skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's different for those of us in Anim/VFX. Windows poses a serious business cost, not from licensing, software, or administration. The vast majority of images these days are still rendered with CPU engines. Windows incurs a 15-30% time increase per frame compared to using Linux or macOS. When your frames take on average an hour minimum to over 24 hours, with thousands of frames to render, that adds up significantly in terms of iteration, directorial changes, and making deadlines.

Once you get beyond small teams doing the work, this starts to play in massively. Pretty much all medium+ sized studios have their artist pipeline on Linux, reserving Windows or macOS for tools like Adobe, ZBrush or Marvelous Designer that don't have a Linux build yet. And where I'm at, the operating system itself doesn't even matter to the artists. All they need to know is "this button opens terminal, this command puts me in the right show, this command launches the hub" and from there they're in our GUI pipeline. Their environment is the DCC, not the OS. For all intents and purposes it's completely abstracted away from them.

That's not to say there aren't those that take advantage, creating custom commands and utilities to share with others. But for the most part the fact that it's not Windows or macOS doesn't bother them.
> 3 - Start command.com or PowerShell

command.com? Is it 1995?
I did read that, but it's conflicting with the previous paragraph ending with it was not possible to bring back our old varieties.

I understood that to mean that they were not able to bring back the old varieties (at some point in the past) and now the government wants them to re-grow them, but they've moved on from rice-farming because it's not economical (because of lower yields).
I have never minded using a so-called niche language. Since 1982 I have been very fortunate enough to be paid a good fraction of my time for using Common Lisp - I consider this to be largely good luck and I am grateful for how things turned out. I also like Scheme but literally no one has ever paid me for Scheme development. In the USA, we have a saying that “you dance with the person you go to the party with.” My dance partner has been Common Lisp.

I still feel like I am still a student. I started to read Let Over Lambda (a reference to closures) a few months ago which has reinforced my realization that there is so much about a programming language that I have used for 38 years that I still want to explore.

All that said, I have often totally enjoyed building systems with C/C++, Java, Python, Prolog, etc. Designing and writing code can be fun in any language.
How to do sales even as a software engineer
I think the headline writer should be rightly proud of that one. Made me smile, anyway :D
This is a really interesting peak into a part or Australia that I don’t know much about. Thanks for sharing!
I don’t know why but I love VGA text mode fonts. This project is awesome.

Are there pictures of the fonts? I didn’t see any.
I read those articles (there are lots of them) as "please take corona still serious, even if you are young".

So not really journalism, but agenda/propaganda. Maybe not the worst agenda and much better than: " we have to accept total surveillance to get back to "normal", but still not really journalism.
Try OpenSUSE, it has a more recent kernel then RH, it's still rock solid, and it has a great community.

Aside from breaking stuff all the time, Ubuntu seems to have wide swings in the quality of documentation.
> I linked a tabloid because tabloids are more fun

Q.E.D.
Name one other Network, be it payment or otherise, that has had less downtime than Bitcoin's in the last 10 years. Just one.

TX costs have been less than they have for several years now; I personally just made a 3sat/byte tx and it cleared the mempool in less than a hour: I would have one lower but that was the least I could make it. And that was with a sub $1 tx I just wanted to play with to test what it was leading up the halvening. Try doing that with VISA or MC and not have to pay absurd fees for the 'privilege.'

1MB blocksize is a feature, not a bug. I won't explain why, but I'll answer any questions you may have about why that is, if you want.

LN already has use cases, but I agree it was sold as a panacea just 'around the corner,' but the truth is the mainnet network remains uncongested and operational. So it achieved its primary purpose, the rest will come in time and Lightening Labs got more funding from Dorsey so I'm confident progress remains as it has been: unannounced and to very little fanfare unless you work on it.

Lastly, let's not forget how you can literately move $Billions [1] for pennies with no middle men, or the need to have to be some high net-worth oligarch or Arab Shriek to get a bank to do so.

> ...but the vast majority of transactions do not need this.

It's almost like many of you want to be survailed with this kind of thinking, it almost makes me not want to blame the NSA for doing what they have.

I won't even attempt to change your mind about that, but let just say that good OPSEC is perhaps more valuable than it ever has been in our interconnected, digital Life and I only see it being more with time. Data has been the new currency for how long and you still can't see writing on the wall?

1: https://bitcoinnews.com/news/1-1-billion-transaction-among-t...
Ofc it is a security. I just pointed out why they tried to avoid it. Not because they where to lazy to do the paperwork like half the people in here suggest.
There is still a difference between "out of stock" and "discontinued", one is a superset of the other and one implies it will never go out of the state "out of stock" again.
Perl may be ugly, but it is not evil.

Malbolge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge) is evil.

Perl's unofficial mascot is a camel because Perl is a lot like a camel: a beast of burden that requires little and will get you through the desert, but that may not be as pretty as other languages.
True, but I'd argue that remote working exists in a market of its own, somewhere between sf rates and local market rates.
And just because in other industries people are used to taking smaller portions of revenue they generated, doesn't mean that we should do same.

Also unlike in some creative industries, software engineers tend to have higher education and are better able to understand their economic contributions.
I'm the opposite. I think it's just a personality trait. I'm more introverted and socially anxious so I feel much more comfortable at home by myself. I've been remote for 8 years now and I hope I never have to go back to an office.
Of course. And it happens on an even larger scale in the legacy fiat banking system [0], but when caught, "offenders" continue conducting business as usual after they pay a small tribute.

[0] One of many examples: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-probe-idUSBRE8BA05M2...
usa>eu
> I saw a notice saying that unlike many auto parts webshops they would try to only show me the one relevant part if they knew which part I needed.

If I saw that I'd close the tab and go to a different vendor that has a proper search interface. I get anxiety just reading that. Perhaps it's the result of experience, but I don't trust devices that hide what they're doing. This applies to everything from digital FM radios (I assume they don't work until I can tune in to few stations I know at correct frequencies), to "helpful" Windows troubleshooters (my mental model of those is that they sleep for a random number of seconds and report they're done, because I've never seen one fix anything, or even change anything in the system).

I won't trust your inventory search until I can see a dedicated search results page, where I can see and tweak the filters to double-check that your search system isn't making some mistaken assumptions. Because, all too often, it is, and I have to manually correct this to get what I need. This story is just another evidence that you shouldn't trust technology that tries to keep you in the dark.

(And then comes the business-related cynicism of mine: "show me the one relevant part if they knew which part I needed" is an open door to market segmentation; take the user to the most expensive matching part directly, and let the cheaper ones be bought by those who know how to query for them directly.)
From here, https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started#_installation_on_...
The UK has a about 150 road deaths a month which is a rounding error compared to the 25,000 excess deaths/month. (Also I assure you that traffic deaths have not fallen to zero as enough idiots take empty streets as an invitation to do 90 in a 30 zone.)
Consul deployment patterns – A brief overview
I think Scott Galloway has some very valuable input on this topic. I might do it a disservice by trying to to;dr it here but basically there is very little if any room for innovation left when the big monopolies are currently very efficient in “featuring” your whole startup and through economies of scale (not having to turn a profit) they’ll eliminate you from the market it acquire you if they like the talent.
Short Answer: Yes, both forms of Alzheimers are a "disease". Early Onset Alzheimers may strike people as early as their 30s, though it may not be diagnosed for a decade or more. This type of the disease has been definitively linked to gene mutations. At the other end of the spectrum is what more primitive people once called "senility" or "old age" giving rise to your question --that form of Alzheimers strikes about half of people who are 85 or older (though they will likely have started having symptoms in their 60s). The (very) latest theories on this form of the disease is that it may be linked to auto-immune responses related to various forms of Human Herpes viruses (for example VZV, HSV1, etc.) and may even spread to brain surgeons during operations. Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor.
Google Web Toolkit [1] does this.

[1] http://www.gwtproject.org/
> Letsencrypt is run by Mozilla.

Let's Encrypt is a service of ISRG, a public benefit corporation https://www.abetterinternet.org/about/

Some key ISRG people were from Mozilla, but so what?

> So why can't Mozilla's browser simply instead of trusting these magic tokens, instead just verify that the cert for the site matches the cert pinned in DNS

Poor deployability and interoperability. Now your browser mysteriously doesn't work on a lot of the world's networks and the site doesn't work with other browsers.
London is still big in finance post Brexit? I thought the arrangements were already made on the continent because of it.
I looked up "ponyfill"[0] and I still agree with hyperbovine's criticisms.

Polyfills and single-function libraries are just two different problems with the NPM ecosystem.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/ponyfill
I used to work for major US ecommerce site that catered to a more, wizened, population due to previous reputation and longevity in the brick and mortar realm. We would get feedback all the time about the fact that out of stock items were shown on the site. Their expectation of a website was like a physical store: that if it was out of stock, they shouldn't be able to see it there at all. If they saw an item in the search results, they assumed that meant it had to be in stock, or it wouldn't be able to show up on the website. When they clicked the product page and then found out it was out of stock, they were super pissed.

It was a completely different mental model driven by a lifetime of shopping in brick and mortar stores and a fundamental misunderstanding of how websites and databases work, which is of course not really their problem nor concern.

For some folks showing out of stock items is a degradation of the experience, for others it's an improvement. Know your audience, or at least pick one to target.
Tic Tac Toe Board
Not if you stick with Suse (OpenSUSE) or RedHat (centOS).
There are other projects, nowadays it's more like the Apache Foundation. Some other big projects are Jakarta EE, Jetty, and Golo.

List here: https://projects.eclipse.org/
Only Women Can Save the World
And the third sentences says:

> I just want to do my job, get paid, and go home.

Hard to get paid if you get fired...
I fail to see what are the UX improvements; none of the 2 count as an improvement, but a dumb-down features.
You are both wrong: this is the best one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZe-NidizL8
blockchain tech has been a disappointment so far (except for the first 3-4 years), but whatever works for you
Indeed, I get what you're saying, and maybe it's just a way of looking at things, but if you don't at least roughly figure the average cost of your mistakes into the price that you charge, eventually you'll go out of business. A mistake on any single order might still be a loss, but you make it up with a hopefully larger number of successful sales.

For instance, the widget that I make, I screw up a small number of them during production, and I consider that to be part of my cost-of-goods. The rare customer with a complaint gets a full refund. My overall profit more than covers the occasional mistake.

Some other things that the big retailers do is simply not to sell goods that are open to dispute. Home Depot would look at making a pizza by hand from scratch at a retail location and delivering it to your door, as some kind of crazy.
That’s interesting. Do you have an idea if that’s really pure barley? A reason barley is not a grain commonly found in bread is that barley has no gluten (the glue protein that makes bread dough stick).
There's a folder of images at https://github.com/spacerace/romfont/tree/master/font-images
Relax, I'm also a farmer (kind of) and I also had help the first time I did it, so even if I haven't done it too many times before I'm not totally inexperienced, I just wasn't aware that 1.) my car was the heavy duty edition 2.) none of the part selectors on any webshop that I am aware of was able to differentiate between heavy duty or not based on plate number. Plus it isn't too hard, with my background the only hard part is knowing where to apply the elbow grease and where to be careful ;-)

Plus I have a brother who's an actual licensed car technician and I make sure to always be very easy to ask if he has computer problems, or - more likely lately - is stuck with some bigger equations.

PS: Seems like you are getting downvoted, it wasn't me but based on the tone and the assumptions you make it wasn't completely unexpected around here.
Some of us are more likely to worry about work not getting done than others. When those same people also have less general need for social interaction, that 'friendly interruption' feels like a selfish demand to meet your greater need for social interaction at the cost of my own need for lack of worry about the thing I get paid to do.
https://github.com/spacerace/romfont/tree/master/font-images
I still run into Windows Admins who don't understand UNC paths vs mapped drives.
This does change the language drastically - source code is represented as tuples usually, although all of the core data structures have literal forms. This means writing macros is still easy, although certain idioms like consing are usually replaced by splicing, which is like unquote-splicing in Common Lisp but more general.
Discontinued products should be delisted.
The tech industry has outgrown the Bay Area
The official instructions are here, https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started#_installation_on_...

Not directly the link you provided.

Yes, they require Java knowledge I guess, but then again using guest languages without caring for the host platform is a fallacy.

Now I do agree that an installer would be the right experience to provide.
On the other side, it is now almost impossible to use the internet on a retro computer.

I absolutely understand the drive to use more secure TLS, but it's a really sad experience to see that you can load Google, but have nearly every link unable to load.

It wasn't that long ago that I could try out some ancient browser on some modern website, and at least see it fail to render well. Now you can't even connect.

This leads to interesting situations with, say, PowerPC Mac software sites. Either they have http connections, or they use user-agent sniffing to downgrade TLS.
Ok, thanks. That would be what’s called “graupen” in germany, rolled and polished grain. That’s fallen a bit out of favor, but I know it was once common.
I would use the checkbox on the left side (that many stores have) for in stock products.
I know that explosive decompression is a blocking problem that is not being addressed (and no, partial vacuum makes no difference as anyone with a highschool level physics education can calculate.)
I have worked from home for the last couple of years. Prior to the Covid shutdown, I had generally enjoyed it. Once my children's school closed and my wife's work switched to work from home, my productivity has plummeted. I find it impossible to focus as every 10 minutes I have a young child running into my office, or have to listen to them yelling at each other (as all kids do). My wife has had a hard time adjusting and she is equally distracted by the kids and her frustration feeds mine. She is forced to be on conference calls for most of the day (I am actually surprised at how many there are, they are all calls with executive level people so she cant opt out. Almost all income producing departments have to pass through her team and they laid off her support staff) but is still expected to complete real work as well which she cant do now until the calls stop after 5. I have been able to get very little deep work done and find myself working until 2 / 3 am to accomplish the same work I used to do in a normal shift.

I feel very bad for my kids as all they want is to be able to play with their friends and do all the things they could before so I do my very best to not show them my frustration. Its a depressing situation all around but I am very grateful to actually still have a job while so many others have lost theirs. My kids ask me why I have to work so much all the time, as all they want to do is spend time with me.

I guess what I am trying to say is the current situation is not optimal.
The real power of Lisp becomes apparent when you develop programs top-down with very general data structures with their own accessors and a liberal use of higher-order functions.

I still think that Winston & Horn's classic Lisp (3rd ed.) conveys these ideas very well. SICP is also very good at it, but it's based on Scheme.
If the shop in the original story only hid "discontinued" parts, the author could have still run into this problem if the correct parts were no longer made.
>> What subjects are within their legitimate remit, then?

Not science. Their stylistic goals are blatant in the work they produce, this article in particular. The language is very particular, the absence of any reference to the metric system in an allegedly scientific article is notable. And they do convert their photos. Every non-animated photo in this article is BW. Despite all the web trickery, this article still pretends to be a print publication.
Maybe so. Although outside of the US (Europe for instance), businesses are not so trigger happy that they lay people off every other month.

When a company must do budget cuts and layoff, it’s a big deal once in a few years thing. Not bi-annually.

Whatever the frequency is, it’s a risk. Arguably though if you’re remote you’re getting paid HCOL wages while living in a lower COL area, so being laid off isn’t as much financially dangerous as it would be in SF/NYC. Plus all these working years you’ve avoided the stress and drama that goes with climbing the ladder/getting in your boss’s pocket.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted though, it’s a legitimate concern.
A point I think is worth noting is that Linux software is far more likely to be FOSS, and FOSS is far less likely to have dedicated designers. LibreOffice wouldn't look out of place in 2002 for example, but it's not because of the platform/SDK it runs on. Whereas Spotify most definitely has a whole team of design staff.

That aside, if the rest of my OS has a "grey boxes" look, I would like my software to have a "grey boxes" look.

Sure, your design may be pretty, but if it looks and works completely differently to my other applications and the OS itself, I consider that a pretty huge point against it.
We had 3k reported cases, not 3k cases. That's a large difference. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number of cases from 3/14 was hundreds of thousands.

There were 58 deaths reported by 3/14. If you assume that mortality is 1% (probably on the high side, but good enough for estimates), that translates to ~6k cases.

However, since we know that deaths lag cases by 1-3 weeks (let's assume 2 weeks for the analysis), we should be looking at deaths two weeks from 3/14, which would be 3/28.

By 3/28, there were ~3k deaths from COVID-19, meaning that the true estimate of the number of cases from 3/14 is likely around 270,000 cases (estimate range is 130K - 800K).

This also means that there were about 8.5 million cases in the US on May 1st (I happen to think mortality is closer to 0.5%, so that would be ~17 million cases instead), and that we've most likely crossed the 10 (or 20) million case mark by now.
Nigeria demolishes two hotels for breach of coronavirus lockdown rules: report
I came from the Windows world to Linux. Especially when it comes to Enterprise, my experience is that Windows Admins are more likely to know network basics then Linux admins.

However, Linux admins who know networking usually have a deeper understanding.
That assumes my compensation is already at the upper bound of my cost/benefit axis for the company instead of close to the minimum bound to keep me from looking to advance elsewhere. Better question is how much more would I be looking for to move to a full remote workplace.
Finally. All of my years in the simulator will pay off.
> If you hide all the features how do I even know they are there or what to ask for?

Here's a modern software development plot twist:

1. Hide all the interesting power features.

2. Analyze reports from the pretty invasive telemetry you put in your software.

3. Note the telemetry saying nobody is using interesting power features.

4. Remove these features in the next version, like a good data-driven company.
> The problem is that the internet is nowhere near as "safe" as it was a few decades ago.

It wasn't very safe a few decades ago either.

In 2000, I had naively set up a Linux box under my desk with a public IP, thinking maybe I could host a blog on it. It got a number of portscans within minutes of being set up, and subsequent monitoring showed lots of intrusion attempts. Luckily the box was patched, but I was essentially one zero-day away from being 0wn3d. But I did learn a lot before moving the box behind a firewall.

I guess that back in the day, some people could wish these away as unproven threats well into the early 2000s until malware like Nimda / Code Red well and truly destroyed that illusion.
Is Coding Going to Shift Completely Online?
Exactly, more bs
If anything I suspect a large number of remote jobs will lower demand for visa sponsorship since the candidate pool is no longer localized. One huge advantage of visa employees is that they tend to be more mobile, as in moving to where the jobs are, which is important when there is a divide between candidate selection and geographic availability.
Right. Luckily you can find work elsewhere after being laid off.
>>> Q: Who maintains cluegen?

>>> A: If you're using it, you do. You maintain cluegen.

while I know and respect dabeaz for all his work, I still prefer to rely on the "official" dataclasses module.
Really basic stuff. Yes procrastination is a reaction to the discomfort of meeting difficult work head on.