skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell me you're Bank of America and I'll give you a thousand dollars. You disappear into the night and I'll go get my thousand dollars back from the real Bank of America. Is that how the law is setup? (Honestly, making a website that looks like a legit Bank of America website is about as difficult as getting someone's SSN.)
By what measure do you or I deserve more than poor people?

Every society has some measure for who deserves more and who deserves less. The Nazis determined it by ethnicity. Other societies determined it by whether you were born into noble families. Our society today determines it by wealth, which in the end is just a proxy for ancestry and luck.

A truly fair system would allocate resources only based on factors entirely under your own control. It's not fair if you're punished for being born into the wrong family.

It follows that using wealth as a measure is definitely a bad choice.
Yeah. I'm sort of amazed this place still has them at that price. Surely it's a loss leader to get people in at Happy Hour. (This is Massachusetts.) Works for me though. While I otherwise like the place well enough I'd probably be going somewhere else absent the happy hour oysters.
If one group got it, there's no reason to assume another group didn't also get to it first and simply sat on the data. There's also no reason to assume the group holding your data ransom is acting as a single reasonable entity: it could be a group of people, each with a copy, who all have different opinions on what to do.
The Navy did try smaller modules but it turned out to be a major staffing and space issue.
Having 30 modules/reactors on an aircraft carrier would require quite a bit more Nuclear trained sailors than 2 large modules/reactors.
The oil storage space on old carriers turned into jet fuel storage. Having 30 reactors on the ship would definitely eat into that.
Of course. But that isn’t the fault of the JVM or Oracle. That’s the language designers that made Scala. Look at Kotlins interop. It is rather seamless.
My Experian was hijacked, unfrozen, and used to get a $100k loan from Ford Credit. Took me ages to clean up. Bastards.
Of course they are, lightning wasn’t a recent invention
> A shortage of skilled labor could derail efforts to "electrify everything."

The same could be said from car mechanics when the first Ford Model T's started rolling off the lines. If the electrification saves money, then people will happily pay up for a technician, and I don't see why nobody would want to become an electrician. Capitalism has a way of solving these things.
It’s actually quite hard to find a stable job in France due to these laws: companies only give short term contracts and then rotate you out once they get in danger zone (you need to hire them full time now).

Also my friends back in France are always in holidays. They’re forced to take a full month in some positions like banking as they need to ensure continuity of business even when people are not there for extended periods of time. A friend of mine has 45 days off.

Personally I think it’s great but if you’re in a competitive industry AND competing with the American Workaholics you don’t have a single chance.
Plenty of people who code get laid off. SDETS/automation QA engineers are software engineers, but aren't treated as such.
Maybe, but then, why the onion service is still up?

This feels more like uncontrolled infrastructure rot/lack of maintenance rather than a conscious decision to cut unnecessary parts of it.
If you don't think they're at odds, then you should try your hand at implementing what you think looks good without breaking upstream features. Then try maintaining it indefinitely.

> Visual soup is hard to organize and make sense of.

Initially yes but once you know where things are, having everything be visually distinct can sidestep a lot of unnecessary GUI features (search boxes, configurable views, toolbars, etc.) to overcome the impenetrable and dishonest sameness that comes with "good design". If there's a way to avoid writing more code to maintain, they're going to find it. Why obscure the reality of the underlying logic and data when it just gets in the way of progress towards more functionality?

In a production setting desktop environments are rare anyway and that's where applications are at their most complex. That should be proof enough that visual design isn't functional. You want functional and accessible? That's a simple 1KB config file on a server somewhere that you edit from a terminal instead of an endless sea of GUI menus and a lifetime of wrist and eye issues. The ultimate "contoured handle" is a copy of vim! If you don't see the equivalence then you don't understand how much of an unnecessary and tortured metaphor the desktop really is. It's a concession, not a requirement.
> It'd be nice to have something like autohotkey for Linux

I have built this already: https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11

The X11 variant was fine, but Wayland support is indeed too messy, so the experimental build for that just uses uinput/evdev and ignores anything Wayland-related. I don't think there is a feasible alternative right now for tools like this, and it sucks. At this point I'm honestly mostly hoping for at-spi to rescue us. https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11/issues/2
My first exposure to command search was in VSCode, so there's that
I thought this was going to be some insider politics of how Microsoft stopped development after ie6 shipped. Which I was totally in for reading. Turns out this was about YouTube putting up a banner about ie6, many many many years later. Very fun, thanks.
Will the real E. H. Carr please stand up? [pdf]
If I get locked up maybe I would finally get to doing the exercises from the art of computer programming.
Very true, but it seems like you may not have seen the expose on this field in Science https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...
The API page is still up

https://api.twitterstat.us/
I’ve never heard this idea. It seems like coffee bucks this trend though? I’ll take 20 minutes to drink a cup but still wildly addicted.
I disagree a bit because if you can afford a $2M home, $20k isn't that much, but can buy enough nice furniture. It's probably a bigger deal when it's a $400k house, but the furniture would still be $20k.
But you don't have rtx, peasant!

Seriously though, it's been a while since I've had serious issues with AMD cards on Linux. I was very annoyed with the state of my rx5700 when it first launched back in 2019. We've come a long way
The faked data is not foundational to the field, if we are to believe the article linked from that comment.

> But my impression is that a lot of labs that were interested in the general idea of beta-amyloid oligomers just took the earlier papers as validation for that interest, and kept on doing their own research into the area without really jumping directly onto the 56 story itself. The bewildering nature of the amyloid-oligomer situation in live cells has given everyone plenty of opportunities for that! The expressions in the literature about the failure to find 56 (as in the Selkoe lab’s papers) did not de-validate the general idea for anyone - indeed, Selkoe’s lab has been working on amyloid oligomers the whole time and continues to do so. Just not Lesné’s oligomer.

And

> Did the 56 Work Lead to Clinical Trials? That’s a question that many have been asking since this scandal broke a few days ago. And the answer is that no, I have been unable to find a clinical trial that specifically targeted the AB56 oligomer itself (I’ll be glad to be corrected on this point, though).
Related video which I just remembered: https://youtu.be/CmZdGo6b5yA?si=k67_azS5gwUvQJuq

So it seems languages might not change how you think, but might be able to emphasize certain aspects of things like you allude to (I believe).
`isNaN` does return a boolean though, it doesn't return a normalized value.
Modifier keys were the first thing I tried (because that's how I learned to do it in GIMP and Inkscape when I was in high school). When that didn't work, right-clicking on the crop box was the next thing I thought to try. It's a total of 2 clicks: right click to open the menu, then move the mouse down 6 entries, then left-click on the checkbox.

But also, it's my understanding that Krita is not a photo editor, but rather a digital painting program; that any ability it has to edit photos is just because digital paintings are stored in the same file formats as digital photographs. Saying that Krita is unsuited for editing hundreds of photographs is analogous to saying that Visual Studio is unsuitable for creating ASCII art. There are other tools that you're supposed to use for those tasks. For editing hundreds of photographs, I understand Adobe's Lightroom or Bridge to be the intended tools, not Photoshop, nor any tools which are highly similar to Photoshop (GIMP, Krita, or otherwise).
If anyone wants to play with that, the "uclamp" interface is the "nice" that affects the scheduler / placement / energy use. Pipewire got a patch recently to keep the requested power low https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commit/70...
So I have some personal experience with nicotine in different formats. Cigars (not inhaled) and zyn packets you slip under your lip.

My experience is that nicotine is highly addictive based on dosage and delivery.

Cigars were in no way addictive, I suspect because the delivery of the nicotine takes quite a while.

The zyn though, I quickly ramped up from low dosages (1-3mg) to the higest dosages (10mg+). And at my worst I'd go through a 20 pack of those per day.

I tried quitting cold turkey multiple times from the zyn, failed each time. Tried slowly decreasing strength till I reached 3mg and then quit, that worked fine and was actually relatively easy.

I still smoke cigars, they just don't trigger the same reactions that the zyn did.
> What has changed in our society that these things are no longer valued?

Utility. Not much else.

> it feels like fundamental values in society have changed, and the lack of interest in these items is symptomatic.

Not really. I think, in this case, it's just progress marching forward. As better-functioning devices emerge, the less useful ones slowly go away. Over a century plus, the phone evolved, and an earpiece you hold one-handed or could squeeze between your shoulder and ear did in the candlestick in. Touch-tone did in rotary and cordless was eating away at corded, and then mobile phones have mostly obsoleted the landline phone completely at this point.

> shifted radically and quickly to hyper-capitalistism / objectivism as our truth

I'm not sure that is the case. Being able to have both hands free while talking was so useful; by the time I was born, a candlestick phone was almost an absurd anachronism. By the time I was in high school, almost everyone was using cordless phones with a ~200' range. By the time I left college, everyone had a phone in their pocket. And each time, the tech made life measurably better.

> in a reactionary surge we seem to ridicule everything else, there is no room now for these things.

I'm not sure that's the case. Often, obsolete things are preserved as a source of inspiration, nostalgia and sometimes humor. The image of trying to operate a candlestick phone one-handed is comical because the device was a RADICAL improvement, but implemented in a way that made it very difficult to use. My first "mobile" phone weighed nine pounds and was so big it came with a lunch-box-size duffel bag to hold the transceiver and battery. When my contract was renewed two years later, I moved on to a pocket-size phone. It worked better, had about ten times the battery life, and didn't require a duffel bag to hike it around. When I talk to people who worked with me back in the early 90s, we laugh about the bag phones. We all made a lot of business happen with them, but the next iteration made the bag phone almost so difficult it was absurd.
Boeing does this?
Not really right.. but again you also either didn't read the article, didn't get the point, or strongly object it? (And also ignore authentic experiences other people give here)? Beyond nicotine, which is addictive yes, there is more in the cigarette cocktail (especially in nowadays highly optimized industrialized ones) that is also addictive. So there is such a thing as a cigarette addiction.

Or in other words: Why do people only get little addicted and can easily stop chewing nicotin gums, while for only a small percentage of smokers it is possible to quit via the nicotin gum replacement?

Or in even other words: Both coffeine and heroine are addictive, but we can agree that there are differences?
Go study Alias Maya, it was a solid timeless ergonomic base. Modo too (it was the equivalent of FP for UIs in 2000s, rare). Photoshop is probably still extremely efficient.
Exactly. What is the chemical element in a smartphone addiction? Or a pornography addiction?

What a shortsighted and close minded comment (talking about parent).
I'd prefer a Louis Theroux style documentary investigation...
Wait a little, he's still alive, FFS. And the most interesting part is coming.
I wonder why "capturing". This being Google, it makes me think "abuse of dominant market position". Or embrace and extend.

Was the title a freudian slip or something?
Yes! I also encountered this in Rhino 10+ years ago and instantly implemented in multiple online projects with great success.

What's crazy is that i'm pretty most times wasted on a computer is from "where is this setting, how do i do this" type stuff, in users ranging from experts to the elderly.

It's bizarre to me that this hasn't been implemented all over faster. Instead cloud interfaces have become even more esoteric in my opinion.

All functions on a computer should have a tiny descriptive string you can search for.

The GUI paradigm from the last 30 years in was a mistake with nested stuff just hiding in random places. CLI was a bit better when you could pipe / search etc. but for most people Universal Search is it.
"Good leaders have power thrust upon them, bad ones seek it."
There's also tube archivist, which is a whole archival front end and back end. Bit more complicated to set up but once you do, you also get a nice web UI of your videos that is similar to YouTube. It even shows comments.
Yep totally agreed. I have very junior developers doing complex tasks with the aid of it — for example sql queries , elasticsearch, ansible, react — all without having touched them before
You seem pretty confident about this despite there being thousands of chemicals in cigarettes and presumably the companies being very interested in hooking their users.
How so? Other than some of their trailers their inventory seems well organized and relevant to the business. Piles of old cars is not an unusual thing in rural areas, especially for older people. Nothing there appears to be outright trash.
And an advice for anyone new to Linux: Use KDE Plasma (preferably Kubuntu or Debian). Afaict they are the future of Linux (on desktop and mobile) and already better than Windows on desktop. Better in all 3 ways: grandma-friendliness, for corporate/academic/work and for the power-user.

Literally only 2 things lacking right now is those 3 last game titles left which can’t run via Steam/Lutris and those corporate Windows apps which I prefer to run in a VM (virt-manager).
When you look at who gets the press attention/OMGWTF treatment, it’s a clear association imo. Most people in a large city probably get more info on their mayor and local elected officials from friends than from the press, and few of the big omgwtfbbq type headlines have much to do with them unless it is some kind of huge scandal.

Which is unfortunate for the reasons you mention. And most people just tune out.

About the only people who will consistently turn out for those are local activists and retirees/local property owners, of which a big city has a proportionally small number.
Run the browser’s native print to pdf and save the result.
Yes, but the context was information that would be useful for curious minds (that wanna, lets say build their own jet engine). For that purpose, these documents don't seem all that useful.
And this is why you will never reach a decent audience for that program
I have little sympathy for them, if that's what we're supposed to feel. Maybe the article was poorly written but it seems like "they've tried nothing and are all out of ideas".

I would appreciate it if stories like this continue to make headlines. Let them be a warning to all our parents. No doubt this will end up being an unpleasant mess for their children to clean up.
It's not too hard to get a temporary voip phone number if required to sign up for a service, but when I signed up this wasn't needed. Just don't use your phone. You can also get dummy, private, or temporary email addresses. Yeah, the scraping makes things harder, but it's perfectly doable to get these services completely anonymously. I mean hell, NYT, WP, CNN, Reuters, etc all have Signal and most have Secure drop, which is via Tor, to connect to them. Interestingly it looks like Fox is the only major platform not have any method I could find from a single search.
I just downloaded the Google app for iOS and this feature was missing until I force-closed and reopened it. Then it appeared.
That would be a neutral way to phrase it, yep.

It's less about the wording than the information it conveys, that you respect someone enough to talk to them politely and make the effort.

If it's hard to see the difference, would it make sense if I made an analogy? Your girlfriend texts you "call me? :)" vs. "Call me."

One is clearly flirty and in a good mood and the other could be angry? upset? urgent? The extra punctuation conveys information about how that person feels.
I think this is on some level very much like deciding which programming language to use. It really depends on what problems you're trying to solve and there isn't a single one that is the best.

The difference is that type theories are much less of a "solved" problem and a lot of the variations are subject to ongoing research. As a consequence we're still at the stage where we're trying to figure out the "deciding how to decide", as opposed to programming languages, where decision criteria are relatively well understood.
> If the electrification saves money
this being the key point! time + money are important factors
> having to dig in and learn the fundamentals on a lot of things - which is unsustainable if you are touching 30-50 different technology stacks.

IMO, this is the crux of the problem, and it’s caused by allowing dev teams to use whatever stack they want, without also requiring them to support it. More cynically, it will always be the case if teams are allowed to use whatever they want, regardless of “service ownership” – because when there’s a SEV-1 and the owning teams have no idea what’s wrong, the SREs are going to be told to fix it.
I try to test my system setups with qemu, but I cannot for the life of me figure out which combination of whats I need to get wayland to run there. There's apparently two? framebuffer implementations which work with none of the desktops I want to use. All the documentation points to other projects that should be documenting X or Y, but don't.
> With COVID, people who felt strongly about staying at home, were probably the minority, especially as time went on.

Yeah definitely as time went on. At the start I think a majority probably supported staying at home but after 3-6 months the numbers flipped.
Doesn't swapping to SSD make the laptop EOL come even quicker?
Just curious... What is your logic behind preferring a web based application?
Lots of great tutorials on Youtube
The only modern design book that seems to be universally acclaimed is designing data intensive applications. I enjoyed it and I don't remember it being too much along those lines. Martin fowlers writings were reasonably balanced on that kind of stuff although I think he was an early advocate of service bus. Our business seems to be reversing in terms of the drive for microservices and being more tolerant of medium sized systems.
Having run a business in France for 16 years (with employees), I do not consider the labor laws to be such a barrier.

I think if you ask many SMBs owners in France, we'd gripe more about the tax system (which got slightly less opaque since RSI was finally shut down, but no less onerous) or the paperwork.

Allowing people who dedicate their workweek to your business, to have social benefits, free healthcare, retirement benefits and unemployment money if they get fired seems like a fair deal to me.

Especially if you consider that even taking into account those "extra costs", total comp seems to me to still be lower than what you'd have to pay a US employee for the same job
It makes me sad that humanity is so entrenched in capitalism that we're subjecting our own class to high pressure (nearly) scams and it's perfectly legal. There's plenty of nice properties that could be filled normally and I'm sure the salespeople would rather not be having to play mind games and try to guilt people into things for their commission. But instead we have this toxic sales situation for something that I feel like should sell itself in other ways naturally.
This is an EU country. Their response to not liking your overreach is to make it illegal to complain, mantle it illegal to leave.
IMO shows more which countries have programs to train top math schoolchildren to win in IMO. That's very different than producing professional mathematicians, which is more about universities and graduate schools.
It is interesting how this changes the tone.

"You will do this" no agency, no control, no considerations, skips calling out authority and goes direct

"Will you do this?" Direct, has agency but potentially confrontational if you say no

"I need you to do this" indicates their authority, direct, no control, could be inconsiderate to some as they overriding your priorities for their own

It can to be softened up with a question but if they really need you to do it I feel like your response also softens it up.

I think adding a acknowledgement of inconvenience, reason, urgency or explanation to it also helps.

"Hey Jim, I know you are working on X and this will be inconvenient for you but I need you to tackle Y" ideally a reason or compliment would be good too.

"I need you to do this because you have the most expertise on this and feel no one can do it well but you"

"I need you to do this right now. We are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars with the web server down" I feel this is an acceptable reason to demand to interrupt someone to take care of something that has a major impact on everyone

And for the life saving measures saying "I need you to evacuate this building immediately" is completely acceptable to me with no reason needed. Being butt hurt over a demand versus a kind request is better than dying.
You dismissed the idea as "if you stop doing thing which benefit from monospaced fonts", suggesting that monospaced fonts are better in this situation.

My argument is that both fonts are just as good in this situation, and monospaced fonts aren't benefiting here. You don't need monospaced fonts to use formatting 1, you can just choose formatting 1 and then use either kind of font.

Doesn't that mean I disagree with your post?
So you've found the problem. If they are immune from the crime, they won't stop practicing it.
> and I don't see why nobody would want to become an electrician

I have a 70-year old relative who was a lifelong electrician, and he basically can't move now without significant pain due to the lack of cartilage. Electrician work, especially in the home, involves a lot of awkward angles.
I tried it once and got super dizzy. That’s a common occurance?