skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason people like Vim isn't because they hate GUI's. I use a Mac because I like the GUI, but I still do most of my development in Vim because I'm more productive in it. Most of these hardcore Vim (or Emacs) users stay that way because they've built up years of muscle memory and customizations that makes it the most productive editor for them. I also use VS Code and for some stuff I work faster in VS Code. But there's a good argument that a keyboard driven UX is faster than a mouse driven one since you can input things so much faster than with a mouse.

I personally hate SystemD also, but that's more because it makes it such a pain to stuff like look at logs. I never remember the correct journalctl command. Just let me cat/tail a file like everything else. I don't know anyone who hates SystemD because it allows GUI configuration. It's just that SystemD made some other changes also that people don't like.
It's quite amusing how the US focuses so strongly on the separation of powers, but US financial institutions rely so strongly on FICO scores as data points to determine whether to issue credit.
your credit score benefits from having a history of managing more than one line of credit. it's debatable how much opening a bunch of credit cards helps with this (in the short term, it actually hurts). ideally you would have a mix of credit cards, a mortgage, and some other type of debt, all of which paid off on time.

it's only a moderate impact factor though. having an extremely long history of on-time payments and low overall utilization can still get you an excellent credit score. it just takes longer.
Basic accessibility is nearly 'free' if someone uses modern web standards, and runs a tool to check during development. Things like alt tags, proper html tag usage, keyboard navigation (logical and without traps), and good contrast are good programming/design and good for every user.
I have repeatedly seen companies treat their contractors with lot of disrespect, such as repeatedly sending their salaries too late, or extending the contracts for the next year at the very last moment (in one case the papers to sign were delivered literally on December 31st in the afternoon). Some of those contractors were the best developers in the company. The company employees who did the paperwork simply didn't care.

In the most absurd case, the best developer got a contract offer from another company with deadline to sign at the end of November. He wanted to stay at the current company, and the managers were telling him they wanted him... but he was unable to get the contract extension on paper. So at the end of November, he was like "okay, screw it, I wanted to stay here, but I am taking the other contract, to avoid the possibility that I would miss that other offer and this company would not extend my current contract here". So he signed that other contract (starting from January), and when towards the end of December this company finally offered him a contract extension, he was like "sorry guys, but I already signed a contract with someone else". He left, and the managers were all surprised "but we told him we wanted him, why couldn't he wait?" During the following year, a chain reaction started, when his closest coworkers left too, then more people left, most of them reasoning like "I was already considering a change of job, but I stayed here mostly because of good friends at workplace, now that the friends are no longer here, I might leave too". The company lost most of their developers... because there were not willing/able to extend their best developer's contract two months before expiration instead of the usual one month.

Another example, this was an internal employee, there was a super talented guy, freshly out of university, but incredibly experienced in some technologies. Also super helpful, whenever someone in the company had a technical problem, they usually asked him for help, and he always helped. The whole company changed their technological stack based on his recommendations. Then, one day, another company approached him and offered double of his current salary. He wanted to stay, so he went to management, described the situation, and asked them for 50% increase (which would still be only 3/4 of what the other company offered him). The managers refused; as I later learned, their conclusion was that "a person this young does not deserve such high salary". So the guy left.

Maybe this is "specific personalities", but those personalities seem quite frequent.
Yeah. While I imagine quitting smoking isn't itself easy, the concept of "don't smoke anymore" is very different and easier to grasp than "be less fat". Not smoking is a direct action you can take; losing weight is a complex process that can involve many lifestyle and diet changes, and the exact route to losing weight can be very different for different people.
The article's conclusions aside, I wonder how many people enjoy the taste of alcohol itself? While my personal beliefs prohibit me from imbibing in a way that would cause inebriation/dependence (and getting buzzed fits in the former), I have tried most kinds of alcohol and have never really "gotten" it. A coworker bought me my first drink on my 21st (a bottle of Jack Daniel's) and a friend made me a Jack and Coke with it. Halfway through the glass I just wanted a plain coke.

Since then, I've tried a wide variety of beer, wine, rum, bourbon, etc and have only once come away from the experience with a "I didn't hate that/I'd buy that again.". The vast majority of the time I've failed to finish what I'm served (or do so out of politeness) and reflect that I'm simply "missing the point" because I'm not interested in inebriation/"buzzed". I'm sure there are those that enjoy the flavor (perhaps in the same way that I "enjoy" very spicy hot sauce), but wanted to ask.
In my experience, most managers don't bother reading books. If they've read ANY books on management, that's above average. More than 1 in the past year, they're already highly unusual. Usually they get their position through knowing people or being slavishly obedient even in ways that are destructive to long term value.
The nitro helis are no slouches either, they're all capable of insane 3D maneuvers in the right hands.

The exhaust plume of a nitro doing the same things is kind of more interesting IMHO, it's like a telltale in a wind tunnel test. I'm surprised they don't put a smoke bomb on the electrics during these demos.
Holy non sequitur, Batman! Are you really claiming that Proud Boys are fascist because felle_realist's account was recently created?

Or do I misread your post?

Even if I misread that point, you didn't answer the question. The question was, do you have evidence beyond SPLC and Wikipedia. And you responded with... something that certainly wasn't evidence.

Note well: I don't have a dog in this fight. Proud Boys may well be fascist, far right, alt-right, or whatever. All I'm saying is, the request was for evidence, and you assumed the conclusion, but didn't supply evidence.
I'm not sure where you're referring to, but virtually all modern economies have an equivalent of credit bureaus for the simple reason that a modern economy cannot function without it. The main difference is that they largely just expose the person's history and let the lender decide, as opposed to trying to distill the whole history into one score to rule them all.

Edit: the Dutch bkr, for instance, has recently been sued for charging users to access their database of payment histories. This is important because that record is provided to companies wishing to make credit decisions about an individual. It's also noteworthy that the Dutch in general don't really go in for credit cards the way Americans do, so they interact with that part of the financial system less. That in turn makes for much less interesting "credit reports".
What's a tax warrant?
Yes, but I wasn't advocating for the abolishment of anything; I was merely pointing out that there's a double standard. To rephrase your words, don't the people get the 'monopolies they deserve'? After all, neither the CEOs nor the employees of these entities are aliens from space.

You can't just leave a government the same way you can leave a job (and become unemployed) or a product (become a non-customer); you can only switch to another one. Why don't you try parking a vessel in the international waters and see how long it takes before it's sunk.
Edison's bulbs pretty much created the lighting industry. Arc lighting was nowhere near as useful.

Why would Edison have even bothered if arc lights were plenty good enough?
> While we're at it, can we stop replacing physical knobs and buttons by dumb touch sensitive buttons ? I feel like a cave man when I have to repeatedly press "+" on my induction hob and hear the stupid beep it makes x times

That's a UI design choice not inherent to the functionality. My induction stove has a touch strip where I can choose the heat intensity directly without having to go through intermediate states. It's actual more convenient than the analog dial on my gas range, in a sense, because the gas range dial only has low/medium/high zones, and I have to remember 2/3 medium for eggs and 1/4 high for steak, as opposed to 3 for eggs and 8 for steak on the induction stove.
yesterday i ran into the fact that gimp has zero support for non-destructive editing (e.g. adjustment layers) AFAIK, which makes it a non-starter for many many cases.

https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#when-will-gimp-suppor...
Some at compile time, some at runtime (RefCell).
A Marketplace for Developer Content
This reads like some V for Vendetta fan fiction.

Thoughts (intent) can absolutely be used as evidence of someone's criminality.
Seems weird. I think they could just always assign local address and route all traffic from CGNAT address to it? It would mask real address from connected device, but as it is CGNAT it isn't very useful anyway.
Anatomy of a PostgreSQL Query Plan
On an agrarian society, yes, horses need much less maintenance.

> A horse needs to be fed every day

And it can take care of that need all by itself.

> and its shoes need looking at every 4 to 6 weeks

Horseshoes are only necessary for horses that run on hard terrains. And caring for their hooves is only necessary if they will run (not walk) a lot.
I think his concern is not about employees (who are required to be ethical) but random members of the public who could use the information they learn in malicious ways.
I keep a Kindle and a physical book or two on my nightstand. I sometimes read before bed, and sometimes read once I've woken in the middle of the night. The Kindle also goes with me on any kind of trip.

I also take time to read every morning. I wonder at people who find time to exercise, but I guess I shouldn't as the reading tends to take the place of exercise. Time is there, it's what we decide to do with it where the battle lies.
>. I know that money has to come from somewhere and seeing exec compensation go up at the same time was a hard pill to swallow.

The last year we have executive salaries from is 2018, while those cuts were in 2020. I suspect executive compensation also fell sharply, I know the number of executives is lower.
Switch to Debian unstable? No, it's not quite Ubuntu, but it's a rolling, deb-based release.
Um, I said Edison's innovation was a high voltage, low current design. Not the other way around.
Agree. A one off tool that detects pirated links seems odd to pay for.

Either a monolithic tool for handling moderation automation in general seems good, or better yet a marketplace where I can buy automation plugins for Discord in general, both for moderation as well as other administrative or entertainment tasks.
The article isn't pushing prohibition. It's arguing for disincentives (higher taxes, minimum unit pricing, restrictions on when and where alcohol can be purchased), which has shown to reduce drinking vs. a lack of those restrictions.

Another option it pushes for is for people to abstain voluntarily, if they are of the type of person who doesn't get much out of alcohol, but mainly drinks it out of social obligation.

Your overreaction is unnecessary here.
A web browser displayed dynamic content all the time and is considered safe.
He seems to be deliberately missing the point. Obviously drinking, especially heavily, is bad for health and plenty of other things. The question is why people still get so much benefit out of it that they keep doing it, despite the downsides. I‘d posit that social lubrication is something people want, and sadly in the UK, self-medication is something a lot of people turn to.
I have responded to a few recruiters over time. But every job since the one I was recruited on-campus for in grad school came from reaching out to someone I knew at the company. (Not a developer but in tech.)

ADDED: I've been in a sufficiently specialized subset of the industry for a long time that random recruiter emails aren't likely to be interesting. And I know a lot of people at different companies. So I have pretty much a bare bones profile on LinkedIn as I'm not really looking for inbound pings.
I've been moving a large codebase to use unit and integration tests lately, and it's definitely saved me a lot of time compared to what I would spend on manual testing.

And also, as a programmer I enjoy the process of writing and debugging tests much more than manual testing, so even if it wasn't a time saver, it would still make my job more enjoyable.
It's one of my favorite places to go, especially on a mobile device. So quick! Though note that they don't have TLS enabled.

Another great one is https://text.npr.org/ which has less content but does get served over TLS.
Even if the ADA does have carve outs, if a small business wants to do business with any government/public entity they most likely will have to meet some level of accessibility. A VPAT[1] is commonly asked for in these cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Product_Accessibilit...
Usually I find that if I have a problem to solve and I see a book that might help me solve it, I become very motivated to read it.

When that happens repeatedly, pretty soon it starts to seem like a good idea (and creates motivation) to read related books in advance.
tmux is literally the first program I install on a new setup, even before wget.
To be fair, your credit score is completely irrelevant for everyday financial transactions.
Wow that's nice. Virgin. I never seen any cable in the houses I lived in London. Maybe it's not common in Zone 1?
I wanted to keep my post short but it was a couple rounds of interviews.

- Initial phone screen explaining my career

- Technical conversation with team lead where we talked about the tools that would be used in the job

- Soft skill screen where we talked about how to handle workplace scenarios

- Final interview with cofounder with some technical content, some cultural
> for example, assembling the "chase trifecta" is a goal for many credit card optimizers.[0]

There's been some talk over the years that The Points Guy (who's often considered a shill in credit card churning communities) pushes Chase cards so hard because they offer him the best kickbacks.
Yeah also waiting on that. They did mention 40mhz support, maybe that will help? In wifi congested spaces at the moment the AP mode is unusable..
Also, some databases allow you to index the result of a function. Oracle calls them "function-based indexes". PostgreSQL seems to call them "indexes on expressions".

And MySQL seems to support "generated columns" which can be "virtual" and can have indexes. (Although in that case the expression lives in the column definition, so it's not actually in a where clause.)

Also, I guess some databases probably let you have an index on a view, which could be another way.

So if you really need a function in your where clause, there may very well be a way to do it efficiently. Of course, the usual caveat applies that it requires more I/O to maintain more indexes.
NASA delays Mars helicopter flight to at least April 14th
As a disabled person I find your definition of ardent defender interesting. I think blind people have every right to expect they can do what signed people can do on the web when it comes to accessing health services such as the one described. It would not take too much work either to make it accessible from the sounds of it either.
Those scores replaced a far worse system.
Appliance Activity Recognition Using RFI Emissions (2016)
Some alcohols are the best drinks I've ever tasted such as Caipirinha with strawberry and a lot of sugar. If only I could achieve this taste without alcohol.
(note that I rarely drink so my taste is not amplified by an addiction).
Unfortunately such alcohols 1) have a lot of sugar and 2) are not mainstream in my culture but this is e.g in Brazil.
I recall an article about an employer getting away with paying an employee in oil covered pennies.
How do you handle cases where strict synchronization is required?

Banking app is a classic example.
> it can use the index on the column to scan for '%abc'

Using an index would just mean more overhead to fetch data later, so optimizers will prioritize a table scan in these cases since it would have less cost.
We're currently living a pandemic and a lot of stores aren't accepting cash because they're wanting to avoid transfer of germs. I'm even observing hand sanitizer being rightfully used after needing to examine ID.
Yes. Why not?

Or cattle food. Which will move to lab grown meat and other product nutrients.

You basically turn the ocean into solar panels while collecting nutrients rather than using more valuable biodiverse land.

Start with a somewhat novelty product like this and keep moving.
I was thinking the other day the world would be a better place if alcohol wasn't so prevalent and alternatives were available. Everything defaults to including some kind of alcohol, it just makes people insufferable and sleezy to be around when you're not part of the drinkers (even sometimes when you are part of them). Doesn't everyone cringe when you have a nice spot outdoors and a group shows up with a 6 pack each or a case of bud lights?

Even in the last year you can look at the pandemic response, so much of the unhappiness was around the fact bars were closed. The world is ending because you can't drink? People were outraged, Its bizarre. Theres also a travel gatekeeping thing around visiting bars that is odd too. The idea where you need to go to some dive bar in a foreign place to really get the culture. The article is kind of right, cheap alcohol culture kind of just preys on people who can't help themselves. There isn't anything of substance going on when cheap alcohol is involved.

I don't really drink much anymore, maybe one or two drinks,a good wine or interesting cocktail. Alcohol kind of physically hurts now. All about the dabs, psychedelics and mdma. Imagine a world where those can be a regular alternative to excessive drinking at a bar. There might still be drug abusers but atleast we would all be a little more relaxed.
This is an excellent list. FWIW these questions overlap a lot with questions VCs will ask if you decide to go the venture-backed route. (Source: I'm a VC.)

A product can still find success even if there isn't a great answer to "is there a moat?" or "is the person who benefits also the one who pays?" -- but the road is a lot harder.
Not sure 1A is absolute here; there are many restrictions on advertising in the US around tobacco, at least.
In the US, it's easier to end a contract than fire someone (unemployment, COBRA, taxes).
I'd just get a new card or two with different banks and wait for the score to go back up. It doesn't take that long and isn't even a big deal unless you're applying for mortgage or something similar. Or am I mistaken?
Alcohol is a poison. You don't drink it for the taste. Certainly, not the first time you drink it.
I’ve read about all sorts of alarms (I don’t think smoke, but fire and other emergency alarms) running on things like ISDN before the term IoT ever existed
So the ice cream store will only accept actual credit cards, and not Amex or Visa gift cards you buy at the grocery store (I’m assuming you live in the US). That’s a very bizarre and odd scenario.
Leave US and owe US taxes on foreign income unless the citizenship is renounced. There are costs to renounce US citizenship as well. Therefore, it is not that simple.
I am totally sympathetic to this rant from a developer that had to reverse engineer the format.

But to play the devil's advocate... Over the past 31 years, PSD has been used by millions of professionals and amateurs alike to power everything from photo touch-up to web design and earning Adobe billions in the process.

I would LOVE to be responsible for a "terrible" piece of technology that has achieved so much.
Great. I’d love a little game, but the reality is that if anybody uses this it will just be for ads
In an arbitrary structure

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Rather than understand how everything works and literally 'factor' out a new aspect, any structure can, without understanding, be incrementally be amended by changing all the relevant leaves with additional, duplicated substructures. Of course it looks clear and obvious here, but usually the structure is distributed across many classes, methods, and strategy patterns, etc. The 'factoring' work that needs to be continually done is at a higher conceptual level rather than the mindless 'deduplicating' refactorings that tend to get done.
Affinity Photo seems to be more capable than Pixelmator (Pro). Pixelmator is nice, but it is still on the simpler side. Still amazing and great value for money (though Serif has a sale during the pandemic, so you can get Affinity apps for less than Pixelmator right now).

However, the big issue is file format compatibility. Adobe apps are the standard and if you are cooperating with others on some project, you are expected to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible. Thus, you need Adobe apps. And this is not problem just in the graphic design industry, others have it too, like AutoCAD compatibility for CAD or Trados compatibilty for CAT across agencies.
As far as I know, there are literally no deaths attributable to LSD overdose. It is safe (if only in the sense of acute poisoning) to take even at much higher than the typical dose. On the other hand, thousands of people die of alcohol poisoning in the United States every year.
I think the funniest part about this, is that the pico used for the cable probably can do miss hashes per second
Why do we need credit cards, or a credit score? Seems to me we'll all be in better shape if we called them 'debt cards' so we'd be less inclined to load on debt.

Can't we architect an asset-based economy, rather than debt-based? It would be more resiliant, and the trifecta of credit reporting agencies wouldn't hold any particular power over our economy.
> web development is an industry with skilled workers

It's an industry with some skilled workers but a lot that aren't. It's amazing to me, who watched the web develop as a non-professional, how many workers don't know basic things about HTML, CSS specificity, etc. That ignorance leads to the web being worse in many ways, not just less accessible.

I used to think that if you call yourself a "web professional" that part of that was understanding how to make things accessible, basically "it's your job, do your job;" if the so-called professionals did that then the problems of inaccessible sites would go away.

I do still think there are some fundamentals that every web professional should know and handling those takes care the large majority of barriers. I underestimated how vast the web profession is and the scope of possible accessibility problems and now think that even if web professionals become better educated, there will always be a need for specialists in accessibility (which is self-serving since I have become one).