skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal order of preferences is Linux - Mac OS - Windows.

But as you have discovered it isn't just the OS, but also the corporate infrastructure that makes it far easier to go with the majority. When I work in Windows environments I just call IT support to fix problems. Rather that than me muck up something. If they do, then it's on them.
Dropdooms How Binding an Unbounded Reference Table Can Kill UI Performance
I believe Workspace is tracking-free? At least their privacy policy says they do not use Workspace data for advertising.
For several years I was an avid notepad.exe + plain text files practitioner for capturing any note but have switched to using https://notable.app for capturing any adhoc notes.

It has the same in spirit & benefits of maintaining plain-text .md files in a static directory but has all the niceties of rich markdown, embeds, attachments, search and metadata captured in .md frontmatter to organize and tag notes with categories + pinned notes in a minimal, focused UI. I've tried many note taking apps but it's been the only that's stuck & replaced notepade.exe for me.
How is Go lower level than C#?
Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (2013)
Can’t public keys be distributed for email, as with any other service: trusting an authority?
The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin
If you're having the non-compete enforced against you by a Hedge Fund, there's a good chance that 65% of your total compensation is in the form of bonuses. So getting "just your salary" would amount to a 65% pay cut.

On the flip side, you're still getting paid 6 figures to relax, recharge, travel the world and have fun. I would personally love it. But my ex-colleagues feel very differently
I am not Indian. Hope that helps explain.
Not exactly sure where the real cutoff might be, that too probably varies with the curriculum, but generally yeah. Either someone gets something or they don't, and if someone gets how to do the work they can be taught and thus will at least do OK learning most other things they care about.

If someone doesn't get how to do the work, but does care, that's probably a medical defect. Hopefully we can treat that someday, if not today. Getting lead out of the pipes and similar efforts would sure help.

If someone doesn't care, that's entirely another matter and we should be more introspective as a society about how to fix it. That's more a political problem than a science problem.
I use full on custom profiles for stuff like banking, shopping, etc...
and containers within the profiles to separate amazon from walmart, etc.

edit: I probably should have mentioned, this is on Firefox
Ugh, I think this is the curse of Internet comments, where you can never include enough disclaimers.

I knew this (correct) case would be made as I was writing my comment, but thought I could avoid including a sub-clause to deal with this topic.

So yes — I know folks like this too and fully acknowledge the skillset involved. Some of those folks have a deep skillset and yet don’t have any particular knowledge such that a noncompete would make sense to keep them from spreading it.

Per my comment I don’t like noncompetes — but I do think that this is the thinking that was used to define policy around this.

I also do think that there is an exclusion zone, whereby folks are either:

- Non-specific and not affected by this materially.

- Highly skilled and /would/ take material privileged information with them.

- High skilled and /would not/.

I suspect the last category is just elided in the thinking that led to this coming to be.
VSCode is really frustrating lately, I debug all day long and the IDE just randomly shits a brick, or hangs, or just stalls, the vim plugin just loses its shit once in a while do ruining your undo's.

MSVC was (is) by far much better overall (I only pull it out now a days to analyze crash dumps though). Heck in vscode you can't really see variables in C++ or examine memory, or set memory change break points, but really 90% of developing doesn't require any of that, so vscode just keeps growing in use.

I do love me some GDB though, when I'm developing on *nix anyway.
Git. Seriously, git is, depending on your data model, possibly the best delta compression and sync model you can find. There pitfalls and sync issues to consider, but if it's just going to be published by one authority, git is a great solution.
Even if the pre/post install hooks are removed, you can still execute code in the source code files using some exec command. Doesn't catch as many people out, but anyone running an app locally has given it permissions to your shell.

This is the same problem for Go and other package managers right? I guess the best defence is some npm install alternative that runs a check against a trusted registry of modules that have been audited. Does that exist already?
Is reality a hallucination? The neuroscientist Anil Seth thinks so
> Can someone elaborate why Dark Soul is actually fun to play

Enemies actually feel real, actually feel like they're making their own smart choices, instead of merely being pylons for the super powered player to knock over.
> In ethnic prejudice, there’s no clearly defined interest.

> Ethnic bias is bad, but it’s not a conflict of interests.

Okay, so - for sure, if you're from an opposite "frictioned background" and you can interview someone neutrally, you should be able to.

But if you have an ethnic prejudice, you literally have an interest against the person you are interviewing.

> But when a conflict of interest arises, the next questions are “when did it begin?”, “when will it end?”, “how big was it?”, and “can we mitigate it somehow?”

(one example)
> when did it begin?

hundreds of years ago

> when will it end?

not soon

> how big was it?

the US literally fought an entire war over it

> can we mitigate it somehow

Yes, by having a variety of people from different backgrounds interview the candidate.

That wasn't that hard, was it?
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Will the Optimists Triumph Again?
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I got rejected by my dream company a few weeks ago. Seeing the rejection letter first thing that morning crushed me.

I was at a friend’s place that morning and I excused myself to go home in the afternoon. They understood that I needed time alone. While at home, I tried to not distract myself with any kind of work.

While surfing through YouTube, I stopped, switched off the TV and just stayed with myself for a few moments. Tears ensued. I started grieving the loss just like one would grieve any other.

10 minutes later, I felt much better. A day later, I didn’t think about it nearly as much.

Find out how you like to grieve and make yourself the space to do so. It helps immeasurably. Lightens the burden.
Same. I use pretty much every feature of the remarkable 2. My favorite product in a decade
No one deserves. Humanity should strive to abolish the scourge of disease and death.

I hope Microsoft is able to contribute to efforts to utilize machine learning to create novel gene therapies for these kinds of congenital disorders.
California has long banned non-compete agreements.
You've made my day! Thank you!
They democratically joined Russia, because of the US sponsored coup d'état. It seems HN readers only believes in democracy when their bombing helpless countries. Ukraine crisis could have been prevented if only the west have common sense but no, the profit on wars and it's so sad to see.
Cool.

Would be handy if the main page indicated which games were mobile capable so you didn't have to click through to find out.
I think Miyazaki's games are great and I enjoy them myself, but the continued (even in this article, somewhat) framing of accessibility features as ruining the artistic vision of hardship is a little disingenuous at this point. Many disabilities make games several times more difficult than they are for people without them, and a difficulty slider or increased stats help level the playing field so that the games can be of equal relative difficulty for all players.

It's on FromSoft to own the fact that sticking to their stance on accessibility features means they are choosing to exclude players who didn't get to choose what they are and aren't capable of. I think that tarnishes the meaning of their works more than the risk of someone making the game "too easy" does.
According to the license, you can't use it commercially without the commercial license, and I think the license is very clear that work related notes are included in commercial definition:

> You need to pay for Obsidian if and only if you use it for revenue-generating, work-related activities in a company that has two or more people. Get a commercial license for each user if that's the case. Non-profit organizations do not need commercial licenses.

https://obsidian.md/eula
Simulator has never supported hardware acceleration for OpenGL ES. It is no different on an Intel Mac. Only Metal in Simulator runs on the GPU. This includes WebGPU if you're using Safari.
But is RISC-V somehow superior to ARM soo much that ditching their ISA and switching to RISC-V is their only way to survive. Is there anything specific about RISC-V that would ARM to make significantly more efficient cores (and I don’t think that there is any evidence that this would be the case). Because if not it would an exceptionally bad move for ARM to do (basically like Intel deciding to ditch AMT64 to make ARM or Risc cpus.
Hmm. I guess this is the rub of https://xkcd.com/2347/ ("Dependency"): narratives along the lines of "half the world's infrastructure depends on this random tiny support column maintained by one specific super-smart individual in their spare time (give them more money)" can make for fun junk food to feed our inferiority complexes, but that kind of sentiment rings of a distinct positivity and optimism when compared to how that same infrastructure can wind up on life support by (perhaps unwitting) incompetents who find themselves with noone to give account to because of the entrenched position they've wound up in in the woodwork.

I guess the moral of the story to me (TIL) is that there really is no limit to the places that Hanlon's razor (do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity) can pop up in the most cognitively-dissonant ways :v
https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/

Not legal but this is pretty trivial to do … a few bits of wire and a very cheap Chinese radio.

Other options are ham radio … hopefully the ham community will help with message relays.

Although from a safety perspective it’s trivial to triangulate transmissions and they could be come a target for attack.

Anyone transmitting, using satellite phones or starlink type devices should be aware of the additional risks.
I'd argue that inflation is further reducing the cost.

Inflation means that $1 is fundamentally less valuable in the future than it is right now. If we're making a deal for me to pay $1 in the future, I'd prefer to make that $1 payment as far out as possible.
Ukraine's (and any country's) agency is beside the point. Russia made clear that it considers further Nato expansion an existential threat. Idealistic fantasies about what's right and wrong disappear like smoke when someone (or some country) believes it is fighting for its existence.
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I am also Indian and I mostly worked in EU. And for me, it came as a surprise, probably in EU, I am surrounded by less Indians!?
1. Focus on a simplified version of a real problem you had to solve at your current job (MIN(arbitrary))

2. Needs to be explainable in 1 page with example data (MIN(completely))

3. Needs to not require any complex interaction. No web request, no complex libraries, just a unit testable piece of code. (MAX(impl speed))

4. Make it fun and something you and all your coworkers could easily do.

This has been my approach and it's been a good filter. If it's done before the interview have them come in and add a feature. Make sure they bring a machine with their prefered IDE / editor to maximize similarity to their real programming flow. Offer to do something else while they code so they don't feel "watched"
> ... when emphasizing race to the degree that these academic institutions are ...

There is a fairly classic manoeuvre where the elites feel threatened by the middle class, so they form an alliance with the lower classes to fight them. Eg, a lot of tax & spend policies make it harder to accumulate wealth in the middle class but the very wealthy can shield themselves.

If Asians are not benefiting from being a racial minority, I do wonder if admission policy is focused more on race or more on excluding people who look middle class. I see some mention of Harvard. The point of Harvard is to politely set up the next generation of leaders. Not educate the masses.

Possibly the article offers a view on this, but it is paywalled.
Is Socket open source? Can I run it locally from the command-line?
Oh that's particularly brutal after days with repeated letters.
I also enjoyed Skyward very much, I read it with my kids at the same time and they loved it.
Amazing product -- I wish you all much success!
Lavish Roman mosaic is biggest found in London for 50 years
> A pat on the shoulder might be a friendly greeting—or a search for a sacred thread that some dominant-caste Hindu men wear beneath their shirts

I'm a non-dalit Indian working in silicon valley. I know that caste based discrimination is still prevalent in India and not surprised that it continues in here in silicon valley as well amongst Indian community but I'm surprised to read this part in the article. I have never heard of someone doing a scan for sacred thread. Also, it's worth noting that most non-dalit people also do not wear this sacred thread so whoever is doing this scan isn't familiar with India or probably this part is made up in the article.

That said, I know that it's much harder for a dalit person to progress in India as the society still tries to pull them behind. Indian govt has reservations in colleges and jobs for dalit community, which I believe has helped the community a lot in last 50 years or so, helping many to bring their families out of poverty. But, still there's a long way to go. Also, a long way to go for non-dalit community to abolish this discrimination.

My heart goes with our dalit brothers & sisters and glad to hear that their issues are being discussed in silicon valley as well now.
Birthrate may play a role too, turns out.
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/russia-as-the-great-sa...
I made a crude proposal for generics in 2011[1], in which I proposed a pair of concepts ("storage class" and "type class") that are somewhat similar to the concept of this "gcshape".

I proposed it as a compromise between full monomorphisation and runtime code generation.

[1] http://oneofmanyworlds.blogspot.com/2011/11/draft-2-of-propo...
> The fact that when prices go down, consumption increases is just basic microeconomics. This is not evidence that removing IP would increase scientific progress or well-being.

I think you have misunderstood my intent. I am not saying that increased consumption is evidence that we should eliminate patents. I am saying that reduced price of functional 3D printers is a sign of increased innovation. Actually I saw the innovation first hand in the user groups and mailing lists, and I am using the price as an indicator of what I saw.

My point is that we would see more innovation if we eliminated patents and intellectual property restrictions. This would have the effect of lowering prices for things which I think is great, but my point is that patents don’t even do what we are commonly told they do. We are told they increase innovation but in my opinion there was far more innovation in 3D printing once the patents expired.

And it’s no surprise. The only thing a patent actually does is restrict innovation. That is the single function of a patent. The story we are told is that by allowing a government decree to issue monopolies on ideas, there will be more profit in new ideas, leading to a net increase in innovation. But in my opinion this process so significantly restricts follow on innovation that the whole thing ends up being quite counter productive.
Show HN: Mutate – A library to synthesize text datasets using Large LMs
Simulator support for GPU rendering is far from trivial so it isn't about "bothering". Metal jobs are packaged up along with shaders and proxied out to the host macOS Metal framework. Textures are backed by IOSurfaces which do some fancy Mach memory mapping tricks to share memory between your app in a simulator, the macOS side of Metal, and sometimes GPU memory (on Intel Macs with discrete GPUs). For the most part this is transparent to you and works even when Simulator vNext is running on macOS vPrevious.

The vast majority of developers are using higher-level system frameworks, an engine that has a Metal renderer already, use WebGPU, or use Metal on Apple platforms.
> , i.e outside of the IT and programming field, is posted, the number of people, who clearly have ZERO understanding of the subject matter, try so hard to sound smart

It's the same thing with respect to IT and programming articles too, most programming articles that hit the front page have a bunch of comments explaining why the author is the problem with programming today and the technology they're discussing is not useful and all the best shit was invented in the 70s and there's no been no progress since lol.
I've used Java's debugger to do "live" UI editing on Android for around a decade now. Far in advance of first-party support / live-updating things being popular.

Just set a timer to call back to the main thread every 100ms or so. When you get to the point in an application where you want to make changes, put a breakpoint in that callback. When it pauses, pop open the expression editor and start changing the UI. Make some views, adjust some values, etc.

When you want to see the results, hit "continue"; it'll release the main thread for about 100ms (more than enough time to re-layout and render), then you'll be back in the debugger for another round of changes. You can hack up a full, polished-looking and often working UI in a couple minutes, and then just print the whole tree to get a snapshot your work.

That same strategy works in basically any language with GDB support, in many, many UI frameworks, if the connection is sophisticated enough to call functions.
College admissions and hiring are not zero-sum games. It's possible to provide good education and good jobs to everyone, according to their ability.

Elite status is the real zero-sum game, because it's exclusive by definition. Elite universities don't provide substantially better education than those dedicated to educating the masses. They are elite because they offer elite status and opportunities for networking with the future elite.
That's a leading question.

I live in a town that's associated with progressivism, and know a lot of people who would not object to being called progressives. Honestly I haven't heard anybody endorsing discrimination against Asians, much less justifying it.
Show HN: I built Voggle, a word game more challenging than Wordle
It's discrimination any way you slice it. You can't lower the bar for one person without raising it for another so long as the class sizes remain the same. If elite universities are about providing education (a valid point of critical contention), then systematically barring Asians from entry is the same class of injustice litigated in Brown v. Board of Education. It's not enough to say you can learn calculus just as well at the University of Massachusetts.

"Here we find our first indication of the strength of preferences for underrepresented minority students. African-American students have nearly an 80 percent better chance of being admitted than their white counterparts, while the Hispanic advantage is reflected in almost 50 percent higher odds compared to whites. By contrast, Asian applicants and those from other races face lower odds of admission on the order of 17 or 18 percent—in relation to comparable whites."

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/tje/files/...
You can definitely do most if not all of that with WinDBG (which is distinct from the Visual Studio builtin debugger). The problem is there doesn't seem to be as much resources around learning how to use it. There are a ton of old hats at MS who know how to perform all sorts of wizardry with WinDBG.
You might not be into the medieval-ish theme of Dark Souls or Elden Ring. I know I wasn't for awhile. You see it and you instantly think Skyrim, the Witcher, or any number of other similar looking games.

I would check out Bloodborne. It has a Lovecraftian horror vibe going on. The environments are simply incredible. Not to mention the music and sounds. There is also Sekiro, if you prefer samurai and old Japan.

> Can someone elaborate why Dark Soul is actually fun to play

The fun part comes when you successfully defeat a boss you've attempted ten times. In addition, the exploration of the world is great. You generally progress down a path for a while and eventually unlock shortcuts back to your "safe" points (bonfires, lamps, etc.). If you die, all enemies respawn. That sounds stressful, and it can be. If nothing else, this game teaches you resilience. Not many AAA games are willing to stick it all on the line like that. Most games offer easy/medium/hard options. Not FromSoft.
>>> from the same part of India

being from the same part of India does not mean they will be of the same caste.
Aprs messages sent to SMSGTE can be routed as SMS messages …
> what "professional staff to executive and management personnel" means in practice

We'll find out when the first company tries to enforce and the court defines "professional staff".
I use Tiddlywiki. It's end-user controlled, and works in any browser. I think it usually flies under the radar in these discussions, but it's really surprisingly powerful, I've found. It's the data and tools in a single HTML file, which makes it uniquely resistant to bitrot. There's a bit of a learning curve, though.
Ok but you're just repeating "It's inefficient" and not saying in any way for what use is its inefficiency even noticeable. I want to reason about when I would care. You see?

The first link didn't even have units on its numbers(!) I assume they're milliseconds. When does that scale become something one would care about at all? Not launching a gui process. Not a shell pipeline. So when is this issue arising at all? What is being done that makes fork inefficiency anything other than academic interest. Must be something, right? Forking webserver?
I'm pretty sure secretaries know a great deal about their boss's business. It behind that, I assume executive staff can transition industries a lot easier than most employees.