skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember it as being for "disk full" conditions when everything came to a crawl, because log files could no longer be written either.
I don't think you can extract professionalism, it's a matter of finding folks who already have it.

If possible, start with small tasks, and even things you could do yourself. That way you can truly judge if someone acts professionally and does a good job.

I have found some really good professional advisors through referrals, as that means both sides have more at stake (their reputation).

Also, don't stint on paying folks. Pay them before the due date if at all possible.

If using a freelancer who is good and dependable, nothing will surprise them more and move your work to the front of the line than an unexpected raise in rates. (Do this after 6 months or so of good work.)
Mountain Biking, cross country (XC) and downhill enduro!

I'm not an endurance athlete genetically, so racing in cycling isn't going to be a podium winning experience. MTB provides a balance between skills you can develop and having to be in good physical shape. It's allowing me to travel across the country and [hopefully soon] Europe to exotic destinations. I'm in some of the best shape of my life too and I highly recommend everyone try it
CEO Who Fired 900 Employees on a Zoom Call Is Out
Remarkable does not offer encryption, so it is mostly an expensive paperweight unless you don't care about your data.
I intentionally got (much more) into gardening in 2021. I've always liked gardening and houseplants, but 2020 taught me that I needed to have a life outside of work, and I won't always be able to physically socialize with friends, so I needed a third thing (i.e. a hobby) to bring me balance and peace.

I watched a ton of youtube videos from gardening youtubers, I bought a bunch of nursery plants and soil, and I got to work. Later on, I moved to starting plants from seed. Gardening doesn't have to be an expensive hobby, and you can often start with whatever you have. It's really nice to put work into something and see it bear fruit (sometimes literally).
vim ~/todo.md

With a bash alias of “todo”
As a developer I'm a little confused. Are they skirting around having to pay developers to build the software for their device? I'm supposed to pay $400 USD for a development kit that comes with no tooling or support and... what? Do I get to release software for the platform under the Pine brand? Will Pine buy my drivers and software back? Will there be an ecosystem where I get a share of profits for the work?

If this is hobbyist kit it's very pricey.
This is the dumbest conversation I've ever had.
Now we need to find Life implementation in List and bootstrap it from there.
Looking at this from the POV of economic drivers. Libraries have become steadily marginalised by the decline of print media of all kinds. Libraries have to buy books to lend. They measure the times a book was accessed, and after a number of views/month, they no longer retain the book. I am sure you have seen the huge numbers of older books being re-cycled. They used to send old books to third world countries, but they have winnowed what they send as even third world countries started to refuse various old books. The University of Toronto culls their collection rigorously. This culling frees up storage space. Print books were permanent. Copyright laws have created limits on how many time an ebook can be lent. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/downlo...

Note, publishers also charge 4-5 the hardcover price for ebooks AND limit the number of lends of the file.

There is a large and diverse ebook torrent ecology, where an ebook can be lent endlessly. Copyright owners monitor ebooks, and insert codes in their ebooks and if they find it on torrents, they know what library was the leaker(of course, it was not the library - it was one of their borrowers, so there is some thought about the library cutting off a particular borrower), so a growing money gather by copyright owners is underway at all levels to offset the lower sales of paper based books.
It is clear now that the US and world copyright system needs correction - and then their lobbying will start.
https://online.yu.edu/cardozo/blog/disney-influence-copyrigh...

Did you know that in the UK a library is not allowed to repair the binding on a book as it wears out with age?
Look in UK books. You will seen a small paragraph stating you may only lend out a book in it's original binding. If it wears out = no repairs, no taped in pages, no rebinding etc.
https://www.bl.uk/on-demand/pricing

There is also the PLR (public lending right) where the copyright holders and publishers receive grants that vary by country to assist in mitigating the 'losses' from lending.
http://www.open-shelf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Public-L...
On the flip side, for those of us who enjoy this sort of hardware hackery, this is a reasonable price for this collection of parts all conveniently wired up and ready for the fun part.
It's something you learn just because of this kind of experience. For me, it was my attention to detail that spotted it immediately, and the customer facepalmed hard. It's one of those things that is easier for a second party to spot. It's why I read everything that's critical out loud before hitting enter, or publishing, or whatever.
It not only changes the size, it steals focus. I work a lot during meetings!
https://pine64.com/about-us/

“ The main purpose of Pine Store creation is servicing PINE64 community. Most of the profit generated from Pine Store uses for production cash flow, new product engineering fee, sponsor community event expense, maintain server cost, and also supporting other open source communities.”
I was once in my old Tokyo apartment on the 12th floor. I use an early earthquake warning app. It buzzed, telling me a 9.0 occurred in Tokyo bay and I have approximately 3 seconds before the very extreme shaking starts. I just sat down and thought "welp I'm dead".

It turned out to be a false alarm, triggered by something like a monitoring station being struck by lightning. I still have the screenshot of what the app looked like when it told me.

Edit: found the screenshot:

https://ibb.co/Lk4w5B4
What are the different use cases for this versus meld?
Still can't improve this stage of encoding, it requires a lot of operations. Maybe there is something trivial, but I don't see it.
It seems you may think I'm Chinese? I'm actually 100% British.

I think something to bear in mind with the topic of comparing the West and China is that they aren't actually 2 independent entities that have now come of age, each imposing its unique stamp on the world. What China is today is fundamentally defined by European colonialism. Chinese culture is actually thousands of years older than European culture, and for the majority of human history was the most advanced, richest and successful, at least certainly in comparison to Europe pre and post the Romans. Now recall what Europe did to Native American, African and Australian cultures, which cover almost half the planet. China has something called The Century of Humiliation[1]. Those colonial forces that banished the Cherokee, the Inca, the Mbundu, the aborigines, to the pages of history, eventually arrived in China, and I think quite understandably China fought tooth and nail to avoid the same fate.

So when I criticise those in the West that criticise China, I'm not just trying to equalise the argument to include criticism of all governments. China is not just another evil empire. Modern China is specifically what happens when you have the desire, and more importantly means, to defend yourself against the forces of Western colonialism. China famously burnt its colonial fleet in the 15th Century[2], they are actually not a naturally colonial culture. A metaphor could be something like: when you punch so many people so hard, that most of them die, it's impossible for them to criticise your behaviour, because they're, well dead. So when one of them, after seeing all the dead people, and then getting punched themselves, manages to survive, and even starts to return punches in order to survive, those "fists" of criticism are an extremely understandable survival instinct.

Pointing the finger at China's "punches" is profoundly ironic, because not only have we thrown more punches, and caused more destruction, but we incited those punches.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_treasure_voyages#Causes_o...
If a selection process is screwed at the outset, I don't think one can generally un-screw it with any amount of post-hoc analysis or manual review.
Whoa, I think we're on the same team. I was saying it's not ethical to tell only your gov't about the exploit, and not your customers.
>I feel that "economics" as currently practiced has "you're not allowed to take the rich people's money" baked in as a very deep but generally unspoken assumption.

It very much is. David Card, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics this year for his work in the 90s that showed modest increases in the minimum wage do not cause layoffs, talked about this attitude in the field.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2006/interview-with-d...

"I've subsequently stayed away from the minimum wage literature for a number of reasons. First, it cost me a lot of friends. People that I had known for many years, for instance, some of the ones I met at my first job at the University of Chicago, became very angry or disappointed. They thought that in publishing our work we were being traitors to the cause of economics as a whole."

This "cause of economics" is making rich people richer at the expense of everyone else.
While I strongly agree this doesn't seem to match the sentiment of the paper.

Which is prioritizing a lower barrier to entry for new programmers at the cost of safety checks that help prevent humans from making mistakes at runtime.

It seems to me if our conclusion is humans, no matter how skilled, are flawed, we should be willing to do absolutely anything to lower the barrier to entry except removing checks on correctness.
Krita 5.0 released. An Open Source Photoshop alternative
Well, it's not really a Grand Prix app or General Practitioner app. The app name "Eurovision GP" is confusing
Yes, alpine climbing. Which begat trail running, ski mountaineering, mountain biking, and wrestling.

A friend had moved to Denver and was starting to climb more impressive and intense routes just as my whole division at a big company was let go. It looked fun and I thought it would be a good way to spend my time. After a primer from my friend, I joined clubs and sought out partners who I gelled with. I ultimately found that the passionate rationality of alpine climbing's risk assessment and fitness requirements were a great healthy replacement for what I did at work.

I started trail running as part of my training and decided I liked it for its own sake. I took up ski mountaineering a couple years later because it meant I could have more fun moving faster on larger terrain. I took up mountain biking two years ago because a buddy badgered me about how fun it was and described it as "skiing in the summer." And, recently, with a large base of fitness, I joined a group of friends who are all martial arts nerds who get together for sparring and style comparison chats. I wrestled in high school, so I jumped in and decided it was as fun now as it was then.

This whole journey kicked off in 2016. I spend between 5 and 15 hours per week in one of the above disciplines, plus a few hours a week in the gym lifting. It takes a lot of effort, but it rarely feels like it because I'm enjoying myself. I prefer all of these hobbies because, like many of us, my job keeps me glued to a screen/hunched over a work table and I wanted something that put me back in my body in an enjoyable way.
Also annoying when sharing a screen, why mess with my layout when I have multiple screens and zoom is on the screen I'm not sharing? I'd like to not go through hoops to see those I'm talking with, and having to find the stop sharing or mute buttons on a completely new (and hidden) spot.

Still, my new employer uses Google Meet which is even more shit. Grinds the computer to a halt, especially if not using Chrome.
No, unless you consider ever SaaS spyware.
Another technique you can try to cut off the dizziness upon standing is flex your abdominal muscles as soon as you feel it coming on. Works 100% of the time for me. Probably works for the same reason (blood pressure), but easier than hyperventilating :)
I don't think it follows generally that, if something is offered without monetary cost but with terms of use, and you don't like those terms, you are free to use it in violation of those terms.

For example GPL code is often $0, but that doesn't give me the option of ignoring the copyleft provisions if I don't like them. The only valid options are to comply or to not use it.
To block omicron, wear an N95 or other high-filtration mask
Zoom offers multiple tools to enforce permissions on attendance:

- Passwords

- Meeting host approves anyone joining
If fashion were art you wouldn't have the word fashionable, in the same way that you don't have the word artful.
Just sharing this tool, logseq [1], that I learned about a couple of weeks ago. It traffics in plain text files and does graphically what an org-mode might do after a lot of work.

I figure more people should be aware of this open source tool I hope improves and becomes more robust.

[1]: https://logseq.com/
This is true for basically every budding community. "Rustaceans" writing tools for writing rust, in rust, seems like a gimmick, but every language goes through this period. JavaScript is probably the single biggest offender I can think of, but other examples include rewriting Vim plugins in Lua even though neovim supports vimscript, rewriting literally anything in Go, rewriting python libraries in Julia, etc.
They tested this by sending a survey questionnaire to random people.

I don't care who you are, I consider that a request to mine me for my data. I do not participate in survey requests from anyone.

Perhaps all this is showing is who is more willing to give up the time to take the survey and their private information?
I love this, it's how I run my password manager (Using docker-compose and traefik for the ui). Bitwarden works very well in iOS and Android and on Windows10 and in Firefox. Syncs are always instant, I used to use KeePassXC with NextCloud but inevitably I'd have syncing issues (admittedly, not very often). Not anymore.

I still have to dig into the Organization feature to share passwords with my partner.
Actually, despite the title, the claim in the paper is that real-only-QM could be falsified, not that it has been. As far as I can tell, no one has actually done the experiment to check. Logically, it's just as possible that complex-QM could fall. There's a certain amount of hubris in seeing a case where there are two theories that agree in all known cases except one we haven't checked, and assuming "Well that must mean the one we thought of first is right!"
Thanks! I'll try this (I also suffer from Web-JIRA latency fatique).
I learned to sew.

I suppose the biggest thing that got me interested was I got a book on making costumes from a Humble Bundle. Keeping me interested, though, was a desire to do something that was not on a screen during the pandemic.

I probably read through 15 books from the library in my spare time, honestly, over the course of several months. I asked me wife some questions, and read through the manual for her sewing machine -- and then watched enough YouTube videos and did things tediously slowly until I understood what I was supposed to do. I found books aimed at kids especially good for beginners, and re-read things as I understood better.

I borrowed some patterns from my aunt, and made pyjamas for my four year old. (I figured something small would waste less fabric). It took me five weeks, on and off, to get them made, and involved a lot of learning, but they turned out really nicely and my kid wore them every night for quite a while. Since then I made some Hallowe'en costumes. (Making pyjamas for everyone for Christmas would've been nice, but I haven't been able to make the time.)

Why this instead of something else?

- I didn't know how to do it
- I could do it at home
- We had the basic tools
I use Android devices, so I can send texts via a browser page. Those, and calls, used to be integrated right in Gmail, but Google wrecked all of that - which is another story for another time. I vastly prefer using a keyboard for writing texts though, and that's still possible.
> But it doesn't mean that these libraries aren't remaining free and open to the public.

For now.
Reminds me that I have an unfinished project to write a 68k ELF binary loader for the Atari ST that I never finished. Now that I've quit my job maybe I can return to this.

Beats cleaning the garage.
This reminds me a bit of The Erlang Ticket System, a "Minimal Viable Program", that Joe Armstrong described on his blog:

https://joearms.github.io/published/2014-06-25-minimal-viabl...
Procrastination makes you even more productive
I know for sure that I had to go through every one of them in the first couple of semesters. :)

But you are right in that there is a bias in how I remember it: Not all of them took 3 hours.
First Blender, now Godot Engine
Yeah! 20 years ago I was writing a Kermit script that I used to provide data comms for the then startup I'd joined. It worked really well and proved extremely reliable, especially on different platforms. Now I'm running an IKSD server on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 with ethernet hat and I plan to write some scripts to manage backups.
Ask HN: What are the dos and donts of startup in large companies?
What is the best way to structure teams ? Create equity ? Establish as a business unit ?
1.) Got myself two Kayacats (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1037377909/kayacat) after renting Kayaks from time to time for a long time. Kayacats seem to be discontinued, but I love getting just on a train with a backpack and just spending an afternoon paddling downstream on a river to the next train station. The only effort required is planning the trips, preparing a picknik. Nothing much to develop.

2.) Got a velomobile (https://www.velomobileworld.com/product/milan-gt/ ). This was actually not supposed to be a hobby but a way to get to work while not producing too much C02. 50km each way were to far for a normal bicycle, an ebike is still to slow. With the velomobile I could average 40km/h and stay fit at the same time -- until Covid/Home Office came along. This year I took some time off and cycled 11000km in 3 month. From Northern Germany to the Black Sea, to the Atlantic Coast and back to Germany again. This took some time and effort ;) But with cycling you can spend as much time/effort as you please. You can tour alone or in groups... many options.
Krita has a lot of the right pieces but suffers from this snapping accuracy issue: https://imgur.com/g5yMFvp.mp4
I remember a time when people called Go a systems language, is that time over now?
Meld the diff tool?! https://meldmerge.org/ Does Meld allow to set automated file syncs?
I thought it was inflammation? Or gut bacteria?
Could you recommend good online violin lessons/ tutorial??
I've been working an an alternative to codeacademy, particularly one focused on closing skills gaps before job placement, and on building a tighter knit community. from a business perspective, this is great news for me I think xD
Cases 5 and 10 in the article are actually ambiguous. In each case there are two ways to draw lines to separate the high and low points and a naïve algorithm will just hardcode one of each like it's done in the article. This isn't a serious problem in the two dimensional marching squares algorithm but the same problem can lead to holes in the surface generated by the three dimensional marching cubes algorithm.

During a visit to Washington University I had the opportunity to work with this flaw in the algorithm and I ended up publishing a scientific paper about the subject. I then went on to write my thesis (in Danish) where I worked more rigorously on how to deal with this. It's so long ago that I almost forgot so reading about marching squares again was a nice trip down memory lane.

https://martinliversage.blob.core.windows.net/publications/1...

https://martinliversage.blob.core.windows.net/publications/1...
UBC? I mean they're saying it would be bad for straight white men to get a tenure-track position. There's no difference between that and "we think you're bad and don't want you".
It is about funding further development. The first risc-v development boards costed >600$ for essentially something like a raspberry pi.

These people try to make these products in the open and without huge funding so it can actually reamin open.
> [the borrow checker] makes Rust relatively hard to learn and use.

I would say the borrow checker makes rust harder to learn, but it does not make it harder to use once you actually grok it. When that time comes, the borrow checker fades into the background. When I got to that point with Rust, it became much easier to use than other languages for me (others I use being C++ and C).
Yes people can judge for themselves. Having said that, I believe I also have some say in how I think I should be judged, and that I am allowed to push back at others' attempts to put me in a box.

I am not "pro-CCP". I only look that way because western mainstream media is so full of anti-China propaganda that anyone who deviates from mainstream opinion look like pro-CCP.

(At this point, some will say "we are only against the CCP, not the Chinese people, and you are wrongly equating China with the CCP". I have written extensively in the past why such rethoric doesn't stand to scuritiny and merely covers up policies that will result in the real suffering of common Chinese people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29358557)

So no, I'm not a CCP supporter. What I am, is being tired of all the anti-China propaganda that's on the one hand merely biased and prejudiced misrepresentations, and on the other hand a deliberate manufacturing of consent for war. I am tired of my home being constantly misrepresented and villified.

You are right that nobody knows my situation. So I will hereby give you a sworn statement, i.e. you can hold me accountable for it in a court of law if you find me to be lying: my family is not held hostage by Chinese forces, nobody from China is threatening me and my family, and everything I say is entirely my own opinion based on my own independent research without anybody paying me to say these things.
Environment variables.

Locales.

Quite a few other POSIX bits, really.
You're buying into that lie we've been taught about economics: That creating the conditions for massive inequality is okay because everyone will be better off.

https://www.epi.org/publication/secular-stagnation/

Inequality stifles GDP growth.
I kinda disagree with the implied notion that there's only these two options mentioned in the article:
A) blindly copy paste whatever code shows up on stack overflow without even trying to understand it
- or -
B) don't ever look up stack overflow at all.

I'll keep doing what I've always done:

Look things up on stack overflow (and other sites), compare different answers and check the discussions as well, figure out WHY people are doing what they do - and then do my own experiments based on that.

For me personally, this leads to faster learning results than experimenting completely on my own, without any guidance.
Indeed, make sure to update your docker-compose files :)
It took me too long to realize this.
To counteract the obvious sense of loss that came from an official separation from my wife, I took up sketching, first in pencil and then in pen. It’s run its course so I have slowed down quite a bit.

I am planning to take up photography next.