skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it should also be noted that the best way to show an employer that they need to do better is supply and demand, quitting entirely and working for someone else is not only more effective than simply demonstrating or slacking off, it’s also many magnitudes more professional and better for your career.
Silicon Valley’s Angry Right-Wing Sends Its Message to Washington, DC
I don't really want to knock anyone, either, and volunteering is great, but I find the implication that there's something skeevy about paying a fair wage to the people who supply a charity's backbone labor to be kind of bothersome.

Subtextually, there seems to be a peculiar double standard being presented: Paying retail prices for in-kind donations, which implicitly covers the wages of all sorts of retail and distribution workers associated with the grocery store, as well as lining the pockets of the grocer store's owners and, if it's a public company, shareholders, is just fine. But providing cash donations is bad, because then the charity might use some (presumably less) of that money to pay its own employees to do those jobs? And paying them money is bad, because they should be getting all that labor for free?

It's hard for me not to see that as a tacit allegation that one's time and labor are inherently less valuable when they're being given to an organization whose mission is to help others instead of one whose mission is to make its owners as rich as possible. Which, personally, I think that my opinion runs close to being the exact opposite of that.

If you want to spend your free time helping others, that's awesome. If you want to make a career of helping others so that you can spend even more time doing it, hey, that's awesome, too. And, the world's distributions of wealth, free time and skills being what they are, supplying the money that enables people to go that route can quite easily be the most effective option still other people have for giving back, so that's awesome, too.
Very relevant film about the topic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5688932/
i like this one, so a kind of human readable short url would be great...
I disable in app purchases in their entirety on my own personal iOS devices. Mainly cause I’m paranoid that I’ll accidentally tap something and then accidentally approve it when trying to hit the home button.

I’ve had apple devices for years, and I’ve gone in and manually enabled the ability to in-app purchase less than a half a dozen times.

(This, and similar restrictions are buried in the screen time settings, in “content and privacy restrictions”)
Of course the world would be entirely different today, but whether that results in "large future dividends" is entirely unpredictable, and the whole point of the butterfly effect.

Maybe some very talented people would have picked up a career based on transistors before they were locked into something else and humanity would have harnessed fusion power by now.

Maybe some aggressive people would have harnessed transistors for weapons earlier and humanity would be eradicated by now.

Maybe due to a strange coincidence involving a transistor salesman on a trip to Brazil and some records on his way back, we'd all be dancing Bossa Nova at New Year's Eve, in honor of a decades old tradition.

"What if", is, in reality, pointless, as everything depends on everything (at least within our Light Cone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone )
Back in the stone age when I did mine, my approach was more local, but similar.

I wrote all the text in LaTeX using AucTeX package, but had a makefile and a commit hook (to CVS, later SVN, this was pre-git). All figures & tables etc. were generated from other make targets, which chained back to a mix of (usually) lisp code, matlab, or maple/mathematica. Oh, and figures generated by things like MetaPost. Structuring things at the chapter level .tex files made it all pretty manageable.

I had figure dependencies on both input data and executable targets/scripts, so changing either would trigger a recompute, with the exception of some long running stuff - of course had global rebuild rules. I wrote many papers this way too, it was nice to know everything was synchronized properly.

I did use org-mode to organize my work though.

These days it would be on github and I probably wouldn't have lost it in a move.
Didn't this article have a longer title originally?

Is it me or have titles on HN been changing a lot more frequently than they used to, in the last few weeks?
Microsoft thinks what they have is Clean UX.....
2FA will be required across the EU in September (outside of some exemptions, eg a charge under €30)

https://www.barclaycard.co.uk/business/news-and-insights/wha...
Because it is no person’s place to compel, using violence, two consenting adults to alter an agreement between them to which they both voluntarily consent and that harms no third party.
"EAC/Wine compatibility is currently in a beta state with several games whose help we appreciate, but significantly more work is needed to get it to a suitably stable and hardened level for all." https://twitter.com/TeddyEAC/status/1125678854390067200
Great, my first video was a group of cosplayers dancing to music from "THE IDOLM@STER".
> proprietary tools

What do you mean? The tools listed in OP are all open-source, which is the opposite of proprietary. I googled for the definition of "proprietary" prior to replying, because I thought I might have had it wrong, but wikipedia defines it as "closed-source software".[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software

EDIT: I apologize, I was wrong, and a lot of the tools on the page are not open-source. I read the name of the website, clicked on a couple of projects, and they were open-source. So I assumed the rest was as well, given that + the name of the website.
Rifling through a wallet for cash and doing it for the credit card in the next pocket are basically the same action to a child who doesn't know better. And it's not like it's a good or reasonable idea for parents to come home and lock up their wallet in a safe.
Seconded. I'm on Android, my kid uses my phone, and he can't buy anything on his own as I have to type in my password for each purchase. If I recall correctly, I had to choose this behavior the first time over (no default, you moved on by picking one or the other), then it remembered my choice. Is anyone's experience different?
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> Unfortunately he has so far only confirmed my belief that adding a package manager to Haiku just made things more complicated.

You keep saying this. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Package managers add a certain kind of complexity to parts of the system that, without it, would indeed be "simpler." But it is an extremely powerful lever that allows removing far, far more complexity than it adds, especially when it comes to porting software. We were very thoughtful about this tradeoff and tried very hard to get it right.

Let me ask you this, then: You have repeatedly made this claim. How much have you actually used Haiku, both before and then after the package manager? Because the entire point of the package manager was to pull the complexity away from the users and to us (the developers and maintainers), where we can manage it and automate it away, which is what we have done. If you as a user are seeing some issue, we would greatly like to know about it so we can solve it.

> Sure, he recommends some behind-the-scenes magic that can make it a little better, but that's never going to be as good as just being simple in the first place.

If it were truly about simplicity, don't you think Apple would have done it already? Or some other company -- that is, being simpler means spending less time and money; and any company that could save money and turn more or the same profit without losing customers would do it in a heartbeat.

> That's my problem with "magic", it only appears to work the way you expect until your usecase falls outside of the expected, then the illusion is destroyed.

You are using ""magic"" in scare-quotes. Why? You do know this is all code, written by us, and which can be modified by us, or someone else, right? There is not some file called "package_manager.cpp" which was written by someone in a basement 30 years ago that is incomprehensible to human eyes. These are well-thought-out systems that are designed to fit in with the rest of the system in a coherent way.

It is also the case that "we optimized for the most usual usecases" is how 99% of software is written. So why are you singling out package managers, or at least our package manager, as a problem here?

I also note it sounds like you are going a lot from theory (i.e. "I read the package manager works this way") and not practice ("I used the package manager and found X".) Is that right?

At least probono seems more than happy with Haiku and its model:

[15:52:55] <nepugia_q> if you are serious about wanting to make a better linux desktop linux distro sign me up :P (have been trying to bootstrap a distro for some time now, with much less gnu tools than we have now (and putting / on a tmpfs and so))

[16:02:58] <probono> nepugia_q now that i have found Haiku i think we should invest here
Indeed, most people seem to forget the dark ages before VS Code. When you were forced to choose between either slow heavy weights like Visual Studio/Intellij (and its relatives PyCharm et alia)/Eclipse that took forever to start up without a SSD drive or fast featureless editors like Sublime Text, Gedit, Notepad++, Vim/Emacs etc. The latter requires tons of plugins and config to get anywhere near the featureset of the former while the former often seem to have way too many knobs hidden behind collapsible panels on the side. Sure, greybeards may dismiss this as "entitled thinking" when in the Good Ol' Days when people only needed ACME with no syntax highlighting or simply Ed. Sure, but you cannot deny the productivity boost of zero-config Intellisense autocompletion that works out of the box. Language Servers that get installed automatically with all it's dependencies etc. when the parent editor plugin is installed. Configuring Emacs was a special kind of hell that required fiddling with PATH variables, jumping between FSF's poorly formatted documentation and the target language tooling. Do not mention its interaction with Python Virtualenvs; it still gives me nightmares. Getting Sublime Text working with stuff like Clojure etc. required tons of fiddling and watching YouTube videos that all differs slightly in methods. Many days were wasted editing Sublime Plugin configs and JSON files. VS Code forced editors like Atom etc. to up their game in performance, features, speed etc. Zero-config language setup and automatic prompting for installing plugins are now the norm thanks to the efforts of the wonderful VS Code team. The Vim plugin in VS Code is also second to none.

Also, a shout-out to Sublime Text for kick-starting the lightweight editor revolution in the first place, with it's cross-platform TextMate style interface and its beautiful Monokai UI color scheme. Kudos!

And for Lisp users, Light Table and Nightcode deserves praise for helping to modernize Lisp and demolishing Emacs' forced monopoly that turned off so many interested beginners. Well done Chris (and team) and Zach, thank you for bringing fresh blood and perspectives!
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It could, but undue tension on the chain vastly decreases the efficiency and longevity of the chain, and potentially, the cog/chainwheel. This would also present a safety issue because chains can (and do) break.
Yes, but what exactly varies on the role. Eg:

- Developers and system engineers: will add the BCC and bpftrace tools to their toolkit for analyzing issues, but they won't necessarily need to develop new ones themselves (so long as someone at the company can, as needed). The book targets this (large) audience by covering over 150 tools.

- Some developers will use the BPF tracers like bpftrace as a primary debugging tool as it's the best available for their language (eg, user and kernel C and C++); other mature runtimes may already have a tracer that developers are already using, making bpftrace a secondary debugging tool for digging deeper. In that case, you may find there is one or two people on a development team who learn bpftrace and deal with the deeper debugging, whereas others get by with their primary tracer. The book targets these audiences too, by explaining bpftrace programming and including many examples.

- There's another smaller audience where there'll be BPF demand that is not the focus of the book: custom BPF products. In the past, a monitoring/security company might sell you a loadable kernel module to do their thing; in the future, those should all become BPF programs (where possible), which are safer to run. There will also be new applications made possible by BPF. Some of these products will be bpftrace/BCC-based, and the book will be helpful. So I'd expect to see some demand for these BPF skills too, although it's a much narrower audience than the others. It'll be companies trying to hire BPF programmers to migrate their kernel modules to. Some companies already sell such BPF things (Cilium, Sysdig).
1. Electronics. Consumer and industrial

2. Just for any engineering job in China there is a personal "middle income trap" of around net CNY25000-30000 per month. You reach it, and your career progression stalls, possibly for a decade or so.

Progress past the formal "senior" level is a rare, rare luck.

At 30000 net a month, you can live very very well in China.
Windows has no lack of power. All this anti-cheating stuff is mostly a scam to stop the dumbest of the dumb cheaters and probably collect information from your computer that's useful to advertisers/investors/law enforcement agencies.

If I wanted to aimbot in an FPS, I would just analyze the HDMI output from my computer (via an FPGA) and have it directly create the necessary USB transactions to move my mouse to the target's head. I would introduce randomness, "input lag", jitter, and even some misses, so that people looking at the kill cam wouldn't immediately think "aimbot" as they are apt to do whenever they die. (You also don't want to make your mouse movements statistically different from anyone else's, or it's the server that will pick up on your cheating... or at least a well-crafted MapReduce. Do game companies have MapReduce? I hope so.)

Executed well, the developer of the game could do nothing about it; maybe I'm really good, or maybe I'm aimbotting. My computer is completely normal, down to the device descriptors on my mouse and monitor. There's no wine, no virtualization, no additional software running.

In the end, trusting the client is crazy. If you want to decide win/loss based on things computers can do easily, your game is probably bad. And aiming is something computers can do in their sleep.
So when will blender drop Linux support and require the Epic Store to Launch it?
Crashed UAE Military Spy Satellite Raises Possibility of Enemy Cyberattack
Other posters point out something that I found to be unexpected: The ESRB does not rate mobile games.

Now, yes, the ESRB ratings are not anything to stake your life on, but they do give parents and organizations something to go off. Does the ESRB have massive problems? Yes, of course. Do mobile games need to have some sort of rating system? I'd think that most people would say something would be really nice

Perhaps the ESRB, or an expanded board of a similar nature, should expand their mission to not only rate the content in a mobile game but also should give card-holders a better idea of what the gaming market's financial risks are?
>the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.

Yeah. There's no way way it's more complicated than this. If there are other effects not reflected on a simple X/Y axis then I don't wanna know about it!
Wouldn't you also need a way of storing information (preferably an unlimited amount of information) for Skylines to be turing complete?
How would you implement the tape of the turing machine?
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Brings back memories of the Hare Hare Yukai craze.
I think the best approach is make paths available, let people sort themselves by which path they prefer.

I have a functional path out. No one cares and I can't get support for further developing it.

I posted this to HN. It got no traction.

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/06/a-people-fi...

I am actively working on developing additional resources, for example:

https://genevievefiles.blogspot.com/

Explanation:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/06/lgbtq-indiv...

I would like to also put together information related to understanding and resolving our current housing crisis (because that's one of the root causes of homelessness). I've made multiple stabs at starting a website to gather such data. The latest was started yesterday:

https://americanhomeworks.blogspot.com/

But ad income for websites generally has tanked in recent years and I get endless excuses and justifications for why writing shouldn't get paid at all and I get told I should get a real job and stop whining.

I don't feel like rehashing that in detail for the umpteenth time on HN. Short version: there are enough people here with money to spare that it really shouldn't be hard to adequately fund my Patreon for me to be able to blog full-time instead of spending time trying to come up with money to survive doing writing of a sort that people here decry as "ruining the internet," but almost no one wants to put their money where their mouth is. They are all too happy to watch the world burn while loudly decrying how it can't be fixed and once in a while patting me on the head for making my life suck less but not actually taking me seriously as someone with anything of real value to offer cuz Reasons.

Meanwhile, I'm nearly broke as usual and wondering how the hell I'm going to get through the rest of the damn month because doing low paid writing for clients is harder than doing quality writing on my own sites, but developing my sites mostly doesn't pay. Too bad, so fucking sad. It sucks to be me.
---- Rate of Home Ownership Q1 2019 -----

All races: 64.2%

White (non-hispanic): 73.2% (+-0.4%)

Hispanic: 47.4% (+-0.9%)

Black: 41.1% (+-0.9%)

Other races: 53.9% (+-1.1%)

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf

This Excel document contains historic data going back through Q1 1994 up to Q1 2019 (although it lacks the MoE per above):

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/histtab16.xlsx

The article seems to be factually accurate. Although it would have been useful to convert the rate into absolute terms, but I cannot find that information on the Census's pages by race.
Uber& Lyft drivers paid to demonstrate against bill that make them employees
TP link one

...also saw some random github-y thing while googleing the model number which hints at some level of hackable/api-able interfacing which made me click the buy button. That's sketchy info though

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GWWRK1C

[Please bookmark & make use of smile.amazon.com/co.uk thing...it's amazon's corporate charity thing - free 0.5% donation]
I'm not sure that's different in windows. What do you think is stopping you from messing with net/visual/input there?
Nothing comes up related to what you described, I just see a bunch of listings for Angie's list.
Except many of the tools listed are definitely not open source...
Read binthere's comment for some details.
>The comments here that PageRank is Google's secret sauce also aren't really true - Google hasn't used PageRank since 2006.

That's quite a claim considering they were reporting PageRank in their toolbar until 2016, and toolbar PageRank was visible in Google Directory until 2011.

Are you talking about PageRank from the original patent?
> without creating anything of value,

Delivery creates significant value. What are you talking about?
USB-IF already has certification but they aren't willing to kill off non-certified cables (which are 99% of the market).
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I personally find it hard to trust vs code due to Microsoft. For example, they snuck telemetry in their last windows 7 “security” update. I realize the community could fork it if they did so, but it’s still a bit weird. Maybe it’s just me
Those are reverse engineer not blessed by Micrsoft's nor it is win32 an open standard

Further if the Oracle v Google suit does not get overturned MS could put an end to both Wine and ReactOS in a heartbeat
Most of the tools referenced on https://macopenweb.com/ are not open source.
>Probably not evil, just incompetent.

Incompetent, or rational decision in terms of bang-for-buck to reduce cheats?
What real-word “more often than once a year” use case for a MacBook Air is affected by this change, that would not also require the CPU and RAM resources of a MacBook Pro to deliver in a human-acceptable time?

Compiling requires a Pro due to the cores, so I/O won’t be your restriction due to the busy cores, and the small size of files and memory-cached directory structures.

Video encoding a 2-hour, 50GB Blu-Ray rip is restricted to the performance of the hwaccel available, which is guaranteed to be less than 1Gbps of input for any plausible output, and thus not I/O restricted either.

Any file size under 200M will be unaffected since it can be read from disk in one clock second on either old or new.

So, completely seriously, who will be using an Air and negatively impacted by this change, such that it’s newsworthy and frontpage-worthy?

Certainly not the students it’s targeted towards — unless they’re in data sciences, in which case they’ll need 2 minutes to process an entire drive full of data instead of 1 minute, having somehow overcome CPU and RAM limitations to do so.

I believe such cases are possible, but I’m having a hard time constructing plausible ones.
Is there an actual response to the market argument in there? Are you saying Amazon has a monopsony in retail and therefore can drive wages below market levels?
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What's partly amusing and partly astounding is the time this person took to do it, re-do it, test it, write it and prove it. I think that's where most of the excitement comes from. We get excited by things that are theoretically possibly but no one would waste their time doing it until someone does.
ESRB is not a legal regulation and has zero authority. It is merely a privately held company that holds the copyrights to their system of rating video games.
Why should we do anything to help people with self-destructive problems? Just let them die off. Keeping the weak alive is a shortsighted dysgenic manifestation of empathy incontinence.
Plug: does anybody have anything good to recommend as a free/open source alternative to the featured: https://tumult.com/hype/ and https://www.svgator.com/ for producing animated svg/canvas like these: https://tumult.com/hype/gallery/HerokuPlatformScale/HerokuPl...?
It's really interesting that they managed to encounter an interaction between NTO and titanium that has never been known to occur before.

It seems that no one really knew that titanium could ignite.

edit: Maybe not. Looks like this was a known failure mode for titanium https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/613553.pdf
I actually don’t think any of the above commentary is true.

More expensive doesn’t necessarily mean more support ... thunderbolt is not usb-c even tho they have the same connector on the end ...

If you are in the market for an expensive and long thunderbolt cable — caldigit makes one. I just bought it and felt annoyed at paying 50 dollars for a cable — but I’m also glad for the technology needed to make this cable possible to exist so ... maybe I can swallow this as funding the future?

https://www.amazon.com/CalDigit-Intel-Certified-Thunderbolt-...