skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have tried FreeBSD and OpenBSD on the desktop a couple years back, but for a while now I've felt that they're becoming irrelevant.

* No Bluetooth support on OpenBSD at all, and it never worked on FreeBSD for me. Linux used to have issues with some devices, but it has gotten much, much better over the recent years (or devices have gotten better).

* Wifi on Linux mostly works out of the box nowadays (with the exception of some Broadcom chips, but even they are getting better). Completely different story on the BSDs, while they have decent support for some vendors like Intel, they take quite a while to support new hardware.

* Gaming is not really a thing on BSD.

* Container tech like Kubernetes and Flatpak does not work on the BSDs.

While Linux has taken a long time to catch up to Windows (and still isn't there yet in some areas), I feel like the BSDs lack the manpower or interest to even keep pace with the world around them. Not only are things not getting better, they are getting worse.
How do you propose that people “retain control”? We leave copies of our DNA everywhere. Even if I were very careful, my relatives and potential descendants can leak enough information to piece my DNA together.
I feel that the partisan takes generally miss the larger picture.
vinod@ge..t.nl (currently getting error connecting to the network)
Quote: <<“She burned 40% more energy per minute in the math test and 30% in the interview,” Pontzer says. “Think about any other process that boosts your energy by about 40%.”>>

So that's why I became fat as a pig since I started freelancing more than 14 years ago. Because I'm no longer stressed in corporation bullshit politics and actually enjoy working with my clients. Stress free life means less energy used, means eating will get more food transformed into fat. Also probably why I didn't exceeded a certain number, I am at current weight for like a decade now, and I still eat like a pig but I don't gain weight anymore.

Seems is time to go run for politics, increase the stress in my life /s.
Just because they’re singing sweet songs now doesn’t mean they’re fundamentally different.

Frankly I think it's only because Google, Facebook, et al. invented new kinds of evil too fast for Microsoft to keep up that they seemed warm and fuzzy at all. They're still the company that force-upgraded users to Windows 10, and they're still the company that's requiring you to have a Microsoft account for future versions of Windows 11.
"Do not track" is exactly the feature you're talking about and already exists in all common browsers.

What it's missing is a reason for websites to comply, which is what a law could enforce.
I appreciate the intent here of making levels more transparent & evenly applied, but in practice this seems to be tying levels/comp to a demographic attribute people have no control over: their age. This makes me feel uncomfortable.
You spoke of one of my most annoying issues as a VPN user. Ultimately I resolved it by myself using a non-standard private IP range at home. Any IT person that might ever use 192.168.0.0/16 space for their VPN network is an absolute masochist.
Not sure how well this works out in practice, but if one drive returns a read error for a sector and the other returns the corresponding sector without an error, it should be a simple matter to trust the latter. Of course that assumes that storage corruption occurred after uncorrupted data was written to disk.

Modern drives have rather large per physical sector checksums to detect the occurrence of these errors and presumably retry a couple times before returning an I/O error if configured correctly.

In addition a good I/O bus should have error detection checksums for data in transit, and good hardware should have ECC RAM as well.
> This thread is specifically about Netflix work culture, as reflected in the old slide deck.

This isn't just about Netflix. The over-arching topic is company anti-values. The context has narrowed since then, first to Netflix, then to a specific slide about not measuring people by hours worked, and so on. But for the heck of it, some other quotes from said slide deck:

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

> Actual company values are the behaviors and skills that are valued in fellow employees.

> Honesty Always

> Pro Sports Team Metaphor is Good, but Imperfect

> Internal "cutthroat" or "sink or swim" behavior is rare and not tolerated.

Again, if the expectation for a workplace like that were 60-80 hours a week, and that fact is clearly and openly communicated, fine.

But if you're making those claims while your top performers are the ones putting in undocumented additional hours and pressuring others to do the same, then I insist that is toxic behavior. Yes, even if they don't brag about work/life balance, though I'll consider it even worse if they do.

> So yeah, it seems like we are in agreement :)

All sarcasm aside, no, we're definitely not!
If you are pro-athlete, I think you could, but 1kW is probably about max a human can burn for longer periods. I managed to output 500W for 5 minutes of rowing, but I'm overweight couch potato.
Have you tried 'Reduce motion' setting from the Accessibility preferences along with these: https://www.chriswrites.com/boost-your-macs-performance-by-d... ?
Came to say very similar things. Thanks for saving me this time.
I think perhaps DOS is still there
Okay, so is his claim that "nobody cared about my spreadsheets" is simply incorrect, because people cared very much about them, by pointing out that they are useless, because they are not doing causal inference ... or what's going on? :o
I think you need to account for human inefficiency. I have to burn more than 1 joule to output 1 joule on a bike. The average efficiency of a human on a bike is somewhere around 20 to 25%.
T-Mobile is actually one of the largest users of IPv6
Not sure if I am buying that excuse. I think they want to nudge people to make accounts and login. Really shady in case of Github and many other sides that are successful because of user content in my opinion.
As a newcomer here, well I am wishing everybody a happy birthday! :)
it's simple thermodynamics: your body needs to keep its temperature around 37C.
It needs energy for this.
Heat flows from high temperature (your body) to low temperature (surroundings)
via the contact surface (naked skin) or via via (clothing,...)
The energy that you lose via heat transfer needs to be compensated.
You burn food, fat, tissue,.... (I'm not a biologist, so I can't tell you in what order this happens)

Just try to lower the heating in your house in the winter and run around in a t-shirt iso a pullover.
Where Are the U2F Rings?
They are negotiating, desperately but Putin's terms are so unhinged as to be ingenuous:
"The Russian draft treaties call for NATO to remove any troops or weapons from countries that joined the alliance after 1997, meaning most of Eastern Europe, including Poland, the Baltic states and Balkan countries. It also calls for the U.S. and Russia to refrain from deploying troops in areas where they could be perceived as a threat to each countries' national security, and a ban on sending their aircraft and warships into areas where they could strike each other's territory. The treaty would also ban the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe."

Those countries that joined after '97 are largely ex-Soviet republics seeking succor. Poland would sooner draw a sword through its own belly than agree to the terms of a former autarch with 170,000 troops right at its belly.

Positioning 170,000 troops in a half-circle around Ukraine is not a recipe for diplomacy.
Absolutely.

Penn and Teller develop their tricks together. Two-seater attack aircraft are a thing. Rally drivers have a driver and a navigator. Apprentices are taught in part through pairing.

> Like standups and pointing, it feels like a patronizing exercise we only force on devs.

There's truth in that. On one hand, many of our practices is formalised problem solving under the (non-)constraints of software. Others are cargo culted, clueless, patronising and painful.
> Microsoft ... you never know what to bet on

For 20+ years! https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

> Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET – All New!
Meh. Who was living a more genuine life? A guy who grew up in a village sleeping on reeds and riding an elephant? I mean, I knew a guy like that. He wanted to move to the city for electricity, and to own a Playstation. "Genuine" in the way I'm using it means unfiltered interaction, following your intellectual curiosity, willingness and sometimes bravery to enter unknown territory. It wouldn't need to be described as "genuine" in other cultures because there's no artificial alternative.
Facism, not Nazism

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power"

"Corporatism became one of the main tenets of fascism in Benito Mussolini's fascist regime"
It's like discussing thought provoking topic while using the toilet. Just can't focus or do either things right.
This has happened. You can pick up an oculus quest 2 for $150-$200 on Craigslist in most major US metros.
- Computer Vision (if it’s not one’s core focus)
- App Analytics (must be GDPR-compliant)
- Observability Tools
- Mobile App Frameworks
- Component-Specific Firmware and/or Configuration Tools (because if I have to build it, then I’m gonna drink your milkshake)
Proxy icons have been brought back as an “accessibility” option in macOS 12 Monterey jsyk: https://twitter.com/getaaron/status/1415432451200008195
> UI consistency simply isn’t something they care about

While this is somewhat true (especially from Win8 onwards), one of the reasons you have "old-style" menu as a submenu is completely different: it is to make less calls to ContextMenuHandlers, used exactly for "all the third party items". It was a great addition in Win95. By the time of WinXP it was a source of many problems, but of course it was shitty Windows being shitty and not a 3rd party app problem.
https://archive.is/SBVl9
I generally agree with your take.

> Aren't code reviews and design reviews 1-to-1 as well? Or worse, n-to-1.

I think PR reviews can be a resource for other engineers on the team to learn from beyond just the PR author. Granted, I think pair programming can probably deliver these lessons more effectively since you can have a live conversation about it and clear up any confusion there.

>> In addition, most of these alternatives be done asynchronously.

> And this is better, because...?

I don’t know the author’s feelings here, but I think this makes some sense in the context of the rising popularity of remote work. It isn’t necessarily a given that you’re in a similar time zone to your teammates.

I’ve also been interested in the topic of async work throughout the pandemic, with companies like Gitlab and Doist as examples who also evangelize the practice. I’ve pushed for some of those async practices on my team at work but feel like we’ve had mixed to little success with them.

So I agree with your skepticism of “async is better”, even if there was some reasoning provided.
Didn't they actually recently recommend people disable direct Internet access and UPnP? I believe it was after a vulnerability was discovered in one of their legacy products.
God I feel old. Started reading HN in 2012.
I would not do it all the time, but I imagine one benefit could be that the whole team is on one page, when it comes to a central complex part of the application's logic.

Everybody is invested as everybody had (probably) their say and was part of the decision. Institutional knowledge is high across the whole team.

This for the cost of single threading the team. It is a business call and might be a valuable and valid approach in some cases.

I think it is a tool. A tool with a specific problem it solves. And if you use it all the time you are the worker that only has a hammer so that every problem looks like a nail (not you personally, but generally speaking).

Being a data analyst I remember great sessions of pair and team analysis of a specific data problem. Some sucked and were unproductive but most were great if facilitated well.
I had the same experience during my 20s that the TV was not essential to life. My day schedule used to be tied to the air time of my favorite show. Sadly internet happened and it's all downhill from that brief moment of enlightenment.
> Windows is an abomination.

An 'abomination' that over hundreds of millions of users are using everyday vs a microscopic fraction of that being used by virtually no-one but bots on the internet - which is Linux on the Desktop (also which 'Linux' distro).

Everyone knows Windows 11 is the best Linux Distro these days.
Are you intimate with the literature the way GP is?

I studied a different field (application of machine learning to brain-machine interfaces), but I would (and still do) regularly see completely mundane research presented as something groundbreaking by a person/institution seeking clout.

I've actually pointed out the bullshit a couple of times here, and received very similar responses to yours.

I think it's a case of cutting-edge, not-widely-deployed technology seeming really exciting to someone hearing about it for the first time, even if the research itself does nothing particularly new compared to a few years ago.
> That has always been Microsoft strategy [...]
> And there is very little coherence between applications.

I don't think that's an accurate statement, at least it felt a lot more cohesive back in the Windows 3.x to Windows 2000 days.

Sure you could write your applications in different languages, but they had one API for doing GUI, and they had lots of documentation on how applications should behave. As a result applications felt very cohesive overall.

Interestingly it was Microsoft who really started to go against their own guidance with Office. Suddenly a toolbar which was not part of the standard GUI API, which didn't look like anything native. And they've continued to push this trend, resulting in the current mess.
Its true, but it does indicate that there is a problem with our relationship between our online devices and the 'offline' world. Some terms to describe it could be Collective Screen Addiction of Cyber Stockholm Syndrome.
Salary based on your "experience" as measured by the number of years you survived sitting by the computer.

This is absolutely, fucking dumbest idea I ever heard.

Say you have two engineers that both have 10 years of experience, one is barely scraping by and one is working his ass off and significant contributor to the team.

They earn the same money and, more importantly, they both know it. And the team knows it. And the manager knows it.

Can you guess which one will feel treated unfairly and will start looking for a new job?

Imagine a good employee comes to you and says she is going to leave because she has been offered better salary somewhere else.

You have now only two choices:

1) break the commitment you made to entire company,

2) let her go.

You can also decide to promote her, but management is really a different job and you lost your team member anyway.

Over time your business will accumulate people who just barely passed your recruitment process and are just barely competent to avoid being let go.

If you think you will keep the better one just because you say some nice words and give them recognition token, guess again.

Let me explain what this means: it promotes people who sit idly by the computer (because they gain regardless of their involvement) and punishes people who actually give a shit and who try hard being better every day.

It punishes your business HARD. In most businesses, most progress is being done by small minority of employees. And now you are leaving gates open and saying you are not going to even try to keep them doing good job.
Hmm, I contemplated that at first but decided against it for some reason that’s not quite clear to me now, but I think I mispredicted its verbosity in both literal and compressed form.

For compression purposes, mine is going to be kinda like this:

‹M21 ›5‹H3v1h18›‹M21 ›11‹H3v1h18›‹M21 ›17‹H3v1h18›

Yours will probably treat only one block, slightly bigger, as a repeated thing:

M21‹ 5H3v1h18›m0‹ 5H3v1h18›m0‹ 5H3v1h18›

I expect that would compress 2–5 bytes smaller.

I’d lowercase that M, too; it doesn’t need to be uppercase, so it might as well be lowercase like the others!
The XBox dashboard and Office are other examples of React Native creeping in, and I edited the subject because the title isn't clear about the blog contents.
>The fibre contains an extra electron that acts like a shell, and the body has to expend energy breaking that bond to make it digestible.

I'm not a nutritional expert, but...this sounds like bro science. Do you have a source for this, or can someone who knows this better speak to it?
I think I agree with your general point, and specifically agree that that statement is targeted as "mainstream advice", and might not be literally true. However, one point of disagreement:

> I run > 100km/week pretty much all year round (most of it on extremely hillly trails) and despite my bad diet consisting mainly of pancakes, white bread, nutella, pizza, fries and burgers, I am not overweight with 78kg at 190cm.

That is not necessarily a "bad diet" for weight loss purposes. It's an unhealthy diet, but as long as you're not eating too much of all those foods, it won't make you gain weight. It's only bad because most people who are eating these kinds of foods will be eating too much of them (because they are much less filling for the amount of calories that they contain).
That’s what the French aristocracy thought about their masses too. The masses then executed the French aristocracy.
I recently spent a month offline (with the exception of where my job required). Internet addiction is something I have become much more conscious of in recent years and I found that the first few days are very much in alignment with the article. The problem is that after the initial buzz wears off there is still that innate tendency to dwindle time away and distract yourself just with other means.

Was I more focussed and aware, yes I would say so - but it's not as if I suddenly become super productive with this new focus all of a sudden and would pursue every project or idea I ever dreamed up in my head. What I found was that initially I become productive but it was more from the excitement of moving away from the internet. What happened after is that my mind found other ways to distract, some better than others; for example I read a lot more books than usual however I would also just spend time doing nothing at all or watching pointless TV. It was enjoyable to sit and actually concentrate on something for once. I spent more time outside and that initial anxiety of not know what was going on (FOMO) slowly started to fade as I realised the insignificance of it upon my life. I think the biggest difference though is that I felt happier without the internet in my life.

The return is an almighty crash, that proved the addictive nature upon me. My screen time shot through the roof, I tried to check up on everything I had missed, I felt shame at just how strong the grip was and how little control I had over it. It tapered off after a couple of days and I am better than I was before, more aware of the strong hold that looms over me. I try to use leave my phone away in the evenings to avoid that spontaneous reach for the next dopamine hit. It works, but I think I will do another detox for a longer period of time soon.

It's a funny thing, I think the internet has done wonderful things for me, it's certainly given me a fantastic career that I would otherwise never have had. It's given me a wealth of knowledge and entertainment over the years - but like most things in its nature it came with a hefty price.
> I wish people would read more Bourdieu.

Any good starting points?
Coasting can be compensated for by a "we're expecting you to be productive or we'll help you move on with our thanks & good will" policy. Make it easy for managers to fire and replace at market levels.
The above isn't an in-depth verification, but it's something most people can do, and enough to prevent the vast majority of scams.

Of course there is no protection from a dedicated attacker or someone who targets you specifically; I'm not suggesting there is a reasonably convenient protection in that case.

To answer your question regarding whether I really check, I followed a similar process when I was using a digital launderette earlier this week, and when I was renting a flat, I verified the agency's URL through checking out their shop window on Street View, apart from checking out the landlord and land registries. It is a habit that I'd expect everyone to develop.
Well, I'm not sure he had his marbles at the start, as he's always had that whole "unfeeling megalomaniac" vibe going.

Still, FB has been on the VR/AR kick since pre-Oculus acquisition. Merging that thrust into the now-popular "metaverse" buzz may be an effort to capitalize on marketing/branding as much as anything. And, the timing dove-tails with the clear beginning of decline in their (formerly) namesake business at a time when their "acquire to maintain relevance" strategy may be nearing the end of its utility. So, this may all be a rational response under that set of conditions.

But, this doesn't mean the "metaverse" is any more well-defined or meaningful on its own. And, it doesn't make me any less concerned about the idea of a world living inside Zuck's mind.
But it didn't, again begging the wisdom of the "Cookie Law" authors.
Sure but if you use the original title you don’t get karma e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30360119
It's so satisfying to see these streams getting massive attention and loving it when they must go through insane peaks of traffic but mostly trundle on with a smaller dedicated core. The raw passion is refreshing
Using Debian at work and on my personal laptop for at least 10 years now. Not missing anything.
As a private individual with the means, could I legally recover one of these cars? I am not saying it's worth it because it would not be but I want to know the legality of it.
In my expensive when yachts are wrecked/run aground and sinking it was free game in the Caribbean. Those things would get stripped before they are on the ocean floor.
I recently obtained an At-Home Covid test that stated it was 'the 1st ever app-assisted test' and using the app was compulsory. The instruction pamphlets were entirely focused on how to install and use the app and not a single mention of how to read the results beyond "removing human interpretation errors". Turns out, the stick produced TWO control lines(another 1st ever) and a third line would indicate a positive result. I dug up the ghosted replies to several deleted Reddit & Twitter posts to find the information to deduce the results... after fretting about my "positive" result. The manufacturer's primary concern was clearly stated in the included pamphlets, IMO: data collection.
> This report is commissioned via LSE Consulting
which was set up by The London School of
Economics and Political Science to enable and
facilitate the application of its academic expertise
and intellectual resources.

The foreword is "By Professor Nicola S. Clayton FRS FSB FSPS CPsychol FBPsS
Professor of Comparative Cognition, Department of Psychology,
University of Cambridge" and the focus seems to be on "welfare". Makes sense?

> In reviewing the relevant evidence, there are inevitably challenges, especially juxtaposing evidence from the field of comparative cognition,
where the emphasis lies in ruling out simpler
explanations for a given behaviour, response or
performance on various problem-solving tasks
with evidence from animal welfare, where the
question revolves around potential capacities
(such as the potential to experience pain).
Would such executions lead to laws prohibiting the sale of photos taken in public? Would that be a better outcome?