skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you how Pivotal solves this problem (or used to; my time was years ago): Standardize the configuration. If some special tool is making you more productive, share it with the team and get everyone on board. Don't try to be a special snowflake.

IMO this is the right way to do pair programming. It tends to bring everyone up to speed with the latest tools, and it keeps eccentrics out of the weeds. It's not to everyone's taste, of course. But neither is pair programming.
> Do you think Animal Farm is a book about pigs?

I read many books in the "Freddy the Pig" series, and picked up Animal Farm when I was 8. I thought it, too, was a book about pigs and read it as a book about pigs. I can vouch that it works as a story about pigs. I didn't realize it was an allegory until maybe a decade later.

I also read Dune as a teen, and took it at face value, too. It was a moderately good scifi book, but not good enough to tempt me to read the sequels. I didn't really think much more about it. I've read a lot of scifi books.

It also seemed to be much more based on Saharan desert culture than Native American culture.

I confess to being out of step in not seeing it as a great story :-/ I've seen all 3 movie versions, thinking "what am I missing" and not finding it.
Once my dad threw a coconut at my face thinking I was paying attention and would catch it but I was looking away and it hit me. It hurts. I can definitely see how one would die from a falling coconut
I have several kids. Let me share some experiences with you:

A card board box is probably fine starting out, but your baby will out grow it.

The sleeping container should have walls high enough to prevent him/her from climbing out - this might take 9 months, but younwill want it

You NEED to remove all fluf and excess padding in your DIY "crib". Babies can suffocate on cute "fluffy" blankets

If you build a wooden crib, pay special care to the distance between vertical bars. Specifically, you want narrow slats so your baby cannot stick his/her head through it

My current child is in a portable "pack and play". They are cheap, portable, and fit in our closet. She turns 2 next month and it was a really good idea.
I don't remember exactly how it works in OCaml (it might be similar!) but in Haskell, I think functions beginning with certain characters are automatically operators, but you can use them prefix by wrapping them in parens, e.g. `2 + 2` is the same as `(+) 2 2`. Similarly, a two-parameter function can be used infix by wrapping in backticks. Off the top of my head, I think I remember getting warnings from the linter about saying something like "elem some_list some_elem" to check if an element existed in the list instead of the preferred "some_list `elem` some_elem". The idea that functions are operators are interchangeable and have first-class syntax for swapping between them is a lot of fun, but also one of those things where I feel like I'm kinda glad it's not mainstream due to the shenanigans that I might have to deal with in production code.
AND they could install spyware on the PCs....vertically integrated, as it were
He's right. Say what you will about his own past/present with VCs but the content of what he's saying is true. Centralization isn't something you can out-engineer with incentive structures it's deeply human.
I think I give about the same advice, so I put this here

When life gives you Bozos, enjoy the circus while you're there.

Get the most out of it.

This may very well be your best opportunity to deeply determine exactly what this sluggish bureaucracy needs to overcome this type of weakness and result in improved performance by an excellent margin, or maybe a multiple.

Even if you don't get to deploy many of your ideas under the current situation, it's always good to know how to turn bigger companies around.

In case you do get into a position where that may be expected of you someday.

Develop the qualities that are most needed by this size org and if there is very little uptake then you just keep becoming more valuable to another outfit and more able to avoid places where they actually don't get as much done as they should.
Huh. I'm afraid I don't know enough about Inkscape or the SVG specs to help with that, just enough to know it's a pain.

Off topic question for you though, that looks like probably i3 or dwm, did you make any modifications to Inkscape to make it more usable in a tiling wm, I always have to turn off tiling when I launch it.
The setup I saw is: there is an IP plan that documents whatever 3rd part IP you are using in your product (open-source or not). Someone has to sign-off on that plan, and sometimes developers do self-attestation that they have not deviated from it. Additionally, the binaries are scanned for certain things to avoid escapes of pre-release information, etc.
As a big fan of the Platinum theme used in Mac OS 8 and 9, I absolutely love this!!! This is a fantastic demo of what modern applications would look like had they been designed under the Apple Human Interface Guidelines of the Mac OS 9 era. If these weren't mockups and were actual redesigns of Spotify, Zoom, and Slack, I'd download them as soon as possible.
Criminals have stolen nearly $100B in Covid relief funds: Secret Service
> They weren’t central to the story. FH didn’t waste a lot of ink on them. They formed a backdrop to the story because they should be uncontroversial ideas to anyone with an understanding of ecology.

I've never been able to find this quote again, but IIRC after one of his friends/editors read some of his early work on Dune, they told him something to the effect of, "Dammit, Frank. People want to read stories about people!"

It may be that he doesn't spend much ink on them because it didn't make for a captivating story.
Arguably buying Tesla is the worst thing you can do for environmental sustainability if you have to ask permission from a car company to replace a defective battery they made after only 1,500km then not get any warranty on it.

The right to repair implications alone are staggering. And the insinuation that someone doesn't care about the environment because they refuse to subscribe to this new trend of limiting consumer rights and requiring subscription services for the "right" to operate a product you already own comes off like a shill.

You can virtue signal in your Tesla that you'll have to pay a monthly fee to use soon enough. Don't expect any sympathy from me when AWS goes down and the DRM in your car is willing to let you freeze to death in the cold because your car won't move. Or Tesla decides to suspend your account because you got your tires replaced at an unauthorized shop.
I'm sorry – A morning steak? I think this may come down the cultural differences, but what is a morning steak? I'm legitimately curious.
Webtops a Linux Desktop Environment in the Browser
With F# or TypeScript or similar things you can compile down to a common bytecode or to the base language and use the result. Unless you were writing an OCaml to Go transpiler you'd need to ship a copy of the Go source code alongside a new OCaml compiler and still have to build a new build system and ecosystem and such. You couldn't just bolt this on to an existing Go installation or something.
Wow, what a really great idea. I love the code snippet sharing box, that's perfect.
Without even getting into whether the guilty deserve it or not, you are assuming justice is infallible. What is your best guess for the rate of false positives on death row?
Interesting how 80% of top 100 games work, 70% of top 100, 60% of top 10 yet people ONLY want to play games that are not yet compatible. Sigh
It's a brace. I'm well aware of the dangers, and anyone who wants to build should learn the rules.

The licenses are a massive pain to get. End the NFA.
I'm down to my last box of Rice Krispies so this is great news. Didn't fancy eating the disgusting generic Krispy Rice supermarket's own brand again.
At least in tech this has been mostly worthless in CA where your equity makes up 25-75% of your total comp and isn’t required to be reported since it isn’t your “salary”.
Yes and the touch friendly paradigms waste way too much space on platforms that don't even feature touch, like Mac.
The Spotify design reminds me of Kazaa
Because if I buy something then it should be mine and I should be able to do anything I want with it with nobody infringing on my freedom. The total opposite of these terms nobody actually reads where people sign away all the rights that affect the corporation's bottom line for the privilege of being allowed to enjoy the product they paid for and only in the ways the company deems acceptable, a privilege that they retain the right to deny at any time for any reason or no reason.
Chinese social scoring in the USA homeland. Disband the TSA and require airports and airlines to run their own physical security.
Well I was waaaaay off. Damn, wish I could edit my misinformed post. For some reason I thought bitcoin picked both of those for their blockchain b/c they were Q-proof.
No worries. Sorry if I reacted strongly.

I don’t feel anything about my ancestors. It just feels icky that there are people today, who enjoy chewing animals that are alive. This is not Stone Age and we are not Komodo dragons or pythons. I am against eating meat in general, but that is a topic on its own.

There was another discussion here recently about boiling lobsters. That sounded horrific too. What is the point of inflicting this level of cruelty?
There's also a printable frame for it. Really nice to see one of the coolest old guns get revived.
I think we should remember the villainy and cruelty of their crimes, but I would not say that they are necessarily scum. They committed truly evil acts, and should be punished for them, but they can still repent. Their victims' lives had worth — but then, so do their own.
Interesting, thanks for drawing attention to the partitioning of Moldavia. I have a superficial understanding of the medieval history of the regions of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania, and their various annexations by their warring neighbours again and again, but wasn't aware of just how much post-Soviet/Russian Empire conflict still seems to be stirring, especially in Bessarabia.
This sounds more like a misalign of interests.
You primary interest is getting things done asap.
The VM team's interests is fuck up things as little as possible. They don't care about your primary interest.

The whole structure of big corporation is structured in this way. Different apartments have different interests in concern. If you could align, fine. If you can't, then it sucks.
Qnx was pretty unique. We no longer have any RTOS with a desktop GUI sadly
> and there was also no expectation whatsoever of "touch friendly" controls so everything was a lot more tightly-spaced than today

Well if Apple’s Execs are to be believed, touch-screen Macs aren’t in the pipeline, which is aces with me because that’s what my iPad is for.

So given that the preeminent pointing devices on a Macintosh are still the mouse and trackpad, I could do with them tightening up the spacing again and walking back the last 10 years of nonsense.

We don’t have to go back to Snow Leopard, certainly not Platinum; but widgets and theming that are consistent with how a Macintosh is used and the hardware it actually runs on would be preferable.
It's a breakfast meal in the U.S.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steak+and+eggs&t=h_&ia=images&iax=...
Nice one. One suggestion. While you open the shared URL on the pair's browser automatically, there are still a bunch of steps involved in copying the url, pasting it in the app, and then hitting open, before the URL opens in the pair's browser.

Instead, build a chrome/firefox extension that allows 'pushing' a tab into the pair's browser session. I find something good, I right click on the tab and click " Send to Pair" or similar.
I know that. My approach is different: instead of finding the fastest solution to deal with the existing base64 standard, I modify the standard to make it easier to decode. (There are cases when it isn't necessary to follow the standard.)
I've been working at pairing culture companies for a good number of years now, initially in-person, but then increasingly remote with offices distributed in several cities. Tuple was such a great find, even in the earlier times when sometimes we had to wait for connections to establish (presumably from rapid growth/adoption). It is still amazingly good at what it does and each little new feature seems to be reading our minds about bothersome things. It's a clear sign that it's used internally and also that feedback is really used. I always try to fill out the end-of-sesson form/rating if I have anything specific to comment on.

The best improvement was the clunky 'observer'-party that wasn't easily able to become the 'driver'. I think I actually received a reply on that one, plainly stating that it's a well-known issue that's being actively worked on, and not long after it began working seamlessly. I was about to ask about shortcuts, as moving the mouse to the menubar to temp-mute (or hang-up at end of call) can be a bit awkward if your screen is the one being shared--I just looked and there are Hotkey settings, just no defaults. Great stuff.

There used to be some issues where leaving Tuple running for days/weeks(?) sometimes could have it consuming CPU while idling. I don't recall the OS-version specifics, but I've got into the habit of exiting and restarting it every day or so. The problems may have been fixed but I haven't tried leaving it running to find out. If there's a way of submitting diagnostics specifically for these sorts of issues, I'd like to know.

It all it's as close to a perfect product as I use on a daily basis. Even with one team member's internet that can get slow at times, dropping to 1080p makes the text a bit chunky but still readable and able to follow along.
> Is developer time actually being conserved though?

in the case of Electron, probably.
it is comparatively difficult to release a cross platform graphical application in any other way.

in the case of other "high level" languages like Python, almost certainly not.

I remember reading something on Dropbox' engineer or developer blog about their conversion from Python 2 to Python 3 and how well it went for their desktop client, which had over one million lines of code and I had to stop and reread that a few times to make sure I read correctly.

How "high level" is Python if this many lines of code are required to create the Dropbox client? maybe Python is the epitome of a high level language, I don't know, but if it is, I don't see how one million lines of Python saves anyone any time over something low level like C or even Assembly, really. the promised tradeoff of execution speed for programmer productivity isn't there, at all, and almost no one sees it.

even if the majority of those lines of code are in libraries, why do those libraries have so many lines of code? what can they possibly be doing to need that many lines of code? it really does boggle my mind.

entire operating systems require fewer lines of code than the Dropbox client, and are written in languages that are supposedly much less expressive per line of code. so where is this supposed developer productivity when it takes over one million lines of code to write the Dropbox client?

I'm not trying to pick on Python, specifically, mind you; this is just an example I was thinking about recently. I'm quite sure that there are other tradeoffs also not delivering what they promised at all in all other languages, and I'm 110% certain no one is noticing those, either.
EventReduce optimizes database queries that run multiple times
I had to look this up: (1) Boudin (mother) agreed to a plea deal to get the felony murder result, (2) Gilbert (father) was convicted of murder (not felony murder).

This doesn't sound like a very controversial result. What part do you think is controversial?
If encryption gets cracked by quantum computing, everything digital that's connected to the Internet, is "out in the open" until quantum-proof encryption becomes the norm.

The only way to be sure would be to physically self-host with the option to air gap the storage from the Internet.
A side effect of birth rates and other demographic trends, people no longer have a huge network of friends and relatives with kids, to talk sense into us, and to share outgrown stuff. When I was an infant, my parents probably had a dozen other families with young kids all living on the same block. You also experienced the baby-hood of siblings and neighbors while you were still a kid yourself.
I guarantee it’s a human typographic error, where the superscript was lost when converting the text from the print layout.

(Source: I used to work at the magazine and am painfully aware of previous such mistakes.)
OPNsense installs quite nicely on most x86 hardware. I have had a very good experience running it on a repurposed low-powered used 1U server appliance with a couple of good quality networking interfaces.

It's so easy, all you need to do is install from media, and configure one interface as LAN and the other as WAN. Plug in your internet into one interface and your LAN into the other. Configure it like you normally would configure a router, and you're done.

I'm running mine on a very old dual-core i5 with 4G of RAM and a 16GB SSD, and even this is overkill.
System 6 or gtfo. 7 was a RAM hog; 8 and 9 were lipstick on 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_6
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yea, right when i took my ptos first time in the year i got covid
Wait, is this saying using 'dark mode' makes you smarter?
Toward the top or at the top they look at dollars and cents, keeping investors happy. They are too detached from the people actually doing the work to understand when then harshly and coldly grind out a bit more profit for their bonus that actual people, just like them, bear the burden.

Toss in all the algorithmic cloud management of the people and they get completely disconnected from their workforce.
Just wanted to say thank you for all the times you've let me continue researching when the original sources became dead!
I’m genuinely very interested in the kind of data you’re dealing with. It’s common to need to reorder a list of strings, but I’ve personally never had any use case that requires me to reverse or sort _characters in a string_ to consume any kind of data (some kind of decoding, perhaps, but those tend to work better implemented at the byte array level, not string).
I was confused by the quadrillion figure for a while, then I remembered that our quadrillions are bigger. (Does this qualify as an exception to the rule that everything is bigger in Texas?)
Make sense of the wicked problem of the second egress in Canada
Good luck convincing your principal engineers to take the same job title as the entry level engineers.
It's going to take time, for large code bases you won't actually look at all the code.

Make sure you're able to efficiently navigate through the code. If your IDE supports jumping to declarations and usages, make sure you get working.

Look at old commits to see how changes were added before, that will hint at how future changes should look.

Ask others for help if something doesn't make sense.
That's the challenge.
Oddly enough, gold is one asset whose price is flat to down over the past few years. This ain't the usual kind of inflation, where people start to buy gold because too much money is being printed.

These days gold prices seem to be driven by fear: gold tends to spike up on market crashes, as a flight to quality. I think people aren't afraid enough yet; they're still feeling greedy.
You can take my post as disagreeing with the GP as well on the kid test. Kids have been the ones figuring out computers and doing tech support for their older relatives essentially since the dawn of home computing. If a kid can’t figure out how to use your computer then it’s probably irreparably broken (kids figure out how to fix computers too).
My frustration with vscode is because it feels like the pop-up menus try to steal your mouse focus all the time. Like, I try to move my mouse somewhere and about to click, but some IntelliSense-nonsense pops up under my mouse cursor and steals the click.
They do with hardware too. Taking a problem with it depends on the end user. Many don't want the knife-seller to dictate how they should use it, what items are allowed to be cut, etc. Once the buyer buys it, they can do anything with it and take full responsibility in doing so.
May be you put a lot more stress to finish up things before you leave on vacation.
And that extra stress causes a decrease in immunity leading to sickness.
Why don't people give Firefox a chance ?
Sure google properties don't work on it but that is because google broke them. A simple useragent often fixes it. The point is, people need to start using it or else accept the monopoly of chrome and not complain when they implement user hostile tech.

I get the whole promoted stuff Mozilla has been doing, I just ignore it and carry on. I have unlock origin and pihole to cover for me. Many people use nextdns or whatever and that works great too.
Depends on what problem the adoption of decentralisation is solving. There's no point choosing a decentralised option just for the sake of it.
as much as I love the series, to me everything post god-emperor was terrible.. it's actually a bit hard for me to blame Brian with that in mind
heap up, even!
Also, protecting those around you. It's very much in a teen's own self interest to not bring COVID home and put their parents (who support them) at risk.
thank you! Years ago I remember looking into pfSense which appears to be related to OPNsense. Looking into it now!
This reminds me of import duty tariff codes: back in 2014 I was planning to purchase a recumbent tricycle, take it to America for a holiday, then return with it to Australia; and I investigated the duty tariffs, to seek to reassure myself that I wouldn’t be required to pay duty in either direction, and to see if I could get it GST-free via the Tourist Refund Scheme if I brought it back into the country a month later (don’t remember what I concluded on that point). (As written, I came away with the distinct impression that things like laptops, cameras, bicycles and phones, totalling anything over something like a thousand dollars are supposed to be taxed, with surprisingly limited exceptions; in practice, it’s definitely not so.)

Well, somewhere along the way I came across an item in the tables of things that hadn’t quite fit into their existing neat tariff categories: “bicycle with seven wheels and ten seats” (or perhaps it was ten wheels and seven seats); added in 1993, I think. The really funny thing with that is that the bike shop owner I subsequently bought the trike from was fairly confident he knew the vehicle in question. A slow vehicle, he opined, not very well-made.
Thanks for enlightening me with your knowledge of the blockchain. but please explain how would you "register" it? Why with my "favourite" blockchain? Why can't a centralised state use it, but get the benefits of decentralisation and proof of ownership? Your arguments and lightly veiled ad-hominem attack are actually the point of my initial comment.

Imagine that Country A decides to use Blockchain A (which has been around for decades and has proven itself secure) to store its property titles and allow the purchase of property digitally, with full transferal of title and ownership. The government writes a smart contract on that blockchain that facilitates payment, title searches, hooks into other government databases or blockchains for easement information, liens etc. They then, obviously, migrate their existing title information onto the blockchain and distribute the NFT's to the current owners. How do you "register" your fake one?

If you can't see how this could change an old and plodding industry like real estate which is surrounded by mountains of paper-shuffling, then yes, you're being unimaginative.