skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't think python is a "fashionable" language. I think it's a nice utility or "glue" language. It can do almost anything (machine learning, web dev, etc) in a way perl can't, and so I don't see it disappearing like perl.

As for the section on python being antisocial, It makes sense to me. Dependency management is a tough thing for python and javascript.
However I would not switch to writing Rust or Go for tooling scripts either.

Though Python has been used for devops scripts in at my job for a long time, and has been very very stable, so I'm not sure why it's causing so much pain for the author.
On the other hand, I wish my employer would ban AirPods. The microphone quality is largely garbage and frequently cuts out or devolves into robot-voice messiness.

If I ran a company, I would commission every employee with a nice over-ear headset with a boom mic and slight voice feedback in the ear cups. If I ever met with someone with crap audio, they'd have no excuse not to switch to a decent mic/speaker setup.
Suing tech giant for racism is way more punchy, there are already laws and precedences... Educating people about "racism of a new type" is pretty complicated.

Reductionist approach "skin color"=="race" can be easily debunked. Could white German be ever racist to white Jew?
If by race or caste you mean “measurably distinct genetic groupings” then they are pretty similar.
> you ever heard of Regus before WeWork came along?

Yes? Maybe I'm just old, but I remember them in the 1990s.

Pre-crash articles[0] suggest that WeWork introduced "community" to coworking spaces, which... okay. I guess time will tell whether that fundamentally changed the idea of coworking.

It's no big new discovery that people by and large prefer new things to old things. If WeWork had lasted long enough to become an old thing before imploding, perhaps we would have seen that the difference was mostly that. Or perhaps something actually new did happen, in which case it might now be lost under the clouds of grift and fraud.

0. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/06/14/ho...
Amazing, Gnome was 25 just today. Or yesterday? Only 4 years difference.
It is obviously "if you can't beat them, join them." :) But I don't think either Android will support iMessage natively or Apple will allow it.
> Most services I use give several 6~8 digit recovery codes

Well RubyGems itself, subject of this post, has 12 for a start.
Why? Because 99% of the world's population prefers it.
As i already wrote twice in other replies, Gtk breaking backwards compatibility is not due to a force of nature, but due to the Gtk developers deciding to break it.

The backwards compatibility i refer here is having libraries, binaries and code work with the very latest version of Gtk (not Gtk1, Gtk2, Gtk3 or Gtk4, but *Gtk*, no numbers or anything) always work, just like a Win32 binary made in Windows 95 using the Win32 API can work in Windows 11 and even get new functionality introduced in the same APIs since then or just like an ELF binary compiled in a 1997 Linux i386 distribution can work on a modern x86_64 Linux distribution (assuming no dependencies to broken userland libraries, of course) and use new functionality introduced to the same APIs in kernel since then.
Nope. Valve has to deal with whatever binaries clueless developers uploaded over the years which they can't update wheres you only need to leant how to make your one binary portable. Entirely different issues.
How do you feel about containers, OP?
You don't realize what is going on in the United States. We have portions of the USA where the police don't even bother, and are run by local gangs. We also have children working, in dangerous and toxic conditions. We also have hunger, and yes we have slavery: prison labor. The USA is not what you think it is.
Thank you! I've spent far too much time in HandBrake when I could've been using this. You have improved my life
I think you're confused, browsers don't require server custody of your data. browser vs app isn't the meaningful distinction
>You'll need to explain why and how it is "flawed and inferior"

Because it needs special support in the window manager. At that point it is the same as what Wayland is doing except it still has all the other flaws of X11 and it will break when someone wants to disable compositing or use another old window manager. As for the other parts, those would technically work, and it already does work like that for the most part. Most programs that can do DPI scaling do already have a way to scale themselves. But that is not a good experience for users, the point of it working seamlessly is to have support for it built into the window manager.

>Then i suggest making better effort towards understanding what others write or at least ask clarifications

There are no clarifications to ask, you are repeating the same comments that get posted all the time. Keep in mind these are the type of comments that you can see repeated very often:

"I have no problem, it works on my hardware"

"It is not a problem because I personally prefer it this way"

"Just try to fix the problem yourself by tweaking these developer settings (config files, environment variables, etc) and hoping it works"

If your comment follows this pattern then I would say just avoid making that comment, it is not moving the discussion forward. I think you can agree, when building these systems the goal is to get something that is usable out of the box for everyone. So these comments do not "move the needle" towards that, these are just reinforcing the current status quo.
Set up a new Mac, Fast
i work remote but live in the northern dc area. i occasionally have to head up to the harpers ferry area after work (northwest of DC by about 60-70 min without traffic, for non locals) and the afternoon rush hour literally starts by 3pm, especially on thursdays the days i usually have to go up there.

its funny cuz so many people think "oh ill leave early and beat traffic" that you are often better off waiting until like 6pm.

i still cant believe how many WV plates i see on 270 on any given work day. i hope i never end up in a commute like that
What? You can get texts to a phone without paying your phone bill?
I thought people lose their caste when they cross the "black water".
I feel like Powerlifting has become such a crap shoot. You have ppl doing ultra wide sumo on DL, crazy back arch on bench, squat suits, wrapped knees, ultra wide foot placement low bar squat blah blah. To me these lifts no longer even remotely resemble what I do in the gym. That being said I love John Haack - conventional DL, relatively narrow/normal grip on bench, doesn't the dude even high bar? Wish that shit was just the standard.
I like it. Let's implement it.
.Net has run better on Linux (edit: better than on Windows) machines since at least before the pandemic.

I'm a Java dev, but I have also developed on .Net and running modern .Net on Linux is about as simple as it get.
> not just talking about skin color

Steve Jobs is ethnically Syrian. Most people would call him white. The fact that some e.g. North Africans may fit the classic conception of whiteness better than many Europeans doesn’t dissolve every racial boundary therebetween.
As somebody else outside the US - where is this different? Without a connection you can only make emergency calls, receiving anything is impossible when your phone doesn't have a number without an active sim card.
Just recently, I had to recompile a (singleplayer) save game editor. So basically a GUI that does some clever hex editing.

It was written in C++ using Qt.

Have you ever tried compiling a Qt program on Windows? It involves signing up for an official Qt developer account to even install qmake.

To the point I had to use an unofficial Qt installer CLI app (aqtinstall) [0] to even install the toolchain to build this little shitty app... which still relied on having several Qt .dll files in the same directory as the .exe to work.

Have you clicked on [0] yet? Well, then guess what programming language aqtinstall uses.

[0] https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall
....it doesn't though. If you think it does, then I invite you to post an example please, for instance of anything that can compete against an M1 MacBook Air or Pro at half price - and by compete I mean anything that offers the same performance, same battery life, all in an aluminum body.
I never said that Indian people can't be racist. I'm sure they can be racist, caste-ist or whatever the hell "ist" they like. But that doesn't automatically make them the same thing
If you cannot understand the position of your opponent, what hope do you have of a productive debate where we end up with a better outcome?
Do they go into ego-injury detection? I get blind sided by alternative interpretations all the time.
There's no Illuminati, just incentives. Why would scientists and people who depend on science being respected publish papers showing that science created problems instead of solved them? Every incentive they have is the opposite.
Yes, I use GNOME 3 and feel similarly. It just gets out of my way and lets me work.

I also have a lot of appreciation for GNOME driving Wayland adoption. I know it's been a bumpy road, but desktop Linux is much better for it, and things are better now than they ever were in the past.

Unlike many long time Linux users who post here, I really do not look back fondly on the days of twm or fluxbox or something. GNOME has all the little QOL features that help me when I need them, without getting in the way during daily operation.
I think the .NET Core model is probably fine for web apps, but I literally laugh at the idea anyone would deploy desktop software with it: The .NET team's idea of an "LTS" version is 3 years, which is an absolute joke.

If you continue to use .NET Framework 4.8, your software will receive security updates until the heat death of the universe, too much, including Windows itself, depends on it. (Same, hilariously, with Visual Basic 6.) Microsoft's lifecycle for new runtimes is so short you're better off using a dead one.

.NET Core has too many caveats and too few selling points to get any reasonably competent desktop developers to move over, IMHO, especially considering the fact that every executable you ship to customers has a Microsoft imposed support death date.
Unchained Engine – open-source Node.js E-Commerce Framework
It's how migrant families (including my own) always have been here. They have always been willing to put in more, even when they clearly are aware they are being taken advantaged of (by the American standards, of course). I am 1st generation, and I can tell you right now, I would never work 13 hour days every week for years on end without a vacation like my father did. And that's a good thing, of course. But again, my comment was intended to be an observation more than anything.
Peering into the Land of Parens – Guix from the Nix Perspective (NixCon 2019)
Microsoft seems like "a house divided" when it comes to opening .NET. They open source the core language, but have different proprietary dev tools (debugging for one) you need to pay for.

https://isdotnetopen.com/ goes over these in more detail, but I'd rather use an ecosystem where I don't have to worry things will be progressively locked down in the future.
> Anything not aligned with the breakdown here is just straight up racist hiring practices

So, every field and job market has exactly the same distribution as the entire country?
Let me expound on this, as there's a lot of PhD hate in the comments parallel to mine.

What is unique to a PhD is that you took a very long time to master a small slice of the knowledge pie.
The emphasis here is on long time: Most people simply aren't willing to go for years on a low salary and tedious job.

It doesn't mean PhD's are more
(or less) creative, top coders and whatnot; it means we took the time to read all the papers, to know all previous solution attempts and who all the big players in the field are ("all" w.r.t. our niche).
It also mean we can read papers much faster than other people because that is basically what we do all day.

There you have it! Now don't send me ML job offers, cause I gotta read this next obscure paper to figure out if they are legit. :D Just kidding.
Couple of relevant previous discussions around this subject:

Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end (90 days ago|437 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31434434

How and why we removed jQuery from Gov.uk (5 days ago|43 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32423422
What a compelling argument. Sounds like you fully justified your claim that we knew all of this centuries ago. Good job.
There are various caste markers that casteist people use to identify the caste of the other person. Some of them include food preferences, accents (yes Indian languages also have different accents). I have seen that people can be casteist on both ends of a spectrum and it’s really hard to tell what marker of yours will be noted by the other party. I’ve seen that most people these days don’t try to pretend about hiding their caste, especially due to the mainstream anti-casteism movements. I personally don’t give a damn about people guessing my caste based on my rural accent and dietary habits.

Edit: I must add that while I’ve seen discussions around caste privileges, but I’ve never been discriminated against based on my caste. The only discrimination I’ve faced is the standard discrimination against non-white peoples.
i think office is great if you have autonomy. come when you want, do your work, and leave when you want. nobody watching, judging you.

if you're a plebian, you don't have this luxury. you're at the whim of others. esp those company that demand a lot of overtime, like apple.
American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft
Thanks for your answer.

So maybe we'd need some kind of poll to know what all of us collectively need. And I'm sure those who make Gnome (many at RedHat I think) have an idea. So maybe there is some interest, or unfortunate planets alignment that makes "simple" users to be second class citizen. That is, Wayland, VR, tearing are not things that prevent one of completing a professional task so they just don't get fixed...

My point was that I see many area of improvements but none of them prevents me of being happy (I use my Linux DE 80% professional and 20% leisure; or 5% movies and 95% browser/coding). It seems that some of these areas are not on the improvement level for you but on the indispensable one. So as you said, there's some personal appreciation going on. So for me the equation is more like FLOSS quality + licenses >= proprietary quality + license. That is, I value the license difference more than the quality difference; hence I'm pretty happy with many sub standard tools :-)

So now, in your list, the tearing is clearly, for me, the most painful issue at the moment. Watching movies is a bit painful at times.

So in the end, well, ain't sure anything gonna change soon. But the sooner the better, I agree on that :-)
Maybe. JQuery reduces the number of characters you need to write compared to vanillaJS , so if their websites use some JS , it was probably a benefit. Now tell me about the megabytes of javascript that their new fancy frameworks download, uncached
This doesn't sound right.

Weren't castes based on race and conquering populations initially?

How would you describe casteism's status among expatriated Indian populations at a population level? Or is the fact one refers to a population at all to be help in contempt as "racism"?
FSF is the First Street Foundation in this context. They're a 501(c)(3) non-profit that aims to produce accurate models of the effects and risks caused by climate change. I personally use them as a source at work when dealing with questions raised by climate change. Anecdotally, I've found their models to be shockingly thorough, specifically their flooding model.

I chose to link to the press release, because at the bottom of the page there's two links. One to their more detailed methodology article and one to the 'highlights' article. Both are quite interesting, but the press release isn't a bad place to start for some context.

The full report is available from this link: https://report.firststreet.org/heat which requires an email submission unfortunately, but there are worse places to give your contact information to IMHO.

If you're interested in using their data they have quite an extensive free access program. https://firststreet.org/data-access/
Thousands globally? Maybe. If you look at places that didn't overreact like Sweden then there's no excess death under 75, so young people weren't dying regardless of health. In other parts of Europe there was no excess death under 45 but many countries over-reacted especially at the start with ventilator abuse, so that would have hurt the numbers.
> Making digital gov't websites as accessible as possible is an incredibly important

Indeed - websites are the most convenient way to access government services.

So it's important that government websites don't rely on technology that isn't universally available. So I wish gov.uk sites would stop insisting on a smartphone (or SMS) for 2FA. Phones have these problems:

* They cost a lot.

* It's impossible for the average user to check the 2FA app is secure.

* They run on batteries that go flat.

* they are not owned by their owners.

Please, always offer email as a 2FA choice.
As a minimum it must not switch lanes, because this is where the dangerous accidents happen, and you cannot fix this as the other driver.
> Instead we should focus on

> And for food we should try to focus on

This post contains some very odd gaslighting: your earlier post says "should"—twice—but you are claiming here that the person responding to you incorrectly read "should"?

Perhaps you meant to write could but wrote should instead?
To the tune of the Firefly theme:

Take my WFH, take my no-commute. Take me where I have to wear pants.

I don't care, I'm still free, when the recession ends your office is not where I'll be.
Does visual studio run on linux yet? That's my rubicon for taking .net seriously. It's not just about the runtime, the tooling has to be present as well.
This happens a lot in american universities as well.
I was once contracted to help implement oracle for an Ivy League university.

It was shocking to see the preferred minority suppliers overcharging by 200% for same things you could get at Office Depot. Apparently research labs were furious, and went out of their way to game the system to get cheaper office supplies, and so HR needed a custom dashboard to monitor them as well.
Python is fine as a scripting language, but people seem to forget that it's just that. It amazes me that some people think it's suitable for something like embedded development - in fact there's more than one implementation.
Meh. In the end, Microsoft will betray those who trusted it. Long term, better just to pretend it does not exist and never, ever depend on anything with Microsoft name on it.
The number comes from the USG database:

https://openvaers.com/
that is honestly one of the cooler perks i've heard of
The site is a Vue.js single page application.

That's just the front-end stack I knew the best — I realize it's terrible for those who don't want to run javascript. Sorry!
I completely agree with you that allowing private landlords is against our collective interests as a society. I think there would be details to work out but I would be very interested to see a city or state ban the renting of housing as an experiment.

As for thinking from an economic perspective, I think anything else is doomed to fail. Unless we think about how people will behave to maximize their own outcomes in some system we risk making things much worse (even if we do think it through we still risk making things much worse, but at least we will have more confidence that we are doing the right thing). Socialist states are a great example of this, they plow ahead on the moral high ground (at least in their moral system) and manage to make their citizens poorer.
If you would like to maintain such a curated resource, please do. But even then you'd need MFA.
> Just tell your users if they want a username they need a strong password.

If their goal is to shift responsbility to the user, that solution works. If their goal is to provide secure communications to the general public, that solution doesn't work. As you probably know, strong passwords are widely recognized as a failed security technology for the general public.

Also, what happens when the user forgets their strong password? Dataloss is not an acceptable outcome for general end users whose priority usually is not ultimate security, but usability. Thus (as I understand it) Signal allows weak passwords ('PINs') that stay with the client, and adds 'invisible' entropy which is backed up to server-side SGX (because the user doesn't know the entropy, it must be backed up off-phone in case the phone is lost). It's a great, no-tradeoff solution IMHO: If SGX is compromised, the user is no worse off than if the supplemental entropy didn't exist at all - they have their (weak) password. If you don't want to depend on the 'supplemental entropy', use a strong password and then Signal's entropy and SGX security become irrelevant.

> Or just generate the entropy for them and only allow the username option to people who also want to take custody of their new 32-bytes of entropy and have a signal-managed synced contact book.

AFAICT, Signal is not interested in implementing features that are valuable only to geeks and that everyone else ignores, and those kinds of features don't seem to fit their mission.
I don't keep up with desktop dev, but can I develop a Linux UI using C# and .NET yet?
Let's not spread FUD. A viral monkeypox (a la Coronavirus) would be way disastrous than the coronavirus itself (people do care more about how they look). There is nothing that suggests that's the case for now. There are also a whole bunch of viruses in Africa (ie: Ebola) that could be worse but they aren't.
Because, relative to most other options, it’s worse. It’s kibble for humans.
Yep agree I’m referring to penmanship, they still need to be able to do math and write to the degree necessary for algebra etc.
At least 95% of our .NET workloads run on Linux.
I don't know if it's nepotism, but Changi Business Park [1], a tech hub in Singapore, is nicknamed Chennai Business Park [2], for much of the same reason outlined in this thread.

[1] http://www.changibusinesspark.com/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=chennai+business+park
Creating a Netlify-to-Notion Form
Wouldnt it be nice.

Or are you suggesting that some races / genders / etc are better at some things than others?
I forgot where I heard it but one analysis of a "successful" US defense (only thing hit by enemy nukes are our own nuclear assets) still had US deaths somewhere in the hundred millions from the resulting famine
> If someone hires a person based on their color, that's wrong regardless of who's doing it.

Let's say a company is set to hire 1,000 employees. For the first 900 hires, they intentionally exclude white people. Should they, then, make up for this intentional exclusion by then prioritizing white people in their hiring? Or should they correct the problem by giving those who were intentionally excluded priority?

In other words, should the racist status quo be allowed to continue, or should it be intentionally corrected?