skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do Linux users installing software actually have a "discovery problem"? The usual solution is to go to google.com and find in-depth information on the options available for a given class of software, with user reviews, notes on strengths and shortcomings, etc. I have never visited a store first on a desktop OS, and even average users of mobile OS' that I know will fire up Google first if they're actually trying to find the best implementation of X app. I don't know a single person that has anything good to say about the Windows app store.

The Year of the Linux Desktop isn't now, and it may never happen. Even if it does, I don't think any of the hypothetical "normie" Linux users would really care for it all that much. Trying to be the devil's advocate for things like the Snap store benefits a group of users that doesn't exist in any timeline at the expense of current users in this timeline.
Back in the early 2000's, I wanted to create an online version of Axis and Allies so I could play over the internet with friends. I explored getting the IP rights, but wasn't able to do so.

I found another game that was sorta similar, War! Age of Imperialism, and was able to convince the publisher to allow me to create a computer version, which actually got sold in boxes in places like Target and Best Buy. http://www.donohoedigital.com/war/

I created a general-purpose "Game Engine" (in Java) that could have been easily been used to make something like this. I ended up using the same engine for my 2nd game, DD Poker.

Ah, the good ol' days.
Cutting to the Front of the Server CPU Line
Not quite OneNote/Notes. It’s more of a collaborative white boarding tool.
The Underground Market for Fake Amazon Reviews
It's worth mentioning that the world could use a few more grug-brain developers:
https://grugbrain.dev/
How come it's always accounts made a few days ago which seem too have this problem with other people's interests
Yea, don't bucket Linux users in with typical Google and Apple store users. I need no help "discovering" software through some companies arbitrary filter. I can use google, github, hacker news, etc.
The next step for authentik
Yes and we really should be crying for the software developers who worked for slave wages and had no opportunity to save.
how do you brick a board with micropython effortlessly? ...i'm use to the word "brick" meaning unrecoverable as in "it's just a brick now". If you can fix it by re-flashing then it's not bricked as I understand the term.
Citing sources doesn't solve the problem either. There will always be bias.

The solution is for each participant to think critically of their beliefs. There is no way to make that happen. Moderation is the next best thing.
This should really link to https://sile-typesetter.org/what-is-sile/

(unless it just released a new version of course, in which case the title should probably be about that)
Didn't they just go backrupt a couple years ago? I seem to remember people being concerned about stuff like Rust's development when they were doing layoffs etc
The sad state of headlines and video titles.

Even Veritasium, an otherwise reputable channel, has jumped this shark.
It's easy to get something wrong, but it's hard to get it right.
Be that as it may, they are super ban happy, and regularly exceed what is necessary. Particularly with regards to politics.

And also, whether they're justified or not, it doesn't really matter to he point. ACX's proposal =/= subreddits.
Launch – OfficeBird: daily pulse surveys for understanding your team
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Our Solution — OfficeBird offers you daily pulse surveys delivered directly into your browser. We collect and aggregate these responses to deliver real-time insights and suggestions on what areas need care. All responses are 100% anonymous and confidential.

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2. We collect and aggregate these responses to deliver real-time insights and suggestions on what needs care. Are your people happy? Do they feel treated well? Do they think their work is meaningful?

3. We indicate the best learning material to help you and your team to work better together.

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3. Ask all your team members to install the OfficeBird Chrome Extension

4. Share their secret codes with them to let them join the team

* you won’t be able to add more than 5 team members. Please let me know if you need more people on board.
This is my concern - and it's sad but true. I really cringe worrying about having too many financial eggs in the Stripe basket. But Paypal is no alternative and traditional CC processors are awful. How does one hedge their bets with Stripe? I worry one day we'll hit some transaction "trigger" and then all our money will get locked up in Stripe with no customer support recourse.
Interesting that Cryptomator hasn't been mentioned so far. I've been thinking about about setting it up to work with my 2TB GDrive. Anybody know how it compares?
Before 2003, FreeBSD was definitely both faster and more reliable than Linux, especially for networking or storage applications.

After that, Intel and AMD have introduced cheap multi-threaded and multi-core CPUs. Linux was adapted very quickly to work well on such CPUs, but FreeBSD has struggled for many years until reaching an acceptable performance on multi-threaded or multi-core CPUs, so it became much slower than Linux.

Later, the performance gap between Linux and FreeBSD has diminished continuously, so now there is no longer any large difference between them.

Depending on the hardware and on the application, either Linux or FreeBSD can be faster, but in the majority of the cases the winner is Linux.

Despite that, for certain applications there may be good reasons to choose FreeBSD, even where it happens to be slower than Linux.
Bulder is not suited for production use as per it's own docs... "It is not suitable for use as a production environment."
When the infighting gets serious enough to be obvious to an outside observer is my threshold.

If it's just some folks getting miffed because someone from another department stepped on their toes or made some unkind comments about their team, then that shouldn't be too serious.

I'm assuming it's mostly the latter at Stripe...
How does this improve on binding the `Err`?

Edit: I see now in the first example:

let (Some(count_str), Some(item)) = (it.next(), it.next()) else {
panic!("Can't segment count item pair: '{s}'");
};

Binding the error here would be much verbose, since both must succeed.

Edit2: Doh, obviously `None` in this example, not `Err`.
I think the phrase is “poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine”. Which seems on point here.
The $31 trillion is the debt - the difference between federal income and federal outlays. The actual federal outlay was significantly higher.

I know your last question is rhetorical but consider the work of NASA. Would you call the Mars rovers constructive and meaningful? What about the James Webb telescope?

We also spend a lot of money stabilizing the agricultural market to maintain a steady food supply. Is that constructive and meaningful?

What about all the medical research we fund? Is that worth it? After all that research has led to the discovery of cures for various cancers and has saved lives.

It should also be duly noted that Joe Biden and the Democrat-led Congress has been able to do something that hasn't been done in over 40 years - they got an infrastructure bill passed and it was quite comprehensive.

All your questions, even if rhetorical, point to why elections matter.
> Are you slashing your own future stock grants, cutting your own salaries, diluting your positions with stock grants to everyone else?

This sounds a bit emotional to me. Layoffs can be an emotional topic, but let's reflect for a moment.

I guess the thrust of the remark is to put some sort of public "shame" on companies that perform layoffs (especially such fast ones) for the major inconvenience they cause for thousands of people. I suppose the fear is that without any "Shame" these companies will hire and fire spuriously without repercussion?

Relatively speaking I think Stripe handled this well. Yes it was a mistake to hire these people, but now that you're here it would be a bigger mistake to keep people you don't need.

I wonder if every company would be so forthright about this or whether many would just "cut" "low performers" at an accelerated rate over a year with no severance.
Reselling Kubernetes
And iPhone. So basically the answer is just "yes".
Stripe stresses me out. I really cringe worrying about having too many financial eggs in the Stripe basket. But Paypal is no alternative and traditional CC processors are awful. How does one hedge their bets with Stripe? I worry one day we'll hit some transaction "trigger" and then all our money will get locked up in Stripe with no customer support recourse.

I fear being "too successful" with no recourse if I depend on Stripe too much.
For those wanting to jump into Windows on ARM for a lower price, who do not mind running an IDE on a separate machine, Microsoft's original Windows ARM Devkit is still available from Microsoft, on eBay, for $219. It has a Qualcomm 7c which is not powerful at all (as shown in his graph as roughly similar to the "Dot 1"). But... if you don't want to spend $599, it's a fun few weekends.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255784903190?
I definitely feel your pain. Bite the bullet and leave those groups. I did, it was difficult at first but I'm better for it. The momentary discomfort will soon be replaced by long lasting peace of mind.
There are some… unorthodox… approaches in development for phosphorus extraction: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-technique-recover-phosphorus-u...
Better phrased than what I could've done, thanks.
> What are the two of you doing to show accountability? Are you slashing your own future stock grants, cutting your own salaries, diluting your positions with stock grants to everyone else? ...

They don't owe you anything. Not an action. Not even an explanation. The world doesn't owe you anything either.
Cohesion
At least they did something useful and actually earned their pay.
The 14 weeks of severance alone is probably worth ~$60 M [1]

Scrounging on the web suggests that Stripe may be EBITDA-profitable but not GAAP-profitable. $60M (perhaps double that with all the other benefits laid out here) is easily enough to delay GAAP profitability by a quarter or two. That may not seem like much, but it has a huge impact on investor sentiment.

[1] 0.148000200000*14/52
Are you suggesting a desantis style operation for the homeless? Unlikely, else we would hear about it.

But since it is probably better to be homeless in California than in other neighbouring states, they probably passively make their way there through push pull factors.
This is really sad because I've become a huge Ubuntu fanboy in the last year, but this behavior is unacceptable. They need to fix their processes and be more dev friendly or they're going to lose allies.
That's unnecessarily dismissive of someone trying their best to share some tips. It's not like they charged you to read it.
I don't know, free T-shirts kind of have unlimited value for me. There's just something about a free shirt.....
Ideally there would be a replacement of TeX that shares little of its non-math typesetting capabilities but retains (or only slightly modifies) the math syntax. The rest of the system is where the the problems lie, or at least where I waste a lot of time on little things.
People are acting like 20% of Twitter content is crap and it can be saved by moderating that 20%. This is incredibly naive.

99% of Twitter is crap and always will be. You can't moderate that away. The question is how to make the 1% discoverable.
This issue was also raised on their GitHub

https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70
For computer-generated documents like invoices, that is totally the way to go.
But I'm assuming you expect management to be good leaders, no?

I don't think "for profit" and "good leadership" are mutually exclusive.
snap is garbage. For a while when it first came out, it had newer packages than Ubuntu. But then, over time, most of the packages went stale. Every snap I install requires --classic (which overrides the sandbox). I wish they would just kill it.
What does restic offer that borg doesn't?

I've been using borg for a while (successfully, with Vorta as UI on mac) and curious to learn if there is something I've been missing that restic provides.
Just switch to Mint, it is as stable / easy as Ubuntu and 100% snap free.
> Also certbot, shame on you for removing the Debian repository in favor of snap.

Yes,
this deserves shaming.

> https://certbot.eff.org/instructions

> The Certbot snap supports the x86_64, ARMv7, and ARMv8 architectures. While we strongly recommend that most users install Certbot through the snap, you can find alternate installation instructions here.

Shame on you, certbot and EFF.
Of all people, I expected better from you.

For my Fedora people, looks like we can directly install with `dnf`.
Debian aptitude people should prefer the same.

Available Packages
Name : certbot
Version : 1.30.0
Release : 1.fc36
Architecture : noarch
Size : 44 k
Source : certbot-1.30.0-1.fc36.src.rpm
Repository : updates
Summary : A free, automated certificate authority client
URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/certbot
License : Apache-2.0
Description : certbot is a free, automated certificate authority that aims
: to lower the barriers to entry for encrypting all HTTP traffic on the internet.
Please don't blow past the comments already addressing your complaint.

What I responded to was a comment from D's own creator who himself directly mentioned Zig. I didn't shoe-horn shit. I've been waiting a long time for a hit on Corncob TV.

If you're upset about Zig mentioned here, your quarrel is not with me, the person who spent over half the words in their comment bringing it back to the original topic by linking to a useful talk; your quarrel is with, if anyone, the original questioner who got Walter to comment on Zig. (And even then, your ire would be tenuous at best, for the reasons already mentioned.) I also cannot "feel that strongly about the need to promote Zig"—because I am not promoting Zig. As I have already said, D is closer to my tribe than Zig is.
I was hoping Microsoft would port Windows to Raspberry Pi, looks like that's too underpowered.
Read the presentation. Had super noobie level questions.

Is the RAM mostly used by page content read by the NICs due to kTLS?

If there was better DMA/Offload could this be done with a fraction of the RAM? (NVME->NIC)

If there was no need to TLS, would the RAM usage drop dramatically?
There is a Signal flatpak (https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal), I'm unsure if the Signal devs are involved in it or not.
Or “your lack of planning does not constitute my emergency.” An old button from a button lady.
> Break from labeled blocks is a pretty niche thing. I can remember a few cases it would have been useful, but I'm not sure I'll remember the feature exists next time it comes up.

Yeah, I feel like the vast majority of the time this would be better handled by splitting out that block into a function. There are situations where there the number of parameters needed to pass in would get unwieldy, but that is where I start thinking about if all that loose state is intrinsic to the problem, or a sign that I need to refactor my datastructures.
“Worked for me” in the title is important here. For me this is great advice. I have exceptionally low cortisol levels and have accidentally slept for over 24 hours many times in my life. Without an alarm I generally sleep for 16-18 hours, those days suck because they’re too short to get much done.

Sleep is like diet, it’s different for everyone. I’ve trained myself to lucid dream to try to make the most of the days when I oversleep but it still sucks. The point seems more like maximise for time when you’re actually accomplishing things. What’s healthy for each person is different.
If there are enough of these, if they actually pay the tax and if there is a will to do something within a given council - this in theory could help finance newbuild council houses. So it might not work as a deterrent, but could indirectly help those in need anyway. I don't know whether any of those conditions are true, or if the amount the greater taxes bring in would could even cover the cost of building any.
In Texas, severance pay has no bearing on unemployment insurance. I did same thing but told unemployment office about severance pay, since I was too worried about breaking any rules.

They told me I could win jackpot but they would still legally owe me unemployment pay. It is all about actually woking. If you work and then get paid for that work, that's when you cannot claim unemployment pay.

So, technically, if you do contract work and still claim unemployment, then you are breaking the law.
Crab: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance Emulator Written in Crystal
It doesn't really look all that interesting to me. I already have personal knowledge management with Obsidian, Recall looks like a more confusing version of what I already have (without a desktop app either). I'm sure they mean well with their product, but it's pretty obvious why it hasn't "taken off". There's a hundred people in this space already doing the same thing, many of them with more built-out products.
Alien life: a dream of discovery finds new hope
Great work! keep going!
Of course the stripe founders are not absolved of blame. They made the wrong call.

But overall Stripe has A+ execution -- of which very little was luck -- and the founders deserve credit for that.
Your list makes the case for being "good", but that doesn't matter.

The "job interview questions" are largely popularized by people who do not understand hiring, and probably don't understand much of anything else, with a cargo cult mindless copy/paste of practices that don't actually apply to them.

There is a niche of a niche of a niche of roles where deep specialized knowledge is actually a baseline requirement in order to be successful in the role. 99% of the other roles filled by human beings who write software don't require anything close to it, but the companies delight in wasting everyone's time anyway.

Most of the very best programmers I've ever known bomb these idiotic interviews and the companies (and their customers) lose because of it.

A fine place for me to stop babbling.
Probably a laser would be a much better power transmission method: shorter wavelengths spread out less. You would pick a wavelength that PV panels on the ground convert most efficiently, and pump the laser cavity with focused sunlight, directly. No fooling with PV panels, then. Monochromatic light can be converted via PV with little loss.

Mirrors to focus sunlight weigh practically nothing. Made of alternating layers of different index of refraction, of thickness according to the pumping wavelength, they reflect only that wavelength, and let the rest pass through. So, the laser cavity doesn't get hot, an important detail in space where cooling is hard.

You would arrange so the laser light intensity is no more than of sunlight, for safety.

Of course it wouldn't do much good in the daytime, but would work at night and in winter. Just, not so good through clouds.
As for me, I'll keep ubuntu but I'll start using flatpak instead of snap.
If you like the walled garden fine, I just don't want it influencing VR. For example Apple's decision to take a 30% cut of ebooks, prompting Kindle to remove the ability to buy books in their app, led to Google doing the same thing.

Apple will lock down the hardware and increase prices, and that doesn't benefit consumers if other companies follow suit.
How does that work? I would have expected Canonical to just be the CA.
Some ISPs give a full rack, some don't. It depends on how much traffic they have and how willing they are.

But a lot of the racks sit at internet exchange points, where Netflix rents one or more racks at a time.
They were honest and that goes a long way. Sad to read about this, but still what they do for the people they lay off is pretty impressive.
My understanding is that Japan is a really bad place to be a worker.
Not enough info to even guess what might be wrong, but I'd assume it's defective and I'd try with another key as well. I wish you good luck with the next Yubkey you get! :)

Btw. this is the first time I've read on a public forum that someones Yubikey is defective, they are really well made and I didn't manage to break one via regular use and bad maintenance.
We use office365 for calendaring. The onboarding flow stops at "connect your Primary Google Calendar Account". I understand one has to start somewhere, but it still boggles my mind why so many B2B startups treat Office365 as second order of priority. Does it come from genuine market research on the addressable market, or tech myopia of Google apps usage in the startup ecosystem?
Guess we'll stick with Sunsama for the time being.
Fair enough it wasn’t meant to be a commentary on them, but I will edit with an apology
Yeah, I used to idolize Musk when I was younger -- especially in contrast to the likes of Bezos and Zuckerberg. Musk seemed the eccentric genius the world needed, funneling money towards important but neglected causes. Sure, he was weird and kooky and an absolute narcissist, but whatever, minds are just different and maybe it took one like his to actually execute those grand visions.

But then the celebrity status started to change him more and more. Twitter turned him into an alt-Trump-lite figure, more and more obsessed with his personal image instead of his causes. The pedo scandal was a wtf moment, and then his bizarre forays into the crypto-hellscape made it seem like he cliffdove right into the deep end. Overnight, "mad scientist" turned into "media freakshow", like the techbro version of Paris Hilton.

Today he still deserves a mountain of credit for Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink -- there's no denying he jumpstarted not one but three important industries -- but man, if he's going to start playing ruthless finance games with random people's lives just satiate his ego... eh, no thanks. I was really looking forward to both a Tesla and a Starlink someday, but not so much anymore =/

Hopefully some of those technologies will trickle-down to other, more mundane companies. I can live with a little less innovation and bleeding-edge if that means people get treated better.