skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main result that I’m thinking of is quite old — going back to the Ford assembly line days IIRC. NPR had a great segment on it several years ago. I’m on mobile now, but I’ll try to so some digging when I get back to a real computer.

I suppose there’s a valid question about how well those oldest results transfer from manual labor over to knowledge work like programming. The NPR guest that I’m remembering seemed to think that the effect might actually be even stronger for knowledge work, not weaker.
I can't speak to PHP, but I can speak to the others.

Node's easy, as it's technology, not a framework, so you'd pick Rails over it if you wanted a lot out of the box. JS also "thinks" differently than Ruby (callbacks, and now async, pretty much everywhere). PS - If you haven't played with lots of curried functions in JS, it's fantastic (IMHO).

If I wanted a more same-same comparison, the choice is between Sinatra and Node, and IMHO that's a lot more even (and for me, broken by one of them being in Ruby ;) )

Django's more subjective, but my experience with it was very not-great. There's a lot of decisions in Django that look good on the surface (apps, for example) that then don't pan out (apps all end up blurred together, for example). Particularly compared to Rails, I found Django waaay more boiler-plate and frictiony (particularly the migrations), but that's fitting for a language (Python) that's actually more lower-level than expected. Python (and Django) are opinionated where Ruby (and Rails) are welcoming, IMHO.
wow, didn't know this existed. I've been using ipython as shell-ish replacement for not-so-serious-thing. I need to take a detail look at this from my initial glance over. thanks
T-Mobile does, and they run the physical network the Fi traffic runs over, which makes this whole "Google is/isn't as bad as T-Mobile on privacy" debate a red herring.
Termius on Windows is slow and buggy in my experience. It could be great software but little has been done to address this for at least the past two years.

It’s also yet another subscription, cheapest being $8.33 per month which is more than Microsoft Office. The Enterprise plan at $29 per month is even more unreasonably priced and is one of the reasons why, as an organisation with 1,000 engineers, we’re not using the software.

I’ve been using VanDyke’s SecureCRT/FX bundle for Mac/Windows/Linux - their support forum is great and they’re super responsive at adding new features.

The only benefit of Termius seems to be a few nice colours and the dis benefit of being able to store your SSH keys on Termius’ servers.
> If i develop on Ruby locally against version X.Y.Z, but only X.Y.W is available on the server due to Debian packaging older versions

Either you use RVM locally to develop with Ruby X.Y.W or you install RVM on the server to use Ruby X.Y.Z there. Of course if the OS on the server is too old or too new there could be some versions of Ruby that won't work. It happened to me because of versions of openssl.
The halting problem is easy to solve most of the time. For instance, you can easily tell whether the following two programs halt:

while True:
pass

while False:
pass

What's impossible is solving the halting problem 100% of the time with 100% accuracy. Most people don't need to do that. Solving the halting problem most of the time and then saying "I don't know, that's too hard" the rest of the time is of immense practical value, and many practical systems (the kernel's eBPF verifier, the thing in your browser that detects stuck pages, etc.) do exactly that.

In this particular case, tqdm solves the halting problem in cases where it's easy: https://tqdm.github.io/docs/tqdm/#__init__

> total: int or float, optional

> The number of expected iterations. If unspecified, len(iterable) is used if possible. If float("inf") or as a last resort, only basic progress statistics are displayed (no ETA, no progressbar).
How does Clickhouse stack up against Druid? We're trying to make a decision on the two technologies, and found this recent article that shows Druid 8x faster than Clickhouse - https://imply.io/post/druid-nails-cost-efficiency-challenge-...
the common cold or the flu
Can an AI write better than college students? (GPT-3 writing contest)
1Password Unveils SSH Key Management and CLI Betas
It is a good idea, that is why Australia Post have done just this: https://auspost.com.au/business/identity/voi-solutions-for-c...
If you lock programs to the taskbar in a consistent order you can build some muscle memory. For me, 1 is always my browser, 2 is file explorer, 3 is notepad++, and 4+ depends on whether I'm on a work or personal machine (discord at home, outlook at work, etc). The result is that no matter what machine I'm using, I can always alternate between my browsers with Win+1.
Sure, that’s believable as a casual reason.
I have never needed generics in Go, and I've probably been using it since 2017. I've never even once had to resort to any interface{} trickery to express what I want, and I've written Go programs for Fortune 50 companies, as well as complex personal projects such as AST parsers/code generators.

I'm pretty disappointed to see generics introduced into the language and every example I've seen feels completely unreadable to me compared to pre-generics implementations.

To be clear, it has never been the case that the Golang authors were 100% against generics. It has always been their position that the implementation needed to be good enough to make the trade-offs worthwhile. I just don't think they chose the right trade-offs.
this was super effective at convincing me not to learn rust
Also, the most popular vehicles are pick up trucks.
So basically a government funded committee would decide who gets appointed to any public office. Alternatively we can just select a random person with a relevant bacgkround/degree..
You must work at a big company. I work at one with 4 full time developers, and I don't think any of us could work 5 to 10 hours without the others and the whole company noticing.
We need more of this. There's no reason everything has to be toxic.
I think her husband has beaten Warren Buffet by nearly double. No one is consistently that good.
"Needless to say, that didn't happen. None of it did. Foes of net neutrality were clearly correct that the internet didn't need the government to save it, and absent federal direction and regulation, everything is fine."

It wasn't about 'saving the Internet' explicitly, it's about 'saving the equal access to the Internet'. For many people across the country, they don't get a choice of their ISP, or if they do, it's a duo-opoly in their market. Net-Neutrality was designed to preserve the equal treatment of data, and the hindrance of certain providers.

Arguably, you can see how the Internet has become more entrenched with the biggest players taking on more 'space' among the masses.
Yep, I had a pretty comfortable salary and life back in Brazil, fear of violence around every corner made me leave.
You can't actually browse a functional web without loading js from Google. Trying to de-Google your life means giving up web browsing very nearly in full.
In other news 7 'surveillance-for-hire` companies create arms length shell companies.
hypothesis: Women in Asia are searching for husbands in Asia when dating.
I find the Onlyfans era fascinating because it causes an even steeper 'winner take most' dynamic among women than the 80-20 distribution among men on sites like Tinder. The 'simp-shaming' trend seems directly analogous to 'slut shaming' in that the criticism seems to be someone placing too low a value on their own sexuality.
It hasn’t been out for 10+ years. Even if you count the prototype FaxJS predecessor it’s barely 10 years old, and that was only a Facebook internal project.
I assume they found much more insular communities either in the form of obscure subreddits or other communities (like here for example). It might not be the case of them actually leaving, it is just that for every user like that, there are 10000 new users who came from some place like facebook.
Yeah, I used to develop in TI DSP protocol implementations and remote access was impossible back then. Besides, because I had to debug the DSP serial or CAN outputs, oscilloscope and test equipments were big requirements most of the time.

To be fair, if the company was ok, some of those I could have at home. But space would be an extra complicating factor (especially in cities like London hehe).
Also sh.
It's unlikely. Fiat only kind of user base!
I'm with you. Go has its problems, and I am aware of them, but it is just so compatible with the way my brain works, it is amazing.

I remember listening to a podcast about C++, and the guest explained how after working with C++ for about five years, they still encountered aspects of the language that surprised them on a regular basis (to be fair, though, that was before C++11). To me, Go just clicks in way few languages did.
Almost exactly what the parent comment said. I went hiking with some friends in the hills by cupertino, not even far from cell range. But we didn't have service (neither did the car) so we couldn't use the app nor the fob to unlock the car. Ended up having to walk to call an uber and zipcar towed the car.

We got refunded but no other compensation
On both counts you're taking rare, slowly forming problems and grossly exaggerating their severity or risk of happening. I personally know numerous women in my country who take birth control pills without a prescription and they're fine, and have been for many years so far. They simply follow the label instructions. I've been taking prednisone without an obligatory prescription on and off for a long time and know a number of people who have had to take it too, without any serious problems. They just follow their doctor's basic instructions on its use. The required-prescription craze in the U.S is indeed in many ways paranoid safety theater, a constant rent-seeking process that often justifies itself in the name of nebulous safety scares. People don't need to be treated like children to nearly the degree you seem to favor for what are usually completely personal health choices which don't easily affect others directly. Enough.
The idea of microservices sometimes reminds me of visual programming looking at infrastructure diagrams. Like instead of writing the code and executing it. You implement variables (databases), conditions (lambda), loops (pubsub/sqs) etc as separate entities and then put them together.
Everything in your second paragraph is right, and the internet is amazing. I also think VR goggles are cool, have a place in providing relatively short term immersive experiences (though not replacing 16 hours of screen time for some people) and am excited to see where the tech goes.

The reason I use quotes is because Zuck has stolen a word to represent his vision of a world people are already incrementally building for themselves, outside his control. His vision, where his Meta company is central to all this stuff, acts as identity provider and general enabler, and a market -- where Meta is central to even the concept of a metaverse, is shit.

Claiming the name as a brand is a scummy move. It's absolutely dripping with greed, hubris and cynicism. They created this problem, where it's difficult to promote or criticize the general idea of the metaverse and the Meta company version independently. It's the latter that I am confident will be a Black Mirror style horror story if come to fruition, and am urging people not to promote. Any major effort by a big tech company to wrangle the frontier into their walled garden is bad news, but Facebook's past behavior says they'd be especially bad.
Adding “tech” or “tech meaning” to the end of an unfamiliar abbreviation can help refine the searches. In my case “tech meaning” brings up a Quora question that answers this.

Alternatively, you can Google “what is an IC hacker news” and you can find previous threads where this was asked and defined.

If you have a question about an abbreviation being used in HN (Hacker News), it’s probably something others have asked about before.
That's the difference between selling to inexperienced hipsters vs. selling to established CEOs and their lawyers.

Also, BMW is quite openly mocking Tesla's build quality by now, which in my impression worked well for their marketing in the EU.

Oliver Zipse, BMW: "Tesla isn’t quite part of the premium segment. They are growing very strongly via price reductions. We would not do that since you have got to last the distance. Where we differ is our standard on quality and reliability. We have different aspirations on customer satisfaction."

https://insideevs.com/news/547029/bmw-ceo-tesla-not-premium/
This reminds me of grade-school incident.

A kid put his tongue on a cast iron fence surrounding our school in the middle of a cold Canadian winter. The fire department was called, and they tried to warm the fence up with warm water. When the kid eventually pulled away, the top layer of his tongue stayed stuck to the fence.

For much of rest of the winter there were small bits of human tongue frozen into the fence for all the kids, me included, to gawk at.
The UI is fine. The model seems to struggle with me drawing 6 on desktop.

Reading "Sketch Recognition" I was expecting something akin to Google draw which recognises objects like cars and trees. The digit classifier is of course fine, but I felt a bit disappointed when I realised it "only" does numbers. I also think it's the least impressive of the demos you have.
Maybe because they're powered by Clickhouse?
I just started playing the Shadow of the Beast soundtrack on Spotify -- Allister Brimble was quite prolific with several hundred games scored.

It's interesting to compare the Amiga 500 with its 640x256 resolution and 4096 colors driven by a 68K processor with 68k transistors (coincidence?) and my current 4K screen driven by a 3080ti card and 28.3 billion transistors. Certainly the computing and graphics power has increased greatly, but not so the music output.
How Effective Are Cloth Face Masks? [pdf]
"More than a century after the 1918 influenza pandemic, claims of the masks’ effectiveness continue to lack a firm foundation."
Here in europe we have several countries with digital ID cards. You put your ID in a smartcard reader, you put in your pin, and you can get your identity verified in a web browser.

Belgium has an identity service based on this. Governmental OAuth. https://www.csam.be/en/about-csam.html | https://iamapps.belgium.be/sma/generalinfo

They publish their own eID reader (middleware) and browser extensions. https://eid.belgium.be/en

Even with an official Linux version. :) https://eid.belgium.be/en/linux-eid-software-installation
Thanks — that doesn't sound bad at all.
This or the demo itself should be the actual submitted link.
> central banks will have created so much inflation and enabled so much unsound government budgeting (simulaneously making inequality explode) that "proof-of-waste" will have become one of (if not) the most important non-manipulable linchpins that will coerce central banks to return to a less inflationary path

How and why will they do that? If WasteCoin were to become the dominant form of currency, all the shit that's happening with real currencies now would just happen with WasteCoin instead.

Except that it will also waste a fuckton of energy, laying waste (Heh!) to the environment all over the globe.

It's almost unfathomable what an utterly weird delusion WasteCoin proponents live in.
I’ll add that m1 macs have been a shit show for external monitor support (ymmv but google it and you’ll find thousand page long support issues).

It’s either rocket science to get monitors to work flawlessly or it’s the B team working on it. Probably the former given that it’s also a problem on Linux and windoze.
Dunst is native wayland since early 2021[1].
Instead of rofi, bemenu[2] is nice too.

[1] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues/264

[2] https://github.com/Cloudef/bemenu
> and the function `f` is not defined, Mathematica will not give me an error but instead just assume that I meant to create a symbolic expression.

I've dreamed about creating a language like this, but had to give up because it makes diagnostics impossible in case o typos and things like that..

My best bet now is to have some quote syntax to make a symbol stand for an abstract symbol, like

1 + x -- this sums 1 with x, and errors if x is unbound

1 + 'x -- this is an abstract expression, doesn't care if x is bound or not

Like lisp, except with some first class support to things like derive(1 + 'x, 'x), and, well, every operator needs to respect quoted symbols.. even if + were a user-defined operator or function, 1 + 'x needs to return (the AST) 1 + 'x. I suppose this is the same as Mathematica, except that Mathematica doesn't need quoting
France latest to slap Clearview AI with order to delete data
I don't get why mothers not being at home is seen as bad. As though it's a greater good for society that instead they're punching in numbers into a spreadsheet at a widget factory. Sounds to me like the only winner there is the widget factory. It didn't used to have to be this way and maybe we should figure out why it has to be that way now, then fix that.
Quoting the article, the cause is identified "The Calix 716GE-I ONT device is working as designed by activating Denial of Service (DOS) attack prevention when too many connections are established, which includes jumbo or small packets". Sounds like a reasonable feature for residental devices, even if it isn't compatible with the niche usecase of running a Tor relay.
Deleted my previous reply as I didn't realize you were OP.

I characterized this as a problem because a) you made it sound like one, and b) in my experience, people in this situation are usually unhappy and struggling in other areas. If you can do hard work when you want to, and simply choose not to, great. When I have coached people who are in this situation, that is not usually the case - usually, they got in to software because they liked programming, and they enjoyed their work previously, and now they don't, and want to get back to that.

If that doesn't apply to you, great. I would say by way of warning though, that a) it's very likely your teammates have noticed and are frustrated with carrying you, and b) I would urge you not to get over-confident about your job prospects never changing. Any programmer over 50 can tell you that working a few hours a week was a totally viable career in 1998 and totally unviable in 2002.

Oh and one more thing: if the main thing holding you back from 40 hour weeks is that you wouldn't capture the value, the solution is well-known: become a contractor. It pays better, and your income will scale linearly with hours worked. A lot of people find contract work less satisfying, but you said you don't care about that, so there you go.
That is surprising, given Japan's reputation pre-1945. I guess their equivalent of the baby boom generation was an outlier in terms of drive?
I can’t do else but praise sway. Long lost perfect WM.
I guess my point is that it's not your place to tell other professional adults what they should do "for their own good" when their own opinions contradict yours in practice, as they would be the top world expert on what is or isn't in the interest of their own good.
Philly market sounds similar.
Scientists Create ‘Living Machines’ with Algorithms, Frog Cells
Yes, agreed, an even bigger minefield than payments.
You mean ParAccel? :P
No I wasn't even aware of this feature.

I just enter my pin once and it works until I pull it out.
Maybe discount their monthly payments? If that's your customer model.
Purpose of a “mystery key” on an IBM PC 3270 keyboard
My default installs in no particular order:

* Obsidian

* AutoHotKey

* Anki

* Notepad++

* Python, Pandas, NumPy, JupyterLab

* Git, GitHub

* ThinkOrSwim

* WSL, Cygwin, PuTTY, WinSCP

* Chocolatey

* RescueTime, Toggl

* LastPass, Authy

* Chrome, Chromium, Firefox
I sheepishly admit to repeatedly trying and failing to overcome modules.
Why not make it configurable by advanced users though?
Some places can thrive with lots of overtime -- if they can attract the right kind of people, like Space X can.
Other places can do great if their employees have no alternatives -- like Amazon.
Some can do extremely well if they use slave labor, like ancient Rome or USA.

But in the vast majority of cases a lot of hours worked cannot be sustainable or beneficial to the employee.
ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit
> Already eastern europe are becoming rich enough that much much less people want to emmigrate.

Oh dear I wish it was true, but it isn't. Eastern Europe is facing a dramatic brain drain and it isn't slowing down. For instance, Romania has lost 15% of its population in the past 30 years (3.5M people!), most of the loss coming after 2000 and the decline being pretty much constant between 2000 and today. Czech Republic and Slovakia are the only country in the region with a growing population (a few percent in 30 years, even the aging Germany looks dynamic by comparison), and Poland is stagnating. Evey other country is losing population every year.[1] This is an ongoing demographic catastrophe for these countries.

[1]: https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/fractures-est-ouest (In French, and the infographics is paywalled, but you can access an animated gif by right clicking on the image and opening it in a new tab)
Thanks, I think the page didn’t load completely for me, and it had lots of info on the Israeli firms.

4/7 is a lot and there’s a lot of focus on it in the first parts. One is Chinese and there’s very little focus on it or info. I doubt this will have any significance, I’m not sure what spying means from the article. Are they just scrapers of public info or have friend requests that you’d share your info with publicly like the first image? Spying is ok when FB gets all the info, but it’s not ok if their ad revenue can be threatened or data they get on their own.

If you’re sharing info on Facebook it’s hard to take the words “spying” seriously unless you say Facebook is a spy too.
> They have excellent PR and never get hammered on HN

You must be reading a different HN than I am.
My original post says a couple blowjobs "per day", not "per week". I'm confused. If anything, I'd expect you to call bullshit because that number is too high (it was meant to be hyperbolic).

But you also willfully misread my other comment, so shrugs.
They built and presently
operate a data center at Langley for the CIA.

They started as a bookstore.
I've had good success on my side-business with Piku: https://piku.github.io
It's essentially a lightweight PaaS that you can run on your own hardware (even ARM)
If your online(email, social media, websites, etc) then your data is almost everywhere. Rather they take my data secretly then break into things that matter the most online and off.
They don't allow me to become an expert by having me be full stack in multiple stacks with frequent context switching. I tend to be slow in the code screens.
With a spikey workload, it's almost always worth it because we have to scale up 1000x and then 10 mins later scale back down to 1x for the rest of the day, and this can happen any time of day randomly. You can also do this with load balancers but in practice I've found these to be much slower to scale and much more costly with the same workload.

For reference, 90% of our bill is database related currently.
I’m sorry you went through all that. I’m not going to ask you to switch back to Linux, but it might be worth filing a bug report with Ubuntu about this, since I doubt you are the only person who wants to use a Linux computer to stream video.

I used OBS when I was on Linux and it worked exactly as I wanted it to, but I’ll concede that I 1) wasn’t gaming and b) was using software encoding.
Hey thanks, we bank with Mercury and I didn't know that wires were free. Just domestic US I'd assume.