skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because ubuntu provides a more polished desktop experience. as does fedora. at least that was the case in the past. i using debian for decades on servers, but haven't used it on desktops for a while now.
odd personally i havent had those issue in about a decade for my custom desktop builds.

but in general if you want things to to just work (tm) use system76 or some other linux native vendor.
Censorship is not a viable alternative. Even if someone holds extreme views they have the right to talk about it. Views shift and change over time. Change is good.
My workspace cost me money to furnish, and it permanently takes up part of my house. I don't personally mind as software development is a large part of my hobbies as well so I'd have that dedicated space irrespective of my job, but for a lot of people the need for a dedicated work space is tied to their job, and not something they'd otherwise need.

Whether or not it's a net saving vs. transport costs really depends on where you happen to live.
> The people living in LCOL areas don't hustle. They aren't the type to do 100 hours of leetcode.

> not every problem that needs to be solved at a FANG needs a top 1% best-of-breed, (for example

I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not. The wording in the first sentence is that of someone being sarcastic, mocking the people who would actually use such language and/or expect such things. But the second quote sounds like you're being serious.

The difference between people living in high COL areas and low COL isn't how much they hustle. Some of the best people I've worked with are living in low COL areas, including one I was praising just recently for being a role model for others.

As a side note, if you're doing 100 hours of work a week, you're almost certainly doing a bad job at all of it. With the exception of a small subset of people, it's been shown that work quality decreases drastically when working long hours (for all the work being done, not just the work past the normal hours). Expecting your workers to put in those hours means you're aiming for sub-optimal, low quality work.
> I'd expect them to pay a stipend on top of my wage, equivalent to the amount of money they save by not having office space

Now account for the money you don't spend commuting, and far more valuable, your lifetime saved by not spent commuting.
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IRL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2d6q2oUJeY&t=80s
that feels true because those are large expenses, but those little things add up quickly.

It's financial death by a thousand cuts.
Why would screening off entire categories of ideas lead to a systematically incorrect view of the world? Or why would entertaining those ideas lead to a less incorrect view of the world?
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I agree that oil is a poor choice of words. I would’ve used the word, “fat”.

To say fruit is flavored sugar with fiber when comparing it to candy is an oversimplification. Eating candy you can consume 1,000 calories with almost no effort. Good luck eating 15 cups of raspberries to get to that 1,000 calories. Who would do that? And the candy has no nutrition in it while raspberries have lots of vitamins, minerals and as you said fiber.

The bottom line is that our society eats too much sugar, fat and salt and we’d be better off eating less.
Is a privacy policy worth anything? Genuinely wondering, can they be sued, etc, if they violate it and claim "Oops, we made a mistake and our data got leaked".

For example Facebook probably said they would keep your data secure, but their system to prevent abuse from 3rd party "Quiz" developers was "Developer, by clicking here you agree not to abuse the data you can access."...
>Where do you go for "robust intellectual discussion"?

Sam Harris and Tim Ferriss have great long form interviews with interesting people.
it's funny, it'd be easy for TV to do it. There's a lot of empty 24hour news channels out there.
Putting a 3 hour interview on at 10pm and running it till 1am and then on repeat at 10am the next day would be a pretty simple way to build out some really intersting content.
The only thing you'd need would be discipline to keep the producers from cutting into it.
But there's a lot of channels out there. There's a lot of space.
There's plenty of people way smarter than him, making way more money and making the world objectively a worse place. I don't really see much substance in this sadness point.

If some people out there has Rogan as role model I honestly, comparing him with most media figures, I can't be bothered.

He has a format that people enjoys, and he's not trying to make people swallow any narrative. That's good in my book.
I think it could have a name, but not necessarily a Wikipedia article.

And Founder's Syndrome is a bad name imho. That rather sounds like something you'd say when somebody keeps starting businesses because they can't stop being a founder and feel like they need to tackle each and every problem they encounter.

What's described in the Wikipedia article is imho not specific to founders, it's about cult-like leadership and disproportionate power due to weird voting rights setups and different share types.
I first saw this on Twitter four days ago, but only one example was given there. Turns out that priming from a single example four days ago did hold for me - I got the second half of all the sentences today without any further priming, and the first half of several of them. Seems like it has quite different effects on different people.
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Sure, visual studio builds have been, and still are up to a point a bit miserable experience.

But not as miserable as trying to use gnu tools for building C++ on windows. I have over a decade of exprience in that and it's always equally painfull.

There were good reasons to use GNU tools when MSVC did not have thorough enough support for C++11 and GCC did. Now MSVC is pretty good with the latest C++ standard.

Besides, Windows now comes with a real posix virtualized environment - Windows subsystem for Linux - which works great - use that, not msys2 or cygwin if you must have a gnu build system on a windows...
if the number was 240MM/year, i still think it makes no sense but i guess i do not know how much energy they were spending "chasing down" money
I've been keepig an eye on nest.js for a while now. I haven't had a chnace to use it yet, but from the docs it looks like the closest thing to a rails-style framework in Node land. Albeit less mature/comprhensive than rails/django/laravel.
Is this a joke? Slack should not be used as a permanent information store, and the search is fairly terrible.
Scientists are producing data without sharing with people who need it
Instead of seeing it as leasing a portion of your home to your company looks at it in the words the law uses, the company must provide you with what you need for work. I am sure if they went to court and tried to have their fees for a co-working space paid it would also need to be paid by the company.
I've had it installed, but didn't do much with it. We mostly used Wavesurfer. But yes, Praat is fantastic if you're really deep into that stuff.
You raise an interesting point. I've been considering upgrading to threadripper from an older Xeon system but am put off by the cooling requirements (cpu, video, system) and how negative that will be on background noise.
Allow me to boost your hope a little more. I'm a college dropout, don't work for a FAANG, and will make about $400k this year. I hope you make it big.
Well, he is arguing the opposite. That there are drawbacks, but bigger benefits.
We'll need to wait and see for data on UK and France. Those countries certainly botched up their handling similarly (although not quite as long as we have).

Comparing us to Sweden (which has essentially elected to do nothing at all except politely suggest large gathering should be cancelled and decline to enforce that suggestion) or Italy (the first European pandemic outbreak site, with a large population of older people who cohabitate with younger families, and extremely dense outbreak zones)seems like a low enough bar to be called "failure" given the economic resources the US has at its disposal.
Once upon a time I was responsible for a high traffic site with ads as a primary revenue source.

The constant problem was that competitors would automate clickbomb attacks -- fake traffic with click throughs that would ultimately get the site banned from ad networks (or severely devalue CPM rates) for fraudulent traffic. The irony was that we never used the same tactics ourselves, assuming that the risks outweighed the rewards. The malicious bot traffic ultimately spelled the end of the site.

I would imagine that an Amazon product/seller would suffer from high quantities of any fake reviews, whether positive or negative:

Too positive? Amazon or Fakespot & similar services penalize them.

Too negative? Consumers penalize them.

Seems like with a modest budget and a Fiverr-like service, smaller retailers could be harmed with relative ease.

Then, faced with these attacks, I'd imagine many companies with means might try countermeasures, triggering a sort of review arms race.

How do you separate the signal from the noise from deliberate fake reviews (of any kind) from third parties with malicious intent?
What gives Ireland the right to preempt every other European country in GDPR enforcement? That's a horrific conflict of interest.
I think it's a both a weakness and a strength. In an era of cancel culture, I think there has been a counter movement to avoid cancelling people, which may lead to an over abundance of tolerance and politeness toward genuinely noxious people. I wouldn't argue Joe Rogan hasn't stepped over the line. But since nobody will ever toe the line perfectly, I've become more tolerant toward people who err on the side of hearing someone out, rather than shutting someone down, and I suspect a lot of other people have too.

I call this "rotten cherry" picking, where you scour someone's background and find the top 10 worst things about them, and use that to introduce the person. The conversation goes like this.

T: "Frederick Douglass wrote insightfully about slavery during the..."

C: "Frederic Douglass? You mean that sexist, anti-immigrant, anti-native American guy?"

T: "Wait, what? What did he say?"

C: "Well let me tell you", (gleeful in C's eyes pulls out his laminated card of the worst 10 things Douglass said about women, Irish immigrants, and condescending jokes about American Indians).

See, a lot of us have been through enough of this that we'd like hear for a few hours from the person who just got cancelled through rotten cherry picking. And yeah, this means that now and then, we will end up hearing out someone who shouldn't have been (an this, in turn, will be rotten cherry picked against the person who gave them that platform).
This kinda reinforces the cynical narrative that slack is intended to replace the "watering hole" so we have less excuses to leave our desks.
My mistake on putting “Component” instead of “Composite”, btw. I’ve corrected my post.
I love Barrier. I have a PC as my main machine with my keyboard and mouse and then I have my MacBook to the side. I find Barrier so smooth that it honestly is just like the MacBook is just another screen. My only gripe is that the copy paste between the PC and MacBook seems to only work one way some days and sometimes not at all.
Much of the characteristics described are necessary for early success of a company. After all, you need at least 1 founder with a “work all day and night to keep the company alive/growing at all costs” level of devotion. Most startups won’t take off without some degree of fanatical founder behavior.

> [the syndrome causes problems] following the effective initial establishment of the project

This is easy to accept in theory. In practice, there is rarely a specific event or milestone that determines the “effective initial establishment of the project” (after which, according the the wiki article, Founderitis turns from necessary to harmful)

A lot of founders operate in survival mode (sometimes quite literally) when starting a company. Transitioning out of survival mode once the company has enough momentum and traction to be able to survive on its own is easier said than done, most often (I think) because it’s difficult for founders to identify the exact point in time where things will and can go on without them which is often years after the company was founded

Edit: Side note, why is this on Wikipedia? It would be a great blog post. But really Wikipedia?
Yet another example of tld poison that makes universal search bars even less useful since anything with a period in it is now automatically a tld.
Senator Grassley is third in line for the presidency. If Nov's election were somehow delayed then President and VP would be out of office on 1/20/21 and Speaker out of office on 1/3/21. He would assume office and could execute an executive order to make this act law.
There are a few key binding collisions, but otherwise they can be used together.
The Fred Brooks reference wasn't lost.

If you really want to put it in his terms, the multi decade approach, things have gotten a lot easier now that we don't have to be concerned in most practical terms about how much work we're giving the computer. We don't have to be so dearly precious about Kilobytes of memory for instance. We don't even need to manage it at all really.

Whether we choose to use these new powers to make our lives easier or more complex and abstract is our own doing.

We're probably at the end of such optimizations, unless there's something fundamental in how software is designed that 1000GB of memory gives me that 1GB does not ...

Given what people are doing in JavaScript I think we entered the era where most people truly don't care about how much the computer has to do about 8-9 years ago.

The higher level pasting together of increasingly numerous, incompatible, abstract, ill fitted things making life easier has always been a fiction.

There's a maximum utility point and anything past that starts slowing the development down again.

That sweet spot has always been right about the same; if you ldd the dynamically linked programs in say /usr/bin in 2020 and 2000 and count the number of libraries per binary, the count isn't that much higher. The sweet spot hasn't moved.
Another project in this vein in the JS ecosystem that's starting up right now is Redwood [0]. I'm optimistic, considering it's backed by Tom Preston Warner.

[0]: https://redwoodjs.com
Odd? That post just got randomly assigned the short URL of "vault". These are usually short random alphanumeric ascii. Not so weird to me
OpenNIC has a few servers supporting either DoH or DoT or both.
He's entertaining. Getting information from him requires a level of scrutiny, everyone on his show has an agenda. Think of it like when actors go on late night television to promote their movie.
I don't really consider promotions or raises. If I take a job, after 1 year I take a hand full of interviews even if I love my job. Then I repeat every 6 months. This improves my ability to interview and keeps me aware of what skills are being required as well as what compensation is being offered. If I get an offer substantially better than my current one, I take it.
> Creationism is not a fringe idea!

When people discuss creationism they're usually talking about Young Earth Creationism which is absolutely a fringe idea
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Notice the definitions:

> The two capacitor paradox or capacitor paradox is a paradox, or counterintuitive thought experiment, in electric circuit theory.

> A paradox, also known as an antinomy, is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion.

(emphases mine). It's paradoxical in that it runs counter to expectations or intuition, using apparently valid reasoning. (Of course, maybe it doesn't run counter to your intuition; but that's how correct intuition is developed, by breaking naïve intuition against examples like this!) In fact, the article explicitly acknowledges this:

> Unlike some other paradoxes in science, this paradox is not due to the underlying physics, but to the limitations of the 'ideal circuit' conventions used in circuit theory.
Not sure exactly what folder you mean, but I literally have a 75 MB zip file (or rather, it's a .7z file, zipping would make it slightly larger). Unzipped its 700 MB though.
> Being contacted several times per day seems totally reasonable for, I think, the vast majority of jobs in existence.

Sure. I do not agree that developers belong to the same group with the vast majority of jobs with regards to interruption and synchronous communication though (async slack is fine, if the developer got to decide when to see and reply to the @mention).

Being blocked for 3 days is definitely bad (although we do not solve it with Slack), but I do not agree that someone being blocked for an hour is worth the interruption of another developer. I just took on an engineering manager role lately, which gave me more time observing others. And one thing I have noticed is that a couple of junior developers pinging each other every 30 mins to ask a question that they might or might not be able to solve with some more effort just ruin everyone's productivity.

It seems like we end up agreeing with each other on both your a) and b) point. So I will just make my point more explicit: too many team culture expects synchronous Slack usage. And I do not know how much Slack encourage that, but it is definitely more synchronous than email, which Slack is supposed to replace
I used to listen to Tim Ferris years ago, even bought the 4 hour workweek but for whatever reason I eventually lost interest. I think he was a bit predictable and bland also a bit too deep into "Tech" culture.

Never really paid much attention to Sam Harris so might have another look at him.

One of the most interesting things about Joe Rogan is that he's not a one trick pony e.g. Comedy/Fighters/TV personality etc. I find him more interesting as a result.
Well I explained my rationale above - writes are sequential on the disk level regardless the database. So PostgreSQL shouldn't have much of an advantage in concurrent simple writes (it could even be slower than SQLite). PostgreSQL should be faster in concurrent complex transactions but the question is how complex and how much faster.
As far as I understand, that Branco guy has had a lot of short-sighted attempts at getting into high-profile roles, with no consistent thread beyond that. Plus some pointless and spiteful attempts at getting into the limelight for all the wrong reasons, as with the above backstabbing.

Our politicians generally turn once in their lives, often rightwards, but this guy is thirty and has already bounced between so many attempts at becoming "important" ASAP, within unrelated and ideologically incompatible currents, abandoning them or being forced out almost immediately. Clearly, he has a lot more ego than resolve, probably needs psychological help, and I hope he won't be another psychopath getting into meaningful power.
Love Neville's tool!
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Considering the perpetual discussion on HN around new tech and opportunities, was the opportunity around Bitcoin being widely discussed? This is during the time before it reached mainstream popularity.
Employees are stakeholders in a company. They have the right to express displeasure when the founder "tries do do the best, to the limit of his abilities" and nevertheless creates problems and/or demonstrates they are incapable of quality leadership as the organization grows.
I think calling copyright infringement stealing is a hyperbole. They are very different things. Sometimes it's more than an inconvenience, though. At the present moment in time, I have no way to legally watch all but 3 Rick and Morty's episodes from the latest season (episodes 6, 7 and 8). And that's a brand new show. Don't get me started on older movies/tv shows.

We have the technology to allow everyone to have access to any film produced that we still have available in some format, but the distributors/copyright holders just can't organise themselves to make this happen, but instead give us a broken experience. I see projects like popcorn time pushing the boundaries a little bit, trying to make the problem evident.

I, for one, would like to see the copyright law reviewed. It could require you to pay part of the profits from the derivative work to copyright holders, but not give the copyright holder the power to prevent you from distributing it, for instance. That could would allow netflix, apple tv, etc to have pretty much whatever they wanted in their collection.
> You can't just redefine the political spectrum every four years and pretended there's no history or global context.

You shouldn't, but you certainly can. It's why so many Americans don't realize that their country's politics doesn't even have a left.
Which you need the visual studio installer for, which only works half of the time. Just to check if it still is as bad as last I tried, I downloaded the build tools and started the installer. Currently downloading 1 GB of data...

Edit: To nobodies surprise, the installer still doesn't work. The command line shortcuts it installs fail to properly set up the path. At least it looks like they are trying to print a sensible error message in the command prompt now though. Still not quite sure how they manage to fail this badly though.
I was thinking as I was reading it that it reads more like a blog post than a fact driven wikipedia article. Generalized language and some assumed knowledge. I was surprised to see all the citations.
I don't get why people would use something like popcorntime which by using you are almost guaranteed a lovely letter from your ISP (especially Comcast) when there are numerous movies sites you can go to cough cineb cough and watch whatever you want through a browser and not BitTorrent. It's the BitTorrent aspect of popcorntime that gets you flagged. Why take the risk using it?