skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use floppy disks on some old tech—on a few dedicated DOS computers that still work perfectly well although it's not a daily occurrence. The O/S, drivers and some apps are stored on floppies.

In my experience, floppy disks are one of the most reliable forms of storage media around especially 3.5" variety, I have disks that are well over 30 years old and they are still readable and rarely have surface defects after all this time (which is more than I can say about many of my CDs and DVDs, many of which have failed).

I recall whingeing to a Sony representative at a computer show when Sony first released its 3.5" disk to the effect that its capacity was far too small and the tech was too little too late. Well, Sony had the last laugh as its disks were in service for quite some years. (Prior to that I'd been using both 5.25" and 8" floppies (in fact I still have several Shugart Associates 8-inch floppy drives stored in my junk department).

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Uses for Old 3.5" Floppies:

Despite that I still use floppies occasionally, I've still many surplus ones left so I've found a really effective use for them outside the computing world. Most of you at one time or other will have placed a bookshelf against a wall and because the floor is not level or the bookshelf is heavy and distorts the floorboards its back leans out from the wall at the top. Solution: 3.5" floppies make ideal packing, underneath each corner of the bookshelf at the front (and if necessary in the middle), stack between one to three floppies on top of each other to level the bookshelf. The arrangement can be made to look quite neat if you push the floppies under the bookshelf so they're flush with the front and sides (or similarly with its plinth if it has one). They work wonders in this newly-found application.

Well, we live in a recycling world these days, don't we?
What is the question at hand?
Global Encryption Day: Demand End-to-End Encryption in DMs
Walmart parking lots are free. So is the side of the road in most places. The purpose of the van is not owning property (hence the PO box).

Did we just add "being able to raise a family" to the "need" column too?

Kids are more expensive than housing.
> “Every single article about cryptocurrencies that gets posted here has the exact same comments…”

meta
It's not called stealing. When you purchased an apartment in NYC you purchased it with the understanding that it was subject to rules and regulations of the city, which could change.
> an overly complicated, asset-less, currency trading system, with questionable value and questionable stability.

robber barons 2.0
Kind of meaningless if you can't trust the software running on your device though, since it could be scanning locally or relaying to remote services.
For me it’s not about literally going back to Wild West but addressing this point by the other person.

> A broken system is very unlikely to ever produce correct results.

I agree there are plenty of net positive regulations made by good systems _at the time_. But it’s not producing good regulations _now_ and is very resistant to change.
> In short there is no place for a "free" market because the point of human civilisation is to protect (ourselves / our tribe / those we sympathise with) people from the cold winds of unfettered nature. Whatever part of the whack-a-mole politics is being focused on, the end goal is "decent lifestyle with minimised suffering / extremes".

If that were even a tiny, tiny bit true, corporations would have been banned from SFH long ago. As would 'investors' and AirBNB...
Reminds me of an SF attorney who teams with a guy in a wheelchair to sue locations that don’t have ADA compliant facilities.

“Wheelchairs of Fortune”

https://web.archive.org/web/20220209194711/https://archives....
Answering your question: ENOSPC

This is not a support forum and we're not trying to diagnose and fix someone's issue. It's just not that hard to get into trouble with NixOS and there's still a room for improvement, that's all.

Reading on `nix-channel --rollback`, it should definitely help in some cases and I don't know how I missed it, maybe the docs weren't clear it's not tied to config generations or I just didn't pay enough attention.
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Ah, sure. I think it's worth the cost; but I also think it's not a cost everyone wants to pay.

In a way, I think most of the "I tried Nix/NixOS but didn't stick with it" comments are about its learning curve.

I'd make comparisons to other tools: VSCode does the job pretty well without having to learn anything, but many people will learn tools like vim, & emacs. (The latter isn't just out of legacy; kakoune & helix seem pretty neat).

Still, I'd gate these power-user tools behind "you need to take the time to learn them", rather than a general recommendation.
> with no plan whatsoever.

Curious to know what you suggest.
> I always used `$(ls -art1 | tail -n 2 | head -n 1)` in my pipes and scripts

Why not just use a shell `alias` for that? Nice work on the project though
As someone who really really tried to like Clojure, here's the issues I faced, roughly in order starting from biggest:

1. No framework. Clojurists tend to prefer libraries and I would too, but for a newbie starting out, when every other language seems to have converged on one standard way of doing things (Spring, Rails, Phoenix, Django etc), Clojure just gets in the way with decision fatigue.

2. Leaky abstraction. At every level it is apparent that Clojure is hosted on JVM or Javascript. Simply knowing Clojure is not enough, and you have to understand the underlying semantics to know what is going on. Exception stack traces are excellent example.

3. Unmaintained libs. While the language is stable and libs are much more likely to work still, unmaintained libs often mean some stuff does not work or needs to be figured out. Often people just drop to using Java libs instead, but then the wrapping business tends to get tedious.

4. Java is improving faster with more pattern matching, records and functional programming features. Other JVM hosted languages are becoming less appealing.
What I don't like about state machines in code is that transitions become less obvious the bigger the state machine gets.

Having each state as a function, with a descriptive name is nice, but you really have to dig through the whole code to see which transitions are possible and which are not.
There are absurd levels of identification needed for things as simple as a new sim card. Data security needs to be taken seriously, but the root of the problem is elsewhere.
It could be worse; I've heard "Bitcoins" used in the same way.
Sure, if you’re exceptional prodigy who can whip out “good code” (whatever that means) without prior experience then ok.
I don't mind the interventions, and the goal of the economy is to serve the people, not the other way round, but narrative that government "gave the workers more rights" is largely false.

We became richer, thanks to the industrial revolution, not government coordination, and could afford to abolish slavery and work less. Same way we stopped wars of conquest conveniently when they stopped being profitable compared to large scale manufacturing and trade.

Government is at the mercy of these large trends just like the people.
There is a misconception about private property. People think they work and then the thing they have is private property for free. As if private property only has a physical manifestation in the form of a product. Private property is a physical object plus the services provided from the institution we call private property. This means that private property is protected by the judicial system. It is protected by the police. It is possibly protected by neighbours watching over the neighborhood. It's value may be a function of the value of adjacent property. If you consider unavoidable positive externalities as a positive aspect of private property, then those positive externalities are also a service provided by the private property instituion. In fact, governments build utilities and road networks, they protect the land through a military force. The government does a lot of things to make your land valuable.
Then there is the community surrounding your property, the businesses providing jobs and shops selling products, your neighbors, etc.

When I think of private property I not only think of the object itself but also a stream of public services for which you barely even have to pay something. If you are a landowner you could now come up with the idea of selling the public services. The revenue that this process produces is called ground rent.

Is the market distorted by the landowner who is basically just selling free services from the government or is it the government that makes these blatant gifts paid for with taxes unrelated to land ownership?

Manipulation of rents will not reduce those public services, the value of the land remains.
I wouldn't call this list "canonical", rather it's the list of agreed blend modes set out in the W3C Compositing and Blending Level 2 specification[1][3]. Other products have different views on what sort of blend modes to include - for instance Photoshop defines 29 of them[2], compared to the 16 defined in the W3C spec.

Concerning the Hue, Saturation, Color and Luminosity blends - I've been wondering if there would be anything to gain from creating similar types of blend from colors defined using the LCH and/or LAB color spaces ...?

[1] - W3C spec - https://drafts.fxtf.org/compositing/#blending

[2] - Normal, Dissolve, Behind, Clear, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge (Add), Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Vivid Light, Linear Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix, Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, Divide, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity, Lighter Color, Darker Color - see https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/using/blending-modes.ht...

[3] - I spent far too long on the W3C spec page last Christmas when I built a blend filter for my canvas library (maths is not my strongest talent); even now I'm not convinced that I got all the calculations right - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/filters-102.html
There is dozens of laws in EU that only apply for companies with more than 100 employees, or X in revenue:

- Mandatory canteens.

- Mandatory retirement savings plan.

- Break rooms (in Sweden my company had a nap room that had to have a locked door from inside).
It's all 'junk' from a scientific materialist perspective.

It's a chemical reaction just like any other - it's random noise.

There's no (scientific materialist) reason to attribute 'junk' or 'not junk' to a sequence of random bits of information. There can be no 'purpose' to random noise.

Now, it is a bit odd that the most ardent secular scientific materialists do, truly in their own living experiences, tend strongly to attribute such anthropological attributes to such things, by calling some of these processes 'life', using terms such as 'evolution' instead of what is just 'random changes some of which persist in time', isn't it? It's almost like they 'believe' in some metaphysical orientation or principle which is a bit different than their stated 'belief' of materialism and the odd bunch of equations we posit to govern 'everything'?

Perhaps we can avoid going all the way down the intellectual rabbit hole by shifting these kinds of discussions into the evolving (pun intended) field of 'emergence' ...
You're checking HN while you are on the way to your second dive this morning?

Wow.
Mouse scrolling through the blending dropdown is still a thing in Photoshop CC. It sometimes catches me out when I want to mouse-zoom the window immediately after choosing a blending mode
I kept getting in this exact situation when defining tests and wanting to _forget_ a test.

And the OC's onboarding experience reminds me of mine. You need some external tutorial / book to get setup.

Also, last time I used calva, the only thing I got was kondo complaining they the default test created in a brand new project were using unknown symbols, or something. So I assumed my setup was wrong, and gave up.

Clojure is "simple made easy _once you've done all the hard part as a bizuthage_"
Your company is badly managed.

Mine also has international teams across the globe and we don't regularly have meetings at unreasonable hours (except for employees in India)

This is done by not expecting managers in Europe to manage day to day work going on in Asia, etc.

Your company doesn't value your well being and you should leave.
> ... I wonder, is it even realistic to have a 9-5 kind of structure in IT/software dev field ?

Sure it is. The company must be small enough to not have interational clients or big enough to have dedicated support team for different timezone. But not that big to have entire dev team in different timezone you need to communicate with. Or even bigger to have also management in every time zone necessary.

My friend works as a dev in a big corporate software company and has a stable schedule. Not 9-5 but more like 11-7 by his own choice. He said his colleages with familly life can start at 7 and be home after 3pm.
There was/is also a level of resisting against evidence too though. Like "I don't care performance I will use what I like". And find reasons to back subjective metrics claims, like hiring pool (catch-22 problem of demand & supply of type of workforce).
There're some good comments on this thread.

This seems like an issue with the Org given the information posted, but it also seems like you have a somewhat supportive manager. There is a lot of merit for considering finding a new role or a more "temporally normal" Org.

If your goal is to only work a 9-5 schedule starting your own company may not be the best option, but YMMV.

Good luck!
Unlike Germany, tickets have to be transferable in America.

Legally, you can't link a tickets validity to an individual person's identity.
And now no one can use it. Perhaps there’s a way to provide access to those who need it but not sue a person for making a hobby site?
It was definitely visible during the dot-com bubble that some projects, ideas, companies would have a future. And back in 2000-2001 people were already experiencing the advantages and benefits of using the web and products on the web in their lives.

Contrast that with crypto, 15 years in and no one knows exactly what's good for, there is no mass of people being helped by it. There are some traces of some people being able to evade capital controls in dictatorships and... That's basically it, no other benefits to the masses have shown up, at all. What was the cost of this benefit? Hundreds of thousands to millions have been scammed out of their money by con-artists.
Wow, that hit hard "I'm somehow deficient for not making millions when "everyone else" is". This the same sentence/phrase all me relatives keep saying to me. They all think that, since I'm a Software Engineer, I should be making millions, or at least well above average, and if I'm not then I'm not trying hard enough.
I don’t see where is the problem with that. Artist jobs are to make great music and be great on the scene of concerts. And that’s where their value and money comes from. But their jobs is not to optimize prices and ticket sells or market them. That’s where Ticketmaster is good at and it’s normal for them to reap their own profit from their work.

Now what I don’t like is the monopoly however. That’s bad…
> A typical example of this is calculating the additional power demand required in order to support a full transition to EVs. The bad calculation usually starts with a web search to get the average miles a person drives (about 30). That number is then applied to the entire population. A number comes out and Bob's your uncle.

> Except, he isn't. And that's nowhere close to a real number.

What's the real number then, and what prevents us from solving the problem of moving people around with 10kWh/day of electricity * the number of people (especially if we grow up and stop demanding a personal 4t climate controlled 100mph pod)?

> Another one is solar panel output and solar installation power/energy production.

What prevents us replacing the first 30% of fossil fuels in the areas 90% of people live with PV with <50% curtailment then? What prevents another 30% being replaced with wind? What rational reason is there to think that a strategy that has provided a solution to half the problem with a miniscule fraction of the cumulative resources spent on the existing monopolists wouldn't make further progress?

What are you proposing we do instead except build PWRs which will run out of fuel in less than a year if we actually try to use them to replace a meaningful portion of primary energy?
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The British Museum's collection is digitised here. Images appear to be under a Creative Commons non commercial licence.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
They don't build because local homeowners vote for more restrictive zoning. Private corporations benefit anyway because their property values go up.
You become a magnet for this kind of commentary once you achieve any significant level of success.
Unstoppable Domains disables .coin extensions, illustrating issues with NFTs
It is absolutely possible. Where I work, developers have no more than 4-6 hours of meetings per week!

We do meandering sync calls[1] for 1 hour, four times a week. Plus a weekly demo call.

It's a matter of how much your management cares about developer experience and efficiency. Get another job :)

[1]: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/standup-meetings-are-dead/
No, if the funds to buy the resources, physical and human, to build the housing aren't there then it won't get built. There's no rule that these funds have to come from private entities trying to turn a profit on housing.

Are you really so ideologically brainwashed that you're incapable of imagining any other system that doesn't inherently exploit poor people and concentrates cash at the top???
He didn't submit to discovery in 6 years.

So default judgment, and he goes to court for damages (default mean he is automatically guilty if i understand right? Us law is weird. In my country the police would've seized then copied everything). From what I've managed to get (from a non English source), his lawyer then submitted too much and did not retract in time, so the plaintiffs have now more evidence than asked during the initial discovery. Maybe it's wrong (this was humor so this might have been exaggeration, but the guy research his stuff pretty well).
If 'emergency' is the default way of working leave, there are no justification for that.
Another nice tool is the Julia repl:

julia> 1.4 + eps(1.4) === nextfloat(1.4)
true

julia> bitstring(1.4)
"0011111111110110011001100110011001100110011001100110011001100110"

julia> bitstring(nextfloat(1.4))
"0011111111110110011001100110011001100110011001100110011001100111"
I'm a fan of WriteFreely [0] as a no-frills blogging platform. So far it's had negligible resource use, and I like that it looks like a stripped down Medium or Substack without the social features. It takes Markdown formatting so it's not fully WYSIWYG, but it autosaves so it's easy to jump back and forth between the draft and its preview. Oh and there's decent support for MathJax though you need to enable it in the admin console beforehand.

As for discoverability, it supports ActivityPub federation, so people using Mastodon or [insert trendy federated app] can get updates when you publish a new post.

About the only downside is that it doesn't come with automatic image upload/embedding, so you'll need to manually upload to imgur or imgz and embed using the usual markdown syntax. Or comments, although that appears to be a deliberate design decision that I honestly agree with.

[0]: https://writefreely.org/
I don't know - the kind of programmer who's always worried about every what-if probably shouldn't choose any dynamic interactive language in the first place. There are plenty of language permutations out there for all sensibilities.
I mean we have super sophisticated botnets causing havoc on major/state-linked social media platforms, I think they can handle HN.
> but narrative that government "gave the workers more rights" is largely false.

That's not my narrative. The government was forced to give more rights after a lot of bloodshed in multiple countries, it was ultimately a governmental intervention in the labour market which turned those protections into law.

The industrial revolution made societies richer, the workers through social movements and the power of government made the industrial revolution livable. If left by its own devices the industrial revolution barons would still be requiring people to work 12-14h days, including children over 12 years old.

Government is the collective voice of the people, we should let a decently democratic government have power over the markets, that's my narrative.
>unless absolutely necessary

I suppose high Soviet attrition/abandon rate during WW2 would have made air dropping tanks with some chance of survival worth considering. But it's nice to have skipped to air-to-ground missiles.
This condescension is so tiring. You're literally so brainwashed by your ideology that you can't conceive of anyone disagreeing with it. Clearly they must all be idiots who just don't understand economics. There's no way you could be wrong. Housing just inherently has all these problems and there's nothing we can do about it I guess.
Slightly reminded me of Carousel the format that PDFs are written in.
I'll be completely honest: I work at small indie game dev studio with friends. This means we have to crunch for release, work every day and stay at night sometimes. Nobody force me to do it, but it happens. I love this job, but working like that is bad for long-term performance and will inevitable cause burnout.

As others have said you are being overworked by your employeer. It's not only mean they dont care about your health, but also it means their processes are bad exactly because company itself will only lose in the end: quality will drop, productivity will sink and people will leave.

As about working on your own be it freelance or starting your own company: this way you will only have to work much more. So far I haven't seen any single successful entrepreneur or founder who wasn't working 12 hours a day for at least several years before they get anywhere.
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Landlords don't maintain properties, tradesmen do
I've had a single late night meeting in my 7 year career, so yes it's absolutely possible.

But, you may need to change job.
Standard GA floor, standing-only, were $950 in San Diego (their hometown), BEFORE taxes and fees. [1]

We've started calling them Blink $1082 here.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/KtXnJbe.png
A very interesting character. Too bad he was a climate sceptic, otherwise a splendid fellow.
An Overview of Debugging Tools for C and C++ Applications
The chip scene has indeed grown in scale since the 2000s began, I shared a few beers with the guy who did the Commodordion and he’s one of many reaching youth with what I think many have come to consider modern folk.

Battle of the Bits is a unique and wonderful community plugged to the core by chiptune. I do recall their logo nicely visible on the reddit r/place thing recently which says a lot about the number of participants chipping away!
I'm a (not particularly successful) dev with ADHD.

Some of the general organisational advice can be helpful. Keep things in calendars, todo lists, files etc. There is no magic bullet. A todo list won't fix your lack of executive function. Just pick some tools to keep track of everything.

I really like voice assistants. I use an Amazon echo to update my calendar, set timers, reminders etc. For me, pulling out my phone to do any of those is guaranteed distraction.

Some time tracking told are useful for finding out what works for you and what you actually did with you time. "Today felt really bad, but actually I got three hours work done" or "I went on YouTube for 6 hours straight, what sent me off task?"