skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only conclusion I can draw from what you just wrote is that you've encountered easily fixable issues and rather than try to solve them in a sensible manner you've backed yourself into a corner of solving them in a complicated and difficult way.

In my experience in the software industry it's not uncommon for teams of people to persuade themselves that there's no better solution when there does in fact exist a better solution and then to spend an inordinate amount of resources solving a non-problem.
As someone who moved from Europe to the US, the pervasiveness of the military in televised professional and college football game is incredibly jarring to me yet is so normalized to Americans. Count the number of times there is a reference to the military, a cutaway to uniformed people in the stands or by the touchline, a clip of troops watching the game while deployed overseas, flyovers etc. Still, after 10 years, my reaction is "what has that got to do with sport?".

I've always assumed this to be a very deliberate strategy to build an implicit association between the "nobility" of sport and war, to boost recruitment and win over the hearts and minds of the American public for past, current and future military action.

Now count how many times you've seen any sign of the military at a sports event in Europe - rare to never. It's not normal and it's sad to me that it is so normalized in the US.
Not the parent, but my lender magically knew with just my name, position, company, and SSN. FWIW
when shall we expect RBS support?
My experience is that managers at the director level contribute very little to the actual progress of a project but do get a lot of the glory if it succeeds. Maybe he can really drive innovation at Intel, or maybe the special sauce (namely, the engineers working under him) that worked at Apple just won't apply.
I don't get the point of this.

When I drop all my files in my OneDrive folder, there's no confusion on what I'm getting. I'm getting a fully managed backup solution.

I'm not getting complete control, or the ability to do strange superuser stuff. I have no interest in managing my own backup servers, I have no interest in installing my own sync up tools, I want a multi-billion dollar company to run it.

There's no way to get around it, either. Even if you want to roll your own, you're still ultimately using AWS or another cloud provider.

I make music, and being able to make a song on my iPad, drop it in one drive folder is amazing. Even better, since I make a ton of sampled music, I can find cool samples and use them on my iPad within seconds.

If you have any awareness of how difficult loading new samples is on an MPC you'll respect how great this is.

This is like arguing your Ford Fiesta can't go off-road.
Sigh... was the personal attack really necessary?

I see these pages, all the time, with tech heavyweights that aren't teachers. I won't bother tracking them down, but I've been seeing them for years.

I don't think it's an ego-trip. These folks really are that busy, and this stuff just isn't important. Some, however, I am sure, have ego trips. I don't really care. I'm not inviting them over for dinner, and they probably wouldn't come, if I did.

The ego trip is more with sites like mine, where I take the time to polish it up. It's more important to me, than it is to them.

Some of them actually have fairly current-looking pages, because they work[ed] for companies (or schools) that have templates[0].

Also, he isn't my "hero." I mean, seriously...

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150312003109/http://research.g...
I'm sorry you had this experience. It sucks. A lot of managers suck, because the skills and traits needed to get a promotion or run a business don't necessarily align with the skills/traits needed to be a good manager.

First, this is not your fault. Do not take this personally. Your manager/boss is the "adult" in the room - what happens between you is their responsibility, because that's their job. If you are walking away from an interaction feeling demotivated, annoyed, etc, then that's them being bad at their job, not you being a bad employee.

Second, this is not how professional, constructive, feedback is given. If your boss wants you to make some changes in how you work, they will be specific about that. This kind of unfocused complaining contains no actionable instructions, so you can safely ignore it. It's good that you've found some specific things that you were able to take away from the meeting, but given the context, those may not have been intended and you may not find yourself being praised for following them.

Third, your boss is only human. Humans have bad moods, bad days, and some humans make themselves feel better by making other humans feel worse. Every human is just trying to feel safe and loved, and your boss is no different. Be aware that they are this type of human, and try to remember that if it happens again.

Fourth, take some meeting notes while it's still fresh. For this first time, I wouldn't send them to anyone, but if this recurs then start obviously taking notes during the meeting and emailing them to your manager and your boss after the meeting. It's amazing how having written records of meetings stops unprofessional behaviour during them. It will also clarify if the criticism is genuine, or just your boss offloading their problems onto you. If anyone objects to you taking notes during the meeting, then they are definitely just offloading and you can ignore everything they say.

There's probably more, but I think the main point to realise is that this is not your fault. Try not to let it get to you.
My comment was actually a self quote from a talk I gave about PS4 hacking where I described that PCIe will happily run over bare soldered wires without much care for signal integrity, at least over short distances (unlike what you might expect of a high-speed bus like that) :)

Not literally wet string, but definitely low tech. ADSL is special though, not many technologies can literally run over wet string :-)
Not surprising, really.

At their core, many of these people rose to prominence in an earlier era, before the web even existed. Most of their personal pages reflect this. The people Brian worked with at Bell Labs really were (first and foremost) programmers and probably either wrote their personal pages with simple HTML or used a tool to generate it from some other language. As a result it's usually not very pretty.

Stroustrup is a slight exception, as his page at Morgan Stanley is quite "corporate-looking"[1], but his personal site is very much in the same vein as the others.

When you think of the Old Guard of the web, it's usually names like Zeldman, Meyer, Marcotte, et al that have anything which resembles the web as we know it today.

[1]: https://www.morganstanley.com/profiles/bjarne-stroustrup-man...
The usual and not completely unfounded reasons are
- Dependency on huge C++ runtime library and possible ABI problems. Twice so for embedded targets.
- Careless use of C++ features can lead to large binaries and unexpected runtime costs.
- Lack of judgement and template metaprogramming or even plain polymorphism can lead to code that's really difficult to maintain.
- Bad experience with pre-C++11 versions of the language or Windows C++ APIs.
Producing ice is quite an energy intensive process. But I guess energy is cheap, damn the climate etc...
I've been listening to Lex Fridman as I go to sleep, sometimes it helps, other times it's too interesting. If I could stream music through the Echo without buying the White Album again, I would.
It was a great move for PHP to take inspiration from Java.

It gave people a recognisable syntax and structure, to run things on PHP's shared-nothing architecture, which is arguably its real strength.

Similarly it was a great move for Symfony to take inspiration from Spring. All the older PHP projects like Drupal have slowly been ported over to using it.

I have never met anyone who seriously wants to go back to PHP 4.
It's 12' / 3.65m in diameter. Model Y is 1.92m wide, so you just open the door and walk out. Here's a picture: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/11/00/41595384-9457687-...

The license plate is 12 inches wide, so you about 1.5 feet of walkway on each side of the car, 3 feet if the car pulls over.

Here's the London subway: https://www.myuksimcard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/...

Some newer lines have very narrow walkways on the side, but Toronto's subway operator explicitly says you have to use tunnel and avoid signals, tracks and the 3rd rail. https://www.ttc.ca/riding-the-ttc/safety-and-security/emerge.... Here's a picture of people evacuating in the Toronto subway: https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.4711057!/httpImage/...

I really fail to see the superiority of subways here.
> There’s no installers, no package management (but there are packages if you want to), no registration, no email, no logins, no password creation, no 2FA, no consents, no user agreements.

I believe this sentence summarizes why computing has gotten truly annoying in the last 20 years.

My most recent bout of frustration:

- bought an M1 mac mini to play with new apple chips
- tried to install wireguard on it
- the only sane way to do this is to install from the Apple store
- not happy, but I tried to create an account on the Apple store without them knowing what size underwear I need
- then they asked for my credit card

So in summary: you need a credit card to run wireguard on an effing mac.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong and know if there was a way to install OSS software on a bloody cupertino box without giving them the key to the kingdom, but even if that exists, the point still stands: the level of annoying and invasiveness of modern computing is simply astounding.
Very cool project! How long have you been working on this out of interest?
"Faster than expected" is a common phrase in climate research. For example, the arctic is warming 4X faster than the rest of the planet, antarctic ice melt, arctic ice extent reduction, methane emissions, etc, all happening faster than expected, depending on the source. Someone even put together a namesake blog, fasterthanexpected.com - it's a decent source for a high level picture of what is going on.

I say "depending on the source" because there are some extreme doom and gloom types for whom these changes are happening more slowly than expected. However, the difference is negligible. The doom and gloom types might say the end of the world is only 2 years away, which is extreme, but now even peer reviewed research in respected publications are starting to mention very severe outcomes within decades. In previous decades, these publications wouldn't publish anything like that at all, then eventually they began to publish papers that mention these events happening within centuries, and now papers are coming out with very serious consequences being only decades away. The really scary thing is that the likelihood of sudden catastrophic change (eg: methane bombs, Thwaites Glacier collapse) is increasing, which could make the shorter time frame predictions actually come true.
Doesn't it make sense to make taxis bright colors so they're easier to see? Why would you paint them black?
It's often easier to build a norm for everyone than just the people it really needs to apply to. Managers, salespeople, corp dev, customer representatives all might have sensitive information on their machines. Information that even other employees aren't supposed to see. Rather than trying to enumerate who those people are and teach them, you might assume everyone will eventually have sensitive information, and encourage the mild prank.
No, antimof was the original repo, it has just moved. Check the first paragraph of the README (in both the original and new fork).
git(1): there is more than one way to do it
No, because;

echo sleep 0.01 >> ~/.bashrc

adds this to .bashrc;

sleep 0.01

It doesn't add itself, so the sleep tie grows linear by 0.01sec each time a shell is opened.
Yeah it can come from a background of abundance but does not mean it is not a good attitude to have. I have spent most of my life with an attitude of scarcity and I was jealous of others. It held me back in so many ways and made me unhappy. Now I try to live with positive outlook on the future and try to make things happen with a belief that things will work out some how in the end. Impoverised people could benefit from some of this thinking (balanced with realism) since it could help improve their circumstance.
Gender identity falls under the umbrella of sexuality. I use less-polite terms to remind people that it's the most excruciatingly private details of my life on some bullshit report. One time while applying for an apartment, a boomer broker sarcastically exclaimed, "Well, THAT'S a valid life choice!" to me. Last year I encountered a professional whose mind was blown by this information and asked me if I've had surgery. It's wrong that this is at the mercy of a newish industry that exists to track individuals' merit in make-believe points.
Solution: marginal pricing brackets based on kW consumption.

Why doesn't this work?

Consume > X kW : $Y, else $Z
Just want to point out - one can have symptoms of a disorder that don't rise to the level of a disorder.

I have what OP describes like crazy, I beat myself up over it frequently and think I need to do better. Yet somehow I keep getting glowing reviews at work and even just got promoted without asking.

So don't automatically think, "omg I do that too! I need medication." Start to worry if it has a substantial negative impact on your life.
I think the term you're looking for is "original antigenic sin".
As an experienced Vim user, I will never understand why some systems include Vi/Vim by default and set it as the default editor, instead of Nano. It does indeed seem like a prank.
Google is _the worst_ for that. At least hCaptcha is a bit less culturally specific.

Every time Google blocks me for refusing to label a motorbike as a "bicycle" I get utterly pissed off. And likewise with the traffic lights on the californian skies. Are the traffic lights the actual lights themselves, or the boom holding them up?

I'm not a human very often, according to Google. hCaptcha tends to let me in...
off topic, but I commend the article if just for the conclusion
Not so. Constitutional monarchies may qualify as liberal democracies, yet are by definition not republics:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
Doesn't git just use whatever your EDITOR is by default? So either it's your own fault for configuring it to vim, or your distro for having such a newbie-unfriendly editor as the default.
Holy shit, is this true or what?

Edit: Sorry, low value comment. Seeing it written out, it just really struck me.
It sounds like you never loved computers how the author used to love them.
Wouldn’t you think that’s not enough? (Also note the other two plausible theories in this sub-thread.) Divorce rates aren’t 100%, and marriages typically last many years before a divorce. This means marriage should statistically be a significant drag on the hypothesis that seeing a make is what drives working long hours. (Not to mention the inherent conflict between working long hours and dating / spending time with someone.) Do you find it probable or plausible that mate-seeking is the primary and/or only reason people work hard? Is that why you do it, do you think? Of course I can’t tell why I’ve worked hard over the years, but it doesn’t really feel linked or even related to mate seeking at all. I only started working long hours after starting a long term relationship that eventually turned into a happy stable marriage. It’s highly unlikely divorce is in my future, but I feel many years of hard work left in me.
For one this is an old list. Two, it's not like rights holders haven't done their own research and made their own lists.
Not much to criticize in this thesis. Contains nothing new or original. Just a rehash presented as insightful.

Author claims Liberalism lasted until 2019. Although hyperglobalization is mentioned, author does not acknowledge Neoliberalism (aka Thatcherism & Reaganomics, roughly coinciding with "capitalism" defeat of "communism").

Modern Liberalism (post WWII) was the West's response to nationalism; an effort to curtail the endless wars.

Today we have new challenges. Of course we need new arrangements.

What could that look like?

Like this OC, I have zero idea what's coming next. As in no clue.

Unlike this OC, I do have hope and optimism.

That said, I keep chewing on two ideas.

Of all the dystopian novels I've read, too many to list, I most believe the social arrangements imagined in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. A cautionary tale. Basically how corporations pivot to become the new feudal lords, no different than the robber baron's company towns. How taking a job is choosing serfdom. What it may be like to opt out, to create something new, like Butler's protagonist does. What we might call "mutual aid society".

Of all the notions for a successor to representative democracy, the most exciting to me is "phyles" from Neal Stepheson's The Diamond Age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Phyles How each social movement is decoupled from geography, strives to be self consistent, and has to negotiate intra-social arrangements.

I haven't yet read Robinson's The Ministry for the Future. It might have some notions worth considering.

I don't recall ever reading sci-fi treatments of possible left-libertarian (aka anarchist) social arrangements. It recently occurred to me to seek out stories about pirates (from their own point of view) and the Iroquois (and adjacent) from before contact with Europe.
Using the system package manager means that your software can actually in the future be packaged for a distribution. This is a major win in the sense that if your software ever achieves any level of popularity, it is more likely to actually get packaged and as a result, your end users are more likely to actually be able to easily make use of it.

Distro package managers are a far superior solution than having 5 different language package managers you have to keep in sync and then having to compile your own software.
A bit of a tangent, but I'm not a big fan of Snaps (or Flatpaks for that matter). Whenever I tried to use them, I ran into issues as soon as I need to do some changes in the configuration.

Take Firefox on the latest Ubuntu for example, it installs as a Snap. Unlike the APT package (or any other package manager) version, the usual ~/.mozilla/ directory changed location. This broke some of my customization scripts and other people's scripts I'm using such as https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

I would really, really, like if both Flatpaks and Snaps could keep the usual program's config directories. Then I would likely use them often because they have big advantages (especially Flatpaks) over package managers, especially for dependencies.
Does github provide a way to redirect the URLs for individual issues to the corresponding issues on a new bugtracker?
pretentious translates to pretensioonikas in Estonian as the most popular translation

That's also true in other dictionaries but the definitions of these words are not similar at all.

"pretensioonikas" means basically "one who has high demands / expectations" in Estonian :(
jeez. NSAIDs can do some nasty stuff when taken regularly. Most people just pop 'em like candy.
Thoughts on Return, Break and Continue
You could also probably argue that the power structure set up in a dictatorship exacerbates these tendencies. Absolute power would naturally push you toward a narcissistic view on the world, because, well, you always would be the most important person in the room, and everyone else's job is literally to do what you want.
I realize this is just proving your point, but it also demontrates why the US doesn't really see the current culture as an issue:

GDP per capita:

USA: 63,543.58 USD

SWE: 51,925.71 USD

(for reference) UK: 40,284.64 USD

These are all for 2020.
The Python Software Foundation is a registered charity so https://www.every.org/python might work for you. Every.org wants you to type in a name and email though even if you use cryptocurrency, I hope they fix that
I disagree completely. The product as sold wasn't compliant with its own technical spec sheet - now after the update it is. The feature isn't supported by that CPU and it should have never been exposed to the consumer. If you discovered that the CPU has 8 cores despite being sold as a 6 core, then removing 2 cores with a BIOS update wouldn't be "making the product less useful" either. It just makes the product exactly as specified in its technical documentation - and that is how it should be.

Let me play a devil's advocate here - what if using the feature actually damages the processor after a while? AVX instructions always generate a tonne of heat. Maybe that's the reason why it was meant to be unsupported in the first place. Should Intel be allowed to fix the CPU and bring it in line with spec, or is that "making the product less useful"?

Edit: also - Intel isn't forcing anyone to install this BIOS update. If you want to keep it with AVX instructions available, at the cost of disabling all efficiency cores - sure, keep it that way.
No, they most likely have an open core model where advanced and business oriented features are typically kept as a separate code base with distinct licensing.

GitLab as an example keeps them in the same repo but separates the structure so business features are clearly and distinctly licensed under a business license.

I don't know of a serious business that has a completely open source code base.
You install it on the server and you set it up as you would with any other computer. A Syncthing in the "cloud" is just a Syncthing client running on an always on computer.
See this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29840110
I've had a similar experience. Some companies will do things like A/B test fonts and button colors, yet ignore bigger things like content, it's absurd.
It will also of course hinder any of their would-be competitors from getting their EUV plants up and running.

Also, "affecting almost nothing else" is only true if nobody buys the chips the TSMC and Samsung make with their EUV plants. It's probably more the opposite where almost everyone who buys any sort of product with Samsung and/or TSMC chips in it (ie, pretty close to everyone) will be affected.
You say that, but the batteries have an expiration date and cost a significant portion of that $2000 which adds up. My very rural hometown (midwest US) is ending it's volunteer ambulance/first responder service in no small part due to these costs. I would argue having an ambulance without a defib is better than no ambulance, but laws don't care.
The only part of that story that sounds plausible was:

>>You probably met your future spouse in grade school. Not very worldly.
Autocomplete makes programming very different from normal typing. I don't need to type fast, I use my keyboard to trigger lists of options that I pick from. Modern programming is a contemplative interaction with the IDE/language server, normal typing should only come into play when you write comments.
I think this is notable in this field only because of how consolidated the power is - this happens all of the time in software engineering.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the students only know him as Prof. Kernighan. CS majors are certainly nerds, but most of the stuff that made Brian famous happened well before they were born.

Quite a second act, if you think about it.
I've worked in offices big enough that the people who worked upstairs looked were total strangers to me. Social engineering into a building is often not that hard.
I think there are actually many posters on HN that are critical of the US. I would say that such opinions are more popular than they were a few years ago. On the other hand there are also a fair amount that have an idealized conception of that country.
Sidney Poitier has died
I had plucked a few of those from the web: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qPoJ7LvAVa95Bw8B8