skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only job I've ever had to do any kind of test for wasn't leetcode - just a practical demonstration that I could write a basic CRUD app. Was actually a pretty good test to weed out people who were just completely useless.

I think this is a totally reasonable way to weed out applicants, particularly if they allow you to do it during the interview time. I've been through several interviews (though, to be fair, they were well over 15 years ago, since that's how long I've been with my current employer) that used a similar exercise. One interviewer just sat me down at his workstation, and told me to build a quick crud with their tech stack (which, of course, I knew going in). Nothing was off-limits (web searches, etc).
The screensavers for Apple TV and very manual and really cool how they are made. Everything was planned. The location, exact time/day, sun placement and buildings for lens flares. One of my favorite talks at Apple was on the process to create the ones from space. An incredible amount of work went into pulling those off just for a screen saver.
Kazakhstan has no private Internet providers sans local ISPs. All long range fibre, and cross-border connections are owned by SOEs, and president's damat personally.
I have surmised that it is a feeling of "chronic stress" (as differentiated from transient, acute stress), in particular due to psychological entropy. This is a general lack of direction, purpose, coherence, comprehension - all aggregating into a rudderless feeling of "what the hell am I doing?" It is not from people working too hard - people work hard all the time without burnout. They burnout when they work hard and fail, or have doubts about their success. Conversely, it also can happen when people work too little. That's because it is not about effort. It is about an absence of meaning (purpose) that causes us to "burn out" in any discernible forward direction. It is similar to depression: you don't know which way is up. It can happen at work, but also in a relationship, within a family, with friends, etc.
Dropbox Shop, sell digital content with Dropbox
30 minutes is basically a single working set if you include travel, warm-up, shower, travel back home.

I'm assuming the gym time includes thing such as travelling to the gym, showering, unpacking the gym bag, etc. I usually spend about 60-90 minutes in the gym a few times a week, but from the time I leave my front door and arrive back home, the clock has never advanced less than 2 hours.
Temporal Anti-Aliasing and the Quest for the Holy Trail
A state has direct control over everything it its borders. Ultimately you can send in the army to the IXPs and you pull the plug, be that North Korea or the USA
I recently started watching a bit of content on Prime Video using my Roku TV and found the buffering and scrub (FF/RW/seek) performance to be atrocious. This is in spite of the fact that my device has a hardwired gigabit Ethernet connection, a 900/20 Mbit internet connection through Comcast, and good to excellent Bufferbloat numbers. I'd initially chalked it up to the Roku implementation and the fact that I, like many of the people here, tend to be pretty sensitive to poor UX but over the holidays totally unprompted my father-in-law mentioned that he can't stand watching content on Prime Video using either his Roku or his Android TV devices because the buffering is so terrible (one wired, one wifi, both via Ziply gigabit fiber).

This is in stark contrast to the buttery smooth performance I see when using Netflix, hell, even YouTube bests Prime. Netflix even degrades gracefully when encountering network contention. I know Netflix has been around a lot longer but it's not like Amazon is some type of startup trying its best with the the few engineers it can afford.
Apple bought C3 Technologies in 2011, that's where they got their 3D aerial imagery processing from.
The EU and the US are at different levels of integration, though the EU does have free trade and travel.

I should read the details on the implementation of the EU parliament, but I wonder if this "minority voice" equivalent in the EU is able to block essentially any progress or legislation.

I also wonder why the states in the US should have nearly as much say as they have in 2021. We aren't a small band of ragtag cultures stretched across have the universe as we were in 1789.
I upgraded to an Asus Zephyrus G14 (2021 edition) at the end of last year, as my T470s was getting a bit slow. The dimensions are smaller than the Thinkpad, but it weighs slightly more (1.7kg).

The thing is though this is a gaming laptop... under the hood it has a Ryzen 9 5900HS (8c/16t), 32GB RAM and a Nvidia RTX 3060. It runs the test suite more than twice as fast as the Thinkpad it replaced :D

When using the integrated graphics and with performance set to quiet the fans rarely spin up. It gets around 10 hours battery life. No issues with Linux. My only complaints are that it has issues with USB PD charging and the power brick is a bit big, and there is no webcam (fixed in the next gen version)...
Huh. This is interesting. I also have some fatigue, but my most obvious long-covid symptom is heart pain/strain which is aggravated by either an elevated heart rate or dehydration.

I'm no expert, but intuitively this would seem to provide a good explanation of those symptoms.
of course it is a balancing act, plenty of companies use no-code or low-code tools for limited small-scale uses. Classic one is CMS, few companies have legitimate reasons to build their own custom CMS instead of using a SaaS one. You need to be at a scale where you have so much content written/managed by so many people that it makes sense to do custom. Or have exoteric types of content

It reminds me of a guy I interviewed who worked at a fashion brand as a software engineer, his job was to build a custom system to automate fitting photos of clothes to photos of people to put in the e-commerce site. Previously they did it manually with photoshop, but they needed an army of photoshop guys to do it. His solution was custom to the needs of the company (ie only the poses they needed), a generic SaaS solution, if it existed, would have probably been too complex to use or maintain

In general the Joel rule applies: "If it is core to your business, you want to do it in-house". Although I can think of a few exceptions, like payment/subscription flows for e-commerce. But heck I bet Amazon has their own custom payment/subscription systems for each market
Bulk unsolicited messages?
I've got some work reversing code out of the 80s and into stuff that works today.

Takeaways from porting a 1987 foxpro application:

The fact that this still works - If not hanging on by a thread, it's pretty incredible that it still has seen something like 34 years of usage, well more than my years on this planet. The guy who originally wrote it died though, and the CD with the code lost, so I'm stuck reversing old formats.

Format encoding - No unicode back in the day. If you read file formats from back then, make sure you get this right and figure out what encoding it was using or you will end up with muntzed data. This was regionally based back in the day.

Tooling - I found great use of perl in this mission because it's also good at handling ancient 1980s file formats, it itself being a language from around the same year. Check this out [1]

Database typing - Haha guess what format they were using for dates? Well it sure as hell wasn't Y2K compliant. The now-dead original programmer had to go and monkey wrench that in there.

[1] https://www.burtonsys.com/download/dbf2csv.php
I haven't used SQL Server directly in a while, but IIRC, we can use the identity() function, which does 2 things:
1. tells the system to start counting at a certain number, and
2. tells it to increment the next number by a certain multiple (i.e. x2)

I do agree that serially incrementing numbers may sometime be relegated to the history books, although this is such a baked in function that, lacking any other prebuilt functions, old-time SQL developers simply reach for it.
This is absolute bs.

If you believe you have the symptoms of a burnout then please, seek out help from a qualified specialist. Do not start gobbling up pseudoscience like this.

Take it from someone who hase had burnout multiple times and sought help. It really does help.
Who said anything about scaling rendered pixmaps? Proper UI scaling is handled at the desktop and UI toolkit level, instead of brute force changing desktop resolution or scaling rendered windows. That's why it's not a simple problem and support varies not only based on operating system, but also UI libraries used by applications, their combination, application developers updating their UI libraries and using the new APIs. Whether the UI toolkit exposes it to application developer by having the graphic api operate at pixel independent units or having the developer manually calculate sizes based on the scaling factor or relative to something like default font size varies. Basic geometric shapes and text (assuming vector instead of bitmap fonts) can be rendered at any size and resolution. As for more photo like images downscaling them by fractional amount typically works quite well, so if they are big enough for integer 2x scaling they also work with 1.25 scale.
The Ark of Taste: Endangered Heritage Foods
It depends on how your shop is organised. Big corps like interchangeability in their work force, because they wouldn't even know how to allocate their employees as individuals. Smaller shops are better able to exploit specific skill profiles and may even tailor some business decisions to make the best use of their specific strengths.
Wildcard certs from LE work fine for internal domains. I've been using one for a while now. I had to set up some cron jobs to copy them around and restart some services, but it seems to be working well.
I don't see that ever becoming a reality unless apple and mozilla join forces to enforce anti-fingerprinting standards at the cost of crippling website features, at least in private browsing mode. The other 2 players in the browser space have vested interest in keeping everything the way it is now.
Media disrupters chase global audience
The Paste app satisfies most of these requirements, though it’s Mac only for now. It is easily one of my favorite apps on any device.

https://pasteapp.io/
People want to have their cake and eat it too.
I already got Fallout 4 Institute vibes back then when I started reading about the criminal mishaps
There might be a bit of that. 12 hour days are not unheard of in other parts of the country. Doctors in the ER can work even longer shifts (though obviously the stakes are incommensurate; still, I would contest the soundness of having tired doctors performing medical procedures).

But there's also the question of whether it is truly necessary. Will hiring more workers to cover more shifts really increase production costs that much?

If you're competing with cheap labor, possibly slave labor, then you have to look to other ways to push back, like fast tracking immigration of talent from places like Taiwan, imposing tariffs on imports from countries with cheap labor, investing in automation to reduce production time and costs, etc.

Sometimes there isn't much you can do, but generally speaking, while private business is a good thing, it is also true that private business cannot contradict the common good. The idea that you can simply do whatever you want because you're private is simply nonsense.
Text-to-Color from Scratch with Clip, PyTorch, and Hugging Face Spaces
My question is whether Oregon was a hotbed of racism and discrimination within the US, not if the are racist people living in Oregon.

The point being, if the company was honestly concerned about racial discrimination, wouldn't it run this sort of experiment in problematic, high-impact regions?

I mean, would it make any sense to fight discrimination against Eskimos in Florida?
You know what? You're right, I have been a little more insulting here than need be and I apologize for that. Twenty years of the same arguments from Linux Desktop's die-hard fanboys has made me a bit unkind to people I interpret to be Linux Desktop evangelists.

However, I submit that your language is not as clear as you might think it is. I am still not sure if you're trying to say that most people prefer certain behaviors purely out of comfort, or if you're agreeing with me that there is a good chance they prefer behaviors for legitimately technical reasons that just happen to be subjective. Your initial post on the subject very much strikes me as the former, and frankly so do nearly all your posts after that, yet you seem to insist that I am misunderstanding.
I was lucky to get a slightly improved Apple II+ clone (in Brazil we couldn't import computers, so local manufacturers didn't reinvent too many wheels) and to grow up in São Paulo, a very large city with a thriving industry and tech scene in the 70's and 80's.

The most valuable resource was the community. We'd put free ads in classified papers (a bit like Craigslist, but on paper) for trading pirated software (legally buying software was pretty impossible too - you could pay, but you'd be paying a pirate, so we decided to short-circuit those). This formed communities that ended up meeting on various early BBSs. I got tons of photocopied documentation (yep - buying books was also quite impossible because the military dictatorship controlled payments and made paying a foreign entity painful) that really helped me getting up to speed with both BASIC and the tooling (these names may be unfamiliar to most people, but I edited BASIC programs with Beagle Bros' GPLE and another tool I can't remember the name, that did line renumbering and some in-memory source-code optimizations (compressing multiple lines into a single one when syntax allows).

My work desk had two computers - a tricked out Apple II+ clone where I edited the code (which had an 80-column Videx - clone, of course - connected to a second monitor), and an Apple //e clone where I tested the program after I saved the original, ran all the optimizers (which reduced memory footprint significantly), and created the program disk (all floppies back then) to be run on the //e clone. Occasionally I had a third one, one identical to the classroom computers (because my //e was a "//e enhanced" clone and the classroom ones weren't)
Projects like Tauri use libraries like Wry[1], though. Getting Wry fixed to use the new API shouldn't be any more difficult than the work you need to do, right? And that work is then shared by everyone using the project.

[1]: https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry

Edit to correct that Tauri uses Wry and not Webview.
They call it rust, because everything written in it becomes derelict after 180days of its first 3 'written in rust' posts
I'm deeply sorry that school was so horrible for you.

I can also tell you that in contemporary affluent european regions, my rosy version of the story is common.

It's of course an enlightment-style utopia, but even if reality often was and is different, I'm very convinced that this is what we should strive for.

There are different stances towards educating children, of course, but this one (and its versions) is arguably the humane one.
A laptop with an ortholinear+QMK option would probably be an instabuy from me. Hell... native QMK (or ZMK) alone would get my attention.
But backend means precisely these things. ORM, DB migrations, caching, etc. You need that for a solid backend. Of course not everybody needs messaging queues for example , but some frameworks support this out of the box and/or have years of integration with popular queues like rabbitmq to look back onto.
Imagine how many integration bugs were already solved in that time, which this new framework still has to iron out.
Time and experience mean something.
Thanks I didn't know! So many years of searching for "read" (etc) in the huge bash man page and, of course, in the case of "read" finding many false positives. Still it would be nice if `man` could be improved to know about builtin commands - the obvious thing is something like an html anchor in the big bash man page for each built in.
I'll check it out!

Yes, I'm no fan of China's authoritarian nature, but the rules they are enacting must be judged on their own merits. And frankly, many of them are appropriate and coming from the perspective of increasing competition.

Basic economics implies that increased competition is good for the consumer.

The place where china really misstepped was doing everything suddenly and abruptly, which sparked tons of fear and scared investor capital away from their companies.

This part is a bad outcome due to increased cost of financing/debt for their companies, less competitive on engineer comp due to lowered share price and so on.

They could have done the same regulations but with much more forward notice and detailed their thinking rather than handing down abrupt decrees
Tauri uses Wry[1], so it should actually be using the webview that comes with your OS. FWIW, every Electron app includes its own copy of Chromium, so that's even worse from this perspective.

[1] https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry

(edited to fix that Tauri uses Wry and not Webview)
There are plenty of NFT scams, but why not use the technology to create an actual use case? Or is that beyond your ability?
This might be an unpopular opinion, but compiling a program into a local directory shouldn't try to install packages globally. `make install`, I could understand doing that.

I had no idea that cmake would do this, after reading quite a lot of things about cmake v.s. make and how to write various makefiles for them. I posit that the C build tools are fundamentally hard to comprehend.
COVID procedures negatively impacted schooling, it follows that removing COVID restrictions and procedures will positively impact schooling. That's all fine and good so far... Let's posit going back to 2018-era schooling will provide 4 Units of School Improvement. 4 USI sounds great, right?

What if there was 40 USI just sitting on the shelf waiting to be picked up? But it's in a blind spot. It was there waiting in 2018 and never touched.

The 4 USI can be achieved by getting rid of the things we never wanted in the first place. Achieving that 40 USI will mean ruthlessly tearing into the status quo.

So, let's circle back and remind ourselves that this is an article using big words and statistics to state the obvious: schooling under covid sucks. No shit, that's not news, but it's in The Times. So let's look more carefully at what it does say. They're not learning enough, and the institutional socialization is producing people less well-adjusted than ever.

OK, technically true. But those were the most visible problems with schools before COVID too.

So, why is this specific article - written this way - in The Times? What purpose(es) - deliberate or not - does it serve?
This is not true, most languages are multiplatform. And there are dozen of multiplatform native GUI frameworks out there. Flutter is one of them, the other ones I cited too.
I suppose even if there were different groups (say, one free trade group, another protectionist group), the people individually could have coherent opinions. It would then go wrong when the elected representatives try to pander to both groups simultaneously.
Now you have a great computer museum, at least. We don't have one here in Dublin :-(

I was going to visit it before the apocalypse started. Can't wait for it to end.
It is impossible for you to know whether it's “the same fulfillment” if you have not actually been in both situations.
It's basically distributed neoliberalism: you don't have to wait for a United Fruit Company to turn up and wreck your country's economy for profit, anyone can do it now!
Did you even read that link? It does not apply.
'publishing' is doing some heavy lifting here... I wonder why the author didn't prefer a .org extension on the file. GitHub does a pretty decent job of displaying org-mode as if it were written in Github flavored markdown.
> People feel bad when they feel they can't do their part and feel worthy / look ok / belong. Badly defined => badly trained => unfair blame (or the potential for it). They feel bad if they can't be open about issues and rely a bit on the group for support. They feel bad if they don't know how to get information (this links back to the first point).

A lot of this is probably learned helplessness. When things are always randomly breaking and you're powerless to affect your solution in any other way than putting out the constant fires, that's a surefire way to burn out.

It's not just that it's a stressful situation, it's when they keep coming and there doesn't appear to be any obvious means of avoiding them or improving your situation. That's when you get fucked up.
I still don't see how this is solving any problems. What if I just want to consume the content on the open web as is without logging in? It's one of the reasons why I have to use archiving sites to read the news because half the time NYT or WaPo whine about me not being logged in (as if being able to spam me with ads wasn't enough). I think all the noise about fixing identity and the like is just another way to force end users to give up privacy so content creators can just data mine more and sell it all off to ad companies. Like even to pay for something via crypto currency doesn't need much of a fixed identity other than an wallet address to send/receive coins from/to. Outside of that, why do they need to know I am X person rather than just X wallet/address?
You can do anything in Python.

import antigravity

https://xkcd.com/353/
KYC is an unescapable federal requirement, for the home owners who rent out their homes and a non-US based company has no obligation to follow US guidelines around discrimination unless a treaty forces their hand.

I wouldn't rent my home out to anyone no matter the skin color, religion, or genders, and frankly it is a bit gross for hotels, hostels and BNBs to exist. If you can't avoid travel camping keeps you at arms length from mingling with other humans filth. Weather might prohibit your options, but I'm a firm believer that "Hell is other people."
prices rise until mine is moved to different place with cheap (for now) energy.
3 day week 1973/74 in the UK, I'm sure there were worse energy crises in other countries
One Single Day. That’s All It Took for the World to Look Away from Us
Towards OECD Principles for Government Access to Data
Would you recommend any particular brand of said injection molding machines?
Huh. I can't believe I missed this. Thanks.
Nope, you can compile code back to whatever ECMAScript version you like with tools like Babel or TypeScript. So the devs don’t even notice that they’re compiling to 4-5 year old ES.
Sorry for the poor wording on my part. I meant that if you issue a LE Cert for your doorbell, and give it a "sensible" name, the name will appear in the CT Log.
WebView2 is chromium edge. This was the reason that I guessed webkit-gtk uses less ram than chromium.
Raised $450k for my startup, here are the lessons I’ve learned along the way
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

You committed the very same sin.

[]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Cool. Right? Gmail and Zoho mail do this too. Not sure about others.
Only if that involves watching people, since much of what kids learn is subconscious and sub-vocal.

I.e. they learn many things we don't know they learn, and don't know exist, because we are taking them for granted all the time.
Eh I am of similar mind. Overpowered (for my needs) desktop and I just picked up a Asus vivobook flip with a AMD 5700u for mobile work. Desktop and laptop in the last 6 months has been my first hardware upgrades in about 6 years.
Named certs have the hostnames they’re valid for in the Certificate itself.

“View Certificate” in a browser, or openssl sclient on cli will show you.
Capitol, not White House.