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I'd say it depends on who you're writing for, or what you're optimizing for. If you're somehow going for virality (viralness)?, then continued optimization in that regard makes sense. If you're writing about more niche topics or ideas, I don't know if the same applies. Not that refining your ideas is bad. Just that, as in the "common widsom" he gives at the beginning, a bigger surface area is likely to yield more stiff with a broad appeal. I've written a few things that for example got some upvotes and views on HN and elsewhere, and some that were complete flops. And I have no idea which ones are going to get noticed or be interesting - it certainly doesn't relate to what I find interesting. But I'd rather just write stuff I think is interesting, and hope occasionally someone else finds it useful, that try to optimize for others interests, which I think even if successful would probably be more boring overall.
Game developers have stated that the support requests they get for Linux outweighs the revenue they get from supporting it. There are so many distros with different packages/dependencies, drivers, package managers etc. that it's very time consuming to keep up and not worth it.
That's a legit question for a throw-away fast food job. Since most of these jobs are fungible, it can be useful to know why someone picked your greasy burger joint over the one down the road.

"It's close to where I live / I can walk here" = You probably don't have to worry about their "car breaking down" or general issues getting to work.

"My friends work here" = You're going to have a bunch of teenagers dicking off if you're not running a tight ship.

And there are a whole bunch of neutral responses too. "I need a job and you all are hiring" is a perfectly acceptable, accurate answer to this question that literally every applicant can provide.
I've never liked that quote because without context the criticism of inspectors and their tools sounds foolish to me. Inspectors generally serve an extremely useful role, I think the friction is that they're people. I compare them to a linter. We should probably have more inspectors unless AI can do it more easily, because capitalists will cut corners, risking the health and lives of others, at basically any opportunity.
For some reason you are being downvoted, but you are right - that is exactly what i was looking for. The videos on the original page did not play for me or give any indication they were videos.
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Small consultants can be worth their weight in gold, it's unfortunate the stereotypical experience with big firms colors the perception of the entire engagement model. Particularly for niches where you have no experience or existing best practices. Simply having someone in the room who has seen a half dozen solutions to XYZ and knows the common pitfalls is worth the cost, let alone the actual labor/execution.
GP isn't saying that Linux is faster than Windows; they are saying that a Windows app running under Proton under Linux is faster than a native Linux app running under Linux.
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You're right of course. However, interviewing is a game of limited information and I consider all signal I get from the company (after all, they're doing the same with me). I think a few things had to be broken in order for an employee to feel strongly this way, end up in the interviewing panel, and feel comfortable to share their views.

Nowadays it may be easier somewhat to get some insight into inner workings, but in 2006 there was no Blind, Glassdoor, etc. Sometimes the positive signals outweigh the negative. In my case they did not.
Yes, it's a bug, 100%. And yes, that's the reason I kept it (that's the beauty of making smaller toys instead of serious apps: https://sonnet.io/posts/reactive-hole/)

I've been getting some decent traffic from this one, so even if I fix it eventually, I might keep this bug enabled as a feature under a checkbox somewhere)
And in that case, only New York and Tennessee.
Yes! Also, I’m glad it’s helped you; migraine is utterly miserable.

Like many folks with chronic migraine, though, my approach has multiple facets.

Emgality is part of my management strategy and it significantly improved my total number of headache days per month. It got me to the point where I could start realistically making some lifestyle changes that helped as well.

Botox has also been great. It seems to do less for total number of headache days but it does a lot of duration and intensity. Many days I’m functioning even though I’m dealing with some pain in the background.

It’s not perfect but it’s still a much better place than I was before. :-)
> Regulation will be written in such a way that it will neuter the entire industry unless we have good oversight.

We're only in this position because self driving car companies are failing to regulate themselves. It's not that far-fetched for large corporations to come together and participate in self-regulation so the government doesn't have to. Look at the MPAA or really any number of trade organizations out there today.

If cruise fucks it up, that's on them and not us. SF is more lax than most cities in allowing this sort of stuff in the first place, but there are no guarantees, especially if people start dying.
The following .html file encoded in UTF-8, when loaded from disk in Google Chrome (so no server headers hinting anything), yields document.characterSet == "UTF-8". If you make it "a" instead of "ä" it becomes "windows-1252".

<html>ä

The renders correctly in Chrome and does not show mojibake as you might have expected from old browsers. Explicitly specifying a character set just ensures you're not relying on the browser's heuristics.
https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1693095184597151822?s=20

Mark Cuban seems to agree, and I am also a heavy user seeing the same thing.

What in particular are you seeing a proof of a downfall?
I wonder if this has something to do with ChatGPT. Maybe Google and other services are downranking now if a site churns out frequent, lower-quality articles because they assume it's AI-generated.
There are rational people in the system still. Good to see.
I don't know what the modern ABI is called, I only quoted what was in the back of my head so I could be wrong on the name but my point still stands.
The checkmark didn't represent any privilege, it meant verifiability that the account is actually that person. It makes sense it was mainly used by celebrities who are going to have a lot of impersonators.
Unless you statically linked GTK, possibly Xorg, and more into a ludicrous bundle size, you’d still be screwed.

As for “just get the libs,” that’s hilariously easier said than done. Try my example - it’s enough to make an engineer cry.
It's amazing how much money there is to be made in simply using up someone's budget in a way that's "good enough" so they can keep that money next year.
It became a trend among some data scientists maybe 5 years ago to start recording every keystroke they made on their PC. I'm kind of jealous now when that data is actually kind of useful.

I have a large 30,000 image collection of anime art that I like, that I even competitively ranked for aesthetic score 5 years ago that would come in useful for something like this.
For a long time I had my prompt some version of:

:$! $CWD $HOSTNAME $;

: (exit status, current directory, hostname, $ or # and a ;

the idea being -- you could just cut and paste and it'd mostly just work (except megabozos who like to make directories named ; or whatnot)
While having created and using my own distribution (wmlive.sourceforge.net), since it is based on Debian, the vote went to the mother distribution.
Serious question: Are actors, writers, etc not considered "Independent Contractors" in the US?
On Unix, you might try Nim (https://nim-lang.org) with https://github.com/Vindaar/shell and there are a slew of pipeline-y/Unix-y utilities over at https://github.com/c-blake/bu

Nim is statically typed and (generally) native-compiled, but it has very low ceremony ergonomics and a powerful compile-time macro/template system as well as user-defined operators (e.g., you can use `+-` to make a constructor for uncertain values so that `9 +- 2` builds a typed object as in https://github.com/SciNim/Measuremancer .
> What we need is companies to not intentionally be a public nuisance, just to make a quick buck

Unless you think companies will make this switch themselves (they will not), this is exactly what regulation is for. It's almost like you said:

"Christ, enough Regulation. What we need is regulation."
Most of the best decisions of my life were the opposite decisions my parents would have made. They're not stupid people, but they grew up in a totally different time and place. Nowadays I sometimes ask for their advice as "inverse input."
This is interesting as there's a commercial product also called Lyrebird (https://www.descript.com/lyrebird) which does voice replication. Also I would expect a voice changer app of all things to have an audio demo linked prominently in the README so I can hear how it sounds!
I'm regularly struck by how much of technical Japanese is literal transliterations of loanwords. In the diagram at https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer#vc-client-%E3%81%A8... , I see "user", "client (browser)", Docker "container", "server", "Host" PC, "speaker".

... I don't know what the label says on the link between the client and server, though, the katakana is "bo i che n" and I can't think of what that transliterates to. Maybe it's a loanword that's not from English?
I unfortunately 100% agree. While an amount of whimsy should be everywhere, animation shouldn't be used as just eye candy. Like every other aspect of UI design, it has to be used with purpose and care. And yeah, that's way rarer than it should be.
You grow as a writer with practice, but you grow readership with quality. The incentive between quantity and quality can be at odds for a personal blog. I think it comes down to what your goals are for your writing. Personal growth or professional recognition.
I could care less about Elon

https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1693095184597151822?s=20

Here’s Mark Cuban saying the tech/responsiveness has improved. Does he seem like the kinda guy who needs to suck up to anyone? A guy with fuckyu levels of money?
With the emphasis on "today's".

As in, new one tomorrow, or in a week. Wish project timelines matched ;-)
I don't think you sufficiently refuted it. There might be a more disruptive angle to take if Vision Pro was cheaper than good work equipment, but... it's not. It doesn't really replace the need for those things either, you'll be needing somewhere to use your Vision Pro when working or plugged in, after all.

Me and you are actually somewhat alike in that we both own (and like) the Oculus Quest. I get the appeal of well-packaged VR; when there's a selling point. As you admit in the article, the Vision Pro doesn't really have that kind of direction. As you say, it is the 'iPad moment' of VR, where we get Yet Another iPhone Form Factor. For the majority of Apple customers, there is more value in buying an Oculus Quest than spending $3,500 for a new way to use iMessage.
> “Radioactive pollutants build up in the cooling water,” said Judson. “In order for the plant to continue functioning properly, they have to discharge them. Some of it is vented out of the smokestack and some of it is released into the water.”

Is there any truth to that? That is not how I thought a nuclear power plant worked.
I don't think the quote was a specific dig against Inspection-related professions, but more a criticism of make-work (or so-called bullshit) jobs. Maybe a more modern version of the quote would replace "inspectors" with "administrators".
We worked with a McKinsey consultant not too long ago, seemed like a nice fella.

Didn't say much, mostly showed up and took notes during meetings (typical vague "digital transformation" project from the executives).

Probably cost a fortune, despite being the youngest in the room.
Once there was a remote mountaintop monastery, nestled high in the clouds above a deep gorge. To reach the monastery, visitors were required to ride in a basket pulled up from the top. One day, halfway up the cliff, a tourist frowned at the condition of the rope. He asked his guide, "How often do they replace this rope, anyway?" The monk answered "Why, as soon as the old one breaks, of course."
> Many linguists have claimed that languages with more non-native speakers tend to simplify their grammars

I think this misses the confounding variable.

What maintains grammatical complexity seems to be centralization. There's an age-old debate about whether grammar is prescriptive or descriptive. I'm in the latter camp, which is to say that if enough people say something "wrong" then it's not wrong anymore.

Education however tends to be prescriptive. It teaches and maintains an existing way of using a language, so much so that in some places the colloquial and "official" versions of a language are esentially two different languages. The "many linguists" here ascribe this to a "society of strangers". I think the reality is that absence of a central authority means languages tend to change faster and thus lose unnecessary complexity.

English is a great example of this. English is a Germanic language. Old English and Old German are very similar languages. After the Norman invasion in 1066, hte official language of the English court became French and remained so for ~300 years. This was the period of MIddle English.

After this came early Modern English (eg Shakespeare). While Old English is essentially unintelligble to the modern English speaker, a lot of Middle English can be understood.

But that 300 year period made English grammar much simpler. Most cases disappeared. Word order became fixed. Noun gender mostly disappeared (other than pronouns for people). The subjunctive mood mostly disappeared (eg "If I were king" instead of "if I was king" is about the extent of modern English subjuntive mood). The last vestige of genitive is mostly just adding "'s" to things (with a few exceptions of course).

English spelling and phoentics is of course a complete mess. So are tenses. But absent central authority we stopped having to know that a table was "he" and a chair was "she" (made up examples; I don't know their gender in Old English). Isn't that interesting?
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On the topic of GE, anyone try his custom Fedora distro, Nobara[1] and has any feedback on it?

Is it daily-drivable on a laptop without any issues, and stable long term without any breakages? Not just for gaming, but for daily entertainment and productivity task of those with one distro for everything?

I tried installing it a while back and found the default installer partitioning much more janky and messed up GRUB making my system unbootable, unlike other "Just Works™" distros like Ubuntu, EndevourOS or Mint where they worked flawless on multi-boot systems.

I'm not knocking it, I can imagine it's tough for a single developer to do all that and test everything, it would just be cool to know if it's gotten some polish now and how stable it is to daily drive.

[1] https://nobaraproject.org/
Native inputs are definitely the way to go. If I never see another custom date or colour picker again it will be too soon.
> .io, .co, and .ai are still the most popular alternative TLDs for startups.

is there a good link for this ranking? i'm curious as to 4th place and below too. what position does .app or .tech or .cloud come, etc.
How much do you know about how elections are managed and secured today? How often have you interacted with election staff outside of casting a vote?

44 states have laws to run post-election audits, sampling the ballot pool and checking for statistical anomalies in the result [0]. This is one thing, and it's certainly not a complete solution to voter fraud...but I didn't know about these regular, legally mandated audits til I searched for election audit information. I do know about other things that help reinforce election security, like poll observers. From past jobs that occasionally provided IT support to local governments, I also have exposure to the physical security controls around ballots and polling equipment.

If you're well informed about election security, it might be more effective for you to bring up the specific challenges you feel need to be solved or gaps that need to be filled. Otherwise it's chasing shadows of threats and vulnerabilities that may or may not exist.

If you're not that informed, get involved with your local election office. They probably want volunteer pool workers and you'll learn a lot about the behind the scenes parts.

[0] https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/bestpractices/Electi...
I shouldn't have said "goes way beyond anything we've seen today", but probably it goes way beyond anything we will be able to try in this 6 months period. Parti 20B is really good at language understanding, more meh Imagen.

>the service seems to have somehow gotten worse since release.

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that they probably lowered the number of steps or used a similar strategy to reduce the computation.
Good on you! For me the alphabet is the biggest hurdle.

One time, many years ago, I ended up in a police station in Bangkok because of a robbery. They wanted my address but they didn't want to write it down in latin letters, so I had to pronounce my address and the woman wrote it in Thai script.

I really wonder how they would ever use that address. I am pretty sure the swedish postal service would have an interesting time if they decided to mail me a document.
I really wish people quit submitting Twitter links to HN, the people who do so have very little insight into what the experience is like for people who aren't Twitter users.
Now you've lost human editability/readability and could just as well encode that in a non-XML format.
If the other TLDs are actually providing competition, and TLDs are fungible, wouldn't that drive the price down, not up?
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iOS ~13 seconds to boot

FreeBSD ~10 seconds to boot

As a comparison point, my iPhone 14 Pro (latest phone) running iOS 16.6 (latest OS) boots in 12.7 second from when the Apple logo is displayed when you can see the wallpaper.
.com is the most desirable TLD by far and also one of the least expensive.

.io, .me, .shop, .info, .site are all more, often significantly more.

Like everyone else I would love less expensive .com prices but honestly Verisign could 10x the cost of .com and only lose a mild percentage of registrations.
Ah, the Douglas Adams technique for flight: just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
There are about half a million minutes in a year, so 50 million seconds is a year and two thirds. At the rate of saving 50 million seconds a day, in a year you'll have saved around 608 years—which is only a dozen lifetimes if a lifetime is around 50 years. Still, that's a pretty close approximation for an off-the-cuff guess.
Sometimes the complexity doesn’t convey any new information. Some grammarian may correct me, but as an example, I don’t think verb conjugation within a tense adds information for most verbs. I am/You are/He is/We are/They are could all be collapsed into just “[pronoun] is”. In fact, some regions/subcultures in the U.S. do do this.
You definitely have the benefit of starting in 2007 and producing consistent content, which means you're pretty darn good at blogging at this point and can produce quality content faster, so I can see why posting more often benefits your situation.
What you mean is: the only stable ABI in Linux is the Linux kernel’s itself.

Windows is the opposite: the only stable ABI is the dynamically linked user space ABI. So yes, it’s perfectly possible to have a stable dynamic ABI across a dynamically linked boundary.
Hi everyone, here you can find a demo/article of a small web-app I made that finds the consensus of large sets of text/comments. Thanks!
For economists, growth is shorthand for growth in (inflation adjusted) GDP, which is the sum of all incomes. Most adults who pay their own bills find it rather obvious why we should care about income growth: it pays the bills, and hopefully leaves some extra to enjoy nice things and retire at some point.
I wouldn't say it's a hostile platform, I'd say that it's a volatile design medium. Regarding breakpoints, I've always agreed with Jeremy Keith's opinion on the subject, which in some sense is to design for the content and fix it when it breaks, but to assume that it will and test it as best as you can. Breakpoints are just a way of demarcating broken/not-broken layout. I also use them for generalizing design if I'm doing it before writing the layout in code, which you can do if you start with no assumptions as to how it will be viewed, and just choose some arbitrary constraints to move things around within, then refine when you actually have something in the browser.
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This is really interesting and creative! Did you deliberately make some notes sit outside of the standard 440hz diatonic scale? Even when I click your Debussy demo, you’re hitting some notes outside of the normal 440hz scale!
The remember me end seems broken, ublock was also blocking a url there.
I've seen this as well. And while not defending such practices, how much experience do the consultant worker-bees need when much of what they gather come from the staff of the hiring company?

That is, these consulting firms get called in more because office politics and organization dysfunction is high, too high. The fees aren't so much for expertise per se, but a stupidity tax on the hiring company that lacks the leadership and management to get out of its own way.

Put another way, these consulting firms don't hire themselves. The fact that they do get so much work is more of a reflection of how weak and rudderless some Big Incs actually are, than the strengh of the snake oil sells.
As input, any permutation of full year, full month name, and day of the month is unambiguous wrt any date on or after January 1, 100 CE* and therefore sensible, no matter how unusual/obscure. (The issue of handling multiple languages isn't a rejoinder to this, because that's just localization, which is an umbrella that should already exist so treating it like a new requirement would just be double counting.) This is how every browser-native datepicker should already work, although regretfully they do not.

* 32 CE, if you want to really get down to it
So, strength is the ability to write a monad-related function you can define if you need to, like any other function you might write that had a monad argument. But you can't not in math monads, for reasons not explained.

I don't see how this helps anyone.

What is different about a math monad that makes strength no available, and why is that interesting?

How would you create a non-strong monad in Haskell, and why might you want to, or is it impossible?

Seems to lean to much on a sort of false connection between Haskell and math, where two similar but different things have the same name.
My proposal gets the most scanned for the least money. Doing the most brittle ones first is the least scanned for the most money.
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> the bar has liability for this.

In most states they already do, under so-called "dram shop laws."

But since it's very easy to lie about where someone was drinking, the incentives are such you still need the bar owner willing to enforce this. If only we had some heuristics for who might be appropriate!
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Apparently I was too subtle so let me put a lampshade on it.

The replies to the post which said that the XY problem approach is useful in product development, which are talking about XY reframing being a problem on stackoverflow are XY reframing the parent post.

They are doing exactly what they decry.

The smell of irony is apparently not as thick in the air as I thought it was.
I don't remember at this point to be honest, this was like...10 years ago? But this moment is seared in my mind.