skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too am 62 and have been a working programmer for almost 39 years. I did run two small startups early in my career, but was always a full time programmer alongside the others. Today I am a lead iOS programmer working with a team of 4 (until recently 7) team members, I still write code everyday and my team has a great rep for doing things faster than anyone expects, and still with the highest quality results. I've switched gears a lot over my career, from Fortran to Assembly to Pascal to C to C++ to Objective-C to Java back to C/C++ back to Objective-C and now the latest Swift. Done almost every kind of programming including embedded systems, desktop apps, web apps, mobile apps, dev tools and even worked at Apple helping other programmers back in the sad days. Funny how things I learned early on still guide me today, even though the tech has changed radically so many times.
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I'm sorry, but if you require the deletion of what you said to protect yourself from the people, then you shouldn't be in a position of power.

> and stating bluntly what you really mean (and what you are concerned about)

In the end, people aren't judged for this. They're judged for the actions that they take, and then communications like this are used for context. If your decision is so bad that they had to make a FOI request to find out how spurious your reasoning was, then I don't see why you should have the protection of having no paper trail. That's insanity.
Absolutely agree. It’s truly amazing. I’ve had the chance to go to Vandenberg AFB in CA for two SpaceX launches, and while I’ve never actually gotten to see the rocket itself because of low-level fog, the feeling of being there is absolutely insane.

You hear the countdown over the radio, and a few seconds later you feel the rumble hit you, and you can feel it in your chest as it goes up and away. It’s an unmatched experience.
> the raw materials to the manufacturing facility would cost ~$3000/kg

This is also assuming the price per kg to orbit stays stable but Musk has stated he intends to drive the price down much further. He's even given figures for what he thinks they might be able to achieve with Starship[0] and SpaceX's rapid progress seems to indicate that they will, eventually, get there. The best comparison from history is probably the construction of railroads which had long development timelines and capital costs but eventually began paying back massive amounts even while driving the cost of freight down and providing a backbone for commercial and industrial development.

[0] https://www.inverse.com/article/60712-spacex-starship-elon-m...
An example is custom hardware not working as expected. To debug this you may need five different people on the line at the same time. If you do this in an async manner it will take days or weeks to resolve.
We are using Prisma Cloud at work. I'm always surprised to see such a half user friendly tool.

I thought, when i used that tool for the first time, that is some small company building it but nope its paloaltonetworks.
How to plan your events easier with Ddays
Ddays is simple tool app all in one for organizing events with your friends. Ddays is available on Apple store and Google Play store.
I agree it's harder, but my opinion is that at this point we should market Linux on the desktop as being a very specific thing requiring hardware explicitly for that purpose and should try to work with vendors to make it an option for more hardware, rather than trying to support everything and it not being the best experience as a result.
I feel like most of the corporate world is gravitating toward web interfaces.

Works great for me, since then a "thin client" can be as simple as a stripped-down Linux running a Qt5 or Electron app (or a browser in kiosk mode) that does nothing but access that web interface (or perhaps has a couple different tabs for different systems).

For actual thin-client needs, it seems like Citrix XenDesktop is the go-to nowadays. Linux as a base OS works okay for this (there are Linux ICA clients). Linux also has RDP clients for Windows terminal servers (or hell, even Linux terminal servers with an RDP server; I typically do this for openSUSE servers in corporate environments where the people doing day-to-day maintenance are used to Windows and insist on a GUI).

> How do I make sure you recover from crashes reliably?

Just restart the app.

> How do you secure the inputs, to avoid escapes from the application?

With a stripped down environment the only such escapes are ones you configure yourself. X11 and the session thereof can be configured to have zero options besides starting up your chosen application. Even if you leave Ctrl-Alt-Backspace enabled, it'd just boot right back into that app. Ctrl-Alt-F(whatever) (if still enabled) should present a login prompt, so unless the password's compromised you're good to go there, too.

Then it's just a matter of locking down the app itself, which again is straightforward if the session is configured to just restart the app if it closes/crashes. A custom application (say, a Qt5 app doing nothing except presenting a WebEngine widget and perhaps some support for hardware interfacing) offers fewer escape opportunities than, say, a generic browser in "kiosk mode".
I think someday we will be able to duplicate the basic brain of an infant in a computer. Don't forget all the information is in our DNA and there's not that much innate knowledge - most of the infant's brain relates to the amazing capacity to learn. Someone will then take one home and train it like a human baby. It will become so close to a human that it will spark debates about whether it has self-awareness and whether it should have human rights. I regret I won't be around to see it, but who knows - maybe I'll be back :-)
Not looking to compete for the crown, but I have been involved with software development on and off since 1970. I started college in 1969, and really loved my liberal arts and social science courses, but began having panic attacks in class (I found out many years later that I was bipolar). My hail Mary move was switching majors to 'Business Data Processing'. My thought being that programming would give me a salable skill the quickest. We were doing JCL and COBOL programming on the school mainframe using punch cards. The panic attacks continued, and I dropped out of school in 1971. In 1975, I enlisted in the US Air Force, and spent six years working in Signal Intelligence. I have been part of the defense contractor corps (aka Beltway Bandits) since 1981, and doing database development/admin continuously from 1988 to this day. I'm 69 now.
Volatility is the main concern [1]. Making trading decisions based on microseconds is speculation. How can anyone or anything reach an understanding of something as complex as markets in this short time?

Other concerns include unnecessary waste and unfairness [2]. The point is that this is a zero-sum game that makes us invest in infrastructure that will soon get obsolete once someone else builds a faster infrastructure.

Fast trade isn't "efficient". Long-term stability is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
The lower the voltage drop, the better. I guess, in their part of the world, germaniums are cheaper than schottkys
Sorry, the submission needs to be reviewed right now as there's a chance your blog might appear in the front page and someone might post something inappropriate.

I'm currently working on a submission filter that should automate the gating and it should be merged by the end of the week.

I also approved a bunch of blogs just then, so hopefully yours is public.
Xfce switches to GitLab
> Of course they are

That's facile. The system is designed so that in the aggregate, users will not treat this review information as unreliable. It doesn't matter that a tiny percentage of users have the wherewithal to assess it properly.
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Whenever I click "it's spam & unsubscribe" i often keep getting more emails.

Then I started clicking "block this address" from another drop-down - never got any new mail. Much recommended approach.
I use GIMP regularly and find it more than enough for all my needs.

I don't agree with you that it sucks.
> In most of the northern hemisphere it will only be viable for a couple months in the summer.

This is not correct. I've done line drying year-round, doesn't work great when it's below zero (freezes) but otherwise works fine. I think low relative humidity is important so the moisture in the clothing has somewhere to go.
Languages are just tools. To "hate on" this or that method of solving problems is just immature. To avoid a technology because it is a bad tool is fine, but to trot out manifesto declarations is following some drama script that is unnecessary.
You cannot fetch the coffee if you're dead
You’re not thinking through the consequences. If this becomes the norm, what will the “new” and index page look like when 90% of the content is comprised of reposted project homepages looking for attention?
> It is safe. It is provably safe. Period. End of sentence. No qualifications.

> Every country safely prescribes its use for malaria, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

This is a misunderstanding, and misuse, of the word safe. No medication is safe. We balance the harms caused against the benefits gained.
A frost would sometimes freeze the clothes stiff overnight. And dumb kid curiosity, if you licked the clothes you would get a faint taste of detergent.

But the best small was fresh cut hay, sleeping on it in a barn
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. /s and !/s
Another possible place to look for secrets is in public docker images. Bots are scanning github repos for secrets all the time, but what about dockerhub (and other docker images repositories)? I accidentally leaved a secret on my public docker image once and that's made me quite paranoid about it now.
British government has transparency problem at much higher level. There is official report from investigation of rape gangs. It includes almost 100k child rape victims in many cities over 3 decades. Government refuses to release it, and pretends this abuse does not exists.
maybe they could bundle an entire OS that's privacy enabled, that would be a bigger perk?
hate to say that but "check your privilege".

You know what cookies are and made your informed decision to accept them in your browsers. I do not, for example, and block most of them.

99% of internet users do not had that knowledge before those "stupid click-through warnings everywhere".

So if you want to write off the outcome of the EU cookie law, it is not "entitled Californian software engineers got a little annoyed", but instead "the whole world woke up to the fact advertising companies are tracking everything they do online via cookies".
I really wish more "Linux-friendly" laptop vendors would ship with AMD GPUs instead of NVIDIA. I get that there are probably constraints from upstream whitelabel manufacturers, but still. Even the high-end Ryzen based laptops on that site seem to only offer NVIDIA GPUs, which is lame.

It's 2020. Ain't nobody got time for NVIDIA driver issues.
"Writing with Style, Conversations on the Art of Writing", by John Trimble is another great writing book (The second edition is 161 pages if you don't include the appendices).

The ability to communicate in writing is an important skill even for developers.
Cushion publishes the same info, and they've been around a bit longer.

https://cushionapp.com/running-costs/
The vast majority of people in HN prefer free, too. It's frustrating to see whenever a relevant article from the WSJ or the NY Times is discussed, a significant number of posts are complaining about the paywall. Get all your news from spam-blogs if you want, but don't complain about people who are willing to pay for slightly better (in some dimensions at least) news sources.
Moving and Swiping with RecyclerView
google is a monopoly. they do not have to have customer service. break them up.
Yes, underfunding education is the real root of the problem as it hampers the democratic process later on.
Do you have a source on the 100k figure?
there's bytecode sharpied on the walls
I find headers with templates are always the problem. So external template instantiation and pre compiled headers can solve a lot of first time compilation slowness.

Pimpl is more for reducing how much you have to change headers forcing a recompile during development. It's also really handy for keeping binary compatibility with published dynamic libraries so that you don't have to recompile dependants.
The other leading theory is that major (non emergent) operations and management changes (like starting chemotherapy) will often be postponed until the senior physicians get back.
I feel like what you are writing (in this comment and others in this thread) is an indicator that you firmly believe that it isn’t your beliefs that cause your mental state, but rather, objective facts do.

The thing is, frameworks from stoicism to Buddhism to cognitive behavior therapy to Timothy Leary to Sam Harris to Viktor Frankl etc etc etc invite us to reconsider that position.

Mental states are in a certain important sense entirely self created.

Knowing that doesn’t mean we can will ourselves to be happy, but does open the door to finding out how we can productively ‘hack’ our mental state.

The facts you name aren’t the important point. It is the fact of you naming them that seem to indicate you are very committed to a certain reality tunnel.

Even if that reality tunnel is making you unhappy. Which is your right, maybe it serves you in some other important way.

But it’s not a position from which you could ever be convinced of anything, at least, I have no idea how.

Because I’m not disputing, and wouldn’t want to be in the position of, disputing any of those facts. Yet I still live in a very different reality tunnel.

Not sure how to communicate that better.

I don’t think altering your reality tunnel in regards to this stuff would make the stuff somehow more of a danger to you or everyone on the planet. It would just change your emotional experience and potential effectiveness in addressing the problems. For better or worse, depending on the tunnel shift.
Let's hope someone with a similar view-point doesn't discover Earth, then! :D

Jokes aside, you are right, of course. We don't have to worry about environmental effects or native populations in the same way when dealing with off-World colonies on sterile worlds. That alone should provide some incentive for commercial exploitation of things like asteroids; at some point Earth will either run out of certain elements, or other factors will result in certain elements being more easily obtainable off-world.
Linux-friendly tablet with replaceable RAM, storage, battery in 2021?
A shack in SF is a million bucks precisely because Facebook won't pay a SF salary unless you are in SF. If they paid a SF salary no matter where you lived, then a shack in SF would not be worth one million dollars any more.
you seem to be under the impression that if China is the boss the question would be somehow different than how high
This reminds me of working on my C64. When I was young, I thought this was how all programming would be done.
Their comp ratio for my country is less than 0.5. I'd have to take a serious pay cut to go work for them.
Correct. If you are filming someone, be aware that your video may be used as proof in court - for example, to prove that a person was indeed resisting arrest.

It's best to not release it to anyone except to the victim's lawyers who will make sure the video supports their case instead of undermining it.
Many things. It's great, but it doesn't hold a candle to magit.

The README lists out several things that are missing that not only exist in magit, they aren't even notable features!
They say cost of living, but it’s more cost of labor. If you are a software engineer on this island, and the salaries for software engineering jobs there are a third of your salary because there is no tech industry, you will be paid significantly less. You don’t have opportunities to get a job that pays your old salary or more.
Private Eye has also created one of the best legal responses that they cite now and again. In the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.

If you're curious about it details are on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye#Litigation
The gaming industry is booming on the back of the pandemic
Food > faith

If you've known any religious people who successfully fasted all food for over a month then you may have seen the evidence for yourself. (Even as a once religious person I found it shocking.)
And if you've made a commitment to your partner, you probably should try to talk and figure some way to improve things with them first before jumping ship (unless there's some sort of serious abuse going on). Having that talk can be really difficult, though.

There are very few jobs where you've made any lasting commitment to nowadays. They can lay you off at the drop of a hat for any reason whatsoever, so you shouldn't give them anything more than a notice of you're leaving out of courtesy.
TypeScript is awesome compared to JavaScript and even to other popular C-like languages. But it inherits all of the problems of the JS ecosystem without providing all of the benefits.

To make a JS package consumable by a reasonably strict TS project, someone has to basically rewrite the package. It's less effort than writing one from scratch, but it's not free.
Someone work on an invention that can show you this, and release it right away, please :)
That does not seem to be the case. The US spends more on education than any other country. $16,268 a year per student vs global average of $10,759". It's evident that money does not translate into better results.

"According to the Washington thinktank the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), the average student in Singapore is 3.5 years ahead of her US counterpart in maths, 1.5 years ahead in reading and 2.5 in science. Children in countries as diverse as Canada, China, Estonia, Germany, Finland, Netherland, New Zealand and Singapore consistently outrank their US counterparts on the basics of education."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/us-education...
At a minimum it has been reviewed by the PR / marketing manager, legal team, and more than likely the CEO. There was also a lengthy editing process.

A large company doesn't release anything without a review like this, no matter how mundane. You can bet they will double down when discussing sensitive social issues.
A while back I was looking for a remote position at Stripe. I live near the Chicago area and was told I couldn't work remotely because they were starting a Chicago office and wanted me to be there instead.
In principle, it is fair to get paid same regardless of where you live because you should be getting paid for your contributions, not where you happen to connect your laptop. However, in current form of capitalism, you don’t get paid in proportion to your yield but rather in proportion to what your employer thinks you will need to maintain living standards they deem you are worthy of. This, in fact, is the cause of inequality where chain of command can decide to keep vast majority of value generated for themselves regardless of true value of their own yield. We often try to justify this inverted economics under the disguise of risk taking or leadership or making big decisions but if you look closely this singular aspect is the cause of why 1%ers exist at all in current system.
So you're saying that not only would it be better for the workers, but San Francisco would become more affordable to poorer people who don't have tech jobs and who were perhaps born there? Sounds like a win-win to me.
I do believe it is the most well thought out porcelain to git that I have ever come across, in any editor that I've seen. The ability to integrate nearly all the various git CLI tools (not to mention forge, the magit plugin that integrates with github/gitlab) into one cohesive interface is incredible.

Many blog posts have been written about the features of magit, so I wont attempt to enumerate them here.
Be a bit more optimistic! Cent'anni!
> Firefox (the default browser in most Linux distros) can't do hardware accelerated video

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Hardware_video_...

In short: Firefox supports it under Wayland since version 75 (and for more formats since 76).

Not that I've really noticed this being an issue under X11.
"But in total for a year,"

In other words, a year's worth of this (which is based off the idea that you would actually be using it. If you plan to use something you don't just stop using it after a month), is an entire month's worth of rent that you could pay instead.

Or maybe a different perspective, a month's worth of this is the same price as a month's worth of groceries.
I am also interested in any responses to these questions. Even if not from the OP.
> So you have to either choose to use the proprietary driver that only supports Xorg ... or use the open source nouveau driver with the problems associated with it.

You have also a third option: not use Nvidia hardware at all. In the end, it's you who is voting with your money; you gave Nvidia your money, so the attitude you are getting from Nvidia is between you two.

> there is no way to make them work correctly on X11.

Technically, there is, but it is user unfriendy (set framebuffer sizes of all displays to largest dpi and downsample on scan-out, via xrandr) and non-systematic hack.

> This is a problem about how X is designed, in an era where you didn't have HiDPI screens.

That's why you should switch to Wayland. X11 is dead, in next years it will be just a few libraries so legacy applications have something to link with.

> Also if you have a laptop and you have to connect to a projector you don't want to spend 20 minutes thinkering around with the Xorg config while the other people at the meating with their Macbooks laught at you.

Newer had that problem. In fact, I didn't edit xorg config since early 2000s, I think it didn't exist on any of my machines for decade+ already.
Interesting way to see it. For anyone wondering how unreliable it is, think instead that the trade off was well planned.
I worked for an Indian IT services company wayback in 2006, I think the culture comes from American companies. American managers want offshore managers reporting to them and not engineers and would pay top dollar for it.

Companies reacted by promoting toadies to be managers with good salaries and paid little to the engineers who did all of the work.

Gate keeping by said managers also helps with miscommunication. Then came the MBA rush too. If only they focused on paying people who did a good job, instead of paying per head/degree/title.
What's up with this mission to the ISS? am I missing something?
My working definition is that intelligence is about accurate modelling of the environment, both internal and external.

This includes the ability to make accurate predictions about threats and opportunities within the environment, and the likely outcomes of planned actions.

The more intelligent an entity is, the more successfully it can generalise from past experience and anticipate and influence future events.

This is a completely different definition to plain old IQ test intelligence, which seems to be closer to raw mental agility. I suspect you can score high on mental agility - e.g. figure and number series manipulation - and still have poor applied intelligence. The latter needs the ability to synthesise a range of diverse stimuli, which is not the same as being able to manipulate abstracted symbols with no surrounding context.
Simple: The germanium diode was the first suitable diode I found in my parts collection. :-)

A regular silicon diode will not work. An appropriate Schottky silicon diode will do the job; see the Infineon app-note in the "PPS" of the website. Also, the point-contact (regardless of the semiconductor material) reduces the diode's junction capacitance, making it faster, i.e., more suited for RF applications.