skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm honestly always confused as to what makes Elementary (or Mac for that matter), so much more pleasing than the much maligned GNOME?

I'd like to understand because these discussions which often include "I'd use Linux but awful desktop" always leave me feeling like people are tapped in to a dimension I'm not privy to.
They show Github in their screenshots, and on Github you can delete a branch and the original commit history in the UI is still kept and available. So you don't have the branches locally, but Github still has them around.
Same thing happens with relocation expenses. Many employers make you pay them back if you leave within a year. That's normally quite a sum, and can be even bigger if the employer paid closing costs or otherwise made a new hire whole for selling a home in order to move.
you said

> hiring good people would be a roll of the dice and I'd even say that our whole economy wouldn't be able to function.

> That's just a well accepted fact

Says who?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

https://medium.com/@20manikandanad/why-competition-is-not-as...

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-competition-often-seen-as-impor...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#Criticism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_fundamentalism
No you can't? To my understanding although you can't guarantee thst the two clients aren't sharing a hard drive (or datacenter) you can guarentee there are two copies.
Don't wait for the government to fix surveillance capitalism
Mostly vegetarian, mostly-non-meat, rarely fish-eater perspective:

- Habit is part of it (cow's milk in hot drinks, for example)

- Availability is a factor (almost all products now have vegan substitutes, which is great, but they may not be so widely-distributed)

- Taste and presentation - while vegan meals can be as enjoyable as meat-based dishes, fewer chefs and restaurants seem to specialize in them currently (somewhat related to availability)

- Hesitation regarding change - change is always difficult, for people, communities, events and industries. It'd be best to minimize avoidable suffering to both humans and animals.

So far, protein/nutrition hasn't been a factor for me personally. If anything, I feel broadly healthier since reducing meat intake, although that effect could also be due to other lifestyle changes.
Yes. 10 cents is not two dollars, which some Amazon sellers are charging.
In theory, flatpaks will have perfect forwards compatibility, unless some breaking changed occur without them supporting the old format in a legacy way, which seems unlikely.
Your anecdotal evidence supports your view, mine contradicts yours. So no, I don't think it can be unequivocally stated that "working too much is there in all accounts".

To your point regarding "burning", flames burn at different intensities and temperatures based on a variety of factors (e.g., material being burnt). The fact that a flame is burning, or has stopped doing so, is not indicative of a specific intensity.
I wish I'd known, back in the 90s, that I didn't actually need DNS hosting arranged in order to register domain names. The form asked for DNS server names and I assumed that my registrations would have been rejected because somebody would be checking to see if the DNS servers were actually authoritative for the domain.
Too late to edit now, but I forgot to say that even before glycogenesis, there are stores of glycogen in your muscles that can be used.
> ...reliable...

Wasn't a Toyota, but I got burned with Honda's similar car, the Insight hybrid. The engine leaked oil, taken in to the shop multiple times until it died just under 90k miles. Many people had similar stories online.

It was new tech at the time, so hiccups happen. But I'm sticking with gas cars until there's a longer track record of reliability in hybrids or electric.
From the reporting I've seen, the issue here is not that these are the kinds of people with strong opinions that are fun to bounce ideas off of, these are the kind of people with strong opinions who if you disagree with will escalate the situation to intolerable levels such as refusing to accept a perfectly sincere apology and then equating it with genocide. This isn't the fun debate crowd, it's "the conflict is abuse" crowd.

I love a good debate with someone who disagrees with me in good faith, but that other sort of person is just exhausting and counterproductive to debate anything with.
I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure that if your brain ran completely out of glucose and dopamine, you would die immediately.
The UK peaked at ~1200/day, with a population 1/20th the size. That's "only" 24K scaled up, looking at India now it's hard to picture things as being only a bit worse than the UK peak.
I’d expect minimum wage increases to be mostly off the table during recessions, so it’s not surprising to see them passed during economic expansions, which are tightly linked to rising employment figures, so this might be a "wet streets cause rain" correlation.
As a user of both, my general advice is that working in the Apple ecosystem is an absolute joy if you learn to do everything Apple's way instead of trying to customize things to work your way. The more you stray from defaults, the more things break. It's basically the opposite of Linux.

That having been said, I personally prefer the Apple way, because so much of the ecosystem just works in a way that you will never experience with Linux, no matter how much work you put in (but you do lose out on the joy of tinkering with things). It's a matter of preference.
They likely now own the copyrights held by the primary developers and all the trademark rights to the Audacity name and logo.
I think that cloud providers get dedicated SKUs. I can imagine if you give each VM dedicated cores and you can partition L3 cache per user, you could mitigate most of those issues.
I've worked with Windows, Linux and MacOS. Software-wise, Linux was the most pleasant experience. What I think most people enjoy about MacBooks are the incredible hardware (touchpad, display, etc) and more support for commercial applications.

Windows has improved a lot with WSL, but it still feels like your computer is not yours - there are ads and some privacy settings keep getting reverted on updates.
The problem is when it’s not so clear-cut.

If I worked with a colleague from Iraq can they report me to HR for having been in the military and bombing their country?

I’m sure we can think of lots of cases where it is or isn’t easy to say yes to “report to HR”. It’s a tough topic and the answer to it changes over time and based on geographic social norms.
I think you and the parent and the grandparent are in agreement.
So you're arguing that it costs two bucks to ship it?

Yeah, no.

As the other poster noted, the article explicitly says that the retail price, including shipping, is about 10 cents.
I got stung by this a while back and got Adobe to waive the cancellation fee and close my account over live chat.

You can bring up the chat widget from the chat bubble icon on https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/what-contact-options.html. You may need to whitelist the page in your adblocker for the widget to load.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26786563
Not really sure where I sit on the whole thing, still, but I've seen this parroted as a "gotcha!" and I don't think it really is. The founders' activism is _public_. The ban is only on activism _at work_. The fact that so many people don't _get this_ is sort of proving their point.
I do not hate when an application I use revamp its UI (e.g. Pixelmator -> Pixelmator Pro). However, developing good UX is as hard as developing robust code and high performance algorithms.

Unless the devs get UX improvement backwards (cough GNOME cough), there's nothing to worry IMHO. OTOH, for a CLI application, backwards compatibility and/or graceful depreciation is key.
Plenty of small businesses, especially restaurants, appear to me to be sustenance operations. Many owners appear happy just to not go broke and pass the job to their kids.

That’s an OK life.
They probably hired the main developers and have the copyrights for their work transferred to them. In practice, it has no meaningful impact since relicensing is (nearly) impossible due to the distributed copyright among all contributors of Audacity (which is a good thing!).
From the site:

> Fundamentally, my work here is about creating a stable foundation of technology that is reliable, understandable, and practical for an individual to build for themselves. As of writing this, I believe I have done this on a conceptual level, but I intend to continue this work to the highest level of technology that I can achieve on my own. I encourage readers to utilize anything here which they find practical for whatever purpose they see fit, and to consider adopting a mindset of simplification in projects of their own.
> First they sell products that don't stand up as well to wear

They stand up to the wear of a certain duty cycle. If you have a heavier duty cycle buy a product designed for it (which will probably cost more).

There's a reason why Toyota's Corolla sedan (or even their Supra) costs less than their race car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_TS050_Hybrid
That seems odd, given that Kevin Wayne is co-author of the 4th edition of "Algorithms".
The public domain doesn’t threaten to sue them.
Nobody that saying everyone who questions or criticises is a hater. Just that there is an important difference between people who raise legitimate questions or objections and express them reasonably, vs saying they "root for [your] company to crash and burn on principle" and "hope [your company and others like it] fails and fails hard" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26961051.

The thread had its share of both.

The top comment was reasonable and Suhail replied to it with an interesting perspective.

PG's point is that the more successful you are, the more "haters" you'll attract, in addition to fanboys, reasonable supporters and reasonable critics, and that a key to surviving the rollercoaster of commercial success is being able to identify the haters from the rest and avoiding letting them hold you back from doing good work.

EDIT: People are objecting to the sentence in the original version of my comment that the linked comment "wish[ed] for personal harm". Fair enough that that can be seen as an inflammatory interpretation.

For what it's worth I consider people angrily wishing for your company to go bust, which can often lead to personal impoverishment and career/reputational damage to the founder to be equivalent to a wish for harm to them, but I don't need others to agree with that.
Cyber University – a model for a global online university
Maybe consider defaulting the page to English to not scare people away =)
Are you talking about this plant? [0] If yes, how can it not be addictive having 9 times more nicotine than tobacco?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana_rustica
This is why the law is there. In many countries the advertised speed has to be within a certain range of the average, or hit that speed a certain percent of the time. So 800-900Mbps average, or hitting 1Gbps 60% of the time could very well fit a "1Gbps connection" tier from a legal perspective.

This is why ISPs advertise "up to" a certain speed and then go on to detail the exact conditions in the terms.

It's ironic OP doesn't complain about SSDs never reaching the theoretical and advertised interface speed. Which is no different from internet speeds not reaching the network interface speed as many others here call an example of being cheated. SSD endurance is far better described than it's performance for the average consumer: warranty expires after "this much" data written in "this much" time.
> But there is little of substance in this article. It’s not an exaggeration that the whole article could be summarized by one line: “Haters, like fanboys, are likely to be obsessive and should be ignored”.

The article does have more substance, for example exploring where the hate comes from. Of course, it does not seem relevant to you, because all you see from haters is a bit of flaming on forums. For famous people, this is a big pain point and worth the many words.

> And given it’s been reviewed by the following, it seems like they all are so detached from reality that they cannot objectively provide meaningful feedback to the article.

These are exactly the people having the problem! It's like calling someone to black to talk about discrimination against black people. This is very much a problem only these people get to feel the full extent of.
Remember all those times slave masters offered 6 month severage packages for them to leave?
Religious zealotry is not realistic nor is it useful.
I’m dubious about the diagnosis. If sustained overthinking could regularly cause seizures, I think it’d be ubiquitous in competitive chess players.

Based on the authors description it sounds much more due to lack of sleep and stress.
You're essentially arguing that WASM is a better selinux than selinux is.

It isn't.

WASM right now is missing all those things because WASM right now is a toy for moderately accelerating JavaScript. If WASM's usage expands beyond that, those feature limitations will rapidly vanish.
I think the loss of culture is the intended effect, and the loss of product knowledge is the cost.

I'm not going to argue about which culture is better, but the split between people who wanted to get their jobs done and make a good product, and the people who wanted to use their job as an avenue for social change/partisan warfare (depending on which side of the split you're on) sounded toxic.

I suspect there will be a lot of highly-qualified people who will want to go to work at Basecamp who wouldn't have wanted to work there before. We're in the middle of a culture war:

* A lot of people like wokeness.

* A lot of people hate it.

Most SV companies have gone for the woke side of the current culture war, and so my perception is that there are a lot of people who hate it and don't have good places to go. From a purely supply-and-demand perspective, running a non-woke firm seems the way to find good employees. Conversely, being a woke employee seems the way to find good jobs.

To be clear, I'm not advocating employees be overly woke -- this is all more about social signaling than actual advocacy.
Ask HN: Why Download a Downloader to Download an app?
Why do some companies distribute thair downloadable software through a downloadable custom downloader instead of offering the full installer directly to download? It has puzzled me several times throughout the last 20 years. I can not come up with a good reason. Especially when the custom downloader doesn't suppoert resuming interrupted downloads, display remaining time, current download speed or how much data is being downloaded. Notable example is the Spofify (Mac) downloader. I would really like to know what are good reasons from a UX, business or technical perspective to do that.
That's great to hear. A hardware button is all I've ever asked of these digital assistants. I'm the only person happy with the Bixby button.
The notice is here:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/04/2021-04-2...

Kevin Wayne (repo owner presumably) is listed as co-author on the book that is published by Pearson, who have issued the notice.

https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Sedgewic...
Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder
turing architecture - code and data are handled the same way.

harvard architecture - code and data are separate things
Kevin Wayne is one of the authors of Algorithms 4th ed. by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne and he has a github repository called "algs4". Pearson sent github a DMCA notice for this repository and another. I'm not sure exactly what content he hosted in "algs4".
The DMCA notice linked on the page [1] gives a few more details.

We have received information that the domain listed above, which appears to be on servers under your control, is offering unlicensed copies of, or is engaged in other unauthorized activities relating to, copyrighted works published by Pearson Education, Inc.

Copyright work(s):

Deep Learning with R 9781617295546
Algorithms 9780321573513

Copyright owner(s) or exclusive licensee:

Pearson Education, Inc.

Copyright infringing material or activity found at the following location(s):

https://github.com/jjallaire/deep-learning-with-r-notebooks
https://github.com/kevin-wayne/algs4

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2021/04/2021-04-2...
10% is when the restaurant is extremely successful. Average margins are lower than that.

Arguably there are way too many restaurants, in part due to low interest rates. If there were fewer restaurants, the volume would go up and the average restaurant would do a larger gross and be able to handle low or lower margins.

Consider that if someone lived through the last time the US had significant price inflation as an adult, they are 70+ years old. Costs are going up for anything with tight supply, including for labor. Very few working age adults, or business owners, have any experience with that. The transition will be alarming and painful but there is no back peddling now. Businesses with slim margins and an inability to rapidly raise prices just will fail.
This is true, until you want to do something that it doesn't already do, then you flip over onto the painful side of things.

(Whereas, of course - Linux has a certain amount of pain by default).
Having some hospitals be full is not a system-wide breakdown. Even before COVID emergency rooms would be "on diversion" when particularly busy, and ambulances would go elsewhere.
Thank you for your insightful comments and sorry for the hate you receiving by not towing the NATO line!
This is 1 cent per liter. Your link is 50 cents per liter.
Are you and I the target audience though? I suspect that for people who have significant numbers of fanboys and haters, and for whom this is a constant issue, a carefully thought out and well reasoned article on the subject might be more useful.
Yours sincerely,
[private]
Internet Investigator
On behalf of:
Pearson Education, Inc.

------------------------------------

Seems like another glorious victory of the overzealous online copyright strikers. Nothing out of the ordinary, will likely get sorted out in a day or two.
Right - to get the best out of Apple you need to go in planning to do things the Apple way. If you go in planning to recreate your tiling window manager driven from the keyboard... you're just not going to get the intended benefits. Swim with the current not against it.
> but burning out can really destroy your life.

However, does burnout occur when one is doing stuff they like?

I was under the impression that it occurs only when there is some negative aspect to the work one is doing (like setbacks, uncooperative colleagues, impossible deadlines).
I wouldn’t go to the hospital either. It’s funny because the more one tries to work and escape debt and financial ruin, the higher the chances are of needing to take an unexpected hospital and getting an unreasonably high medical bill.

Some people aren’t in a place to pay insane medical debt, especially in the case where a multitude of tests need to get run and a problem isn’t found.

There are a lot of weird things that can happen with the body that some have observed goes away with time, and this “wait it out” approach is sadly encouraged by the American healthcare system because the insanely high bills from previous emergency situations (coupled with the subpar treatment) are typically not worth the price.
> And now many former fanboys are haters and there’s no goodwill and all there is, is haters.

That sounds like maybe they weren't fans, but rather were happy (and wanted to amplify) that their worldviews/political ideologies aligned, and now that that's not the case on some issue, they switch to hate (and want to see it burn).

I don't think those were fans.
Yes. That's the point.

First, inefficient employers like McDonald's have an entrenched position in the industry because of their massive scale and their real estate holdings. A new entrant in the market already has an uphill battle - if they don't want to rely on government subsidies (e.g., because they want to attract employees who would rather be paid directly for their work), their task is even harder.

A free market in the sense Adam Smith meant it - not a free-for-all, but free to enter - would treat it as a policy goal that new companies would have a fair shot at competing.

I'd understand the argument that government welfare and a low minimum wage are important to support new entrants, by making it possible for them to compete against the entrenched companies. But that's not what's happening; it's the entrenched companies that are effective beneficiaries of these policies (cf. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...).

Second, passing the costs along to the consumer along with raising wages has the effect of increasing the purchasing power of low-income consumers. If the minimum wage goes from X to 2X, which causes the cost of items at McDonald's or Wal-Mart to go from Y to 2Y (which it won't, because labor costs aren't the entire costs, but for the sake of argument assume they are), then people being paid the minimum wage are in basically the same position for their everyday purchases: they get twice as much money, but they spend twice as much money. But they've also got larger expenditures - renting or buying a home, buying a car, paying medical bills, etc. The cost of emergency surgery isn't going to double just because the minimum wage goes up (even though much more of the cost is labor) - surgeons are paid way above the minimum wage already.

What this means is that people being paid a high minimum wage are equally able to live their ordinary lives, because they can afford the increased cost of goods made by other minimum-wage employees, but they are more able to make expenditures that improve their lives (e.g., more able to deal with medical issues before an emergency) - and more able to make purchases that stimulate the economy. Instead of buying N hamburgers a year and a car that costs Z which they use for five years, they can now buy the same N hamburgers a year and a car that costs 1.2Z.

As long as government policy continues to enable both wages and prices remaining low, the economy is stuck.

(It does mean that the relative purchasing power of rich consumers goes down - they can buy the same number of vacation homes, but they can't buy as many McDonald's hamburgers - but that hardly seems like a concern. You can only eat so many hamburgers, and they're probably not buying very many hamburgers from McDonald's anyway.)
Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard Tutorial in JavaScript
YouTube video https://youtu.be/pJw39quoajE
This just reaffirms my belief that automation is net a good think for society and humanity although I do fear that the benefits will not be equally distributed without changes to taxation and introduction of UBI.

Both of these will happen, just matter of time.
The main difference in focus is that sports is a "game". In a game the rules do not change.

If rules can not change your subconscious start doing it if you repeat it again and again, leaving the conscious free to just focus on improving a little bit.

That is a natural thing and we love it. If you go hunting or fishing every day you develop habits and getting out and getting food becomes easier and easier over time, because those activities do not change. That is the essence of "flow".

The essence of positive phycology is knowing what is happening so you can do something about it. You don't need to see yourself as a passive victim(give me X) but you can be the main actor in your life.

One of the best skills I have ever acquired is the ability to say No from unreasonable request on me or my team. The most shocking thing was that people understand it way better than I expected.

If they give you BS as work and you know you are going to do a bad job, you should tell those who give it, instead of them getting bad quality work later.