skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd do it for one thing: office only.

Going in to do video calls makes no sense because the office video setup cannot realistically be made better than my home setup.

It needs to be 100% in-person, because that is better than video calls.

It's like, imagine that I arrange to meet a friend in a pub, but he suggests a phone call instead. I can go to the pub and make the phone call from the pub. But why?

The commute is a non issue, put the office in the city centre and I live within max half an hour of you. That's the entire point of cities.

I don't particularly care for the argument that others post here along the lines of "I live hours from the office/in another state/whatever". That's fine, I don't go to the supermarket in the next town over either...
- 28 on mobile

- desktop not sure, too many folders with various reads to count
I can't help but think your username was inspired by LGR. Put another coin in the 'HN usernames are on topic' jar.
I have the same thought. As an immigrant, as much as I appreciate this, I wonder if
- it is borderline illegal and get attention from USCIS. By extension, does this mean that companies can set arbitrary last date
- if it opens up possible loop hole where employee can demand for more severance stating the severance should start after last date

On further thought, the proof of employment is generally through the Paystub. So employers can probably set the last date until the last day of severance.
The real-world use-cases are already covered by git.
God, there's something uniquely bad about searching for Python standard library stuff. I swear every time I search `python len` or something and w3schools, geeksforgeeks, programiz, and all sorts of other annoying useless SHIT appears I want to scream. Just show me the Python docs!
...and if IBM says it is 40%, it is definitely true. Just as IBM Watson is going to be the future of healthcare. Unfortunately, that future seems to consist of scrapping IBM Watson and selling it for parts /sarcasm
> By putting paper work in the blockchain they managed to cut shipping times by 40%!

You make the mistake of assuming that blockchain had something to do with it. And not the act of replacing paper records with digital records. Blockchain is entirely irrelevant.
Thanks for the link; not sure how I missed that completely while going through the thread documentation.

I completely forgot about native modules completely...

I don't think I disagree with anything you've said; though I would add that the fact that not many things use threads means that it's self-fulfilling (for example I have a package in the works and it was _super_ unclear to me about what the semantics of how threads interacted with the existing processes and when you could guarantee certain things ran before others).

Yes, Racket's model is broadly as you've described (and soon ocaml will have a similar model I think?), and imo it works really well.
So long as it is applied evenly to all laid off.

Personally, I find the health benefits extension to be much more meaningful
well, it's not like you only have two options: "ESP32 with full TCP stack" or "IrDA". The spectrum of choices there is huge.

If you want simple, get something like NRF2401 and send around raw radio packets. This will give you retry and checksums with minimal fuss. If you want to save power, you will have to implement sleeping code yourself, but it is not too bad.

If you want compatibility with users' devices there is BT/BLE. It is probably the closest thing to the original IrDA use case.

If you want debug/programming/generic UART use USB. As an extra bonus you get power as well.

If you want electrical isolation, use optical fiber or 3d-print a custom optical plug. I guess you can run IrDA over it, but plain UART will work as well, and will make adapter much simpler.

If you want to securely talk to a device without USB port (maybe waterproof/dustproof) then optical link may be handy.. but don't use it all the time, use optical link to transmit wireless channel/key and then switch to wifi/bt/nrf2401 link. This will give you much better UX, your link won't get broken because somone bumps the device. Oh, and yiu can run it super slow (10bps) and one way so users can transmit with their cell phone. Or use status LED as photo sensor so that you have no visible elements on your front panel.

.. so, what does this leave for IrDA? I can think about a couple of scenarios, but they all seem convoluted and uncommon.
Lol. Last time I said there was no real world use for blockchain tech besides crypto, people put this as a counter example. Look how well that went.
i've always wondered why these meat alternatives don't try to target exotic & rare meats rather than aiming for the most common staples. i would think you would have much more leeway with something where there is less familiarity and not to mention the price tag could be framed much more favorably rather than trying to compete with one of the most highly subsidized proteins on earth.
why don't we have beyond alligator or beyond ostrich or even better yet, some kind of hypothetical dinosaur meat?
What’s ludicrous is the idea they can close up shop altogether in the US and 300 million plus will just sit on their hands and do nothing.

Twice as many guns as people over here. The public will make a new economy without them. Real people don’t just vanish because aristocrats find their demands inconvenient.

Let them eat lead will quickly follow any contemporary version of “let them eat cake.”

Physical reality does not bend to our philosophy. Philosophy always bends to reality.

I know people prefer to forget reality because ew it’s dirty, but reality doesn’t bend to ape hallucinations.
Yet again, I have not once indicated anger (what?) or entitlement. Yes, I have been frustrated at unclear communication, and I do not consider the expectation of clear communication to be entitlement.

I am moving towards open sourcing some projects (already have), and I am trying to think about this myself. I have not landed on a solution I am happy with or even followed my own README advice, yet. In my experience, it is very pleasant to work in repositories that set good expectations with clear communication. But it has been frustrating to interact with a "contributions welcome" repository where issues are swatted down like flies, especially when the reporter offers to debug and even help contribute a fix. I just stop going there, and I would have preferred to just have such culture be clear upfront.

I have even started considering offering paid support for important issues to be fixed, and I am trying to take an active approach in contributing to projects I like using, so I really don't think I approach things as you imply.

Edit: Also to be clear, I am not speaking to anyone specifically. These are general sentiments.
I'm also finding the same difficulties with DuckDuckGo.

I don't think Google is "terrible" at anything; they know their stuff. But they have created peverse incentives around advertising which lead to this.

They're paid by the advert clicks, so if you actually find a search result you're not clicking on an advert.

The definition of an advert is "I want to push something at you that's only indirectly relevant to what you are looking for, and I'm willing to pay for that" -- that's what an advert _is_.

In my simple brain, I'd happily see Google paid per-display (not click) of adverts. Then my incentives (to find a search result) have a fighting chance of aligning with theirs. Show me the advert, in a separate column marked "adverts".

But I appreciate this is a vast over-simplification their broader business.
dave's doesn't seem to do so any longer, but makes you sign a "waiver" for the hottest spice levels now even though they've toned it down quite a bit at this point. howlin' rays (which dave's copied) still uses carolina reapers and is no joke with it's howlin' spice level.
Develops the best Crystal on the market ;)
R Studio repl experience one of a kind, have never found anything that replicates it perfectly.
Thanks! You get it!
DOM changes should be handled and it should be working still. Could you please file a bug https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations/issues with the proper steps to reproduce, please?
> In the longer term: announce layoffs ahead of time. Ask if anyone wishes to take voluntary redundancy. In general, make sure people aren’t going to be totally blindsided by losing their job.

This isn't a great idea from a management perspective. The people who are willing to take severance voluntarily are the people who are most confident that they can find something else, which means they're the people you want to keep. It also assumes that layoffs are overall headcount reductions and not targeted in specific areas. For example with the Amazon layoffs, they wouldn't want people in AWS to leave since they're primarily targeting the Alexa/Echo divisions.

And if you went into Alexa/Echo and said "so we need to reduce headcount in Alexa/Echo, any volunteers?" you'd cause massive panic and distraction in that division.
Sure, but that's more work. Managing people is work. Coordinating about the project is more work. At the end, that person is still on the hook to close issues that aren't going to be worked on, but maybe they want to check first, or maybe they get drawn into an argument about the issue.
I posted this because my child and I were curious about making our own fonts.
Having spent tons of time in jupyter notebooks, I can tell you one thing - loading data and training ML models is not free. Keeping a running system/repl/notebook has immense value.
Can I, as an application developer, configure a user's exclusion list in Windows Defender?

If yes - that sounds insane!

If no - it doesn't really help, then, does it? The complaint was that an application developer cannot create a file and then just move/remove it when they please.

I'm neither a Windows user nor Windows dev, so I might be missing something.
A number of military personal might beg to differ with you. But I'm willing to hear justification for your comment.
Distinction without a difference, as far as the secrets are concerned. It means your claim "this is why you can't watch 4k on desktop" is dead and done.
My point wasn’t that...

It was that if they meant Pelé then they would have written Pelé in the headline. Not Pele. Because I don’t imagine they would publish a wrong name in a headline.
Four.

Hacker news, this post, rpilocator, (it's Wednesday, Adafruit might get some in), and You Tube.

After I submit, I'll read some comments, close this tab, close the Hacker News tab, and watch a video.
Interesting counterexample. I would argue that throwing tantrums when distressed — instead of bottling up anger, frustration, and disappointment — actually enables children to embrace happiness more easily than we do during the non-tantrum moments. We learn to suppress and not feel our difficult emotions, but unfortunately we can’t selectively numb just the hard feelings.

I’m not claiming our society should be filled with adult tantrum-throwers, just noting a mechanism I believe is present.
We heard you didnt like having all your source code scraped for our ML model so what if we silo you? Would that make you content when we eventually do our scraping again?
I never got into game dev. I bought a textbook and learnt a ton. the last chapter, which should have been the first chapter, was about intellectual property. Mainly trademarks and patents. You're making something new from scratch, so copyright isnt important.

But the main problem, most video game innovations have happened in the last 20 years. Probably lesser true today but still valid. All these innovations picked up patents. You are near certainly going to end up in violation of many of these. Not to mention super overly broad trademarks. Sonic ought to be a blue hedgehog. No, you basically cant have a rodent in your game. Their trademark was issued real early in video game history and they established the right to be the only video game with a rodent in it. Seriously.

They likely don't go suing people over it, but when you actually try not to violate other people's rights. You have no video game left.

This is the beauty of godot/unity era we are entering now. Many of these patents are expiring now. Now people can make the video games of their dream.

But now we're going to have a huge surplus of video games for the next few decades.
Those languages have the same semantics as Erlang in many important respects. For example, there are no mutable variables in any of those languages. They all have the same concurrency model, the same memory management etc.
Anecdotal evidence, but no obese person I’ve ever talked to about this (including me) is unaware that changing their diet would lead to a reduction in their bodyweight. Smokers also know that not smoking would improve their health significantly. Drug addicts know that drugs are extremely dangerous. Nobody is questioning that obesity can be undone through dietary approaches, just as it’s possible to quit harmful relationships with tobacco and drugs cold-turkey. The problem with these approaches is that they just don’t work at the population level. Obesity is massively costly to society and a burden on individuals. Rejecting effective treatments because they’re not natural, or involve invasive surgery, doesn’t make any sense to me if it means adults who would otherwise live their entire adult lives in ill health would have longer, happier lives with much lower medical costs.
International shipping involves multiple countries by definition, as well as ports, ships, containers, etc. How could it not also involve "collaboration" ?
I understand that there are extreme cases like that, but that's a minority of people. I was commenting on the majority of people.
The difference between a coach, a mentor and a sponsor
Looks like the GUI uses WinForms, which means you won't be able to build it on linux, I would wager. You may, however, be able to run an already built version of it through Wine.
well all these crooks are in cahoots, he probably stole money off some people but made the "big fish" more money than they invested.
I've read that good games create emergence through the combinatorial interactions of entwined game mechanics. The more loosely coupled a mechanic is from the rest of the system the less likely it is to generate emergence (while still asking the same learning of the player).

This makes building and maintaining game architecture especially challenging compared to CRUD forms because loose coupling isn't very interesting.

Is this something like what you're implying? Or are you saying more like "You can't iteratively pivot from a roguelike to an RPG. If you don't establish the basic architecture of your game, and commit to that architecture as you add mechanics, you won't benefit from the flexibility of your indecision and you will pay even more in development cost" ?
"A process is writing to a 200GB file"

There's two problems here, the process and the file, it seems you need to deal with both situations on both styles of OS. You could truncate the file (there's also a `truncate` command I have never used):

cat /dev/null > somefile

and let the process continue writing, or you could just `rm` the file, then either kill the process (or the other way round), or if you've got mysterious disk space usage issues you think are due to still open but deleted files you can:

lsof | grep deleted

I'm an ex (mostly) sysadmin and so this stuff is easy, but is obviously out of reach for "normal" users. Personally as someone who still uses Unix-like machines (Mac, servers) and Windows (games, chkdsk) and I greatly prefer the Linux/Unix way and find the Windows way frustrating.
Becomes nearly impossible as you get older and have a family.
If you create your own cryptocurrency, give yourself a billion tokens and value it at $1/token you too can be a billionaire just like SBF
There is a difference between an actual strike with specific demands, and "quiet quitting" as a police officer. What do police demand? From their unions, it seems they just want continued immunity from murder charges when they negligently kill citizens.

If the rail workers threatening a strike had a history of disabling crossing guards on railroad crossings to hit cars without warning, and their union didn't want conductors to get fired for that, I'd be against the railroad union, too.

Again, "defund", this scary slogan, attempted to wrap a lot of ideas up, most of which did not directly mean "eliminate the role of law enforcement". And, like I said and you failed to refute, substantial police budget cuts are quite sparse. So what's dangerous besides something that hasn't happened? What's dangerous other than cops quiet quitting to protest things that haven't happened?
Mandatory locking has profound security impacts.

I can update glibc or other core system libraries on Linux without rebooting. Processes using the old library will show "(deleted)" in their /proc/self/maps files, but they will continue to use the old code. New processes will use the new library, and downtime was not required.

This is not possible on Windows because of mandatory locking on core system libraries. As a consequence, Windows must reboot for every Patch Tuesday.

There are only a few places that Linux has mandatory locking, and this is a good thing.

Here is a script that will show you all the deleted libraries that are still in use on Linux:

# cat stale_libraries.sh
#!/bin/sh

awk '$NF=="(deleted)" && $(NF-1) ~ /[.]so/ {
sub(/;.*$/,"",$(NF-1))
print $(NF-1), $NF}' /proc/*/maps | sort -u

Here is a script that will show you all PIDs that are running with deleted libraries:

# cat stale_programs.sh
#!/bin/sh

grep '[.]so.*deleted)' /proc/*/maps |
sed 's/[:][^/]*//' |
sort -u |
while read -r line
do pid=${line#/} pid=${pid#*/} pid=${pid%%/*}
xargs -0 printf '%s ' < "/proc/$pid/cmdline" | sed 's/[ ]$//'
printf :%s\\n "$line"
done

Some of the maps files can only be read by root.
Astronomers detect “mystery molecule” in exoplanet’s atmosphere
What’s most complex thing achieved in GOL ?
I've never understood why everyone says this. What's so costly that delivery and rideshare services can never be profitable?

The cost to Uber or Doordash to provide one delivery must be practically nothing. Sure, they have large overheads, but once they have all their infrastructure going, each delivery is what, for them - a few database requests? How is that so expensive?
No usage data is sent to Google. Only the models are stored on GCS under Mozilla's account and tracking is not even an option.
> I have a private office already; it's in my house

Not everyone has this. Commuting isn't free, but neither is a spare room at home.
Hey no problem! I was glad my guess wasn’t too far off, and it was fun to go digging to check.
Zenus Bank
It's a social credit score for companies and startups. It doesn't actually help the environment at all. It's bullshit to create new "carbon markets" and causes companies to work against the interests of their shareholders and customers in order to meet completely arbitrary guidelines in order to get high ESG ratings (to draw in investors).

They then become dependent on those investors, even though ESG policies cause them to lose money .. when the 2023 dot com bust goes full swing, those investors will get to decide which companies live in die in the same way TARP funds allowed the US Government to decided which banks lived and died.
Zenus is an independent, U.S. digital bank, founded in 2019 that is taking banking beyond borders. Giving people and businesses worldwide access to the security, freedom, and convenience of U.S. banking.

Providing Retail, Corporate, Institutional banking and BaaS, Zenus is creating a world where physical borders don’t limit access to financial services.

Find out more at www.zenus.com and @ZenusBank via social channels.

Zenus Bank will not open any account or process any transactions from countries that have been sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control ‘OFAC’.
definition of "lunatic" - "a person who is mentally ill (not in technical use)."

I didn't say it was offensive. If it was called "autistic", the word is not offensive but... why? It's just a really strange choice.
In such case letting issues pile up or closing issue tracker altogether is fine if owner is not interested in processing issues.

stalebot achieves the same effect, and irritates all people interacting with it
"So here are 3 things that you can do to get what you want out of your work life."

They forgot the biggest one. Adjust your expectations.
This is gitlab, not github. I'm not aware of gitlab doing any code scraping for ML models. Did I miss some news?
Nah. We live in an age of asymmetric polarization. XKCD has a good rendering of the DW-NOMINATE data. Look especially at the US House since Reagan: https://xkcd.com/1127/

The right has moved far more than the left. Just looking at today's news, we find a prominent right-wing activist was convicted of plotting to overthrow the government: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63802649

The only area I think you could unequivocally say the US left has progressed on is civil rights for LGBT+ people. But in terms of things like labor rights, a social safety net, environmental conservation, gun control, election integrity, and business regulation, I'd say the center of the US left hasn't moved much in decades, much to the frustration of the more activist portion of the left. Note that people from other countries often see the Democratic Party as a center-right party.
I'm saving this as it's an excellent guide for taking my dated pre-LINQ C# skills and polishing them up as need be
If you're so smart, why are you invoking ill-defined concepts in folk psychology?
Or Unity, their flavor of C# discouraged properties for a long time, it does support them now, though.
Honestly, this system sounds dysfunctional and unproductive. I know HN rules discourage psychological analysis, so I'll stick with some useful generalities - Avoidance and procrastination generate anxiety. Anxiety has a way of distorting reality by magnifying the worst outcome (often even the improbable). And thus it creates a dysfunctional behaviour-emotion loop that feeds itself. To break out of it you have to face your anxiety and change your behaviour. Just begin by closing the oldest tabs. You'll find the world doesn't end (if you haven't read something in 5 years, do you really think it's important enough to read in 2022?). And start bookmarking (and tagging) web pages that you want to read later instead of keeping them open. If you want to see a list of bookmarks whenever you open your browser, use this extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmarks-sta... . Remember that you can export and backup bookmarks. That is way safer than keeping 100's or thousands of tabs open as a unexpected shutdown or crash could result in these tabs being lost and not recoverable.
> Forstall oversaw a conniving political maneuver nuisance crossing division boundaries and causing serious infighting that was resolved by reorg when he left.

That's in line with what I said.

> Jobs (having interacted with both) just were positivity-obsessed guys averse to that noise

That's not the Steve Jobs I remember. ;-) Anyway, you don't explain why Jobs protected Forstall in the first place. My understanding is that Jobs encouraged some internal arguing and conflict, whereas Cook discourages it.

> no one is mentioning the behind the scenes participants with far longer engineering creds than Forstall

Mention them in what context? I mean, the Lenin/Stalin thing is just a silly metaphor. The serious point is that Forstall, mentioned by the OP, didn't get fired for incompetence, and Maps was just as excuse, a point that you seem to agree with. But if you're aware of people with longer engineering creds than Forstall who did get fired for incompetence, then I'd be interested to hear about it.