skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any study of "play" must take into account of the classic work, 'Homo Ludens—A Study of the Play-Element in Culture', by the maverick Dutch historian, Johan Huzinga, from a 100 years ago. ("Homo Ludens" means "Man the Player" in Latin).

To quote the abstract of the said book by Huizinga:

[...] He identifies five characteristics of play: it is free; it is not "ordinary" or "real" life; it is distinct from "ordinary" life both as to locality and duration; it creates order; it is connected with no material interest, and from it no profit can be gained.

With cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and politics, Huizinga examines play in all its diverse guises—as it relates to language, law, war, knowledge, poetry, myth, philosophy, art, and much more. As he writes, "Civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play like a baby detaching itself from the womb: it arises in and as play, and never leaves it."

Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of "man the player" through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and early modern world. With an eye for our own times he writes: "In American politics [play] is even more evident. Long before the two-party system had reduced itself to two gigantic teams whose political differences were hardly discernible to an outsider, electioneering in America had developed into a kind of national sport." With its remarkable historical sweep, Homo Ludens defines play for generations to come.
Plenty of similar stories in the US. In particular our Superconducting Super Collider which would have been around 3 times the energy of the LHC. We spent $2 Billion on it, dug 14 miles of tunnel, and then shut it all down and let it fill up with water. What a colossal waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
I would imagine there's probably some precedent for this. You've been able to totally distort pictures beyond recognition with Photoshop filters for a long time. It seems like something that's probably come up before.
This building, right opposite the Ruoholahti metro station (near the old Verkkokaupa)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Le_centr...
In short: startups lure you with an opportunity to make a FANG-level pay if and only if the startup goes big.
"Although LeMesurier doesn’t think the writers were being overtly racist, she believes they were picking up on larger stereotypes in the culture of Asian Americans as exotic and strange. “They had a supposed subject, the Chinese-Restaurant syndrome, but the focus was really on Chinese identity and getting in digs about these stereotypically Chinese foods,” she said. “They used Kwok and MSG as figureheads for everything that was silly and frivolous and dangerous about Chinese identity.”"

Why is that not "overt racism"?
We don't know their codes nor do we know the format of the original signal (it aint ascii) so my guess is not really.
You (GP) clearly didn't read the TAL interview linked where the guy who wrote the letter was actually Cantonese and very much not Howard Steel
> The S&P 500 doesn't (well, shouldn't) make value judgments about the quality of the companies in it. It's just the 500 largest companies on US exchanges. That's what people who use it want.

"Like other indices managed by S&P Dow Jones Indices, but unlike indices such as the Russell 1000 which are strictly rule-based, the components of the S&P 500 index are selected by a committee. When considering the eligibility of a new addition, the committee assesses the company's merit using eight primary criteria: market capitalization, liquidity, domicile, public float, Global Industry Classification Standard and representation of the industries in the economy of the United States, financial viability, length of time publicly traded, and stock exchange."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index#Selection_crit...
Yeah but cost of living in Switzerland in general and Zurich in particular is nuts. I think it's great if you're young and don't want to settle down, otherwise I think you'll be worse off than e.g. in Munich or Berlin. Also the general culture if way less accomodating to foreigners in Switzerland, even as a German you'll never be "part of the club". In Berlin people care way less where you're from, almost everyone moved here either from other parts of Germany or from abroad.
Isn't it great when you get an offer from a startup and they say you will get 5000 option shares but they can't tell you literally anything about what they could possibly mean for you in the future? Like even how many shares are outstanding or what the current and expected valuation might be. I've had that experience a few times.
> "How many other SolarWinds are there?" All of them.

This means that maintaining secure systems by ensuring software and processes have no security flaws is pretty much impossible.

A better strategy might be to have air-gapped systems, where you need to have a dedicated physical wire running to your computer if you want to connect to the system. As stuxnet shows, even this is not 100% secure, but it is considerably easier to maintain security if it is not connected to the internet.
Feels like every person working in the building was a consultant. (different coloured badges iirc)

There was an anecdote being sent around about how it "was the most expensive clock application ever to exist" due to rewrites.

I agree, lots of great people working there, but I think very little leadership.
I have had my perspective challenged a great deal, not by this article, but instead by checking my assumptions against the numbers using the Graphtreon[0] site linked in a sub-article[1] to the parent article.

I'd assumed that there was a solid, or at least "quiet but present", middle class of content creators. I believed this because I felt like I follow a set of content creators which where pretty far outside the "mainstream", since I didn't observe them having "superstar" numbers, nor did I ever see them casually mentioned outside of their own content.

Looking at the data, all of them are in the top 2,000 Patreon users and most of them are in the top 1,000. Here's a compacted list:

| Creator Name | Patreon Rank | Estimated Monthly |
| | | Income (Patreon) |
|---------------------------|--------------|-------------------|
| Well There’s Your Problem | 108 | $11,196.00 |
| LoadingReadyRun | 411 | $14,772.00 |
| Jay Foreman | 995 | $2,620.00 |
| Summoning Salt | 1478 | $2,026.00 |
| Wendover Productions | 1684 | $2,220.00 |
| Practical Engineering | 1872 | $1,600.00 |

The creator that stands out most is the #1 spot holder, the "Well There's Your Problem" podcast. It's a podcast about engineering disasters, each recounted in a very irreverent and roundabout style. I primarily watch this podcast through YouTube, and their YouTube content gets what I'd consider very "acceptable" view rates, on the order of 50k - 90k total views. From that, I would have expected them to fall more in the ~$1,000 tier of monthly Patreon income, but instead they're enjoying wild success.

I have to assume their success comes from them doing well on platforms outside of YouTube, and their consistent marketing of Patreon rewards (additional content for Patreon subscribers).

Goes to show that there's more than one way to find success, though the number of paths still seems pretty constrained.

[0] - https://graphtreon.com

[1] - https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/01/02/patreon-content-...
> massively-fast 2400 baud modem (none of that 300-baud or even 1200-baud stuff for me!)

My first ever income from programming was writing some machine code to run in a USR$ on an Atari 8-bit BBS. Turns out the XModem checksum calculation was slow enough that when 1200 baud modems came out, there was a noticeable delay between chunks for BASIC to calc the checksum. At around 20 bytes long, I was paid $20. Man, do I wish I could make $1/byte now...
I guess there is no way to prove it either way (option A: bunch of shills or option B: honest feedback)

Mine is a throwaway account for privacy reasons, because I don't want details about my home to be linked to any other bit of information online.
Try being from a random South Asian or African village. Tell me how you go buying cloud services with your nonexistant banking infrastructure and personal credit line.
I'm not trying to be obtuse or anything, I'm just saying they have very few physical shops. There might be 10 in Paris for example but if you're in the rest of the country, tough luck!

Well I am double checking and I see they have shops in the top 5 cities now. Maybe things have changed for the better. Last time I tried to buy an Apple product there was simply no shop in a hundred miles radius.
I was wondering the other day, why haven't we already legalized sex work? But I think the answer is that most normal people might not care for it to be legal or not, but a very motivated minority really really cares for it to be illegal.

There's probably also the cultural aspect around it. Most people still feel pretty ackward with all things related to sex. Just talking about it is taboo. Most people feel more comfortable just not bringing the topic. Even with the amount of porn being consumed, you'd be hard pressed to have anyone talk about their porn consumption to anyone else, including their sexual partner.

It's not been very long since sex can be had safely either. For most of history, sex came with lots of risks, like pregnancy and diseases. In my opinion, it'll take a few more generations for safe sex practices, safer sex work environment like digital sex work, and all that to catch up and start changing people's attitudes around it. Not sure that SV investors can do anything about that.
A father who died years ago left his son $10 to buy his first beer
Ad hominem attacks don't have any impact on validity of the underlying argument. Facts are still facts.
That’s not what this is about.

This is about the few providers which charge you a fee for “rent” when you don’t have their equipment (which is absurd).

I have owned my own equipment with at least half a dozen providers large and small and never had to pay this fee.
I agree with you that all the apps you named have no counterpart in Gnome land which is as polished and usablle as the once you mentioned.

For those still burning plastics I would add K3b to the list.

I am using Gnome since 2018 btw.
My bad. I guess it's more Czechia and Hungary specifically. Due to various business reasons and historic opportunities of the unregulated market and chaos after the change of system in 1990 and the generally atheistic society, poverty and conventionally attractive women (and white, which was important for the rich first world market). Poland was/is perhaps too religious for this.
Public domain means no IP applies. Patents are only one kind of IP. There’s also copyrights, trademarks, etc.
Absolutely this — I’ve had several MacBooks that ended up costing me less than $150 per year after I upgraded and resold them years later.
I think it's just a desire to blame something else (wifi, 5g, etc) for health problems, rather than taking responsibility for changing their crappy diet or stressful life.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25489140
I took a 6502 assembly language class when I was in high school I already had some experience with it so I spent my time doing machine language monitor with disassembler and helped others. It was the best class I had at the time.
If the company is serious about hiring you they can create a subsidiary in Germany. I have some colleagues in Berlin that work for US companies (albeit larger ones), they all have GmbHs in Germany through which they employ people here.
Journalists as messengers have always been targeted, and even killed, and it seems that Apple’s messaging system was the attack vector here.

While the article decries NSO being nefarious and selling to suspect “authoritarian” countries, high schools here in our democratic US have been buying hacking solutions to spy on students:

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tec...
I think the handset business of Nokia stood on two legs - logistics supremacy and radio technology as secret sauce. The advantages given by them were made moot by Chinese manufacturing and commoditization of handset chipsets. Being run over by IPhone was the symptom, not the disease.
It's a pretty frustrating article. There is a specific section titled "The truth about MSG" .... which ... doesn't tell you the truth about MSG. Instead, the "truth about MSG" is buried half way through the next voluminous section titled "A cautionary tale". Which appears to be ... no evidence has conclusively shown its harmful in the quantities used in food, and in fact, randomized blinded studies found no effect at all.
>How well do you think KDE is in regards to Gnome regarding it's future?

As mentioned I haven't invested enough time into testing other DEs yet.

>I see GTK 4 was just released, will this help anything in Gnome 4?

I doubt it. The problem is not purely technical, the problem is the project's leadership, direction which it pursues, and relationship with the wider Linux community.
Same experience with comcast, I had connectivity problems a few times and there were no differences between when using their equipment and mine.
Journalists as messengers have always been targeted, and even killed, and it seems that Apple’s messaging system was the attack vector here.

While the article decries NSO for being nefarious and selling to suspect “authoritarian” countries, high schools here in our democratic US have been buying hacking solutions to spy on students:

https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tec...
While we're recalling daydreams, I remember a Globe & Mail "Report On Business" glossy insert from Elop's impending Nokia takeover that had all the hallmarks of a Microsoft PR product. Its probable the following article is sourced from that publication, although the byline date is odd:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/c...
Kde took a turn at 5 / plasma. It's not the long pages of configuration anymore. It's close to as opinionated as gnome or at least not putting the options in your face until you ask for it. It's a massive difference from kde 3 times.

I couldn't stand gnome shell and moved to plasma as it was starting. Didn't really experience option overload.
It is definitely unfair, but is it any different to an intelligent person cashing in on their genetics? I have a very well paid job as a software engineer which comes relatively easily to me. As you say, lots of people have to work really hard just to make a living.
My neighbor has used TurboTax for 20 years or so. This year, they came out with an "upgrade" that revamped the user interface. She no longer has any idea how to make it work. She's switching to using a CPA.
If you like i3 but you want something a little more hands off you might like Pop Shell. With some minor config [0] it feels a bit like some combination of GNOME, bspwm, and i3.

They recently added i3 style tabs. [1]

[0] https://gist.github.com/dsissitka/14995165a51524486f2385df66...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TSdFWY_U9A
Can anyone recommend a straightforward way (eg. plugin, command line tool) to convert a Youtube link in to a skimmable transcript using the subtitles?
cool stuff.. PS note XSS by manipulating the img URL of an emoji in the input
Gnome has historically been written in C (after having played with Obj C and C++, which they didn't like), and while it has adopted other languages like js, large parts of it are still written in C/Glib.

I don't find surprising that people don't find writing desktops apps in C attractive. That's in fact why the mono guys tried to make people use C# (previously, Sun had employed quite a lot of desktop people and of course they had pushed for Java, so there were some Java/GTK apps done by them and nobody else). The C# push lasted some years but eventually died because Linux enthusiasts never liked a MS technology that run code in a memory-hungry VM. Then, someone created Vala - a way to get the syntax advantages of a modern language like C#, without depending on a C# runtime. Once again not everybody liked the idea of transpiling a language not used anywhere but in Gnome, so not everybody adopted it, and these days it seems to be mainly popular in the Elementary desktop.

Then came the new trend: Javascript. The Gnome people has a strange addiction to following trends, so of course they decided that the future of the Gnome platform was Javascript, the definitive language that everybody will use in the future. It turns out, Javascript's GC didn't play very well with Glib's reference counting, but nobody thought that well before basing the desktop's entire shell on it, so for years the Gnome Shell became a memory hog that would eat hundreds of MB of RAM that would not get freed because of the interaction between the two memory management systems. That lasted until quite recently.

Now there are some parts of Gnome pushing for Rust. Fortunately for Gnome, Rust may be good enough to actually become a final destination for them, but even then not many people seem to be using it?

Anyway, my point is that in the modern Gnome desktop, you may end up running a Javascript shell running on top of a Glib/GTK core, then some huge C apps like Evolution and Gimp, then others written in Vala or even C# and now Rust. Gnome has been searching for a C replacement for too long, maybe they should stick to one language, and create a really solid platform in order to attract more people instead of switching targets every few years
The issue I have with wayland is that it just continues to fragment the Linux desktop ecosystem, and it moved things to the toolkit that just don’t make sense there: I don’t want my window decorations to depend on whether the app is built with Qt or Gtk. I don’t want projects like McClim ( https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/ ) to depend on C code to communicate with the windowing system, etc.
Range went up about 10% when they switched to the "Raven" motor. That ain't nothin'.
Here's another along the same lines, with a demo learning faces according to the Machine Learning book by Tom Mitchell@CMU:

https://github.com/pablo-mayrgundter/freality/tree/master/ml...
From the outside it looked like a setup.

Nokia had all sorts of structural issues, true, and a bewildering array of self-competing products, but it also had a lot to work with and the brand recognition was absolutely enormous. He effectively flushed it all down the toilet for a punt on Windows Mobile, which was already looking like an "also-ran" by that point. When it (predictably) didn't work out, MS took the brand and some of the company, then ran it into the ground.

A sad end to what had been a huge success story.

(I'm not challenging the idea that nokia was on a downward slope by the point he came along, but he just accelerated it, see e.g. the burning platforms memo)
Yes you can.
I am in my 30s, I live in Berlin, I make 100k+ EUR in base salary. This does not include my equity package.
I am a mid-level engineer and I don't lead a team.
I have seen a few offers in that range. In my experience they are for companies that have the HQ in SF (with offices in Berlin). These are often large companies (300+ people) with a product that has reached product market fit, have good funding, high growth rates, brand names, late stage/pre-IPO startups, tech public companies, etc. Basically any company that is used to paying high salaries for engineers.
These are companies that deliberately aim to be in the top percentiles of compensation in any market. These aren't companies that claim to pay "competitive salaries".
Naturally there aren't many of such companies (that is why they are in the top percentile) but you can find them if you look around. They are always hiring. The recruiting processes may be a bit more challenging but they are not rocket science.
Oh, so you're a fraudster. No wonder you keep your account anonymous here. Well, good for you. I prefer to go the long way though.
We are a software development company from Ukraine named CyberCraft https://cybercraftinc.com/company. Our developers and managers use different approaches that help them to deal with burnout:
1. Sports.
2. Yoga.
3. Trips.
4. Team building.
5. Hobbies.
XFCE is barely maintained, unfortunately. The recent port to Gtk3 lost some functionality as a result of regressions in the toolkit: keybindings in menus are no longer hover-rebindable, and the themes have not been properly ported, leaving me only with bloated Adwaita. For some reason, the package with window manager themes has not been released for 4.12 (the package from 4.10 works fine, though). There’s no path for migration to Wayland. Integration with display managers (i.e. screen locking) and systemd’s power management is flaky.

And I am saying all this with regret, as a long time user; I consider it the best desktop environment I have used.

I almost wish they had forked Gtk2 instead of porting to Gtk3 (or even more crazily, ported Gtk2 to Gdk3 to take advantage of ‘plumbing’ improvements in the latter, like Wayland support), but I do realise they just don’t have the manpower.
Did you have a Multiface? Not all that cheap, but probably ended up teaching me more about low-level programming than anything else, short of writing a Spectrum 128 emulator for Risc OS :)
You're overthinking it, it's some PM justifying his or her own job in a company flush with so much cash it doesn't know what to do with it.
When Napoleon was Empire he ordered a "mini-Doomsday" book audit. It was reported that French farmers during winter did not work and eat very little. This was about 1810.
I guess he's referring to the length of a single episode but, in a world of streaming, that seems a little arbitrary. At home, nothing keeping you from pausing a film halfway and picking up the next day just like a TV series. Obviously telling a single story in 90-180 minutes is a different form from telling a storing over multiple seasons of 30-90 minute episodes in different from a miniseries or single-season series. But they're all just artistic (and financial) choices.

While there's arguably been an overall shift to shorter content, I don't really see a marked falloff in movies being produced.
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I've always dreamed of capturing good footage of UFOs, fully knowing that they are with 99,99...% likelihood just fiction.

The latest round of UFO buzz got me interested in how one would setup tracking network for UFOs, this might be an interesting starting point.
I stumbled upon this article after reading some more recent commentary on MSG [0], in which the author wrote:

"There’s no evidence to substantiate the claim that MSG causes ill effects in most people who consume it. A minority of people are hypersensitive to glutamate and MSG in food—added or natural—and in a study where MSG was given at 3 grams, in the absence of food, sensitive individuals had short-term, transient adverse reactions."

[0] https://peterattiamd.com/should-we-still-be-worried-about-ms...
Net income varies a lot depending on your tax class. If you're single without kids 60T€ yields about 2.900 € per month, I think.
What are you people complaining about? The command does exactly what it advertised, it chucks disks.
The US paid the Russians to help them secure their nuclear material in the greatest masterstroke of nonproliferation of all human history, we can do a similar thing with the Houthi. Everyone wins.

If a major food supply fails in the Middle East, we might see another mass-migration like that driven by the Syrian conflict.

Whether we like it or not, everything today is global.
But like most people I don't want or need legacy USB or headphone ports any more - so makes sense to refine the model and remove them to simplify?

If we took your advice they'd still have the old serial and parallel ports on them!
"I wanted to be Mark Zuckerberg but ended as Marco Sugarhill"