skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
those things you listed as "work" all still apply though, except now there's a contractual obligation

if his desire was to kick back it seems like the move would be to just relax his release schedule

wanting something steady in the chaos of creative work though, I can completely understand
Last year's Unreal conference had a couple of talks related to engine migration and how teams managed to do them, which some mentioned they rather do it between projects than jeopardizing an ongoing game development cycle.

Middleware migration headaches are everywhere, regardless of the chosen stack.
Yeah, from their status page counted that GitHub Actions has had disruptions on 16 of the last 90 days. That's pretty abysmal.

I love all the new features GitHub has added over the past 12-18 months, but I really hope they take a breather at this point and focus solely on reliability. Widespread GitHub outages used to reliably make the front page on HN - now I think we're all so used to it that it's no longer news. That's not a good thing.
I have the same approach to sites that require JavaScript.

If a page loads blank, or contains a single line of text "this applications requires javascript", it's an insta-close.

The unintended benefit of this is I nearly always realize I was procrastinating when I clicked the link anyway... so now I regard NoScript as a productivity tool!
Wow, had no idea that thing is still around. I remember giving it a spin more than fifteen years ago. :)
100% agree - definitely an unpopular opinion on this site from my experience but I appreciate your post.
That's an interesting point. But it's not just rpaths, there are many references to things within the nix store. I suspect it would quite difficult to make them bound at runtime or something, but would be nice if possible.
Right. There's usually a site just as good without ads.
That's going to do absolutely nothing. Small UBI is damn near worthless. You need to go toward at least minimum wage's worth per year to see any decent effects.

Whoever figures out how to do full UBI on that level will be heralded as a messiah if they can actually put their plan in place and execute it.
Regarding the fiddly permissions between host and container, at least on Linux podman seems to be the solution.

It is command line compatible to docker (and uses the same image format), but instead of launching containers through a demon, it launches container directly as the calling user (needs user namespaces, Linux 3.8+).

Now you can share volumes between host and container, and don't run into those pesky permission problems that come from different UIDs on the inside and outside.

Very useful in CI contexts, for development environment and so on.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help, since 100% of software employers with offices use open floor plan offices, or some variant of the same.

I always ask people in the industry what company has private offices for programmers. The only answers I've ever heard are "Fog Creek" and "maybe Microsoft?", but my friends at Microsoft say that's not so common any more.
It's likely the closest 'London' near the user.
Side effect of living in former British colonies.
Sure, you _can_ compare them, just like you can compare a '93 Civic and a Model S.
Mobile games in some sense have taken over gaming. They're not as flashy, but the amount of money some of them seem to generate is obscene. Just take a look at NCSoft's income and how mobile Lineage crushed all of their other offerings.
> Anything that inserts itself into iptables feels like a no no.

I have a setup which works great with VirtualBox. I have pfSense installed in a guest VM and the host machine routes through it -- without that guest VM running the host machine can't connect anywhere. It's really handy to have a consistent firewall interface despite every host OS having a different idea of what a firewall should do or look like.

Docker works with the VirtualBox setup too.

I tried to do the same thing with libvirt for four weekends and eventually gave up. I couldn't get libvirt to play nice with iptables at all.

LXC is for containers, of course, instead of VMs. But since Docker works with the VM-guest-as-a-router setup, perhaps I'll really give LXC a try too.
I'm surprised I had to scroll down so far to see this. You could distribute individual whiteboards to every engineer, and even have a dedicated webcam/tripod setup, for next to nothing.

It's not "collaborative" in the sense that remote people can erase stuff on your board, but, I don't think that's a big deal. The "erase API" just becomes "Hey, @iso1631, why don't we get rid of X and replace it with Y?"

I suppose if you wanted to try and automate it, you could do so pretty easily with some custom software that just overlays photos of all the boards. The amount of image processing would be pretty trivial.
It's still worth it for them to ask if a non-zero number of people turn it off (and make them some money rather than none).
That ship sailed when websites neglected to screen ads properly, resulting in malware being served to unsuspecting users.

If the sites collapse, so be it, but it won't because the vast majority of people casually surfing the web do not know how to use ad blockers.
>Facebook, YouTube, Google, Reddit, StackOverflow, and countless other sites are fundamentally based on advertising and can't survive without it.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I use all of these sites and I see utility in all of them (even the much-maligned Facebook.) Youtube, for all its controversy, is arguably the modern Library of Alexandia.

But with every other business in the universe, you either adapt to changing market conditions or you die. I don't see why the web should be any different.
Joe Rogan typically makes a point to say what he doesn't know and tries to get interesting experts in his show. Have you watched much of his show?
Mexico, Canada, and North America.
I think you're misunderstanding the problem, respectfully. This is not a problem for end users. This is a problem for developers - and a gigantic, embarrassing flub is justified for something as bad as this.

Think that's hyperbole? Look at this, from the link:

> The first time a user runs a new executable, Apple delays execution while waiting for a reply from their server. This check for me takes close to a second.

> This is not just for files downloaded from the internet... this is everything. So even if you write a one line shell script and run it in a terminal, you will get a delay!

Consider a developer in this situation.

If your job involves lots of scripting - not unusual, for a dev - and you create dozens of scripts a day, or more - every single one will take about a second, and up to 7 seconds (!) to run, that first time you run it. And that could easily happen upwards of a dozen times a day, because it will happen for each script you create.

That's pretty terrible, for a developer. I don't think you can normalize startup times, for some hacky script, of 1 second as pretty okay or not noticeable. Certainly not if you're talking about a high end work machine.

Times that bad are associated with some junk laptop that's 15 years old - that's not supposed to be Apple.

Even if you build apps (I do), you might have the need to create scripts now and then, possibly even a lot of them (I do, for testing). I don't consider it acceptable to wait 1 sec+ each time I run one. It really does suggest that Apple has gotten extremely careless about their developer audience.

So, yeah - compared to that, Linux performs way better, and looks like a premium work machine by comparison.
Most software products LTS are between 2 to 3 years actually, even stuff like Java.
I'd even take something like those offices in Terry Gilliam's film "Brazil" https://media3.giphy.com/media/phV9pLhPDUb3a/source.gif

Looks actually kind of roomy in that gif

edit: here's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr3eIAIFyo8
A why-not-both option would be translucent dividers that let in light while offering some privacy and isolation.
You can have competition among landlords but you can't provide the key ingredient of which there is fixed supply - land. No more land + people moving in = price only goes up.

> The flat I just started renting a few months ago was priced on supply-and-demand, not on how much I earn (otherwise the landlord did a pretty terrible job of gouging me because relative to my income I got a good deal).

A single example doesn't prove or disprove anything. You haven't mentioned cases for example of many others who are living on level of bare sustainability in the same city. You cannot apply micro analysis to understand this problem by citing individual cases. You need macro analysis for this.

Zoning is not enough of a solution because it doesn't deal with the underlying problem - city land supply.

Maybe tech workers will no longer need to live in the cities after covid crisis. That still doesn't make it a casr for the rest of the society and cannot serve as a basis for ignoring the issue.

Cherry-picking only some monopolies which are currently under scrutiny doesn't fix the problem either. Land monopoly is the biggest one out there and is not mentioned. Fixing the others without considering this one is merely applying a bandaid on a blister while the patient's artery is bleeding.
Well, if you steal all the CAD tools, design is pretty cheap ...

EDA CAD tools are infuriatingly expensive. You can get a chip run on an older node (180nm or 250nm) for <$100K. Good luck finding a set of EDA CAD tools for under that per year.
From https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/trump-tsmc-us-...

Mark Liu, T.S.M.C.’s chairman, told The New York Times in October that T.S.M.C. had been negotiating with the Commerce Department about a possible U.S. plant, but said it would require substantial government subsidies. How much, if any, public money might be associated with the company’s decision was unclear.

And from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48917705

The US State Department has approved a potential arms sale to Taiwan, estimated to be worth $2.2bn (£1.76bn), the Pentagon said.

Maybe TSMC thought it would be really good if Tawain were protected better thanks to these weapons, and TSMC would also like these subsidies.
I forgot about the age issue and also the too many males, too few females in China. The Communist part is looking pretty strong right now. I wonder, is there any reason to hope that China will eventually democratize? I see nothing like the demographic trends that is so clear. China has a lot of room to grow their economy and military before the demographic issues hit. Look at Japan, very powerful in both dimensions.
>I fail to see how this is relevant to the discussion at all.

The example OP provided is about how asking someone to bring you coffee can produce unexpected results. I furthered the point that it can still happen with trained and experienced baristas - people who make coffee for a living.

If someone is being obviously and intentionally malicious by doing a task incorrectly, then yeah, let them go. You'll both likely be happier for it.
Show HN: React Native Bottom ActionSheet with Native Animation 60FPS & No DEPS
if Steve were still alive, iOS would never have been as open as it is today.
I didn't see any New Englanders in this thread point out this sign in Maine yet [1]. I grew up in northern New Hampshire and many the towns near me were named after European places like Berlin and Milan (purposefully mispronounced after WWII). Much of the south part of the state is named after cities in England: Manchester, Dover, Portsmouth, etc. Close by is Portland, Maine, which is always confused with the one in Oregon unless you've lived there.

This is one of those AI contextual things which have no great solution until the machines can read our minds, or get a lot better at learning about us. Then, of course, privacy advocates will lose their minds.

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/China_Si...
As an avid podcast listener and casual Joe Rogan listener I can tell you that I’m probably done listening after the transition. I’m not ever going to use Spotify to listen to podcasts. Podcasts were, and should continue to be, a free RSS feed which made them great. I’m not going to help destroy that great freedom.
Can you point to any concrete example of Joe Rogan spreading pseudoscience?
Those are also full of unblockable ads, and spyware to boot. I don’t think that is a better experience at all.
Python Package for Covid-19 time series forecasting
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Just to clarify, the Timescale License was originally announced in December 2018. At that time, we didn't "relicense" any existing Apache-2 code, we just said some future features will be licensed under the TSL rather than Apache 2.

Many people over the past year+ knew that we were working on a distributed version of TimescaleDB; a common question was whether the distributed TimescaleDB would be paid-only (like some other time-series database alternatives) or whether it would also be free.

This announcement was meant to say: Yes, multi-node TimescaleDB is free, not paid.

So there wasn't any _new_ license announced today; just that multi-node TimescaleDB would be released under the TSL rather than as a paid-only option, which many of our users had assumed.
That's bad and wrong, you should think past your familiarity for a minute and logically not do it.

This shouldn't be mixed up with the other common case which is often discussed, 'American' as the demonym for people and things from the USA. That isn't quite as bad (though it still annoys other people from elsewhere in the Americas) because it's using the name of the superset - Americans, from the USA, are also Americans, from the continent. Whereas, when "America" (the USA) does something, it doesn't necessarily mean all of America does it. The USA is a subset of America, not a superset or the only entry.

Language isn't always logical, but if you won't draw the line at something so clearly backwards as using the whole continent's name for the actions of one country, you can only expect it will start an argument every time.
How does that help prevent plagiarism?
Spotify already has a spot in popular culture, so I'm not sure he loses that much.

Rogan loses a portion of his existing audience to be sure, but he gains a more committed audience this way, and those hundreds of millions of people that are already listening to Spotify may have a new favorite show.
It's our responsibility as parents in tech to teach our children to block all ads. My son hasn't browser the web without an adblocker, ever. I showed him what his favorite sites look like without an adblocker and he was really surprised.
Ok thanks. Point stands.
Ok, there's a concept of biological half-life, including the famous 5 hours for caffeine. Living bodies are extraordinarily similar though, for example we all have about the same temperature of 36 deg Celsius. Chemicals out in the open, that's a completely different story.

To be more specific: [1] is a published article in Current Biology where they state they were able to fully sequence the genome of two mammoths, one of which was 44.8k years old. That would be 86 half-lives according to the meme of 521y half-life for DNA. 2^(-86) is roughly 10^(-26). By the logic of DNA half-life, reconstituting a 44.8k y.o. mammoth genome would be beyond utterly ridiculous. Still, here we are.

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)...
That is indeed a very good book. Although I would say that some of the notation in it is non-standard, for better or for worse. Tu is the most consistent author I have ever seen with notation, and that matters a lot in smooth manifold theory and differential geometry.

Another good book is Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View by James Callahan.
Fair enough, will do!
Half of HN comments are 'technically correct' comments. Deal with it.
Usually. But Fidelity loads bootstrap.js from the ensighten CDN on some pages, so it’s not a mistaken first party domain blocked but a tracking third party you need to allow.
My guess Howard Stern is a good example from last decade. He is still around, but mostly irrelevant.
I would rather look at successful projects with potential, like IPFS[0] and Peertube[1], instead of failed ICO money grabs.

[0] https://blog.ipfs.io/
[1] https://joinpeertube.org/
It points to the town of Mecca which is close to the Salton Sea in Southern California.
Wang - please don't make these sort of hateful, projecting comments.
This raises a good point unless both Joe and Spotify see the rising market adoption of podcast content blowing in their direction. That being, Spotify is mainstream enough for Joe to compound his growth still. And Joe agrees, as I doubt he would compromise prestige for dollars.
I cannot speak for the OP, but this is more or less how we use Docker at my workplace.

> (fragile?)

The Docker image isn't fragile, it's your software that risks becoming fragile if it's too strongly reliant on a specific environment.
While I, as a remote employee, certainly want to be payed the same as my colleague in similar roles. But I am certainly not entitled to this; and if the company so choose, it is their right.
Whenever I see an article like this I always assume it ends with "...and that's why <Joe Rogan> should have gone with me, instead. My services are very affordable and available for purchase now!"
Knots have always fascinated me. I keep "The Morrow Guide to Knots" handy to look at when I'm bored and I think mentally tying the knots is as much (or even more) fun than physically doing it.

If you are interested here is a non-affilate link:

https://www.amazon.com/Morrow-Guide-Knots-Sailing-Climbing/d...
Also, freedom of speech is not guaranteed on a privately owned platform... not sure why anyone expects that.
I doubt that's true now, but it could've been something like that when UE4 released. The story went that he'd started work on it almost a decade before the release of the engine.
Anybody tried with Lightroom CC or Lightroom Classic. Classic at least (I haven't checked CC), uses SQLite internally.
Hong Kong’s economy is built on its (arguably at least economically) exploitative relationship with China. More improbable even than the successful implementation of a relocation plan (to N. Ireland, Tsushima Island, or whatever) is that China would allow this new Hong Kong to have any economic relationship with the Mainland. It has factored in the economic cost already, and has decided that the tradeoff of having a free and democratic Chinese city is too much. As Chip Tsao said on television recently,⁰ the Zhongnanhai is using ‘bottom line thinking’—they have decided they can do without a window on the West, and so will neither act to save the other one nor allow the creation of a new one.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtom_T9-g08
I like the idea. I'm shocked that a ras pi has enough cpu power to make this work.
and that's just the money up front, there are certainly some performance bonus clauses in there as incentive, too.
Maybe there is a better word than “Nuke” to describe this? Perhaps a word not so strongly associated with death and destruction, unless you truly mean the physical locations of these orgs should be hit with atomic weapons?
It's decompiled and reassembled code and completely legal. The port binary that is floating around is not legal because of embedded assets. Sure it's not the same as intentional source code releases, but it's still a code base that is going to be passed around from platform to platform.
Something design specifically for the work environment: https://www.sococo.com/
This is bad news, as it seems my nose is constantly blocked. No idea why.
The caching is not broken and it's completely usable. It sounds like you've got a weird specific use case that doesn't benefit from a general solution.
Browsing the internet without an ad blocker is like navigating the Warp without a Gellar field.

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Gellar_Field
I managed to do 5m/s in a single server. Something must be off.
Fault-Tolerant Thresholds for Surface Code in Excess of 5% Under Biased Noise
Because by far the dominant narrative among urban, educated people is that continuing lockdowns are worth it because they prevent death from COVID-19. Arguments that the lockdowns are doing more harm than good are (wrongly, IMHO) associated with political conservatism, rejection of science, and so on.

Thus, evidence of the harm of lockdowns can be considered contrarian, regardless of whether it comes from medical professionals.
The Washington Post contacted Google, Google Drive took down a file featuring the trailer for the Plandemic documentary.

Why is the WaPo out there policing other people's content? That's as bad a Google taking it down.
This is where cable companies really screwed up.

They could have offered consumers a choice of channels instead of packages. It would have required changing their business model but most cable companies are local monopolies so they should be able to declare new economics.

With their position as ISPs for many they were well positioned to offer streaming services first. These could have subscriptions by show instead of network. I would happily pay for the handful of shows I actually watch rather than the pantheon of streaming services we have now.
Feature-removal has been the most aggravating part of my Mac life for the past several years. Admittedly I tend to use unusual features, but it's just another PITA when they go away.
Stitch in time: how a quantum physicist made new code from old tricks
Miro! Its a company changing tool!
> These firms mostly sold “popunder” ads, which pop up a new link in a browser tab when you click something

Who is buying ads on these networks? There cannot possibly be any returns can there?
ports are for old beards, brew for cool hipsters.
I wouldn't use one if they got rid of the fake download buttons and sketchy dating ads.
I send my friend a link a while ago and he complained to me. I tried it with ads off and it was horrible.

Google actually got that right with their ads - they were non intrusive and fitted in. Facbook started ads well, but these days they are getting annoying.
But if you're just doing it to do it, especially with something like meditation, does it actually have value? No sugar certainly, but meditation is really just there for the emotional effects.
Liking an activity doesn't mean it needs to be an integral part of your workplace every minute of the day. I like playing the drums, but I would never do it in the same room as my coworkers while they're trying to write software.

I want to work at work. When I want to socialize (or do anything else which might distract others), I wait for a break and go outside.
Usually I just find a new website.
That makes sense, and is good news. I withdraw my complaint against Nix; in my defense my ignorance was based on the thread on their GitHub about how Catalina makes Nix basically unusable. Turns out those people were both a) wrong and b) speaking authoritatively from ignorance. :/

I’m quite glad I can just install it somewhere else, and finally ditch the Homebrew spyware. Thank you for letting me know!
The truly amazing thing about this is the flywheels double usage as stabilizer.

If the torpedo changed direction due to wind or waves the forces of the wheel cause the torpedo to bank.

This is then detected by a pendulum which sets the course straight again.
Commercial office space is the problem
How do they know it's fully functional without trying out how it reacts in every possible situation (which isn't really feasible)?
Assuming they'll still let you see content with an active blocker. Once you have a business relationship they can set any terms they want.
Consider publishing your work on PeerTube.
German ‘industrial’ version of Android raises €1.4M funding
We use MIRO and it has changed the entire company culture. We have 5 international offices, and with micro, it allows everyone to have full transparency with what other offices and teams are working. It is now the 2nd most important tool beside Slack. (400+ Employees)