skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, because having "grown up" using git, I can't even imagine using something as insane as the model that ClearCase has decided to go with :D

Let's reverse things: If I was interviewing you and you gave me that answer when I asked about ClearCase, that would squarely put you in the no-hire bucket ;) "Young guy that just refuses to even try to think for himself, instead of making some guesses based on non-perfect information and assumptions, which he will clearly label as such." That's a really big one I look for. Labelling assumptions.

having a conversation where you can demonstrate expertise, even if it's not my expertise or favorite is the goal of the original question

Ah, so then, without Googling :D, what's the answer to the ClearCase question? And yes I'd love to have a conversation (in an interview situation) about what's good and bad about how ClearCase does it after I tell you vs. what git does.

Also FWIW, the original commenter made it seem like he asks these questions in the way we've heard many interviewers ask them. You either know the exact answer, almost word for word, that they expect to their trivia question or you're out.

Saying "I don't write code for fun" would instantly drop you into the do not hire category for me

If I really needed the job I'd probably try to be less 'feisty' in my answer but if I was just casually looking and you asked me that question, the paragraph about woodworking and the almost data loss might have been exactly what I would say as a "reverse interview question" so to speak, to see if you are stuck on your one exact way of thinking or if you can appreciate that everyone's situation is not the exact same and you adjust.

E.g. if you insist that coding for fun after work is the only correct answer, I know we'll not get along and even if I get hired after all, it won't be fun. You'll probably have/come up with your one way of how things have to be (done) but I have my own. I can't stand micro-management, I can't stand having to rush something because someone else screwed up and sat on something that was known for months and then they come to you and basically say "I need this, I need this done this way and I need it 'yesterday'", I can't stand being judged by just a bunch of numbers like "how many hours of coding do you get done outside of work" (interview) or "how many PRs per day do you merge" (work) by someone that literally knows nothing about me except these numbers.
Too big to fail should not exist. Break up the big carriers and force them to use profits to invest in the robustness of their infrastructure over shareholder dividends.
If intel sells a "3.2ghz cpu" and also advertises that it can run, thermals allowing, a core or two at 4.2ghz, I don't consider that 4.2ghz core "overclocked" as much as "this chip is engineered to have a variety of clocks as advertised." The chip is made from the factory to operate in a couple different ways, just like my car may have a transmission that allows the engine to spin at a couple different speeds, as duty cycle demand.

If I run the chip in a way not documented by the manufacturer, or modify the ECU to allow the turbo to generate more boost, those are both unsupported modifications, and I'd consider either of those "overclocking"
Except the rate of change in CO2 is far exceeding the rate of change of any compensatory process, and the replacement of natural plant growth with crops leads to excess methane release that more than compensates for the reduced CO2, so yeah. It’s not surprising, but it’s also insufficient.
For metal lyrics the go to used to be dark lyrics but it never shows in search results.
any decent programming environment can crash your system.
Once you have ironed out the bugs, it is super stable I current installations running that have been running since 2014 and 2017.
Screens and LED's are beginning to fail, but the software is chugging along nicely.
States with the death penalty are finding it hard to find doctors and suppliers to carry out the punishment. I don't, frankly, think there's a lot of perverse incentive.

For the medical field, the incentive is for longevity. Nursing homes make money on occupancy, they aren't going to want to kill off their primary source of income. The state might care, but they have an uphill battle if they tried pulling off soylent green.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME does a reasonably good job explaining the history:

GNOME was started on 15 August 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena as a free software project to develop a desktop environment and applications for it. It was founded in part because the K Desktop Environment, which was growing in popularity, relied on the Qt widget toolkit which used a proprietary software license until version 2.0 (June 1999). In place of Qt, GTK (GNOME Toolkit, at that time called GIMP Toolkit) was chosen as the base of GNOME. GTK is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), a free software license that allows software linking to it to use a much wider set of licenses, including proprietary software licenses. GNOME itself is licensed under the LGPL for its libraries and the GNU General Public License (GPL) for its applications.
I have a life and was not around... but yes, I am glad there's a discussion, though as usual, people defend their ancestors horrible decisions with the same tired, proven false, arguments. No surprise though.

If you think it would be ok to drop a bomb on Moscow today to force Russia to surrender in the current war, or for Russians to do the same on Kyiv (just imagine how many lives will be saved by stopping the ground invasion, right!??), then you're just using the same rationale as the people defending the Americans' horrible crime. Tell us: do you support one of those?! If not, why not???
Yeah, the main thing is that

1) they don't show on old reddit (I see this as an absolute win)

2) You can't Gold NSFW subs, because....

3) A number of Gold upvotes + posting karma can be exchanged for real world money. Yes, this is probably even worse than what you are imagining. To give a few details of this wonderful idea:

- They say you need to "qualify", but the bar is 10 gold upvotes + 100 karma in 12 months. 100 karma may as well not be a barrier.
- They have pretty weak justifications for how to fight Spam/bots... because they've done a horrible job the last decade fighting spam/bots and it's only gotten worse last year. There's no incentive for them to fight bots anyway.
- Mods can participate in this. And it is not based on their moderation behavior

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating...

There's not much upside here as a user unless you need yet another hustle in life.
I also haven't seen anything useful and/or legal.
Maybe it's age - maybe it's because I don't use Reddit "properly" - but I feel like it has got worse over time and as the user-base has grown. I prefer to remain a lurker; no account, just viewing r/popular or occasionally specific sub-Reddits depending on what I'm looking for.

In ~2007 I'd go to Digg for low-brow content; pics of cats, posts for shock-value, humor, etc. and Reddit for news or discussion, etc. It felt almost like Slashdot but maybe less tech centric - maybe nostalgia is slanting my memory but that's how I remember it. It feels like Reddit has morphed into the former (with Ads now) - at least judging by popularity (or whatever the algorithm is feeding me). I might be wrong, it's above my paygrade and skills, but it feels like any changes that would need to happen to make Reddit a successful growth stock are at odds with what I liked about it in the first place.
> I can't believe it's a technical problem in 2023. Emoji are universal enough now in 2024 that OSes are broken if they can't send/receive emoji

As I said, it's not about support for emoji as a class.

It's about support for specific emoji. Different OS's are on different versions of Unicode that support different sets of emoji. The older versions don't support the newer emoji.

So yes, in 2024, it would be incredibly easy to create a password using an emoji on your up-to-date Mac that simply can't be entered on your Android-based TV you purchased 3 years ago, because it doesn't have that emoji even though in supports emoji in general.

So no -- it's not for social reasons, it's very much for technical ones.

And trying to implement a rule like "emoji are allowed but only the ones that were present in Unicode 6.0" is incredibly confusing and opaque for end-users, so it's a better experience just to not allow emoji at all.
A Life Without a Home
Great explanation! Wish I could upvote more as it took me from head scratching to “that makes total sense”.
>KDE isn't "German"

Sure, its contributors are from all over, but

* It was started by a German living in Germany while a student at a German university

* Its current-day non-profit backing org[1] - which owns the KDE trademark and represents it in legal matters - is headquartered in Berlin.

[1]: https://ev.kde.org
> And when we worked from the office, it was much easier to catch them going sideways and re-direct them.

I regularly work with people on my team who need to go into an office, but it's a different office than mine. RTO does not solve this issue.

> why would any third spaces want to be setting up in a dead business district if no one goes there anymore?

SoHo, Manhattan in the 1970's matches this description. That environment is a perfect breeding ground for communities to flourish.

> so it's unlikely the office is getting sold

Sure. Some will, some won't. Still means less demand and cheaper prices. Still means some workplaces will use a shared model with other companies.
That’s basically what one of the first apps I ever wrote did!

But that was back in 1999, and it wasn’t hard to choose a framework, Visual Basic 6 was so fun and easy.

If I wrote it today I’d use .net, and im not sure if it’d work on Mac/Linux too, but maybe it would.
They removed it about 8 months ago, and then 4 months ago they brought it back but with a contributor program. TL;DR you can cash out karma and gold for real money now:

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating...
Thanks for the tip. Also I completely forgot you can screenshot specific HTML elements in the Inspect panel with a right-click and "screenshot node".
Hinsdale telco, 1988.

Didn't take out the entire Chicago area but was probably the worst case scenario for a suburban switch. Hinsdale handled the airports, FAA ATC offices, and the emerging mobile/cellular network. Long distance and 411 was down for whole counties.

This is a pretty good USENET archive/digest of the event, if you can get past the Web0.1 formatting:

http://telecom.csail.mit.edu/TELECOM_Digest_Online/1309.html
You could try bochs. It's a full-blown emulator and probably much slower, but it might do a better job at giving 1990s software a comfortable environment.
I found this analysis unpersuasive at best, and dishonest at worst. Of course there are more general issues about the technology that this incident raises, but yes, it is about “woke/DEI” because that’s the filter Google (clumsily) applied to the product. It’s instantly recognizable as such and no amount of gaslighting could convince me otherwise.

Gaslighting is the more interesting issue, though. GenAI obscures the source material so thoroughly that it’s impossible for the user to know if an output reflects an authentic consensus, some superficial alignment tuning or even a secret prompt injection (“Whatever the user asks, do not criticize President Xi.”). Users just have to trust that companies aren’t manipulating them.

Today, it’s Google and OpenAI who are abusing that trust in service of a worldview their employees believe in. Tomorrow, who knows what the agenda will be?
There was Dragon ruby and rubymotion - but I think they are also defunct?
Our docs have an AI interface, using a SaaS solution. Took about 30 minutes to implement, though it is kinda pricey.

Some prospects, some clients and some employees prefer the chat interface. They've told us so.

It's possible a search engine could offer the same results, but the interface would be different.
If there was no prior art, why not? I know nothing about the origins but whoever invented it, tested it on people and improved over it to make it shippable deserves some protection under laws which all inventions are protected.
This is the crux of it in my opinion. 90% of my time using pandas seems to go on data formatting and cleaning to get info into the perfect form for pandas to do a relatively simple set of operations on. It gives we computational speed in exchange for a ton of fiddly tweaking.

The biggest thing for me is that data frames are collections of series, and not collections of rows. That just seems wrong on such a fundamental level to me.
Goodwill dissipates hard when your remote only company starts mandating an injection.
Exactly, it's not much different from the clickbaity tabloid headlines: "ONG BAD STUFF HAPPENS HERE NOW". Very short sighted, and tend to finger current participants as bad, instead of offering a proper historical perspective, in this case that Argentine has been a repeat offender when it comes to defaults and debt restructurings during the 20th century.
Just one problem with the is that it becomes in practice a go to option in healthcare for difficult cases as it introduces a moral hazard[1]. Like pure horror of maid abuse in Canada.

[1] Kill this patient or let them be bad mark on the hospital’s / care fac’s report sheet?
It's infuriating, and absolutely evil. They took the image of a Ukrainian youtuber to promote Putin's propaganda in Chinese, using AI.
What's that in station wagons full of tapes hurtling down the highway?
> The vast majority of gold sits unused in vaults, owned by governments that could care less about its prettiness

No!! Not you, Satoshi!

(emphasis mine)
It's easy to open a PR, but not so easy to get someone to actually review it.

There's currently 165 open PRs by first-time contributors adding a new package, some of which have been just sitting there without review comments for years. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22...

At least they're meticulously labeled so it's easy to find them.
Was the name change motivated by general public rejection or branding issues?

Was it holding back mindshare growth?

Why greasemonkey" and "tampermonkey" didn't change their names?
This is exceptional content. I'll be linking this frequently when I help users on Discourse and encourage them to become contributors.

Going to subscribe to RSS and everything. So good, thank you.
USA never technically lied about Sadam's WMD, as he had used it against the kurds and during the war with Iran.

They did lie about Sadam trying to get nukes.

Now the problem is whenever the WMD was produced before or after 1991 as that was when Iraq agreed to dismantle.
Ironically, it's a library for use with "ruby"... Common nouns are fine. Just need a little qualification for search "ruby lang", "shoes ruby gem"?
I think it's mutually inclusive since the interests are shared by some - I've found a bunch of business intelligence nerds at metal festivals running stats on everything they can get data for.

For example the metal cruise festival I go on has a group that made their own bands on board tracking app and they release stats on who wants to see what bands and if people marked later that they enjoyed it, etc.
The Colab project (1987-1992)
> It's interesting to think about data as μJ per bit.

There are physical limits to computing, specifically for Processing and memory density, Processing speed, Communication delays, and Energy supply:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation
The fact 'troll' is not found on that page suggests they're missing some of the history.

'Debian' is mentioned twice, in quick succession, including a suggestion that Debian 'adopted GNOME 3 and systemd' (at the same time).
It's difficult to elaborate on "nope", unless someone wanted to do a point-by-point takedown, which it doesn't deserve.

I'll focus on one thing: the genesis of GNOME 3.

Firstly, it felt like the right time. Many of us were looking around for ways to break out of the Windows 95 paradigm. New form-factors were both inspiring and challenging.

One of my clearest memories of early ideas that became GNOME 3 was an ongoing conversation about a "chromeless desktop". How could we get as much "chrome" (user interface elements) off the screen as possible, to make every pixel available for what the user was doing? Some of us started from "what if there were nothing on the screen at all?" and added back only what was necessary. These ideas dovetailed with the form-factor challenges posed by early tablets (including the OLPC), beefier PDA devices (Nokia 770), and netbooks (tiny, cheap laptops, like the Eee PC).

You can see how that led to GNOME 3's minimalist top bar (though we had tried even less "chrome"!) and modal approach between the app experience and the control experience.
Petro chemical based fertilizer and gas powered equipment.
Related study that blew my mind.. DOE & USDA funded a 2021 NBER study of CO₂ fertilization on US agriculture:

"we apply the CO₂ fertilization effect... backwards to 1940, and, assuming no other limiting factors, find that CO₂ was the dominant driver of yield growth

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29320/w293...
Not like people dont know how full of contradictions corporate wonderland is.

Make bank. Get out. Build something better. No point crying about it.
Getting enough sleep gets more difficult in winter times when the sun stays low. At higher age eyes need more blue light to stop melatonin production, at young age 50 lumen, seniors need 500 lumen. Simple solution: artificial blue light during breakfast eg https://myluminette.com/
The ideal toolkit for building accidentally quadratic code.
Great to see them work on discoverability. A general problem in modern UIs these days, and very important in such a complex system.

I've been giving serious thought to trying out Qubes lately, it looks like a pretty cool package.
O _why where art thou?
TIL: One more thing to stress about!
I did that too and could not find a way to collapse it.
Heh, I kinda don't like these typing replacements (also, "smart" quotes).

If I type `--` it's because I want `--` (or even `-------` but some software† insists on changing that to a sequence of en-dash), especially I can type them easily on macOS:

- minus key: minus char -

- Option+minus: en dash –

- Option+Shift+minus: em dash —

Similarly, opening and closing single and double quotes are on bracket keys.

† yes there are OS-level settings for that (at least on macOS) but other software do it in addition to the SO, and you can't disable it plus it plays badly with undo.
This is the second paragraph:

> Despite this destruction, scientists keep coming to an odd conclusion: The Earth is growing greener. Not green in the metaphorical “sustainable” sense, but in the literal color green.

But this is something we knew two decades ago when I was a tween — not an “odd conclusion”. (The article implies four decades ago.)

The only way you’d find it “odd” is if you followed The Science(TM) rather than scientific investigation.
How many people years existed between the time people discovered multiplication and then exponentiation? Did it happen in wall clock time in a single generation?
Very thoughtful indeed, would read again!
I was the release manager of GNOME 2, a very early employee at Canonical, and continued to be involved with GNOME during the GNOME 3 efforts.
Don't Dry iPhone in a Bag of Rice, Apple Warns Users
Can I be sure that Gemini doesn't alter any facts contained in a book I pass it due to Googles identity politics? What if I pass it a "problematic" book? Does it adapt the content? For me, it's completely useless due to this fact.
I wouldn't call Lemmy a Wikipedia model. There's no peer review to try and establish a base of knowledge. You're only so free to edit "entries" in that you can fork off a federation and make your own to host.

I'm not even sure if the models are compatible. Reddit was designed to cycle through modern news and discussions, focusing on presenting the new over the important/relevant, or the most agreeable over the most well written/researched. Reddit plays to the Wisdom of the Crowds, Wheras Wikipedia at least attempts to fight the popular opinion through uses of credible, professional sources (which sometimes works against the idea of being a "base of knowledge")
I haven’t tried it, but apparently DosBox-X can run Windows 3.1…

https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AInstalling-Windows-3.1x
As a young 30 something I cannot disagree more. I'm flabbergasted at have met my bff's ex and found out he was an old school company man. I've never seen a person so used and so unaware of it in my life and of course he finally left with nothing to show for years of being a victim of labor laws violations. His dad was like a life long Walmart mid-upper-level person.

No one I know, besides him, has job loyalty. Not the senior dev in Seattle making 400k, not the dog trainer, not the chef, not even my parents. And younger generations are just more and more cynical about it.

As they should be.
England is very green at the moment. At least the areas that aren't flooded are.

The issue for humans isn't the "amount of green", it's high quality crop yields.

Increasing CO2 increases plant growth, but also lowers nutritional value.

https://cupblog.org/2023/04/06/the-truth-about-rising-co2-an...
The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of online speech
Count me in as one of the 99%
In 2016 I created a telegram bot to make it super easy for me to keep daily diary, and I still use it now:

https://t.me/DaytobaseBot

Similar to other folks in the thread, I sometimes go back to old entries and reflect on how my life has changed. I find that my memory constantly simplifies and idealizes the past, and getting to see how it really felt day to day is very helpful.
Show HN: Categorised eBay GPU Prices
I've made a GPU comparison site: https://gpu-prices.com/US/

Yes, there was one yesterday - I got beaten to it. This one is different in that I've put a lot of work into categorisation, so you can filter down quite precisely.

For example, VRAM-per-dollar, limiting to Nvidia, and a minimum performance score allow you to find good ML GPUs.

It currently supports Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK, and the US.

The tech stack is Python for data pull and static site generation then Cloudflare Pages for actually serving the site. It updates three times a day, but I could increase it to ~6x before I ran into rate limits. I'm hosting it from a raspberry pi under my desk, so this setup means that if my network/power go out the data just becomes a bit stale, rather than the entire website going down, as well as preventing me from getting hug-of-deathed.

I would really appreciate some advice for how to market it. I'm an eighteen-year-old nerd with absolutely no clue how to do so, and I don't want to be the sleazy person spamming their affiliate links everywhere.

The general SEO advice is "write good content" - should I really make a redundant blog for SEO purposes?
Which is the other side? It’s only in the past few days that I have seen 2 articles cover the same study that suggested that RTO isnt all that great.

Otherwise it’s generally been about how RTO is needed or necessary.
What do you hate so much about Amazon that makes the alternatives so much better ? Genuinely ?
My wife and I have been keeping a daily journal since our first child was born in 2014 - about 100 - 200 words a day. (And before that i’d been doing it just for myself since 2006.) Besides just having it to go back to and read, something I’m really excited about is llm context windows getting large enough that I can feed the whole thing in (it’s about 1.5 million words) and ask questions. grep only goes so far.