skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the response!

> if I'd go to my office colleagues and tell them to run some commands in the shell, they'd think I'm mad.

Depends on the colleagues, potentially - I often feel like I underestimate what other people are capable of learning, and that the resulting conversations can seem unintentionally condescending as a result of that (i.e. not preparing and demonstrating what's possible for fear that someone may not understand).

> The user interface has to be super slick everywhere because an average user is very spoilt.

Yep, that makes sense. However, whether I'm an employee, a business owner, an investor, or a partner who wants to see a business succeed: if I learn that the company is spending on software when there are lower-cost alternatives available that are ignored largely due to look-and-feel concerns.. some cognitive dissonance may develop. Especially if the potential cost savings could be pooled with others towards resolving those issues.

(on a potentially more practical note: what I hear from you is that user experience frustration can lead to dissatisfaction with software; I'm not sure what the best routes forward there are, other than encouraging further feedback and finding ways to improve and promote product design in user-facing FOSS)
He practically bought it; it's unlikely an agency or third party to intervene / object; only thing to "save" him is stating he doesn't have the monwy/funding was pulled due to lack of information. Even then, I doubt he would avoid it.

Of course they can drag each other to the bottom until one gives up. I doubt Musk will and Twitter might have existential issues if it doesn't get bought with rumors related to their user base quality.
Popper was specifically referring to levels of intolerance that cause people to move from the world of discussion to the world of physical force.

That is, per Popper, tolerating people who will physically harm you as part of the discussion means a discussion cannot be meaningfully held at all.

But people really like to stretch this to whatever edge-case meaning of "intolerant" would be convenient to them at the time...
Microsoft was also clear with their intent when the policy changes were initially made 3 weeks prior to The Register article.
Communication Exhaustion and Being Alone
Ok no it’s really good when you’re there. Just stay away from new services and make sure the investor is paying the bill. Oh and bag all the certs for when the company goes down the shitter.
Childhood antibiotics as a risk factor for Crohn's disease: Cohort study
I almost never read the what's new tab. Ctrl+f4 that thing. Why do you "must constantly keep track" of these changes? No one has asked me about VSC features during an interview yet. And if they do, well, they're gonna see just how high my eyebrows can reach.

VSC is a fine piece of software but I have a number of youngish coworkers who preach and practice all kinds of flows with it. To me, it is a bit off-putting because they're very insistent of pulling other people into the... let's call it an eco system.
Interesting topic aside, thank you so much for linking to the lite version.
Some genetic modification does make plants pest resistant. For instance, Bt corn is pest resistant without the need of additional pesticides.
>We must scientifically prove the thing is safe to use, not have to prove it is unsafe to be removed.

Wait... so every restaurant has to show scientific proof that each of their ingredients are safe to use?

I'm pretty sure that is an impossible standard to meet.
Trademarks are for names. Copyright is what you're thinking of and it applies to a 'work' that you create like a program, source code, drawing, music, etc: https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/ So the person or people that wrote the code own the copyright to it and can control how it's licensed.
> We handle the hard stuff so you can focus on the UI.

That sounds very arrogant and diminishing to the UI folks doing the frontend work. Creating a proper UI is hard. Ask your backend engineers to create a good UI and you will see.
I didn't even take biology because I thought the physics/math end of the stack was the ultimate truth. I was not even wrong!
I have worked for a startup ISP almost 10 years ago. I was the first network engineer and I saw the ISP growing from scratch to more than 50k users and then collapse in few months for several terrible management choices.
I don't know how is in Canada, but in Italy you need a lot of regulamentatory works before start to install the first equipment.
Another point to consider if you want to scale up, is to have as much as processes as possible. Without workflows and procedures, the growing complexity will kill your ISP.

> What creative solutions have folks seen?

The idea that the ISP I worked for was simple: you are a very strong local reseller of a big ISP in a very limited area, but you don't have the flexibility in prices and services that you want. So "my ISP" will help you: we install a complete infrastructure in your area, you will pay us a fixed prices every month and we will manage the whole infrastructure on your behalf. As reseller, you have a portal to manage new orders and a support call center to solve the issues.
It worked for several years.
Feel free to drop me an email if you want more details, (my username) (at) gmail (dot) com
I have seen it. It's still uncommon.

Besides, how does it possibly help you (or anyone else) to get emotionally wounded by some random stranger on the Internet's insensitive comments? Most people older than their 20s have figured this out already and are living more productive lives.
FOSS store required immediately

how much does mircrosoft have to do with steam beyond having an app?
how could valve be made amenable to serviceing linux platforms in general, in addition to curating ported games?
i know these guys were MS at one time but the past tense may be a benevolent condition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation

What other candidates for FOSS "store" exist beyond repositories? I dont think github is in that pool anymore.

if valve provided a linux onboarding platform, in addition to games and repos, that just may have beneficial consequences for FOSS and valve
I’m not sure I fully agree with the headline’s assumption. Companies make out like a bandit on this when it comes to the fixed office space they no longer have to lease.

Anyways, these sorts of things take time to fully bake into the business model and create second and third order effects. What will really make the difference is if we have some data on companies that are (or are not) succeeding in a mostly or fully remote setting (and additionally whether companies that have aggressively pushed for remote developers in cheaper locales are pulling ahead)
Fascinating.

Sadly this still needs to be at super low temperature.

This family of superconductors brings us no closer to to room temperature superconductors which would change the world.
while i understand your sentiment, over the last few years java became a lot less oracle-centric. JavaEE moved to Eclipse Foundation, openjdk became a reliable open source alternative to the oracle version, a lot more companies are involved in the development process. yeah, oracle still provides a lot of manpower but it moves in an overall positive direction.
That image is not evidence it is one panel, especially since the image on the screen is photoshopped and not a picture of the live monitor.
Crypto-assets and decentralized finance through a financial stability lens
I get that, but that strangeness is what pushes you to learn.

Yes, exactly. This is analogous to travelling to another country and hoping to learn the local language by immersion. If you then meet people that speak your language you run the risk of only hanging out with your little expat group and never immersing yourself in the local culture. You can end up spending years there and never learning the language.
Music heals
I'm not sure there is such a fundamental difference. In biology the code is the DNA and RNA, whereas the hardware is the proteins. DNA and RNA are self-modifying and imperfectly transmitted, but those traits can also exist in computer code (to the extent that they aren't, it's because humans make sure of so, because they hate trying to understand dynamically changing things). The hardware of life is self-creating and self-repairing, but - again - this can also be easily simulated in computer hardware, to the extent that it isn't, it's because it's costly and there is no good reason for it.

Biology's difference from computers is in scope (organisms are whole factories who just happen to have computational abilities by necessity) and origin (organisms aren't designed, and this profoundly and significantly affects everything about them).
Which code editor does NOT have an online course on how to use it? Go ahead, type "IntelliJ course" or "VS Code tutorial" and see hundreds different videos.
I hate Java. Can I use Kotlin without touching it whatsoever?
I would like to learn a new typed language. C# was the first language I learned back in 2008. Since then I've been using a slew of languages, mainly Ruby and Elixir.

Can I use Kotlin today without knowing/caring about Java?
Revue, Twitter’s acquired newsletter service, down
Embrace the complexity and switch to a JetBrains IDE.
> I have quarter of century experience working on Linux including running it on all my laptops and desktops for 23 years.

> Over the years keeping it working started becoming what seems like a full time job

These two statements are not unrelated.
Why do you think it's mutual when Twitter is suing him for backing out?
I love it! Much like the "I type a URL into my browser and press enter. What happens?" tech interview question.
> - no home/end keys

> The ctl/option madness definitely tanked my productivity

I am forced to work on a Mac at my job. Buying a Mac-layout mechanical keyboard is a must. It has home/end and it has control in the right place (why on earth would apple put fn in the bottom left??).
Maybe one day we can skip plants and weedkillers by using artificial process to make food. Photosynthesis is not very efficient either. Less land for farms and more forests.
Also, buy Linux preinstalled and fully supported by the vendor. Saves so many headaches.
I've always been the opposite - not a big fan of having to turn my head much when I'm working.

At home I've got 2 x 27" 9:16 monitors, one in front and one to my right (total display width ~68 cm), then my little laptop on the left (~30 cm wide) - and that's about far left or right as I can be bothered to look.

At work I've got 1 x 27" 9:16 monitor in front, and 1 x 27" 16:9 monitor on my left. The left hand side of the desktop feels very, very far away!
>> Java, As far as I understand, is still very object-oriented and very clumsy.

How much modern Java have you read or written recently?

Modern Java supports functional programming and is not as clumsy as it used to be:

https://betterprogramming.pub/functional-programming-in-java...

Java also has better cross-platform support than C#.
Looks interesting. Here is what I would change:

- increase screen size to at least 15.5" because small screen is unusable for programming and for browsing modern websites with large font size and large pictures

- use IPS panel (can increase cost)

- make arrow keys full size (doesn't cost anything)

- add 7 keys for additional Cyrillic letters and 2 keys to switch between layouts (doesn't cost anything)

- add 3 USB ports and Ethernet (doesn't noticeably increase cost)

- increase RAM limit to 128 Gb (shouldn't cost anything, it is probably just a software limitation)

- use standard 3.5mm audio jacks

Using a better LCD panel can increase cost, so here is how this can be conpensated:

- use an older cheaper CPU. Newest CPUs usually have lower performance to cost ratio and therefore it doesn't make sense to buy them. Also why pay for 10 cores when most of the time you will be using 1 or 2?

- support cheaper HDD instead of SSD

- remove unnecessary speakers

- remove unnecessary keyboard backlight. Using laptop in darkness is bad for eyes anyway.

Also I am surprised that a modern i7 CPU that costs over $470 has just 12Mb cache. You can (probably) buy an old CPU with more cache for smaller price.
> Drinking glyphosate could be a much larger acute exposure so it’s perfectly reasonable to say it’s safe as normally used but not want to drink it.

It's a short video. But, you are commenting without even having watched it.

The executive said that glyphosate is so safe that it is safe to drink. When the interviewer then said that they have a glass of glyphosate and asked if the exec would like to drink it, the executive replied, "No. I'm not stupid." He said that twice.
Slipped under my radar.

How long was it?

Is there any post-mortem?

>Where'd you go?

Depends on how long it was out.

>What'd you find?

Now I find if you spend too much time away from the internet, you'll never keep up with what's happening in the real world.

Or something like that.
OpenSSH goes Post-Quantum, switches to qubit-busting crypto by default
It's nice to see large manufacturers break out of the 16:9 mold, although I think 4:3, 3:2, or 5:4 would be better for most users.

Unfortunately, LG is letting the supply chain dictate panel size for their product team, instead of the other way around. This is no doubt a byproduct of their decision to stop building their own panels in 2020.
http://displaywars.com/27,6-inch-d%7B16x18%7D-vs-27-inch-16x...

I love that site for comparing displays across aspect ratios.
Ask people who think that a pregnant woman is carrying around an unborn human if they agree that all the other laws that apply to humans and children should apply to these "unborn humans".
Yeah...no. I've been saying for a while that the current Windows kernel is not long for this world. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, though pablum like this Schlubstack article is no place to start.
About Mojeek; Open Source, Tor and Crawling
Please just read Practical Vim if you’re going to double down on using Vim. All of these tutorials are the minimal basics. Vim forces you to glue together lots of inefficient commands to manipulate text. I feel frustrated seeing Vim users tout how efficient their editor is when they haven’t learned all of Vim’s nasty bells and whistles you need to actually be efficient at manipulating text. (When you press colon, do you know how to edit the command in Vim mode? No? Read Practical Vim).
Even India has three gauges with local/intercity trains. Narrow gauge, which is mostly used for mountainous terrain (2% of the total Indian rail network), and meter gauge (3.5% of total network) which is being converted into broad gauge (5' 6").

It's interesting that the the new Marin train[1] is standard gauge, and the connector train in Pittsburg[2] too. Amtrak in the bay area is standard guage, as is Caltrain. Bart is coming to the south bay, but I wonder if more expansions wouldn't be better off going with standard gauge. Bart transfers aren't too bad.

[1] https://www.sonomamarintrain.org/

[2] https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/ecc
can't you just move your eyes
In some places it was and times, it was literally free. The government would give you the land and you would build a house using your own labor and materials on that land
Not sure how that helps porting e.g. systemd infested software to *BSD or illumos
Indeed. I changed my major from biology after class became an endless series of PowerPoint slides depicting protein chemical reaction sequences we had to memorize.
I know, but if the program is licensed with GPL somewhere, what is legally stopping another person from distributing it on the windows store or whatever (other than trademarks associated with the name, for example the "Ubuntu" trademark)?

If there is nothing legally stopping them from doing that, then how is Microsoft going to arbitrarily enforce these new rules?
>why give the fetus special rights

Because of the unique circumstances /temporary biological dependence.

Murder is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (dependence). The right of the fetus to life outweighs the right of the mother to not be inconvenienced.

I also support things like mandatory maternal leave, better access to healthcare, etc. I just don’t support the termination of otherwise-viable pregnancies for convenience, which is the VAST majority of cases.
Yes, except most people wind up looking at the leftmost third of the screen the vast majority of the time (see visual heat map research) which results in chronically bad posture with very wide screens.
If Amplify (the backend that's behind Amplify UI) would generate human readable terraform / high level CDK constructs, so you can prototype fast with Amplify, but then use infra-as-code for deploying, I would have trusted it much more for any production grade project. Also if you could replace Cognito with let's say Auth0 as the authentication layer, would also be amazing.
You missed the most important step:

"???"
This is an interesting development, to say the least. If they give him enough power, he can create havoc in Microsoft. Could be fun to watch.
That's the point, though. From the article, the urine of 80% of the people was laced with glyphosate. It's not about a single ingestion but about it building up in the body.
Just support QWERTY but allow the user to remap everything. Even among programmers, the share of people that use alt layouts is so small that is not worth your time.
It seems like a common misunderstanding because the reporting around this is so bad.

> Musk and Twitter agreed to a so-called reverse termination fee of $1 billion when the two sides reached a deal last month. Still, the breakup fee isn’t an option payment that allows Musk to bail without consequence.

> A reverse breakup fee paid from a buyer to a target applies when there is an outside reason a deal can’t close, such as regulatory intermediation or third-party financing concerns. A buyer can also walk if there’s fraud, assuming the discovery of incorrect information has a so-called “material adverse effect.” A market dip, like the current sell-off that has caused Twitter to lose more than $9 billion in market cap, wouldn’t count as a valid reason for Musk to cut loose — breakup fee or no breakup fee — according to a senior M&A lawyer familiar with the matter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk-awa...
Pretty much agree, was going to make a similar but shorter comment.

To me it feels like the opposite, Windows is the true Coke Cola just because some things work better and the vast majority of people use it like you suggest, Linux is some fresh Pepsi (to say, I know the other is more popular but I don't care and prefer its unique taste) and macOS is some ok discount cola, which is alright but nothing people should go proud of drinking.
If all the apple hardware including their gpu (maybe except particularly proprietary things like Touch ID / Secure Enclave) were supported well on Linux and power management we’re sufficiently figured out to not bea total disaster, would that be ok or is it unacceptable that the thing came with nonfree software or to risk apple’s future hardware being unsupportable?
Engagement signals are what drive ‘the algorithm’.

Bots that create fake engagement signals (fake clicks, fake media views, fake DM engagement, as well as fake replies and likes) can manipulate what content gets promoted onto real users’ feeds.

From a business point of view, the problem is that if people can manipulate and promote messages on Twitter by using fake engagement, they are not paying Twitter to promote tweets. As well, I guess, as undermining regular users’ confidence that the things that show up in ‘trending topics’ really are ‘trending’.

But bots posting propaganda - if they’re any good at it - might, weirdly be a good thing for Twitter’s numbers, because they create controversial posts that drive engagement into which Twitter can sell advertising.

Looking at the firehose tells you very little about any of that though. There could be a million bots who post lorem ipsum tweets at a rate of hundreds a second and they would all show up in the firehose, but if twitter’s algorithm means none of those tweets are ever shown to a human, does it matter?

Musk’s whole schtick with the bot numbers has just been a thorough demonstration that he has barely even thought about Twitter’s business or what a social network even is.
I've been using 43 inch 4k displays as monitors for 3 years now and don't think I could go back to anything smaller. Font size at native scaling is just right for me and there's plenty of real estate.
yeah, I think it was the first product of the "new Boeing" where everything was outsourced to lower cost subcontractors and none of the resulting parts fit together...
Given that we think of someone like John D. Rockefeller as a robber baron due in part to journalists like Ida Tarbell, it seems like the newspapers were being used to shape public opinion of people like Rockefeller rather than the other way around.
> Consider this question - look outside at a tree. Where did all the carbon in the tree come from?

I assume that you are referencing the famous 1983 interview with Feynman, in which he playfully says that "trees come out of the air!" For anyone who hasn't heard the interview, it's definitely worth a listen: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/09/25/161753383/t...
Vim is a text editor, not a code editor. IDEs are much more efficient for code edit.
No, you are conflating theory and practice, innovation entails bringing science and technology to public awareness and benefit. I don't need Wikipedia to know that China is brilliant at gain of function research for viruses, but can't say that I am grateful for the results. German BioNTech and American Moderna mRNA research that lets me go out without worrying about dying from said viruses is much more handy in my daily life. And if Huawei made a robot that washed my dishes and took out my garbage everyday, I would appreciate that too.
I wonder if part of why microseconds work for some companies is the hype helps justify the work to management.

> We need to convert to microservices.

Sounds like a cool shiny new approach enabling better scaling and organization.

> We need to refactor this mess.

Sounds like complaining, why is it a mess anyways?

These two things may essentially be doing the same thing, organizing/breaking up the code logically, one just might sound more appealing to management.
The Anti Cramer portfolio is not a sufficient contrarian approach, because the Cramer portfolio also underperforms similar to a random walk. Put another way, the opposite of a random walk is another random walk.
Robert Downey Jr Met musk to prepare for the role. His portrayal is definitely based on Musk, not the other way around.

Still helps Musk.
Wait a sec, your 'proof' of this is a series of links to your own HN posts making similar accusations? I'm not sure that's how that's supposed to work...
The contract includes a specific performance clause, so it's not as simple as a $1B break up fee.
A couple of very good computer forums that I depended on years ago were slowly destroyed by "long term users". A small group seemed to think that their long history and prolific posting made it their playground. Little by little it became less worth my time to check it out every day. This place is always worth a glance. Every day. On the best discussions you can sense that people only post if they feel they really have something to add.

I love what Dang refers to as HN's non-silowed nature. It is easy to find useful and fascinating discussions on any topic. When I have the time and energy, sometimes I dive in for a few hours. When I come up for air I'm tired but generally pleased with experience.

A common complaint here is that it ain't what it used to be. There may be a little more fluff now but when it's good - It's darn good.
I recommend checking out O'Neill's book The High Frontier where he lays out a plan for how to do this.

Keyword: regolith

Mars is at least 10x harder. The path to space settlement is in our own backyard.