skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big difference is that stuff in /etc/, ~/.config, etc. are discoverable and something that can be made sense of. The Windows registry is something I never really could make sense of. For example to change Caps Lock to be Ctrl you need to change "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout\Scancode Map" to "hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00". To disable that stupid Thumbs.db generation you change "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoThumbnailCache" to "dword:00000001".

These are for Windows 7, from my old files – may be different now. But how is anyone ever going to figure that out? xmodmap can be somewhat hard to use, but a least it's documented, and you can play around with it to discover stuff. Some random hex values in some registry thing? Yeah ... good luck with that.
>For instance the JSF's forward sector stealth is likely to be adequate, but its aft and beam sector stealth performance will not be, especially considering the wavelengths of many of the radars in question

I was under the impression that the JSF was overall stealthier than the Raptor. Searching for more details on Google has led me down quite the delicious rabbit hole of Quora posts filled with wild speculation and half-sourced rumors. Here[1] is one of the better ones.

1: https://www.quora.com/Does-the-F-35-have-a-lower-RCS-than-th...
The blind offer thing is particularly enraging. If our real estate market has degraded to being auction-based, that's awful, but fine, let's regulate it like an actual auction and demand transparency in pricing. Hell, make it a second price auction (second highest bid + $1 or so). Put in some sane rules, like an actual auction.

Right now it's just awful.
Nice to see.

In https://flathabits.com I also arrived to a similar presentation of today vs not today (for me, today vs all habits).

For a habits app, I was ruthlessly simplifying things to remove friction and distractions from the tracking process. Either of these can easily throw you off, resulting in a bigger problem (giving up on your habits).
It isn’t done algorithmically.

Often the best bid is obvious - for example an unconditional offer at the highest bid. Sometimes the best bid is not so obvious, and the vendor chooses the bid that suits their situation the best, or they renegotiate price or conditions with the highest bidding buyer(s).

A vendor that doesn’t really need to sell and that believes prices are still rising, might accept a high price with a long settling date, or other conditions that might cause the sale to fall through.

A vendor than desperately needs the money might accept a lower price with immediate settlement, or if they know their house has problems they will accept a lower bid if it reduces their future liabilities (e.g. zero inspection, as-is clauses, etcetera).
Kent Beck wrote up a workflow along these lines called test && commit || revert. The idea is any change that makes the tests pass is committed, any change that makes the tests fail is reverted. https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd7...

I believe Kent has also posted a few videos on YouTube demonstrating this approach.
I have been saying this since Breyer's retirement
If you said he's purposely being obtuse because he wants to be a cool kid, I wouldn't have commented and probably would have agreed.

But re-read your original comment. It was an unnecessary personal attack on someone that has accomplished a lot and presumably knows a lot:

> He seems like a caricature of a Silicon Valley programmer who got lucky and made a bunch of money who now thinks that makes him a genius thought leader for the rest of his life.

Congrats on your success. There's a difference between "making money in early 2000's" and founding a hugely influential company that helped shaped the web in the 90s. His track record as a VC is also impressive. I think he's someone definitely worth listening to as he obviously sees things differently than others, otherwise he wouldn't have been such an outlier throughout his whole career.
I'm confused why they think this is malware as opposed to just a miner optimized to run on Lambda. It even says, "we don't know how this gets deployed".

Presumably someone just deploys it so they can do mining taking advantage of Lambda's free tier.
>I would disagree that this was good management, though.

well, "effective" management. Not necessarily good. Seems like a story that pretty much all large gen 5 (and many gen 6) studios share. It was this new cutting edge field right before/after the dotcom bubble requiring (at the time) very niche talent and passion. Perfect formula for burn and churn.

This was likely one of the many thousand cuts the industry faced when moving to the HD era in gen 7. You couldn't just brute force a bunch of assets to work at the expected HD fidelity without stepping back and actually understanding what the machine is doing. You couldn't just have two artists doing everything for asset production; you needed an organized pipeline of specialists. You absolutely needed a producer/manager/director to make sure pieces are fitting together. Huge wakeup call for game developers on software/business practices most other parts of the industry had to employ for years.
Offtopic, but I use org mode for my notes files (both general and technical), and I've never really figured out how to use it effectively.

My pre-org notes file was just a giant text file with entries delimited by manually-entered '--------------' lines. I stuck a topic in each entry for searchability and then the rest was freeform text. It worked pretty well.

org mode gives me more power, but it's getting a little unmanageable. I find myself expanding and collapsing sections a lot, especially when just trying to find the right place to add a new entry. (I'm using a hierarchy rather than the flat append-only list.) The file is pretty huge at this point, and I split it up once but that broke my most common usage of just isearching through the entire file, and it was annoying to have to load multiple files to do a complete search. I had links between files, but that didn't help for searching.

I imagine there are tips and tricks to resolve all of my issues and nuisances, but I've never taken the time to figure them out. Is there a good workflow description somewhere that I should be looking at? It's hard to beat a basic text file, but after a decade or so it has gotten pretty big and I'd like to eg be able to cluster related things together so I can purge obsolete stuff.

Maybe my problem is that org mode is intended for organizing things, and my use case is too free-form?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30837071
Bolt/Fast contain user based information, consumed from their use on other sites. So there's a 'network effect'. If they've shopped at ABC.com before your store, then you already have their CC data ready to go in their car. Sort of like Single Sign On but for carts.

Uh oh. That has so much scam potential.
It's not really making middle-click be paste, it's automatically storing the last text selection somewhere that's the problem.
I knew I had untapped potential!
I found a 271,800 character demangled symbol name in libmshr
> I am assuming the kids who stopped having the issues would have dropped out at a higher rate. If a kid is having an issue their parents would want them to remain in to help find a treatment for the kid.

This seems like a reasonable theory, but it seems just as likely to me that as things get worse people are more likely to decide this isn't helping and drop out. Which goes to the point of the rest of your comment, the dropout rate calls the whole study into question. Otherwise we are left with guesswork and assumptions.
Not if the college is deliberately trying to hide that information—they'll make the acceptance and rejection letters the same size.

Most systems have a finite limit to the sizes of the messages they can handle. (If nothing else there are practical limits to both the maximum transfer rate and the operators' patience.) It's inefficient, but you can pad all messages to that length regardless of the size of the plaintext.
I thought it was still April 1st
This is what surprised me. It seems the board was asleep at the wheel, failing in their fiduciary responsibilities
Informative but depressing looking at the salaries given in the job listings at the end.
Then more applicable advice seems like it could've been "Everyone should go to their Kindle library and download their ebooks as soon as they purchase them."
I always find practices about commits weird while working strange

I usually have my changes planned out before I start writing code, including which commits I want to make. Figuring out how to go about making a change is a design time problem, rather than implementation time imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU&t=5s
Its an interesting symbiotic relationship for sure. When I was backpacking in Alaska I was basically walking non stop on lichen (which sort of looks like large tuft balls of colorful and very tiny coral reefs but super soft and springy). All of the animals there eat tons of this stuff. Its basically a hybrid between a plant and a fungi (not just a symbiotic relationship). Sort of like fungi-moss.
The unknown unknowns will always be with us.
If only Apple had some way to store metadata for a file separately from the content. Something like files with a "data fork" and a "resource fork", maybe.
Was the conclusion that decades old Fortran existing good or bad, likewise the bolt-ons? Ideally, if given a chance, what's the consensus of what you'd all like to do?
You are probably right - they just could not digest whatever they needed to do for the trees. Makes sense
https://smlavine.com

It's nothing much. I use the same webserver for my mail, personal git hosting, persistent irc. I also use it to host some static content, like videos, for friends and family.

I like web development as much as a caveman likes banging rocks together to make a fire: I just want it to work. I don't bother with some static site generator or whatever. It's just handwritten html and some googled css, served by nginx.
I'm no physics or optics expert but this paper seems to suggest you're wrong?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026322411...

"...show that an array of small independent sensors is always less noisy than a large sensor of the same size."
Having two flame fronts does help a little, but not as much as you'd think, though it depends on the head design. My understanding is that the primary reason for dual plugs in aircraft is to allow for fully-redundant, parallel ignition systems.
Others who have replied offered their point of view. Some agreed, some disagreed. You, though, shouldn’t have even bothered. Next time hit that downvote button and move on.
I think the house prices were higher. I sold a house in Mountain View (Monta Loma neighborhood) in Jan 1995 for $255k. And that was a bit of a distressed sale as I was the executor for an estate.
yeahh tech-bros can suck. i'm not offended that people don't like my stuf tho. shout out you homie
> the past ~2years as “governments lying” because of a few mistakes in time of high uncertainty.

They had (have?) the same attitude regarding school and children, only about last year/year and half were lower grade school kids mandated to wear masks.

The two main contamination pools were work and school, and it was plain obvious to everyone that school had to be maintained for economic reasons, yet the edu minister never seemed to give up his “it’s all for the children” attitude while giving the finger to school staff requests.

French gov avoided the most critical mistakes, and reacted better than some other countries in a number ways, including changing its position over time and making radical decisions when shit hit the fan. But what a bunch of dicks they were! I can’t remember how many large scale demo they managed to trigger during a pandemic when most people were freaking out and somewhat trying to be safe.
Interesting. Which episode mentioned COVID was a hoax?
How to Change Your Mindset About Sleep
Are you serious? It's a very simple thread-based design. Threads are separated by approptiate dividers or whitespace or indentation. I don't get it.
Driving CRTs at bad frequencies was a common way of letting all the magic smoke out, back in the day.
> Even weekends are basically more studying and extra-curricular classes for my kids (ballet, phonics, mental math, painting)

Do they enjoy doing all these things? Thinking back to when I was a kid, I would rather have spent the time with friends, doing unplanned nothing special things.

I wonder if they don't actually have a weekend, instead, they have "work-end"?

What if both you and they would be happier, if you cancelled some of the extracurricular things.

Maybe they find things themselves to do -- for example, as a kid I bought books about software, and taught myself. But if you've decided that they are to learn painting etc (which is fun too I think :-)) then, maybe there's not much time left for them to decide?

Just some thoughts, what do I know. And I've made some guesses / assumptions about your situation, maybe they're incorrect

Edit: now i see you've in a way partly replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30933886
People disagree about things. It's not a good solution to put everyone who disagrees with you in the category of "child". It is, ironically, childish.

There was never any justification for banning people going for a walk. You've been seriously misled.
Nukes are several orders of magnitude away from destroying all life on this planet.

https://youtu.be/JyECrGp-Sw8
A person on L-1 should've known they will be moving home soon. This works exactly the same in EU and IMHO it's only logical - you'd be able to skip the usual "queue" otherwise.
Chernobyl was the only "major" accident, perhaps you could put Fukishima into that category, but again you're disregarding the denominator, thousands of plants operating for decades without issue. That sounds very safe to me, especially when weighted against emissions reduction.
You can use re2 in Ruby if you like - it's just not the default. https://github.com/mudge/re2

best solution is to have an implementation like re2 that does not have those problems.

By design RE2 isn't fully compatible with Onigmo. As another poster mentioned, a hybrid "use RE2 when possible; fall back to Onigmo otherwise" approach was considered and rejected for well-explained reasons https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18653

Maybe in addition to `Regexp.timeout = 1.0` there could also be a `Regexp.parser = :re2` option with `:onigmo` being the default.
I refuse to get into an argument that I know will turn out to be emotional so I'm just going to skip to the last point.

>Let’s say we put a huge tax on all real estate that isn’t a primary residence

Because cottages are a traditional part of life here and real estate is one of the only ways to make real money for someone with some capital in the middle class.
> I'm not sure why Apple's competitors insist on including a brick that's almost as large as the PC itself.

It's more expensive to design an internal PSU than source a random power brick. Oh wait, i thought it was called "an Apple tax"...
Recordings do exist of PC speaker sound effects: https://youtu.be/5v36e4_jars
I think I'm burned out after watching this :)

Unfortunately this ties cynicism to burnout too much. Can we assume all cynics are burnt out? How do you tell the difference?
If you want to read Twitter without a Twitter account, the search function lets you read more before the paywall stops you. Until they plug that hole.
yeah, I guess, I'm not going to get too specific here but I do think it would be nifty if I didn't go through a couple 10 minute periods every day where I have to basically shut everything down run a number of scripts, then restart individual processes that are problematic, to be able to work again.

Note that this basically works 99% of the time now and is part of a learning process that had the whole thing taking 2 - 5 hours every day for several weeks, down to 2 hours a day for several weeks after that, and now down to the nearly inescapable 20 - 40 minutes a day I have now.

Yeah, not doing that would be my own form of playing with nifty toys.
i'm not appearing to schizopost about schizoposting. the only goal was to outline and illustrate schizoposting.
I'd love to hear any tricks for avoiding punitive egress bandwidth charges needed to get your data out of AWS.
Ahh yes, there's qemu-arch64 but that's probably another rabbithole :)
Building a Slack Bot with the Twitch API and Postman
Yes, I keep a private log of all input in order to improve the game.
Truman was one of the best presidents the US ever had by basically any measure. What a childish take.
I used Linux as my daily for 10 years and every time there was a major update either sound or networking or both broke. I love Linux, I still use it regularly, but my experience was that basic stuff kept getting broken. I was using very standard Thinkpad laptops throughout.
How about some hypothetical technology that can scan space for nuclear weapons and destroy them from a distance even if stored within thick walls of lead and without leaving a trace?
> But as you well said, respecting images, tables and the like is one thing. The other is keeping fonts.

Oh, to clarify: I meant: "if you're copying text along with images, you probably want to keep the text formatting [fonts etc.] too, whereas if you're only copying text, you probably don't want the formatting either." It's not a perfect heuristic by any means, but I think it'd be better than the current situation.
That's fine, and I put the beginning of the game up as a coding example. And it of course tells you how to get the initial clue. But the rest of the game is all server-side, so you're on your own from there :)
Direct3D has alternate implementations as part of Proton. Is there anything like that for Metal?
This is clearly not true. If the aliens happened to be 10% or 1000% of our size, their concept of a relevant physical feature would be very different.

Maps are basically feature extraction -> data compression. The feature extraction part is subjective and depends on the experience of a species.

A map of cellphone towers is useless to a cat. A map of blobblytoids is useless to a human who doesn't know what a blobblytoid is or how to recognise one.

A human may have some vague awareness that something is there, but it's also possible that blobblytoids look like random noise, or like weird probabilistic anomalies that travel around inside a multidimensional space, or like something completely unimaginable.

So in the limit features can't be extracted because they are invisible to a different consciousness. They can still be physically present, but their meaning as a feature of interest depends on having a subjective referent for them.

This seems to be something many humans struggle with. We assume everyone else - including other humans - has the same set of referents, and therefore our personal feature maps are somehow universal.

Of course they aren't. They aren't even universal among humans, never mind a completely unknown alien species.
Every single tool in the console homebrew space, I swear. And it's not like the code isn't portable, it's usually just some command-line / batch thing; but they just don't bother to compile it for anything other than Windows; and then they don't release it as OSS for you to do so, either. The number of things I've had to run under WINE...
Um maybe just ignore them?
Consider this:

> ... engineering directly raising concerns to the CEO, and suggesting to focus on larger customers, fewer customizations, and bring in more revenue. Sales, however, wanted the opposite: close many deals and hit their targets of signups. In the end, sales got their way, ...

If the product is customized for nearly every customer, they've degenerated to a de facto consulting shop.
Claims a single study.
So it was correctable, and so no problem.

The inconvenience isn't important when it's an outlier event.

Does everyone bungle their Skype account profile 3 times a day or did it happen to one person out of millions and only one time in that person's life?

For outlier cases, any form of redress at all is ok. All that really matters is that there IS a procedure at all and it is doable (doesn't cost $1000 or require something impossible). Unlike say getting your google/gmail account fixed when there is no such thing as a google customer support # you can call to fix things that the automated processes got wrong.

The only problem I see is the discrepency between creating and updating.

If there is a valid reason to require proof of age to update an account from child to adult, then by rights exactly that same proof should be required to create the account in the first place.

then the convenience matters, and there should be some more practical way to supply something which is legally accepted as good enough, and that should be the same for both creation and update.

I don't think we really have that "something", especially not globally and absolutely positively not anonymously. By now, in most countries there is probably some form of standard ID that most people in the country either have or can get. But they are different for every country and definitely creates a first world discrimination filter.

Thinking about that, it seems like the whole idea is misguided and imvalid, unworkable. How would one do it? Even in a 1st world country and me having both a SSN and a drivers ID and or government ID, it still leaves the problem of anonymity and multiple/temp accounts etc, and still leaves the problem that I entered the wrong number which means probably someone ele's number, which means someone else could enter mine...so there needs to be a mechanism to prove that I own the number I entered, which there is no such mechanism. Maybe if ID#'s were really key pairs and you never simply entered a number but instead signed something or proved that you could decrypt something signed, but that is a high tech fantasy world we aren't quite in yet.

Kids should be protected from those who would exploit them, but requiring proof of age to use on-line services isn't a functioning way to do it.
Embrace the Absurd.
> when an upstream library changes, update downstream libraries' dependency manifest files

This needs to happen periodically, when we have slack. Doing it continuously adds risks that aren’t really our job to take.
It’s not comparatively quick, but you don’t necessarily need quick to scale or be successful
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Yeah that’s all fine and good but 6 levels is ridiculous for a new startup. My company has been around for 30 years, doing $75 million in sales this year, has 300 employees and we now have 4 levels, one more than last year, and even that feels artificial.
Nectarjs is interesting; I wasn't aware of that. How did it manage to avoid (for example) a garbage collector without making changes to the language?
The free market is really only able to be efficient when consumers have choice. With healthcare, choice is usually not an option (e.g. you get charged for the cost of your care even if you are unconscious when they bring you to the hospital). I wish it was that simple, but it's not. Getting policy right is a very difficult task, but I don't think we can fall back to the free market to solve that problem.
Looking at those 65 CVEs[1] and thinking just about the desktop use case (as that's what this is about), none of them really stand out as "zomg update immediately!" A number just aren't applicable at all for most desktop users, and quite a lot of others aren't readily exploitable, and are not cause for a panic update and reboot.

[1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...