skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I'd recommend is trying, to the extent you're able, to broaden which layers or dimensions you look to in determining whether something is interesting.

Obviously, there will be some products that viscerally excite you and others that don't, but let me elaborate: perhaps a company is working on a tool to help construction workers orchestrate cleanups at their work sites...or the company is working on a platform to help automate property management...whatever.

These may not seem as exciting, on the surface, as other products you may have seen out there, but it could be that digging into them further there are elements which will pique your interest. For example, perhaps the systems that need to be built in support of these products are particularly complex or they present particular scaling challenges, etc.

The underlying product may not be super interesting to you, but it could be that the engineering work involved in them is actually more interesting than some other product that feels more exciting to you. Or perhaps the business or operations side of these companies is very interesting and well-executed and there are things to learn on that front.

I'm not expressing this very well, but my main point is that there can be a divergence between products that are interesting and work that is interesting - often times the less exciting product presents more interesting/challenging work. To see that, you need to take into account the entire equation: the biggest challenges the company is facing, the long-term strategy, how sharp the business/ops side of the company is, etc.

Keep an open mind; things that, at first glance, don't seem interesting may turn out to involve _very_ interesting/rewarding work.
Your complaint is that she... has feelings about her husband's death and how that affected her kids?

You seem to have a belief that emotion and reason are incompatible. And a fantasy that problems get fixed in the real world without anybody making emotional appeals or having feelings about the problems.

As to the first, a good place to start is Damasio's "Decartes' Error": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes%27_Error

As to the latter, I don't know what to tell you, but it's obviously not the case, and believing otherwise is not any sort of intellectual or rational position. Which is obvious from your writing; you're clearly having a lot of feelings here.

I'd add that it's perfectly possible to critique the conclusions of somebody who's making an emotional argument. The basic point here is that we should have more and better health services. You could say, "This story is heartbreaking, and I feel for her and her kids, but here's why more money is not the way to solve the problem."

I think the actual problem here is that you don't want to "feel for her and her kids", which, yes, is going to make you look unempathetic and disparaging in your attempts to get her to hide her pain.
I use Ubuntu and Linux Mint as my Linux Desktop. While I write enterprise backend server software for Linux ( C++ usually) I am far from being anywhere near "the Linux Expert". Most of my Linux development / debugging is done using Visual Studio (the real one) and Visual Studio Code right from the Windows Desktop.

Still I do some work on Linux Desktop. For example I am using Linux Desktop and Lazarus / Freepascal Combo to develop Linux Desktop GUI applications.

From my experience go with majors - Ubuntu and Mint. My reason for it is that those have most answers on Internet when doing search. Easiest to find packages for as well. Every time I tried something more exotic I was stopped by having to deal with the different package management and way more hassles to find up to date software packages I need or trying to build from sources. I am sure the "experts" could solve it but I have better things to do with my life and am not willing to learn some not really exciting stuff just for the kick of it.
The problem with "buying a star" or selling a star is there really is no provenance for it.

Your bank account is simply a row in a Cobol database managed by some archaic institution. Your stocks in your Robinhood app are the same. You seem to be demeaning the value of database records when so much of the world economy is merely that.
npm has some guards for typosquatting. They're annoying when you run into them but I appreciate that they're there. I have no idea how effective or extensive they are, though.
hence "facetious" annotation
> Instead, people are given equal opportunity to incite discussion

"Equal" how? This seems to suggest that a random person sharing their musings with their social circles on a public account, vs, say, Trump pre-ban don't have *dramatically* different reach and ability to incite discussion. That seems obviously incorrect.
The timestamp and signature would disprove your claim, and evidence of your fraud would perpetually exist on the blockchain if someone wanted to hold you accountable.
Yes, 1,000,000%. You have no idea.
What a clean design. I wished my 'daily driver' had such easy interface options for hardware.
Coincidentally, Sabine Hossenfelder (a theoretical physicist) had just had a piece on this topic:

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/11/why-can-elementary-...
$10K/seat/year? That's a fantasy. Maybe if you just want to look at a schematic. As soon as you start actually doing something useful the price per seat goes way up.
Are you using a single ZFS server as the primary storage system for the cluster? If so, how do you handle availability? Do nodes have local scratch space or is it a do-everything-on-the-cluster-FS kind of setup? How is this setup treating you (administration, "oh no something is slow / hanging / broke, whatdoido", availability, performance, especially on those heavy days)? Is this some kind of COTS solution supported by one of the usual vendors or did you roll it yourself? Being ZFS I'm guessing it is far better at dealing with small files, and with directories containing many files than clustered FS which fall over pretty easily in these cases?

e: Not doing market research here, I'm just seeing (sometimes, feeling) all the pain involved with cluster filesystems and wondering how your solution stacks up.
Two further alternatives for improved expressiveness:

q('select name from users where id = :userid', compact('userid'));

q('select name from users where id = ?', [ $userid ]);

Recommend using single quotes for SQL (command) literals, rather than doublequotes. This helps with discouraging string interpolation (" ... WHERE col = $value "). This also helps very much with SQL quoting object names (tables, columns, indexes, etc) - SQL specifies doublequote (") as the quoting character; for example 'SELECT COUNT(users.id) AS "Number of users" FROM users', or 'CREATE VIEW "My daily report" AS SELECT SUM("count") FROM "some strange table" LEFT JOIN ...'.
>Half of my Twitter feed is profile pics of NFTs being displayed prominently.

And I could in 30 seconds, find the most expensive nft, copy the image and use that as my profile picture...
One doesn’t even need to ship the change. Having a viable alternative (ahem, BATNA) is all that’s required to improve the terms of the original deal.

Or to put it another way: as long as you let Microsoft think they are without competition, you will get an awful price.
How do the workers feel about these changes? I hate being told what tool to use. I've worked in computer labs where the admin had very strong opinions on what software was good and only installed those tools, no alternatives. It stinks. Imagine for yourself being told you can't use Jetbrains IDEs anymore, but hey there's VS Code and that does the same thing you'll get used to it! Some people won't care, some will adapt, and some will be miserable. If this type of transition isn't responsive to feedback people will find terrible workarounds like using the one unmaintained Windows machine kept around the office or doing work on a personal computer.
Thats the way I parsed the sentence that mentioned Macron and BoJo.
(possibly inaccurate, but a tremendous story - the man who fought, against his will, for three different sides of WW2)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Kyoungjong

"In 1938, at the age of 18, he was in Manchuria when he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union.[1] At the time, Korea was ruled by Japan.

During the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a Gulag labor camp.[3]

Because of Soviet manpower shortages in the fight against Nazi Germany, he was pressed, in 1942, into fighting in the Red Army, along with thousands of other prisoners. He was sent to the Eastern Front of Europe.[3]

In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in eastern Ukraine during the Third Battle of Kharkov, and then joined the "Eastern Battalions" to fight for Germany.[3] Yang was sent to Occupied France to serve in a battalion of former Soviet prisoners of war on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, close to Utah Beach.[citation needed] After the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces, Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944.[citation needed]

The Americans initially believed him to be a Japanese soldier in German uniform; at the time, Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, reported that his regiment had captured four Asians in German uniform after the Utah Beach landings, and that initially no one was able to communicate with them.[citation needed] Yang was sent to a prison camp in Britain and later transferred to a camp in the United States.[citation needed]"
Windows update will under specific circumstances automatically reboot the system. Any unsaved work will be lost. This, to my knowledge, has not been fixed yet.
Ditto. Unity still works but is increasingly broken and will never work on wayland. However, kde plasma can be made to work like like unity. I recently went through this exercise a couple of days ago, and I think I'll be able to manage with plasma once unity dies.
You are correct. I've seen this kind of notification used together with small avatar pictures of users who are typing - I think it was in Element.

Then again, in practice I found that if more than two or three people are typing at a given moment, it's probably a conversation that's lively enough already, and I'd usually just wait to see what the participants end up writing regardless of who it is. So the value of such a notification is about the same as if the all the typing users were named in it explicitly. :)
I know nearly nothing about injection molding, but my understanding was that the part stays in the same mold but they inject a different plastic to fill a different cavity.

But I don't know enough about this process, by a large margin. I didn't even know co-molding was a thing.
>Time is priceless.

I wholeheartedly agree, but working at a company is selling time no matter how interesting the technology might be. It's not the same as working on personal projects; there will always be unpleasant aspects to it, certainly after more time passes (I've been through more M&A than I care to think about).

If the goal is to stop selling your time, then double the salary would achieve that goal twice as fast, assuming the job is at least tolerable. Never work for a shit hole where you dread coming in, but money is a means to an end. Money is freedom.
That's a big misconception.

The vaccine "makes you 25 years younger" so to speak. Meaning that it gives an 80 year old the COVID risk of a 55 year old, which is still pretty big.

But if you are old, COVID still remains very dangerous to you, even if vaccinated.
If these images were stored on the blockchain, would that make a difference?
I get the importance to allow certain DOD orgs to sift through the documents to ensure there are no national security secrets revealed to avoid any national threats.

However with this they should be fully transparent with any and all vaccine related data as they are already suffering from credibility concerns when it comes to vaccine.
I knew a Saudi student who went to a hunting trip in Canada, posted a video of them speaking Arabic with guns, and got permabanned on fb.

It was in 2010.

Social media companies were said to be making a lot of employment in North Africa just because they were obliged by EU to mow down "terrorist" content long before IS, and they need megatons of Arabic speakers just for that.

It came to my mind, maybe underpaid Moroccans, and Tunisians just didn't like rich Saudi kids having good time?
My son did exactly that with all his 'specialized' pieces. The way he repurposed those in his own designs used to crack me up, and he was doing that when he was only eight or ten years old. The imagination didn't fixate on what the part was originally used for, he only saw it as a raw shape to serve some purpose.
There are de-facto communities in Twitter, so that still exists. Like, if you follow municipal politics you'll see a very consistent list of names and faces, for example, since that tends to be a pretty small sandbox unless you live in a huge city.

Blocking is a poor substitute for down-votes and moderation, but the trolls will get blocked and frozen out of that pseudocommunity.
And the feature of many monetary systems is they are "property" i.e physical currency, and so must yield to US legal doctrines about physical property.

It's not relevant that this is US-specific, because this is an example, which must be based somewhere.
Why start over when you can improve? You'll most likely end up with the second system effect, probably slowly rediscover all the valid reasons for the things you disliked, probably re-make all the mistakes.
Here's what you originally wrote:

> All languages can be used by everyone.

Now consider brainf#ck.

You see? For all practical values of used not every language can be used by everyone.

This is of course an extreme outlier (but absolutely not the worst I think) but there is a spectrum, or rather field of possibilities.

PHP is trivially simple to get started with. A teenager can manage to do it alone.
I believe the hardware stores state internally somehow.

I dual booted a laptop Ubuntu/Windows for a while. And if a closed down Windows with the power cable connected then the NVidia card would not work in Ubuntu.

The touch pad probably need some magic numbers to reset some state.
How to Avoid Looking Desperate During Startup Acquisitions
The key is the independence of control. I could set up internet money without using crypto techniques but I would be shut down for operating such a scheme. Is there a way to have no operator without using blockchain? In theory, but with such a setup you might as well use a blockchain because that is the exact problem it solves.

However, if government wanted to it could stomp out crypto. As decentralized as it is it's still groups of people doing things, and very visibly. For as much as the crypto community is anti-government they've been treated very nicely by most governments.
Because if the second feature requires the code changes from the first PR you can't do that...

If your team doesn't have a use for stacked diffs that's fine. Teams of one also don't use pull requests and might not understand why we need those.
Because now the apparatus of digital rights enforcement can be exercised by independent creators, without the need for leviathan media companies with hordes of lawyers. It enables simple and easy self-publishing for artists.
The PKI infrastructure for a bank is on a laptop?
Sigh. I really thought we were past the victim-blaming new users thing. Linux people seemingly never change.
Complimenting a competitor can drive a firm's revenues
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, it is a front light.
Ask HN: Running a command, are you saying “take this action” or “make this so”?
When you use a CLI tool, do you feel you're saying "take this action" or "make this so"?

For example, if you ran a command like this:

$ resize 500G file

and file was already 500G, should the command return an error code? Or a success code?
Just for fun, I downloaded the Windows 11 dev VM via Hyper-V to try it out.

And you're right, the keys I mentioned don't seem to work anymore.

There's a policy called "Don't search the web or display web results in Search", which doesn't seem to work. Perhaps it requires Windows to be domain-joined?

Or perhaps they were referencing the "Turn off display of recent search entries in the File Explorer search box" policy, in which case it works. The description for that policy doesn't mention web results at all, which is odd. Anyway, you will have to kill SearchHost.exe for the policy to take effect, it will be launched automatically when initiating a new search.
On the other hand it could have been the COO trying to give Kevin a chance to show he's on board with the product direction, and the whiteboarding showed otherwise. Who knows?
More power draws more responsibility so not necessarily. Yes, you have more freedoms as in choosing what to buy but material freedoms are only one branch in the many freedoms one can have. So I can agree with OP in that ability of one to manipulate power for freedom is a good definition of one's true potential for it. One can also give away certain powers or responsibilities for more freedom.
when authoritarians get into power they can do whatever the hell they want. That's why the point is to stop that happening in the first place. Hitler turned himself into a dictator pretty much immediately after (possibly staging) the Reichstag fire and declaring a state of emergency.

The whole point is to stop people like him getting in in the first place, and you don't do that by making calls to genocide viable.
Orthodoxy is the greatest good, and must override the individual perceived benefits (which we emphasize, aren't really real or meaningful, because then we might have to admit that the Orthodoxy isn't universally for for everyone and theres room for debate).
Can you link me or explain some more what you mean by macros, fields, and transclusions? Your project makes it easy to document these aspects of a programming language? Or these are features of your documentation system itself?
You're conflating two wildly different things: buying "ownership" and buying "license".

NFTs are represented to people as buying ownership of something, as if you are the one true owner of whatever-it-is and it is yours to do with what you will, including selling or re-selling it.

Most digital content (think films, music, games) is not bought, it is licensed. You buy the license which grants you some rights to consume it, but there are also restrictions (thou shalt not redistribute, re-sell etc) and those rights are often not irrevocable.
Flatpak Is Not the Future
> Ultimately, closed-source software is like running a factory with a machine you aren't allowed to repair.

That... that is exactly how factories operate. When something breaks, they call the manufacturer to bring someone in to fix it.
I'm very much a forums person (reddit, hn etc.) and never "got" twitter even after many attempts. But I think on forums front there is a missing economic model. Currently the platforms make all the money on the back of content generated by the community. I think the time has come to focus on enabling forum owners to monetize. Over covid I built https://discoflip.com to validate this. I would be very interested in your feedback.
I, personally, draw lines about what I'm willing to put up with and what I'm not. When the interview process begins to resemble a gauntlet or even a hazing, I walk away. Why? Because they are showing that they don't respect the candidate's time and also they lack humility. They are unmindful of the possibility that the candidate could decide to go elsewhere.

Four more meetings at 1-2 hours each means between 4 and 8 more hours of interviews. That's definitely moving in to gauntlet territory. But maybe it's the result of an immature hiring process. I would give them a chance but if there are any more red flags, I would probably withdraw from the process.
Aside from Copilot, does anyone know of any other products that are making use of GPT-3?

The hype was huge when it was released, and the early beta testers were showing some amazing (and cherry picked) demos, most famously the ability to write working React code. But since then, I've not seen much...
I like Hugo. You can chose any of the existing themes or create your own. For deployment, I wrote a simple Go server that checks a (public) GitHub repo for changes every 15 minutes and pulls + regenerates the content if necessary.

You can find it here: https://docs.pirsch.io
And a roar goes up from the crowd..... can't remember when I have felt such delight about a government announcement.

Trying to close accounts for my just-deceased brother took HOURS over several days. The retention person at Verizon even said there could be many reasons not to cancel a dead person's account.
Also wanted to add my +1 for NextCloud + OnlyOffice! They integrate well and honestly IMHO have reached a maturity where a "normal" user should have no problems (if your people can handle the insanity of SharePoint, NC is nbd).
I'm from Munich. As much as I would've liked that project to succeed (I really did), I can tell you that Limux - that was the project's name - was a brutal usability disaster. As in, almost meme-level bad. It's like the Berlin airport in software.

Sure, Microsoft has a huge office in Munich, and they definitely applied political pressure, too (it'd be naive to assume they didn't). The project's stated goal was to be a showcase of how Linux can work in the public sector. But because of that goal, there was also massive political pressure the other way around.

The simple truth is that Microsoft's products were/are just far superior than what the Limux initiative shipped. The Linux transition caused massive productivity losses in the municipality's administration. It's easy to say that VBS macros are evil, but if you migrate away from them, you need to provide an alternative.

Simple things like a good calendar, working printing functionality, LOTS of basic stuff - it just felt like the IT was a decade behind. Here on HN, Windows continually gets roasted by how bad its UX is compared to Mac OS. With Limux vs Windows, the difference was practically 10x as large as that.

I REALLY hope the LibreOffice transition goes well. Hopefully, this is a much wiser approach than trying to migrate everything off Windows at once.
There's a disturbingly large number of people who look at computer programming, say "this is too complex - programmers must be artificially making it complex to keep me out".
And people called RMS a pedophile too; but it wasn't true either.
I don't see any mention of Forth there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PclgBd6_Zs
If your goal is to get specific answers and advice I’d say go to forums.

For instance I have a hobby that involves inkjet printing and discovered after a while that the ink my printer uses fades quickly in light. I am within sight of buying more ink and wondering if I want a new printer (what kind?) or try third party ink, etc.

I went to dpreview.com and got the answer I needed in 4 hours.
What was your motivation(s) for migrating away from Sphinx?
> you are obliged to follow their lead, if you object you will be banished or killed

Not really that different to today, except that it's a circle of elders and their lead is codified in laws.

But breaking these laws will still get you "banished" aka deported if you are not a citizen, and if you are citizen you will face consequences for your noncompliance, which in some places can still reach all the way up to the death sentence.

So in a way it's still all just barbaric societies, but with extra steps.