skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What position do you think I took? I just asked some questions out of curiosity, I did not mean to take any position.

Do you have a blanket position against being curious about the business models or policies or statements of companies offering free stuff about their free stuff? Does that apply to facebook and google too?
Is there a difference between ≤ and <= in Raku? Curious why you used ≤ in your example.
Shameless plug about goal setting: https://ochronus.online/goal-setting/
The old school BBs didn't have a steady stream of internet riff-raff wandering through and defecating on the lawn. Every single "everything" platform that has user comments has this problem. Reddit and Twitter both make this problem particularly insidious by facilitating cross communication (cross posts and retweets) between the sub groups. It is impossible for subject or niche specific communities to have a high quality existence in this environment. For all their ills at least the chans make a good faith attempt to run "containment boards" to mitigate this problem on their own site.
Unless they’re under the yoke of Sony, Universal or Warner..

Just kidding, those three companies have been granted a state guaranteed monopoly over enough of human culture to be able to bully other entities like YouTube, Spotify or whatever, into accepting onerous terms.. (think youtube automatically (and legally) stealing ad money and giving it to these companies, for a video of a person playing historical scores on a recorder. Or Spotify accepting that the money you pay them will get rerouted to famous artists you have never listened to)
Me too, with the cheapest Kimsufi server from OVH (something like 3€ a month).

To be fair I can't be sure because a less than 5 minutes downtime would probably go unnoticed, but the fact is I never hear about this server.
But C is “bad practice” (by design, and I mean it in a good sense).
I assume that's total, including apps? Or are you saying that between old, mobile web and new, 75% of hits are from new? If so that's quite different from my traffic stats, copying a comment from older thread:

According to my traffic stats (moderating ~400k subscribers), old + mobile web frontends make up about twice the traffic of new frontend. Apps are by far the most popular, about ~3x of all web frontends combined.
They never turned it off.
That would just be used as a new tracking mechanism.
Flip it around, what economic problem does enabling you to trade more often than once per day (say) solve?
Windows update does a lot of things. Resets defaults, resets your Ethernet adapter settings, deletes partitions, makes the OS unbootable (tip: use Legacy BIOS mode instead of UEFI, it's more stable and actually fixable with recovery tools), and more.

If you're forced to use Windows, Microsoft takes it as you liking their superb OS, so you gotta live with it, let the hate boil, until you finally switch away forever.
Genuine, unrelated, question: What is an "influencer"?

I've only recently started seeing people refer to others or themselves as "influencers" (I'm not on Snapchat/Tiktok/Instagram/Twitter).

The distopian cynic in me only understands it as "person with a bunch of followers on social media who occasionally peddles products" a.k.a a human ad. Is this about right?
> Yes that why we have CEO's and executives swimming in money.

That's totally orthogonal though. Competitive businesses can absolutely have highly paid executives. All you have to do is run the arithmetic of how much you can reduce the unit price of a mass-produced good/service by dividing all of the highly paid executives' salaries/compensation. The answer is not very much.

Consider that Uber is not a profitable business, at the moment, and yet their CEO is compensated $50M. It doesn't take a genius to determine that merely distributing his high salary across the millions of drivers (or software engineers) or even trip riders does close to nothing for the unit economics of the business.

> Its the tax dodging monolithic industries that are the problem. And their margins are able to absorb the cost multiple times over.

But the tax isn't targeted at "tax dodging monolithic industries", it's universally applied. Not every "digital" company is FANG, there are hundreds of thousands of small SaaS businesses that would be affected too. The distortionary effects are almost always unintended. There is an entire sub-field in economics dedicated to researching "tax incidence" -> https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,33&qsp=1&q...
I like it, but as I do not work in a Dutch-speaking environment, if I were to do this, someone would eventually come along and 'fix' it (assuming I could get it through review in the first place.)
Exactly. You should be in charge.
" when of equal intensity, things of a more negative nature have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

"Research indicates that at the subconscious level, the mind tends to focus on the optimistic; while at the conscious level, it tends to focus on the negative." -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna_principle
I don't think either is likely. Linux is embedded into the cloud space and the embedded space.

People have been down the Windows CE and Windows RT rabbit holes before. Windows Nano does nothing there.

In the server space, it's a possibility, but why? Other than running MS specific software, what is the benefit?

On the other hand, even with WSL2, Linux is not going to have it's mythologized "year of the desktop", unless you count Chromebooks. So Windows will maintain its niche there.
"Hey I am 14 years old developer and I made XXX, for my first XXX, please check it out"
My first corporate job in computing, in 1994, was at TeleCheck. They used an all VMS environment, though by then the machines themselves were about 30% Alphas and not actual Vaxes.

The denial about the platform's future was SUPER strong. TeleCheck IT and software development, at least in those days, was staffed by people who would either move on quickly or stay forever. They mostly hired right out of college, too, so the lifers were people who had never worked anywhere else. (This kind of employment monoculture is pretty destructive, IMO -- get some new ideas in there!)

This created a super weird environment. Everywhere else I worked back in those days was rife with industry publications, curiosity about how other systems worked, excitement about developments in software or networking even if they were on stacks or platforms other than whatever the site used, etc.

Not so there. I think this may have been mostly because to read, say, InfoWorld in 1994 would have made it much harder to avoid how narrow a niche they were occupying. The nature of the systems and software there meant people who stayed were gaining skills not useful anywhere else; pretty much everything (even the database system) was built in-house.

People were out the door constantly, going to other big tech employers in the area to either (a) pick up more marketable skills or (b) pick up a huge bump in pay. That's what I did after 2 years. (Turnover in the dev group was something like 35% a year, which is HELL on institutional knowledge.)

All that said, you could see SOME of the appeal of staying on VMS from their POV. Clustering was a big deal, because downtime cost dollars. File versioning in the OS -- which I still haven't seen implemented the same way anywhere else -- was fucking genius and made rolling back a bad release almost trivial.

But when you decide to ignore where the market is going, and stay on a doomed platform, there are real costs to pay.
So high level MRI data features are correlated with reported thoughts. This sounds like interesting research but they are far away from any sort of usable system.

This reminds me of people getting excited by natural language advances of BERT and other transformer models because they think the models actually understand language, instead of the truth that these model are just very good at predicting words around a point of interest in text.

That said, the article is worth reading.
My understanding (based in part on personal experience) is that melatonin helps mostly with falling asleep, but not necessarily with staying asleep.
> There's never been a standard for naming and abbreviating flags, which means that for EACH program you will have to learn new flags.

How is this different than web pages or GUI apps? Everyone is different and a button that does one thing in one app/page does something different in another.

Have you tried to read GUI help files? They are written for 5 year olds and provide nothing you need as a dedicated user. Have you had to inspect the DOM of a website to try and intuit what something does it does not do?

Least with command line apps usually you have a --help or man page.
Live multi-track audio and recording in browser
I've had it (and highly recommend not getting it!) but know surprisingly few other people who have considering I was in London at the time. Response in the UK has been overcompensating for reacting too slowly and doing the wrong things at the beginning. Friends in Asia say in many respects measures are more relaxed there, but they didn't get a huge spike from cheerfully carrying on as normal at the peak.
Did you just search for "unix philosophy" and found some links?

Again, was just interested if you had any specific thing you could point to, but elsewhere in the comments I see now a few concrete issues.
Build a shopping cart in Node.js and React
>I think your argument that VWO is a profitable business, is unknown

VWO has been profitable since its first month of inception

(throwaway account + I am a VWO employee)
>I have the feeling that this setup is even more of a hassle than ZFS.

Hehe so true!

ZFS:
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/testfile bs=1M count=18000 conv=fdatasync

That's stupid, writing zeros to ZFS just ~tests the compression speed, your file will have the size of a bit more than zero.
The Windows 10 bootloader likes living on the... edge. One wrong step and it's toast, two wrong steps and not even recovery can help you :D

I found installing Windows 10 in legacy (not UEFI) BIOS mode makes it more stable, and the various recovery tools (sfc, bootrec, etc) actually work. Strange, but this is Windows, so maybe not that strange.
There's a section in the linked Wikipedia article that describes Jorge Luis Borges tracing the origin of the concept back to Aristotle's Metaphysics.

That's the best thing I've read today. I've often heard the monkeys-on-typewriters imagery, but never related it to an idea of a "total library" which contains everything that can ever be written, probably even itself. I suppose the digits of Pi may be considered such a "library".

"Strictly speaking, one immortal monkey would suffice."
Prof. Anthony Lasenby (Cambridge) Geometric Algebra as New Language for Physics
I realize I'm most probably not going to change your mind here :) And it's fine, live and let live.

I've had plenty of experiences in meditation and on hallucinogenics that don't fit into your picture.

What I don't understand is how you can be so certain of anything, given that we're all observing the system subjectively from the inside.
'disingenuous' seems to imply that it was an intentional omission. -- which i doubt it was.

you have a very valid point but it would come across even more effectively without that part, i believe.
But the first sentence has both pronunciations...so...
Same here. Lost my interest and never able to gain it back.
So, then the user calling the library with foo(3.5) will get a runtime error (or, ok, maybe even a compile time error).

To avoid that, you need to document that the value should be between 0 and 1, and you could do that with a comment line (which the OP wanted to avoid), or by naming the variable or type appropriately: And that takes us back to the original question. (Whether the concept is expressed in the parameter name or parameter type (and its name) is secondary.)
Woah, this looks like an incredible site.
Hum... Better for investors and better for the founders.

Yep, it's maybe better for random strangers if both commit to a lot of work that may not pay out. (Or maybe not, isn't there something better for them to do?) But that's a really entitled point of view, isn't it? It's better for everybody that is actually on the line.
https://hyperdom.org
You're not; your reply is.
Also they obtained and released blurays before they were put on sale to the public.
> Also, most "general" subs celebrate mediocrity.

God I hate this. Self deprecation and making light of feelings of inadequacy. It's like high fiving your friend when you both fail a test in high school, except its applied to one's general state of living.
GPT-3 is an idea machine
Wait, haven't they been ignoring/deprecating Skype for a couple years now, pushing towards Lync? Or is that only business?
870 days is what the title of his webpage says.
They actually did have a store once upon time. And I can definitely see them bringing back to subreddits.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/2xdkyi/closing...
I first played Monkey Island well after its time, but it held up and I enjoyed it immensely. I recall specifically being impressed by the twist in the insult-sword-fighting mechanic that occurs when you fight the Sword Master. I maintain that the game holds up even today, though obviously nostalgia bias probably applies.
Why has the title been editorialized? The "mostly by making the mobile web experience miserable" part is the focus of this report (and true).
Even here in Russia, which is famous for its awful roads, there's plenty of private roads, both closed to public, and operated for-profit with toll booths that are in great condition. Tragedy of the commons doesn't happen when things actually belong to someone.
I use fraction. Better than any of the answers there.
A full set of Vax documentation was at least the size of the Vax. I still have my 3 volume copy of HPUX's man page.

Including the famous bug for tunefs which is still current in FreeBSD (talk about slack in addressing the real issues!):

"You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tunefs&sektion=8#e...
Patio11, we need you! Tell us of the atrocious funding environment in Tokyo. Tptacek, tell us of how much more conservative the funding environment is in Chicago! Patrick Collision, pc, speak of why you live in the US, not Ireland!

A growth chart very much who not get you funded anywhere. Numbers that would have people writing cheques in Silicon Valley or even Boston would be lucky to get a loan, personally guaranteed from the founder, for a quarter of that amount in most of Europe. People raise in the Bakery w because it’s the best place to raise. This indie hacker, growth fund, Earnest Capital, lifestyle business to selling to PE funnel thing is distributing that and building a smoother thing between VC and small business but you cannot raise anywhere else like the Valley, except perhaps China. Even the Israelis go to the US to raise.
Or you can spend that few hours writing a blog post for marketing purposes or figure out how to actually generate revenue.
I actually thought that systemd is the init part.. Regarding DNS, is the systemd resolver just not advanced/flexible enough? I.e as a desktop user I can't complain about anything, but I don't configure it much either.
Just to clarify: what kind of goals do you mean? Is the context people management or anything in general?
The part of the article that was really appealing was the discussion of the classes. It sounds like wood carving was the reason for the class, but socializing was a big part of why people came back.
Lots of people paid lots of money to DEC and Sun and HP and IBM and others for Unix as well.
So it is synonymous with 'ratio'?
I worked for a big enterprise type company. Our performance management process was predictably broken like most BigCorp companies processes are. We had cascading goals from the CEO down to the team manger level, with numerous layers in between. These goals were not data driven in any way. Our performance process was heavily biased towards the quarter prior to the annual review -- so don't put any points on the board until the 4th quarter, that's when they'll count for the most. Common saying -- wins cover up sins.

As a manager of a team, I tried to institute OKR's into the process for my team at minimum. I found that technique partially successful -- meaning successful for me and my team but limited in that other teams in my department wouldn't adopt them. Too much work they said.
You know, i do get this but we are in IT not in Marketing.

My most used skill is to make sure i'm pedantic aka 'so we need to calculate this from that after this? and we need accuracy of 0.32? And what should that button do exactly?'

It is not SSL its TLS and i don't expect everyone to get it but its still wrong.

The weirdes thing in IT is, that i don't know any other word which is so missused then SSL.
Personal level or on a company/business/team level?
Displaying metrics of a distributed cluster or data visualization in 5 minutes
Is it true to think that because they made some choices early on that those choices forever blemish its value even is said choices are later addressed?

Much of the complaints about checkout have been split to other commands in newer versions. Does this make Git still invalid in your opinion?
FB is not serving their users, they hedge against being rated as a publisher.
It's been said pretty often -- and I think it's true -- that the introduction and success of OS X drastically slowed the adoption of Linux as a mainstream desktop option.

I take no position on whether this was good or bad overall; it's just a statement of fact. Lots of us who would've otherwise needed to shift to Linux for LAMP development or whatever after the dot-com crash migrated to the Mac instead, because it meant a unix laptop that Just Works that also allowed us to run native MS Office, etc. That was a powerful value proposition (and remains one).

" the writing is definitely on the wall for us Unix geeks who nevertheless carry a Macbook."

I do not yet see this writing.
You could probably have the PDF printed online, there are some services out there that will do it for relatively cheap.
Isn't that what I said? How are you going to get access to other machines if each machine has a unique password?
The fractional part of x is what you have left after you subtract the largest integer k ≤ x.

Hence the fractional part is always less than 1. Since 0.999... = 1, it is not less than 1, so cannot be the fractional part of any number.
That is a really nice introduction (+1). If you are writing JavaScript it is important to understand basic OOP concepts, becaues it's only a matter of time before it is encountered in the wild.

Personally, I try to avoid OOP in JavaScript. OOP tends to be a little more verbose, but this is me being petty about vanity. The best reason to avoid OOP in JavaScript is that people who aren't strong in JavaScript but have experience or formal education in other language see OOP in JavaScript as something familiar which presents all manners of false expectations and future disappointment.
Jepp i actually assumed that at one point and i was right :D
Slightly off center from your question, but:

1. Every Wednesday I Google Meet with my salespeople. We review the prior week's priority prospects, this week's, and then I ask them about clients not on the list that our BI system has identified as promising. An integration of internal systems, Slack & Zapier alerts me each day to anomalies (good and bad) with clients, inventory and systems. MixMax (shout out to Brad!) is a big help in tracking email activity. RingCentral reporting is a big help in validating Salesperson activity.

2. Every Friday I review Github repository activity for my development teams. A very soft-touch and collaborative conversation follows for developers and engineers whose pace of work or direction seems off. This is almost always a result of improper scoping, unrealistic milestones, or miscommunication.

3. Every Monday and Tuesday I'm hands-on with my marketing team preparing for the Wednesday release of our marketing communications, and reviewing ongoing advertising campaign results.

4. Every weekday I'm in our Xero accounting software looking at cash flow projections, inventory, A/P and A/R. Xero is hot garbage IMHO, but I've built some integrations that make is easier to use for real-time reporting.

5. I visit our satellite facility every other week for in-person chats with that team.

6. I've invested a lot in automation to track our market, predict conditions and generate alerts.

Notwithstanding 1-6 above, there's no substitute for good market conditions and good employees. I have the latter, but not the former. I mention this just in-case you're thinking you can systematize your way out of a demand vacuum.
flashcode! (WeeChat)

https://github.com/flashcode

WeeChat is written in a very clear and easy-to-follow C.
Only in the move-fast-and-break-things part of the world. In other engineering professions (aviation, drilling, pharmacy) it can take a decade to go from initial design to fully-deployed product.
Either the Ninth Circuit overstepped their jurisdiction when they ruled[0] on whether Apple violated “California Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 7”,[1] or they actually do have jurisdiction.

My knowledge of the courts is that they are pretty strict about jurisdiction, so I’m led to believe that they actually do have it.

Also, they mention that they do:[2]

> We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

[0]: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/09/02/1...

[1]: [0;p.9 “III”]

[2]: [0;p.9 “I”]
So it's a Timebox clone, but without the hardware and Windows only? Seems pretty useless. Why does any old thing from Microsoft always get upvoted here? Do they have have marketing bots or something?

https://www.divoom.com/product/timebox-mini.html
The problem business faces when looking for a competitive advantage is that anything well understood ... is no advantage. Take double entry bookkeeping. Clear evidenced based link between good accounting and good results, so every business does it. There is basically no advantage gained over the competition from good accounting.

So companies are fighting over the scraps of advantage at the margins where there might, or might not, be an advantage in doing things a certain way. Trouble is very few people can actually evaluate evidence (everyone says they can, evidence is not many people are right). The situation quickly becomes absurd.
> POSIX is a monolith and really deserves to be improved.

Care to explain what's intrinsically wrong with monoliths? I'd have thought that the most important point of a solution is whether or not it solves the problem, not the arhictecture by which it solves the problem.
How to Organize Your Time?
You’re right. I’ve been on Reddit since 2012. But over the last 2-3 years, the front page seems to feature more controversial or upsetting content. I wonder if Reddit promotes that to increase engagement metrics.
Glad to see a few people have brought up Jamendo already, but I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned ccMixter [0]. This is one of the really early sites to try and address this exact need. They have an enormous back catalog of open-licensed music designed specifically for mixing and reuse, and a still quite active community of dedicated users (though the site design needs a bit of a refresh).

[0] http://ccmixter.org/