skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm having a hard time believing you because the hardware support for the MacBook trackpad has been abysmal on Linux in multiple flavors. Someone else in this thread mentioned support for mouse scroll speed and that's definitely one that I've run into and had to use workarounds to get to a comfortable place. I also need to use a Wacom tablet that should have 100% support on Linux because it's at least 8 years old that doesn't work properly as an input device. I've had issues with support for wireless cards, peripherals like printers, and even support for things that worked at one point in one flavor that didn't work in another.

I'm glad that you've had a great experience but I can assure you that it's less common than you're making it out to be. And this doesn't even begin to get into the issues that aren't really the fault of any one Linux distro (software availability, for example) but that are just a side-effect of Linux not being a popular desktop OS, regardless of the flavor. Linux can be used as a primary driver in certain cases and I'm sure that some of those cases also happened without any kind of hardware issues. I just don't think that's common nor do I think it's enough to recommend it as a primary driver for anyone that's not a tinkerer.
This is nitpicking the basic fact that the wealth gap between white Americans and African-Americans is basically unchanged. Go take a look at the graphs yourself!
Oh come on! This is the time cube of political analysis!
Obligatory need to say: I strongly believe in a live-and-let-live idea so yes, everyone should be treated fairly and with decency. Everyone.

The odd thing here is that in most cases, rules regarding speech revolve around what _not_ to say. (cursing, hate speech, attacks, etc).

But in this case, these kinds of things feel like they belong more as a list of good manners. But in this case, you aren't being told "this is what we feel are good manners", but you're forced to say certain things, but those rules can be all over the place (physically, on different pages, and complexity-wise). So now are people supposed to check each profile before responding? What's wrong with just saying s/he, or OP, or the various internet-isms? Do they cause so much harm? They are totally harmless and neutral, and not offensive. Or are they offensive now?

Again, it's one thing if it was a guideline (like when we talk about manners), but this seems like users are being forced to say certain words (compelled speech), knowing which words to say requires them to do additional research, and that research usually has nothing to do with the content of the actual post.
(Joke)

Sometimes I wonder if we should all adopt thick accents so we can just use 'e (instead of he or she); hm (instead of her or him); and ha (instead of his or hers).

(Please laugh)
In this specific case. The drink facilitates athletic activity, and taxing it as if it harms health is ludicrous. Honestly I think the whole sugared drink tax is a bit ridiculous, but taxing a sports drink mix at 90 effing percent when a soda is taxed at a few percent can't be the true intent.
Execs on high level may get this information by weekly or biweekly one-by-one meeting with junior employees. The higher you get the harder to get this information...

I think one main task of executives is to build up the formal and informal information channels to gater intel for decisions.
"With that said it's all just petty semantics..."

Semantics is what words mean.
>Generally though, Linux is Linux, and troubleshooting would solve these problems.

Sure... but, to me, troubleshooting is tinkering. I don't want to have to troubleshoot my input device because it suddenly changes after an install or kernel update. Yes, I know that I can solve these problems but I don't want to have to do it all the time.
Middlemarch is one of my faves - can't believe he couldn't get through it.
Tsundoku sounds related to Tsunami. I guess if you pile up too many books, it may result in a book tsunami.
Did they forfeit them? Or had they vested and in anticipation of IPO likely exercised either all or nearly all of their options and then sold post-IPO?
Given that they're probably already tracking everything via my credit card number (whether I sign up for anything or not), I don't feel like much privacy is being given up.

Though as a rule I don't bother with most of these programs, mainly due to the inconvenience factor.

I've lost hope of maintaining my privacy through any actions I can take individually. A legislative solution is required.
Well-connected parents get you into well-connected schools, which get you into well-compensated jobs. I'll take your FAANG example and raise you all of Wall St.
Everyone wanted to crucify Shkreli because of the drug price hike stuff, and because he was incredibly visible on social media trolling people.
I've always been split - he seems not nice but the show isn't quite the same without him.
It's something ridiculous like 40% of all pharma spending being advertising, so you'd also have a lot of advertising workers who'd lose their jobs.

We'd also presumably save a lot on duplication and reduced effort of not competing.

Now you just have to get power from the rich people, who stand to lose from such moves, long enough to implement them.
No.

Not "fair" to play by rules transitively dictated by an authoritarian government.

This is (1) exploitation of the under-served population who're oppressed and drained of resources by this government in order to support Tencent => Riot, and (2) normalizing / enabling of human-rights violation by socializing non-representative government-sponsored censorship.
Sort of. It sounds OK in pure theory. In practice when we end up loading the car to visit parents/grandparents for a week plus a dog in tow I’m not sure how we end up getting from our apartment door to the peripheral rental car zone which this being Manhattan is presumably in NJ. That’s a lot of cargo! Again I would love a car free Manhattan if I could figure out how to make it work. But many of those who argue this most vehemently I often suspect aren’t trying to raise families in NYC.
I seriously owe most of my life to the community FriendFeed gathered. If anyone from that team is reading this, thank you.

It was an amazing social network in every way. It had great UX and minimal UI, it was fast, had power features but was still simple to use and the idea of lifestream meets social feed still makes perfect sense.

The community it gathered allowed me to jumpstart at my career at the age of ~14. I even discovered HN on FF. It’s been nearly 10 years after I first signed up and I still meet people IRL that I’ve followed on FF. It’s always like meeting your countrymen in a foreign country. We talk about the old country before Zuckerberg bought it.
Direct link to the article in the title (as opposed to the home page) https://article.voxsnap.com/atrium/seed-stage-funding-startu...
No small amount: gcc, gdb, gmake, made bison yacc compatible.
There are so many comments like this about Google Reader that it's hard to understand why someone hasn't built a replacement. Even just a feature-for-feature clone. Hasn't anyone tried? If they have, why didn't it work?
It seems like this only happens with office staff. In factories where output is very directly measurable, headcount is expected grow slower than or drop compared to production.
Then you need to go look up how it's handled in Spanish.

BTW, English is gendered, just not as much as Spanish, French, and Italian are.
The simplest way to do this is to not get married. Unless one party is truly in it for the money, there is very little advantage to it other than the social acceptance that comes from being married which is vanishing anyway.

Legal marriage is a lifetime obligation where the terms aren't decided until after you sign. It's anachronistic and ridiculous. You wouldn't sign a job contract where if you got fired or quit you would face unspecified financial and personal penalties, but for some reason everyone wants to do that despite a 50% divorce rate. Insanity.
> Trading activity was never about value creation to begin with.

If that's the case, why should it exist at all? Why don't we just outlaw it and send all the smart people working on it to go write software or cure cancer?
I know you can. It still doesn't handle a good chunk of applications correctly. Since Windows didn't implement UI scaling foundationally, there are a ton of apps that will scale fonts in the UI without scaling the rest of the UI or they'll scale the UI in addition to the fonts which leaves you with normal-sized fonts and giant UI toolbars/icons.
A vast majority of opinions are allowed. Religious, atheist. hate the govt, love the govt. In the 50 dev startup I was working in we had the conservative guy (vp of engr) who was a republican who kept trying to defend trump. We had another guy on the other side who didn't trust the govt and didn't want to go through security at the airport. And all varieties in between. What's not allowed? outright misogyny, outright expressed racism.

Russians and Chinese citizens in my company, along with us citizens, europeans. These aren't exactly outliers. The tech world has been this tolerant over my 30 years of working. It's only gotten more tolerant over time. There's a hell of a lot less acceptance of sexist crap though - hard to argue against that change.
If I were you I wouldn't make a personal ethical stand on this (by not learning GNU software). If you're the only one who does it, it can realistically only hurt you.
For me, that's just as bad as supporting Google with 'normal' Android.
Programming wise I'm all onboard with window managers and spend most of my time in vim + tmux but reading articles and browsing documentation or pull requests I really like the trackpad. But maybe you're right and it's a matter of better exploring and accepting other workflows.
"Decency" is not a universal thing, so it's not acceptable to enforce your ways of being decent onto everyone else.
Anyone have any more info on the court case he referenced? I'm kinda surprised this isn't already common knowledge, given that IBM actually got sued over it.
It’s not the ‘latest’. It has always been that way and there are Post-nups too.
How does central planning determine which approaches are most likely to result in a successful cure?
Exactly. MCAS was a "cost cutting measure" implemented without consideration for anything else--including safety.

SpaceX's (almost) entire existence is centered on a cost cutting measure: reusing rockets. But they didn't approach it in a way that killed a bunch of people.
By "current bussiness model", do you mean current prices?

I do not see anything in the bussiness model that precludes raising prices. The issue seems to be that current prices are based on the assumption of tax evasion.

I have nothing against sex work, but it does not strike me as an industry worthy of tax breaks.
It actually resulted in not enough evidence, due to massive amounts of obstruction. What we continue to see today is a pretty good indicator that the basic tenets are likely accurate, and that there is much more to be uncovered.
Hard to say. Is there a reason to treat adult industry as any other industry? I can see the wish for higher level of privacy, but beyond that?

Apparently, there are lawsuits that precede the Uber issue:

> However, as a result of the lawsuits and ongoing demands by the suing dancers and their attorneys
But that doesn’t explain why their comp is fixed at the minimum wage of $15/hr

This article is a year old.
> developers who were (allegedly) wronged 30+ years ago

I listened to it and didn't hear the story of a developer whining about being wronged 30 years prior. The guy says clearly that he wanted to move on from Emacs. On the other hand, it's the story of an alleged source code theft and copyright violation. I hope the story is false but I don't think it's irrelevant because 30 something years have passed.
Don't learn emacs because it's GPL, or because of who wrote it. Learn emacs because it's a great tool.
Just confirmed it, and that's super interesting. I wonder if it's due to the phrasing of the question though (how long since programming vs. how long coding professionally).
Why not for everyone? What's yours is yours, what's shared is shared. Seems simple enough?

The legal entanglement is perhaps the strangest part of marriage, and divorce.
I had a similar experience growing my company (funnily enough, also a note taking app). When I reached the point where I had everything I needed, I had to ask myself, why keep going?

The answer for me was a custom-fitted realization that building a company is to be treated no different than a game. A factory building simulation game, like Factorio. The goal isn't to achieve operational bliss, because that goal is wickedly unattainable (or also extremely attainable, but would mean you'd accomplish that goal by simply just not playing at all). It is instead to grow, build, scale, solve, for no reason other than it being enjoyable to do so. Because playing the game, for problem-solving minded individuals, is a lot more stimulating than not playing it.

I wrote more about my personal experience with this here:

https://listed.to/@mo/2476/play-the-game
You act like the buyers of video games have no agency. Players gravitate towards gaming experiences they enjoy. You mention Minecraft but what is the Venn diagram overlap between people who enjoy Minecraft and people who enjoy fighting games like Smash or shooters like Fortnite? It's pretty high.

The genres of games that exist are a result of decades of experimentation in the market. They exist because people enjoy them. Not everyone likes the same stuff. Different personality types gravitate towards different gaming experiences. Same with movies, books, podcasts, etc. No reason to believe gaming should be any different.
US semiconductor firms call for more US backing to stay ahead of advancing China
It might be quite eye opening to learn 2000 square foot storefront in Manhattan starts around $10000 a month in the cheapest (ABCD) parts.
I'm not going to support any efforts that involve blatantly ignoring the rules. I fully support the House either initiating impeachment under their existing rules OR changing the rules to align with the procedure they have chosen to use.

A significant amount of how we got into this situation is because the institutions of our republic have become far too tolerant of rule-bending in favor of those who hold positions.
I really enjoy AvE's teardowns of the Dyson tech [0]. NSFW because the guy swears like it's going out of style, but highly entertaining, blunt, and informative.

It gives a nice glimpse into the tradoffs of engineering, cost, and serviceability in the face of an enormously well marketed product.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ave+dyson
Yes, a consistent ordering exists but that ordering isn’t necessarily what you think or want it to be. The consistency is present based off the order the reads and writes were executed in; you’ll never read back a value that wasn’t at some point stored there. Which can happen with non-atomic reads/writes, where you’ll read part of one write and part of the next. Reads can still be reordered before writes, as no memory barriers are issued.
"Namely: that being a pilot should not just be someone's job, but their calling. To use a weird phrase I once saw here, they are supposed to be "fixed-wing enthusiasts"."

Rotary-wing enthusiasts are just crazy. Everybody knows that.
What would you say is "finished", even?
This Dyson car idea always did sound weird. I like his reasons for trying. But its very hard to make a decent AND affordable electric car. I have no doubt Dyson could have made a decent one, but to make it affordable they would have needed huge economies of scale, or huge risk-taking balls a la Tesla. And as the article said, there was no point betting their stable existing business on a new moon shot.

Maybe 15 or 20 years ago, before Tesla had kicked the electric car segment up the arse, and the options around were all still pretty crappy, then an expensive Dyson electric car might have made sense. But in todays market it would have to compete with the Tesla Model 3, the Hyundai Kona EV and the Kia Niro EV and there's no way Dyson would have been able to make anything with similar specs at a similar price.
From a 2002 Stallman lecture:

There was no free software Emacs editor that ran on Unix. I did, however, have a friend who had participated in developing Gosling's Emacs. Gosling had given him, by email, permission to distribute his own version. He proposed to me that I use that version. Then I discovered that Gosling's Emacs did not have a real Lisp. It had a programming language that was known as ‘mocklisp’, which looks syntactically like Lisp, but didn't have the data structures of Lisp. So programs were not data, and vital elements of Lisp were missing. Its data structures were strings, numbers and a few other specialized things.

I concluded I couldn't use it and had to replace it all, the first step of which was to write an actual Lisp interpreter. I gradually adapted every part of the editor based on real Lisp data structures, rather than ad hoc data structures, making the data structures of the internals of the editor exposable and manipulable by the user's Lisp programs.

The one exception was redisplay. For a long time, redisplay was sort of an alternate world. The editor would enter the world of redisplay and things would go on with very special data structures that were not safe for garbage collection, not safe for interruption, and you couldn't run any Lisp programs during that. We've changed that since — it's now possible to run Lisp code during redisplay. It's quite a convenient thing.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html
Direct link to the original article that Voxsnap republished https://www.atrium.co/blog/seed-stage-funding-startups/
I don't understand why marriage is a legal thing. Why is the government involved?
Several dozen corrected bit-flips a year. I've seen stats that one can expect 1 bit-flip/gigabyte/month for a server that running a full load. You'd be crazy not to use ECC memory for production work.

Here's a paper about it: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
I wonder how a non-native English speaker would handle this, especially if they came from a country that is still hostile to LGBTQ issues?
[Off Topic]

I was very late to the whole StackOverflow Saga, and didn't spend much time reading through all of its causes and comments at the time it happen.

And when I did, the thing that struck me most and has been in many other places including HN ( Sometimes ) is the use of English presumes others are Americans, especially in technology sector. This completely ignores people all over the world using English to communicates. And this is not about cultures or values, but what is a pronoun? How do we use the correct "pronoun", how do we tell which one to use. I suspect many native English user will have cognitive load and may decide it is not worth the hassle and walk away.

What about those that uses English as 2nd or even 3rd language.

I remember a story my British Colleague once told me, our German Colleague is so good with his English, so precise that sometimes it is borderline rude if you didn't know he was German. i.e The tone is wrong, but Germany tends to be very explicit about things in their culture, not the same could be said about the Brits.

It is important to understand the meaning, and messages that is trying to come across behind its written or verbal form, and often not literally what it meant.

If we have to nitpick every single word, phase or grammatical mistake as well as whatever political issues it is with the usage of the word, we will very quickly end up with people not communicating to you ( or in this case Stack overflow ) in the fear of constantly being bashed and disrupted.
I’ve always wondered if the home team advantage is mostly caused by sleep deprivation.

I know baseball stadiums have idiosyncrasies (home run distance varies), but I’m not aware if anything similar for basketball.

The home team advantage is also pretty striking for win rates in the NBA: 58% of games are were won by the home team in the 2017-2018 season[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_advantage
They hamfist in their solution of using "x". eg. latina/latino -> latinx.
Also in agreement, breeding pets so they can be lifestyle accessories is probably wrong.

Both my pets are rescues, I have no difficulty with falling in love with rescued animals.
The discount is markedly more substantial than 3%. If it's a Safeway brand gas station the max discount is a dollar off per gallon. The safeway gas station I used to do this at currently has regular for $2.69 a gallon.
it's literally what you were doing
Flash is also what got me into programming. I started by making incredibly shitty knockoffs of stick figure videos on YouTube in flash mx 2004, then realized it also had the power to make games, and it went from there
Yeah from my experience they'll run into problems real fast making 300req/s in 5 seconds. It's so "noisy" and potentially disruptive.

I'm honestly surprised they weren't rate limited. I mean, your SPA would have to be really messed up to make more than a handful of requests a second (even then why aren't you using sockets?) - So it's super reasonable to say that if anyone is making over 100req/s then maybe they should take an hour timeout.

If you don't want to get caught doing this then you'll want a randomized delay like you said, and preferably a pool of IP addresses you proxy through. This is to prevent the automated stuff from catching you though - a human can still look at your account and wonder why you have every coupon activated 24/7.
Enough that I don't technically have to work, not so much that I won't keep working.
Why even need vehicles ? Japan has outstanding food vending machines.
Instead of intertwining the electric car project with the other Dyson core businesses, couldn't he have spun up a separate entity and raised funding? Seems like it would be a very attractive investment considering his track record.
All true. But the unintended consequence might be, that journals become publishers only of incremental, safe minor papers?
All of these efforts will eventually result in an amazing world where there are a lot fewer or zero crashes. Perhaps even change how cities or homes are built/organized. No doubt.

But the really troubling thing is the attitude and approach: this is not an "experimental software rollout" that somehow Tesla seems to advocate. You cannot use live human beings in real streets with very little safety net to "roll out" your self driving torpedoes. That just doesn't make sense and seems very irresponsible.

I would rather not have silicon valley mentality when it comes to cars or healthcare or even banking. Real people's lives are at stake.
A more directly effective counterbalance for vacant housing is squatting. An empty apartment is much less valuable when you can no longer ensure it will remain empty.
As Awk is a pattern-matching language, you can simplify it to something like this:

ps aux |awk '/what/ {print "kill " $2}'

This will give you a list of kill commands you can review, before piping to |sh to shake off those processes :)

And when what you try to do sequentially might take too long, you can consider throwing GNU Parallel [1] in the pipemix!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_parallel
The shot at Stallman's hygiene was unnecessary. It was the interviewer, not Gosling, that brought it up...still.
Agreed. It really bothers me that the article has this to say about the POTUS:

> He’s guilty, but the issue is how guilty, in comparison to his accusers.
Legal marriage is a partnership. Marriage has other connotations from a social and religious sense.

But business is business. You can’t afford to have a spouse who knows nothing about the business end up taking over the reins and making decisions that affect the business.
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