skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a couple credible alternatives that get a lot of maintenance (I use them both for 3+ hours a day):

If you are coding: Unless you are using IntelliJ (which a ton of of my colleagues do, and love) - it's a vscode world. Everyone at every company I've seen bangs away using that. It's kind of amazing how much inertia it's picked up (currently).

If you are working with text: 90% of the time if I have a couple gigabytes of text I need to do a lot of work with - it's Sublime Text. Actively Developed. A really solid text plugin architecture. The other 10% of the time I still use vim - mostly because it's in my finger DNA. Emacs is the obvious alternative which lots of smart people I know use.

I'd be interested in knowing if there are people who have used all five of these for > 100 hours that would recommend something else - (I haven't used Emacs that much - but I have well over a couple hundred hours on each of intelliJ/vscode/vim/Sublime. Probably close to 1000+ hours on the last three). (okay, small fib - close to 5,000+ hours on Sublime. I spend almost as much time in that tool as I do bash).
Sure. But I’ll still take Chinese turbines over Russian oil any day.
> Your comments can be summarized just as "Microsoft sucks, Apple is the best !!!111one".

Exactly, i used to use microsoft products, until recently i switched all my machines to linux, i don't even use apple products, i have an M1 only just to test my software, for everything else it's a VM

My claims are objectives, from experience, and everything is documented and archived

To your blind fanboy eyes only the opposite can be true?, "apple sucks, microsoft is the best?"

You might be living in an alternate reality where "Windows Phone XAML Edition Pro 2004" is #1 in the charts, and the cloud native OS is "Windows Bloated Server Millenium 1914 Product of Seattle Hell Yeah Brother"
It wasn’t in question who was making them, it’s who would be responsible for reporting them.
Shouldn't the ones doing that sacrifice be the primary users of the energy? That is people living in cities? It should not be forced to those on country side.
It's quite easy on AT&T and Verizon. I utilize AT&T's prepaid service as it's cheaper and I purchase second hand devices and at least on iOS it was pretty seamless. Keep in mind that AT&T prepaid has near zero lines of support.
Or use that excess power for energy-intensive processes that aren't economical to do at normal rates, such as producing hydrogen or jet fuel. (Or perhaps desalination, with massive fresh water storage tanks?)
Are you saying that the product sold enough so that someone involved could quit their job to produce it, or that someone enjoyed the product enough that they decided to go all in on using it?
(note: the shared-board-seats is mostly a lazy, hypothetical and probably unlikely example. similar issues could probably occur due to vocal activist investors, capital funds, potentially even pools of shareholders aligned on similar goals. these theories rest on the idea that consumer adoption of products isn't entirely organic and rational, and that demand can be manufactured/guided)
It's not about living in a cabin in the woods, or "doing nothing".

It's about living on your own terms, or some semblence thereof, and not having to continually put out for people.
Do web browsers look to SRV records with its port field in preference to A records?
https://archive.ph/C8dlL
Ha, that makes sense from a physics perspective as electrons orbit the nucleus.
Wind is great. But consider: at 1.5MW generation capacity max per generator, it takes 600+ of them to produce 1GW. Other commercial generation plants produce many GW (30? 50?)

Wind power may be a red-herring as a generation option for our civilization as a whole.

Sorry if this is disappointing to readers. But unless you want 10,000 wind towers in your county I don't know what other option to suggest.
vim bindings in Emacs. :-)
Luckily not many ads seem to be using these evasion methods, so Ublock works just fine on Edge in most cases.
war on crime causes crime, draconic penalties do not prevent or even majorly reduce crime if a there is a long list of crime causing things which are not fixed.

Like in no specific order:
poverty, bleak future, failed "common" education system, state supported/tolerated exploition of citizens, failing police, falling justice system (if you ask they are meant to protect citizens), systematic deep rooted discrimination, toleration of fascism
> especially when the alternative to reducing our emissions is completely destroyed ecosystems and probably having to deal with extreme droughts every other year.

all of this is based on modelling that is open to question.
Our Mission Patches
"Run $X as user $Y, capture its output, restart it if it dies, and track its PID" for daemontools-style systems:

#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/minecraft-player
exec 2>&1
exec setuidgid minecraft /usr/bin/java -Xmx2048M -Xms1024M -jar /opt/minecraft-player/server.jar --nogui --port 32122

and logging:

#!/bin/bash
exec multilog s10485760 n5 /var/log/minecraft-player

Logging is set for 10MB files, keep last 5.

The first one goes into a servicename/run file, and the second into servicename/log/run.

Running the run file is precisely what the daemontools system will do. There's no need to track the PID. `svstat servicename` will tell you how long it's been running or if it's disabled. The default is to restart on death, and if it flickers too much, disable it. Adding /etc/init.d wrappers to this is a 60 second edit of a skeleton file.

Code is superior to configuration when the code is this simple.
Oil and gas are the only heavily subsidized energy sources. To the tune of multiple Trillions USD per year
Completely agree, I wonder if it could be proposed and crowd-funded, or perhaps supported by a grant?

Link to AOSA for others' convenience: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
Blender is amazing. The other day, I needed to create a video of a rotating image so I looked around for potential software to use. Very quick and dirty job.

I didn't want to download anything large like Davinci Resolve. I saw OpenShot but was not sure it can do what I needed easily. It's not even lightweight.

Then someone mentioned that Blender can do video editing. Can you believe that blender is only around 200mb? I downloaded it, followed a quick tutorial on YouTube to figure out keyframes and how to render. 10 minutes after and I'm done.

It's great to see even more features to the video sequencer in this update. Will probably use again for my next video editing needs.
It gives me hope that the left is. If the left shifts more central and becomes more palatable to centre right people than the far right, then the right also needs to shift.
Somewhat disagree on this: in my experience, Siri is really bad even at what it supports. For example:

* Alexa (in my kitchen) almost always plays the music I ask for on Spotify. Siri (in my car) gets it wrong about half the time — often in comical and bizarre ways.

* Siri remains unable to call one of my family contacts: every time, she gets into a loop asking for clarification between two options (when I clarify, she just asks again).

* I set up an automation with Siri to start the radio playing on BBC Sounds (to stop me falling back to sleep when my alarm goes in the morning). This was stupidly fiddly to set up, and it just doesn't work: Siri tells me to unlock the phone first, which destroys the whole point.

I guess the caveat is that my experience with Siri is a bit limited, because in the light of her uselessness I often don't even try to get her to do things.
When this inevitably happens to VSCode, I'm sure we'll all flock to Sublime Text in droves (or some hip new editor on the block).

Contingency planning for this could be a small but wise time investment for dependent teams. VSCode could very well go the way of the Do... Docker.
Called this ~4 years ago when they were acquired by M$.

But it's still really sad to see. I use it because it was trivial to CSS style it to match my Desktop. It's comfortable to me in a way that other editors thus far have not been.

Are there other editors with this level of customizability? I know VSCode and Sublime support theming but from what I can tell it involves installing pre-packaged themes.
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but my sense in my own lifetime and in talking to those who went before me that people are increasingly seen in terms of existing certified skills rather than actual skills or abilities. It's as if people are widgets and you need a certified widget to fit in a certain spot in the machine; it's not enough if the widget actually fits but isn't certified as such, and it doesn't matter if it's a free widget producing machine that will produce whatever widgets you want for free from the air around us; it also doesn't matter if these two things are patently true to anyone who will think about it for a second.

Maybe I'm just in a bad spot in my life at the moment but I do think many problems in current society are due to some weird phenomenon where people are seen as unchanging objects, and where abilities can't be inferred even when obvious.
Glad your experience has been good, thanks for the reinforcement!
Whenever I see people giving out about recruiters (mismatched spam or otherwise) I spare a thought for those without a job. If I was jobless I would welcome all these offerings without being overly cynical.
Years ago, I got the privilege of working at the same company with the author, Leonard Richardson. Really nice guy, super nerd and hilariously funny.
a lot of the MVNO's support eSIM surprisingly.
let me share MY plan, it's pretty obvious, your mileage may vary:

(1) preparation ( study the combined knowledge of the "Financial Independence/Retire Early"[1] communities ):

- while you have a good paying job, live below your pay grade, and invest the saved money ( i call it "a couch of tranquility" )

- keep an eye on the tech market ( it's global, you know, right ? ) and stay sharp with the skills on demand most often. Tech jobs can be translated between companies much easier than administrative/coordination/managerial jobs

- get yourself into any of the online contractor networks[2] around, now, and put it "on hold for new offers"; so if need arises, the bureaucracy is already taken care of ( but be warned, it's a "race to the bottom" on hourly rates... )

- keep a nice, large as possible, and thriving network of former colleagues you have worked with in the past. Reach, say an occasional "hello". Try to offer help to them as often as possible, soon it might be your turn to ask for help...

- keep an online portfolio of pet projects ( github/gitlab/bitbucket/whatever ) try to keep it nifty and clean, so any possible recruiter can find it, and publish it alongside your linkedin profile. Publishing an occasional linkedin article will not hurt, either

- keep your "ear on the ground", talk with your colleagues on your current job, so you might notice the dark clouds of downsizing approaching. Don't stay coding in your cave, away from the "corridor gossip" ( even if "the corridor" is just a slack channel ). Notice i said: "ear on the ground", not "mouth on the loudspeaker", be discreet.

- make sure you have a decent ( portable, preferrably ) personal machine, so you can still take work, if your main machine belongs to your current employer, and you will have to return it...

(2) action. When the dark days of downsizing come ( and they will come.... ) upon you

- you should be able to smell the "blood in water" sooner than most, but still, your savings will buy you time; hell, if it is properly invested, it can buy you a lot of time, to keep your head out of water and survey your options

- if necessary, you can move to a cheaper neighborhood/city even country; to stretch these savings much longer ( in case of moving countries, it's a whole different story, check the "digital nomad"[3] forums )

- which skills are still in demand ? which people in your network "owe" you ? which companies ( remember herbert mcluhan: it's a global village, more than ever ) are still hiring ? All of these answers should be easier if your preparation was ok

- how big of a pay cut you can afford, to not to deplete your savings too soon ? keep on taking contractor jobs while a full time job is too hard to come by. And try to keep living below your pay grade, so you can keep saving money...

( yes, i know, it's demanding... )

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[1] just an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fire/

[2] https://flexiple.com/developers/toptal-alternatives/

[3] https://nomadgirl.co/digital-nomad-reddit-channels/
Thanks. Is it only for Brazilian citizens? When I came to Brazil with my equipment and belongings, no one asked me to pay fees.

As I know, the tax-free allowance is about $50 and it works only when a parcel is handled by Correios (the national post), for other logistical companies (like FedEx) you will pay taxes and customs fees (practically once it cost me +100% to the raw price from Amazon US for a parcel below $50).

[I thought a little later] Maybe you mean for orders from international e-commerce stores? Because paying for taxes and customs fees for goods which you bring by your hands in your luggage during traveling by flight sounds really strange. Of course, I mean the realistic amount, not gray import like bringing dozens of iPhones in bags... For example, as I know, in Russia it was about the equivalent of $10000 in cash.
Older Gen Z and developer here, I don't think there was something to GeoCities or MySpace growing up, but I came up with other things that personally got me and my friends a bit into development:

Maybe the most popular was developing our own Discord bots, that got me first to backend with Python and JS (I think I even learned JS before HTML and CSS...).

Growing up we mostly learned programming in school (mostly C#, yet some friends of mine learned Mobile development in Java with Firebase in high school) it was homework mostly, nothing really came out of it.

I can say that gaming got us to learn a bit of networking, trying to host our own Minecraft and Maple Story servers cause we didn't have money to rent them.
If the cops aren't enforcing any law at all, then I'd agree they aren't doing their jobs.

But if they are doing the rest of their job, but not arresting people for crimes the DA won't charge, that is doing their full job.
Considering the size and durability of the foundations and bases (huge amount of reinforced concrete), these will remain peppered in the landscape for centuries.

Of course there's also access and wiring.

Wind farms are large scale, long term, industrial sites. There are not forests or fields...

Covering a country in wind farms (which is literally what's needed to get decent reliable-ish production) is all downsides with a single upside: electricity is renewable with no emissions. Very far from being ideal or even a first choice.
FF is my daily driver, but I find I need to occasionally open something in Chrome to make it work. I've taken to using Vivaldi for that purpose.
Firefox will be adopting the V3 API but it will not be dropping anything from V2. Their goal is to support all use-cases from V2 without requiring everyone to do major re-writes [1].

1. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...
I spent a lot of time during COVID learning Houdini as a hobbyist, because I really liked the concept of procedural modeling and node based development. However, with the continued iterations on Geometry nodes, it feels like a foregone conclusion that Blender will replace Houdini for hobbyist procedural artists. Cycles is a really nice GPU renderer and I don’t have to pay a subscription like I do with Redshift.

Houdini still has some strong advantages built over decades such as dynamics and KineFX and is the industry leader for FX. But I wouldn’t be surprised if these tools appear in Blender in a future version, though.
In his case, he had to test the DUT he was given, and not a simulator.

If he'd used a simulator for the reference design, he'd have to have verified that against an actual Z80 first. Which would be the same effort he went through to test his DUT anyway!
Two very interesting points from the article:

First, Google lied (or, at the very least, strongly bent the truth) about the performance impact of content blockers in order to push the Manifest V3 API[1].

Second, in February 2019, Google promised that the WebRequest API was not going to be "fully" removed, yet went ahead and did it anyway - another lie/strong bending of the truth.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-backtracks-on-chrome-mo...
Article states that Trump-backed candidates did not do well.
I really wanted to use Coda (now Nova [1]) from Panic, but I kept coming back to VSCode. VSCode seems to be the path of least resistance.

I think I’ll try it again after seeing the news about Atom.

[1]: https://nova.app/
FloC, FLEDGE and the Privacy of Yours
Ask HN: Co-Founder pivoting, what are my options?
Hello, a co-founder and I started a company in December of 2021. We’ve built an MVP that runs well, and have created a lot of content and built a presence in the community we aim to solve a problem for. We do not have any paying customers or a meaningful non-paying user base.

My co-founder has written all of the code, I have been responsible for leading growth, marketing, content creation, and have been central to product development/design/mockups etc (while not writing code). We signed a founders agreement, we each have a seat on the board, and he holds a majority of shares. None of our shares have vested - my first vesting date is in 6 months when ¼ of my shares vest.

My co-founder has decided he wants to pivot to what I view as an entirely new business that has little to do with the problem or mission we set off to address. We set out to build a product that solves a problem, and he has decided to start a staffing agency. He is quite “failure-averse”, and while I can understand he believes a staffing agency may have a higher likelihood of success, it is uninteresting to me and I don’t believe it is a good use of my time.

As we have only been trying this for a short period, I am still interested in pursuing our initial idea and seeing if I can make it work.

My co-founder has said he would be fine with me pursuing the initial idea as an entirely separate venture. The code is not proprietary in nature, it supports a very simple workflow and presents basic data. As I am not technical enough to re-create the product myself, it would be time/resource intensive to build something similar from scratch. When I asked my co-founder for rights to use the existing code in my new venture, he refused, citing concerns over sharing IP.

I have dedicated myself to this mission for the past 6 months (which I recognize is relatively short), and don’t love the idea of walking away with nothing to show for my time - but is that my only option?

Really appreciate any insights from anyone who has been through something like this or has any thoughts. Will answer any questions that might come up. Thank you very much for reading.
It can be useful if it fits your case, the more recent scrapers run a whole browser with automation which can make scraping stuff a lot easier, since js will run etc
I suggest avoiding the temptation to judge the motives and choices of other people when they don't affect you. I did the same for a good chunk of time. I was an excellent Internet commenter, and had it all figured out. Then I got older, and sometimes found myself understanding why those choices were made, and occasionally even making those same choices I'd despised.

Doing so was a deeply bitter pill to swallow, both in terms of the choices available and the sunk cost of previous opinions.

Working on yourself is a lifetime of effort. I suggest you focus more on that and less on casting aspersions on large groups of people for whom you know little about.
Yeah, I think everyone is assuming that the email and layoffs are causally related. That doesn't seem plausible. If he really wanted to use the work-from-the-office mandate to raise attrition, he would do that months PRIOR to announcing layoffs - not at the same time.

I wouldn't be surprised if people who said they prefer not to come back to the office, will just be given the same severance package. OP should ask HR about it.
I agree in principle, but I find it hard to imagine that there's enough interest to find someone who is willing to maintain the software and the package registry.

Speaking of packages - of the six featured packages I get offered on atom.io, only one had a release in the last two years, and half have been unchanged for half a decade. Atom's already dead.
> Because Germany is still producing 6× more energy with coal than Poland

That's already not true.

> In 2020, Poland produced 152,208 GWH from primary energy sources, relying heavily on coal and fossil fuels. Hard coal, accounted for 47% of primary energy production in 2020, followed by lignite (24.9 %), natural gas (9.1 %), crude oil (1.6%) and renewables (10.75 %). More than 6% of Poland’s energy was produced by industrial power plants.

In Germany there were 560,000 GWH produced with 16.2% from lignite and 7.5% from hard coal.

According to my napkin calculations that means Germany produced approximately 1.4 times the amount of energy by coal.
Any recent statements from Brave and Vivaldi creators about what they are planning to do with Manifest V3 and its restrictions for ad blockers?
Funny, i'm doing that - sort of, but i just like having a fair amount of space. I still want the same job, good internet, modern features, etc. I just want it on 10 acres so i have minimal neighbors lol.

For me it's about recharging. Something about being on computers all day makes me dislike the suburbs. I don't dislike my job, but i really enjoy being in my yard, growing things, the simplicity of maintaining my yard/gardens, etc.
Crime stats as presented and as experienced can diverge quite heavily.

I think the one thing with the data is how much crime it takes to make a neighborhood feel unsafe. And my hypothesis is that the threshold is very, very low. Like double digits low. It doesn’t take much to rattle the psyche of a community.

But sure. Crime falls by 40% during a DA’s tenure (hypothetical example) so all is well right? But what is the absolute number and what does that absolute number translate to in the real world?
2022 is a great time to join a start up. Tech compensation has plateaued at a high level. The “recession” is good for innovation. And in recent years early and extended exercise have become the norm, so equity is less of a scam.

And start ups are fun. https://zachholman.com/posts/the-basement/
Manifest v3 is implemented however developers can no longer submit new MV2 extensions to the chrome web store. In January 2023, developers will no longer be able to update existing MV2 extensions and finally support for MV2 extensions will be removed in June 2023.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/
In the U.S. the law varies, see: https://bikeleague.org/sites/default/files/SidewalkRiding_8_.... A checkmark in the "is it legal?" box isn't the whole story though since, I assume, cyclists also always have to reasonably safe, which is what I've been talking about. Being legal means you can justify yourself to a cop if you move your bike onto a sidewalk to avoid a 40mph six-lane stroad, not that you can buzz pedestrians.
anarchaia[0] was the original tumblelog as far as I know, and it was basically a dump of interesting links, quotes, pictures and minor writings, collected by day.

I always thought it was a pretty awesome way to collect things.

[0] https://anarchaia.org/archive/2006/03.html