skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but many jobs today are seriously mundane and dont really allow for much creativity. I think it makes sense to put effort into other aspects of life and crank up your work hours towards something that'll have a lasting impact.
> Rivian raised $2.9 billion over four funding rounds in the span of one year? And it's been around for a full decade without ever releasing a product? Does this not set off alarm bells?

Not necessarily. They just signed some huge deals with Ford and Amazon, both of whom invested. What likely happened is that Rivian needed a lot of money for cap ex an inventory and wanted the customer to prepay. Those customers had a lot of power and so likely said, "Sure, but we'll take equity thank you very much."

I've bootrapped companies by having the customer underwrite the development cost but the sums have been so small (hundreds of $K, once a few million) that they weren't worth the customers (megacorps) worrying about this kind of thing. But when the sums needed are in the hundreds of millions, the CFO's office, if not the CEO, is gonna try to get something back.
I would guess that the vast majority didn’t start by creating a solid plan for transitioning their data off Slack.
Do you mind sharing from what country you come from and what language that is in please?

I just spent three years driving around Africa, and I usually say "People treat people like people" to describe everything that is amazing about the people there. It sounds awkward, but it's the best way I have to describe what you're talking about. I'd love to quote your saying, if you don't mind!
How many are going to take this bait? Fish on!
Yes, but those are things you install. Some services require an Internet connection and people accept that. You can’t use Netflix without an internet connection either (although you can download to watch offline). That’s different from taking a TV home and it not working even as a dumb display because you don’t have an internet connection.
Well... Magic Leap has no market, it literally has to invent one out of thin air. There is a gigantic market for trucks, and the market price for trucks is well established.

In one people invested in something that was unproven with an unknown market, the other people are investing in something the market already has show demand for... Seems pretty damn different to me /shrug
"Invention of Nature"; nonfiction; about the life of Alexander von Humboldt; Darwin said of him "if it hadn't been for AVH, I would have never stepped foot on the HMS Beagle"; profoundly important to modern science, an adventurer, yet little known in modern times

"Stoner" by John Williams; fiction; this book knocked me on my butt and I read it all in almost one sitting; about an English professor who refuses to relinquish his integrity in the face of great adversity

"Light Years" by James Salter; fiction; inexpressibly beautiful novel that takes place largely on the Hudson River above New York

"Narcissus and Goldmund" by Hesse; fiction; a fun yet literary adventure novel about the importance and fun of living life with integrity

"When Things Fall Apart" by Chödron; non-fiction; Chödron proposes that leaning into suffering, experiencing it as directly and fully as possibly and without resistance paradoxically leads to profound relief from suffering

"Enlightenment Now" by Pinker; non-fiction; proposes, convincingly, that life nhas drastically improved for nearly everyone on earth due to a shifting philosophical orientation towards enlightenment values; proposes that although much is problematic, there is reason for great hope, too
Excellent site, thanks for sharing.
Just realised that I don't know or use any languages that can be considered non-mainstream. Although Racket has been on my to-do list for way too long now.
Amazon will knock $20 off the price of a kindle if you get the version with ads. And those only display static grayscale ads, advertisers may be willing to pay more for something more invasive. Extracting $25 of value from spyware on televisions doesn't seem out of the question.
A real shame. I used to use 8tracks all the time in the early 2010s. I'm actually surprised di.fm is still around (another oldie but goodie).
There is a long history of using nukes to intercept missiles.

Here's one of the USA's (ancient) efforts:[1] Both missiles [long range and short range] used nuclear warheads, and they relied on destroying or damaging the incoming warhead with radiation rather than heat or blast.

The technology was quite impressive for its time. A Youtube video is titled "SPRINT ABM - Zero to Mach 10 in 5 Seconds", with a caption in the video pointing out "white hot skin". [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program#Operation

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msXtgTVMcuA
I can't agree more, but the choice in dumb TVs is limited. In the end the best option seems to be a video projector, but I really dislike the image quality v.s. a panel.

Any recommendations?
What are they doing with this data? Or is this simply the “they are bad people who hate user privacy” hypothesis?
Money is free for the credit worthy.

And by credit worthy that has nothing to do with your social/credit score.
I’ve yet to find a better workflow than tmux + vim + other terminal tools. The work I put into it has paid off a thousand times. I’d really like the whole os gui to work like tmux.
Surprisingly, why are we talking about TVs only?
It says they can collect photos stored on the device (including phones I guess), isn't that the the prime crime?
“Radical Markets” by Glen Weyl and Eric Posner
Tech Twitter's burnout culture meltdown
It’s a derivative of the original code. Much like the BSD derivatives of the original 4.4BSD source.

I think there were some licensing issues originally.
What does this mean for a lay-person in the so called "emerging and developing economy"? How do they prepare for any fallout?
> Krita has all the bases covered, you only need to add these things and I can ditch GIMP/Photoshop.

> The feature you are requesting is probably for Photo editing or manipulating images that are currently not in our focus.

Looks like the author answered their own question as to why some people still aren't happy with the available options. After all, photo editing is what Photoshop was designed to do.
On the media podcast and
Columbia journalism review

I wouldn’t call them impartial but the analysis is definitely fair and intelligent.
Why is it important to ensure that the implementations are comparable? Why would someone contribute one that isn't? And if a language has to do something unusual because of specific quirks, I'd argue that's interesting by itself, and demonstrates how languages are similar and different (the stated goal of Rosetta Code).

Rosetta Code is specifically not a collection of library code. You're not supposed to take code from there, so it doesn't matter whether they all implement exactly the same thing.

The advantage over GitHub is that it's much easier to find what you're looking for, and the code you will find will (supposedly) be written explicitly for expository purposes.
From the FAA, >.02 mSv per hour measured for LA to Tokyo [1]

From Wikipedia, .02 mSv for chest x-ray [2]

[1] https://www.faa.gov/data_research/research/med_humanfacs/oam...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose#/media/...
Porting to linux isn't worth it.
Cause most of the people who would switch are existing customers. And with the CC model it is never going to happen
It runs doom: https://itrunsdoom.tumblr.com/post/102407771718/the-acorn-ar...
You must be sweet talking the gate agent, because UA CPU's aren't applied for transatlantic flights: https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/mileageplus/awards/upgr...

I'll shill caniupgrade.flights which has info on which flights can be upgraded using various instruments. I need to update it for PlusPoints, but otherwise it's accurate.
I've got uBlock Origin set to block javascript on washingtonpost.com and as a result I've not seen their paywall nonsense in ages.
> VERB

> informal US

> Obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them.

> Origin

> 1980s from the name of Robert Bork (1927–2012), an American judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court (1987) was rejected following unfavourable publicity for his allegedly extreme views.

from OED https://www.lexico.com/definition/bork
Can confirm (1k with 125k+ BIS miles). My GPUs rarely clear on any reasonable route.
Wasn't that actually the crux of the original ban? The moderator argued that using gender neutral pronouns (like they and their) should always be ok and to expect everyone to keep track and use a specific pronoun for everyone was a bit too much to ask? So they banned them because the SO employee thought that you should only use exactly what everyone requests. I have to agree that it's a bit too much to ask in a forum that we all keep track of everyone's preferred gender pronouns rather than using something generic.
ok but when the title of the article is “linux doesn’t have photoshop” and the article is set up to be an answer to that belief you can understand how some people might be confused
Huh. And what is their defense if the homeless is a fakir?

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/...
Yep. It's technically incorrect.

It seems honoring this type of technical correctness matters a lot. For example, imagine if ECMA added a new feature (e.g. 0-prefixed octal literals) in 2020..

Another issue: security. Imagine a hacker figured out that you used a mix of JSON parsers on your application (e.g. V8 and jq), and they produced different output.

For a vaguely related example, consider that some URL parsers interpret Ｎ (U+FF2E - fullwidth latin N) as ".", meaning you can sneakily add a ".." to the URL with ＮＮ (see https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-Ne...)
same but that leads to another locked door for me.
Statistically speaking, the quality of life I want to get (expectations reduced by 5x for being extra cautious)
still has a chance of 2-5% given my background of ever being real.
Why should I place my bet on such a shitty investment package which most people get for nothing?
Fixing my current problems alone would take me years and that will put me near average person by the time, the gap is probably already widened.
I'm not addressing formal verification itself, but in the argument between dynamic languages and compiled type-checked languages, I haven't found the tradeoff as you describe.

I also have 20+ years in development and consulting, and I'm someone equally skilled in dynamic languages (particularly php) and compiled languages (mostly java, with scala and FP concepts mixed in).

My current long term project is something where I'm the sole person on the team capable of deeply understanding their two main sets of legacy code. Both have been in active development for around fifteen years. One is in php, and one is in java. Both have significant technical debt, with several efforts of "modernization" that have only touched parts of the codebases.

At this point, adding new features to the php codebase is harder. There are weirder runtime problems. The codebase is more difficult to understand. The side effects of any new features in the php codebase are more difficult to predict.

When developing features that have any hope of actually succeeding and sticking around for a while, the truth is that area of code is going to be read, analyzed, and understood (or attempted to be understood) far more often than it will be written. So any initial benefit you get in writing speed is more than swallowed up over time in its difficulty to re-read, understand, and maintain.

After dealing with both approaches for several years, my opinion is pretty firmly set that the dynamic approach is best for prototyping, or for a quickly-written simple service that won't grow, or if you're perhaps a startup writing a demo and scrambling for your first rounds of funding.

But if you're looking at business features of any complexity, want to maintain them over a significant period of time, through a significantly changing number of eyeballs, and making a significant number of changes while leaving the codebase somewhat understandable... over the long run, the typed codebase will be easier and faster. I think the problem is that with typed systems, the costs are more explicit, but with dynamic systems, the costs are embedded in decisions like "That feature sounds too hard for that codebase, let's not do it (and thereby cede ground to competitors)."
When I was writing something (partly) as a learning exercise the easiest way to handle errors was to have an error handler on the server-side JSON encode any errors. The client-side JS would then split the string it got back on newlines and then parse each part. Each chunk of JSON had a field to say if it were an error message and if so the error would be logged to the browser console. I don't recommend, by any means, that people do this generally.
I mean, basically just read reviews and look at benchmarks on sites like anandtech. there's not a lot of mystery in computer hardware specs. find a benchmark that approximates your workload and buy the top scoring part that you can afford. in theory, you could delve into the architectural details of different CPUs but it will take a lot of knowledge for this to be a better use of your time than just looking at benchmarks.
Runit is also inside Busybox, only it's not usually enabled. So it can be readily used for embedded systems.
> Either the leading zero is ignored, or it indicates octal, as it does in many languages, including JavaScript.

This is false. In JavaScript, a leading zero, unless accompanied by a lowercase oh ('o') does indicate the number is written in octal.

08 === 0o10; // true

Here, the left side is still base 10, while the right side is base 8.
disk.frame uses fst as the underlying format
Mating in Captivity - Esther Perel

She takes a post-modern stance on creating relationships that work rather than just following society’s prescribed path.
While I agree, that seems off-topic and it comes up most every time issues with JSON are brought up.

I found this to be a rather interesting article, and it'd be a shame if the discussion around it centered on such a well-tread topic.
Ah ha!

Visited in an incognito tab and was finally able to get access to desktop site on mobile it again.
So the official solution was proprietary garbage. Shadow IT replaces it by an equally proprietary workaround. That workaround is the underdog so the companies that owns it actually has to allow its workers to make it good if it wants so succeed.

It's officially adopted making it the incumbent. Now the company can stop to pretend caring about quality and start digging moats. Predictably, the proprietary workaround becomes proprietary garbage. And no problem was solved after all.

Will we ever learn?
Relatedly, I just finished reading How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan, which does a great job of detailing the fascinating history of psychedelics and the current very promising resurgence of scientific research. It also does as good a job as one can expect at actually explaining what they are like, including descriptions of his own personal trips.

After reading the book, I wouldn't be surprised to see legal clinics open to the public in the US in the next 10-15 years.
You got to be judicious with limited resources, :)
> Some companies even allow employees to expense their trip to nowhere because of the expected returns the following year.

Reminds me of a time 35 years ago when my company asked me to upgrade to the then $1000/year platinum amex card because they'd save more than that on rental car insurance.

I've never forgotten that they reimbursed me $975 because "You're paying $25 for your regular card already".

Nowadays with corporate cards, expensify etc this doesn't generally make sense.
Linux doesn’t really have a good alternative to InDesign.

For photo editing I find that Darktable & Gimp serve me well enough. Fortunately, I don’t need to worry about CMYK any more.
So I wonder if I clear cookies if it would work on a regular tab.
It is definitely a problem that contributing to Rosetta Code is only possible through a clumsy WikiMedia interface. This makes it difficult to test and maintain the solutions for a given language. I'm not convinced a fork is the best solution, however. A tool for synchronising on-disk files with the wiki contents would have been sufficient, and seems eminently doable.
IRC is missing two major things.

1. If you are logged out you miss the history of conversations

2. Usability for non tech people. Not everyone in chat has technical prowess, I know IRC seems simple but its too intimidating for some.
This reminds me of this GoT quote:

>Varys smiled. “Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/503606-oh-i-think-not-varys...
That's an incredible boat, definitely not one for those who are easily seasick. Also a nice testimony to how good the shipwrights and carpenters of that age already were. It is almost skimming across the waves in some shots.

Thank you for posting this.
Reading "Why we sleep" right now and enjoying it very much. It covers a lot of research, and Walker manages to tell a story and get you the bird's eye view of what the research means. Definitely recommend.
I tried to make it as less click baity as I could, but can't resist, :P
He will be prompted to say something along the lines of "sorry feller, I don't know who you mean". This will mark the completion of his assignment as it was intended. What is expected from you as the participant will be to nod along and move on, after completing the monetary transaction, of course. This way he will know that you have completed your part too. Otherwise there is a chance to set off a sequence of events that may be most full of misfortune for anyone involved.
Looks like yet another warning sign of dirty work afoot.

Do you have a strategy to deal with economic black swan events?

I'm looking for reasonable, affordable measures that could shield my partner and myself should black swans ever strike. I'm NOT looking for alarmist prepper style rabid craziness...
It’s probably alright, but there is an email marketing / testing service with the same name that’s been around longer.
No idea then - but it's happened at bag-drop at least twice. Just after I achieved status each time I think so I thought it was a thing they did to make you think it was really worth having achieved it.
I'm not certain, just learning it. You might find this blog post that does a code review of ripgrep interesting, though. It's a deep dive into a serious-scale cli tool.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042439/http://blog.mbrt....

Here's what the main function looks like:

fn main() {
match Args::parse().and_then(run) {
Ok(count) if count == 0 => process::exit(1),
Ok(_) => process::exit(0),
Err(err) => {
eprintln!("{}", err);
process::exit(1);
}
}
}
Shelf Love: Several Fascinating Facts About Libraries
Package maintainers have far, far worse problems to deal with than some shell scripts that are trivial most of the time for alternative init systems like openRC.
Also, hopefully, no maintainer in his (security-wise) right mind use upstream provided system files as-is.
Once people learn how much they can do without, they tend to find it quite liberating. I haven't seen the numbers, but I've heard from a reputable source that a significant portion of the populace does not own a mobile phone.

When a product I like (because it improves the quality of my life) gets discontinued, I look for a quality replacement. If I can't find one, I briefly mourn that and move on. Crap is crap (much of modern tech is nothing more) and there's plenty of quality to be found outside of paying for crap.

Life without products is actually possible. So was life without breakfast, before General Mills spent a fortune promoting it as an essential.
Not sure if decade, as I don't have good memory for such stuff (sorry!), but certainly at least for last year, the following book that had a really huge impact on me:

Gai-Jin by James Clavell

It showed me how different cultures can have very different "codes", how they can see others as "barbarians" purely based on that; more specifically, helped me look more critically on (part of) European culture and history through "foregin eyes", and better understand some aspects of Japanese culture taking them nearly all the way from "weird" to "natural". While at the same time being just a super entertaining and engrossing story!
The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Sapiens

The Universe in a Single Atom

Reality is not what it seems

The Organized Mind

The Power of Habit

Zen Mind Beginners Mind

Restoration Agriculture

A Random Walk on Wall Street

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying-up
One more reason not to be allowed to self entitle themselves as Engineer.
+1 for this, I read Prometheus Rising in 2011 and it has heavily influenced my mental model for different drugs. It's not particularly scientific but still a fun read.
Liquor is a source of good cholesterol so I suspect drinking it? That was my impression.
Yes the same reason for the past two decades

If anyone from Adobe is reading this, I would use CC with subscription on linux and advocate for licenses in my whole office if it was an option

Cheers
It is yet another effort (fuel cell, Nikola, lucid, workhorse) by the existing industry to divert attention and money away from the few players (mainly Tesla) that are actually delivering battery electric vehicles. /tinfoil
I could see firmware failing to boot or crashing if an assumed device is missing.
> Most people have gotten off FB

Here's some data from the beginning of 2019: https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/exclusive-look-number...

Behaviorally, none of my friends claim to be using FB regularly anymore, posts from friends have reduced, engagement - likes and comments on posts have reduced tremendously.

Which is expected of negative network effects.

> More than a third of US has Airpods plugged in most of their waking day

Quick Google Search shows 15, 35 and 65mn pieces sold in 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively.
Cosmic Trigger was great, but I must say it's hard to speak of Robert Anton Wilson without mentioning his magnum opus, The Illuminatus Trilogy.
> "Stoner" by John Williams; fiction; this book knocked me on my butt and I read it all in almost one sitting; about an English professor who refuses to relinquish his integrity in the face of great adversity

I read this book twice in the past 4 years. Such a wonderful and well-written book.