skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has just been my experience.

The only real difficulties I've had is someone else buying them a scanner/printer combo and manually having to get drivers from the manufacturer's site and install them creating a problem when the driver packages depend on libraries not available in the repos any longer. But for me, it takesa bout 20 min of googling around to find the solution.

And other than that problem, I rarely if ever, have to support them for anything.

Half the time when i do, it's because they got banned from a website and didn't understand it, or they were having internet problems and it was unrelated to the OS.

My mother doesn't "like" Linux, but she can't articulate why. She's been wanting to "upgrade" my dad's computer for years as this sneaky way of getting away from Linux. But the reality is, as old as my Dad is - the XFCE desktop environment is more familiar to him, coming from Windows XP/7, than Windows 8.1-10 is.

It's also pretty helpful, frankly, that when something - other than updates - requires root access, he just backs away and doesn't mess with things. Same for my sibling.

This, in itself, has prevented a lot of problems IMHO. People just click "yes" and escalate their privs in Windows without giving a second through about it.
Weird, when I checked there were none - all listed and ‘unavailable’
Calling C Code from Go
As someone who's been looking to change jobs recently, this definitely tracks. I feel like for me at least, I used to really enjoy the environment of my job much more than the job itself. However, since we're all locked down, the job itself is basically the only thing I have now so I'm looking for something a bit more interesting. I wonder if that's the case for a lot of other "exiters".
I once collected all of my posts about Ada which do contain lots of links that can get you started. I will not re-post them here, instead you may go to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808305. Check out the links under [2].

Especially these ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21435869 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21437498
I have a different view of this than most in this topic. I am disappointed, though not surprised, that Panic is abandoning yet another of their iOS apps. They’ve done it several times before and while I am grateful they’ve continued to provide some bug fixes, feature work stopped years ago.

In my view, the biggest hurdle does not seem to have been technical, but ideological/business. These old school Mac developers like Panic and Omni have had a very difficult time adapting to (or failing to) the iOS/mobile era.
I know we all hate subscriptions, but continued app development and management requires continued labor so subscriptions seem like the only business option that makes any sense to me. Panic and Omni want paid upgrades but Apple has never, ever even hinted at providing that as an option. The option is subscriptions. Even on desktop Sketch, Adobe, and Microsoft are going with subscriptions. (We’ll see how Affinity does. They charge a lot more for their apps and seem to be in a growth phase so I imagine their sales at the moment are fast enough to make up for the fact that each sale is only a one time source of revenue).

Honestly, Panic and Omni and other old school Mac developers really, really need to adapt to the modern era. They’ve had years and it feels like the runway is about to end (see Omni’s recent layoffs.) Wishing for paid upgrades and writing “only AppKit apps are real Mac apps” blog posts isn’t going to change anything.
Great, well done. Brilliant idea and execution is top notch! Followed you on twitter to get updates.
Military virtual reality training expands to include Air Force drone pilots
I know everyone is expecting housing to go up in near future for a variety of reasons but I see couple of counter trends that might temper the market

1. return to office

2. increase in interest rates due to inflation

3. effects from lifting eviction bans, rolling back unemployment covid provisions ect.

4. Biden govt encouraging more house building.
IT workers who live in regions where there are many work opportunities — or in regions where remote talent from that region is considered suitable for hiring — will have this option.

IT workers who live in regions where they couldn’t have worked remote previous to COVID simply because no IT company would hire someone remote from $country to do this sort of work, and who had to instead settle for local, low-paying jobs, will be back to being stuck in the same rut as soon as their local employer stops offering remote.
One thing to note is that Rich is trolling Tesla because they failed to grant him a number of Tesla referral credits that he earned from his channel and have been unsupportive if not hostile to his efforts to repair and augment his rightfully owned Tesla hardware.

Whether this is a good idea or not is irrelevant - it's a bit of a cheeky finger to Musk more than anything.
And what I never got when I was younger rent ticks up 2-4% every year, your mortgage costs are fixed. I am now locked in paying the same as what I had in rent 5 years ago. I used the the same rent vs buy cost allocation with a down payment to get the monthly cost I wanted.
Percent of my income for housing costs has actually dropped since buying, that never happened when I rented.
This could definitely be used to track people. I wonder if it’s possible to physically disable the speaker, and if so, is there a next level of stalking protection? Can’t help but be reminded of the cameras in The Circle…
If I am more productive why would I take a paycut?
>Do you go around asking people if they've won a Nobel Prize?

When some person came to me to take an argentinian tango lesson I've managed somehow to find out that he has been working on a eu collider project. So actually I think I do.
When I meet a person I am curious to ask a person about his interests and I watch his body movements to understand his way of looking at the world. You can tell that to some degree by how people move you see.

>Really, what's appealing here is living modestly in a time before it was so easy to find out who someone was by typing their name into a search bar.

So what is so good about it? Some people can't find out about this and some opportunities has been lost. What is the benefit of it? I do not like when people promote themselves for the sake of it without anything valuable to offer but when it's not the case what good this 'modesty' can do? Letting win to those who do not deserve it? what is particulary good about it? Now I tend to think about it as being irresponsible in a way.

>Bardeen did his work out of a genuine drive for scientific discovery, not the pursuit of wealth or fame. That's what that anecdote shows me and what appeals to me about him.

Since when 'wealth or fame' considered to be something negative? If a person offers something valueable and worthy I see no reason for such person to be in a shadow and poor without enough money. What would be good about it except perhaps to please some 'socialists/communists' and I've seen what those guys "can" "build" in the ussr so I do not want them to thrive.
Why is this happening? As a marketer, I plan to move to some kind of SaaS project, like https://audext.com/
Most folk in the US are on poverty wages, one surprise bill away from bankruptcy or homelessness; we shouldn’t expect OSS maintainers to fall on the sword and rely on inter generational wealth or live in poverty when their colleagues, using their software, at big companies are making (what used to be considered) middle class wages.
Yeh I'm sure 220k is a great salary for NZ. But in terms of purchasing power, how does it compare to $70k-£80k in the UK (I don't know, as I said haven't lived in NZ for 6 years)? I'd also be interested to know how common it is to be on 200k+ as a dev in NZ

(edit: spelling/grammar)
I left a good salary at a tech startup late last year. The pressure to perform at home, from a boss screaming over Zoom, made me realize that I've had enough of that rodeo. I keep my living expenses minimal. I eat dinner with my neighbors now and I'm actively involved in the raising of their child. Burning through savings in a big city, so I might get a part-time job, but for the moment, I am enjoying waking up well-rested.
On average would need quite a bit of data to back that up.

Anecdotally for myself I can't imagine why I would ever return to an office unless it was a couple blocks from where I live. Even then I'd want a private office with a door, a couch, and a nice garden to sit in outside when I need some time to decompress and think.

I get the same amount of work done with far less stress working from home. No commute, no random noise, no people tapping me on the shoulder, fewer meetings, no small talk and awkward social situations.

I get more sleep and less stress. At least in my field, software development (and knowledge work in general), those two factors have the greatest impact on "productivity." [0] [1]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656292/

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/99-101/
I've said it before, I'll say it again: the web needed a vector answer to jpeg, but what we got was a vector answer to html+css with all their commensurate vulnerabilities and complexities.
Last time I ever squash commits, reading this discussion.
The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
> Speaking of 0 evidence, I’d like to stick a [citation needed] on this:

> being denied access to something other people can use is a type of harm
I am not saying that iOS doesn't change in a breaking way. That's given. I am saying that the upkeep is not as expensive as you said it was.

I've lived through the W10 launch and that was a fucking dumpster fire. Still, adapting to whatever Microsoft broke with their brand new "update" wasn't that difficult even though these were genuine surprises. Things. Just. Broke. In comparison iOS changes are announced well in advance and they aren't too drastic. So while you can't compile an iOS app today and expect it to work in few years, keeping it updated is not that hard or time-consuming. Unless the code is a mess to begin with.
I wish they'd said something like "less than 10%, and most likely less than 0.1%" to communicate the uncertainty.
Wow, that’s amazing. Right on regarding empathy and age/experience. No one is really an awful person. Just petty drama...
You're not entirely wrong, but why make it even more obnoxious and entrenched?

I can see this kind of stuff useful for applying for jobs in the (traditionally) "creative" fields; a well crafted TikTok can show the recruiter a sense of the applicant's editing skills, taste in art/music, and general presentation skills, after all. For a cookie-cutter desk job? Not sure what gap this fills that isn't already occupied by the venerable Curriculum "Resume" Vitae.
Flatseal tool to manage flatpak permissions
Pretty Sure BMW will sell you the parts, any parts, if you have the $$$, they will not even ask you the VIN Number, go down to the local deal, tell them you need X parts, and have Y Cash in hand they say "here you go"

Tesla attempting to turn cars in iPhone Walled Garden where you need approval to fix them and only allow to use Manufacture Approved Repair Centers likely will be the down fall of this, as people will not stand for this long term like they have with Cell phones, ironically this type of Automotive lock down (which Tesla is far from the only offender) will likely be the cause of Right to Repair laws being passed in most states very soon that will extend to all manner of electronics including Cell Phones
Charlie Marcus Knows That Quantum Facts Aren’t Complicated
Yeah, but so could GPS trackers, which have existed for years?
COBRA is what I’ve seen people use when away from work, sometimes benefits continue for a few months.
You must have a hell of a spam filter.
US intelligence has indicated they believe Russia owns at least part of the responsibility; if that's true, then there will be no extraditions and the US almost certainly will not be sending missiles into Russian homes over hackers.

The degree to which US can craft an internationally persuasive story of Russia's culpability is the degree to which Russia will have to launch an internal investigation, and like, treat the matter Very Seriously and Stuff.
If you don't have the resources to buy health insurance, you probably don't have enough cushion for a decent sabbatical anyway.
You are correct that an ETF can provide similar exposure with much better liquidity (ease of getting in and out).

A few possible reasons to go private:
a) smaller and more entrepreneurial operators can produce better returns
b) capturing the illiquidity premium.
Orgy: My Personal Technology Stack
If #4 happens that would be the best thing all around (imho). Creates real value that can be absorbed without destroying access as people leave/reenter cities.

However, as we have seen in many densely populated cities the amount of red tape in development is absurd and probably results in an incredibly diluted impact
Many OS projects get contributions from people using them at work.

They use their work time paid for by their employer to report or fix bugs that they encountered while using them in development.
Except we are seeing a mass movement in food service today of workers closing up shops for better pay. We're seeing businesses say there's a "labor shortage" (there isn't, they are just unwilling to pay a wage labor wants to work for.)

Something is stewing out there, and I expect to see some road bumps when covid is over.
Why is there voting at all? It's so childish.
You have the right personality for work-from-home. There are others who need that social interaction in order to be productive.

When I was in the office, most developers had headphones on when working and you wouldn't interrupt them at that time.

I definitely agree that if you're in the kind of role where you can turn off notifications and just put your head down and work, this has probably been a very productive year.
A temporary doubling of people quitting their jobs would be noticeable but not very meaningful in the long run. It's pretty clear companies want workers in office and will pay a premium to make it happen.
Pretty clever. It not only allows you to make a first cut of candidates without dragging them out for an interview, it also allows you to easily filter by gender, race, age without saying so. No more obfuscations in a resume for those items.
That's exactly what I did. Part of me feels guilty about it because I don't have kids, so I feel like I can't really complain by comparison. But I feel just so tired that I literally couldn't do my job anymore.
> $130k in the United States is a joke

You are out of touch my friend.

I think you can cool it on the anger here too. It’s not helpful.
Apple tries to rely on static analysis. But it does not work and the engineering premise for it to work is shaky. This was discussed in Epic vs. Apple recently

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apple-brass-discusse...
Not sure, but seems like literal diodes on the data line would work? Probably packaged to make it plug and play.
Older geological eras were the arena for really weird encounters, such as dwarf elephants vs giant swans (not making this up).
There's a mountain of evidence that people self-report they're more productive. That's not to say there aren't elements of that which are true, but it's not entirely clear to me that remote employees can continue to be meaningfully more productive than those teams would be in a traditional office setting, especially once the world opens back up.

The pandemic did give strong evidence that it was at least close, which was somewhat surprising to me, due in part the difficulties of formalizing previously ad-hoc communication patterns and in shared whiteboarding.
You think "TVs are 10% of their quality-adjusted price from 1998" is sane?
> but why does an OSS tool have to be supported by Silicon Valley salaries?

Because these high profile OSS tools generally have trouble finding core maintainers/contributors.

It's easy enough to find people who will contribute a couple of PRs, it's another to get people to handle the ownership and product/project management responsibilities. Even rarer on a reasonably complex project (not that many people find working on something like Babel "fun". It's not sexy like some of the other high profile OSS projects in the JS ecosystem).

Core-js' maintainer has begged for someone to help forever (dunno if he finally found someone). The JS minifier space was nearly abandoned until significant issues brought them back in the spot light. Webpack was struggling until someone stepped up to be their de facto marketer.

If someone wants to do the work for half the money, go ahead. It's just...rare.
There are a couple others as well:

https://stroustrup.com/autonomics09.pdf

https://stroustrup.com/sec09.pdf

https://stroustrup.com/mbd09.pdf
How are they vs. LG OLED panels? Lack of dumb option is what's stopping me from getting a LG :(
Disinformation Quote taken out of context in Google Snippet
These were NEC MultiSync panels and yep, had a fairly rich set of op codes (page 26) -
https://assets.sharpnecdisplays.us/documents/usermanuals/ext...
I would guess the usual options like ACA or COBRA.
Either COBRA, pay for anything you go to the doctor for out of pocket, or just don’t get sick.
Plus the fact that Microsoft had a monopoly they were abusing; Apple doesn't by any reasonable metric.
Same. All these other doubtful comments and I’m sitting here like yep – I already quit my job a month ago! Still not seeking work either. I can vouch for a friend who quit an eng job at Amazon just recently as well.

The housing market was still too competitive to buy, though. Houses 100 miles out from Seattle were selling for six figures over asking price back in March! Couldn’t get an offer accepted anywhere because there was always another buyer who had full cash.
If a large meteor hits Earth, the humanity organism will be glad it spread itself to Mars.
I could care less.

https://xkcd.com/1576/
Likewise, look at how Astra-Zeneca made many missteps, mishandling data, sending out wrong doses in trials. Pfizer did not make these mistakes. The distributing company not only matters, it matters a LOT.
Isn't eye strain a form of harm?
This article does call out for some actual data although the general point that people may not have seen this as the best time to switch jobs makes sense. That said, I've seen a pretty decent in and out flow of people from and to other jobs where I work.

I've also seen some retirements. Which is par for the course naturally. On the other hand, it's not out of the realm of possibility to imagine people deciding to stick it out for another year when there's nothing to do anyway but figuring that right about now is as good a time as any if they were near to pulling the trigger anyway.
Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals
It looks like the original source is Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-10/quit-your...
> as soon as the algorithm begins to get what kind of content you like

I have to assume this style of algo-generated feeds wouldn't apply for an actual hiring platform, because otherwise this is ripe for "inadvertent" discrimination.
Me too, but I was also pushed.

I spent over 30 years, saving at around 40%, so I had a pretty decent amount ready for early retirement. I was able to sink a decent chunk into a couple of small corporations, while still having plenty to retire, but at a fairly humble level (that 40% meant no Teslas or in-ground pools).

By "pushed," I mean that when I started looking for work, I was treated quite barbarously. Some, by corporations, but mostly by headhunters. It was made quite clear, that I was not welcome in today's tech field.

So I had to swallow my pride, and just deal with the fact that no one wants to play with me, and I found some folks that would be happy to take what I have to offer for free. They are getting some pretty top-shelf work. I'm no slouch.

Best decision I ever made. The last couple of years have been some of the happiest of my life.
A PDF, lol. Further evidence of the problem.

There's one trick they can do to regain trust—move their website, publications, datasets, press releases, *everything* to git (https://breckyunits.com/how-to-fix-the-cdc.html).

I wish they came out and said:

"We understand we will constantly make mistakes and bad actors will constantly try to influence us. To counter that, we will make it painless for people to fork and correct. Every change will be open, attributable and signed."
>We're trying to give more responsibility to people who are achieving things in the work place.

It depends on the context as you say of course but what I've seen is that people who where screaming more were giving more responsibility instead of people who were actually achieving something.
I talked to management at work about this, because our best and most motivated engineers have quit in recent months. Management is fully aware and expecting lots of turnover and have already budgeted for it. So this isn't just "coming", it's already here, and business leaders are well aware.
I agree for the "hard" needs that are, quite literally, as universal as can be imagined. Sex, however, is not one of those. The very existence of asexual individuals who live out a long and happy life is a testament to this.

There are no a-shelter, a-money, etc., individuals who simply do not need those things. There are people without those things, yes - and I agree that their existence is objectively worse off for it.

Sex, on the other hand, can be entirely absent from a person's life and not necessarily impact it.

So I don't think I accept your assertion that sex is objectively a necessity for a high standard of life. It currently behaves as one, because we generally accept that it's desired so deeply by so many that it qualifies as a need - and for the most part, that might well be true. But there is still the case to be made that "having sex or not" is only as much of an impact on one's standard of living as one's worldview dictates. This is not true of other "hard" needs, as pointed out before. Ie: My philosophy on sex can yield an asexual, long, healthy, and happy life, but my philosophy on shelter cannot lead to a homeless long, health, and happy life. (Happy is debatable, sure.)
Because one of the primary "competing" project (TypeScript) is developed on payroll of a FAAMG.

With that said, nothing stopping those people in Berlin from stepping up to other high profile open source projects that are looking for maintainers, raise the same amount of money, and essentially be twice as well off.
Surprised terms like "excited delerium" and hysteria don't make an appearance here. (But heat stroke does, which is a term I still hear regularly.)
Value #1 seems pretty at odds with 2 and 3, and dangerous with #5. I wonder how the CDC reconciles this... surely Be Right is more important than Be First. A spammy news site could claim most of these values in this order.
I've never even worked at a company that could afford walls
I'd substitute 'Twitter' for that law.

I'm always blown away by how unnecessarily cruel people are on that site.
I am sure you can buy a superior stalking device of aliexpress already anyway, so why bother?
> Sounds like a PR problem, mostly.

It's the case that the Zig creator did put a high priority on soft "PR" for the language, the first hire was a developer advocate/community manager. I think this is a great case of "lessons learned" from the history of programming languages.