skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On TCL panels (recommended in a separate comment) you can toggle/select what input the TV boots to and then you’re never bothered again.
If this comment was any more American it'd be eating apple pie while cleaning out the barrel of an AR-15.

"Pricing the working class off the roads and onto the sidewalk" is the sort of thing that Europeans don't really worry about, because their cities are actually built for pedestrian traffic first and cars second. American cities are built for cars first, and pedestrian traffic if you feel like death from being thrown fifty feet in the air is a good way to go. Furthermore, Europeans already pay way more for gas than we do, and this is politically allowable because most people do not drive to work in Europe. EVs are popular in America because it's the easy quick bandaid fix to the fact that making the entire population drive a powered personal vehicle to work is an environmental nightmare. Europe has trains and buses that work.

Totally agree about self-driving taxis; but again, that's an American solution to an American problem for the same reasons I mentioned above.

The real problem for Europe is going to be the coming winter. Forget pricing the poors off the roads, how about pricing the poors out of a warm home? Most of Europe's home heating gas came from Russia pre-war. And while Nordstream was very much a geopolitical bad idea, there weren't very many better options to get cheap gas into the region. In fact, this is exactly what Putin is banking on, and much of Russia's prior acts of aggression can be better understood as "what can we do to ensure we have a monopoly on European gas imports and pipelines?".

It's also a mistake to look at elites and assume they hate their population purely because they are failing them. The underlying problem is not that they are feckless dictators, it's that they have no good options. If, a decade and change ago, Germany had said no to Russian gas in response to, say, the invasion of Georgia; whoever made that decision would have been punished by being voted out for having taken away the cheap gas from people. You'd have yellow-vest protests all over the Union, and then the whole EU would sheepishly walk back to Russia and beg for the gas pipeline to be turned back on. This is the same reason why the EU has found it difficult to actually fully transition to renewables or low-carbon energy[0], and America has found it outright impossible.

In fact, I'm not entirely convinced that we won't see yellow-vests all over France[1] this winter. Petrostates have the uncanny ability to survive and evade sanctions, because their people do not have the luxury of deposing elites that fail them, and resource wealth is highly fungible. If you want to see elites that truly hate their poors, look at any country whose wealth comes out of the ground instead of from the people. In contrast, elites in democratic countries are, well, democratically accountable for any policy they implement that harms the people - even if that policy is otherwise a good idea.

[0] i.e. renewables plus nuclear; though the history of nuclear power in Europe has it's own problems

[1] Insert the appropriate cultural equivalent for your EU member state here
One thing I do agree with: society and extended family used to take care of kids. Helping with everyone's kids, 150 years ago, was a non-negotiable part of simply living in a village. Kids played in the village, anywhere, and everyone watched out for their safety, behavior, and food, eating with anyone, was just not a big deal. Pestering the adults, even causing minor damage was normal and retribution was NOT allowed. Now society hates kids and throws all responsibility, whatever happens, on the parents. And this goes pretty far: from poverty to being out of immediate reach when something happens, from learning difficulties to serious behavior problems. It's all both the parents fault, and parents are THE ONLY ONES responsible for help.

Youth services embodies this idiotic attitude perfectly: they enforce an ever-higher standard on everyone ... except, of course, on themselves. Anyone living in youth services lives in poverty, in an abusive, attention-starved environment where most are confronted with trauma, drugs, crime, even prostitution (and let's not get started on the abuse situations IN youth services. If you want a kid to abuse, foster care is an easy way to get a kid the police won't believe. A parent using an isolation cell on their own kid will get thrown in prison, but they're the norm in youth services, even in "open" institutions)

The situation within youth services is that way ... to save money (but loads of money is spent finding more kids to throw into youth services, taking care of them once there, THAT cannot be allowed to cost anything. But it seems to me getting hit daily at home is preferable to the situation in a lot of youth care institutions).

Parents are punished if a kid even witnesses a small crime, like a fight. For punishing parents, suspicion is enough (no need for proof). That a kid becomes pregnant at 13 while coming back drunk daily is NOT a reason to take a kid OUT of youth services ... but a parent insisting kids take public transport to school in the morning against the wishes of a social worker IS reason to use violence against the kids and parents to throw them into youth services.
> large amounts of long-maturity, fixed-rate debt in most countries is? Mortgages.

Actually, outside of the US, most mortgages are floating-rate.
It's not over in terms of going around, it's still spreading a lot. It's just over as in not overloading the health systems. Indeed in the autumn things might be different again. But I hope all the mild infections during the summer will increase protection during the fall when immune systems are less strong.

This is not a bad time to catch it anyway. We're all going to get it many times and right now there's plenty of care available for those who get really sick.
> outside the enforcement of laws

whose laws?

- Sex workers from countries where prostitution is absolutely legal are affected by, e.g, Mastercard pushing for blocking transactions and almost forcing OnlyFans to drop all their adult content. All because of extended overreach from American politicians.

- A lot of these countries with strong capital controls have a lot of loopholes in the legislation by design, so that the elites can find a way to move their capital while the middle-class is forced to carry all the burden. There is a saying from a Peruvian politician: "For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law", which perfectly illustrates the situation.

Crypto is not illegal, it just democratizes these loopholes. If History can teach any lesson, whenever the middle-class finds a way to enjoy the same privileges as the elites, it does not end up in a repressive reaction from the government, but in the normalization and formalization of the "informal" behavior.

- Same thing for holding stabletokens. In Brazil there is no regulation against holding crypto. The problem is that Forex is not something for retail. Too many fees, taxes on fiat and the impossibility of making deposits in foreign currency make it difficult for "retail investors", but a lot of elites have access to external markets where they can hold USD/EUR/GBP to protect themselves.

I could go on... but the point I am trying to make is that in the places it doesn't take an extreme case of Authoritarianism or Poor Economic Development to face a situation where the institutions fail.
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Android no iPhone.
> Maybe you can use the search to find those similar questions.

But the answers are probably out of date by now.

E.g., my answer about buying a cheapo Spectre from Walmart-- that one has been out of stock for at least two of the several times this topic has been brought up now.
I have a lot of smaller datasets I am hoping to expose similarly once CloudFlare D1 becomes available.

Fly.io does a decent job, but hoping it gets cheaper/simpler with D1.
Yes, I got that wrong.

Absent bankruptcy, fiduciary duty to shareholders is prioritized over creditor's interests. In bankruptcy, customers will be screwed over to benefit the other creditors, not to benefit the shareholders as I mistakenly said.
Do you see them requiring only one browser engine on all of the Android devices they sell? No.

The requirements of carriers are orthogonal to browser choice post-sale.
Tweet author here (not op). I'll repost here:

The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by a sqlite3 database containing 1.2gb of metadata about 86,000 Winamp skins.

It's all exposed in this explorable GraphQL endpoint

https://api.webamp.org/graphql

A bit about the data...

It includes:

* Original filenames and md5 hashes of each skins

* Names/metadata of all files compressed WITHIN the skins (file size, date, filename)

* Text content of all text files found within the skins

* URL/likes/retweets if the skin was share by
@winampskins
(or on Instagram)

* Full metadata/info about each skin's
@internetarchive
page

* Info about manual reviews (good to tweet? NSFW?)

* URLs to download skin files or screenshots

Kind [of] fun data to comb though (if you're like me).

If anyone is interested in getting the raw DB to play with, or has ideas for extra stuff to expose in the graph, get in touch.
One needs to be careful of that term in general.

Once upon a time, I was tasked with creating a new social media api based off of existing work by our "rockstar engineer." This is a guy who spend every single free second reading Code Complete and Code and Programming Pearls and seemed to have injected Design Patterns directly into his veins.

The last time he created a new API based off of his existing work, it took him about 2 days. I had zero experience with it, so it took me a little over 3. He was a person who was very proud of his work and declared that there was no reason for me to take that long to implement the new code.

The code review process at the company has a lot to be desired, and he being the "rockstar," basically got his code handwaved through by our CTO, who was filling in as our last manager had taken another position. Deciding I had enough, I went to the new manager who had no inkling of this dev's reputation and asked him to code review the original commit to the base social API with me for real this time. I asked him to keep in mind that other devs were going to have to build their work based off of this base system. It was a convoluted, entirely over-engineered pile of crap. A wankfest masquerading as code.

See, I read and was familiar with all of the books that sat proudly displayed in his cubicle. But there's a time and a place for everything, and the only 10x about this guy was the amount of unnecessary code he produced in order to do something as simple as interfacing with Facebook.
This is awesome but I'm getting NXDOMAIN when I try to use it. Am I doing something wrong, perhaps something to do with EDNS?

$ dig 42km-mi.unit @dns.toys

; <<>> DiG 9.16.27-Debian <<>> @dns.toys 42km-mi.unit
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2059
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
; COOKIE: efe3c6f9e0b6e4da56aba44d62a4e63ba7a19bed262b0e1a (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;42km-mi.unit. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 6959 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2022061100 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 44 msec
;; SERVER: 138.197.68.199#53(138.197.68.199)
;; WHEN: Sat Jun 11 14:00:11 CDT 2022
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 144
That's not hate speech, though I can see why some activists may wish to class it as such.

Hate speech would be an incitement to violence, or saying awful, dehumanising things about people with a shared group characteristic.

Merely exprsssing a point of view on sex versus gender identity isn't hate speech by any reasonable definition.

And sex is also widely considered a protected characteristic - by the same logic, when trans rights activists assert their belief in the primacy of gender identity over sex, are they also committing an act of hate speech?
> One thing missing in a lot of suburban places is the ability to walk to do chores.

Within 15 minutes walk of my very suburban house there are two supermarkets, two pharmacies, many restaurants (some fast food but also real restaurants), multiple coffee shops, movie theaters, library & post office, hardware stores, other misc stores, multiple banks & credit unions and other things I'm forgetting to list.

One question I've asked in these threads in the past is where are these suburbs where you can't get to anything except by driving half an hour? I'd be curious for specific place names that I can look up in maps to get a sense of what they're like. Because having mostly lived in suburbs, I've never experienced that. There's always walkable destinations in all suburban areas I've seen. Could someone post a few addresses of these unwalkable suburbs?

I've also lived in a rural area, and yes there a car was essentially a must to go anywhere. I could and did sometimes walk (was young and bored) but it was more than an hour walk to anywhere. But that was definitely rural, we had many acres of forest, certainly not a suburb.
10x is a big multiplier, but I met plenty of developers that would write 5x the amount of code compared to others, in the same time, and to solve the same problem.

Now, is that a good or a bad thing?
I did. To give your team visibility into what you're doing and why.
American Lands Project
It's a publicly traded company. The shareholders have a right to know if the company is being mismanaged, so they can take action to improve management of the company they own.
Okay, so the most important thing about making an investment is ...
that YOU are comfortable with it.

That it lives within your comfort level of risk/reward, and that you understand the downsides and the upsides.
Generally, the more risky something is, the better upside. Very risk adverse? Look to something like Bonds, but the upside is lower.
If you want to be comfortable, you need to factor in your timeline too. If you want your fancy new car next year, you have to steer less risky, while if you are looking at a 20-30 year timeline, a dip this fall or next year won't matter too much.
And you also want a bit of diversity -- if you invest broadly, things that are going up are balanced with things that aren't doing as well.

Over a number of years, you can do very well by sticking with such a strategy. And, being comfortable means you are more likely to stick with it, rather then sell if something doesn't go great.
Yeah that's fair but there are a hell of a lot of CRUD apps that need writing by middling software engineers who'd rather do some fun refactoring than write yet another boring API endpoint.

I've managed enough of those teams and yes, boredom is a real problem for both motivation and staff retention.

If I let people on those teams do what they wished, the app would've been rewritten 10 times by now in different cool new frameworks and the business wouldn't benefit because the core app was so dull.

But there's a lot of boring software that needs writing that makes money.

It is true that those teams suffered churn of people looking for less boring work ... at the end of the day the right processes (like scrum) and other things that appear like heavy management are just risk mitigation for the fact engineers don't want to work on the core problem

I've spent many years working out how to deal with these situations without degrading engineers with heavy handed management.
So what happens is

1. Speed straight towards your doom.

2. Give back control a moment before collision, when it realizes it fucked up.

3. "It was the driver's fault"
Good but the pictures on your website are not attractive specially if you are trying to promote.
They actually had a few really bad code execution bugs in a tight space of time a few years ago when someone was auditing it. It's a good idea to subscribe to announce@openbsd.org if you run this daemon to get notified of issues.

I was running it out of ports on FreeBSD at that time, and wound up patching from source because i didn't want to wait for the ports tree to update.

I still see attempts to exploit these bugs in my logs. Even though
they've been patched for years.

That said, it's good that these were exposed and fixed, as opposed to not found. It's a relatively new daemon compared to other mail servers and it was still ironing things out.
I want to stop doing -j with make, and instead allow the OS scheduler --- which alone is in the position to make the right call ---- to "pull" more batch jobs to run as system resources allow.

Perhaps one can do this or almost do this with io_uring?
A Preview of Things to Come
I tend to think you’d have more success having no manager at all vs the bad manager who thinks his team is going to go off and start making a video game or something more fun instead of working on the business if they don’t crack the whip. It’s a kind of paranoid fantasy coming from insecurity, it’s not actual reality.
Teaching Critical Thinking by Distinguishing Appropriate Types of Evidence(2011)
> it's also possibly the most emotional one for the Chinese. Large portions of the population support reunification

Some of us have difficulties in understanding the mindset: if some population wants one system, and is unavailable to be part of a different system (they would have moved, would not they), how do those "reunification supporters" on the other side believe, psychologically, that a system change is imaginable? They believe that coercion can be an effective solution? That "the others will adapt"? If so, that the new configuration will be stable (like a model of energy states)? It does not sound sound, in these ways - it may sound like "early stopping" in thoughts.
I think the thesis was, that SMBs could benefit from contract management in the long term, but (and not initially understood) it was not an urgent problem in the short term. To get buy-in for a long term initiative, they'd need consultative sales at the executive/owner level of the businesss, but that would mean competing with established "enterprise" companies, who already are not selling to SMBs because software sold that way is too expensive for the SMB market.
And don’t plug in an ethernet cable
Residential solar is very different to regular solar though. Grids weren't designed to aggregate lots of tiny feeds from people's houses, and it makes sense not to over-build that ahead of demand because in many cases the maths don't really work out except via subsidies, which can be here today, gone tomorrow.
If you're going to take this position, then don't complain when employees only look out for their own interests as well (for example, the topic of this post.)
So have I. And that’s why this tiresome perennial argument will never die. You’ve either worked with one and seen fit to give them due credit, or only the first, or neither. And yes the ones I’ve worked with have also been helpful, humble, and kind.
The Apple TV menu only shows preview cards for apps in the top row. Most apps show what you're currently watching, but other apps (Prime Video, ATV+, Twitch) will show promos instead. Best to move these apps to the right end of the top row, or down into the 2nd or 3rd row.
+1, this is great advice.

I've been doing the same; get an AppleTV or GoogleTV dongle and never, ever attach the LG or Samshung TV to the network.

Benefits of this strategy:

* So simple, even non-savvy folks can follow the rule

* Protects your privacy

* Eliminates an unnecessary, highly invasive, and parasitic advertising vector (ads directly from LG or Samsung)

* Protects your TV performance and functionality from surprise degradation due to "updates"

I don't see any significant downsides compared to the upsides :)

It's unfortunate the manufacturers are in a position where such perverse anti-customer incentives exist.

All we really need and want is a great product crafted with love. What we got was a creepy spy box that eventually gets so slow it becomes unusable and worthless e-waste.
Sure, let's blame vaccines in a funny roundabout way, while conveniently ignoring the more probable cause that is COVID. The article seems to suggest that underreported COVID deaths are a likely explanation.

You might want to consider broadening the scope of your investigation to include probable causes ...
That sounds like you weren’t doing scrum right. It’s also possible I wasn’t doing it right and was doing a healthy version of it?
I have. It’s actually my primary input method for my phone. It’s certainly fast, but I’m still better with a physical two-handed keyboard.
Thank God we can choose where to work or I’d have to deal with psychos who think everything needs to be a ticket.

I can only imagine what software these types of organizations produce too. Probably a million little steps to do anything in the UI.
While that picture doesn't belong with the article (it's not the Katy freeway mentioned, if indeed it's a genuine photo at all and not a photoshop job), the real thing in Texas seems dystopian enough in its own right: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7847495,-95.5325233,3a,75y,2...
> Besides, given the turnover these days in both people and frameworks, you're lucky if you're even still on the same stack 15 months later

Its a sad reality of web development unfortunately
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class
Often overlooked is just the breadth of experience and insight aka 'Technical Wisdom'.

It took 5 years of various clusterf**s with Unicode, but now whenever I approach it, I have an intuition for the cost of string manipulation, UTF8 v 16, what's pragmatic, what is needed, what is 'overdoing it'.

It's like building a deck - after you build 100 of them 'all the little details' become instinct.

So if you can do that across all sorts of technologies ... then you just walk through stuff like butter.

Whenever I see someone whip through something, I'm not amazed so much by talent or genius, but how they 'know so much'.

It's like the academic who's read literally 1000 books and remembers a lot of it.

Whether they are 10x or not really depends.

Some architectural decisions make a 10x difference.

Some business related decisions also make a difference.

Sometimes it's not apparent until later, or never apparent.

And sometimes it doesn't matter that much.

Finally - I'll say that 'speed of execution' is not remotely the issue. If someone can saunter along at a reasonable pace but actually produce the 'correct thing' - that's worth it's weight in gold right there.
> The independence notion only came into existance relatively recently.

ie. The original generation that considered themselves Chinese has mostly died off, and now the younger generation who consider themselves Taiwanese are slowly taking over.
Yes, but at least you'll have charts to tell you how far down the drain you've gone.
You just use system installs? Mind sharing the stack?

What do you do to manage language versioning?
On the contrary, you and other crypto-boosters forever claiming "we're still early" is what's completely unfalsifiable. When will you admit that it's a failure? 2030? 2050?

I think my argument is very clear:

- It took 5 years to get from a working proof-of-concept of a satellite to something that has absolutely inarguable utility. No one can make a good-faith claim that transatlantic radio and television broadcasts are pointless.

- Cryptocurrency has had 13 years and the only genuine use-case I can see is evading regulation, buying drugs or paying for ransomware. Everything else is hand-waving vaporware bullshit "well maybe we could track X on the blockchain"[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/liron/status/1533214640460574720