skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like a particularly inflammatory way of looking at it..

Why couldn’t they use one of the other channels? Was there no demand for such programming? Who was denying those options, if anybody?
Anyone consider the Odroid H2+? It's a relatively fast CPU (for a router) the Intel J4115, relatively low power (10 watt TDP), max ram 32GB (plenty for a router), has two 2.5 Gbit ports, with an option to add 4x2.5 Gbit for $47. Also has a eMMC and M.2 slot for reliable storage, to avoid any ugly USB connected storage for boot.

Seems like it would make a quiet and fast 6 port x 2.5 Gbit router and run well with Linux based OS, unsure of the state of drivers for *bsd.

I did see a thread about getting it to work well with OpenWRT.
Trust. What you're really talking about is trust.

If you're not coding 100% of the time on important value add tasks, you're not ever going to be as technical or as current on the details as your team. As a manager being the technical lead IS NOT YOUR JOB. You have people for that. Empower them, listen to them, arbitrate between them, enable them to get their job done.

It is not your job to decide what technology is best, your team is the one with that know how and will offer you choices and tradeoffs; if you need to decide you'll need to trust their information to choose the best set of tradeoffs for the business strategey. Trust them to give you the right data. Nurture the team so they don't lie to you; if they're lying to you, there are much bigger problems to solve than the technical details.
> crazy

Projection does not lead to rational behavior.
same principle applies to WiFi routers. That's why you look at other channels being used in your aread, and then pick a channel that has the least overlap with your neighbors.
I only see one point: Bitcoin and similar prevent powerful mechanisms through policy like the Magnitsky Act allowing economic penalties of known bad actors, hopefully swaying their bad behaviour before physical/violent means are necessary.

Punishing bad actors is not high on my list of reason why I support any currency, so I don't have a lot to say about it other than question if sanctions have really had the effect you're asserting they have.
Also, sanctions typically take the form of imports and exports, rather than seizing currency, no? In any case, I'd need to do some research on that as it's not something anyone talks about or really considers to be a major factor in cryptocurrency adoption. Did you have another point?
> So I looked at my husband and asked the big question: How far would he support me in taking this? What if I didn’t delete the tweet and I got fired for it and we lost our health insurance? He told me to stand my ground, even though he’s in multiple high-risk categories for COVID as a cancer survivor with asthma, and that’s why I love him so much.

Heh I'll probably get downvoted for saying this, but that's not brave, that's just plain irresponsible and stupid, she's literally trading more risk(and that risk concerns her family too) for no gain whatsoever (it costs nothing to delete a tweet, but the loss of her job could potentially cost her everything).

Be smarter and pick your battles wisely.
Sure, I defo have opinions on git-flow.

But with every build system I work with (which are: Jenkins, Concourse, Github Actions, and Gitlab CI) you can make any branch you want the branch-to-build-on.
Audacity 3.0
Short answer is it doesn't work now and is not known to be able to work.

Much easier to make promises than keep them.
Yes but this is true of all jobs. If you want to climb the ladder it requires extra work particularly between levels as you typically have to already be doing the job of the next level to get promoted into it.

Work life balance doesn’t mean 50-50. The balance is a personal decision and can even change based on life and career stage. Organizations with good WLB enable employees to make that tradeoff and accommodate a wide range of choices.
This is flamebait for everyone and anyone with a lick of commonsense would know that.

Also it is interesting that you've gone after me not the guy that was blatently calling me racist. But there you go.

Go fuck yourself.
yes[1], but it doesn't really matter because even if the intention is not to be a "master/slave" reference, people will still say it is offensive. So therefore it makes sense that banning other terms like "master of science" or "master record" would also be consistent here.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200706203737/https://twitter.c...
Fair enough, that’s why I wrote ”in the long run”. Also, there’s always the option of moving somewhere that doesn’t have this issue. Well, unless you’re from the US and must file taxes even when you’re not even in the country, I suppose.
The unit is shown on the right for me, maybe it's different in mobile view. For an SI-compliant unit, add iB behind the ${size}k :)
>it will consume every available resource in service of privatizing and charging for resources that used to be available to all

Minor nit-pick: I don't think the story is a good example of your concept here. The radio telescope, regardless of what it did for scientists, served fewer people than what commercial use of channel 37 would have.
Wow, he started with a Canon EF 200mm f1.8 and worked his way UP.
It's the "long form journalism" style; try to make journalism into "art", stretch the length of the content, and slap a minimalistic design with a fresh logo on the website in an effort to get a certain kind of audience.
normal company business involves recruiting at universities. that person's company business does not seemingly recruit at all "nObOdy ApplIeD?!?!", many companies like theirs do recruit and chose to recruit at certain universities and act just as confused as that person's company, when there are simply more universities that can be recruited from and many of those have a higher percentage of engineers that are black.

you are desperately looking for something that wasn't suggested or said, but if you weren't (despite asking a question and responding with a conclusion you already had) the answer to your first question is "no". it would not be racist to expand recruiting to more engineering schools. and outside of that many existing recruiters have no difficulty reaching out to engineers with skills they like, this person's company does not seem to do that.
Yeah, for sure. I'm up for some collaboration where it makes sense. I can understand how SQLite probably wouldn't come up so far. If someone is running CDC on Kakfa (Debezium) then they're probably running a client/server database instead of an embedded one.

Hit me up on Twitter[1] if you have any questions or we have a pretty friendly, active Slack[2] too.

[1]: https://twitter.com/benbjohnson

[2]: https://join.slack.com/t/litestream/shared_invite/zt-n0j4s3c...
If we’re talking about 100 or 1000 crypto-rich people buying coffee with Bitcoin to prove a point, sure.

But the tens of millions of people who buy coffee every morning have no desire to spend extra for the same product. They already have a credit card in their pocket that has no fees (or maybe negative fees if it’s cash back.). They’re going to use that card.
The USD is backed by "the full faith and confidence of the US Government" since leaving the gold standard. Bitcoin is backed by collective faith and confidence in the security and utility of the underlying blockchain.

The utility of a country, it's people/resources/military/economy/etc, is pretty obvious. What is the utility of the blockchain outside of the value of Bitcoin itself?
Visa is doing what any decent $500B company will do because of FOMO
I think it would be nice to have it as wallpaper that slowly navigates the galaxy while I'm working.
Wow great, I was not aware. Looks like everything I could hope for, congratulations on this great release!
Just like every problem, there's tons of factors at play. Let's not try to reduce everything to a single variable, because then we are surely mistaking ourselves.

Top of mind, I would say the following factors probably play a role:

- social pressure to conform

- social pressure to be successful

- depression not being very well treated in Japan

- work/school being too much in one's life compared to other things

- lack of support/encouragement - isolation

- fatalism ('you can't do anything about that') kind of belief

But even that list is too short, I feel. I think by living in Japan you grasp a little more what is at play but as I said, it's a whole package, not just a few factors.
So, selective reviews?
To be honest, that's exactly the retraction that makes WaPo stand above the pack. They had a source, based the article on it (after verification). Then the primary source got available, certain details were different and WaPo changed the article. The core message, so, still stands. As a matter of fact, didn't the Georgia AG start an investigation into this affaire?
You're right that Europe is a pretty diverse place, but having lived in a few countries there and being in contact with people from at least half of the countries I can't say I've ever heard any European describe anything in the US as leftish. Perhaps parts of the current American diversity discourse excepted.
First things first: thanks for the insightful reply!

Yes, I meant the low intensity palette, you're correct. I disagree with you in that I don't find it "the least bad", but actually beautiful. It has a kind of "wood engraving" vibe to me.

> That's why the text is hard to read, because it's black text on a brown background, not because of the resolution.

I respectfully disagree. It's true that the contrast is lower than with a brighter color, but it's still not a problem for my eyes. For me, it actually has to do with the blockiness of the low res font; also there's some aliasing with the "m" and similar characters that confuses my eyes and I have to make an extra effort the parse the characters -- the same would happen were this black font on white background.

The Tandy fascinates me since I saw that video by The 8 Bit Guy. Sadly, I never owned one!
I'm not an expert on lightning network, but couldn't Visa position themselves as a central hub for lightning network transactions, so that most people can open a channel to Visa and they act as the clearing house for keeping all of those channels balanced?

I'd never want to send large BTC amounts through visa, but I would trust them enough to facilitate <$100 transactions for a ~3% fee (with some potion profit and some towards tx fees).

Or heck, maybe consumers don't need an actual channel, just let me send Bitcoin out on credit and pay my monthly balance with BTC. Maybe only channels to vendors that receive payments are necessary.

Not sure how much demand exists for this, but "We are the #1 facilitator of Bitcoin transactions" would probably be great for Visa's stock price if they could achieve it.
I don’t fault the average person for not wanting to be their own bank. I’ve been using bitcoin for years and I’m still terrified I’m going to mess up a transaction or lose access to my wallet.
Lifetime subscriber here
Email was funny. Reminded me of Steve Martin's rental car scene from 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmg3nlAPVK8
Thanks, I didn't know about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_hypothesis
> And how many suicides in Japan are work-related?

Hard to say. Since there are a lot of suicides among students and retired people too, I'm sure work is not the only problem.
I get what you're saying, but if you're going to take that point of view can I assume you're living in a log cabin in the woods? Anything else, and you use Chinese-made products all day long.
Yes, the populist-biography kind of writing you describe is unsatisfactory, to say the least; the reason I point to Petroski's work is that he did not write like that.

Another great book to read to examine modes of engineering failure is Feynman's "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" which includes some of his thoughts on the Challenger disaster.
I have a Saturn in WI and have gotten it stuck a few times when I lived on a street that didn't get plowed first/often. The plow would come through the intersection across my street and leave a wall of snow higher than my ground clearance. I definitely got stuck a lot more when I drove my old rear-wheel-drive Mercury with an open differential and similarly low clearance, both on that street and in the parking lot at work before the plow came through.

My point was that not everybody here drives a truck or SUV, so the roads do need to be cleared to a point.
Less than 1% of American whites during slavery owned slaves. In fact, the most identifying characteristic of American slave-owners was Judaism. You could just as easily say that Jews were masters and blacks were slaves, although your argument would be equally as incorrect and ignorant. To say that "whites were masters" is just as ignorant as saying "all 1940s Germans were Nazis".
Why would someone not want suspending to be enabled if their machine is capable? Why is DBUS, NTP and slim (I don't even know what that one is) not enabled by default when the user signals they want to use xfce? You have to have a lot of knowledge to just have a basic install in your laptop. Compare that to windows, macos and ubuntu that drop you in a desktop friendly environment as soon as you finish the install.

I know that's not FreeBSD's goal nor am I saying that it ought be. I'm just stating the fact that it is not an easy to use system for the uninitiated and it will require at least a little bit of browsing the internet and trying things for all but the most experienced FreeBSD users, if they choose to adopt it as their desktop system.
Don't put words in his mouth. He referred to the "White Liberal". You added "leftist" to push your political agenda.

Malcolm X was a communist---pretty sure that's about as far leftist as you can get.
In short, yes, in the US, with a few exceptions.
Funding the Creator Economy
Small changes?

My daughters now have to complete against males in sports. They will be punished severely if they complain.

The woman’s movement is being taken over by men.
I just explained at least that "coining words" means nothing in Japan. That's a clear refutation of what they insinuated.
I find it troubling that people can find themselves so wrapped up and agitated by culture war wedge issues that they would characterize the rhetoric and actions of Jeff Bezos as aligned with "far left ideology", when Amazon is currently working to prevent workplace solidarity/unionization (a very core component of moderate leftist ideology in the context of a capitalist state).
Interesting. How do you guys filter out not so nice @ mentions? Is it a manual process?
Is there any persistent storage options? I looked through the faq and comparisons and couldn't find any mention of it.
Probably the last remnant in English of Germanic impersonal verbs, a common feature of many Germanic languages where the subject of many nonvolitional verbs of perception is in the dative case rather than the nominative.

It is fossilized now in a fixed expression, but the verb “thinks” here is actually a different verb from the modern verb “think”. This difference is very much alive in, say, Dutch, where one would say “Ik denk dat ...” for “I think that ...”, but “Me dunkt dat ...” with a different vowel for the same meaning as “methinks”, which denotes a less voluntary perception, an observation if one will.

It's not that dissimilar to “To me, it appears that ...” I suppose, with the key difference that the grammar does not demand another subject. It is simply “Methinks that ...”, not “Me, it thinks that ....
Good story sells and can help reach a wider audience. Wouldn't that be valuable if you want people to learn from these failures?

As an example, the wiki page for Falcon 1 rocket is jam packed with information [0] There is a recent book pretty much depicting the same period [1]. I already knew the details thanks to the wiki page. That doesn't mean I'd want to skip the book.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1

[1] - https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger?v...
The sheer number of times I've left a frustrating problem at work for the day, and come back in the next day and solved it in 5 minutes, makes me believe this would be the case.

Beyond a certain point you really aren't achieving anything.
For example, that you can specify that a reference to a component of a compound value enforces that that component cannot be removed. Or, that you can specify (the other way around) that whenever the referenced component is removed, the component the reference is part of, should also be removed. The latter often happens if you have some kind of relationship. In some database, these kind of dependencies can be implemented by means of cascade delete triggers. (I prefer to talk about components rather than objects, because the word object suggest that the thing in itself exists independently of other objects, while in data this is often not the case.) I find it a little sad, that in many object oriented methods (including UML) the substype relation plays a more significant role than the existence relationships. I do not know of programming languages where existence relationship can be explicitly declared. Of course, there are a lot of programming languages that allow you to implement these kind of relationships, but it is often easy to make mistakes. And, in my experience, these kind of mistakes are a source of obscure and hard to find bugs.
I've been at Microsoft for about eight years (which still makes me a relative newbie). I've been on several teams (changing roles by choice) and had many managers (due to new roles or reorgs). Depending on my family life, commute, work projects, etc., I have had seasons where I would stay late. Many times, I've had my managers walk by my office and say, "Go home to your family. Work will be here tomorrow."

When I was at Amazon, on the other hand, I was usually in the office about 6:30am and would go home about 4 or 5pm. (I was new to big tech and wanted to prove myself.) The younger guys on my team were more 11am - 8pm, so I was always seen as being the guy that left early. And it showed in my relationships with my manager and skip-level, which is a big part of why I left.

So with my n=1 experience, Microsoft is significantly better with work-life balance than Amazon. I can't speak for other big tech. I know this hasn't always been the case - I've heard horror stories from earlier in the Ballmer years, but we're not in the Ballmer years anymore, thank goodness.

I'll also say that there are plenty of times where I *love* what I'm doing and actively put in lots of time because it's fun, not due to pressure to do so. But I've done that at other companies, and I know lots of people that have that passion for what they're doing.
No beard but it would be grey...

A variant of this has been my PS1 since the 90s (yes, mostly on workstations with a GUI by then [Sun,NeXT,HPUX etc...]). Unfortunately bash doesn't like a lone ';' without something before it ("-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'") so I've had to use ':; ' with it (I like its use of readline, emacs user since Gosling's in the early 80s).

Triple-click, middle-click (for xterm and others that do that) is efficient and easy. The csh-inspired '!!' can work nicely too though.
> This isn't something I'd endorse doing often.

Why not? They seem like helpful principles.
I'm sure it has to do with the games I grew up with, but I still think EGA Last Crusade is better than VGA, and I find beauty in EGA Monkey Island and even in blockier games like Kings of the Beach or Street Rod! And of course, I love the EGA graphics of my adored Space Quest I, II & III.

Yes, this means I go back to those games now and I still find their graphics cool looking and evocative.

> The imagination always fills in the gap

Fully agreed! I think this is a quality that gets lost with games with more realistic graphics.

> To me, the limited color palette doesn't strike me as a differently meaningful sort of limitation than, say, the appearance of Mario 64 vs Mario Galaxy.

I believe it is a meaningful limitation. It's like working in a black & white drawing with a pencil, or with an early comic book illustration. It's not just fewer colors, you must re-think the illustration. An obvious example is the use of dithering, which when done right can be a beautiful art form. With VGA, you need way less dithering, if at all.
Thanks for your and your orgs fantastic job!
Don't want to duck your question but: the reason this is hard to get a handle on is that it's really complicated.

It's not that the premises and protocols themselves are complicated — sure, they're technically sophisticated, but they can be explained simply. The problem lies in that it is very hard to predict the economic consequences and security guarantees of the various consensus mechanisms. Frankly, if Bitcoin hadn't been working flawlessly for the past 12 years very few people would guess that it would work.
> was achieved due to a number of different factors.

How surprising that something is used as a single variable explanation by a PR department. I for sure have never seen that before. Glad to know they backtracked on that, but it's too late since the news has been out there already for a long time and this CNN article perpetuates it.
Crux of it:

> We’re going to change the branch name because it could be seen as offensive but we’re still going to sell police facial recognition software that is biased against black people and women.

Some parts of tech are populated and led by 29-35 y/os who were sold a bill of goods in their early 20's about how virtuous and pro-social their tech was. "Making a better place through....", well it turned out to be to through surveillance-y adtech and working with China but not the DoD because "war is bad."

So much of tech's labor challenges right now seem driven by the above.
You can’t ban the USD though. And I don’t see China adopting Bitcoin. They will have their own currency.

While I wish I jumped on the bandwagon. I don’t see why any nation would adopt a solution they don’t control. They are happen to consider it a commodity and tax it though.
All time hilarity if the most accurate prediction of the future ends up being Star Wars Episode II.
COI: Chat over IMAP
I had to read this twice to understand how the Sprinklr VP tried to get her fired. He didn't. They threatened legal action and thats about it. The author overreacted and then let that contribute to "burn out" which influenced her decision to leave the company.
Mouse embryos grown outside the uterus
I read this entire thread thinking - this is neat and all but it’s a handful of lines of almost english language in a .py file.

Click is a neat upgrade from argparse if you’re ever tempted (assuming something like “pip install —-user” is viable in your situation which isn’t true for everyone).

I’ve seen, but haven’t used https://typer.tiangolo.com/ - i have used his FastAPI and thought that was nicely done (even if python async is a bit annoying to test).

Talking of python cli libs I haven’t tried but will do one day - rich: https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich