skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A contrast of X Resources with other modes of configuration, such as the GNOME / KDE / FreeDesktop model reveals some interesting twists.

Under X Resources, no, I can't dynamically change the resolution or configuration of a running process. On the other hand, I can update resources and configure different applications independently. One of my frustrations with GNOME/KDE is that the configuration system seems to think that I want the same settings for every application presently running. This might very well not be the case: I could prefer larger and/or different fonts for specific applications or for specific processes or windows. The uncoupling of settings in some cases (e.g., text / font zoom in some apps) suggests that the FreeDesktop folk have become grudgingly aware of this.

Many old-school Xt / Motif utilities will also accept commandline options, either via flags or in some cases resources specifications. These can be tied together in scripts to launch, say, a range of values (fonts, sizes, colours) for specific tasks. I'd long done this to differentiate between terminals running (nominally) bash shells, vim, mutt, w3m, and a launcher which would open a set of terminal windows, each with different background colours and geometry specifications to be placed over a desktop workspace when working on multiple remote hosts (colours, prompts, and spatial cues to "this is not your local box").

And of course, since resources live in files, they can be documented, commented, and divided (separate files) for various tasks, as well as version controlled. Few if any of which the GNOME configuration database permits. The files can be readily copied between systems (as I've done for decades).

X Resources can be clunky in some regards, but they're also lightweight, powerful, configurable, and get out of the way rather than obstruct my goals.
> Are there techniques to deal with this?

#1 = View it as a desire to change a fundamental part of your personality and all the trial and error and life long effort that will entail to find the coping mechanisms and actionable wisdom that will work for you.

https://bigfivepersonalitytraits.com/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychiatry-the-peopl...

https://helloskills.org/blog/neuroticism-personality-trait/
>That generator is only changing the equivalent of accent color.

You probably only saw the first few ones. In later ones you can see it changes more than just the accent color.
> Actually Sweden's numbers are quite good, better than many other EU countries which took more restrictive approaches.

Reality does not agree with you.

Sweden fared rather poorly when compared with comparable countries such as Norway, Finland, or Denmark.

* https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/norway/

* https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/finland/

* https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/denmark/

There is no way around it: Sweden had more covid-related deaths than Norway, Finland, and Denmark bundled together.

Denmark had 500k more cases than Sweden, but only endured a quarter of Sweden's death count.

This does not fit the definition of "quite good". These are awful numbers. Awful numbers that were easily avoidable if Sweden followed the example of any of its neighbors.
Wouldn't it be better for them to join the Russian side, then sabotage the HELL out of their efforts?

Maybe reach out to Ukrainian leaders on what they'd like them to do, etc... It's highly risky sure, but no more risky than fighting from Ukraine for Ukraine...
You might want to reconsider the ++ naming convention. Many people capable of a critical appraisal of C++ wouldn't want an association with C++. The prejudice that your name triggers is that you don't understand what others think C++ got wrong, and you're likely to be making the same mistakes.

It doesn't look like you're making the same mistakes, but why trigger that prejudice?
It simply is the place where people post relevant, up-to-date stuff. People put up with bad UX all the time to get what they want.
I'm one of those people that fell in love with Ruby, and yeah the speed is the biggest downside. That said, a lot of the bulk is often Rails. I usually use Sinatra now and it's pretty light. On the smallest VM it usually starts quickly and runs fine for quite a while. One even survived an HN Hug. There are also some big improvements coming with Ruby 3 (if you aren't already upgraded to that) and more to come. But you definitely "pay" a fee in CPU/memory for the privilege of using Ruby. In most cases, it's way worth it IMHO. I've also been loving Elixir lately. It's got much the same feeling of beauty that Ruby does, and it's much lighter and lightning fast. I often measure response times in microseconds rather than milliseconds!
When I was less experienced, my code was more error-prone and micro-commits saved me often. Either way, VSCode won’t lose your progress regardless of how it quits. It will always drop my undo history on restarts though (which can be a real pain if I’m exploring and haven’t made a commit in hours).
I made no mention of Sweden and have no idea what that has to do with natural immunity given their vaccination rate is 75% and their death rate is comparable to Germany and France. [0] [1]

> And note that it's not that good in the first place--plenty of reinfections because the immune system locked onto a part of the virus that changed.

You've got it exactly backwards. The vaccine uses only a part of the S-protein, whereas a natural infection exposes the body to the full S-protein and N-protein. In theory and in practice, the immune system can train on more viral features via natural infection than it can via vaccine.

> The vaccine has enough problem with immune escape, natural "immunity" fares even worse.

It really doesn't. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

> We present a systematic review and pooled analysis of clinical studies to date that (1) specifically compare the protection of natural immunity in the COVID-recovered versus the efficacy of complete vaccination in the COVID-naive ... it supports the pooled findings in finding superiority of natural immunity over-vaccination ... Consequently, no study could conclude the superiority of vaccination protection over natural immunity with statistical confidence, but observational studies endorsed an advantage for protection by natural immunity. [7]

[0] https://ycharts.com/indicators/sweden_coronavirus_full_vacci...

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34089610/

[3] https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/

[4] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-75...

[5] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...

[6] https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...

[7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8627252/
It's probably fair to assume that Truman had more immediate and frequent casualty reports and projections than Oppenheimer.

So the former was weighing against alternatives, and the latter was weighing against inaction.

In Oppenheimer's defense though, at the time he couldn't have known that (a) the US would refrain from using nuclear weapons in subsequent wars, (b) other countries would rapidly acquire nuclear weapons, (c) MAD would become normalized as the only acceptable use of nuclear arms.

None of which were guaranteed to pass, meaning a very different perspective in 1945.
PRs dont' squashed, nothing gets rebased and only merge commits are allowed for anything non-local. It adds noise to trying to figure out why changes are made because the commit messages only explain what was changed, not the purpose or context.
Web API Access to the Global Real-Time Ocean Forecast System
You’d probably be killed for that kind of sorcery.
Perhaps one problem with the current backlash against over-complicated infrastructure is that for some of us, doing everything in one process on one machine using a local embedded database is its own form of playing with nifty toys.
> But most companies' dream is to reach that ""inevitable"" point where the cloud saves it; it becomes a bet where they either reach that level of scale, or die trying.

And how many die trying due to bleeding all the funding to AWS, instead of running everything off a couple cheap boxes underneath the CTOs desk? I've been in at least one which ran out of money that way.

Don't pay for the future pipedream now, pay for what you need. That "inevitable" dream of near-infinite scale up usually never arrives for most companies. If it does, worry about it then.
It depends a lot. If each of the 8 small PR makes sense alone, I prefer that.
Switching to Theory of Sets, this is the type of writing that brings me joy. And it certainly concerns itself with context in the pretty longish introduction, attempts to recognize the limits of the language, covers metamathematics and use of simple arithmetic before the foundation for it has been formally laid...

I enjoy that it starts off with defining symbols of a theory, and then assemblies, which is the first I hear of the term, but I can already feel what assemblies will amount to before the example given of an assembly in Theory of Sets — even if the text warns that "the meaning of this expression will become clear as the chapter progresses."

And that's exactly my point. I can enjoy learning from a text like this. I know I am in the minority (I was in the minority in Mathematical Gymnasium and university studies who enjoyed it; I wasn't even remotely the best at solving math problems, because I did not enjoy them), but I am calling for people not to discount this approach for everybody.
Jack up interest rates (or qualifying rates) and demand plummets, particularly among multi unit investors. That should help scarcity.
Not OP. I don't see how handwriting is better. I'm already working on the laptop, notepad app is almost integrated with everything else, I can access it in miliseconds with keyboard shortcuts. I can create a similar list in a simple notepad app, i.e.:

x Task 1

x Task 2

- Task 3

- Task 4
Holding shift while pasting will remove all the formatting for most programs! Still annoying but usually an easy fix.
That seems like a great example of the FFA getting out of the way of the necessary. Pandemic times are when rules need to be more flexible since we're responding to non-standard conditions.

If that rule wasn't waved pilots would need to chose between being more vulnerable to the pandemic vs. getting to draw an income for a year - that seems a lot worse than some rules being temporarily ignored.
>I think people are missing the fact that for many Canadians values of their homes represent their live savings.

Let's ignore the property itself, which is a depreciating asset which was built and can be improved through manual labor.

That land is going to stay the same no matter how much you pay. Paying more for the same plot of land doesn't make it better. You don't get a bigger plot or a plot of better quality by spending more on the land. The land isn't wealth, it's the community around the land that gives it value. If you have demographic problems, your land is going to be worthless because the community is too old and shrinking.

Betting on ever growing populations is a pyramid scheme by the way.
From the same article:

But the excitement in the physics community is tempered with a loud note of caution. Although the Fermilab result is the most accurate measurement of the mass of the W boson to date, it is at odds with two of the next most accurate measurements from two separate experiments which are in line with the Standard Model.
How does this actually offer any security? Couldn't a rogue hypervisor admin just deploy a custom kernel where MFD_INACCESSIBLE is a no-op?
>Even the Ukrainians themselves weren't too much interested before Putin started the war in 2014

Why do you think Putin invaded in 2014? Remember they had a coup in Ukraine, and the new regime was very anti-Russia.

Immediately after the 2014 coup the new US-approved government changed the Constitution to the 2004 version which allowed for a vote to join NATO[1]. So then Russia invaded Crimea as a result, since by NATO rule, a country not in control of its borders would not be eligible to join NATO. Then in December 2014 Ukraine voted to abandon neutrality and begin the process of getting into NATO anyway.[2]

Trump's presidency definitely put a pause on this plan, which is why there were no/limited hostilities in those 4 years. But now that Biden is back on top, Ukraine has been pushing towards NATO again. And that isn't to excuse Russia, but we have to be honest about what these triggers are. This isn't happening in a vacuum.

[1] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/191727.html

[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-parliament-abandons-neutrali...
This sounds very much like my experience with a dot-com flameout in 1999.

Massive spending of VC investment money on offices, a sales team, engineers, and a data center and servers to meet their expected (hoped-for) scale (there was no cloud then).

No large clients on the platform. Not a lot of small clients either, TBH.

One day out of the blue over half the company was let go. Some effort to downsize and retool, but it seemed perfunctory. All the rest of the staff was let go after another couple of months.

If you have no customers, you have no business.
Oh man, Windows Terminal is a wonderful thing! I've used Konsole extensively; I've been a filthy dual booter for many years now.

But I never did much development on Windows until a particular job I had about a year ago. It was a Windows shop and we did everything between WSL2, VSCode, and Windows Terminal. It was actually... a really nice developer experience. I was very pleasantly surprised by how well things worked. WSL2 isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but the newer WSLg on Windows 11 solves some of those problems.

If I could have the Windows Terminal in a Linux desktop distro, I would take it in a heartbeat. I think you're in for a treat if you give it a try!

From a slightly broader view, Windows + WSL2/WSLg + Windows Terminal is a pretty great experience that manages to combine a lot of the best of both Windows and Linux worlds, IMHO.
I appreciate your response. As I said, I didn't understand the HC's role during this which was unfortunate. Another recruiter failure.

I did match with the team after the interview which was part of the delay, but that is part of my frustration. It seems to me like the HC could have met post-interview but pre-team match. If the HC says no at that point then fine, I'll move on. If they say yes, it's still on me to find a good team match and if one isn't found than tough luck.

I passed the leet interviews, I had a great interview with an interested hiring manager, at that point everything seemed positive. It's why the HC reject was such a shock.
This is actually a great question. One where I don't have an off-hand answer.

Internal apps are a particular thing where 'good enough' is what you pretty much want most of the time. I would expect something with server-side rendering, admin scaffolding, data-driven views, and customizable templating.

I'm pretty sure you can mix-and-match to get all these things but it would be great to have one opinionated framework that takes the guesswork out of it and has google/stackoverflow-able how-tos.
or directly to your operating system if using KDE
Point being that justices aren't picked on the basis of their qualifications, and haven't been in my lifetime. They're picked on the basis of the rulings they're expected to make. It's all politics, but you're out here playing the race card on a straw man.
We also had multiple contractors working full-time for months on a CI project that was projected before it began to save us at most a few thousand dollars a year. In the end they half-delivered a poorly-built system everyone hated, and I forced the abandonment of the project and we went back to the old system.

It was the pet project of another team-lead, that no-one else wanted. Group decision making is bizarre.
> not just because empty houses pay the same tax as occupied ones

you've literally just responded to a post demonstrating that this is not the case, please don't just do template rants off keywords
Indeed. The logic goes: Vehicular traffic kills so-and-so many people. We can significantly lower that number by reducing vehicular miles traveled. Options include better bike infrastructure, better public transit, mixed zoning, lower speed limits, etc.

If a city engineer would invert the logic and start with “Bicycle lanes have saved so-and-so many lives”. That would be rather odd wouldn’t it?
Truman was a bit of a shithead, and nowhere near Oppenheimer's caliber.

He also lied heavily about about his finances as a sympathy play as he left the presidency, and basically stole petty cash on his way out the door.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Financial_situ...
Good ole trickle-down theory, eh
Twitter is the homeless encampment of social networks.

Sometimes I’ll click the wrong link and end up there. It’s uncomfortable.. lots of people screaming and spreading their excrement around.. I just avoid eye contact, keep quiet and close the tab as quickly as possible.
> This is not really guaranteed to solve the problem.
In Europe, new properties are not readily snatched up. Just look at Italy.
A growing supply that outpaces demand is literally the only solution. Every other solution will cause a black market.
New Zealand has deadline sales, which you sign a blind offer with whatever conditions you want, and then the vendor can choose any offer or change the rules or ask for more money or do basically anything they want.

There are also tenders, which I don’t know much about.

And I have seen auctions where they set the reserve at a ridiculously high amount, and then negotiate with the highest bidder. A few years ago, one place I was underbidder at $280k (for something that I thought should go for about $250k), final bid was $290k, then vendor negotiated that bidder up to $350k! Another I was underbidder at $190k, final bidder was at $200k, then vendor negotiated them up to $250k.

The dirtiest trick that real estate agents do is to convince/pressure vendors to bring the date of sale forward. Sale goes through at a lower price, agent does less work and turns over their properties more quickly (which vastly enhances the agents yearly profits).

New Zealand restricted sales to foreign buyers in 2018, to prevent ballooning property prices for New Zealanders. Also rich foreigners buying large farms and prime coastal real estate was unpopular with most of the voting public?

Edit: when the real estate market was burning hot, lots of sales were deadline (blind). I think deadline sales mean that the winner often has bid their highest price (I certainly did for my home). In auctions you often pay just a little bit over the underbidder, even if your top dollar might have been potentially a lot higher. When selling you mostly care about that one person who really loves your place and that is willing to, and can afford to, pay well over market price for it. All other potential buyers are just wasting time.
I was worried about the headless setup, but apparently you can create a user in the official imager tool.

I guess I'll go make a fork of the OS that keeps the default credentials. No way am I getting locked out of some stupid robot or whatever because I can't remember the password!
Yours is a bad example. I on-boarded at a remote-first company (they were remote pre-COVID) a year ago and my experience was nothing like yours.

I was warmly welcomed and immediately partnered with a senior person. People were extremely helpful and if I needed help, people were always open to hopping on a call to get me unstuck. Most people respond to slack messages quickly.

The only downside is the codebase/tech stack sucks and the technical culture leaves something to be desired. But they have really nailed the remote experience.

I will never willingly go back to the office. My employer definitely gets more productivity out of me than if I were in office. It really is a win-win in my case.
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Such statements like "measure x prevented/caused n deaths" should generally be considered highly dubious unless applied to a very narrow context (such as a randomized double blind placebo control study, etc.).

There is nothing that can really prevent death; everyone will die sooner or later. So speaking of "preventing/causing death" is an abbreviated way of speaking. It makes most sense when it is about "immediate death", but the longer it takes for a cause to develop its presumed effect, the less the effect can be solely attributed to this particular cause. It then makes no real sense to just count the numbers of deaths related to a particular cause, if it is only one of an actually unquantifiable number of contributory causes.

But analysing the structure of the statement closer, it becomes even more dubious, because (after applying some small interpretative clarifications) it follows the basic structure: "measure x prevented n of d, because it has an effect e that is (indirectly!)[1] somehow correlated with d". To evaluate the extent to which such a claim could probably be valid would require a considerable amount of background information. Just presenting it as a statement without any substantial discussion is not enlighting at all, but just polarizes the audience: if the statement fits into someone's already established belief system it is readily accepted at truth, and if it contradicts someone's belief system it is instantly rejected. There is no chance to learn anything from it.

[1] In the case of hypercapnia, CO2 can directly affect health, but I do not think that was the point of the statement.
As someone who is fluent (but rather more emacs) in both I got to say neovim is much faster to use and not just to start. Emacs does a lot more tho so I don't think it's a fair comparaison....

Still enjoying switching between both,
How about you introduce a land value tax, primarily for corporate owned properties and a tax break for owner occupied properties and a small tax break for small private land lords with less than 5 properties. Like a 50% reduction for the first 500m^2 of land that a person owns.
Ok, I will revise my statement to read "You are only a huge fan of blueprints because the only alternative is c++"
Soviet cold-launch approach was to increase the chances that a failed missile would fall to the side instead of exploding the launcher, which is why naval soviet-style launchers are angled - a failure to launch will drop into water.
the Chinese communist party elites send money abroad is to put it out of reach. Very tough for the CCP to auction off your property in Canada or United States.

For the Japanese it was cheap debt that exported property inflation which led to an immediate drop in liquidity however currently there is cheap debt locally and its the locals participating in the real estate speculation.

the actual foreign ownership is like less than 5% in Vancouver yet the media and establishment constantly loves to shift attention away from REIT and institutional money, rich Canadians and against scapegoat groups.

unlike the melting pot system you have in America, Canadians fall into ethnic tribalism, safety in similarity. There's an idea that everyone can be Canadian/American but its implicit understanding that it is false. Canadians have this sort of superiority complex and see themselves holier than thou, it is far more broken than America in some ways and just in my personal interactions, Americans by large, were far more "Canadian" than real Canadians.

The country honestly feels very much broken and the more dystopian and divided it becomes, the more it will push people on the fringes away to isolation. Ethnic enclaves aren't by choice, they are a byproduct of an unwelcoming and implicitly hostile incumbent establishment.