skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both of your suggestions are basically equivalent to "think before you upgrade" and/or "don't upgrade". This is the second elephant in the room with all these distros that "don't use globals" and/or statically link everything (or do an analogue to that, like nix). There's very little benefit for desktops. So the upgrade to dependency X breaks component Y, and you are forced not to update X, or at least, Y's copy of X. Great. What do you do now? Swim away from upstream? Stay on outdated components? The situation is as unatenable long-term as it is on a regular distro...

The first elephant in the room is that generally you _do_ want most dependencies to be global state. Is a situation where every program is using its own version of the graphics toolkit, with different theming issues or even different themes altogether, really ideal for a desktop situation? What about libevent -- so that your mouse's wheel has one acceleration curve in some programs and some other speed in some other programs ? Or what about ibus, where generally having different client versions running simultaneously means your entire input system stops working ?

Even grep is likely something that you'd prefer to be global state, lest the grep exec() by a Python interpreter have different features than the one launched by your main shell.
When the world population is ~ 8 billion people, thats only a little over $2 per person spent at TSMC in Q3.

Which really doesn't seem like much for the company that makes the most expensive part of gadgets nearly everyone has.
Fire. Doesn't seem like they deserve the equity anyways. I'm sure the team will be thrilled. Who likes a co-worker like that?
Absolutely true. I'll add that THREE paragraphs start with "calling my VC friends", which factors in heavily on how "easy" it was to raise.
Get them out, but let them vest.

Don't delay the decision - You've had performance conversations with them already, so this won't come as a surprise.

Tell them they're on leave immediately, and then pay them whatever they're owed in terms of leave, set their effective termination date for just after their vesting date.

Talk to the team, explain that it didn't work out, but that you're not the kind of founding team who will screw someone out of their equity weeks or months before their cliff.

The team will respect you doubly : For getting the under-performer out of their team, and for treating them fairly.
This may sting a bit, it's your company and you're killing yourself to try and make it worth something.

Consider that the cost of learning how to be a better boss and not having made the hard decision earlier.

If you go the other way, you risk killing your velocity and losing the people you need.
Pointless argument. At present time you could argue it for every company in the world. Boeing? Sells derivatives of CAD software, not airplanes.
Perhaps I misread it. My reading was that it's not uncommon to see such high margins given that this is a software product.
Interested to hear this too. My only gripe with them, is it's difficult to distinguish between the popularity of Next.js because it's good, or because they've hired an army of people (at Vercel) to talk about it.
It lets US companies be lazy.

Then those companies cannot compete globally.

Then the US ends up with the shittier products on the market because it's that or nothing.

This is why the US generally tries to engage in free trade: It's better in the long term. The fact the same isn't happening here will just mean US citizens don't get better, faster, cheaper mobile networks. Everyone else will. And that will stifle other areas of the US economy too.

If China wants to self harm for political reasons, that's their loss. Don't copy them.
One-Handed
The actual topic is his name being attached to a claim that OnlyFans bribed him (and others at Facebook).

It doesn't really add up to me, but I don't know how these high level bribes work in practice. I would have thought big business would have a smoother routine worked out than transferring money to accounts in people names.

But I find it odd that the perfectly reasonable claim by Meta, "why are you suing us if it was OnlyFans who bribed our employees to do something that benefits OnlyFans but not us" gets spun as being further proof that Meta was up to something.

I'm happy to believe Meta are up to something scummy but this all feels a bit random.
Advancing the State of Color Management in Windows
Absolutely. Moreover, usually in these situations, the person wasn’t fired earlier because the team thought either they needed the person to get things done or that disrupting things and hiring a replacement was more costly than keeping them on. Which indicates that even if this person was a poor performer, they were deemed valuable enough to keep on for quite some time. But now that it’s weeks from vest, suddenly it’s more valuable to let them go with nothing.

As an employee or an investor, that’s a red flag to me about management style.
I use Emacs now but I used Textpad (https://www.textpad.com/home) for a long time. It's a very light editor with syntax highlighting and large file handling.
What I Learned Switching Careers from Taxonomy to Content Design
I've been tried on lithium and lamotrigine for treatment-resistant depression in the past. It doesn't necessarily indicate bipolar disorder.

I'm floored by the combo of modafinil and xanax. Adding pramipexole to the mix seems insane to me. I'm prescribed modafinil for narcolepsy and depending in the dose, it can sure make you look hypomanic just taken by itself. I had a very productive month after having to go off armodafinil for 2 weeks prior to a sleep study. My exhausted self didn't even think to taper back up to the old dose and went straight back to 250mg. My psych initially diagnosed it as hypomania. Turned out it was just way too high of a dose after losing my tolerance.

I'm no psych, but those 3 meds prescribed together seem like borderline malpractice to me.
Inflation increased 0.4% in September, more than expected despite rate hikes
I agree it doesn't matter in the moment, but it can matter in the aggregate. Essentially this is the question at the heart of whether social media is a net negative or positive for the world.
You have the public figure rules backwards. Times v Sullivan provides a higher bar when the /target/ of the alleged defamation is a public figure.
This is the best, most comprehensive hash test suite I know of: https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/

you might want to particularly look into murmur, spooky, and metrohash. I'm not exactly sure of what the tradeoffs involved are, or what your need is, but that site should serve as a good starting point at least.
One major issue with humans is that sacrifice begins to be expected and often is not rewarded. When a job not only becomes thankless, or near enough, but also expected as the default, it becomes hurtful to continue doing it.

Are the stewards being provided fair compensation? How do we even talk about what is fair compensation when non-monetary compensation has become difficult to even discuss (often due to past instances being extreme disproportionate or of a form that is no longer tolerable).

The simplest way to put it is that if you can't find a steward you aren't paying enough and trying to use appeals to morals or ethics to get people to accept lower pay no longer holds as much weight when being moral or ethical no longer provides the same level of non-monetary benefits.
Obviously this has a prestigious pedigree, considering the author, but I am having trouble understanding what differentiates it from, say J. I see that the operators are written out and it is built in Go, but other than that what is the benefit? Just the fact that the operators/verbs are written out in words?
Not really. Those bad ones look for outside help when people who maintained all that leave and they don't find in-house devs quickly. Projects that use frameworks tend to maintain opinionated structure that frameworks usually push. Which helps onboarding. Not always, but mostly. And it's always easier to fix and maintain the mess I see for example in a Laravel project, than in built-all-alone project.
Feel free to interpret it as 87% of teenagers’ parents can afford to buy (often multiple) iphones for their children. The actual market share of apple in the US is also at around 50%, so I wouldn’t call it luxurious.

Though let’s add that a smartphone is probably the single most used item a person will own (used more often than your shoe), so it does make sense that people will give out quite a sum for these.
I have to care about this sort of thing at great length in my current work. Targeting hundreds of linux / embedded environments. I picked up a tip or two and in general this is a very well written overview of the moving pieces I wish I'd found when I first had to dig into this domain
Was it this sort of bribe?

OnlyFans star says she REPEATEDLY tracked down Meta employees and had sex with them to get her Instagram account reactivated when it was locked for explicit content - and reveals Insta's shadowy 'review' process

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10833813/OnlyFans-s...

Nick Clegg to decide on Trump's 2023 return to Instagram and Facebook

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/23/nick-clegg-t...

I guess Trump now knows what he needs to do.
We need this for the federal government
Tangentially, I'm still searching for a grep for Windows you can run from file explorer.

I've resorted to right-clicking a command window and using findstr. =(

I'm sure there's also a powershell equiv but I haven't taken the time to walk the PS object tree to find it.
I am looking at this from a global perspective, housing seems to be an issue atound the world. Immigration just moves around a fixed quantity.
That is not the license plate, that is the easily removable license plate frame. Which is technically illegal most of the time since it obscures part of the license plate.

The license plate ads I have seen are for sports businesses or “charities”:

https://dmv.ri.gov/registrations-plates-titles/license-plate...

If the function of the license plate is to easily identify a vehicle, they should all be uniform and easy to read. But, of course, someone, somewhere is usually willing to sell out, so we get sports team advertisements.
Ruin a decade long recognizable product name by replacing it with what many people call the antichrist. Good idea Microsoft!
I don't know if I have sympathy for this argument.

Your script ostensibly handles (at least logs) errors and warnings right? Do you exhaustively handle every single error and warning in a unique and different way or do you have a catchall "If non-0 return code then fail"? How does introducing new output to stderr affect that?
Does this means if I hack my way into the hardware I can change the number on the fly while I drive ? ....
If you're being woken in the middle of the night over this then your testing infrastructure is crap.

This is something that should be caught before it gets to that point SPECIFICALLY so you aren't getting woken up in the middle of the night.
> The reality of that catastrophe has very little to do with politics.

"Politics" means "the activities associated with making decisions in groups." Anything that impacts the lives of groups of people where people made decisions (like the decision to have an isolated electrical grid [0]) is politics.

I live in Chicago. We have far worse ice storms than Texas but we also see over weeks 100F in the summers. We realized that A) power is a critical utility that people need to literally live, and B) it's technologically unnecessary and economically irrational to let inadequate infrastructure cause mass casualty events and cost us $195 BILLION [1] in damage, contamination, and lost economic opportunity, so we made the decision to engineer a resilient power grid and we don't experience the kinds of massive, protracted failures that Texas keeps having, despite the Public Utilities Commission of Texas and the Texas Railroad Commission investigating the failures when Texas' grid went down for the same reasons back in 2011 [2]. By definition, that's politics.

> And those charged high rates agreed to variable pricing.

My power bill each month ranges from $100 to $150 and I just pay for what I consume. People in Texas were getting automatically charged rates as high as $11,000 in a month where they received terrible service. [3] It's just bullshit to say anyone agreed to that.

> The ultimate reason why Texas had a problem was because of a nasty ice storm took out infrastructure.

Failure here was and remains a choice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection

[1] https://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/HSEM/2...

[2] https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/08-16-11-re...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-weather-texas-bills/t...
I personally found this chapter very confusing, even with a good working knowledge of quantum computing - specifically the part about paths interfering destructively and canceling each other out. After a lot of thought and asking around I finally figured out what was going on with that diagram and wrote it up in a blog post: https://ahelwer.ca/post/2020-12-06-sum-over-paths/

Basically there are two ways of looking at the model of quantum computation, commonly called the standard (or Schrödinger) and sum-over-paths (or Feynman) methods. In the standard method you keep a 2^n-sized state vector of amplitudes around and multiply it against matrices (gates). In the sum-over-paths method you only focus on specific amplitudes and trace them back through the gates, drawing in all the other amplitudes that contributed to the final amplitude value. In the end it's a basic time/space tradeoff - simulating quantum computers with the standard method takes less time but more space, and the sum-over-paths method takes more time but less space. Another advantage of the sum-over-paths method is you can actually see quantum interference happening when a negative & positive amplitude cancel each other out, which is just sort of swallowed up by the standard method. This is what the diagram is trying to illustrate.
When the AI goes haywire, bring on the humans
It's a move part of the bigger world picture. A large chunk of experts see China as the likely next world superpower. The USA, current world superpower, probably can't prevent that happening, but they can make moves to delay it.

This move might delay it happening by a few months. Combine with lots of other small moves, and the USA might get another few years of world superpower status, even if the moves hurt both countries in the end.
That is what it strikes me as. But even large companies can play this game. One I worked at had a fairly sweet pension plan. The catch was you had to work there 30 years. It was pointed out to me when I had been there about 2 years that at about 29.5 they would let someone go then re-hire as contractor. It was usually 2-3 people in the building I worked in, per year, and was for them considered a small facility of 'only' 200 people. In the time I was there only one guy made it to 30 and he was an upper manager. My takeaway on that was take care of yourself and your money. Do not depend on 'bonus' items like that.
Based on the way implementers at those companies have talked about it, I don't think that's the desired long-term state of affairs. One thing Adam Langley mentioned in https://www.buzzsprout.com/1822302/11122508-passkeys-feat-ad... was that the BLE handshake identifies the cloud service to use because they need to support corporations using their own services for all of their devices. Hopefully there'll be enough demand for that to ensure it's fully implemented soon.
Glad to see this has some vscode support now. I wonder how well it displays arrays though. I used the TimeStore Q editor last year while doing advent of code and the ability to display nicely at least 2d arrays was a game changer when playing around with it.

I don't really get why none of those languages beside K/Q have associative arrays though. There's a reason why even Go has them : they're used all the time. Even better with Q, it automatically transforms your dictionaries of arrays into arrays of dictionaries so you get good cache locality while being able to bundle related data into a dict as if it were a struct.
You mean a license plate frame? It's not really part of the license plate at all. I took mine off entirely when I moved states.

That said some states (like Pennsylvania) have their tourism department slogan or website on the standard plate (visitPA.com for Pennsylvania). So yeah, you're paying a subsidized rate to carry around an advertisement for your state.
Note: Sublime Text is proprietary software.
A related and also very useful usage pattern: "backend instance per customer".

Because…

There are many ways to implement multi-tenant SaaS; but a highly underrated approach is to write a single tenant app, then use infrastructure to run an instance of it per (currently logged in) customer. Plus a persistent database per customer of course.

This has the tremendous advantage that you can add another column to your pricing page easily: the "bring a truckload of money and we will set you up to run this behind your firewall" tier. There are still a lot of orgs out there, large ones with considerable financial capacity, who really want this.
Your scripts expand aliases?
There are lots of accounting tricks to allow you to do this pretty much however you like...
How can you write a long article about new type of license plate and not show a single photo of one... I'm quite disappointed after following this link.
Offering a free pro subscription for students like Jetbrains for example.
One link is here (thanks to a poster downthread):

https://www.msf.gov.sg/policies/Marriages/Pages/Finding-a-Pa...
This interest in bringing manufacturing back to the US doesn't really seem compatible with the Fed's current policy of making the dollar really, really strong.
You could use it to display a second factor access code for licence plate readers. Eg

- Car arrives at a gate.

- Gate detects the licence plate and sends an auth request.

- Car receives the request and displays a 2FA code on the plate.

- Gate reads the code and grants access.

There aren't many situations where this would be necessary, and it'd probably be done better with something wireless like plain old radio, but it'd be quite fun.
Like most of the home computers of the era, BASIC was in ROM, not on the disk. So if you didn't put a disk in the drive, it would boot into BASIC.
I think you're right that codifying what had previously existed as a de facto but no de jure right certainly was a direct response to increasing pressure from landowners to limit access.

Norway was in a similar situation in that until the 1950's the right was implicit - the one major area of law which was not codified because it was seen as so self-evident that it wasn't considered necessary (Sweden, in contrast, has it embedded in its constitution) - until pressure from land owners who increasingly started blocking off land in ways which violated of centuries of tradition made it clear it needed to be codified so it could be defended in court.

It's seen as integral enough to Norwegian culture that it's taught in primary school.
I guess this comes down to the distinction between quantum mechanics and quantum information. Just as classical probability and information theory can be explored independently of classical mechanics, quantum probability and information theory make sense to study independently of quantum mechanics. (I think the article serves as a great intro to quantum information, but a rather lacking intro to quantum mechanics.)
So, have the license plate connected to speed meter - every time you are over speed limit the number changes, regardless of whether or not you are being filmed/photographed. :-D
How fast does it stream a 10gb file though?
The article also included an example of magazine instructions of how to change a listing for different Basic dialects.

Another thing magazines of the time did would be to simply include a big code listing that's very specific to only one of the models of microcomputers within scope of the magazine. So you'd get an issue with code listings, and only be able to run some of them.

A particular annoyance for kids with access to only a TI-99/4A (after all those Apple II, C64, and Atari 400/800 listings you couldn't run) was when you'd finally get a code listings for the TI, with something you really wanted to do, like use sprites, but it required the Extended Basic cartridge.

These kinds of barriers to kids actually continued through MS-DOS, such as with the prohibitively expensive Microsoft C compiler. GNU, X Window System, Linux, and all the open source that came after, was huge for this. Kids with even only a Web browser can now play with most software tech for free (most recently including things like Stable Diffusion).
I must confess, I don't have a definite answer to your questions. Thank you for the recommendations, I enjoy this topic very much and have heard good things about this researcher so I will check those out.
> If you're relying on random globals (like the path /usr/bin/egrep) to (a) exist and (b) behave in a certain way, then don't mutate them.

It's a bit old now, but one of the principles of Twelve Factor Applications is to vendor-in all of your dependencies.[1]

> A twelve-factor app never relies on implicit existence of system-wide packages. It declares all dependencies, completely and exactly, via a dependency declaration manifest. Furthermore, it uses a dependency isolation tool during execution to ensure that no implicit dependencies “leak in” from the surrounding system. The full and explicit dependency specification is applied uniformly to both production and development.

This scenario, with `fgrep` and `egrep` releasing a potentially breaking change, is exactly why this principle exists. If your software depends on "whatever fgrep happens to be lying around at the moment", your application might break the next time you build and deploy a new image. If you're pinned to a specific version, however, you're protected.

[1] https://12factor.net/dependencies
Let's give it a shot!

edit: Is there anything after character creation? It asks me to try out a card game, and SEO tools.
How do you mean that it is "the perfect solution" if the action has negative morale implications for every other employee?

I'll go with your opinion being that it may be the best solution, but perfect it is not.

The mere fact that I don't even think it's the best solution means that there may very well be employees here who also don't, which means it's not perfect.

There will be employees who will hear "this fired person's stock was taken out of your end of year bonus". Because it kinda was. Especially at a small company where one employee-month plus their stock can be a significant portion of company yearly profits.
Same guy ran the two campaigns.