skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Openbox is super configurable, and I've definitely done similar things to what you just descrubed.

Last time I tried swapping out xfwm with openbox it was pretty easy.
I'm burnt out right now. Layoffs, a spin-out, and huge situational challenges related to both.

Vacation is great, but I agree with the author here. Vacation _can_ be a tool to combat burnout - but burnout is often a result of other things besides hours worked. I've worked times of 80+ hours. While feeling worn out, I never got burnt out. I've worked times where I can barely put the effort into 30 hours/week.

Right now, I'm attributing my burn out solely to the fact that we have huge amounts of "keep the lights on work" to complete the spin-out while continuing to deliver product. Neither the workload nor the type of work is bad. There's just so much of it and it's wearing.

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For me, a vacation doesn't solve much for me. I'll be back to "more of the same". What's really helping is the change in pace of my work and the ability to get back to things that engage and excite me.
Sorry bad joke about how the name "xterm" sounds like the beginning of the word "exterminate", implying it was made by Daleks from Doctor Who.

I forgot HN is not the place for humor, and I did not intend to cast any actual aspersions toward anyone maintaining cool projects.
You can do the same thing in education by closing down magnets schools and lowering the bar for everyone...
Settings vs dev tools does make a huge difference imo.

The settings pane gives you a cleaner ui for quick changes (debatable, but I certainly feel this way). Dev tools can break your browser if you do things wrong. They are made for development and deep changes, not routine stuff.

That is not "nothing has changed".
I’m Quitting Web2 (and So Should You)
One underappreciated aspect of this. They will ignore marijuana at time of hire. But they will absolutely test you if there is ever an accident or if you are injured at work (even if you just strain your back picking up a heavy object) before you see an occupational health doctor. If you come back positive in the course of injury, they won't cover your workers compensation bills. They'll fire you (for being intoxicated) and you'll have to cover your own medical expenses without access to workers comp coverage or the emoyee health plan (because you've been fired).
I would bet that flexible work hours are contributing for higher employee burnout.
Yeah, I'm just trying to be really picky with my next company so the job hunt is taking a while.
> He responded by doxxing them

Do you mean linking to the publicly filed trademark application with redactions?
Fun fact... this is completely false!
Firefox used to show individual site cookies in the Manage Data dialog, this was removed at some point.
Demand the break up of Google! Now!

Email your reps.

Tell them this is dangerous and that Google shouldn't be allowed to run the entire web. Take chrome away!
Apple is well regarded for their strategy. I don't find it very credible that Apple is reacting here, it seems apparent that they would anticipate substantial negative reception.

So this delay is preordained in the strat, right?

But Apple is only human and has had its share of monumental wtf, so this is just a huge gaffe? The spyware team didn't know about iphone 13 launch? This seems incredible.

There is some n-dimensional chess at play here. I feel like a popcorn munching audience member who is actually a pawn in another dimension.
ITT: People complaining that they only hire internally and job posting are a scam AND people complaining that they only hire externally because they have more control.
Agree that OP doesn’t have a responsibility to defend Tesco from crime, however disagree that it doesn’t matter. It’s logical fallacy to say that crimes small enough don’t matter. By that definition a criminal that is robs billions of people for mere pennies wouldn’t matter. You have to look at the class of crimes. So if petty crimes are significant, then as a class of crimes it matters.
It's the oldest form of credit, the collateralized loan.
I encourage you to leave this comment on the article itself on The Register since you already made it public here.
The Philadelphia Experiment
> this role might expect to work roughly 40-45 hours a week.

I “expect” a lot of things that never happen.
Agreed. I see almost no intellectual curiosity and learn little these days. I'm only here because I hope it might change again.
my bad, I guess things changed with more data, neat
You're really referring to hosting providers that allow anti-abortion websites as "Nazi-friendly" when Nazis were in favor of abortions? https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/as-many-abortions-a...

> "When girls and women in the Occupied Territories of the East have abortions, we can only be in favor of it; in any case we should not oppose it."

> "The means for abortion and contraceptive means may be offered publicly without police restriction."
> left undefined, or were designed in a way to be easy to implement rather than easy to program for.

I'd tweak your statement a little, or even a lot: "left undefined" most often meant "left to be defined by the compiler writers to fit the architecture of the underlying hardware, in a way that would make it easy to program to beneficially exploit features of the architecture"; and (yes) in a way "that would not be very portable, and might even be subject to change between compilers".

did the underlying machine use 2's complement? did the underlying machine have addressable bytes? big endian? 8, 16, 32 or 36 bits?

These are all things you need to know to write tight efficient code in the days of slow clockspeeds and limited RAM. C let you do that without using assembly, but by using the "undefined" features of the language, because they were clearly defined locally and were features that were very important to be easy to write code for.

consider how you would implement setjump and longjump, or even printf, or efficiently unpack or serialize bits for a communications protocol, without these supposedly "undefined features", or how you would write those if those features were actually undefined. People who put strlen(str) or a divide and a mod in the control expression for a loop would know better if they understood a bit more about the undefined features.

this is in contrast btw with some other things that actually are undefined, such as what the order of evaluation would be for complex expressions making up argument lists, etc.

I'm writing this explanation not so much to explain these technical details to noobs, but rather to get the people who understand this stuff to stop throwing around the term "undefined" with regard to C because they are cooperating in the evisceration of some ideas that are really worth exploring or understanding more deeply.
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Texas is a big place, and as far as I'm aware, doesn't make it a policy to train individuals to be vigilantes.

If your anecdote proves anything, it is the relative safety of that liberal area of PA. The fact that a manager of a Walgreens was comfortable confronting a criminal without real consequences speaks to the level of danger they were in.

If you've spent time in any rougher areas of Texas (I have), you'd agree that physically confronting a criminal over petty theft, as a store manager, carries a huge risk of violent escalation—something you'd probably want to avoid in a city with a higher murder rate.
Does this mean they'll have to turn Mohs hardness scale[0] up to eleven?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardne...
What most people are focused on is that this is spyware built in to the operating system. The fact that perceptual hashes have some weak points could also lead to problems, but that's not the main focus of most opposition to this system.
I think every election is going to be fishy in the sense that the biased media outlets break stories in ways to manipulate voters towards one outcome or the other. Making voting more accessible to people with mail-in ballots will have had some affect, too, and most likely helped the democrats, just like closing polling stations and under-serving voters has helped the republicans in some cases. But was it cheating, or stealing? I don't think that qualifies at all. I definitely don't think the pandemic response and mail-in ballot measures were primarily some scheme to get more D votes. I wouldn't call Trumps 2016 win illegitimate either, but all the fake news coming from russian owned blogs and sockpuppets and targeting vulnerable voters was still something we needed to make a stink about and work to mitigate.
Certainly, there’s a lot of old entrenched unions who have come to rest on their past laurels and are now mired in bureaucracy and self-satisfaction.

One would easily imagine a software engineering union to be the complete opposite of that, as such a union would be completely new and hungry.
I didn't mean to compare speeds for comparing difficulty for two different currencies, I agree that's largely meaningless.

Rather, the key probabilities I would like to compute would the probability of chain rewriting (I don't like this term tbh; if someone forks off a new chain they haven't rewritten the one your block is in, rather they have "convinced" others to abandon it) within the next T days given an adversary with more compute than the Bitcoin network by a fraction f, for various T and f.

Can't I approximate that with 1) the lead that my current chain has over the next competing chain, 2) the average time it's taking to mine a new block given the current compute?

Ill confess I'm not super familiar with the intricate details of crypto, I may just be missing something obvious.
It's very refreshing for me to find someone that can succinctly describe how fucking incompetent almost all of the UI / UX designers and developers at Microsoft are without being hammered down as "a troll" in the comments.

There are a LOT of us out here that remember how well things were designed and implemented 20, 30, and 40 years ago, and how disgustingly broken everything is now, and how everyone nowadays ACCEPTS THIS AS NORMAL.

Microsoft Teams is a steaming pile of shit. Windows Desktop Explorer is a steaming pile of shit. The XAML bullshit they're using for the Start Menu button in Windows 10 (and I'm guessing Windows 11, since I am not going to be installing it) is a steaming pile of shit. Microsoft's invasive advertising and telemetry IN A DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEM is a steaming pile of shit.

People need to stop pretending this shit isn't broken. People need to stop calling people who point out how fucking broken this shit is "trolls".
I'm sorry to announce you that somebody fooled you.
Source: I'm french, lived in many different regions and everybody called it simply "pain perdu". Moreover, french people usually do not add the origin of a recipe like american do on a regular basis.
I’d like to suggest that if a “crazy little dance” is required to “keep things legit”, it’s not.
I think it's because software has finally reached a point where everybody is adequate at using computers that new problems have developed compared to the ones that existed 10-20 years ago. So now the people who have no idea how to use a computer (or are willing to learn) they just pay for a SaaS.
Depends on the company!

If it's inauthentic though, employees can smell it from far away.
agree

i think the other thing is, theres clean architecture and then theres Clean Architecture TM where the thing is taken literally (leading to slavishly applying all the layers with lots of boilerplate, useless mocks and ridiculously coupled unit tests, over architected dependency injectors (assemblies) etc)

i was honestly surprised when i watched a series of lectures from mr uncle (bob) where he clarified a lot of things such as "use dependency injection only where it matters" and "unit tests should be replaced with integration tests after a system is finished being implemented" to "slavish following of agile "customs" is unproductive" etc etc

i think a lot of issues could be resolved if people took the time to think and listen carefully about these things and not stop at the first couple of search hits for "clean architecture"

edit:

heres the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EmboKQH8lM&list=PLmmYSbUCWJ...
> CloudKit is definitely satisfactory, but it's limited to Apple devices.

That was my point, exactly. If you target only specific platform users, easier development (ie, using Electron and web technologies) does not necessarily win over native frameworks because now they are decorated with powerful vendor services.

Obviously if your target is multiple platforms, you are now on Electron land. That's not a bad thing per se, though.
Mandatory disclaimer: I’m very pro-choice.

This feels like an action that will make GoDaddy popular on the left, but again is murky territory when it domes to publisher vs platform.

It looks like GoDaddy isn’t even using their own policy correctly, as the pro-life site isn’t collecting private information, it’s just encouraging people to report via the official government sites.

I miss the old days of hosting providers being neutral and just hosting material and removing illegal content after contact by the appropriate authorities.

Activist corporations may be popular when they advocate for causes we like, but make it difficult to know what they do allow. In this case the pro-life organisation, while they are jerks, are just advocating a cause GoDaddy disagrees with without actually violating a policy - while begs the question, what other political causes will GoDaddy ban you for supporting?
From my experience most French people keep only the thumb down to signal “4”. It’s easier to do.
Did s/he say what was annoying about the Mac to them?

(I'm not trying to argue. I'm always curious.)
Agreed. We need European-style month-long vacations in the US. And sabbaticals every few years. Also we should start looking at 36 and 32-hour workweeks.

We're 20x more productive than 40 years ago, yet still work the same hours or more for pay increases that barely keep up with inflation.
Bid to allow Jewish celebrations rejected (Australia)
The government is incompetent at protecting people. Call the police and you'll see how it goes. And this is happening while the government is spending 13B per year. I wonder, where does the money go, if basic services are not provided?

I'd rather spend my money on a network of competing private protection companies if I didn't have to pay taxes for the police. Once the system is in place you can create all sort of charity based options - or tax funded, if you like the idea of forcefully stealing money from citizens' profit - to grant protection to those who can't afford it.
I don't want to get in to a philosophical argument, but here in Sweden pretty much no-one wears masks anywhere.
So basically facebook is saying it's bo biggie that people mostly click & watch disinformation because they do scroll past a lot more memes ...
We (USA) also have "steak fries" which are much thicker than normal fries.
i typically access this information by clicking the lock icon in the URL bar. is that going away too, or just the version in the settings page (which i didn't know existed until now)
What a weird design. Listing and viewing would often be done when you want to "clean things up, but not everything.

Disclosure: never used or saw safari, and i don't have a mac, nor the mac nature.
Apt.cli.rs, a Debian/Ubuntu apt repository for Rust CLI tools
Does CNN know about this?
> GoDaddy is not regulated under common carrier laws.

Maybe they, and other Internet infrastructure providers, should be.

> Savannah, is a hosting site for "software forge for people committed to free software", at http://savannah.gnu.org/ . They will cut you off on ideological grounds should you switch to a non-free license.

> Should that also be illegal?

In your example, would they be cutting off everyone who chooses a non-free license, or just singling out one person for political reasons, and turning a blind eye to a bunch of other people also using non-free licenses?
Also, rolling your own sync is basically a must on multiplatform, I'd say.
>> Other places, where it matters a lot it's like nothing you've ever seen or will likely see in the commercial sector for decades.

That's something I'd really like to see. How does that kind of difference come about? My guess is that it requires a certain degree of funding and commitment that may be impossible in wallstreet companies. But what else does it take for an organization to get there?
It is very interesting - I have been thinking about similar systems for some time. One thing I would like to add to that would be a 'division of labour' - for example I read Matt Levines newsletter - nearly all of the emails, but maybe I would like someone to read them every other week and only forward (or just link to) emails that he thinks are really funny or important or just he thinks I would like because they cover topics that are interesting to me. And I would do that for him on the other weeks. Or maybe we would divide not by time - but by sources, he would read Astral Codex Ten and I would read Money Matters.
It's a corporation, not a human.

(Corporations should never have been given "bodies" at all, IMO.)
Is it? He doesn't mention aggregate queries, but seems to want to load a single row without unnecessary columns. Columnar DBs would spread a row out across the disk which would probably be less efficient.
I agree. In my experience, "flexible work hours" is often code for "everyone works weird fucking hours so instead of having a set routine, you have to be quasi-available at all times to respond to the person who decided to wait until 8pm to do the work you were waiting on". It's great for the person who needs flexibility, and shitty for everyone that depends on that person.

Flexible working arrangements are great when the team is able to asynchronously work, but I have yet to see a team that really does asynchronous work right.
I think the internal backlash helped a lot. The initial move was very contrary to the culture Apple has cultivated over the years and it did not go over well with them.
I always find it funny when I see the same people complain about companies lobbying for legislation and then cheer on this behavior.
> Even the Duden

Good. The purpose of a dictionary is to record how language is used, not to gatekeep or social engineer what is "proper" language and what isn't.

Linguistic prescriptivism is the purview of bigots and school teachers.
Think of how much more focused the Autopilot team is by releasing completely unsafe software and trying to fix it before regulators get their act together. Death driven development.
The author of this article has not understood mindfulness. Learning and gradually practicing mindfulness does not mean one has to forcefully stay mindful all the time with a great deal of uncomfortable effort. Rather, mindfulness is gradually developed/cultivated and that is the reason one puts aside some time to practice it daily. In other words, knowing when to let go of rigid mindfulness is part of mindfulness practice. Also, the author incorrectly quotes the recent review (Goldberg, et al., 2021) of mindfulness studies for which he has provided a link – this article concluded that interventions based on mindfulness hold 'substantial potential,' and that mindfulness interventions were similar or superior to specific active controls and other evidence-based treatments (see the conclusion and the abstract of that article). I had assumed that Scientific American would do a better job of accurate reporting - looks like I was wrong.
I think it depends on what mental health support means. If it means helping pay for therapy and managers making accommodations and being genuinely supportive of people when they're having a hard time, that's fantastic.

Unfortunately at many companies it just means a presentation from HR every couple of months that boils down to "10 strategies to cope with the burnout we're causing". Meanwhile the people with actual power to change things keep pushing the same "aggressive" deadlines and refusing to provide the support/resources necessary to meet them in a healthy and sustainable way.
Blizzard and Rockstar for example. Men interact with women on a way different basis. Men might be gross at the place but I'd like to see if any of them attempted to assimilate as opposed to thinking they could be an individual and participate.
You're embarrassingly confused; my best guess is that you're thinking of gifts.

We're talking about licensing, and MIT-licensed open source projects as well trial periods are both absolutely fine and used.
> If the military gets it right with anything, it's encryption. This isn't connecting to the aircraft over the Internet using Verisign PKI. You're not gonna man-in-the-middle inject your own code into the update. The only attack vector is the software supply chain ...

What gives you this confidence?
Apple Possibly Exploring Open-Source Alternative to Arm Architecture
Actually they’re pretty stupid. Look at what they’re doing. Not exactly an intellectual pursuit. And if Apple implements their system it will catch many, many offenders and yes - it might save some children. When did taking care of our children become an afterthought? You’re more worried about Apple looking through your phone than letting these nuts walk around the community?
Yeah you have to do something like this if you want to truly raise eyebrows.

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I mean about a decade ago I would have loved to live on the West Coast. I'm sure I'm no great loss to you but there are a lot of people that you just will never get. Not to mention, compared to a decade ago, the cities in my home state are starting to adopt these policies.

I don't see how not prosecuting repeated offenders is not coddling, as pointed out, the guy ended up murdering. There's very much a cultural difference.
> In a bad neighborhood it's not uncommon to lose over a million dollars a year.

Then the store closes, then you get a food desert.
For well a very well articulated argument for fungal intelligence, look up Paul Stamets, the mycologist on YouTube and elsewhere.

He's a serious scientist but he shows up in popular culture, too. For example, Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets, a astromycologist serving on the USS Discover, was named after the real Paul Stamets.
> of the rights granted or affirmed under this License.

..is the key phrase. GPL is only an exception to copyright. It gives people the right to be exempt from restrictions that copyright law places on them by default.

It doesn't give anyone the right to use trademarks, participate in the community, or anything else -- because those things were never restricted by copyright law in the first place.
It's not inherent in C being a low-level language that it has such a painful memory model. It's a consequence of having to fit the compiler into a really tiny machine by modern standards. Originally, there were no function prototypes.

I once proposed a backwards-compatible way out for C.[1] Basically, you get to talk about arrays as objects with a length, even if that length is in some other variable. And you get slices and references.
It was discussed enough to establish that it could work, but the effort to push it forward wasn't worth it.

Slices are important. They let you do most of the things people do with pointer arithmetic. Once you have size and slices, you can still operate near the memory address level.

[1] http://www.animats.com/papers/languages/safearraysforc43.pdf
Which was extra silly because CRT wasn't being taught in public schools unless you are also including public universities.
I don't really care for Rust, but all non-memory safe code could benefit from being replaced. This does, for some people, mean rewriting it in Rust because C and C++ make it harder to achieve the goal of memory safety.
I wouldn't really call it better if it doesn't have a proper certificate.
The issue is also people bringing their work to vacation. This lowers the effectiveness of vacations.