skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was in a work environment and we had over 50 department and team-specific channels already, as well as a bunch of random noise channels. Funnily enough, it was the application developers who were the problem in this instance since they were being more of a hindrance than a help. Being able to mute them or quiet them down while I fixed their mistakes and was documenting the workarounds/solutions would have been very useful.

Perhaps it says more about that company than Slack in general though; it's the only place I've worked where Slack was used let alone considered mandatory.
In my case, iTerm2 can do more sophisticated keyboard remapping than the standard terminal. Specifically: I have Caps Lock globally remapped to Command. Except, in iTerm, it acts as Control. Except, if I'm using some specific combos, like Cmd-Tab or Cmd-`; then it acts as Command again.
This looks like a very obvious cowpath that Twitter could pave. I just don't get why they haven't done it yet.
Maybe. I don't know Dworkin's work well enough to agree or not. From the little I've read I'm hoping that's not the case but I think we may disagree on whether that's a good thing.

I'm going to have to disagree on your last statement too. "it's not appropriate in the workplace". People do meet at work. Bluntly hitting on someone is not socially acceptable and could even get you fired but minor flirtation happens all the time. I think that's a gray area and not likely to go away.

I don't know that "women are renegotiating" anything so much as twitter people and bots are taking extreme positions (on both sides and not just on this issue). I think this is just one case where more nuanced, moderate discussion gets turfed in favor of extreme, us-against-them position taking.
it was an emotional reaction. i do think the subject is worthy of more rigorous discussion. please accept my apologies
There are OS packages for `glances` as well as `pip` packages.

No one should be installing anything from curl-to-shell pipelines - but sadly, they do.
Interesting article and really highlights how stupid we are as a society to keep destroying ourselves with this stuff.

The writing style was distracting though. I enjoyed it but felt guilty for doing so because it felt too indulgent for lack of a better word.
There is no official feature roadmap, but here's the current plan:

3.2.x will be focused on rendering improvements. The full change log is here: https://iterm2.com/appcasts/testing_changes3.txt

3.3, which is currently under development, is adding a Python scripting API (https://iterm2.com/python-api/) and fixing tab and window titles to make sense, plus adding a status bar.

Feature requests that are candidates for 3.4 are here: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/milestones/8

If you have something in mind file an issue. Y'all are my PMs.

There is already support for ligatures (prefs>profiles>text>enable ligatures). The Metal renderer does not support them because that's an extra level of complexity I can't handle in the first release. It would require constructing CTLineRefs which is already the slowest part of drawing. Subpixel antialiasing also makes this really difficult, but since that's going away in Mojave I'll revisit it.

Future performance enhancements that I have in mind are:
- Faster tokenization (including revisiting SIMD)
- Mojave-specific optimizations (removing subpixel AA and its knock-on consequences)
- Move per-frame setup work into a compute shader. This is tricky because some people have CPUs that are relatively faster than their GPUs (thanks Intel!)
- Reuse the preceding frame's rendered texture when updating less than a full frame
- Move work off the main thread where possible
And here we are discussing this on HACKER NEWS :))))
This makes me wonder how many thousands or hundreds of thousands of people are stuck in similar USCIS/USCBP purgatories regardless of the type of visa application they're waiting to receive a response about.
This will be fixed under macOS 10.14! It's already enabled on the nightly builds. The blending isn't quite right yet, but I only had a few hours to spend on it.
Not exactly—I actually got a CS degree back in 2005 but got into sysadmin work. I started at DigitalOcean as a technical writer (tutorials) in 2014 then, after 18 months of writing, brushed up on my skills by working on side projects and pairing weekly with one of DO’s engineering managers.
Belgium can be equally excruciating. a friend of mine moved from india to belgium. after living here for more than a year, his parents wanted to visit him. the parents have a house in india, family, the father is on a decent indian pension, etc.

it took the belgian embassy about four months to decide on the application. however, to be able to apply, you have to make all your travel arrangements. they didn't anticipate the process to take this long, had to first move, and then cancel their arrangements altogether. in the end, the application got rejected, but the official reasons were cryptic.
my friend's interpretation was that the embassy was concerned that his parents might not return to india. they had the option to appeal, which can take 6 to 12 months. chances of appealing successfully are low and so are the chances of getting a visa in a renewed application. in the process, they lost about €3000, which is a lot of money in rupees.

instead of appealing, the parents booked a vacation in the netherlands. the visa application went through in less than a month. they got a schengen visa, meaning that they could also visit belgium. and this is how his parents visited him in the end.

his conclusion was that belgian bureaucracy is out of hand and that the EU has interesting loopholes.
You think click farms in Bangladesh can't establish VPN endpoints in the USA? You can even get VPN endpoints that are specifically in Comcast, Verizon FiOS, charter, CenturyLink residential IP space so that it doesn't look like your traffic is coming from some /22 assigned to a Colo/dedicated server hosting company.
Same here. I get really stressed when I go on Amazon because there is so much junk there. I also used to buy from Newegg a lot but since they started selling from third party suppliers it's also a mess.

Nowadays I feel almsot more confident to buy on ebay from sellers that have thousands of ratings with a high positive percentage.
Mods?
No, it's not. Each visible pane gets its own thread, and three frames are pipelined. That means you could easily keep two cores plus your GPU going full steam (provided you have an underpowered GPU, which you almost certainly do, because you have a mac). In the legacy renderer, everything happened on the main thread so the most power it could draw was one core at 100%.
If you click through to the actual paper at the bottom of the article, the methodology here is just astonishing: they start by, without evidence, asserting that the main thing fork() does is to insert and remove processes from a list of processes. Then they write a program that creates a table of processes in a distributed database and adds and removes rows from it. Then they compare the speed of that with the speed of actually running fork() on the same cluster of machines. That’s the entire paper. You can’t make this stuff up.

“I am not able rightly to apprehend the confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage
Sounds like the talk "The Thirty Million Line Problem" by Handmade Hero creator Casey Muratori: https://guide.handmadehero.org/misc/30mlocp/
"is an endemic problem in medium-sized engineering teams where the engineers don't perceive the unity of what they are doing because they are in the depths of seven different complex components."

What size of team are you talking about (i.e. number of engineers)? The situation you describe might be related to the clarity with which product boundaries/scope is defined. In a product team of 5-10 engineers and one product manager, it's unusual for any individual engineer to be working on something 7 layers deep in the context of that team's product, without understanding why.

If you treat product management as divvying up features and assigning them to engineers from an undifferentiated pool, then the situation you describe is very likely.
Thanks for helping me understand your position better. You're right that people dealing with specific issues are unlikely to be (directly, immediately) helped by his analysis, although it's possible that if he identifies specific mechanisms that have improved outcomes for people, then societies could harness those mechanisms to improve the situation for even more people.

I think your original comment suggested that because he was privileged, and because he had noticed that the situation for many people in the world is better than it has been before, that therefore he didn't care (or people like him might not care) that others still suffer from problems that we could prevent. I'm not sure if optimism reduces empathy, but I suppose that is something to consider.
> Fight Club profoundly moved me when I first saw it, partly for this reason.

This is a serious misreading of the message of Fight Club. The point isn’t that an interest in possessions is bad– it’s that extremist views are bad. The idea is that living in a hovel with a lunatic terrorist should (hopefully) be more abhorrent than flipping through the ikea catalog in a condo.
Not everyone is on your hourly rate.

Hardly anyone is on your hourly rate...
I wish Pokemon Go had been the game we've all actually been waiting on. With familiar Pokemon PVP and real-world Pokemon scavenging. The gym concept they have is just not that much fun. But I guess the advantage to Pokemon go is being accessible to younger audiences who weren't alive when red and blue came out (I think I was nearly 30 then!) and also that the lack of more concrete game mechanics lends the game a more expressive nature. I've seen people that just play to collect their favorite one, and that's kind of magical to me.
2016 article with more details: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/ibm-sues-groupon...

It links to the original lawsuit (https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IBM.Group...) as well as the 4 patents: 5,796,967, 7,072,849, 5,961,601, and 7,631,346
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My quotes are direct from her, per the cited article.

> poor definition

What's your definition?
Similar with a system I put together for emulating CP/M recently. Take away the Z80 emulator and you really only need to emulate a few bits of hardware for handling console I/O, selecting disk drive, track and sector and then reading or writing the sector. At that point you can run simple CP/M commands, assemblers, C compilers, BASIC interpreters etc.

Add VT100/ANSI terminal emulation and you can run Wordstar, Rogue, dBase 2 etc.
And before that it was 4chan. Meme pages that touch on social and political issues are fairly integral to our net culture.
I'm talking about laws proscribing "immoral" behavior between consenting adults. Murder is certainly not between consenting adults. Neither is rape.

I don't believe this is a difficult concept to distinguish these behaviors.
> ... there's something new?

The "STARTTLS Everywhere" project [0] -- the one thing this entire article is talking about -- is what's new.

> ... I've been using STARTLS on SMTP for almost 20 years ...

That's great -- I have too -- but I have some bad news for you: not everybody else has been! (I know, right!?)

The EFF is simply trying to bang the drums to get everyone's attention and then convince those that aren't already using STARTTLS (everywhere, hence the name) to consider doing so.

The good news, for you, is that you're already done. There's nothing for you to do, unless you want to add your domains to the "policy list" so that others who are participating won't send mail to you unless encryption is in use.

Fortunately, the EFF has already written about this extensively [0], so there's no need for me to rehash all the details (coincidentally, that same exact web page is also reachable by clicking on the first link in this article).

[0]: https://www.starttls-everywhere.org
And yet you're paying five to six figures in opportunity cost either way.
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This is super interesting. I wonder if the schools tine table was also in scope for optimising, what the floorplan would look like.

Similarly instead of opting for less travel time, a company could optimise for more, chance encounters.
Is that truly the case for games? I thought game logic was usually programmed against a clock, so that the game logic isn't dependent on running at some pre-determined frequency. However, is it typically the case that the number of ticks per second is independent of the render time?
It does fight against a situation where the news would be lying though. Recently we've heard about many news outlets getting something wrong accidentally or maybe even deliberately. What they do on Instagram would probably help against that.
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its amazing how prevalent the 808 sound is in modern music... probably 80% of current rap music is based on sounds derived from the 808 kit. The combination of smoothness, "bassiness" and chattering hats and static snare really is infectious.
I wonder if there is a 'job creation system' at play here for those lawyers to have a job or exist in the first place. If a country has a good and functional administrative system in place, that would not be needed.
The issue at hand is 'are things getting better overall, and can we be generally optimistic', this is not about individual situations.
I have a friend who's a musician, that's been coming to the US to tour a month a year for a decade. This last time his visa got stuck for a full year and even his immigration lawyer couldn't figure out who was holding it up. Instead they applied for the EB-'Eistein visa' which was issued in only 3 weeks so that he could tour. It did take a call from said lawyer reminding them that a US corporation would be losing money if it wasn't done on time.

Still, he was shocked shocked by a quick EB as a weekend strummer with a few regular US gigs. Lawyer cost $6k.
I believe in an external world, where not everything is a matter of personal "priority", but certain things are objectively more significant than others.

And I might be wrong, but in that world, ligatures and transparent terminals are not really as important as rendering speed, latency, and/or less CPU load for a terminal emulator.

In fact, even where available, ligatures are a fringe option, adopted by very few people.

(I'm always talking about programming editors. Though even in print, their main domain, they're hardly mainstream these days).
I'm the past, we solved problems like this by having industry groups pony up money to educate consumers about options.

Sounds like it's time for companies that can't get in Google search results to start doing ad spots about search engine choice.
My Lumia 640 actually feels snappier than my Lumia 950 in some ways. I dont understand that, its been the same with all of the Lumia 950s I've used. The 950 has a nice camera though, and that display is great reading books.
And while we cherish the work of volunteers maintaining this database, let's not forget that this database was once the subject of a meritless lawsuit: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-wins-protection-time-...
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That's probably because it's often used to describe lawyers, which have a pretty notorious representation, as a whole.
We're talking about ligatures in console based programming editors.

Not about setting ligatures for print.

So the whole argument is kind of moot. Having ligatures in console vi is not what made the Mac "historically be far ahead of other platform". In fact for the first 15 years of its life the Mac didn't even have a console.

Even in the desktop GUI program world, where ligatures in programming IDEs and editors are a possibility, they're still an extremely fringe endeavor.
Those coccoliths also make for fantastic oil bearing reservoir rock, provided certain conditions are met, otherwise chalk tends to make a good seal. Some of the most prolific oil fields in the world, in the north sea, come from fractured chalk beds.

For example, massive salt diapirs (think of them as giant, mountain sized fingers) 5-15 miles beneath the earth's surface are gradually squeezed, like a fluid, moving upwards and fracturing rock (and chalk) above, creating porosity and permeability necessary for oil production.
I guess it's more of a PR issue than a criticism of his work. A Harvard Professor with a pretty decent life telling the world that everythings getting better when for a significant number of people that isn't what they are experiencing.
Nope!

I've had this handle since around 1998, but other people started grabbing it in other forums after that. I'm not the twitter ninkendo nor the steam ninkendo either.

I only have this handle without trailing numbers on here, Ars Technica's forums, and gmail. (Formerly reddit too, but I deleted my account there when the site became a bit too toxic.)
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This is after all partly why the US tax system is so complex... It's well-known that tax preparers lobby against tax simplification.
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I have a couple of issues with your post.

> don't upkeep their own house or living quarters

I have done a staycation (and enjoyed it) and yes I keep my own house. I cooked the things I want to cook but don't normally have time/drive to do so, I did the things that I normally have to ration my time on (playing games/guitar, reading, outdoor walks). It was quite pleasant.

> If it doesn't make sense to you, you aren't going to the right places.

I completely disagree. I did a long weekend in an all inclusive resort similar to what you described on Antigua. I'll never do one again. (At least not with just two of us, maybe if I had children it would be different). I had no access to the things I love (you have to ration books, not bringing a guitar across the Atlantic). I found the whole "make friends with the people you're tipping to bring you drinks/food" thing very strange.

I would much rather stay with some people (recently usually AirBnbs in a room in the hosts homes), get some recommendations of places to eat/drink/see that they like to go to, and explore with my best friend/partner.

> If cost is an issue, I wouldn't have been planning a trip to begin with.

Cost isn't a binary thing. There are otions between spending a week in your house doing laundry and staying in an 800 dollar a night all inclusive hotel and 2000 dollars on flights. I can't afford to spend 10 nights in an all inclusive resort of that caliber while flying to the other side of the world in business class - does that mean I can't have an abroad trip?

I did a 4 day trip to Palma in Majorca last September. It was stunningly beautiful, the food was incredible and it was a wonderful trip. We spent 300 pounds on flights, about 50 pounds on transport (taxis/airport buses) while we were there, and maybe about 500 pounds while we were there. It was indulgent, and the entire trip was cheaper than 2 nights in an all inclusive resort. I know which I would do again.
Unfortunately, DANE relies on DNSSEC, and that's the biggest barrier to widespread adoption that DANE has.
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Started as a result of my own frustration in having to comb through numerous film festivals rules and regulations from the other submission platforms available before deciding which is a perfect fit for my film. I will rather prefer to use my time for other valuable things. Unfortunately, that can't happen because I have to do all the work, so the idea of Festivilia was born to help other filmmakers like myself spend less time scouting and submitting to film festivals and focus on creating more amazing films.

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I don't think mentioning WhatsApp in the title like this is fair (of the article). It's clearly not WhatsApp that's at fault, because you could replace it with almost any online communication platform that's popular.
While this is true for just about every single other country, the US remains an impossible-to-grok travesty of justice. When I read about what my country does to the people that seek to be a part of it, I can only think back to the 1700s where many many countries wouldn't just deny you entry, they'd imprison you for the horrible horrible crime of just being at their borders.

The father of the guy that wrote The Count of Monte Cristo was imprisoned for two years in the Kingdom of Naples for the horrific crime of needing provisions after a storm killed their self-reliance.

It's exactly the kind of barbarism I think of when I consider the US stance towards any kind of interested interlopers. You must be doing something wrong, wait until I go through the X days process to decide you're not a horrible person.

Disgusting.
Behaviorists have failed to explain a monkey using a stick to get bananas for the first time. I have little patience for antiquated baloney such as "Emotions are are momentary improvisations to bodily reactions". Do paralyzed people have no emotions now? What about locked-in syndrome?

His broader point about flatness may be justified, but his entire school of thought is no less nonsensical than Freud's, which acolytes also try to revive by sprinkling with modern research from time to time; so this "debunking" leaves me unimpressed.
An alternative to not cooking is to enjoy cooking. I look forward to cooking, and enjoy the time I spend prepping for me and my partner, so I don't count it as housework.

Cleanup definitely counts though.
So what if you have apartments in 3 states, 2 with high taxes, one with none, and 365/3 = 121 2/3. Pick a low tax state that has nice weather in the winter, say Florida. So 123 days in florida, 121 days in NY, 121 days in cali. Then you owe no tax. If you really wanted to screw things up you could pick a 4th state say the us virgin islands just for bureaucratic fun.
Back in the day, Microsoft female employees were known to wear t-shirts with "Marry Me Bill" written on them. As we all know, Bill did marry one of his subordinates, and it is apparently a happy relationship.

I know another Microsoft employee who is now happily married to his assistant. Office romances are very commonplace, I recall reading somewhere that 40% of married couples met at work.

Interested in your opinion.

BTW, if someone continues to ask for dates after being told "no", then I'd agree that is harassment and must stop.
The biggest problem with dating apps
> the rich experience little to no risk in losing what security they have

The richest men a little over a century ago could have fallen to smallpox, influenza, cholera and a number of other today-curable diseases.
What's the best comment you've found in code?
That is the point of the article. WhatsApp happens to be the most popular platform in that area.
So what we need is more corporate oversight over people's communication? Ban encryption?
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