skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> screen real estate isn't a big factor in getting stuff done for me

Lately, I've been wondering if less screen real estate actually makes me a better programmer.

Being able to simultaneously have 6 files open across two large monitors with a lot of vertical real estate means that messy code doesn't hurt me as much. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only reason I do that is to facilitate dealing with messy code. I no longer have to build a stable mental model of it in my head, because it's reasonably convenient to just keep referring back to the original source code.

When I'm just on the laptop screen, though, and I can fit one file full width, or two if I've been good about keeping the line length below 90, I start having to keep things in my short term memory. Which means that, when it's not amenable to that, I'm relatively quick to get annoyed and refactor it for comprehensibility. I'd like to think that, with time, I'd eventually come to just write more comprehensible code in the first place.

A couple more data points here, obviously riddled with bias, come from my colleagues. Some have desktop computers with multiple 4K monitors, some have a laptop connected to a single external monitor, and some have that and also a habit of unplugging the computer and working on the front porch whenever the weather is nice. My impression is that the people in the first group tend to write the least comprehensible code.

Of course, the 4K monitor jocks also tend to work the fastest. But I think it's maybe a bit like when I used to work for building contractor. Nobody liked to be on the same crew as the person who worked the fastest.
Good afternoon! I don't think anyone can just give up such surveillance. Moreover, people in most cases become voluntary participants in such surveillance, adding their own cameras to monitor the house in the global network. This applies to those people who install Amazon security systems. I have set a home for myself https://ajax.systems/. I did not regret this choice, as it implied the confidentiality of my data. And what do you think about such security systems? I think that this is not an extra guard.
>> Intel lost a lot by playing games rather than letting engineers build the best stuff they could and cash out checks on it.

Which is strange since IIRC Intel engineers designed the PCI bus to replace ISA in spite of management saying that's for the PC makes to do. I would have thought they'd learn from that success, but apparently not.
It’s funny, I remember many such projects back when my title was “systems engineer”. I swear the appeal was always that company could spend $$ and get a working solution. It after all makes sense that a growing business would need more hardware. But the problem usually was a few terrible queries.

I swear the big benefit of cloud deployments is the teams ability to say “we tried throwing $$ at the problem, if we don’t want to spend $$$ we’ll need to do some work”. And have this convo play out over a day rather than months.
I for one enjoyed the rant
My set up is strikingly similar to yours! I keep a backup in my office instead of a friend’s home but my logic is the same as yours.
Look at the graph of post-vaccine deaths. It's vertical:

https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality
Children often asymptomatic, with a robust immune response (Covid Study Prepr.)
I mean yeah, obviously a single number can't distinguish different wealth distributions. That's not exactly a problem with the Gini coefficient, it's just a limitation you have to accept if you want to summarise the full distribution with a single number.

You have the same problem with any distribution that you want to summarise with a single number, e.g. colour temperature, CRI, house price indexes, rainfall measurements, etc. etc.
I suspect that the fundamental issue here is not even about hate speech, really, it's about labor. The court wants a human to write a message to the user saying "we took down your message/banned your account because [reasons]". Facebook doesn't want to have a human in the loop, because they have billions of users and would have to hire tens of thousands more people to monitor that.

I suspect that European governments will continue to badger FB (and Twitter, and Google, and etc.) on this until they up their headcount to deal with it using humans-in-the-loop. The question is whether or not social networks are actually profitable if you have human moderation. I suspect they are not.
Chinese state surveillance and control of citizens ' data is a real panopticon that should be abandoned, because it leads to a dystopian tyrannical regime that Orwell described in the book 1984. I believe that it is better to distance yourself as much as possible from social networks and blogs. Also, it is worth taking care that confidential videos from your home surveillance cameras do not fall into the hands of law enforcement officers. So I set myself home https://ajax.systems/. This is one hundred percent more reliable than Amazon.
And HP-PA and, later, MIPS (as a mainstream computer). MIPS survives in some routers.
Public schools are a type of private school in the UK, it’s not a direct mapping.
I always took lower-paying jobs, and used them to learn and leverage my skills.

It was fairly easy for me, as I was a high-school dropout with a GED.

I never made any of the stratospheric salaries that I hear about, these days, but always had what I needed, and have been able to retire relatively early (55, as opposed to 35, but not too shabby).
Where are you seeing that there is a labor surplus in Japan in recent years?

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/07/674548447/facing-critical-lab...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-workculture...

> As of 2019 Japan's unemployment rate was the lowest in the G7.

> Japan is now facing a shortage of labor caused by two major demographic problems: shrinking population because of a low fertility rate, which was 1.4 per woman in 2009, and replacement of the postwar generation which is the biggest population range who are now around retirement age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_market_of_Japan
Correct you explained better than I did.

Using a convention for custom classes helps distinguish from tw classes and other libraries, and allows stringent linting of css selectors to make sure the specificity issue is covered (without using !important on all tw and custom utilities which imho is a bad solution).

https://github.com/postcss/postcss-bem-linter
Good review and I am sure the Framwrmework laptop is promising. But about the specs. 8 years ago I upgrade my Sony Vaip laptop to 16gb. At that time this was not expensive. Why are we still having laptop at the tech level with 16gb. There are bo limitations in the DDR4 architecture, that is certain.
I'm from Ontario, Canada. I find that it's average people getting into the real estate game as a way of protecting their wealth against inflation and not wanting to play the stock market.

People blame internation investors, but that is only a small problem.

People say we should build more homes, but Ontario already has 10s of thousands of approved homes to build, that have not yet been started. Lack of skilled trades. Developers that are just sitting on the permits as they finish other projects.

I think the simple solution is an extra tax on people that own more than 2 homes. An even higher tax if you own more than 3 homes, and so on. Keep increasing the tax rate, on each home a person owns.
> They had made the 8008 and 8080, but those were awkward and ungainly chips meant to power calculators, of all things.

The 8008 was the (slower) single-chip implementation of the Datapoint 2200 terminal's processor. The DP 2200 was a serial terminal capable of running code on its own as a standalone machine, conceived in 1969 (originally as a drop-in replacement for the IBM 129 key punch), announced in 1970, and eventually introduced in 1971. Datapoint had commissioned the chip, but rejected the result, as it was slower than the discrete logic design, with rights for the chip-implementation remaining at Intel. This remarkable terminal has been with us ever since.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200
Flying toasters FTW!
> I do want to recognize that the Safari/WebKit team are working hard, and I do desperately want them to succeed! Chromium's domination is bad for everybody

I'm mainly a Safari supporter precisely because Chromium's domination is bad for everybody. I'm glad the author of this recognized that.
Gemstone/S is a "classic" Smalltalk-based object database developed by GemTalk Systems. On the other hand, Gemfire, courtesy of VMWare, seems to be something completely different: https://gemfire.docs.pivotal.io/96/gemfire/getting_started/g...

I have no idea how you can draw similarities between the two. One of them is basically a Smalltalk VM with automatic object persistence. The other is some kind of real-time Java-based distributed key/value data platform.
Gotta say, I can see the dissonance there: you use the specific ‘name’ for the country, but the two continents for the language.
The GP complained about shell quoting.
I didn't read them all, but most of the pros are things that don't matter to me (only charge at home), while the negatives tend to me important to me.

Also some of the pros are really negatives. OTA updates - I want my car to "just work" for the next 20 years. If there are updates it means you didn't do your job right. (the only exception is the map itself). I don't want your update to take away a feature I use (I don't think Tesla has done this, but others have and they can)
Is UPnP a Security Risk? (2019)
Worth pointing out that modern Greek has borrowed a lot of words from other languages, including the Romance languages. For instance, the color grey is 'γκρίζος/grizos', from the Romance language words for gray (the more ancient alternatives would be πολῐός/polios and φαιός/fios, with only the latter surviving to modern times). I assume 'γαλάζιο/galazio' is somehow related to Spanish/French azul/azur as well, but can't find any sources.
That's like trying to dunk on astronomers from the 1980s saying "there is no evidence yet of extrasolar planets".
Why? I understand the author's claims that many managers are not properly suited for their job, but the author never claims that spans of control (how many people a manager can manage) are changing as we move to a fully/more remote work future.

Are people finding that managers have become more efficient in remote settings?
In reality, it’s one way of implementing a tariff.
Loss of New Ideas: Potentially Long-Lasting Effects of Pandemic on Scientists
I enjoyed this article, thought it was a great read. Personally I'm in it for the potential co2 savings associated with the unnecessary commute (where applicable, e.g. software engineering).
Not to mention AMD was in the business when IBM mandated second/backup supply source to Intel, and that's how AMD began producing x86 chips like Intel.
slightly off topic, but my favorite example of the difference is that botanically, a green bean is a fruit.
> I dont think the spesific animal makes a difference, that would be rather hypocritical.

You say that like people aren't often hypocritical. If I raised and slaughtered dogs for food you'd better believe I'd be hearing about it from people who eat meat with every meal!
That’s a good a find. Back in the mid 90s I was a teenager with a PC but my parents wouldn’t let me go online, so I had to find nefarious ways of accessing the Internet. I had a 50’ phone line cable and had to go online when they weren’t home. One method I found was the Prodigy install CD would have to dial up to the Internet to download the list of servers. I found I could just minimize the installer and go online freely but only for 10 minutes. They ended up fixing this about a year later.
>> That school led to the VAX, iAPX432, and 80X86.

The MC68000 ISA was meant to run C code.
After taking a quick look at Mandos, I realized you might have some insight into how to solve something that's had me stumped for a while:

How might I handle the situation where a given device has been stolen, attacked and returned, without my having observed it happening?
I worked from home for around 15 years and I miss it tremendously. I think my productivity was much better when my "take a moment from work" diversions were exactly the things you described-- doing some laundry, washing some dishes, preparing lunch, etc.

I'm back in a traditional office setting. My diversions are mostly the "surf around on the Internet" variety. That's not to say random Internet use didn't happen when I worked at home, but I found I enjoyed random non-computer diversions far more than sitting viewing websites. Now that I'm in an office those non-computer diversions aren't an option. I just end up wasting time on websites when I need a break.

I also really, really miss working from my couch with my 15" laptop on my lap. It was vastly more comfortable than any desk setup I've ever had and discouraged me from hoarding physical articles in drawers, corners of a desk, etc.
Being an Apple chap, I have found that Time Machine works really well. I use a Synology 5-disk NAS. It has a ton of capacity, and allows me to increase capacity, if needed.

My important stuff is in the cloud.

I have a nightly "hot backup," that is a CC clone of my main and dev drives. It used to be every 4 hours, but I found that to be overkill.

I almost never need anything more than the "hot backup."
I used to change my screensaver every week or so. These days, I’m really happy with a slightly customised Flurry on macOS, or an clone on Linux.
https://every-layout.dev
These investors want tenants. The more supply, the more (ceteris paribus) rents drop. The more rents drop, the lower the rates of return on the home, meaning the asset is worth less and prices drop for those buying homes, too. Supply leads to lower rents and prices.

There's no magic way around these economic laws.

Of course if demand grows faster, then prices still go up. But in absence of supply increases it'd be even worse. Supply definitely helps.
I live in a largish college town that’s also a seasonal vacation spot. Our market seems driven very recently on remote workers, retirees, and semi-retired tech money leaving major cities buying houses with mostly. cash. Not everyone does this, but enough to drive prices higher.

The few AirBNBs I know of near me are basements or homes someone lives in. I don’t think it’s a huge driver.

Really the bottom line is people want to move here and our town needs to build more housing.
HashiCorp’s Mitchell Hashimoto on When to Step Down to the Job You Love
Who Owns My Name?
There was that time a bunch of Silicon Valley engineers went and fixed the healthcare.gov (Obamacare) site for the US govt after the original contractors did a terrible job. But then the first team were already contractors, so maybe the lesson there is, if your first external consultants don't work, just keep bringing in more?
The herb combination chart
While the solution proposed in that paper is theoretically better, its feasibility is super low given how fragmented and disparate these companies make the documents and how tough it would be to lobby for a standard. As such, for now, the diff route is the most realistic way to go.

We cannot dismiss a solution to status quo for a solution that assumes an imaginary state of affairs.
Could be a UI thing. When the screen is black you expect the monitor to be off and press the on-off switch.

Same thing with switching monitors off after work.

Though same screensavers would run for a while and then switch the monitor to power saving mode, effectively turning it off.
That's not correct. Why assume I read the NYT? I'm referring to data from places with very high vaccination rates but summer waves of equal/greater size to prior waves, like Iceland. The only way that's possible is if vaccination doesn't slow down transmission at all.

See for yourself. Google [iceland covid] and look at the graph. Cases go near vertical starting 16th July and are now the biggest wave they've ever had. Then click through to the vaccinations tab. They had vaccinated 70-75% of their population by that date (depending on whether you count first dose or second).

If 75% of the population are vaccinated yet case curves are bigger than before, the vaccination is not stopping transmission.

Edit: Also, recent data from the UK suggests effectiveness against infection has fallen to <20% in the over 50s. The calculations based on PHE data can be found here:

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/07/25/phe-data-shows-vaccine-e...

By the way, are you flagging all my posts? Do you realize that's against the rules? Nothing in my last three posts is a flaggable offence yet suddenly they are all flagged. Do you want me to do the same to you if so?
2x the extremely low rate for vaccinated people is still very low - hence the extra efforts needed to vaccinate people.
I'm near a very similar setup. Syncthing for file replication, storage/backup to ZFS TrueNAS, then a secondary backup to another ZFS system that's usually offline.

I wonder how OP does snapshot rotation.
A good concern given how firefox/Mozilla was co-opted to some extent
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/worried-about-nintendo-s...

> We've designed the OLED screen to aim for longevity as much as possible, but OLED displays can experience image retention if subjected to static visuals over a long period of time. However, users can take preventative measures to preserve the screen [by] utilizing features included in the Nintendo Switch systems by default, such as auto-brightness function to prevent the screen from getting too bright, and the auto-sleep function to go into 'auto sleep' mode after short periods of time.
To be frank, I demanded the numbers because you claimed to have it. If you don't have it, it is fine.
Personally, I’m going a bit batty with work from home. I get my stuff done - but it feels like pulling teeth against my procrastination and desire to relax in the spaces I’ve used for relaxation.

After a year and a half I’ve run out of rooms that aren’t already spoiled for productivity. This used to happen in the office but I’d simply migrate desks or work from the kitchen for a few weeks.

If I was single wfh would be a godsend to simply travel where I wanted to travel and work where I wanted to work. But my house has a 10 month old a nanny and a working spouse inside of 1500 sq ft.
I have worked for Intel sometime later, when they stopped being so elitist and actually started overdoing it in the other direction -- building everything else and the kitchen sink rather than focusing on their core competency.
Ah, yeah. For me that's ridiculous, but you both sounded reasonable in that situation; you offered and it sounds like he refused politely enough.
> If there's anything I am advocating for it is for them to do so willingly with the full understanding of risks and benefits rather than be forced to do so under duress from the state.

> There is a paper, submitted in April 2021, which estimates that the risk of thrombotic events for Pfizer recipients is even greater than for those who received AstraZeneca [1]. So if those over-cautious agencies suspended AstraZeneca over concerns about thrombosis, what would they have done to Pfizer, and what are we, the public, to think of it all?

> "What are you talking about? I am super happy for people to take their vaccines, the more the merrier."

Yep. That's totally what you're saying.
Can’t recall any burn-in with recent LED displays. AFAIK it is an issue with OLED ones still.
My take is that Facebook is a private corporation and they should be able to do whatever they want regarding moderation, whether that be less or more.

However. I see people arguing frequently that Facebook is the new de-facto public square. I disagree with this position, but assuming for a moment it's true, this is the thing that shouldn't be allowed. In my mind it is akin to a shopping mall that has grown so large that it has taken over the entire country, and if you're a citizen of the country you have to follow the rules of the shopping mall which include not being allowed to wear T-shirts with political slogans (or worse, only certain political slogans). If I lived in that shopping mall nation, I wouldn't be dithering about what t-shirts were allowed or disallowed; I'd be arguing for the destruction of the entire shopping mall.
My favorites were the "Totally Twisted" screen savers from Berkeley Systems - particularly the "Voyer" screen saver where you saw the silhouettes of all the people in their apartments doing crazy things at night.

https://shorturl.at/fDGTW
Worth reading just to "TIL" of a dockerfile linter: https://hadolint.github.io/hadolint/
`nslookup` shows that the IP addresses for ustream.tv and video.ibm.com are the same ones. I also recall looking at ISS live streams on ustream.tv a couple of years ago.
> What needs to happen is owner occupiers are given a competitive edge when bidding for a property over a landlord. Hence more taxes and disincentives for buy to let purchasers.

A vibrant rental market is a great thing for many reasons (e.g. look up any study on labour mobility). Not sure why we should have tax advantages for home owners and tax disadvantages for the rental market. It's certainly not equitable to the renter class. And there's tons of evidence that home owner tax advantages flow mostly to incumbent home owners who gain the proceeds from any tax advantages spent to help new home owners get into the market.
As long as fines are priced into the cost of doing shady business they'll be paid. Hopefully they will rise enough so that it's no longer profitable to risk them - we'll see then if the 'tariffs' as you call them will continue or will they stop
Some NCD X terminals used M88k CPUs.
AMA by Docz Maintainer – Thoughts on OSS, Community – Going Live Now
Folks Pedro and Renato of Docz Current doing Reddit styled AMA for Reactjs and Dev Community using it .

Please join if you wanted to ask them Questions about Project and Journey;

Why should you join?
1) Docz is on a mission to create the best tool to create fantastic documentation..
Documentation plays a huge role in activating a community around the project and driving usage and contributors.
Docz It gives you total freedom to create your docs, and you can see changes live while you write them. It combines the readability of markdown and the power of react components.

https://aviyel.com/post/473/upcoming-event-live-ama-with-ped...
The closest equivalent for macro processors is probably ML/I[0]. It’s implemented in macros[1]; you port it by defining macros that map it to a high level language or assembly language. William Waite’s Stage2[2], Robert Dewar’s Macro SPITBOL[3], and Macro SNOBOL4[4] are some other examples of systems implemented in macros.

[0] http://www.ml1.org.uk/index.html

[1] http://www.ml1.org.uk/implementation.html

[2] https://github.com/crandylb/stage2-1

[3] https://github.com/spitbol

[4] https://www.snobol4.org/csnobol4/curr/
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney over Streaming of Black Widow
There's also Cassowaries, possibly the closest thing you can get to the experience of being chased by the Jurassic Park velociraptors.