skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there's two things to say about that:

1. Some of the things they launch they probably shouldn't be launching because they have next to no chance of ever being a meaningful business for Google. (eg. Google Helpouts)

2. Some of the things they launch are attempts to get into a particular area and Google's interest in that area lasts longer than their interest in whatever they initially launched. Chat is probably the best example of this; Google Talk, Hangouts, heck, I don't even know what it's called now! In such cases Google should be more disciplined about supporting whatever it is they've launched. Re-brand & iterate as much as they want, but never leave customers hanging.

I think if Google followed these two rules they would be sunsetting a lot less stuff. They might still need to retire the odd product/service, but at least they wouldn't be doing it so much that customers doubt every single launch.

Their current approach hasn't been working well for their customers, but it's actually going to begin affecting their customers less and affect Google more. Who in their right mind would put any medium/long term stock into Tables, for example? Customers no longer affected. Now Google can't launch a service that the market will take seriously.
> Anything that's been assembled can be disassembled

Sure, but can you reassemble it after the disassembly? There are certainly products for which that is essentially impossible:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/AirPods+2+Teardown/121471
Agree. You don't want to do Fashion Driven Development (FDD). You would end up chasing every shiny thing that comes out and not really master anything.

Pick any one stack, build some simple projects and then expand on it. You would also want to be able to read well written code from others on github and learn from those.
Compared to non-essential fields that are in-person, we are incredibly lucky that computational tasks can be done remotely. It may stink that remote lacks in-person networking, but at least our jobs and salaries continue coming in, unlike dozens of other professions. A lot of "essential" in-person professions never got any hazard pay either, they just took on more inefficiency and more risk for the same pay.
Your website design looks very nice. What css/ui framework did you make use of it?
Something like remote work is guaranteed to be both good and bad for different people. If this is genuinely the direction we're going, there will be casualties. Lots of them.
Qualcomm is basically the bane of android software upgrades it seems.
I agree there are many other AirBnB competitors. If AirBnB went away 100% and these competitors stepped in to fill that gap, I'm not sure the neighborhood impact is reduced by much. I mean, I've rented on vrbo, homeaway, booking, expedia, and airbnb.

Regardless of which platform I booked on, I'm the same tourist when I show up.
yes, basically they would assume you converted from lower caste.
Seedless NoSQL: Getting Rid of Seed Nodes in Scylla
Their service plans to compete with Twilio. Very interesting, hopefully they can compete on price also. Twilio is a bit pricey IMO.
The author clearly should have gone into the specific use-cases he was talking about. An IDE _is_ nothing more than a text editor with advanced features. There's a huge continuum from a basic text-editor like notepad to a full fledged IDE.

I'd particularly like to see a use-case laid out where something like VSCode + Extensions wasn't actually enough. I've been using IntelliJ nearly every day for the past 4 years and I still don't understand how it is any different from a text editor + extensions. IntelliJ is even architected similarly with so many different "plugins" adding full fledged language support for other langages. Goland, Pycharm, etc, are basically extensions for the intellij text editor.
> Do your job well while being someone fun to work with

“It is not enough that you do your job well, you also need to spend energy to put out an entertaining persona.” is such an Americanism that creates a game theoretic layer of duplicitous characters on top.
Interpreation: facebook is the ministry of truth bow down pleebs. Facebook decided Biden should be the winner so stop trying to resist.
Do you use this on desktop? The add on install page is saying that the extension is not intended for desktop, so figured it was worth asking.
If someone has Linux, wouldn't they just run FreeDOS in a VM?
Do you mind sharing your small list of books that have so impacted you?
OTOH, Google doesn’t like to invest big money in businesses that aren’t on track to be big. From just nine months ago:

“Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260
100% depends on what kind of work you want to do. There's some principles like cleanliness and comments. But outside of that it starts to get domain specific pretty quickly.
This remember the days when I started SuSE Linux 5.1 with loadlin
American born Swedish Americans are mostly oblivious to Sweden's caste system. So I'd say your optimism is well placed.
Rambox and Franz both do this today. They are electron apps but you only need one for all your services.
No, qemu is only there to boot DOS. DOS then runs Linux commands via `dsl` (DOS Subsystem for Linux).

You could perhaps argue "inception" since it's Linux running a DOS VM running Linux commands. But the charitable explanation is the author just wanted a convenient environment to do DOS development rather than bare metal (think of it like a Vagrant box).
I wish people would just use text more instead. I agree that video conferencing calls are hard and people overlap a lot - but the bigger issue is that most of what people say in meetings is pointless! Maybe it’s just me, but I find it impossible to think in conversation, and most of what I end up saying is “um - what about - oh, never mind, won’t work.” Especially with tech problems, I need time and silence to figure it out. I wish people would propose the thing to be solved on a chat thread, tag the people involved, and trust them to engage without being forced to do it real-time.
How To Read A Book is just crazy good. It's on the very small list of books that had a distinct "before and after" effect on my thinking. I read it in my early 20s and it is still at the top of my mind while I read a decade later.

Only update I'd make to those suggestions is moving writing from the margins to external notes. I'd lose so many notes, interesting quotes, or "to look into" things to the margins once I closed the book. Centralizing everything makes it much easier to search for past notes, find related ones, or just completely retrace the skeleton of a book at a glance.

Also, if you read that book in public, get ready for a deluge of strangers making the exact same joke about reading a book about how to read a book.
I would like to see Mozilla modularize Firefox more. Browsers are such huge beasts that contain everything imaginable plus the kitchen sink these days. It would be nice for these kinds of features to be add-ons that can be disabled or deleted if their functionality is not needed or desired, freeing resources for other use.

They can be part of the initial install so that Mozilla can provide the browser as they envision it, but be able to be removed for those who have other ideas of what their browser should consist of.

I don't know how technically feasible that is with their code, but it makes sense to me from a developer standpoint.
Recently someone said to me - rather than think of books as milestones to be completed, think of time spent with a book as a goal in itself, not a cost. This applies to lots of 'improving' books. If you spend an hour reading one of the books the article cited, you've spent an hour analysing detailed arguments in biology/history/psychology. An hour on a technical book, is an hour considering the problems and issues related to using that technology. An hour with biography or narrative history is an hour imagining what it would be like to be someone else or live in a completely different era. An hour with a self-help/motivational book is an hour thinking about yourself and what you achieve or overcome. An hour with a book of argumentative reasoning is an hour trying to argue with the author in your head. And so on.
Can a PDF file contain a PDF file, and if so can that PDF file contain a PDF file?
Politicians trade campaign cash for law & services, every moment of every day. Voters don't think much about it because news orgs aren't very interested in covering bribery.

Regarding conflict of interest: There's nearly zero discussion about where campaign finds finally end up. Those billions are firehosed to the parent corps of news orgs, in the form of campaign ad buys.

To restate the above, politicians are funding the news orgs that cover their campaigns.
I've happily never met a person in real life who both views books as a means to an end like this AND expects them to just dump understanding into their memories like installing an app. This is bizarre, mistaking both what a book should "do" and why you want to read it in the first place. I don't know where this idea comes from, but as far as I can tell it's specific to a niche of software engineers.

Fortunately, they are far outnumbered by people who love books, buy them, read them, share them, put them on bookshelves, and would generally think this article is profoundly silly.
I understand better what you are saying. I don't think I have ever seen any PDF forms that require an internet connection. The Canadian Visa application forms have inbuilt validation code, that checks the form, and once you upload it, I believe data is extracted into a database.

The benefit of these forms is that the validated form that you submit online is actually printable. Which means that what you see on your screen/paper is pixel by pixel identical to what Canada receives, and therefore _legally_, there is no confusion about what was communicated between Canada and the candidate.

Webforms are not as strongly accepted as such by courts. Because they have to be manipulated further before being printed.

I have read a bunch of your replies, and you are thinking of all the technical reasons why webforms are better than PDF (you are right in that), but PDFs have legal and operational and budgetary advantages, that are more relevant to various organizations.
Seems like a great little tool.

Though it looks a bit too young for my taste: it's not available in most distro's base repositories yet, so it's going to be a tiny bit painful to deploy on every developer laptop, CI, and etc. I tend to prefer readily available tools like make, with 90% of the same features, but 100% distro coverage and previous developer knowledge.
How to Make DIY Arduino Mini 3D Printer from DVD Writer
absolutely true, it’s easy
I don't know if you can say that all of the people who have been involved in these incidents are fascists. During the first outbreak of protests in Austin my car was surrounded when they went onto the frontage roads heading for I35. I knew the side streets well enough to get out of there but, if they had started hitting my car or trying to pull me out for whatever reason I would have sped off too. I had no intention of getting caught up in the protests they had just started and happened to be on the route I was taking.
Rooting an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K
You're wrong about Shopify. Their latest quarter has been their most profitable, but they've only had one loss quarter since the beginning of 2018.

https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/SHOP/earnings/
1. Try a completely functional language like Haskell once to learn about side-effects.

2. If you do multi threading: Look into Immutability and communicating sequential processes

3. Use static analysis / linters / code checkers for every language you use. They provide a lot of tips. There are linters for bash and Dockerfiles as well.
CA has generally had good consumer protection laws for decades now.
I share the sentiment of the parent with regards to "either deterministic or random" sounding off to me.

I wanted to propose "stochastic" as a better term, but apparently "random" and "stochastic" are synonyms. [1]

What it comes down to is that "random" to me has a connotation of arbitrary, unpredictable. Whereas "stochastic" to me suggests a deterministic process with random influences.

So maybe the sentiment is better expressed as making sure it is clear that deterministic and random are the two extremes of a continuum, rather than an either/or distinction.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/114373/whats-the-di...
> distance learning greatly reduces the instructor's workload

citation needed?
Whether or not it's actually better, it gives leverage over China. Do better or else...
The dedicated Turanist will talk your ear off about linguistic co-evolution, haplogroups, and so on, but no, of course not. The example was deliberately outlandish. A quarter is lower than the proportion of Russians in Crimea.

I think we may ultimately be making the same point, that political borders are by nature artificial and often fail to reflect the historical fluidity of culture and ethnicity, but I objected to the perceived implication that these regions are uniquely Tibetan.
So Diet Coke should be a flop, right?
No one mentioned namecheap yet?

I use them for infinitely long time and had no problems (besides the moment when they changed their user interface few years ago that caused backlash from technical users - but nothing functionally wrong, just stupid UI "improvements")
It's like nuclear weapons just don't exist in your mind.

I am so glad that geopolitics I'd handled by a select few rather than the supposedly educated crowd of hacker news...
I don't think that is a proven fact.
absolutely true, it’s so good
Comet Discovered to Have Its Own Northern Lights
At least one of the Chinese languages is tonal too, so the same sequence of vowel and consonant sounds can have totally different meanings when spoken at different pitches. (The humorous example is “grass mud horse,” which is a bit NSFW and a great act of someone thumbing their nose at censorship.)

I wonder if native speakers have a greater emphasis on subvocalized pitch, or if that’s even a part of subvocalizing? Paying attention to my own internal reading now, I suspect that it is.
What do you think the numbers are?

Why do the CDC's seroprevalence studies [1] consistently show the estimated case counts are much higher than the reported cases (6x in NYC area, 5x in Philly, 9x higher in South Florida)?

Do you not think there is a strong correlation, everywhere around the world, in which people who have minor symptoms or people who have no symptoms do not get tested?

If the case fatality rate is actually 3%, how does a place like Singapore have >50k cases with fewer than 50 deaths? That seems impossible.

1: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/?#serology-surveill...
Datapoint of just one: I had one AirBnB disaster as a renter. Support did initially steer me towards a compromise (to accept the place with a reduction in rent) but as soon as I persisted, they agreed to a full refund (including the platform fee). It wasn't a difficult experience at all.

I was on my own to find a place to stay, but it was Vegas, so that was trivial.
It's an advanced tool empowering software development for all organization.Will soon become a trend
I reached the same conclusion.

Unlike some supervisors I've had, my boss looks over my pull requests carefully when he merges so if there is something about my code that I want him to think about I put a comment there.

If he decides to keep the comments or delete them after a merge that's up to him.

Longer term there is the "literate programming" problem.

Once facet of that which I've struggled with is that the full commentary for the code (a lot of which could be automatically generated) is probably many times larger than the code itself.

This is the case w/ the Bible, Koran, Shakespeare. Your local Uni library is lucky if it has a copy of "Ender's Game" but it certainly has 5-10 books about "Ender's Game".

From official documentation I found about 20 pages of content to describe a 1 page financial message. It's an absolutely horrific problem in graphic design to relate 5% message to 95% documentation.
I believe on Gentoo you can compile Firefox without pulseaudio by disabling the USE flag. I'm not sure if that forces it to use ALSA or disables audio entirely though. I do use pulse, so I've never disabled it globally/for Firefox.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/www-client/firefox

https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/pulseaudio
The BLM movement is important; I have no interest in distracting from this problem. Lebron was explicitly asked about the CCP and their human-rights abuses after an NBA manager unpopularly criticized the CCP. The NBA would rather not talk about the CCP and the manager was effectively shamed for doing so. Capitalism cannot look past the $$$. China makes up 10% of NBA revenue [1]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nba-needs-china-revenue-growt...
"Look into problems, you'll find solutions. Look into solutions, you'll find problems."

God, I love this line.
As a Linux user, I kinda regret buying a 4k display.

Absolutely no desktop environment can properly handle having a 4k display and a 1920x1080 13" laptop panel at the same time if you need to keep switching between with-monitor and without-monitor.

Yes they all claim to have "hidpi" configuration, and those configs mostly work if you're always using it in the same setting, but as soon as you start having to disconnect/reconnect your monitor to take the laptop somewhere else your troubles start. Applications can't properly handle changing DPI on the fly, there are often apps that get completely confused by their changes: they either show tiny fonts (e.g., cinnamon taskbar launchers), or adjust the font sizes but not the spacing between lines so you can only see half of the characters (hexchat) or whatever. It's horrible.

It makes me want to write my own desktop environment, or fully switch to text-mode-only apps.

I have a Samsung monitor and I'm not super happy with its colors. I always enjoyed the colors from Dell monitors. But if I ever buy another monitor I'll probably look at its response times.
Yeah, I got that too. It was clear that the name was a parody of WSL.
To summarize - you believe I’m wrong about my statement about density, and that the cause of poor public transport is wrongheadedness, poor financial management, and short term thinking.

You assert that these attitudinal qualities cause a false perception of inadequate density.

I don’t dispute the attitudes you describe, but I assert that the causality is the other way around.

Individual Bay Area cities - e.g. Mountain View, SF, Oakland. Have plenty of density - comparable with other major cities.

They also actually do have reasonable public transport internally.

The region taken as a whole doesn’t. This is a function of density.

The distance between north and south suburbs of london is about 15-20 miles and can be traversed in about 1 hr - 1 hr 15 minutes by either car or tube.

The shortest route between say, downtown Oakland and the Apple Campus is about 50 miles. It can be traversed on the freeway during low traffic in about 50 minutes. By public transport it’s 2 hrs 47.

That’s because you have to go around the bay. Not because the transport system doesn’t exist.
This is Linux under DOS and not DOS under Linux.
It’s also not something that you want to make as easy as Postmates. There should be a high bar to avoid an even more litigious society.
No, the interesting part is what's happening in DOS. QEMU was probably just used for screenshots and not going through the pain of installing DOS on a new machine.
Firefox for life
It's a powerfull tool empowering software development in all kind of organisations. Will soon become a trend
Perhaps Eclipse has improved. The last time I personally used it for a project was back in 2011. It was slow, laggy, and I found the UI to be less friendly than IntelliJ. Obviously some of that is personal preference.
3D View taught me that Bootstrap layouts are maniac and ridiculously convoluted, with layouts deeper than they are wide on default settings.

To this day I always try to keep the element tree as shallow as possible (turns out this also has performance benefits in most cases)
Russian tech gigant Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) is to buy TCS (LSE: TCS) bank
>and audio quality would be improved

Only one audio stream at a time can use ALSA, how would that be an improvement?
The US has a common law system, like the UK. However, arbitration panels cannot set precedent and do not issue opinions. That means the law is perpetually frozen in place. So, we really have a civil law system with none of the mechanisms that make those systems function properly.

There are obviously bigger problems with arbitration, but this one is often overlooked.
I'll have a look, thanks!
Cloud made easy
Did you try looking in the dictionary for the word 'racism'? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
Right, but I mean naming wise, shouldn't it indeed be DOS Subsystem for Linux?

E: Ah I see, I misinterpreted the comment chain depth. Thanks all.
We could teach civics well if we chose to. Public education is purposefully undermined, likely because it has the word "public" in it.
True that, it's hard to separate the effect of shift to home office, and other economic shifts due to sudden drop in tourism.
It depends. I could live anywhere I want in the US now. As it happens, I do live fairly near a couple of our offices and could (normally) go in regularly--and used to go in more. But I'm perfectly happy where I live.

But, yes, if you live in SV only because some large tech company pays you a bunch of money to live there and they want you to stay in a radius that lets you come in once or twice a week, you don't have the option of moving anywhere you want. (Though you may have the option of moving somewhere that's OK for a once-a-week drive but not daily.)
> Once we had enough owners to vote on new bylaws we reduced short term rentals dramatically. From do as you want, to 30 days, and now 6 months.

is this really a good thing? once you start banning rentals in the 1-6 month range, you are no longer just targeting tourists. you're also hurting folks without stable jobs who can't commit to a typical lease length.
+1 for make. Its an amazing and underrated tool.
It's not hard to understand. If permanent housing is taken off the market for AirBnB usage, then the supply of housing for locals is reduced, thereby increasing the cost. Also, I'm going to guess most AirBnb rentals aren't paying the rental tax that most hotels do. (At least here in the US it's common to have a hotel tax).
I immediately updated for the media controls. I hate getting a call and having to fumble around trying to scroll around and find the tab with the little speaker on it so I can stop it before answering.
Just another way for criminals to excuse themselves of their crimes. Imagine if you said this to a black person in the context of slavery
Indeed, this confused me as a Linux user who hasn't used Windows in over a decade (and therefore is unfamiliar with the terminology). Thank you. I was reading this as a potential DOS Box alternative to run on Fedora.

If the project maintainer is reading, it would be super helpful to put that at the top of your REMADME.md. I'll even send you a PR. FTR it's not your fault the terminology is confusing :-)
Yes, it should be DOS Subsystem for Linux. It also is DOS Subsystem for Linux.
right, and the comment I replied to said it should be the other way around, so I pointed out (what I assumed to be) their point of misunderstanding.
Both Firefox and Chromium can be built without PA support so that they use ALSA directly.
The US may not need to land a force there, just ensure that China can't. Make sure Taiwan has enough missiles, subs, mines, etc to repel any PLA landing force, making it prohibitively expensive and embarrassing for China to attempt.
I agree. However, showing them different projects and ask to pick some of them could work well.