skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Texinfo is that it predated HTML and is now thoroughly obsolescent. There is value in being able to generate a printed book, and to have other formats. But the generated Info format is completely eclipsed by HTML. It existed in a world where we weren't allowed to have proper figures or tables, and linking was very limited. A world like a traditional Emacs buffer. The "info" viewer was despised, and with good reason.

None of this is not to say that GNU didn't do a good job with documentation. The documentation is often excellent. But the documentation format and tooling needed replacing two decades ago. Texinfo is an anachronism. It's painful to author (I have written a Texinfo manual, later replaced by DocBook) and limited in its output capabilities. But today we have Sphinx and other tools which are greatly superior in their ease of use and capabilities.

While in some respects Texinfo was more structured than troff dot codes, it was at the same time vastly less flexible with its formatting, figures, tables and equations. troff let you use tbl, pic and eqn etc. I personally find it easier to search a single massive manpage than hunt through all of the Info nodes. The nagivigability of Info documents is atrocious.

But that's all ancient history. Both troff and Texinfo are several decades out of date at this point. Arguing which is better is pointless when both have been eclipsed by far superior replacements. Which can generate manpages, HTML and PDFs with ease.
Yes I thought the author missed this point in his zeal to prove that a Grace Hopper story was a fraud. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk can have all kinds of apocryphal stories associated with them, but that's more common among men.
What could possibly go wrong?

O, wait. That's how the SEO hacking industry was born.
We can get similar speed from a conventionally powered ship if we have to. There isn't much motive at the moment, so cruise ships do about 20-25 knots. If we revived the liner, we could go substantially faster. The record was set in 1952 by the SS United States, at 34.5kn average speed and a crossing time of three and a half days. CO2 is an issue which is already being looked at, with designs based on hydrogen and on ammonia - I suspect that the latter will win out as being easier to store.
I’m beginning to hate the same Tailwind UI on every SaaS website. Especially since people are too lazy to even change the main color.
I laugh every time I see someone trying to push TDD as the one way to write software. If it is useful to you.. then go ahead. Don't try push it on everyone.
> This, does. Because it has nothing to do with the submission but all with covid minmizing thrown in after a legitimate question.

Question: how low does the IFR have to be so we can call a disease "not so bad" without "minimizing" it?
You have just described the typical content-farm page created to game Google. I hope this update is going to lower the ranking of those pages (pages that usually have an ad every paragraph or more).
The average looks pretty similar to what's taught in schools today (in places that still teach handwriting).
What I remember from my youth (60s): you basically weren't allowed to strike-through, you had to start over the sentence.
Many kids thus would learn to write without making errors, making sure you would think ahead about how to formulate properly while writing.

This also has assisted me in thinking before I speak.
You are not a farmer and have a typical ignorant view of what it takes in knowledge and management to farm.

You can't copy/paste in farming to get ahead, or be really likeable but have no actual output or contribution.
I’ve been traveling from Hamburg to Barcelona by bike for the last ~6 weeks. Total is about 2700km. It surely could be done faster but I’ve met people along the way and did some work.

Also you get to connect with locals and nature along the way. Another thing that’s totally lost when you do the airborne thing.

Crossing an ocean is ofc a different beast but I’m also
excited for a re-emergence of blimps!

ps: I’ve created a few collections on Komoot with the routes, if any1 is interested in more details: https://www.komoot.com/user/1468572320030/collections?type=c...
Plus, the original has an excessive amount of ads. I'm not surprised Google is ranking the other page higher.
I think a part of this issue is that there is nothing above senior.

Additionally, "seniority" is relative and can vary between different technologies: for example, I have been working as a software engineer for 25+ years, and while I have worked with Java before I am no better at it than someone who just graduated. Similarly, even though I spent nearly a decade as a frontend dev, the last time I did that professionally was in mid-aughts, and I have zero experience with React, TypeScript and other modern staples of that area.
If you want to play with that interactively, https://lab.quantumflytrap.com/lab/three-polarizer-paradox?m.... (Full disclosure - I am one of its authors.)
I've been digging deep into the MapLibre GL Native source code this week to understand how it is built, and it turned out to be a huge and very complex project.

Yesterday I was wondering how hard it would be to implement a custom map which makes use of vector and raster tiles, and here is an article which is basically a step-by-step tutorial on how to build one.

Wow! It is amazing, very succinct and well-written, congratulations and thanks for sharing!
> The only problem I see with this is that then meat becomes the food of the rich, which is unfair.

Truffles have become the food of the rich. Too bad because I like truffles, unfairness is a moot point. I have no "right" to truffles. You should be much more concerned that decent housing or access to housing are becoming privileges than any particular food product.
I've known it as alegria, see also this subreddit collecting examples:

https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckalegriaart/
I think if say 15% of buyers demand Linux support, then it can become a standard feature of most sold equipment. Just like Windows support.
I have no problem with that if it can also read my mind and serve up what I need. Until then, I want the option to correct their generous recommendations.
>fact checking departments

The age of clickbait has reduced these to a farce. I've seen fact-checks that were blatantly false.

There are no reputable papers anymore.
Sounds like they/he decided to pay their workers more evenly across the different roles. That choice would be internally consistent and desirable for some.
While this source seems to have valid numbers for wine consumption (based on the 2016 numbers available on Wikipedia), but the jump from liters per year to glasses per day is not coherent at all.

60 liters per year =

1.15 liters per week =

164ml per day

That is a not 2-3 glasses nor the "couple of glasses" I was calling out - that is what I would describe as "one generous glass" or ~1.3 UK standard wine glasses of 125ml.
The meaning is different. In software industry, senior means "doesn't need handholding", not "super-super-long experience" as in other more traditional fields.
For Spanish speaking HNers: try reading Oracle in reverse :)

It'd be el caro (the expensive one), in the same line as the yatch thing.
Isn't the issue because we are reluctant to remove stuff?
In the same vein as other said we should throw away one or two version of a program before shipping it.

Maybe we need to learn how to delete stuff that doesn't make sense.

Get rid of broken test. Get rid of incorrect documentation.

Don't be afraid to delete stuff to improve the overall program.
> Also if google starts ranking such pages up they may expose themselves to class action lawsuits as users could ask for a refund for the power, hardware and telecom bills incurred in being lead to load them?

Sorry, but this is completely insane. Search engines should most certainly and definitely not ever be liable for linking to original sources for such a stupid reason. This American pro-litigious attitude has to stop.
Great. Go ahead and be a manual laborer then.

You make an argument that has no practical value. And you make it in a way that is offensive.

Yes, if we had slave labor like the 3rd world then we could farm all the mountains.
It might be a nice idea if you have time to burn, but a pain point is making all the connections between different routes.

And honestly, if you're mostly going for the destination (maybe a meeting, a wedding, etc), rather than a nice 'road trip', you should include all the hotel stays in the carbon budget.

IMHO aviation will be fixed with sustainable synthetic fuels. And in any case, it doesn't deserve it's current demonization, compared to say deforestation for cattle feed, etc, or just agriculture generally.

However, I do think trains, and sleeper trains are an overlooked option for land travel compared to planes. Unfortunately, they're often more expensive than a short-hop flight.
If conversations about COVID seem impossible it might be because a substantial portions of the population overestimates the danger from COVID by as much as 50x.

Source: https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...
Sometimes I see the title "principal engineer" used, and my impression is that it trumps a mere senior. See [1] for an example.

I'm not in the US though and also work as a contractor so it's hard to use titles like these in my daily work.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...
Remember the original gmail horrible emojis? They were also sort of blobs with wide bottoms. But they eventually changed to something closer to normal. https://search.brave.com/images?q=gmail++emojis
The problem is the bar for proof, like a guilty verdict, is so high in cases of massive power differentials, that it is almost unreachable. Look at Harvey. It was an open secret for decades. He used his connections, payoffs, shady private investigators to suppress his victims. Or like Dan Price put it himself:

> “In the unlikely event that you are falsely accused, remember that it will be much easier for you to overcome false allegations than it will be for actual victims to overcome the trauma of harassment or assault.”
Correct, it looks more like a page containing useful info for their users/students etc

There are plenty of scam pages, but specifically this one doesn't look like it
According to Stack Exchange [1], you can do 1.7 h/h flying MHQ-ARN - 1 time zone in a 35 minute flight.

1. https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/134726/what-fligh...
High-speed internet installed on Kilimanjaro so climbers can send selfies
Attribution does not exempt an author from the need to get permission. Baring a few edge cases, such as fair use, a copying without permission is still a copyright violation, attribution or not.
RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
> Google algo updates have revenue as one of the core metrics.

While this is almost trivially true based on what we know of (the world, big tech companies, Google in particular, etc), do we have direct supporting evidence for this?
Answering myself: this is using a x86 emulator apparently, not runnign PG natively in WebAssembly (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32502781)
How a Former Academic Helped Launch a Company That Makes Cities Healthier
Doesn't stop them getting carbon-capture government subsidies over here in Australia either. :(
>> We know people don’t find content helpful if it seems like it was designed to attract clicks rather than inform readers. So...

Back when "SEO" was new, I would read the Matt Cutts blog. He was head of "anti-spam." I remember thinking back then that anti-spam was an ignorant frame.

Once Google gained importance, websites started trying to improve their rankings. That might mean migrating from Flash to HTML. It might mean meta-tags, content, keyword stuffing, link collecting... paying a consultant.

Google's early view/advice seemed to be: "Just ignore rankings. You do your thing, makes your site as useful you can. We'll do our thing: judging your site algorithmically and deciding how to rank it." Websites intentionally trying to improve rankings was ipso facto spam. The very idea of SEO was spam.

Naturally, cracks appeared. Flash and embedded images was an early one. Google's initial position was: "HTML is better for users." They thought websites should use clean HTML regardless of rankings. No contradictions need be confronted

Once a two sided conversation starts, that crack becomes a wedge. It becomes clear that website owners don't care about the usability of plain html text. Usability doesn't matter until you have users... and users come from Google. The "language" of SEO continued developing in this disingenuous way. Google pretended to be giving tips about accessibility or content, that tangentially also improve rankings. Websites pretended that their keyword stuffing was about usability or whatnot.

Google have been carrying this culture of euphemisation for almost 20 years now. Elephants stampede all over the meeting room. Everyone tries hard to pretend they don't hear the deafening trumpeting.

Youtube is an even more extreme example. Google's algorithms, policies and processes throw an entire media industry around, while Google pretend these are just minor side effects, or that it isn't happening. The gaslighting is awful.
This new version of STD 7 (TCP) was adopted yesterday. The previous version of STD 7 (RFC 793) was adopted in September 1981 - nearly 41 years ago.
Smile or Die https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo
It would be a 50% increase, the store has a digital copy too.
Not really. The problem as described has two issues that makes it unlike most real problems:

1. The problem only deals with optimising finding the best candidate, the "optimal" solution therefore has a high probability of picking a really bad candidate. In reality this failure mode is quite unacceptable.

2. While many real problems will have some opportunity loss by waiting, it is quite extraordinary that options are presented in such a linear fashion. In a real hiring situation you'd generally be able to go back to a candidate you interviewed earlier and hire them.
> nothing above senior.

Title inflation dictates that there is and inevitably will be.

If you’re senior after six years, and you’re staff after 12 then eventually people will be staff after 7 years and there will be a new title above that which takes 12 years to get (principle?).

I haven’t seen a junior in 10 years, I haven’t seen an intern in longer. People seem to come out of school into “mid” level roles - which means the mid levels are actually entry levels and the titles shift down.
And unlike a credit card, it's easy to vary the risk/limit with a debit card. Just keep the main funds on a separate, non-card accound, and transfer to the debit card account as needed.

I usually keep around $200 on my debit card, which means I lose at most $200. This way I also get a sense of my spending in terms of how often I have to transfer.

If I need to pay for more, I just transfer before paying. Takes me about 2 seconds with an SMS or through the bank app.
What if unique content is not the one I want?
I think using the term "re-emit" is a mistake on my part. I fully agree that the photons are not absorbed and re-emitted.

However, their speed of propagation in the material, and their properties can be altered by the interaction with dipole moments of the material. Therefore, photons do indeed "go trough without collision" but not without interaction. The dipoles in a dielectric material such as glass need to take the energy to oscillate from the field, and then they give it back to the field by radiating it out again.

I agree that this is not "re-emission" in the absorption/emission diagram sense, and I understand that the field in a material cannot be separated into the material portion and the vacuum portion, since it is both at any given time, but what I have tried to outline in the previous comment is still a useful representation of the role of the material which the original article chose to leave out. I should have used "radiate" and "dipole" instead of "emit" and "electron" to make it a bit clearer.
To be fair, even though littered with ads the bootleg is indeed more pleasant. Bootleg the bootlegger.
It’s good that they recognize Search has become a cesspool, but their incentives fundamentally don’t align with users. One of the things that makes content farms suck is advert-delimited paragraphs, and I don’t see Google downranking those sites while they are taking a cut from the delimiters.
Apple's Diabolical Plan to Control the Ad Buisiness
From their home page:

> Weird Creature With No Butt May Not Be Our Ancient Ancestor After All

> The Unfortunate Sex Life of the Banana

> Lucid Decapitation

That's a first grade Facebook content obviously, can't figure out what could go wrong with it.
Nice, but somehow, very Victorian in thinking. Only wealthy people would be able to afford this kind of travel, vacation time or not.

(And no company would ever approve this kind of T&E, especially now that travel budgets haven't yet recovered from post-COVID cuts)
But in that case, why even use WPF if I can just keep using WinForms? Besides, judging by the news and announcements on the Microsoft site, it would seem that WinForms is still being sort of developed while WPF is... pretty much dead.
Easy to be a senior frontend engineer. Just say you were already around when the current most hyped JS framework was released that everyone must move to, 1-2 years ago.
Thoughts on why sometimes programming/software engineering discussions suck
They also post the same position for each country they are hiring. Sick.
I'm unsure if I could keep up with something like this with my daily workload/workflow where I already have to document so much.
I love this thread ,
What is the cheapest linux laptop do you recommend ?
Not the smallest
If you're interested in how modern war crimes work this is an excellent talk by Oxford professor, Dr. Jennifer Cassidey: https://onegarden.com/society/jennifer-cassidy-russia-ukrain...
the pinephone is barely usable because it is plagged by other problems too such as extremely poor battery life
A free tool to create videos from Trustpilot reviews
Trustpilot has a very limited video generator for paying customers.

I created a free version - it's still very minimal, but I am happy to integrate more features when requested :)

Happy to answer all your questions :)

Enjoy!
Depends whether you consider a hostile country's navy's non-firing presence to be 'violent' or not I suppose. I didn't, so I meant a blockade without any combat, projectiles fired, etc. - no physical harm to life or vessels, they just physically can't get through.
iOS already has a method to associate websites with apps but I see some problems with this approach.

1) If you go with the "associated domains only" approach that requires proof of domain ownership(usually through adding TXT into the ZONE files), you lose the category of apps that function by transferring a session of a website into the app to function. This is a popular approach for reader apps that don't have an official official affiliation with the website they interact with or the website doesn't have an API to do direct app connection.

2) If you go with the route of pre-defined domains that might not be associated officially, you fix the problem in the first point but you also create a vector of attack to scoop data from targeted websites. For example you can collect data from reddit, facebook and instagram. 3 websites only but more than enough to cause headaches.
Kagi has this feature. You can mark websites to prioritise for your results and websites to demote or completely exclude.
The US Army had dedicated Military Occupational Speciality “43M - fabric repair specialist” for sewing (renovation) until 2001. It was then merged with another to become “92S - Shower, Laundry & Clothing Repair Specialist”. In 2015, the sewing component was removed to allow extra training on operating bulk laundry machines, apparently:

https://www.army.mil/article/146104/clothing_repair_taught_f...
> So even if a law about open hardware/firmware were to pass in the next few years, we would still need a huge reverse engineering effort to open up all the older devices.

Not necessarily. Impose a tax on all products where the manufacturers do not release all documentation even for past devices, that should serve as a pretty decent incentive.

Yes, legally it's a questionably grey area, but to be honest it's time to actually use our market power.
If you're right-handed, I highly recommend learning to write in italic. That's with a slight tilt to every letter, from bottom left to top right. Unless you hold a pen in an unusual way, this should be an easy movement.

You might want to start by just writing a line of conjoined wwwwwwwwww or mmmmmmmm. Then tweak the movement when you introduce individual letters, wewnwy, etc.

I did it years ago to increase my writing speed, and reduce discomfort if I was writing for a prolonged time (handwritten exams). Hugely beneficial.

Increased legibility was an added bonus, although this probably requires deliberate attention for some people.

Edit: From brief Googling, I gather the terms italic and cursive are often used interchangeably. My distinction between the two is that cursive is italic plus extra decorations (loops etc).
> it would be much cool to have 5-6 weeks holidays instead of 3

I get 30 days paid holiday per year. I could take all my holiday in one lump and spend 6 weeks travelling there and back. But I'd massively prefer to have more, shorter, holidays and not spend half my precious holiday time travelling.

And, obviously, I'm lucky. I work for a German company. When I worked in Australia the standard was 20 days, which makes a 10-day travelling time completely unworkable.

There are advantages to killing off bulk tourism, I'll agree. But I also don't think we want to go back to a world where only the idle rich get to travel.
> there is nothing above senior.

Only in industries where software development is not a primary business; beyond Senior there's titles like Lead, Staff, Principal, Distinguished and Fellow SWE, or branching off, things like architect.

Anyway, senior engineer is less about what languages do you know and more about making informed technology decisions, maintaining quality, managing and training less experienced people, etc. It's also - IMO - not down to years of experience, because you can have 25 years of experience but be stuck at a certain level or stuck in a certain technology.
Seeing tons of really interesting an innovative e-bike designs, its very exciting. Electric cargo trikes are becoming common where I live, for professionals I can really seem them replacing the old 'plumber's minivan'. And we're seeing really cool innovations like Bosch ABS brakes, more efficient motors. Also a lot of opportunities for specialization, now that there is a much bigger market instead of one size fits all there are different products hitting different optimum points for commuters, off-roaders, cargo etc.
Reading through the comments here (and very much feeling the pain they describe), this idea came: Shouldn't we have a search engine that heavily favours the types of websites that we typically look for?
You know, the classic 90s style tech blogs, the plain HTML documentation pages. Ignoring websites with ads, sites with lots of baggage (fonts, scripts, whatnot), sites with lots of images. Maybe increase the ranking of pages that don't change much in their look and content as time goes by.
I don't know. Would it be useful? How would it pay for itself?
my point was broader, any one update won’t make you productive it will be likely be regressive

all updates taking together will allow for progress
Why not search Wikipedia directly?
It's even worse than (1), the optimal solution has a high probability of picking no candidate at all.