skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I these, I think (1) and (2) are "you're doing it wrong", but (3) is a real and important issue that remains unsolved.
Ask HN: What was it like to work with Source Depot?
I'm curious what it was like to work with the Source Depot on the Windows team in the 2000s. What did the User Interface in Source Depot Browser, and SDV look like? What was the dev environment like, and the structure of the build labs?
The article is a deep dive on the evolution on terminal color, mentioning some of the "colorful" characters in the scene. This is specifically about the ultimate 24-bit expression of gawdy terminal bling, aka COLORTERM=truecolor. Perhaps you're not the kind of person who would notice if their Emacs color theme looked wrong because the theme designer's carefully chosen 24-bit color was mapped to the nearest color in the 256 color palette of the stock terminal.
As an attorney who has experience responding to Meta’s “anti-scraping team,” I think there might be more opportunities for amicable resolutions than you might expect (depending on the specifics of what you’re doing, of course). Meta is not oblivious to the fact that they’re under significant social and regulatory scrutiny. They sometimes play nice if you’re willing to accommodate certain considerations.

Either way, my recommendation would be to find an attorney with industry-specific expertise to address the norms of your industry. C&Ds range from idle shake downs to definite pre-cursors to litigation. Without industry-specific knowledge, it’s hard to know which is which.
Sounds like a PR-friendly way to do layoffs. Force people back into the office knowing 30%+ are going to quit.
I like this, but I feel like the money should go to charity with a transaction fee going to Beeminder.
https://twitter.com/AP ?

For analysis Shashank Joshi (https://twitter.com/shashj , Defence editor at
@TheEconomist) is a good account to follow.

Another one I often see retweeted: https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister
> I'll stick to my thermostat-controlled Weller soldering station and FTDI UART converters

How do you use an FTDI adapter to read from a Weller thermostat? What MCU is the thermostat?
Let's do the numbers: 8 billion people. Never before have we been so many. Success!

Something must be going right.

Pity everyone is competing for fewer jobs and AI is just entering the market. Quality of life has always been overrated.

It might sound cynical but quality of life depends largely on which side you are on: rich or poor?
In my mind, just increasing penalties will have little effect (except excluding more people from society adding an overall drag). They need to do better at educating to avoid it.
As some comments mentioned that the culture in Boeing has been broken for a long time. How to fix it? I heard about a solution: set up a policy that every executive and board member must take their "safe" airplane once a week.
My attorney always said:

1) Good problem to have.
2) If they had something, they wouldn't threaten you, they'd just act.

It's the risk/reward ratio. Unless it's worth reacting to, file 13 that shit.
> In that case it was later discovered that one of the police officers investigating the site had previously worked for Warner Brothers before returning to the Swedish police.

Revolving doors [0], IMHO should not be permitted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
Good on you if that's how it works, and I would say that's worth it, if all goes according to plan. But be aware that a lot of people have tried that strategy, and just end up working until age 65 and remembering how much of their 20s and 30s they wasted. Family, health, industry shakeups, change of priorities, and on and on. There are so many variables involved in trying to predict your distant future that sometimes it makes more sense to take care of the present, with an eye on the near-term.
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Bare in mind I am not anticipating the Google Home level of interaction, I am talking full sophisticated natural language. And there is no reason touch cannot play a role, I'm just saying these devices will be unlike our current phones. I've listed some use cases that I think beat out touch easily elsewhere in the comments.
As long as you and he are getting something out of it, fine, but do be aware there is some research into SRS not at all working like (nor as well as) it does for completely-formed, mature brains.
thinly veiled propaganda. https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/gain-of-function-research... just shameful.
> so for us it's been faster to disable cache entirely and just redo everything on each build.

I wonder what the consequential "carbon footprint" of this is, but at scale for all companies/all jobs of similar nature
I'm also doing embedded systems work, these days focusing on a lot of low level board bring up that requires a fair bit of hardware test and instrumentation. I ended up fitting out a home HW lab this year because I just couldn't afford to get blocked on hardware issues and I was absolutely shocked at how inexpensive it was. I'm old enough to remember when an oscilloscope weight 50lbs and was a five finger investment. Now, you can get something nicer than I ever had in an office for $350. Complete no brainer if it saves me half a day a year (and oh, man, has it...) Same thing with logic analyzers. You can spend next to nothing for basic functionality or, if you're willing to spend $1K, you have access to very nice kit. Same thing with soldering stations.

I _might_ have a bit more space working at an office, but rarely have I had better access to tools.
This is just culture / familiarity. Absolutely nothing about chat implies immediacy by necessity. But I agree that expectations are often set badly, and that's an important cultural problem to solve.
Linus gives these rants (largely) not to people who make mistakes, or who aren't smart, but people who are thoughtless - people who demonstrate that they don't really care, or just are there to drive-by fix Their Thing without any care about the kernel as a whole or how it will affect other people. That's what makes him Mad more than anything else, and that's definitely not the kind of contributor I'd want to be
What if you don't find commuting (I have a 12 minutes commute against the flow of traffic, I kind of like getting out and seeing the city and I enjoy driving), and aren't too worried about "all kinds of diseases at work" (i.e. Covid, Flu, and colds)? To be honest, you seem very paranoid about the risk of impairment by disease caught from coworker at your presumably white-collar tech job. This is minuscule. Does it surprise you that other's might not find your example to "just think" about not compelling at all?
But not disposable smoke cigarettes?
Farmers use their tractors year round, though? I see what you're saying vis-a-vis specific sprayers, ploughs, or even a combine harvester, but tractors are in pretty continuous use.
Supplier lock-in is definitely a concern I agree with. But many modern farms do make a fair use of external data that does inherently require an external connection.
DNSSEC failure is just the result of many of the nameservers serving .ru and other tlds not responding. This is especially observable if you are IPv4 only.
> people infecting you with all kinds of diseases at work that lower your quality of life

Someone who retires at 40 probably goes to watch movies, eats in restaurants, and travels on airplanes.
Tether's business is very profitable right now because they don't have to pay interest. They can park all the money people hand to them in exchange for tether in T-bills and earn 5%. Meanwhile the people holding the tether get nothing. Basically, they are a bank that pays no interest on deposits.
> What is Amazon going to do with my data? Ooooo Im so scared to see a relevant product recommendation.

Based on what people have been saying about Amazon product recommendations lately, you should be praying to see a relevant product recommendation :)
Oh noeh, but the feels. Is anyone thinking about the feels?

Don't cry. The contributor will be fine. If you get flamed by Linus you've already earned a badge of a high profile developer. And even best of us sometimes do something stupid and a little direct cold shower is not going to hurt anyone. Linus is not bulling people, doesn't target them for no reason, doesn't do sneaky politics to undermine people, etc.
> I feel like this is a cultural shift for hn, and I'm curious about where it comes from

My gut feeling - without data to back it up - is that HN has shifted from a forum mostly for founders and hackers to a forum mostly for FAANG employees who would have gone into finance or consulting in the 2000s. This mirrors the shift in the tech industry at large.
Because in a meeting with the CEO (which was publicly leaked so this isn't internal information I got it from outside sources myself I wasn't in the meeting) someone called out that the data doesn't support this decision and that was his response.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-no-data-re...
1. Consider the pandemic response an international hysteria specifically engineered by the global elite to move as much real value up the socioeconomic ladder as possible.

2. Don’t consider the Dutch to be any different.

3. Bingo. The Dutch fit into the diatribe.

I don’t understand why you think this would somehow be difficult to contend with.
Indeed. Having a good memorization of "building blocks" of whatever higher minded thing you're looking into allows a lot more native synthesis of ideas.

It also keeps you from having to interrupt your flow to stop and go look something up.
> These improvements come with a downside of the risk of outages.

Which is why the current use of land tower connectivity is being expanded to use satellite service, providing greater redundancy and improved coverage. That reduces the risk of outage.

If you want no chance of outage on a modern tractor, you are going to have to find yourself a time machine and go way back in time. That ship sailed decades ago.
"Glorified Clippy", spot-on
Any idea if this was in tech/engineering?
SOC2 ?
Popularity isn't what defines rust. Speed, concurrency, and safety are. ;)
> When you buy an actual piece of art, the provenance is useful because it lets you know the art you have is the real thing.

When you buy art as an NFT, you do own an actual piece of art. Unless you think a non-physical art like say The Clock inherently cannot be sold outside of a copyright transfer, and that has been untrue long before NFTs.
In this case it’s the fault of the author in either not including all the source code, or having undocumented dependencies
> because Ubicloud needs to grow its own copy-on-write features for block device snapshots, things we lack today.

Just, why? CoW (or your own CoA) are ripe with performance problems. How exactly do you benefit from their use?
Or imitate you live in Russia or other shielded country.
This is very cool! I like your approach in your README to include many fun and relevant little examples; for example:

> You can use [Wren summary option] to update /etc/motd daily, or through the Telegram bot

Bravo! I’ll give Wren a try.
Not exactly related:

Does anyone know of a coding bootcamp that guides you through more advanced projects, like how to build a NES emulator, a database, and things like that?
My suggestion would be Genghis Khan or Cortez the Killer.
I mean yes, maybe. Not what I had in mind. Of course, cyberpunk is just a soothing fantasy of self-efficacy and existential niche for the individual, in a capitalist hellscape. But it's no use, Mr. Bator - it's corporations all the way down!
Nice, I don't think you supported them last I looked. I'll be glad to get off GH's mac runners which are straight garbage, like it's embarrassing or it should be for them. The sheer audacity to charge 10x the linux runners and still be so slow... At 10x price they are 2x+ slower than the linux runners for doing the same thing (checking out repo, installing dependencies, running webpack).
Why stop with messages? We have so much more information on people these days than chat history. Why not feed all of it into some kind of opaque classifier that can give us "grades" of human being. Then we could shadowban people below a certain grade from social media commons to keep scum like this out. Doesn't that sound like a fantastic society???
I don't think you could call what happened to Brandon Lee "getting killed by a safety feature" so much as getting killed by negligence of the production crew.

Blanks are dangerous, especially if you're using them with an unmodified firearm. Even if there's nothing lodged in the barrel as was the case with Lee, a blank cartridge can kill you just with gas pressure if the barrel is held close enough to something important. That's part of the reason that blank-fire adapters used in live-fire military exercises plug the barrel.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/US_Navy_...
I did. I am pro-democracy so I hate authoritarian executive power no matter where it comes from. Check your bias.
I guess it depends on what you find fulfilling. Having new and interesting experiences in your 20s and 30s can have a pretty different effect on your life than leasure time in your 40s+. In my experience there is minimal overlap between people who maximized working hours in their younger years and have an exciting life outside of work later on. But I'm sure that's partly a reflection on my social circle and everyone is different; there's no one-size-fits-all life advice.
very popular != primary selling point
But they won't work... No Internet signal up on Mars. /s
> so 1% seems reachable without considerable malware problem

Another plausible explanation is that pure FLOSS repos are free fron malware.
The audacity of the design to detect a pid change by looking at it in a loop, is interesting. I don't think I could have come up with something like that. Feels very "sync the web DOM by traversing it and comparing with a shadow DOM".
The word emergency is doing a lot of work in most of these situations.
Not forcibly dissolved, but as we've seen with COVID and the recent 'woke' stuff, the public collectively punishes corporations they don't like. Even facebook is seeing a mass exodus from the platform after the election fiasco in 2016 and the ensuing controversy (which was around data privacy).
It was a response to

> It's surprising how many problems can be formulated as linear optimization.

i.e., all problems in NP (which is most problems you're likely to encounter on a day-to-day basis) can be solved with ILP, and many of them can be solved or well-approximated quickly.
>I may be missing out on something from the last 10 years. But after 40+ years of reading, why am I not getting recommendations on anything in the last 10 years (again, except for Three Body Problem)? You dodged that question also. No recommendations from the last 10 years? Why is that?

Who are you getting your recommendations from? I get constantly recommended new work. Exordia by Seth Dickinson was released less than a week ago and it's already had people recommending it to me. The people who I know who mostly recommend only classics... stopped reading!
You just wished prison and positively mentioned hanging people in response for relatively harmless activism (tyres can be inflated again, you know). So yes, I think you are violent, at least when cars are mentioned.

To be clear, deflating tyres is illegal, but most successful activism campaigns are. I support the cause they're fighting for, unnecessarily huge cars hurt our environment and neighborhoods.
> Then you need remote "telemetry", meaning access either to chat messages, email, tickets, etc. and a way to process it at scale (without reading everything) in

So tools to spy on your employees?
That's true, but at least most of the developers have some training. Many people are thrown into management or wants to be managers, but never put any effort into building the skill set required.

There are remarkably few people who are just born as talented managers, probably the same number that are just naturally talented developers. All of the best managers I've had have all had some level of management training. Some got training while I worked on their teams and the improvement from no training to just a few months of training is pretty remarkably.
> Someone working for the government can't legally kill or imprison you because they don't like you either.

In developed democracies, if you are a citizen, because of the tight restraints put on government power.

Those restraints are, historically, a very new idea, and they are hardly universal even today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforced_disappearance
Elastic offers donation of profiling agent to OpenTelemetry project
Are you proposing that my management should be able to see my chat messages and email ad hoc and without approval or assistance from IT, legal, or their management? That seems bonkers to me.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...

I'm very much a believer that housing costs are at the root of a whole lot of what's wrong with... everything.

It's long past debate and long past time for neighborhoods to come up with a "vision." We need state and national level mandates for zoning reform and density increase, and if you're against it too bad. NIMBYs had 50 years to come up with something other than obstructionism.
My problem with email is the amount of spam makes it unusable, and I don't just mean unsolicited advertisements. I get spam from work in the form of notifications and unnecessary CC's, so I'm accustomed to ignoring all emails.

I think it may also be generational: at my previous job, I get chewed out by my manager for not responding to some question another coworker had sent me. I was confused because I don't remember getting any questions from them, and I was told that he had emailed it to me. He's in his 40s and I was 26. I told him I get so many useless emails I never check work email. And the best way to reach me is via slack. Still, some on the team continued to use email
I'm daily driving a Librem 5, with Phosh and PureOS. Unlike PinePhones, it's using pulseaudio-module-echo-cancel to handle audio (the modem is seen as just another I2S card on the system) which seems to do its job well. Nobody complains at least. You can, of course, easily replace it with any other kind of processing you'd like to have there.

> Camera is really an issue, we really need opensource software processing pipelines

Since the camera app already stores raw DNG files, what I do when I want to share some nice photos is to load them into darktable, which is an easy way to make them look much better: https://dosowisko.net/l5/photos/

You could prepare some reasonable template and run darktable-cli on the phone itself in a script.

> Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of vim, but uh maybe not on a smartphone. At least that's not a selling point.

It sure is for the kind of people that opt to use SXMO. Back in the Openmoko days there were people who used Emacs as their phone interface too. There are more conventional DEs out there though:)
The disastrous communication from Apple to apps developers
> I'm just saying I'm not sure I would want that much color choice, it would just give me anxiety about picking the right color!

Developers of themes for Emacs often target the GUI first, where 24-bit color is the default. If you're a hardcore terminal Emacs user (and there are many legit reasons for this) you're stuck by default with 256 colors, and the themes just don't look right due to having to map the carefully chosen colors to the nearest color in the 256 color palette.
> The seizure came after the "accused voluntarily transferred" the bitcoins to an official wallet of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), police added in a statement.

Seizure is a technical word here, not what laypeople expect when they hear the word.

But yes, governments are already very big holders. https://bitcointreasuries.net/?maximized=treemap
Solutions are a separate question and irrelevant for this comment thread. Do you have any reason to believe that California is comparable to Finland? Or did you just need to vent?
No, actually I just don't have time for idiots who make unfalsifiable statements when they've been shown they're wrong.

(BTW, uncrashable Chrome just "crashed" for me: all windows, across two profiles, stopped accepting input properly. But hey, Flash bad!)
Most companies did at some point and many still do. But as with any decision making process run by accountants, that’ll ultimately disappear.
What on earth does "educating" mean in this context?

Do people not know how to read a speedometer? Do they not know how to read a speed limit sign?
A war on crime can always be used as a scapegoat for other things, but promoting a culture of resilience through acceptance is a weird thing to hijack IMO.
They have a tool at Amazon called "connections" which is a super annoying mandatory survey you must interact with every day. It measures a lot of things like whether our teams have certain internal processes in place, job satisfaction, tools satisfaction, etc. The surveys provide a list of fixed answers you can choose or if you rank something "negatively", you can select an option to describe why you ranked something poorly. Some of us have indirect access to the larger data through senior-level middle management who will either show us the connections data in private Slack DMs (if you're lucky enough to have a friend up that high) or they will blatantly tell us what the data shows in meetings. For example the job satisfaction one has been down below 50% satisfaction since RTO and management has explicitly stated it's due to RTO because that's what people are writing in as the reason.
Yeah, that tracks. Wonder where the founders and hackers are hanging out these days
I agree with everything you said except that "systemd" and "insulting" don't go together like peanut butter and jelly. Insults seem to be the fuel the project is run on.
> Should everyone in the US have a lawyer on call?

I had a coworker at a previous job who often talked about "her family's attorney." I'm like, families have attorneys? I don't think I've talked to a lawyer once in my life.
algora cofounder here, thanks for the mention! and you're right, we're working to rank up on search results
Obviously not true. There are gradations of strictness in driving behavior. Driving in Germany, for example, is a totally totally different experience from anywhere in the US.
> "it's magic, until it's not"

apple can use this on their next keynote.

VR falls apart for me when you realise there is no tactileness or depth to anything. no touch, no smell, no feeling, nothing.
All Tesla cars are already constantly connected to the internet via cell network, not sure what you mean by extend the offer to Tesla.

The recipe for Tesla and SpaceX are to offer the best product (Model Y is the best selling vehicle in the world and Starlink is taking over because no one offers satellite internet anywhere close to as good), how does that align with John Deere selling tractors as a service?
in 2023 it is a one liner to add native modules, very easy to link via normal cocoapods or gradle, then almost zero configuration.

Flutter is a joke because it reimplements literally what apple intended to perfect - rendering pipeline, a lot of things impossible to make good without using native api.
> A terminfo database isn't even required.

As of Emacs 28. You still need the terminfo database in older versions of Emacs.
Err, it isn’t totally obvious which part of their anecdote your anecdote contradicts.