skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love this.

However, Waveshare whose epaper displays I use a lot always say they are not suitable for working in direct sunlight. Which is kinda the one thing such a laptop would really shine at.

So, would this be suitable?

PS: Front View and Side View show a svelte laptop but the "Chassis" photo shows a Lenovo/IBM T41? I assume this is a prototype and not the actual chassis.

I wonder if they would sell the display they put in those T41 prototypes, I still have a T42 lying around that would come in handy for this.
And not only did this happen already over a decade ago, a lot of the current internet users have never known anything else.

We had a discussion with coworkers and somebody mentioned irc. Explaining to younger colleagues what it was and that it was not a product of a company, but operators had servers that formed a network, and it was more like infrastructure. Felt weird.
Don’t. It’s bullshit.

At big tech companies when times are good, many people are sitting around waiting for paint to dry. (Ie some nutty process) Remember they are a profit center and get slacktime and fancy stuff.

Ditto outside of engineering. I knew one SE with a pretty big territory who travelled with his wife. They were swingers. The dude would just setup random meetings so the company would spring for their hotel. We’d get our steak dinner, they would get their freak on. At the end, he’s pulling in 3% of whatever crap we were buying.
Markets Are Efficient If And Only If P = NP (2010)
I live in Northern Germany, and I cherish the sun of Israel. But for example Hamburg looks not so good, re. flooding.
Why is this downvoted? I'm atm streaming Coder Radio (using Castamatic), and streaming 40 sats/min back. I can send a boostagram with any amount to give feedback + value. It works and it works well. I really hope this will mean an ad-free feed at some point (so I hope this becomes popular).

To me this is the first and best example as of yet where I feel that a cryptocurrency/blockchain is delivering real value (for value). And indeed, I like it.
Twice, and both were to block/delete a spammer who messaged me
Apparently, IMD has released historical weather data last year and it is available here: https://www.imdpune.gov.in/Clim_Pred_LRF_New/Grided_Data_Dow...

However, it is in some weird binary format which I have no clue about. They have also shared some C and Fortran (yes Fortran) code to read the files.
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Criminals are at least told what the charges are, and theoretically given a venue to contest them.

It's easy to imagine police using the same excuse as Google: "we can't reveal exactly what you did wrong, since that would compromise our methods to catch criminals". If it wasn't for the fact that we aren't used to that "just being the way it is" in that case, we would probably shrug and accept it, too.
I love the design of the site. Very clean and good use of available space.
And for most people, "add GA" is how you add a pageview counter.
What does 'Arching' ('de-Arching') mean in this context?
Something that has been bugging me for some time (genuine question, please forgive me lack of geopolitics/economy understanding) is this:

Supposing we want to hurt Russian economy - how are we hurting it by stopping selling them licenses/branding/machines to make and sell burgers and fries? Are we not ripping them off money if we sell to them? As in: we gain, they lose?

I understand we don't want to sell advanced technology, or weapons. And we also want to stop buying oil/gas or other goods produced in Russia. But burgers?

If you understand what's going on, please share it :-)
Here's a modern implementation of FingerD in Node: https://finger.farm/
Starlink connects to standard internet gateways on the ground. It cannot function without the 'regular internet', unless a replacement appears.
XML is better than YAML.

change my mind.

disclaimer: hate both
>none of us have any real background in systems administration

If you don't have sysadmin that could tackle dedicated hosting but you have knowledge to keep things running in cloud - stick with the cloud for now.
Followup - I checked again and he replied with a simple solution to my problem.

There are few windows programs that have served me this well for 15 years!
Most of the kids in my 3rd graders peer group understand federated infrastructures quite well because of Minecraft.

Perhaps it wasn’t the federated nature of irc that was surprising but the fact that it was irc?
Are you trolling me?

> Your link even shows this.

Yes the link shows how it doesn't matter today! Because almost all compilers are now 'optimising compilers'!

> There is no `cmp` opcode used. A simple unconditional `jmp` is used.

Oh my god that's the entire point! That's how compilers work now. They always optimise. They didn't used to do that.

The compiler checks the truthiness of the value in the while condition. Modern compilers remove it with either a tautology check, or a shortcut during IR building. They didn't used to do that, so there used to be a cost, which is why people started cargo-culting the for equivalent.

Here's a worked example using a niche compiler with a very different architecture that unusually still doesn't canonicalise during building.

Compare

https://godbolt.org/z/3v3anacM8

and

https://godbolt.org/z/chWjsen4s

See the difference? See the 'cmp eax, 1' and then how it goes away under optimisation?
I honestly don't understand the point.

Emacs (much like VSCode or Idea) is a tool that I use for everything, all day. I don't see a point in shutting it down, except for upgrading the version. Its startup time of, say, 15 or even 30 seconds (if you start many language servers) is only paid once, when I log in.

So I run it in server mode, and emacsclient start instantly, as a GUI window, or in a terminal, with all the amenities of an IDE already in place.
I disagree that physical violence is justified for any anonymous conversation however hateful it might be. If it is not anonymous then there are things like slander where things get more blurry, however I am not a strong proponent of vigilante justice, so I would not call it just either.
If you work mainly in terminals it will be OK I think. Something like i3 and off you go.
Agreed, so many wasted cycles on all these yak shaves.
Yes, precisely. With Google etc. the concern is less "rogue employee" and more... rogue corporate motives/incentives.
> Alas, that won't happen until tech workers (and white collar workers in general) realize they're workers and not capital owners.

Workers though they may be, it is within reach for most programmers to jump on the real estate ladder, heavily invest, and retire comfortably.

> That's the only way you get some negotiating power.

For the duration of this bull market, Software Jobs have been easy to come by. Negotiating power, while never completely in employees favor, has given most programmers the chance to live _far more comfortable lives than anyone else they know or went to school with_.

That's what your message is up against.
Probably just the hope of companies to improve their image by not being associated with such countries.

I mean, look how people think about companies doing China's bidding.
Do we then close emergency rooms? If no, then where are there people who work in the ER overnight going to to shop or get lunch? What about the poor saps who really can’t sleep and be wakeful at the same daylight hours as the rest of us? How about officers and fire departments? Lots of things that need to be managed don’t conform to timeframes.

I sort of agree on your premise, but it’s not a clear cut path.
It is very easy to hammer it into law.

Government should treat the fake job formula like what it is: Sabotage of the economy. In our system applicants have to pay for their own education, spend time doing it and government is investing in education.

We are extremely serious about training and employment. Parties that want to get involved should be held to high standards.

It's not like we've never created (and enforced) a standard for anything.
3 years, 20 people, 24K LOC does sound objectively inefficient to me for the project as described.
The only argument there is we are providing them jobs and building up local infrastructure by investing in locations, I suppose.
Indeed. There are various SEO "rank tracking" services that scrape millions of SERPs a month.
Craig's List looks dated, but remains incredibly functional and is still the top site in its segment. Its dated look doesn't scare people away. It is still very functional. That's the important part.
There are still ways to prod out good content from the SEO spam on search engines. I wrote a google search front end that does this [0], using search operators to remove some common SEO spam.

[0] https://sayno2seo.com
It's also a terrible security practice to advertise. Getting a remote code execution bug in to production would only entail building a free feature for the company and getting it past a trivial code review during an interview you could subsequently turn down!
What kind of health problems would you expect from going there once in a while? There was no mention of frequency. Going there once every month or two is not going to do much.
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Is it Emacs, or the language server? It would be interesting to profile.
Who could buy? Where could they buy from? There are people who’ve been in their apartments for over 40 days. The entire city has been locked in for over 30, barring some lucky people who’ve been allowed out for two hours a day in the past two weeks.
Does cloud save on time?
you could have a ubi system and then add incentives for devs on open source products that are used. Just a thought, I'm sure there would be corruption of this system too
Management and executives are DEFINITELY underpaying us relative to what we bring to the table for them. This is true of every industry going on decades of increasing productivity and stagnating pay. What's new here besides greater awareness and labor churn? Will there be an actual change going forward? Of course the demographics favor workers now, but the laws and politics often don't. Immigration and outsourcing and automation can change that power dynamic very quickly. What're you going to do? Form a union? Start a company? Vote? Quit and work elsewhere? Interesting times we live in. Maybe that is one of the reason headcounts have ballooned and complexity has increased so much -- an attempt to minimize individual impact.

All of my friends and aquaintinces in nursing, tax, retail, and trucking have a few people who are trying to break into programming because of the benefits and pay. Outsourcing, scope creep, and automation exist and are expanding in my industry as well. How long until this drags down programmers as well?
Or the same thing, slightly differently, who uses FOSS? For-profit companies.

I think history has born out how FOSS incentives get entangled with a primary and majority patron.
https://archive.ph/SoUwd
Russian propaganda will use this news as a tool

they already say “we don’t need McDonalds”
> they are (to me) surround sound as that was becoming a consumer product around when Twister came out.

No, DVD caused rapid consumer adoption specifically of Dolby Digital - which isn’t surprising since DVD was the first widely used digital movie medium in the West, but Dolby surround sound dates to 1976 in theaters and the 1982 as a consumer home video offering so nearly 20 years prior to DVDs. Most major movies throughout the 80s (thousands before Twister) were mixed in surround sound which was the mix available on the home video (ie both VHS and Laserdisc).

Here's a video tape from 1989 (look on the right side of the label):
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/G6MAAOSwgiZiWk2a/s-l1600.jpg

> In the 90s people weren’t hyping Dolby tape tech, it was already the standard.

As was Dolby surround. In fact if anything the 90s is when Dolby got some serious competition from DTS and SDDS.

So I'm still not sure what the significance of 1996 is other than a personal one. I assume if you were 2 years older you'd say 1994 (and maybe Speed)?
> If I want to search for something topical and relevant, I go to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord etc.

Maybe we’re searching for different content, but I disagree. While Google results are not without noise, I think it’s a huge exaggeration to suggest it’s useless. I still regularly find quality results from a quick skim of the first or second page of Google results.

Meanwhile places like Reddit, Twitter, and Hacker News are full of very strong opinions that feel truthy, but are mostly noise. Unless you go in with enough baseline knowledge to filter out 9/10 underinformed comments to dig out the 10% who actually have direct knowledge of the subject and aren’t just parroting some version of something they read from other comments, skipping straight to social sites becomes a source of misinformation.
Honestly it doesn't seem particularly useful. Links to two restaurants. A couple bars. LA is huge, these could be hours away from each other, and if you live in the middle? Oh well.

I'm not saying it has to be comprehensive but listing 2 restaurants and 2 bars in a metro area of 19 million people is kind of silly.
As a manager I have access to restricted table our HR keeps for the correct procedures around firing people in all the jurisdictions we operate in.

Short version: it's not difficult to fire anyone, all that changes across countries is how much it costs.
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That’s the point of the article? It’s using car sales as a proxy for how tight the lockdown has been.
I think the idea was coalesced in Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now: if there are no micropayments, there's no middle class. If there's no middle class, we're essentially doomed. So it feels logical that there has to be a marketplace for "ideas" and "thoughts", not just services. Creating a kind of global network of independent researchers as in E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops (1909):

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
IMO McDonalds was among the healthier and reliable choices when it comes to eating out in Russia. I could be reasonably sure I won't get food poisoning at a McD, for one.
This is victim-blaming, don't you think?
I think this is a very "consumer focused" take. Yes. A lot of interesting people data is now "locked" behind these aggregators and platforms (and also hard to handle because of GDPR). But most interesting company data is still out there.
we can't let proprietary american advanced protein delivery technology to fall into the wrong hands, allowing them to use it to create an army of super soldiers
From what I understand, it has nothing to do with morality or hurting Russia. The banking sanctions make it impossible to do financial transactions with the country, which effectively puts an stop on business relations.
probably referring to the golden arches, the mcdonalds logo
I used to run in minimal shoes when there were more options. I am older now, and, perhaps more importantly, a bit heavier too. The idea of minimal running shoes is that you do a mid strike the whole way as they offer very little heel cushioning.

I don’t go for the chunky running shoes mentioned here, but I do need a bit more cushioning then I did a decade ago. A lot of this comes down to form. When I am in better shape I can mid strike throughout a long run, but when I am out of shape I start falling back to a heel strike.

These chunky shoes can help people Keep running who are a bit heavier, have non-optimal form for pavement, or have minor joint injuries that slow them down.

As an aside, I wish more shoe companies created consistent running shoes year to year. Every time I find a shoe I like they discontinue it.
For a globally recognizable brand like McDonald's, the move to leave the country has a symbolic meaning. It sends a message to the Russian people that something is deeply wrong with the direction taken by their government. Of course, some Russians will interpret the move differently, but that cannot be avoided.
I can teach most people (including non-programmers) enough of a subset of yaml for them to edit/create working config files (for a particular app) in a text editor by themselves. You cannot do that with XML

If you're only reading and writing the files via a library, then XML is probably better.
I'm using Hetzner cloud right now and it's affordable and quality is good. You can do snapshots and have monitoring, etc.

If you're just running plain Linux VM's running some software without need for additional AWS-like services or fancy orchestration, it's good value for money.

I also have a couple of dedicated Hetzner hosts - also remarkably stable, but it will of course take longer to rebuild if it goes down. You should have a continuity plan in place.
Sure.

Except it’s the easier, more impulsive choice to just do the take home work on the off chance it gets you the job and lets you skip all the austerity.

Path of least resistance is a powerful predictor of human behavior.
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i think what’s going on is that lots of companies have collectively left on their own (not sanctions) and McDonalds is being “bullied” to leave too, possibly by their shareholders

the case here might be that they don’t want to devalue their brand, which is worth far more than their business in Russia
Yeah, in the short term, any property rights of foreign organizations in russia is probably not something to rely on. On the other hand, regimes do fall and organization can survive long enough for the policy in russia to change. So it makes sense at least have a claim for trademark (because right now it is really a claim, not a property, since russia can take it away any time it wants)
i guess it means de-mcdonalds-izing ... gulp
Could they still prevent it, though? What would they do, sue a state that's already started using "revoked" copyrights and is slowly starting to treat western laws the way many people treat the "fasten the seat belt" signs?
The removal of the branding (the "Golden Arches").
This is not true, maybe for a subset of Internet users.

For example you have Wikis and forums. Wikis are good for communities that are passionate about a topic and they collaborate on buidling content for their passion. Reddit is a valid alternative to forums but if the community s older and has members that are technical competent then they usually have the forum customized for their purpose and the forum will continue to exist , especially if you want to avoid some third party censorship.

I never ever search for something and found answers on Facebook, sometimes very rare I find something that points to Instagram blogs/posts but never Facebook.

Probably depends on your location and what you search for, so it might be possible that 99% of your Internet consumption is satisfied by 5-10 websites.
I once saw a flight-training software (I think it was for helicopters?) where the physics engine just didn't get touched because they don't know what's going on.

This is an interesting case, because it's something that I probably wouldn't document. Code should be readable. If you're writing down how your code works in a document then something is wrong with the code. Documentation can't fix an incomprehensible codebase. I document how algorithms work, what the business logic is for things (which is another algorithm really), how applications work in a 'data flow' sense, what integrations there are with external services and how they work, what things mean, and so on.
With them being so small maybe it does make a difference. Small costs here and there add up quickly. That being said, this is probably not where they should be trying to save money as it will eat up their time instead.
These are often some highest paying and prestigious jobs in large companies.
Brave Search recently implemented "discussions". From what I've seen it is mostly Reddit results but StackExchange also can appear there.

https://searchengineland.com/brave-search-discussions-383706
12 here... sigh.

Then again, all of them have had a good amount of use over the years. But 10 of them (RPi 1B-3B+) are no longer in use.

Tempted to buy a VoCore, but I won't. It'd most probably just join the Raspberry Pis in a drawer.
Yes, it's clear why this has happened, but China is so important across many industries and this is one clear example data point.

The interesting question (IMHO) is what are the ramifications from this for companies, jobs, the economy, both locally and internationally, across all industries.
Is it known what variant(s) led to this outbreak and lockdown?
No country NEEDS McDonald's.
I beg you: make it with the old ThinkPad keyboard, including the trackpoint with 3 physical buttons.
"Why would a team want a manager who cares about the goals of the company?"

Bind their avaiable budget to their success.
Just few observations:

* note down date-time stamp with everything.

* write explicitly, without any assumptions.

* write in a way, which will make sense to yourself, even after 5 years.

* almost everything is a draft, work-in-progress. Embrace the mess.
This is a basic tenet of the book 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
Look, it’s just food. Unhealthy food sure, but not provenly worse for you than the same greasy fare you’d get at other burger joints.
Because a developer already costs a lot more than 800.
I don't understand why anyone would call it "good". Cheap and convenient maybe, appeals to kids, somewhere to stop on a long journey in the middle of the night. There are so many options that are tastier, more interesting and more nutritious. It's not even in the top 5 best burger franchises in my town.

[apologies if you're joking, and even if you aren't you're still entitled to your opinion]
It’s a statement about social class disguised as one about health. Note that the insecurity tells you that they’re on some level concerned that they’ll be confused with the kind of person who eats a lot of McDonald’s. Any time you see performative hatred of something ask who the performance is for.
IANAL but Russia is legal to do business with with exception of certain corporate entities and individuals. There's a deny-list, not an allow-list.

Unfortunately, since the latest war the deny-list has grown substantially (making it a bit difficult to ensure you aren't accidentally servicing someone involved with a sanctioned entity), combined with political pressure this prompted some businesses to go an extra mile and cease operations in Russia completely.
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There is a semi-famous quote (maybe by pg?) that I can't find, but it's something like: "If you're looking for startup ideas, look at the list of built-in command line programs in Unix and figure out which ones you can turn into a web service."
>>> this is not my understanding of "a minimal website"

Agreed. I recommend hack.css instead ;)

https://github.com/egoist/hack/wiki/Showcase
Juice in general just seems terribly unhealthy in 2022. I enjoy it as a treat now and again but think of it more like a dessert rather than a part of my daily breakfast routine.
Tearing down the big golden-arch signs and storing them securely in the Archie Bunker.