skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's the incentive structure, it's the way managers and executives commonly lie or manipulate you with stories and narratives, and the politics. It's like I can see all of that in the actual code. I can see where someone stayed up way too late, or compromises were made with an overzealous executive or manager. I came into engineering because I loved to code, I stayed for the money, but when this career is long gone I'll probably still tinker with code.

As the saying goes, "I would sling code all day for free. It's the other bullshit that I need to be paid a lot for."

Management really should be thin layers in software companies. Instead, it is the only way to progress in the career ladder sometimes. Every manager in this thick layer wants to somehow show that they are doing something. They do this by creating more bureaucracy and busy work (but only for others).

Meetings actually counts as work for them. When they have a hundred meetings a week, they are happy and proud that they worked so much. For engineers/developers (or anyone producing the actual output), meetings are an imposition.
This post was in the back of my mind today when my #1 pet-peeve about Windows reared it's ugly UX right as I was starting to get into a rhythm of productivity.

Focus Stealing

I'm using many apps and portals over the internet on Tuesdays, and I would be so much more productive if I could start something in one app, then leave it to do something else and only return to that app when its done thinking.

If I could run all of my work's accounting apps in Linux, I'd be i3 all day long.
I had heard of exploding Samsung laundry machines. And the house I bought has one. I dread the day it decides to do its thing.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/11/04/news/companies/samsung-expl...
I got my samsung plasma TV repaired after 4 years of ownership because the Consumer Guarantees Act says that appliances have to last as long as a 'reasonably expected' lifetime, that repair options have to be available and that the warranty period for major defects is that 'reasonably expected' lifetime.

It's still working now, ten years post-purchase.
>That's not necessarily a positive. Our job is to deliver business value, not follow the latest fashionable trends.

Just to clarify latest trends don't mean untried tech, it sometimes means just new features of existing products making it into your ecosystem. Some examples I can think of include an AWS SDK adding an option to to their SDK's for a well used product that suits your project, better well-tested support for a message bus library used by your company, a vendor product mandated by your organisation providing only mainstream language SDK's (Node, Java, .NET), etc. Yes I could make my own SDK's in OcAML (I like the lang btw) but then I'm not "delivering business value" as per your comment. It also increases the risk of project failure using the time budget allocated - in the team's I've seen using FP this would of been a real risk.

> "Basic things like multi-threading"

In my time I've seen many projects switch from Node/Python APIs to Java/.NET/C++/etc when they become high scale backends just to take advantage of the better performance envelope. Java/.NET usually is chosen if multi-threading is appropriate. Seen this happen a lot and its pretty common. Seen savings up to 200k+ USD a year for just one component where going multi-threaded helped. Its quite common once a business reaches a certain scale to desire multi-threading for a number of business cases.

> For most line-of-business/CRUD/APIs/etc.

For those standard CRUD API's you mention unfortunately the ability to use Ocaml, F#, or any other functional language often is reduced unless you are doing it already for other value reasons - its hard to justify the value add over say Java, C# or even Node. The app probably isn't doing too much anyway other than calling a database and serialising the result to the client.

It's when you add handle data in those API's or data processes, add algorithms to them (e.g. processing engines, etc), handle data pipelines that FP IMO shows its true business value, and those cases often benefit from multi-threading and/or shared immutable state. F# does well at that, has good async support, and most of the FP goodies (strong typing, type inference, etc), and has an acceptable performance (.NET is pretty good these days).

In the end my point is I think F# right now IMO is much "less risky" out of the two to adopt for most corps especially if you are doing data transformation, pipelines, and APIs (given ASP.NET Core's speed these days) especially with the broader library support. YMMV of course and this is a general opinionated statement - if those adoption risks don't apply to what you are developing great.
As with any pusher: the first one's free.

For now, at least, you can view the initial tweet. Expanding a thread fails with the registration wall.

My view is that embeds / hotlinks were a Bad Idea for many other reasons (see the porn that's started appearing on old news and government sites due to hotlinked content). It trades a modicum of short-term convenience for major long-term risk.
I think you already know the answer. Just build things that fix problems you have. If there is a market for it they will find your solution, if not, you will have a solution to your product.

If you are building something to make money, you most likely wont make money and it sucks for your mentality. If you build something you enjoy, you have fun, learn something and then if it makes money that's a bonus.
Just to be anal here.

It’s not admin, it’s NTAuth\SYSTEM, a much much higher privileged account.
System is the most powerful account in Windows, bypassing almost any system protection in place such as group policy, privilege and permissions, it can talk out of the box to a DC using the machine account password (this is different to a user password), and essentially become uncontested in a network.
Indeed, this has been years in the making. Maintainer activity has been slowly dwindling while would-be contributors were driven away by the maintainers’ lack of communication and abrasiveness. I myself have had pull requests languishing there for years with nobody bothering to review them. Other people had their issues closed with no explanation. It was just a matter of time. Good thing that the forks have sprung up some time before upstream development halted entirely.
A laptop with 256GB of RAM would be fantastic. I could run VMs all the live long day. Tons of them. Yeah, probably mostly quiescent VMs, but still.
This language has what looks like a potentially interesting macro system.
I'd very much like to see a video
From the main page of the app:

“ Tornado.cash was audited. However, it is still an experimental software. Please use at your own risk.”
The point is to make it harder for the bandits to offload their goods, by ruining their resale value. If someone's selling cheap TVs off the back of a truck, and you know that you'll get to keep it (as in netherlands, see sibling comments), then there's no real incentive for you not to buy it. Who wouldn't want a 75" OLED TV for $1000, no strings attached? On the other hand, if the law was that stolen property was liable to be bricked/seized, then you'd be much more hesitant in buying the TV. Sure, $1000 is still cheaper than paying retail, but if the cops find out you could be out the $1000 and the TV. In response you might not want to buy the TV at all, or are willing to pay less for it ($500 perhaps). The reduced demand/price hurts the bandits.
Exactly, saving quotes will be nice. Also i think, in the far future it could be a hub for books. As a social network. Maybe it is a silly idea, i don't know :)
The big difference is with Google you can disable ads for the most part with an ad blocker.

Samsung TVs however you cannot. For example I have a pihole server running on my network. I cannot use Disney+ or Hulu on my Samsung TVs. But Nvidia shield and my phone work perfectly.

Samsung injects ads into all their apps. Even if you lay for Hulu with no ads, guess what you're still going to get an ad. It won't be a stream stopping ad, but more like ads when you pause a stream.
> Unfortunately, Keybase has now been abandoned and was acquired by Zoom, so that's not worth using anymore. However, I don't personally see how this method of sharing is that problematic.

https://keys.pub has been trying to solve this too for some time.
> Since they can't be used, they're likely going in a dumpster.

And thus can't be sold by the looters for a profit.
My non-tech extended family members all use separate Roku and/or FireTV devices instead of the built-in TV functionality, because I've seen the devices. I don't know why, but they do.
After that promotion I started interviewing and immediately found an offer that was 50% higher :)
Not all browsers support extensions. Even those that do may support only a subset.

(Mobile most especially.)
Amazon sidewalk [1] has entered the chat. The article focuses on "neighbors" but I'm pretty sure the main use case is to enable smart TVs and other IOT to phone home despite being disallowed.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-...
In our current setup, we only NFS export a btrfs subvolume, with no subvolumes inside that one. So that should be OK, if I'm reading this right.

I'm a big fan of btrfs snapshots, but with some other recent issues, I'm wondering if we should migrate away from btrfs.
Yes, but then Vimscript wasn't a very good language; whereas Lua, Python (and many others Neovim enabled support for) are great languages.

The benefit of a much better language is enticing; making a language much better than Emacs Lisp, however, is not so easy.
> I think many people confuse their excitement for the promise of having self driving cars and the actual technical and political barriers that still need to be addressed to bring this to reality

I think most of the confusion is due to deceptive marketing. Sales people like Elon Musk have been saying that the big dream of true self driving is just around the corner for years now, even though they were nowhere close.
There's no need to put scare quotes around security. Cryptocurrencies are mostly used for one of three things.

1. Paying ransomware.
2. Buying drugs.
3. Day-trading.

That's it. There's no meaningful slice of the pie that goes to #4.

Almost all of us can agree that #1 is illegal, many people and countries currently believe that #2 is illegal, and almost all of us can agree that people participating in #3 should probably pay taxes on their gains/get tax credits on their losses.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/753/231/981...
Documentation needs a better way to navigate by module and ident.
I'll never understand why this is such a big item of importance for developers :). Both 0 & 1 are pretty natural in my eyes.
RIP Charlie Watts
In America, "piss drunk" has a place but "being pissed" means exclusively "to be angry"... at least in every part I've ever been. I can't speak for upper New England, perhaps they'd take exception.
Drummer of the Stones dies aged 80.
I don't live now nor come from the third-world and don't share this person's context. If my description or was triggering for you I apologize. No pun intended.

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Lots of people bought Rokus/FireTVs before they had a smart TV, and now simply prefer the interface.
You are free to manage memory yourself, if that is what you mean [1].

[1] https://nelua.io/overview/#memory-management
It always fascinates me to read comments like this in here. Because it shows quite clearly that we all buy into narratives pushed by states.
This post says that only winner of democracy in middle east is a fundamentalist religious governments.
This is totally untrue. For example Iran, which was way more religious in 1950s managed to establish a secular democracy.
It was the foreign intervention that derailed it. The same people who derailed the very democracy then pushed the idea that middle east is not suitable for democracy.
This makes no sense. Plus naff developers can be just as lazy with exceptions if they wanted. A try/catch block can be abused extremely easily.
Java recently added record types.
“The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” -- Keynes
It's Samsung hate, not smart tv hate (although there's that too).

(I have a smart tv but honestly I don't want it anymore. I'm creeped out by the whole idea of it, and I don't like how it's always updating, or complains with blinking lights when it's not on the internet. No ads though. For now. It's kinda hard to find a dumb TV but I may just go with either a large-ish computer monitor or a projector.)
Rack mount hardware is almost always expensive, loud, and power hungry. I just have never seen the point of building a home lab like this.

A single ATX desktop can do almost [1] everything a homelab at a fraction of the cost & power consuption. I think a lot of the reason for homelabs/server hardware was to get access to more CPU cores, now that 8+ cores are very cheap it is actually cheaper to buy a new consumer desktop than it is to run an old server.

What makes even less sense is wanting use to use software like vSphere or ESXi since its about 10x more complicated than just using virt-manager/QEMU. It's like using an excavator to dig a fire pit. Server hardware & software makes sense when it's not your home because then you do need a remote access tool like iDRACK. (There are DIY options if you just need something for personal use).

That said if you enjoy it as a hobby (or your homelab is actually a business thing) then go for it.
That would be hard to sell. Trees actually pull CO2 out of the air and lock it away in wood fibers. That produces an actual (albeit infinitesimal) reduction in the net atmospheric CO2.

Choosing to not take a flight to Australia, on the other hand, is just deciding to produce CO2, just less. That makes it categorically different, as it can't negate any amount of CO2 production.

Also, the supply of "not flying to Australia" is unbounded, and without scarcity, the price will naturally go to $0. If you only focus on potential fliers, that would have the perverse effect of incentivizing people to take actions intended to convince the regulators of this market that they were planning on flying to Australia, which would likely result in empty seats on flights to Australia and a net increase in the number of chartered flights to Australia.
The context was treatments for COVID, and you brought up only one of the least studied and least likely effective of the studied treatments you could have mentioned. Misinformed.
They send out emails but
Who knows why they can’t notify users in the website or app too. I stopped using subscriptions.
10 years is actually quite good for major appliances. If you're warrantied for 3 and manage to get 10 years out if it you've exceeded the design parameters. Environmentally, replacing a broken fridge is usually the only time someone will even research something more energy efficient.
The only "legitimate business" anybody's done with crypto is buying lots of it and hoping the value keeps going up. Nobody is actually using BTC/ETH/XMR/etc to do business or conduct commerce, it's all just speculation.

There is no compelling reason to believe that cryptocurrencies are anything other than digital beanie-babies. At least beanie-babies had inherent value as a toy.
How can they know for sure that some activation was invalid. I'd think this could be challenged in court. If hypothetically the SA govt. declares amnesty for the looting, then will Samsung unlock it. Just saying.
Great, this means less time wasted on crap. The next thing they should do is to ban Google crawler lest someone sees the tweets without giving them the personal data.
> I'd love to just buy half a dozen used Dell PowerEdges but rack-mounted hardware is insanely loud.

This is a common belief that isn’t quite correct. My 2U Dell R520 is quite quiet after the initial boot (once the BMC takes over fan control), albeit I had to do some ipmitool magic to get it to not ramp them up with non-OEM PCIe cards installed.

My 1U R420 and R320 boxes? Yeah, they’re a little loud, 40mm fans have to run at higher speeds to get air flowing.

Ultimately my lab lives in my home office and the noise doesn’t really bother me, I wouldn’t put it in the bedroom or living room though.
>Who initiates it matters because if a TV vendor can arbitrarily brick your TV for something after you've paid cash for it, then that smells of theft. The same thing if a TelCo could or would arbitrarily brick a device I paid for. The distinction is that I'm telling them to do this to my phone.

What happened in south africa:

* TVs are sitting inside a factory

* TVs are owned by samsung

* factory gets robbed

* the owner (samsung) tells the manufacturer (samsung) to brick the devices

I fail to see how it's different than:

* iPhone is sitting in your pocket

* iPhone is owned by you

* you get robbed

* the owner (you) tells the manufacturer (apple) to brick the device
Lol. That reminds me of the enormous Excel spreadsheets sent around Ubisoft for P&L reasons. I once had the mispleasure of using it, thank god Microsoft office is 64bit because that spreadsheet was gigabytes in size and multiples of that in memory.

You couldn’t use the machine for anything else when it was open; even my “very high end” workstation machine crawled to a halt.
This would break the social contract of Twitter, as it was preceived my many people. Unlike Facebook "walled garden" model Twitter was ultimately an open web publishing platform. Changing this will move them into a different category and many users will look elswhere.
do you use crypto for daily purchases, like going to a corner store or buying groceries, or is it more informal and a way to transfer money between friends? Or is it a store of value and you liquidate some periodically for purchases? Also thank you for educating me, this makes much more sense than anything from my perspective.
"By Douglas E. Schoen, opinion contributor
The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill"

It's an opinion piece, by a guy who's just written a book on the topic. Also, thehill.com hasn't exactly been non-partisan over the last 5 years.
I think the same question comes into play here as well, what does blocking have to do with protecting private information?

If it actually had some tie-in to the previous users information I'd follow why it's relevant to the conversation better. As is blocking IMEIs and TVs from registering seems completely unrelated to stealing the existing local data so I can't follow the distinction.
"taking the piss" can also mean taking a situation too far / making fun of someone =)...

Lots of Britishisms require context to disambiguate.
Learning and growing for promotion at a corporation means learning how to write PowerPoints, managing perception, managing teams, being in endless meetings, dealing with stakeholders, doing 1 to 1s etc

Where as others might prefer learning about mathematics.

Not wanting to be promoted to manager or lead doesn't mean not learning.
Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
I don't know anybody*
The subsidies from advertising don't cause thousands of dollars of difference. It's maybe a few dozen, or few hundred at the most. Facebook's yearly revenue per user is about 33 USD, and they probably have a way better grip on your eyeballs. A TV lives about 5 to 7 years.

The way larger component is due to effects of scale which punishes products that run in small batches, and the effect that the "business" version of something is usually more expensive, but available with higher quality, than the consumer version.
The world being left for us by adults
On a literary note: another great sci-fi reference point is Samuel Delaney's "Babel 17" - the hook is that a government creates a language that enables extreme thought capabilities, but prevents you from conceptualizing the opposing government as anything but an enemy.
Google acknowledged sideloading 'frankly abysmal' and 'most will not go through' [pdf]
Saying “large parts of the world can’t access [IPv4]” is massively over exaggerating the situation. Particularly when most of the web is still IPv4 only.

You do actually realise that even users with only an IPv6 address can still get access to IPv4 sites via bridges (the names of which escape me off hand)?
A few months back I found a very nice Samsung TV locked in a closet. I looked it up and it cost like $3,500 a few years back. When I asked about it, my boss said "I bought it to watch soccer but it doesn't have any apps, what good is it?" He had never heard of Roku/Apple TV/Fire TV.
Front loading washing machines just seem like an all around more fragile design that is also less usable.

I have an HE top loader. It uses just as little water, but it can wash a lot more clothes when needed. I can push a button and it stops being HE and can fill its tub up to wash blankets and comforters.

Also front loaders just can't clean synthetic fabrics that water beads off of. I've seen fabrics come out of a front loader almost completely dry because the tiny bit of water that is used can't even penetrate the outer layer of fabric. Mostly my Ikea comforters, I put one in a front loader I used to have and after a complete wash cycle it wasn't even damp, and it was still very dirty.

Finally, front loaders are mechanically more complex. For one, if that seal fails, well, it leaks. The simplicity of a Top loaders means they can last longer, and in the very least top loaders don't get all gunked up around the door seal. I have seen so many front loaders that smell awful because no one ever cleans the crud out of the seal, ick!

Aside from space savings, I really don't get the point of a front loader at all. Maybe the tumbling action is better at some types of cleaning?
"Considering how much of Google's $500B market cap comes from search" Time flies
There is something called the "Texas Open Beaches Act" which guarantees free access to beaches in Texas. Beach closures are actually not that easy and from what I know the number of days per year on which SpaceX could request the beach to be closed is limited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Open_Beaches_Act
The primary underwriter of Marketplace has long been GE Capital. That is, the industry the programme is supposed to be watching, pays it.

It is not in the interest of the financial industry to support advocacy for strong regulation against itself.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/He+who+pays+the+piper+c....

John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash: 1929 gives interesting insights into prosecution and hearings following the Wall Street Crash which precipited the Great Depression and previous illegal and self-serving behaviours. I cannot recommend the book highly enough: it's short, highly readable, quite informative, and exquisitely researched.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/great-crash-1929/oclc/1222806...
I suppose to align incentives you should only get paid if you grow a tree cut it down and then bury the carbon [trunk] somehow. Anything less isn't permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere

For example just growing a tree is no net carbon reduction - the tree dies naturally the carbon is released at some point.
Sounds like something out of China.
Why would you want to have a hodge-podge of random vehicle makes to service?
You forgot outright money laundering / tax evasion
Considering that trust in government is at an all time low public blockchains provide some much needed openness.

The reason we went off the gold standard is because the US government printed off more money than they had gold and then got caught.

Instead of trying to make up for their crime the government decided to ban ownership of gold.

Cryptocurrency doesn't have a deflationary restriction. If bitcoin is too similar to gold, people will just use some other coin.