skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since there's no indication of any nominations, process or criteria other than one particular journalist being singled out for one particular long form piece criticising one particular startup company, my only question is which person working for that company thought that making a website to snipe at the journalist would actually be a good idea?
If you had a hand in getting it to generate ninja scripts: Congratulations. That made a big improvement in the daily experience of people maintaining projects built under SCons.

To be clear: SCons is not notably worse at describing what must be done to build a big project than other systems of its time. Lots of code has been compiled under it. Its deep failure has been in trying to direct the activities of compilations in real time, at which it is bad, gmake is good, and ninja positively excels.

Still, slowness in resolving dependencies is hard to defend. It is a problem in operations long well-understood, with familiar algorithms. A data structure well tuned to the algorithm would make even Python able to solve it quickly enough.

Nowadays the difficult part of a build system is the complexities of managing foreign dependencies, at which CMake is only just adequate.
It's really interesting to think about what computing projects look like over timescales that are not normally encountered in the industry.

It's rare for any software to achieve a kind of stable sustainability that allows it to continue development for as long as 25 years.

It gives me hope for some of the big open source projects - hope that maybe, eventually, all the bugs will be fixed - even if it takes decades.
That has been driving me crazy. I did manage to write an applescript toggle that i associated with my F1 key. I never really trust it, though.
At least in those countries you are allowed to choose another IM platform if you consider all those as privacy-deficient. In China, you do not have that "luxury".

This is what makes WeChat so dangerous, and also the only way of reaching Chinese citizens and transfer them money for an expat.
I’m not from India but from an almost-first world EU country, and I’ve been working in London for a while. My advice for someone else in my position (starting out) would definitely be to try to go to the US. Salaries are just so much better, it’s incomparable. You could save in the US in a year as much as you would make (post tax) in Europe in 5 years. Even in London and Switzerland, pribably the best-paid countries in Europe, you’re probably at least 2x worse off. (This is of course for top talent working in tech/finance/both.)
That should be for the users to decide. My point is whatever they choose is likely going to be government monitored.

And the US has done hundred of renditions without trial, so while far from the scale of China, US spy agencies still do some awful things.
Of course most things have a political element.

That doesn't mean they are political.

The study is about New York. The comment is trying to make this a 'red state vs blue state' thing. There's no reasonable basis for such thinking if you actually read the study.
Join the Fediverse! Join a Mastodon, Pleroma or MissKey instance, or set on up. Follow some random people and start talking. It's like 90s chat rooms all over again!
Oh I love them high steak business meatings, with rare proposals and well done outcomes.
ontopic: all mechanical switches fail, and have multiple ways to fail, from subtle contact jitter to loose/broken springs to whatever else could break
Wow, actually understandable without having to web search examples
I have certainly experienced this on Android. Random apps seem to be able to override my "mute the phone" command.
What software do people like for backing up Windows desktops?

I really want something that ends with a full disk image that's easy to restore to a new device, runs backups on a schedule (and will run a while after the next boot if the computer is off at the scheduled time), writes the images to a unix system on the LAN (either directly, or by writing to SMB), and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I don’t trust anyone except Apple to do touch screen experiences well.
Author should just use a proper browser with ad-block and mute add-on. Regardless of audio levels or hardware switches, a website should never play audio on its own without permission.
The very visible branding is because a) they work very closely with the products that get to use goretex, and they guarantee those products. So if I buy a Marmot rain jacket with goretex and I have a problem with it, I can go to goretex and they'll replace it. That's a pretty strong guarantee that consumers want to see very visibly. and b) they market hard to convince consumers that if it's not goretex, it won't be breathable. A bunch of competitors (outdry, event, neoshell, etc) popped up a few years ago and lots of companies switched to them from goretex, but goretex has since reeled them back in and now we see most companies using only goretex again.
If you wouldn't ride a bike because a helmet was mandatory, then without.
I work on a lot of legacy systems in financial services, the biggest issues related to threads is variable scope regarding servlet design patterns. I just migrated a 18 year old app off Weblogic to TomEE and we had issues with struts tags. The main app I work on has around 350 concurrent users. I have JMX on all the time and monitor it for long running threads and tune it when needed. The problem I have with Java is the massive amount of libraries that can be used and developers who copy and paste code and don't think about what the code does. The verbosity kills me too, it's so over done. I've decided to learn Go just because I'm tired of reading Java code, especially legacy code. But yes you are correct there is a lot of settings in the JVM and a lot to read to understand it. It's a powerful language with a lot of features.
BlackBerrys did that too.

It went away because phones moved from productivity to recreation devices.

You can be productive with smartphones but they're clearly designed for entertainment
Depends on of the land lord decreases the rent or not.
on a more practical side, i wonder if by unearthing older stuff, old variants of the plague get unearthed as well....
Yea, as a NYC denizen myself I generally say to people “the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” when I see these. The source of this story is of course a right leaning tabloid I believe, and current trends seem to indicate they’re trying to push the narrative that “Democrat” run cities are lawless hellholes.
Not even SCons people. (I'm the project maintainer)
> I'm surprised that GraalVM is not mentioned.

Java and GraalVM come from two different parts of the company. They're aren't done by the same people.
Spring Boot has historically been resource-hungry, but that's changing quite quickly.

Modulo usual caveats about not promising anything and safe harbours and forward-looking statements, VMware is interested in Spring efficiency up to a very high level in the org chart. Watch this space.

Disclosure: I work for VMware.
True that, but the incentives for government bureaucrats in the U.S. and the U.K. are somewhat different. Of the two, the former seem more likely to be swayed by industrial concerns/lobbying. Not saying that the U.K. is totally immune to this kind of thing, but I'd trust the NHS over the USDA.
Those will always be easily available. They’re also available as prescriptions
Tying your app to the fs isn’t that bad if the fs is flexible and portable enough such as zfs having the ability to use plain files.

Doesn’t seem much worse than tying it to a particular database or API
The point is a bit deluded when it's made on a blog with underage anime girls.
> You seem to be under the impression that if enough people subscribed to some very good national publication that it would somehow start covering local school board elections.

Not implausible; enough US attention drawn to a particular British publication got GuardianUS to happen; why wouldn't enough paying attention to a national publication and the stories it already has about a particular locality from local residents be a signal that would lead that publication to opening up a locally-focussed offshoot in that locality?
Likewise my comments are directly addressed to you and people like you too.

The thing is decision to lockdown is not just affect you, it affect other people too.
That’s fair enough, I figured by the time they were designing the Mac Pro they were already planning to move to ARM. Would have been nice to see EPYC in the 2019 model, but it is understandable why that didn’t happen.
The “US Tech Workers Union” doesn’t appear to be a union at all. It appears to be a subsidiary of the “Progressives For Immigration Reform” non-profit aimed fairly exclusively at the H-1b issue, and the only spokesperson I can see for it is the executive director of PFIR.

So, I wouldn’t take the “US Tech Workers” as being representative of tech workers or tech workers unions without further research.
Personal anecdote: I am currently on the job hunt and literally every single position that requires Java also requires experience with Spring (Boot).

It might not be the trendiest, but it's definitely the most popular (as in "in demand").
Where are you getting that number? Best sources I can find say $6 billion with another $4 billion in related obligations (pensions etc.). $88 billion is nearly the city’s whole budget.
> Before that, you technically had to leave the country the day you were laid off

Interestingly enough, there's a very similar system in place in the United Kingdom (Tier 2 General). Not only you have to leave within 60 days after being laid off, but there's also a "cooling-off period" of 1 year, which means that you can't get a new visa during this period and effectively it resets your time until permanent residence, so you have no option but to start over.
Telegram cannot replace the use case of Chinese living in the US keep contact with their family in China (because Telegram is blocked in China, as you said), but it could replace the use case of Chinese living in the US contact each other.

I hate wechat for its user experience, when my mom need to say something to me she usually send wechat message to my wife, because I check my wechat for, maybe, once per week. But a lot of Chinese living in the US seem to not mind its user experience, and like to use wechat as the way of contact each other. I think one of the reason might be that in the US there's not one dominate IM app that everyone is using, so wechat is like the next best thing that at lease every Chinese is using. Now a lot of Chinese also start to use Telegram there's hope (but I won't hold my breath for it).
That last sentence is false reporting by RCP. The actual order reads as follows:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200407103413/https://coronavir...

> NHs are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.

They were not forbidden from testing them. They were forbidden from requiring one be done as a precondition to come back to the home.

These patients should've been assumed to be potentially infectious by their nursing homes, and placed in dedicated COVID wings with dedicated staff. Nursing homes should be able to practice basic infection control; after all, they have flu season to manage every year.

(The likely reason for this order: limited testing availability, and overwhelmed hospitals in NYC needing beds for the unstable patients, not convalescing nursing home folks.)
A whole new level? This case? Is this better than that other case where there where convictions all over the world and in Greece instead the DA was indicted by the current government with the police escort removed and consequently the house broken into and Hard Disk stolen? I mean that case that also included lost witnesses such as the one who was trapped and burned in his Porsche Jeep and the other one who suffered the same fate with his BMW. His BMW motorbike! The country that has the governing party with the largest deficit per capita for any country in the world supported by media that survived by being forgiven huge deficits while other competing media perished? The same people had the secret services hunt a journalist by falsifying documents a case for which they were convicted a case only covered by the paper the reporter works for

This is the standard state of things. A cleptocracy being run by the same surnames throughout the years, this case simply got covered by a foreign media.
Yeah, it is up to JDK 15 now
Our old office had a $5k fancy coffee maker with touch screen.

Nobody knew what the hell all the icons meant, and nobody cleaned the milk siphon so it went moldy and was thrown out after two weeks.

I insisted that we keep the old Bunn that had an advanced UI with a red illuminated On-Off switch. Six months later, it was the only one coffee maker still in use.
Not technically a nooptropic, but don't underestimate the effect of water (hydration) on focus, memory and energy levels.
I use an induction stove and it is even more pleasurable than gas in terms of the speed of response of the pot. Response is literally instant because the pot is the source of heat, and not something external. They are also by far the safest since the hottest thing in the entire system is the bottom of the pot, which is usually at about 100-200 C depending on what you're cooking, which is usually not hot enough to start a fire. Compare to a electric stove whose element reaches upwards of 800 C or a gas stove which has an actual open flame which can easily catch nearby flammable vapors, hair, or clothing on fire if not careful.

Gas stoves are the next most responsive because the fire doesn't "store" heat; only the grill does.

Finally electric stoves are the slowest-responding because the coil stores quite a bit of heat even after power is cut, and that heat continues to transfer into the pot. Conversely, when starting them up, it takes quite a while to heat up the element hot enough to only then transfer some of that heat into the pot.

You do want a quality induction stove with an analog knob for the best experience, though. The low-end induction stoves typically have touch-step controls and pulsating simmer, which IMO is still way better than an electric stove if you're on a budget, and still responds faster than gas stoves but lacks the fine-grained simmer controls that some of the higher-end models do, if that is important to you.
If that's all you need, it wouldn't make sense to include SQLite in the browser. If you're going to include a relational database you might as well use it
I wonder how much the cost of having the millionaires (in terms of the average resident paying for food, rent, parking, etc) is offset by their large contribution
A one off situation like you describe can be limited to punishing the particular branch manager. However, banks like Deustche and JPMorgan, who seem to be having these issues nonstop with regularity, are clearly run to allow these kinds of criminals to actively participate in their banking structure with minimal oversight, hence the responsibility resting on the higher-ups.
Relevant Seinfeld clip as well:

https://youtu.be/0e58SiFSxLs
Why do we think that it is just fine that we open these tombs? I do have a problem with that attitude. If they had been found 500 years ago, we'd probably have almost nothing of real value from a scientific point of view.

Are we so much better nowadays that we can allow us to alter the state of the tomb without significantly destroying it?
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."

In other words: fuck you and your privacy regulation.
Whitney Webb is doing pretty well on her lonesome. So the excuse for establishment press to hide establishment crimes is because we don’t pay for subscriptions.

In case of this specific item, you may want to see if Google still digs up the story of how the chancellor of exchequer flew to DC to stop DoJ. Very interesting story. (And why are the shady banking outfits in the islands of “the Crown”?)

”The involvement of the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority in the US government's investigations and enforcement actions relating to HSBC, a British-domiciled institution, appears to have hampered the US government's investigations and influenced Department of Justice's decision not to prosecute HSBC".

That’s from a congressional report. Please pay NYTimes so they will look into this :(
My comment is sexist, but culturally relevant from where I'm from.

Java is like your old wife/husband/spouse. It's not sexy, you probably don't enjoy much when doing things with it. But it's dependable and reliable, And, aren't you where you are now thanks to it?

Newer languages.. yeah they're sexier, more fun to play with, make people think you're cool when with them, but they might end up wasting your time :)
Maybe as a point of comparison (I wondered): C# got them in C# 3.0 in 2007.
what he did was fine as it's an exact conversion 1 inch = exactly 2.54 cm and you can go from there.
Except that cameras in stores have been used for anti-shoplifting for decades. They've been used for more subtle things like monitoring tables at casinos.

I mean, I'm just asking the question how people know for sure Go isn't (at least partly) a Turk. It seems like an obvious thing to ask? But I first came to wonder if there's manual component involved after shopping a few times at Go. When it was busy, it took sometimes well over an hour to get a receipt. When it was empty, it was immediate. How come?

Also, the accuracy is completely anecdotal both ways... at least one person I visited the store with never got billed.
> Why does a coffee maker even need a touchscreen? There are literally three options!

What’s the option besides on and off, keep warm?
This is mentioned in the study.
"The Once and Future King" is a fantastic book. That a U2 pilot would read it during missions makes it even more fantastical.
This sort of regulatory response has already caused a problem: as a 100% legitimate business, you can already get totally cut off from all banking services if something about you feels potentially dangerous to back-office staff isolated from anyone you can talk to.
Firefox for Android LAN-Based Intent Triggering
> You need to know if you're blocking threads, if there's memory contention, and if libraries you pull in are using the forkjoin common pool (which you're likely using as a default threadpool). And when something blows up, finding the reason (even for any of the above issues) is really tough. You can use flight recorder, heap dumps and gc logs all day, but good luck navigating it all unless you're a genius.

I've seen the same troubles with alternatives, just without the amazing tools, featuresome standard library or widely-accepted conventions.

Erlang is amazing and is places concurrency in a more central position. I'm hopeful Project Loom will greatly diminish the gap while carrying legacy code forward unchanged.
This is the fun kind of Turing test: tasks where only a computer/mechanized system can succeed.
Things like this make me glad I'm not an audiophile. What you describe seems very annoying, but thankfully I've never noticed anything like it.
What do Americans owe you? If its such a bad arrangement, why did you come to the US?

> it translates to "don't buy a house, don't get too many possessions, don't marry[1], don't have kids".

What percentages of Americans own a house. What percentage of Americans have kids? What percentage of Americans get married?

You have some seriously entitlement derangement syndrome.
Had a similar experience. Also, the guy with the desk closest to the machine quickly got fed up of everyone asking “how do I just get a normal coffee out of this?”
ive been working remotely for a few years and do a little recording and mixing on the side. I like using plain old analog headsets since they make it easy to have control over the sidetone level from the headset mic, and they're usable in many situations where a usb headset would not be.

To simplify using one headset with a few different devices (pc, desk phone, ipod/phone), I wound up buying a little Behringer Xenyx 302USB bus-powered mixer. If you have a bunch of analog devices to mix, you'd want something larger, but for a PC with a headset and one or two other analog sources or outs (like a pair of desk speakers), these things are just about perfect. They use off the shelf TI PCM2902C converters, have excellent audio quality, work driver-free on Linux, OSX, and windows, and seem to last pretty well.

The real beauty of these little mixers (or the myriad other comparable ones) is that all the common adjustments I need to make- my own mic monitor level, the other party's output level, and the overall headphone level, each have their own rotary fader on the mixer. There's also some minimal eq available. The mixer is small enough that it doesn't waste much desk space, and in the event of a surprise volume spike, the master volume fader is right by my hand, and I've saved myself from being blasted many times.

If you pair something like this together with an effects host (I use pulseeffects on Linux and love it), its easy to apply a compressor or limiter to the stream from the VC app that I use to reduce transients, or to add an expander to help on multi-party calls where one callers mic gain is too low.

The 302USBs have gotten a little tricky to find lately since they seem to be popular with new podcasters. Several companies make similar models but nothing has quite the same set of connectors and routing to be as convenient as these, although everyone's needs are different- if you're using a headset with 1/4" connectors, the Yamaha AG03 looks really promising, although its nearly twice the price of the Behringer.

There aren't a lot of gizmos that have simplified remote work for me as much as these things; they're probably overkill if you don't work from a fixed location (although they don't require any power connection), but if you have a typical desktop setup, they're great.
HATETRIS is actually a surprisingly engaging challenge, particularly since it has no time constraints. After a few minutes I found I enjoyed it at least as much if not more than regular Tetris. Figuring out how to make all the pieces appear makes quite the juicy little puzzle, as does figuring out how to maximize the number of cleared lines.
Yeah. It's one thing that does not need improving.

My parents bought a new microwave with all kinds of fancy digital features that nobody uses 99% of the time. In addition to being really difficult to use, it also makes a very loud BEEEP on every button press. Insanity.
My mom’s oven requires regular power cycle because it’s touch UI locks up so often.
I don't know if you get to have it both ways without trampling on WeChat's first amendment rights as well as those of their users unless you pass data privacy laws for US citizens/persons (which might have first amendment implications anyway) and deal with WeChat through whatever mechanisms this newly-passed (and yet-to-be created) privacy law contains.

So either WeChat, Facebook, and whoever can facilitate protected speech among their users (in this case you're protecting the users specifically) or the various platforms are treated as publishers which still wouldn't allow the US government to prevent or compel speech (protecting the organization).

It's possible they can get away with banning the payment portions of the app but the outright ban appears to be prior restraint of free speech by the government.
You raise a good point and not one I considered.