skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You've obviously never experienced such noise pollution.

2. Even worse than both are dozens of mostly preventable deaths per day in Ontario alone.
It's also a lesson from Beeching axe, that you can't expect to replace feeder lines with individual cars, and that without feeder lines, the profitable mainline stops being profitable.
This is using local/system fonts, not remote ones.
I'm using uBlock Origin in Firefox, and I also got the infinite scroll on Math Homework article loop.
Totally bro! Edison and Tesla were SO concerned about “scamming” money out of you (over a 100 years ago). That makes total sense….lol. Mind you they were rich AF too. That’s absolutely hilarious, I’m sorry.

But you’re right about NFT’s not being ETH’s fault by the way, on that I agree with you. But it still happened. By the way, why (like in all reality if being brutally honest) did we need to have NFT’s to begin with? The answer is we didn’t. People saw a “get rich quick opportunity” (even though very wrong), and went after it. That does not make it right or give it a real world use case, sorry, it really doesn’t.

Yet, on the flip side, I pay my rent, most of my utility bills, and basically all purchases (Amazon, eBay, Uber/Uber Eats, Airbnb, American Airlines, and about ten others that compromise about 90% of all them) with Bitcoin (BTC). And that takes me about 5 minutes. Is that not real world? If not, please enlighten me, what is then?
I think the message of channels like “not just bikes” is that even if 2 acres and a truck for everybody was economical, its actually not desirable long term. Its just _so nice_ to live in a place with no traffic jams and your kids (and you too) are not just casualties waiting to happen.
WEF video envisioned carless human lives rebuilt around "neighborhood hubs" that are 15-min walking distance from their home offices, containing gym and bars, but no restaurants since those would be replaced by ghost kitchens. They envisioned biometric ID of each human by their heartbeat. WFH opens the door to workplace surveillance policy being applied to home-workspace activity. https://twitter.com/wef/status/1427721919483326470

Definition of 15-min city: https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2021/02/08/defining-15-minu... & https://hub.beesmart.city/en/strategy/the-15-minute-city-nur...

This may come to fruition in private charter cities like Telosa, https://www.cnn.com/style/article/telosa-marc-lore-blake-ing... & https://cityoftelosa.com/

> A so-called "15-minute city design" will allow residents to access their workplaces, schools and amenities within a quarter-hour commute of their homes. Although planners are still scouting for locations, possible targets include Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Texas and the Appalachian region.

Neighborhoods of existing US cities may also be candidates, https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/15-minute-cities/

> One popular concept hailing from Paris is the 15-minute city. It’s a city in which, wherever you live, everything you need is located within a 15-minute walk or bike ride away ... which of America’s largest cities have the greatest potential for transitioning into a 15-minute city?
Main reason I'm replying is you've misspelled Fuchsia as Fuschia and to ramble a bit, maybe this was on purpose and if so that's ok.
https://fuchsia.dev/

Some more ramblings -

My understanding with Fuchsia and programming languages,is they ditched Google's GoLang for Rust, they don't like GCs, but they're keeping Flutter due developer productivity, dart's hotreload feature, etc.

If Fuchsia ends up in the phone space, they would want it to run android apps,
work is going on with starnic for running unmodified linux apps.

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/rfcs/0...

Also I watched some of the Fosdem ubuntu stand talks, the Flutter desktop talk
had an interesting demo, with the Ubuntu person saying all new ubuntu apps are to be Flutter apps.

Tidbit - The ubuntu team is working on Full Multi-window for Flutter desktop for windows, mac and linux.
Did you read my post? None of that drives business decisions.

As for Alexa, et al - these things fall into the "generative art" bucket. The search results they give aren't any better than the Eliza-tier expert systems of yore. They just feel much better and more human when you use them.

(Which is also important, but doesn't drive business decisions, except as part of a marketing strategy.)
That Wikipedia article seems to talk about company stores a lot, actually.

> […] even in [locations] that were not [poor], workers paid in scrip had little choice but to purchase goods at a company store, as exchange into currency, if even available, would exhaust some of the value via the exchange fee. With this economic monopoly, the employer could place large markups on goods, making workers dependent on the company, thus enforcing employee "loyalty".
I found no suitable replacement for demnu/j4-menu on Wayland, so I stick to using Gnome on X. It's that simple.

I don't know much about window servers and have no idea why I should use Wayland instead of X.
Everyone Hates Facebook (but this is more than just about Facebook)
When dealing with localized UIs and documentation creating screenshots is one part of the task and another one is getting the right image into the right document, but that is beyond the scope of your app. I'm glad that you have found this scenario also useful.
> matte display is great

I thought we moved past whatever technical limitation it was that required matte surfaces on flat displays? It's like having Vaseline smeared on the screen, diffusing all the colour - why would you actively want that?
Isn't the way to bolster the market to avoid the crazy 8nm stuff and just buy into the industry at the large scales. I can't imagine that buying or building machines to build op amps or voltage regulators isn't within the reach of lots of manufacturers.

I assume that this would allow the advanced manufacturers to concentrate on the newest tech unless the shortages are only at the cutting edge?

I once heard a major blockage was also the number of companies who had the skill to build machines that build semiconductors was low and therefore prices and leadtimes are high but again, someone who already makes high precision stuff building the lower size fabs must be doable?
"It is not all given that the escalated tech war is a longterm winning move from a US perspective."

This is what bothers me most about 'tough on China' folks, whats the next move?

Foreign policy has to think few steps ahead. This is not looking much better than 'invade X country in middle east and figure out what to do next later"
Perhaps the reinforcement of arbitrary culture-specific gender stereotypes is not the point of all toys? There are plenty of other ways parents impose programming.
I can share the entire screen using Discord/Chrome/Gnome 40/Fedora 34.
I'm of two minds with such projects: on one side I'm impressed, on the other side I can't help thinking that the effort invested into such extreme "reinventing the wheel" would be better spent on something else. It's like translating all seven Harry Potter books into, say, ancient Greek or Klingon - a lot of effort if you want to do it right, and there are very few people who may actually find it useful.
Around eight years ago, there was a power failure in my town (a small town in a third world country). The freezer that stored the local health facility's vaccines stopped working for two days because the backup generator was broken. After some investigation, it was found that when power was restored, the health officials altered the temperatures on the database to show that everything was fine and the vaccines kept their temperature in proper range for those two days. If it had been logged to a DLT with an immutable ledger, this wouldn't have happened.
That's the reason I'm particularly interested in this use case (something that was done in the UK recently), because kids ended up taking these expired vaccines.
I went through an experience of picking up LEGO Christmas gifts for my little cousins (boys and girls, age 6-11). It was very difficult to find anything that wasn't a promo for a massive Disney franchise. After filtering by the age group and removing all comic book/movie/cartoon tie-ins on LEGO website, what was left was just several options for each child.

I may be misremembering, but when I was a kid in the 90s there was a much larger variety of sets to pick from. As a space nerd I love their ISS, Shuttle and Apollo themed sets, but it's still disappointing how limited are their kids' options these days.
If you have read the gospel of Mary, why don't you tell us more about your take on in? How does it differ from the other male written accounts? What in your opinion makes it more authentic? What does it talk about that the others don't? Please give us something more details that the generic "not authentic" refrain.

> It’s not that impressive of a feat.

Indeed. If you don't remember the books in the bible that give a females account despite saying that's what the bible lacks, then reading the whole book isn't that impressive at all. It's also really interesting how you said that it is "harder to grok than Shakespeare", then turn around and say that reading the whole book isn't that impressive anyways ..

> My point is that those collating it are not the authors.

There is actually a whole profession that revolves around modifying the work of the original author. They are called "book editors". If I want to hear someones pure, pristine, unedited account, I'll have a face to face conversation with them. Not read their books.
Ncurses apps can also display GUIs for a long time now, but it doesn’t mean that they are actually good solutions.

The X server became a pretty useless middle man between clients and the compositor. And the vastly changed GPU hardware is the reason we should prefer a superior solution - we no longer draw as we did 3 decades ago, so we should cut out the middle man.
You can get the enterprise ones used on ebay
>if you want to stay dry

I think a coat might be in order.

>or you're impaired

A lot of impaired people can't drive at all, their lives would be objectively improved if they could use bike lanes to move about. Look at any video of bike paths in the Netherlands and you will see a ton of people on mobility scooters.

>or you are carrying significant loads

Everything can be delivered to your door at the press of a button now.
> They're typically hideously wasteful of energy.

What do you think of Immutable X, which has pledged to make all transactions on its blockchain carbon neutral? https://www.immutable.com

> They are typically scams

There is definitely a lot of scams. First most of the ICOs a few years back were scams, and then a lot/most? of DeFi schemes are scams. But I am not scared off of an area just because there are scammers in the vicinity. I think there is a lot of opportunity for what I would term gentrification of what are otherwise lawless areas.

> Even if not explicitly scams, they represent a pointless and inefficient financialisation of bloody everything that no-one except crypto enthusiasts seems to be at all interested in

I think that it will become less "inefficient" over time. I think that what can be sold will be sold if there is a market. There will be a series of fads, just like in real-life. I think this sorts itself out. If you want to believe Beanie Babies are a good thing to sell and speculate on, go for it. I won't stop you. But I probably won't speculate on those.

> The art is weirdly universally alarmingly bad

A lot of NFT art is derivative. But there are tens of thousands of artists who have made NFTs, and many are talented. I think you are cherry picking the copycats and the grifters work.

> As applied to games, they incentivise bad (pay to win) design dynamics

Games for me already went deep into the "pay to win" territory once they landed on mobile. That made a lot of companies quite rich. Thus you may disagree with the dynamics, but they are the main way that mobile games make money.
Never seen people explain this one. Don't buy that it's better than other stuff.
Have you ever used Elm or Rust? Maybe you expectation of how decent error messages should look like is just lower.

The problem is that the type system in TS can get crazy complex and has many uncommon features like structural typing. You need to have a really good mental model of how TS works to be able to make sense of what TS tries to tell you.
> what is flawed with Wayland?

The protocol doesn't support most essential features, leaving them up to "compositors" to implement mutually incompatibly. Screenshots, accessibility, etc.

Thus Wayland promotes fragmentation and death of the Linux desktop.

On top of not actually solving problems, the protocol manages to be too opinionated, forcing compositing on the user.
The problem is that I can release LibA with a dependency on LibC ^1.2.3. I also have a dependency on LibB, which in turn depends on LibC ^1.3.5.

We will accept that LibA works with LibC 1.2.3 perfectly, and LibB works with LibC 1.3.5 perfectly. But nothing guarantees that LibA will work with LibC 1.3.5, and this is where the problem starts.

In contrast, if LibA, LibB and LibC are all bundled into a Lib-Commons, I have good reasons to think that depending on Lib-Commons 2.4.6 is not going to produce unexpected incompatibilities between Lib-Commons.LibA and Lib-Commons.LibC.
In the interview they discuss Uber in the context of cities. Which makes sense, because if you look at a heat map of Uber activity, rural areas don't really register. So it's not that anyone's ignoring rural areas. They're just irrelevant to the topic at hand.
Sample and data collection bias.

The people doing the research had a foregone conclusion - "vaccines are crucial in our anti-Covid effort" - and then went out of their way to massage the data to prove their point.

Other countries had different foregone conclusions, and demonstrate entirely different results.
Just a note that working as a remote developer(counted as export) there is no VAT and no profit-tax in Albania until ~$125K/year of revenue. It's 15% if you pass $125K though (for total profit).
Have you ever had your credentials to a decentralized service stolen by a keylogger and realized that you will never, ever, under any circumstances regain control and there's no one you can talk to and nothing you can do about it?

Decentralized systems are amazing, until they aren't

(Even if you wanted to have a decentralized account recovery like saying you can have 3 friends band together and help you recover your account if you lose access, what happens when those 3 friends decide that don't like you as much as they like the idea of banding together to take over your identity and all your money?...)
"Then there’s the whole problem of managing windows."
Ever heard of tiling windows managers?
Don't get me started with the 9550...
I am in the process of reading it. I never understood the disclaimer at start, that "Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental." in works were I saw it. Is this usually written to defend one legally, even though the events have clear, non-coincidental resemblance to real-life events?
Building a Cellphone IMSI Catcher (Stingray)
That street still looks very uncomfortable to cycle on to me, and I think the numbers bear this out: London's cycling mode share in 2020 was 3.4%.

https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/travel...

I don't think you'll ever get a significant portion of people on bikes when they have to mix heavily with cars.
Nice writeup. Agreed with all.

Yes and:

> You manage processes; you lead people

> Processes are expectations made explicit

I way I learned it was "Structure + Processes = Outcomes".

By me focusing on S and P, I was able to delegate emotional ownership of O to my team. IMHO, that sense ownership is a "critical success factor". Which you touch on further down your list.

Journey of the Software Professional: The Sociology of Software Development, Luke Hohmann [1996]
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Software-Professional-Sociolo...

The other crucial bit of life advice I got from Luke, which may not be in the book, was:

"Sometimes you have to let people fail. Just have Plan B ready to deal with the aftermath."

But that's a much longer story.

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Again, nice writeup.

Is it too much to hope that your common sense regard for the process of software development is early evidence that our industry might finally be moving past the Agile cargo cult era? (Hot damn, it's been a lonely, frustrating two decades, remembering how things were before Agile.)

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PS- I've recently heard (read) the "First Pancake" metaphor for first effort, maybe a dozen times. Another gem I had first heard from Luke, back in the day.
> Good multi display support is missing

I'm using Gnome 40/Fedora 34 with laptop and attached 4K display. Gnome apps works absolutely fine. Some non-gnome apps do not re-scale when moved between displays and that's the only issue that I've found.

Also I run Factorio absolutely fine. No idea about other games, though.
IIRC the UK is at-will for the first two years of your employment too. Some startups leverage this to an almost toxic degree.

I had one manager (who then became CTO and is now CEO of another startup) who, by all appearances, treated firing as the only tool in his arsenal for dealing with any personnel problem. I was never on the receiving end, but in a few cases I know for a fact that he lied (or hugely exaggerated) about what the terminated employee had been done. He is the reason I left.
- Top quality high and mixed resolution support.

- Tear free rendering and capturing.

- (Small) improved performance.

- Games are much better behaved. I can reliably window, maximize and full-screen them. They also never mess with the display resolution.

- Seems to have less windows (especially hover tool tips) just hanging around. I guess the compositor can close these at the right time under Wayland.

- Proper secure screen locking. (I think GNOME + GDM can do something safe on X but most display managers + lock screens can't cooperate well enough to manage this.)

Honestly it is nothing major (except the mixed dpi stuff) but a nice step up. And if the X devs say that X is unmaintainable and this is going to lead to many improvements and be able to be maintained for the next age of displays on Linux I'm happy to make the switch now that it is the default and I am not aware of any problems for my workflow.
The uncritical articles are a problem regardless of any pro-crypto bent one might have.

Nothing about underlying technology or why something might be new/good.
I hope you are wrong but I have no evidence to back that up.
The joke is about imagining a famous historic person as a child instead of an adult. I think it's just in there to lighten the presentation up rather than make a big point about Shakespeare.

I think the idea you are presenting is a straw man.
Unless I'm misreading, ISO 19125 (2004) is later than ISO 6709 (1983), so using 19125 as an authority is questionable to say the least.

Isn't the reality that a bunch of software engineers wrote their software to use lon/lat because x, y is the intuitive ordering in the context of a cylindrical projection way of thinking, and ISO 19125 codified that common software practice without anyone really thinking about it or the conflicts it created?

That's hardly definitive, particularly when it contradicted ISO's own earlier standard (which codified the long-standing common communication practice of lat/lon). ISO standards themselves are weak without logical and practical commonplace usage backing them up, because the standards are paywalled.

Your experience, and the table in the OP article, shows that lon/lat has more usage in the software world, but that's not sufficient. There's enough confusion, and enough major players defecting from that recent "standard" of 19125, that the issue should be looked at again, re-litigated, and re-standardized. Everyone outside the narrow field of GIS software engineers and data wranglers expects lat/long. The issue has never been litigated at all outside of that insular world.

It seems like standardizing on the common practice (outside of the digital technical realm) of lat/lon is the right way to go:

The software world has the advantage that if there was consensus to change to lat/lon universally, they could patch it once, convert any data files once, and be done. The software world has much less inertia.

In contrast, the non-software world can't be readily converted to lon/lat. It's much more difficult to change people's everyday usage. Look at the mess caused by Americans using MM/DD/YYYY, or English-inspired use of Imperial over metric. It's difficult to convince people to change even when there are significant problems with the historical choice, and objective reasons for why they should change.
Saying "conclude" instead of "believe" does not make your conclusion more logical or less emotions based. Many irrational and emotion based opinions are masked by sure language.
Another use case would be protection from inflation - if you're in a country which prints money carelessly or for political reasons.

Of course you could say that Bitcoin is worthless and not proved as store of value, but that's not for me or you to decide, it's what's decided by the market.
Indigenous perspective gives you a deep time view of history
Conversely, currently being in charge of a small to mid size organization that has customer facing parts…. We have “no internet “ and “no electricity” ways to process - at least for a time.

A large concern in a no power situation would probably have been safety / trip hazards as well.

Conversely, I know someone who was once “unable” to leave a restaurant because their power was out, and they wouldn’t let people leave who had an open bill.
This depends on the region. In the EU some countries have such high gas taxes that the infrastructure could be entirely paid for, maintained and there would still be money left. In practice that money isn't earmarked for road infrastructure though. But the end user could in theory pay for it all, so that it's not socialized to everyone. It's also possible that there are tax reductions for driving a car or tanking fuel, so it's definitely not the whole picture and this would need to be accounted for.
Yeah Ergogen looks cool but I'm learning a lot writing my own code (about CAD, PCBs, and keyboards). I generate geometry based on parameters that are just plain old data structures and then I feed that into 1) Cadquery for the case and 2) A simple library (that will be replaced with Kicad scripting later) to output a PCB. So the whole thing is idempotent and deterministic depending on the inputs.
They wouldn't have to give up any major channels of revenue. This would just be an improved architecture for their existing micro transactions, that also enables a secondary market.

Remember that NFT contracts can be written such that the original issuer can get a piece of secondary sales. That is a new revenue stream for the content owners.

I think that interoperability will not be universal, but maybe you can buy NFL gear on an NFL website and then it happens to also work in the licensed NFL games -- stuff like that. Or Nike negotiates with Fortnite and Roblox and Minecraft so that Nike NFTs that you buy from Nike.com work as avatar customizations in these games. I think this is how it starts -- limited and negotiated interoperability between non-competitors. Maybe it gets to where competitor games have interoperability, but that is definitely not where it starts.
Shorter version why there is shortage of everything right now, including chips: https://schiffgold.com/peters-podcast/peter-schiff-too-much-...