skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cash only

Black cabs have been required to have a functional contactless card reader in them for some time now. Any that don't are asking to be reported for it.

I know that doesn't address all their issues.
I never said its a solution to the problem. Its a solution to the symptom - the crappy non-content posts on HN like this one. I'm pretty sure these post are against the guidelines anyway.
Don't forget Craigslist. Classified ads used to be the major source of revenue for a lot of smaller papers.
Netflix pays exceptionally well, even in that group of companies.
The DS Lite is in line with the same design imperative started by the SP (which was a stark shift for Nintendo design wise that they mostly have been following through on). The Switch lite design is something one could never imagine Nintendo doing before the SP, for example.

Anyways, nice find on the article. If memory serves me well, Iwata himself mentioned the Apple inspiration.
I was seriously put off by the evident confliction of causation and correlation in the mentioned study (at least the way it was put in the article). Of course people, who live where the winter is harsh would have a positive attitude to the winter. Either, because of selection bias (they live there because they like the winter), or because they had no choice but to grow accustomed to it.
Is this stuff available on youtube?
I wanted to quote a few parts of the article that I considered incorrect, but then realized I would be quoting most of the article. Short version, almost anyone who's ever tried to ship a nontrivial game on Linux should realize this article is wrong.

I particularly disagree with the idea that doing any dynamic linking in a program at all means that instantly it's just as non-portable as a fully dynamically linked program. These things are a continuum, there are degrees of fragility -- you can make a program that breaks less often when ported to new systems. See some of Ethan Lee's writing on this topic.[0]

On a meta-level, you should be instantly suspicious of any programming advice that includes quotes like:

> Conclusion: Never use [thing]!

> This has never been the case and never will be the case.

In reality, most software techniques have benefits and downsides. If a debate has survived for over a decade, that means that the answer probably isn't so completely universal that you can completely ignore one side.

I'm not going to say that there are no black-and-white correct answers in software development, but people who regularly claim to have found them should be regarded with suspicion. On average, they'll often just be oversimplifying things.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/flibitijibibo/b67910842ab95bb3decdf8...
on what planet do millionsn of teens have $20/mo to spend on tiktok
Well scarcity is generally the best indicator. For a long time software developers have been a scarce resource and therefore hiring good engineers is competitive.

It's true that some market forces and potential value of what is created are factors else nobody would pay for the premium, but he generally scarcity rules here.

For a contrived example, why is caviar astronomically more expensive than bread? It's not the cost of production. It's not the fact that people like it more than bread.

It's just scarce.
No need to apologize, good luck mate and stay strong, you'll find something nice soon.
>private sector credit systems have the same or similar result in dictating outcomes

I don't know how anyone can say this with a straight face.

In the west you can be bankrupt and still buy a first class airline ticket or go to a concert or do damn near anything else so long as you aren't using credit to do it.
Took me like 3 or 4 days to get up to my normal speed of a bit over 100wpm.

This was also going from 60% to my first split/ortho.

Took me another couple of days to get used to chording and these days I use a 36 key split board.

So your mileage may vary, but it's definitely not going to take you months typically.
The sessions are also recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHOHy9Rjl3MlEfZ2HI0AD3g

I’m following the videos, which are long, at 1.25x. There’s an outline so sections can be skipped.
Not Netflix, but if you liked House of Cards, may I suggest both Succession and Billions? I love analysis of power and those shows are in a class of their own regarding that, very similar to HoC, but I'd say better.
Quiver API
I learned it in 2016, never went back. I trained with keybr[0] ~1 hour a day for a week, then went cold turkey (with a printed Colemak layout beside my screen), and after another week or so I was at 40wpm (that is, faster than I had ever been before).

It worked for me that way, doesn't mean it will for you. Two things to keep in mind : I wasn't a touch typist before, and I also had to learn all the symbols, coming from a French AZERTY layout.

0: https://www.keybr.com/
> Can passivation warmth be controlled?

A variant of the cold start problem. How long after all the messages for an object drain is it passivated? Can you keep it pinned in memory?

Another question. Can objects contain relationships that are themselves references to other Durable Objects? Say a simple reference, or a list, or DAGs?
Quite meta. The article refers to this earlier HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22349531

I love that the article treats that source as valuable insight and revelations of the arguments in play.
Exactly, I started writing exactly the same thing before I saw your comment, and I lived above the arctic circle for a while. The article relies on false logic that winter is 'worse' the further north you go, but can be the opposite... Snow, northern lights, forests vs tiny expensive apartments in icy raining city...
Uhhh.. I just translated the exact same sentence from wikipedia in Google translate and got:

"The juvenile protection procedure aims to deter and rehabilitate juvenile delinquents, and as a process up to the decision, "send and notify the facts of delinquency to the family court-family court investigator (hereinafter abbreviated as" investigator "). It is customary to go through the flow of "investigation by, etc.-a referee based on the investigation results-determine protective measures or protective measures as necessary"."

Not incredible (especially when it starts listing the process), but not as god awful as whatever you got. I'm curious if you omitted some part of the sentence when pasting in.

It's also worth noting that this is a pretty out-of-domain legal Japanese sentence.
what group or individual has full control over appearance?
Concept Car: Mercedes Benz Vision AVTR
Multiple cursors is available as an Emacs package (https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el), not specific to Doom. But Doom includes it as a module: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/docs/mod... so it can be easily enabled.
The one you've linked to doesn't seem to actually store the count anywhere, which seems to be the hard part.
Better Than JSON
Right, that's what I got from the Unique explanation in the doc. What I am confused about is this part:

With Durable Objects, you instead design your storage model to match your application's logical data model. For example, a document editor would have an object for each document, while a chat app would have an object for each chat. There is no problem creating millions or billions of objects, as each object has minimal overhead.

What does it mean that a document editor will have an object for each document? Will I have to create a new UDO each time a new document is created?
I think people like you are the last one to adopt. Only when a new language is battle tested and has been around for at least two decades, with an language update rate equal or smaller than Go, only then you might want to consider it for your next embedded system. New languages invocations are by definition of new not for you, fair enough.
I started messing around with zig in earnest https://github.com/agentultra/zig8 and I have to say that the development experience is great so far. The compile times are fast, the tooling is minimal in the unix sense, and it's been nice to play around with.

Highlights:

- compile-time evaluation

- integrated testing through scoped blocks

- prevents some implicit casts that we take for granted in C

- catches allocation errors

- explicit error return handling

I appreciate it trying to make a better C.
Not really. It doesn't imply much of anything as stated.

You could still have loyal customers even if your model is generally anti-consumer.

Without knowing any details about the business, it's impossible to determine if he's a successful publisher, or if the publications are generally low overhead so they can stay afloat with a relatively small set of customers, etc.
The MS ones are unsung heros here.

There's way too much emphasis on the mechanical switches among the community.

I got infatuated with mechanical keyboards with Cherry MX switches about 10-12 years ago and gave myself RSI from using them.

I kept trying different ones assuming it was the design of the keyboard.. there was so much non-scientific belief that mechanical switches are better for RSI that I had a huge blind spot. I went through Das Keyboard, Kinesis, Truly Ergonomic, and a bunch of others and it never would go away.

When I finally ditched the mechanical switches it went away... the MS keyboards seem to be the cheapest/easiest to get that have nice non-mechanical switches and work for me.

No problems for years now using the MS ones.

The boutique manufacturers selling mechanical switch keyboards market them as better for RSI without much proof meanwhile for some of us the longer travel on those switches might actually be the cause.
actual communism is no better than nazism
Agree with a lot of what you wrote, but the example is weird. It's a client side counter with no persistence.
Yeah I have no issues with this. Power in California is stupid expensive and we are going back to rolling blackouts to shed load to keep the grid stable.
> In the face of this it's quite a bold move for France to go from zero to 28 days for the sake of benefiting gender norms and family relationships in the long-term.

We didn't go from zero to 28 days of paternity leave. We doubled it, from 14 to 28.
> I take your point on not accounting for interest growth. Well explained. Thank you.

Thanks for the compliment, I’m glad to see I’m improving :)
Back End/Fullstack Engineer – Remote in North America
> Random side note: on MacOS, the kernel does know all the filenames of a hardlink, because hardlinks are secretly implemented as fancy symlink-like data structures.

Note that the link is outdated and refers to HFS+. HFS+ originated in classic Mac OS and originally didn't support hard links at all, so they had to be added after the fact [1] using a hacky format based on a hidden directory. APFS has a cleaner design, but it still tracks the list of hard links to an inode. [2]

[1] http://www.wsanchez.net/papers/USENIX_2000/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/Apple-File-Sys..., search for "Siblings"
Is it absolutely necessary to bring Google into every single conversation and then start bashing it?
I’m wondering what sort of durability guarantees there are in case of an outage? It seems like replicating durable storage would add latency?

Is there going to be Jepsen testing for this?
HN quoting conventions vary, though a leading '>' or italicised text are common.

I prefer the latter.

Proper blockquotes would be greatly appreciated.
Both one would hope I wont say any details in public but I do remember conversations with colleagues and some people on a networking course how fragile some of the CNI is in the UK.
How was the remote experience?
Wait, politics ruins stories, but you like House of Cards?
Perhaps one just creates a new timeline in the multiverse?
The anti-masker crowd is annoying but not the majority. You aren't going to ever fix stupid.

The failures of the various governments to respond promptly is more alarming. Guidance on masking in the US is still regional; and the CDC is seized by political infighting. Testing is a train wreck. Some states are trying to fight the spread while their neighbors are busy pissing in the pool.

Deflecting the blame to the 'general population' might work if there was anything coming close to competence at the federal level but it honestly just strikes me as making excuses.
If you drew regularly you'd have a drawing tablet and a stylus, anyway. Mice are not good for that.

(I am an artist and my Wacom drawing tablet has almost completely replaced a mouse for me, the only time I plug one in is when I want to play a game that requires me to move its view by pushing the mouse cursor against the screen's edge.)
When you say doing without object prototypes -- are you advocating moving away from the entire prototypal inheritance model? Or just not exposing it?

Your requirements list makes me wonder why you want to stick with anything related to JS at all? With all the transpiling options, web assembly, etc.
Ozark
One of the best shows on Netflix
I was trying to figure out how old this page was, but I'm still not certain. The headers show a "Last-Modified" of 2017, but it's definitely much earlier than that.

I think the main content dates from at least 2004 from when it was on Redhat's site: https://web.archive.org/web/20041221091001/http://people.red...

The Clarification looks to have been added in late 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20061119024251/http://people.red...
That was my thought too. The problem here isnt with "superstar developers", it's with people who don't understand the work trying to label people as such and doing a piss-poor job. Someone who doesn't write code others can read isn't even a mediocre developer, hes a bad one.

It's arguments like these that make me very skeptical of the claims that 10x developers don't exist, as I've yet to hear such an argument that doesn't fail at basic critical thinking.

That being said, I fully agree with the article's framing of this view as simply saying that talented developers need a healthy working environment in order to reach their potential.
I'm using the Redox (almost the Ergodox layout) for about two years now and I'm a big fan of the ortholinear key layout which (at least for me) was as much of an ergonomic factor as the split. So I would not get the UHK (but every hand is different).

The adjustment is not that bad. Just know that you are forced to learn touch typing (opting for blank key caps helped me a lot with that). When you are forced you usually learn this pretty quick. Just getting fast takes more effort.

If you want to learn vim keybindings, I would stay with the usual QWERTY layout as vim keybindings are optimized around the QWERTY homerow. In my opinion, other layouts like Dvorak or Colemac mess up at least a part of what makes vim keybindings great.

Of cause you could remap some keys like HJKL (left down up right) but you would have to do so in every application you would like to use vim keybindings. And what would you do if you are editing a file with vim on a remote server?

IMO alternative layouts are a bit overrated. An ergonomic keyboard takes you most of the way. If you stick with QWERTY you also won't forget how to use your co-workers keyboard.
Will have a look :) - Thank you.
It's true, a major part of setting public policy is making things as uncomplicated as possible, which results in often stricter statements than would be necessary if people were better at following directions. But from my observations (I live in the US but I read a lot of UK and European news), the government in the UK (less so Scotland) has been whipping back and forth on directives: Don't go in people's gardens! Get back to the office you lazy people! Go to school! Stop talking to people across your garden walls! You can only leave the house for an hour a day! By all means go to the pub, but leave before 10 pm when the corona comes out!

I think you have to take into account what people are going to be able to do for months on end, and it seems unreasonable to me to expect the population of an entire country to avoid seeing friends and relatives for half a year (as is now looks like will be the case going into the winter). While the US in general seems to have failed at this, we have had here in New England some good regional success thus far, without making human connections illegal (within limits -- I'm all for limits on gathering sizes, keeping bars closed, etc). The longer this goes on, the more the trade-offs need to be considered.
App helps you see your quarantine haircut (open on Desktop)
I was saying they don't market that. The parent comment said that that's what Tesla markets.
Yep. The thing to look for is multiseat-X. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX
Are there a lot of systems that define arctangent but not pi?
Modern, open source C++ dev env with Visual Studio Code, vcpkg, and CMake
Ahhh ! Haven't even thought about the browser-shortcuts ! Lol I know F5 basically :/ Thanks will def look into this.
I find myself agreeing with this. LibreOffice is de-facto a superset of everything that OpenOffice provides. There is no benefit to keeping these two brands alive and diluting mindshare among non-technical users who now have to be told "OpenOffice shouldn't be used, go with LibreOffice instead", which confuses them.

I think it's far better that the two projects merge and go the way of the GCC fork reunification [0] - one should remain standing as the brand, the other be folded into the main codebase. A few years ago I would have said that the remaining name should be OpenOffice, since it's more familiar and less awkward to pronounce for some English-speakers. On the other hand, Libre seems to be gaining some recognition of its own these past few years, so it's less clear-cut now.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History#Reunification
If Costco sells their products at other stores they are effectively shooting themselves in the foot:
It is providing the lower price of their products to be accesed without paying for a membership; which is how Costco makes money.
I had always hoped the way Gobolinux approached this would start being adopted by other distros.
There is zero need for seasonal storage. Solar is insanely cheap, just build excess capacity. If on average 50% of annual solar generation was wasted, that bumps it up to ~4c/kWh. Assuming 40% of your energy needs comes from battery‘s that adds 10c/kWh * 40%. So your total 24/7 365 grid energy including peaking power averages to just 8c/kWh which is vastly less than nuclear.

Further that’s optimistic from nuclear’s perspective, hydro and wind power significantly reduce the needs for battery storage.
>I actually live in Vermont in the US

So you probably don't have a real appreciation of what is happening in the UK.
What’s the practical difference? Depending on the terms, if an item doesn’t sell, they can send it back to manufacturer/wholesaler. This is/was especially prevalent with media like magazines, CDs, games, books etc.
The site is offline? Every page returns 404
Indian medical records?
Yeah, this article seems a bit disingenuous... it says "I will prove there are no benefits to static linking!", but then goes on just to mention positives about dynamic linking.

It never even mentions the reasons why people choose static linking, let alone attempt to refute them.
...EVERYONE!
On the topic of monolithic versus component builds, how much does Chromium's decision to use a large statically-linked module for release builds actually impact performance, both startup and steady-state? Has this been measured? For me, this characteristic of Chromium was always one of the most striking differences between it and IE, and even though Firefox has had one monster DLL for a while, Chromium takes this further. I just wonder how big a deal this obvious difference actually is for performance.
Re: Throw Away Code? Use Go, Not Python or Rust
Thank you! Your comparison made me laugh (dark humor, of course)
Ultimately, what would such a system be optimized for? The goals will be modulated by the persons or groups in power. From what I've seen, the powerful in China seek a stable, well behaved, productive workforce such that the profit from their labor can accrue to the benefit of the ruling class. A data collection system as pervasive as the social credit system that feeds into a self-optimizing control center that can influence the behavior of the ruled, is economically potent.

Make the goals to get the most profit from the least investment into the work force, coerce their productivity with increasing restrictions and penalties, and you're moving towards virtual enslavement.
I worried about whether the time investment would be worth it when I was getting into tiling window managers (using chunkwm on Mac), but it has paid dividends and was totally worth it. The thing that helped me over the hump was setting a background image with the key commands for a little while, until it felt like second nature. A couple of years in now the key commands I’m pressing seem subconscious, almost like when entering a typo and looking and down at the keyboard and becoming disoriented. It’s weird.
Highly disappointing in this decision,

I have had two encounters with Uber drivers, one which the driver near accident, and then the driver got out of his car to hit me, and I am counting 11 months and still haven't been able to reach out to a human at Uber about this case.
It is unusual to pay your children as regular employees and also pay them as consultants, tho.
Someone pointed it out to me a while ago. I don't think the approach is comparable to Zig, but is in a somewhat similar spirit. Like with macros, Terra contains two languages (one of them being the meta language), while Zig has general partial evaluation in just one language (also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24293611). For example, in Terra, conditional compilation is a branch in the metalanguage; in Zig, it's just a branch in Zig that is partially evaluated.

BTW, even Zig's build language is just Zig!
It would have helped to study displaced northerners, and see if their attitudes about winter continued or abated. It would have helped distinguish between selection bias and adaptation.
Big tech’s share of S&P500 reaches an all time high (chart)
Do you know if the hunter-nurture interpretation was introduced elsewhere? This article is a little light. It captures the imagination, but I don't see the evidence.

Certainly there is a sex bias in object preference present in infants and monkeys. I just don't buy the just-so story "hunting instincts" versus "nurturing instincts."
> says same or similar result

> rebuts with a different result

I elaborated enough on what circumstances dictate outcomes. You might have missed the point, which was that we can do things differently and can use this as an opportunity for introspection to make it happen differently.

And again, I am echoing sentiments from the article, so if you think I'm way off base then the whole article is invalid too and you should comment at the top level instead of whatever hairs you want to split with me.
That goes all the way down to the CPU and the OS. At some point, you've gotta say "stop".
Is Stephen Wolfram for real? I read stuff like this, and watch a few youtube videos with him in them, and my arrogance detector goes off. I unfortunately don't know enough mathematics to decisively say yea or nay to his written stuff, but the written stuff seems like it's on the edge of kookery. It is mathematics though, and so can be hard to distinguish from the ravings of madmen.
At some point “chugging along” rounds down to “failure” for employees with equity compensation. Particularly at 10 years when it expires.