skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been an avid poetry reader for nearly a decade now, I went from not understanding why poetry wasn't a big part of people's lives to not caring one bit and I think this was a healthy evolution.

Most poetry is bad. I have found in my life that the ratio is around 1/20. For every 20 poems one will be something you feel totally good. Probably a few more will have parts of the poem you admire, but lose you elsewhere.

Why are most poems bad? My personal guess is that most people use poems to convey sentiments that could best be done via another form (probably an essay or Tweet). Rupi Kaur is a fine example-- her poems have a character of just wanting to say something direct, but she ends up draping it in poetic staccato. I don't want to dismiss her too much, she's clearly a more successful poet than I am or will ever be, but in my opinion her work sort of misses the central premise of the form. Often times when I read a bad poem, I feel like the author really wanted to write an essay.

Poetry should be used to convey something that really can't be conveyed by other means. You're intending to tap into "something" that other art quite can't. When you find that 1 in 20 poem, it's because it has a sense of revelation, newness, spontaneity. It tends to trigger that sense of seeing something new. I often say "I never thought to organize words that way". John Ashberry's poems have a habit of doing that, and I think that's why he gets the praise he does. Though give me Adrienne Rich any day.

Ultimately though, as I said above, I don't care if people like poetry anymore. Not every artistic pursuit needs to make millions or have millions of fans (which, poetry does, but they're relatively quiet I guess). I also appreciate that since most poets you read are just people who pursued lives of literature, they're a bit more accessible and thus a bit more free to scrutinize. They're people like you and me, writing for each other and not with world dominating aims. Their work doesn't have "Weight". You can engage frankly with their poems, and how they do them well and how they come up short. The poems become friends.

My favorite poet of all time is Michigan based poet Carol Atkins. I believe all her books were self published? I think she is about at the ratio I describe, most of her work is just ok, but when she's sublime, she's truly sublime. It feels as if she wrote art just for me. I've carried her big hitter poems with me throughout life.

And that's the best thing about poetry versus other art-- it's carryable. You get to take it with you everywhere you go, and use it as you please. I guess you can open up your phone and google a painting, or replicate a sculpture, or hum a tune, but a poem is a piece of art you carry completely with you in its full form, as long as you remember it. You're meant to ruminate about two roads diverging in a wood, at the exact moment you realize you're in a diverging road situation. A poem is a life jacket in a way, meant to buoy you just when you need it. I'm not quite sure what other art can offer that combination of simplicity, profundity and carryability.

Finally, let me end with this: read Sharon Olds.
Don’t be fooled by the 503 this site is returning, it is actually valid Perl code
Thank you so much to everybody who works on LineageOS! You are so awesome! I LOVE it!
> in Google most managers would be former engineers

former engineers - that is, they no longer want to be an engineer, but chose the management path. It's quite likely that engineering work is merely a stepping stone for someone like that who intends to advance their career in the management track. I would expect an over-representation of extroverts in this category.

Introverted engineers remain engineers because they like the work, and are only forced out when the pay no longer match their output (but can not move up any more due to the engineering track being "ceiling" compared to the management track).
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In Poland we have 5649 ebooks done so far by https://wolnelektury.pl/
Especially since some of those side streets don’t exist
So per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances come from building being old?
The problem is the working environment in general, doesn't matter if it's at home or in an office, if the surrounding environment is full of distractions then productivity will be as bad everywhere.

For a knowledge worker where they need to concentrate there needs to be a quiet distraction free environment without interruptions. If this is at home in a separate low-traffic room or in an office with few people and a door that can be closed , both will work well. However I don't think many people's environments are like that in either place.

So to me there's no difference between working at home or the office, if you're going to have people interrupting you, high levels of background noise, and other visual/scheduling distractions.
I think the author is way to generous to the PERL community and the drama of PERL 6. I think the toxicity that eventually led to Larry Wall bowing out is being replicated in Python and Guido leaving. I left PERL for Python in the mid-2000s because it was clear with the Parrot engine and other misguided notions by the PERL bullies that the PERL leadership was bent. Now that Guido is out it will be interesting to see how long Python retains its perch. I think the demise of PERL would have been vastly different if Larry Wall hadn't been forced out.
The reverse is true as well. A company with no focus on social interaction drives away people that enjoy socializing with their work mates. For them it makes the office seem like a cold and uninviting place and they’re more likely to take that job offer from a friend. I agree that everyone needs friends outside of work and that you shouldn’t be really close friends with people at work since it can lead to complications but there are benefits to being able to chat with the people at work about non-work related things and to let your hair down a little.
I second PowerApps. There’s a to user-friendly tutorials out there and their programming model is based on concepts similar to Excel.

It should be fairly easy to pick up for end users. But only if you don’t use denormalized tables. If your DB is in 2/3NF you’ll run into issues, e.g. the ever so useful DataTable cannot update data across table.

Also, there’s a pretty significant hard limit on 500 rows.

PowerApps is a great tool, but be aware of its limitations and see if that works for you.
"The US defence department, colloquially known as the pentagon, ran a wargame scenario a few years ago to see what will happen if US will be hit with a worst case scenario, years long semiconductor unavailability due to sabotage of domestic fabs, massive industry wide cyberattack, or something happening to Taiwan."

There is also the danger of counterfeit chips. It is already a plague for those of us hoping to get some good deals from Chinese vendors, but the US Navy as well was hit at least once with fakes.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-ccips/l...
(.pdf document)
It's not just that it was easier, it also ran everywhere, was fast (with mod_php), did not require chmod'ing files on the server, did work even if you uploaded the file with windows line breaks, had parameter parsing and sessions built in. It was pretty quickly superior to Perl for web-stuff in my opinion.
Yes, it started within each province, but the Federal Govt passed laws in 1981 defining what each province had to offer. If you don't adhere to the rules, say bye-bye to federal funds.

It would be fairer to say that the Canadian system is national with provincial implementation within that framework.
Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate
For some reason I can't find the 7T in their list for supported devices.
If you’re curious about this stuff and don’t know where to begin, the first chapter of Fong & Spivak, “An Invitation to Applied Category Theory: Seven Sketches in Compositionality” [1] also introduces category-theoretic ideas using partial orders.

Edit: After the Fong & Spivak book, the book by Emily Riehl, "Category Theory in Context" is an excellent next step, although it requires some mathematical maturity.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05316
My favourite example is the 'bless' function. It attaches a class to an object, if people didn't know. I can't imagine such a name getting approved in any other language. I think any other community would say 'hang on shall we give it a descriptive name that anyone can understand without context, rather than doing this whole faux-religion schtick that will need to be explained to everyone?'
Yes, yes and yes.

The remote plugin effectively lets you work on a remote machine (or OCI container) with your local VSCode instance, as a matter of fact it's the setup I'm using right this moment. This includes remote language servers, remote shells and even remote-specific configurations.

I'm a diehard vim user. I used to do everything in vim. Even my undergrad thesis was proudly written with vim.

This is the feature that single-handedly made me switch to vscode.
> Trains are low throughput, low latency.

I think there are a lack of people working in logistics in these comments. The modality depends on the circumstances. And this is _not_ about throughput vs latency, it's about cost. A container vessel is cheaper because of the reduced friction and the ability to scale. Those cost savings are very beneficial to loads of shipped goods. It's not always beneficial though, in which case another modality is used.

If a plane/train would be the cheapest option it would've been used.

> Trains are low throughput, low latency.

This is too simplistic. You can ship by air/truck/train/barge/vessel. A train is _not_ low latency. It takes a while before the entire train is full (stacked). It's way quicker to drive off with a container on a truck. For a long distance, a train is sometimes a solution. For short distances there is too much of a delay. Train/Barge are quite similar in this.

> That said, train throughput seems straightforward to address: build more rails.

Ugh. How does this address that a track and trains are often quite different across countries? It's a pretty simplistic view. Depending on the need the right solution is chosen. But you cannot just ignore that a big vessel uses way less energy per container than anything else. Thereby it'll be significantly cheaper.

A company can and does use different modalities depending on the need. Meaning, if urgent, by air. But a combination of modalities is easily possible. Meaning, the majority on a big container vessel. Then any unexpected things by train (China->Europe).
> deliberately whimsical terminology, puns in their programs

Python was like this as well, the language is even named after a comedy group. Perhaps as the culture has changed, Python has done a better job of adapting (e.g. changing the name of the "Cheese Shop" to PyPI)?
I'm only doing a few things on machine with around 32GHz worth of processing power (# of processors * GHz) that I couldn't do on my 80486 running 33MHz with a few MB of RAM. Emacs starts up a little bit faster. Pages in Chrome are more interactive than in Lynx, Mosaic, or Netscape. My word processor fits more text.

On the whole, that 1000x increase in performance mostly bought the ability to have most of the code that runs be interpreted or JITed rather than statically compiled, to play videos, to do some heavy numerics and graphics (including things like family photos and videos), and so on.

It's hard to think of anything I really /need/ in a life-or-death sense or an economic-survival sense that couldn't be done on older hardware with appropriate software. There's a ton of things I want, that help, or where migrations would be massive projects.

If computers were to entirely disappear, and I couldn't automate things, communicate digitally (emails, messaging), word process, write code, I think that'd be a major systemic-collapse-level implosion of society. A lot of people would simply die.

On the other hand, if computers were to regress to 33MHz-level performance, Youtube isn't sticking around, but we'd likely adapt as a society with some structural change, but without such a collapse.
I can help with this a bit, we suffered this really badly when COVID started which was exacerbated by our first child only being 9 months old or so at the time.

Aside from the obvious (wear headphones, keep work area away from common areas) something else we did was set a boundary limit. If I was in the bedroom, that was now the “office” and was to be treated as such. This one is more personal but I tended to get too annoyed at the interruptions at first without realizing that I needed to make more effort to help and not be (to put it bluntly) a dick about it. My girlfriend started getting in the habit of tidying up or doing crafts during her downtime instead of coming to me after we discussed the huge amount of distraction it caused.

Ultimately though the living situation is what made it hard. We were in San Diego, in a cramped two bedroom apartment that had no privacy. We moved and bought a house where I now have a large upstairs loft area as my office. That is absolutely not the answer to everything but I think some of the issue is just most people not being prepared or having the right accommodations.

My advice sucks but if you have any specifics I can try to help out and answer more. It’s hard but hang in there if you feel it’s just a rough spot.
Awesome website! Well written and crystal clear.

It's truly a feat to explain simply such a complex topic.
Eh, it sorta still is? Not really, but if you spent ten years announcing an upcoming perl6, then you rename it to Raku... There will be confusion, at least.
There's going to be good reasons for why a ridiculously long train isn't worth it when it comes to cost-benefit, but these reasons just seem contrived:

> radio reliably

The cars are physically connected, why couldn't you run repeaters down its length?

Presumably any issue you'd have with sightline radio on a >2km long train now you'd also have with a ~200 meter train halfway through a ~50 meter tunnel.

> the brake line systems typically used (air actuated)

And have N independent break systems with central control. It should be more not less safe, a complete failure of one system could be backed-up by another.

> can't see the whole train

So run CCTV on the same system you're using for the radio repeaters?
See also "Ars longa, vita brevis"
At least keep just two wheels on the ground if you’re gonna...
They are -- but now with caveats: https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/cv5mhw/oneplus_6...
That's an elaborate "I told you so"!
To get Poetry Write poetry. If philosophy is the wrong words in the right order, poetry is the right words or their blatant absence in the wrong. You probably conjure poems and not realise it, in the highest and lowest moments of your days alike. Learn how to reel them out on paper, then copy them and clip their leaves and tend to them to make them pretty in your eyes. Submit them, get rejected, go back to read other poems to make sure you are better than them and appreciate in awe the beauty of your fellow’s silent thoughts.
Claim: banging your head against the wall makes you smarter.

Experimenters: that sounds amazing! So we tried. We can report that all test subjects reported a massive headache. Unfortunately none seemed to get significantly smarter.

You: a negative result, well done! Time to celebrate!

And now I hope you will accept my apologies for exaggerating to the point of being rude, all in reply to your entirely reasonable question.

I guess my point is this. There has to be a cutoff where a claim is too obviously incorrect and testing is simply not useful any more. But the natural cutoff point depends enormously on perspective. Are you a car mechanic, a rally driver, or a complete layman? And as the latter, who do you trust?

My original comment was written to highlight the frustrating perspective of the car mechanic. But an interested layperson (or a non-expert handing out grant money) might have the more difficult time.
> move to a cabin in Wyoming with a Starlink and continue to pull an SV or NYC level TC.

so why exactly shouldn't that be possible!? It's not like the work/output decreased (for the most part). The only legitimate way for compensation to drop should be due to competition - allowing remote should also mean allowing more people to apply for a position, and thus, higher supply of potential workers. This _should_ naturally lower compensation, but not immediately.
Be careful out in Utah/Nevada.
Show HN: Remote Game Jobs – Find remote work in the game industry
Little over a year ago, as the pandemic hit strong and lockdowns started, I saw a lot of people in the game industry losing the jobs.

I'm strong believer in remote work, and have been working from home for over 10 years. So I built Remote Game Jobs to help people find remote work in the game industry. Launched late April last year, and it seems it will keep growing even after the pandemic.
I am using an unofficial build of LineageOS 14.1 on my 6 year old tablet (Mi PAD 1 'mocha'). After using it for over a month, the ROM is amazingly stable.

The earlier MiUi which the tablet shipped with (7.5.2 Android KitKat) had problems with memory management. For some reason, the 2GB RAM was partitioned into two parts, one for the OS and the other for the running apps. But LineageOS does not have this problem, and it is much quicker than when I bought it!

I use FDroid to install apps and am very satisfied with it. NewPipe is excellent and videos can easily play at 1080p 60fps when earlier, the tablet used to lag on 480p videos.

I have changed the governor to powersave and turned on doze mode. Amazingly, this 6 year old tablet can hold charge for over a week! Even when watching videos at 1080p, the device does not heat up.

More power to the LineageOS team and XDADevelopers!

EDIT: ROM version
I'm sure that's confusing, but it occurs to me that it'd be a lot less confusing if you just assumed that anyone who is late needs a ping, even if they haven't actually forgotten. Even if they're only late by 1 second. Just ping them. If they're grabbing a coffee, they're still late. Non-emergency reasons are not an excuse to hold everyone else up.
Wow, Nexus 7 2013 is still supported. For reference, it was a budget tablet with $269 MSRP, introduced eight years ago! I've been running some older LineageOS build on mine, but I think I'm going to do the repartitioning and install the latest and greatest. It is admittedly becoming a bit sluggish with modern apps.
Thanks a lot fro your answer!
Now I see that the problem I described above could not be solved quickly.. :)
Great comment! You hit the nail on the head with regards to India's geopolitical standing, which is often forgotten when discussing these incentives. In order to come up with really enticing incentives, you need to have deep understanding of what guides technology companies in their decision making AND deep understanding of the geopolitics of IC. There are relatively few people in Indian politics who have this kind of knowledge.

What do you think the Indian government would have to offer the international IC community to actually attract chip-makers?
It sounded familiar (no pun intended).

I wonder if it would be possible to multicast our own stream and get it played on the elevators. The malicious prankster in me thinks something along the lines of faked radio crosstalk where the other side is in the middle of a disaster. E.g. "This is $NAME of $MILITARY_RANK. The date is April 5, 2021. We have survived the April 4 nuclear attack at $CITY. Is anyone else out there?"
Google’s network security posture was ideal for WFH. BeyondCorp[1] had already been widely rolled out to most internal services and most internal networks in offices had been converted to MNPs: Managed Non-Privileged networks.

The pandemic has been a great stress test for finding the limitations and gaps; like figuring out the remaining use cases for VPN and MNP exceptions, and accelerating the use of data center-hosted VMs instead of desk workstations.

None of this had any bearing on the company culture however, which was and is very office-centric. It’s been clear from the beginning that WFH was temporary.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
I'm still not convinced that clubhouse is anything more than real time podcasts saturated with linkedin influencers
You assume there would be malice involved. Even today TSMC prioritises some customers (Apple) over others (car manufacturers). In a future Taiwan that is a part of China, TSMC might have a new pecking order where Huawei is at the top and now Apple is chip constrained. You'd ban all Chinese imports unless one Chinese company rewrites it's contracts? Of course not.
I moved from ASP to PHP and then soonish 20 years of C#.

When I see or code PHP nowadays, I still feel welcome and understand all of it. Kudos to the PHP team for that.
Some patience, not tackling climate change, global warming and we'll have new routes become automatically available.. don't know how much of a time-save it is, and new ports will probably have to be built, but anyway..

> The Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis projected in 2015 that the Northern Sea Route may be ice-free by 2030

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Sea_Route
> the quality of a neighborhood can be a public good. And a democratic population might choose to invest in such a public good.

This manifests as keeping poorer people out by restricting zoning to larger plots of land and detached single family homes, which also has a nice side effect of making cars a necessity. Everyone wants to live around others at or above their own socioeconomic level.
He mentions the front to back optimization, keeping track of the max height.
Good. I still haven’t received an invite after 3 months, and I’m getting a bit tired of waiting.

Don’t even know if it would be worth the wait, but based on the comments here I shouldn’t be holding my breath.
Insect Wings Inspire German Scientists to Develop Advanced Flight Systems
> I don't think in Comanche they painted back to front, or at least I hope they didn't. It's best to render front to back, tracking the highest (in screen space) pixel you have drawn, and as you move further back, only drawing lines from that height. That "max height" is a zbuffer of sorts for each ray.

Discussed here <https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace#more-performance>
When GP proposes using them to replace property taxes, they need to serve the role that property tax served.
Tested by a citation cartel known to sell their junk science as books and expensive water bottles. https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/deuterium-depleted-w...

There are differences in the chemical behaviour of deuterium, but those are only minimal.
Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Doses on Hold in U.S. After Factory Mix-Up
My friend from a logistics company has made a what-if-suez-got-blocked infographics eight years ago. Railway transport of a container was about 2x more expensive than a ship through Suez, and surprisingly not much faster.

(Sorry, czech only)
https://logio.cz/infografiky/co-se-stane-den-pote-co-zkolabo...
I still haven’t seen the full thing leaked so I don’t want to be the first one to do it.
Cooool! Exactly what I'm looking for. Actually think I've heard of this before (I follow one of the GH contributors) but realized, just now, it's the mirror I am looking for. Thanks!
IMO, the author is writing from the perspective of Meson, a command line build tool used by individuals that takes arguments and caches them in a per-project file, whereas most of the negative replies are commenting from the perspective of sysadmins deploying software into homogeneous servers or Docker containers. Would make be a better program if MAKEFLAGS was not an environment variable? (IDK.) Would Git be a better program if the project directory was passed as an argument rather than as inherited state (the cwd)? (IDK.) Would less or nano be a better program if file paths were passed in as environment variables rather than arguments? (no.)