skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think at least in this context it’s that you can’t trust random folks recommendations on the internet, or the appearance/lifestyle they present. In everyday irl encounters not too much has changed (again, in the context of paid influencer activity which is mostly relegated to the media— specifically digital social media.)

And when it comes to trying to find real opinions about potential purchases etc online, I don’t really use reviews anymore (and never looked for it in influencer world to begin with). These days if I want real opinions on something I search for product $X site:reddit.com and see what comes up. Even then I figure there’s some astroturfing but it’s still more reliable than, say, Amazon reviews.
Not everything is a neat concept though.

Look at the Porter stemming algorithm for example. It simply does not decompose into something that is easy to put names on.
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FBI misled judge who signed warrant for seizure of $86M in cash
With systemd if I'm not mistaken this is just:

OnCalendar=Mon *-*-* 12:00:00

Here's the list of examples from man systemd.time:

The following special expressions may be used as shorthands for longer normalized forms:

minutely → *-*-* *:*:00
hourly → *-*-* *:00:00
daily → *-*-* 00:00:00
monthly → *-*-01 00:00:00
weekly → Mon *-*-* 00:00:00
yearly → *-01-01 00:00:00
quarterly → *-01,04,07,10-01 00:00:00
semiannually → *-01,07-01 00:00:00

Examples for valid timestamps and their normalized form:

Sat,Thu,Mon..Wed,Sat..Sun → Mon..Thu,Sat,Sun *-*-* 00:00:00
Mon,Sun 12-*-* 2,1:23 → Mon,Sun 2012-*-* 01,02:23:00
Wed *-1 → Wed *-*-01 00:00:00
Wed..Wed,Wed *-1 → Wed *-*-01 00:00:00
Wed, 17:48 → Wed *-*-* 17:48:00
Wed..Sat,Tue 12-10-15 1:2:3 → Tue..Sat 2012-10-15 01:02:03
*-*-7 0:0:0 → *-*-07 00:00:00
10-15 → *-10-15 00:00:00
monday *-12-* 17:00 → Mon *-12-* 17:00:00
Mon,Fri *-*-3,1,2 *:30:45 → Mon,Fri *-*-01,02,03 *:30:45
12,14,13,12:20,10,30 → *-*-* 12,13,14:10,20,30:00
12..14:10,20,30 → *-*-* 12..14:10,20,30:00
mon,fri *-1/2-1,3 *:30:45 → Mon,Fri *-01/2-01,03 *:30:45
03-05 08:05:40 → *-03-05 08:05:40
08:05:40 → *-*-* 08:05:40
05:40 → *-*-* 05:40:00
Sat,Sun 12-05 08:05:40 → Sat,Sun *-12-05 08:05:40
Sat,Sun 08:05:40 → Sat,Sun *-*-* 08:05:40
2003-03-05 05:40 → 2003-03-05 05:40:00
05:40:23.4200004/3.1700005 → *-*-* 05:40:23.420000/3.170001
2003-02..04-05 → 2003-02..04-05 00:00:00
2003-03-05 05:40 UTC → 2003-03-05 05:40:00 UTC
2003-03-05 → 2003-03-05 00:00:00
03-05 → *-03-05 00:00:00
hourly → *-*-* *:00:00
daily → *-*-* 00:00:00
daily UTC → *-*-* 00:00:00 UTC
monthly → *-*-01 00:00:00
weekly → Mon *-*-* 00:00:00
weekly Pacific/Auckland → Mon *-*-* 00:00:00 Pacific/Auckland
yearly → *-01-01 00:00:00
annually → *-01-01 00:00:00
*:2/3 → *-*-* *:02/3:00
I was very late to the smartphone game, transitioning somewhat suddenly from a Nokia to an iPhone SE. I found the discoverability to be against everything I was taught as a programmer. It really felt like I was expected to have grown up with the iPhone from the first generation.

Worse yet, the gestures ... I searched in vain for a decent printable sheet of the commonly used gestures, only to make my own set of diagrams for an iPad I tried to get my mother to use, leaving her with a set of laminated sheets: the green one detailing the parts of the iPad, the red sheet showing the different screens and how to get there, and finally a blue one with the gestures.

I think iOS really needs a "Tutorial mode" app bundled with it. This of course requires that someone resist the temptation to interject with all of the bundled apps that Apple wants you to know about but aren't needed to do the basics. No Focus, no Stocks, no Apple TV ... just show me how to get around in some Settings, practice locking and unlocking a screen, drills for all of the basic gestures.
All comes down to good naming in the end. The craft is finding both compact and specific names.

I think the mantra for all names to be short can be counterproductive here. If the code span of a variable is short, a long name can be fine (and very clarifying, perhaps even resulting in a comment not being needed).

Shorter names for longer spans are much better. But you’d hope they’re the very obvious subject of that span.
Well, I can only hypothesize, but APL is a lot like math, visually anyway. Most people are very intimidated by math.

Math tends to be written for subject matter experts. If I'm reading a paper about graphics, I know that θ is "theta" and likely means "angle in radians". If I'm not a subject matter expert, it means nothing. Of course they can write at the top "let θ = light incident angle in radians", but I still need to hold that definition in my head while I'm trying to understand the rest of it. If I simultaneously need to remember ⍵ and ε and Δ, well, I can do that if I've seen those symbols used in similar ways previously, but it's certainly going to increase the amount of things I need to hold in my head if it's something novel. And now I have to memorize what those things mean, and I suck at memorizing personally.

In contrast, most mainstream programming languages you'd just write "angle_rads" or some variant. It's a little longer, but I don't need to remember nearly as much because it's just plain english formatted in a way that at least resembles sentences I might read. I just think APL is too unfamiliar for it to be easy to learn, and so the only people that are going to learn it are those that are very intellectually curious. That's a good thing, but if you're talking popularity? Well, I think we've seen it, and it's not just path dependence.
Generally those config panels write to files for you (how else would their changes be persisted?)
There's a fun trashy sci-fi novel I read years ago about how potentially devastating it would be if a plastic-eating microbe got loose: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59

It reads like a summer disaster movie, entertaining but mostly forgettable. What was interesting about the book was as a thought experiment about the use of plastics in critical infrastructure and how much of a nightmare plastic-eating anything could be.
I work for automakers' test and development programs. Most companies have a sign-out procedure that involves the keys kept in an automated kiosk that will not release them until you've done the paperwork and submitted a form, and your manager has clicked OK on the confirmation.

It's physically impossible to take the car without the system knowing who has it. If it has issues and you bring it back, guess what, you can't get the keys for the replacement until you've done the paperwork...

The fact that a company whose literal job is to keep track of cars, can't manage a similar level of rigor, blows my mind and smacks of negligence. If any harm befell these people beyond an hour's hassle and apologies all around, I wish them all success in the courts.

Some rental locations do something fairly similar. At the airports I've rented from, there's sort of a free-for-all on the floor itself, but then as you leave, your plate and paperwork are checked. Can't get over the severe-tire-damage strips until the system OKs you and the operator lowers the spikes. Why some locations lack a double-check, well, I suppose you'd have to ask them.
It's gonna be really fun trying to convince people to live in neighborhoods that you can't get in or out of because the nearest parking space is 2 miles away.
I’m all for IDEs for writing software, but not as a prerequisite for reading source code, because the latter happens in all kinds of different contexts. E.g. a software like GitLab shouldn’t require an integrated static analyzer for any or all programming languages. That would only increase the barrier to entry for all software that happens to display source code. If source code can’t be read and understood as-is anymore, that just impedes interoperability and universality of tooling.
Designing Data Intensive applications- specifically chapter 3 and 4 which deal with strategies and algorithms for storing and encoding data to be stored on disk and their pros and cons.

Once you read that, I'll suggest reading the source of a simple embedded key-value database, I wouldn't bother with RDBMs as they are complex beasts and contain way more than you need. BoltDB is a good project to read the source of https://github.com/boltdb/bolt, the whole thing is <10k lines of code and is a full blown production grade system with ACID semantics so packs a lot in those 10k and isn't just merely a toy.
Today I found out that my wife's 2 y.o. Lenovo IdeaPad reboots Ubuntu so fast that I thought it was just logging out the user session. It was around 3 seconds. It took me two reboots to actually realize what was going on.
"I have no idea about how effective pair programming is. My desire to discover it is zero."

Sculptors, painters, writers are with you in this one...

It's very challenging to share creative space/material
in the early days of web2, everyone high on RSS feeds and dreaming about pubsubhubbub ... when a google maps embed was just a few seconds and half a line of code, when OAuth1a and JSONP were all the rage, well, back then 3rd party was not a swearword and it did not automatically meant ad-fucking-track-tech.

back then it was seen as the great, bold, and messy cross-linking organically-grown future.

it was called "semantic web", every day people were announcing how simple it is to encode more and more machine-readable stuff less-and-less intrusively into your HTML or xml+atom.

then facebook became the web, twitter became the truth and one day the dream got mugged, beaten up and left to bleed out in a back alley on July 1 in 2013.

everyone got mad and posted about it on their phone using an app from a nice boring, proactively curated walled garden.
Offtopic, but perhaps illustrative: back when Hertz did very short term 'on demand' rentals the GPS system in the car was obviously faulty and I got a call from someone from Hertz asking when I was going to return then rental, in a disagreeable tone.

I told them I'd already returned it (usually locking the car at the return location terminates the rental). They didn't accept this and proceeded to tell me I should return it and the various consequences of not doing so. I told them again I'd returned it and suggested that their management unit was faulty which still didn't convince them. I then told them that there was a Hertz rental office right there and I'd put someone in the office on the phone who could confirm that I had indeed returned the car. They also rejected this.

At that point I told them that if they wanted their car they could find it where I told them it was and that they should fix their system and there was nothing else I could do for them. She made some vague threat and I got off the phone. I never heard anything about it again and was billed correctly.
The share button also has actions that vary unnecessarily.

For example, in SFSafariViewController there is no “add to home screen” button, but in actual safari there is. Despite them both being web view experiences controlled entirely by Apple.

(And you can’t detect SFSafariViewController vs Safari as a web app, so good luck onboarding users for your PWA.)
I read that as a simple recommendation, not any kind of attempt to disprove the thesis. I see no language indicating otherwise.
HP laptops are well known for their crappy linux support. I've bought a brand new Lenovo Ryzen laptop in 2020, slapped POP_OS on it and everything works fine ever since (excepting the fingerprint reader, that has no linux driver). It boots quickly, power management, bluetooth and Wifi work fine, I can hot plug screens and stuff to it no problem, and waking it up from sleep just works (OK it's getting a tad long recently, about 5 to 10s -- but it just works).
* 2. Move the insertion point by dragging around the keyboard.*

Anyone know how to go down doing this? Left, right, and up are all good, but I can’t figure out how to go down consistently. The 1.5mm below the space bar is really fiddly.
I've used the IL300's to interface signals in a legacy machine to a PLC and found they were not very linear. Don't see how these 4N25's will be any better. Wound up using texas instruments/burr brown isolation amplifiers instead (ISO122 or something).
In the 1990s, plenty of people felt obligated to drive to the mall, walk into B Dalton, and purchase a 300 page book to learn how to use their new software. There was a whole section for it.

Today, they can find the equivalent information for free without leaving the device where the software is running.
How does the pricing for that work out? Is that $4/mo for one user with a catchall address?
> says that Hertz’s computer system has a “glitch” that has led to the company-wide pattern of reporting cars stolen

We meet again, my oldest and dearest enemy, SAP.
My point is that Linux is a great desktop environment and people shouldn't write it off based on isolated complaints from people for whom it didn't work for as there are a lot of people who never encounter these issues that keep getting brought up in these threads.
I'm sure it's just me, but I'm grateful that my day job doesn't include "blood collages" in the description
California forgot it doesn't have any usable public transit.
Weird, I'm running Pop_OS which is a Ubuntu fork and the trackpad button just works (not that I use it at all anyway).
Unlike SSDs, HDDs don't particularly benefit from leaving significant free space open. The fact you seemingly don't know this speaks volumes.

The core issue is that Windows is thrashing your system drive, which is an HDD, with tons of random reads and writes stemming from built up updates and other tasks Windows wants to do. This thrashing pulls Windows and any other executing programs from that HDD to a screeching halt because the HDD simply can't keep up.

One way to solve this is installing Windows onto an SSD, and in fact Windows nowadays is written with the assumption the system drive is an SSD. This will alleviate coming to a screeching halt when tons of random reads and writes are demanded. Even a simple SATA SSD is fine for this.

Another is to disable Windows Update and other background maintenance tasks you don't find valuable. Your system drive won't get thrashed if there's nothing to thrash the system drive.

If you really purport to be a programmer, please at least understand the environment you are working in and tune it to your needs and desires before going on a pointless rant that might make you look like a fool.
You do understand that's because it's not meant to - and it's not actually a valid comparison?

That's the point: the animals do the work of the processing and concentrating protein, fat, and nutrients/amino acids into a source that is arguably a perfect single food source for human consumption (high fat red meat, in this case); yes, your gut biome has to adapt for it, and yes, some lineages of humans will not have evolved with access to meat or benefit the same from having some or mostly meat in their diet like some other lineages of evolution.

It'd be more efficient to just consume sunlight, if possible, rather than waste it to the plants too - if maximizing for pure efficiency is the answer.

And let's also not be blindly virtuous about plants when looking at the primary and harmful method of agriculture also of monocultures. The Sacred Cow documentary also presents a good case for the benefit and need of cows, not in factory farms, for being a necessary part of the ecosystem/life cycle for soil health - healthy soil that is needed for plants; or do we ignore some facts and wait 50-200 years to see what disastrous problems we encounter because we don't include all arguments, perspectives, to manage from an all encompassing holistic view point?
And now those middle class people have the same problems unless they inherited wealth, while expected to fund both the young, the old and the weak.

Take GP's advice and go talk with some locals. Various countries with high taxes are watching their services fall apart. Taxing the middle class alone isn't the silver bullet you portay it as, and is only a small part of the entire system.
The article argues that blue text is obviously a clickable link, but that swiping from the left to navigate back isn’t. While I do think it makes a difference that the link is visually different, I also think that what is affordable or discoverable is ultimately a subjective thing. You could argue that for anyone born in this millennia, swiping down to refresh is just as intuitive that blue text being clickable.
That was only an example, you want to find the article for your specific laptop (you haven't mentioned the model, so I can't help!) and try the instructions there. If that article does not exist, or is not useful, you could always try this generic PulseAudio virtual device solution: https://askubuntu.com/questions/78174/play-sound-through-two...

(Side note: intel refers to the sound card, not the CPU.)
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No offense but this sounds neurotic to me. I’ve been traveling internationally for over a decade professionally and never do any of these things. I’ve woken up to a fire alarm in a random hotel in a random country (more than once) and even then, I immediately recognize I’m in a hotel room and traveling for work. Then I just followed signs / people until the alarms stopped.
"I just don't understand it, I don't see how this is possible, how this one chip can replace these racks of electronics, I just don't get it"

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home"

"Unix is snake oil"

—Ken Olsen (DEC Founder, president, and chairman)
Who has ever used a calculator and hasn't needed a backspace key? This is not an unnecessary feature that can be hidden behind an unguessable UI.

I wonder if anyone knows when this gesture was introduced. Has it been there since the beginning? I've had an iPhone since the day they came out, have watched most iPhone announcements and WWDC keynotes, and I had no idea about this gesture. I wonder how many Apple Geniuses are aware of it.
Honestly installing Windows updates is far less painful than installing MacOS updates - they seem to take an absolute AGE to finish, whereas Windows updates, even to relatively major update versions, are much faster.

Heck, even an Ubuntu dist-upgrade is not a particularly quick process.
The best apples for apple pie
*A History of Warfare' by John Keegan is a readable introduction to the combined history and anthropology of warfare, with a good bibliography.
The disagreement on the “devalue” thing is probably one of semantics: I value the employee as a fellow human, but I don’t think the job of cashier is providing any value to me.

The existence of “cashier” as a job is an impediment to my goal: paying and walking out of a store with the goods I want. Any alternative system which involves fewer cashiers works quicker for me, observationally.

I think people - including cashiers - are inherently valuable. But having someone do a 1-1 cashier job is both wasting their time and costing the company (and me) unnecessary time and money. Their (valuable) labor would be better spent elsewhere.
> Claimants of wrongful arrest suits before the bankruptcy are left fighting a shell company left behind to handle the remaining debts of Hertz.

^ This is the final paragraph, but I wish the story went into more detail about it.

The plaintiffs' lawyer alleges that there have been more than 300 cases of wrongfully arrested customers since 2015, and that most of those cases were subject to the bankruptcy proceedings.

So there are likely 150+ people who would ordinarily be able to seek recompense from the company -- but because it went through the bankruptcy process, now they get to wrestle with a shell company that has been crafted to protect Hertz as much as possible from financial liability.

Meanwhile, the company gets to carry on and -- as this lawsuit shows -- commit the same injustices after emerging from bankruptcy.
The law doesn't say you can't build parking spaces with the dwelling(s) nor does it make it harder to include parking in the proposal for the dwelling(s).
> That excuse doesn't hold for the calculator example, where the 0 button takes up 2 spaces for no good reason, and they could easily added a backspace button instead.

It would be a really weird place for a backspace button and you would always tap on it by mistake.
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I guess you can just say "Easter 2023"
Could it be all of your windows store apps updating? The longer you leave it, the more than will have updates?
It's hilarious because "seed oils" is a totally arbitrary, incoherent category that they just made up. Pure quackery.
Why would they ever do that when having the car reported as stolen gives them probable cause to search the vehicle and driver? Hertz is making what they perceive as their job easier.
There's a reason watered-down espresso is called Americano ;)
> - only one speaker works so volume is low

I had this problem too on my old XPS, it's hardware, not software. Linux cannot magically fix broken cables.

> - finger print scanner doesn’t work

There is no driver for the common Chinese fingerprint readers. That's hardly Linux fault.
connect it to a foot pedal so a guitarist can use it to create a unique sound. it'll sell 10s of dollars!
In my experience (on an iPhone 7 Plus), the hard-press still involved a small delay, so the new long-tap isn't that much different. They may have optimized this in newer versions of the phone, but I jumped from a 7 to an 11 and thought it wasn't that bad. I didn't like the original version because the delay left me wondering if I'd pressed hard enough or not waited long enough for it to activate.
I've found this to be nearly useless in practice because it fails to register the back taps accurately enough to be reliable.
Not sure I follow this? Lit seems to be hanging on by it's fingertips? It's official starter's dependencies is (was very recently)? painfully outdated. Angular continues to evolve with what seems to be many more people working on it and a budget.
Home appliances also used to come with detailed and easy-to-understand manuals, and mostly don’t anymore. It’s mainly that manufacturers stopped caring, due to accelerated product cycles and globalization, because the products sell regardless.
> For some reason it's just the the final 3 values they want (both weird requirements). Make that clear from the code!

Yeh, I mean the name should really tell you what those expected to be.

`hopefully_auth_param_values` is almost a better name
Except then you're probably stuck on a version that has exploitable holes UNTIL you upgrade. At least Microsoft is now ensuring people are somewhat protected.
I had a brief foray into electronics a few years ago hacking about with making a really crummy arduino synth. Part of that involved wiring it up to the midi output of a controller.

The concept of an optocoupler is just beautiful - isolate the circuits from each other by transferring your signal using light!

Looking at the diagrams here of how to increase the bandwidth through the device, electronics is all still total voodoo to me.
Orthodox or Catholic?
shameless plug but that's exactly what we're building at Aide (https://aide.app), I would love to chat and see how we can potentially help if this is something you're interesting in learning more about or deploying!
Hard to say though if those books were in fact published by opportunists that surmised (correctly) that there was an audience out there that were either intimidated by the software manual (or assumed they would be without actually trying to read it) or who had pirated the software and so had no manual.
You know a lot of children would be raped in those concentration camps, right?