skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, fully agreed. I don't care about the existence of an office. I do care about the costs associated with me needing to be in the office. I recently ran the numbers for current job and, assuming I spend $15/meal + $1/cup of coffee, I still lose ~$3/day just commuting when I take advantage of free office breakfast/lunch food + microkitchen coffee. I also do not spend $15/per meal (my breakfast+lunch meal this morning ~$.60 to ~$1.60 depending on cost of ingredients, electricity, and my time).

I would, however, not mind having an optional office (and would actually prefer working for a company like that) so if it's a really hot day or I'm feeling crumby and want to change my scenery for a day or two I have a place I can go.
Security. Whenever I push myself to go use Firefox I very rapidly run into obvious bugs and things like page display corruption that has the terrible bad code smell of shoddy insecure software.

I would really, really like to switch, but not for now.
Covid-19 can damage cerebral small vessels and cause neurological symptoms
> Let's not blame a whole company for what some small part of it did.

Let's absolutely blame them. Titanic power requires titanic responsibility, and requires titanic consequences for shirking or betraying that responsibility.

These companies make a tradeoff, playing fast and loose in order to move faster at their scale. But the consequence of that tradeoff is that, when they do stumble, when they do commit evil, the hammer must come down all the fiercer. Because they knowingly choose a structure and a way of operating that was prone to such outcomes.
That is definitely not evidence of the claim?
This is a list of accusations, right? This is all pre-trial, so a journalist would want to put the word "alleged" in front of this rather than writing it up as though they'd discovered the undisputed truth? Just checking, I know it's not going to make a difference. Not a fan of Google at all, but I do like to pretend there's a process.
Show HN: Pimp My Readme
Emerge Tools (YC W21) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Remote)
Yup, I wonder if an issuing group pays a fee on new versions as well as a maintenance fee would work out.
> conspiracy theories

Aren't those “urban legends” more than conspiracy theories? (Non-native English speaker here)
I like to hack on my own modular planning system called Task BATL. It was specifically started to deal with issues around workaholism, burnout, procrastination, and lack of values-oriented planning.

It works on paper or in digital format...I generally use markdown and a syncing service, along with fsearch and some editor tools/snippets. But sometimes it's nice to move to paper especially for the Rebasing activity, as well as the Debriefing and Anarchy modules.

https://www.friendlyskies.net/intj/the-balance-first-approac...

Good post idea op, and thanks for sharing your favorite.
Wayland and Xorg sections have been reworked. Most of your Wayland concerns have been addressed (but not all).

If you still have other concerns and want to contribute, please do.

Only like I said before, let's talk about items which are _factually wrong right now_ as we speak.
There is a even simpler reason:

A lot of people gaming of Linux are either software developers or system administrators.

People buying a "Linux gaming system" are the rare exception, instead it's often "buy a powerful computer for use case X, and hey why not go for a slightly better/tweaked spec and also also game on it".
> Or prompt you to create a key which they won't be able to recover?

Yes. I have a YubiKey I could use for this.
Hey, I'm Josh & I wanted a way to add some customization to my readme, so I made this at my company hackathon last week.

This is an open source project so if you want to contribute just add your component and put up a PR. Thanks for your feedback!

GitHub repo here:
https://github.com/joshdsouza8/pimp-my-readme
Then it's not a truly free market, because central planning (regulation) is sometimes overpowering the price mechanism.
Org mode has been simple and adaptible for me. I can write plaintext if need be, it's easy to organize tasks and hide superfluous or outdated information. Org mode isn't the end all of personal organization, but its 10x alternative would require a sophisticated UI.
> At worse it's harmless

I wish. It happens very often that such speculation derails the whole investigation. It really shouldn’t, but people are people. If the title of the bug report says that the foobar is broken it might take weeks until someone realises that they were wrong and actually the problem is in the frobnicator which feeds the foobar.

Especially when because of this we assing the investigation to the wrong team. The foobar people don’t want to appear as if they don’t take the bug seriously, but all they check everything looks normal on their side.
I think this is true, but in my experience almost every place I worked at, even those that didn’t advertise being “Remote” had pretty flexible policies on remote work for engineers, at least in my anecdotal experience in San Francisco. 90% of the time if I asked my manager to take a week and work remotely from X location the response was “Cool, whatever”. It was always an option but now they are advertising it as a perk. Especially the ads that say you can work one or two days from home per week, which is kind of ridiculous because everyone was already doing that anyway.
I guess it depends on the source of the numbers. Eyeballing this chart [1] it doesn't look as if downloads were ever the majority. (In any case, they weren't for long.)

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/4713/global-recorded-musi...
Apparently placebo works even with dogs: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19912522/
Given that I would not find surprising if it worked for infants too
We do that. In bold. Still doesn't stop people from writing to us at least once a week asking for something else or reporting that the Ubuntu package doesn't work on their distro.
"what's the alternative?"

Private property.

With a few municipal bylaws.

All under the jurisdiction of an actual legal framework, with a Constitutional foundation.

...

As the commented noted - and what is apparent in the video, these places are a bit more culty than they are secularly civic.

'Free thinkers', bent on re-thinking civilization, can be surprisingly authoritarian.

Especially absent the many constraints of regular society, and trying to pursue some kind of 'ideal', then a kind of authoritarianism takes over - sometimes 'top down' i.e. by the 'founder' (i.e. Walt Disney), or the inner circle, or more competitively among the rank and file

If there isn't an overt hierarchy - it will form on some other subtle basis.

If you thought that 'nosy neighbours' were an issue in small towns, try one of these places.

When the 'living space' gets conflated with so many other cultural issues, then existential debate ensues perennially. It may not exist as 'overt, direct conflict' but rather in the minds of the adherents.

I think it's why so few of these places actually exist - we really do value our privacy and the freedom to work and do as we please.

I certainly am glad that some of them exist, but I think they are better framed as legal municipalities, with some specific bylaws that are more objectively clear, where they otherwise stay out of people's lives. I think a lot of people would go for that.
> Unfortunately this paper is pay-walled

not when you use sci-hub

https://sci.bban.top/pdf/10.1016/s0022-3476%252851%252980084...
I love this website. Wow. I think it accumulates a bit too much browser history but not a big deal.

As a complete novice to geometry and topology, I find the classification of all kinds of types of polygons to be equal parts maddening and beautiful. It’s wild to me that we can classify what we do to any kind of geometry to get these subsets.
That only works for open source packages.
Uh, Lisp is NOT capable of doing command line support WITHOUT C interfaces? REALLY?
Do you have a picture of that? Curious to see how it looks like.
Bug templates help, of course. But people do still just dump the wrong stuff in until the report is accepted. Like some kind of OS version in the App version field, for example. Or some ambiguous thing like "latest". Or copy/paste from an existing bug report from some other person. You can see this on many public repos.
Meritocracy sounds pretty good in principle, until you realize that 'merit' is usually defined by whoever happens to be in power, and thus often ends up entrenching and perpetuating existing power structures.

It is convenient to be thought of as having attained your position by merit, and also to be able to define the criteria by which others must seek to displace or succeed you.
This is true, fear has evolutionary advantages. However it is also blinding, so, like fire, it has a place. Spreading fear in an airport is odd, and it would be better dealt with in other contexts.
Wildcat Banking
Interesting idea’s on that link. I eventually did away with todo lists. I do have points written down, but usually I just have one big item I need to tackle for the day but takes 2-4 hours to do, one small one (1 hour usually) , and the rest is optional. This allows for more flexibility depending on my energy levels.
> People use Windows because it's usable and because they can use software they want

Most people already use computers that, by default, only allow them to install signed software through app stores. For perhaps a majority of them, that's their primary or only computer.
I do interact with customers, but I would rather get a bug report from a Kubuntu users that knows the difference between a compiler and a linker then from a 12 years old that managed to copy paste instructions into a command prompt.
You do realize what the destruction of the economy would entail? That it would mean that many people would lose their livelihood and suffer?
Aaah.. I see what you mean. Tbh that sounds reasonable as long as it's applied without political pressure and such.
You might be surprised how many people are out there which can't even read a wiki close enough to follow instructions in it.

Plus in my experience a lot of Arch users don't just "copy past instructions" they also somewhat understand why this instructions are needed, the Arch Wiki is grate as a resource for setting up things when you understand what you do, but it's often terrible when you just want a step by step guide.

Any way the main benefit of Arch is that it's close to stable upstream repose, instead of sometimes lacking not just month but even years behind wrt. the version of libraries they ship.
We must have a “new features since Java 8” post every other day.
There has been a lot of weird reporting around this topic. From the beginning where there was no numbers to back up the news stories, to people creating weird manager strawmen to make it seem like any company that wanted people back in the office was as bad as slave plantation overseer.

It's all very strange and I don't know why.
I think all planning apps just end up by using the exact same format (calendar format, which is quite limited) to store information, so in terms of usability they are all kind of the same.

I use nextcloud's lists, as it is free, it syncs across all devices and it's easy to do modifications if you want
A lot of people have migrated away from Java to better JVM languages. If Java actually keeps improving, there's a reasonable likelihood that people will stop migrating and those that have may come back to Java from these other langs.

Long term this could lead to a loss of maintenance for tools and libraries for these languages which could kill them and leave those that migrated with a dead & decaying ecosystem.

Of course this is a bit of a stretch but it's not unheard of.
You can just get the PineBook Pro. It's not exactly Raspberry but the support and modularity is as good and the board has far fewer problems (and there is a ready laptop).

There are a few tablet designs with PI3 CM but the performance is way below PI4.
> 670,000 of their fellow citizens have been killed by it here

Are we still just straight repeating govt propaganda to scare the general public? Did Colin Powell's death not make it extremely clear how inflated these totals are? Gen. Powell was 84 with Parkinson's and an incurable blood cell cancer (and fully vaccinated, btw). But sure, Covid "killed" him. Chalk up one more to help justify the lockdowns and eliminating your freedoms.
I'm happy your iPhone shows you the notification in all situations, but that's not true for older iOS versions or any version of Android -- aside from maybe v11. So to outright claim that it's not possible just because you, personally, don't experience it, is plain silly. Especially because I, personally, can open any number of apps on my Pixel 3 right now and have them record in the background without a microphone icon ever being visible.

And as far as real world audio being a challenge, I think you might be slightly behind the times on the power of perceptual hashing. It's disturbingly accurate with very little context or effort.
Pedestrians in Amsterdam (especially the tourists) feel like they own the street and can just step every which way without looking first.

As a cyclist just trying to get from point A to B at my default speed of 20km/h it’s immensely annoying when one of them suddenly turns onto the street forcing me to brake like a madman (and then build up all that speed again).
This included 8 hours of vomiting no mater how hard I willed it to stop or other remedies I tried, and it didn't work on the first dose

It seems very plausible that after 8 hours vomiting would stop without intervention.
> I don't know the cause, this is based on the numbers they reported to defend their decision to exclude older chips.

Why would you present Microsoft PR as fact?
Organice[0] is also worth a mention as a mobile UI.

[0] https://organice.200ok.ch/
'Midsommar' vibes for sure.

I really like that these places exist but I wish there were regular municipal variations that didn't involve such a 'full in'.
Gray Area Festival 2021: Worlding Protocol
I think this will potentially be the lawsuit of the year. Really interesting read.

A lot of the monopoly advantages seem to focus on AdX. I wonder if demanding that Google shall not participate in the ad exchange business could slowly open up competition in all the other markets...

For example, they were concerned that header bidding would make AdX fees go down to 5% instead of 22%, thus they used their advantage in the ad server market to stifle this (plus the FB deal). They are able to do this because they control both markets and can modify the data protocols between these two pieces. Same applies to scrambling IDs (ad servers and display markets)
> your bug reporting template should have users declare what package version they're using so that you can easily tell them they're on an outdated package

Of course I do that, and I said so. I do everything I can to make it trivial for users to give me all the information I need. They just don't give a shit. Some people won't read.

(And the extra irony here is that my original comment already mentioned issue template asking for everything, yet you didn't read it and jumped in to tell me "don't blame the user".)

Edit: I should also mention that this is FOSS work. I’m doing free support for these users who supposedly shouldn’t be blamed for wasting my time.
Fatal stabbing streamed live on Instagram; Victim’s half-sister in custody
> I don’t follow why this is unfortunate?

I'm guessing Java hate, which is kind of fashionable. If Java evolves to stay relevant, it won't be usurped and fade away.
I hope the folks who claimed up and down that Microsoft was different and better these days, and ridiculed people who didn't believe it, are paying close attention to this.

Reminder that they own Github as well as what is likely the single most widely used code editor.
The news we hear about lack of labor is not actually a lack of labor, its a lack of meaningful work.
I have been in Paris two weeks ago and I am surprised how much Paris changed in the last years. Bike lanes and people who ride bikes and scooters everywhere.

I hope that this is THE change in most European metropolises for the future. Not only in Barcelona.
Can you elaborate on this? I am interested in how this works
There is a cost to make a standard. Somehow that needs to be paid.

Though iso isn't really spending its own money from what I can tell, so I don't see where their costs are coming from.
You don’t need to excuse anything to try and understand something. For example even in 2021, we have Afghans who refuse to send their girls to school. We can’t even comprehend that mindset here in America. We don’t need to excuse it to acknowledge that there may be more to it than us simply being better than Afghans. Pastoral societies are often strongly male dominated even compared to similarly undeveloped agricultural societies.

The point is that morality isn’t simply about “we are better than the ignorant people of the past.” That’s part of it obviously, but scientific and technological change often changes the context of how we think about things.
And now, iFumes^W Apple Music is ruining it all. More profits for Apple, worse experience for users.
Whoa, I never knew that! Explorer really ought to have a more overt tagging option, it probably would have kept me on Windows for a couple more weeks.
Lots of great articles about Common Lisp on that site: https://turtleware.eu/

The second part of the article was submitted about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23576447
Simple Inkscape Scripting
Also related:

An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28965949 - Oct 2021 (335 comments)
Personally, unless you need discrete graphics, I would strongly recommend people who want to use Linux, Haiku-os etc to just get a Framework laptop. The manufacturer actually provides enough detail on their hardware to facilitate OS support. I have one and it's great. I've basically lost interest in every other PC manufacturer's laptops, but I will conceded I don't require larger screens or nVidia/AMD graphics.
I'm not so sure about that. There are a lot of remote workers who could live anywhere but choose San Francisco or NYC.
A good trick for removing unintelligent content from google search results on any general computing issue is to prefix the search terms with "linux". And I'm a Mac user :)
If I'm making a software product in a specific product area, do I get to keep out other people from ever making that product?

If a ship sinks at sea, and there's a deserted island nearby, does the first passenger on the ship that arrives on the island get to claim it and prevent anybody else from stepping onto the island? Do all those other people on the ship get a vote on who can step onto the island even if they were not there first?

Does owning a piece of property give you the right to veto a particular person purchasing the neighboring property because you don't want then next door?

We as a society have set up a bunch of rules as for how much control people get when they "purchase" property. It's not a single thing, it's actually a bundle of rights, and we have chosen a particular bundle, and that bundle can be changed, and has changed, over time. Zoning is a century old invention.

The idea that a single land owner in an area can block the sale of land to others is considered ridiculous by most. But how much more ridiculous is it then saying that somebody else can't build apartments on their land, particularly in areas where lack of housing has caused massive homelessness and and skyrocketing of housing prices.
This is great not unfortunate. If Java improves because of Scala and Kotlin then so much the better, this is how languages evolve. If it really does evolve to remove the need for a better Java then it would be nice if people switched away from Kotlin and back to it. Scala can then carry on cementing its niche as a powerful commercial FP language. No hate for Kotlin at all but it seems like in that world, there might be no need for it. Scala is better for FP and if Java 17 is the better Java then great.
Beat me to it, though for me it's a Black n' Red notebook and fountain pens.
> You can't rule out evil because evil thwarts rules.

Nice turn of phrase! I'm stealing it.
Thanks for the info! Crazy that the ram is enough, I checked the ram usage on my current machine, and it was about 23gb… It would be much easier decision if they would just let you upgrade the RAM (good old days…), especially considering the crazy prices.
Kei cars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car) and even kei trucks are really popular in Japan, but that's because they have low prices and tax incentives.
The Science of a Hangover
I assume OP prefers Kotlin or Scala.

Personally, I think one of my favorite things about Java is that, all things considered, it's a small-ish language. So I'm glad that Java is both willing to evolve (slowly, letting other people try stuff out first) but also clearly focused on a curated feature set and resistant to letting new stuff in to bloat it. I am very happy to deal with minor things like no multiline string support if it means we get to avoid being a terrible mess of language features that ruby, scala, python, etc have accrued in a relatively quicker timescale.

I was fairly sad around the java 6-7 days where we went quite a long time with no visibly major new language features (diamond inference was 7's big thing, lol). So it is nice that we're moving a bit faster than that, now.
Why? One could say that about any duration, right?
What's this obsession with ivermectin? I'm not American, so sincerely wondering.
I don’t think it is nonsense. Consider being an expat: you are outside (the physical location) of your own country. Your “citizenship” is essentially with an entity that is far away. The digital country could have embassies in every nation, just like regular countries.

Now imagine a digital country. What’s the fundamental difference? You’re still interacting with an entity that is far away.

If an organization arose that provided benefits to members in a way similar to actual citizenships, it would likely be competitive and desirable. If this digital country managed to make itself valuable to established states, whether through money, talent, or otherwise, I see no reason why it couldn’t thrive and be comparable to tiny island nations like Vanuatu.
If people left Java for other language(s), wouldn't that leave Java with a decaying ecosystem?
C'mon, don't you want to hear the new Billie Eilish album in Dolby Atmos? Guess you aren't a true audiophile then...
That’s a good idea! Did you actively plan to change your path or was that something that just happened because it was interesting to you?
Currently, companies have to put the needs of shareholders first above all else.

It could be changed through legislation that companies need to put the needs of all *stake*holders first.

This would mean chemical companies would have to take into account pollution past what is allowed by regulation, this would mean that Google would have to at least consider the well-being of web users as a whole when making decisions.

And, I believe, this would give people the basis on which to sue a company if they didn't take all stakeholders' interests into account, like creating a program like Jedi Blue.
I think one could argue exactly the same thing for the same reasons about C# vs F# on .NET, which is my area of expertise - but honestly I'm not so sure it's true. C# has grown into an enormous language as it tries (consciously or not) to subsume F#, and F# is always going to remain so much cleaner just because you aren't having to ignore 90% of the language features when you code in it.
Firefox barely runs though. I've had to start opening up Edge just to get Reddit to load because FF slows to such a crawl.