skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that much of the demand for cheap, shelf-stable backup media has gone away over the last decade or two. Most backup jobs either go to cloud or to disk, not tape. And because of that, tape drives are more expensive than ever, which takes away much of the benefit of the cheap media.

LTO, for example, is relegated to archival use-cases nowadays, such as video production. You'd think that would make sense, because the media's shelf stable... but it's actually really awful for archival. Why? Because new drives can't read old tapes past two generations, and old drives stop getting made. So every time a new tape drive generation comes out, a movie studio can't just upgrade drives in their libraries and use the new tapes. Nor can they just hold onto their old drives forever - what happens when they start breaking, and they can't read their old tapes anymore? (Or worse, an old/failing drive eats a tape?)

Every movie studio with an archival program is on a constant upgrade treadmill, including costly media migrations. That is, they're copying data from old tapes onto new, so they can maintain compatibility with new drives. This entirely defeats the purpose of shelf-stable media; if I can't buy newly manufactured drives for old tape formats then who cares if the tapes themselves can sit in a box for 20 years?

Now, let's say you're not a movie studio with a massive digital archival problem. You just want to backup 5 terabytes. Unfortunately, 5 terabytes is so little that tape vendors have forgotten how to count that low. It's far cheaper (not to mention, more performant) to just buy a bunch of disk drives and migrate data between them. Or just pay Amazon to do it. Which is what everyone wound up doing.
The NYPA is in the process of upgrading the Massena-Adirondack transmission lines which will initially be at 230kV, but later be able to be run at 345kV.

https://www.nny360.com/news/stlawrencecounty/power-authority...
Hot take: The Eidolon is more impressive than this effort and it works with the technological limitations of the platform rather than against it like this does.

All those LucasArts games were stunning for the time and Rescue At Fractalus has a genuinely terrifying experience within it not replicated IMO until the first time you hear "Anytime..." in Alien vs Predator...
The government didn't compete by providing better goods/services. They just taxed everyone through inflation to pay for it. This is not sustainable and anti free market.
In this particular case, the fact it's written in rust gives it some very interesting properties:

- it makes compiling your entire project into a standalone executable trivial

- the interpreter can be compiled to WASM way more easily than with something like pyodide

- you can provision python with cargo, which mean no more fiddling with pyenv, deadsnake, epel, etc. and yet getting a consistent, to the minor version, python distribution

- rewritting you hot path in rust becomes first class citizen. Since the python story is, start with python, and when you need to scale, you can always create an extension later, this is really attractive.

All that has only value, of course, if the project reaches a good compat and is supported.

But still, the possibilities it offer are not negligible.
For the most part, if I am providing wifi in a place like that the only thing I want you to do is browse the web. I am not interested in your desire to run a torrent client, stream netflix, or do something else that consumes a significant amount of bandwidth. Most UDP applications are also rather poor when it comes to congestion control and in general do not play nice with the other children. These companies have better things to do than to provide IT support for people trying to use the wifi, so you block all UDP and force re-direct port 53 UDP (DNS lookups) to go to a resolver that you are going to provide in the DHCP lease. This also means that wireguard is not an option for most people if they are on these networks.
But Why!!!
Never had a problem. The large and responsive trackpad also is good enough to play video games which would be unheard of on a non Mac trackpad
A standup meeting was also in 1 room and in person.

More people work remote now, it's not 1995 anymore ( history of scrum). As most things, scrum evolved. It's a guide, not a strict protocol/law

The idea is to have all the technical things in one time to eliminate interruptions later on, not to eliminate personal connections with the team. So what is a better time for the casual talk, since people don't have coffee breaks anymore? ( If everyone of the team is onboard fyi)

I kinda miss in person with the entire team. I see some people seriously slacking and those are the ones not really involved with casual talk too ( coincidence? ).

While many people are perfectly able to work remotely, it made the job of a eg. teamlead much harder to confront more difficult things. They can't notice the body signals anymore when a person's cam is just off ( and even then).
Nat has done a great job of embracing the ideals that many if us respect. I look forward to watching Thomas continue to extend Githubs influence in open source and productivity.
I don't know where you heard that, but wlroots is not the defacto standard, there are several other libraries. Off the top of my head, there is libweston, mutter, mir, qtwayland, smithay, and probably some others aimed at embedded that I can't remember...

Edit: also this one somebody wrote in HTML5 and typescript https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield
This isn't similar to indulgences at all.

Indulgences were essentially a way to buy absolution. If you were wealthy, you could willfully sin and then buy back your admission to heaven.

This app is not that. It's a faith-based meditation guide. It's often compared to HeadSpace, including by its founder[1].

1. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/i-tried-the-hallow-app-for-...
Any way you skin this cat, resources are limited. So it would be taking away resources from other uses.

Plus producing solar farms is harmful to the environment, as is running them.

Unless you actually use solar farms for something useful, you know, replacing stuff with a higher negative environmental impact.

Building your own power grid for crypto speculation is kind of the textbook definition of greed and selfishness.
I'll take the "con" side. A lot of the core Rubyists left for Shopify after the sale, and I'm sure Nat had a contract to stay on for X amount of time, where Microsoft would make no major changes. Now that this is expiring, I fully expect Microsoft to start making changes with the site that will appeal to large corporations, at the expense of what I would prefer, as an individual user. I guess time will tell.
The average lifespan of deceased donor kidney is 10 to 15 years and for live donor is around 15 to 20 years. People normally get multiple transplants throughout their lives.
eventually no public machinery works. It's not about design but incentives
You don’t think they can match location data with metadata and figure it out? Circumstantial evidence is easily used to figure it out.
I feel similarly about the "show ID and proof of vaccination to enter" policy that went into effect last week here in King County. It's too much. I got my shots, I've done my part with masks and distancing and so forth; a "return to normal" which includes checkpoints and paperwork at every door does not feel at all normal to me. I'd rather just keep waiting.
> Getting offended at every low-ball offer seems like a difficult way to live life.

I interpret low-ball offers (and by low-ball I mean rates well below the going market rate) as blatant attempts to abuse and swindle me and a collosal show of bad faith.

Accepting such an offer means being exploited, and being offered one means the exploiter saw in me a valid target for abuse.

I don't know how it's possible to not take it personally. Your income is perhaps the most influential parameter that governs your life.

> It's not like showing anger is going to get you a better offer or better working conditions.

Not accepting abuse does not mean getting angry, at least if you're an adult.
Absolutely. Look at the Patriot Act. It took a national crisis to justify that for them.
It's an incredibly shitty thing to say that some guy on the internet "makes [your] life horrible" because he has a standing agreement with his team - a team you will never work on and a team that presumably doesn't contain any narcolepts and presumably would do their very best to accommodate one if they did.
It means it is intended to evoke something approaching the feelings and mindspace associated with dementia.

We have works of art that allude to or generate all sorts of human feelings. While perhaps "the real deal" would be a piece of music written by someone who was actually going through the ordeal themselves it absolutely reminds me of collections of paintings or books created by artists with progressing dementia.

As someone who lost a family member to it, I couldn't stand to listen to much of the album because it is just too on the dot.
"smoking indoors is illegal because smoking is less 'socially acceptable'"

No - this is false.

It's illegal because it's harmful to others - and - it's generally a nuisance i.e. it really smells quite a lot.

Chewing tobacco is completely legal 'indoors' and it has many of the same negative effects. It's not even up for consideration in terms of banning. You can chew it on the Subway, at the Office.

"Perhaps I'm missing something important here?"

Yes, you're missing the fact that we already do heavy suppression of Meth/Heroin i.e. teaching kids how terrible it is, featuring it in films as extremely negative, positioning it as 'totally socially taboo and unacceptable behaviour'.

Selling it in stores legally is both an increase in availability, and a significant reduction in social taboo.

This is not even an argument.

Widespread availability and lessening of social taboos of an extremely addictive substance, which addicts develop a tolerance for and quickly move onto more powerful substances (Fentanyl) would yield a major public health crisis. We already have on on our hands.

70 000 dead from OD in the USA in 2019 - and rising
32 000 car accident deaths in the USA 2019 - and going down

It's growing quite a lot in the Midwest.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/2013-2017-increase.h...
Many people within Microsoft felt that he was a clear contender for Satya's eventual successor.
Carter did a good job debunking the notion that wars create booming economies. The post-Vietnam economy he inherited fairly sucked.
That Hetzner cannot be sued for this is different from claiming this is acceptable behavior.

Most people come from cultures where filling a form incorrectly does not entitle people to immediately destroy their things.

I also come from a country where putting "full name" on a form only means people expect more than your first name and it is customary to not use all of your last names. I am sure many are in the same boat.
Wouldn't want any Borg driving those things around.
This sounds like someone who has never actually used a recent Apple trackpad and who is making things up.

It's simply false that a large trackpad makes clicking harder. There's no physical hinge anymore.
Lenovo Yoga models aren't the same in construction than Thinkpads, but I have tried some non-Thinkpad Lenovo laptops and their touchpad software is a total garbage. If you know what brand is, I would totally try to look for an OEM Synaptic or Elan driver and install it.
Thank you. I'm not sure what the data means to you. Those look like reasonable salaries to me, though I don't work in those fields.

> why waste time proving this when urban decay is a constant, documented situation?

Urban decay is a meme, like urban crime. Crime is, generally speaking, at generational lows (shootings and murders are up, but that's nationwide, not urban, and those are only a fraction of crimes), but some people imagine cities infested with it.

There are certainly urban problems with infrastructure, but using memes doesn't tell me what we're talking about.

IME the common narrative is that lots of people, especially these days, want to cut taxes and then complain about reduced services.
I would very happily go back to ThinkPads with only a TrackPoint[0] and no space wasted on a touchpad, but I realise I'm in a tiny minority.

0: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x200
Yeah, I think these days I'd find FreeBSD a better fit than Linux. I'm... increasingly kinda over Linux. Red Hat's continuing political success in pushing projects it (more or less) steers toward de facto standard status, while having (in my opinion) god-awful taste in project architecture and goals, has the whole ecosystem going a direction I don't like.

Nonetheless, it'd be nice to have the GUI included in the "this doesn't break" part of the OS. It'd be pretty unlikely that Homebrew could screw up an entire day for me, because the scope of things it's likely to even be able to mess up is limited. A package upgrade breaks X or Wayland, though? Ugh, there goes the day. Increasingly, I think stronger guarantees that the GUI layer does not break, or become unstable (god, I've seen so many X crashes in my life) except under very unusual circumstances, would be table-stakes in my switching full time to another workstation OS. Which leaves me options of... MacOS or Windows. Win10/11's telemetry and adware crap is unacceptable, and I like unixy tools, so that leaves me one option. :-(

Then again, ZFS with snapshotting can paper over a lot of packaging & system-update problems, which is part of why I'm thinking there may be a lot more FreeBSD in my future (yeah, yeah, I know, Linux has it too, but I've developed—like scar tissue—a healthy mistrust of Linux distros' ability to deal with "non-standard" file systems, when it comes to the root filesystem)
and we in the industry have traded all that power and flexibility for...a gigantic mess of lock-in, never ending nouns, and "needing the right language for the right job", when in reality they all become crap lisps
NSO is a private company which is unrelated to the US intelligence relations with Israel, there’s no outsourcing here and it actually makes more sense NSO causes major headaches to the US (see murder of Khashoggi) than otherwise
Yes, absolutely! My grandfather, even in the very late stages, could deeply enjoy music from his youth and appeared to regain some lucidity while listening to it.
Who is doing the subsidizing?
It all depends on how technology changes. We can still read floppies written in the 70s with essentially a motor, something magnetic and a wire going around it (and a computer reading the currents). I’m pretty sure we’ll know how to cobble together an optical microscope and camera device to read at least one bit out of every volume cell. Let’s just hope the data format is simple enough.
This seems pretty worrisome if you have ANY non-Apple device. So if I create an account using PassKeys, but at some later date, I need to log in using a browser on a Windows or Linux box, what do I do? I don't have a password, since one was never created. And all my credentials are in iCloud.
Superior how, precisely?
This doesn't add up. In "the real world" a programmer making less at a different company would take that 3rd role.
Probably hugged a bit, it works for me.
Von Neumann probe when?
Kazakhstan's residential utility subsidies are 3% of country's GDP.
That just means the cost to hire includes the cost to train people.

And realistically, training is always a cost, even if people don't acknowledge it. It takes time for experienced people to get up to speed at a new workplace.
Recently my cell phone suffered a catastrophic failure and had to be replaced. "No problem", I thought "I'll just restore my data from Android's automatic backups onto my new device."

Google's Authenticator app's data is not restored. I have no way of logging into half a dozen apps that require 2FA now. Good going, Google. I'll never use your shitty 2FA again.
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they dont scale. across people or time. in person, and actual standing (which one boss insisted on) are the worst. phone conf a little better but still bad. wastes so much time. even the textual status versions can be annoying and put pressure on you to "game" it to not look bad. if someone is working on essentially one thing only and that lasts over many days or weeks it becomes a maddening grind to have to say the same exact thing everyday. and it can make you feel bad as a "slacker" if you dont have as much exciting stuff to report new each day. in short it becomes yet enough tool for coworkers to abuse in the name of politics and getting ahead

that said... I like the potential of them. and I think it might be possible to do them right. but theyre certainly optimized to be best for the manager, maybe a net win for him, and a net lose for each of his reports.

caveat: I might have experienced them "done wrong" more than done right. so will keep an open mind that the latter is possible
Why not use a keyboard only interface?
I don't think the parent was taking much issue with the blog posts or the fact that he's a tutor. I think it's his previous companies, plus this paragraph from the post:

> So, first of all, the confession: I’m not a neutral observer here. In talking about this paper, I’m talking my own book. My company, Highway Pharmaceuticals, is currently raising funds to get a safer, easier to use, extended-release version of cyclosporine, the most common calcineurin inhibitor, into first-in-human trials. If this paper is correct, investors should probably consider throwing money at me.
Or a center punch (helps on flat metal too).

One favorite trick of mine is to print out 1:1 drill pattern drawings and center-punch through the paper onto my metal workpiece for all the drill locations. Fast and accurate.
Obviously, things have changed quite a bit in the three years since this was written. I'm curious what we now consider boring that was "exciting" then. First thing that comes to mind are the managed kubernetes services that weren't really "mature" back then. Are those boring? Some would say yes, I personally would say "not yet".
> No, no proprietary code was used, the port was done from the Open source Java clone Jake2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake2
We ported it by using Google Web Toolkit Java->JS compiler, and replaced OpenGL with WebGL,

That sounds like you wrote code, code on which Google holds copyright, and you really need to read up on the Google company policy on that. I'm not sure you understand fully what distinct things copyright and software licenses are, and how Google policies apply to them.

There's a reason people who join Google have historically "disappeared" from open source: It's because they can't just contribute.

Back when you did this it definitely was explicitly and strongly violating policy. Nowadays maybe it could get away without opensource review by counting it as a "patch".

https://opensource.google/docs/patching/#no-review
That's awesome, thank you! I somehow never encountered it (or maybe I did without knowing what I was eating).
The US won the Revolutionary War because ultimately France joined in against the British. The French provided substantial support and training for the Continental Army, and the French navy held the British fleet at bay.

The land battles that were won by the Continental Army were won using the standard tactics of the day.
I use an S55H hanging from a pulley, boxing ring-style, just high enough to be out of the video frame unless I'm trying to show it off, into a Cloudlifter and Scarlett Solo. As a veteran of several remote-first company audio wars, I have gotten many compliments on this rig. All this to say, it's hard to go wrong with a condenser mic and a cloudlifter into a decent audio interface. My camera game (iMac Facetime camera) is however fairly wack.
The CNC Shield is a blessing, shame the Gerber files aren't being published for newer versions.
I milled a test block in wood to check the accuracy, and it was sub-millimeter accurate. I can't measure further than that as my tools doesn't allow it. But I doubt that it's super accurate due to the 3d-printed parts, aluminium instead of steel etc.
Sure it was, and for MS there is definitely strategic value in owning Github. But I even if you factor in that strategic value, Github is not as important to Microsoft as, say, Instagram is to Facebook.
between things like this and the pre- and post-increment/decrement operators, it's shocking that C code generates so many security holes ;)
I live in brooklyn too and cars are an incredible pain, they take away space, stink, honk and are stuck in traffic on the BQE all the time. Replacing cars with a commuter network of self driving cars would be a great upgrade IMO.
I have been a supporter of smaller trackpads for a long time. I have turned down the work macbook at the past few jobs, and the track pad has been at the top of my gripes.

I think this is largely down to how I use my laptop. I always disable all gestures, and replace them with keyboard commands. I also found I would make the sensitivity really high, so I wouldn't have to reach so far to move my mouse around. I think my preferences for keyboard based interactions and traditional mice make we want a smaller trackpad.
I wouldn't be surprised if it takes years for the phase-out, if it ever gets phased out at all. There is a particular type of organizational culture that believes having the "big" option for a productivity tool is the best option. AzDO feels like the "big" option. It is quite customizable and can emulate (and in some areas surpass) GitHub's functionality, but at the expense of having more knobs. To me, AzDO feels like the inside of a space shuttle, but I'm certain that this complexity is seen as a strength to some orgs.

In CI-land, though, I think GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines fates are much more closely intertwined. The Microsoft-hosted runners for Azure Pipelines have the same environment as GitHub Actions (or perhaps it's GitHub Actions that's standing on the shoulders of Azure Pipelines)[1].

1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agen...
It's also true about cars, homes, power tools, computers, and etc. Newer variants of these items are more efficient and it's just dumb to try to use things forever without updating them.
They really need to get their package manager done. Imagine doing game dev without normalized package management.
what is the catch?
Then you click "Try another way..." and send a code to SMS, or you use U2F.
Yeah just updating every pixel randomly at 20 - 30 fps is a feat on the 8 bit Atari, nevermind with a raycaster.
100%, it helps so much with the wiring.
I'm surprised waymo is collecting data in manhattan where there's great public transit coverage. The outer boroughs would be much more useful.
That's incredible. Was this the earliest instance of raycasting in the wild?

Good intro to raycasting for those interested:
https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html
CDs and DVDs are pressed. Recordable media is not and, with the wrong conditions, will rot.

DVD-RWs will get corrupted if you look funny at them.
Use a different tip on it, I set acceleration off on mine and use the fastest speed.