skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(context, I lived somewhere for two years where cycling infrastructure was very well maintained during the winter.)

The reality about the winter is that cycling in the winter is fucking cold. The forward movement exaggerates the wind chill. You have your hands on the handlebars and are still trying to wipe the snot off your face. You can't insulate your body correctly so the heat from biking is shed while the rest of your body doesn't freeze. You have to wear gloves to insulate your hands and have to keep your torso in this very narrow band of comfortable temperatures. It's absolutely miserable compared to driving just like the summer is.

It's nothing like walking which is much more natural and easy to adjust for. It's certainly unpleasant but not quite as much as biking.

Also "we need to get past the mental block we have" is a bit weird. No we don't. Maybe that "mental block" is there for a reason.
I say cut the red tape! So what if there are children in the mines? it just means more & cheaper asbestos for everyone.
I get that feeling with Windows, especially with the "tweaks" such as this one MS likes to do as of late. Can't say I like computers these days.
Ah we never saw that one coming. What really bugs me is why people keep defending these companies: this is straight up abusive, and we - all of us - should not accept these tricks. Getting you an MS account is one small step away from charging you monthly for the privilege of using the computer that you've already paid for.
You have to be root/suid, have to implement your netstack yourself (ip, tcp, etc.), have to use the special threads which may or may not play nice with other threading libraries, locking and lock-free stuff, and there are subtle differences between controler behaviours that are smoothed over by the kernel and drivers, but hey you don't want those. For very simple forwarding and L2/L3 stuff it's easy to start and you can get to high perf quick enough. For anything applicative it can quickly become hard. I lost so much time with e.g. jumbo frames support, arp, frame re-ordering and low-level footguns, honestly sometimes I miss the pain of plain sockets.

And in the end what I want is mostly giving a large reassembled 2-100MB buffer to userland to avx512-stuff all over - same as I do with zmq on a (bunch of) 10Gb link(s). Or send to gpu via gpudirect, and the joy of programming DMAs instead of 'normal' cudaMemcpyAsync. And don't forget to reserve a (bunch of) physical machines for CI.

I'm not saying it's not useful, on the contrary. You get to send/receive 800Gbit/s of traffic on a single socket system! But it feels like a setback in usability, learning curve.

I'm saying I'd like a simpler API over it, to transmit/receive pub/sub large messages.
It is odd that middle class income taxes are so high, and yet government services are awful, infrastructure is crumbling and you don't even get healthcare.

I still don't think there's an affordability crisis in general though. From what I've seen in this thread it's more of an inability to downsize. Everyone needs a car (sometimes 2), a big house, to live in the most expensive cities, to have kids, and they'd rather go into debt than compromise.
I like Neeva, which combines results from Apple, Bing and Google.

Its worth a looking-into.
Async code reviews are slow. A code review is about getting people to agree on the code being reviewed (ideally using a set of objective guidelines). Instead of having a review done in an hour, for instance, it can easily stretch into days of back and forth to reach a consensus.

Throw in a third person and now you have 3 people trying to asynchronously synchronize on a desired outcome.

You could say "ok, I'll just do something else while waiting on the review" but then you introduce new problems
- more context switches
- the longer code goes unmerged, the more conflicts can build up
- unmerged code can block other things
Terrorism is to war as cryptocurrency is to economics?
ReFS is not a spiritual successor. It was built by the maintainers of NTFS because they were bored of just doing maintenance and wanted to do something cool, like the boys over there at ZFS.
> Ray Dalio's radical transparency idea is one example

May be worth to note that, as far as I know, radical transparency at Bridgewater does not extend to salaries. (Source: Was offered a job there about a decade ago). Maybe I am wrong or it has changed since I last checked, but even the link you posted is just a small sample taken from the H1B database, not something published by Bridgewater.

I'm not arguing for or against the idea, I just think its interesting that one of the companies most associated with the idea of radical transparency in the workplace doesn't extend that philosophy to compensation.
Photoshop CC 2018 runs great in Wine, with Wacom tablet support as well.

For Illustrator, use CC 2019 to get hi-def display support in the GUI. I don’t use Illustrator much though, so I can’t vouch for how well it works.
Step 1: Build basic site.

Step 2: Get leverage over venue owners. Use that leverage to displace livenation.

Some venues are owned by livenation be prepared to build venues or leverage livenation out.
European internet companies exist within a jurisdiction that enforces a particular level of privacy protections the US does not guarantee in the slightest.
You can disable auto sync for onedrive and/or outlook. You can also mark your connection as metered so any background transfer will only be initiated on user approval.
Coder’s Creativity
This makes me wonder. Google has been known for a while to ban accounts semi-randomly with very vague excuses and no recourse, so people would lose access to gmail and other services. Is Microsoft going to do the same? "Sorry, we spotted you voicing an opinion that doesn't align with our corporate interests, so we decided to lock you out of all your PCs".
I work on a project that lets you use CSS selectors to build RSS feeds from web pages: https://createfeed.fivefilters.org

But for trickier sites, or ones that are popular and need more maintenance, projects like RSS Bridge and RSS Hub are worth a look.
for multiple reasons, this is not accurate. The actual situation is difficult, lets not use words like "everyone" "all" "always" for untangling the mess, right?
Using DND for "only necessities" communication is great. Uninstalling social media apps that aren't comms is useful for me too (Instagram is non-essential, and reddit). Take away the muscle memory of opening the apps.

Finally, when it's appropriate, I leave my phone in my car entirely. Occasionally for dinner/breakfast, on runs, and going to the movies. Just leave it at home. The world will go on without you - especially if people know you're away.
Agreed on all counts. Proton (and WINE in general, really) is an impressive piece of work that has done wonders to make software available on Linux Desktop, but it is not a perfect solution. Personally, I'm sick enough of Microsoft's shit that I'm now willing to put up with Linux Desktop's shit instead and if that means I miss a few games, I'll live with it. I don't play competitive online games anyway.
Yup, typo!
For Lightroom there is Darktable.
Who's the government to say I can't sell sugar pills as the cure for cancer?!
I doubt it, considering that Microsoft only gives you 5GB of storage for free. Anyone with non-trivial amounts of documents will quickly blow through this. What the parent poster is talking about is probably the onedrive folder, which probably gets automatically set up when you sign in with your microsoft account.
This may change later when he might realize (hop not) that these guys don't return enough on investment. But maybe LLT is the one who will be popular enough, who knows.
Of course. Any engineer would solve it that way. And it ran just fine as a browser setting since the 1990s. But the EU isn’t run by engineers. It’s run by bureaucrats who try to save the web without understanding it. They’ve heard nothing of Chesterton’s Fence.
Most people using Windows probably already have an MS account. Those that don't may flee to Linux. But honestly I subscribe to Office 365, use OneDrive even on my iPhone, and enjoy Game Pass. It just doesn't matter that much. If anything having 2 factor auth for my computers is a benefit.

That said, I'm not a huge fan of it being required.
Notice our current president, or really any other major western leader, isn't condemning what Trudeau is doing.
I watched the Zuckerberg Senate hearings back in 2018. Transcript here [1].

I remember his answer on whether users are tracked when logged off. I mean the answer can really be a very simple Yes. But instead we got this evasion (I lightly cleaned up):

WICKER: One other thing: There have been reports that Facebook can track a user's Internet browsing activity, even after that user has logged off of the Facebook platform. Can you confirm whether or not this is true?

ZUCKERBERG: Senator — I — I want to make sure I get this accurate, so it would probably be better to have my team follow up afterwards.

WICKER: You don't know?

ZUCKERBERG: I know that the — people use cookies on the Internet, and that you can probably correlate activity between — between sessions.

We do that for a number of reasons, including security, and including measuring ads to make sure that the ad experiences are the most effective, which, of course, people can opt out of. But I want to make sure that I'm precise in my answer, so let me ...

WICKER: When — well, when you get ...

ZUCKERBERG: ... follow up with you on that.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/10...
Product teams don't do acquisitions. And thats not why that acquisition happened.
How to Use PostgreSQL with Node.js
Yep, I have a dock but use the laptop USB-A ports a lot for flash drives.

Why? Because my stereo and car stereo only support USB-A. Would rather use sd-card.
I use different machines differently.
I agree that inherently management isn't more valuable than IC-ness, but in terms of scope (which is one, though not the only metric for value) it's hard to argue that you have more scope than your manager. They're still responsible for what you're working on. Often more competent ICs are more independent, so this is a bit complicated since a manager of an independent IC can focus more effort elsewhere, but still.

The way I see this usually at places with strong IC tracks and levels is that an L7 IC is payed more than an L6 manager, but its uncommon for the L7 IC to report to the L6 manager. You usually, though not always report to someone more senior than you, and very rarely report to someone less senior.

Also its far easier for a people manager to increase their scope than for an IC to do the same, so in some sense the advancement path is more clear.
Show HN: Online S-Expression Formatter
Recently a bunch of S-expressions where thrown at me and I quickly wanted to indent everything for better overview.

My editor wouldn't do it and I could not find any online tool for just indenting and minimizing such S-expressions. Can't be too hard I thought, so I made a small tool for this, hosted on github pages. It has super minimal interface and performs all formating on client-side in Javascript.

May it be of benefit to some of you
If cryptocurrency bros hadn't made them ludicrously expensive, I'd have bought a new AMD based card by now to facilitate ditching Windows in the near future. Sadly, said bros continue to unashamedly make the world worse and show no signs of stopping.
Also missing is support for Pro Audio such as Nuendo and Dorico. If these would run on FreeBSD I would've swapped from OSX/Win years ago. At least there's some hope for Proton so gaming could work...
Really, who didn't see this one coming a mile away? Or did you actually believe that MS was now some kind of benevolent open source company that meant to do right by their users?
A manager of community development isn't even necessarily a people manager. That said, other people with a similar title at Facebook on LinkedIn do seem to be fairly experienced (although not really senior) so they may very well manage people.
Yes. This is very much about practical ethics rather than just theoretical philosophy of mind.
Case in point: https://twitter.com/austen/status/1494763916466872323?s=21
Well it's all a part of them trying to turn Windows into iOS like device management system, including the "family" aspect of app store and subscriptions.

When was the last time you used an iOS device without an Apple ID?
Just to clarify - are you calling cookie support a huge middleware framework?

Both BasicAuth and Cookie reception are features included in nearly every browser offering - it's generally how you actually check resource authorization that's the hard part of Auth - the actual technical "Get a cookie from a browser" and "Check the BasicAuth headers" portions are pretty simple - in fact getting a cookie is arguably easier in most cases. Especially since a popular serverside programming language (PHP) has streamlined session handling to the point that most programmers going from it to other serverside languages get confused when there isn't a $_SESSION equivalent that you just inspect with the tap of a button.
Recently I have been musing about a SlateStarCodex-ish "compensation systems very different from ours."

One is Oxide [0], which has uniform compensation across the board, explicitly with reference to this problem about how performance processes influence work and culture.

Another might be to take LeetCode-style interviews more seriously. We have already concluded that the most important criteria for whether we want to work with someone is their ability to solve algorithmic programming tests under time pressure. Why stop at initial hire? Maybe they got lucky with familiar material. Maybe they crammed and didn't actually internalize it in a stable way. We should probably be giving coding interviews continuously to existing employees. Further, since we have concluded that shades of interview performance are a good way to determine seniority and responsibilities, we could also use these continuous tests in place of the promotion process. Knock it out of the park? Congrats, you're a staff engineer now. Barely squeak by? Back to intern. It sounds facetious but it also addresses the "promo criteria distort architecture" problem and the "YOE isn't ability problem." The civil service is not too different. Officials get to the next level by passing written and oral exams.

Another might be to have stakeholders bid on talent per project. This would match e.g. the creative industry where teams are constantly created and disbanded, and your next gig is based on the department head or director’s assessment of the quality of your work or the experience of working with you in a previous project.

[0] https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...
I don't think microsoft ever gave away LTSC licenses for students. Education/Enterprise maybe, but not LTSC.
In case the downvotes are for language, "dick" is also slang for a detective, sometimes specifically a private investigator[0], which I infer the parent intended in their usage.

Which isn't to say it's never been used in a double entendre with its more common meaning. See, for instance, the theme to Shaft[1].

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-term-private-dick-for-a-pr...

[1] https://genius.com/Isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-lyrics
Cool, you've flatly refused to assist/present-to the client, and will now be-fired/lose-the-contract.

See why people need to connect to stuff other than what they personally own?
It's not just Reddit's "etiquette", it's the general direction where most social media comment sections are pushing their users via design and algorithms.

1. Click on the next thing in the feed.

2. Upvote/downvote.

3. Leave one-liner comment.

4. Got to #1.
How could a prison system ever really do that? It's a punishment. You learn that what you did before has consequences, not that it was wrong.

Rehabilitating someone with "radical" ideas would involve acknowledging and challenging their ideas. That's not how rehabilitation really works even in theory - most rehabilitation is taking criminals who aren't ideologically motivated and solving the much simpler problems of educating them so that they can work.
My first thought was wondering why this couldn't be partially implemented (i.e. the important bits like memoisation of idempotent, state-bound functions or contexts) in any other programming language.

Then I wondered if this was already implemented for some functional languages. Then I read your comment.

It was quite the ride.
Yes, we have this in my city too, and it works really well - I’d say 98% of scooters get parked in these places. The council leans on the hire company to incentivise good parking - seems like a solved problem.
>maintenance and DIY as desktop Linux does

That's what I like about my (l)ubuntu, I literally don't have to do any kind of maintenance or DIY. It just works. And it keeps working even when I don't restart my PC for months.
Here is a good example of legitimate entrapment from my province in Canada, matching your description very closely:

https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/16/14/2016bcsc1404.htm#Bo...
I've been reading some of your comments elsewhere in the thread--I think you're one of the few people commenting that has some serious respect for how kids actually think and behave. I'm curious for my own sake if you've ever read a certain pseudonymous psychiatry blog--you will immediately know what I'm talking about if you have, and if you haven't I'd like to ask how you learned what you did about child behavior and consistent parenting.
Careful with case. 1GB = 1 Gigabyte. 1Gb = 1 Gigabit.

Init7, the subject of this thread, supplies 25Gb/s, not 25GB/s.

And why are batteries being brought into the discussion? This is a fibre service, it only operates in fixed installations, where grid electricity is available.
You can't access stuff in the App Store without an Apple account. And there is a chunk of Apple software that's only available in the App Store. On Windows, I can't think of any worthwhile software that's not available outside the Windows App Store.
I always loved reading your articles and interviews. You never dumbed things down, which I’ve always appreciated.
I was quite saddened by the number of people who go to petra and only factor in a few hours, never going much further than the treasury. I appreciate not everyone has a lot of time in their itinerary, but that seems to be one part you should make the time for.

We had two full days there and it was such an extraordinary site to look around.

And I'm pretty sure there were about 5 "Best view in the world" :) Although all of them could make a pretty good claim to the title, it's a stunning area.
as you can see, humor is not tolerated on HN (, unfortunately)
>Only two places were unpolluted – Iceland and a Venezuelan village where the indigenous people do not use modern medicines.

Does Iceland do anything particular with their wastewater to make them not have this problem?
How does the web browser know if the website is under EU or US jurisdiction?
If only you could run your own code on the drive controller. Start obliterating data at random if the disk isn't initialized properly.
You have a yacht sure, but when did you last actually use it?

Your job is killing you, quit. Take time off, this is your only life don't spend it festering in the cafe across the road from your house. Go travel the world, go snort cocaine in Mexico and bang hookers.
GStreamer is so amazing! Probably the best way to do anything related to media.
Rhetorical question ahead: Wasn't this a conspiracy theory?What happened?

Well, short memory/attention span or straight out ignorance of the masses happened.When those ideas first circulated mainly by affected users noticing such practices(shadow-banning for example), those were the first to be burned at the stake.Then whistle blowers came and dropped some well intentioned crumbs first amongst circles of "techies", mainly anonymously.(it was much later on when 'actual proof' was given to the media outlets -- out of which the vast majority disregarded them --) Did not matter in the grand scheme though: employees were fired, media articles did damage control(>for< the company, most often than not; because a Company doing the damage control is partially admitting a degree of truth to the claim), and let's also mention the 'useful idiots' who believed the authoritative voices because 'history is written by the victors': which is now mostly a cyclic numbers game of how well one controls a narrative in the social network(/any other information channel).Considering the attacked entity is the social media platform itself, the discourse medium was inevitable advantageous and easily skewed for the platform to defend itself.The more principled either staid in the mud, fighting skeptics of the rumors, or moved platforms towards less censorious and/or anonymous places.Truth ultimately did not matter, the platform did the required divide & conquer to shift the attention.

It's really miniaturized politics, except it's actually worse: there's no democracy(well unless you're talking board of directors and such, but that almost never happens: such optics tank your stock).To quote the hypocritical statement of people who like authoritative voices and also 'like the free markets'[which by the way ideologically speaking is a contradiction, unlike you're by definition a fascist; Granted here we've substituted the authority from the state to the company itself]: "They're a private company, they can do whatever they want."; At the end of the day FB is already ~dead, and Zuck knows this.Some people (users who know the skeletons in the closet, the company, entities that use it to push their narratives) probably will continue to ride it out as long as the naivety of the vast majority continues.
Sure but it's still reaching out to a cloud service for auth info.

You swap "someone could steal my private key from SaaS" with "someone could upload an additional key to SaaS" which I guess just helps if you're reusing keys for unrelated systems?

I think Userify could potentially increase auditability by limiting key sharing but I don't see it actually increasing security assuming you can revoke/rotate shared keys.
Never again windows with Microsoft accounts. I have two windows 10 licenses, one home and one pro. I made the mistake of associating the licenses to my Microsoft account and now there is no way to move the pro license from the old PC to the new one. The Microsoft support site is a complete joke of unpaid chatterers that send you on wild goose chase, the web is full of SEO bullshit site that keyword-dance around the issue... Windows 11 for me is Windows Never, and I am well under to way to ensure that the 100 odd laptops at $company run Ubuntu next thank you very much.
>LTSC 2019 IOT is supported even longer but I have not tested it and it may have additional restrictions that make it not useable as a desktop OS (2032)

>LTSC 2021 is officially supported and updated for 5 years until 2027 (confusing I know)

LTSC 2019 IOT is supported for the same amount of time as LTSC 2019[1]. Maybe you're talking about LTSC 2021 IOT? That's the one that has 10 year support[2].

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-...
+1 yes! this got deep very quickly