skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the thing that rubs me wrong is the undertone that this is somehow some distinctly human trait. That somehow only humanity is subject to the impact of evolution and gradual learning over time.

Well, to be fair, we really don't know that - we don't have another advanced civilization to compare us to.

But I fully agree, our system might have some legacy cruft, but it works surprisingly well. Joel Spolkys wise words on rewrites also apply to our calendar.
From the article:

"Jaali’s cooling feature relies on the Venturi effect in a similar way to an air conditioning unit. 'When air passes through holes, it picks up velocity and penetrates afar. Due to the small apertures, air gets compressed and when released it gets cooler,' says Pandya."
If someone opposes cults of personality and war mongering, then "she's a great mom" is a weak argument in favor of Meloni. It is largely because of those two evils that the Italian far-right has been unpopular for the past 75+ years.

The world didn't spring into existence last Wednesday.
https://warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/invasion-ethiopia-...
> "Hey, this is a crazy gamble and it might not work out. Sign here to play."

That's a gross mischaracterization, and it weakens your argument. It wasn't a "crazy gamble." It was a calculated risk, one that I think even in hindsight looks like a reasonable one to make at the time.

I think the overall question is whether it would have been better for those jobs never to have existed in the first place, rather than having existed for a year or so before being eliminated.

And, in truth, I think it's a very fair question - many people might value a higher level of stability, even if it results in overall lower total wages in the long term. For me, though, since I am in an industry that is, overall, growing and not showing any signs of slowing down in the medium-to-long term, I'm fine with taking a job even if I can get laid off at some point in the future. Spotify was very generous with severance IMO, and I don't think I'd have any problem finding another job within 3 months.

Again, I totally understand not everyone shares my view, but also other folks should understand that even as an employee I don't think that getting laid off is some sort of unforgivable crime.
There shouldn't just be a volume setting
I'm tired of fighting the TV shows and movies I'm watching. Constantly turning them down when they're too loud and down up when they're too quite.

There should be a max volume setting/button and a min volume setting/button. The sound of any given piece of media should be normalised such that it fits within your desired range.

May also need a cut off volume to deal with static being amplified to your minimum.

There may be a more clever way of dealing with this and other associated issues. Neural Nets?
Just felt like I needed to put this idea out in the world.

EDIT: I know this already exists.
I'm saying it should be as common as our current method of volume.
Maybe you have a deeper understanding of the GNU GCC toolchain than I do but I'm able to link together languages with far more dramatic divergences than that.

For instance, Go and C : https://go.dev/doc/install/gccgo (it's pretty far down, let me quote: "The name of Go functions accessed from C is subject to change. At present the name of a Go function that does not have a receiver is prefix.package.Functionname. The prefix is set by the -fgo-prefix option used when the package is compiled; if the option is not used, the default is go. To call the function from C you must set the name using a GCC extension.")

I just had a small C program call a fmt.Println from a go library at my console to confirm. extern the declaration in C to match the calling convention of go, compile them to objects, then ld with the appropriate libs.

Of course you can break the friendship they can have, this is programming, that's easy to do.

This can be demonstrated with different C++ versions as well. The C/Go example was meant to show how extremely different languages can interact when you're careful enough in your build process.
Alien: so how do you write the date? year-month-day?

"nope, there are several variations but most popular are monthnumber-day-year and day-monthnumber-year. For example - 6-6-2022

"oh so you do use numbers for months."

"yeah sometimes"

"so in your example how do you know which one is day and which one is the month"

"depends upon which part of the earth you are standing on"
I just made one recently. a minimalist markdown blogging by a single html. very handy to host on github-page, and edit post by github markdown editor.

https://github.com/casualwriter/casual-markdown-blog

syntax highlight is also supported as using casual-markdown.js

https://casualwriter.github.io/casual-markdown/casual-markdo...

hope it fit for your purpose.
They are at 700k subscribers according to an interview.

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2022/09/12/internet-...
The landing page will be added shortly. In the mean time, here is a demo of the app itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-LgHZUI5nI&t=499s

and the PH launch with screenshots: https://www.producthunt.com/products/chart
This is neat. It takes me back to all the triad positions on the GBE strings that my instructor always said I need to practice more than I did.

I’m having trouble understanding what’s going on with the middle finger in the C dominant 9th chord in the second position.
The Venona papers didn't put McCarthy remotely in the ballpark. It's not as if the premise of Soviet infiltration was controversial; it was universally understood to be happening.
Wherever possible, I vastly prefer to buy online from a company who actually:

A) Understands what they’re selling

Really, there is no B, except for another feature that’s made it easier to buy from retail sites: Apple Pay.

Apple Pay on websites has made it much easier to buy from companies where I won’t drop by often enough to warrant creating an account. One-click checkout without the Amazonian death by a thousand cuts.
It's very rare to have to search for drivers these days on Windows. Last time I had to do so a few years ago, it was for an old IrDA receiver - and I doubt many people these days even know what that is.
> Look at what books and literacy cost before copyright

Copyright has nothing to do with it. Printing press did that.
As society becomes more and more surveillance bound by cheap cameras and interconnected devices, the phenomenon of a cold and masterminding murderer terrorizing us for years with public media taunts, and yet eluding the authorities, seems more and more out of out possibility. Truly terrifying that this was a real story.
Any references handy to learn more?
This is a shortsighted hot take. If it's a bad or average situation, the rational person abandons ship at the first available incremental improvement, or even for an orthogonal move to a less toxic environment.
When the situation is good or at least reasonable, the rational person will stick around and see it through.

There are endless shitty places to work. You don't owe anything to a bad situation which treats you, the individual, poorly.

Hiring managers who choose to judge a person in this fashion, solely based on their resumé and how long a person put up with a mediocre or poor work environment in the past, have nothing of real value to offer and don't deserve the good employees. They don't take good care of them.
could you pinpoint where the grammar part is in the opinion? (tried searching for article, indefinite, notice, etc, but no luck :/)

thanks!
Based on the screenshot in this issue, looks like that extension is also using XPath/CSS query selection to achieve it's functionality. So, I think it's suffering similar issues:

https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news/issues/121
Have people here any suggestion for mcmaster alternatives? I live in Europe.
You can do this with existing audio equipment. Warning: You may become an audio engineer along the way. It can be very addicting to learn about this kind of thing and then realize what you can do.
Did they at least add the ability to make the laptops not sleep when you close the lid without external display attached?
Stages.

First. Vitriol and knowing "one day this too will pass" - even if that is my death.

Why the fuck should I lie down and simply take this life crap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldBhDmvWFXE

Even if someone else (or other anthropomorphic force, like cancer, death etc) is going to win, that doesn't mean I have to make it fucking easy for them!

After a while ... once you accept things are what they are ... it gets easier.

And one day ... maybe a while away ... you have joy.

It exists. And you deserve it as much as anyone.
A lawn is a place where neither life or death is allowed to happen
Mil spec part numbers for things like screws are great! We needed a very long screw in a specific style and material that no one stocked. We pulled up the mil spec datasheet for that style of screw, made up the part number based on our needs, and sent it to our fastener vendor. We get back exactly what we designed for without having to spend time designing our own special purpose screw. The vendor already has the spec so we can just point to exactly what we want and none of us have to spend time going back and forth to find a compromise.
1. Taking food off someone's table was a metaphor.

2. If you're making the argument that theft is limited to tangible things, well, you're entitled to that belief, but generally the consensus is that intangible property is still property. Money is property.

3. If you're making the argument that zero marginal cost items are not private property, that's an extremely radical position that I doubt you actually endorse after thinking about the incentives in a society where that was the dominant view.

The most legitimate argument for large scale copyright theft is eminent domain style seizure on the grounds that it benefits society. I would even endorse a weak version of that argument in narrow, well defined instances. And do. Copyright should expire, and it should definitely be harder to extend. And it should be possible to seize copyright from estates where the creator is no longer living, in certain circumstances, or at least expand fair usage in some graded manner.

That's not what's being argued about though, what people in this thread, and what people who steal music and software used to believe was that those products weren't really property and so they could take them. It's flimsy justification for bad behavior.
A proven approach is Michael Hartl's (@mhartl) Rails tutorial, which has grossed multiple six figures with the entire content free to read online, plus upgrades for DRM-free PDF, videos and print. That's well more than 10X the average return on technical books.
Do you believe him? I certainly don’t believe any of my leaders.

One of my orgs had layoffs. Similar story.

Now we are hiring like mad again.

Truth is that they just jumped like spooked horses and laid off piles of people to keep investors happy for the quarter. That’s all you are to these people.
ProductHunt launch: https://www.producthunt.com/products/chart

Detailed demo of the product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-LgHZUI5nI&t=499s

There is also a guided tour for first time users on the app as well.
Toner printers work really well, and don’t “dry up”. If you’re printing on a regular basis, I cannot see why you wouldn’t get a good quality laser printer. If you don’t have room in your desk or something, that makes sense, but if that’s the only reason, I recommend looking further into it.
"Taking food off the table" was a metaphor. Your statement makes even less sense if you weren't referencing that. You're saying, in effect, that zero marginal cost items are not property. That's a radical position that I would be surprised if you actually endorse after you think about it.
> What "shared resources" am I contending with previous developers for?

FTA:

> CI takes 30 minutes to run when it used to take 3? Fire everybody, and it'll still take 30 minutes to run.

You are contending with them (specifically, the code (tests, etc) they wrote) for CI runtime. The code doesn't go away just because the developer who wrote it is gone.

> all the remedies he suggests

Are specific to the low-hanging fruit of scenarios that do not include firing every other developer - I wrote "In a Hale-like model" for a reason.
Time is money and buying from McMaster has always been faster and easier than any other site. I also have yet to get an incorrect item.
It depends on what you need. For basic metric nuts and bolts it seems to be the same price as a local hardware store but I don’t have to leave my office to buy the stuff.
Ask HN: Do you think the US will ever go cash-less?
Just saw a Zelle commercial and kept thinking “cash is king.”
The standard way is to do an intervention: either tell meat eaters to stop eating meat or tell vegetarians to start. Then compare with a control group. In medicine it's also advisable to use double-blinding.

I'm not suggesting the authors made a mistake or anything. An association study is a good cheap starting point to see whether a closer look is warranted.
Take a quick look at the economic situations of the world pre-Industrialization.

Most riches we experience in this modern life... depended utterly on the energy credits we spent by burning the eons-old reservoirs of solar energy, of dead plants and animals.
I think what the daughter was saying is that the abuse and craziness of her father would, in a sense, give some explanation for her own initially troubled path.
Because then there is no incentive for new content to be created. It’s not rocket science, please think about what you’re saying.

Movies and entertainment media I understand piracy for. It’s not essential and people like it a lot so it will probably continue to exist. Not a big deal if it goes away either.
Work-place injuries.

Most of the victims are 'spooks' of one kind or another. Their job entails them getting injured by something at work. Cheaper to blame 'adversaries' than allow them to claim millions in damages from work-place-injury claims.
Trackpad drivers are still horrible as far as I know
You got my hopes up about un-deprecation :) but I was glad to at least learn about the proposals
> Why would you do such a thing?

You mean use Objective-C?

Because that was the only way to write iOS apps. It sucks. It's unnecessary. And yet you could not avoid it for a good portion of an iOS app.

> you wouldn't trust the weaker type systems of Forth

I used Forth professionally for many years. I can't think of a single end-product issue caused by Forth. The range of applications I wrote went from device drivers and low level robotics code to full console-based applications, like specialized text editors.

> isn't it obvious (given only a moment's thought) that there could be other languages that improve on C

At the core, as I said before, these things only exist for the benefit of the programmer and generally don't exist in what I am going to call the real world inside the processor.

Here's an example: A bytes() object in Python and MicroPython is not mutable. It also happens to be one of the lightest data structures you can use if doing communications work. In a recent MicroPython project we needed to manipulate the data in bytes() objects without causing reallocation of new objects. I wrote a set of routines in ARM assembler to do this just. For example, take a bytes() buffer, calculate a CRC-16 of the data, add it to the end and modify values in the front based on this CRC calculation.

In other words: There is no such thing as a non-mutable data type.

I think the simplest way I can put this is:

Bad code is the result of bad programming, not a consequence of the chosen language.

I should make it clear that I don't have a problem using any language (I have, many) or someone choosing to use whatever they like. My argument is that this idea of blaming solid, reliable, battle-tested languages like C for problems that are, in reality, the consequence of bad programming is dishonest.
> It is funny. You should try laughing at how dumb we are. It's fun.

But are we dumb or is this just a reductionist take at something that actually has some reason behind it?

Things simply stop being funny if you feel like important background is missing, no snobbery needed.
The author agrees with you. From the article:

"You can absolutely explain those stints, and a reasonable interviewer won’t penalize you, but my lived experience is that landing a senior role requires passing multiple somewhat arbitrary process gates"
The evidence clearly points in that direction, so yes.

Supreme Court rulings notably trending towards increasing Christian freedoms at the expense of others (reintroducing staff-led prayer at school, allowing businesses to discriminate against gay couples, mandating public funding be sent to religious schools, abortion no longer being within one’s right to privacy).

Then there was the Muslim ban to start off the previous Presidential term. The extreme Zionist stance of some red states, going so far as to legally punish companies practicing BDS. The Texas GOP basically shut out gay Republicans from participating and deemed them an “abnormal lifestyle choice.” They also want prayer, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments back in public schools. There is a growing discussion of finding a way to make gay marriage illegal again. Then there’s the trans panic. The church is also against the legalization of marijuana. It’s challenging to find a place where the party’s policy stance is separate from evangelical churches.

The anti-vaccination stance was also widely promulgated by churches painting the vaccine as the mark of the beast. Similarly have read many argue against mask mandates because we were created in god’s image and it would be an insult to Him. Further, churches were one of the loudest against occupancy mandates or other restrictions on in-person congregations (the loss of revenue hurt). Don’t get me started on the number of popular churches that give sermons on the election being stolen, Trump being a Prophet or Messiah or Chosen One, and Biden being possessed by Satan. Not normal stuff btw.

The founder of conservative social media app Gab probably said it most clearly: “We don't want people who are atheists. We don't want people who are Jewish. We don't want people who are, you know, nonbelievers, agnostic, whatever. This is an explicitly Christian movement because this is an explicitly Christian country.”

Now maybe you’re part of the libertarian wing of the party. Or maybe you support marijuana legalization. Or you don’t want abortion to be completely banned. Or you go to a regular old church that doesn’t give political sermons. But if so, I hate to break it to you but you have little say in the direction of the party.
McMaster is only overpriced if you are spending your own money! :-)

If you are spending your own money you might find other suppliers offer more value.

McMaster-Carr

Grainger

...and there are a few more.
There will be a lot of strange old but new words, like you'll have to wait for the nuptials to subside before you can see where the latest trammel is coming from. Then you'll see Endorsement again and you'll have to decide whether to pay for a couple breakpoints (the old way) or hire an intoxicant to inspect your girders.
Don't bother dissecting the frog; this website is populated mostly by sticks in the mud.
Completely off topic now, but there’s a local politician named “Cat Ping.” I figured she has the UNIX enthusiast vote wrapped up.
TBF I have that problem on a Windows 11 laptop.

The two-finger gesture scroll speed seems to be at a fixed speed, and way too slow for my liking.

I would like it to scroll faster than the mouse movement speed.
The first sentence of the link that was submitted is "Ciao is a general purpose, multi-paradigm programming language in the Prolog family." It's not really a spoiler.
While this is neat, the AirPods will need a substantial boost to battery life, and better security options for holding in place on the ear before I see something like this taking off.

That said, hearing aids are a racket in pricing and If this moves things forward i'm excited for it.
>* - US (and maybe one or two English-speaking countries) are the only ones using 12h time, the rest of the world uses 24hrs, however 12h _sometimes_ is used conversationally;*

I think most countries use 12h time casually (conversationally and so on), but most understand 24h time - and it's used officially (e.g. in state communications) in many. It's in the US though that people often need it explained.
yeah, Sarah Palin was a real treat.
Absolutely. Cash is nasty stuff. I doubt it will survive another pandemic. Brave of you to admit your bias though.
I like buying auto parts from RockAuto. Their website is dead simple to use. They have nice features like good/better/best, showing the most popular item of that category for that car, an icon for OEM parts, and another icon that shows items in the same warehouse as the item in your cart. So when you can't decide between a dozen brands of sparkplugs, you can pick one that is both OEM and is in the same warehouse as the air filter you needed so you only have to pay for one shipping cost.
I’m not sure of the details, but I worked for a company where SR&ED reporting and grant collecting determined product features.
What? Power is the rate at which energy is supplied. Power and energy from one source are both exactly proportional to power and energy, respectively, from another source. Fuel, or cost of infrastructure, of whatever it is you're referring to here when you say "energy", isn't energy.
Actually, what you're suggesting is that even if it is broken, it's too costly to fix. Then you should ask: costly compared to what?

If we fixed it, then innumerable generations after us would not have to deal with the problem.

The idea of "historical reason" and "social custom" assumes what it tries to prove, that the past is more important than the future.

The real problem is that we don't pay for the costs we impose on the future -- in bad calendars and environmental collapse from an overheated climate.

And because we don't pay, we don't have to care.

Indeed, "not caring" is taken as a badge of honor -- oppositional self-glorification through contempt for others.

Your point would be well-taken if it were well-intended and made with grace. The original post is a funny way to imagine accounting for the weight of history we lay upon those who come after us. It's a nice way to ask us to take some responsibility. Most everyone is willing to do what they can to make the world that little bit better. Indeed, I believe that those who came up with the original mistakes were trying to do better, and would welcome the corrections.
Ah, I disagree: it's disorienting when the first day of the week is on Monday.

Funny how that works, right?
I don't want to come off as downplaying others engs at Fly (esp those from Compose.io) [0], but I wanted to point out how there's a marked difference between the period from when you joined them and years preceding that. A catalyst?

Of course, I claim no inside knowledge, so I may very well be mistaken (:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937023
I feel like it’s important to distinguish between the two, because seemingly everyone else does. Apparently most people don’t think it counts as a lightning strike unless the lightning hits you straight on the head.

It doesn’t matter to me what it’s called really, it was still bad.
Thanks for the smile, strangers.

For anyone out of the loop: http://www.bash.org/?244321