skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 5. Nobody has an actual alternative.

Many of the campaigners aren't actually arguing against the idea of a tunnel. They're arguing that the tunnel should be longer. The current 2-mile design has it's portals being constructed within the world heritage site, which will involve huge cuttings and excavation which will obviously be disruptive to the archaeology.
That is the essence of GTD - your head is for doing, not for storing, so get it out of yer head and into a "trusted system".
Now lets join as we prepare for the 2% celebration, about 2041.
ECHELON is way worse then Pegasus though, cause ECHELON / PRISM / whatever you don't even need spyware on your phone or to be targeted to be scooped up in their net.
This is what is going to burst the social media bubble.
From their latest earnings release [0], they had 61.880 billion dollars in revenue for the second quarter and 144,056 employees so a simple annualization of that quarter would put them at 1.718 million dollars in revenue per employee.

[0]: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q2_alphabet_earnings...
Setting up FFXIV parser is also annoying on Linux
You got it backwards on “I adapt to whatever shape font has” though.

The Mac rendering while a little less sharp means letters always have roughly the same shape, as intended by the typeface authors, while the Windows anti-aliasing distorts them unpredictably depending on where and which pixels they fall onto. Two ‘a’s might look slightly different within the same word because they fall into different alignments on the pixel grid. This is what gives it the wonky appearance.
Hospitals, Hackers, Crypto and Chaos
> Probably what's holding it back the most, in my case, is that it doesn't have FUSE or it's own proper file browser.

It does have FUSE: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/docs/fuse.md

For hosting websites, there are quite a few platforms out there that automate the whole deployment lifecycle (including DNSLink), a popular one is Fleek https://fleek.co/hosting/.
> To the extent that taste-makers and corporate boards determine what we want (which I suppose they partially do)

Maybe they dont determine what we want but they certainly define the options available.
Mildly interesting: I wanted to see how their newsletter signup flow worked, but on inputting my email and clicking "sign up" I get a jquery $.ajax error. I wonder if they monitor their signups at all (and how long it's been broken).
Then again I have those ecotank things, and dear lord, it needs 3 prints before it makes a clear print. I did the cleaning/calibration etc, doesn't matter.
It's draft printing mode is apparently a while different way of printing, because that's broken beyond repair.
Sadly, this isn't even slightly surprising. The conservative party currently holding federal power, here are lead by religious zealots who don't practise their own teachings of compassion. It very common to see minorities mistreated and demonised in order to distract the populace from increasingly Orwellian "security" and "safety" measures, and blatant corruption is rife.
It looks very nice. Only thing I am worried about is how you plan to make it sustainable. I don't fancy spending time filling a profile for everything to disappear in a few months.
Most visited sites on the web - Alexa
Still looking for laptops with better screen brightness so I can actually work from the beach :)
What are the odds of Proton helping to improve Mac gaming?

Will those improvements to Wine trickle through to the Mac eventually or they too linux-specific ? (I'm not that up-to-date with all the graphics APIs they all have nowadays, and I assume that's a factor)
HaackerRank is now 3 hard problems in 1.5 hours. That's not testing anything other than a thousand hours memorizing leetcode.
Only because the owners of Solaris, HP-UX, AIX decided to outsource part of their UNIX development costs to Linux on one side, while others decided they wanted a free beer POSIX implementation to avoid paying for UNIX.

Except gaming culture is all about IP, something that FOSS don't seem to grasp on their quest for freedom über alles.
Agree. Updated os (and probably drivers) to support specific hardware seems easier to maintain.

Windows get the first class on drivers and it's update due to market share. If this one success we may find vendors to start focusing drivers for steam os after windows.
This happens in the city building game Cities Skylines if you zone and build huge residential zones all at once. All the people move in a short period of time, have kids, and finally die causing a massive death wave. Then, their kids cause an even bigger death wave. Eventually everyone gets sick and dies because the dead bodies hanging around make people even more sick.

The solution is to zone and build more slowly, spreading out the population’s age over time.

Took years of playing the game to figure out what was going on!

https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Healthcare#Deathwave
same deal here, quite worthless. Also takes 3 prints before it's readable. Especially irritating for barcodes/qr codes.
Because if you have laptops with Nvidia Optimus, distros like pop_os make your life much easier since nvidia doesn't give two shits about Optimus on linux, hence the famous "nvidia, f*ck you!" quote from Linus Torvalds.

Or if you have a brand new laptop with the latest Ryzen CPUs and the latest Radeon 6800M GPU with switchable graphics then you absolutely need a distro with the latest kernel to have a good experience on this new hardware.
Why is this downvoted???
how many jews?
I don't shy away from the technical discussions peronsally. and i dig into the details - i want to see the code, data structures etc. If i can get access to test every system and try to break it i will.

However the documentation of those things at that level of detail is not for the architecht.. the interfaces and dependencies and how they align (or do not) seem more the documentation they should be working on. my powerpoints may be high level but they must be accurate and comply with the true technical and business details and edgecases.

IMHO the fewer slides and simpler diagrams that can still acurately do this (accuratly enough for decision to be made and to give freedom of movement to both IT and business stakeholders) the better - thats sort of the definition of good architecture in a way.

But its a role that is not always needed and the more integrated IT and the business are and the more they understand each other the less its required.. as they will mirror each other natrually given the chance.

EDIT: to be clear i dont "work" in powerpoint.. but i do copy and paste into it to increase engagement and remove barriers :) I "work" mostly in text files, databases and visualisation tools.. i want to communicate with each stakeholder in their preferred format if possible.

Whenever there is a blocker i will happily try to mock up a solution in whatever tool that team is using, it dont default to fixing others problems though, i get enough shit for sticking my nose in as it is. this jobs requires keeping as many people as possible on side, burning bridges like that is risky business
Not from the US, but here is how it looks to me:

Officers must not only dodge bullets, they also must expect to be shot in the back by public officials wanting to build a career by appeasing a loud part of the public based on emotional search for some lost symbolism that the US once had.
Having used win98 back on a Pentium 200 I was flabbergasted by how sluggish and prone to delay it was. Coming from AmigaOS there were jarring delays everywhere, even for something as simple as opening the Start Menu. God forbid I set an jpg wallpaper, Active Desktop murdered performance.
A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important
Actually I meant TC is 40-50% of Bay Area TC. Thanks for pointing out TC vs salary. I can’t edit my original comment.
Goes for just about any language tbh.
Hundred million+ years ago the solar forcing was weaker and circumstances quite different:

https://skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm

"Another important factor is the sun. During the Ordovician, it would have been several percent dimmer according to established nuclear models of main sequence stars. Surprisingly, this raises the CO2 threshold for glaciation to a staggering 3000 ppmv or so. This also explains (along with the logarithmic forcing effect of CO2) why a runaway greenhouse didn't occur: with a dimmer sun, high CO2 is necessary to stop the Earth freezing over."

Civilization is dependent on the observed equalization of planetary energy input-output present for the past 10 000 years, along with stable CO2 levels. Both temperature and CO2 concentrations are breaking out of that envelope since 1930's, thus challenging poweful one-way threshold effects that will further release yet more greenhouse gases. Just this time without human intervention. It's kind of like lighting the fuse of a gigantic environmental bomb.
> The worlds brain trust is moving away from Apple

Not really, the M1 is a smashing success with most techies. People seem to like the phones too. The watches are doing really well too. Oh, and the tablets are really popular also. Even with techies.

There seems to be a group of people sworn never to be corrupted by the evil Apple and their evil ways. I first saw it on /., and the same group has been ringing out death knells for Apple ever since.
Indeed, and it's worth remembering that compressed air - much like gears and belts, or water and other hydraulic fluids - is a perfectly good way of moving power across distances. Electricity has a lot of nice properties, but it's not perfect for every application.

Beyond hand tools, I think plenty of industrial manufacturing machines, including CNC machines, use compressed air as the source of primary "work" power.
*geese

https://mobile.twitter.com/samuelfine/status/118132120015861...
What kind of hardware do you run? Mechanical drive?

I have an ancient machine but with SSD, Windows 10 is still snappy.
I don't think it is that way for multiple reasons. One of them is that this tragedy is at global scale, and most poor countries don't even have access to enough vaccines even now. You can search for government comments from countries from South Asia and South-East Asia e.g. India, Indonesia etc on the subject of orphans due to COVID.
Social was huge at Google, but mostly in integrations. Google+ was not hiring at remotely the same scale as gcp.
You know that it's pretty easy for senior engineers take make >$500k at FAANG atm, right?

Can you share some things in the past that were easy money that netted you $1.5M in a year? I'm genuinely curious.

I used to have a ton of ideas that I thought if I did everything right I could've maybe made $300-600k. But then you can just get that as a paycheck at FAANG.

None of my ideas ever were easy and could realistically generate more than that. Plus there was always a risk they would generate $0.
My lesson learned was "don't listen to what they say, watch what they do". As in, don't trust them to tell you what they're looking for, understand that figuring out what they're actually testing is also part of the screening process.

I don't see a lot of focus on the hide-the-ball aspect of interviews, but is something I've experienced a few times and bothers me way more than anything else.

The clearest time this happened I was told the company was big on pair programming, so I'd be doing a pair programming session. It turns out they meant I'd be tested on whether I could finish a coding exercise in the allotted time with someone watching. There was zero "pair programming" of any kind involved and time spent on collaboration counted against me.
To be fair, Valve already has a way to control mostly what is used by Steam and the game. They have their own runtime that uses (or can, can't remember if it's always the case) containers to create a controlled environment.

I have had issues sometimes with library/drivers versions on my rolling release preventing me from running everything natively, but each time using the runtime version of Steam allowed me to play.

They have information about it all over the place, I can't find exactly the page I wanted, but here[0] is some more information about it from their repository.

[0] : https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/blob/master/d...
> Google caliber, whatever that means

It means the sort of people for whom Golang was designed.
> it is mainly to make iOS/macOS apps

You are talking about developers using a Mac, who also develop for the Mac, as if its this tiny corner case that isn't important. Maybe thats true. But it should be really important for Apple that those developers target the Mac, thats how Apple gets 3rd party software.
> It's pretty hard to top "images were a mistake," but you get extra points in the lightning round if you work in a reference to Ted Nelson.

I really can't wait for the HN rant about how Geminispace has turned into Reddit and now we need to rebuild the web on an even stricter protocol.
To counter what others are saying, switching to a samsung phone was a breeze and the camera is better. I don't have a gazillion iphone accessories so it helped. My take is: phones have peaked in their potential years ago, it's no longer 2012 and people can't keep rationalizing their purchases on technical superiority. Most people i meet who own iphones are heavily into the cult of the brand to the point where they 'll feel the need to comment about phones when they see you don't have one (for me phones are never a subject i'd bring up). My take is iphones are like LV bags: there is a lot of social signaling around phones and a lot of hyperbole over the superiority of apple to the point where it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And unlike other signaling purhcases like cars, these are actually affordable. That's why , i think, phone sales are higher than their other products: cause you carry the phone everywhere. I like iphones; but i ve become accustomed to the freedom of androids now which i value more.
Could you train a ML model that fills in the gaps in the fluid simulation like they do in ray tracing?
>Gates correctly recognized that browsers were the last app we’d learn how to use, that so much of the software to come would be browser-based SaaS.

Is it really the correct context for Gates' statement of "You just learn one thing, and that’s the browser"? I really don't think browser-run software was a thing for long while yet. I thought he meant the initial internet hype as the source of -information-.
My exp with linux gaming is that for sim racing its not possible. To my surprise the logitech wheel did not work, and thus forced me to play Assetto Corsa on Windows.
You can even dig up 16th century dictionaries that were more nuanced than that. (Woman literally meant married one then. Maiden was used for unmarried. Wife came later.)
Current dictionaries mix the terms by the way.

Sterile women were still women. As typically were some other accidents of nature like testosterone-resistant males.

Language changes over time, and so we assigned the word woman recently more to a gender rather than social status or sex.

Polish is more permissive in this particular "pregnant woman" alleged issue, we have a gendered noun equivalent "pregnant" or long form "woman in pregnancy". Though nobody is yet using form "man in pregnancy" or "pregnant man" except as a joke.
The only thing I'm missing: streaming with audio from discord. If someone at discord could fix this I would be so happy. I'd actually pay for nitro.
> "15-20mph for a good 10 mile stretch all because of people “rubber necking” to see the henge. As soon as you’re past it, instantly back up to 60mph."

This might also be due to the fact that the largely dual-carriageway A303 narrows and becomes a single-lane road through the Stonehenge site.
> I mean, maybe you feel that an email apps that runs on a web page is somehow lesser than one that runs natively.

I do, and I think this is obvious to anyone who has spent time using both.

> Like, you have to go to a bookmark rather than click an icon, so that is going to feel out of place.

It's much deeper than that. Native applications using native widgets integrate much better with the way the OS works. You can notice this in the little things like how windows behave, how drag and drop works, notifications, task management, system tray usage, etc.

> I say people have gotten used to that a long time ago.

I think that's a terrible metric. People have gotten used to having shitty local monopoly ISPs too, it doesn't mean that's the way we should be doing things.
Could you train a ML model that smoothes out the fluid simulation like they do with ray tracing?
I worked at a place that did something similar. VBA code, printed out in a proportional font, no word wrap so long lines spilled over...

"What does this code do?"

That was a pretty easy one to figure out, it pulled coordinates from a database table, and then it stepped along all the lines trying to find the longest one (they were a metal shop).

"Do you see any evidence that this code has been optimized?"

That was the dumb question.
The train to Bath and Bristol (from London) is sufficiently good to use as a daily commuter if necessary (I’ve done it from Bath in the past even before the 2019 schedule reworking), but going anywhere further south west by train is pretty miserable. It’s particularly sad if you look at the pre-Beeching map and consider what could have been there instead.
Manhole covers come in a variety of shapes. A non-ironic "why are manhole covers round" question speaks more to lack of life and/or travel experience than anything else.

There are triangular[1] and even more exotic-shaped[2] covers.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/g826ve/m...

[2] https://manhole.co.il/doSearch.asp?tp=114
In the past (ie Win7 days and before..) I always made a point to set games to "Windowed Fullscreen" wherever possible as that vastly improved Windows' stability.

It was probably bad for graphical quality/performance/latency but being able to temporarily exit games without worrying about a crashing desktop was more important for me.

Apparently that's still an issue then..
How Startup Leaders Make the Best Decisions for Their Business
Hashnode looks nice for dev blogs, but I haven't tried it yet. It's on your own domain and you own all your data but it has community features too. https://hashnode.com
I’m wondering what have we gained from all the recent chattering on blocking immigration. For the questionable gain of making it impossible for an African or for an Asian to move to a western country legally, we have created overpowered border-line criminal immigration offices (outright nazi-style criminal in this particular case), whose only purpose is to pester foreign residents and even our fellow countrymen, depending on the melamine content of their skin or the weirdness of their names.
Wikis are enough. They are just not enough to ace testing. The goal of testing here is not to check if a person knows/can do a thing. It's a gatekeeping mechanism to filter out people from entering a course/university.

Eventually this is a lazy mechanism to select prospective students to a course. The purpose of the course is to prepare people to build an air plane or be a good doctor, historian, architect, journalist or whatever. Not be good at exams and interviews.

When you make testing all about gatekeeping, wikis don't help, because the questions are not about test of knowledge of skill.

If you have a pervasive cram school culture in your country, eventually you have to import/buy from other people because your people are considered on-paper geniuses but are not good at any thing apart from acing testing.

I guess for where China stands now. Making chips, airplanes and space stations needs the real engineers not just the ones who can score well in exams.
I don't mean cpp
I think org-mode with org-roam[0] is what you're looking for.

[0]: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
I did exactly that last week with Debian 11. I got tired of IPFire (a linux distribution for routers, like pfSense). Since my only connectivity to the Internet is LTE, the most challenging part was bootstrapping the system without an Internet connection, after that it went very smoothly.
Try to create a UWP application or Windows service, or do any kind of debugging or ETW monitoring, like that.
So not only are you doing the exact thing you are accusing and criticizing me of doing(because you don't like it), but you didn't address the very clear quote I posted, which is not out of context at all. And then you finish your attack by pretending you are neutral.

>> mean come on, lazily copying and pasting something you spent 3 minutes reading is poor form.

Exactly what you are doing

>> I would encourage folks in this thread to bring a bit more objectivity to the issue.

Obvious pandering trying to make your self seem neutral when you are not even responding to my quote to your comment, but another comment as you are combing the thread making sure "your side" is winning.
List of supported banks: https://airtable.com/shrX4uBtNLnsPxSih/tblyRj2FTQoXq9Qmu

A very impressive list! Having worked in the sector I can only begin to imagine the monumentality of this integration task.

I however see that some banks are still missing. How do you deal with those? After all, PSD2 is supposed to give access to all EU banks. Have you encountered any resistance where e.g. banks refuse to open the APIs - the APIs are broken, non-standard, non-existent, or such?
> fiscal independence

Probably not since your government will most likely always require you to pay taxes, but you may be able to achieve financial independence for some definition of the expression.
It may be worth watching D5 again, but here is the bit [1]

>We wont so good at partnering with people, where as Bill and Microsoft were really good at it. They learn how to partner with people really well. And I think if Apple had a little more of that in its DNA, it would have become more successful. And I dont think Apple learned that until few decades later. - Steve Jobs.

I think Steve Jobs was way way better with partnering in his return from NeXT. From iPhone with Cingular to patent signing with Qualcomm partnership. He really knew which battle to fight and which to work with. Tim Cook seems to have a very bean counting view on almost everything. To the point of not valuing much partnership. Which may be a good thing in Supply Chain but not so good with other businesses.

[1] https://youtu.be/wvhW8cp15tk?t=5012
Everyone did it? According to the NYTimes 64% of Israeli’s have had one shot, while many countries like Canada are 72%.

Israel seems behind?
The access to my bank’s PSD2 API is only possible for authorized companies. I assume other banks require the same. They do not want to deal with individuals.
I had one too, having a real keyboard was awesome. I put off upgrading phones for as long as a could. I rooted it and installed CyanogenMod and got a better aftermarket battery but eventually it was just to slow to run the newer versions of Android and apps.
Unless your users are the protagonist of the Hollywood movie "Memento" they already know whether they sent a message, so, you can simply arrange that both parties have the keys needed to encrypt any authentic message. The user knows they didn't send it, so the apparent sender must have. But nobody else can reach the same conclusion.

That is, if you show me a message purporting to be from Steve to Jenny in a well-designed modern protocol and give me access to Jenny's cryptographic materials, I can't be sure whether it is really a message Steve sent, or merely a message Jenny forged pretending to be from Steve.
You can't assess these things (or anything in real world) alone, but in context of what's going on in the whole world (and what isn't). After that, its on everybody how they view their personal freedom and themselves vs the averaged good of the whole nation/civilization.