skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think this. But with so many Linux variants out there I think supporting it is harder than just supporting the windows api that makes it work.

It’s odd but things like docker and the JVM and browser based software mean the software will run abstracted a bit, less optimally, but good enough. Even among the different Linux distros software is distributed differently (rpm, debs, flat pack, pacman….)

Brining more people to Linux is the goal, more developers! and better software packaging eventually.
Odd how enforcing standards is "harassing."
I don't know what to tell you. Given a choice between headphones with more bass and studio monitor headphones, I'll take the ones with more bass. I'll also prefer headphones that have more subdued highs, because I'm sensitive to them and they hurt my ears. I don't need a blind A/B test for that. I don't need a scientific experiment to figure out what I like. You can't always reduce human experience down to A/B tests.

Also, I wonder why you care so much about "audiophiles".
Became a father in 2022, had to deal with the 'stress' that came with that however, I'd say its the most beautiful feeling.

So next year, want to:
- grow my social-app, and get some pre-seed/seed funding. We just got to 40K users in Dec. Incase anyone can make an intro :), or I could pick your brain on growth

- Learn more about RE and buy 1 or 2 MF unit.
- Read more. Less time starring at screens (phone, laptop, e.t.c).
- Music (want to try recording :) -- more an hobby than anything else.
On Charlie Munger (2019)
Wankel apex seals are still not a completely solved problem.
You're correct. However, you would create a library and make map an interface and create implementations for the types you need. e.g. https://github.com/wavebitscientific/functional-fortran/blob...
>When I clarified that I only cared about technical material, he replied that he only read technical material on the job, not after hours.

He's heard of work/life balance and doesn't want to do work during unpaid hours.

Nobody hires a cashier asking "tell me how you've made cashiering an integral part of your whole life or we won't hire you".
But you just compromised on every single point they laid out. So it’s not really an alternative any more than a Fiat 500 is equivalent to a Cadillac Escalade.

Sure they both do the same basic task, and they both may be good options in isolation, but they’re not comparable as a whole, and only comparable if you focus on only specific metrics.
This horse does not render infinitely :(
Lego Mindset vs. Woodworking Mindset
I don't see why a pattern of behaviour is required here?
1Password. Has all the features I want, really like the UI, and available everywhere I need it.
Rants against straw arguments that don't exist outside of the rants are always fun.

Nobody is saying it is impossible to use Linux on the desktop. We're saying that it will never overtake things like Windows and MacOS in popularity. That's what we've always been saying, it has never changed.
Demanding passion for the job is one of the toxic features of the software industry. It's your job, not your life.
It’s not made obvious by the article, but this lawsuit is for non-payment on a lease of one floor of 650 California St, not for non-payment on the 1355 Market St headquarters. They are also not paying rent at the latter, so presumably another lawsuit is coming. My assumption though is that they have already vacated the now extraneous space at 650 California and will settle with the landlord to break the lease.
I can see where you are coming from - but what you say is pretty much exactly why I don't use Linux outside of work. If I want to stream a movie or play a new game in my free time, I want a system that is going to deliver that to me with the least friction possible. I don't have the patience to be getting a lesson in hardware drivers when I am off the clock - I'm quite happy to be mollycoddled by Microsoft / Apple at that point.
leetcode is a horrible proxy for evaluating critical thinking ability - it's simply performative measure of "preparation" and the ability to regurgitate on-demand. at least that's my take after a few decades in the game.
I’ve used rss for a lot of years. But I’m pretty lazy and not particular about it. If only a snippet is contained in the feed item, I just click into the website.

Side note: I kind of wish these “rss is back” posts that were referenced in this article contained “hey here’s my rss subscription list.” Because I’d like to learn about new cool stuff to subscribe to.
That's just how people are generally. Your bias might be to see it more in computing culture because that's where you attention is. Some communities have different rules for how they express gate-keeping or elitism, but they all have it. That's human nature. We are self-centered, greedy, and ignorant of our own ignorance. Deep down, we all know it, and that self-knowledge leads to want to hide our flaws.
> Does anybody say this?

I have certainly heard it said that Linux as a desktop operating system is an utter mess or completely unusable.

> You ask a normie "what's your opinion of Windows 10?" and they'll have one, good or bad.

The "normies" I know do not have an opinion on Windows 10. Many do not even distinguish between Windows and Word. They have a computer, they know how to get some of their shit done with it. But they don't have a concept of "operating system", let alone an opinion on any one of them.

Some have an opinion on Android vs iPhone, but more often than not it's the quality of the camera they point to, rather than any feature of the operating system.

That said, I agree with your Interpretation of what "the year of Linux on the desktop" means and the fact that it hasn't happened.
I think this and the pregnant question are illegal in all of the US
Yeah, when the weather is right winter running can be amazing. The perfect is running in like -4 C with crisp air and everything covered in snow or frost.
Did this to prepare my gf for a noncompetitive run. If ytou stick to the plan it's easy even when starting from zero, and the program brings you to really running a 5K. Highly recommended.
People talk about what they know. A more relevant list probably would be how many American natives are filmmakers. I assume that they have several films without any white on it.
Stupid question:

Are recessions a healthy part of a normal economic ebb and flow? (Over the long-term)

I suppose an extremely long recession/depression (e.g. 5-10 years) would obviously be bad. But are recessions that last 1-2 years really something to panic over at a macro level?

My (less than informed) assumption is high growth followed by a slight contraction/recession isn’t objectively bad if it helps an economy consolidate and become more efficient during the period of contraction before the next upswing.
The way you describe it, it sounds like you think he's being smart. I wonder if you and all the others with a similar opinion feel the same about residential tenets who don't pay their rent?
How does it compare to WHICH Ryzen laptop?

It’s a meaningless question without that. There’s so many options. Each with their own manufacturer characteristics.

Comparing an M1 to an Intel Mac is easier because there were so few SKUs of each. Comparing against a sea of alternatives requires more precision.
The year of Linux on the desktop!
Why do you think so? He seems to have had very little reason to not kill himself, prison is a tough place for sex offenders.
I mean, the article is about the landlord suing Twitter, so the question of how they plan to enforce the terms of the lease seems to have been answered.

Note the landlord here is a big national firm. They're not going to be scared off by having to take things to court, and even beyond the $ at stake, they're pretty highly incentivized not to let customers wriggle out of paying leases just because there'd be lawyers involved in enforcement.
I was just pulling down some .jar files to run some cloud services locally.

Java may be in decline, but its scalability is still why it rules the enterprise roost.

Whether that is intrinsic to the language, or a reflection of engineering practices that surround Java is an interesting question.
This is one of those things that's so prevalent that it's kind of hard to even say.

One quick example: Look at every version of Windows from Vista to 10, and then look at what KDE was already looking like at the time. Hard to not see major influence.
Guided runs in Nike Run Club are great for this. There are several coaches with different styles.

My favorite have been the Headspace mindful runs[1].

[1]: https://www.headspace.com/meditation/running-meditation
> it's shit if you just want to get some work done

I donno what work you want to get done but I've been getting work done on Linux for over 15 years without any issues unless they were my own creation by messing about/tinkering with what was provided out of the box by the distro - for those cases, I knew I was into risky waters and was willing to accept the risks (as it happened, I was always able to overcome those and never lost any data etc).

If you do a fresh install and do things like, use web based apps, manage documents/worksheets (say using Libreoffice) and maybe run your business application, I don't know why things would go to shit. Keep your base software changes to security fixes and don't upgrade unless you have to - things should basically chug along.

Disclaimer: if you are running a laptop with Nvidia, then I have to accept that it is shit; causes all kinds of issues with upgrades etc. In that case, either use integrated graphics or go with AMD.
This is a pretty unavoidable downside of alt keyboard layouts. For vim you'd probably want a plugin like https://github.com/jooize/vim-colemak.

If you maintain your QWERTY muscle memory, you can use it as a fallback in foreign environments, but figuring out how to smoothly setup RC files on any target is probably the ideal: https://serverfault.com/questions/400522/how-to-use-a-custom...

Personally. I gave up on Dvorak in part due to this friction when I started introducing more and more tools like Vimperator (Firefox plugin, superseded by Tridactyl) into my workflow. The flexibility of switching on a vim mode anywhere and having it be 95% what I want is very high. The other factor was I still did a lot of same-machine peering then, which it added a lot of friction to. I do know highly capable engineers who go fully down the typing-ergonomics rabbit hole and stay there, but it does consume a fair amount of one's yak-shaving budget.
> Is Twitter worth more than the $13bn in debt?

The banks who own the debt* do not believe so.

[Edit: early article postulating 20% writedowns https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/musks-banks-book-twitter-...

recent news with 50+% as a more appropriate writedown than 20% https://www.reuters.com/technology/fidelity-marks-down-value...

* because they haven't been able to sell it to anyone]
I agree with the sentiment. I do not blame animals for being what they are hard wired to be. I blame their handlers for not being realistic about the animals they care for or in some cases do not properly care for.

If I could undo that hard wiring I would teach my deer to hunt coyotes which they are easily physically capable of when in a pack but they are hard wired to run which is a losing move. Coyotes are a threat to children and ultimately are eagle food and I want more eagles.
Yeah, as much as I don't want it to be true, HN algorithm is one of the harshest I've seen in terms of allowing people to hide/remove unpopular opinions. Some people think it's a feature not a bug though. I am not one of those people.

It's definitely "an elegant system for a more civilized age". Not for whatever you call the internet in 2023.
I found the PIR sensors to be too unreliable outdoor.

Right now I’m thinking about simply processing the outdoor cameras rtsp stream for people detection and then triggering is if it has a certain confidence.

Can be done quickly on the Pi with something like a google coral accelerator USB stick.

You can also have it send the photo it detects to your phone and you can manually turn on the alarm with that alert after viewing it.
I've had good success using a Rock Pi 4C as an alternative to the Raspberry Pi. Similiar form-factor and GPIO pinout, with mainline Linux support. Seemed to be plenty in stock when I bought mine.

Good luck!
> Will anyone with a fork now, or later, be able to sell a copyright of that code?

In theory, yes. Anyone could do the same thing. The market is already infinitely saturated.

Your code is like a mop. Without a janitor who knows how to use it, the mop is worthless. But you are an experienced janitor. You could open a business that sells janitorial services and make a lot of money.
You – The AI Search Engine You Control
In my experience, 99% of people just want a browser and maybe Microsoft Office. Plus maybe some other software to work with random stuff. Office works with compatibility layers, so just the "random stuff" category, and the occasional printer issue, are all I see keeping most people from using Linux. That and not knowing about Linux in the first place.
The obvious answer is to add as many Google employees as you can find into a project and then get the project and everyone involved banned from Google.

ETA: I wonder if you could do this with generic addresses like support@gmail.com. Just completely break their system until they fix it.
If I were you, I would just ignore the people who mock those who choose another platform. They're zealots or idiots and any attempt at conversation with them is a waste of time.

The truth is, in the wider world, nobody cares about their operating system. They are all good enough and have been for a while. What matters is the same thing that has always mattered - applications.
When I see predictions like this I think "awesome, no global recession coming in 2023". I have not done a study on this, but it seems like every prediction I come across is just wrong.

Its like when I watch Artosis or Tasteless give a prediction during an SC2 tournament and immediately be wrong. "caster's curse" i think its called.
> Inflation is the sign of a booming economy.

Or it can be an economy that’s fiscally out of control, or it can be a deeply unproductive economy. There are many possible causes, some of which can be simultaneous. Plenty of countries have had massive inflation without in any way booming.

If you read the article, you’ll find that all the factors you mention are discussed.

> The Economist runs headlines like "Are Recessions a Thing of the Past?

They ran that because some economists were making that claim. Their conclusion was that they aren’t.
Obviously not everyone like running (I especially get the boredom argument) but I doubt your joints are screwed up if you do weight lifting (stresses the joints quite a bit) and basketball (totally massacres joints). If your joins can survive basketball then your joints should have zero issues with running unless it is something very specific.
I think women benefit when they raise the standards on who they decide to sleep with. Women are pretty good at that when they want to, and men tend to benefit when women hold them to a higher standard.
I have one example and an anti-example. Both are related to algorithms and computer science.

A) Packing a binary tree into an array. Anyone that has attended an algorithms course has likely created a binary tree with nodes, leaf nodes, left and right child etc. Seen the pine-tree like sketch with a larger example where each node except the leaf nodes have a left and right child. So how do you pack this tree into an array and traverse it efficiently?

Well you turn it 90 degrees side-ways, slightly shift all nodes on the same level so that none align and put them into an array by going from leftmost to rightmost. (or other way depending on if you shifted 90 degrees or -90 degrees). Congrats, you've packed nodes into an array. How do you traverse it? Our root node is at index 1 and if you packed the array correctly then `idx = (idx * 2) + 1` will move down one side and `idx = (idx * 2) + 0` moves down the other. I don't have a good visual explanation of this but you can think of the integer/index as a bit-sequence describing when in the tree a left vs. right path was taken (with the exception of the root node).

B) Anti-example: Ford Fulkerson algorithm for finding shortest paths between all nodes in a graph. The algorithm is basically just three for-loops stacked on top of each other, but I still can't grasp why it works. Something with dynamic programming and incrementally building on prior established intermediate paths. The algorithm is truly the product of a beautiful mind.
Idk. about the US but normally during a restructuring the company is placed under control of a bankruptcy trustee.

So at least temporary he would lose control.
I've used Mac hardware though, I know what it does and where it's strong points are. The new Macbook designs are really good, arguably a return to the pre-2015 years when Mac laptops weren't designed with eggshells and fairy teeth. That being said, you can get 80% of the experience for 50% of the price these days. Laptop manufacturers are simply catching up, the gap isn't as wide as it used to be.
> Wasn't twitter supposed to stop working by now? They are still functioning, despite the layoffs. Maybe it worked?

I still expect it to stop working gradually, then all at once. Saying that the fact that Twitter hasn't collapsed yet means the previous staffing level was not justified is a bit like saying you shouldn't have paid a builder to put in a foundation because your house hasn't fallen down yet.
imo falling back on those kinds of code challenges indicate a lack of imagination and creativity on the part of the hiring personnel. the industry has grown so much and there are so many new tools available, people work in so many new and creative ways, that there's no reason to use methods that predate when most candidates these days were born.
> They bought actual stocks during the Pandemic-a sure high point of departure from the past.

Is this true? I'm pretty sure the wildest thing they did was purchase corporate bonds via ETFs.
Doesn't Modula-2, Oberon or Ada fill your checkboxes?
TBH Rippetoe's program is solid and gives good results.
I detest ageist and ignorant comments like "My dad plays games and there is no way in hell I would give him a Linux machine to play games.".

My mom and dad were gaming into their mid-70's around the time they passed away. I'm approaching 60 and have gamed for 4 decades and see no stopping. I've read multiple comments from people in their 80's and even 90's still gaming.

Proton enables a lot of great games to play on Linux, I use it every day.

Linux lets all users including non-technical, use it every day with ease.
“I spent the first 15 years of my career climbing that ladder, being ambitious,” he says. “I don’t want this to be what’s written on my tombstone. And I certainly don’t want the stress to be what puts me in a grave.”

100 years from now historians of labor will mark the COVID-19 pandemic as the time of the great reset, when labor finally got fed up with

-- Being constantly told to "do more with less" after yet another round of cost-cutting

-- Being loyal to companies that weren't loyal to them

-- Being exploited for some vague promise of reward in the future

-- Having no social or family life

I'm glad this has finally happened; I'm just sorry it took a global pandemic to force the issue.
I may finally have a take worth sharing here:

Yes, I think programming culture is immature as in there is lots that isn't yet well understood. I think the entire industry of software development is the same. But I think this is more a result of how young the field is compared to others. We've been building bridges, roads, etc for hundreds of year, but we're still trying to wrap our heads around software.

I think this is what makes it great. Yes, there are egos, and folks who strongly hold points of view that I'm sure history will prove incorrect, but I think that's what makes this fun.

To give an analogy - I've noticed that when my friends and I all get into a game (dota, back in ~2008, for instance) at roughly the same time, there's this magical period full of fun and discovery where we're all trying new things and exploring how the rules of the new space translate to outcomes. Sometimes we get suck in a local max and then someone dramatically finds a new mechanic that changes everything. This period is the golden period. This tapers off as we start to know which strategies work and we just continuously use those to win.

This is the point where the goals shift from discovery to execution. I've found that playing games past this point is just frustrating for me.

So, yes, I think we're still in the wild west era of software development, but I think it's kind of fun! I don't think it'll last forever and it will probably be better overall when it ends, but I'm here for the ride.
A normal person would have no clue they aren't getting full performance. If it's too slow they call the internet provider or buy a new computer or live with it and hate computers or ask a teckie friend.

If they can't login or the screen breaks they run to geek squad. Under no condition will they claim manufacture warranty on an internal part without a techie recommending this and removing the card/part for them
It depends on the definition "global recession" Who says it is not already here?
I think people just overthink it, I've been using linux for so long that it's just what computers are to me at this point

I don't care if anyone else does or dosen't use it
That is true, sometimes its also that one person is doing a small teams' work and instead of giving a raise, they feel it is better to hire from outside. I have seen this happen many times
TIOATOA?
You can already see that. If you think Twitter moderation is arbitrary or weird, clearly you haven't seen some of the popular Mastodon servers. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
Why are global symptoms of capitalism (recessions, financializations, slow motion crashes aka inflation) subjects of speculation but the cause - capitalism itself - not?
There was an article on here a few days ago about a call centre outsourcer who exploits workers. They make them pay for training, giving them tiny shifts, and then when they’re available for an hour but only take one call they only get paid for the time they were on a call (even though they were chained to their desks).

Most of their workers had their own LLCs that only employed themselves. A lot of companies force people to subcontract to get out of paying benefits. The statistic is a shameful one because it is not an indicator of a society that values gumption, tenacity, and entrepreneurship - it’s an indicator of the exploration of labour and crushing one’s fellow man underfoot in the eternal march for lower margins and higher profits.
The fact that Twitter currently has loan payments in excess of last year's profits could be a factor. Delaying means they will be more likely to be entangled in a bankruptcy and potentially get a worse outcome if they are. Even a low probability bankruptcy would encourage some urgency.
Just @ Elon. I'm sure he's got a "banger" reply ready to go