skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You nailed it. Perl replaced awk and then turned out to be counterproductive in a lot of cases because there was no simple and broadly understood way for people to write Perl code that was 1) readable for other programmers and 2) scalable to medium-to-large programs.

Which is not to say that nobody ever figured out those things and did them well, just that the success rate was low enough across the industry to earn Perl a really bad reputation.

I'd like to see a revival of awk. It's less easy to scale up, so there's very little risk that starting a project with a little bit of awk results in the next person inheriting a multi-thousand line awk codebase. Instead, you get an early-ish rewrite into a more scalable and maintainable language.
Smoots.
I've been using Niagara since its first days. Absolutely loving it and it keeps getting better year over year.

The only thing I miss still is not being able to open drawer by swiping up (though fastscroll on letters is good enough, but kinda sucks that it only handles latin letters there, cuz like 3rd of my apps are in Cyrillic and thus stuck at the first category).

UX on foldable device is unmatched, especially after it added support for side-to-side widgets and widget stacking.

Another slight annoyance is that in modern android quickstep is no longer standard part of AOSP, and depends on how OEM implemented it, which means that on many devices (including mine mix fold 2) you either lose access to gesture navigation in order to use Niagara(I get around it by using Infinite Gestures + OMS overlay to hide the navbar) or get broken animations when swapping between apps and going home.

UPD: it also recently got client-side implementation of monet and built-in contextual variable icons, which works even on devices that don't have it as a part of AOSP. It works marvels and I can't get enough of how good it looks.

And in general, I wish more launchers had fastscroller as overlay option, so that you can get to any app via tapping/flicking onto a letter in a single tap/swipe. Once you experienced it, it's hard to go back to the app grid.
Did you buy this property because you knew of the police neighbor? Is it just well known for the kids as well?

It's just a strange signifier to me. Does a real estate agent mention this? Do they know they play this role? Are they compensated in any way? Should other neighborhoods encourage the presence of a single police officer home?
> a new corporate policy or marketing campaign

Reality: 50% of the workers never opened the e-mail. For the other half, average reading time was under 5 seconds. 40% of those who interacted with the e-mail deleted it. Two people "accidentally" reported it as junk mail.
South Korea produces more cars than Germany with 32 million fewer people? Impressive.
Clearly the rule is too broad and thus it's ambiguous. Simply restating the rules in precise terms will solve the problem.

I've been in parks where a dozens or more bylaws are listed at the entry to the park. Thus little is left to the imagination. If a dozen rules isn't enough then just add more [detail] until the right level of compliance is achieved.
Privacy matters at work because the interests of the employee and the employer are in tension. Do you expect an employee to leave every personal item out of work? Should employees expect to not speak of their personal lives, or to have artifacts of their personal life leak into the workplace? To say that the boundary should be absolute is hopelessly naive. Privacy matters because it is a leaky barrier, and the employer should not be capable of retaining personal information they can use to emotionally extort or legally strong-arm their employee when it's useful for them.
How is that different than a non-reluctant landlord or a capitalist?

It's the same intention: Increase the short term return on capital
Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYQ8Siwy8Ic
No rycbar123 from Doctor Who, I guess whovians are safe for the time being
this captures a meta-observation very well.. a "PhD" worth of knowledge is needed to discern, but publishing a stock photo for a news item is incentivized to be a moment's decision. Compare and contrast to "any idiot can ask hard questions that take days to reply correctly to" .. there is a power asymmetry at work in the public eye. Guideropes and economic assumptions disappearing into a sand-storm of digital information.

basically, not looking good for the future of reliable media
I won't miss it. WMR was by far and away the worst experience available on the market.

Putting aside the numerous bugs in the VR environment, the software itself was typical Microsoft garbage. It absolutely infests your system and clobbers any and all other VR runtimes you have. Difficult to remove, and once you do uninstall, your other runtimes like OpenXR or SteamVR are still left broken and you have to reinstall those too.

I had to develop an app for WMR at the same time we were working on OpenXR/SteamVR apps. I simply could not do my job until I ripped out WMR. We relegated it and the headset that only works with WMR to an isolated machine used exclusively for testing WMR.

The industry is much better off without Microsoft trying to elbow their way in to disrupt standardization around OpenXR.
> Too often I see people say to the disappearance of manual labor jobs: good, retrain people to use computers. I have slowly come to the belief that there are some people for whom working with their hands is the only kind of sane work they can do.

The people who say these kinds of things are usually pathetic specialists with a sole focus on their singular task, without looking at the big picture. They have limited interaction with the rest of the team/company/world, and think too highly of their talents and their jobs.

Tell a 50-yr old Java engineer to retrain in Python and Machine Learning, while juggling family, kids and a mortgage, and see how that goes. Newsflash, it doesn't go well. Heck, I've grown up on Android my entire student life, that now I can barely relearn mobile usage with an iPhone. One of the managing partners at my old firm, ex-Harvard and Wharton grad, stuck to using a Blackberry till 2020ish, because he couldn't figure out both.

Now expect a miner to learn how to code, like Joe Biden tells them to....
In terms of Datadog - the per host pricing on infrastructure in a k8/microservices world is perhaps the most egregious of pricing models across all datadog services. Triply true if you use spot instances for short lived workloads.

For folks running k8 at any sort of scale, I generally recommend aggregating metrics BEFORE sending them to datadog, either on a per deployment or per cluster level. Individual host metrics tend to also matter less once you have a large fleet.

You can use opensource tools like veneur (https://github.com/stripe/veneur) to do this. And if you don't want to set this up yourself, third party services like Nimbus (https://nimbus.dev/) can do this for you automatically (note that this is currently a preview feature). Disclaimer also that I'm the founder of Nimbus (we help companies cut datadog costs by over 60%) and have a dog in this fight.
> I wonder if that kind of front end was done in the age of SAX parsers?

I though that XPath over SAX was a thing, and xslt was doing sax-like parsing, but turns out I'm wrong. Which is logical considering XPath can refer to previous nodes. That being said, it looks like there is streamable xslt in xslt 3.0, but that looks more niche
Your thoughts about the Niagara Launcher and how it solves your problems, is quite interesting to me.

You mention you simply remember the name, I find that difficult for me. I don't remember whether it's "Google Maps" or "Maps", if it's "Headphones" or "Sony Headphones".

I have tried a few times to get into the Niagara launcher, but without luck. It's too mm. "sterile" for me?. I really like being able to group apps in the 2D-"space" of the grid system. Main screen tries to be uncluttered but music control to the right, light-bulbs control to the left, car in middle.

Payment? That's a bottom row on page 2. Communication - right side of lower row. Etc. etc.

It does sometimes get a bit wonky . not very "pleasent" to the eye, but it's so pleasent for my brain at least.

I sometimes try to clean up, but the apps often ends up grouping together again in almost the same configuration.

Here's to difference preferences for launchers! Cheers.
This a good place to plug my favorite launcher? Search-based launchers in general are something I just cannot live without nowadays, there's way less friction there with openint apps and such.

Kvæsitso is the one I use currently: https://kvaesitso.mm20.de/. The design is really good, and the widget support is nice. Search is not as perfect ass the classic KISS, though: http://kisslauncher.com/.
it would be nice to round all the 0.99 to 1.00 so its easier to see how much things really cost
Why is that so far fetched? There are loads of private small businesses at the lower end of the economic spectrum.
I'm mostly in concordance, but one thing I think every scripting language got wrong is how painful it is to run external binaries. Sure it can be done but it could be as easy as a shell script.
Obviously there’s discretion at play. No shopkeeper is going to kick out a mum who’s taking a call from her son who’s in trouble.
It's not an arbitrary ideological decision, it's a legal one. Blame Microsoft for their dumb license on dxil.dll which, as I read it, would require Godot to add some kind of click-through agreement.
This still leaves the issue of navigation unsolved. Since the structure of code has no particular connection to 2D or 3D layout, it’s unclear how laying it out that way would help. If you ever looked at the call graph or the class diagram of any nontrivial application, it should be clear that it isn’t very practical.
In other words, you don't know how practical or not it is to find a picture of the tower and your opinion on the subject is worthless.
Do you mean steam? The link is to a steam cleaner. That’s a cool idea.
https://archive.is/8sTWS
Ivanti discloses fifth vulnerability, doesn't credit researchers who found it
What's next? Can't walk while drunk? Someone has to carry you on their shoulders?

Banning thinking and daydreaming while walking?

License for walking, lanes for walking and turn signals on your shoulders?

For your safety.
People are going to be trying to solve this in 100 years, because no one actually wants to do the hard work of eating correctly (keeping track of macros and not overeating) and exercising.

There's no long-term miracle drug that's going to allow you to be fit and strong without any effort.

Everything else is just either short-term solutions or straight up juju-science that's equivalent to moving around pieces aimlessly on the same game board.
There’s also the Goodhart-flavored line of argument here: at the moment, part of the sales pitch is that these internal conversation channels provide a meaningful view into staff’s reactions, dynamics, and states of mind.

Fire the first few folks for their AI-detected “toxicity,” and one imagines the wiser of their “toxic” friends will find other avenues for their bad behavior. Use sentiment analysis to sound out and reward the true believers in the corporate party line, and suddenly everyone will be Slacking effusive praise for the policies of the dear leaders.

The usefulness of this tech would seem to depend a lot on how the place is managed. The obvious worry is that the powers that be will smoke out dissenters, reward toadyism, and punish harmless individual differences. But I can also imagine a constructive management environment, where the “mothership” worries that their feedback from the line staff is getting distorted through layers of management sucking-up and bureaucracy; and imagining this type of analysis as some kind of independent finger on the pulse of the workforce. That seems like it might be useful for making genuinely good decisions.

Knowing a lot of true stuff and using it to rule out bad guesses we made based on false impressions, that doesn’t seem so bad to me.

Using what you know about an underling to punish them, police them, dehumanize them into nothing more than a pile of scores—that’s neither a new strategy nor one that leads to success.

History seems to show that, while that kind of excess may enforce ideological consistency in the near term, it’s intrinsically costly to the health of the [corporation|country|institution]. Over-condition on these signals, like any others, and you just produce a culture of performative compliance and doublespeak-you make the signal useless. And that leaves you in the same anemic information environment that you started in, the sort that tends to conceals problems until they become overwhelming.
Looks cool!

Doesn't solve the problem though, just tries to reduce the impact of a social structure that requires dry textiles of a certain kind and certain frequency of use.

The actual goal should be to eliminate the structure that requires: "drying of wet clothes in period of time"

So how would you eliminate the need for the entire wasteful laundry process altogether?
I am a bit confused by this since I got agreement with over 90% of people. Are others getting much lower scores? My result suggests that is indeed possible to agree :)
This likely some technically true, but misleading trickery. Like they have some a friend in each of these corps and they asked for feedback and the friends said it's great, etc.

Note the statement doesn't indicate the said companies are customers. Nor it doesn't indicate the people are using the solution.
Just today I was reading the article about OpenAI wanting $7T to develop their own AI chips. In the comments were a bunch of people talking about all the startups in the last 18 months trying to make bespoke AI chips.

This makes a lot of sense for NVIDIA. They have the expertise, the money, the scale, and the experience already. They can probably do it cheaper than any startup and then either pass on that savings or make more profit.
Texas doesn’t have an LVT they have a traditional property tax system that primarily bases taxes on assessed value of the home on top of the land, not the land itself.

LVT would actually negate the parent posters complaints, as only the underlying land would be assessed and the penalties only really kick in if the land is unoccupied or is not utilized (sitting vacant is the most common of this, followed by lack of utilization, for instance under many LVT implementations large lot owners with single homes also get hit with underutilization penalties to encourage subdividing and utilization of the land which is a net win for society
And often the immediate land owner. Objections tend to philosophical on this point)

It disincentives empty / under-utilized land holdings like vacant lots or lots that could support more utilization (usually via an activities like building homes on top and selling / renting them or farming)

There is nuance in implementation details but in broad strokes that covers it in tl;dr fashion
What does that have to do with Amazon? Genuine question.
Once a day, after dinner. Too early, too much, vents mojo. You want to want. It's the driver.
I don't know that I would take that stance but certainly a bidet and a nice car do not fall under that category, nor does being able to walk to a restaurant.

You may try and argue some of the grey areas, but most of the things you listed are _clearly_ not essential, they're desirable by specific people, as you said.
Impressive credentials, pleased to have had this short discourse with you, even though I disagree I am proud this evening, have a nice day
I think the person writing this is biased and using this person's unfortunate death for political gain.

Dariusz is a victim of circumstance, a mental unwillingness to stop working for any period of time, a situation I have also tried to stop friends who were exploited from workplaces in the restaurant industry again and again.
Only mental health would have saved him from throwing himself off the metaphorical cliff; if not Amazon, another place. You read it correctly but I feel sympathy for the victim.
Are we assuming that he works like this all year long? It seems that he did a short stint of work “heads down” in an AR/VR device to write a story. That is analogous to his saying “Hey, Family, I need to take a trip for work for the next week. See you when I get back”. That seems pretty normal and not at all irresponsible.
> I think you and the op are both missing that the vast majority of those mid skilled jobs still exist, they just exist in countries whose labor costs are drastically lower.

They exist in lower income countries, but the work quality is often shoddy and poor at best. The talented ones have already migrated to the West. Case in point, a factory we built for a project in the Middle East with a fully European team took just 9 months to finish from the start of laying the foundation stone. Similar projects in the same country by a Chinese or local company would have taken 3-4 years. Another American team executed a project in Singapore in 2.5 years, but that same project was estimated to take 6 years in India.
If ten more people will take the job, I'd guess the job is more favoured than you might think.
I work as a software engineer, fabricator and electrical engineer in climate tech and installation art.
the way I think of datadog is that datadog it provides a second to none DX combined with a wide suite of product offerings that is good enough for most companies most of the time. does it have opaque pricing that can be 100x more expensive than alternatives? absolutely! will people continue to use it? yes!

something to keep in mind is that most companies are not like the folks in this thread. they might not have the expertise, time or bandwidth to build invest in observability.

the vast majority of companies just want something that basically works and doesn’t take a lot of training to use.
I think of Datadog as the Apple of observability vendors - it doesn’t offer everything and there are real limitations (and price tags) for more precise use cases but in the general case, it just works (especially if you stay within its ecosystem)
I can absolutely see why break ups, failing a class, and getting yelled at by someone can be traumatic. I’ve had quite traumatic break ups in my youth due to my own attachment and expectations about the relationship and life. If someone had a lot of pressure about academic success growing up, or a lot of hopes attached to good grades, failure could be traumatic. I would hope that the potential for trauma in getting yelled at would be self evident.

Trauma doesn’t mean the experience will be forever embedded as “baggage”. It means it’s something we’re carrying with us right now. Something we’ve not fully processed or healed from. I’ve found that identifying and recognizing trauma is part of the healing process. Failing to identify trauma can mean carrying it with you longer - snapping at others when you get too irritated, because someone did so to you and you haven’t processed the emotional trauma of the situation, for example. Or high anxiety at work carried over from the trauma of failing a class, because you haven’t recognized that even after that failure things worked out okay and you’re still carrying the fear of failure.

Trauma like many words has degrees. It is similar to the word injury in that sense. Losing your legs in a motorcycle accident is an injury. A sprained wrist is also an injury.

Just remember that with trauma it is hard to see how deep it went. Perhaps someone did experience quite strong trauma from something you would manage easily. That’s due to the different lives you lead, and differences in experience, values, and goals. And remember that situations others might handle well could be things you struggle with. Everyone’s experience is their own.
In the US, the billionaires are largely buying up legacy media.
Can you give a single example of the oddly scare-quoted "medical profession" soliciting a hit piece on anything, ever?
Were they hiring previously?
I can have an aperiodic tile "Einstein's Hat" hat on my basis vectors! That's just outstanding.
> JSX proves that HTML actually won.

While I think that might be true, similarly, JSX proves that for the dynamic parts of the template, you want a real programming language.
> Interviews should be as close as possible to the work that the candidate would do if they join.

Interviews should give information to both parties about what it would be like if the person joined.

Simulating a typical work task, as this article describes, might give you some of that. Though important to remember that's far from all that's relevant to either party.

A recently fashionable Leetcode hazing, on the other hand, is mostly "anti-pattern". It tells the company whether or not the individual has studied for that ritual specifically, and was willing to submit to it for the approval of this company (or is using this company as practice for the gameable ritual). And it tells the individual nothing except that the company thinks this is a good way to do interviews.
On average, I enjoy these kinds of interviews much more than leetcode. The quality of the prep work and the ad libbing makes a huge difference to the quality of the interview though. One particularly memorable interview involved verbally debugging intermittent crashes the interviewer had recently seen. Unfortunately, they had no information about the software stack, unique symptoms, or access to status registers so it ended up like:

"Is this bit of information available?"

"No"

Repeated for 30 minutes.
Why not just tax the land value and disregard the things in top of it entirely?
> as perfect ass the classic KISS

KISS is the be-all-end-all launcher for me.

I guess that makes me a KISS ass.
I’m not bemoaning capitalism, I’m suggesting government should do their job. Which includes taking back subsidies if not punishing companies that take OUR money and then pursue actions directly contradicting what they took the money for.
Apple thinks it has a new and different approach which will be popular, Meta is hoping their current approach will lead to widespread popularity if they keep going at it, and Microsoft had an approach they tried but it didn't really work out and they don't want to throw their hat in the ring again quite yet.

Which of these decisions end up working out or not requires waiting 10+ years and looking back. Companies were hyped about 3D TVs, some held out longer than others, it turned out to be a bad idea. Companies were hyped about e-readers in the 90s but it didn't pan out at first only to be successful with future innovations and iterations and it turned out to be a good idea.
People on their phones rarely get in my way. I live in a big city and walk everywhere and it really isn't a problem. I wonder if people in smaller cities/towns are less adept at walking and using their phone, because people seem to get very upset about it. I only get upset when people stop in the middle of the sidewalk, which sometimes involves a phone and sometimes not.
Yup, everything you hear about "microplastics" is mostly talking about PFAS.
Will Artificial Intelligence Lead to War?
Build a chat with your PDF app in 200 lines of code
Self-regenerative fiber material recovers metals from industrial wastewater
Love this approach! We used this method for awhile when conducting interviews, usually with a couple problems escalating in difficulty. Found it to be way more helpful to watch how someone troubleshoots than to test their aptitude with specific skills
Because everyone's rich enough to have an Amex account, and no one ever turns over their car title or uses a payday lender to make rent. Everyone is exactly like me, a rich white guy living a casually luxurious lifestyle, so how could they not have access to easy and cheap capital.
I think it's about losing patience with ideas he already holds, seeing that they never get a chance for implementation. I believe this happens to all of us as we get older, regardless of our political beliefs.