skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we can finally have docker for Mac that doesn't run egregiously slow?
> turns out the waste management company treats recycling and trash the same

this is quite common in many countries but perhaps not always a bad sign. there are modern waste disposal (burning) plants with great filtering where the temperature of the burning needs to be stable and only mixed garbage provides that. https://youtu.be/ag_grOFzadw?t=249
Elon Musk, Jason Calacanis on return-to-office mandates as ‘gentlemen’s layoff’
What in tech makes you open minded? I work in tech and many of my friends work in tech too and we aren’t particularly open minded. Of course we don’t tell anybody about that…
Because I know that I personally don't have enough clout to get resolutions... And that I actually believe in equality.
Brit chiming in: The Mirror is not a reputable source of information either.

Other stories from their front page as of 09/10/22 9:00 BST

* Holly Willoughby looks deep in thought amid reports of 'tension' between her and Phil

* Man's torment as mystery stranger keeps yelling 'porridge' through his letterbox

* Vladimir Putin using killer dolphins to defend key waters as Crimea bridge blown up

* Mum-of-four lets kids swear and says she doesn't care what anyone thinks of her parenting

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> In general, tabloid newspapers, such as The Sun, Daily Mirror, the Daily Mail (see also the February 2017 RFC discussing its validity), equivalent television shows, should be used with caution, especially if they are making sensational claims.
Don’t go to Times Square in New York, either.
Man, it's so frustrating. I just wanted to work hard, do a good job, and make a comfortable living.. but I got repeatedly screwed over by corporate politics several levels above me at my first couple of tech jobs after college. I was forced into learning how to play corporate politics just to stay employed, and now I make 6x as much money and work maybe 1/3rd as much as I used to.

If these companies weren't comprised of weasels and wannabe tyrants, I think everyone would be a lot better off. I guess being a manipulative, greedy asshole is just human nature though.
I use a couple of Ewelink devices (hardware-equivalent Chinese clone of Sonoff S20 from AliExpress), reflashed with open source Tasmota firmware for the same purpose: remotely controlled power socket, with physical button, connected to WiFi, with HTTP web page and REST API for curl etc, firmware has MQTT support too; I have no idea about Alexa/Google integrations (likewise, I'm not interested in this feature), but the price is bargain, $10/each. Sonoff S26 clones are good for this purpose too, but UART port is easier to solder on S20 (larger one). Soldering UART port is necessary for reflashing to Tasmota, because stock firmware is utter crap.
In some cases it’s probably legitimately “unfair”. Me for example am probably at the more unfair end. I

- have high income so pay a large % into taxes

- not a citizen so don’t enjoy some of the benefits of military protection

- wasn’t raised here so didn’t use any of the earlier year services

- likely won’t retire here so won’t use those either

Most of my tax dollars goes to fund others in the country. But as a society there is no good way to account for all that. To try to do so the tax calculation will be crazy. So I’ll grumble about the taxes I pay, but end of the day I also don’t really have a better solution.
How are these “Amazon” suicide kits? I mean, yeah they’re a little bit to blame. Like, maybe 10%? But how come the person manufacturing these kits doesn’t have their mugshot up on the article?
1 in 6 is instantly suspicious to me since it maps cleanly onto the roll of a standard six-sided die. Surely it's just a coincidence that the odds would perfectly map onto a very accessible metaphor for randomness that most laypeople would understand. Plus, given the subject matter, it conjures terrifying images of playing a child's board game where the stakes are the fate of the world. How convenient for fear mongers! The headlines and stock art hero images practically create themselves!
Dark patterns. Dark patterns everywhere.
Racism is thick here.
> Today thinnest laptops are much more than just miniaturization.

So what? The market can bear having more than one kind of laptop and so exists many different kinds of laptops that come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes.

> The moment that all the brands started focusing only on who is the thinnest instead of who has more features that's the point that they just ran out of innovative ideas.

Except even if one brand focused only on that, there'd still be many others that did not.

> Batteries are like car tires, they are expected to need replacing. Why can't I replace them myself and instead have to send the laptop to the lab?

No laptop requires you sending it to a lab to replace your battery.

> Why can't I decide which brand of batteries I want just like in my car?

You mostly can. There's a whole lot of cheap replacement batteries you can buy for most laptop models.

> Maybe I want more powerful batteries or maybe I want lighter batteries.

In most cases this isn't really possible because of either 1) low market demand or 2) it's literally impossible to do so without modifying the chassis. A few thinkpads used to have this feature with a hot-swappable external battery that you could choose the capacity, though. You can still buy a T480 on ebay and go this route if you want.

> Another issue is that the unrepairabilty of these laptops harms the environment a lot.

I see this argument made a lot but I find it to be mostly made in bad faith. Most people use their laptop until it's not useful to them anymore and then get rid of it in some manner — selling it to someone else, handing it down to relatives, recycling it, and sometimes throwing it away.

> Lenovo sells now laptops with 8GB and maybe it's acceptable for some uses. But in a year or two, these laptops will have to be thrown to trash cause you can't upgrade the memory in any way.

People have been making that argument for at least 8 years now that 8gb wasn't going to be enough in a year or two, and yet it's still serviceable to plenty of people today. It's about as likely as the CPU that is soldered onto every laptop now (even the framework laptop) will stop being useful. Raspberry pis are at max sold with 8gb of RAM, are you really going to try and suggest that they won't be useful two year from now?

> As many mentioned here they have fully working laptops for 5 or even 10 years and that's laptops that saved from the need to buy new ones.

My 2013 Macbook Pro was working when I traded it into Apple to get a new laptop. I got a new laptop because I wanted something with more power, not because it strictly needed to be replaced. People that are able to will replace their laptop when they feel they need to and that threshold is different depending on the person. Throwing an ssd into an old laptop will only go so far.
Well there are certainly differences. How about 3 years parental leave in Slovakia.
> Another explanation is that the reward makes the work seem distasteful. “If they have to bribe me to do it,” a person might figure, “it must be something I don’t want to do.”

Logically this also applies to any form of compensation, say, your wages. (Hence the derogatory term "wages slave" from these who can afford not to depend on wages.)

The old recipe for that is to "pay your engineers so much money they won't know what to do with it" (can't find that quote from 1980s), but the realty market has adapted and likely made this a largely inefficient strategy.
About 350 people that go through the effort to submit papers, fight for them until the voting, everything that wins feature election lands into next ISO round.

Stuff being in ISO doesn't imply compiler vendors will bother with such features, see exported templates, which only EDG bothered with, everyone else ignored them, and eventually got replaced with external templates instead.

EDIT: Bjarne also has only one vote like everyone else, thus this paper from him is quite relevant, https://www.stroustrup.com/P0977-remember-the-vasa.pdf
It's super fishy. Why should I trust them to process potentially sensitive material? If you want to level the playing field, just put the collected data out in the open so anyone can download it and correlate any video they like with it, no need to upload the video to Mr. Anonymous and hope he's being truthful about his pure and noble intentions to support human rights.
Excellent. This is either extremely well researched, or you where there, like I was. Thanks.
For some reason looking for something like that just didn't occur to me. Thanks for mentioning.
I tried to compile a rust project the other day and I realised I had to download hundreds of dependencies. I guess strong typing helps but dependency hell is just common for any moderately popular platform.
The state cannot do everything, this is exactly right. So they have to focus on things with a high impact or long term measures. Limited capacity requires prioritization. If good PR is a priority, then it is virtue signaling.
GitLab pays people differently for the same roles, based on where they're located so, by definition, they aren't great at remote first culture.
compiling curl today on linux, I see Apple has an internal SSL/TLS

curl-7.81.0$ ./configure --help | grep -i apple
--with-secure-transport enable Apple OS native SSL/TLS

MSFT is adding new signing keys to build and boot Ubuntu. Perhaps Apple wants to play, too and add their own signing keys to build and boot linux, openssl and libssh.

Let no crucial technology fall into the hands of the un-corporate?
Most meats in a grocery store aren’t bought from the butcher directly, they’re pre-packed in a styrofoam tray then covered with plastic wrap. The seal is far from water tight, so the meat liquid leaks out on all the other packages sitting on the shelf, and then in your cart and bags/everything else after you pick it. You need a bag for these, otherwise you have cross-contamination everywhere.
It’s a good chance to use your Bildungsurlaub allowance (education vacation?) where for 5 days a year you are being paid by your employer for educating yourself in a way of your choosing. C3 is recognized for that program almost everywhere in Germany.
In my experience in undergrad "D" meant "you can get credit for this class but cannot use it as a pre-requisite for other courses". So that makes sense for graduate level courses.
Winters have been tending towards warmer and shorter here in Winnipeg as well (also known as "Winterpeg"), over the past 20 years of my life.
These typically work by changing the media bit encoding to be easier to process with 6502 instructions instead of a lookup table. Others simplify the table and use more RAM so that fewer lookups are needed. I haven’t looked at how Transwarp works yet but it seems like the latter.

Some discussion with the author:
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=78558&start=0

There’s a newer version here:
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=214786

Release notes:
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=214786&show=notes#notes

More details from another advanced loader:

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/gcr-decoding/index....
https://www.linusakesson.net/software/spindle/v3.php
The fact that the US orchestrated a coup in 1953 proves that the US is also orchestrating this coup today? That's the argument?
The article is best summarized by that famous Yogi Berra quote: "No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Except in the article the author is saying: "No one ought to go there..."
I dunno, I've worked at businesses that didn't care about culture and the working conditions were pretty mediocre. I've worked at businesses that intentionally tried to make the business a "good place to work" and people were happier. Sure people are less likely to quit, but isn't necessarily a bad thing.

People like to think of our work selves as these alter egos we take off when we go home from work. Life is more nuanced than that. If you've got a stressful job that stress is going to bleed into your personal life.
Mid pandemic one of my clients decided to bring in a manager to handle this. He tried everything that's been suggested here and more and the result was that 3 months later half their team left the company. My point is, some people don't want cultural cohesion and don't want to be "friends" with their coworkers and if you push it too hard on them they'll just leave. So learn to take no for an answer. Hope this helps.
> Is there context missing?

Yes. The missing part is that when every customer is technically violating one or more policies, they can pick and choose who to target without further justification. Like discretionary traffic enforcement, they're not going to "fine" everyone who sells a Snoop Dogg CD, but they can keep the option in their back pocket as a pretext.
> In-person events must happen. Best case scenario, once per quarter. Even once per year is phenomenal though.

This sounds pretty terrible environmentally, as remote-first implies geographically distributed, which implies air travel with its associated externalities.
Going to try and give a reasonably systematic answer to this:

Firstly: the title of the post is different to the content. The title asks why dependencies are a mess, the content cites problems with bundlers. These are entirely distinct topics. Bundlers don't handle dependencies and package managers (mostly) don't concern themselves with bundling. They're different problems and have surprisingly little in common.

So the above breaks it down to two questions:

1. Content: Is javascript bundling a mess?

2. Title: Are javascript dependencies a mess?

To answer question (1) let's first look at it comparatively. Are other language bundlers a mess? Obviously they don't have any as bundling is a client-side problem and javascript is the only client-side target. So it's hard to gauge this. Maybe bundling is a fundamentally hard problem that will always necessarily be a mess.

Subjective opinion: I think there are obvious ways bundling could be done better and it surprises me they haven't been done but speaking from a place of inaction I'm reluctant to be too critical here.

To answer question (2) let's look at it comparatively again: are javascript's package management and library ecosystem more or less of a mess than Java's, Python's, PHP's, Golang's, Rust's, etc.? Some may disagree here but I think the answer is objectively "no":

- The Ant/Maven/Gradle/Bazek/sbt ecosystem is absurd complexity, and I've seen plenty Java .m2 dirctories worse than node_modules. I think Java must only escape the criticism JS gets here because every Java dev I've met is so reliant on their IDE they don't even know .m2 exists (same goes for ObjectiveC/Swift)

- Python is both better and worse than Java. On one hand, the manager ecosystem is even more unapproachable: the setuptools easy_install pip pipx conda poetry venv pyenv nightmare isn't even helped by consistently demarcated config files in your repo root: good luck figuring out what to run depending on whether there's setup.cfg setup.py requirements.txt pyproject.toml etc. (if they even exist at all - pip not requiring project root dep config is why so many Python readmes just have long handwritten accounts of which deps you need to install manually). On the other hand, python's actual dependency tree handling errs on the oversimplified side. Have two transitive dependencies on separate incompatible versions of a single library? Tough shit, rewrite your code.

Go seems to be leaning too heavily on Git and falling into the trap of modelling their package management system on the implementation rather than modelling the implementation on user needs. It's not terrible though, but that's perhaps due to its age.

PHP is probably the least messy, and Rust - while making some mistakes - is new enough to be following some good modern examples. But overall NPM is by far one of the LEAST messy package management ecosystems.
Wow, I didn't know this. Based on your second link, a large number of calves are grown on grass pastures. It seems that in other scenarios, though, they are held in tight conditions. How can we tell which is which when we buy the meat?

https://www.americancattlemen.com/articles/backgrounding-cal...

My main concern is that the calves live a comfortable life and get to do what they want in the grass, and when they're slaughtered it's all over quickly. It seems a high energy diet would give them a lot more energy and enjoyment, if they are allowed to be out in pasture. As opposed to, say, veal!
> They make up a supermajority of that party

Probably not as much as you'd think.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/23/on-climate-...

42% call it a top or important concern.

> And since any action requires a supermajority

You say this and yet the party which claims to think climate change is the most important problem facing humanity, an existential threat to the planet, instead decided they'd pass some shitty healthcare legislation written by and for the healthcare industry that did little to improve healthcare, start a few more wars, etc. This is not the behavior of a people who believe what they told you.

You're being had. Honestly you can still hate "the rednecks" and recognize they've not been the ones preventing action this whole time.
How did this scale without kubernetes, docker, and microservices? How does this work without transpiling from TypeScript to another language? This wont scale without type safety!! Does it even have a JIRA backlog and dedicated product manager? No wonder this system is so mediocre. It probably wasnt even made following Agile guidelines!
I recommend to use UNIX® in the course name as the text book consistently uses.
From your description, this is solidly Amex’s problem, and all of your contact should be with Amex (or with the merchant you can’t reach). I have no idea why they would tell you to contact a merchants credit card processor. In fact it’s such a bizarre instruction from Amex, it makes me wonder how you described this to Amex.
One of the tradeoffs with remote work is flexibility for closer connections. You can work fight this somewhat, but it's the wrong work model for cultural cohesion.
Advertising does not require tracking. Remember over the air television and all it’s free news broadcasts.
At 50Hz it would be inaudible on most computers.

https://szynalski.com/tone#50,v1
If you can't see the difference between things like "Amazon shouldn't sell dirty magazines to kids" and "Amazon should have basic protections in place to avoid selling lab grade chemicals along with drugs to facilitate a painless suicide as a bundle to whoever wants them with free shipping," I don't know how to have a reasonable conversation.

It's not about parents having oversight over kids. It's about mental illness: "kits" like this shouldn't exist at all for kids or otherwise. You use it once and you're dead because that's the whole point of the combination of goods. We as a society should be past the point where we need to discuss whether selling a literal suicide kit is okay or not. It's not, and we know from research that making suicide more accessible and convenient leads to more suicide. The only outcome of allowing Amazon to do what it's doing is additional deaths that could have been prevented.
I’ve paid for Anki on iOS and have gone as far as exporting flashcards from Emacs/org-mode which I keep in version control. I normally use it for specific information like runtimes of algorithms for interviews, rule of thumb numbers for doing estimations, etc. I also can imagine how medicine students use flashcards for remembering dozens of muscle or bone names.

However, I’d be very interested in learning how people use SRS for remembering information they read on books/articles. Do you state new concepts as Q/A? Do you save interesting facts, or things you think might be useful in the future?

I think this second type of information is not well suited for flashcards. The article seems to imply it is, though, and I’d love to be wrong about it.
How does Chrome do that, I thought pihole worked through DNS?
Ok, I can see how that could be the case. What is a better model for cohesion in a remote first workspace?
Lufthansa AirTags ban based on bad regulation interpretation
Just tired of this shit. I'll eat whenever I feel like. STFU.
There is a logical argument that if you do A, and the problem is doing A, then doing more of A will not fix it. So no need to have sources.
published 1 hour ago
This is widely known and allegedly used by law enforcement forensics etc.

I have often thought about building a SaaS service that strips or adds the correct hum and harmonics to videos if you wanted to plant some false evidence or make a good deepfake. If it failed to make much cash I could put it on github for free.

I have never quite found the time and openly doing that kind of thing is probably likely to attract undesirable attention.
They do have AdBlock Plus, but that's obviously not ideal.
15-20 years ago if you were using a cheap dedicated hosting company that stacked "servers" in desktop cases on wire racks and somehow offered instant remote reboots despite clearly being too cheap to buy switched PDUs, they were doing something just like this.
> Most if not all public posts are complaints.

This is exactly the big striking issue. When people like a product they usually speak well about it, but I didn't see that happen for Stripe in a while.

When you see only customers complaining about a product then maybe it's time to look for an alternative.
Advertising with tracking barely covers costs, imagine without it.
Or that aren’t, but the person or company doesn’t know about HackerNews or have a Twitter account.
Except in the US the political economy is effectively built on the idea that if you work hard, you'll get ahead.

> You might want to check your other cultural/social incentive structures

In fact, not working hard is seen as a moral failure, thanks to the Protestant work ethic. Is attitude is also seen in parts of Europe. So yes, please do question the cultural and social economic forces in play.

Developing countries? Generally outside the old work hard, get ahead mentality, and sometimes outside the entire developed western (post-industrial revolution) attitudes towards work, accomplishment, and happiness.
How many nuclear facilities are you involved with running!?
The problem is that some customers pay 20k,some pay 2m. The range is too broad to make it as simple as filling in a web form.
Overall, are you happy with the switch?
Yes company culture can be gamed and abused, but this isn't always the case. Having a workplace that recognizes important life events (like the birth of a child) is meaningful to the individuals on a human level. We can't write that all off as corporate big brother trying to control us.

Ultimately we are all people working with other people, and a business can do quite a bit to help us recognize each other as humans.
> If Russia launches a missile, it’s a 50-50 that it won’t just turn around and come right back down on them.

Up until very recently the Russians were carrying American astronauts up to the ISS after the shuttle program was abandoned. Maybe not all their rockets are maintained properly, but the ones that were are highly likely to work.

Outright denial that the threat exists at all is just infantile levels of analysis that I expect from reddit.
Oh, I remember. They sucked! Both the ads and the news they funded.
I feel like having that in mind from the beginning should be more common. Filmmakers get their movie sets, local communities get cool landmarks, win-win.
Bonuses that can be clawed back will never keep me around. I do generally appreciate my bosses, but I know better than to assume my hard work will be recognized. I work hard because I like being valuable. I stick around for a reliable income.

Also, I generally have low opinions of coworkers who do anything else. Those desperate for recognition usually sacrifice something else in the process.