skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The credit card companies will lower the credit limit on the cards in a recession.

People in the 2008 recession thought they could live off their cards for years only to see their limits slashed drastically.
The trend goes pretty clearly towards a package manager per platform (programming language).

This does become hairy when you try to inter-operate, but for development, at least, it seems to work quite well.
The native assembly would obviously not be cross-platform... It would be native...
I'd love to get a NYT sub but they operate like SiriusXM when it comes to cancellations. You have to talk to a human, during business hours, and you have to fight with them for 15 minutes to get cancelled (meanwhile they offer you continually cheaper rates to stay on, so if you pay rack rates you're clearly overpaying in the first place).

If they offered a way to self-manage a subscription that I could cancel at any time (e.g. Netflix) and a fixed rate so I knew I wasn't overpaying. I'd love to sub.
Before I migrated to Void, I used slackware-current extensively, it is indeed the cleanest GNU/Linux distribution I've found. Personally, I loved manually dependency resolution, but sadly didn't had the time to do it, so I ended up with Void, and it really shines on staying out of my way.
> Why would they decode it only to re-encode it?

Because it's more generic and easier to implement. I would imagine to support streaming AAC from the file to the AirPods, they'd need to create a special channel for it in the OS's sound system.

Even with that, I don't think it'd work in all cases. Sometimes you have to manipulate the audio. What happens when you need to mix in audio from an app, like an alert sound? The AirPods can't keep using the file's unmodified AAC stream, so you'd have to temporarily stop streaming that to them, decode it, mix in the app audio, re-encode that, and ship the modified stream to the AirPods. All the while you have to keep the timing prefect throughout all the changes or it will be even worse-sounding due to the skips.

It's a lot easier to just decode-mix-reencode all the time, since that's a pretty straightforward pipeline, instead of having to switch back and forth between different audio streaming methods, and deal with loads of extra complexity.
Yes, I used to deal with email like that. Gnus + Dovecot + Sieve.

I find Notmuch + mbsync more satisfying because of efficiency and simplicity. It's a serverless setup, config files are small, and it's very quick.

Both Notmuch and Mu4e have good Org integration, so if you want to explore that route it shouldn't be a show-stopper.
Django, Postgres RDS on elastic beanstalk, with some SNS use.

Vue+vuex on the front end.

Gitlab CI/CD for deployment

Extremely fast dev/deployment turnaround time with Django and Beanstalk.

Vue/vuex is simple enough for me to understand and build SPA
I am not sure why it is astonishing to you. It’s been known for a long, long time that developers minimally need near total silence to do their jobs properly, and need privacy and space to think or diagram privately on a whiteboard, etc.

> “as they genuinely appear-to me-that many developers would be better served working at home where they can enjoy complete and total silence.”

Fully private offices are better, with a high degree of respect to not interrupt your colleagues. Working from home, as you suggest, is certainly much much better than working in an open-plan office though.

> “We seem to have moved beyond that and are now picking apart the very nature of working with and supporting your colleagues when they come to you for assistance, the idea that something as innocuous as a senior developer helping a junior developer being a problematic and prima facie distraction that must be snuffed out and I find that attitude completely untenable“

It’s hardly untenable. It’s a basic part of the job. What you glibly call “a senior developer helping a junior developer” is not that.

When I think of helping junior developers, something I do all the time, I think of using Slack or email to schedule a meeting to answer their questions at some point that’s convenient for us both, in a conference room where we won’t bother other people.

The culture of “just quickly answer my question right now” is horrible, productivity-killing nonsense, but here you’re acting like it’s the only possible way to work.
iTunes essentially acts as a public database for podcast feed links. You can use their–admittedly inflexible–API to populate a list of podcasts in an app or website you create. Or you can use a number of other public feed lists.

If iTunes suddenly stopped supporting podcasts (which they won't), then another popular public database will materialize.

The real debate here is what does centralization mean in the realm of content distribution? I mean people will always gravitate toward popular platforms that offer nice features like commenting, profiles, rating, etc. but that information is all secondary to the podcast protocol. If a single server hosting a single podcast's files goes down, the whole system does not stop working. Is that not decentralization?
Most people used to be farmers, too, but prohibiting industrialization was not the right call.

Driving trucks is a dangerous occupation that's terrible for your health, and often takes you away from your family for long periods of time. In a few generations when it's long gone as an occupation, no one will miss it. Getting from now to then is unfortunately going to be a rough transition for some people, but stopping that transition entirely isn't the right call.
Haven't looked at that, Looks very promising! I was creating Musoq to get rid of scripting such things. Can't find is it possible to parametrize easily the table you are connect into
I don't know. Unidirectionality of time just feels like something that should be everywhere. Nonassociativity of basic math that governs all of matter seems for me to be a better source for it than inflation or entropy or gravity or any one specific thing.
Only, you have to space your orders -- wait at least a day in between making them. Otherwise, their system often combines them and you end up with one box, anyway.

Kind of defeats the quick delivery convenience/reputation they are after.
It's worth it. They run sales all the time, I've been paying $7.50/mo since January for a basic online subscription. There's enough new content every day that you'll never run out of interesting stuff to read.

Just sign up for a free account and watch the promotional e-mails for a sale.
> uploading his videos in bulk and moneytise them

As far as I know, there's no plan to monetize videos over PeerTube, that pretty much remove that possibility then.

> that you can at least complain about your stolen copyright

Torrent exist, PeerTube won't create much more possibility to stole content. Considering it's free content too, there's not much incentive to get it anywhere else than it's original source.
So, are we saying that really, Graal should be used for Datomic Ions?
#2 can be tricky. Since everyone's screens can be of different sizes and resolutions, its hard to have a "perfect" layout that always clips the next bit of content on every single screen.
Crackpot index
If anyone can make octonions cool it would that physicist
I know this was meant to be kind of tongue-in-cheek, but it's really a distillation of all the worst-case, deathmarch, and doomed projects rather than the average experience.

Yes, I can relate to everything the author talks about, because I've been in software for 35+ years and experienced bad times like this. But there are also times when everyone isn't an idiot, management doesn't have their heads up their collective asses, and you actually get to work with good people and create great software.
Before Void I tried Alpine briefly, but couldn't resolve an issue with MESA, back then I didn't had the adecuate knowledge to fix it myself.
sounds like an ad
lol, and I thought my 5MB golang binary was huge!
Patreon seems like a good fit honestly.

Imagine if Patreon supported the PeerTube protocol. There would be an ActivityPub publication in two steps: once for the backers, and a 2nd time (time-delayed) for everyone else.

Only Patreon would be able to offer that kind of integration however. Hmmm... I think I might have to browse Patreon's Web API to see if a 3rd party could extend things actually... https://docs.patreon.com/#introduction

Hmmm... a 3rd party workflow along the lines of OAuth (log into Patreon to see my video) -> Share the cookie with a custom PeerTube server -> serve video-based rewards based on OAuth / Patreon database. It seems theoretically possible.
Great idea - note however the lack of existance of Swedish fighter jets, the low quality of Israeli ICBM, and the rarity of German submarines.

A government can subsidize with taxes an industry as much as it wants, and force its products down its citizens throat as much as it can: it will not be able to create quality, which is essential to get a large market demand.

Unless the industry is very hard to replicate for whatever reason like large capital requirements given the available technology (ex: a computer in the 1940s, sending a human to the moon in the 1960s) this create a market opportunity.

Natural market forces such as competition ensure the end result.

EDIT: My bad, I forgot about the Swedish Gripen. It exists, which is no small feat by itself! It is just low quality and rare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen

"Gripen has achieved moderate success in sales to nations in Central Europe, South Africa and Southeast Asia; bribery has been suspected in some of these procurements, but authorities closed the investigation in 2009"

Thanks to bribery, this wonderful piece of technology could be sold to major world powers like South Africa and Hungary.
Every professional driver does that, at some point.
This is theory, empirically the data says otherwise. in 2007 there was a huge amount of evidence in plain sight that the housing market was a bubble, but the market didn't adjust to a rational level.

See "The Big Short". That greatly understates the level of willful blindness, since it deals mainly with CDOs, not so much the house prices themselves.
With the CPU design or the transition to a new ISA? Lots of things can go wrong at any time even by doing nothing. But Apple does have a team of pretty good engineers that managed to design what's probably the fastest (best?) ARM cores on the market, and with good enough perf/Watt numbers. So I doubt their biggest hurdle will be to design a CPU.

It will be to split the "MacOS" ecosystem in 2 and maintain two branches for x86 and ARM. And while they also have a team of pretty good software engineers with x86 and ARM experience they are already having major quality control problems lately. Having to maintain a dual ISA MacOS will be a challenge.
Then they have to provide the legacy compatibility in order to convince people to buy into something with little to no support for most of what's out there today.

But you know... we could use some diversity in this space. I wish them all the best.
I had to stop when it got to the guy casually smoking a cigarette and manipulating logs while not looking as they came out of the 2-foot-diameter spinning blade of death.
Sure. It's just provided as an example of a source. The comment it responds to provided no evidence for the claim made.

> > This was an observational study where people chose whether or not they wanted to run; therefore there is always the possibility that people stopped running because they had knee pain.

> That's a pretty big flaw in their study.

How do you figure? These people are accounted for in the data. Regardless of why people stopped running, they have better outcomes than never-runners. E.g.:

> Any history of running was associated with less frequent knee pain (table 2) in the unadjusted and adjusted models compared to those who never ran.
Riving is still used for producing timber that needs to have perfectly straight grain with minimal runout, most notably the tops of acoustic guitars. The difference in stiffness between a rived and sawn top can be drastic, with commensurate benefits in tone.

http://www.lutherie.net/frankford.runout.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EpVIEyYiSs
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You can keep the previous citizenship (and thus have two) if you're a citizen of another EU country or Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationality_law#Dual_ci...
It's because growth has been concentrated in software for a decade or two, and people only pay attention to growth.

It's actually more absurd than you note: "tech" today means "Internet tech", and people have largely forgotten that less than a generation ago IBM, HP, Sun, Oracle, Intel, AMD, and Microsoft were all "tech" companies. (You'd have to go back two generations for Chevron and GE to be "tech".) But that's the nature of psychology. Everything that was around when you were a kid is just part of the natural order of things, while the only new and exciting technology is the stuff you just heard of in the last year or two.

(It's pretty likely the pendulum will shift again in a year or two, and FAANG will no longer be tech, which will be reserved for crypto[currency - this is another good example, where if you're > 30 'crypto' means 'encryption' while if you're < 30 it means 'cryptocurrency'], robotics, self-driving cars, drones, and AI.)
Or, better yet, let me turn the unread counter on or off for specific feeds.
look here: https://github.com/Puchaczov/Musoq/wiki/Plugins

You can also look how implemented are default plugins, especially flat file one, it's pretty easy

https://github.com/Puchaczov/Musoq/tree/master/Musoq.Schema....
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The problem here is (1). Yes, if everybody is reasonable, you’ll be fine. That’s completely not the case here. For example, you might threaten to harm them unless they concede something to you, which may work but is not going to keep friends.
I think that also wouldn't solve the issue, what needs to be handled better is the difference between high volume feeds and low volume feeds.

I absolutely want to see every post of my friend's blog that has a post every few months. What I don't care about is to get every single MacRumors post with the latest gossip because that would make up about 15 items / day. I've seen some of the hosted solutions going into that direction but there doesn't seem to be a self-hosted or app doing that yet.
That's been my experience too... I've known many triathletes who will do an extra lap around the parking lot to meet their coach's exact plans, but that seems a lot less common among trail runners.
I'm late to the party, but maybe the console guys are still lurking. If so, than first and foremost I wanted to thank you for the amazing walk you guys took the console so far.

That said, as someone who uses your product for hours on daily basis, I have two pain points that I would love to have fixed, if that possible at all:

1. selection of text and deletion - works in PowerShell, doesn't work in cmd. Is this curable?

2. Customizing the console is pain. I don't mind doing it once but it is impossible to save theme and copy it between computers. It is also impossible to export registry keys - not only do they differ for various consoles, the color settings are not saved there. The only way I found so far for achieving this is copying the shortcut for the specific console - the colors are saved to the .lnk file in binary form. Seriously, can we have at least color exportable themes in a format that can be edited with a text editor?
Surely there is a Nielsen-like system to measure popularity, through direct downloads and aggregator data...? Leaving it to Apple is doomed to fail (see also: Apple AppStore).
Exit poll numbers weren't off. Predictions were only off because people ignored the actual polls and inserted their own biases into the interpretation of said polls, and thought popular vote == winning.
There's a video somewhere that's even worse, where the guy is also doing the 2 foot diameter blade by hand as well instead of it being autofed.
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What do you mean? Aside from the stfu, you quoted their constructive criticism.

I don’t know what posts they were talking about though. I came late to this conversation and voting moved the interesting posts up already.
It's possible to run at or near an elite level without modern running shoes. For example the 1960 Olympic marathon was won by a barefoot competitor (his winning time of 2:15:16.2 would be considered sub-elite today) [1].

One can speculate why all elite runners use shoes. Worth noting that running shoes designed for racing, as opposed to training, tend to be thinner and lighter and closer to a simple sandal [2]. I personally reverted from bare feet back to shoes after the occasional thorn or bit of glass getting stuck in my foot became too annoying.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abebe_Bikila#1960_Rome_Olympic...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_flat
What about actual multinationals?
I think that saying what someone should be doing is very short sighted, it's almost certain that they will not listen to you, especially since you're making their jobs harder and it's unsafe for the end user. Instead, let's focus on things that the developers actually want, like WASM, so we can have something decent out of it; dismissing it is definitely not going to help and WASM is already here to stay.

BTW how do you propose to safely run untrusted application with no built in support of parallelization in parallel, maybe even on multiple machines? How do you safely directly reference an object that is owned by another (again, untrusted) module, again, maybe even on a different machine (e.g. using RDMA through Infiniband)? These are just some of the possibilities that WASM is offering.
Since I'm a team of one working on some Amazon services for a far smaller customer base, I get a broad slice of different technologies and problems to solve. I can't imagine being the person whose job is to manage some slice of the part of the stack that monitors just the billing portion of their aws usage.

But contemplating that scale also makes me better understand how these companies end up with hundreds of engineers to manage a product that on the surface really doesn't do a whole lot.
BART's technology was created by aerospace engineers who wanted to reinvent the railroad and make it "better".

What this resulted in was
- a wider track gauge than any other used in the US
- bespoke rolling stock with different braking, control, coupling systems
- untested ATO that had several early failures

The first two have had lasting impacts; servicing BART equipment is very difficult because no one else has ever made traincars like that, and it makes it difficult to extend BART over existing rail tracks. The expensive of all this "cool" factor is at least a factor of two over standard rail projects, which is why eBART was built as a normal diesel rail line instead of as a BART extension.

Other examples of "cool" transit technologies that ended up aging poorly because of their rarity are monorails and maglevs. With economies of scale it's hard to beat trains, and trains already go to 220+ MPH; there are very few markets where you would need to go significantly faster via land, and where doing so would be a big advantage over air travel, as Hyperloop is proposing.
Is there an easy explanation of what problems quaternion or octonions solve?

Imaginary numbers are needed to take the square root of a negative number, and complex numbers result from combining the new numbers with the real numbers. Complex numbers also allow solving roots that aren't found in just real numbers.

But I have no similar comparison of what I can do with a quaternion or octonion that I can't do with a complex number. I remember seeing some w based number system derived from the cube root of either 1 or -1 (forget which, but w and -w were the solutions that weren't 1 or -1), but it did all the same things that complex numbers do and was considered mostly uninteresting.

It also seems like there is a pattern to go infinitely beyond octonions, but they all behave identical to octonions, but are the octonions even needed in the same way complex numbers are needed, or do they just make some math problems easier to work with?
> this kid calling himself a prodigy is a clear indication of way too many gold stars handed out for adequacy

Maybe, but people like this have been around since long before they started handing out participation awards.

I think it has more to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
> Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software
> a simple “support” button allows videographers to direct their viewers to Tipee, Patreon, Paypal and other donation tools. But in the future, Framasoft hopes that ” people will be able to code their own monetization system “.

This article suggests that it already does have monetization support.
Rockets launched from the US are already considered to be malicious from a range safety perspective, since they might accidentally veer off course and turn into a ballistic missile.

Range safety officers already strap explosives to SpaceX's and other rockets and will detonate them in the event of an accident. This is how the SRBs on the Challenger space shuttle were detonated after the orbiter broke up.

So it's not because of range safety that foreign companies aren't allowed equal access to the US launch market. We could go into why that is. Briefly it's because rocketry is a core strategic military asset from both a proliferation and manufacturing perspective. Once you can launch a satellite into orbit you're really close to having an ICBM.

But that doesn't change the fact that this strategic advantage is partly maintained with subsidies to domestic companies, in a way that say doesn't happen when the US military needs to source some more basic technology (like nails, screws or lumber) from some outside provider.
Agreed, those are good second passports to have.

> I think Japan does not allow for dual citizenship though.

Like Japan, China and the US also do not allow a second citizenship through naturalization. The US oath of allegiance requires you to "renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty". The loophole is that most countries don't allow you to renounce your citizenship just by informing some foreign flunky, so just saying it doesn't make it so. For naturalization, none of China, Japan or the US require documentary evidence that you are no longer a citizen of another state.
That's my stack as well. But sure you mean SNS, not SQS?

Though I have been thinking if I should replace elastic beanstalk with Kubernetes, since it seems to become the non-proprietary standard for deploying containers?
This waterproof coat is fine, as long as you don't go out in continuous rainfall.
Thanks for the featuring my side project https://www.inviewapp.com Channing!
Over and over again I keep hearing the advice to "build using what you know."

How do I separate what might be a side project to learn a new stack from a side project that might eventually make money?
Someone suggested this to me as a possibility. Imagine a swarm of bugs with nothing more than a small amount of poison as a payload and an injector of kinds. Kind of scary to think about.
Still allows tons of attacks and recon, like port scans, or even crashes of processes- since internal things might not go through the same fuzzing scrutiny as external endpoints.