skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He’s a really good programmer, but that’s not why his solutions were better.

I disagree, if he was forced to use IDE he would came up with the exact same solutions. People who disregard IDEs generally are good, and thy disregard helpful tools like IDE at least partially due to their arrogance. Also their supposed "simple editors" with various extensions are often very close to IDEs in term of functionality.

Author also seem to used perl for demonstration, which makes me not so certain he benefits from IDE all that much. The key benefits of IDE truly starts to open when you start using typed language. This shows especially clearly when you use python (in PyCharm for example) and start adding type annotation. Is a completly different experience.

You start getting:

- reliable autocomplete (as mentioned)

- reliable refactoring (this is big, because one of the major cry about python is that as it grows it gets hard to maintain)

- showing errors immediately without having to run the code

No matter how good you are all these things make you better.

Note: Above argument doesn't apply to github-copilot (which was used as a demo), it's probably no surprise that using that tool will get someone to arrive with same source code. Especially if it is a tutorial so many people before you typed similar thing as well.
Why? The average consumer doesn't care whether the semiconductor in their smartphones are 7nm or 5nm, they care about speed and power efficiency. Anyone who does care about feature size/density would know this and wouldn't be misled. Besides, they themselves don't care about feature sizes either, they only really care about other performance characteristics (eg. density, power consumption, switching speed), not some superficial metric like "nm".
It's pretty straightforward to extrapolate from his examples: people do not want to work with nor do business with ex cons. Therefore businesses that hire lots of ex cons likely "wouldn't work" because customers and employees would be scarce.
A lot* of the criticism against RSS/Atom that I've seen on the internet boils down to appeal to novelty; both are old, so assumed to be "bad".

But hey, they work. They fill a purpose - they warn you about updates in a site that you might want to check out. They do one thing, and do it well; and for me that "one thing" can be new manga series to read, new videos to watch, news from my city's site (it has RSS), so goes on. How exactly would be this "bad"?

*"a lot" is not "all".
Isn't the whole world a fixed pie? Sure, technological advances let us make more efficient use of our resources, but they're still finite.
Additionally - when everything is served from the same server - existing connections can be re-used, resulting in a latency advantage.
I don't want you in prison. I just don't want to interact with you.
Monopoly was invented by a Georgist to illustrate the ills of land grabbing.
> Now you can focus on if err return err instead.

Yes that is indeed the next most-frustrating thing about Go! In the last Go language survey (https://go.dev/blog/survey2020-results), about 90% of people wanted generics and 60% of people want better error handling. So, one down, one to go.

Modern languages like Zig and Rust show how you can do "errors as values" way better. Zig has error returns and stack traces built in, there's no reason Go has to be so impoverished here.
The way this article presents the "easier to read" text, seems like a great way to be more inclusive to all kinds of readers.

Makes me think (and hope) something like this could be automated in the future, where readers could adjust the stylistic complexity of the any text they come across.
I hate the rental scooters and bikes. It’s just trash in my way. I live in an area that already has great walking and cycling options, but the scooters make that much less enjoyable.

But you are right and I hadn’t considered the benefits. So thanks for posting this.

Because of all the scooter trouble the city has reclaimed some parking spaces for scooters. So that is a step in the right direction. And if it gets people out of their houses and seeing where the bike infrastructure works and doesn’t that’s probably good for future expansion too.
I've been looking for something like this for ages! Self-hosting is so important for databases; I plan on piping way too much data for me not to own the stack.

Baserow seemed to be my best bet initially, but it seems like the Grist feature set is way more what I'm looking for.
Calling Wall-E a “study” is a new take on it :)
Most people familiar with the phrase “good Samaritan” or “going the extra mile” won’t demonstrate such behaviour.

Instead, although “nice” almost certainly has some culturally specific Shibboleths, I would say the basic test is where someone is on the selfish-empathetic scale, and further to empathic is a good thing in a partner.
Lots of questionable people behind that. Head of monetization at YouTube? Head of ads at Google? Keep scrolling and their investors aren't much better. Why won't they pivot to selling info as soon as they have market share?

If you're concerned about ads and privacy, your info and eyes are probably worth more than an average click elsewhere.

Maybe I've just gotten cynical.
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If enough people "just like the area" then the HCOL has priced in that fact.

I'm in a HCOL area because my in-laws are no longer fully independent, so I get that this isn't everything, but I would suggest that a lot of bay area residents are there because they either like the area directly, or like the opportunities living there affords, in which case the HCOL is justified.
From what I gathered, only some of the kids were playing the way they wanted. In any event, letting the game continue would have been a political choice as well.
For more in that depressing vein, check out "Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass" by Mary L. Gray
I don't think Ukraine can resist much.

But I also don't think that Putin will occupy the whole of Ukraine. There are additional difficulties with doing that.

False flag ops seem to have started. The following days seem to be critical on the "future" of the r. invasion. We'll see how propaganda will work this time.
I should have just kept reading. When I saw the parent comment it got me thinking I really should see how easy it is to change the scrollbar size in Firefox. Took me a few minutes to find exactly the instructions you shared.
Numba fits very few usecases, but where it does fit it's awesome.

I've been using it in a python graph library to write graph traversal routines and it's done me very well: https://github.com/VHRanger/nodevectors

The best part is the native openMP support on for loops IMO. Makes parallelism in data work very efficient compared to python alternatives that use processes (instead of threads)
To bring a counterpoint, I've worked very hard for 6-8 years. (5 years studying but also working on the side at programmer during the time) That surely simplified some things and now another 8 years later it's very easy for me to find a reasonably well paid job. On the other hand I came to realize I'll always have to work on mediocre things unless I continue to put in a sustained effort into it. (Work place politics included because everybody wants more of a limited resource, be it money or interesting tasks) Luckily I studied mostly out of interest but the effort put in was surely out of pressure

Going back in time I could have just continued to pursue that side gig, go for other freelancing jobs and do my own (hopefully paying) projects on top. Quite likely I might go for this myself soon again
https://pypi.org/project/rss2email/
Workers Make Shocking Allegations of Racism at One of Tesla's Factories
You don't even need to get cynical.

Implementing RSS is extra work, thus not everyone is going to implement it. Even if it contributed to the bottom line. It's the same reason every website that publishes information doesn't have an email newsletter.

Since it's a consumption optimization, it makes sense for us, those who may want to consume a given website, to implement it (while we wait around for utopia).
Since the big tech companies have been horrendous at customer service and there are often people on here who work at them who can actually help. So basically from the time this site began.
Pretty much everything. I've used both Linux and Windows extensively over the last decade plus and am very familiar with the available alternatives and find those that exist for what I use lacking. Trying to list them off just invites people to pick suggestions off whatever list they have ready without regard for the needs of the person they're suggesting at, and it gets tiresome.
Your anecdotes don't carry any more water, and strongly expressing contempt doesn't make it more persuasive.

OP was offering a theory that more communication moving to media that transmits communication with less or no physical/verbal context might cause difficulties transitioning to intimate physical activity.

He has the stats on his side, so he is not trying to persuade us that there is a trend that requires an explanation in the first place.

I think you provided a good enough theory why it's okay that there isn't as much conventional sex happening; the next step is to see how it might not contradict his theory.
Aren't we past that? Vast majority of Linux desktops are Ubuntu/Debian or Redhat/Centos. You target those two and you're set. Add Suse if you have a large European user base.
It's fascinating how "patriotism" can sum a lot of that up, yet is usually only channeled for antagonistic jingoism against perceived threats from outside.
Yes, that was the point. It was a reply to parent’s claim that tombs are commissioned by the survivors, not the deceased.
>> We saw the decimation of Lego-town as an opportunity to launch a critical evaluation of Legotown and the inequities of private ownership and hierarchical authority on which it was founded.

Please note that the situation was resolved by the teachers utilising their position of power to impose the change they wanted. They want democracy and egalitarianism but it turns out they needed authority to impose that.

Highly ironic.
The Mech Vent and ICU also used two sided tests.
Yes, I completely agree that the patent system has many flaws. I've worked on a couple of them myself and I recognise all your points.

My original question still stands though. Is there a better way of achieving this?
I respect this, but on a personal side note I don't understand the allure of city living. There is disease, crime, increased cost, and work is not necessarily there anymore.
You seem to have missed the section where they assigned point values to Legos and let the children create rules. The author clearly states that they had intended for the children to criticize the system for being unfair, but instead criticized the people within the system. The teachers wanted the children to challenge them, and they didn't!

And yes, at the end of the day, the teachers always have the final authority. Do you think it's a good idea for a group of children to never be told "no?"

> Conversely, I would not share my politics with children, even abstractly

Every human interaction is politics. It's not just about leaders, governments, and parties - it's about who gets what, and when, in a world where we can't all get what we want. Managing how power and resources are shared is the fundamental idea of politics.

If you don't teach kids about politics, they will be lost in the world - unable to advocate or negotiate for themselves, understand the situations of others, or question the systems that have been built around them. This article describes children learning all that and more.
They take pride in their masochism
Reducing clicks helps!

It's better to not get the email in the first place, but scanning the subject lines is a good idea in some organizations/roles/events.
Seems like a loose definition of indoctrination... is any teaching indoctrination by your definition?
idk, as a part-time Haskeller, I think Nix-the-language kinda sucks (tho not enough for me to not use nix). IMO the big huge thing is really inconsistent nixpkgs docs; compare linkFarm and symlinkJoin's docs, for example. I wish there were some way of getting nice autogenerated docs, but I don't think we're gonna get there without either adding some kind of type system or having a pretty strong review requirement that's actually enforced, and doing that for a year or more...
> the difficulty people have with it is that it’s functional, not that it’s nix.

My experience is that the difficulty people have is with Nixpkgs as a library/codebase rather than the language itself. Poor error message, unclear abstractions, lots of things managed through implicit conventions rather than in the language itself... it's a massive legacy codebase with a lot of internal inconsistency and some questionable practices. I'm convinced that if you had a magic codebase-cleaning wand and kept literally everything else about Nix (the language, the model, derivations) the same, you'd fix like 90% of the problems people have with the system.
Some technical people plain refuse to read technical sites about hardware and prefer to read marketing aimed at completely non technical people. Read https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/5_nm_lithography_process
you’re right. I guess I should qualify that with: what makes the language more difficult to approach as a newcomer.

once you’re in there, there’s a ton of warts, of course. I just hear complaints about the syntax so much that it really seems like people are more caught up learning functional programming than Nix. which makes sense, since most people who would need Nix spend their time writing Bash and Python
I think close to no children thought this at the time.

It's adults that wrote all of the fan fiction, supported the industry, etc. after.
The fact that scooter companies are focused on “winning markets” makes me think they are a negative. For this to work the price has to be low. That means competition.

In my neighborhood both Comcast and CenturyLink provide service. When the CenturyLink installer showed up he explained the install would take longer than estimated because he couldn’t use the line directly in front of my house. That’s a “Comcast line”. Apparently Comcast techs will literally cut competing lines off theirs.

I wonder what the scooter van equivalent is. Is there someone leaving competing scooters in the middle of the sidewalk as a psy-op to disrupt competing marketshare?
I feel like you're missing the point. The individual mathematicians don't really matter (in this particular exercise). The fact that there _were_ and _are_ mathematicians of color is what's relevant, because it turns out that representation is important.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/why-race-and-represe...
The article lists alternatives but doesn’t mention Cython. That’s a miss. I’ve done both. If numba works, it’s great. I found it a bear to install. Cython is more work, did what I needed - allowed me to incrementally type Python to get C code performance for general numeric code where memory allocations mattered (large arrays).
I use a Mac all the time, and have never had to press a "certain shortcut" for a "hidden menu" for this to work. You literally just check (or uncheck, as your heart desires) "Mirror Displays" under the arrangement tab.
It's a free software provided gratis by volunteers. Desktop Linux is mostly by techies and for techies despite any other aspirations. Things that work great but require configuration don't always get looked at or worked on. This is especially true if they only effect a tiny minority of users.

https://linux-hardware.org/?view=mon_resolution

You should absolutely volunteer your time to address high dpi configuration out of the box across several of the most popular distros. I mean for example KDE software already works basically perfectly right out of the box. So all you really need to do is automate the process of choosing ideal font sizes, scaling settings etc.

Push out looks-right.sh to various distros to be run at installation.
it's Zuckerberg's fault, not parents
There's even a meme generator. The tool looks very powerful!
IIRC some countries in Europe do this; if you are hiring for a specific job, you call some office/bureau and they say whether you can do it or not based on your record, no why/etc.
Err i was trying to answer

> What I'm against is the general fragmentation of Linux that makes interoperability between distro's and window managers problematic.

I disagree that downloading software being hard is a major impediment. (though I realize the parent did continue to claim that.) How many people download executables on the regular anyways?
Expat library: libexpat 2.4.5 (CVE fixes)
Scooter companies aren't in it for the long haul like that. I've seen four different scooter companies come and go in my city (well, the fourth hasn't gone yet). They seem to buy a batch of scooters, keep them in service until they've made back their investment or lost too many scooters, then disappear. They don't care about the disruption and inconvenience they cause, or the ways they could make the city better, because they don't even see those things - they don't seem to have a presence here beyond a few gig-employees charging scooters.
Clear writing requires the author to put themselves in the readers' shoes. It's not a mechanical translation of complex language to plain language. Short sentences with simple vocabulary can easily be confusing as well, especially if the shortening involves truncating important information.

For instance, the web page gives the following example:

"A strong tremor in her hand makes it impossible for her to use American Sign Language." is thought to be too complex, and got turned into "Her hand shakes so she does not do sign language."

This is an absurd change in my opinion. The second sentence implies that sign language is not doable if people have shaky hands, which is false. This would confuse any sign language user who has shaky hands. The original sentence tells us that it is the badness of her tremor that prevents her from signing, which really puts an emphasis on the profoundness of her disability.

A more sensible change would be "Her hands are too shaky to do sign language."

Moreover, plain-ization turns that coherent paragraph to pieces of information dump. This is fine if the intent is to do an info-dump, (government documents, for example).

In most cases, though, the author is making a point. There is the proposition, the supporting evidence, the causes, and the effects. That's why writers vary their sentence structure: to bring out the relationship between one sentence and the next. Some plain language examples on this web pages throw away all of those, so while making individual sentences easier to read, it disintegrates the coherence of the whole paragraph.
But EUV is a real thing and cleanly divides the haves and the have nots. While Intel 7 may have similar density to TSMC 7, there is a huge difference in the process and cost of making them. Intel will not go beyond that without EUV, and neither will anyone else.
Nix doesn't have anything to do with that problem. If anything it helps as it lets multiple even conflicting versions of libraries and software coexist and run together.

What you want is flatpak or appimage (or even snap). These are self contained distributed binaries that contain and isolate all their dependencies. It is simply a one file download for any linux distro. They work great--I use a ton of flatpak apps like VS Code all the time.
This is a great list of reasons to use Notion as your company's information hub. It's basically a wiki, but with some great templating and database and access control and usability features that make it especially wonderful for teams. Google used a wiki internally for all company information for a decade or so until it was finally replaced with who-knows-what.

The one thing holding me back from declaring that all new companies should use Notion for everything is the text editing. Doing any kind of long-form content, such as blog posts or design docs or technical documentation, is arduous and painful. The editor is usable but clunky. Editing links, selecting text, and using formatting shortcuts is wonky. Joining paragraphs is hard. If they can make editing more fluid, it might just be the perfect information organization tool.
I think the admin just believes that computer based classes will replace everything and they expect to not have teachers. Need to cut costs.
That's a decent list, but I don't think we need to start from scratch. I think Nix can be adapted to meet all of those.
Yes, correct they can get a court orders for onchain assets they know about, creating consequences for moving it without their permission

You are not barred from having other money and using that money. You can stay liquid and retain counsel and interact with the electronic financial statement

so always have some they won’t know about. the beauty these days is that you dont need to deal with the minefield of going both offshore and not reporting it, you dont need cash hidden around or gold bars buried in the desert, you can just have liquid fungible private crypto ready to be liquid when you need it
I still wouldn't call that "easy" though. Sure it's a small number of steps, but they aren't trivial or immediately obvious and don't escape the basic issue that we're having to evade the operating system here.
I tried to load the CSV that I most recently imported into Google Sheets into this hosted Grist and it choked. The behavior of the progress bar implies some kind of super-linear algorithm.

The most important component of "alternative to Google Sheets" is function. "Open core" is an aesthetic matter of little interest to most users.
If court records are public, is there any technical reason a company could not scrape the records and perform background checks? Or is it a cultural difference that makes background checks less popular?
Adults don't spring out of the ether fully-formed.
So glad I switched back to linux. Just the amount of stuff I no longer have to worry about is enormous.
When dealing with children ages 5-9, it is sometimes important to remove an emotional catalyst in order to calmly reflect and have a productive conversation.

The Legos were removed, a conversation occurred over several weeks, and the Legos were reintroduced when the conversation resolved.
does it recognize key pressing by sound or by vision?
I don't know if I can accept that offhand because high levels of muscle atrophy is a human adapted trait specifically to save calories for the brain. If muscle maintenance costs were so insignificant why would we have adapted a trait to make us physically weaker?

This is anecdotal but the difference between what I can eat working on a farm with having lots of muscle mass and sitting around on a computer with that same muscle mass was not really significant. But the difference between sitting at a desk with a lot of muscle mass and sitting at a desk with noticeably less muscle mass is night and day in how much I have to eat. With small and inconsistent amounts of strength exercise to maintain a bit more muscle mass again, my caloric expenditure went back up, far beyond what is lost from the exercise itself.
You guys missed the point. They constrain supply and drive up prices.