skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A generous interpretation would be that the OP meant "edgy" as in definition 2a from Webster's[1]:

being on edge : tense, irritable

In other words-- GP recounted a memory of tense, anxious feelings about working with Perl.

OP was unwittingly made edgy by reading this and anthropomorphized Perl to express said feelings of tension and anxiety back to GP.

Seems plausible to me.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/edgy
Oh, interesting, I hadn’t seen those numbers. Where did you see the ViaSat 3/4 pricing? All I could find was the current offerings (which are more expensive), but I didn’t look hard.

I’d love to dig into the other offerings that the GEO players plan to provide. My dad was a Day 1 sign up for the Starlink beta, because it’s dramatically better than any offerings in his area (including existing Satellite), but I’d definitely like to share any better upcoming options with him.

I think latency might be a deal breaker for him, because they do a fair amount of video calling and don’t like the audio lag
I think people were talking about where the work was performed, not ethnicity. Chuan He has multiple COI disclosures on this paper.
Definitely. In no world is 1 better than 100. In my personal experience, though, when I tried to set myself a goal of doing "100 pushups a day", I'd end up doing none since the effort seemed insurmountable. Telling myself that I'd only do 10 would make sure I'd keep doing that in the long run.
Yep.

Unfortunately it’s not clear cut that we don’t have to worry about devDependencies vulnerabilities.
The author isn't going for direct metaphor. But it appears to be around the concept that icebergs eventually melt. So if you were traveling/floating on an iceberg it would eventually go away. A well built ship on the other hand could last indefinitely or much longer at least.
That's pretty cool! I wish there was a better way of figuring out what the key commands are other than guessing (although tbf it's pretty intuitive).

I've been using haxor-news regularly for a few years now https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
This is just irresponsible. The threat of removing 230 protections is dangled by the nutjobs in politics all the time, this attempts feels like showing them how to do it.
> immigration consultants use us to automate repetitive client-facing processes

Yes! I couldn’t believe how inefficient the process of sending dozens of documents over email to my immigration lawyers was. Glad to see someone working on that problem.

Beautiful landing page, too.
Couchbase IPO brings NoSQL database to the stock market
Peruvian Court Rules Gates, Soros and Rockefellers “Created” Coronovirus
Interesting and enlightening article published in March
Had this article mentioned a nation other than China, I would have give your opinion any value.

China has been putting so much money into its water management infrastructure (including dams, water re-routing) that most, if not all "western" nations put together are dwarfed. Go check your numbers before you spread more rumor, I will wait.

Just one sample (currently most ambitious and expensive engineering projects in human history): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...
Hi Hotton! I was in your area just a couple weeks ago. HMU for coffee if you're ever in Brussels or Mechelen. Email in my profile :)
correct

and it was shared 2 weeks ago also. Best to move along to more current developments.

Discussion on the mentioned Latest Update https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27927407
> All of America’s institutions are focused exclusively on churn. Crank out new stuff, sell it fast, cash out, and move on to the next project. Blighted neighborhoods aren’t an accident. They’re baked in to every facet of how we do everything.

I'm surprised there isn't more pushback here about the author's central premise, which is very flawed in my view.

I've never found what he is saying to be true at all, even in the real estate market. I live in a 40-year-old house that I bought 5 years ago, and its value has only increased. Before that I lived in another 40-year-old house in a thriving and busy market. Some of the most expensive places to live in my area date to the 1930's-1960's - I know, because my realtor showed them to me last time we moved.

The author states that this is some kind of universal truth about America, but it's not.
Sure, but it's some for a reason. It's a generality. So is "if you're shopping in Goodwill, you're not driving a Ferrari". Obviously, the recently broke, extremely thrifty, people looking for a collectable or to reclaim something accidentally donated are exceptions.

Maybe that program has covered more than enough people to make it worth talking about, but I didn't see anything like that.
Today I learned Jackson Pollock was a perl programmer.
It becomes more complicated than the simple case of private companies and their rights when those companies are being strong-armed by the threat of government regulation, and when a presidential administration has a hotline to those companies to flag "misinformation." That's backdoor government censorship.
>These exemptions are really just retroactive proposals to legalize what the big tech social media companies are already doing.

Big tech social media companies have always been allowed to moderate and ban content, that has always been legal. It's literally what Section 230 was written to permit.
The Android app is about about 3 years old, so let her know there's 3 years of kicking to be done!

https://www.appbrain.com/app/birdnet-bird-sound-identificati...
Reminds me of originalism versus natural law. Soon I hope, but this is a slippery slope, see the movie Lagaan.
2FA means "you lock yourself out of your account forever"

I just had the hole my Yubikey attaches to my keyring break. If I wasn't lucky it might have fallen off my keyring and disappeared. (No more Github for you!)

As it was I managed to stuff it into one of the pockets of my gym bag.
This is a similar trend if you were in the metro, except things change right at the spot. Small towns change at a different scale. But I’m not so sure towns get abandoned like that regularly unless it was mismanaged by the economic development centres.
Over long enough timeline, free software almost always gets better, acheiving parity and eventually surpassing the proprietory service. Free software doesn't need to be reinvented and can keep on steadily fixing issues. It happened for gcc, Linux, GNU, Blender, OBS, VLC, Calibre and obviously Syncthing. As long as scope is clear and target is not moving too much, FLOSS will catch it.
Sans paywall:

https://archive.is/T5tic
This is kind of circular reasoning. You might as well say you are only alive because the state lets you live.

It's my life as much as money is my money. Yes, they can be taken away.
This is really great! A friend of mine recently stayed a clinic for two weeks for a mental health issue, and she said the best part was that she could talk to others in the group who had similar problems.

The best of luck!
I thought something like 20% of America did not have terrestrial broadband. At 5 million this is a giant change, but not as universal as I originally thought.
ServiceNow is on a collision course with Salesforce.com. Here’s why
>and let machine do the rest.

Spoken like someone possessing the supreme programmer's virtue of laziness.
The US government currently doesn't care if I sell billions of USD and buy JPY instead, as long as I pay the proper taxes and they can see the transaction. I imagine crypto will be treated the same way, they just want to monitor the on/off ramps. Stablecoins are just a giant decentralized on/off ramp which they wish to bring into compliance.
For a modern (led) bulb there is effectively zero wasted energy by turning it off and on, but it depends how you define waste. Does light emitted after the switch is turned off count as waste? (Most bulbs take a few hundred ms to turn off)
Starquake. It's not as good as Dragon's Egg in my opinion, and seems much more focused on development of interesting characters. That's not a bad thing, mind you.
hluska is right, you can use the globe at the top to change languages.

I have to say this is not intuitive and we actually purchased new domains for other countries yesterday and we will have dedicated websites for a lot of countries coming this weekend.

But yes, we do have customers in Brazil where we were born, but Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Peru too!
Kaseya says it has acquired ransomware decryption key 'from trusted third party'
We’re aiming to be in the UK, parts of Europe, and parts of Asia by year’s end.

We plan to keep compatible within the current chassis for the foreseeable future. This means that as we support new CPU platforms, existing users can upgrade to them by replacing their mainboard (and in some cases memory).
The article talks about how oil service crane ships are designed for heavy, not high. There are prototype crane ships for the task, but they cost $250 million minimum which hampers growth of offshore wind installation. The issue is the blade length and positional stability, so sinking isn’t much of a solution. My takeaway is that this is promising but a few engineering feats from being economically sensible.
Can someone explain if they are not anchored to something, are they self positioning? i.e. have some propulsion to put themselves back where they were placed initially? Otherwise, these will be floating nightmares for shipping and sailing.
Choose an Observability System – Build-vs-Buy
Is that really the general consensus? If anything, so much of taxation goes to waste on bureaucracy and inane or downright criminal nonsense in the US. I live in Canada, and I basically consider it to be theft that my taxes that are taken from me forcefully go to places such as giant corporations, and military applications that I do not want to happen.

OTOH, I think that taxation is important, and I'm happy that my taxes go to health services, something that Canada does relatively well, even though I don't necessarily benefit in the same way compared to people less fortunate than I am. Same for social services, for example.

My point is that I don't think such feelings can be boiled down to "my money is going to people who don't deserve it". It's a complex topic and complex feelings which should be treated as such
In a world, somewhere, Flowers and Lions power laptops.
I'm so glad to read that observation. I have been telling people around me we are going through a mental health crisis among our elites, and it has spread to the general population who blindly see them as models.
How hard would it be for an AI to identify specific information conveyed by a call? Perhaps the various alerts that birds provide local fauna would be helpful to humans too?
Americans tend to value square footage over their commute time. So the cycle goes:

1. Hmm, I can get 2000 sqft inside the loop and 5000 sqft in the outer suburbs. Outer suburb for me!

2. Everyone else does the same thing and the area grows

3. The people in the outer suburbs starts loudly complaining about how horrible traffic has become (because they moved there when relatively few other people lived at and beyond the edge)

4. Roads are widened and new roads are built to ease traffic.

5. Now that there's road capacity, developers start building out even further.

6. Repeat step one with different people another layer out and the cycle continues.
I have no idea what Windows 'Insider' means
> I've never found what he is saying to be true at all, even in the real estate market. I live in a 40-year-old house that I bought 5 years ago, and its value has only increased. Before that I lived in another 40-year-old house in a thriving and busy market. Some of the most expensive places to live in my area date to the 1930's-1960's - I know, because my realtor showed them to me last time we moved.

There's no contradiction between an area being blighted and expensive. I've seen incredibly crappy neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, Dallas and New York that were extremely expensive and clearly was in need of work.
Congrats on the launch!

As a previous corporate traveller, I agree with your value proposition. As a software engineer I was astounded by the very lacking systems we have here in South America. Most of the travel stuff was managed via email!! I absolutely hated every single second of having to manage my travels while working, since it meant digging through emails and even spam folders...

On another note, I'm based in Chile, and already have good connections with managers in key companies that may be interesting for you. If you're looking to expand to Chile, let me know so we can setup some talks ;)

My linkedin is in my profile.
> I'm not sure if you're playing devil's advocate very well here, because this suggests to me that the interview process did not work well. Do you want to hire someone who can write a binary tree insertion in 30 minutes, or someone who can make amazing contributions to real software projects?

Most companies want malleable, fungible engineers. Most companies are not stable, something is usually in flux -- projects, teams, organizations, business models. Most managers would rather have someone who can write a binary tree insertion in 30 minutes.

But that is not how I personally hire, it's just reality. I'd rather have someone I can work with. In my experience, a lot of big open source contributors are not good colleagues. Are they going to focus on their job or spend their hours in the office working on their passion? Are they going to put their head down and get the work done or write essays debating in a mailing list? If we can't even have a conversation about algorithm complexity then there are better ways I can spend my time.

> It is the level of contempt that some of these companies and their recruiters and hiring processes show to people.

I really don't think this is true contempt, at least not usually. Recruiters, for better or for worse, vary widely. They are rarely good representations of the rest of the business. They're usually just sharks. A good recruiter is worth their weight in gold. But mostly they're ignorant, greedy, and have no care for you or the company you're interviewing for.

> It just shows they were perfectly happy to send out probably mass spams and waste people's time, but were not willing to even read what I wrote or listen to me, or worse they did and decided they'd just ignore what I said anyway.

Look, I'll be honest. I've conducted nearly a thousand interviews. I've hired at FAANGs, unicorns, YC companies. I almost never look at a candidate's resume/CV. If I'm not doing a coding interview and I want you to go into detail about something you worked on, I might take a glance. But otherwise, I actually do not care. I don't have time to peruse your GitHub profile or past projects. I don't even have time. One in a hundred applicants even get interviews, and I'm often interviewing 2-3 times a week. If it's important to you, tell me about it! I'd rather talk to you than read about you! In my experience, the resume/CV/published work is not a strong signal for making a good hire. It sounds like it's already helped you get your foot in the door, I wouldn't recommend expecting it to do anything more.

I'm sorry you had a shitty experience with this company, but I encourage you to be humble and give them the benefit of the doubt. Unless they're a tiny, boutique company with a lifestyle or OSS-focused culture, they are busy people. If they don't ask these questions, then more often than not, by the time we're in a room or on a call together it's a waste of both our time.
I used to use LaTeX in my physics days, including my phd thesis.

I recently compiled a document, 20 years later, and find the font horrible.

I was probably used to computer modern and did not realize how awful it was. There were not tons of good fonts easily useable either, that could be another reason.
Ah, sorry. I originally read your message as harassing the poor retail employees (or managers).

It's quite possible that the stuff you're complaining about sells to other people. If so, I can see keeping their customers that purchase happy.
Strong Towns is just one perspective with a strong agenda. I began doubting everything they publish when they got all the important details completely wrong in a story about my home town.

The money that goes to cities is paid by the employers of people who commute from suburbs, and the businesses those commuters buy from. The mental and physical space of living outside the city is essential to maintain the productivity and sanity of the urban workforce. Cramming all those people into cardboard "luxury" apartments where their kids have to listen to their neighbors fighting or banging sounds like a great way to end a population by ending parenthood. Which is exactly what is happening.
The accepted story is that involved in bringing something successful to market has to have vision (the idea for a better "mousetrap").

Do they also have to have something like passion? Plenty of organizations bring software to market based on rational analysis's of possible market share, cost of customer acquisition, life time expected value, etc, etc.

If you are a talented maker of software, you can hitch your cart to someone else's dream. The world is full of way more ideas than people who can bring them to life.

Find an idea you think has legs and place a bet on it. Place multiple bets, if you can. The "fractional CTO" is a thing now.
Economics is about the allocation of limited resources that have alternate uses. Employees are a limited resource that have alternate uses. How do we decide which businesses get that limited number of employees, and which don't? By money. The businesses that can pay for the people get the people. Presumably those businesses get the money by producing things that people want, so it is a good outcome for those businesses to wind up with the people.
This needs at least 1billion views: this is art and comedy at its highest form!
> the level of random violence and crime in this area is much worse

Have you actually experienced any of this random violence and crime? Or does the city just have more news coverage.
Never knew Revenge of the Nerds would get so dark...
Yes, very true. Crypto is a symptom of 1. the desire to move value for illicit transactions, 2. the desire to move value faster, and 3. the desire to speculate on an asset. Domestic instant payments and faster international payments solve for #2, but if crypto's benefit is only illicit payments, I don't see much of a future for it except to gamble on the possibility of appreciation (digital gold). AML/KYC isn't going away.

Stablecoins aren't an improvement over rows in a database held by a trusted and regulated entity and messages moving between queues for value transfer, but it'll take time for the hype train to run out of steam. I assume boredom will take hold once the ramps are heavily regulated, private wallets are outlawed, there's no more money to be made speculating and pumping/dumping shit coins, etc.
Minutes? I would like to see the math on that one.
Orion @ Heroku. He even left shortly after the acquisition, and then came back as an IC have an extended sabbatical. Possibly Lee Holloway @ Cloudflare while he was still there? I don't know much of the internal workings there to know if he was ever considered part of management or was simply a co-founder IC while he was there.
Up until relatively recently, a lot of laptops and even phones would put the connectors on separate PCBs connected by a ribbon, so that damaging those wouldn't mean a $500 motherboard replacement.

I definitely remember ordering a replacement headphone socket board for an old MacBook and just putting it in myself, and I've done similar with, eg, the connector port board on a PS4 controller.

But I guess this is one of the hazards of Apple having their AppleCare programme— they can do the math and calculate that saving a dollar on the cost of making and mounting and connecting that extra component still makes them money even if they have to eat the occasional full motherboard in the first three years of ownership.
Fun fact: The Register's sites and CMS is still written in Perl, and still kicking ;)
There is a similar app for photos called “Merlin”. Its not always a 100% accurate but it is usually at least close.
3:2 is great for coding. I've just started using 3:2 Zenbook S UX393 3300x2200 and that screen ratio is phenomenal!
Im doing it at this exact moment!
This probably has more to do with gameplay mechanics and the influence of the original sim city than anything else.

This style of zoning allows a good middle ground where the player has input into the usage of the city without having to micromanage every building.

A city builder that lacked that concept entirely would be interesting, but you'd have to come up with some other abstraction that feels vaguely reminiscent of city planning and also is engaging from a gameplay perspective.
Social media nowadays is not just Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.

There is Discord, Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitch, YouTube… I’d even count HN.

There a many people, possibly still the minority, but very solid amount of people way to invested in those

See those twitch donation whales, for example, the amount is big enough to have sparked a more than feasible business. I wouldn’t call that responsible.
It's your money like it's your water and your oxygen. Build some big tanks on your "property" and put machine gun nests around it to defend it.

Everything in modern society is part of a social contract that includes thousands of people working to keep it from devolving into anarchist chaos of violence and subjugation.
"Misinformation" is protected speech: meaning, government cannot be the arbiter of what is and isn't misinformation.

The bill ostensibly limits only misinformation concerning "public health emergencies." Last week, New York's Governor Cuomo declared gun violence a public health emergency. "Public health emergency" will be the new term of art for politicians seeking greater power than the "confines" of our Constitution allow.

This bill is trouble.
Thanks for the support hluska!
One issue I have is that the govt is not great at defining "misinformation".

My local health department advised folks who were non-symptomatic NOT to wear masks on the subway. Masks harm no one, and cost about $1 (for an N95). I wrote to ask if I would be arrested or forced to remove my mask. They said I would not be arrested, but to not follow misinformation and masks were not shown to reduce risk of Covid.

Yes, no study on COVID specially had been done, but COVID was a respitory disease so it made at least some possible sense that wearing a mask would reduce pathways in.

When I posted the question what's the harm in me wearing on of my masks an epidemiologist jumped in to correct my "misinformation" and cited everything from CDC to surgeon general to tell me my masks don't do anything yadda yadda.

My point was - even if you don't believe in masks - what harm (direct) to others am I causing by wearing a mask?

And the list goes on. In Santa Clara the health dept offical said don't need to wear a mask - then put her finger in her mouth to lick it to turn a page. Uhh, a mask would help remind you to maybe reduce sticking your finger in your mouth?

Instead of doing things like making more masks, sending 3 masks to every household (N95 not the silly little ones) we get these lectures and advise on "mininformation".

Then we are told that getting infected doesn't generate any immunity - in contrast to almost EVERY OTHER virus? Sure, we haven't shown that it does, but isn't it POSSIBLE that it does?

I've gotten tired of the claims of misinformation at this point.

My only request - allow businesses to mandate things like vaccinated status etc once fully FDA approved. We have to take into account all sorts of exceptions where I am including ADA stuff and religious beliefs which practically means those who don't want to get vaccinated can skip it (which increases risks significantly all around)