the username and password. The sync client is very competent too.

Our installation is facing outside and people are sharing public links and all. Not every member of the team is a sysadmin either.
I understand your gripe but think of it like this: manufactures like apple make locked down devices which are now able to be unlocked. This reduces e-waste while showing manufactures that we want more freedom and will do as we please with OUR hardware.
Study confirms the relationship between proline present in diet and depression
Some lisps are good for writing forum services where you can have discussions about using lisp to write lisps
How do you never notice the sync app? I stopped using Dropbox because I got sick of the client (on Windows) constantly blaring about new features and corporate sharing tools.
Especially when we all know that some 90% of windows 11 is really windows 10, 7, XP, etc... underneath.
You'd be amazed that folks even today misunderstand it to be a 'backup' instead of a sync service.
Just give me money so I can spend it how I want to, free perks at work aren't actually free
The so called "end game" is already here on mobile/tablets with iOS and most Android devices. And also Chromebooks. I have a Chromebook that got bricked because the TPM malfunctioned and there's no way to repair it without replacing the mainboard. Yet all these devices are credited with being more secure devices compared to PCs.
IMO, porn addiction is a culture-bound syndrome that only occurs among the devoutly religious.

My wife and I sometimes watch porn or read smut together; it allows us to imagine that we're watching other couples, being watched, or participating in group sex without actually involving other people. We like the fantasy, but we're not comfortable making it a reality. Watching porn made by feminists like Erika Lust or sharing lewd stories posted on Literotica has improved our sex life together.

But we're not Christians. It's mainly Christians pushing the "porn is bad" narrative, and they have nothing but pseudoscience to back their claims.
I never thought of usenet as tech focused. There were many areas that were non-tech topics. Sure there was comp.sys., but all the alt. boards and others. Web forums were kind of the spirtual successor, and many of them have subject subforums, but within that most web forums segregate discussion by thread. I find that much more useful since usenet felt like a mailing list of post after post after post. Threads allow me to ignore discussion that aren't relevant to me.

I haven't migrated from web foums to reddit or facebook groups though I'm sure there is much information in those places. I prefer that independent web forums introduce some friction to participating. You have to create an account, and some forums have limits for new members until they reach a certain post count. While the friction is small that does seem to discourage bad behavior a little.

I have easily found forums for subjects I'm interested in, but none of them are tech, so I don't know whether you'll find web forums on current tech subjects.
Everyone Wants to Work for Big, Boring Companies Again
I live in Argentina, anything in the US is at least 150ms away.
It's not your job to fix it. Keep your head down, get your work done to the best of your ability, be successful.
To be fair, they didn't say it was the only copy they had.
Previous submission (as linked in tfa) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 (Feb 2021, 699 comments, 3883 points)
This is only half true. There were sued for this, but you can sue anyone for anything so that hardly matters.

The assertion you are making has not been proven, and the link in your article backs this up. Quite the opposite. Your claim is false.
Ask HN: Please share opinions on coding post “singularity” event
Dear Reader,

recently I've been thinking about how automation influences our daily lives. In contrast to people working mundane or dangerous jobs being replaced by the machines is the ever growing demand for software developers in the world. This gives the impression software development is the high paying future proof career. Is it though? What are we really as software developers and why should we think we will not be the first ones to be deprecated by automation/ai in coming years...

assumptions:

1. a lot of software development jobs consist of translating business requirements to code, as opposed to smaller subset of jobs where computer science or other research is done

2. new code abstraction layers are consistently piled on top of how we communicate with the machines asm->c->python->js->frameworks->no-code

3. translation is a task that can be performed by AI achievable today, google translate, GPT-3..4..x...

I was wondering what is your opinion on life of software developers after some sort of "singularity" event, where requirements defined by humans can be translated to machine executable code for most business use cases.

Is this level of AI achievable in our life time, if so how close are we to this kind of event?

Maybe you have already seen smart/ai code translation employed at your work, could you share your opinion on how well this works?

Should I bail while I can and learn how to cut hair or make sausages?
Do they? eg. Once they identify an undesirable topic would they limit their censorship of it to just a single year? Do blocking orders there come with explicit legal recourse for users who believe they are affected inappropriately to petition an impartial court for exclusion (and potentially collect damages from the party that blocked their IP)? Actual questions, I'm genuinely interested.
I’m sure there are a few open source developers who use brew or Xcode directly, but most Mac builds happen in a distributed build system wired up to use remote macs. Yes, via Xcode. Not on local machines.
Indeed there's no reason that Cuban won't, like Uber, wake up one day and 5X prices - or bring in the recently-released Pharma Bro Shkrelli.

Good will and brand alone isn't sufficient to build a medical system on.
Maybe check out Mint - https://mint-lang.com/

This is an effort that takes best ideas from Elm. AFAIK, the creator was one of the high profile community members (or atleast a prolific Elm user).

I'm not sure how this language will pan out. There are too much options for UI development right now. Also, last when I checked, you have to buy in on this framework/lang completely and you had no option of plugging this in an existing project.

Still, I think Elm users may find this interesting.
This is the reason I have three copies of important files on three separate services. It’s still more convenient than hosting my own.
The solution is to study bachelors degree at western university first.

A lot of universities provide a flexible schedule and if they are so bright, they can finish much faster.

Also, Masters degrees in the US are very different compared to Masters degrees in Europe and other countries. So getting Masters from their home university may not help at all.
Last I checked, the app would only continue to function for a week or some limited time. A work-around was to repeatedly redeploy it. Is this still necessary?
can't tell if serious or not - you can get a 2-bay Synology for less than that
I'm going through job interviews now (not with Amazon, but others). The whole thing feels like well-rehearsed regurgitation. Well, and a smidge of acting, obviously, because you don't want it to come off as well-rehearsed. But they know exactly what they want to hear and you're competing with other candidates who see the same writing on the wall and are doing their own rehearsals.

I thought it was just the leetcode, but it's the behavioral questions and system design exercises, too.

Eh, I'm coming across as cynical. I'll be fine--I just wish we (as an industry) had a better system.
why should an attempted crime go unpunished?
Modern Emacs: Redux
Can I take a moment to recommend 'OwnCloud'? ( https://owncloud.com )

I may be out of the loop, but my experience with it has been great. It's a (mostly?) open-source, self-hosted DropBox(ish) clone - with a great UI, web browser support as well as native MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS apps. (I figure there's probably some sort of Linux client as well? I'd have no idea.)

I'm shocked that Adult Swim isn't using something like this internally to work around this very issue. I'm sure they send copyrighted clips of shit to each other all the time for reference material. They've never run into this issue before? Even once?

Lesson learned - depend as little as possible on services you can extremely easy replicate on your own. When my free DropBox storage ran out years ago, I installed OwnCloud and have never even thought about cloud storage since. It 'just works'.
I remember this from a Planetarium laser light show where this was narrated and there were cool projected abstract visuals. Must have been in the 70’s. That’s entertainment!
Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction (2016)
Wasn't there famously the story of the guy who wrote a package manager (brew?) that become massively popular and was widely used at google, and yet google rejected him for a job because he couldn't invert a binary tree or something?

Don't know all the details so I could be missing something crucial, but if not it'd seem that reputation isn't enough
Everyone else in the company went along with it
Don't those lisps tend to get written in lisp?
Audible: I listen to 2-3 books a month while exercising, cleaning, eating, etc. Often ones I've already listened to. Almost exclusively biographies and other historical non-fiction. My main frustration is that there are so many great books not available on Audible. But there is a lot of good stuff.

Podcasts: People like Sean Carroll, Dan Carlin, and Sam Harris are regularly having amazing public conversations and interviewing amazing people. There's also some funny podcasts like Conan O'Briens or David Spade/Dana Carvey's.

I find listening to good content more exciting, fulfilling, and relaxing than any other form of brain stimulation.
What a childish approach to research.
Are you looking at the right place?

I clicked on the medication's link (just for lookup), and it took me to a page which listed Manufacturing, 15% Markup, Pharmacy Labor and in a circled blue box: "* additional cost at checkout Shipping $5.00".
> BitLocker by Microsoft although...

A further reason to avoid BitLocker is that it is incredibly easy to give Microsoft the decryption keys to your data if you're not extremely careful. I think the default setting was (and still is?) that Microsoft gets the ability to decrypt your data. I don't understand why anyone would think that is desirable.
Diversity messages focused on benefits for the bottom line may backfire
Serious question, since this is being done by a US company: is high-end engineering like this done in metric - as surely all the science is done in metric - or is the machinery built in customary units?

I wonder the same about SpaceX and the other rocket companies… does US manufacturing mean you really have no choice but to operate in obsolete units, or are these things so “custom” that they get to be done in metric anyway?
Furthermore, even adding little icons to hint as to what the domain might be used for. I think it's a cool little idea.
Crayta – Collaborative game creation platform built on Unreal Engine 4
I'm a big fan of Oak[1][2] since it is free, but unfortunately it is iOS only. Being able to have on-demand guided breathing and meditation exercises without having a monthly cost make it good enough™ for me

1: https://www.oakmeditation.com/
2: https://www.oakmeditation.com/privacy-policy
I have i7-8700K but I'm using the legacy mode, meaning if I'd want to install Win11 I would have to format the entire computer, which for obvious reasons I'm unwilling to do.

I think I'll probably be using Win10 for as long as I can and then switch to Linux. My laptops already run Linux (Debian :P) so I'm quite used to it.

It still feels dumb not being able to just upgrade my computer to Win11... I'm running GTX 1080, CPU mentioned above, 16 GB of RAM... There really isn't any reason why I shouldn't be allowed to upgrade in such a way that I can keep all of my files...

I'm guessing that Win10 will probably be sunset in about 5-10 years so I'm actually quite excited to see how far will Linux get by then!
There's something to be said for a guilt-free indulgence.