skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the point here is that after Mongol period Russia started to collide in 15xx with Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with the issue culminating in Polish invasion of 1610 resulting in Moscow capture and putting up Polish Prince as Tsar. It came pretty close to Russia just becoming a satellite province/vassal state of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. During the 16xx Swedish Empire is rising and is going south and east and firmly cutting Russia from Baltic Sea and taking a bunch of North West territories. In the second half of 16xx the slowing down Russia was no match for modern Sweden. Without Peter the Great's modernization (suppose his sister Sophia's coup succeeded) of Russia and winning the war with Sweden as a result,
Russia would have most probably lost a lot of territories (including core territories like Novgorod and Moscow regions) in the next few decades to Sweden and Poland and, instead of becoming Russian Empire, would be reduced to some small dukedom(s) on the Eastern edges of Europe, and with probable forced Catholicization it would basically cease to exist as a familiar Russian state.
I’ve never done A/B testing, but is it normal to have the control group and the treatment group historically be so different?

The historical difference in average is much larger than the after treatment. Can those groups even be compared after treatment?
I was once hired to do exactly that - develop real software to replace the weird hacks those life science folk built by themselves. Boy were they happy after that. So I guess your mileage will vary by lots.
I started reverse engineering a game about 3 months ago with no prior experience. It is insanely difficult. I like to think that I have very good pattern recognition and investigative skills, I find most problems surmountable given enough time. But I'm barely making any progress and am tearing my hair out just to find tiny breadcrumbs of clues. Maybe this is one of those things where picking up a few books is imperative.

In software development, we share massive amounts of information, and there's always a premade tool out there that does what you need and will work the first time. This isn't my experience in the reverse engineering world. Information is sparse, seems to be kept private, and there's not always a tool that does what you want. Even if there is, good luck getting it to work.
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GIMP needs a major user-interface overhaul like Edward Snowden said on Twitter: https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1416778909358731266?lang=...
I was fresh out of high school and decided to learn computers while I waited for the University entrance exam results. I joined the course about a month late but I was determined to catch up. One day I was alone in the lab trying to run a QBasic code I had written. Everything was Ok except for one line. The interpreter kept pointing to that line and I just didn't get why. I went over my text books several times, and the syntax I had used was correct.

After about an hour, I got depressed and my thoughts went all over the place. "It's karma! You see that 'little' lie you told a couple of years ago about not being responsible for knocking moms pot of soup over? Well, the spirits are paying you back now. Your code is fine boy. But your sins cause it not to work. Maybe you should confess when you get home". Luckily for me, a friend walked into the lab and saw me slouched and with a long face. "What are you coding?" I pointed to the offending line. He looked at it for a few seconds and said "it seems fine... Ah! line 1O should be 10." He corrected it, pressed Shift + F5 and like magic it worked. Now whenever I write code I always put a slash across the zero to indicate it's 0 and not O.
I remember that and that was exactly my feeling. After watching this I just could not unsee them anymore.

It was the perfect TIL for me long time ago (when I didn't know what TIL would have stood for).
Why do we need physical movement for abstract thinking?
Dr. Mario World Mobile Game Shutting Down from November First
Totally. I use this analogy where if photoshop did not have this low-code interface and all artists have to do was program strokes code by code, how many artists who couldn't learn or understand "coding" would be left out?

IMO Bubble is only ms-paint+ (entry point lowcode) and Photoshop (or Figma) is yet to hit the market.
When these long-winded issues arise, you need to call people up. Email clearly isn't working.

You'd be surprised (or not) by the difference verbal communication makes, not only do your verbal expressions translate better, but the tone of voice may (or not) instill trust in the person on the other end.
There is a relatively new page to install OCaml that works really well (on Linux at least) https://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/up_and_running.html. As the sibling mentionned, compiling is mostly done through dune https://github.com/ocaml/dune
In my case, I worked in offices for over 30 years. I was pretty damn productive (at least, I didn’t get fired, and was steadily promoted, so I guess I did OK). For the first dozen years, it was “shirt and tie.” I learned to keep a couple of suits up to date; even after going “business casual” (I never worked in jeans and T-shirt).

Since working from home for almost the last 4 years, my productivity has gone stratospheric. It’s freaking amazing.

I still maintain a lot of personal “office discipline,” like dressing in jeans and a button-down shirt, even though I may not be going out anywhere. I also limit breaks (but I take them whenever I want, and sometimes, they may be an hour or so).

I work whenever I want. Early morning is my most productive time. I often get more done by 8:30AM, than I used to get done all day, in the office (8:30 was my usual starting time).

But not everyone is able to work this way. I don’t have small children (if you don’t count the cats), and I spend just about every second of work time, coding.

I have a dedicated office space, with a standing desk. No sitting on the couch, with a laptop. No Starbucks tables. My equipment is top-notch. I have a monitor that extends across my entire desk. I have a decent laptop, but its screen seems ridiculously small. My next laptop will be even smaller. I’m spoiled rotten.

I have tremendous self-discipline; partly because I’m a high-school dropout with a GED, and have had to fight for Every. Damn. Thing. in my career. I’ve never had one blessed thing handed to me. It was infuriating, but it taught me to stay disciplined, focused and productive; despite almost ceaseless adversity. Not everyone’s experience, but it made me who I am today.

I have no idea if things would be better for me by now, if I’d had a smoother road. I could easily see myself “going to fat,” so to speak. I probably would not have been so well-prepared for at-home work.

But that was just my experience. YMMV.
Just FYI "per-say" should be "per se" - Latin for "by itself."
Simone Biles Says She Wasn’t in Right Place Mentally During Olympic Final
> The reason Neville had returned to the island in the first place was a letter from the local council warning this house had been damaged by a storm, but an engineer’s report found that the house was most likely brought down by mechanical means.

There's a high chance both are true. 8 years left untended on a very weather-exposed coast - I'm a little further down the same coast, and I can only imagine the state it'd be in.

I don't want this to sound like victim-blaming, but perhaps trying to imagine how things would progress to a point where anyone thought demolishing it was the right thing to do. Imagine getting your neighbours car towed off their own property simply because you don't like it - I think that's what most of us are picturing. Now imagine it's a rusting shell sat on four rotting, flat tyres. Perhaps burnt out, perhaps a few windows missing, perhaps bits of roof missing - we do get the odd hurricane. This is not an unrealistic picture of a house that's been left to weather the full fury of the Atlantic for 8 years. All it takes is to lose a bit of roof or a bit of glass, and the damage will snowball quickly.

I'm not saying the owner deserved it. But there's a good possibility the house itself deserved it. And part of the self-reliance of isolated islands is that the community as a whole tends to take care of what needs to be done. I dare say if he'd been resident they would have banded together to help with repairs - that tight-knit community goes both ways.

Based on being the only hotel on the island, this[0] appears to be the hotel in question. I read the space the house was in was being used as parking for the hotel, and the buildings either side of it don't look new - so I'm assuming the space is the turn-around between the hotel and the shore. You can see[1] it's a very prominent place in 'town' to be left dilapidated. Again, not trying to excuse anyone, but just trying to wrap my head around their motivations.

[0] https://www.derryjournal.com/business/pictures-one-most-remo...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@55.2651726,-8.2261543,64m
That makes a lot of sense to me. On average, the specific kind of love and care a parent provides to their child is a one way street, meant to be paid forward.

Of course care of an elderly parent can reverse this relationship, but that's less universal than the standard parent/child relationship.
There's also some low-hanging fruit if someone wants to contribute. E.g. the developer docs are rather outdated. I recently implemented AMD FSR as a Gimp plugin but all the docs led to code that resulted in a slew of deprecation warnings. Also poor performance and some thing just not working right at all (tile cache). I kinda got frustrated with it and dropped the gimp parts altogether, but if I had more time, it shouldn't be hard to figure out and maybe improve the docs or write an up to date tutorial.
Should they move if they switch jobs? What if their spouse works at the other side of the city?
Apparently, the author does not have children.
Yeah, I live somewhere that's very cheap indeed by the standards of most people reading this thread. I spend about USD 150 a month on a small office and it's brilliant.

Get all the benefits of office space (i.e., time out of the house, different mental space) with none of the downsides. I've got a couple of spare desks, so if I'm working on something with other people, or just wanna have friends hang out and work it's all doable.
For all the upsides of working remotely and especially for 100% remote I think the downside is it can become very transactional. Write code for x hours, the clock ticks to 6pm and you leave to do something else. I'm not saying everyone has to have a great passion for their work and ultimately we're all doing it to put food on the table but it seems to me that it's a recipe for becoming disillusioned with it all.
You don't have to be great friends with your colleagues but if you're enjoying your work or the atmosphere of work, having a chat to people over lunch, going to pub every now and then, the odd team pizza trip or whatever, then after 10 years you may still be enjoying it. At the very least it breaks up the days so they aren't all the same. But clocking on at 9am to write code for 8 hours while talking to a moving image of someone's face once a day is a recipe for hating it in the long term.
And will the product management figure out what the product is supposed to do at the end?
Judges Say Web Design Is ‘Pure Speech’ and That the State Can Compel It Anyway
Hey Jacob! I am discovering all theses tools myself (I joined PhotoRoom 5 weeks ago and created the web tool of this post).

We're indeed mobile first but plan to go on the web more aggressively in the coming weeks. Our mobile app has a lot of editing features, effects, touch retouch/inpaiting and interactive segmentation (subject selection, scribbles) just like Clipping Magic.

I also love competition even if we try not to look to much at it and just roll with our user feedback and requests.

PS: I've used Vector Magic in the past, amazing tool :) Also used https://www.pngtosvg.com/ which works really well besides the very hacky-look webpage.
> Trust me, keep work and friends separated.

That's what you do by changing jobs. When you move on to the next company, those guys you met on the job become just "out of work friends".
What is your business model? How are you planning to generate revenue?
A bit light on the technical details that matter (i.e. the actual metrics added, how they went from data to conclusions, exactly why Honeycomb helped), this reads a bit like an advert targetting managers with purchasing power. Is it a report from attending a talk? That might make sense at least.
Who pays for the interesting structures, ponds, waterfalls, and arenas? It ultimately always boils down to where does the money come from -- think of "data organising" as the circulatory system of an extremely complex, multi layered, and global economy. It's not the most efficient and a lot of people learn to live in the cracks getting paid for doing virtually nothing, but it's necessary if we want to continue to create.

Also: if people were interested in endless artificial ponds, waterfalls, and interesting structures, and there was any money to be made in it (vs the cost of building them), there would probably be a market for it. I suspect not many people are interested, and they'd rather protect what nature already has.
> Watch [...] the post murder cover up from Death Lends a Hand.

Personally, I find the projection on the sunglasses a bit kitschy.
FreeDOS also runs GEM as in OpenGEM. http://www.opendawn.com/opengem/

https://www.freedos.org/

FreeDOS is for those who don't trust Windows and only want to run DOS apps. FreeDOS runs fine on older PCs.
I think these two things are not examples of “culture fit”, but rather common work requirements. I don’t think there’s a company hiring specifically people that have negative attitude about the work they do and who are disrespectful to clients.

In my opinion, evaluation of culture fit is about things that are specific to the company, not “good” vs “bad”, but rather “we do this way, although other ways might be valid in other companies” and “we don’t do this way, although doing so in other companies has merit”.

For example, “we work as a family”. Surely work in this kind of company might bring more joy to some people, but will degrade work-life balance. Other company might have a culture of “work-life balance”, and if observed strictly, it will reduce the quality of team work, but will be much better long term for mental health of employees.

Both cultures are possible, and there are certainly people with strong preference for one culture or the other. I think it is crucial to articulate what kind of culture you have in your company, and select candidates who fit.
Every building that has never collapsed on you
You can rephrase what you said as "This approach is better for low complexity apps", and in my experience, that's probably 80% of what businesses need.
I can talk about one of the low code/no code product: Power Platform. It is a Microsoft’s low-code/no-code platform that let users create apps, develop workflows, develop chat and desktop bots and also use commoditized AI models. The platform is now in business since 4+ years and I know many Fortune 100 companies who have got 5000+ apps - both for internal org and for business with external partners, subcontractors etc. It is a massive thing. A simple license gets you a storage space in cloud, works with Teams, Office 365, Sharepoint etc and also apps thus developed (all using no code/low code approach) can scale (without rewriting using code) to talk to Microsoft’s business apps aka Dynamics 365 and 400+ other systems (inc Oracle etc)

I feel the view of ‘no code / low code’ is a bit primitive here. It used to be like that but last 3/4 years, the entire thing paradigm has changed fundamentally.
I own a Varmilo VA88M and I would like to replace the spacebar with a smaller one to have a bigger left alt key, similar to the MBP keyboard.

I've already googled for a shorter spacebar keycap, but without luck.

Does anybody have a suggestion?
On the opposite side, I found Microsoft Azure to be one of the biggest sources of spam on the internet. I have blocked them completely on my private mail server.
Yeah that sounds ugly! Personally I don’t think could stand that either. You need time to be able to shut off from the social hubbub.
>Apple could make Rosetta 2 run on iOS devices

From what I understand, M1 Macs have specialised hardware that allows them to emulate x64 with good performance. It's not just software.
This feels like the one valid case to me. Non technical founder prototypes with no code until they can validate their idea and raise and then completely re writes.

I'm guessing many people would get this right up until the last step and see how much juice they could squeeze out of the prototype which I would imagine could be fatal in many cases.

I still wouldn't suggest this route for anyone.
The time limitations is just sad. Seems like the UX is pretty good but having a 24 hour auto-archive just makes me apprehensive to ever use them.
The latter is a better style anyway. It takes more lines, but it doesn't require realignment when renaming. Not to mention that getting the variable indent alignment can require fighting the editor. One common feature is to delete spaces back to the previous tab stop. When not aligning things, that feature is handy and exactly what I want the editor to do. But for realignment, it's a big pain. Removing a single leading space might require hitting delete and then pressing space 3 times. You might even need to do that when adding spaces because it's easy too overshoot by a single character and have to move backwards to correct it.
Oh please. It was the commercial spammers that destroyed email as a useful communication medium. Not sending all sorts of useless notifications is just another defence mechanism against those a*holes. Once in a while I still get an undeliverable notification for Chinese spam; they just configured my personal email as their return address, and some stupid mail server decided to tell me it couldn't accept the email. Great job guys, now you're spamming innocent bystanders!

So yes, telling people that their spam-load was accepted, and then just not delivering it, seems perfectly fine to me. It's a tough world out there, and it was made that way by precisely the kind of people that need "unsubscribe" links in their emails to begin with. I feel no sympathy for him.

These days communication uses web forms, Teams, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, or any other electronic mechanism that isn't email. They are all regulated by their respective owners, so they have a slightly better chance of surviving the onslaught of the advertisers. Email works fine for contact with friends and family, but not for spam, and that's how it should be.
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Construction doesn't pay that well in most parts of the world.
This.

I try to get on my BMX as often as possible after work. Either I'm completely concentrated on riding or there will be pain. After 30-60 minutes everything work related is gone.

Also, if you are not on-call, disable work related stuff on your phone (slack, work email, etc.).

One more thing which I consider helpful is using the last 5-15 minutes in the office to write down ideas or problems related to work which I can pick up the next day.
Why are Covid cases falling in the UK?
Fine. Single Puny Storage.
I don't think it started with Atatürk at all. The Ottomans were trying to follow a more European model for quite some time before WW1. Hence their close relation with Germany and folly of entering WW1.
Speaking as someone who has been running MTAs for more than 15 years - Microsoft has been breaking e-mail for years. They are an order of magnitude more awful than anyone else, and no one should have their e-mail with them for any reason.

See also (recent): https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/ho...
Ah my previous planet device was stolen a few weeks after I received it. I hardly had a chance of using it.

The Slide looks more like a usable phone indeed. I never tried Linux on the previous one (which was my plan); with Linux I guess the 5g doesn't work? Anyone knows if wifi works with Linux on the Gemini or what works and what doesn't? For me to have a usable device, it would need to run Linux for somme things; I'm fine with Android for all phone user, but Linux with Wifi would be needed to do anything useful besides that.

If there would are (closed source) drivers for the 5g chip for Linux then this would be the 3rd new Linux phone on the market?
Vaporwave.
> Not relationship-building, just pure "shut up and let me sit down and get my work done."

It's entirely possible to build relationships remotely.

I'm sort of a job hopper and also work 80% remotely on average, with two-week-long visits to the office. Throughout the years I always stayed in touch with at least one person from the previous projects.

Most of these relationships were built entirely remotely and were much stronger than those made during my time at the office.

It's likely a question of preference, but it's not like someone working remotely has to necessarily have a "business only" approach.
I believe that's exactly the sentiment behind the term "race traitor."
You think every single person in life sciences is smarter than every single developer?

Let me guess, you are one of the brilliant ones.

I've met some dim people in science research tracks.
time window functions exist in SQL now and are great.
Is it not possible to put a newer Android on it yourself? Because you could run Linux on it as well?
Do you see where the author is coming from? I believe he is a developer (or even junior) that has a scrum master or some kind of manager and has tasks and sprint points assigned to him. If he does not finish his "commitment" in points in their designated time, people will ask him "why it took so long?" and maybe put him on improvement plan.

Productivity is the most important for him and people like him, because that is expected from him and he is measured against that. No one is going to nag about him not paying attention in one or the other meeting. He will get people nagging when he does not deliver.

He dislikes things that get in a way of what he is supposed to do. Then we all know you cannot say you did not made your commitment because you had to attend 10 meetings, this will be taken as making up excuses.
This is why we vertically integrated most of our tool chain. Deploying our software involves emailing a customer a link to a zip file or importing a json configuration file for them in a web portal.

A vast majority of our day is spent focusing on the business end.
> Pirius said, "What do you mean, fakes?"

> "He's a parasite. He mimics the workers here. He runs around with data desks, he sleeps in their dormitory rooms, he eats their food. It's a common pattern in communities like this. The genuine clerks are busy with their own tasks -- and here, you aren't supposed to ask questions anyhow. So Tek gets away with it. He's just like a genuine clerk. Except that you don't do anything useful, do you, Tek?"

This is from an SF book from Baxter, characters went to a community of humans to gather information about something. The excerpt stayed on my mind because it relates to other questions (alienation, at what point is work still work if it's so far removed from the first objective (yak shaving), is someone creating its own useless workload a parasite, etc.).
5/mo digitalOcean instance should handle 100/req fine
That’s awesome to read. I remember taking half a week before going to black hat in las vegas, and staying alone is some off the strip hotel. The amount of work I would crush was absurd, managed to finish a bunch of projects. I really miss these opportunities to spend a week somewhere else alone to have time to focus on what I want.