skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your sentiment. People like to complain about tools. The nice things about bash (and even sh) are that you can combine a bunch of simple tools together quickly because the syntax doesn't get in the way of it. The language designers didn't intend for people to be writing thousands of lines of scripts; they intended them to be using them locally and focused on interactivity. So naturally the syntax is nice for interactive work. It's a stretch to pretend that working with python paths is easier than working with shell paths, just like it's a stretch to say your bash machine learning library is better than a python one. The author should let things excel at what they're good at and stop pretending everything needs to be unified.
"They work on their kitchen counter on the 13" laptop screen on a hard stool... They work while the maid is doing the vacuum cleaning."

Thats not the case for any of 20 friends and coleaguea I know.

Every colleague I know (not counting interns, etc) has a equal or better setup than what we get in the office, from display to office chair.

I can understand how this was an issue early in the pandemic, when change was sudden. I can also understand how this could be an issue for some junior staff, who aren't paid enough to rent a home with enough space. However if we are talking well-paid bracket, working from home is cheaper than commuting, dining, etc. Especially if they can afford a maid.

It is fundamentally idiotic and wastefull to move millions of people every day into the office and then back out, through traffic jams, wasting resources, causing pollution and deaths through accidents. So much for capitalism being efficient.
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The post did mention this:

> We could run the bridge somewhere relatively safe - e.g. the user’s client

What is the advantage of having a server-side bridge then? Just do everything client-side.
As an adolescent around 1990, I burst my spleen in the final minutes of a school ski trip. Nearly bled to death as the school staff transported me home and left me in my living room to be found later by my parents nearly unconscious.

Anyway, I got to the emergency room that evening and there was much debate whether to remove my spleen. They decided not to and instead kept me hospitalized for 10 days and then out of school for 3 more weeks after that waiting for it to heal on its own.
Does an article in a non-English language belong on a site for an English-speaking audience? Just seems weird, like having an article about football in a basketry journal.

On a technical level, of course, it’s awesome that Unicode enables this kind of thing.
Thanks for this. It motivates me to finally get my Dymo label printer under Linux control. My last remaining use of Windows is printing out serial number stickers for my side project. The numbers are just plain text, so it shouldn't be hard to switch over, but seeing this work is a nice reminder to get it working.
My unit runs a web site that we sell subscriptions for and get grants to enhance.

As a developer I helped execute on that grant, which worked out really well so our odds are good to get the next grant. Subscriptions won’t get renewed unless we keep up the web site, keep putting data in it, etc.
It is interesting to contemplate how much of this problem is artificially induced by executives in suits screaming at people to "innovate".

Strangely enough, we don't seem to mess around with steering wheels in cars.
How is that any different from hibernation?
Have you seen the first episode of Halo, there are multiple outdoor scenes where you feel sure it's a recording than a CGI render. The uncanny valley is almost crushed
All my coworkers have better rigs at home.
I have a motorized sit/stand desk, aeron chair, climate control, ultra wide monitor, mechanical keyboard etc.
Decade of back pain has completely vanished since working from home.
Or a manager
Ask HN: Google using YouTube as 2FA even though I’m signed out
Recently my google account defaults to showing a prompt in YouTube that I have to accept. I am signed out within the YouTube app itself and no matter how many times I use authenticator code instead, it always defaults to YouTube.

Is this some new dark pattern I can’t get rid of? If so, this is by far the most annoying thing ever. Is there a way to complete remove Google from my life? (Although I use SSO for so many things)
Can't remember who said it, but Unix is a virus.
> I was hoping someone finally had a library or something to make python good at the things shell does well (mostly, running stuff and piping output around). If only.

I've only kicked the tires on both, but plumbum:

https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

and sh:
https://amoffat.github.io/sh/

both feel pretty good in that regard.
I agree.
For us, Sydney area equipment engineering company there are many that plan to go to the office for one or two days. Our leaders support this.
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How about you let me know when ordinary people use it for anything other than speculation? When a business would care about it shutting down because their customers can’t trivially switch to an alternative?

That’s the problem with multiplying the number of coins by the last sale price: it assumes a larger pool of buyers than we’ve ever seen. The number of people treating it as anything other than a lotto ticket isn’t anywhere near enough to support a valuation in the range of trillions of USD.
>social activities outside the home

I have no idea what you meant by this.
> Have you seen the photo of an ACeP rendering? Where do the "extra" colours come from, full-pixel-level dithering?

What do you mean "ACeP rendering"? Like artificial photo? I've seen ACeP at SID 2019 in real life and I could see from the zoom that there were only a small number of actual colors, less than 10 for sure.

> ACeP has subpixel complexity: every pixel contains many particles of all the four pigments. That is of course perfectly apt, further implementation constraints aside, to represent the full logical range of combinations within a single pixel.

Where do you see any statement that they can achieve "full logical range of combinations within a single pixel"?
Evolution's natural selection looses it's power after ones child reached maturity. It's now up to our frontal lobe to keep on improving our bodies.

With that said, it's possible that long life might have negative effect on resource availability which might affect procreation and child rearing, and might find shorter life-span more advantageous to survival of species.
I feel like the general use of accuracy assumes no false positives. When I hear "accuracy" in general conversation I assume it's 99% percent chance of a true positive and a 1% chance of false negative and ignore chance of a false positive and true negative when considering accuracy. Of course everyone already mentioned the various ratios that scientifically actually make up accuracy.
Yes!!!! I always get frustrated when ever it does the weird stretch thing as soon as you move around in street view. Just jump to the next frame of you have to.
If I'm not misunderstanding you you're saying there could be value, which I've never argued against. I'm asking if you have any evidence that there's currently any significant value created.
So if governments didnt sue you for violations of GDPR, but your users did so personally then the situations would be exactly idebtical and you would be happy?
2 million people a year are permanently injured from car accidents and 38,000 people die a year. I'm not willing any more to put myself at those kinds of risks for my employer.

And that's before we engage with the climate impacts, the waste of time, the idiotic open office plans, the interruptions, etc.

I'm not interested in compromise, I'm not buying anything about the entire concept.

We're going to split into different kinds of workplaces, and remote-only employees are going to go to remote-only/remote-first workplaces.

Large tech employers who want offices are going to have to deal with the fact that they're not going to be able to hire a group of tech workers that have those demands. Those employers would probably do well to consider spinning off remote-first divisions. That isn't my problem at all though, and "hybrid" is a hard no for me, and a lot of other people.

People are making decisions about their life. This isn't something that you compromise with them over, you don't actually have a negotiating position.

It does look like the people who want everyone else back to the office are now entering into the 3rd stage of Grief though (Bargaining).
A data point from my world, which is in Canberra (our capital) government world where security says that if you’re doing admin work - basically you’re using your elevated privilege account - you must be in the office.

8 of the 9 people in our database support team left because they just didn’t want to do this. They easily found other jobs without this requirement. We basically can’t hire anyone else because when they learn that they must come to the office, they lose interest.

And Canberra is fairly small and we don’t have a traffic problem worth mentioning. Getting to work is easy. People just don’t want to now that they know that they can work from home.
Exactly what I have been hoping to see as well. Analytical queries are a tad too slow for datasette, so I have had to materialize the more interesting roll-ups.
You are not wrong but the same can be said for PRC and USA companies. Mentioning that every time the products and services of these three countries are mentioned is not interesting.
This is actually fantastic. I finally can actually confidently say I understand the syntax of the port forwarding flags now.
Before I was very timid around it. Not really understanding what was going on.
TPMS often uses a lower frequency range which can travel pretty well.
Wait I thought the first game was developed in 2 years ... I must be wrong somehow.
This is not true. Jokes that take more than (say) an hour to tell are boring and thus not really jokes.
Consider the perspective that those corporations are almost uniformly dedicated to providing goods and services for citizens to consume, with a few outliers. The parts that nominally aren't are generally part of the control structures that anticipate what people are going to want to consume in the future and make it available.

Corporations producing less emissions is equivalent to consumers consuming less.
It's not just the impact of the commute. There's also the impact of all that office space which just sits empty ~14 hours out of the day. Of course not everyone has an office space at home, but rooms in a home can easily serve dual purpose.
From my limited vantage point in hiring, the overwhelming consensus among software engineering candidates is to remain remote. Even among those already in the same city as our home office.
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Australian here.

I work four days a week from home and one day in the office as a “team day.” Seems to work for us as software developers. Team day is not mandatory but everyone makes an effort to rock up and socialise a bit.

My wife is an optometrist and will continue to work from her practice 5 days a week.
For those who bought one, is this the correct product page? I couldn't find any links on the github - https://www.aliexpress.com/i/1005002722811359.html
Agreed. I have a lot of respect for programmers of that era. Nowadays 3d engines are so complex that it probably takes a lot of practices for someone to reach the level of UE firefighter: https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/17/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...
It must have got unbanned because i'm watching WION live feed right now on my google/tcl tv.

This was basically a warning from the US -- keep reporting views which could be seen as not-sufficiently-pro-America/Ukraine/West, you're off the air just like that.

Self-censorship takes over from there.

...ah, i guess they're 'just' stopped from uploading new videos and things like that. banned for 7 days. this started days ago - wonder why they didn't mention it earlier.

i was actually thinking about asking this today here -- how do y'all (people of HN) hear any other opinions? like, i hear hippie/indie stuff from the US, like democracy now, and independent analysts on youtube or elsewhere, like videos with chomsky or giannis varafoukis, etc., but....i try really hard to find this stuff.

"youtube cannot double-block us, so we're playing that video (of sergey lavrov's statement) again."

USA serious about that free speech!
This reminds me that whole thing where some study showed a comparison of average daily alcohol consumption and showed that "moderate" drinkers actually had lower mortality than those who don't drink (obviously heavy drinkers had _much_ higher mortality).

Little did anyone seem to realize that people who don't drink may be abstaining for health reasons and thus may be more likely to die / get sick regardless.

But it was sure great for the booze industry.

https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2022/01/31/no-amount-of...
Should we blame the truckers rally in Ottawa?

https://theweek.com/protests/1010216/freedom-convoy-trudeau-...
Using NFTs for generating concert tickets or supply chain logistics & tracking seems like it could be economically viable. I'd bet the biggest use case for NFTs at present is money laundering. It's hard to imagine someone having the talent to acquire $800,000 yet still being gullible enough to spend it all on a hyperlink of a hand drawn monkey with the expectation that they bought an appreciable asset.
We're not just consuming news here, we're a discussion board.
I agree with both arguments.
I have been working from home since March 2020. Maybe 30 days in the office since.
I do like it most days, sometime life at home gets in the way of productivity but these days exist in the office too.
I do also like to not be exposed or infected with Covid19 or sneezles.
But at the same time I do want to stress that the amount of covid Australia had is still very very little to what other countries go through and it has affected me only minor. (Yes I do consider myself lucky on that part and know that others have been affected very much so).
I couldn't tell you why the CI is accepted long-term, but the penetrating electrode arrays like the one in the article actually puncture the surface of the brain with tiny needles and cause the surrounding tissue to scar/calcify.

There are non-penetrating arrays that sit just above the brain (avoiding this problem to a large degree), but they don't have anywhere near the precision of the penetrating sensors.
How much of a minority matters though. There is a big social and economic difference between (number made up) 5% of jobs and 37% of jobs. Even if it never goes higher, that takes remote from a rare and exotic thing to a full third of the work force.
Hey, it worked for recycling. Can't blame them for trying.
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What I've seen is reducing quality available for older versions/protocols - so yeah, it will stay play but you won't get the highest bitrates without upgrading.
I think that Kapersky employs some of the best security researchers in the world, and I think they're fundamentally under the thumb of the untrustworthy Russian government. You can claim the same about the US, you can believe the same about the US, but for most US persons and large corporations the threat of the US government is substantially smaller than the Russian.

Russia is right now a rogue state. Rogue in the definition of "cut off from the rest of the world", whatever else you think of them. The repercussions of hostile actions towards their customers were tempered by their effects on global geopolitics, but that's no longer a threat now that everyone is hating on Russia already.

Whataboutism has it's place, but practically the threat model has to be evaluated with perspective. US corporations see Russia as a threat. They do not see the government as the same form of threat.

I'm personally of the opinion that the best antivirus is no antivirus, for certain.
Didn’t it also have to do with how people who can afford frequent wines were wealthier and thus less stress and other problems?
Other than my home internet sucking, all of the things you mention are worse at the office.

I pay daycare to keep the kids in a separate location. Good luck trying that with coworkers.

We were a partially remote team pre-pandemic, but there aren't enough meeting rooms / phonebooths in the office buildings. I'd miss an hour or so of meetings / work per week trying to find a meeting space for a zoom call. My home internet craps out of a meeting about once a month. It's clearly superior than the in-office situation, with triple redundant 10-9s internet, but no chairs.

My 30 year old, $100 office chair is better for my back than the uber expensive and stylish chair that I lifted from the office. The expensive chair broke mid pandemic, fwiw.

I work in a gilded crown jewels office building, so it's not a budget issue. It's a facilities / management failure, but pointing that out is forbidden.

It has been like that in most of the companies I've worked in. The only exceptions were office buildings that hadn't been "upgraded" yet.

There is an uproar among the employees!

It is always ignored because the decision makers would have to admit complete incompetence before listening to feedback.

Industry-wide, the vast majority of employees are saying they'd prefer renting / buying a home office on their own dime (and would even take $10K's in pay cuts, on average for permission to do it!)

However, industry-wide, management still thinks cube farms are providing positive value.
The crucial difference between your policy and a total WfH policy is the ability to recruit anyone from a ~50-mile radius versus anyone from the Australian continent. The quality of applicants you get from a total WfH policy will dwarf whatever benefits you get from one in-person day.
Yeah, but nobody's targeting Python 3.0; I think the point was that the Python crowd is likely to exclusively target current versions and lean on 3.6 and under being officially EOL.
This is a good ARM sponsored textbook on "Operating Systems Foundations with Linux on the Raspberry Pi":

https://www.arm.com/resources/education/books/operating-syst...
having a hard time being sold here.

mkdir -p would create the directory without error. checking if a directory exists is trivial before creating it. Python throws an error if the path given to os.mkdir exists too.

This article is way too long to digest, so i should stop now.

Perhaps the argument should be, rewrite hacky things in bash as programs and build them into your apps?
> In short imagine Java or C++ objects, but they can live in a soup in a persistent database.

AllegroCache still exists today. So at least Lisp people don't have to imagine that. I wonder if that is one of the reasons why CL people in the 1980s came up with UPDATE-INSTANCE-FOR-REDEFINED-CLASS.
I'm with you on this. I would love to be able to connect with ancestors I barely or never met, even if it only captures a fraction of their essence.
I worked on this for a while but Microsoft holds a pretty broad patent on this concept, which scared me off.
I honestly don't care that much if people want to put political messages in and amongst their code. The maintainer of SQLite is a devout Christian and had "the Rule of St Benedict" from the 4th century.[0] Or the person known as "Ciro Santilli," who has a bunch of anti-CCP content in various repos.[1] (I've actually considered putting some of his content into my repos as a sort of "kill switch" targeting CCP theft and misappropriation of copyright.) I fully endorse both, even though they earn me no brownie points, nor are they likely to convert the world to the one true faith nor overthrow a murderous, totalitarian regime. The only differences are that my opinions are a minority among the community, and that I simply wouldn't let the hashtag activism detract from the product. I'd certainly let people opt out of the banner, and would probably set a cookie to remember the preference for a while.

[0]https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

[1]https://github.com/cirosantilli
Do you know of any "common language"-like (e.g., Python-like subset/DSL) that compiles to sh, to enable `curl -sSL https://tool.example.org/install | sh` use-case.
I'm pretty sure the porn industry will find many uses to this technology
Bitcoin isn't POSIX, it's UNIVAC.
I do not support banning things but Zee Media, who owns WION, is known for extortion, spreading fake news and right wing propaganda in India.
If you are running a 10-year old version of python 3, and you try and install some recently written python 3 application, it will never work - you'll be stuck in dependency hell, even getting pip to run may be a challenge due to outdated certs or TLS versions.
That's so beautiful. I especially love how syllables are encoded as single symbols. Phonetic writing systems are amazing and this one is especially neat.

But... as a parent of a kid with dyslexia... I can't imagine teaching him this alphabet: he'd be shooting in the dark on vowel choices. After many months of deliberate effort, he can distinguish d/b from p/q but within those groups, he's completely lost. Sometimes, I've learned, beauty of symmetry comes at a cost.

One symbol im the title stands out: ᐦ appears to be missing from that chart -- any chance you know what's going on there?
I don’t think it’s the corporations. Ultimately it’s the Earth that’s responsible for 100% of global emissions. We have to stop the Earth.
It would not.
“Haskell also does type erasure as far as I'm aware.” It’s not exactly an applicable term. Indeed Haskell doesn’t let runtime bother with a lot of information that it can provably dispense of. But there’s no laxity tradeoffs as in Java, Haskell won’t let you use a wrong type in a container
It's not uncommon for corporations to pay money in bribes because in many countries it's a cost of doing business; it would be otherwise impossible to get anything done.

If a company is required to pay, say, $3,000 to a corrupt official to pass a checkpoint and get access to an area where they have some business to tend to, then scale that economically to a multinational conglomerate like Microsoft who might do business in that same area 35 times in a week for various reasons and the amount of bribe money flowing out of their coffers increases to scale.
For me being productive means that I can get stuff done in less time, hence I have more time for taking care of myself and my family.
I have some bad news for you, from a long, long, long time CS/EE/Sysadmin person:

I can probably run my bash script on every linux I ever touched.

I can probably have that python code break on half of the linux boxen I use. This one does not have module X installed. This one is too old, this one is too new, this python is not holding its mouth just at the right angle to work.

Yeah, bash bash all you want. I have pulled out scripts decades old and run them. I can not say the same for other things I have written.