skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think of our memory as a storage device, but more like a compression algorithm, that forgetting is important. We don't need to memorize several math textbooks to know algebra - if you can generalize the quadratic equation, are familiar with Pascals triangle, the unit circle - that's several compendiums of knowledge. For our short term memory, improvisational music is a good workout. If you are well read but struggle to find the right words to say then you are not writing enough. Or so it seems to me, most people here are way more educated than I am.
There was a time for me after years of occupational lobotomy doing construction work when I attended a community college where I felt like a complete vegetable for about 18 months before I regained some neuroplasticity, and another time when I had serious depression that lasted for about a year before I emerged feeling like a stranger in my on home surrounded by all these tools, computers, musical instruments... it was a very long time getting reacclimated with it all. There is no respite, when we stop - starting back is difficult, like getting in shape or breaking destructive habits.
HR gatekeeping development, to make themselves seems important. Guess that ruse is coming to an end finally.
This is a thing, but not very common in professional settings. All the it/its entities I've met were cool, so I wouldn't mind one as a coworker.
Founder Vision
Don't forget the steady stream of ransomware infestations and credit card dumps. We know how to write safe software, NASA and Dr Richard Hipp have proved that it can be done, but we choose not to because there are no consequences. Consequently, all continues as before.
I like to skip the backend all together and write the Elm app directly to something like Hasura (GraphQL with authorization on top of PG).
You are being downvoted and your comment is correct. Functioning democracy is distinct from mob rule. This notion is one of the reasons why rights such as the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the charges and evidence against you were codified in the Constitution
German police, all of them together, fired 62 shots, over the whole year, in 2019. In America that's just a regular traffic stop.

Something is very wrong with the American police/society/whatever, you can't deny that.
Here's an example of what a constructive, friendly email might look like, in contrast to what Tom sent.

>>>

Hey Don, thanks for all the hard work you've put into Notepad++ over the years. I've never paid you a cent, and yet I've personally made quite a bit of money from using the product.

Despite how obviously useful the product is overall for me, there's a niggle I've got, that I'd love you to solve. Let me know if I can do any hands-on work to help you fix it. I'm probably not good enough to write code, but maybe I could help with testing, writing documentation, or giving you more detail on the issue.

Or maybe I should, you know, give you some cash.

Anyway, the issue I'm having is around using the settings. I'd like to use the application with a specific UI - greenish background, black text, highlighting what's selected. The way I've configured it sort of works, but has a white background when I move the cursor around. This is probably me doing something wrong, but I can't work it out - I've searched on the internet, but can't find a solution. Here are the settings I'm using. [...] Let me know if I can provide more details that would help reproduce the problem.

Thanks again for all that you do to make Notepad++ the great product that it is.
You forgot step 4. They shoot the person and the police union protects them with a paid vacation
And I would also add:

The reason your monolith is a mess is because your organization has low standards on code quality and doesn't value it. It is not willing to invest in it, and probably your department didn't acquire the skills and habits to produce clean code in cheap manner. The developers who are used to good code usually leave you out of frustration. No one likes to be unproductive, especially productive people.
"productive" means shipping code to these people. They are trying to minimize how often someone says "we are blocked on deploying that code"
That's another step into pushing the app - another dark pattern.

It seems to only apply to the new site design. The old still plays.

Also, NSFW tags are used for videos like the one I linked to - just to prevent spoilers.
This is pretty ironic..
Good combo-breaker for Netflix, maybe they can save their company now that they stop letting pc-zealots direct their course.
The most important missing feature of Notepad++ is the ability to search for a file withing a "project" using some ctrl+p functionality. I know that Notepad++ doesn't have a "project" concept but this could work like this:

* User presses ctrl+p

* Notepad++ searches all parent folders of the current open file until it finds a .git directory, then stops. If no .git file is found abort

* It creates an index of the files contained in the folder with the .git directory recursively (this may take some time when done for the first time but after the 1st time the index will be kept in memory and no time should be needed)

* It displays a box that the user can type parts of the file and moves focus to that box (i.e after the ctrl + p the user can write his query)

* It uses the index to present a list of files that match the user query; the user can navigate the list using the arrow keys

* The user selects a file and can open it in a new tab, optionally he could also replace the current tab or open it in a split pane
I used to raise bugs with as much information as possible to reproduce or provide patches for the fix myself but these days more often than not I do neither.

I have found that a lot of open source projects really don't want any form of feedback or contribution at all and you sometimes just get abuse for even trying to help. I usually check the history of issues and pull requests to see if there is any chance its worthwhile doing them, more often than not it isn't. Definitely check beforehand how the project usually behaves before applying any effort because the bulk of them are not going to accept anything you might do if you aren't a committer.
It's hard for me to find good nature documentaries, when they aren't hosted by Attenborough. But my daughter and I just started watching "Tiny World" on apple tv. It's hosted by Paul Rudd, and it's absolutely amazing. The shots of animals they get are crazy, half the time I wonder if its been green screened. Highly recommend it.
I disagree that the protocol is the problem. There's a combination of frontend/backend issues impacting performance, but servers written in faster languages don't seem to struggle with joining channels all that much.

Synapse being written in Python seems like a much bigger problem to me. This problem only exists in rooms not already available on the server, though; if you register with matrix.org then matrix.org rooms won't suffer nearly as much as running your own server.

Sadly, alternatives like Conduit still aren't fully-featured and they probably won't ever be as focus lies on the Element ecosystem. It's a real shame.
I think you will see a right wing government using weapons of mass destruction on cities like NYC in our lifetime
Yeah, and countless people since prehistory have died or been significantly worse off because they simply didn't know better. Now we have science to help us figure things out before natural selection drives us away from unhealthy behaviour.
> as long as recording in those instances didn't interfere with police actions

They will immediately claim you are doing so.
2014 called. It wants its humor back.
I like the idea for multiple Github accounts, but I have concerns over the suggestion:

```
Host github-work.com
..
Host github-personal.com
```

Getting in the habit of using a fake FQDN (which right now aren't registered) feels pretty risky.
A lot of these large volume OEMs depend on extra revenue from the Windows bloatware that they preload (antivirus, games, social apps etc.)... Usually they get a kickback based on volume sold.

This stuff largely doesn't exist for Linux, so they're missing out on this profit for any Linux preloads. It's also why you see Linux preloads mostly done by more boutique PC builders -- they've already charged a reasonable premium on the build.
>Why should one have to put up with mails like this?

...You don't have to. You can write mail filters that send stuff like this straight to spam. I even did it at a workplace. Admittedly, that is a bit more hairy but now I atleast understand why passive aggressiveness was invented.
In some languages there is a pipe operator that does the job well. Elixir example:

"foo-bar" |> String.split("-")

IMO method chaining is a lot better this way, much less desire for monkey patching, etc.
I think it's a bad attempt at phishing.
Yeah, so what? You filmed the beginning, you filmed the police asking you to stop: which judge will ever trust them when they'll describe how you slipped on a banana peel?
I'm confused, is this a new company? If not, it seems like changing the tech stack as soon as you come in is a recipe for disaster.
That's an interpretation of the law. Another, and more likely interpretation of the law is that the purpose is to prevent people from recording abusive police interactions to stymie reforms of law enforcement practices and to prevent victims of police abuses from seeking justice.
Democracy should produce an acceptable result in the end, but in the short term allows terrible things to happen. I guess that is worrying, as we can't always wait for things to get better, the terrible thing might kill us before then.
It's like they don't even know the concept of gun violence.
That's not even snide, that's just... basics. Otherwise why waste peoples' attention?
One step closer to a failed police state. Yay.
This is a stupid law. If the concern is that people may interfere with police work then it shouldn’t matter if they are recording or not.
I'm a bit concerned tbh. I've read a lot about how NSDAP in Germany and league leaders in France reused old ideas from their adversaries (anarchist and communists) to sell themselves as 'concerned citizens'.
Five, ten feet.
If you sort by: "People killed by security forces", out of the top 34 countries, 33 are underdeveloped or developing (and several are at war or have an ongoing civil war). The US is in 7th place.

Interestingly, Canada is the 35th, but it still has about 9 times fewer cases per capita than the US...
>You are arguing that MS couldn't care less about desktop Linux market share.

It's definitely not what I'm arguing. Please stop making stuff up. This is where I will end our conversation. Have a good day.
Github was scary enough just as a monolith of FOSS code. In microsoft's hands, it's terrifying: they have shown lack of integrity in the past that makes their current professions (and examples!) of civilized behavior suspect.

Is your project dead or is it just that Github et all the PR's others sent? Is your project discoverable there or is it buried in irrelevant search results?

Could Microsoft open some of their older code? a FOSS (as far as possible) Win2k would still be of value to the world.
Except that the politicians get to pick their voters through gerrymandering instead of the voters picking their representatives like in a proper democracy.
exactly this, the right wing are truly dangerous, we will see how it plays out
In any case, that sounds like an organizational problem, not a technical one.
Superfish was never shipped with WPBT (it was preinstalled), so please do make explicit which malware you are referring to.
I’m beginning to wonder whether the entire article and response was sarcasm
They shouldn't, and I agree.
Notepad++ is acceptable for a free Windows text editor, but it had serious crash problems when I last tried it - luckily, there are probably 2,000 alternatives or so. (I usually use micro, Acme and/or ed these days).
I wish the author wouldn't beg for Ukraine donations. I'm sick of politics everywhere.
You're never too old to have a happy childhood.
One old geezer's reading of this:

He & his ex were on definitely non-friendly terms at the time. Later, they got over their hostilities. No implication that they are now friends, let alone in a relationship.

His ex may have been inquiring about the odd blog posts mostly because she'd have to tell the kids "your father is [in jail|dead|etc.]", rather than because she cared about him.
"No more ‘abrasive,’ ‘opinionated,’ or ‘nice’: Why managers need to stop giving women and people of color feedback on their personality"

what the actual fuck kind of racist bs is this?

Why not just write what you mean "Why managers only need to give white males feedback on their personality"..

That said, there's some difference between behaviour and personality.. Whatever personality and or race / gender / diagnosis you have may help explain (but not excuse) your behavior in certain situations, and when that behavior is unprofessional, it is to be pointed out to you along with an opportunity for you to apologize (assuming you're not grown enough to figure that out by yourself).

I've had situations in my work life where my less-than-idea brain configuration has caused me to have inappropriate reactions or responses, I've recognized them and apologized, sometimes right away, sometimes when it has dawned on me later, and as a result of that bit of self-insight, I do believe I'm not universally disliked by my coworkers.
I'm just stating the obvious: this law has nothing to do with dictatorship.
what a bootlicking understanding of cop behavior
I had that thought too, but rsync should mostly replace it. I have run into situations where rsync isn't available so scp -r has been helpful though.
A single email messages often takes minutes to receive. Conversations are usually highly asynchronous. I wouldn't call it fast, exactly.
It doesn't matter what the backend is written in. What matters is user experience. And GitLab's problem is a total lack of any usability. Bloated and full of inconsistencies.
I agree. And ideally this is what all emails should look like. But you're ignoring the context. Do you know what that guy was going through?

Maybe his wife just cheated on him, divorced him and took half his money, his kids don't want to have anything to do with him, his bank took his house and he just crashed the car. And he tried to use Notepad++ and the same old issue happened and he snapped and sent that email.

99 out of 100 times he would have send the email you mentioned here but he had a horrible day and vented in the email. Does it make it ok? No. Is it understandable? Yes. Should we discard the feedback because he was frustrated? No.
In a firm the size of Twitter, someone's got to keep the recruitment process organized. Making sure candidates are told their feedback, arranging calls with the managers, making sure there's job ads up on various sites, plus talking to agency recruiters.

If they're not hiring anyone though, they don't really need a lot of TA people...
Seems sensible. My guess is that a significant portion of Torguard’s traffic is illicit. They know this, and yet do nothing to stop it. (I know, I know, you use Torguard to connect to the charity you work for - believe me, you’re the exception)

Seems analogous to going after people who sell Saturday night specials.
By the policemen hole principle, with N+1 camera people spread out (over 16 ft apart) among N policemen, there is always one camera person that doesn't fit into a policeman's 8 ft vicinity.
How would programmers like it if folks had a camera in your face a foot away from you while you’re doing you’re coding away. This is a good law. You can still film - bit don’t interfere with the cop’s job which is hard enough already
They have, but this is a long-term play. Slowing hiring is one thing, but slowing your ability to ramp up is commitment to slowing hiring for a long time in the future.
Intelligent speed assistance, autopilot features now mandatory for cars in EU
My kid’s no longer on roblox.

We originally locked the account down to try and keep her safe.

With commuication off and the account limited to only th Roblox verified games we thought we were okay.

It turns out that even in those games there’s usually an ability to change a “nickname” which allows users to chat by just updating their nickname.

As a dev I know how straight forward it would be to stop this frok happening.

Upon discovering the problem I contacted Roblox support and we pulled the kid out of Roblox.

Fyi; roblox support is not good, when the problem relates to child safety they pull all the classic tricks to make it seem like a “you” problem. They blame the third party “experience” developer, despite the game being vouched for by roblox. They close tickets after a short period with no response. They also treat this widespread issue (using nicknames to chat) as an individual breach of ts & cs, rather than fixing thr problem. Blaming the end user, who’s usually younger than 12.

Given the age of my and other kids I’d assume they’re violating GDPR & other global data protection laws on a regular basis.
Sad story. I understand gun laws are pretty strict in Japan. From this shot it looks like the murderer used a 1700s era musket.
I truly believed the deal would go through and invested accordingly. I thought Musk was a man of his word. I will never buy a Tesla.
> I honestly do not comprehend why so many folks base things on it.

In this case it's literally the OS offered by Dell for the XPS 13. It's as official an option as you will ever see, so the fact that such a pairing is still a broken disaster is pretty significant.

I could switch to a different distro, and I might. But distro hunting is exhausting. And it itself represents a never ending treadmill of churn. Like right now it seems like Fedora is a good option, and so are things like PopOS or Manjaro. But rewind the clock 5 to 10 years and some of those didn't even exist, or were not nearly as good of choices for "regular consumer usage." Whose to say I'm not just going to be stuck with yet another "oh, that distro used to be good but now it sucks, switch to foobar instead" in another few years? I'm more likely going to just switch it back to Windows if I'm going to get over the "back everything up & reinstall from scratch" hurdle. I at least know with Windows that I won't have to do a reinstall dance on this machine pretty much ever again. Having Linux for the better development options is nice, but with how good VMs are (and with things like WSL), running it bare metal kinda isn't all that necessary.
Creator of PyAlgoViz here: I did not want to add advertisements to the site, so working off a free-tier for a number of years now.
Personal anecdote, but one thing that I noticed last year while reorganizing all the digital photos I took over the last 17 years is how technological change shaped my digital archives and subsequently how well I remember my past.

With my old dedicated digital camera and sd cards, I got nice folders with meaningful event names and dates and clear of the useless stuff not worth keeping around. Obviously, it required some work to be able to watch the pictures on the computer,let alone share them, so it was easy to spend a few more minutes to have nice digital archives.

Nowadays, the smartphone took over: click, ok nice picture, click click, and shared! It's nice and practical but now my picture collection of the past few years is a bloated and unorganized stream of nice and bad pictures mixed with of paper document copies and other random stuff I no longer care about.

And guess what, I still have quite a good memory of 10-15 year old events and their timeline while it's much fuzzier for the last few years. Got to talk about it with my therapist at the time and he said it's quite probable that taking some time to organize your digital stuff along the way may help you form better memories you'll have an easier time to remember later on.

Same thing with music or movies I guess, odds are you may have this neatly organized old hard drive full of mp3 that'll tell you what you liked in 2012... Nowadays we can stream everything and are pushed to act in a fire-and-forget way without a single debrief in sight ;)

Anyways, smartphones are wonderful tools but I feel like the danger is in the subtle psychological and behavioral changes they introduce and that we too often don't or won't notice until it's too late.
Wondering when "talent acquisition" will be the new "human resources" and what fancy term takes its place.
I don't think this law was even needed given the Fraiser v Evans case that SCOTUS refused to hear.

https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/frasier-v-evans...

As it stands right now, if you film the cops, they can take your device, delete the video, and be protected by qualified immunity.
Criminals for ones, heroes for others.
US has nuked Japanese cities, no one got punished for that.

Abe was very pro-japanese, straight and honest politician. And very uncomfortable for the West.
Can second this. I'm from a country where gun crime is non-existent for the average person and was visiting a friend in their home country. We were in a bar when firecrackers started going off. I turned and looked and just sort of stood still while watching this man shoot at 2 people. By the time I realized what was happening my friend was already over the wall taking cover and shouting at me to get over the wall too. It's a very weird experience if you're not used to guns and gun crime.
A major Rogers outage is affecting 911 calls and internet access in Canada
It's frustrating because the supercilious "what, you don't do code review!" comments the post attracted put me in the position of having to explain that we do in fact do code review, like every other mature dev shop, but that cuts against the point the post is making, which is that SOC2's understanding of code review is black-and-white and complicated dev projects have occasionally complicated dev processes --- and, importantly, your dev process can and should win the argument with the SOC2 auditor.

The third party dependency point is the best rebuttal I think you could come up with. It's exactly right: in the SOC2 view of how code works, you can't commit a 3rd party dependency without every line of its code being reviewed and approved. Nobody does that. It was my job for 15 years to do that for other people, and nobody came close to 100% coverage. Or 50%. SOC2 demands that you pretend you're achieving that. That's stupid. We're not doing stupid stuff for SOC2.

I reserve the right to be unproductive and standoffish with people going out of their way to misconstrue what this post is saying. I'm grateful that other people can contribute the productivity instead. Thank you!
UFO Whistleblowers Would Get Immunity Under New Amendment
> where "Leave" had factions.

All of whom have been proven to be colluding, letting the others give an air of plausible deniability to the “gentleman” campaign of Johnson and co.
Genuinely, which company/entity in the world has full technical literacy in your eyes ? China ?
"Stop interfering and/or resisting"
And he's comparing a list of US president assassinations to absolutely nothing. So why are you calling my comparison out, when it's directly refuting his claim?

Show me the source showing the US has more assassinations than anywhere else in the world. Because a list of 4 assassinated Presidents over 300 years doesn't make that obvious to me.

Thanks in advance for your no-doubt quick cooperation to cite sources.
Accountability is widely considered interference by people who think they are or above the law.
In virtually all of those, the shot attackers were armed themselves. Does stopping someone actively trying to kill a third-party make the police force "rogue"?