skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but at least they are consistent with the pattern word of numeral, which is often a good rule to use if not employing a specific styleguide.

For example, using the APA guide[1] for numbers (thanks @OJFord for pointing out my error): “Six to 15”, “12 of 18”, Six of 24”.

Edit: As @temp8964 correctly pointed out, there are situations where words are recommended[2].

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[1]: https://apastyle.apa.org/

[2]: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/numbers/wo...
> It also gives developers at Apple a standard tool, was there such a thing before?.

Yes, Jazzy, SwiftDoc, and appledoc already do this, plus whatever in-house tool that already existed at Apple before this (they have clearly been using something like this for the past ~15 years).
Just go for a publisher that has a track record of typesetting and publishing technical books and reaches a large audience. I made the mistake of signing a contract with a reputable publisher for a rather technical book written in LaTeX without checking how their books look first. As it turns out, they are not accustomed to typesetting math at all. They want to convert the manuscript to Microsoft Word, which is crazy, introduces new errors, and is guaranteed to look bad afterwards. I've checked the few technical books in their catalogue, and they look awful. But it's too late for me to change the publisher now.

So, my advice is send your prospectus only to publishers whose books you like and do a little research first. There are surprisingly many publishers who don't know what they're doing (or, to be fair, have different priorities than you).
My take too.

No blame or shame in there, just an expression of desire to do software. Fair enough.
There's some major projection going on here.

You're wrong again, both with your interpretations and what it means to worship something.

Let's unpack: adultery in this context doesn't mean premarital sex, it means sex with someone who is already married. And in the context of the bible, you are likely married to your gf so actually you're already keeping this one, good job!

> And the "dont't covet" verse is also great: don't covet your neighbour's property (already this is problematic but okay), which includes: cattle, his donkey, his wife, or his servants.

This is just false. commandment 9 is don't covet neighbor's wife and commandment 10 is don't covet neighbor's property.

> I don't want to worship a set of commandments

This isn't about choice my friend: You don't get to choose to obey the "laws" of gravity. They just are, whether you agree with them or not they are the laws of the universe. god's commandments are the same. whether your small mind is able to comprehend what they mean or not the laws will make you a better and happier person (which just based on this thread you clearly are still in search of). Truthfully though, the 10 commandments don't even apply to you as a gentile. you only need to worry about the 7 noahide laws, and those are honestly a lot easier, because they all just boil down to: don't be a dick. [Admittedly, you might still have trouble with the first 2 because they also deal with accepting a higher power, and you seem bent on believing despite all evidence to the contrary that you alone control the universe. If you've ever been part of AA you'd know that accepting there is a power other than you in control is essential to happiness and satisfaction in life]
Rustup can install previous versions of rust alongside current versions. An 'undo' would be redundant.
The same is true for Dlang. Go on D's IRC channel and you can talk to core compiler authors who will help you find a solution to any problem in ~10 minutes.
Yeah, especially when we don't really know what we're even measuring in the first place. Attempts to measure the output of knowledge workers have always been more art than science, and biased by the viewpoint of whoever's paying for the measurement. Virtually all measurements depend on "all other things being equal." Which they weren't.
I would pay good money for a replica of that tablet. Even better if it had similar material to the original clay.
Conversely, I have noticed that Microsoft has been kicking some serious ass in the documentation arena lately. If you haven't taken a look at their stuff in a while, you would probably be shocked.

Here's a high level overview of GC to give you an idea of how thorough these documents are now:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-col...

After reading through all of those sections, I will have developed a very strong understanding for how GC works in .NET and how I should strategically approach it for certain types of problems. I would also have clear, specific code examples to follow as appropriate.

The best thing for me is that when I click the "Edit" button on Microsoft's documentation, it takes me directly to the latest markdown source file on GitHub and I can immediately submit a PR for corrections or enhancements. Good luck doing something even remotely like this with Apple.
I don't think that's that weird, they're setting standards for their own behavior and the food source is largely beyond their control. That space probably isn't even directly controlled by them but by the larger university.
I've been remote for well before the pandemic and no, it was really not a good environment. It was stressful and the cities were up in arms and the weather was insane and there was no daycare and going to the grocery was stressful and there was no toilet paper and all kind of calamities conspired to prevent me from thinking straight. And when work stopped, there was nowhere to go and no one to hangout with.

Really the worse time to be productive. I was way more productive as a pre-pandemic remote.
The original MacOS was vastly more complex than contemporary 8-bit operating systems. I think Apple produced very useful documentation with Inside Macintosh - the Human Interface Guidelines that came a bit later are still useful today.

However, I think there was a mismatch of expectations, since the Apple ][ was documented down to the last bit, including the schematics and ROM source code (excluding the Applesoft BASIC developed by Microsoft).

The creators of the Mac wanted to force developers to adhere to the abstractions Apple provided with the OS and to discourage developers from using low-level tricks. This enabled Apple to evolve the Mac much further than the Apple ][ series. The last model of the Apple ][ series, the //gs, had to provide a lot of hardware to enable backwards compatibility with software written from 1977 on.

In contrast, the Mac survived a relatively pain-free transition to the PowerPC in the '90s, which was one of the first wide-spread uses of binary translation in commercial systems (later used for the transition of OS X to intel and now to Arm) - even significant parts of the kernel were still written in 68k assembler on PPC systems.

Of course, there were some significant problems to overcome in the 68k era. One well-known example is that developers (even Apple's developers themselves) abused the most significant 8 bits of addresses to store data. The original 68000 had 32 bit address registers but only a 24 bit external address bus, so the 8 MSBs were ignored by hardware. This was no longer true on the 68020 and later CPUs and caused lots of problems...

Talking about the state of documentation of macOS, even the old NeXT documentation was better and more in-depth - though there was no detailed information on the hardware, which causes problems for the developers of the Previous emulator today. Of course, the NeXT systems were much less complex than it is today, even though you already had to cope with coprocessors such as the Motorola 56001 DSP and the i860 on the Dimension color graphics card (which unfortunately could not be programmed directly)...
Definitely helped a bit. I just graduated from university and am working full time as a developer now. I thought I knew how to use git because I knew how to do feature branching and merging. Boy was I wrong. Within a few weeks at my new job, I've realized that I'm missing so much useful git knowledge. When I learned about cherry-pick, my mind was blown.

My goal right now is to develop a better mental model of git than what I have right now. If anyone has recommendations for resources, please let me know!
I don't think the GP's intent was to project his own superiority. Rather, if we're unable to use mythologies as a metaphor for the human experience, that is, for our self-expression, we are not as smart nor as strong as we fashion ourselves to be.
I think there’s an important distinction to be made here, as I’ve had a lot of the same frustrations as you. Science itself is genuinely NOT religious, and can truly be used to understand the nature of the world, and make practical use of that understanding.

But, if it’s true that man is a religious animal, it’s going to mean that people will always take a religious bent on any major topic in their lives. And so the way that many people experience and understand science may in fact have religious qualities, but this is actually going to be true of any major topic in people’s lives.
My first larger code was the towers of Hanoi on CPC, where I found the algorithm while experimenting with coins of different sizes, somewhere around 12. Still very proud that I found a solution algorithm.
In theory, a crypto project could provide value (not money, they're different things) to its users. For instance, there are experiments with distributed games where assets are NFTs. In theory, this provides the basis for independent games sharing unique assets among themselves.

In practice, nobody's doing this (even those game devs who are minting assets as NFTs are keeping the assets to one game, making the whole exercise pointless) and it seems probable that nobody really wants it.

But the point being I do believe theoretically there are "legitimate" applications where the decentralization of assets is useful. I just have yet to see an example in the wild (or even to imagine a concrete thing I could make where this would really be the case).
This is most definitely correct .. until you want to scale beyond a few gigabytes of memory and then with a distributed cluster many synchronization issues don’t seem that trivial anymore.
My comment was a rather tongue-in-cheek take of how Libera is carrying on the spirit of Freenode, and we should just consider Freenode a random other network that somehow got Freenode's name by accident.
If companies really believe that they are tracking productivity with automated metric collection, then they should tie compensation directly to the metrics.

If, on the other hand, they believe that the metrics are only reliable when done in a secretive/clandestine manner then they must, by definition, not correlate very well to actual productivity. If this is the case, the "trackers" have some explaining to do in terms of the actual value that they are adding to the organization.
„I was constantly messaging people telling them to use a competitor and I was banned.“ the entitlement of these people blow my mind.
> The farms are manicured flat with row crops, irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. Farming is vastly more destructive to the natural environment.

You might be surprised but 40% of all (cereal) crops are produced to feed animals. That would almost completely go away except a bit to compensate for the loss of meat.

See https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cereal-distribution-to-us...
It is true that said government and institutions has never done so.

However I think you're grossly building up Germans as ignorant goodmen.

While painting the Japanese as complicit evil doers.

The truth is the only reason Germans are ashamed of the past are due to 2 reasons:

1 the allies occupation of Germany spent lots of resources into exposing the crimes of the nazis.

And even then the Germans were proud of the nazis up until the 1980s.

And 2 every institution was torn down more or less after the nazis and rebuild from scratch with some having oversight built into it.

This did not happen in the occupation of japan.

And you can see the same "complicity" with the 3rd holocaust that was done in Croatia/ Bosnia against predominantly Serbs.

Hell even Spain has the issue of the public still being proud of the fascists.

Or lastly UK still has a sizable portion of its citizens that believes the Uk colonialism was ultimately good and righteous.
There is some speculation about the motivations here: https://ariadne.space/2021/05/20/the-whole-freenode-kerfluff...
A lot of what I hear about recruiters on the internet is foreign to me. I’ve never once in my life had a FAANG recruiter reach out to me. Most recruiters I’ve had reach out to me either clearly never looked at my resume, can’t figure out what they’re hiring for, or can barely speak English. Most of them hire for underpaid enterprise or body shop roles. Meanwhile I hear people talk about how Facebook or Amazon recruiters are contacting them all the time despite having little experience and no previous FAANGs on their resume.
Fast and Open source metrics demo dashboard
I'm more of an in-office person. The office is definitely more distracting, and I used to like working late occasionally because I had some solid focus time, but to a degree that's still true: whilst other people are online there is necessary interaction to transfer information in both directions.

One potential WFH efficiency loss for me is that due to casual conversations or things I overheard in the office, there were many occasions when I knew that someone had already investigated something or that some issue had come up that explained symptoms I came across, saving unnecessary duplication of effort or implementing something which wasn't quite what was required. You might argue that this level of communication could be achieved remotely, but maybe you'd end up with nearly the same level of distractions.

I will add that my commute was a 15-minute cycle, and my employer provided me with lunch, so probably going to work was actually a net time saving for me (certainly if you consider the commute exercise time), which may explain why I'm less keen on WFH than most.
Here are what I'd call the two money quotes:

"Although they saved commuting time, this did not offset the extra hours spent in meetings."

"[T]he research shows that employees were able to achieve as much output with slightly less “focus time” than they had at the office. The real source of inefficiency ... was the time spent in meetings."
I would argue this is incredibly misleading.

What percentage of meat or dairy comes from pasture animals? You can't fulfill a country like the US's meat and dairy demand with pasture raised animals. So realistically we are talking about factory farmed animals. If we are talking about factory farmed animals then it goes back to the needing these nature destructing farms you are talking about just to feed animals that then feed humans, this is not an efficient system.
Nothing but propaganda...
I never found it hard to get a reply. I don't really know what I was doing right that everyone else seems to be doing wrong. I'm neither excessively handsome nor wealthy.

My suspicion is that I worked to make myself interesting, and worth conversing with. And I see a lot of comments here that betray a deep distrust of women, with a ton of stereotyping and lack of empathy. I hear tons of complaints from women about men's profiles, and it never has to do with looks or money.

I've sometimes thought of opening a dating profile consultancy. I may be completely off base, but I believe that in a lot of cases, men can do better without changing jobs or their appearance. And my first piece of free advice is that if you're blaming women, women aren't going to like you.
An interesting thing to consider is that most religious people do not really believe with much conviction. They can clearly see that scripture is not literal truth and that there is no scientific evidence. So religion becomes about faith and faith becomes virtuous.

But a Roman citizen 2000 years ago didn't have faith. They just knew that God(s) exist. It was obvious, self-evident and compelling. The greatest thinkers of the time really believed.

Most Christians talk about faith and belief because that is the only thing left that science hasn't overturned. Our understanding of the world is dominated by science not religion. We won (mostly).
At my company this is for-sure true, broadly across teams.

Management has explicitly taken advantage of this by booking a lot of recurring meetings that start 8/8:15/8:30am in the morning when in the "before times" it was generally a 9am start. Management also feels comfortable sending Slack DMs at 6-7pm as well, knowing people aren't commuting so they can get an answer.

Regardless of setting boundaries, the noise just starts earlier and ends later.

That said it's a tough trade off for me because I do greatly prefer WFH and find I am handling a much higher workload stress only because I am at home.

I've told my manager multiple times over the last year that the level of meetings/work we are taking on is only sustainable because we are at home and everyones social lives evaporated for a year, to which he largely agrees.

What they expect when people return to office shall be interesting. Unless they are ready to accept the 20% reduction in task completion as we revert to in-office norms, I'll be moving on to a new firm after bonus time.
That is in tension with using numerals for "Numbers that represent statistical or mathematical functions, fractional or decimal quantities, percentages, ratios..." And the tie-breaker is below:

If you’re unsure which modifier to write and which to express numerically, try it both ways. Be sure the way you express the numbers is in the clearest way possible.
There is no broken compatibility promise here, it used unstable rust, there is no promise of compatibility there. This whole post is a hatchet job.
Manage technical debt: measure the impact and prioritize improvements
Wow. Generally we used to release few books per year only for this reason. Each book and each author needs attention and we care a lot about focusing on details. (This is a little bit more difficult when we had to coordinate many authors on one book. Thank god, we had SVN).

We do totally agree with you. Every publisher has different priorities: the previous owner aimed only to "make money" in a "super-simple-way" aka do not pay freelancers, authors unless they start to mention legal way.

Let us guess the company you applied for your book, Apress?
I think why people treat them differently comes down to informed consent. With a true Ponzi scheme, the managing investor makes you believe that they're doing something that they're not. You think you're investing in some underlying asset, but you're just buying out they previous wave of investors.

With crypto/VC/normal stocks all having many characteristics in common with Ponzi schemes, at least the game is relatively well understood. For all of them, there are institutional investors capable of market manipulation, as well as the information and know-how so as to typically adjust their positions so that the majority of the people left holding the bag are retail investors.
I believe you, and I would rather live in a larger town myself. However, I think that on this front, Canada compares very well to the US, France, the UK, Brazil, China, and Japan (known for its xenophobic culture), to name a few places. No place is perfect, but we have it better here than a lot of other places, on many fronts.
I think of it like this. Various tokens give you certain types of exposures with different risk profiles. Yields are so high because of the risk.

This really isn't so different from the centralized financial system where we have built complex structures (exotic derivatives, structured products, etc) to give you certain types of exposures. The difference is that DeFi is globally accessible and permissionless.

Even if DeFi never moves beyond these "financial speculation" use cases, if it replaces what's currently centralized in government-regulated financial markets, that's a multi-trillion dollar opportunity.

I'm doubtful we'll see any retail use cases or mass option beyond speculation soon, just like your average retail user does not buy exotic derivatives. That doesn't mean it's not useful.
You should check out sponsor block

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
I meant it in a sense of the cashiers’ speed in checking items.
Do you know why German supermarkets don’t use the single queue multiple cashiers system?
All my chat networks I care about have migrated to Libera or Matrix. And I agree freenode is circling the drain.

I was also banned and Klined, but I am not sure this was a free node action...

I was immediately able to reconnect to a different freenode server. And have not been bothered since. It definitely feels like a rouge operator just banned everyone on their node.

However despite this happening several days ago, there is no statement from freenode, so IDK.
You can’t crowdsource quality. Comment voting systems only tell you what is popular, not what is high quality. So many sites make this mistake, including HN.
That's strange. Maybe it defaults to opt-out only in the EU?

While it's not entirely unobtrusive, especially on mobile, it's far better than similar forms on most other sites that usually take up the bottom half of the screen, or block the content entirely behind a modal dialog.

> As well as "Continue to site", it has buttons for "Policies", ...

Those others aren't buttons, but links, and small ones. The most prominent element is the single button that dismisses the dialog and is actually safe to click. If you've seen most other consent forms, rejecting cookies (if possible at all) is usually done via a small link next to a prominent "Accept all" button and other such dark patterns.

So this is a great UX improvement, though I agree with you that all these forms are obnoxious and we should get rid of them. Unfortunately it's the best we currently have to mitigate this abuse legally (at least in the EU).

Also, I'd be fine with some non-essential cookies for e.g. analytics, as long as this is not shared with 3rd parties, so no Google Analytics and such, but few sites implement it that way.

Though TBH all this feels like privacy theater. There are more sophisticated ways than cookies for tracking users that aren't being discussed nearly as much, yet are probably already widely used.
My personal theory is that rasengan had a boyhood dream of running his own IRC network. A dream he tried to realize by buying Freenode. The actual purchase happened under very dubious circumstances which (plus some other disagreements in the Freenode team) led to the creation of Libera. This just rasengan lashing out when they broke his toy.
It seems as if everyone in that thread is too polite to make what seems to me to be the obvious comment:

This all seems like exactly the behaviour you would expect if having D3 users is not profitable and having Observable users is profitable. This would explain why the Observable team's explanations don't entirely make sense: the real explanation is "we are making things worse for you because we hope to make money by doing so". It would explain why they're unmoved by users' complaints that something allegedly meant to make things easier for them is making them harder: the real goal is profit, not making things easier.

On the other hand, (1) using Observable is free (at present, at least), and (2) in other respects mbostock has always seemed genuinely interested in providing good things for everyone to use. So I hope the cynical view in the previous paragraph is wrong. But it does seem like it explains what's happening better than "we just want to make things better for everyone, and Observable is so awesome we can't help using it for everything" which is pretty much the official line.