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This constant vilification of one of the great figures of tech history is tiresome. Yeah, maybe Steve Jobs was not a great person, but why should constantly overshadow his tremendous successes?

Steve Jobs was a forceful and perhaps disagreeable character, but he is one of the clearest examples of how having relentless drive and taste can change the world. Focus less on the feet of clay and more on the giant.

And not to diminish Wozniak’s tremendous achievements, but Steve Jobs continuously innovated over the course of decades and had a much greater impact on the world.

That’s whitewashing it. The War on Iraq was a crime, not a mistake.

the immune system can’t forget a target

This recent study has developed an “inverse vaccine” for multiple sclerosis that apparently can make the immune system forget stuff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528816

Leverpostej is the most disgusting thing in Danish cuisine. Just the smell of it heating up in the oven gives me nausea, while Danes start drooling in anticipation.

Putting the burden on invididuals for averting the climate crisis is a form victim-blaming. It’s long been clear that only concerted collective action will be effective in producing real change.

This is why so many free-market, minimal-state absolutists are so prone to putting their fingers in their ears and pretending climate change is not a problem, or if it is, that individuals as free agents are responsible for creating it and therefore fixing it. They cannot accept the logical conclusion of the necessity of state action, as it contradicts their core beliefs.

Yet here you are, alive and commenting on HN.

On the internet, nobody knows you’re an octopus.

If houses were no longer an investment but rather just poaces to live, the result might be that more and better housing would be constantly being built. This is one of the points of this article that was posted here the other day: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/actually-japan-has-changed...

The day they killed Google Reader was the day they publicly renounced their “Don’t Be Evil” motto.

From TFA:

the turning point was the assassination of Google Reader — for which I will never forgive them, and try to regularly exert a small vengeance by mentioning it

Copenhagen is not super-dense, not even very dense. Berlin is even less dense than Copenhagen, yet both cities are very pleasurable for using the bike as your sole means of transportation.

How about SSH straight into screen?

Here's how to define a shell function for quickly attaching to an existing screen session after connecting via ssh (or creating a new one if none exists):

  sshcreen () {
      ssh -t "$@" screen -xRR
  }

  $ sshcreen user@example.com

  $ sshcreen root@localhost -p 2222

PS: repurposed my comment from a recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32486892

My favorite utility is a shell function for quickly attaching to an existing screen session after connecting via ssh (or creating a new one if none exists). It's pretty handy for treating a single ssh connection to a server as if it was a long-lived multi-tab terminal:

  sshcreen () {
      ssh -t "$@" screen -xRR
  }

  $ sshcreen user@example.com

  $ sshcreen root@localhost -p 2222

A little Java, a few patterns, by Matthias Felleisen. Delightful book.

I found this to be the most insightful comment in the whole thread.

Great post. It's shocking to discover that the lead developer of Zig only earns 1500$ a month, and still manages to donate 10% to the musl project: https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-proje...

This is not a helpful comment. The Trumpian Republican party is here to stay, and it's very easy to imagine it being quite damaging to European interests and security once it's back in power. If there's one thing that the Trumpian right has shown is an appetite for the exercise of naked power, without any mask of moral pretences.

I just tried Nix yesterday for the first time in order to play with reactivated. Was surprised by how simple it was to get it running. Made me think that perhaps containers are not as indispensable as I thought.

And reactivated is awesome, by the way. I just worry about how brittle it will be as both Django and React evolve.

Templates are the ugliest part of Django. They are completely unaware of the target syntax, so very often the template itself cannot be validated as HTML, which makes it difficult to lint or reformat.

The only tool I'm aware of that can (mostly) correctly reformat Django templates is the PyCharm/IntelliJ family of IDEs, but their reformatting often introduces subtle breakage (such as adding new lines inside tag attributes) and requires careful review.

I would definitely add reading to the list as well.

Read the article, that’s one of the first possible issues they address.

TL;DR:

“we found highly consistent evidence that longer educational duration is associated with increased intelligence test scores. […] the results support the hypothesis that education has a causal effect on intelligence test scores. The effect of 1 additional year of education […] was estimated at approximately 1 to 5 standardized IQ points.”

No need for copy-pasting, just doing "Command+L, Command+Return" will duplicate your current tab. Works on Chrome and Safari.

But it's a somewhat unnatural gesture to make. I often find I have to repeat it a couple of times until it works. Ditto for the five-finger pinch.

The Economist, unbiased? I let my one-year subscription expire due to their patronising tone and their not-so-hidden agenda of teaching the world to accept the gift of anglo-saxon supremacy.

You must live in a different Portugal than the one I know. While I admit perceptions of corruption are quite high among Portuguese, actual corruption is not that high, at least according to the international metrics I've seen. We're certainly not a mafia state or anything close to that.

It doesn't matter whether it's open source or closed source, non-profit or for-profit. If it's made by a company headquartered in the US, there's no escaping a national security letter with a gag order. Anything within Five Eyes (AUS/CAN/NZ/UK/US) jurisdiction (such as Ubuntu) is probably not much safer. We really need a new Linux distribution headquartered in a safe jurisdiction.

Yeah, it's really strange. All other medium to large German cities have sizeable commercial pedestrian zones, but Berlin has very few. The only ones I know inside Berlin are the shopping street Wilmersdorferstraße in Charlottenburg and the area from Alexanderplatz to Rathausstraße. There's also the Alt Spandau pedestrian zone as well as parts of Alt Tegel, but I don't think those belong to Berlin proper.

As someone who admittedly knows very little about Belize, why would it not count as part Latin America?

I'm Portuguese and I completely disapprove this message. We are deluding ourselves if we think that our situation is qualitatively much different from the Greek one. Were it not for Greece, Portugal would be the scapegoat for the Euro crisis.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I see that no one from the financial sector went to jail for recklessly causing the biggest worldwide financial crisis since 1929, yet everybody is happily demonizing the Greeks, who in spite of having a made several errors were in no way responsible for the global crisis.

This shows how much journalism has been captured by financial interests, working hard to deflect attention from the true perpetrators.

yeah, let's not become like those damn proles from reddit. /sarcasm