skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a small child in Essen, my mother lived through the bombing nights of 44/45 and the also harsh post-war period. The trauma that people close to her can suddenly disappear (e.g. suicide, abandonment, sometimes result of canibalism) still shapes her behavior today.
After using some antibiotics due to an infection I suddenly developed milk allergy. So I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people who believe are lactose intolerant (a genetic trait) are actually just lacking some gut bacteria, and this isn’t well studied yet.
I went from disliking Edge, to liking it, and then slowly disliking it again as they added bloat to it.

What turned me off from it was when I lost a year's worth of (unimportant) bookmarks and history. One day I opened it up and it decided to kindly sign me in automatically (probably detected I was signed into an MS site in-browser), and it wanted to automatically sync all my history, auto-fill info and passwords to Microsoft's sync servers. I immediately disconnected my account to stop this, and then it deleted my Edge profile afterwards as a further courtesy.

I understand that these two behaviors are probably Features, but I don't like the feeling of losing control of my software. And now these features like MSFT Rewards, coupon services, credit card services, and the "Bing Bar" (or whatever you call it) are just too much for me. Not to mention every PC I use Edge on tends to assault my eyes with political propaganda since Edge's New Tab page defaults to biased news outlets.
I'm a random dude with family and kids.

Spotify, Netflix, Disney, prime, Adobe, jetide, reface (occasionally) toon faces (occasionally), peak,Duolingo. These are the ones I'm consciously aware of.

Various educational services from Monthly to coursera to music ones such as pianote and ultimate guitar and songsterr. Previously stuff like code academy or oreilly etc. YouTube subscription. Half a dozen patron accounts I support (I am well-off enough, and as ex-programmer and ex-photographer sufficiently of content-producing/livelihood mentality , to have the luxury and intent to support the content I consume).

Then there are the ones I only notice when I really think about it or look at yearly transactions - Microsoft office, Google drive, apple Icloud, backup (originally sync.com then back laze and now I Backup or something). 1password. Sometimes nzbmatrix and whatnot. Apple arcade. Geforce now. And it keeps going.

This empathically does not include traditional subscriptions. My father in law lives with us and I am embarrassed at size of our cable bill as that's what he watches all day long.
Related series from a decade ago:

https://billwadge.com/2011/04/27/lucid-the-dataflow-language...

https://billwadge.com/2011/12/06/lucid-into-the-abyss/

https://billwadge.com/2012/03/31/lucid-eduction/

https://billwadge.com/2012/04/15/lucid-retirement-plan/

Also, re "yes, that David May, then a grad student": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(computer_scientist)

p.s. Bill, if you see this, your wordpress links in the current post all redirect to a login page.
What do you use for backups? That's another cost on top.
War stopped Hitler's germany. That's a solution.
> that doesn’t mean you necessarily have to go toe to toe with the biggest offers

Most startups insist that their world changing idea can be built only by engineers from MIT or Stanford. That is where the whining on both sides come from.
When your wrists are bent there's less room for internal movement.

The same site has some illustrations showing how the think keyboard trays should be oriented, and they have straight wrists: https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/AHTutorials/typingposture.htm.... (I don't like the page that much, since it doesn't show what I think is the best option: a flat keyboard with elbows at 90 and wrists straight, which you can achieve either with a sufficiently low desk, which I do, or a flat keyboard tray under a higher desk.)
Yea you’re right. Looks like they removed the ability of extensions to do that back in 2017. Sad :(
Have you tried Brave browser for Android? Its ad-blocking works extremely well for me.
I was definitely remembering events that happened in the mid-90s as 20 years ago. So, according to the CPI, 1995->2002 (27 years ago, good god) $0.05 -> $0.09

That $0.04 doesn't sound like much, but say you were collecting enough cans to make $50/day in 1995 money (560 cans) - now you're making only $28 a day. That's the difference between having a home and being homeless.

It's also the difference between "worth saving up and taking a trip to the return center" and "meh, chuck em". Though at least the latter helps people trying to collect more than 500 cans a day.
I barely stand still for more than a few minutes when using a standing desk. Especially on long calls, I will move about far more than when sitting. Though after reading this, I’m asking myself should I be sitting more?
rust and cargo are a command line interface. That is, a terminal api that will be used in countless scripts. Google vs Oracle [0] was a fight over whether an api could be copyrighted. Maybe, maybe not, but re-implementing it could be considered fair use according to the supreme court. Now, apparently some want to test whether it can instead be trademarked. I think that's very unfortunate. The freedom to make drop-in-replacements is worth defending.

This goes way beyond the Iceweasel situation.

[0] https://bit.ly/3RH3zdn (Link goes to, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_.... but HN strips the trailing dot).
Bundling though doesn't cause people to decide after a couple hours of gameplay that they want to continue playing but with smoother/higher res/etc graphics.

Which is what drove my upgrades, I liked the games in question, and saw how they ran on other peoples hardware enough to want that experience for myself.

(although in the case of the 1080 I also had a monitor setup that didn't work well with the graphics card I was using at the time, so it was that as much as witcher which drove the upgrade).

Instead of bundling, the game companies would be better served by picking some gotta-have-it title and giving the first couple levels away as a trial/etc, and making sure that there was big jump in perf moving to the latest card and then bundling the license with the card. That way people were hooked and willing to pay for the experience. I generally avoid bundled card deals because the games don't interest me.
Not cyberpunk,but I can't define why.
> Now, why can't someone just come up with a great tooling system for a "dreaded" language, put it out there, and everyone start using that when they see it's better?

I think the first two steps sometimes happen, but the last one is where things get stuck. Often times a better experience means incompatibility with the previous solutions, so adoption happens slowly if at all. Then eventually yet another incompatible solution comes out, and things fragment.
I'm suprised that Gitcoin was not mentioned, they have dealt with sybil attacks and have processes to try and detect it.
So they don't understand email, phones or text messaging where people have been doing what they're doing now for years? I have some family that are like your, I shutdown my Facebook profile, and now I just call them on the phone now and we actually communicate more frequently and have better conversations.
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I think you are projecting quite a lot here
The May 1938 elections were absolutely free. Where did you get that they weren't free?

> And even there, women voted less for SdP than the overall German community did.

80% minimum is "less than overall German community"?

> That a German minority would be largely in favor joining Germany is propably not a big surprise, is it?

"Of course they voted for Nazis" is the exact opposite of "but they didn't vote for Nazis".

> And as said, even then women voted less for the SdP. So please stop posting unsubstantiated claims.

You yourself admit it's not unsubstantiated.
They believe they will need to protect America from imaginary election fraud, imported brown people, qanon conspiracy theories. The motivation for violence is incredibly important.
Italians in general. Looking like people who are sold broken stuff and spoiled food and going "acceptance of what life gives you" about it: normally, one complains.

It is as if the concept of duly respect of limits was gone societally.

You know, there is this English word, 'frown', which comes from French and Gaulish: it means to make a monstrous expression through "making big nostrils" - 'frogne', the nostrils of an animal. If only the rich Italian language had a word for _unduly passivity_, maybe something like "marked by having one's nostrils made monstrously enlarged, animal-like"...
Yeah, it's definitely possible to make tooling "investments" that never amortize, but I've also seen an awful lot of programmer-minutes become programmer-days when tooling degraded to the point of printf/run/printf/run/printf/run/bisect/repeat.
How much was the CEO getting paid?
I used to go through the effort of manually stripping tracking params out of my URLs until the browsers integrated it.

I will go through this effort until browsers integrate it, or until there is a secondary service that's easily runnable. This would just be pi-hole but for the internet instead of your local network.
Okay, but what makes you think that interventions like "forcing manufacturers to make electronics have replaceable batteries" are easier to implement than other interventions like "invest in renewable energy projects"? Taking the approach of jumping at every possible intervention that is vaguely relevant (eg. today it's batteries in electronics because of this thread, tomorrow it's banning single use plastics because of some thread about recycling being a lie) seems worse because there won't ever be enough political will/support to get any single project implemented.
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How do you distinguish "deliberately monoethnic" from "apartheid"

OR

When is monoethnic team building praiseworthy?

There's two options for you. I hope the form of my rebuttal is acceptable.
The simplicity of this is awesome. I've vaguely wanted to start blogging for many years, but suffered from analysis paralysis on where/how to get started. This was so simple -- took me less than 2 minutes to get set up and start writing. Thanks for making this!
For reference, I'm 60, nearly 61, my mother is 90, nearly 91, and we are a long-lived family. I phone my mother three times a week.

For the rest, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32131180
WW2 without nukes already made the entire European continent destitute. Thanks to Hitler the US could take over as a superpower.
The vast majority of media is lowest-common-denominator trash, netflix isn't special in that regard. I dunno. I watch tv to shut off my brain, or more likely put it on in the background while doing something more productive. Lots of people have complicated enough day jobs, let's not begrudge their low-power regeneration state.
I've been a full-time developer since about 1993. I switched to 100% standing at work in 2014 sort of on a whim. Before that, I had a significant episode of back pain (enough to leave me unable to function normally) about once a year. Since then, never once.

I'm sure it's complicated and I know correlation is not causality. But my personal belief is that standing is a huge benefit for my back's health as a programmer.
NY is insane. It's about taxes. The City is much worse than the 'burbs (about $12/pack, out here).

If I go down to MD or VA, they are about $5 less.
Slavery pre-dates capitalism. Slavery is more a product of feudalism. In fact, it was the capitalist successes of the northern states in the US that drove the defeat of the southern slave states.
Yeah most things involve tradeoffs.
Factually correct, but as head of state her direct impact on policy was minor - I'm not aware of her dismissing governments of whose policies she disapproved, for example. Accepting the fruits of imperialistic tyranny is morally culpable, but it's also a systemic problem, distinctly different from the active application of executive power.
People can develop what they want and people can pay for what they want. I'm with you there. But the developers' hard work doesn't necessarily create value. I may work hard on composing a song, but that doesn't mean it's any good.

To me, there are better alternatives than paying monthly for these kinds of services.
There is no reason to accept your casual dismissal of polling or specific polls without proof or even argument of any sort based on the fact that you said so. You put too much stock in your gut. So much so that you are able to casually dismiss actual facts because they don't agree with your gut.
I've been an FF user and developer of many frontends for years and the amount of times I run into serious differences between browsers is somewhere near zero.
BMW sells heated seat subscriptions to car owners, starting with $18 a month.
How Can a 10 Second Video Take All Day?
Mmm... Firefox left me cold. But I have to admit I am increasingly suspicious of Chrome. My offspring just installed the latest version of Opera after a year or two with Brave.

So... not sure Firefox works for me (though... dang... it's JavaScript implementation has come a long way) but solidly support the idea of finding something other than Chrome.

Oh. Also. Most of my news browsing I now do with lynx in a terminal window. I see no ads, autostart videos or kruft. And HN doesn't look too bad in Lynx.
Mozilla may be a non-profit but there’s a saying: “non profit doesn’t mean they don’t make money”.

It’s not too difficult to disable, but Firefox does push suggestions by default and has a revenue sharing agreement with Pocket.
GIMP most brutal competition is its UX designer
Wow I haven’t used cable in over ten years! I have a $30 per month Comcast internet subscription and I get all my stuff through there. I don’t pay for any streaming service except nebula.
Kids aren't idiots, they just had too little time to learn everything. I've had perspective drawing in art classes in elementary school and nobody had problems understanding it after 10 minute introduction.

Have you seen the willy coyote cartoon with a road painted on a rock? It uses perspective, and kids aged 7 understand what happens.
Which parts exactly did I get plain wrong?

I wrote the fundamentals are the same for all programming languages and frameworks. I didn’t write that “a solid grasp of the complete set of computer science fundamentals” is necessary for programming. I didn’t mention computer science at all. I was referring to the fundamentals of programming.

Reading and writing are fundamental skills required to learn and communicate. What one chooses to read or write follow from the fundamental skills. You don’t ask “How can I learn to read Harry Potter?” because learning to read anything comes first.
They ARE doing it, you just don't think it's effective. If you can do better, do it! If you can't, or don't want to, well, ... we reap what we sow. There's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
With go as an example, you know the saying “cgo isn’t go”? Well, you could use C, C++, Rust or anything else that compiles to wasm from any other language.

There have been a few people who say if wasm (WASI on the server) existed already, Docker wouldn’t need to exist. Docker runs a whole OS just to run your binary - imagine the benefits of Docker but just running your binary.

It’s all early days so I am slightly waving my hands, but a lot of this works now. Check out _wasmtime_.
Aside stopping the use of Facebook, which of course is the best solution but not doable for many, the AdNauseam (.io, browser extension) approach to pollute their tracking data might be inspirational.
The gist is: can't eliminate ad links? Then have an app "click" all of them randomly so that counters become irrelevant. So there is this link that identifies user X?, well then write an extension that distributes and "clicks" it around on say 1000 other machines in a p2p way so that it becomes meaningless.

I have no idea if it's doable in this FB context, but usually when links can't be anonymized, the next move is to make them produce irrelevant data by adding noise.
I’m not familiar with anyone in the ZTN space advocating for a need for VPNs. Do you have any examples you can share?

Google explicitly positions BeyondCorp as a replacement for VPN:

> BeyondCorp is a Zero Trust security framework modeled by Google that shifts access controls from the perimeter to individual devices and users. The end result allows employees to work securely from any location without the need for a traditional VPN.

https://beyondcorp.com/
Looks like WebRender has been enabled by default as of Firefox 92 (September 7, 2021) so that's great news! I think most of my performance problems were due to filters so I'm eager give it a try. I saw your comment on Bugzilla and will do that if I'm still experiencing issues after testing it. Thank you!
In rustdoc you actually can include arbitrary markdown files, unlike godoc.
The stock market would sound like this most of the time:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_noise
>>I have heard the shortened trope "Orwell was a socialist, even fought in the Spanish civil war, then became a vocal critique and disillusioned socialist"

I don't think the last part is true. ASAIK, Orwell remained a socialist all his life. I don't think he was disillusioned, because he wasn't a kool aid kind of guy at any point.

Orwell died young, before the cold war so he didn't really weigh in on that dialogue. The terms and cliches we tend to use came after he died.

In my opinion fascism courted, supported and leaned on capitalists, not really capitalism. The ideological view of capitalism (in the Rand/Hayek/Neoliberalism sense) was still new ATT.
Game engines are aware of the scripting languages embedded in them. Browsers are largely unaware of anything but Javascript.

On top of that a lot of DOM manipulation is smoke and mirrors. While the exposed DOM APIs may provide you with some object, internally it's likely to be a collection of weird things in a trench coat due to all the optimisations that browser engines are doing.

And no one in their right mind will give you raw access to the underlying C++ object for many reasons, security being number one. And 30 years of assumptions that browsers have about these objects being number two.
Thank you, that is a really good critique of container homes.

My idea was to do a 2x2 stacking, breach the center walls and reenforce them with iron. No need for insulation if you live where the cimate is tolerable year round. No matter what there will be a lot of new iron welded, I didn't know iron was considerably expensive. I think mixing wood with iron is the cause for all this, if not pure iron then brick makes more sense for an insulation layer than wood+foam. You might say the container is useless then, but it really isn't, it provides the frame/beams that hold everything together. With traditional houses you have to use wood at some point which is what I dislike.

But overall, the cost of houses is the biggest motivation. Land+construction if it can be done under $100k then why be forever in debt over a $500k (if you are lucky) house.
Less the snake oil of our times than a trendy fad from 10 years ago that managed to accumulate a few fanatics, and consequently get a few furniture businesses and research scientists funded who would supply steady press releases to a lazy media that tired of it after a few years.
Hacker's First Aid Kit: Firefox ESR with Raymond Gorhill's uBlock Origin.
The whole point is that I absolutely don't care who or what he is; everyone can learn from the C4 family, and if anything, it would be highly suited to someone teaching compilers.

Otherwise, you’re bound to annoy someone

I see the title has been changed now, but I was certainly annoyed when it was advertised here as a "complete" compiler.
Same here. Back to the 80s!
I was born in the mid 80s but I once heard that the economy of the 80s was basically “people talking to other people on the phone.”
>However, this failure lead me to the fortuitous discovery that by adding 36 hydroponic heads of lettuce, I am now going beyond outside CO2 levels

Comments like this are why I come to HN to discuss. I honestly want to try this now lol
(from last year)
One practice that's helped me is to always cancel immediately, which translates to only paying for one month. Ie. for spotify, netflix pay for the subscription, immediately jump through the hoops to cancel.

Forgetfulness turns into money savings, and as a bonus I get to review whether I am getting much out of it. Especially for tv like disney/netflix/apple tv, I often run though everything interesting and don't have much else to watch with them.

Also psychologically there's resistance to a boring to do that involves loss. I will put off "go to netflix and figure out how to cancel." So do that work when you are excited to see the new show.
Long ago, the CGI companies sent free discs with their demos. These packages cost between 10-20K but you could just submit a request and you'd get the software to play with (very very few limitations like export resolution but the whole software was usable).

They probably wanted us to get hooked too.
Which elections were free? The once in Germany, which the SdP didn't participate in definitely were not.

The communal ebelctions in Sudetenland of 1938? Kind of free, but people bot supporting the Nazi allied SdP were already harassed and presured to vote SdP.

That under these circumstances women voted less for Nazis then men is kind of note-worthy.

But since I do not expect you to argue in good faith or to provide some facts, I'll stop it here. The Anschluss and the Munich Agreement, along with the history of the Sudetenland, is too conolex a topic to discuss in such a manner.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/01/20/what-amaz...
No neck issues AFAIK, it's not like I stay in one position for too long.

The configuration I end up using the most is with the laptop sitting flat on the floor, one foot resting planted next to the laptop, chin resting on that leg's knee. That side's arm snakes under that knee toward the keys. The other leg is tucked in like cross-legged, other arm's elbow barely touching that leg's calf, straight to the keys. This setup puts my chest against the thigh of the upright leg with the chin on it. It's a super relaxed configuration, and I'll just alternate which knee is up vs. tucked in periodically.
Surely this is a tautology, "sharing" lowers "not having". Especially when the resource is not exlusive - like software.

It should be self-evident, like asking if free schooling improves education.

Althoguht we did have a debate a few months ago here, some people disagreed that building homes lowers homelessness
Please don’t say HN uses any form of Markdown. It’s its own thing entirely with absolutely no foundation in Markdown—the only points of any similarity between Markdown and HN comment formatting predate both by multiple decades. HN’s formatting gives you paragraph breaks (by blank lines), linkification (with no delimiter, unlike stock Markdown which requires angle brackets, to the surprise of many), monospaced blocks (by two space indentation), italics (with asterisk delimiter), backslash escaping for asterisks, and that’s all. Every element of this, or a very slight variant, has been common in lightweight markdown languages since before Markdown, and all but the backslash escaping and hyperlinks (which hadn’t been invented yet!) have been in conventional use in communication since well before the web (and match some typewriter conventions from before the invention of computers).

Markdown is not the only game in town. Yes, for now it’s the dominant lightweight markup language (more’s the pity—it’s a right mess, thoroughly unsound and inconsistent in a great many ways), but a lot of stuff exists beyond its horizons; it’s only an instance of LMLs, not the whole class.