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Title doesn't match, it's ripped from the first paragraph which really doesn't encompass the theme of the article. The article is more tips for writing manuscripts in tex without getting sucked down rabbit holes

Recently had to track down and update my resume. When I finally found it I was able to quickly add last few years of updates on the commandline and run xelatex and done. It took much longer to track down the files than to update and ship it off, that is why I like latex. Building latex docs from scratch is incredibly daunting, fortunately there are many templates and often they are mandated for use.
I asked a question a little while ago at a small stackexchange satellite site. It got a few upvotes but no responses. I used as much bounty as I could to feature it. It still got no responses. I was a bit bummed they didn't refund the reputation, but whatever.

I am quite confident that a working professional could give me an excellent answer in about 2 minutes, and I have to say subjectively the question is pretty interesting (not a "how do I <x>" or "do my homework" question). It is unusually hard to Google, Wikipedia doesn't have the right information, and there's only one major enthusiast forum that might have users that know the thing. I'd be willing to pay a token amount, maybe $20, to get the answer. Not that I think $20 is worth getting out of bed for, but given you were already using a Sunday afternoon to answer a few questions, not a bad minutely wage.

I think my main concern is that such a site is likely to become essentially micro-projects, more "do this for me" than "answer my question". And I think people who are paying would be even angrier than usual if their question gets moderated away for doing this.
Right, the order does not say it applies to them, so it does not.
This is cool though
Treasury bonds set the lower limit for interest rates in the currency. Why would anyone write a 30 year mortgage at 3% when they can buy a bond backed by the government for 5%? The central bank wants people to be able to get loans so they prop up the price of the bond.
Export from Emacs org mode to LaTeX. org mode offers plenty of flexibility to tweak the final output and lets you focus on writing.

Edit: and creating tables in org mode is _so_ much better than in plain LaTeX. If you find yourself manually working on tables, the Emacs + org mode combo is worth investing time in.
>I've used Helix for all my recreational programming projects (in Rust) for about 6 months and I've written about 10kLOC of code with it. Still using vim at $WORK for a variety of reasons (giant c++ codebase that does not easily plug in to clangd/LSP), but I might be doing the switch soon.

Do you have some supernatural ability to quickly (re)learn muscle memory for new keybindings? I’d consider myself a fairly advanced vim user, and it took me literally a couple years to get to the point of fluently using complex navigation/editing commands.

I took a look at the Helix documentation, and while it’s definitely “vim inspired,” it’s different enough [0] that I would have to rewire years of muscle memory to be as productive as I am in vim.
There are some very fundamental differences, e.g. the verb/object syntax is reversed in Helix; `dw` in vim is `wd` in Helix. When I want to rewrite a string in vim, I unconsciously type `ci"`; it would take me a long time with Helix to regain that level of fluency.

[0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Migrating-from-Vi...
You may like Texmacs.
If average pay for a dev is x per hour, I wonder if you could work out how much one SO point is worth based on how much time invested to get the bounty
What's not clear is this: I thought being in the Metaverse is supposed to be leisure time activity. So what would you do with it at work?
A more correct translation would be "you wear me out".
I use Dvorak for 'real' keyboard typing but I don't feel an advantage from having Dvorak on my phone. If anything, having common letters spread out, and not all on the home row, is helpful in making swipe patterns more distinct.
I write LaTeX documents in VSCode because there's a syntax highlight plugin there for it. If I could, I would write in Sublime Text, because it's faster. However, no Sublime Text plugin for LaTeX exists.

Unfortunately, the thing I would like most is a complete replacement for LaTeX that offers these features:

* Text-based - no binary file formats

* A unique DSL for all features

* Complete control over layout and formatting

* Complete control over typography (alignment, leading, kerning, spacing,
document grid alignment, etc.)

* Support for tables, including captions, headers, styling, and the ability to span multiple pages

* Support for images and image formatting (resizing, borders, alignment, margins, etc.)

* Reusable libraries/packages

* A package management system (de-emphasis on this one because good package management systems are... difficult to make)
I really don‘t like Buchpreisbindung. It frequently makes books significantly more expensive than their English originals (I‘ve seen prices 10€ higher than the English version). That’s the primary reason why I choose to buy the original English versions instead (Buchpreisbindung does not affect non-German books as long as they are not specifically targeting the German markets like educational materials). A nice side effect is the noticeable improvement tin my comprehension skills for English texts.
Emacs Users: I'm Okay, I Promise
Can't be bothered to translate this page to English, but from the comments I'm guessing it's the decision by the government to not tax books the same way they do leisure items?

I moved to the Netherlands a while ago, and was shocked at how much books cost. I learned that they're taxed the same as everything else, which seems short-sighted.
The overlong exposure would make the video twice as bright, and if lighting is adjusted, twice as noisy instead.
SEEKING WORK | Barcelona (CET) | REMOTE ONLY

Software Engineer with 14 years experience, mostly doing Ruby on Rails, node.js and React. Worked for different companies in sectors such as hospitality, logistics or open source.

For the last few years, I've tended to work in smaller teams or even as the only engineer on the team, usually reporting directly to the CEO or CTO. I can wear many hats, work independently and have an attitude of getting things done.

Website: https://jordinl.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordinoguera
What's the missing feature that has your going back to latex?

I switched to markdown and sublime a while ago. No more sideways tables, true. But even for that there is a workaround. And much less distraction in return.
When I did a deepdive on Facebook ~5 months ago ("Inside the Facebook Engineering Culture"), I confirmed with people inside the company the company having ~75,000 global employees, ~32,000 working in tech.

While I can't answer the question "what does the company need them all for", consider that the company's products are used by ~3.6B people every month, meaning they have about one full-time employee for every ~45,000 users.

Compare this with Google (one employee for every ~29,000 users) or Twitter (one employee for every ~52,000 users). The ballpark is similar, and shows the trend of it being harder to have fewer employees per thousand users (Twitter is much smaller than Meta, and Google twice the size in employee count while reached ~20% more monthly users).

The company generated ~$117B in revenue in 2021, which is ~$1.46M per employee. Profits per employee (net income divided by employee count) was ~$480K/employee.

There will, naturally be a cost of revenue, cost of customer support (even if not all of it in-house).

Also worth considering that Meta is composed like several companies: Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Messenger, Reality Labs and several smaller/larger bets operating pretty independently.

I'd flip your question around: what if Meta had fewer employees, what would it mean? It would mean:

1. Increasing their profitability even further

2. Likely less support for current customers, and less of an ability to invest in forward-looking initiatives

I'm sure shareholders of Meta would be happy with #1. For #2, short-term shareholders would be happy to see all of this go. Long-term shareholders would likely realize there would be a cost to cutting down on customer support and R&D and I would not expect them to support this, given the very high profits Meta already has.

All in all, I find it remarkable that the company can operate with such revenue and profit numbers, and I suspect they are already deliberately hiring employees more conservatively, to keep up this profitability rate.

As a side comment, I have my thoughts on how non-applicable the linked article is for software engineers at Meta, as discussed in this comment [1] on this thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150495
To understand if that’s effective scaling, you have to know how much the average employee is costing Facebook and how much revenue the average MAU is generating.
Look, I personally agree with you, and >1 Linux distro has passed the certification, which means that, strictly and precisely, Linux is a UNIX. (However that means that FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD technically are not UNIX.)

But that is not what the mainstream industry takes it to mean.

Whereas terms like xNix are, I submit, well understood.
Curious about what was where it actually hit. Seems pretty clear Samsung was not the target. Electrical substation "across the street" would be a probable target, but was missed.

I.e., did it hit a plausibly intended target, or miss?
Yes, well more precisely WoW64 [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64
Maybe the edit buffer is a different area of memory to the mapped file. This would make sense as editing a file doesn't update it on disk until you choose to Save.
Having a Wifi password is honestly pretty important unless you're remote enough that there's just no chance someone can access your network. Remember, unencrypted WiFi doesn't just mean that someone can access your network, but also that they can collect your traffic.
Starting a food co-op: Year 1
You're right, but parent has a point about grandparent making an unsubstantiated claim.
"Their own people"?

(added later) For the context, I'm Russian. Right now, there's a refugee family from Mariupol (you know, that city in Donbass that got almost completely destroyed) living in one of my two flats. They lost all they had. They lived in a damp basement with nearly no food for a month and a half. They buried their neighbors personally, and also the school teacher of their kid. A marauder wannabe nearly shot them, and then his commander nearly did the same after they complained, for "lying about his soldiers". Their son lost a hand after a tank shell hit their home. If you're also in Russia, we can connect and you'll see them in person, to look the kid in the eye and tell him about the suffering of Donbass people.
BBS's are a pretty big nostalgia trap for me.

I spent my childhood using an old 8088 dialing up boards / exploring our local areas bbs scene. Hell, I met my wife on a BBS originally - we were chatting later at a party and it came up and we realized we had spoken a few times before.

The BBS period reminds me of freedom, exploration, and a time when everything wasnt monetized by ultra corps. Its that memory that worries me. I sometimes wish I could go back to that time but you can never swim in the same river twice. Its moved on. We need to also.

Its a trap. One I fall into every once in a while.
> The consequences of the FED money printing are just starting to show.

So having an economy in with the unemployment rate being the lowest it's been in decades is a bad thing? Would you rather have low economic growth and millions of people out of work? Would that that make you happy?

I'd rather have an economy that's "too hot" with inflation that needs to be slowed down than having people not getting a pay cheque at all. Slowing down an economy that's doing "too well" is preferable IMHO to one that's causing suffering.

But that's just me.
Thanks for these corrections. Yes, I should have said "fast". And indeed for my recent colonoscopy, I was given laxative, not an enema, it's a sachet of powder that you dissolve in a litre of water; you then have to gulp that down as well as drinking lots of water. Years ago I had a sigmoidoscopy, and then they did give me an enema. That's the only time I've had an enema, and I didn't know what to expect. It was very rapid, and rather dramatic.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll add a button. For me it works just by pressing "enter" on the mobile keyboard, but admittedly I didn't test it very thoroughly.
Putting in a chat window turns it into crowd sourced peer programming. You could get people who do nothing all day as a profession but this. Like github copilot but with real developers on the other end.
May I add that I think you may refer to Wikingerdorf Flake [1]? Just in case anyone’s interested.

[1] https://www.lenggries.de/sommer/wikingerdorf-flake
Couldn't that be said about Windows 10 compared to its predecessors?
Guess how they'll coordinate with friends and family and stay up to date on news from the government and emergency services. Do you think Facebook's crisis response features are for show? I use the utility's outage map to find out when I'll have power again during storms, but I would bet most people turn to the Facebook page.
I walked down to the impact site and took some photos, and added a second blog post with the photos.
Choosing the best Node.js Docker image
I use dvorak for my computer, but I think the design goals of QWERTY are actually useful for the small keyboard of a phone being used with thumbs.

It was designed to put diphthongs on opposite sides of the keyboard so that a mechanical typewriter wouldn’t jam as frequently. I think avoiding “jams” with my thumbs is definitely the way to think about it.

All of this is speculation because I haven’t had the chance to try it our yet ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I'm curious, do you have sources on that?

I haven't upgraded my gaming PC to windows 11 yet, but I'll probably be forced to eventually so I'm interested in this.
speciation is not well defined. Epigenetics can drive significant morphological and behavioral differences.

on the behavioral, there is strong evidence that phobias can be inherited, for example.
Notepad doesn't really have a way to execute code as far as I know. In this case, Doom is running on the machine, but it has been modified to copy and paste the display to notepad very quickly as ASCII text.
> It’s weird to me how many folks attest to “being at FAANG means you’re lazy.”

I’ve participated in some mentorship programs for college grads. There are a lot of students who think that the FAANG career path is basically “Study LeetCode for a few months, get FAANG job, then rest and vest”.

Of those who make it into FAANG, it’s common for them to be surprised by how demanding and competitive their jobs are. I’m not sure where people are getting the idea that the highest paid jobs in our industry also happen to be some of the easiest, but it doesn’t even make logical sense.

I suspect a lot of it stems from sour grapes: People inherently get jealous of high earners in prestigious jobs, and tend to reach for excuses to bring them down a notch.
Anyone got a shortlist of the ones applicable to this audience?
This is not remotely a new idea. Also it seems like literally any short term contraxting site already fits this mold and more.
LyX?
Came here to say this! Same for me.
Virtual Society, Blockchains, and the Metaverse
This is the one that I've been using for the past 20 years. It hasn't changed at all and I haven't seen anyone improve on it: https://used.addall.com/
> "do this for me" VS "answer my question"

The boundary is probably not always easy to define. And so I would ask myself - would there even really be a need for such a boundary? Why not simply increase the reward, if your question/problem is bigger than most?
There shouldn't be, but sometimes there is and this is where a vendor's customer service comes into play.

I buy 10-15 books every year and almost all of them I order from the same place because they are reliable and provide great customer service when something does go wrong. Books are cheap enough and I don't buy that many so I'm not really very price sensitive.
Microsoft lost the OS war and is defending Office as best they can, which includes cross-platform tooling.
That's one hell of a mind fuck! I wouldn't know what to do with that keyboard (at first) and I've been typing with Dvorak for ages. If you're touch typing, you never look at the keyboard, so I just don't recognize this layout (visually). Still, great news.

If I had a tablet device or regularly used one, I'd be able to get used to the seeing the layout. Maybe then there'd be a improvement when thumb-typing on a phone-sized device, but I agree with the other commenter that it probably wouldn't be worth the hassle. Something to check out in a couple of years, when I end up with a device that runs iOS 16.
It must be heart-wrenching.
Nice timing. I need a good danceable rock playlist by the end of the week. I could create my own, or I could use some danceable rock songs to find an existing playlist.
Unfortunately the launch event did not go as expected: https://allthatsinteresting.com/seapod-floating-home
How does this specifically help with dashboards?

All of the examples would be just as easy to build with a regular UI library combined with charts from some charting library of which there are just as many out there as well.
You could think of screening as a bet on anti-cancer drugs getting better over the next N years.
Weird, I'm logged out and lets me play it. On related videos I got that prompt, refreshing the page solved it.
The guy from CommerceHero launched his own private slack workspace for eComm that does essentially this. It's a regular slack hangout with a bunch of different relevant channels like platform specific ones, but also it has a bunch of really smart people. Kalen, the founder is trying to solve this problem by 1. setting an expectation one of your peers may be asking you a question and to try to give it your best and 2. going out and asking people. He hit me up and said, I know you're doing xyz, can you help this guy in #operations and see if you can help?

Seems to be working so far. I had a business process question around credit card processing that did not have a straightforward answer and a guy came out of the woodwork with useful things to consider, what impacts the decision one way or another and what he's seen in the past.
They do have other things they need to spend on.

Russia is a net food exporter, but probably they do not grow all they need. Smuggling needed foreign tech, and laundering money, has to be expensive. Paying off internal supporters might be a bigger drain.
I prefer pull systems and most teams I've seen that are more concerned about following Agile than following Scrum eventually evolve from Scrum to something that looks more like Kanban. If you regularly talk about how to make things better, pull systems tend to emerge.

But sprints are often a reasonable step especially for teams that are part of a large organization. It is often easier (and faster) to move a team from waterfall to sprints to a pull system than it is to go from waterfall to a pull system directly.
This is brilliant. Anything that helps to disambiguate the authenic from the inauthentic is most welcome from my perspective.
There’s a reason why the CCP uses the One China Principle while countries like the US have One China Policy.

Don’t forget that the CCP advocated for Taiwan independence, and during an interview Mao said they would help Taiwan (Formosa) in its struggle for independence. During a conference in Moscow in the 1920s they referred to Taiwan as an independent nation and nationality. This only changed in 1943.

There’s no long China history with China. When the Dutch went to Taiwan there was no presence of Ming dynasty. And at no point in history had china ever controlled or ruled over Taiwan. The CCP has never even set food in Taiwan.

So it literally has no valid claims to Taiwan. Regardless of any opinions you may hold.

If that’s splitting hairs then there’s no point in discussing because you obviously don’t care about history or facts and only regurgitate propaganda.
Great to hear! Just not that the site is very unresponsive right now, thanks to all the HN love. So probably a good idea to bookmark it and come back later.
I have wished for something like this, so I tried it out, using _Beauty Beats_, by Beats Antique. I got one of your own playlists - what are the odds?!

Works great, thank you!
I’ve got the same question. One of the major reasons I invest time into vim is because it’s everywhere and so powerful. If I invested time into learning a different set of keys for an editor that isn’t always available, I wouldn’t be able to leverage that power and fluency all the time, and furthermore, would need to switch back and forth between vim and helix keys
I don't think that's necessarily true. America is much more stable than most nations and much more de-stabalising to the rest of the world...
I wonder if that "phantom message" was intentional. It surely got you, and me, to check the Facebook messenger app several times.
For the sake of completeness. You can also setup a pandoc [1] + markdown editor toolkit ... but then you are back at yak shaving.

[1] https://pandoc.org/
Yes, that is the one I was thinking of :)
Would be awesome of those 12,000 didn't quit and just did the absolute minimum/nothing until they were actually fired. Wonder if facebook (or any company) would blink. But game theory dictates every employee thinks about self-preservation and would try to be the first one out.
> They should have been raising interest rates well before the pandemic.

They did?

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

Do people not remember that there were already predictions of an upcoming recession by H2 2019?

* https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/08/the-great-yie...

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/12/31/2019s-yie...

An October 2019 interview with Campbell Harvey, who originally noticed the rate inversion phenomena in a paper he published:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sb1byR8Zx0
Cool concept. The site seems to be succumbing to the HN effect. There should be some kind of loading indicator on the first search, it didn't seem to be doing anything but when I went to close out the page there were results. I typed "One Beer" into search and a lot of duplicate entries came up.
The Econ 101 Management Method (2006)
Very cool. Looks great.
My current customer has a designer, who claimed that we used Lottie Script[0] for animations all over the site, and we needed an animation to nudge the user to change from portrait to landscape. The animation was rotating an svg, and changing opacity on some svg children. It could all be done in pure html/svg and css, but we almost ended up bloating our, already huge bundle with all this Lottie stuff. My colleague did not consider that the designer did not know what he was talking about. Luckily this was caught in a PR.

[0] https://airbnb.io/lottie/#/
People get crazy enough about virtual internet points. Introducing real money adds a lot of problems you'd have to solve. Especially how you determine whether an answer meets the requirements and should be paid out or not.
For buying an ebook, cheapest is almost always the best option - perhaps a better term might be "least overhead".

There's very little actually needed, for ebooks - it could literally just be a plugin for e.g. goodreads, with a "buy this book" button and then it triggers another plugin to send the ISBN to calibre or to download a torrent or do whatever you normally do with your ebook. The point is, the only part the shop really needs to handle is payment. And by "handle" I mean "delegate to paypal etc".
Loudcels are not ready to take the quietpill.