skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about a whole list of things and many shades of gray between them: control, social needs, the need to be seen, crappy home life, unprepared for a home office, etc.

My managers at work (I'm a software engineer) tend to not have a dedicated office. They have kids running around being noisy and nosy. They STILL dress up wearing nice clothes. And I swear some of them talk about their gorgeous cars for the sake of talking about their cars, especially now nobody sees them drive or park those cars anymore.

They are also very verbose in any sort of meeting and dislike it when people turn off their cameras. I blame their extroverted social needs for this. They got to become a manager because of that social skill and need, and they are working with software engineers who are more toward the introverted side of the spectrum.

I don't want to wake up early, drive my car in traffic jams, find a parking spot, see that someone stole my favourite (but still bad) office chair, sit in an open office full of noisy people, working on shared & dirty keyboards, looking at small budget screens, on desks that can't be adjusted.

At home I have a dedicated office with a sofa. Height-adjustable desk. Herman Miller Aeron chair all to myself. Mechanical keyboard (that doesn't drive other people nuts with its sound) and expensive mouse. Two 27" 1440p 144Hz screens on desk mounted arms. Both of my cats to keep me company. My own toilet all to myself. A fully stocked kitchen. A place to work out. A very nice 55" OLED screen. My coffee machine is all mine (Gaggia Babila) with freshly roasted beans delivered every week. And my office has a view over a park and a large body of water.

Best of all: no office small talk. No interruptions at my desk. And if I realise, during a meeting, that I could just be a fly on the wall and continue working instead? Then I do exactly that, whereas in an office situation I couldn't do that.
The thing that makes it hard to go fast is not the energy needed but the mass you need to toss out the back. This is because you need to carry the mass you throw out the back. It adds to your total mass and slows you down. In space generally you carry all that toss out the back mass and once you use it, you can't get more. You can get more energy by using solar panels. Going the speed of light would require very little energy if you could just convert that energy directly into forward direction.

Solution: If you are close enough to Earth that you experience drag from the atmosphere, use the atmosphere as the mass you toss. Now you have a really efficient long term way of going fast because you can always get more mass to toss from the atmosphere and you can always get more energy from solar panels. You no longer need to bring mass to toss to orbit and you never run out of mass to toss.
That's why you have to get out as soon as you can. The money in being a code monkey in the West is on borrowed time. The tried and true money is in management. Managing people always pays well.
I get what you are saying, but I see it from a more positive perspective. I wouldn't play it, but it's a really cool tech demo and proof of concept. I was amazed that it managed to run as smooth as it did, with every action corresponding to a blockchain transaction. And how easy it was to create new tokens, and contracts for automatically exchanging them. So I did enjoy the video and learned new things. And it made me think that making an interesting on-chain game is actually possible, even if this was not it.
Yep, a lot of my content at rest doesn't work with the individual Plex clients. What's supported by the Plex client directly varies by individual client. I have for instance quite a collection of old DivX and Xvid content and I don't think any of the clients support that natively.
Whoever is behind this they were seeing religion very clearly, so I fail to see how your characterization of "European" liberalism applies.

The second paragraph of your post makes me think you're trying to shoe-horn something else into this discussion.

The European country I live in certainly has such laws. Can you name names? (Naturally, I'm not blind to this not preventing such discrimination; I have lived and worked in 5 European countries so far.)
It will happen gradually, then suddenly. I suspect there's a lot more discontent with the country than people are recognizing. I'd be curious to hear peoples' honest opinion on the maintaining the union, because I do think that a large number of Americans from both political parties are increasingly considering a break up to be the only real solution.

Climate change is a substantial omission here: forest fires and droughts in the west, heat waves/cold snaps in the south, increasing floods and hurricanes in the south east. Those are drastically changing the population landscape of the country.

Then there's the whole change with SALT deductions. This was a lot more insidious than a lot of people credit it with being. The long-term effects are hard to predict.

We are going to see a repeat of 2020 in 2024. Except this time, it will probably be successful. Will the next president continue trade wars against allies? Successfully withdraw from NATO? Again make military aid contingent upon corruption? Actively target "left wing" people with laws that allow them to be arrested, robbed, and have their children taken away?

I think this article undersells how incredibly precarious our democracy is right now. I genuinely feel like I'll see the end of the USA in my lifetime. I just hope it is a peaceful dissolution.
As someone fortunate enough to have worked remotely over the past two years, I've found the change enormously refreshing.

But, as with most things, there's tradeoffs, and the author correctly points out a few of them:

> These concerns have substance. Virtual work risks entrenching silos: people are more likely to spend time with colleagues they already know. Corporate culture can be easier to absorb in three dimensions. Deep relationships are harder to form with a laggy internet connection.

Another issue I'd add to this list is that promotions partially hinge on "chummyness" with decision makers. Remote work makes this challenging, and consequently, it might explain why folks are eager to get lucrative pay-rises and promotions by jumping ship to different companies. (Maybe this has always been the case, but it seems to have been exacerbated).
Simpler backups. Simpler restores. Easier multi tenancy. Easier to have data+app near customer. No firewalls. No passwords. No keys.

Why do you assume you'll run into problems? The moment you're running into problems, you better have a good plan with any RDBMS.
A bit of a collection my wife wishes wasn't so much of a collection.

- M1 Macbook Air base model (Usual daily driver)
- Lenovo Ideapad S340 (For testing stuff on windows)
- Macbook 2007 (all white polycarbonate, kind of my main Netbsd machine)
- iBook G4 (Eventually want to take on the crazy project of writing an OS for it)
- A dell netbook (can't remember the exact model, for any odd purpose that fits the day)
- Mac mini 2009 (serves as a little test server, running NetBSD)
- Raspberri Pi 4B (FreeBSD)
Pretty sure these devices are being installed all over the world, including countries with very strict gun laws and very low rates of gun ownership.
Don't worry, we'll get there if we don't get climate change under control.
IsOdd and IsEven are so famous that it would not surprise me at all if there a bunch of joke modules using them.
Hmm, I didn't do that. Maybe support gets installed by the iCloud Drive client?
Auxin Solar: A look at the mysterious company causing a big trade mess
Auxin Solar, the tiny company whose trade petition is rattling the whole U.S. solar industry, produces solar panels of questionable quality in volumes that appear to be lower than claimed, sources tell Canary Media.
If a method to transfer those pregnancies existed, would your ethics require you to continuously accept them?
Eve is the greatest game to read about that I have almost no interest in ever playing. I'm glad it exists.
Yikes! Did this pass an inspection like that? I'd highly suggest moving this higher up on the TODO list. Whether its a panel that needs replacing or just a cover needs to be replaced, it should be corrected. Please, don't become a statistic! </randoInternetNanny>
- Kerbal Space Program

I thought it'd be cool to write an optimiser for this. I.e. given this craft file for a payload subassembly, give me the cheapest/lightest/fewest parts booster subassembly that will get me to orbit with a remaining delta V of X.

Parsing the possible mount points seemed like a nightmare though.
Sorry, but I can't watch your youtube video until it has been thoroughly vetted to the same standard as commits to the linux kernel or peer review in science. As a matter of fact, I'd have to say your video is bad for society.

Surely you see how this is a self-defeating argument? Of course higher-stakes projects where inclusion of incorrect or malicious inputs in the end result could have significant impact on a lot of people will have more stringent checking than social media. Is your ideal world really one where all forums of human communication are peer reviewed?
A compensation gap only matters if it also leads to a gap in living standards. Tech salaries in the US are fairly homogenous with respect to cost of living; a developer in Ohio making an Ohio-adjusted salary would be able to afford similar things as a developer in the Bay Area making a Bay Area salary. (In fact, I'd bet that the Ohioan would be able to afford a much nicer house; CoL does not scale uniformly across goods and services with respect to location.)

However, tech salaries in the US are much higher than tech salaries in Europe even after adjusting for cost-of-living. That is what leads to resentment: a developer in London making a London salary would not be able to afford the same things as a developer in New York making a New York salary.
I switched from conda to poetry because everyone was praising it last year. Then I switched back because it's a pain to switch between OSes using poetry. I only use conda + pip install now, works well enough that I don't have to struggle every time I deploy in a new environment.
I feel like this is just trying to rebrand “lifestyle businesses” or small businesses in general. Where I grew up it wasn’t uncommon for people to have businesses that did a few million in sales and the whole family worked at. While not as sexy as getting angel investment, it sustained a quality of life that met their needs. In order to run a successful business you don’t NEED mass profits or VC dollars.
I'm highly skeptical we'll live in a country with free and fair elections for the rest of my life.

It seems like a majority of people (or close) are vehemently opposed to free & fair elections - thinking the only votes that should count are they votes they agree with.

And it seems like the VAST majority of people in this country would be willing to steal an election if it went in their favor.

In this landscape - I'm not sure how it doesn't eventually happen. And once the genie is out of the bottle, I don't think it ever goes back in.

When we live in a world where hardly anyone respects the opinions of others - it's hard to think a democracy is even what people want.
Funnily enough, I was just digging through my current project's dependencies and he's slipped in via a Rollup plugin which uses his "globby" package, which in turn uses his "slash" package.. Slash is about 5 lines of code, which is roughly 4 more than most people need for what it does.

I vastly prefer to use libraries with 0 dependencies but I never quite manage it, so I end up with the same problems as everyone else.
What do you think trn/slashdot/HN-style threading is lacking?
I was mainly attracted to the game for the economic simulation but also thought I would enjoy solo exploration based on watching such gameplay on Youtube. I wanted to do PvE and interact with the community in other ways than fighting, but EVE Online is a PvP game at heart. I left because all I found while exploring were other players eager to murder me.
That's the point, Sandy doesn't tell Peter her sum, nor vice versa. Sandy only knows the sum, Peter only knows the product, and they both know that the other doesn't (yet) know the answer. It allows them (in turns) to eliminate all the pairs that produce unique sums/products, until Peter ends up with one single pair.
The Russians also have self-propelled GPS guided rockets for their MLRS that outranges anything else in artillery (9M54x series). Guided MLRS is also likely to be much cheaper, because it's a lot easier for electronics to survive being propelled out of a tube by rockets than being fired out of a cannon, but that's just speculation.

Nobody that's honest includes it in the artillery range because these munitions fundamentally are different in use since they cost around ~100x more than normal shells.

Munitions that cost ~100k each can't be compared in good faith to 500$ dumb shells. If you do, then you need to include guided rocket artillery, which has around 3x the range of something like Excalibur.
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Nobody has been executed for an abortion either that I can tell, so I assumed that was hyperbole on their part.
Why is it whenever someone says something unifying and wholesome like gp, someone like you isn't too far behind to remind everyone to feel bad about themselves?
Am I the only one not interested in taking advice from someone who has largely been massively successful? I always feel like these are the people who generally have nothing of real value to say, they just think they do because of their bias from their success.
>> Bloomberg reports that the world’s richest 500 people have lost a total of $1 trillion this year.

> I can't view the article, but aren't those "losses" likely to be paper losses, i.e., unrealized losses?

Yup, these kind of articles are just padding. They're very cheap to write, and there's almost always "news" since stock prices always move. Most of the richest people (that we know of) hold the vast majority of their wealth in shares of public companies, so the richest got X-trillion richer/poorer in the past months/years is pretty much synonymous with the stock market went up/down by Y-%.

You can probably write a script that fetches stock returns and autogenerates the article. Heck, someone at Bloomberg probably already did.
> The last remaining gun store in Los Angeles (or some similar area) was forced to close a while ago.

Maybe you should verify the information you consume before repeating it as fact.
You don't have to block every bad channel that exists, only the ones that get recommended to you. And youtube tends to be quite stubborn with channels it recommends, so even just blocking a few can go a long way. But of course over time you also amass a bigger list, which covers a wider range of channels.
Long since dead but I put a lot of time into a browser-based (2D) MMO called Nowhere Else and Beyond back in the day.

You could build islands and they'd be placed somewhere in the world for people to sail to, you could create quests set on your island etc. There was even an object inventor for creating equipment.
Yea, I've seen some spotty support from Plex clients. Also with browsers: IIRC Chrome and Firefox don't support x265 but Safari does
Avoiding social media for one week boosts well-being, cuts depression
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A flat surface is less likely to reflect to the source. Think of shining a flashlight at a polished metal object. If the object is smoothly curved and convex, there will always be some point on the surface at just the right angle to reflect the light beam into your eyes.

On the other hand consider a flat mirror (at a long distance) or a faceted object with a small number of facets and sharp edges: it's unlikely that any of the facets is correctly aligned to reflect the light to your eyes.

A shape with fewer angles ("low-poly") has a lower probability of giving a visible reflection.

Modern stealth appears to work the same way: surfaces and edges are aligned along a minimal number of angles to reduce the effective number of "facets". See the shape of the B-2 for example, the leading and trailing edges are at the same angles.
Nice achievement and great to see you are still there after all that time to see it through to GA. Congrats! It must be a bit like seeing your child cycle to school alone for the first time :)
I will happily follow you, once you have achieved your goal of unifying all languages and markup in this enlightening new future. I look forward do being issued with a lisp machine.
I’m not sure how you define “worth” it. I had a load of fun once I felt like I had control over how to play and what to do with my time there. I even had fun when I was losing/dying.

I quit because real life has to take priority for a while, not for anything negative about the game.
TikTok is the thing.
And to me there's absolutely zero shame in this working arrangement. I'm a laborer, I work cards, fix bugs, add features. I don't live to work, I work for a salary and benefits and want no emotional investment in what I do. My actual life is what I do outside of work.
Exactly!
Generally speaking, code smells are also context-sensitive structures. This means that a smell will not always represent pain in a specific project. It is just a possibility that must be analyzed in each context. It is a warning, not a judgment.

We are interested in knowing Elixir's community opinion about these code smells. Collaborations can be made via GitHub issues (https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells/issues) or Pull Requests in our repo!
Indeed, the majority of businesses don’t have Angel or VC funding. The majority are built on sweat equity.
WebAuthn is way better than (for example) OAuth in this regard, since the identity provider doesn't actually hold your private key; but I agree there are still potential concerns about vendor lock-in.

Ideally there will be third-party credential databases (just like with password managers), and a way to export your keystore and import it into another provider. That would solve this problem.
I feel that, it sounds like such a grand adventure but I just know there was thousands of hours sunk prior to each Big Event that I could never bring myself to do.
I think it's reasonable to believe that the kind of work executives do is done better in person. I've never been an executive, but I'd believe it. I do know that, for many individual contributors, the kind of work they do is better done remotely. Certainly their lives are better. That's the real tension, in my opinion: whose experience is more important, and if it comes down a zero sum contest, who can make the other side blink first?

Ideally it should not come down to a zero sum contest, but that's often how these things happen.
I think you assume the algorithm is working where I feel the opposite.
I do. Most of the time it's outpatient, and occasionally it is merely, take a pill, come back for a checkup in a couple of days.
> America is not collapsing

That what they were also saying about the USSR and look how it went.

To be clear, I don't think the USA will collapse soon because I do not have the necessary skills to assess a claim like that. The one thing I think everyone gives too much credit to is our own ability to foresee events such as a country collapsing.

How human crowds behave is notoriously very hard to predict, and people have a tendency to retcon their historical perception of events in order to justify what has just happened. Just look at the USSR, where the majority of experts in Russology scoffed at the idea that the Soviet regime was going to collapse, yet it did and afterwards everyone was like "well, that's obvious!". If the USA were to collapse tomorrow, future historians would probably point at things such as the current Supreme Court composition and the divide between political lines as the inevitable, unstoppable factors behind it.

IMHO except the fact that every Empire some day inevitably falls, how and when countries implode is often too complex to predict, so most of these discussions about the impending (or lack of) doom of a polity basically boil down to white noise or fiction.
We can stay basic. If wealth inequality and the benefits people like Musk get over others isn’t an enormous problem in and of itself. it breaks any data or evidence based notions of “people who are good at betting on the future” and so on. The powerful are the ones who influence the future the most. Protected more, etc.

How many people would be able to buy their own version of Twitter that is analogous to their net worth in the way Musk did? Not that many people. Your average person isn’t getting the sort of loans or interest rates. Or other supposedly good at predicting the future but again they are also the most powerful. Like the $7B+ Musk has raised from other investors so far.
>Except they obviously don't, actually, or they wouldn't so regularly permit abortion in the case of rape or incest

That just seems like pragmatism. An unqualified ban would be voted down or struck down by a court. They might just be crafting legislation they feel they can pass.
> Those photos and videos will be decodable... forever.

It will be possible forever, but not easy. JPEG is built into the standard library of every scripting language, and viewers come with every OS. I'm just lazy, that's all. I've tried "better" formats, but my life is easier when I stick with JPEG, MP4 (even though it's non-free), MP3, FLAC, etc.

Just yesterday I came across an old backup I made of some CDs 20 years ago... in Monkey's Audio. The files were 2% smaller, but they also reached out from the past and annoyed the hell out of me. haha
The north wasn't uninhabited land before the Europeans arrived.
I think of Strike Commander as the pinnacle of this era. I had to erase my entire hard drive to install it each time I wanted to play. It was 32MB!
As a taxpayer I certainly don't want my government wasting resources on such schemes.
We need a startup for the middle class
This may or may not be that hard, depending on your server. You could proxy all "mutation" HTTP verbs to your one writer instance, and probably do similar if you are using GraphQL.

If you are using something like gRPC I feel this might be more complicated because it's not obvious which actions are read/write.

I'm in the same boat as you though overall - I'm not sure what the ideal strategy is, or if one even exists, since this seems to create a problem that does not normally exist.

If you are greenfield, maybe you create one service that only does writes - this may be CQRS-like.
I believe noise here just refers to high frequency variation in atmospheric forcing. The ocean can be thought of as adding inertia to the climate system like a massive flywheel. This means it reacts slowly to change. This paper is arguing the ocean is becoming quicker to respond to changes it sees (or that’s my interpretation after a first read)

This paper is tangentially related https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1976...
My sense is that in general, and especially in software, the world is becoming more of a winner take all place. This is not a good thing.
You really don't need an entire article to understand this - just ask your boss or your boss's boss why they like being in the office. It is because it is harder to manage people (or they think it is harder to) remotely.
Gazelles?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gazellecompany.asp
SnippetsLab https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/

I keep project notes in SnippetsLab. The Markdown support is great and I output really nice looking PDF files when I need to share something professional looking with management.