skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the war, Bengali nationalists also committed mass rape of ethnic Bihari Muslim women, since the Bihari Muslim community supported Pakistan.[18] Indian soldiers as well as Bengali militiamen were also identified as perpetrators of rape by scholar Yasmin Saikia.[19][20]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Bangladesh_L...
while it is indeed useful for a terminal emulator to be efficient at discarding characters you will never see, it probably isn't the main criterion to judge it by
Some parts of big organizations are absolute rot, though. They fail to deliver, deploy broken software, and can’t be relied upon to ever succeed at their jobs.

I have no power to fire other groups, but what I can do is list all the ways the other group will fail and how we have to handle their failures and what that means for the customer. Those groups will never improve, but because I look like a soothsayer, I will get rewarded and promoted.

Is this healthy for the org? Of course not. But I am not the org. If anyone had my insight a few levels up, they would fire incompetent teams and let teams with proven track records take over. I’ve never seen this happen, so I’ll hold my breath.
AI Generated Room Design
NY AG fines companies that spammed FCC with fake anti-net neutrality comments
Taxes are not theft. They are a fee you have to pay for the privilege of living in modern society.

And the argument for it is that the alternatives are clearly far worse. What more do you need?
If you don't have experience in building things, why not just jump on a stabilised project and build something smaller there? Reflect which free software you use the most or find more interesting, and then check how you can contribute.
The goal of the filter is probably to pass people for whom benefiting everyone who uses the project is important because in the long run that's more valuable to the team and more sustainable for the project.
Protocols over platforms hasn’t happened because who is going to pay for the apps and polishing their user experience?

Software is really weird. For a car the engine and drive train and frame cost a lot more than the dashboard and the trim. For software this is backwards. The engine and drive train are often cheap or even free, but controls that people can use or trim to make it look nice is very difficult and expensive. It’s easy to make (most) software work but soul crushingly hard to make it usable.
At some point I chose one project as a main one, while I still start loads but that one plugs on.

Still, within that project I start things then come back.

When I'm going around GitHub it takes me about a year to get back to a project.
> He's so close to making the final leap. Now, the $1,000,000.00 question, how do we make these awful people to be terrified of the populace so they behave even remotely respectably...?

> The audience is waiting with baited breath to see if he'll say the right answer!

No one is villain in their own story. They must believe that their actions actually are good, because they rise shareholders value. And because most shareholders don't invest long-term it doesn't matter what happens in such time scale.

Alternatively they are so raging sociopaths I don't believe they are able to function in any civilised society.

In the end it's the system that choose people who have traits from both of my points. Because if only KPI is maximisation of profits, then only thing you will get is profit maximisation.
Shouldn't you just use a web browser or a GUI at some point, if you're trying to do graphics? Adding bitmaps seems like feature creep, muddying the whole purpose and appeal of the terminal.

Next you'll want accessibility, alt text for blind readers, DPI awareness, responsive scaling on different screens, etc.
Enjoy the process of building your framework. I had similar goals when I started my no tooling / no dependencies Reactive framework https://reken.dev, 2 years ago. And I loved every bit of it. My most complicated problems were reactive DOM elements based on nested loops and recursive components. Even though Reken does pretty much what I need and grew to 7kb compressed, I am not 100% happy with the scope of the application state, and it is simple but sometimes confusing. Perhaps your proxy approach can help me here.... I'll have to think about it more.
Say there is a quantum system – a particle or something – that has an equal probability to collapse in either of two classical states if measured. Say there are two scientists in a laboratory who perform a measurement on that system. If your hypothesis is true, how do they agree on what they perceive when looking at the result of the measurement? Each brain would have to make an arbitrary decision on which of the two equally likely outcomes to perceive.
Does it always stop after going 10 layers deep?
Remands me of the last walking dead Brezhnev's days of the USSR. Big changes are coming. And not towards the best.
> The person who’s passsing the money down already paid tax on the money.

If they're passing down cash yes, but if they pass on assets like stocks or real estate, the cost basis gets stepped up to the fair market value at the time of death (in the US at least). So any capital gains accrued on those assets prior to the death of the person passing them on are just never taxed.
I come from a long background of coding in assembler, C, C++ and yet VB.Net is my all-time favorite language to code in. The code is infinitely more readable than other languages, which makes understanding code and debugging much easier.

I've finally shifted all my projects to C# only because support for VB.Net is sadly waning.
Ask HN: What's the longest domain name you've seen used by a real company?
I recently saw "https://www. brownstoneluxuryhomemaintenance .com" on a truck in NYC and thought it was hilariously long. I imagine it was probably chosen for keyword reasons.

Have you seen comparably long domains used by real companies?
> Ecto is good but I think the Django ORM does it better.

Oh no, I strongly disagree. I know both very well, and Ecto is much better and flexible. SQLAlchemy was great, when I last used it two aeons ago, but still subpar compared to Ecto.

But also apples and oranges. Django has an ORM (i.e. stateful), Ecto is a stateless data mapper.
says vendor trying to sell anti-bot software to your managers. Let me guess, by "all internet traffic" they mean "HTTP requests going through our tool"?
Why is the polar bear white? The optics of polar bear pelts
Go easy Dan. You're assuming that people who have a job to do, in whatever way they achieve that, care greatly about what others think. One just does the job with the tools at hand, and with the skills at hand, and move on. It's a job, not a competition in aesthetics. If it works, it works. Most people will defend their work, and not their choices, because often the choices weren't theirs in the first place.
Does it matter what is the origin of that opinion? As long as it is a good insight into the situation and accurately reflects the state of affairs, it shouldn’t matter, right?

And as to not being the leader at Google, this hardly matters. Being politically adept and leadership skills don’t necessarily correlate with having better feel and insights into the future technology.

And not being the leader reduces filters, doesn’t have a pull of a contract to protect specific people you lead and your own project, etc.

It’d be better to hear that from a founder, for certain, but a honest opinion of a well seasoned engineer often enough is a better reflection of the reality, than an official statement by a “leading force”.
Sometimes edits are easier on the contentious pages. There are more people looking at those pages and so democracy can prevail over time. But edit an almost unknown page and someone may jump out of the woodwork. There are editors of small pages, especially original page creators, who jealously guard their tiny mountains.
I'm not saying the content is bad. I'm saying the expectation to get paid for content is bad. Grant is still going to do 3blue1brown even if he doesn't get paid because he cares about math and about teaching math. If he quit his day job it would force him to make new videos he wasn't 100% passionate about; it would force him to change his content to suit the algorithm.
Yup, beware of DHCP with printers. I've never not been burned.
Right because the answer to that is even more obvious but I'll spell it out anyway.

The reason we should tax is that not taxing would be far worse. Point me to one of these mythical non-"oppressive" governments at any point in history that didn't tax and wasn't awful.
MIR publishers (Moscow) published so many high quality books.
They even had the same elegant style, quality and accessibility even in their translated works.

The quality of paper used, the typesetting, the cloth binding and in general the physical attributes of their books were a work of art in itself. One can easily fall in love with the physical book just for the way it was designed, let alone the content.

The authors used in their translated works were equally exceptional in their translation.

I fondly remember reading their "Physics for entertainment" by Perelman as a translated work in good old days and it actually made me fall in love with the text book physics taught at the school level.

Given that this was an artifact when USSR made it even more fascinating. Books were priced a trifle over the shipping cost as they were likely subsidized heavily by the government.

It is sad to see that they are no more. They were likely defunded/dissolved when USSR broke up.

Thank you MIR for lighting up my childhood.

RIP.

- https://mirtitles.org/

- https://mirtitles.org/2012/04/30/misha/
That looks like a fun book to have on the coffee table!
Was with you right up until the part where you said the behind-the-scenes handlers are acting on behalf of the public's will or interest.
Why not? I’ll be 50 next year and I’m very much an IC.
I use systemd-nspawn to create test containers so I can muck with the internals without dealing with docker cp and exec commands. The containers themselves are just directories sitting in a filesystem.

I ended up writing a shell script to handle setting up a bridge, launching the container with systemd-nspawn and kick off commands to bring up the virtual ethernet interfaces inside the container and handle some other housekeeping

systemd-nspawn with systemd-network/resolve/etc can automatically manage the IP addresses for you. I'm using it as a wrapper around cgroup/netns commands.

One of these days, I will remove the dependency on systemd-nspawn so that I can use it on Linux systems without systemd or docker.
zellij is amazing in terms of UI/UX, but in my experience not as stable as the older options. Which is understandable, screen and tmux have had decades to sort things out, but it does mean that given the general messiness and complexity of remote network connections (which is the most common use case), running into these rough edges is not difficult at all.

I feel like zellij is the future of terminal multiplexers, and I like using it in my personal machines, but I stopped using it for work after a while.
Neither did the government. Why shouldn’t the person who did earn it get to decide what happens to it? After all, they could choose to donate some to the government. No one does though, voluntarily, because we all know that money would get wasted.
Glasgow Haskell Compiler

Articles and headlines with TLAs without initial definitions are AAF.
It snows once, maybe twice, in Seattle every Winter, and it's like no one's ever seen the stuff before.
I've seen <department>.<city>.<country>.<company>.com as the domain in an email address on a printed sign on a building
https://archive.ph/X2h2j
PC, windows 10, ryzen 3600, 16gig ram. A few mayflash controller adapters: snes,gamecube, n64, ps1.
Also use a usb Saturn pad for six button fighters etc. And god help me I've ordered a sinden light gun!
98% of the population gets its reality from authority (the opinions of the hive being #1). Independent thought is unimaginable. Not even on the table. May as well ask a grain of sand lodged in a eastgoing glacier to consider heading south.
It seems the date was 1986. What I find surprising is McIlroy's solution feels completely modern still, one could still solve the problem more or less in the same manner today when writing a command pipeline on a unix derived os. Even the names and syntax of the commands hasn't changed.
Microsoft Azure still has the GPT-3.5 foundation model, code-davinci-002. It is not fine-tuned for instruction following, safety, or censorship.

I'm not sure though whether Microsoft analyzes the input/output with another model to detect and prevent certain content.
There isn’t a deemed disposition at the fair market value at the time of death? I thought the estate paid that capital gain which is why the inheritor receives it at the new FMV?
Hoping for a big exit is about like those hoping to retire from winning the lottery.

Only 1 out of 10 companies “succeed” and
that definition of success is the VCs make their money back.

Better idea, leave the Bay Area.
That's irrelevant (and barely different to having to type `=`). The salient point is that you don't need to manually call free/release.
Ok three month is new to me. How can you see the downvotes come from the comment?
Love these articles such as this OP where the concept is ripped apart and identified as snake-oil.

Good job, keep it up.
Probably unintentional. People often click into subsections of the page and then submit their current URL as it is, without realizing they're linking to a subsection of the page.
I read it. The most I can do about this is drive safely. The perspective of the aftermath is interesting, but not very relevant to me. So I think about what’s relevant.

Maybe to someone, recovering from brain injury is relevant. They will think about that.

There’s nothing wrong with focusing on what’s relevant to you in a writing.
Somebody has to click those ads! I’d rather it not be me.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/best-regular-savin...
Right. I went to their site and I can't even access the actual "report" they're talking about. But it's clear that they've accidentally mixed up the words internet and web.
Many would be users can’t send their data data to openAI. Think HIPPA and other laws restricting data sharing. Federation or distribution of the models for local training is the other solution to that problem.
I think they did their math wrong. If we assume an iron operates at 1000 W (probably about right), then 21 hours of ironing is 21000 Wh, or 21 kWh. Someone probably got a little confused and ended up off by a couple orders of magnitude.
Tweeting paid for my Playstation 5 (2020)
That is the irony to me. Good things seem to require a strong vision and discipline. This often comes from an individual forceful enough to maintain focus for the group.
Well, that's our fervent hope, but it's not necessarily a rational or well-founded hope, now is it?
Congress used to have a wing of non-partisan scientists (including economists).

Eventually propagandists got elected and fired them.
This is a good thing. Both have overstayed their welcome. Vice made interesting stories in the early 2010s and I watched some of it. The founder of Vice has been so far removed from where he started that he just DGAF.

I really didn't care for BuzzFed at all except for the food videos. It was great to see those group of people spin up their own an channel (About To Eat).

Another example is the Bon Apetit YouTube channel. Before Covid hit they were one of my favorite channels to watch. They just had a great mix of personalities and ideas. The sum was greater than its parts and they imploded. The channel has never been the same post Covid.
> huge signal they don't know how to really measure productivity

It’s genuinely hard to measure productivity in some fields.
Coptic Martyrs, Catholic Saints
She ripped up her manicured lawn and challenged the norms of gardening stories
In the early days of Android apps I saw that there was an LGPL-licensed Java library that could parse Microsoft Access files. I wrote a very simple Android UI for it that one could load a file, choose a table, and then page forward through it. Four days after I had the idea I released the app. At the time there was no other Android app where one could just have an Access database file on your phone or tablet and be able to read it without some convoluted means like net access. So it was popular among its niche crowd immediately.

Not so hard to "finish" - within four days I created an MVP that people found useful. I didn't stop working on it after four days - people asked for the ability to page backwards, which I added. Or the ability to search, which I added. Or for case insensitive search. Or for wildcard search. Or for a recently opened files shortcut if the same file or files were opened frequently. All these things users suggested, all of them I added. I even began sending patches upstream so that the library would work with the then latest version of Microsoft Access.

I had a product which people were using after four days. Because I had a free open source library to use and there was no competition at the time.

David White author of the game "The Battle for Wesnoth" had a similar idea about creating a simple project in a short amount of time ( https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=441 ). He had the same problem, so instead of something complex and time-consuming, he started building something simple.

> After a few days or weeks I completely forget about it, having not really made any progress on the project and not having released anything...I intentionally plan to have extremely minimal features, cut corners because this is just a first attempt and yet still it fizzles out.

If you're overflowing with ideas, then work on the simplest of those ideas, which will take the least amount of time to complete. One with even less of the extremely minimal features.

There's nothing wrong with reading about a new language, a new framework, a new API and toying around with it, I do that too as do many people. Lately, when I'm not poking at Android Compose frameworks, I poke at Stable Diffusion or Deep Floyd or LLMs or the like.

But if you want to finish something and never finish something, then a project which takes weeks as you say is out. From your overflowing ideas, pick the one which will take the least time to complete and complete it. If you run into some unexpected very complex tangle, which can happen, then if you want abandon it like the others and try the next simple seeming idea which comes up.
> One-in-five bad bots used Mobile Safari as their browser of choice in 2022, up from 16.1% in 2021.

Being a neophyte. How does this work exactly? Is a JS payload that does something bad or an app using web view. Genuinely curious on this one
The University’s Servant Class
One of the best comments I have ever read. You truly put this into perspective. Thank you.
If you think it's just 3 companies, I've got a bridge to sell you.
By debunked do you call them schools with walls and armed guards instead of prisons? Are you saying the massive prisons they built in that area don't actually exist and are fake? I've seen news reports with pictures showing them as well.

Edit to reply:
Yes, the schools don't look like the "schools" in Xinjiang. I can't tell if you're being paid or if you really believe what you say. Did the famines caused by mao not kill millions? Did tianamen square not happen?
> Though there were many aspects of teaching college students that I loved, I quit when I realized that for all the work I was doing at a top tier university, I was making less than $10 an hour. My situation was not unique. I was one of the tens of thousands of adjunct faculty members whose underpaid labor fuels the modern university system, which has sacrificed the principle of educating students for the sake of maximizing profits and protecting administrative jobs. Debates about American colleges typically center on culture war battles over woke versus anti-woke curriculums. But if you want to understand how the university system got to be so broken you have to look at the underlying infrastructure of higher education. The best place to start is with the adjunct system.
How does ALiBi compare to rotary positional embeddings? That method makes similar claims. I find ALiBi much easier to understand, but that’s probably not the best reason to chose it over other methods.
I just use screens but I guess tmux is better in every way
I don't believe it. Unless someone is running bots that watch netflix/porn all day, there is no way that they are consuming half of all traffic. Half of all posts? Sure. Half of all webpage requests? Ok. But half of internet traffic?
Bonus meme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Principles_for_the_Establi...
That unfortunate remark by McIlroy did more harm to himself that Knuth.
Since the linked book is at archive.org: I noticed that it is part of the _Mir Titles_ collection there:

https://archive.org/details/mir-titles

IA's browser e-reader is pretty nice to use overall, and the Mir titles seem to have been converted into various downloadable formats as well, in addition to what I'm guessing is the native PDF.

Props to the collection maintainer. This brings back some really good memories.

Note--It seems like some additional Mir books, in various states of curation, may be accessible via IA through search:

https://archive.org/search?query=Yakov+Perelman
> The tools for properly determining this...

This isn't a logically-evaluate-output scenario. It's low-trust between employee and employer.

The bullet points listed are highlighting situations where someone isn't delivering. What do you do if they ARE delivering, but not delivering as much as they could be? The "Not making a reasonably sized commitment" is implicitly an assessment of trust in someone. (I'm trying to paraphrase what I understand others are doing -- I certainly don't subscribe to this thought process.)

> a high skill employee putting in minimal effort but still being more valuable than multiple other developers

You're correct in evaluating value - "Hey, at least that individual is better than the others..." , Unfortunately not everyone sees it that way.

If the employer's expectation is that you are DEDICATED to your role, then all of your energy goes to that role -- not another one. All this gets into nuance and legality about what you're working on, if you have more than one W-2, etc. In one company I know of, your work agreement stipulates you may not hold another full-time position in such-and-such capacity.

As always, it depends from place to place.
At this point I think it calls to mind "cope" more than "hope."
That is a very subjective view, which, as you said in your first comment, will sort itself out eventually if it is meant for it to do so.
What if I charge you $6 because you order so many hot dogs that I have to find another distributor of raw hot dogs and hot dog buns? And charging $3 would mean that I'm taking a loss?