skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless if you're doing small personal projects or doing commercial work, personally I don't find it too time consuming to just breakout the latest versions of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox and do some local testing.

Any experienced software developer will have some experience testing against those. I don't think you need to go out of your way to test against specific builds of those browsers, with maybe the exception of Safari and Mobile Safari since I have noticed standards-compliant differences over time with older iOS devices.

That is to say, there isn't anything wrong with what Safari and Mobile Safari do, but the WHATWG living standards have changed over time just enough that older Apple devices may render web pages differently.

Try not to just limit yourself to Chrome though. And if you're using vendor extensions, don't rely on them, just use them to pretty up from your baseline designs.
The culture fit for Amazon IMO comes down to

"are you willing to work nights and weekends on a moments notice no matter what?"
Excuse me if that wasn't clear.

It's insulting that the paper suggests that the epidemic is not real.
When you look at balance sheets, financial results, and reviews over on places like Glassdoor it sounds like there is a kernel of truth to this, except maybe the socialism stuff.

Lots of talk about very slow progress, work life balance extremely pushed towards the life side of the equation, people checking out for a month on unlimited PTO on a regular basis, dysfunctional management, etc.. Lots of reviews talk about people who had only worked at Twitter and had no idea what work was like at more normal companies.

It sounds like it morphed into a pretty mediocre company and Musk is the one caught holding the bag after buying it.

This style of company gets the reputation it must be awesome and everything is running smoothly inside with all "A" players simply because it's a trendy B2C company. It's usually not true in big companies.
You work in an organization that allows WSL but does not allow other 3rd party downloads....
I don't think this is really from 1998.
You are?

The choice is to avoid prison time entirely, or be willing to spend at least 2 years in prison if the jury gets this one wrong.

The woman has already been failed by the police who arrested her and the prosecutor who declined to drop the charges. Who's to say whether she'll be failed by the jury as well?
#2 and #3 seem in conflict with each other.

I adopted Evernote for its ability to synchronize my checklists and notes across all devices. Collaborating with others was not an initial feature IIRC (?)
I for one released on simplenote.cpm for my noting needs
I'm an embedded dev and yeah, I can confirm that it's mostly C. And the "C++" I often encounter is pretty much just C with a couple of C++ things thrown in like std::vector.

I agree that embedded is a good choice if you're looking for C.
Do you know of an example snippet / article demonstrating how to do this?
Ah I see, initially I thought it was something like a plug-in for kindle and it just does this automatically but I guess they don't allow such things.

Thank you, I am currently struggling to navigate in the world of RSS feeds, bookmarks, notes, reminders and everything else. I will check your app out if you don't mind.
Well, you had a choice of vellocet, synthemesc or drencrom. Vellocet had the knives in it and was likely what you describe. The other two are generally considered to contain opiates or hallucinogens...
NASA space telescope reveals celestial hourglass formed by embryonic star
> The result of the indictment was that she had to perform 60 hours of community service

I see a lot of discussion about who is at fault. Everyone sucks here, but my first question is who is this judge that did not throw this out in 2 seconds?? Cops, DAs, neighbors' bad behavior is one thing. Like what.
Keep is my favorite Google product. It opens instantly on iOS, makes it dead easy to create notes, and has a good search feature. It's easy to access on the web since I'm always logged into my Google account anyway. I find iCloud's web presence a bit finicky b/c I have to usually log in again every time.

A wishlist for Keep:
* An API. I'd love to use Keep as a durable data store for all my notes. I want o be able to dump snippets collected from a Chrome extension or a PDF reader in there. Their current API provides just a few enterprise access knobs, and not the full data-plane API I'm asking for.
* A better search in the sidebar companion app they have for Gmail, Calendar, etc. For some reason, search in the Keep sidebar doesn't return the same results as with the main Keep web or iOS apps.
* CubeSats

The article headline as it reads now is:

> Here’s All the Science Hitching a Ride on Artemis-1
A small fleet of CubeStats joins three mannequins, fungus, algae, and more on a trip to the Moon and back

The article itself correctly calls them CubeSats.
But a branch is a commit but the staging area is an index, which is something different. Why two different concepts when one would do? That's my problem with the staging area.
One of the early Renault Zoé with the Continental power train did. It had up to 43kW charging on AC, which was a bit unique. So unique that very very few chargers offer more than 22kW AC.

I also heard that it was very noisy during charging.
https://twitter.com/pnikosis/status/1592823543498436611. Apparently that quote is from a (now deleted) tweet of his per https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/worl....
I imagine there will be a decent chunk that click the link saying they're "hardcore" while they shore up getting another job.
I think he meant being an Amazon warehouse worker / delivery driver would get him by until he found something better.
> not to take care of the kidnapping or sex trafficking

Because there was no kidnapping or sex trafficking going on, they were just making shit up.
There are a number of mature and thoughtful communities on Twitter.

For example, the academic community - from theoretical CS to systems to healthcare to biology to economics. I think probably 1/3 of faculty at top universities under the age of 40 have a twitter presence and tweet very useful things.

I have also found the journalistic and sports sections of Twitter to be very useful. For instance, where else does one get the latest football injury news, or line changes made on the san jose sharks?
> This post is about why terminal-based input seems stuck in the 80s

It's actually more 60s/70s, when the first terminals, command-line prompts, and shells were built. The reason why it's stuck there is technology has only improved iteratively rather than revolutionarily. The "lets add another layer of abstraction" form of innovation, rather than outside-the-box thinking and reinvention.

The fact that we still write software by hand using lines of source code in a text editor is pretty ridiculous to me. It's not that far removed from punch cards.
What needs to be distinguished here is retail as in Amazon procuring and selling goods, or retail as in Amazon being a platform and another version of Aliexpress.

The former is a low single digit profit margin business, the latter probably has a decent profit margin.
Genuinely curious what you have against the Pandas documentation. It has some of the best docstrings I've seen.

(I also wrote a Pandas book or two... So there's that)
"But also imagine getting every employee to change how they deal with vacations"

Interesting example. Why would changing distributed computing architecture have an impact on vacation policy?
Yup, I’m using mostly SQLite and tools I wrote using it these days, at least for personal data management.

I use this simple tool for most my notes now:

https://github.com/codazoda/nolific

For temporary notes I use my Ponder web app (it just uses the browsers DB) and is partially inspired by old AlphaSmart word processing machines:

https://github.com/codazoda/ponder
Well yeah, they did not displace PWRs (the heat capacity issue is one of the reasons why molten salt and sodium fast reactors were investigated). But the problem is not the lack of high temperature materials (which is false).
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Please note that our business model is not about collecting and monetizing any of your personal data.

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Anybody who thinks parents being prevented from being alone with their own children for 2 weeks due to an unfounded complaint, is far too comfortable with authoritarian government. That sort of thing can cause irreparable harm in the development of the children as well, causing trust issues and fear of government to be deeply ingrained.
The guy already finished the marathon... He didn't have to run with his mouth either :p

I'll always work on my golf swing rather than fake emotions about nothing :)
Willing to bet there’s more to this story. From the article:

> Heather Wallace's oldest son, eight-year-old Aiden, was driving his two brothers crazy in the car as they all returned from karate one afternoon in October 2021. Wallace asked Aiden to walk the rest of the way home—half a mile in quiet, suburban Waco, Texas—so that he could calm down.

It’s not like the kid was happily strolling a mile home from school or the park. The article is downplaying the situation.

Sounds like she kicked her kid out of the car, and I have doubts that went down peacefully. She was probably angry and her kid was probably crying and panicking. From the neighbors’ point of view it probably looked very cruel, and perhaps even dangerous depending where he was left. (Many suburbs are polluted by “stroads” which have no sidewalks and lots of traffic.)

Granted, a felony seems extreme, even if the Mom was raging at the kid. But I’d want to hear the neighbor’s testimony before offering my sympathy.
Note that "CubeStat" is likely a typo for "CubeSat", even though it does appear in the headline of the real article. "CubeStat" doesn't appear in the body of the article, and it is not a familiar term to me (as CubeSat is).
> probably easier than learning pyenv

Yeah “pyenv install 3.10.8” is basically rocket surgery, near impossible to learn.
You can't really say what other alternatives were available beyond that this is what the family preferred. The grandparents were available and that's what they chose.
> As to the limits of free speech, they're not just limiting what they hear/see, they're deciding to do that for others too

It's their project, they can do what they please with it. This is the premise of FOSS, which makes no claims as to how maintainers must communicate with collaborators or how projects must be maintained.

> go against the ideas of free speech and of federation, especially in the open source space

Those are your values, not the values of the maintainers. Maybe their relationship to open source is different than yours. Maybe their idea of free speech is different than yours. This is no more than you forcing your values on them.
The trouble is that Psychology as a field has had serious problems with reproducibility since it's inception.
I think it makes sense for third parties (us) to "care" when something like the headline happens. We should make it clear to those involved that it's not acceptable (we should try to punish them), and we should try to help aggrieved parties.

But no, you should not "care" in the sense of worrying about it happening to yourself. The probability is so small it's not worth it, along with an infinity of other freak occurrences.

I don't know what TFA is.
Every chatbot on a webpage or in any app.
I rarely reassign local variables too. (Other then the set to null as a fallback then set again in a branch “pattern”).

The only excuse is when I am doing something algorithmic and that would improve the performance.

By extension I prefer local variables over class state and static state and other “self managed lifetime” stuff like that.

And I am a GC blub programmer, I don’t use Rust or C.
Good argumentation from very faulty assumptions.

The Developer Certificate of Origin is not a contributor license agreement. (See https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/07/02/DCO-Not-CLA.) It has no part that clearly says the contributor grants a license for their contribution, or on what terms.

This is the main disadvantage of the DCO, especially in non-GPL projects. Not that it "encourages distributed ownership". A contributor license agreement doesn't change who owns any copyrights, either. That's a copyright assignment. FSF's copyright assignment paperwork isn't a contributor license agreement, either. Assignment != License.

License grants in CLAs are often in different, broader terms than open source licenses for several reasons. For one, many open source licenses are ancient, without clear and complete license grants by today's standards. Second, part of the point of a CLA in many cases is to enable project stewards to change or legally upgrade license terms in the future. CLAs give them all the rights we can think of to license on whatever terms, so they're not caught short.

There is no reason CLAs for a project can't be shared openly.

If temptation to abuse of power were inevitable, we would see a lot more individual contributors to open projects who retained ownership of their copyrights suing project users about meaningless license violations for monetary settlements.

Companies like Elastic have changed to new licenses for future development. None that I'm aware of has tried to change the license terms for previously released open work retroactively, and there are serious legal questions about whether this is even possible or practical. Bloggers and tweeters sow a lot of unfounded fear about "evil corporate relicensing" by using loose terms that can imply, for those ready to see it, that there are releases floating around out there with Apache 2.0 license notices that aren't actually Apache 2.0 licensed anymore. What actually changes is that ongoing development by those companies moves to new terms, and folks interested in continuing development under the old license terms either do or don't step up to "fork" from the last release under those terms.
Intro to LiteDB, differences between NoSQL and classical SQL database, and a sample WebApp.
> I know there's pytest and nosetests, but especially when teaching people, it's nice to use what's in the standard library and unittest sticks out for having things named differently

You’re just crippling them for no reason.
just type `hg serve` and that will spin-up a web UI like this one:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/graph/tip

, seems to have been included since 2005 :)
Read the example about “producers” - If I chain a whole bunch of producing together across many different Pcollections, I’m essentially forming a graph behind the scenes? Since no copying is happening

Surely this would cause some strange performance outcomes with, say, a gradually built up immutable list.
>I have a terminal open 99% of the time and I almost never open finder or Gnome Files.

Haha, true i once made a bet that i can survive a week with 9front/Plan9 at work..well it worked since 9Front has SSH and i was always on servers. ;)
Public defender? Bad attorney-- collect the money and head out?
The legal system long ago worked around this - they allow virtually every person at every level to exercise "discretion." An officer can frequently choose how to handle an issue, a prosecutor can choose not to prosecute, etc.

Occasionally, we see well meaning policies going astray - the "must arrest someone" domestic calls in jurisdictions are a contentious-but-great example. Sometimes calls get put in spuriously and now someone must go to jail for a relative non-issue / non-altercation that a neighbor called in.
I used Evernote for a decade before switching to Apple Notes a couple years back. It took some getting used to but now it feels seamless. I'd highly recommend it if you don't need anything too fancy.
I can’t remember which investment bank suffered a revolt of their junior workers, but their line was, hard work will pay off, meaning the hardest workers get well paid jobs.

But these companies steal wages from the workers who put in hard work and overtime, but don’t get the job, or quit, or get sick.

These firms don’t discard the work done, it’s all used. And then they’ll be called quitters or unprofessional.

I was just reading about the musician behind much of Doom’s music got treated like that
> You can't just say the ends justify the means, without actually working out the price you're paying.

I wasn't suggesting that the ends justify the means. I'm simply speaking to the realities of the situation. However, from an ends justifying the means perspective, if you're not going to investigate, there's little point in hearing the case, and more importantly in people making the call in the first place.

"When an organization has the power to destroy families, I think we might want to require a standard of evidence above one nosy neighbor - or at least evaluate how many kids are protected VS how many suffer in Foster care VS how many had their lives ruined because their parents had a marijuana joint."

We do have a higher standard of evidence for that power to be invoked; that's what applied here, and why CPS ultimately passed on this one. If anything, the bar is generally pretty high, and you can get away with some pretty dastardly things with the odds of CPS taking any kind of "family destroying" action very low.

> Otherwise, we should be OK with the government monitoring us 24/7 so that they don't miss any terrorists or child molesters.

I think that's unreasonably slippery sloping this story.

Sure, there are horror stories about CPS being overzealous, but this isn't one of those stories. I don't much like the "family safety plans", but it's a huge leap from there to 24/7 monitoring... and CPS obviously wasn't worried about terrorist or child molesters in this case.

It's a hard problem to get right. There's a LOT of really bad stuff going on (estimates are that 1 in 7 children have experienced abuse or neglect at some point). No matter how you do it, families will be destroyed and children will suffer horribly. However, the system errs on keeping families together, which is what you'd want. Given that bias in the system, engaging in at least a lightweight investigation is entirely reasonable.

> evaluate how many kids are protected VS how many suffer in Foster care VS how many had their lives ruined because their parents had a marijuana joint.

I encourage you to look at the data on this. It's one sided.
I would rephrase it as, prosecutorial immunity must die.
Thanks those are very helpful considerations and experience.

Thinking about which program to put my children in has opened a whole host of other questions such as one of your last one about what are their outcomes - which is how do I want to define the outcomes/expectations from the program aka my children going through the education system.
Is there a list somewhere of each CubeSat and their payloads?
It's still relevant - there are enough differences between the browsers to render incompatibilities and bugs. It does also depend on how serious you are about your product, as some kinds of products not working in a browser can leave a very bad or frustrating experience.

It is of course painful to test in so many variants, so a decent compromise is often to just test in the latest version of all browsers. There's enough coverage there to help you find any potential problems.
if $EDITOR is properly configured, C-x C-e and hey presto, all is well for complex commands.
I live in a vast Californian suburb dominated by single family residences built in the 90s. The homes are priced around the median for the area. The residents are split about 50/50 politically and racially plural. The majority are married and earn ever so slightly below median income. It's about as average as you can get.

Note: I looked up these stats to make sure I got them right. They are mostly at the voting precinct, and census BG level, but I'm abstaining from posting them for obvious reasons.
Kids in Washington, DC, often enough get themselves to school via Metrobus. I see them walk to the stop by themselves, three or four blocks in a quiet neighborhood.
I would bet those 2 hours you aren't billing for are still actual work. You are available, you are probably thinking about the company/the job/the work. That is all WORK, and should be billed.

I used to do a lot of walks (before I moved from Upstate NY to Houston) where I would escape the code and think about the product. That was all billed time, and understood by my clients. Just because my fingers are not furiously typing, doesn't mean I'm not actively engaged in my work.
Do you think non-relatives are volunteering to supervise your parenting around the clock?
FTX's Bahamas liquidators 'reject the validity' of U.S. bankruptcy
All of these systems involve humans and humans are susceptible to corruption via power/money. Corruption exists in all of these models, right? Anyone discussing this grew up in one of them and will have biases of some kind so I don't know that there can be constructive dialogue. All of these models also produce billionaires right: oligarchs, tech ceo's, old school business people, oil tycoons from middle eastern countries, etc. What is the point of having as many billionaires as we (humans) have?

If we constrain the problem down to say startups/businesses (especially on this site) I think (I'm biased and/or ignorant) there really isn't a startup movement elsewhere on the planet like there is in capitalist US. One could argue that the startup boom has many downsides though (data privacy, wage imbalances, societal problems, etc.) and brings about new people that are corrupted/corruptible or at the very least strongly influence laws that benefit their companies well being. Growth and profits at all costs within (or without) regulation.

The only model I've read about that sounds like it has potential to avoid some of these downsides is workers cooperatives [0] instead of corporations. From the little I've read it sounds like same organizational structure but worker owned/managed and there are limits so there aren't things like excessive CEO pay. I heard about this concept watching some professor talk about it and he did mention this really isn't taught in business schools. I really think its an interesting concept for how a company could work.

An interesting bit about taxes, the corporate tax rates in the US were at their highest just after WWII when we had high growth rates. [1] Its counter-intuitive.

> The economy grew at an annual average rate of 3.9 percent between 1950 and 1960, when the statutory corporate tax rate was over 50 percent. Between 2000 and 2010, the statutory corporate tax rate was 35 percent (over 15 percentage points lower than the rate in the 1950s), and annual economic growth averaged 1.8 percent (less than half of the growth rate in the 1950s)

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

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/ib364-corporate-tax-rates-an...
If I ever had doubts that all companies, including big tech ones, need unions to protect employees from management abuse, I no longer do.
Guys, it doesn't matter if you can edit terminal input in vim. If there's a way to do it in an even more ergonomic / user-friendly way, that's not intrinsically a bad thing. This entire comment thread makes us sound like tech-grognards.

Warp's pricing model is a whole other issue though.
It's pronounced CubeStat /s