skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently the Asus Zephyrus beats it on a number of benchmarks by a large margin, but I'm not sure if those were just GPU benchmarks, and I'm not sure if those were on battery tests. Linus Tech Tips did a recent comparison.
PageSpeed even moans about Google Analytics scripts!
WOW this is fascinating. Thank you for sharing. As a tech worker whose job enables (sometimes good, sometimes very very bad) systems to function, this hits home
I visualize them in https://misbrands.vercel.app/

Code: https://github.com/yiksanchan/misbrands

Check it out!
Somebody signed up with PayPal using my gmail but I can’t reclaim it without providing sign up info. It works the reverse too.
I agree we need a better term. Maybe 'cluster', as they are distinguishable in PCA plots.

One interesting aspect of these clusters is that the higher the resolution, the more clusters you can find, up to the point that neighboring towns can have slightly different distributions.
Except of course that it isn't an artisanal choice, a very practical one that is made increasingly impossible by the few very large email providers that are left. It should be as simple as hosting a web server.

Speaking of which, how long before it won't be possible to host your own web server?

On another note: the biggest source of spam is gmail itself, and guess what, that makes it to my inbox just fine, because what could possibly be wrong with someone using google as their source. Spam was annoying but it was never an actual problem. The consolidation of the internet into a handful of players is a problem.
Not even calculators agree on this. Here's a picture of my Casio fx-83ES and fx-83GT calculators giving different answers to "8/2(2+2)": https://i.imgur.com/SsKUQrE.jpg

Both answers are completely, 100% correct according to the operator precedence table in their manuals. I also have a Casio fx-83MS and fx-991ES, both give 1 as the answer.

Others I have are a Casio fx-570CD and a Casio statistical calculator I don't remember the model of, neither of which support implicit multiplication, and a SwissMicros DM42, which is RPN and doesn't have to deal with operator precedence.

I don't even know why I have half of these...
Shon Faye's 'The Transgender Issue'. Revolutionary.
I've got it now, two vaccination doses with no booster yet. So far symptoms have been: headache, runny nose, a cough, fatigue and one day of bad aches, fever, chills, affected taste/smell and low level nausea/reduced appetite although the more severe symptoms have now more or less dissipated, at least so far.
https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Talk-Evolutionary-Evolution/dp...

It goes a bit slow and with too much details about hypotheses that are eventually rejected but really interesting insights into language. Relevant to computer languages too probably.
So the author doesn’t know if it’s worth working on OSS because people were making log4j memes
You're right, averages in mid-sized and large countries are pretty much meaningless
Sold back to the what? I think our (and many other companies) consider laptops depreciated for tax purposes after around 3 years. Maybe they just give them to the next developer to join?
> The screen following getting their card should be a page letting them know you aren’t onbaording new customers, their card hasn’t been charged and you’ll let them know when you’re taking on more customers (eg. The product is built)

If a website did this to me they'd also be getting a very angry e-mail and zero recommendations from me.
This is exactly it. Email is now just another way to squeeze companies and private individuals alike instead of a cheap, secure and free way to communicate. Peer-to-peer email was worth having, in spite of the downsides.
Please don't do this.

The premise sounds good but some of the best things in gaming were conceived as mods. Team fortress was a Quake mod. Now, I personally don't blike moba games but Dota also started as a mod. Not to mention Quake OSP/CPMA/Defrag, UTComp, HLDM, Black Mesa and countless others.
Shoelace: More than 50 custom HTML elements that work with all frameworks
You can acheive the same result in three lines of Wolfram Language...
https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/2431480?p_p_auth=...
Agree, those wishing to actually understand Machiavelli should read "Discourses on Livy", rather than "Prince". He was an avid supporter of republicanism (not democracy, those didn't exist yet) and proven superiority of republican order vs aristocratic on many examples from his era as we as from the long past, starting with Roman Kingdom times - described by Livy.
Every time I read about some drug that appeared to work in animal models but not in actual humans I wonder how often the opposite is true. We are necessarily limiting ourselves to drugs that work in humans + at least one other species.
Well its a million times better than better than "I'm Dropbox/Google etc. , a US jurisdiction company, with servers in the US, trust me (wink wink) , I will never give Uncle Sam your data"
1941, picked up a copy when visiting Pearl Harbor in October. Made me realize nation states will take suicidal decisions knowingly, politics and institutions can lead to insane burden the populace will have to take over. Projecting to today, it makes me think a war with the east is not improbable.
Note also that we don’t provide a way to discover other users. This means that you can only connect with people with whom you already have a connection through some other real-life or online channel.

This is also my answer to the validation of peers - it must happen out of band, outside of Tact. We currently don’t provide any answer to it in the product.
Yeah I stopped running my own. I kept getting blocked by Microsoft in particular (mainly consumer recipients at live.com and outlook.com, strange enough not corporate O365 users!). I'm 100% sure I did not send any spam, the only emails going to those addresses were legit from a family member. DMARC and SPF were all set perfectly, relays blocked, I was not on any spamlist and I never have been either.

Literally every month I got blocked again because my server did not have enough reputation. Kept logging tickets to get it unblocked and then a month later it was back. One time I did manage to get a personal email back from a guy in India. Said that it was because my mailserver did not send enough legitimate mail for their algorithm to trust it.

So the lack of spam is not enough anymore to be blocked. You actually have to send a load of legit traffic to build up 'reputation'. Now just being a small time sender is a problem. This way the big players can just carve out a bigger market for themselves. They basically break the decentralised concept of email by doing this.

In the end I moved to O365, which felt bad because I didn't want to reward them for their behaviour. But we moved to it at work too and I wanted an instance with full admin rights to explore. My contract is up next year so I may change then if I can find a party that does it well and ideally cheaper.
Since we're all just on video calls nowadays, maybe these apps should come with game streamer-style "add an image overlay" capability.
Why do people hate Ubuntu and VSCode?
> Auto experts today say that you should warm up the car no more than 30 seconds before you start driving in winter

Auto experts who have never lived anywhere north of Tucson, maybe.
Thank you for your public service. For some reason Github shows only half of the images on my mobile.
This is a cursed way to structure a plaintext html website
I do not use iMessage. I mean I tried it and still do use it maybe couple of times a year. It didn’t fly with any of my contacts around here. Much worse results than my Signal and Matrix evangelism attempts.

It’s just that I’m in a geographical area where blue tick - green tick didn’t become a thing and people use other messaging apps which are better than iMessage by light years; and that’s good.

Anyway, is it possible that OP was pointing to iMessage simply being inferior? And it is inferior, just like pretty much any online service from Apple. And Apple’s recent convoluted u-turn on privacy.

But still, yeah, “dignity” is too strong a term to be used in this context maybe.
174 KiB (419 KiB without gzip/deflate) https://search.brave.com/
> there was reasoning behind not doing that in the first place

What would the reasons be?
I think anyone who says remote is strictly better is fooling themselves. There are definitely down-sides.

We’ve been doing a lot to try to bring back the benefits of being in-person while maintaining the flexibility of being remote.

Wrote about our specific tactics here: https://blog.roboflow.com/remote-not-distant/
The Goal was my gateway book into the literature of lean manufacturing. I recommend it.
Aside from the snark, what this is getting at is that there is this assumption that being good at math is a good proxy for intelligence and other things. It is not.

Math is a skill that some people cannot learn, although they can often do well with a calculator or other aids. They have to be taught differently.

With adequate training to work around this, they can do quite well. However, we are conditioned to think that people who cannot do math are dumb or lazy.

Source: family member taught learning disabled children in schools for many years, until they signed on to the ideology that all children are the same and should be taught the same.
The last few years have been Apple fans pissed off about the terrible keyboard they threw in, the touchbar, and the notebooks getting too slim at the expense of performance and cost. I don't remember anyone hyping up the last-gen laptops.
I would agree that setting up a robust personal email system is difficult and may be exceedingly so for an organization of any significant size but I am not sure I would attribute that to the quality of services from large providers. Our organization (a university) outsourced its email to MS (outlook) and it is simply awful. No IMAP or POP, no forwarding (this is of course the policy of the university, not MS' fault per se), important emails getting lost as 'spam' (including some once in a lifetime conference invitations) just because they came from the outside. The search is a complete nightmare. No way to send mass emails to one's class with, say individually generated temporary passwords, which I can easily do from my own server. The interface is clunky to say the least. In comparison, even Thunderbird shines (although why TB cannot implement its quick search function for years now is beyond me). So it is not the quality that the big providers supply. Security, maybe (even though they are a large target by default) but not convenience.
With our toddlers we ask ourselves: 'is this the hill you want to die on?' It makes us less judgemental, more curious, more listening, and more self reflective. I believe that is also what 'please listen to what I have to say' means (tho its too often shortened to shouting 'Listen!' which works less well. But we all lack one important currency these days: time. Spending your time on someone is therefore an invaluable investment. Who other than your children deserve it more?
That will be Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells, by Harold McGee. I doubt it will have the same impact as his masterwork On Food And Cooking, but, by jove, it blew my mind several times.

The book is a somewhat systematic tour of the smells of the world. Most of which are generated, one way or another, by organisms. It makes you realize that (because of this simple fact) the world is an even more special place than you already thought: most of the smells in this world probably exist nowhere else in the universe.

The book makes you see (smell) the similarities between things as disparate as a pine trees and lemons, melons and fish, ants and ginger, and it explains why they exist. You come out of the experience with a rich new vocabulary and a plethora of fascinating facts.

The book is a bit technical (lots of high school level organic chemistry) but it is a joy to read, because McGee is a very good writer who manages to be precise and lyrical at the same time. A book to savor slowly.
> unless you put that person under an NDA or something similar.

Now you're getting it. We, the European public, have decided to put anyone handling our personal data under "something similar to an NDA". We call it GDPR.
I always love your responses. I didn't know about COMDAT, but I did use the SAS compiler on the Amiga which was Cfront based. I didn't know enough to be horrified, but I often looked at the output because I was integrating the output with regular C code (interpreters, Arexx, etc). It was kinda like Hungarian Notation++ ;) I got to the point where it felt natural to read the name mangling.

The Amiga SAS/C compiler was also pretty slow. I can see how ZTC would be popular in by skipping intermediates and not having to reinvoke the compiler.

How many problems from the 80s melted away because of the large amount of ram available in the 90s?
I think I know what you mean.

I was honestly surprised that someone got offended enough to figure out my email and send me insults just because I was lazy and kept the git branches for my network library named "master" and "slave". Plus the main server supports various blacklist command line parameters for IPs, login handles, and ports.

Now the entire project is off Github and on a private Gitea.
I suppose that's relatively recent for a technology that's 40 years old.
A coworker of mine is seeing their M1 performing about 2-4x slower than my Intel MacBook Pro where Docker is invoked. So YMMV
CDC infographic lets you know if your facial hair won’t work with a mask
Some thoughts on this:

- A different environment can improve creativity, but the effect is obviously limited.

- If you have a difficult/long commute then that's a plus to remove it.

- If you're alone at home you could get lonely really quickly.
> The language actually provides quite a strong safety guarantee for generics, as long as we follow the rules:

If a program compiles with no unchecked or raw warnings, the synthetic casts inserted by the compiler will never fail.

Huh. That was written in 2020, four years after it was shown how to write a very small program that "compiles with no unchecked or raw warnings", and yet "the synthetic casts inserted by the compiler" will fail at run time [0]:

class Unsound {
static class Constrain<A, B extends A> {}

static class Bind<A> {
<B extends A>
A upcast(Constrain<A, B> constrain, B b) {
return b;
}
}

static <T, U> U coerce(T t) {
Constrain<U, ? super T> constrain = null;
Bind<U> bind = new Bind<U>();
return bind.upcast(constrain, t);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
String zero = Unsound.<Integer, String>coerce(0);
}
}

[0] N. Amin, R. Tate "Java and Scala's type systems are unsound: the existential crisis of null pointers", https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2983990.2984004
I hopped from article to article, repo-to-repo in building products. I think this was a carryover from grad school when getting things done was more important than how it was done.

This year, I plan to get less milestones. But each milestone will be better documented with rationale so that anyone picking up after me will have less technical debt to deal with. Here are some things in my roadmap:

* Summarize academic papers I am reading and attach my highlighted paper in Notion

* Assiduously use git for all code - be it even testing or exploratory analysis. Keep a changelog and wiki/confluence for all features

* Maintain a development log file in the repo which explains rationale, background and supporting information.

* Backup all code and data on at least two providers. I use GCP but it might help to use a cron job to weekly rsync my files to OVH or Hetzner.

* Take up one hobby project and do it well, rather than leaving it at less than optimal.
Perhaps instead of being snarky, get involved in creating tools and affordances for people who are disabled at math. We don't think twice about ensuring a wheelchair ramp is installed on a building.
That’s no good reason to ditch a superior solution. A modern combustion engine is pretty much impossible to fix with your ordinary tooling/knowledge, but it doesn’t make me want to use some old, weak/inefficient one instead.

Also, I could not do anything with a bug inside firefox, the kernel and a litany of other complex programs (mind that they are complex due to essential complexity) so I don’t see system booting an exception to that.
Running a business is always a war. Either you deploy and win the war, or you are still thinking about the code you will be deploying some day and lose the war to someone who deployed.
If you are a Java Developer I suggest Adam Bien and Sebastian Daschner. They both have YT channels and produce regular contents.
> Also funny that the author calls DMARC 'modern practice', since DMARC was introduced in March 2015, almost 7 years ago.

Oh come on, in terms of protocols, that's modern.

Your other points have merit but that's just a pointless dig at the author.
Cool! I was hoping group chat would be a link I could share here like direct message. Alas it’s not! Group messaging is an underserved need in Whatsapp etc., could be a good place to focus and reducing friction to onramp
I run my own personal SMTP and IMAP server and haven't found it too hard to maintain after the initial setup phase. The main problem I had with getting emails accepted was my lack of reverse DNS PTR records on my domain. If you're unable to fix that (eg, you're not using a commericial internet connection that allows this) the solution is just to use another SMTP relay service. Some, like SMTP2go, are free if you're only sending a personal-use number of emails a day/month. That way you're still in charge of everything except the relaying of outgoing mail, which is easy enough to swap out.
> "simply awful. No IMAP or POP"

Microsoft seem to disagree with you there: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/pop-imap-and-smtp...
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Postfix and Dovecot are classic magic word projects - completely useless unless you can work out the magic words, and then they work fine.

The docs for magic word projects never to seem to prioritise essentials. So [obscure feature someone last used in 1984] gets equal billing with [essential fundamentals] and you have no idea which is which because - you haven't understood the docs yet.

I'm still running my own servers. I sorted out the spam issues, and they're basically zero maintenance now. But it certainly took a while, and a fair amount of copying other people's ideas of what a config file should look like, with plenty of trial and error.
Is CurlFtpFS still developed? Last time I considered using it it looked abandoned and there was some regression from years ago which supposedly made it really slow. I think rclone offers pretty much the same functionality and more?
Are there any 5nm CPUs available yet for x86?
The idea is that the image is from their counterparts: Debian and Vim.
I've been remote for over 10 years, and this article mostly rings true. The employer has to put extra effort into communication and documentation. But that ends up being good for everyone - even in hybrid companies we're not everyone is remote.

I think my current employer, FullStory, gets a lot of this right. Even before they went fully distributed, they were really good at documenting things - from PTO policies to postmortems on every outage we've ever had. The onboarding process is the best I've ever seen.

> There is no Pair-Programming,

That's just not true. I do frequent pair programming, it's just over a screen sharing / video call rather than sitting beside the person I'm pairing with. There's a million tools you can use for this.

The other thing I'll say, is that as a remote employee, having a dedicated quiet space to work in can be really beneficial. Especially if you have young children at home. Usually that means a spare bedroom, where you can shut the door.

For a couple of years after my daughter was born, I actually rented a small private office that was a short bike ride from my house. I didn't go there every single day, but the days that I did were definitely my most productive ones during that time period. It was really the best of all worlds from my perspective.
But there are already plenty of these there. It full of these, I'd say. I saw on the first page:

-Github styled as Pornhub (multiple times)
-HDL styled as DHL
-Github styled as Obama
-"Write the Docs" styled as a Metal Band
-Linux styled as "Intel Inside"
-javascript styled as supreme
-"sys admin" styled as AC/DC
-slayer syled as lorde
-"sempai" styled as supreme
-npm styled as IBM
-Arur syled as AC/DC
-untitled goose game styled as antifa
-Javascript styled as playstation 1
-css styled as sega
-starwars as starbucks
- "bookface" as facebook

And more. I didn't recognise a lot of stuff.
I believe the phrase was "Once sales start dying" though

Anyways, while there are some similarities shared between Open Source and video game modding scenes, they are substantially different. Instead of evidence to back up this claim, I implore you to imagine what it would be like if some wrote an article titled "Is It Even Worth Working on Videogame Mods Anymore?".
Maybe another fad? A good looking and kinda functional fas? Apple users, I’d reckon, are maybe prone to picking such fads and OP put their bet on it.
Why, why do they even offer games on the move if they (correctly) have such watchdogs?

Makes me think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TCeR_SWZM0, just adjust Chandler's line to "0-60 in 3 seconds, top speed of 160mph, 500 mile range!"
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> Is a remote-first economy perhaps a system fundamentally at odds with human instincts?

Seems like office-first, 9 to 5 economy is at odds with human instincts, if you have to physically keep humans from "gaming the system".
I have not, but know many people who have. Many of them had mild symptoms that barely impacted them. Others were wiped out for days, or sometimes weeks, and one notable friend who had long-haul symptoms for a year. And we know 4 people who died.

The odds are that you'll have a mild case and it won't be a big deal. But the other end of those odds is death. So personally, I don't worry much about whether I get it, but I do try to follow the guidance for masking and distancing to help prevent spreading it for the sake of those who end up on the bad end of statistics.