skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be willing to bet special financing is distorting the numbers. There are companies that front borrowers cash to help them compete with real cash buyers.
Inside the Documentary Cash Grab
If you're on mobile and you need to move a character to the left, you will want to swipe to the left very slowly to avoid triggering the gesture for moving back a page.
The article conveys the deal is dumb because Adobe has no free tier, leaving a huge barn door sized gap open and vulnerable for the future.

Future freemium competition springing up isn't solved by this one remarkably expensive deal (which suggests Adobe is desperate, and a whole other topic). In another year or other relatively short amount of time, Adobe will need to keep executing and succeeding in acquisitions of freemium competitors who can spring up with weed-like ease. If Adobe fails to secure one the better ones, and Microsoft or any other semi-capable mega titan scoops up the competition, Adobe is the directly at risk of it's position eroding and ultimately systematically getting crushed in the seas of the open market.

All because Adobe continually chooses to rely on an easy $7-8 billion in ARR from CreativeCloud, rather than wise up and realize they need to evolve their strategy to better align with reality.

I know people at Adobe and have worked with several who are actually very good, so I'm a little perplexed. From the outside, it's hard to understand why the organization is so dysfunctional. Is upper management stuck in 90's style thinking? I wish I could be a fly on the wall at some of these meetings (probably they are mostly super boring, so only the [likely ongoing] pivotal moments where they fail to explore better paths forward, please ;)
I find kubernetes - systemd overlap angle as a very valid point. When I first started to learn kubernetes more often than not I was thinking 'hey, we can do that with systemd as well!'
That's actually not a bad idea. I like the way you think!
A man climbs into a taxi, "Airport please, I'm late!".

The driver speeds up and starts going straight through a red light. The passenger is terrified, “That light was red! I'm not that late, aren’t you afraid we’ll be hit?” The driver says “Don’t worry, my brother does it all the time.”

After crossing several red lights this way, they come closer to the airport, and at a green light they come to a complete stop. The passenger says, “Why did you stop? The light is green now!” The driver says, “Oh, my brother works on this side of town."
Yeah, that's not a surprise. I see a lot of goyper shit in online games. People logging on with names like ANNE FRANK with a badly veiled nazi profile pic going on who say racist shit at the end of every game so they don't get kicked and then they have like a bunch of impressionable kids who think hitler is funny in their nasty horrible racist groomer tow on discord.

I'm not surprised this is getting investigated, those guys are the worst creeps, especially how they get kids involved.
I'm skeptical, and I think systemd gets way more hate than it deserves, but it's interesting to see an alternative from someone outside of the "Make Init Shell Again" crowd.
Unfortunately you can't have your (gay wedding) cake and eat it to. If we go down this path it's bye bye to 70 years of anti-discrimination jurisprudence and law.
How about cost of living. How much did you pay for rent in PK vs. PT?

(I am asking out of genuine curiosity. Rent or mortgage is usually the heaviest burden in the West.)
Some hotels do have them but they don't advertise it. It might be just one small room on a particular floor.
Different transactions get different taxes right now
It's entirely self-contained. "Bone" is a node in the graph, put either a bunny or dog on the bone and that "somebody at bone" path will be enabled because its condition will be enabled.
Yeah that's annoying, I'll have to see if the back gesture can be disabled
Even so, most Americans can't afford an unexpected $400 medical bill.
Do you think you might try to procedurally generate additional levels? Or craft them by hand?
Out of context but how did you move from Pk to Portugal? Job or freelance visa?
These are nifty functions and methods but my personal preference that has always saved me was to use rsnapshot for anything that is important to me so that I have several historical copies in a date based folder structure. I do a local snapshot and run it ad-hoc if I am working on anything sensitive. That snapshot then gets lftp rsync-like sync'd to a chroot sftp server. Using rsnapshot can file-version entire directories so that dependencies are also versioned by day even if outside of git or in gitignore. This could even include all important laptop/device settings so that the laptop is easily replaceable. One distinct advantage of rsnapshot is that it uses hard-links for duplicate files to minimize disk space usage.

In the spirit of this article, one could make a function to call rsnapshot any time sensitive work is being done on anything important. Extending beyond the example could be to have a "fire-drill" function that git commits all local repos to an alternate branch, runs rsnapshot, sync's the filesystem, lftp transfers any important directories to an sftp server and/or git push and powers off the device in the event the building or datacenter go up in smoke or the laptop is stolen.
If you update / change your subscription to another one, you go back into the 14 days free cancellation policy.

Then just cancel.
You can stop an AI half way and get a half-diffused image. I think Midjourney even shows a gif of the generation process.

If you mean a fully generated AI image which resembles half-finished human art, then I don't understand the issue with the sketch pad with an half drawn image on it.
How are you "inheriting" this is you don't manage it directly? Why is it your responsibility to "fix" it?
Exactly! We need to establish what is a good or bad decision. It can't be simply outcome based because it's a physical impossibility to foresee the future.

- is this your decision to make in the first place?

- have you even accurately defined the decision you are making?

- did you think about all the possibilities?

- did you weigh all the facts available? Listen to all viewpoints? Ask a trusted friend?

- did you make the decision with the appropriate timeliness? Is there more time to wait and see? Or would that make it worse because the time to act is _now_?

- are you operating out of fear, anxiety or are you calmly reasoning with logic?

- conversely learn when it is appropriate to "trust your gut" - this is especially appropriate for emotional decisions (should I adopt this dog?). And when it is not (I really love this car/house but it's too much $$$$).

A bad decision is where you did badly on stuff like that. If a "bad" decision yields a good result, sure take it, but realize that was just dumb luck and don't push it - it was still a bad decision.

If it was a "good" decision but had a bad outcome, you must separate the disappointment and consequences, which are still real, from any guilt related to "making a bad decision". Most of us did stupid stuff when we were young. The anger at yourself for doing something so dumb is usually the worst punishment. Avoid doing stupid stuff.

Over time you learn and get better. You will rarely give yourself a perfect grade in all categories. Regardless of outcome, think about what you could do better. Perhaps your weighing of one fact over another was not ideal. You focused too much on a minor consideration and did not grasp the weight of another consideration? OK, learn from that too.

"Helpful" and "Sympathetic" people will like to try to come by after the fact and say "what, you didn't consider X - it's obvious?" or "You should've just done Y" (no shit, Sherlock). But hindsight is 20/20. It wasn't their decision to make. It was a good decision based on ...

It should be noted that good decision making process is composed of many small decisions (which fact should I focus on?, is this the right time?, who should I ask?), etc.

It's decisions all the way down until it's either the bedrock of fact or else the unknowable possibility.
I’m not a professional, but I find Scrivener [1] invaluable. Having 600 pages of unstructured, unorganized text would be a nightmare for me.

[1] https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
ahhh ok. It is a precondition. That helps!
> micropayments

I don’t think it’s reasonable to call $8 micropayments. Now if you were selling the individual triangles pro rata…
The video in one of the test cases is Steve Jobs commencement address https://www.youtube.com/v/UF8uR6Z6KLc
Oh, I have. I love fountain pens and writing with them a lot. But those things get ink everywhere, I've never had it when they didn't, so I haven't had one in a while. But I love fountain pens, I've had many of them.
Yeah, but I still want to have circuit breakers and safe drinking water in my home, and she was probably happy to have the same.

Civilization is all about mitigating most natural risks. Few people would like to die from cold and hunger when an extra strong winter comes, or constantly fear a sudden ambush by the tribe next door.
Been there. Done that. Entire IT department had quit when I walked in. Saved the company.

Took a couple years to recover mentally from it.
First off. Make sure whomever is in charge understands how screwed they are. Hiring and retaining staff in is a complete nightmare.

Get someone between your team and management.

Learn to say no to everything.
Better yet. This is your go between job. Do not allow management access to any IT staff. They will destroy morale.

Support and slow cleanup is only work that is done for a year or more. No new work.

make sure people who had a part in decisions are gone. Otherwise your wasting your time.

End of day. Decide if your up for this.
It sounds like doing a full rewrite with the same team will just spend a lot of time to develop something just as crappy. This is unlikely to be a successful route.

There are some things it should be easy to sell to both the team and to management. First, adding git into the mix. Tell them it's like backing up your work forever. You can roll most changes back to the beginning of the repo, easily. I say most changes because rolling back the code won't roll back changes to the database.

Likewise, creating a preprod environment means you can make sure new stuff doesn't bring down the system before you roll it out. Yes, it will cost a bit more but having that extra assurance and the ability to do a little experiment is considered worth it by almost every other team on Earth.

If you can get those two things in place, you can make it policy that nothing is done directly on production because the risk is too high.

Then you can tackle refactoring code, a little at a time.

Focus hard on training the team. If they are as junior as you say, they need to learn good habits before their ability to ever work as professionals is destroyed. Don't explain it to them that way. Smile and tell them you just want to help them develop their careers, which should be pretty close to the truth.

Above all, keep your resume up to date and your ear to the ground. It sounds like you may burn out before all the work is complete. Have an exit strategy, just in case.

Good luck!
I think people need to accept that any form of communication will result in “radicalization”. This was true of the printing press, the radio, tv and the internet. If the government is concerned with these things, they’ll do better by fulfilling their basic duties. Radicalization tends to affect sick societies far more than healthy ones.
I'm not the grandparent poster, but I'm not sure if this is what they had in mind by "filtering rules". When I read the comment, I immediately thought of how I use procmail for live sorting of incoming mail, but I also occasionally pull out al(pine) for various manual sorting/rearranging tasks. I've always found its "broaden/narrow selection + zoom" tools to be pretty powerful. (Maybe mutt has tools of similar capability; I don't know.)
Except that with Siri you’re getting the most stupid assistant.
Terrorism is a real threat. Unfortunately, some terrorism is more acceptable than others.
> the only change will be faster transaction processing and new capabilities being offered by your bank

Blockchained dollars would centralize the currently-decentralized payment system. Putting together an American's transaction history requires guessing where they have payment nexuses and then issuing subpoenaing. At each of those steps there are Constitutionally-challengable investigations and searches. CBDC would bring blockchain's centralization and eager evaluation to American finance, making searches easier and more comprehensive.
Another one in India seems to be on this trajectory too:

Byju’s has no answer for its growing list of missing deadlines - https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/07/byjus-blackstone-oxshott-s...

Byju’s losses swell to Rs 4,588 crore in delayed FY21 results - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/byjus-rea...

Byju’s 2020-21 financials show it’s a house of cards. Record losses, declining revenue in key markets and questionable accounting practices paint a grim picture of India’s largest edtech company. - https://www.themorningcontext.com/internet/byjus-2020-21-fin...
Care to elaborate on your problems? Or maybe a more fundamental question would be -- would you be interested in a project like this solving whatever your particular gripes with systemd might be?
I don't entirely disagree with what you mentioned but I believe it paints only part of the picture and heading to the next level of abstraction is necessary.

Tautologically, a wealthy or high status person will know quite a bit about how wealth and power affects life. They will have insights on parts of human nature that poorer people might not encounter. There's clearly value in listening to this with an open mind.

However, even for those involved in high-level industries, that does not mean they do not have their own brand of myopic philosophizing and puffery. A large portion of their views on life is just as predictable as that of the small time hustler, and just as informed by their material conditions and cultural sphere, even if richer people have more of an opportunity to exist as individuals. There is this semi-aware understanding that wealthy people have to talk about Big Things, and the way they talk about Big Things inevitably leads to the 'architect' viewpoint and controlling the poor. I cracked a smile at the 'subliminal eugenics initiatives' because it's so representative of this mindset.

Every once in a while, you get a reminder of this. A high-level fund might fail all of a sudden, a billionaire might make a lethal decision that clearly lacks perspective or understanding of reality, or it can be something as innocuous as releasing a fairly pedestrian reading list. All sorts of hints that they are not superhuman but merely boosted along by snowballing feedback effects.

But since there is a culture of speaking in hushed tones about this, a range of complex emotions and fantasies when it comes to wealth and power, a nuclear grade sense of the halo effect, that we end up with OP thinking that yachts are filled with incredible insights 24/7 compared to the otherwise intellectually empty world of the non-elite, or yourself portraying the wealthy as divine enough that merely being in their presence is already an achievement on its own that must be accompanied with extra submissiveness and humility.

You get a minor taste of this on HN itself. Since the atmosphere is a mixture of wealthy, wealth-adjacent, and normal, the HN reader will not just look at the specific brand of articles that do well here but will also be self-aware in doing so: that they are supposed to talk and make connections about history, art, science, politics in a certain way, and cultivate this sense of being above the fray of the masses.
My kids said they spent one week on cursive in elementary school. They sign their names using print/block letters because they have no clue how to write their names (or anything else) in cursive. Cursive is almost like a secret language to them.
> because delivering a bad outcome is enough for execs to write you off without even needing to hear your excuses.

What makes you think they are excuses? Constantly chasing moving targets and not having even one of them agreed upon in writing is heaven for bad execs. I've seen it happen a good amount of times, my colleagues too.

I don't view the "you changed requirements 20 times the last month and I can't keep up with your impossible imagined schedule" statement as an excuse.
Anyone knows of something similar for MacOs?
I agree, I wish 1password had more native yubikey support.
They can start by looking at the excellent documentation from FreeBSD, Gentoo, and others.
I no longer buy physical books, tech or otherwise, as in 2010 I switched completely to ebooks.

Actually, I recently bought a couple of decades-old tech books of retrocomputing value. I found digital copies I regularly reference, but those books are so valuable I want backups.
Building side projects - This is usually my go-to activity when there is an active project. More often than not, I'm searching for a project.

Running - I try to run a few times a week with my long-term goal being a 25 minute 5k

Reading - This is more ad-hoc but I've gradually been reading more recently

Tennis - I sign up for lessons. I used to take them once a week but I'm planning on going multiple times a week for faster improvement
>To the contrary, it is realistic -- no, you wouldn't understand them in real-life either.

Yes, I absolutely would, because, in practice, people speak in a way that others can understand them, or else they have to quickly adapt. (If they’re not comprehensible, there will be a contextual reason why.)

>Movie speakers aren't slurring anything, as any audio engineer could easily prove to you.

That wasn’t what I was saying. My point was that conveying sound through speakers has inherent differences from a person actually being there, and our ears/auditory processing are optimized for the latter, taking advantage of things that aren’t present with speakers. So playing “the same” speech is going to be inherently less comprehensible, requiring some kind of compensation.

These brilliant sound engineers, as judged by actual audiences, are turning comprensible speech-situations into incomprensible ones, some way or another.

>My mother complains about how she can't understand anything when there are Irish or Scottish or even northern English characters in a show.

That’s a separate issue, whern there are genuine cultural differences with between the listener and the situation. That’s not what’s happening in Tenet.

> But that's what subtitles are there for.

No, it’s not. Most sound engineers would consider it a failure if someone had to use subtitles for their own dialect, and most cinemaphiles consider the presence of subtitles to be a failure in itself, and everyone agrees that having to read off the screen to follow worsens the experience.
As I recall, Projekt CD had a few sleeper/cult hits, all of which were very buggy, and then a single run-away success. After that single mainstream hit, they promised the Moon for their next release and got bit by the overhype they created.

Rockstar on the other hand has been making consistent hits again and again for years, without overextending themselves.
You won't get enough. People will go bankrupt, which makes everyone else pay but in a messier and overall worse way than taxes.
Those certainly do look a little funny next to each other in the same list, but I think it's fair to argue that it's a situation where one tool is being used in cases that don't really overlap properly and it creates tension on both sides.

Edit after further reflection: Alternatively, perhaps both of those complaints could be summarized as poor ability to interoperate with other tooling, in which case they really do fit together.
>This sounds good in theory, but in practice doesn't work out so well. In order to write cursive legibly, you need to slow down.

I know many people who can write cursive both fast and beautiful, most of them women.

The problem seems to be rather a lack of training due to a lack of interest.

Writing on the keyboard with ten fingers slows me down, but not because the ten-finger system is slow, but because I haven't trained it.
The Gender Dimensions of Foreign Influence Operations
Oh boo hoo for him.
strip will help to some extent, like 20% downsize, just not enough
I agree with this. I live in a country where blood pudding is “cultural” but many ppl find it disgusting.
Do not waste time with a company that is going to collapse unless they are willing to do whatever it takes.
With Moore's law over, I wouldn't expect huge leaps and bounds in graphics again any time soon. Expect incremental improvement, and honing in on the details that matter to immersion. I for one find graphics "good enough" for the most part, and I'd would rather the budget go into NPC AI, character movement, and storytelling.
No, it's not.

From the linked article, decaf coffee grounds produced using one specific method have 0.1 ppm of dichloromethane 'paint stripper' remaining ("100 times less" than the FDA limit of 10 ppm). Then this is used to brew a pot of coffee, presumably diluting by another order of magnitude (a common ratio is about 1 part coffee grounds to 8 parts water). Except that in reality, dichloromethane isn't actually soluble/miscible in water, so there's no reason to expect even the 0.01 ppm to be in the cup you're drinking from; the majority of the trace that's in the grounds probably stays there. In fact, the immiscibility in water is critical to the decaffeination process, allowing the solvent (with the bound caffeine) to be easily skimmed off and removed.

The process described is also wrong. The beans are not "returned to reabsorb the liquid". This doesn't even make sense, since the liquid in the water bath was never in the beans to begin with. Instead, the author has confused that the bath, reused batch to batch, quickly reaches the same concentration of water-soluble compounds (other than the caffeine, which is repeatedly removed) as the beans, so when fresh beans are bathed in the liquid, only the caffeine has a gradient to migrate away. In this sense, beans, in general, are constantly introduced to the same bath, but no resorption happens. Beans are only reintroduced to the bath if further decaffeination is required (most processes, including organic solvents, require several passes to eliminate >97% of the caffeine to meet the standard for decaffeinated coffee).

Dichloromethane is actually not used in paint stripper in either the US and EU. It's also not the only organic solvent used for decaffeination. A common alternative is ethyl acetate, an ester that occurs naturally in fruit and wine. Other alternatives include CO2-based extraction. It's unlikely that 'the majority' of decaf coffee is produced using dichloromethane extraction; the author certainly provides no citation for this claim.

This is just a submarine ad for products using an alternative, more expensive decaffination process that is almost identical to organic solvent extraction, using the same sort of bath from which caffeine is extracted to set up a gradient on caffeine only. The only difference is that activated charcoal filtration is used to remove the caffeine from the bath. I suspect that activated charcoal removes more species than just caffeine in that process, which would explain the author's report that the grounds from that process, already "a lot more expensive" are "weaker, so you have to use more ground powder to make a coffee".
Nitpick all you want, but sit down in front of lobster and tell me how insects are gross.