skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you get to a certain size, and it doesn't need to be huge, you can delegate those tasks, can't you?

Just hire an administrator that's competent - they most likely don't need an MBA to do the tasks you're describing.
Is it easy now?
Thank you sir for this wonderful book (and then thanks Brother Guy for making you write it that way), it is a very memorable read.

The description of your original plan for the book sounds great too (just as interesting to me), and I would buy it. There are not that many great computer books out there.
Nix will not overtake Docker because
1. The overlap is not that big
2. Nix has usability issues

That being said Nix even with its usability issues works better for reproducible development environments than anything else (including Docker) ATM.
Therefore in my view either Nix or something very similar will be the solution for this and replace Docker (some people run builds using Docker containers) for this use case.
Checkout postgraphile at https://www.graphile.org/ , they have a whole ecosystem build around postgresql, typescript, graphql.
Great question!

In my experience human readability is pretty important when you are debugging or working with SQL in a raw form (running random, ad-hoc queries). Storing unix epoch is fine and sometimes I do it but more recently I just realised that unless I am working with a database with billions of rows storing a human readable text is fine.
Not the author of the post, but I guess the author meant that using JavaScript to communicate directly with PostgreSQL database over PostgREST is "architectural code smell": in this case database can easily be hacked and everybody could write to/remove anything from such an unprotected database...
I was extremely surprised how low Upwork's fees are.

In vanilla software consulting it's not uncommon for the middleman to take 20% or a third off the top. Or even more extraordinary amounts in the more traditional places like Booz.

Upwork's taking less than 10%.

It's extraordinarily good value for money compared to many recruiters and other middlemen.

The downside is of course there's a very good community of talented international developers on there.
I'm usually inclined to believe the woman in situations like these, but I'm finding this one tough to swallow. The man may perfectly be a violent narcisist, but... this sounds much too convenient.
Less successful than the Nordic model but still much better than Soviet Russia, was Tito's Yugoslavia. I'm not an expert on it, but I believe it was big on cooperative ownership by the workers, rather than the state.

But I don't think there's ever been a country where everybody was either self-employed or co-owner of their workplace. And maybe it's not even feasible to get there, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea to try to move at least somewhat in that direction. Everybody being completely dependent on massive corporations certainly isn't great either.
Yes, layer 4 keys (like arrow keys) in macros are working well.

Here are my üöä bindings:
https://github.com/fdietze/dotfiles/blob/83455c587ccdacaf681...
I don't want to engage in anything by the name of "hosting" to convey an animation.

Last time I made an animation, like this, over a year ago, I just pasted it into a team Slack channel.
It's an undervalued skill to delegate and manage people, even menial ones.

So whilst your point is spot on I've learned (the hard way) that not everybody has the ability to delegate. It's a skill just like any other.
So, firstly 88% of homes were built pre-2000[1] and the regulations that resulted in these improvements came into force in 2010. Assuming the regulations instantly had the desired impact (unlikely) we're discussing around 6% of UK houses. Those built earlier (on average) achieve significantly worse than 10m3/hr/m2 air permeability of the building envelope[2]. So the vast majority of UK homes have more ventilation than a Passivhaus building, and for the purposes of the initial discussion I think this is enough to demonstrate the inadequacy of this level of ventilation for the stated purpose, else Covid spread wouldn't be a problem in the UK within the home.

It appears that for new builds latest research[3] shows an average of around 4m3/hr/m2, which is better than I expected, however the research suggests this is in part due to temporary measures by builders to achieve higher ratings than they would otherwise, and this is born out by the distribution of ratings achieved with an unlikely precipitous drop at precisely 5m3/hr/m2.

However, for houses built to this standard some form of additional ventilation is a requirement of Part F[4]. It is possible to build a house with as low as 3m3/hr/m2 and provide no additional ventilation, but it must have been designed to > 5m3/hr/m2 so this should not be common. For social housing we can assume a single bedroom home will be around 40m2 with 2.6m between floors, and the required ventilation rate is 13l/s, or 47m3/hr/m2. This is around 0.45ACH.

In fact the legal minimum rate per m2 is 1.08m3/hr, so for a typical home with 2.6m between floors this works out to 0.42ACH. So any house built to modern standards and used correctly should achieve the Passivhaus level of ventilation, unless it has tall ceilings. Certainly any UK home built with continuous mechanical ventilation is pretty comparable to Passivhaus standards for airflow.

> People don’t open trickle vents, they turn down the extract fan timer because of fan noise

People can also turn off the MVHR in a Passivhaus. I'm not sure what purpose it serves to compare correct use of a Passivhaus to incorrect use of this small fraction of UK homes.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/292252/age-of-housing-dw...

[2]https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dominic-Miles-Shenton/p...

[3]https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1573697/1/1-s2.0-S0378...

[4]https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
on docker for linux you get different hosts for the containers. you'll still need to BYO way to assign them names -- I personally use direnv for this

I think this doesn't work as well on docker desktop for mac
Why product teams should plan together – and how we do it at Swarmia
Even if they don't win, in a public trial, given the current political attitude to Big Tech, this could cost Google billions just in the discovery process.
Most of the organisations expects their employee to demand than being offered. Take promotion for that matter, how many organisation have the culture of offering without demanding
I also believe a bit of self reflection is perhaps in order.
>Dockerfiles are much simpler than nix configuration

I highly doubt this, Dockerfiles are simpler for a hello world microservice, but they get worse and unmaintainable when you add them lots of them with docker-compose.

>ostree is the future, not nix
>flatpak takes care of the desktop aspect

I really hate the approach this approach, it just moves the state from the root system to the user. The root directory is immutable, but you move the whole responsability to Flatpak, which is not even comparable to nix.
Meanwhile, in case of Nix, the whole system is reproducible and settings are more and less immutable.

>it's too complex

My whole nix config (with specific configs for vscode, neovim, chromium, wireguard, rust, python, nodejs, c++, go) is less than 600 lines of code, and it's readable. Also I configure most of my open source projects via nix as well as it's pretty easy to share the environment with the other developers.
Nix works everywhere, on every linux distro, macOS and even Windows via cygwin or wsl.

>under documented

That's a really good point, nix maintainers didn't care much about documentation, but usability. But it looks like that's changing, they moved docs to mdbook and a team is working specifically on improving the docs
Note to people making videos like this. PLEASE pay some attention to audio recording and mouth noise. I had so much trouble paying attention to the subject matter due to the terrible recording of the voiceover. It sounds like a chocolate ad for squids. I'm very sensitive to this as I've done a lot of voice recording work, but this is an extreme example if what not to do. A combination of a simple pop shield, some post-proc eq and muting, and drinking a glass of water before recording would have mostly eliminated the problems.

I know this is off-topic, but this is arguably as important as getting the visuals right.
Feel free to report a bug here https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player/issues/new (including browser version, OS would help a lot).

Btw, it's not a product, just a side, hobby project of mine.
What is it you dislike so much?
> Is there a name for this pattern?

What about "assume bad intentions"?
Another use case is the definition of a business day.

A business day is almost always in local time. Example: business is open from 9AM until 6PM. This is affected by day light saving and it moves back and forth in UTC.

Working with financial systems, payments are business day aligned and if you try to have a system with UTC time you might be surprised what sort of issues are surface. I learned these things the hard way. :)
...I guess pushing that idea further, they could also replace all the product placement after a few years. For a quality show like The Sopranos, where people are still rewatching it and new generations discovering it that could be a good new source of revenue.

Change all the vintage Fords to similar vintage GMs. Change Coke to Pepsi.

The novelty of this happening the first time would probably get people watching by itself.
> Hard to agree that vinyl sounds like rubbish.

Well, the recent resurgence of vinyl has had a lot people buying substandard all-in-one-decks from online stores. For vinyl to sound good you need to invest a significant amount of money in equipment.
They're screwed up because of wealth inequality and rent seeking.

Essentially they're screwed up because American union power was destroyed by oligarchs and blue collar workers subsequently lost political representation.

"Everything bad is caused by government regulations!" was a story told repeatedly in many different forms by lavishly funded Koch think tanks (mercatus, which you cited, being just one example) and filtered through other oligarch run mainstream media outlets.

It was inspiredly largely by their battles with their nemesis - the EPA in the 70s/80s and was largely successful at promoting the "overregulation = bad" meme amongst the American proletariat. This was subsequently leveraged by Koch-funded politicians to democratically strip EPA regulations on their behalf.
It kinda sounds like your main gripe with Nix is that it's a source-based package manager with transparent binary caching rather than a binary package manager.

I think that's a mistake, but it's true that Nixpkgs suffers in some places from missing or overlapping abstractions.
The use of persistent data structures can make concurrent programming easier, which allows for better use of many cores. Functional programming can also scale to many computers in distributed systems, e.g. in Erlang.
How Key-Value Stores work under the hood
The pressure of time or rather its constant absence, changes perception and our language. Now requires more and more information in less and less of time and not only from our personal digital devices(where is no problem with that) but from surrounding people too.
So? They said "Notion alternative", and Notion isn't open-source either.
Yes, there's a lot to be desired with Mozilla, and I don't think they do a particularly good job. With "I trust them as much if not more than Google" I wasn't setting a particularly high bar.
This is the part that doesn't make sense to me. Look at Tesla stonk: everyone I know would gladly take a soldering iron to their fleshy undercarriage to buy SpaceX shares at nearly any price. (I'm not saying they should go public, I'm saying their actual real-world risk is dilution, not bankruptcy.)

Seems like this might just be some "c'mon guys" cheerleading to get Elon Time and Human Time to converge a bit faster.

He's said some super over-the-line shit before ("pedo guy", "S Elon's C") and it would not surprise me if this were just more of the same. Ultimately the whole thing is bottlenecked on production of unprecedented machines, and if I were in his shoes, I would be saying and doing literally anything I could think of to get the individual humans responsible for those tasks to work a) super hard and b) as close to nonstop as is physically possible.

Doesn't make it right.
Yeah but isn't there much more inland towns than port towns? Even here in the Czechoslovak Republic many people did not believe there is too much going on until Hitler rolled through the borders despite the state being right next to all the initial warring states, and even then many did not believe there are any atrocities committed for many years...

And then the biggest initial change for many people was that they needed to convert their cars to wood fuel.
Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems
My bike was stolen enough times that I gave up. I don't own one anymore.
Google/Chrome has gmail. Vivaldi has a mail client. That's why Firefox is dying!
I have some experience using docker/docker-compose, like world+dog. Mostly it's good. Docker is simple, or it can be if you don't over engineer things. Simple is why docker got popular. The other reason it is popular is because it decouples to process of provisioning software from deployment and infrastructure provisioning which these days are separate activities typically done by different people/teams/organizations. Splitting responsibilities for this is a big win. If you self host all of that might be internal to your org but it still allows you to split the responsibility across teams.

I have no experience with Nix. But a couple of red flags jump out of this thread for me are that "it's complicated", Haskell is somehow involved, and it is vaguely suggested that this is somehow similar to Docker. Which is clearly not the case.

When it comes to putting stuff in a docker container, I guess you could use Nix. But why would you? It makes about as much sense as using Ansible or Puppet for that.

Nothing against Haskell, but it evokes an image that might be a bit harsh to some but probably rings true to many: the wrong people getting excited for the wrong kind of reasons. I'm talking over-engineering here. People getting overly excited and creating a mess of hard to understand code that becomes a burden for whomever has to train up to maintain that code. People wielding hammers looking for ever more nails to wack.

I've unceremoniously ditched multiple configuration languages over the years. Usually it feels good getting rid of all the over engineered crap when you realize you don't need most of it anymore. Of course the flip side is that what you replace it with might end up being similar. Been there and done that.

However, I seem to only need a few lines of Dockerfile to replace what used to be a convoluted mess of puppet or ansible scripts to provision a thing that runs our thing. No longer needed. No more obsessing on how to, for example, get NTP tell the time to a server and why that somehow requires wrapping your head around a 600 line puppet module that does god knows what. Not a thing anymore.

Nix sounds more like that than like Docker. I used to know people that actually used puppet to setup their laptop. Nix might be a better product for that. But I'm looking to minimize the need for that entirely. Dockerized development environments are great for that. A laptop with a browser running vs code is all you need these days. People are using freaking ipads to do development even.
Actors are very fungible.

The commodity in cinema is entirely actors whose name the audience knows and remember.

You can definitely staff a film entirely with superlative talent from the indie world.
If you mean youtube-dl then you might be better of migrating to yt-dlp. It doesn't look like youtube-dl is going to resolve those throttling issues any time soon.
Yes, I have a browser plugin to open youtube links in mpv, but it's been unusable recently with constant buffering. I dont even fetch them at best quality.
Internet Explorer used to have that edvantage - included in Windows but most people used it to download Chrome because Chrome was better in various ways. I think the problem with Firefox is it's not noticeably better. Not sure how you fix that though.
Is a pre-installed clipboard addon somehow as bag as siphoning all your private data and browsing habits? I don't think we're comparing equivalent evils here. It's also easy to not use Pocket.
As a Mechanical Engineer, I'm very happy to see designers discovering the joy of parametric CAD :-)

I have longed for this sort of functionality in tools like Inkscape, and have often resorted to SolidWorks, Fusion360, SolveSpace, or other engineering-focused tools for "artistic" projects, because they enabled me to quickly iterate over different parameters while respecting certain constraints and relationships (as shown in the original post)..
Once I was happy with the result, I would export the design as DXF or similar, and do the final styling in Inkscape.
Download 118 periodic element infographics
I believe the kernel design is inspired by the original NT design.
This from the PI (below); I'm afraid I'm starting to "lose the plot" on how researchers justify the value of controversial work to ethics committees & grant disbursers.

'Bongard points to the COVID epidemic and the hunt for a vaccine. “The speed at which we can produce solutions matters deeply. If we can develop technologies, learning from Xenobots, where we can quickly tell the AI,: ‘We need a biological tool that does X and Y and suppresses Z,’ —that could be very beneficial. Today, that takes an exceedingly long time.” The team aims to accelerate how quickly people can go from identifying a problem to generating solutions—"like deploying living machines to pull microplastics out of waterways or build new medicines,” Bongard says.

“We need to create technological solutions that grow at the same rate as the challenges we face,” Bongard says. '

https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/team-builds-first-living-robot...
not really,
Framasoft is a French company that develops a collection of open source alternatives to popular software.

It's the same as if Microsoft was posting a blog on its own msdn.com domain for something related to visual studio or SharePoint
Just to +1 this and add that maintainer responsiveness and its community is excellent.
Your Makefile is not a reproducible build. You would need to pin all the versions of the tools being used. Also as others have mentioned, Nix ensures that you do not rely on unspecified dependencies.
Interesting data set. Norway and Denmark score surprisingly low; lower than Canada, only just above the US. Colombia is the extreme outlier on the high end with 50%. Netherland is in the upper third with 17%, but is the second highest wealthy country (after New Zealand). Most countries of similar GDP/capita have a far lower amount of self-employment.
The advantage of stealing bikes are that have big value and lowest return rate from police or recovery.
Had a project of bottom bracket IoT so peddaling could blocked but wasn’t feasable.
So you just sent “a memo” for an ad you found on a newsletter and never heard back, and this is shocking somehow?
This is a bit like complaining that you can't use an Xbox controller with a Playstation.
In that (more realistic) market, persistent undervaluing based on anything other than the actual house for sale is taking money out of the home owners pocket from the sale. If this happens because of race, then this is obviously an issue.

Well it's an issue for the seller but a boon for the buyer who also would be likely to be from the same race.
Good question! According to the Wikipedia article about the Baltic it is due to all the rivers & water from the North Sea actually not mixing with the Baltic very much in practice.
> the term means nothing except "data about you".

No, crash reports are primarily data about the program, with very little if anything about you.
I did some digging

The source seem to have been on trac on wasabi.t0x.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060508052407/http://wasabi.t0x...

And this might be the same on github:
https://github.com/bizzehdee/wasabi/blob/49d293042ce17b0d137...

Fair to say: doesn't look like it's related to winamp and doesn't look very complete.
If I had users who needed to be that engaged with the content, they would be the sort of target audience I could easily have run scriptreplay in a terminal.

(I see this more as a demo thing to show people what is possible than, say, documentation to crib from, but I can see the value in being able to do that.)
>on edit: yes, it should be Indicter, but ours is a web 4.0 company.

I thought that to qualify for web 4.0 you needed Indite*ly.
> grow at the same rate as the challenges we face

Given that the challenges grow exponentially as we mess more and more things up, I guess the objective really is grey goo.
Understanding Twitch Emotes in Sentiment Analysis – Unite.ai
I'd guess this is Prisoner's Dilemma in practice:

If you don't expect repeat interactions with an agent, or expect the agent won't remember / weigh these past interactions strongly, you do what's best for you in the moment.

Which happens to be taking the counterparty's current situation into account – including their wealth/power, AKA how much they can do for you. Entirely pragmatic, if selfish ("disgusting" in your words).

The way to combat this fake behaviour is to increase its cost, forcing the "fake" person to interact differently.

But I wouldn't hold my breath:

1) To "increase the cost" you need something of value in the first place. If you're poor and powerless, you are… powerless. Your only strength is in numbers: social pressure, `∑ little_power * lots_of_people`.

2) This "fake" personality is likely something learned in early childhood. A person would probably need to experience lots of negative feedback to readjust later in life.

3) Have you considered that their strategy ("fakeness", taking into account extrinsic factors like wealth or fame) may be superior to yours ("integrity", interacting based solely on a someone's intrinsic traits)? You know, it is not a physical law that being nice and consistent to people pays off. It's a pretty wild social dynamic, evolved only recently.
It's about proactivity and your ability to manage what happens to you at work.

The passively employed, especially outside technology often have worringly insecure career trajectories. We are an insulated caste against the problems of the world, partially because we keep up with tech skills.

The stories are crazy from my former roommate who works in "change management," aka babysitting employees who've done the same task with the same software every day for 15 years through an unheaval.

They become like adult babies when you tell them to do something different than what they've done before.

If you take away the requirement for continuing education of the technology work, some extremely nasty things happen to the more passive members of the workforce.
I guess ? I wonder whats the magnitude of flu infections vs covid in absolute numbers.

Also I guess not all viruses mutate in the same way?
Spell check your Erlang code with Sheldon
New rebar3 plugin for spell checking of the source code with Sheldon.
How to Buy Your First Cryptocurrency-Stephen Ajulu
Different countries may have different standards for that, though. So it may be hard to compare this data between different countries.
I remember seeing promotion for a system that places localized ads in real time in sports broadcast. Isn't that or something like it used nowadays?