skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience? It’s never about that, and if there was nothing to criticize, THAT would be criticized. It’s usually about some fundamental disconnect or unmet need by one of the parties, and without concerted honest effort by both to face it, it’s going to explode sooner or later.

The problem being, if they were already prone to spending concerted, honest effort in facing and talking about their problems, they would be a lot less likely to be in that place.
> San Francisco, meanwhile, suffers the highest property crime rate in the country. Businesses like Walgreens have shut down numerous Bay Area locations due to “rampant burglaries.”

Hasn't the "we're shutting down this Walgreens because of rampant burglaries" been repeatedly debunked?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/is-shoplifting-forcing-wal...
I spent a week or two creating a trading tool for the popular video game EVE Online. The tool identifies regional arbitrage opportunities between large market hubs and allows me to prioritise the movement of goods to maximise profit while minimising time investment. It also helps me update orders efficiently.

As it provides a decent competitive advantage I have no plans to publicise it, although it is on Github as a portfolio piece.
Keeps out undesirables.
Why not just clone the ticket?
Webb Telescope’s Coldest Instrument Reaches Operating Temperature
Is FSF still relevant nowadays?
As an engineer, the much worse scenario is dirty dishes sitting in the sink while the dishwasher is considered "full" but is actually at some fraction of its capacity.
A few come to mind:

A command line calculator. While it's on github, is really just made for me because I wanted something to do quick math and convert different units.

A note/todo app. Started it's life as just a text file in a git repo, but now has a web front end, a simple TUI front end, and a little backend so it can add repeating tasks or tasks future days when they come along.

I also have a little python script running to control my exterior Hue lights, turning them on at sunset and such. Just added a thing today that turns on the lights in my office to full brightness when I open Zoom. It's nice, but every time I go down the rabbit hole of home automation, my SO rightly gets annoyed at the silliness of it all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208#Kanji_from_unknown_...

Due to this thorough investigation, the committee was able to pare down the number of kanji for which the source cannot be confidently explained to twelve, shown on the adjacent table. Of these, it is conjectured that several glyphs came about due to copying errors. In particular, 妛 was probably created when printers tried to create 𡚴 by cutting and pasting 山 and 女 together. A shadow from that process was misinterpreted as a line, resulting in 妛 (a picture of this can be found in the Jōyō kanji jiten).
War in Korea would be far worse than peace.

The Korean War saw about 1.5 million civlian deaths, according to [1]. It's impossible to say how many died in the 1994-1998 famine alone, but [2] puts it at "240,000 to 3.5 million" and [3] cites figures of "up to 3 million."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine

[3]: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/how-kim...

So, no. There are worse things than war. For allowing this situation to fester for multiple generations, history will judge us the way we talk about the "good Germans" who didn't lay a hand on anyone but who also did nothing to stop Hitler.

You're correct, though, in that the North Korean nuclear program is now an ideal excuse for continuing to do what we did before, which was nothing.
"treason is treason"

I find the idea that someone who has not pledged their allegiance to a particular country can commit treason against said country to not make much sense.

"Just a couple national security secrets okay?"

He shouldn't have access to any such secrets afaik.

"I agree, he shouldn't be locked up. He should had been sentenced to hanging, from the neck."

I understand that it is easy to say such things online, especially since it is hard to humanize someone that you have only seen being talked about in various sites, but I think that you treat human lives way too cheaply, especially for something as minor.
lots.

many of them live in my emacs config...

also, a TUI noaa weather interface, piles of little bespoke automations, etc. None of it's portable, none of it's really meant to be.
I think it's kind of funny to say "oh, you're depressed? here, talk to a non-sentient robot" because of the irony and insensitivity of it
I'm 39, upon re-reading my post I didn't want to be dishonest. And tbh, it was probably more than 75. An epic quest full of interesting people and good learning experiences to discover what is actually out there! But alas, this isn't my primary account - so I try (and happily fail often) to keep it vague. Not that big of a deal either way in the end.

> Since you explicitly solicited advice in your other comment - I think a man in his 40s (or almost 40) would be insane to propose marriage to a woman he's dated for 9 months.

Haha, thank you! Because of previous trauma, I am also hesitant to rush anything. Then I also have my sister (who just had a baby last year) whispering and telling me to just have a kid with my gf, even if we aren't married. I think she's just baby crazy at present, or perhaps she really does hate me and is playing the long game :)

p.s. Not that you asked or that it's really any of my business, but I'll try anyway: One pattern I've noticed in our exchange is you seem to get a bit hung up on the small details. My interpretation is that you are probably a really great engineer, of the sort I enjoy working with the most (seriously). Just don't forget to zoom out and view the forest from time to time!

Sincerely,

Metadat
I think India's massive trade volume with Russia contradicts you
Thanks for the heads up - I've edited the post to a copy of the image I uploaded to imgur.
Among myriad of issues, one is that the tax rates for the very rich are not high enough.

And the absolute parrallel there is - people probably wouldn't feel their money is being spent effectively.

I really do feel that rich Californians would accept higher taxes if the money was really well spent.

Impossible to talk about is the 'low end' - where you have (and bringing in) people in very, very low skilled and economic classes even on a global scale, who really can't 'participate' in the regular economy to legitimize a solid minimum wage.

And so you get 1M people working 'under the table' where the supply/demand bears a low price.

It might be heartless to hear, but consider that it may be far more efficient to have US companies invest in developing Mexico, and have those people have wage jobs there that provide them a modicum of dignity - as opposed to coming to Cali and being jammed into the 'bottom'.

The 'cartels' (very complicated issue) is an example of how, systematically everything gets oppressed.

Cali has never been about 'equality' (i.e. communitarian, hard work, self discipline, charitable giving, good governance, responsible social spending, community cohesion aka Sweden) more like the 'dreamy feeling of equality' where if everyone just 'pursues their thing and acts kind it will all work out'.

Throw in a national crisis in healthcare and housing and you have your mess.

It takes everything: taxes need to be a bit more for the rich, schools need to be a bit rigorous, parents need to parent, the border needs to be responsibly managed, need to have intervention in healthcare pricing, police need to act fairly and appropriately, city councils need to stop being corrupt, DA needs to stop being populist, don't elect a 'pretty playboy' to lead government instead elect rationalists who are competent and can lead, we cannot allow petty crime to go unheeded, we cannot allow absolute poverty to go unheeded, we cannot allow corporate corruption to go unheeded, we cannot allow government inefficiency to go unheeded. People need to stop being dreamy and delusional and ideological on all fronts. 'TED Talk' thinking does not solve any problems, it misleads us to thinking there is an idea, or a technology that can change - I say rubbish, we need to be responsible and conscientious on all fronts, that's what makes civilization.
I needed to hire a Ruby on Rails engineer a few years back, and didn't have much experience with Rails. So took a weekend to scratch an itch and created a web app where I could input a URL to a YouTube video, and the app would then pull the audio from the file and add it to a podcast RSS feed so that I could listen later on my iPhone in Overcast.

It was super useful for a while, and never turned it into anything more. Was handy for just listening to conference talks and other content where the video wasn't very important.
Tried this already, paramount plus and funimation still didn't work and
Yup. Having been on the receiving end of it - she literally said afterwards she couldn’t stop herself.

Luckily, she was just stabbing the counter and not me.

My mistake for asking her how she was doing, apparently.
I made a domain scraping tool that found a nice 3 letter domain, a few graphic editors for game design, html+js+php minifier, file copiers to backup only certain files, and other automation tools.
I have written some programs...

An old IRC channel I was on migrated to Slack, so I wrote a Python script that logs it in an IRC log-like format, like I use to do on the IRC channel.

I wrote an Android app that tracks my movements if I am moving, and sends it to a server. I wrote it all in about a week in 2018. Have not had time to update it but it works well enough. Have not done much with the data yet, but it has been useful when I am trying to remember when I went somewhere and for things like that.

I use other things, but they're mostly open source programs that I modified slightly for my purposes.
> Audited data privacy is a core selling point of enterprise communication systems like Slack and Zoom

Is Zoom audited? Zoom had been lying for about having end-to-end encryption, for example, until they were caught by the US Federal Trade Commission. Surely, something like that would have been discovered earlier in an audit, if they were audited and the audits were worth something.

They were also sending data to third parties like Facebook and Google through their SDKs.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/zoom-lied-to-use...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-...
I don't think one should go to the level of making random bs claims about things, and then blaming the groups one is making the claims about.
My entire linux Desktop feels this way! It's my favorite part of working in a barebones Linux distro like Arch. I've got to build everything from the ground up. Need a screenshot program? OK... let's pull in Flameshot. Where's it going to host that image? Well, let's create a watch folder and shuttle everything off to a GCP static bucket.

Window manager? I3... heh, let's build a bunch of scripts. Vim? Well... man, that's a whole ecosystem of tooling I an hack together and write against.

I do this as a designer. I'm actually not a fantastic programmer, I just like the flexibility of building tools that are specific to me. My entire desktop feels like a love letter to building cool things the way I want.
> Is there a book about how a technological advantage wins wars?

Probably not. There are loads of examples of less technologically advanced groups defeating more advanced opponents (or at least forcing them to give up). A few examples:

- Vietnam against the French, then the Americans

- Afghanistan against the British, the Soviets, and the Americans

- Haiti against the French

- America vs. the British

- Germanic Barbarians vs. the Roman Empire

- IRA vs. the British

Some writers (Gladwell comes to mind) have even suggested that the opposite is true, namely that the number of times a more technologically advanced power has been defeated or at least held off by a less powerful, less technologically advanced opponent is actually much higher than one would expect looking simply at the capabilities of each party involved.
(2020)

(Anyone know if they're still using Rust?)
You can control your microphone in your OS settings. While we are still on PulseAudio, check out pavucontrol for Linux systems. I am sure there are equivalent tools for Windows or MacOS.

There are also laptops with hardware microphone switches (eg. https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/ or https://frame.work/).
Someone recently explained their view, that sanctions are akin to siege warfare in days of old. Whether you agree with that analogy or not, there is an underlying valid point that not all warfare requires physical violence. We use the term cyber warfare as another example.
> I'd definitely encourage the "every customer gets their own DB".

Does this extend to services as well? We have a suite of (micro) services. Are they all segregated?
This applies to legal fines. Doesn’t sound like it applies to medical debt:

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-1205.html
How skill-based matchmaking works in the battle royale
I have a couple but the first that comes to mind is a tiny little mac app I wrote that "jumps" my mouse between monitors. I use it because I have 2 monitors in vertical orientation, one in horizontal between them, and another smaller monitor above the center monitor. Here is some ascii art of it:

+----------------+
| |
+------------+ | | +------------+
| ! | | ! !| | ! |
| ! | | ! !| | ! |
| ! | +----------------+ | |
| | +-+----------------+-+ | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | +--------------------+ | |
| ! | | ! |
| ! | | ! |
| ! | | ! |
+------------+ +------------+

! = Where my mouse would get stuck

My little app helps to keep my cursor from getting "caught" on the 2 vertical monitors. By default macOS treats the parts of my vertical monitors that go above/below the middle monitor as hard stops/walls so it's annoying if my mouse is too low/high that I have to stop what I'm doing, drag my cursor up/down, then continue moving across the monitors. Likewise, the only way to get to the top monitor is to first go to the center monitor then go up. I hated feeling like my mouse was running into walls constantly so I wrote this app. If my cursor hits any of the old "walls" then my app moves the cursor up/down until it lines up with the bottom/top edge of the center monitor. Also if I'm hitting a wall at the top of the vertical monitors it will jump me over the "gap" to the to top-center monitor.

I looked for (and paid for) a couple of apps out there that claim to do this or something similar but none of them worked for me. I had never really written any Swift code but I was able to cobble together enough code to make it work and in around 200 lines of code I got exactly what I wanted. I wrote this over 2 years ago and I haven't had to touch it since. In fact the first time I rebooted I got confused at why my mouse was getting stuck because I had grown so used to it (added my little "app" to login items and everything has been smooth sailing ever since).

EDIT: Added "!" to the diagram to show all the places my mouse would get "stuck" previously. I left out the ones on the center monitor since they are harder to explain where I'd get stuck going up (the edges since the bottom monitor is higher resolution that the top one).
The whataboutism is strong because the hypocrisy and double think is so pervasive.

Many people believe in moral exceptionalism when it comes to USA foreign policy when the vast majority of the time it boils down to the same self-interested realpolitik as other countries.
On a more general level, Christian Brabandt's re-imagining of emacs' region narrowing can be a great work to work files that contain complex embedded strings.

Much like the emacs feature it is useful outside this specific use case too, and it can be a great way to perform heavy edits without needing to care about boundaries and such.

¹ https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn
> Well its mathematically impossible to be accurate as soon as you have > 20 users.

It's probably in the semantics.

Text input and editing is clearly a part of functionality that's probably used by everyone (or at least most users), so it's not possible for "different 5%" to mean what you're alluding to, maybe the phrasing needs work.

In any given 5% there might be 1-4% of overlap with what others are using and the remainder of that is specific to the company.
Be glad you are free from this abuse.
I wrote a quick program in Go to move a certain file from my Downloads folder to my Google Drive folder, when the file is detected. It's to help me backup with Tiddlywiki.
Its owned by google (alphabet) i think they deserve some props for it.
I made a video player for studying languages (Chinese in my case) its fully keyboard driven and allows marking areas of the video to be looped, so I can play through the video and efficiently mark all the areas with speech, then loop through those and navigate between them. I can also write a note for each marked area, which I use to transcribe and translate the video content.

I'll make it public in the near future.
> Do photo contests typically allow entrants to heavily edit photos?

To my knowledge - yes
I strongly urge you to just stand in an SF Walgreens and watch how many people walk out the door with stolen goods. None of those incidents are reported, the security guards don't even bother getting up.
In vacuum, maybe. Vantablack is made of carbon nanotubes, and those oxidize away in atmosphere above 750C.
There are also folks that are suffering from real severe mental health crisises, and will continue to escalate and dysregulate over and over again - to their own and others detriment.

Having been on the receiving end of this - don’t keep trying to make it work if it gets to this point. Work on being a grey rock to them (non reactive) until you can get yourself and others to safety.

Also don’t tell them you’re leaving until you have a viable plan B that they can’t find. Kids make it much much harder, and unfortunately around 2 yrs old
is often when it gets the toughest and this can happen.
This is odd to read because his chat moves pretty quick from what I have seen, in line with streams of similar size. Lots of memes and emote spam.

But in general I agree with you, the embeds can be easily abused and distort the popularity of streamers on twitch, giving some an unfair advantage. In an industry where success depends heavily on the number of eyeballs on your content and where twitch itself prioritizes larger streams it is unacceptable in my opinion. Long term it directly undermines the natural growth of developing streams, the process that has given us a rich and dynamic twitch community in the first place. The topic deserves an article if it hasn't been written about already.
You can use this as an inspirational soundtrack for the presentation: https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/wormboiler
I’m curious: Why did you choose to do this yourself rather than use something like Personal Capital?
I am curious about that too (although others have already answered). I prefer typing over speaking.

But I have realized that a lot of people I interact with find it more difficult to understand information in written form. Ie it's easier to teach someone with spoken language than over written text.

I dislike video calls.
I want the knowledge out there, I just don't want it to be used against people. You can learn love languages, you can talk about them to people, but you can't use bring it up with people you're in a relationship with. Especially in a discussion about your relationship.

The point is for people to focus on learning rather than weaponization.

And it's not just love languages. It's pretty much every psychological and sociological concept. Bringing them up in a discussion is almost always an attempt to cut off the other person's attempt at communication.

It's like the list of fallacies. No one wonders if they're making fallacious arguments, they just use it as a cudgel against other people.
I don’t recognize the California described in this article and I live in Los Angeles. It seems like a politically motivated attack on liberalism using California as a proxy for the Democratic Party.
Sounds like NewPipe
We don't have any examples right now, but you could easily do this with a DecoratorNode. See how we create the EquationNode on our Lexical Playground repository. We also have our own code block too, which, with a bit of TLC could be something that could rival Monaco/CodeMirror. We plan on adding virtualization and a bunch of other things in the coming months.
meh. the OP lost me when they said they favoured Dell XPS 13s. those things are complete crap.

but i've been using leenucks and BSD as daily desktop drivers for at least 25 years. before that i had a sun workstation and a vaxstation.

x/windows works, bash is tolerable and sed, awk and grep are my lovers.
For fun I made a tool to create 3d printable stamps (or tokens). Upload image, download stl, print, have fun.

I will release it one day. The algorithm is super inefficient and can be 10 times faster. But I am the only user.

View result (and save cpu cycles):
https://powpowstamp.com/designer/bc807d49-3899-4969-a342-528...

Upload a design (black/white outlines works best, see example)
https://powpowstamp.com/designer/
Jack Dorsey First Tweet NFT listed for $48M, ends with best offer of $280
The reason to buy Jira is that loads of stuff integrates with it, and lots of people know it. Maybe not perfect, but that's why. And unless you're in it all the time, which some people may be, its ergonomics are not as important as, say, an IDE's.
For context: the top 5% of income starts at about $200k, and top 1% of income starts at about $500k nationwide.
Does that indicate it would be preferable to pay more for a more reliable solution, if such a thing were to exist? Although, it definitely would be hard to quantify 'more reliable' there.
I have GoPros on my bike and often when I arrive to work/home I forget to turn them off and the batteries die, so I wrote an app so I can shout across the room, "Hey Siri, stop all cameras".

I don't use it anymore myself and got a bug report last week. It's a couple of years since I've written any Swift at all, so I'm not mad keen on working on it, and I feel a bit bad that I have published it and it's not working. I never put the code on GitHub because the reverse engineering of the Bluetooth was somewhat incorrectly documented in the code and I didn't want to share bad information. Now GoPro have an SDK I could use.

Similarly, I wrote a Siri Shortcut for checking where the nearest Jump (bikeshare) bike is (Python on AWS Lambda). Then Uber sold Jump to Lime and there is no API access for me anymore (Sacramento).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RzahKxUYqc

https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/stoppro/id1453312416

https://gopro.github.io/OpenGoPro/demos/python/sdk_wireless_...

https://github.com/BrianHenryIE/Bikeshare-Siri-Shortcuts
> it should be relatively easy to change algorithms and then fork the blockchain onto the new system

Like deprecating insecure and outdated TLS? Doesn’t seem like a good example.

It’s really not the same level of vulnerability. A crypto failure that allows for reading or altering of communications in-flight as it’s used in TLS now has a significantly different impact than if someone is able to alter the source of truth.
- a Python script that turns my loudspeakers off when no audio is played by Windows (by toggling a smart plug over Wifi). Saves quite a bit of energy.

- my TV loudspeaker is frequency corrected by a microcontroller (so that the sound is better) and is connected by Bluetooth (using an ESP32)
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