skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same for music production plugins.
Those two are the sites that came in my mind immediately when I read the title.
Contractors don't know how long projects will take.

I've given up on deadlines for projects; now we just have contributors work on small deliverables (that they usually define) that build toward the goal.

Not having deadlines makes learning about a new unknown unknown a lot less painful.
Agreed, cheers!

"We should reduce population somewhat."

"Yet you are part of the population. Curious!"
Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux
In Brazil people say "I'm Petista" and they're extremely polarized, very similar to how the US looks like.

It's amazing that both sides' (right and left) ideas, at this point, lead to the same results in the long run, but they vehemently fight eachother like they were extreme opposites. Just because the short term presentation of the ideas is different.
I didn't say we're making good use of javascript either...
Interesting, thanks for that.
Maybe Aussies are the odd ones out in this regard...
They'll stop at nothing...
I usually get it wrong the other way around in stead.
Exactly. That's what put Vermeer on my radar. Trailer here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94pCNUu6qFY
Yes, we get it, California is expensive, there are homeless people, San Francisco and Oakland are not white suburbs. People take shits outside. Yes, there is shit, subways smell like piss, and everybody instantly pegs you as racist, white upper middle-class frat-boys who they literally want to shoot. RUN RUN RUN AWAY!

Get over out. Leave. You're not fucking welcome. We don't like you. We literally throw parties when you people leave. I got helllllla fucking crunk when that South African nazi Elon mosque said he was leaving.

We're over you and we were never into you. Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia will all welcome come you with open arms. I'll help you fucking pack.

Just leave. You're not wanted, not welcome, and you're not safe.

I'm the one who smashed out your car window this morning, and imma do it again as soon as it's fished, then take a shit inside, bitch.
I've lived in Joburg all my life.

Joburg, especially the inner city, is one of the most dangerous places in the world. Couriers are at risk? We all are. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a story of being held up at gunpoint somewhere around joburg, even the wealthy northern suburbs. Happened to me 4 times, twice in one week. Try convincing an armed mugger some other tit stole your phone already. Fun times.

I also suspect the author is kicking themselves over the timing of the release of this article.

> Lockdown has just been eased as Covid infection rates have plateaued

At the time of publication, our rates are very nearly the highest they've ever been.

Not one mention of the disgusting xenophobia demonstrated by the majority of city residents. Not. One.

I don't order from uber eats because, well they're cunts. Mr D is a locally registered business and is required to follow our very strict labour laws, so I happily order from them (although their app is not doing well lately).

What bugs me the most though is that Uber Eats is somehow exempt from our labour laws. Not providing medical cover to employees who've sustained injury on site can land you in jail.

I personally believe we (Africa) should evict these blood suckers. The western world has stolen enough wealth from us. Voetsek now. We have good alternatives (IDK about bolt, but Mr Delivery is a local partner that adheres to the laws)
> Seriously was this ever possible?

Yes. Many years ago the "..." menu on each search result had a "Block this domain" button, and you could manage your blocklist from your profile.

I can't find much information about it online, but this page from 2012[1] mentions it was already disabled:

Google also offers a web dashboard for manually blocking spam websites, one URL at a time. You can add up to 500 different websites to your blocked list and Google won’t show pages from any of the included sites provided you are signed in with your Google account. That’s the promise but unfortunately, this solution doesn’t seem to work anymore.

[1] https://www.labnol.org/internet/block-websites-from-google-s...
I was just thinking of that weekend 25 years ago when a group of us drove down to DC from Boston to see the exhibit only to get there right when they closed the government and locked the doors. Ah well, I have been to the Rijksmuseum to see the Vermeers they have on permanent display and it is well worth the visit even without this planned big exhibit.
Hi, thanks for writing some free software!

I'm not a Rust person, how do you install this? Is it something like "rustc install" or something like that?

Thanks!
Unfortunately this and similar rules are not well enforced. The only high-profile case I can remember was when they delisted BMW for a short while for blatant keyword stuffing.
There are countless cases of anonymous developers spending several years building positive reputations on Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub etc. before disappearing with >$10M USD of other people's cryptocurrency. Whether they set out to perform a long con, or whether the opportunity makes them thieves, is irrelevant - you simply can't trust anonymous people to look after your money.
Aww thank you

Well, I, the author of the repo, very much give my blessing to the OP for scoring karma points with my idea.

I’ve been mocked my entire life for being non neurotypical. I stopped caring a long time ago. The people who actually matter very much appreciate my quirkiness. And it’s an amazing filter to find those people.
Hard disagree. The visible entity is still human, and can be wrong, even if it takes a lot to recognize it. God's can't be wrong whatever they do, however inhuman it is.
Link to the report:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/apple-and-google-duopoly-...
Unironically yes. It's so fast.
While it would be cool to track those opinions anonymously and in real time... my guess is that people would not engage with this tool during a meeting.
The fact you quoted “experts” is why it’s just like those two sites. The answers are just as dubious.
If so it is a novel use of “wax” for me.
> I think that, in contrast to this, Embarcadero still bought them mainly for the IDEs.

Indeed, seems it was the dev tools division Emba bought. Maybe the ALM div is still around. Hm, have I actually heard somewhere they even switched the name or that back from Inprise to Borland, or am I imagining it? Naah, can't be -- 't'would be both too pathetic and too absurd.
DynamoDB-based Feature Stores, what cost? Latency and the $2.2m/month benchmark
For anyone using GDB, check out the Python scripting support. It can be used to write similar scripts as what is shown in the drgn blog post:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Python.html

drgn looks more user-friendly and maybe faster though.
WaPo is also toilet paper, which is useless if it's digital.
That sounds really awful, condolences. It's bizarre to think that high tech services (assuming you spoke to them over the internet) were available while primary needs were not being met.

Do you have thoughts on what could have prevented this at a system level?
Apologies for lack of my lack of knowledge in this area, but...

Why don't plugins "need to be as trusted"? Obviously bad-actor plugins would be less effective and capable of inflicting any sort of attack on your development OS, but surely the development environment is the perfect vector for attacking the runtime environments that run your artifacts get deployed into?

Not to mention the potential for secrets-harvesting due to sloppy boot-strapping dev-env habits or other bad habits we often engage in during the early development process?

Or does WASI somehow provide protection from these issues?
>You can now help your business stand out on Google Maps and Search by displaying the Black-owned attribute, in addition to the Women-Led

Wow, that's insane.
I've always assumed this stuff is made up by conspiracy nuts (like the "War on Christmas"), but there it is right on their page!
> but if you wish to launch on Friday we can do so by removing tasks from scope, would you prefer that solution"

Then the customer says "unacceptable", then he calls my boss, then I'm in for hard time. Then I burn out.

The thing is, all of that is fine and dandy as long as your management supports you. But if somehow your management is on the line too, then you will work during the week end.
https://gobookmart.com/google-play-books-vs-amazon-kindle-di...
> If there's any tension or negativity between you and a client, just speak softly. It will instinctively make them feel over-dramatic and they will gear down.

I've heard in some cases doing this in the face of red hot fury can make things worse and you shouldn't be afraid to suspend the meeting and reconvene after a short break. Of course that needs a manager with enough of a backbone not to throw their team under the bus by sitting back and letting the client tear shreds off them.
I was there in the early days, and its always been garbage.

I can't think of a single meaningful thing I have read on that site, now I just have it blocked from search results.
IHP v0.17.0 has been released
How I Own Projects as a Software Engineer
I am 100% serious. I just haven’t had the time to write my profile yet. But I will this weekend :)

Mati and I have very much similar preferences in partners. I am slightly less child and eternal preservation focused. But other than that we are very much aligned. So if it works for Mati’s profile. Probably works for mine.
The usual solution to this is to move to a country that is more in line with your life philosophy (i.e., “group yourself with people happy with that”). Or you could accept that paying taxes in order for a government to provide certain services is a situation the majority of people find beneficial, and that changing this may be untenable.
This article is heart breaking. My comments on social media / platforms (HN news included) are always short and not really deep. As the author says, political comments quickly get burried and no matter how well you express your opinion you won't be able to change someone's mind. And regarding technical stuff, there are a ton of textbooks out there. I'd rather write a textbook and distribute it for free than produce some high quality content that I don't own.
The claim, in a broader sense, was: "AMP is shit", or perhaps even "AMP is shit, and Google are anti-competitive arseholes". And those are certainly well-established enough by to make any attempt at defending against (either of) them delusional.
Is it really about tax evasion?
It is only a suggested list. Edit as needed depending on locality. I don't expect it would inconvenience you if it blocked my local bank or government tax service.

Always review blocklists rather than applying them automatically as your needs may vary from their creators'. No one list is going to be right for everyone, so criticising one for not being right for you is a bit "me me me me".
Like the Big Cheeses have taken control of Wall Street, so too have the Big Breads taken control of the toaster market... all us poor mice get are the crumbs...
Is there a meaningful difference between a car and a horse as a means of transport? Is a car an artificial imitation of a horse?

The assertion of the Imitation Game is that IF the computer is equivalent to the person in the game, then they are like the car and the horse.
Also: a ransomware variant
This reminds me of the classic "ClientsFromHell.net" site[0].

This is a site of stories (some are probably fiction), of independent contractors (mostly designers), about difficult clients.

[0] https://notalwaysright.com/tag/clients-from-hell/
Is there a way to remove paid articles from search?
There is cargo install, yes :)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-install.html
They don't clearly identify with the right though, that's the point. They might always vote that way but they're not spreading their identity around and you attacked Ng who they vote for isn't an attack on their tribe.

And also one anecdote is hardly evidence.

In my country I'm not a green or a Labor or a national. I vote green, I vote Labor, or I vote national.

That is entirely different from saying "I'm a Greenie" or "I'm a conservative".

Votes can change next year, identities can't.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

The easy way to avoid people from accidentally getting too far outside of the spectrum is to dial up the "liveliness" of the debate and double down wedge issues.

It's staggeringly effective and quite depressing to watch. It's quite one thing watching strangers explode in response to divisive propaganda designed to drive a wedge between them and people with fundamentally similar interests.

It's quite another to watch your own friends and family be manipulated this way.
Google Play Books vs Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

https://gobookmart.com/google-play-books-vs-amazon-kindle-di...
Not sure if eating memory like complex 3d modeling software (with model in it) for something what is at the end of the day basically just text editing is the right tool for the job. Energy with excluded externalities is cheap. So modern personal computers can bear anything. But should they?
> For six months we have been living with vaccine apartheid, with the ‘unvaxxed’ excluded from much of society, but it hasn’t worked. Rates of infection are shooting up as winter arrives

I feel that everyone who makes a "oh no, rates are shooting up" argument is being disingenuous for the sake of it. We literally don't care if every single person in the world gets COVID, we only care that they don't have lasting repercussions from it.
Then edit the list instead of blindly using it? And surely you know the local addresses for such things, or do you search for them using Google every single time you need to travel or vote?
Fuck. I envy the mental models you can probably evoke on command.

If you have a second to engage, I have found that I learn best in sandbox-types of environments, ie repls, notebooks, etc. What method do you find yourself going back to when you need to expand your understanding of a big production system like at Google? It might be my own ignorance, but I'm not sure how to move into big-systems engineering with low-stakes realism.
As a publishing scientist myself I would have hoped to read more about how I can actually publish Jupyter Notebooks in a way that is recognised academically. That's at least what the title implied for me.

But the article is actually about Mathematica vs. Jupyter notebooks. Still, it's well researched and very interesting.

Nevertheless, the question how to publish better remains open. I for one think that some progress could already be made if ArXiv published html articles by default, rather than those unwieldy PDFs that really only work best when printed on paper.
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I mean obviously I wasn’t doing moderate swimming, I was fighting for the top places in swim.com at the pools I was swimming in, and the number is low, and my weight is different but let’s use it and show my point. Assuming 3500 kcal per lb of fat and ignoring all other details.

If you do 1h a week for half a year you are potentially at about 3 Lb or 2% body mass loss.

If you however you do 2h each weekday you are close to a potential loss of 30 Lb or 20% of weight.

Now obviously you could argue that the first case won’t work to lose weight and that you’ll just subconsciously eat a bit more to offset it, and the outcome isn’t even that large to begin with and would disappear in fluctuations of your weight unless you are consistent about hydration levels and food intake prior to stepping on the scale. But in the second case you will definitely end up changing your weight even without changes to your diet.
Some of the professional Software was also famously unstable. Generally speaking, saving frequently helped. (Quark, I'm speaking of XPress 3 and memory leaks, guaranteed to strike, when it really hurts…)
I think that if you are truely an optimist, you believe you are a realist. If being an optimist is a mask you put on for strategic reasons, you are not an optimist.
I agree with you but I think you are a little harsh regarding the conclusions which are drawn by the authors of the paper. There are actually two types of polarisation: ideological and affective. The paper, as far as I understood it (and you seem to agree), mainly concerns itself with ideological polarisation (i.e. polarisation on policy issues). Affective polarisation on the other hand describes animosity against a certain group because members of that group are members of that group (= "identity"). The authors of the paper clearly state how to incorporate affective polarisation in their model and I am very interested whether someone actually takes up that challenge and what the outcome is.
Good luck with that. Because any ERP roll-out will involve the rework of business processes, whether you use SAP with expensive ABAP consultants or something else. Reworking the business processes to match the ERP is, by the way, the way it should be. Trying to do it the other way round is usually a good route into disaster.
> Do you really not see this? No amount of "Assange is not a journalist!" Can possibly work unless you also make the New York Times journalists not journalists.

Wikileaks chucked what they received up on a web page. They're "journalists" in the same sense that the guy running the printing presses at the NYT is "a journalist".
Managing App Lifecycle in Flutter
Left it when Reddit had better quality. Back to 4chan for higher quality discussion, shame it’s been poisoned by trump tourists
Munich has outrageous rents and brutal housing scarcity, yet no visible homelessness.
That's how bad the situation is...

To be fair, though, the left also has been associated with violent and anti-democratic behaviors.
Is it too much to ask to first spend money on teachers and basic supplies, and only if money is left over after that, spend it on extras, new tech, experiments, and administration?
This is another intractable problem with blockchain and cryptocurrencies, known as "the oracle problem" - in order to do something useful in the real world, it has to interact with the real world in some way. There are various schemes to try to offer solutions for automatable processes, but when human decision-making is involved data still has to come from humans who are "off-chain", i.e. have no direct link with the blockchain or cryptocurrency platform.
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Sure, but still nobody's fault but his own. All the people going "But the evil U[S|K] has already kept him inprisoned at the embassy for ten years!" are totally off their heads. Nobody but he himself did that.
The huge problem with this narrative is that it compares a societal exclusion based on a choice (not getting vaxxed) with segregation due to birth characteristics (ethnicity, skin color).

I don’t doubt the need to have this discussion about authoritarianism, but the exaggeration of comparing it to nazi times or apartheid (as this line of thinking inevitably implies) is utterly disrespectful to the victims of real regimes.
It’s not the change that’s the issue. It’s the lack of context for what icons do without clicking them. Text offers that context.

But maybe the ribbon wasn’t the best example of my earlier point about the UI needs of sporadic users vs regular users. Or maybe it illustrates the point really we’ll but the context should be casual users vs power users rather than the frequency of usage?
I have yet to use a JVM based GUI that felt snappy. JVM based language benchmarks are always really good, but somehow that never translates well to GUIs
They were known to create bubbles and echo chambers. And make huge profits from it. How did this change recently?

Not supporting any side, just wondering about the reasoning
For anyone who made an account or decided to contribute there: why? What made you do it? I’m curious what type of person contributes to it.
I imagine good edu-tech requires some expertise that not every open source developer has, though.

On the other hand, look at the massive amounts of high-quality data in something like Open Streetmap. It should be possible to do this.
Opaque algorithms are creating an invisible cage for platform workers
Perhaps the landing slots are more valuable. If airlines don't use allocated slots they could lose them. Might as well get some small amount of income. Upsell on the flight. Just a thought.
We've killed the insects with pesticides. We've drained the wetlands. What do people expect?
I am not sure throwing slogans really help making a coherent argument.

Cynicism is the only evil in the world? I am cynically rolling my eyes on this one.
> Come to find out most developers don't know and don't care about any of it

Can you better define "it"?

> and have infected the whole community with the idea that none of it matters and servers and processes are just cattle.

Perhaps if by "community" you mean the "run everything on VMs on the cloud" people...
> That's a group formally alligned with AQ, but distinct from it, again, via credible references.

Actual "formally", or "formerly" (or both)?
That would be great, but you just shifted the problem into “make all leagues agree about deals for broadcast rights” which is about as easy as making hbo and Netflix agree on a package deal.
Should we ban it?
The Rothschild family and New World Order's creed
World Meteorological Organization recognizes new Arctic temperature record 38⁰C
Devs don't generally have the time to take good care of these things while meeting the goals of the business, especially because they probably work at a company with 0 sysadmins.
Happy to see another great release!
"The Trump administration said at the time Lieber had signed a five-year contract with the Wuhan University of Technology and was paid up to $50,000 a month to set up a joint Harvard-Wuhan research lab."

Wuhan again for the win! Let the conspiracy theories begin....
FYI to OP, this image on Zimtik’s pricing page has a comma in the wrong place on one of the revenue dashboard numbers.

Small thing, but the details are important sometimes.

https://zimtik.com/uploads/zimtik/images/3dashboardchr.png
Tropical forests can partially regenerate in 20 years without human interference
you're right. Youtube's just killing itself or at least killing fair criticism.
The advantage is that I can easily choose how long lines I want, while the window doesn't take up any unnecessary real estate.
What does a Principal Software Engineer do?
> They need to find new business models.

Not if it works for both sides.

> It's great but also a relatively tiny minority of all content. A niche really. And even those tend have ads.

I disagree.

And even if it was true, why do you care? I mean, I watch almost only this kind of videos on YouTube - documentaries, education (learning German ATM), infotainment and there's a huge amount of it. Niche or not, there is still more than enough quality content to watch 24h/day.
> That is what is derogatorily called cynicism in the OP.

Then, there are clearly two things being called cynicism here.

Arguing that the author is wrong because X is good when the author is actually talking about Y is a fruitless exercise.

> Perhaps as one studies history they find that all forms of positive change conceivable by mere humans have been co-opted and are accounted for in the extremely energetic struggle of the system to remain alive, as it has been selected for very much Darwinistically.

That still doesn't and won't ever mean that positive change is negative. If you're still throwing the baby with a bathwater, you're the bad kind of cynic.
I own the hardcover and looks great, but there is an ebook too:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400838981/discre...
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/m/kul/wir/woh/21391992.html

It hasnt been going on as long and isnt nearly as bad in Munich as it is in SF but the same problem is there.