skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not tried this at scale so it remains theory for me, but at a previous company, I proposed that we tackle this problem in the same way medical literature is managed by health organisations. That is, every page is owned and every page has an expiry: when a page expires, the owners are obligated to review it. The "yikes" part of that idea is that it feels burdensome, but that's because retaining and managing knowledge is burdensome and businesses should be measuring knowledge as an asset (or liability) and budgeting accordingly.

Ultimately, most people are digital maximalists when they'd be better off being digital minimalists. I (in my personal life and in the small teams I work with) purposefully delete things that I do not wish to accept the burden of owning. Either something is important enough to justify the burden of ensuring it's accurate, or it isn't and it is deleted.

I have found that thinking about documentation in these terms, it becomes clear what to document and what not to document, and it forces better practices elsewhere in the business -- like writing code that clearly communicates the why, or designing business processes that leverage a core set of business information.
Sorry, I'm not following. I'm saying the article says less than 30% of repos scanned used Unittest. That was in response to you seeming to say that most projects would choose Unittest.

What've I missed?
The article doesn't explain why pure water will burn your throat, unfortunately.
I personally use Obsidian and I love it. It has a great community (free) plugin you can use which will back your documents up to GitHub if you want.

Unfortunately, I am bound in the software I can use for the task as we already have Confluence and I am not in a position to change that.
Oh sorry you're right... Too much C, not enough POSIX.

Okay, so OSX is right by the letter of the standard. Not by the spirit though, when you look at the rationale for allowing the exception.
That sounds like a naive date->datetime conversion rather than explicit boundary exclusion. If you convert a date to a datetime, you get midnight at the start of day, which is fine if you're only comparing dates, but fails spectacularly in the way you describe for date ranges.

MSSQL not supporting a DATE data type has been the bane of my existence for a long time (of course, Postgresql has supported it since forever, but try telling your application vendor that). And since it took so long to include it, hardly any application uses it even today, because of inertia and compatibility with existing databases.
Reminds me of:

> Here's my point: yes, the whole Internet runs on Unix philosophy. But businesses sure don't. The big problem comes up in my description of pipelines up above: they only parse about 99% correctly, which is fine for your idiotic comments about YouTube videos, but pretty nasty when you mangle critical business data. And when the business dudes get involved, they'd rather do anything than mangle their critical business data. You hear me? Anything!

> If it keeps the data from getting mangled, they'd happily sacrifice searchability. Or developer hours. Or the ability to use off-the-shelf software. Or millions of dollars in licensing fees (because at least they'll accurately know how many millions).

> Pay attention, because that attitude is exactly why Windows is so strong, why the vast majority of developers prefer to develop on Windows, and why the vast majority of users prefer to use Windows. It may be gross, and adding new features or libraries may be a lot like stabbing yourself repeatedly with a fork (which, tragically, is not itself included in Win32), but Windows works consistently. So does SOAP. But not Unix or microformats or REST.

> It would be awesome if someone could find a way to satisfy both camps (the Internet people and the Enterprise people) at once. Then maybe one or the other set of technologies could finally die. But I'm not counting on it. Until then, one or the other technology is effectively dead, but which one it is depends who you are.

From: Novel, yes; widespread, no (2006), https://apenwarr.ca/log/20061201
Point me to an Audible alternative that has remotely as good selection and pricing in the UK, and I'll have a look at it. I don't like the subscription model and wish there was an alternative.
They also have a 40-50% tax on the middle class and a 20% VAT on goods. That's what they are trading for this.
As a native english speaker, oftentimes I find myself rearranging my own sentances and paragraphs and discovering the exact same thing. Reducing overly verbose text similarly generatesx the same focus to thoughts.
actually since large parts of my addendum blog post were quoted here, here is another quote:

> lets me conclude that the PX1000cr algorithm is indeed a confirmed backdoor.

I guess, me and the cryptomuseum people had a misunderstanding about this.
People doing CI? Or MDM?
There's no good reason for this to be a performance tradeoff. Flushes taking this long on Apple SSDs has to be a dumb firmware performance bug.
The Economist isn't a newspaper. It's an opinion magazine.

The reason you got confused about that is because actual newspaper behave like opinion magazines these days too.
Oh my god, the expiry date is an amazing idea. So much of our data is never updated, and forcing the creator to update it or delete it before the expiry date would clear up so much old and outdated information.
A numbered list of encountered tech
> When it comes to stuff which compresses well but full of small objects, ZIP is pretty bad

Correct, but it also allows you to independently access files, which is a win for this use-case. The goal isn't the compression itself, but reducing the number of objects, which in itself reduces the file system block overhead.

Double checking, it seems like files compressed with zstandard method aren't supported. This will (when enabled) give both better compression and faster decompression. That should be added shortly.
Well isn’t it convenient that it requires AWS infra. And there is absolutely no way they could have designed it differently.
Not quite.

What Canada already has (compelled speach laws) and is planning to do certainly is unique, except maybe a couple dictatorships if you criticize the regime.

While the proposed text defines hatred as

"[...] the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than dislike or disdain",

the text also says :

"A person may, with the Attorney General’s consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit [...]

(c) an offence motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor."

In essence, if somebody thinks they can prove you might in the fututre say something along any of the motives above, it's "terrorism" analogue, and the state can act unilaterally, without any judicial process.

I can only remember, being from ex-yugoslavia, which used to be a diverse ex-communist country, a similar set of "terrorizing of free speech" laws, right after WWII by Tito.
They had been deemed necessary to use fear of Communists to quell any desire for any kind of revenge for the massacres and exterminations in death camps from WWII, and suffocate any nationalism.

They were rescinded in the mid 1950's because of the harm they had caused back then. It was used to send 75K people in gulag, a lot innocent, just denounced by people who didn't like them. 54K never came back, 60K more were sent to regular prison for 1-5 years.

Also, seeing the 1990's, they quite obviously didn't work, people just kept their fear of the other and desire for revenge inside, not talking, slowly simmering to a boiling point.

Not saying Trudeau's opening polar work camps, but he certainly stepped on (over ?) the border of that territory.
Perhaps they should have picked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff_distance
This is great !
It's definitely not easy but it makes you think a lot !
I wrote my own. I have been meaning to post this on Show HN, but have not gotten around to it.

https://github.com/KenPainter/HackerFinance

My basic flow is about once/month to import transactions from the banks (checking, savings, and credit card). When there is a major event, like purchasing a car, I do a small manual batch to update my assets and liabilities. I leave the retirement and investment accounts to a single year-end summary transaction.
> libAdwaita is an attempt at providing a consistent framework for making GUI applications in Linux.

Ok. So after QT, gtk, Xforms, wxWidgets, Xt, Motif etc. it is another attempt.
i mean an algebraic full key recovery out of 17 ciphertext chars is nothing else but catastrophic. and i'm sure this can be done much more efficiently.
> Some of these characters are known alternative forms of common characters, or are only known to appear in some ancient text before Han characters were standardized.

Those are entirely valid for Unicode. Han unification in Unicode is already considered a mistake. That's why "unified" code points now also have explicit, higher-numbered 'equivalent' code points that unambiguously refer to a particular graphical form. The graphical form is the whole point of Unicode.
There's a piece of software (that I have no affiliation with) that has a feature like this built in named Guru: https://www.getguru.com
>The implication here is that you should expect to work overtime and prioritize your job over all else.

I don't think that's right. The slide says:

"""

Hard Work — Not Relevant

We don't measure people by how many hours they work or how much they are in the office

[...]

Sustained B-level performance despite effort generates severance

Sustained A-level performance despite minimal effort is rewarded

"""

The message seems to be that you don't have to work hard. They seem to say they want lazy employees that have a good work life balance, because they finish work early.

Whether that's toxic or not, that's another question. But I don't think they value overtime at all.
Exactly the same experience and sensations with my Atari 65XE manual!

https://archive.org/details/Atari65XEOwnersManual
Do you happen to know how that ingest works? There are some foot paths near my house I put in and fixed over the years and none of them are in Apple maps. Does it only ingest the changes the apple team makes?
Disclaimer: i was not in NY and have never resided in NY.

> The masters of Wall Street didn’t have to lift a finger.

No, because they had their obedient militia (the police) teargas, beat up and arrest everyone for them. And the media to spew lies along the lines of "we don't know what these people want" because their desires can't be confined in a single bill/reform.

These people wanted what Barack Obama promised and denied them: hope and change. Food & housing & healthcare for free for all. Putting an end to racial policing. Etc. They were met with rubber bullets and detention. And now clueless people like you who were not on the ground (i personally was involved with other Occupy movements in Europe at the same time) now judge them based on State/corporate propaganda.

That's pretty representative of any form of collective organizing defying the status quo. The civil rights activists of the 60s in the USA were equally derided by the media and repressed by the police in their day, just like the gilets jaunes of today's France.
The Diátaxis documentation framework is one I heard about recently, Ubuntu/Canonical are switching to it:

https://diataxis.fr/ https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-future-of-documentation-at-cano...
Oh hi! And thanks for the clearup!
How many responsive web pages do you know that don't compromise in some way?
There's a similar story about the Forth Bridge, in Scotland.

Nowadays it doesn't need to be painted so often:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-147...
PipeWire 0.3.46
Not quite the same thing, but I've always been struck by Ranulph Fiennes's personality and how perfect it seems for the kind of expeditions he did. He is the complete opposite of a drama-lama, he seems incredibly even tempered and stoic about everything. The same goes for Elen MacArthur, the round the world solo sailer. This seems like an essential characteristic of a successful explorer, you don't want drama, argument or emotional instability in places like the arctic.
Thanks for sharing, really happy to hear this! :)
> Since a book that’s exclusive to A can’t appear on B - B can never get any network effects and thus can’t compete with A.

Indeed, and it should probably be illegal for a company with a monopoly to buy exclusivity as Amazon is doing. But even if the Justice Department took interest and Audible switched to (say) 35% across the board, that wouldn't by itself be enough to dislodge Audible's network effects.

That's why I described a plan of attack which wouldn't involve the Justice Department: Rather than starting B and asking publishers to list on both A and B, start B and ask publishers to list only on B (or at least, not on A). That would jump-start the network effects on B.

It would require publishers to accept lower profits for a few years while B was getting established and A lost brand; but if the pricing really rises to the level of abusive (as opposed to just less than they think is fair), publishers should be willing to do that.

> And if B did begin to get any network effects - through an innovative technique ( Eg when book depository made ground by offering free shipping) — A would take notice and simply buy B before it was a big enough threat.

Well yes, which is why such acquisitions should be prevented.
I don’t remember if 12 years ago it was so obvious…. But yes it is very clear these days
Never forget: Human is an adjective in that phrase.
> was diffused with people supporting various agendas

That sounds pretty healthy. I mean, having a central authority deciding for everyone else is precisely what's wrong with our society.

It also doesn't help to keep a unified front when you have many people injured/traumatized/incarcerated due to police actions (political repression). So while i agree the Occupy movement was a colossal failure, i don't agree with your interpretation of why.
I don't think it's hard. As a kid, I didn't know about floating point but derived it on my own. It seemed logical to just add another number that represented where the binary point was. I'm sure Babagge would have got there if his iteration time wasn't so slow. He really should have made a small general purpose computer as simple as possible just to experiment with.
Windows 11 Pro now requires a Microsoft Account and Internet during setup
Sometimes problem solving needs some understanding of a domain. Otherwise it becomes difficult to solve problems in the said domain. Two domains that immediately come to mind are Security and 3D games.

I am looking to team-up with a generalist for 3D XR simulation projects who will be comfortable with NDK and Godot.

Now when I say generalist, I mean generalist in the 3D graphics/Virtual Reality/games domain. Anyone who will struggle with graphics technology, low-level optimisation will find it hard to contribute to the project.

So generalist term should be combined with domain. Otherwise it does not have much meaning.
I fear "We're a family" at this point is an oft copied mantra

Of course I am assuming those that use said mantra are refering to the touchy feely version of family and we are not going down the 'what does family mean anyway' rabbit hole, where rivalry even Fratricide and Parricide, they even have a word for killing a family member.
You have that finer-grained control with uBO. You just have to write the rules by hand instead of uM's table UI.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284124
Is that company still in business?
Then we need to do a quantitative analysis of those other options as well before we decide to spend on them vs. education.
The USA is now a net *exporter* of petroleum.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49596
What is the difference in the context of your comment? The likelihood of the risk, and nothing else. So what is the exact magic amount of risk that makes one thing durable and another not, and who made you the arbiter of this?

> No it does not. The drive can still fail after you write() and nobody will care how often you called fsync(). The only thing that can help is writing it more than once.

It does to anybody who actually understands these definitions. It is durable according to the design (i.e., UBER rates) of your system. That's what it means, that's always what it meant. If you really don't understand that, I have no idea what to say.

> The only thing that can help is writing it more than once.

This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding. You achieve a desired uncorrected error rate by looking at the risks and designing parts and redundancy and error correction appropriately. The reliability of one drive/system might be greater than two less reliable ones, so "writing it more than once" is not only not the only thing that can help, it doesn't necessarily achieve the required durability.
I can't imagine it would. You can drink distilled water for instance, with no ill effects other than it not tasting very good at all.
> The problem there isn't that the company has a writing culture.

English is my second language... not that anyone would notice. I've spent enough time writing fiction that I'm better at it than most people for whom it is native. Recently I've noticed I've started making the same homophone errors that actually native speakers tend to make; not sure if that is good or not.

But that's a huge time investment. If such companies want to pay people to spend three or four hours a day, for years, training their writing skill -- then sure, I don't think anyone will mind. Otherwise I don't think it's a reasonable request.
> With respect, I haven't asked for an essay, just an update to the definition. Simply amend the following line from Merriam Webster

Fine, here's how I would define woke: a political movement focusing on issues related to racial and social justice.

Are you happy with this definition? How does this help in any way?

> But just look at the people crying woke all of the time ...

Again, two wrongs don't make a right. You can't just resort to a whataboutism argument every time somebody points out something wrong your camp has done.
Don't forget:

0. Unlike the majority of the web, Reddit is moderated by actual humans.
A lot of "influencers" get paid good money to shill on Reddit.

It has a huge social media site.
Of course, it is not ignored by the industry.
Products, fads and politics.

Over the last several years it has become quite infested.

All is not lost.

There are some really good smaller subreddits.
For smaller subreddits who have been around for a long time
social meia influencers are easier to spot.

Some subreddits are so focused on an obscure niche that it is not
worth money to try.

Well paid reddit influencers are well trained in "propaganda".
One might have several accounts and the information comes "organic"
from a "group effort". Some will not even name a product directly
but give enough hints.

You also have negative influencers that work had to hurt the credibility
of others and brand.

>Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments are doing it to share their knowledge. And there is no financial incentive associated with it. They know that do it to share their knowledge.
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> Similar to Windows 11 Home edition, Windows 11 Pro edition now requires internet connectivity. If you choose to setup device for personal use, MSA will be required for setup as well. You can expect Microsoft Account to be required in subsequent WIP flights.
Wasteful/free spending is the negative behavior to be avoided if you value frugality.

Overly cautious, ponderous delivery is the negative behavior to be avoided if you value “move fast, break things”.
Pretty sure it would be at most $5 - I’ll have to double check. We pay for premium Active Directory (almost exclusively to get the extra security features), so that might be why it works.

So the answer really is, yeah, it’s got to be paid for one way or another. If you’re using AD you’re paying per user whether or not you’re paying for the M365 suite or not.
What happens when we apply sound to a water tube at a frequency 25 Hz
Obsidian is awesome for personal use, but a company-wide Obsidian on a Google Drive just smells like a disaster waiting to happen.

No version control, no edit history. Sheesh.
When do off-the-shelf NVMe controllers flush their internal DRAM buffer? I presume that happened after a timeout, even if the OS does not issue a NVMe flush command.

Does Apple implement the NVMe spec on their controller, i.e. do they indicate "Volatile Write Cache"?
I believe Serverless technologies are a game changer for the 99%. I work at a firm that could be considered part of the 99%. We build mission critical apps, but don’t have entire teams dedicated to building platforms or managing Kubernetes. Most of our talent is average compared to FAANG. We don’t have SREs or developer advocates, but we do have customers who rely on our software for life and death situations.

Serverless technologies help us build scalable, highly-available, and performant cloud applications that run by default in multiple availability zones and multi-region with minimal additional effort. We leverage GitHub Actions to drive our CI/CD process and automated testing. Instead of focusing on managing servers and cloud infrastructure, us simple 99% developers, those who get passed up by FAANG and Leetcode grinder interviews, can build solid applications that provide value to our customers and generate nice profit margins. The 99% can deliver apps that can perform similar to the 1% with far less complexity.
Meta acquires Kustomer, a CRM/Helpdesk software company
Obviously. That's what Bryan Caplan did.

This whole thread is in response to Bryan Caplan complaining that no one is actually engaging with the quantitative analysis he did in the form of a spreadsheet.
I think people don’t want to work in blue team as it’s harder than red team. You need to keep watch 24/7 while red side just needs to get lucky
...we fixed this, right? Good ole fellas at Red Hat yeah? And by kicking and screaming until corporate sent us some Macbooks.

...right?
It's good to add some screenshots and exact instalation commands and some examples to the repo - it's good for marketing :)
Hotham: A game engine for standalone VR written in Rust
This reminds me of the debunking of the Losada ratio, which was purportedly the precise ratio of positive to negative emotions you should experience to be mentally and emotionally healthy: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/19/mathematics-...

No one had previously even bothered to check the numbers before it became a fundamental tenet of the field.
"But I don't think they value overtime at all. "

But they do value putting the company over yourself (and your real family).

This can probably have very toxic effects, if you are having problems at home for example (sick kids or whatever) and all they allways care about, is your performance right now. So definitely not the place for me - as I would never put a company over my children (and it sounds like this is expected, even though they would likely never phrase it this way), but there are people without family, who have their work as top priority, so this might work out for them.