skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They all tell me that, despite the normal big-corp issues, work under Oracle's control is better than it was under Sun, where management was more chaotic, strategy unclear, and resources shifted erratically from one project to another, often wasted on unreasonable goals with bad prospects."

What you describe is the post-McNealy era (although I'd argue the last few years of McNealy started to decline as well). Zander was utterly lacking in dynamism and largely just a numbers guy, and Jonathan Schwartz was a total bungler with delusions of "thought leadership".

SUN after 2001 was a very very different animal from prior.
+1! The danger of not shipping is not that it allows you to demand purity of vision, but that it completely removes any user feedback mechanism.

And no one, no matter how brilliant, is right about 100% of things, 100% of the time. Reality is simply too complex.

Real Artists Ship.

Truly Great Artists Ship, Listen, and Adapt.
We once made the mistake of stepping through a program in Microsoft Programmer's Workbench debug mode. Caused a problem which could only be fixed by re-installing OS/2 (26 diskettes).
if the effect is strong you can see evidence in even small sample sizes.
So, I remember these events(vaguely), but not a lot of talk of terrorism specifically. Do you happen to recall if the media specifically labeled them terrorists at the time?
How Cambodia’s scam mills reel in new “cyber slave” workers
A few years ago I noticed that a few things would get rasterized when going through the print->pdf process and they would stay vectorized (i.e. higher quality) when using the browser's native PDF export feature.
There was still a need for webcam drivers when Vista was released?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class
Lightning Network Landscape
In case I can convince someone here we go…
There are two wonderful nostalgia mtg formats that I play often, very much enjoy and recommend.

One is oldschool aka 93/94 where you guessed it, only legal cards are from ABU and the four horsemen sets.

The other (and much better format) is Premodern. Which goes form 4ed to Scourge with a really good banlist, healthy meta and competitive scene.

Highly recommend these rabbit holes if someone is looking into coming back to the game!
For years there has been a big red notification dot stuck on the FB video tab reminding me that I have some large number of shitty videos to watch. I have no idea how FB decides precisely how many shitty videos it is very important that I watch. It used to be in the 40s, now it's 15. I never clicked the tab once.

I actually tried to figure out how to get rid of this at some point, but it definitely wasn't a priority for FB to give me control over this.

I'll never forget the open contempt Meta has shown for me as a user of their products.
TL;DR Give them food. Shocker.
Couldn’t he just buy his own boat at that price?
Great article pointing out how increasingly common this is:

https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/12/06/the-north-...

> There were 70 reports of emergency electric incidents and disturbances caused by suspected physical attacks, sabotage or vandalism from January to August 2022, Grid’s analysis of the most recently available data from the Department of Energy found. That figure represents a 75 percent increase from 40 such reports in all of 2015, the first year for which comparable data is available.

That being said, this isn't new, it just wasn't reported on as much as before.
an essential tools to uncovering the truth.
I find it odd that radiant heat is so uncommon in the US and most of Canada, even in buildings without AC, whilst in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe it’s the most common form of heating. Anecdotally I much prefer radiant heat to forced air.
Interesting, can you explain more about this type of insulation?
The website also talked about "shared" rooms. I'm sure they don't want you to sell your space like an air bnb though. You don't own it. Maybe if you bought an expensive one you could share it with your kids.
One of my favorite youtube channels at the moment is Not Just Bikes. And, it's right in the name: it's not just about bikes. It's about trains, busses, pedestrianization, mixed-use zoning, more options for housing density besides single family homes with front lawns. We waste so much potential with car dependency. Bikes are just one of the puzzle pieces.
I think the balance of engineering to the point of not over-engineering, and making simple yet efficient programs/code is an art that gets better with practice and experience. Trying to improve your skills do so will of course give you a market advantage. But, I think key to avoiding burnout is to try and have a rich personal life outside the "9 to 5", but also depends on your circumstances. For those younger, probably putting more hours to improve your skills is worthwhile in the long-term.
This is so sad. Cruises ships are literally the opposite of seeing the world. You’re stuck in a floating mall, in a place probably populated at 90% by wealthy boomers on holidays.

What a way to waste your prime years.
Indirectly, yes. One of my large mining operations was based in Vietnam and we used equipment sourced directly from China due to our partnership with a very large crypto company there, with a two letter domain name.

You're taking one talking point out of the conversation and then trying to apply that as a whole. The larger picture here is that what you are replying to isn't the point of what I'm talking about, but it sure makes you sound like you know what you're talking about though.

The fact is that the govt would likely never take over every single mining operation, when the lowest barrier is to simply ban it. That's exactly what happened.

They don't need Bitcoin, when they have their own infinite money printer. Even if they didn't ban it, and still took it all over, they wouldn't have enough hashrate to control the network (~40 < ~51). If they somehow invested even more funds into this massive operation to control more hashrate, what could they do? At most, reorg a few blocks and effectively destroy bitcoin. It would be a very expensive suicide, for what purpose?
Next thing you'll know is that they will bring back RSS ....
I‘d probably look into Skia first, it also drives Flutter. https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia

It doesn’t render native widgets though, AFAIK it’s „just“ OpenGL/Metal/Vulkan/CPU-rasterization.

EDIT: Someone is already working on a Skia adapter for Dioxus: https://github.com/marc2332/freya
>> If you consider cruise ships to be a luxury, and that cruise ship has good enough internet for work, that's really not a bad deal.

Rent is rarely a good deal. Since he can work remote, he could buy a home any number of places and be able to sell to get money back.
You're right, socially ascribed gender didn't go away across society, but there was a string conscious effort by many - still is, by the way - to make it go away or at least make it significantly less impactful.

Importantly, the normative consensus among progressives was as GP describes. The trans activism movement is a move backwards in that regard, since it tries to shift the normative consensus back towards gender being important and that gender should be impactful. It's no wonder they clash with some feminists.
I would like to attempt a translation of the title from Washington Post speak to plain English:

WaPo: "Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth."

Plain English: "Twitter acquisition by Elon Musk threatens our narrative engineering and we are attacking his reputation."
Stupid ideas often take the form of "let's spend six months of the team's time on this thing that only 3 people in world will care about".

The way you kill such things is 1) by telling the truth about how much it's going to cost to do, and 2) by asking for evidence that the idea will pay back the effort required. (I mean, to some degree all development is done on faith that there will be a market there. But an idea that will take 6 months for the team needs a more solid basis than an idea that will take an afternoon for an individual.)
If you fall asleep during a video, now you'll have no idea where you were. Similarly if I lose concentration watching a video, I now have to either go back or hope I didn't miss anything important. If I lose concentration while reading, the page is still there, I just have to skim it until I find where i went on a tangent.
I have passion to be a programmer. What companies don't understand is that it doesn't mean I enjoy my job. I stopped programming the things I am passionate about in my 20s because I had to eat. I wouldn't work on your dumb SaaS if I were financially independent.
> The night before you flew in from Austin, Texas on a fully electric supersonic passenger jet.

Stopped right there.
Note that there is a separate page [1] about tax benefits on the company website:

"When finances are structured accordingly, people who plan to run a business, foundation or other entity from the ship, can be considered to be on a continuous business trip. In this case, it may be possible to write off most annual fees."

"The ship is flagged in the Bahamas and the related fund is based in Liechtenstein. These could be considered the domicile for a business, foundation or other entity based on board (or another jurisdiction). While some ‘offshore’ models are illegitimate, in this instance, the asset is an investment in a fund attached to the rights to use a home office based offshore; so this is a perfectly legitimate use of offshore structures in tax-advantaged jurisdictions."

[1] https://www.storylines.com/tax-benefits-page-v1
Thank you too! With the war in my country, we're barely meeting ends, and couldn't prepare for Christmas. I wasn't sure about asking for help, but we've been struggling for a while, and even the holidays weren't looking to be any cheer for us. Although I doubted that we deserved it - there are many people who have it much worse, forced out of their houses, - I still reached out. I don't know if it's right of me to do so, but I surely am glad to see my family having better holidays.

I feel depressed about life, following news, and the world feels ever more grim. Just two days ago I found out that a developer of one of my favorite games "Stalker Clear Sky", died in Bakhmut, fighting on the front lines... And there are suicide drones and rockets flying by my location occasionally. We have regular electricity shutdowns.

But this helps. We've bought Christmas presents for my brother, got food to last the days, and we'll have a good celebration for New Year, what with a cake, meat and other foods of value. It's a kindness that makes me feel better about the world and people out there.

Thanks :))
Google's not obligated to figure out exactly where the line of legality is. Especially when they've already lost two candidates. They're not in the business of protecting the Damores of the world (nor should they be).

The title VII argument may hold no water for you. If you find a way into the NLRB board of judges, that may matter to companies.
Our datacenter's network maintenance notifications were opt-in. Guess who called in because a BGP session was down and didn't know, this user. They switched all new account owners to opt-out for future notifications.
After you solve it, please share :)
Oh for sure, it's one of the main reasons why people believe wifi sucks.

One of my favorite visualizations is Steam Remote Play's debug graph that shows the latency stack up. Playing a game over wifi on a smart phone, it can make subtle stutters significantly easier to track down. In one case, I was able to attribute a periodic latency spike to the Bluetooth radio.

I've been trying to go pretty deep understanding 802.11 the last couple years, between trying to make my home wifi setup work flawlessly, and using it extensively at work for real-time communication between embedded systems.

At home, I have converged on WRT1x00ac devices (with useless DFS). Three as APs, one as the main router, and a couple more to play around with. They can be had for $30 on ebay, have dual core ARM CPUs, and run OpenWRT well. The only reason they work well for me, though, is because I am an embedded engineer and stubborn. Recently I had to desolder failed TVS diodes from a couple of them...
Sort of. To a degree. In a real world environment things are never perfectly uniform but it certainly can be easier to gauge flow if there are things disturbing that flow or visible objects in the flow. Lacking references something like a tidal current can certainly be faster than is obvious. (And people obviously can get caught in rip currents that may not be apparent.)
Imagine needing a data team to find out people only want notifications for the most relevant information and not be spammed for every idiocy.

Imagine needing to spend tens or hundreds of millions to have an answer every single user could give you for free.

You got to love the age of information and social media, gives so many people jobs.
I host my own email.

Incoming messages are sent directly to my SMTP server.

Outgoing messages are sent through the ISP's SMTP server. (This service is included with the internet service from the ISP, so I do not need to register for this service separately.)

The IP address rarely changes, but sometimes it does, and when it does change, I can update the DNS records.
If you don't want to bike, then don't.

But some of us _want_ to bike and find it unnecessarily dangerous at present because of all the privately-owned vehicles driving far too fast, far too close to us. It's not the ambulances or the delivery vans that put us in danger -- there aren't enough of them to make a difference. The danger consistently comes from roads that are designed to maximize the speed and convenience of drivers rather than the safety of everybody else.

My kids' school is 3Km (2mi) from where we live, a short bike ride away. However, can my family ride to school in the morning? Not at all, it's too dangerous for kids to ride with all the traffic, but it doesn't have to be this way. With simple traffic calming measures like having narrower residential streets the cars wouldn't be driving much faster than the bikes. This isn't science-fiction, it's how things work in plenty of livable cities around the world.

So, don't drive a bike if you don't want to, but me driving my bike doesn't put you in danger, and I wish I could say the same about your car.
> For Windows, wx is nowadays the opposite of a modern native Windows app, because it uses Win32.

idk, whenever I have to use win32 and I see some app which uses the win32 widgets i'm like, "finally some good software"
I was wondering the same thing. I know surfers look for rip tides using the surface. I was hoping the article would be about computer vision tools for that
To each their own but being on a cruise ship for more than a week sounds like a prison sentence to me.
I can't relate to this at all and I'm one of those "passionate programmers".

Perhaps it just manifests itself differently, but things like I've always preferred PHP to RoR because the PHP community is so much more practical and "gett'er done" mentality.

For me it's about knowing I've done good work. I don't need external affirmation, it's about _ME_ knowing I've done good work.

I had a good friend tell an allegory about a bricklayer who refused to build a porch for a house that was run down and when asked why the brick layer said he would not be proud of showing the work to his son.

I once built and maintained a system over a 5 year period that after the first 6 months never went down or stopped working unless external dependencies it relied on went down (think mail server going down causing emails to be unsent). It wasn't a simple system either, it deployed across multiple data centers around the world.

I'm quite proud of that work, what I'm most proud of is that no one ever went to work worried that system may prevent them from doing their job. I'm not saying it was completely bug free at all times, new features are always a risk, but it damned well did the core work day and day out and came to be something most employees of the company relied on every single day. That company was sold about 6 months after I left and the owner told me the system I built was one of the things they wanted access to.

I left my last job because their systems were complete and utter shit and the person who originally wrote them wielded enough power that he actively prevented us from fixing it. My problem wasn't the state of the system, my problem was being told I have to work with it like that without being able to improve it. Just to give you an idea, this guy once told me he had been doing it for 20 years and never needed to test on real data. Which is bullshit, when he did it he had access to everything, including production. I left because I'm not willing to not be able to improve a system that needs it that badly.

Long story short, I don't agree with this person description of what a passionate programmer cares about, at all. It feels like a caricature to me. But the amount of times I've seen complete and utter shit pushed as "it doesn't matter" is too high. system stability absolutely matters.
I have finally received my preordered Librem 5 (GNU/Linux smartphone) and am very happy with it. While it certainly has rough edges (mainly the battery life of 10-12 hours, because suspend to RAM is still in development), it feels amazing to be in full control of my mobile device and to run a full desktop OS on it.

Sent from my Librem 5.
Apparently some forget that there are more than 2 countries in the world.
If you're suggesting they're equally at fault, you better have some numbers to back it up. Otherwise it just looks like you say they're equal because that's what you want to believe.
Waiting until the last second and zigzagging out of the way works on animal predators, just not manmade machines
Since this is hackernews, you might truly appreciate the simplicity and
nearly-the-most-elegant-solution that is the mechanical joy of these guys right 'yere :D :https://youtube.com/shorts/AK4c3REFerw?feature=share
Me too. And in danger of being "found out", I don't think I've ever wanted to be a "ninja coder" or someone who dives deep into solving hard problems. I like computing, and I like programming a lot, but the thing that I really enjoy about it is (as you said) building something that makes me feel smart, or accomplished.

Incidentally, I feel like this is why I gave up on running OpenWRT on my routers, or FreeNAS on my NAS, and why I don't end up sticking with Linux on my personal computers. I enjoy computing, but it's not my hobby. My hobbies are things that I do with my computer.
Hmm, that makes sense. Unfortunate though.

In the US there are supposed to be equal opportunity housing and landlords aren't supposed to discriminate like that, but of course it's hard to prove or enforce and many do anyway...
"Again, I can't speak for other parts of the company, and maybe Java's successful integration into Oracle has been a fluke"

They only cared about Java, and to a lesser extent controlling MySQL (the latter being one effectively stupid gambit, but one that's held on some tertiary value). The HW business has been slowly circling the bowl, they borked the OpenOffice, Jenkins and other projects, and their OS side is AWOL.

I know a few folks that went to Oracle to "hide" in the jungle, while they figure out what they actually want to do next. I've had Oracle recruiters call me before over the years, and I just have a long running disdain for their licensing/business approach, to the point that I have either prevented or ripped out every attempt for them in places I've been at.
It was IK+ on the Amiga for me. Such chaotic gameplay, so many eastereggs (press T). The soundtrack and the digitized fighting noises. I miss that time.
Any recommendations for modern access point hardware that is well made?
Perhaps this is due to my insufficient understanding of English, but "an abundance of uninterrupted time spent in relative solitude" doesn't sound like boredom to me, especially if the time is spent on active thinking.

If you are deeply engaged in musing, despite the solitary situation, you are not really bored, are you? At least I wouldn't call it being bored. You've got something to do, and you're well occupied by it. It's just thinking time to me. Such a situation I'd never characterize as boring (unless it lasts a ridiculous time, which reminds me of _Chess Story_).

What I think of as "boredom" is more like being in a sporadic lecture, doing assignments that are lengthy and thoughtless, being locked in a traffic jam, etc. Something that takes time, repulses attention, but has sufficient consequence that compels your concentration. And I don't think those are helpful in the profoundness of anything.

So, if the premise is "social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of time to profoundly think", I'd agree. But "profound boredom"? I just couldn't get behind this terminology.
I don't think there's any kind of feedback loop where a drop in hashrate would cause further drops. Even if hashrate dropped 90% then you'd have to wait 20 weeks for difficulty to adjust but the network would still function somewhat.
if you are comfortable with the LaTeX style editing, lilypond is an amazing editor and layout engine for scores that can produce tab or traditional sheet music output (and fretboards for fretted instruments or most anything else you could want)
Just an generalization. It seems like
wine and steam/proton embodies the early Microsoft philosophy of (backward) compatibility as selling point,
while the overall Linux mindset seems to be: "fuck you, you should have provided the source code if you wanted your software to work after the next dist-upgrade"

Just to be clear. I wrote this on my linux mint laptop. I'm thankful for all the hard work people put into Debian, Ubuntu and Free Software in general.
This is just an generalization.
>What a way to waste your prime years.

what even are those "prime years"?
A raven flies over my house every day. It would be interesting to try attracting it. It's never been interested in my feeder though.
I teach Python and Data Science for a living. I just ran through my fundamentals of Python course project with ChatGPT this morning. I was able to create a modern Python project layout, unit tests, documentation, comments, types, and a command line interface by copying and pasting code.

And the code was decent. It did have some problems coming up with the correct assertions for some of the unit tests.

For folks with an understanding of coding, this will be a huge boon to productivity and quality. However, this is not a tool that newbies (currently) will be able to use without any understanding of code.

I view it like a very powerful spell checker or grammar checker for a word processor right now. You need to have a direction you want to go, and if so this will get you there much faster with a better end product.
Computers with social media are so extremely reactive. Literally within half a second I can react to my boredom and find new content. I've noticed myself beginning to read a sentence, get bored half-way through, switch tabs, look over the new recommendations, do it again 30 seconds later.

Never bored, and yet never really entertained or satisfied.
I’m not really sure it’s a “leaky abstraction”. Technical detail or something, I fail to see how it’s an abstraction to have this constraint in the WiFi standard.
Without any evidence that ties accelerationism to this, this isn't adding context. It's just a distraction.
As a thought experiment. How might an AI trying to follow the intent of Azimov's three laws of robotics help the humans?

Initial conclusion: the community is broken and dangerous to humans. Evacuation of at risk life necessary. Distribute and re-integrate across functional settlements.
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