skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those people can deal. I dealt with their preferred work environment although I didn't love it.
My advice would be for him to identify specific applications of programming that interest him and then focus on identifying the skills he'd need to develop expertise.

One approach would be product or industry specific. Maybe he'e really intrigued by applications of GIS and that could lead to exploring specific companies in that space and the talent they need.

Another would be open source. Maybe he's really interested in databases and could dive deep into that part of open source and find out what things he wants to do.

No guarantees with either route, but the older you get, the worse the odds are if you are just a person with programming ability like many others.
Yup. I see a lot of "cooking for engineers" engage in this sort of false precision. In truth, for a huge number of recipes, you can dramatically vary ingredient amounts with no major consequences. And even in baking people overstate the needed precision. Even if you weigh flour in grams, your eggs are imprecise and your mixing technique is imprecise and your oven temperature is imprecise and the times listed are imprecise (have you ever seen a recipe say "bake for 22 minutes and 15 seconds").
See also both Windows 3.1 and the “DOS extenders” used to build applications that were launched from DOS but ran in protected mode with additional facilities.
I had a similar thing a few years ago only with the police and a speeding ticket.

Before me, the car was owned by my then-partner, who had just moved from the UK to California. I was to sell the car on her behalf, and the registered owner being in a different country is a really suspicious warning sign so we changed the ownership to me so I could sell it more easily.

A week later, I did sell it, and did all the relevant change-of-ownership paperwork again.

Six months later, the police sent me — not my partner, not the new owner — a speeding ticket. It took more than one go for me to prove I didn’t own the car.
I believe that this is a key aspect of data-driven leadership, and the Friday meeting that Google founders started and many other companies imitated: make it easier for employees to argue against decisions. No organisation is perfect, or even good, so any effort to make complaints louder, clearer, more structured is incredibly valuable. One grostesque example of where that chain of information is broken is how Customer service teams are isolated.
So long as the year is clearly stated, I do think reposts are a bad idea on HN.

There have been plenty of old articles that I've seen for the first time in a repost.
Userspace typically makes people assume a security model, Ring 0/3, etc.

I think of an Operating System as something that provides a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and system calls to take advantage of that hardware. Drawing on the screen without knowing the details of the video card, file io without caring about IDE/SCSI, etc.

If it runs other programs but those programs still need to take direct control of the hardware then the OS is just a glorified boot loader.
What kind of questions do you see people asking on this app, such that they’d only post anonymously? How about for answers?
I prefer to measure powders by mass, liquids by volume. Butter is weird, since it's a solid but has a pretty consistent density, so it's easy to just cut off the amount needed. It's very rare that a precise amount of butter is necessary, so it's faster to use volume for it than it is to shave off slices onto a scale.
I would say that it is quite specific.
I did something similar for a while with Soylent. It was fine. Good for a time even. I eventually got sick of it. I'm not sure if it's just me but eventually if I'm eating the same thing over and over I tend to get disgusted by it.

If I ate my favorite meal 150 days in a row I would start to almost feel ill looking at it. I just need more variety.
This is very unlogical:

Gov creates money not the banks. They do have operational costs.

And it is not one person who needs to accept checks, every branch has to support this.

I have not been to a bank for the last 10 years. They are obsolete. And those buildings are expensive and they have to be able to compete with online banks. It's not even an option for them to just keep those buildings.
Docker's promise was never about processor architecture. In most cases, I would say developers have been working with Docker locally on a different processor architecture than what they deploy to in production. Their local machine might not have AVX-512 instructions, but the production machine might... or any number of the small variations of AMD64 that exist. If you're not careful, you can end up compiling binaries that work on your machine, but don't work in production, all on AMD64.

These days, Docker supports multiarch images, so it's fairly trivial to build one image that supports with AMD64 and ARM64 transparently. CI tools like CircleCI support runners for AMD64 and ARM64, so you can even run your test suite on both architectures for additional confidence, if needed.

For me, Docker containers have always been about reproducibility of builds (which some people will argue about, but it does a good job 99% of the time) and consistency in deployment. You don't need to have an artisanal deployment methodology for each application... you just need to have a way to deploy docker containers. Even for single static binaries like Go projects often produce, wrapping them in a docker container just makes it easier to abstract away the deployment problems across projects. For more difficult to deploy languages like Python, you get similar benefits to having a single static binary by wrapping all the dependencies up into a neat little container.

Plus, once you have a standard unit of deployment like a docker container, you gain access to the broader ecosystem of container tools with minimal effort, such as running each container within a Firecracker microVM if you need isolation.
A genius move, the avg. iPhone ownership time has been increasing to 2-3 yrs.

It will get rid of waste and probably decrease prices for entry models if the gain for upgrades can compensate for the loss while winning more market share from the competition

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/smartphone-users-are-waiting...
To a certain extent that is true and we can't prevent sexual assault in all sorts of circumstances, but I think that is irrelevant. What parent is arguing is that simply having a male incarcerated with females increases the chance of sexual assault so significantly that we need a different solution for transwomen. I am saying that I think it says a lot about how we conceptualize both prison and gender that we find the incidence of male-male and female-female sexual assault in prison acceptable by comparison, because that's what we're saying here: put transwomen in male prison and transmen in female prison.

Besides which, I reject the notion that we cannot do a better job prevent sexual assault in prison. In the US at least, prison conditions are horrifically bad because a significant portion of the population likes it that way. We're a cheap, vengeful, petty people on the whole.

Yes, we can't make it perfect. So what? Perfect is the enemy of good. I think we would be better served by dealing with the problem of prison's high incidence of sexual assault in general instead of just this one narrow case.
Google Files Trademark for ‘Non-Fungible Planet’
I like Fisher's theoretical stuff a lot but I never was a fan of that piece, because it reeks of personal animosity towards newer generations on the left. It's very typical with old left Brits who couldn't get over the fact that class struggle isn't going to bring anyone into the streets any more, it's the kind of piece that is ten times more likely to be quoted on a conservative site than anywhere else.

And when one looks at British Labour politics in the years after this piece was written Fisher kind of got his wish, and it was an absolute electoral dead end.
What’s the rubric being used to assess quality?
There's no contradiction.

Intellectual property protection is opt-in. It requires the individual to enforce his rights before a court in the relevant jurisdiction. The government only facilitates registration and adjudication. Courts don't force individuals into global protection schemes against claimant's own will.

Whatever the expected merits were, GDPR's existence as a policy has been of little more use than a protectionist beating stick in service of the EU. It gave the EU the power to dictate how websites are to be designed. Non-Europeans with business interests inside the EU had no say or representation in the matter. Governments shouldn't claim universal jurisdiction over the Internet, whatever their reasoning for such claims might be.
An Alleged Fraud Uncovered by a Short Seller Ends in Gunfire
For me there's a cross to close the donation dialog box (top-right).
You're switching contexts.

When you switched from burning lignin to solar, you reduced your carbon usage.

However, what happened to the lignin that you stopped using?

If it was burned somewhere else, the total carbon usage remained the same even though you changed your usage.

If it was stockpiled and is now decomposing over three years, the carbon usage was time-shifted and will be back where it was in three years. (However, total carbon usage will be reduced the first and second year.)

This is supposedly a usage of lignin that results in no release, so it actually is carbon-negative (assuming that the processing doesn't use more carbon), regardless of what other folks think that they did. That said, it's probably actually just time-shifted, albeit on a long time-scale.

Note that both coal and diamonds are actually time-shifted carbon usage, on the scale of millions of years.
All these electronic records can disappear into thin air without you even realizing it has happened and good luck on your tax audit 7 years into the future.

I've never understood the value of "paperless" to the consumer. The benefit to the company is the savings of 3½¢ of postage and mailing expenses. But to the consumer...?

I pay my bills online, but I make sure I still get my statements by mail. I also balance my accounts from those statements each month, and every year I catch one or two errors, and they're almost always in favor of the banks.

Logically, I should be able to do the same thing by looking at my accounts online. But paper statements present the information in a different way than online, often to comply with laws about clear billing and communication. What's on paper sometimes very different from what's on the screen.
For vacations it might make sense to buy from travel agency at least in EU. Flight cancelled? Don't have to worry about getting refund on other things either. I had vacation booked when covid hit with all restrictions, flight+hotel(my choice) from agency, full refund without any questions asked.

So either go with agency, pay the premium for them to sort it out if possible. Or then directly to airline. The results might vary, but per location there might be perks with either.
I am almost his age and despite decades of professional experience I am unable to get a job.

Of course, its likely that I'm doing something else wrong as well.
Once again, I am begging HN: this is a misleading title format for links to single papers or studies. What is being phrased as factual in the headline is merely an assertion in a paper, and should be reflected as such. “New paper claims (x)” is reasonable. “Study suggests (x)” is also reasonable. “(x)” borders on straight up falsehood when it portrays an assertion as a new finding about our world.
People don't like that explanation, it's hard to look in the mirror and accept that you are part of the problem.

It's like printed high-quality investigation journalism. We all decry that it's on its way out but the vast majority of us won't consider paying a 300$/year subscription even if most of the HN reader base could absolutely afford it. We just don't want to pay for stuff.

It's the same thing (to a lesser extent) with stocks and investment. I own a bunch of REIT (real-estate trust fund) because they give a great stable return that loosely follow inflation. A few months ago, my landlord increased my rent by 5% I was angry, felt like it was too much etc... but my landlord is very much the result of my investments pushing for inflation-matching dividends. If they don't meet the market expectation they'll just drop in value.

Anyway long story short we are part of the problem.
The Assyrian came when the ancient egyptian civilization was already long gone

I refer to the flooding theories dating from 4000+ BCE from all over the world

Including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outburst_flood#Glacial_floods_...

I should note that it's just fantasized thoughts, i'm just dreaming
The usual answer here, as several of my sibling comments have pointed out, is that popularity and quality are not necessarily correlated. Since this has already been discussed, I won't delve further.

Another answer that hasn't been discussed much is that... maybe it isn't better for development. The article discusses one way in which this could be true: that technical superiority essentially leads to a hopeless community fragmentation that more or less forces it to be inferior in terms of community effects (which are, presumably, more important for commercial development rather than individual development).

A different facet, though, is that I believe the better language isn't the one that gives you more powerful tools to write correct code, but the one that keeps you from writing incorrect code (while still letting you write correct code). A salient example here is goto. Most modern languages don't have the goto keyword anymore, but they instead retain things like break, continue, and early routine... all of which are restricted forms of goto. By using only these restricted forms instead of the general form, it is much easier to immediately see what the code is doing (and presumably quicker to understand why), even though it may strictly be less powerful.
And that's the irony. People living in the city wants people back in office, which will force all of us who were able to move to the country to find a place in the city. It will put even more pressure on the housing market of big city. And then, they'll complain that they can't buy anything and are forced to rent for life.
What you are looking for is the Common Reporting Standard:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Reporting_Standard

So the information is still being exchanged, but as i understand it most stuff is essentially handled by local tax authorities, so for most people they don't need to care about it or fill out forms.
Do you have an actual source? Some numbers? Because 1k views=$1 is pretty good for a clips channel[0], and YT Premium views have always payed more than ad-supported views[1,2]. It's generally not sustainable to only rely on Adsense but it's a piece of the pie that most creators couldn't make up for overnight if it disappeared.

0: https://youtu.be/aaoVlFVqYuk?t=20

1: https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/totalbiscuit-youtube-red-p...

2: https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486935690315112455?s=2...
The price for 2nd hand GFX 50S or 50R is very tempting.

For enthusiasts like me who rarely make huge prints and mostly only post on social medias, 50 MP is waayyy more than enough :D
Imagine the environmental impact of cutting out emissions from 37% of commuters for "free". We could do it today. Its been proven to work the last 2 years. It's such low hanging fruit it's mind boggling!
I didn’t mean simple mistakes, but failures at design/architecture level (I was thinking more about technical leadership than management/staffing). This is a good list though!
But after Codebergs Terms of Use, "Forks, migrations and testing repos are considered as inactive when they don't contain unique contributions and are inactive for more than a month. They shouldn't be kept for a prolonged amount of time, and thus might be removed after notifying maintainers and providing a 90 days period to ask for preservation."

Also "You are legally responsible for your edits and contributions on the platform, so for your own protection you should exercise caution and avoid contributing any content that may result in criminal or civil liability under any applicable laws (e.g. copyright and patent infringements, but also things like age-restricted content without age confirmation). Both the German legislation and the legislation in your country of residence may be relevant here."

Codeberg is a registered organization and also has to act on copyright infringements...
You can also... Disable these features in Google Photos. Why are you being so dramatic over one feature in a photo app?

I love automatic backups, being able to view on my phone or computers, being able to search by person/location/thing
I find myself sometimes asking the same questions when I have to tell banks "I don't have an Android or Apple phone and I am not looking forward to needing one".
At least at my office, the majority wants to stay remote. Only about a third want to come back in the office. It's not everyone, but it can be a very large segment.

That said, it seems remote would be the planet friendly option. No commute, reduce the need for additional building by retrofitting offices as residences (yeah, zoning), etc.
It's good to see the occasional Mark Fisher thread here. On the topic of Hauntology and lost futures, I think this guy does a great job of explaining it through the analogy of the Fallout videogame series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSvUqhZcbVg

Analogies through pop-culture is something Mark Fisher also did very well to get his point across, and appeal to a broader audience.
What I miss in the README page is the output of the transpilation.
Oclif was one I used a while back but, last I tried it (a couple of months ago), there were either technical or documentation issues that made it a challenge to get started. It sounded like they were in the middle of fixes though so that might be worth a look. Combined with a solid HTTP package like axios, that would be a good leg up if you are proficient in JS.

Good list of options here:

https://github.com/shadawck/awesome-cli-frameworks
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So it's APE (actually portable executable) but for POSIX systems which instead of binary uses scripting.

nice
I hope that somebody got the man a stereo, and turned it way up. Not just some random bluetooth speaker crap, like a real stereo. Loud, full and clear.
I like the idealism of your arguments, but tech idealism doesn’t matter without users. And the majority of users have repeatedly chosen proprietary UX innovations over things like standards and interoperability. And many of these things are just an underlying standard with some changes/additions sprinkled on top, but those changes are differentiating to the product. Slack, Zoom, Gmail, etc. Some of their success is network-driven, but their unique work play no small part. And other companies tried different ideas and failed, and we’re lucky that Atlassian didn’t somehow get bad Hipchat-specific additions onto the IRC spec to albatross us all forever. On the web people chose non-standards overwhelmingly enough to basically kill the standards body (W3C) and push us into the land of “Whatever’s Worked on by Google” (WHATWG in essence). Until governments start funding competitive efforts (to relieve monetary pressure, which comes with its own problems) into projects pushing for your telos principles, profit (as an imperfect indicator of people’s choices) will continue to be the North Star for technology.
They wouldn't be outstanding - they don't have specialized training.

But how do your outstanding programmers compare at writing poetry... when compared to your not-outstanding programmers who also have no specialized training?
You also get the practical benefits of containers such as a convenient distribution mechanism that is language agnostic (a container registry) and abstracted management of network config like port bindings.

You’ll always be able to build a unique deployment solution for Java, python, or a native binary. But containers let you solve this problem the same way for every program.
Well, that’s obviously not what I said - indeed, the point was that European investors can often be conservative to the point of stupidity and throwing around dumb money can be the smart move.
The Re in ReVanced is for "Reverse Engineered" Vanced. ReVanced is going to be identical to the original Vanced, but later on (especially since it's open source) more patches/"plugins" will be available.
Thanks for reminding me about Aardvark, I used to use it a lot and haven't really seen anything like it since.
If they applied themselves to those things the way they did to programming, there's a good chance they'll be outstanding or at least remarkably good in those as well.

Intelligence is a necessary but not sufficient condition for competence at intellectual tasks.
I think the only way in that he's got a shot at is if he can leverage some piece of huge domain knowledge that he can bring to the table. At 61, i'm sure he can, but it's selling that that'll be the challenge.

Elevator pitch: "i've spent X years doing <highly specific business thing Y that everyone does in excel>, but i have a better way because it <1, 2,3>"
I pay for youtube premium and still use Vanced for all of it's advanced features, but background playback is useful for far more than music.
Maybe the bird had a latex fetish
This is fascinating to me! How did you manage to merge code in the 80s? What tools were available? Did you have three-way merge tools or did you do it more manually?

Or rather did you talk frequently and ensure that you weren't stepping in each other's files? How did you make changes to shared APIs?
If you don't mind my asking, have you spent much of your time since then working from home or in an office?

I likewise very much prefer working from home and find I get more done, but wanting to get an idea of what it's like from someone who's seen and done both over the long term.
History repeats itself.

Before people thought Java would save everyone from ever having to think about native dependencies. Turned out not so much, although it works "OK" for desktop these days.

Now everyone thinks Docker is going to save everyone from having to think about native dependencies. In a few years everyone will realize that Docker only works like that when deploying from linux to linux on the same CPU architecture.
Didn't Microsoft give everyone their own dedicated office in those days? I thought I read/heard somewhere that is what spawned development of Outlook/Exchange.

I agree about the distractions, it's extremely bad with the open office model and hard to get anything done for me. I would much prefer cubicles or dedicated offices.
In fact it looks like there are already browser extensions that do this for Markdown:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-viewer/ck...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdown-preview-p...
I use the very same with Fedora. Love it, and it's much faster than the Intel variants. Extremely low battery life though.
To quote the original article : "platforms with a market capitalization of €75 billion or turnover in the European Economic Area equal to or above €7.5 billion"

I'm not sure what the current market cap for Signal is, but I'm fairly sure they don't have a turnover of 7+bn in the EU.
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That's a plea from 5 years ago.

People resubmit stories all the time, new and better (or different) discussions form around each resubmission, and new people get to read it.
"That made the choice for me."

Often the way they react is more important than the actual content. Seems like if they don't understand your concerns on this topic, they likely won't be amenable to your future concerns on other topics.