skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Frankly, this is one big reason I ditched Linux.

If you want to not care, dont. Just run Fedora. You'll get a faster, lower latency, lower-resource audio daemon. Improvements happen, and the distros mostly make this all seamless for your user experience. You should work on your attitude foremost if for some reason improvement bothers you.

> more like a bunch of people just one-upping each other for the sake of it.

If they are one-upping each other, wouldn't that be according to some metrics or cause? Wouldn't that be a gain? Yes, we are trying to one up each other, exactly, for the sake of getting better. You should be delighted by this. Instead... ?

Choice is amazing. Freedom is amazing. The shifts & changes are signs of vibrancy & caring.

PipeWire giving us fast, pluggable audio & video transport with zero-copy- using new Linux DMA_BUF capabilities that were created after PulseAudio was began- is critical innovation. PipeWire is a drop in replacement for PulseAudio _and_ JACK.

I for one have always found the progress exciting & compelling, have enjoyed learning of what's happening, hearing how people think things could be better. I have a progressive outlook. To me, if you want a conservative mindset, that's fine: there are distributions which package & build good out of box experiences & that have solid upgrade paths to help you not have to worry. Typically they shield you from the jank, keep you from having to worry about choice or transitions. Nothing is perfect, and some users did & do experience problems with PulseAudio initially, but I believe the "silent majority" was enjoying a much improved working sound experience very quickly & happily, and that the dissent/reactionary-ism is outsized.
There is no way this is true. Tesla has functional factories for batteries for one.
If this were a smooth process, I would agree. But a relative of mine, who is a retired computer science professor, was unable to sideload books onto his Kindle. I worked with him to troubleshoot it, and it took us nearly an hour to complete the transfer.
"Whatever you think of them, the Tesla fanboys have been proven more right then wrong"

I'm not sure why that's interesting or important. The Tesla fanboys had no special insight into Tesla, Elon or anything. They are part of a cult of personality that bought the marketing hook, line, and sinker.

Only about a year ago there were hundreds of Trevor Milton fanboys all over HN, Reddit and elsewhere just sure that Nikola was the next Tesla and anyone that didn't agree was just "bitter" or had no vision. Where are they now?

There's no difference between either group of fanboys, really. Other than one got lucky and their cult leader delivered on some of his claims.
Consistent preloading and auth in an app driven by Phoenix LiveView
You seem to be equating "influential" with "culture leading".
Yeah, this is why devs and designers cannot be trusted to manage notifications on Android, iOS or any platform. Shit will instantly be abused to drive (users insane) "engagement" and all kinds of mental gymnastics will be done to justify the dark pattern as something positive.
I have family members that ARE landlords, and your description is totally correct:

1. Family members aren't "rich" by conventional standards, they worked for the government in mid-level jobs their whole lives and are retired.

2. They bought a house they planned to retire to, but then moved when they had issues with it. They planned to sell the house but due to timing issues (construction in the neighborhood) they wanted to wait, so temporarily rented it out.

3. They had bad timing: rented in early 2020, the renter paid 1 month of rent, and never after that. And I looked this guy up, he is a total freeloader, part of the blame is on my family for not better vetting him.

4. But the takeaway for small landlords is the government can basically appropriate your property whenever they want. So we're just left with giant landlords who can manage this risk, and which again leads to less available affordable housing and a further concentration of wealth.
I’m actually seeing a lot of rage directed at them from the gaming forums I interact on, including a lot of people claiming that they’ve canceled. Completely anecdotal, I know, but it was not what I expected at all. I think this one is going to hurt more than usual.
> Will be purchasing this in dead tree form :D.

I like to think of it as "carbon capture representation" these days.
They're a biglaw firm, which has its hands in many, many fields. If WilmerHale had anything resembling a specialty, it would corporate/finance law.
My default question I give to interviewees looking for a dev or devops position is to tell me what a container is. Usually I get the "well it's like a vm but not a vm" and then I ask the followup which is to ask what are the differences between a container and vm? A lot of hemming and hawing but in the 6 or so years I've been interviewing people who are going to be using Docker, I have yet to hear the answer that I give when I interview, which is, "a container is a process." I usually leave it at that and wait to see if I get a confused look on their face. Then I say, "with cgroups and namespaces". It's really not that complicated (to explain anyways).

EDIT: I found this link at the bottom of the OP's blog that was even better at simplifying things, https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/10/what-even-is-a-container/
While they are not tested, anything other than accepting the idea kills the idea of software completely. There is lots of room to change details, but somehow copyright and the fact that the code is copied into computer memory needs to be reconciled.
My impression back when Google really took off was that other search engines were basing their relevance scores on page content and getting lots of spam in their results from pages that gamed the relevance algorithm. Then here comes Google using human judgment via PageRank and getting great results, because who would link to garbage?

Of course the web has changed since then. And I think you're right on in thinking that the signal-to-noise ratio of links has gone way down. But it may not be fair to chastise Google for not getting good results just from page content. Has anyone ever done a good job of information retrieval in an adversarial environment without leaning on human judgment?
Not OP, but literally the next clause in the sentence you quoted articulates how OP thinks barriers to eviction restrict supply
Making it harder to evict drives up incidents of bias. The equation is simple. If they pay, they stay. If they don't and I can get them out in 2 weeks and flip the unit, then whatever. Their security covers the month and it's in with the next tenant.

When it's harder to evict people start making judgement calls based on their perceptions. Some of those will be will be good judgment calls, but most won't be based on real data and good tenants will get passed up for bad reasons.
Kadane's Algorithm (Maximum Sum Subarray Problem)
Is this better? https://kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-hires-union-busting-f...
No it isn't! It's so easy and effective for keeping track of your work and backups.

If you want the absolute simplest way to use git, just setup an alias to do:

alias gcmp="git add -A && git commit && git push"

Now all you need to do is run gcmp every time you're ready to log the new state of your codebase. How could it be simpler?

git only becomes more complex as your needs become more complex. At which point I'd recommend using something like https://magit.vc/ which makes complex git operations far easier. The CLI can only take you so far effectively unfortunately.
The free cellular was really nice back when roaming charges outside of the US were crazy high. Checked my gmail occasionally with the experimental browser from Mexico for free. Though the screen lag was pretty bad.
If you're reading an article about the indicting the founder of a company and someone is posting on HN that it's a good time to short, then it's too late to short.
Congratulations on launch. We , Urbancompany.com, have launched similar services (and more services like plumbers, technicians as well) in India around 6 years back and few countries in Asia. Customer response has been really positive.
There are some types of games only a big studio with ample resources can make, like two current Blizzard titles: Overwatch and World of Warcraft.
Didn't Scala futures also inspire JS promises, or was that published beforehand?
I just love how good us humans can get at nichy distinction topics if we just keep at the task long enough (and start early).

We once had a film crew in our school trying to get some shots of us at the computer. I overheard them having big problems getting the CRT flicker free on camera and trying to find out the refresh rate.

I was maybe 12 at the time and just told them point blank it‘s 60Hz. They asked me how I knew and I just told them I could see it from the feel of the flicker. Was a good guess as well since it was one of the standard VESA frame rates.

The cameraman came back to that kid 3 minutes later, showing me the shutter set to exactly 59.7 Hz with a still very surprised face.
To what extent are the people acting out the same people who command enough respect to leave and take an elite team with them?

I would be surprised if there was more than, say, 30% overlap. IME people who act out generally aren't the most productive and generally don't command the most respect from the most productive people.
Some mentions in the article remind me of the Nora Ephron movie "Michael" starring John Travolta as an archangel. Numerous women mention that he smells like cookies, pie, something pleasant from youth, etc
Vitess is "a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL."

Come on, folks. Never put out a press release without a simple description about what your thing even is.
Because they wouldn't want to work for a company that tries to cover up and ignore culture that is sexist? It might lead to trying to find other jobs and seeing Blizzard on a resume in a negative connotation. Oh you worked for Blizzard? We need to do a check to see if you were one of the people supporting the Bill Cosby hotel room.
> The functional aspects mean every function has no side effect.

This is not accurate. Any function can print, can call a DB or a web service.

"Purity" (as in referentially transparent) is tangential to function programming. It can be achieved with other paradigms. That being said, functional programming does encourage it.
I believe it's:

git add -A

With a capital A.
You're conflating several issues here. I don't know (or care) what other influencers do.

YouTube is abhorrent, we all know that. However, Naomi Wu is trying to push the limit here. It is inevitable she bumped up against it. That side boob shot was completely staged and unnecessary. Did we need 20 seconds of her plugging in a cable? If I was the editor, I would be asking myself, "How is this sequence helping tell the story?" The answer is, its not.

The thought I'd like to leave you with is this:

Do you wear a bikini in your shop or when operating industrial equipment?

Because I wear a leather apron.
Norway, the biggest donor by far, has paid $1.2 bn over 10 years. In comparison, Brazil exported $35.2 bn of soybean products in 2020 alone. Seems like reneging on the deal is better from an economic perspective.

The big issue is that developed countries need to pay far more money to stop other countries' deforestation, but it won't happen because the payments will affect QoL of those living in developed countries and humans are inherently selfish.
The problem is if Disney blacklists her from its main franchises, Star Wars and Marvel and Pixar/Disney animation films, that is more than half of the box office these days.

The box office is I think 50% super hero films now.

That said I think they won't...
composition over inheritance...

Its the fragility of large inheritance hierarchies. They work well for very rigidly defined real world structures but not so well in most real-world usages.
I know we don't want to say this but there might be a possibility some of the talent secretly are indeed sexist (wouldn't surprise me in the gaming world) and thus actually prefer to stay at a place that preserves the male dominated culture. That might be part of the strategy behind activisions anti walkout move here. Just a thought (I don't know).
We're presently operating at a level of abstraction that makes it impossible to accept or dismiss anything.
Runic Games (https://www.runicgames.com/) was also founded by a bunch of ex-Blizzard folk. The Torchlight series of games are great, and hold well to their Diablo-like roots.
Oh, I’m absolutely buying it. Even more so after seeing Bob say that he’d be willing to send a digital copy with a physical purchase. I’ll just have to keep the physical copy at my office so that my partner doesn’t have to suffer more clutter in our small living space.
I think this problem is institutional rather than technical. But I could be wrong.
Is it really "equivalent"? I get both problems are about entropy in the universe but I would have thought managing the state of a black is harder, due to its suction into oblivion and whatnot.

I don't know much about if it's possible to make entangled particles stable somehow, or whether you could maybe just have a lot of them so you never run out even if a lot become untangled naturally. Doesn't quantum key exchange use entangled particles? So it must be possible to keep them stable for at least a little while.
Check out TheLazyPeon on YouTube who evaluates new MMORPG games all the time. Lots of great looking games coming out all the time but many of them never attract the critical mass of users to make them interesting.
> "At WilmerHale 1st year counsel makes $350,000. The 24 year old 1st year summer associate still in law school walks into the office in a $1,500 Burberry suit and makes $202,500 that year. Those Amazon workers they swindled out of higher wages make less than $30,000 a year."

The 200k figure is for a first-year associate who has graduated and passed the bar exam [1].

It's interesting to me that you can only hope to crack 300k at a top law firm after working for five years and going to law school for three. I.e., not until you're over 30.

The majority of SWEs at FAANG companies get there in two years. I.e., at age 24 [2]. Some might say the potential upside of becoming a partner outweighs higher early career SWE income, but I would retort that making director or VP are comparable accomplishments; not everyone makes partner.

Social status hasn't caught up to income, though; family and friends outside my tech circle still respect law and medicine more than engineering.

[1] https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/careers/lawyers/entry-level-or...

[2] levels.fyi
Off topic hijack - I'm trying to find a tool I feel was probably mentioned here at one point - a REPL for shell.

If I recall correctly, you would open up the repl and start typing a command, and the output would refresh as you typed. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Been a long turbulent road, lots of interest payments, lots of downvotes, but soon I will be able to close out my massive short position that I opened 10 months ago against this company.

Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24473631
She won't be getting any more roles as Black Widow, anyways.
I have a Kindle DX with cellular only but Amazon's trade in page is only offering me $5. How do I get the $70 off a Kindle Oasis plus $25 ebook credit that the verge article mentions? I never received an email from Amazon.
My guess is fossil fuel cars will remain competitive with electric cars (cost per mile wise), since the more demand for fossil fuels drop, the cheaper it gets to operate fossil fuel cars.

It really depends when the governments actually start banning fossil fuel cars. Or implements higher fossil fuel taxes, but I do not see a chance of that. And I do not see bans for new fossil fuel cars actually going into effect for at least 15 to 20 years.
I think some people like sharing knowledge. I keep a blog where I just write things that are interesting to me and maybe to others.

I used to have affiliate links because I was playing around with stuff, but don’t think any have worked in 10+ years.

I have no monetization plan or ever figure I’ll make money off the site. But it costs me nothing to run, so that’s ok.

There are many sites like this, but they are much harder to find because Google isn’t able to differentiate meaningful content from the facade of meaningful content (ie, SEO).

It’s like the degradation in academic papers where groups will reference each other like crazy to game rankings.
It's much worse than you realize.
Most of these rentals are cash flows that pay the debt service on a loan. Which most of the time is securitized.
Those securities are packaged up (sound familiar...?) and sold to investors. Who are these investors you ask? Mostly institutional investors who are responsible for.. your retirement, pensions, etc. So it's not the "rich landlord" that doesn't get his rent money, it's your next door neighbor who is a retired teacher living off the teachers pension.
no, please don't do that. only asking for an agenda while cc'ing everyone is passive aggressive.

a more congenial approach would be to provide your understanding of the agenda, perhaps as a question, and then asking if there's more or another alternative: "it sounds like we're going to collectively make a decision on [x]. is there anything else on the agenda for this meeting?" even better if you do this one-to-one and, if needed, suggest the meeting invite be updated accordingly.
Think with early kindle it was altel and sprint. Verizon buying altel fixed a lot of that issue. But there were still gaps.
Pretty damning email:

> In a March 2019 email included in the suit, Marvel Chief Counsel Dave Galluzzi said the release would be according to a traditional theatrical model, adding, “We understand that should the plan change, we would need to discuss this with you and come to an understanding as the deal is based on a series of (very large) box office bonuses.”

UPDATE: just realized that she's suing Disney and this quote is from a Marvel exec. Still bad, but it would be much worse if it had been a Disney exec.
Sounds like someone was finally smart enough to tackle "The Next 700 Libraries"[0] problem.

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1622123.1622147
They don’t really care that much about the American market anymore really. Something like 90% of League of Legends players are in China. The mobile gaming market is massive over there, hence Diablo Immortal.

China does not care about the West’s uproar over most things. Blizzard does not care if you buy Diablo 4, they care if the East buys Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal.
The beginning of this video https://youtu.be/VAhHkJQ3KgY has Tarn Adams speaking about this bug.
I second Godot. You can make cross platform/mobile games with it. The IDE itself is built with the engine which is rather cool.

Fair warning, the syntax is python inspired but not compatible, which most of the time that will trip you up.

My second suggestion, is for your first project to develop a top down 2D (instead of a classical side scroller), using itch.io assets. To get a nice jump feeling for a side scroller 2D game, you straight ahead have to start using a state machine and fiddle a bunch, no hand holding with that.
>I think this one is going to hurt more than usual.

I hope that's true. I hope COVID has woken up labor to the power it has if it organizes (see also the restaurant industry).
It's not a press release, it's a blog post targeted at people who use the software.
planetscaledb uses vitess under the scenes
I don't think I was ever offered a good salary for a Principal Engineer, but the highest end of the range I was given by recruiters that reached out to me was 150k total comp, which is actually lower than what I ended up accepting for a non-Principal Engineer position...so I suspect what I was told is not really "good" for Chicago right now.

Levels.fyi claims 155k base and 217k total comp as the median for a Solutions Architect in Chicago, about the closest analog I can find on their site.

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Solution-Architect/Greater-C...
> The big GPLv3 push and development - plenty of attacks on folks actually shipping product on GPLv2 and building communities around that model (which keeps software free but allows users of the software to do what they want with it pretty much including putting in devices that are locked down - cars / tivo's etc).

The users of the software are the owners of the devices. The distributors are the ones locking down the devices to prevent the users from modifying the software (often so that the distributors can control something else the users are doing).

GPL is about end-user freedom (as opposed to software distributor freedom). This is why GPLv3 exists.
This makes sense. A lot of stars expect a cut of box office revenues and negotiate that in. But the negotiations happened probably prior to the pandemic and the new situation probably was unthinkable.

Also the box office in general has been destroyed recently because of the pandemic. What would have likely been $+150M opening weekends and close to $1B totals revenue (or even more) are reduced to fractions of that.

EDIT: Even worse, it was actually to be released in May 2020, thus the negotiations for salary were likely done in 2017/2018 or possibly earlier. Disney+ wasn't even announced back then.
$1k per Day with This
Or my Xidel to work with html and json with XPath
Where's Al Gore? This is the one big company that can stop, if not reverse, global climate change.
The (very) few times I've submitted something, it was to share something I was enthusiastic about.

Following submission I will check the submission once myself and correct obvious mistakes. But other than that: why bother? The submission is now sufficiently intelligible, and the goal was not a perfect submission but to share something I came across.
That part had been achieved by submitting.

Sure, I'll check back eventually to see if an interesting discussion erupts. But there's no particular hey with that. Either the submission takes off, or it peters out with nary a comment. Either is fine.
At least Amazon had the foresight to use 3G. Our Nissan Leaf, which was built well after the earliest Kindles, came with GPRS in 2011 and it's been several years since AT&T turned those frequencies off. No free upgrades, or coupons, either: $250 for a new cell radio, please. We just had them remove the radio that was there, as Nissan's crap system never worked all that well anyway.

Regardless, neither Amazon nor Nissan can help that another company turned off those frequencies. Amazon has demonstrated more foresight and better customer service, however.
Is it something they need to be worried about? I mean Activision Blizzard has been shit all over the years, and kids still buy their games. On the other hand hiring a firm is not a proof of wrongdoing for the ongoing trial.
> I'm not understanding how housing that is in use can be considered supply available for others.

Well, look at what's happening in Vancouver (and a few other places, but Vancouver is just the most obvious example), and it will easily explain your confusion.

When it becomes too costly and problematic to deal with renting out your property to someone else, people who bought it as an investment will just hold onto it and let it sit empty[0]. It got bad enough, Vancouver ended up introducing a vacant property tax.

0. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/number-of-em...
Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease
I like Julia's standard string concat which subverts a Python user's intuition: "string1" * "string2" == "string1string2". Why? Because monad.