skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or at least wait to see how the native Linux performs once it is working sufficient enough to make the price of the laptop worthwhile.

That is indeed the entire point of this article unless I'm missing something.
The level of service you get, for the most part, is only true in the service industry.

The people complaining about the working culture are usually in education, recruiting, or tech (because those are predominately the jobs you can get easily as a foreigner without really strong Japanese skills).

The working culture in Japanese white-collar jobs is legitimately bad. Japanese people agree, the government agrees, and there's been a trend working on fixing it. The major issues are excessive overtime, and unpaid overtime. The latter is technically illegal, but most companies avoid this by making most employees "supervisors". The government now requires companies to track overtime, and will publicly shame companies that have workers that work >45 hours of overtime a month. The legal cap is 100 hours a month.

The overtime work culture doesn't improve anything. For the most part, people aren't actually working most of that time, and almost everyone is burned out. Productivity is very, very low.

I think a lot of folks also complain about the senpai/kohai aspect of working in Japan, but to be honest, I haven't experienced this, since most tech companies here don't follow that quite as much as you'd expect, since there's so many foreigners. This is maybe what you're trying to touch on in the quality of service. It's built on the idea of long-time mentorship, but you'd be surprised in that it probably doesn't work the way you assume.

It's more of a hazing approach than anything else. The closest analogue that I can think of is the stereotype of interns in the fashion or journalism, where you'd assume they'd be getting training, and tasks related to their career, but instead they're the more senior people's "bitch". They clean toilets, fetch coffee, etc. After working for a year or so, they're given some basic tasks. Again, this isn't a healthy culture and doesn't lead to Japanese companies being actually better than companies in other cultures.

Ultimately, people think that Japanese companies work well, but really most Japanese companies simply can't fail, and it's extremely difficult to compete with them. This is because there's really only a couple handfuls of massive companies, pretending they're thousands of small companies. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu. Startups are owned by these companies, and they prop up the new businesses by self-dealing.

Western work culture is bad in different ways, but Japanese work culture is pretty universally known to be awful, and folks living here mostly put up with it because the rest of the culture makes up for it.
You are a program optimized to increase human biomass.

That’s literally all that’s happening.
If you classify "Han" like "black people", "Hispanics" "Asian/Pacific Islander", or "white people" I would agree that there are "Han Chinese".

I don't think its a very useful classification, but I do not think its stictly scientific, its more cultural since ethnicity is a social heuristic, classifying races isn't scientific but its has uses. If we classify it as a group of Y-haplotypes it can have a scientific basis, but its still classified by social norms. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Y-chromosome-haplotype...
https://web.archive.org/web/20011013031756/http://wuphys.wus...

I can't really do any more justice to the topic than what's been said there.

I'll just note that 1999 is now the good old days when you'd only spend 10 years as a post doc. I left in 2011 and postdocs who had been there for 10 years are still post docs. Out of my class of 30 PhD's there's now no one left in Academia. The golden girl of the class who spend time in Antarctica, CERN and all the other places which take one in one thousand applicants is a data scientist at a bank as of last month.
Why suits against Netflix could shake streaming
Covid is 100% fake.

Vaccines aren't vaccines because they don't stop transmission nor do they prevent illness. Plenty of people have died from the vax.

Also, what is wrong with you liberals? I thought just last year you didn't want to touch Trump's vax? Do you even orange man bad?

FUCK YOUR VAX!

FUCK YOUR PASS!

FUCK YOUR COVID!

GO BACK TO CHINA YOU COMMIE FUCKS!
That's cool. Reminds me a little of Perl6 (now called Raku), but you use English syntax instead of all the operators and hyperoperators and stuff.
What can I say. Maybe drawing that flow chart really would be helpful for you. It's a valuable skill, being able to follow a thread or a conversation, and trying to understand the back and forth between statements and arguments may come in handy some other time.
i never understood why window managers were so hard to get right. i’d love for this to be successful and help keep System 76 profitable.
I’ve seen Tcl used to write testing systems a long time ago, but never really worked with it.

Tangentially, I found that the primary author of SQLite and Fossil SCM, D Richard Hipp, was also a core team member of Tcl. The server side of Fossil uses a minimal dialect of Tcl and the build/test system is built with Tcl. [1]

[1]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
tcec-chess.com (site of the Top Chess Engine Championship) actually ran an all-bongcloud tournament once, between 8 different engines iirc. Some engines were stronger than others but all were very definitely way stronger than any puny human. As expected, white lost most of the games, but there were some draws and I think white have actually managed to win one. Idk where the scores are now though.
Percy Julian: Chemist and Catalyst
Some countries with Common Law systems do not have a codified list of all their offences,[0] meaning that a judge would have to decide whether a law even exists, before someone could be prosecuted for it.

As an example from that linked article, there apparently exists an offence "Concealment of treasure trove" under the common law of England, the definition of which had to be clarified in 1982 when Lord Denning "decided that objects have to be made 'substantially' gold or silver in order to qualify as Treasure Trove and he thought that they should have at least 50%."[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law_offence#England_and...

[1] http://tartanplace.com/tartanillus/cite/treasur2.htm
I can see the business side of the permanent upgrade hype, constant new features, etc. But aren't we supposed to be reaching some kind of detente with Apple where they realize that power users drive the Mac market, and the release schedule should be built around hardware and stability, rather than endless retreads and new consumer features we'll never use? I'm still on El Capitan and pretty much everything since then looks like bloat to me.
In Tcl newlines only have special meaning at the end of a command -- at the beginning of a command they're just whitespace. So you can break up a long line as follows:

set foo [

foofn bar [

barfn baz [

bazfn quz 1

]

]

]

Elegant!
I've got a few war stories myself, I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

This case its important to recognize it was 2002, early days. This story just doesnt read the same in todays context.
I don't think these are good for training though, unfortunately.
In star trek they just tell the computer what they want to do in a very high level way like "computer, can you average the natural disaster data on Proxima 5's moon"? There is no file handles to open a .CSV file and find the right column and so forth.
Thank you for the reply. I think you're 100% right about the LSAT. I'm prepping for it now.

Have you been happy with the switch from software engineering to law? 3 people in my immediate family are lawyers, so I think I have a relatively realistic understanding of the reality of legal practice. But overwhelming online pessimism about law careers is making me uncertain about taking the risk.
Higher than normal disk latency is going to happen ocassionally, regardless of your hosting environment.

Dedicated hardware helps, and over provisioned ram helps, but sometimes disks (including ssds) are off doing something else when it comes to servicing your requests and it takes more time.
I know, that’s part of why I found the quote so off and felt like it should be questioned directly.
Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Workshop on Wednesday Nov 10th
I think you may have bigger problems if your menu screen can't even run on a Pentium II.
I like the "application domain" angle. It fits well...
Ask HN: A.I. Hello World?
is there a good example of an A.I. hello world or something similar?

anyone care to point me in the right direction?
It is replaceable. It's just not replaceable without a screwdriver.
Veritasium – How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
As far as future proof goes, Danbooru has been on the web for 15 years and on github for 10 and is still actively developed. There is a web interface and also a webapi. But the (lack of) access control may be a problem. Maybe with appropriate nginx auth config you can ensure only the family can access it.

If you search for it beware NSFW.
Yep. Feels like this was a test of a click bait title more than a meaningful submission to HN.
Checkout Scala. It allows you to do pretty much the same, i.e. the syntax is so flexible that you can even make 'puts "Hello World!"' work and implement your own "if" that looks like the builtin one. It also has first-class lambdas and the other stuff that you asked for, but obviously there are also differences.
> Many were tired of being locked into a geography which did not make them happy.

Do you compete with Bay area FAANG salaries? It seems that part of the reason companies pay so much in Silicon Valley is because the cost of local labor is so high.
For the curious: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...
As far as I know you need to use Xcode to distribute the software, or to write macOS-native software. I have written plenty of Java Swing apps without touching Xcode at all.
I'd like to second your recommendation of Deep C Secrets. I originally bought it purely for the title pun, but it is actually one of the better programming books I own ( and I have a lot ).
12.1 is already in beta.
I was just wondering whether something like shownew existed. What a coincidence. Thank you both.
Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again
Canadians warned to expect 'several months of rockiness' as food prices rise
It's really not standard. I've crewed for a 100 ft curently operating commercial vessel (i.e. USCG approved) with nothing digital -- just a wheel, a throttle, and some lines for controlling sail.
Love this... thanks for the feature request, and the tip that it's live!
Of Course “changeme” Is Valid Base64
How would you suggest helping a dev ask better questions? Explicitly giving them guidelines seems aggressive. Though sometimes I have a hard time understanding the problem, or what was attempted.
So... right around Trump's election? This politicization is older than 5 years.

But you're right its from an allegedly independent organization.
Seems like a bad idea for recall.
In the early 1980s:

Dial the rotary phone, listen for carrier. If you got one, unplug the handset and plug it into the back of the VICModem. And have fun reading posts by the locals at 300 bps. :)

Basically it was 99% computer geeks using these things, I'd wager.

The experience was very similar to Hacker News, actually. It was a bulletin board, after all. Except far more local and the threading UI was worse. Same arguments. :)

Most BBSes only had one phone line, so if someone was logged in, you couldn't connect. You'd get a busy signal. When I finally got a Hayes-compatible modem, I could at least autodial until I got through.

Some BBSs had games you could play. If you managed to get through before midnight, sometimes you could play today's turns, roll over midnight, and then play tomorrow's turns before anyone else, giving you an edge.

The games I remember most were TradeWars and one called Dominion, IIRC.

No cost as long as you weren't making any long-distance calls.

Not really similar to existing social networks. And it was often a bunch of people in town that you knew in person, if the town was small enough.

I remember when the first BBS in town joined WWIVnet and we were able to send email (very slowly) over longer distances without incurring long-distance charges. Then someone else got on FidoNet. And there was a Waffle BBS with NNTP, I think.

Bang paths to send mail...

Eventually in the early 1990s I got internet through my college and BBSs went largely forgotten after that.
> The only way to preserve digital information is to constantly babysit it, making sure you have two/three copies and replacing the broken disks

Yes, but I babysit all my digital information via that one process, and that's a lot of information. My collection is currently sitting at just over 3 TB. That's an awful lot of photo albums, and yet it still fits on a single hard drive (per copy of all the data).

> There is no consumer-friendly process of archiving things - you can try burning it to optical, but will there be a drive to read it in 50 years?

Yeah, probably. I can still find players for Vinyl easily enough. Mind, you'd need to burn the data to one of those fancy M-Discs; normal consumer-writable discs won't last that long.
I'd say far more common, actually. The vast majority of the worlds engineers do not work for big tech. Also, most of the engineers I've worked with never got comp sci education, or even any related education. They all learned on their own or via courses / bootcamps. And what is moderate wealth anyway? Most engineers I know who have 5+ years of experience are easily in the top 3% of earners in their countries. I'd say that's pretty decent moderate wealth.
"I don't understand how virtual memory systems work, but I know that if I write an article complaining about <new Apple thing> I'll get a ton of traffic".

The Activity Monitor screenshot in the embedded tweet even explains what's going on. The system has 64G of physical memory. A bit less than 50GB is in use (so 14G is completely idle, wasted). 7G are wired (kernel, device buffers, etc.) and can't be paged. 38G are in used caching things for applications, and about 180G worth of compressed data (mostly zeros I'd say, since it's only using 5G of real memory) has avoided being paged out.

There is literally no memory pressure in this system, and no evidence of leakage in those numbers. Darwin deliberately tries to keep as much DRAM as possible live to minimise page-in and decompression costs; it literally can't find anything worth paging in or decompressing to fill those last 14G. That's a vacuum, not pressure.

I'm not going to debate the stability issues that the article author is complaining about; I do hope they have all of the crash reporting features enabled so that their crash data can be used by the various developers to help fix things.

But I would hope that before writing yet another stupid clickbait article, they pick a topic they know something about.
> The ones that don’t complain have low standards.

> they haven’t experienced anything better.

I don't want to gratify this pointless flame any more than to say that I have used all of Windows (XP, Vista, 8, 8.1, 10), Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and macOS as my daily driver at one point or another, and I currently use macOS because I have yet to experience anything better. There is a simple explanation for your problems here: something is wrong with your system (or you are overtaxing it) if it beachballs constantly. This is not typical macOS behavior, especially not since they switched to SSDs. I actually haven’t seen a beachball in years.
It's in reply to "99% of all Mac users are happy" - which brush is more broad?
What do you believe is the distinction between software engineering and programming?
This is extremely physics-centered. 2021 is an especially poor year to complain about our society producing enough elites to expand our understanding of the physical world, given that this year billions of people are currently being inoculated against a novel disease by vaccines built on a novel platform in record time. And when new therapeutic vectors are becoming readily available for the same disease, also in record time. I'm not a physicist or biologist, but from my perspective, the advancements in biotech in the areas of vaccines, cancer therapeutics, and other areas are at least worthy of mention here. Rapid cures for pandemics are likely to do more to help expand basic science research -- by exciting the populace -- than more precise measurements of the charge of basic particles.

And this week is an especially poor choice to publish a rant like this given the news that a company just got sizable funding to scale fusion reactors to commercial scale. Physics triumphs; physicists lament?

Perhaps we have the frontierspeople we need, and because they don't look like the frontier in the history books, the author simply doesn't recognize this?
Guide to Linux on Macs with T2 Chips
Can you please explain what exactly you get from the Apple desktop you don't with any of those options? I'm currently forced onto a mac for work and I find it lacking in almost every way other than an ever so slight advantage in beauty.

So besides dpi-scaling issues linux is known for, whats the draw? Some hotkey that does a thing? Some visual candy? Smoothness in transitions?

Whatever it is, it's hard for me to imagine it being worth the tradeoff. I can't even name desktop workspaces on a Mac!

I'm reviewing the "new features" section on Monterey: https://www.apple.com/macos/monterey/features/ and I'm not seeing much other than a few known areas (multi-device support if you bought fully into the apple ecosystem, etc).

With most "I tried linux desktop" people it's a problem of DE/WM, but you seem to be beyond that so I'm genuinely curious.
Not yet but I've mentioned to Andy (Oil Shell author) regarding the importance of adding command features into Oil Shell and he is actually looking into it [1]. Hopefully he will draw some inspirations from Tcl. Imagine a Cisco like networking command wrapper on top of Linux OS with eBPF backend. It will turn Linux into a ready-made formiddable open source networking OS without the need for NX-OS [2].

If you are looking into a modern version of Tcl, there is TIL [3]. It's a Tcl inspired new scripting language on top of D language. By having D language as the foundation it can perform all the features that you've requested including lambdas, async and then some more [4].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28552998

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_NX-OS

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27167762

[4]https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html
Idk exactly what opportunities you’re looking for, but maybe look into ediscovery. Lots of opportunities in ediscovery that bridges law and tech.
Add counter that the share of global GDP is largely irrelevant to the American dream. The American dream isn't about being better off than some random sampling of the world. I think urbanization is what has put in damper on the American dream. Housing security provided from owning one's residence is a central component of this dream. This housing has severely limited in the urban setting. You can look back to the life conditions of someone living in 1950s New York as a as a comparison oh, and see how this has spread to a much larger portion of the population. The places where the American dream is most alive is in the suburbs small cities with functioning economies and reasonable housing cost. In these areas, you can get a college degree or have a small businesses that provides for a home and family.
Sure, that sounds interesting and unsurprising. But was any of it believed by Christians?
And yet the US is not #1 in pretty much any quality of life metric. The point is there are plenty of nations with varying degrees of US influence that are far from miserable or painful places to live.
My favourite file organization hack is to have a "scratch" folder containing everything that I can lose with no problem. Stuff only comes out of the scratch folder if I know I can't redownload it again and I might need it.

This way I can just wipe the whole scratch folder whenever I want, and there are much less files I actually need to organize.
What I find common on such threads is Linux users bashing how Apple users are suckers. I don't get the point of such comments. Most people on HN can already figure out how to build their own PC, install and configure the distro of their choice. But thats not even relevant as everyone is pointing out the flaws in software so that the company responsible will fix them. Bragging about Linux makes no sense, many of us using Macs here most likely already have a linux box as well.
Yes, I agree, but it is a memory leak. It doesn’t START at 10GB. Also closing windows does not help much at all.

To answer your question, I have a total of 73 windows open at the moment. 11 of them are from applications with a single window open, 8 are from iTerm, and 54 are from Sublime Text. I am aware that is quite a lot for Sublime, but that is just how I use it.

Regardless, I just quit Sublime Text, and the memory usage only dropped to 8.9GB still absurdly high for having 19 windows open.
Note that this also was when Apple released the EndpointSecurity framework specifically made to sandbox these sorts of corporate malware in user space and outside the kernel.
> I think there’s a future where phones are all-in-one devices. When in my pocket, it’s a screen-first mobile device. When plugged into a dock, it’s a full-blown MacOS machine. I could then have “profiles” for personal and work environments.

This is exactly what Microsoft attempted with Windows Phone. It worked but didn't work. It worked just fine for application that had an adaptive UI that works just a good on the desktop as on a small touch screen. starting a desktop app on the phone was not a good experience.

Yes, Apple could have a better shot at getting this to work if the phone and laptop had the exactly same hardware and because of their appstore. But having the same hardware in both devices is not enough. They would also for need to turn the MacOS into a gigantic iPhone with a touch Screen.

They would have to recreate their own version of Windows (8) 11's vision and implement an UI that works both with mouse/keyboard and touch.

I bet they are working on this, but I suspect we are many years away before we see a MacBook with a touch screen.
To earn while learn, in the space you enjoy?

What's your ideal setup, out of curiosity?
Didn't the BeOS filesystem (BFS and later OpenBFS) make this possible? I remember being impressed with they way extended attributes made the file system and files into a database for any programs that wanted to interact with them. And, I don't know exactly how it worked but the system supported live queries that allowed you to drill down based on the attributes. MacOS and Windows both created things intended to appear like live queries but they always seemed slower and less elegant.
Honestly unless something seems to be sweating the box there's not a great reason to monitor it all the time. By far the biggest CPU/memory culprits are web pages, but just looking at a bunch of chrome or ff processes doesn't really help determine which it is. Activity Monitor's own GUI is a pretty serious offender, running around trying to allocate icons and graphs for all those apps. If you just need to know what's going on, `top` on the command line will watch it for you. But usually (from a 2015 mac perspective) there's no need to keep an eye on it.
As I near the entry into my 30s, I begin to see this more and more clearly. I used to be EXCITED about my job, about a project, about a task. It also made me very stressed and made me take things personally when they didn’t go according to “my vision”. Back then, I’d have read this sentiment as “jaded” and “cynical”. But as I mature, I find the balance, and I find truth in these words.