skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. He really is. He really is irresponsible to his role, a scofflaw, and profoundly anti-union.

He's as bad as Steve Jobs: amazing insight to what the world wants, but a-social to a degree which leads to abusive behaviour like "pedo-man" and Jobs' denial of his illegitemate daughter.

Of course he has an entrepreneurial upside. Nobody is all bad. If I can dodge Godwins law to make a joke comment, The toothbrush-moustache man was, after all, a vegetarian.
It's probably less hassle to just dump them for Debian or Pop. By removing snap, you're now taking on a maintenance project, and will have to continue maintaining it for any unintentional breakage that occurs from an update or upgrade.

Linux Mint has a Debian edition that I've been using for awhile now. It's quite nice! https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
Exactly my thoughts, thanks for noting it! The only thing I don't agree on is that these dreams are somehow "capricious" (esp. given they were the norm just a little over 10 years ago or so; in that respect, "open office" is the capricious dream of the "modern" management) ;)
Sure. There are some things in aviation that are counterintuitive: recovering from a stall is one of those. That's why commercial aviation in the United States places such a strong emphasis on regular training (and why commercial aviation in the US is as safe as it is). Unfortunately stall physics are something that flight simulators don't tend to do so well at.

Another counterintuitive thing is that tactile feedback isn't necessarily helpful. There's a lot of whinging about how Airbus doesn't provide any feedback in the sidestick when both pilots are doing conflicting things, same with the thrust levers (or whatever they're called in Airbus land). Pilots have crashed Boeing airliners that give you this "important" feedback.

Anyways, my point was that stall recovery is something that's usually drilled into pilots. Unfortunately for the AF 447 crew, nobody told them that the stall warning would turn off when they flew so far outside the envelope that they were in "undefined behavior" territory. And that led to at least one of the pilots not recognizing that they'd stalled in the first place. But like any crash there are many contributing factors, and if any one of those had been different the plane wouldn't have crashed.

If it were just one or two examples of poor airmanship at Air France then sure, it'd be easy to chalk it up to "flying is hard". And yeah, the pandemic has robbed a lot of pilots of their necessary practice. But the four or five cases I cited where Airbus' "alpha floor protection" saved Air France flights were all pre-pandemic. At some point you've gotta look at what those incidents and accidents have in common (hint: it's not the airplane and not the crew). And that's why my main concern is with Air France's lack of safety culture and by extension their pilot training.
Having a personal domain that's only 6 characters long is pretty handy at times. If it were a .com, it would be hard not to sell it for $1M, but a .org/.net that might get you a car is something you can keep.
You get plenty of respect from other musicians at least no matter your skill level. Playing guitar with other guitarists or musicians is amazing.
Forcing you to change all usages seems like a win, making it harder to accumulate code smells and encouraging you to audit variable use — however briefly — when they change type.
You can already vote as a customer as to which fleet you want to fly on. It may not be practical but it is possible.

For example, jetBlue only flies Airbus and Embraer. Spirit and Frontier exclusively fly Airbus. Lufthansa's commercial fleet is mostly Airbus and the Boeing aircraft it does operate have good track records.
>told by some people that the way I speak is fine

Sorry but if that is literally what they said, I think they might not have been "shooting straight" with you. And this is obviously speculation, but perhaps that could have been because they didn't feel it was worth the potential blunt response they might have received from you if they said otherwise?
First two paragraphs:

Single-family rentals has been one of the hottest real estate asset classes over the past couple of years as home values and rent prices have soared. The largest owner of this asset class in the U.S. is Invitation Homes Inc. (NYSE: INVH), a real estate investment trust (REIT) with a portfolio of 82,758 single-family rental homes as of the end of the first quarter this year.

The company’s portfolio is mostly made up of homes in the Western U.S. and sunbelt states, where the barriers to homeownership are highest and rent demand is strong. The average monthly rent for the entire portfolio during the first quarter was $2,078, with the highest average rent being in Southern California at $2,744 per month.
>> I think this is a genius move for Airbnb. Make it easier for _other_ companies to operate in a similar way so that _their_ employees can travel and live in an... Airbnb!

Yes. Like the story of Ford doubling the wages it paid to factory workers in 1920s. So that those workers could afford a car, and the whole economy eventually followed suit.
Yes, for those who haven’t seen Happy Gilmore, it’s a story about a guy who failed at ice hockey but accidentally discovered he was really good at golf. It has a lot of parallels to this story and the essence is conceptually the same.
I’m arguing the opposite of what you think I am. MP3s won because you could download and throw a gazillion of them on a portable device, cell phone cameras won because they were always on you. If this thing wins it’ll be because it’s cheap, you can swap the battery fast enough to make up for the shitty battery life, and the ux is simple enough that people who don’t care about drones can get drone shots. I’m completely on your side - the technical specs don’t matter if the UX is right.
At first, I was a little put off by how "batteries not included" the standard library was in rust, but I ended up preferring it. The quality of the rust community has generally made library selection pretty easy. There's usually a tacit first choice and often one or more optimized alternative for a particular situation or preference. When there is community disagreement and library churn, I think it ends up evolving better, more liked solutions; I truly believe this wouldn't happen as easily if it was enshrined in the std. Case and point, I've seen standard library implementations in C++ and python that just rot away.

The case sensitive visibility/privacy sound terrible to me. I dislike having to type pub as much as I do, but that seems worse for readability and clarity on top of throwing a wrench into the established rustfmt naming system.

About "Memory management", they already made some progress with non-lexical lifetimes in the past which did indeed improve the end user experience. I think "Polonius" aims to reduce the friction further, but I haven't looked into the specific improvements it might bring in user experience.
Null pointer bugs are prevented by idiomatic use of Option in Rust, so that’s at least one case where Rust’s focus on correctness prevents memory-safety bugs.
I had a similar 10 year gap with the guitar but you would be surprised at how fast the fingers remember themselves. I'd say in a few months or less I was about where I was before I stopped playing.
>There's a lot of data out there showing that attractiveness, fitness (as in, not obese), and tallness are all massive biases in the workplace -- much bigger in many studies than biases around gender and ethnicity even.

Not only are they biases, there is some data that shows attractiveness, height, etc actually correlate with competency. It might be a true stereotype (self-fulfilling or not).
> Just making borrow checker violations into warnings for debug builds would go a long way to making the language more tolerable to the overwhelming majority of programmers not already committed to it.

The problem is that the borrow checker isn't just a verifier of correctness. It actually impacts the semantics of a program.

For example, in javascript if you open a TCP connection and let your connection handle go out of scope, the connection will stay open. And as a result, your program will sort of just hang. In Rust, when you open a connection and your handle goes out of scope, the socket is closed automatically. How does the compiler know when your program should close the socket? It knows based on the borrow checker's analysis of your program.

If your program confuses the borrow checker, that means that the compiler can't figure out when it should close that TCP connection on your behalf. This isn't the sort of thing you can just turn off in debug mode, because programs should act the same in debug and release modes. A program which doesn't close the TCP connection is a different program from one which does.

There are ways around this - you can use types like Box, String, Rc, Cell, etc. And then just .clone() all over the place. But your code will run slowly. And thats still way more annoying to use compared to other languages. I don't know any other language which makes you write "Box" to put an object on the heap.

I hear the criticism. It is legitimately really hard to learn how to write rust code in a way that makes the borrow checker happy, especially at first. I'm still avoiding async rust after getting my feet burned by it a couple of years ago. As another commentator has mentioned, rust makes you experience all the pain up front. Its a lot of pain for new programmers to the language - probably too much.

I genuinely believe rust will never achieve the popularity of languages like Python, Go or Javascript. Its just so much harder to learn. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Most programmers don't need to write systems software. I'd rather rust keeps focuses hard on what its good at: situations where performance and correctness are more important than development speed. We have plenty of good programming languages for quickly prototyping things out. There's nothing wrong with using them when they're the right tools.
In NZ/AU we don’t include photos or personal information. When I moved to Singapore I was stocked. People put photos. Birthday. Family. Current Salary. Address. Long cover letters.
> While primary factors driving optimal panel positioning are readily modeled (i.e., the sun’s position at each time of day), site-specific and panel-specific factors are less so. Elements like dynamic shading from nearby trees or structures, localized panel defects, drift in axis positions as systems degrade, etc. can have significant impacts on energy production.

Will changing the orientation of the panel really have some effect on these (besides the drift in axis position) ?
sauce on this succubus?
I've lived more time in Taipei than any other city throughout my life and I love it.

That said, California's weather is amazing and while I can see some businesses "fleeing" in the near term, it will still be California and it's hard to imagine it not being a hot spot to some degree. People will always be drawn to good weather, mountains and coastlines.
I want to thank you for your edit, and for keeping the original text. Recognizing something you said ignored portions of the argument, changing the argument, and keeping the original portion to show _why_ you were wrong but still adds to the conversation is very valuable. I commend you for your ability to double guess yourself
What Computer Science Programs Should Teach
> almost no governments have legal frameworks for a digital nomad to work legally in a country

That's an ... interesting perspective. Put differently, most governments have a legal framework that prevents people from working on tourist visa.
They don't have the pull to change immigration laws but they can set and prove the standard to execute with excellence with this model.

To the other comments, it is an expense-less raise.

To the California tax base, it is yet another wakeup call.
Agreed. I have a friend who loves to brag how frugal he is. AFAIK he's not actually living his life. Not saying he needs possessions to enjoy his life but he doesn't spend on experiences either.

As for my possessions, I didn't buy them for others or to show them off. I bought them to enjoy them and I do.

Not really sure what the point of the advice is except maybe don't buy things to impress others.
This just sounds like the same arguments that have been made for C for ages. The complexity of programming is pushed out from the language into the program, the tools, and the programmer’s head. It’s not often that that’s a worthwhile trade-off
This is a pretty cool development, even if they made this thing the size of a 20ft shipping container it'd be a pretty good development.
This is a really cool idea, I do wonder how much of this is memorization and how much of it is typoglycemia (the ability to read misspelled words or words missing vowels etc without any major pause).
For the record, I don't think of you as a stealing automation engineer. You perform a valued service for an appreciative employer. (My employer, meantime, provides valued services for just such employers, maybe even yours.)

But your employers take home very large annual bonuses while contributing what, exactly, to society? If they and their sub-ms competitors did not do it, would anyone miss it? Suppose, e.g., trades did not register until 1000ms after entry?

Rhetorical questions.
I think there are parts of coastal California where there are clouds more of the year than rainfall. I'd also suspect if you just raised them up with balloons to cool them off and then brought them down where it's warmer, you could condense evaporation from the ocean, without spending energy directly on cooling.
On Android, take a look at StreetComplete.
Organic Maps has ‘casual’ edit features on both Android and iOS.
On iOS nothing beats Go Map!!

A complete list can be found at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_ap... or https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_iOS_applic... or just ask here.

StreetComplete: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete#download
Organic Maps: https://organicmaps.app/
Go Map!!: https://apps.apple.com/app/id592990211
Good practice helps with this. You can get a better sense of rhythm by playing rhythm and strumming on beat, or tapping your foot, or practicing with a metronome. You gain coordination with regular practice, and muscle memory with practicing different chord shapes and scales. the tone deafness can be improved if you always keep your guitar in tune and start to intrinsically learn what good tone sounds like as you practice.
I think this article kind of misses the mark? There is a big gulf between reporting other explanations and tests for the phenomena you're studying and divulging information that you believe is dangerous.

A journal of bad results would be incredible. You could have one for novel or interesting failures as the article posits, and you could have one that catalogued and categorized more mundane failures - if its not an interesting failure you probably don't need to publish all the particulars, just make your findings available for inspection. I think that kind of information condensed down could be very useful.
My company reduced floor space in 2020, so the open-floor office I was sitting in previously doesn't exist anymore, but after working from home for some time, you notice just how noisy an office building really is - even when you are alone in a smaller room, you can hear people talking in the hallway, in the office next to you etc. etc. So that needs some getting used to too...
> on MacOS you're running a Linux VM and have overheads of moving data between that and your main OS

MacOS is a special beast, because if I run a VM myself inside parallels using Docker (Ubuntu server with the docker snap, for example), I get nearly 5x the performance from that VM than I do just the "regular" docker for mac (including when all of the new mac specific experimental options are enabled for better performance).

It's pretty atrocious, I find it completely unusable and just stick to running my containers in Parallels and forwarding the ports.
Introversion/extroversion isn't a distinctive feature of Myers-Briggs - it shows up in more scientifically-respectable personality measures, like the five-factor (OCEAN) model.
If there was a perfect way to attribute drawing people to an area, and how much they spent, I suspect some businesses would have rather different rents.

I had a friend who ran an unprofitable arcade for some time. His trash was nothing but food and drinks from other local businesses, particularly piles of bubble tea cups from a place across the street. It seemed rather likely it was worth paying him a bit to stay there.
You can get the whole grafana stack to be s3 backed now I think.

Cortex for Prometheus, and tempo also all have s3 storage capabilities iirc
You may continue posting falsehoods, and I will continue pointing them out.

We don't need "something" to make storage cheap. Storage is cheap, and is getting cheaper.

Again, we are not building storage out yet because we don't have enough renewables to charge it from yet. Instead, we are right now building out factories to make it. E.g., the factories to make iron-air batteries, $20/kWh, are under construction right now. Ammonia synthesis plants are under construction right now. Tankage for ammonia is dirt cheap. No breakthroughs needed, just build-out.

When we do get to building out storage itself, it will be cheaper than it already is.
Who says it is my time? You can just buy custom workstations.
I think you can adjust either side of that statement to fit, and not change anything about the point I was trying to make :)

I just copied the numbers I saw elsewhere in this thread.
This makes me want to play IRC trivia, or Lexi-Cross.
Debian vs. Ubuntu is basically the same these days. Ubuntu is 98% just pulling from the Debian upstream. There are a few apps that need to be more bleeding edge, but to me Debian is just a "stable" Ubuntu. Without Canonical drama (just Debian drama).

If you're used to Ubuntu, transition to Debian or another Deb-based distro is pretty much invisible. What few things you may notice are the places where Ubuntu went off-roading and once the transition is made, it ends up more mainstream anyhow. So the I end up even more pissed off at canonical.

RHEL has an army of FTEs busy backporting patches to 5+ year old baselines. So it's buggy, quirky, AND perpetually out of date. But "stable" - meaning always and perpetually so, not meaning secure or runs well.

The key thing is that those "volunteers" are doing the lions' share of the work for all Linux. RHEL and Canonical's (and Oracle and etc...) contribution and value added is poor. All those FTEs are being paid to do things you don't need and don't want that screw up what was better off without them - but Enterprise!
This is the trick.

The answer is always[0] "Perfect", "Yes, and...", or sometimes "Oh, what if...".

[0] Yes this is hyperbolic. Everything has exceptions sometimes.
>> Most folks will end up working on tourist visas which is explicitly not allowed around most of the world.

Are you sure this is the case? You’re not allowed to get hired locally but I believe you can work online for a company based in your country of residence provided you don’t stay long enough to become a resident of the new country (which you can’t on a tourist visa). I visited Canada for 6 months on a tourist visa. I had a full immigration interview at the airport when I arrived and they were perfectly happy with me working freelance/online for those 6 months. They were just clear I couldn’t become an employee of a Canadian company.
> in practice every such system has leaked liquid sodium

Just to clarify, reactors cooled by liquid sodium are not molten salt reactors but rather belong to the class of reactors often called "metal-cooled" (sodium is a metal, not a salt, see).
> ... many great Perl book authors ...

Would you mind listing a few of these?

I would add "Modern Perl" by chromatic: https://pragprog.com/titles/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-editio...

With lots of elegant examples, this book really shows that perl is not a write-only language.
I fail to see how decentralised package sources can possibly reduce the chances of a supply chain attack (from outsiders). Now instead of one repo needing to be secure and up to date, thousands must.
Diverting money from renewable build-out for contraptions that will not deliver any energy at all year after year would, then, be strictly worse.
Passing Time Syncing Secrets:Demonstrating Covert Channel Vulnerability in PTP
Passing Time and Syncing Secrets:
Demonstrating Covert Channel Vulnerabilities
in Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
It's a relative statement.

In this case, leaking molten sodium merely causes a nontoxic metal fire. Definitely in the category of "not fun", but not the end of the world either. Just dump some sand on it and wait for it to cool down.

Leaks of molten salt nuclear fuels are an entirely different category of industrial disaster. A nuclear accident at best, and a large-scale disaster at worst.

It's like the difference between a water truck having an accident and spilling water on the road and a damn bursting and flooding a city.

One makes for a funny picture on Reddit, the other gets the national guard called up to deal with the emergency. Both involve spilled water.
Caring about anything is inherently emotional.

Take human suffering. There's no logical reason to care about it. You can't take someone with sociopathic tendencies and logic them into caring about humans - it simply doesn't make sense. Either that empathetic circuitry exists in someone's brain or it doesn't, which manifests as emotions when it does exist.

I think you're starting from a flawed premise that logic is a motivating force. Logic is a slave to the passions, not the other way around. Logic is a tool we use to manage our emotional state more effectively by helping us choose actions that we believe are more likely yield net positive emotional states. Logic just computes results; it has no innate motivation of any kind, it takes motivations and emotions as inputs.

Take this for example:

> beneficial to humanity.

You're implying a preference for humanity, which has some emotional foundation. Maybe you care about humans as a whole for some abstract emotional reason; or maybe it's purely self-interest since you're a human (so what benefits humans hopefully benefits you, even if you don't care about other humans) which is also an emotional reason. There's no objective, inarguable truth that you should care about humanity. The root of your confusion on animal rights stems here.

Ultimately, animal rights is about taking the empathy that most humans innately have to at least a limited extent, and expanding that to apply to more entities. If you experience no empathy in general in life, it makes no sense. If you experience some empathy, it makes some sense. If you experience a lot of empathy, it makes a lot of sense.
Quartz Acquired by G/O Media
I didn't write that I'm baffled. That was a different poster.
We're discussing the technology of crypto currencies, not just the currencies that exist now. It wouldn't be hard to make a utility coin that gives you something real, but virtual, like megabytes of data on your phone plan, domain hosting, virtual goods in games to the value of 1 dollar etc. Such a coin would not be as volatile as one that is untethered from anything tangible, like Bitcoin.

> To whom? When?

To most people. Look at BTC/USD for the last year, and then look at a currency during hyperinflation, that loses 10% a day, every day. Which would you rather hold?
Author wishes they'd known not to ask a woman if she's pregnant. That cannot have been a pleasant experience.
the _ thing in python ime has been pointless, people will use those functions anyway if they need to. it just makes code ugly and harder to read. i rarely ever prefix a function with an _
It's hard to imagine a better handling of the situation. If I was in USA Airbnb would be at the top of my "to work" list. Bravo.