skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the only way to enact "real" change is to convince the propertied class that such changes are within their interests (and have them pull the strings in a mutually-beneficial way).

I cannot think of anything the lower classes can offer that would be of any substance -- only things they can take away by force to impel the other to meet "eye to eye."
The Answer to Terrorism? Colonialism. (2001)
> slightly better

https://www.gwern.net/Causality
Side effect would be that this would help them make even more money, due to lots of money following their trades after they have entered the position, and it would create pump and dump incentives.
This is already the law. Since the "Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012", they already have to disclose any stock trades made by themselves, a spouse or a dependent.

Because this hasn't fixed the issue, and most don't seem to have any shame, these recent laws (originally coming from Ds but Rs have their own version) prevent them from trading individual stocks while in office.
Reminds me of how I got users to verify their ownership of Minecraft accounts[0]. There is no profile to add a token, but they can switch their skin, and you can download a user’s skin without being in-world.

[0] http://zacstewart.com/2012/12/24/verifying-minecraft-user-ac...
Jesus WSJ.
Excellent, that's another distribution that doesn't use systemd.
Why 50 million?
Exactly. As a long-time Mac user, I miss the days when Apple and Microsoft were focused on advancing desktop computing, and when they heavily invested in the macOS and Windows platforms.

It seems that ever since mobile computing gained a foothold and when Web applications started becoming to be feature-by-feature competitive with native desktop applications, the industry has largely and effectively abandoned the desktop except to serve essentially to provide platforms for device drivers and windowing systems that will ultimately run web browsers (which, lo and behold, happen to be developed by these same platform vendors). Native mobile applications exist, but only to justify the existence of walled-garden app stores. Modern operating systems have essentially become ChromeOS with support for "legacy" APIs like Cocoa and Win32 for running "legacy" desktop applications.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the success of the iPhone was the worst thing that happened to the Mac. Compared to the iOS ecosystem, the Mac now makes up a small minority of Apple's profits. While Apple's ARM-based Macs are undoubtedly a major advance in terms of computer hardware, unfortunately on the software side macOS just isn't the same as it used to be. Mac OS X in the 2000's was truly ahead of its time, but today macOS is no longer heads-and-shoulders better than its competition, and its Unix core lags behind modern Linux and *BSD in terms of features.

While the Web has many advantages such as ease of distribution, there are key advantages of traditional desktops, such as better latency, the lack of dependence on Internet access, and the idea of desktop applications conforming to the UI/UX guidelines specified by the platform. Unfortunately, if all of our applications are Web applications, whether they are running in a web browser or as Electron apps, we lose out on the consistency and interoperability benefits that come from well-designed desktop applications.

I think the days of a polished ecosystem of well-designed applications that have consistent UI/UX guidelines with each other is coming to an end due to these market pressures.
> A lot of senior experienced people will talk about all the “shoulds” your code should be like.

And the article itself is another "should".
This is how it is in finance.

Your life is your work, but the ability to own 5 houses is a nice balm.
After decades of writing software, I've come to the conclusion there are pretty much only two useful licenses:

1. Do whatever you want with this code. It'd be nice to get credit but oh well.

2. I'm keeping this restricted. You pay $X for Y rights to use the software, I'll charge you more to look at the source code and limit your ability to do anything with it.

Stuff like GPL isn't going to keep bad actors from abusing your software and it can only limit the willingness of others to use it if they actually care about the terms of the license.
It doesn't use systemd.
The Italian divulgatore is translated as 'popularizer', which works pretty well.
I think the second reading is more natural. The title should be "congressmen need to stop day trading".
Let's say we increased that salary by 10x. Why would they not simply continue their lucrative conflict of interest side gig on top of the lucrative salary they make? The potential gains from trading on insider information are greater if you have more money to invest!
That post is a word salad of unsubstantiated vague name-calling.

> In the most intuitive case, the fact that the maker of a product, service, or program needs to recoup costs or earn fair compensation becomes irrelevant, if not overtly despised.

The classic "Open source will never be popular, because people have to get paid" argument.

> Software people, and their progress, über alles. ... Utopian communalism on the supply side, among programmers

So free software developers are literally Commie-Nazis? Got it.

> Often these strike a borderline millenialist, free-in-the-promised-land tone.

Oh, and religious extremists too, I see.

> The usual rules about permission, compensation, respect, and so on don’t apply, insofar as they’d apply to those making software.

Also, people who use free software are all thieves and pirates, apparently.
Wouldn't that be a wash trade?
That's one take, here is another: In some parts of the world, getting any help at all to women who are sexually victimized is so difficult that any discussion of men's trauma gets filtered as a zero-sum game.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jul/17/the-rape-of-...
> a legal body reviews and allows or denies.

Who will be the members of the legal body?
Twitter doubled their character limits in a tweet while Twitter users adopted the concept of multiple tweets to form a thread. No other services (to my knowledge) impose character limits that would require url shortening.
I'm not sure how you figure that.

In my system, the time is simply a number that increments. No calculations are ever needed to correct anything.
This is what most people use to schedule things.

The second "clock" tracks position of the earth around the sun. You need it for the seasons. But this too is always exact. There will never be a situation where we need to adjust it. You can never reach the end of a year and be slightly short on the distance traveled around the sun. So one day Xmas is slightly warming than usual. But so what?
Groundhog Day with an RNG

edit: is that LiveJournal? Its still around and hijacks the back button?
though it's quicker to go through the whole Every Frame a Painting series on YT that dig back up to the surface from a good old tvtrope rabbit hole.
>Grind those code monkeys into dust.
t. Every CEO ever.
The project takes as long as it needs, while people tell each other fancy stories.
> So, how onerous is package management in Slackware if there is no dependency checking?

I can't say that I have used Slackware ever, so I don't know. But I have used a Linux distro where every package was statically linked by default. In that case they didn't use any dependency management since every package was just a tarball of some fully statically linked executables or libraries. The only real dependency was the Linux kernel.
Slackware was the first linux distro I tried back when you would write it to 3.5" disks for installing. I remember it fondly, but soon after is when I then tried red hat and rpm; I was pretty much sold at that point. Slackware has the better name though. ;)
I concur. Furthermore, the pricing if often opaque: you know the tools are expensive when they always want you to contact sales for a quote.
> The ability to identify with or understand another's situation or feelings: synonym: pity.

On the internet: Of course not. It's impossible.

IRL: Mostly not, with few exceptions.
You have that backwards.

Denormalization is a performance optimization. By duplicating data you reduce the need for costly joins at the expense of data consistency.
For what is worth, if they get even less compensation and more limitations it might become even less lucrative for capable individuals which I'm honestly not sure if it won't make things even worse as it leads to both less misaligned incentives but also worse quality talent.

You can't get anywhere near a top-notch CEO for their salaries, why would you expect to get a top-notch Congressman?
I like the way they don't even bother to measure the PM2.5 and PM10, the stuff that kills human beings.

Instead it's the stuff the masses masturbates to, homeopathic microfibers which eat at our souls.

Science is broken, they could have tacked the real data on at small cost and have kept their self worth, but they don't even pretend to be real anymore.
Down 28% since 2012 (19.8 M to 14.4 M) as stock market booms. Long term issue.
it would also probably reduce the opportunity costs for other good candidates to be members of congress for shorter periods. Career politicians are a blight.
Yeah, I wasn't sure how I wanted to deal with duplicates so I mostly ignored them. I track letter positions directly (just a bunch of tuples), but don't actually do anything with this other than restricting candidates words.

I think if I work on this some more I'd try to factor in letter positioning when deciding what to guess. My hunch is that it won't make too much of a difference though.
I think there should be more of them so that we might actually know the guy. It's too big a job for its original intent I somewhat think.
The first 8 or so chapters of HPMOR are not really representative.

I'd suggest reading chapter 10 (sorting hat chapter) for a better example. That's at least when I started to really like it.
Depends on what parts of the environment you're looking at. The compositor that's the basis of the entire environment will be written entirely in Rust, based on smithay. But applications written for COSMIC are currently based on GTK4.

GTK is currently the best GUI toolkit for Rust application developers. It's the only toolkit that's fully functional with first class and official bindings. It's been pretty well endorsed by GNOME for most of their new applications lately.

There are some Rust GUI toolkits out there that are shaping up, such as some former Qt developers actively developing sixtyfps, but it'll be a while before we have a GUI toolkit in the Rust space that's truly ready for complex application development.
Or our doctors! Imagine if most kids would answer "congressperson" instead of doctor or lawyer. More competition might help that sector.
Rather than being systemd hate, the diversity is good for the ecosystem.
So which third world culture was interviewing you?
One is the maximum most of the time, but zero is more than possible
Paying for the Party is a good book about this issue of STEM degrees being flat and money being pumped in by students doing marketing, PR, communications, and business management degrees.
> And no, this is not an opening for some roundabout logic implying slacking off is the same as embezzling wages... you can't come up for a non-harmful explanation for embezzling money: the word literally means "steal or misappropriate".

If I pay someone $100 to come clean my house and they take my money and don't clean my house, its no different than if they came into my house and stole $100. It's legally different, but there's harm being done and I consider it theft. It's not complicated.

In regards to slacking, there's no expectation that someone is working 100% of the time and no reasonable person would expect that someone is working 100% of the time. But a reasonable person would expect that they work some of the time, perhaps a reasonable amount based on the work of their peers.

> Most managers would expect you to share in terms of how it affects you, not some vague air of "they don't do anything":

I've been a manager and worked with lots of managers. I strongly disagree and this is not what I've seen. They want to have more information about efficiency and happiness on the team that they're managing. And they certainly want to know if someone is not working... at all... for over a year...

You can tell them and if they say "don't care", so be it. But a reasonable manager would want to know. I don't know if you've ever been in a managerial role, but I suggest you have a talk with superiors about this hypothetical and get their opinion on it.
The problem with this assessment is that it will never be enough. There is always more to make. For you. For your partner. For your kids.

Many of us here are in software development and make more than $174K a year. That's great. However, even if we were paid $225K, but found an easy way to make $3 million a year, many of us would be tempted to go for the millions.
Maybe I am misreading, but I am genuinely confused how small cap stocks are related to the conversation at all. My concern wasn’t regarding small cap ticker traders, but something more like attempting to manipulate the market movements by doing certain bogus trades, as well as tons of others that someone else could have come up with.

Basically, I am sensing there might be unwanted side effects from this, but I am not sure. I don’t think it makes sense to worry about much, given that a “report a day ahead” system would be good enough and wouldn’t have as much potential for unwanted side-effects.

Keep in mind, it wont only be the retail traders looking at the live feed of Pelosi’s trades, it will be all big institutional investors as well.
For me, roguelike = procedural generation + permadeath, that's all. Some people call these games "roguelites", and have a much stricter definition for "roguelike", but I still consider it one of the best defined genre.

Procedural generation and permadeath are a perfect combination. Permadeath is a powerful mechanic, but by itself, it is very frustrating, because if you die, it forces you start over and redo everything you have done. Procedural generation solves the problem by making every game unique. We probably can add a form of character building and progression to the definition, otherwise death would be meaningless and it would be more like a traditional arcade game.

There are other aspects to traditional roguelikes: turn-based, dungeon crawlers, resource management, hack-and-slash, etc... But none of these aspect synergize as well as procedural generation and permadeath, that's why I consider it the true defining feature.
I don't know if you realize this but most of the folks who get elected to Congress are already very wealthy and those that are not become wealthy very quickly. And this might come as a surprise to you but the Democrats in Gov are far more wealthier than the Republicans...Go figure the party that says they represent the small guy...lol...
Slackware was the first linux distribution I used, and it taught me everything I know about Linux; and, thanks to how low-level it is, I'd say it's taught me a lot. I think it was the last linux system I enjoyed using, too, the last system I felt like I had control over.
Probably merch is most effective these days? You can download a mp3, but you are never able to download a T-shirt.

But at same time, merch have higher entry gate. You are unlikely to buy a merch created for someone you don't really know. (Unless it is just good enough that you are willing to just use it like a general T-shirt...etc)
While I agree with your point, it's not quite that simple. Putin remembers history, specifically WWII. The Germans launched their invasion from the middle of Poland, and they nearly broke the USSR. Being able to launch it from the eastern edge of Ukraine is a terrifying thought to him.

Now, there is exactly zero appetite anywhere in NATO for invading Russia. But Putin doesn't understand that - doesn't understand that, when the leaders have to answer to the voters in elections that they could lose, the leaders have to be very wary of body counts. So Putin is terrified of a fantasy, but his terror is still at least somewhat real. It's not all bullying.
> I'm fairly certain we should be paying our elected officials at least as much as our football coaches.

Or! Pay our football coaches significantly less/tax them more and redistribute that wealth towards a safety net for all Americans.

But sure, give members of congress a cool million while the poor go hungry.

To be clear, I agree with the sentiment. Elected officials should probably get a bit more money. But, I think you vastly underestimate the greed of the ultra-wealthy in the US. Ultimately government jobs need to be motivated by a desire to change the system for the better. If you just give them all millions of dollars you're inducting them into the class of the wealthy on day one.
Only a positive leap second is “over in a second”. A negative leap second is essentially “over before it starts”. This asymmetry is an opportunity for code to implement UTC incorrectly.

Another issue is that a positive leap second cannot be represented using time_t-like representations. But at least every time_t value maps to a UTC time.

By contrast a negative leap second, should one occur, will cause a permanent illegal time_t value that has no existence in UTC. Checking for that illegal value in every piece of code that uses time_t values will not be fun.
Thank you Patrick Volkerding. Slackware was my first real distro. Almost exactly 20 years ago, I was a kid who spent a week downloading a slackware iso. I sat and read through everything in the slackware installation and that taught me so much! Your philosophy of simplicity and purity in software and systems design has left a deep imprint on me. Thank you so much.
Awesome! Really appreciate this.
That's the parent's point, welcoming Slackware to the fun game of patching other programs that can't deal with systemd being missing.
Regardless of their pay, a congressperson will be tempted to align their incentives with service to causes other than their electorate. Plus, people who just want to make a lot of money (instead of serve their country) would be tempted to run for congress to receive "football coach level pay".

It makes sense to pay them a high enough wage so (lack of) money doesn't become a worry in their life, but incentives get borked beyond that.

What worries me more is the fact that they are guaranteed that same wage for the rest of their life after serving in Congress.
Many state governments don't pay much or anything at all to their state legislators. Which is a great way to make sure that only rich well connected people can afford to serve.
I've got fond (drunk) memories of training a Bayesian spam filter to play chess 15+ years ago, so I was also expecting Copilot to actually play a game. Thanks to your sibling commenter __alexs for doing so.

http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess-1.html
I liked this part:

> To use an analogy, if SICP were about automobiles, it would be for the person who wants to know how cars work, how they are built, and how one might design fuel-efficient, safe, reliable vehicles for the 21st century. The people who hate SICP are the ones who just want to know how to drive their car on the highway, just like everyone else.

That kind of summed up my experience with SICP for learning scheme. It won't really tell you how to get things done, but it does help you figure out how scheme works. Which for me at the time when I read it was exactly what I needed.
I agree with you except for your thoughts regarding paying to educate doctors. Indeed we do benefit from people becoming doctors and they are well paid, have prestige, and are generally one of the most well respected professions. This should be plenty to incentivize one to pursue medicine. You will be paying them when you receive care, exchanging money for their service, directly via billing or indirectly via insurance.
I've picked a first word with the most common letters (ATONE for example), then do a grep on the 'enable1' word list (the one that a number of word games use) to exclude all 'impossible' words. The second word is chosen to have many common letters not in the first word but also matching any constraints. Then I do another filter; often by the 3rd guess there are fewer than 100 possibilities left. I then choose the word that seems the most common, because Wordle often chooses relatively common words as the answer, I haven't seen an obscure word picked yet. I've gotten it in three this way a couple of times, and if not, repeating the grep pipeline often leaves only a few words for the fourth guess.
As if the only thing on youtube was music, or even copyrighted material.
DoH does not depend on a browser! Try this out with cURL

curl --http2 -H 'accept: application/dns-json' "https://1.1.1.1/dns-query?name=cloudflare.com" --next --http2 -H 'accept: application/dns-json' "https://1.1.1.1/dns-query?name=example.com"

There are DoH resolvers[0] that you can use that act as a "middleman" between your browser (configured to use a standard DNS server) and DoH (which is more secure and private)

[0] https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
The Expanse Season 6 Makes Me Worry About the Future of Touchscreens
Because summaries are hard, and it's perfectly reasonable to be happy with the actual terms and still think that the statement of purpose could be better along any of a number of axes (clarity, concision, etc)
It's possible to have empathy for someone insofar as understanding that there are likely reasons and motivations behind their actions, without taking it as your responsibility to debug the way they are rather than protecting yourself and others from them. In the abstract, it would be nice if someone did so, but it's a high-risk low-success activity to attempt.

I have a baseline level of caring for everyone, even the people I will make every effort to keep far far away from me and from anyone and anything I care about.
Asian migrants (east, south) lok down on trades. Not core US middle class looks down on such.
That's not how markets typically work. There are million dollar jobs in software, we are just not good enough to get them but some people are. If congress' salaries were higher more of those people who currently have better paid opportunities would compete with them rather than having the same quality people but just better paid.
The house would be much bigger if the size wasn't capped in 1929. Representation would also be more equally distributed.
This looks like an accessibility failure. The contrast of the selected items is way too low, and the dark theme itself is going to cause a lot of issues for those with blurred vision.

It's of course aesthetically pleasing but it's technically very ill suited for actual users aside from those without vision impairments.
Totally agreed for the House. There is an outstanding amendment from 1789 that would apportion one representative for every 50,000 voters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am...
Likewise, I moved to gentoo for about 10 years after that, but have since given into systemd (mostly for pulseaudio, which was for Bluetooth audio) and moved to Ubuntu.

Edit: and a thank you to the slack team of the early 2000’s. I’d tried many linux distros but could never fully migrate to desktop use, Slackware finally helped me achieve that. Almost 20 years on and I owe my entire career to an early interest in linux and software dev
Nope, I don't consider those in-house. They are working on an in-house laptop, and if it ends up anything like their in-house desktops, it could be really nice.