skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could certainly get the impression that poetry is dying, or doesn't "sell well," if you live in a region with bookstores that hide poetry. For example, I've been to bookstores in the American South that only seem to sell best-selling novels, cookbooks, and local histories. That's surely a consequence of the profit-motivated impulse you mention, coupled with a cynical view of what people would want to buy. But you can't generalize that to all bookstores, or all cities.

Here in New York City, for example, it's abundantly clear that poetry is thriving. Not only are there huge, prominent sections for poetry books in our bookstores, along with sections for poetry anthologies and poetry journals, but we also have at least one bookstore which only sells poetry, and one library, as well. There are poetry readings that happen every day, and at least two bars and clubs devoted exclusively to hosting them, with several others that primarily host them. The poetry book fairs that happen once or twice a year showcase hundreds of newly published books. Lots of other places are like this. I can think of poetry-only bookstores in Boston and Seattle, for instance. And City Lights bookstore in San Francisco has a whole floor dedicated to poetry.

Of course, poetry books are not going to sell as well as J.K. Rowling novels. But in terms of the "health of the medium" and the "impact on culture," it's never been better. If you don't see that, it's likely because you live in a place that's at a remove, culturally or geographically, from a cultural center like New York, or from a place with research universities. So who is "insular" and "out of touch," exactly?
On other hand. Why would people in economy be less deserving of quiet? Maybe they even spend relatively more of their money on the flight?
It's harm tradeoff, not harm excuse. It does harm user privacy.

But it's also harmful to the Internet at large (as in "all the users of the Internet") if service operators can't keep a service online because it's swamped by malicious users (or, arguably worse, it is online but the nature of its use is so badly understood by its operators that it's serving as a springboard for larger, more coherent attacks).

Services like Cloudflare allow operators to outsource the knowledge of how to mitigate those issues. This increases the total services that can be provided online by lowering the knowledge floor via specialization, which makes the Internet "bigger" (in terms of more things you can do with / on it).
Comcast debacles dominate Ars Technica’s biggest ISP horror stories of 2022
And if you’re a tourist, add even more time because you’ll stop every 20 miles for a stunning view, castle, or picturesque village. ;)

Driving time in Scotland is largely due to road size/design, not absolute distance. Once you get north of the Glasgow/Sterling/Edinburgh zone, you have a few “major” dual carriage ways and a lot of smaller roads. And the Highlands and Hebrides have single track, so if you’re going to a small coastal village or similar, you might be stopping every few miles to let somebody by in the other direction.
> This piqued my curiosity and I wondered if Linux supports ReadyPlay and other DRM standards to support higher bitrate and higher resolution Netflix streaming.

I pay for my Netflix subscription. And when I want to watch a movie on my projector, I first torrent it (fiber optic, takes two minutes top), then play it. No random Internet issue. I torrent the x264 "webRIP" which I figure out is basically the film I paid for the right to watch using my subscription. I'm not a "data hoarder" / movie collector: I watch the movie then delete it. Same for series.

I started doing this after I upgraded my Netflix subscription to a higher tier then noticed streaming quality on OS X was still crap.
Time travel, time travel, wherefore art thou time travel.

When it comes to build versus buy, there are only right answers with hind-sight.

>> Maybe cataloging the feature set of the internal software, seeing what is a necessity, and seeing which vendors can cover those requirements?

Feature set is part of it. Longevity is another. (been relyinb on Google Reader lately?)

Cost us part of it (internal is usually more expensive, but not always.)

Flexibility is another - building up the knowledge and expertise helps morph the system to your needs, not the other way around.

I'd say it's mostly better to buy, you'll likely get much more for much less, but it comes at a cost beyond just money. Beware of things on your critical path, to which you are beholden to outside "partners".

All that said, I think developers err on the build side way more than they should.
Linux desktops are also a lot more stable and easier to configure than Linux laptops, especially if the desktop is built with off-the-shelf components commonly sold at major computer hardware retailers.

The bulk of Linux laptop woes (improper hibernate, touchpad/lighting control, peripherals, GPU switching, battery life, etc.) directly stem from the hyper fragmented hardware and firmware specs used by various OEMs.
The folks who just love hammering and teach themselves in their spare time, may well come across an opportunity to hammer professionally.

In which case, nobody will care how they got their skills, whether it was on the job or not. Just that they are really good at hammering and can prove it.
I wouldn't say this book is about a couple. It's about Rakel. If anything, it's more about the "couple" of Rakel and Sofia than Rakel and Jakob.
find a game that's more than a shooter. some are truly art, and culturally significant works.

do you like a mystery, newtonian space simulation, beautiful music and visuals, and being driven by your own curiosity instead of a game on rails?

check out "Outer Wilds"

i similarly find it hard to play games myself. this game came on a recommendation and instantly became the best game i've ever played. and in the vein of wasting time, this game transcends "video games." it's actually a masterpiece. i recommend going in with no knowledge, just give it a shot.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640/Outer_Wilds/
This should definitely be implemented in projects where the use of the feature flag is common. When you go with boolean values, after a while you have a pile of data that you don't know what was done and when.
Those are quite dumb too, but Microsoft's deals with the OEM don't stop me from using Intel's hypervisor framework or iGPU on Linux.
What's to consider?

Obviously I write Windows software on Windows, there's no realistic alternative.

For software that runs on all of Windows/Mac/Linux, I...still generally use Windows, because Visual Studio is really good for C++ and C#.

I do like macOS for embedded development, though.
The article mentions that the doge image and subsequent meme predate Dogecoin.
I think I don’t fully understand the opening up a terminal prompt part of that comment.
You can certainly do development on MacOS, but I think it's clearly not an _ideal_ set-up.
Apple shouldn’t be using emergency services as worker bees to finish an incomplete feature that results in false positives more often than not.

The article directly mentions that none of the calls have been actual emergencies and that it is absolutely tying up resources.

The feature is fine in spirit, and I am sure it has helped in some situations. But I don’t like Apple failing fast. It’s going to end up costing a life because responders respond unenthusiastically to an automated call or the automated calls tying up resources preventing proper response to a real emergency.

Automation that is not accurate is a real problem. Humans will quickly calibrate to it being wrong most of the time. This has occurred time and time again.
Yep. If there was such a big issue with hiring - we wouldn’t see these insane leetcode and system design interviews that require months of dedicated studying in order to pass them. (Even though you’re a perfectly adequate engineer and working already) This process isn’t just FAANG either. Most of SV does this and so do many other startups outside of SV.
I have a bit to go before I’m a software engineer over fifty, but I have a lot of anxiety about it primarily from an ageism standpoint. I don’t really want to go into management because I love coding and solving problems, but I fear that one day I’ll will struggle to find work due to my age.

What has your experience been with this issue?
Same here, on a quite powerfull Thinkpad graphics workstation.
>just for money

And in certain slices of the globe there isn't even much of that! No risk of workaholism.
The economy is a farce. How can demand be the lowest it's ever been but prices not budge? My modest home in Columbus Ohio has tripled in value in a decade. Either we are on the precipice and prices are in a Wiley coyote moment or the economy is fake.
Log tables are a super good idea in a lot of cases. And if your DB support it add a JSON column to that log table. Being able to dump either stricter data from our own logging or the reponcess from third part APIs in invaluable. You never know in advance what is going to be useful.

If you start generating too much data, add a cron job to purge older items or scale back the logging.

An example from our e-commerce platform, the "order/cart" tables have corresponding log table that log all changes, user interactions, and all requests/responses from Stripe during the checkout process.

It's super useful both for tracking down bugs, but also confirming what happed when customers contact support.
Oil generally isn’t used to generate electricity because it’s not cost effective.

For example, in the US it’s 0.5%:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Now is totally different. The software used to be done with graphical tools, with boxes like simulink, but with only basic logical and arithmetic operations.

Now they are trying to write C++.
Language in a New Medium
We are learning charlatanism in a new medium.
I find it far more comfortable. Dual explorer dual pane is the most efficient way to handle files, for me.
It's always the shared volumes that kill you. Especially for I/O intensive stuff like npm and webpack builds.

With that said if you're doing mostly backend stuff in Go/Python/Ruby etc it's quite good. Most of my complaints are from full-stack development.
He specifically said ‘conn a ship’. Conning is the specific highly technical act of directing the ship while in motion. Navy types are known to be sticklers for precise use of naval terms, so we have no reason to assume it doesn’t mean exactly what it says.

The task you are describing is not design; it’s specification or briefing at best. Heinlein was also an aeronautical engineer. Engineering is are also a profession where imprecise language costs lives.

The hardest one was “plan an invasion”, but I’m sure you’re about to tell me that a former naval officer and author of some of the most famous pieces of military science fiction didn’t really mean “plan an invasion” when he said it, or that despite modern history being full of poorly-planned invasions (and there’s one going on right now), actually it’s something you can learn on a three day course.
That is very strange; ex should be part of Arch base... oh well, probe for `vi -s` and if this does not work either, get karma on reddit or whatever by making fun of Arch :D
Kernel versions 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 when they make to mainstream distributions will give developers many more reasons to choose Linux over MacOS.
People tend to fall out of top 1% income earners for all kinds of things like retirement.

However, for a great many things it’s lifetime earnings or wealth that matter. A billionaire who lost money this year isn’t the same as a poor person.
Do you have a blog or something to follow? :)
I am thinking about converting my cancer producing E39 530d and would love to read how others fare with the effort :)
No idea what you mean?

The Yiddish seems normal, the Hebrew on the other end is... Judeo-German (Hebrew-lettered German).
> Im going to do this because they are good, because they don't suck, because they will get the job done. They will make me look good as the person who brought them in/onboard.

This maybe makes sense from a hiring manager's perspective, but I think a lot of the people who say "let me know if I can help" are non-management peers. At most companies, the best they can do is enter their recently-laid-off colleagues information and resume into the internal referral system. Yes, that's usually better than going in through the "random applicant from the internet" funnel, but it's still limited. Even if they have a good relationship with the hiring manager, often the applicant still has to go through the funnel, and it's easy to get lost there. This usually isn't an issue with smaller companies that have less process, though.

Regardless, on the few occasions where I (as a non-manager) have referred someone and they've been hired, I don't think it gave me much of a reputation boost as someone who brought someone good onboard. Regardless, there are certainly some people for whom I'd go above and beyond to try to help them get an interview, but I'd do that because they are close friends whom I want to help, not because I of any professional perks of successfully referring someone, which I absolutely don't care about.
For unsupported old games of specific time period dgVoodoo2 does wonders. Finally completed Gabriel Knight 3 on Linux.
Developer Transition Kit: EXCLUSIVE review and teardown
Been a customer since 2005, Version 8 back then, they are now on version 12. Considering that they only charge for major versions, that’s pretty impressive.

It’s in my personal top 3 of must-have windows software (together with EmEditor and MediaMonkey)
No need to ask people to work more or harder - just show/allow them to work more efficiently and they can generate more value with less/same overall effort.

Better to have a more relaxed and achievable target of 100 units with a more efficient way of working than to have a more difficult target of 50 with a less efficient one. Right?
Indexing a 64 bit versus a 1 bit column actually sounds like a potentially really good win to make the index much much smaller, which could help loads with keeping it in hot memory or cache.

On the other hand, on postgres & maybe others, one could perhaps index an expression deleted_at is not null, which would let one have the data shape they want while letting the index shape suit the typical access pattern.
I doubt that is true. Interviewing candidates is a huge time sink for which every manager i know of would rather want to skip.
This was one of Luke Plant's YAGNI exceptions: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/yagni-exceptions/
Capital eventually moves to concentrate power by merging entities and monopolizing markets. It wasn't designed to do that, but is a consequence of allowing it to operate without regulation. As a result competition is reduced and the consumer harmed.

We generally don't consider that we have "laissez faire" capitalism, for a reason. Interestingly, when it comes to bailouts and government subsidy, we don't seem to have a problem recognizing this fact.

When the citizens are being paid poorly, we suddenly find ourselves searching for the "true meaning" of capitalism.
Discussed at the time:

GNU nano is my editor of choice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28174810 - Aug 2021 (230 comments)
BigQuery is not cheap but it’s remarkable at analyzing big data quickly. My datasets are currently 500gb a day and it handles them like a walk in a park.
My heat pump is advertised to operate as low as -13F. One thing to note is the efficiency of heat pumps is not optimal when they are operating close to their extremes.
I always prefer Linux over MacOS. That said, Linux on laptops has been a tremendous pain in my experience. There are simply too many non-standard parts and custom drivers to make laptops work and Linux struggles to enable you to use your laptop in ways that you would expect to out of the box. Case in point:

1) I chose the route of entirely disabling nvidia and using the built-in intell graphics cards. This was probably a mistake in hindsight. I did it because I wanted to use less battery, but, so much stuff seemed to work sub-optimally.

2) For chrome in particular, I had to jump through a lot of hoops just to get it to render things properly and play videos. This had knock-on effects with chromium apps like slack and zoom. I never got Zoom the app working on Linux, but was forced instead to use the browser version.

3) I ended up having to install a non-stock kernel to get a lot of things working.

4) I remember running into issues with sleep not working. I don't even remember exactly what I had to do to fix, but, it's another example of something a MacOS user will never have to think about.

Anways, I prefer Linux over MacOS so much that I was willing to experience a ton of pain to use it, but I could not honestly recommend it to others at the time. I hope it's gotten better since a few years ago, but I would be very surprised to hear it has. Each new generation of laptops brings new custom chipsets, hardware, etc. with no formal Linux support.
Coming soon: https://github.com/haystackoss/haystack
Not an Apple fanboy but wow I read a lot of criticism here. I love macbooks since the 2013 model until the newest one (skipping the 2017 model with the weird keyboard, if I recall right).

Not sure what issues with Docker many of you are experiencing, but I have been using docker for Desktop quite extensively and it works.

The only bad issue I had so far after so many years of use, to be really honest, is that since I upgraded to Ventura my laptop crashed 3 times after opening Xcode or various IDEs. Never happened before, and that’s kind of annoying but I can live with that for now.
What Is a Smartphone?: A Thomistic Analysis
When I was at the spot before covid, I felt very venerable and desperate at the same time. I was junior and just started my career. At the beginning of job search, I tried to tell people the true story behind. However, once I opened that, it immediately became a gossip where the recruiter was more interested in the details than my competency for the job.

I survived it eventually after 6 months but I wish I knew all the truths before that.
I really enjoyed using Opus over the years. (early to late 90s on various Amigas)

I used it more than the Workbench stuff as it made administration quite easy.
Again, my point is not that children are faster at learning any given thing, but the total volume of learning is much greater.

Further, how is it possible for you to evaluate the quality of personal growth independently from all the nonoverlapping magisteria out of which every every life is composed? When you recommend that someone not have a family or a career because they detract from personal growth, it must be because you have some other metric by which personal growth is measured. Unless you have a simple, reductive utility function, I don't see how that's possible. And if you do have a simple reductive utility function, it's very like incorrect.
Yes, and that's unlike ARM or MIPS.

RISC-V and OS-A 22 platform are different than x86 & the IBM PC platform in that it has put effort into ensuring these things are standardized from the very start.
https://github.com/Soft-wa-re/password-manager-comparer/issu...
The people whom I’d recommend are not on the basis of loyalty but rather on some dot product of competence and willingness/propensity to do hard work.

It’s true that a network referral will inherently be of someone that I worked with (or have other [rare] reason to vouch for). That’s the value of it: if you know me enough to trust my judgment, that vouch has information value for you.

I don’t see any other way it could work more effectively.
Can you tell me more about the Salesforce decision? Salesforce is one of those companies that I hear the name a lot, but seldom do I get to read insights about them.
I wonder what the stats would be from 15-20 years ago.

It's sad how Apple has squandered the UNIX/NeXTSTEP/Mac OS X heritage of macOS. They continue to rip those components out of the OS with no replacement. As a university student, I was very attracted to Mac OS X because of UNIX. It was huge selling point for me over Windows. Now, the tables have almost turned.
I've asked my team at Amazon [usual disclaimers] to read this, and highlighted my favorite takeaways: "Well-timed sleep was probably the most important thing I did", and "Using sleep to do the heavy lifting on algorithm design". I love this concept, and need to incorporate more of it myself.
[..]It's also the distribution of that money: why does one person receive more than the hundreds or thousands of people that do the actual work?[..]

Because wages are taxed. You can’t tax the low wage earners. But an increase to those in the higher tax bracket pumps money back into public money spending while also it keeps the economy humming.

People don’t understand that wages paid is mostly for the running of the economy. As a wage earning employee, one is merely a cog in the wheel of the larger economy.

Distribution of money in an economy occurs when businesses thrive and the economy is fueled by the wages. Distribution of wealth is an entirely different subject.

This is why interest rates are always controlled by the central bank. If they don’t, countries will spiral into complete economic collapse.

I would rather high tax payers get hikes in a strained economy than low wage earners. Economic welfare should only be borne by those who can afford to pay higher taxes.
Ask HN: What are your favourite macOS “Automator” automations?
I love to be able to open a new terminal window anywhere with a simple shortcut. Makes me so much faster at work.

Do you have any automations that save you time?
There's 2 types of public transport: intra-city and inter-city. Intra-city doesn't serve the same use case as flying, and can't generally be repurposed to inter-city transport, so it should be discounted. If the US had inter-city rail that people actually used, then it would almost certainly be near capacity in a normal holiday season. Unless you assume there are a lot of extra train cars that aren't normally being used but could be taken out of storage, there's no way that it could absorb such a large influx of stranded passengers on short notice. Inter-city rail generally operates like airplanes in that only one ticket can be sold for each seat - there's no standing room on a multi-hour train ride.
SAT-type verbal stuff is very different from being able to write well. It's much closer to math with a different alphabet--I've met more than one math major who did better on the verbal sections of standardized tests.
Are you trying to spin a 20% wage increase as bad, somehow?
Related:

Actually Using Ed (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30318638 - Feb 2022 (7 comments)

Actually using ed (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13113556 - Dec 2016 (88 comments)

Actually using Ed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4120513 - June 2012 (89 comments)
I have a 16" M1 MBP. Never had this issue. Connected to a OWC TB4 dock with 2 monitors. I have to use Amphetamine to keep it from going to sleep.

Undocking/docking works fine. Perhaps you have some process running that is preventing sleep.
I would rather work with someone with a lot of opinions than someone with few opinions, even if those opinions are very different from mine. Someone with few opinions isn’t really going to contribute new ideas. They’re not going to foster debate, or try to teach others. They need to not be stubborn though, and willing to go along with a decision that they didn’t support.