skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100%. I don't know what to call it other than coddling, but there was very, very, very, little true responsibility. Safety in the herd: don't let the people who got the stuff done get too up in their heads about it, via their design had issues at the end of the day, and conversely, if I did deliver something of low quality, it was someone else's design that was the problem.

All the firing BS in from mid-2022 in this industry was poorly motivated, and a lot of the initial wave was used for settling political scores, and there's a lot still there. But I hope in the long run it engenders a stronger sense of needing to have some sort of shared reality and responsibility.
I’m launching a startup to make molecular nanotechnology a reality. Still engineering, but not software.

Founding a company isn’t great work/life balance no matter the field, but it is significantly more rewarding in deep tech imho.
Just want to say I read the Mistborn series recently and it was excellent :)
Allow me to be pedantic and say that English has a perfectly good two-word phrase for this exact phenomenon, "dappled light."

The internet is very big on Japonisme (not to say Orientalism) so I feel obligated to present a contrary viewpoint once in a while.
I would always expect a prominent code when any safety sensor fails.
iPadOS 18 Beta Includes Alternative App Stores and Other EU Changes
I’ve been collecting this series of folk tales, and some of them really are a completely different view of the world / sense of morality. It’s wild.
`lms` – LM Studio's companion CLI tool
In (ex) Yugoslavia as kids in kindergarten I attended, we were required to take swimming and skiing lessons and pass test. Later in the primary school same thing with orienteering. It was all masked as fun activities, and truth be told they were, but now I see the bigger picture. I'm still putting my kids through those as well; It's both fun and damn useful.
Proton has been huge for Linux gaming, especially since the Steam Deck launched. Apple’s Game Port Toolkit is also quite promising on Mac side. Unix based OSs are seeing something of a vg renaissance.
For context

> MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of the Python 3 programming language that includes a small subset of the Python standard library and is optimised to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments.

https://micropython.org/
Linux XFS has also added copy-on-write a few years ago.

Initially I was not aware of this and I was surprised when I have copied a directory with a total size greater than 50 GB and the copy was instantaneous. At first I believed that I had given some wrong command, but then I searched the XFS documentation and I saw that this was a new feature at that time.
>It's not possible to install a local account any more. Apparently all the loopholes have been closed. It just loops you back to the "oops looks like you lost internet access" page.

This simply isn't true, I did a computer with Windows 11 Home 3 days ago with local accounts.

OOBE\bypassnro still works as expected.
I have never connected my Kindle to WiFi. Prevents ads and updates. USB is easy enough to transfer files.
I recently purchased a Steam Deck and I've been blown away by how games just work. I used to use Wine a lot for applications in the early 2010s and it was always hit and miss (and Codeweaver for Office support). Proton is amazing.
Probably incorrect conspiracy theory: with the success of Azure and also due to basic common sense, anyone inside MS that gives even the smallest shit about OS quality is a huge Linux fan. But, they have this awful legacy OS dragging them down, they can’t get rid of it because of various contracts and general shareholder expectations. They added as much Linux to it as they could really get away with, and their only good program (VSCode) has been ported and works perfectly fine on Linux, so things are mostly looking OK.

The only thing left to do is to tank Windows and get rid of that legacy support burden once and for all.
I don't see what tolerances have to do with it? You still have to do math if you have to site a member between two other members regardless of the tolerance. For example, to frame an 8 foot wall you have to cut your studs down to accommodate the top plate and bottom plate and the trim plate above the top plate. Similarly with windows, doors, and headers. Whether you have a 1/16 tolerance or a 1/8 tolerance it doesn't matter. The only time I've had to deal with tolerances when framing is in making sure the drywall doesn't wave anything around by firring out or planing down each stud to put the wall into tolerance.
The best advice that I can give you is that running away from something is not running towards something. You need to find something you can run towards.

Do you like what you do and not who you have to work with?

Perhaps you want a job in your field that's "good enough" where you take a pay cut for better quality of life (defense, govt contracting, big banking, life sciences, non tech companies that still have hard software problems).

Do you like building but you want to call the shots on something you want to build for a decade?

Perhaps entrepreneurship is for you. But, it's tough -- having made the transition, you trade off one set of people problems (and lack of agency) for another. Net-net it's more stressful and while the highs are higher, the lows are much lower.

Do you want a completely different field entirely?

I've seen folks purchase blue collar flavored "lifestyle businesses" (self-storage, landscaping, etc) and scratch the entrepreneurship itch "in the small". I've seen folks shift to building physical things (taking up welding or woodworking), but you run into the physical constraints of your body which can present challenges. But, this is probably the hardest path for me to answer or advise towards, in part because it requires you abandoning or at least closing the chapter you've build your career experience inside of.

Best of luck. I'd start with the first question; it sounds like you've worked at companies with "ambitious" technologists and found a common thread of misdirected ambition. That doesn't necessarily mean that you can't find a happy home inside technology. Technology is a big world.
Perhaps you should inform yourself by reading the DMA. You won't find in it anything about Apple or anyone else hindering developers from selling elsewhere.

What the EU is regulating is fair competition for very large platforms, defined as having 45m or more users. These benefit from network effects and may be operated in ways that inhibit competition.

Do you also believe that John D. Rockefeller never did anything anti-competitive? lol

If Apple wants to sell in the EU it will have to abide by EU rules decided by democratically elected politicians. The US has proven incapable and or unwilling to regulate big tech. The EU has been slow and won't always get it right first time but it's trying. This is why EU citizens have e.f., privacy rights Americans don't, why broadband costs way less in the EU than the US etc.

If parasitism is what interests you I suggest directing your attention to rentier capitalism and the never ending upward flow of wealth to the 1% and the extent to which US politicians are owned by billionaires.
The thing is that the original fairy tales are surely not "sanitized" versions of the ones we know.

So if the idea is that we should clean-up the original stories so that they can replace the ones we know now in the future, we're doing a disservice to future people, because we have the oldest ones that have been printed at disposal and should not deprive them of the possibility of reading them, if they want to.

The fact that before the press there was no book of fairy tales is irrelevant.

The Grimm's are the Grimm's and we should keep printing and reading them as they were intended by the authors.
Slow-release ketamine tablets help prevent depression relapses, UK trial finds
That’s somewhat better than assembling, say, HTML or SQL out of text fragments, but it’s still not fantastic. A JSON output DSL would be better still—it wouldn’t have to be particularly complicated. (Shame those usually only come paired with parsers, libxo excepted.)
> Another reason: I'll often come across a blog post from 12 years where the author writes "in my next post, I'll continue to discuss..."

Worse than that is the "part 3" blog post, where the opening paragraph of part 3 starts out with something like:

In part 1 we discussed "...one or two sentences on part 1..." and in part 2 we discussed "...part 2 quick overview..." ...

And there are no links at all in part 3 to either of parts 1 or 2 (yet, presumably, part 3 was written after parts 1 and 2, so links back to 1 and 2 could have been inserted). If one came across part 3 from a search, and landed on it for the first time, one just might want to start at part 1 and read forward.
Taking the subway with potentially heavy check-in bags isn’t always possible. I wouldn’t say it’s the most convenient trip and I can understand why someone would prefer an Uber or taxi option.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40777114
I updated to w11 about a month ago and my onedrive preferences (logged out and not in use) has been respected so far.
>Fairy tales can often be brutal and cruel – people and animals die – and yet, despite everything, the positive powers always win. There can be no other ending.

That is a very 21st century view of fairy tales, no less sanitized than what Disney does.
The economics here are pretty pure. It seems intentional. I wouldn't call it stupid even if wrongheaded. But, to me, this cannot be an unintended side-effect. It's a feature, not a bug, of the regulatory model.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40777114
iOS's new malloc
> I have no idea why the EU isn't going after Microsoft with a heavy club for all the crap they're pulling lately.

Did someone get a O365 license reduction or a nice dinner out. MS rep used to take me out to dinner in the 90s to get us to use NT+Visual Basic. Free dinner with asshats - worth it. We used Solaris in the end and Sun only gave us hats.
The capital W is conventional - when talking about a place, a language, or a grouping of people, it's grammatically correct to capitalise the inital letter.

"I visited a few of America's major cities, and was especially struck by how many New Yorkers speak English as a second language. "

So it's correct to capitalise "Meanwhile, Western countries might [...]" but not "There's a brisk westerly wind coming in over the sea".
This might not help you, but it might help someone earlier in their career.

I was born, raised and studied in South Africa. Living costs and salaries are cheaper. I worked in California. Instead of living a lavish lifestyle, I saved. In hindsight, I should have saved even more. The important thing I did was opting for cheaper housing. I worked hard, which opened doors. I landed up at a startup that's now doing really well.

I retired after just six years. Six more years later, I'm doing what I want. I've been cycling around Europe and Africa. Next week I'm flying to Canada to explore North America for the next two years. It's a pretty cheap lifestyle, but I get to experience life around the world in a way few people ever do. I'm working on building a presence on YouTube. I've met others who sustain their travels via YouTube. Even if I don't, I can keep going for quite some time living off of savings. I wouldn't be able to do this so easily if it weren't for stock.

I'm not advocating a travel lifestyle. Instead, I'm advocating for saving up while you're earning decent cash. Don't blow it all. Then hopefully you can leave for what you really want to do, and not be tied down due to finances.
The decimal point was discovered very late in American mathematics.
I try to avoid such unhelpful comments, but it may be justified here; an account clearly created for purposes of self-promoting post, paired with a comment that reads like a generic cross-platform press release (spam)

From the guidelines[1]:

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think it's a question of the correct version, just a question of the most appropriate for what our children need. The article also mentions modern series and YA novels that have in some ways even bleaker themes, and I think there's nothing wrong with a feel good Disney story either.

I think there is a tendency for parents to excessively avoid letting their children be afraid, instead of providing a safe place to experience fear, and these older stories didn't shy away from those themes and so can be useful for bringing some of that safe fear back for children.
I begrudgingly take a taxi whenever I leave the Seattle airport (it's significantly faster than Uber/Lyft because they're already queued). I'm continuously blown away by how it's still a dice roll to see if we're going to do the "credit card machine no work" game at the end. Pair that with the general disgusting state of the cars and, yeah, I ain't takin' no taxi unless it's the only option.
Crypto certainly does.
>But I genuinely cannot figure out what Microsoft's vision for Windows 11 is.

An operating system for the common man (and hopefully a subscription revenue inlet).

We need to acknowledge that cloud backups are a good thing for most people, we're talking people who otherwise never take backups no matter what and then cry when they inevitably lose their data.

The only problems here are OneDrive is absolute roasted garbage with how it actually executes the concept and Microsoft account integration is far too fucking obnoxious.
> I actually think this is a good decision

Whatever happened to just, I dunno, asking what to do?

> But I've voted with my wallet and have moved to Linux and macOS for day-to-day desktop computing

As did I about 7 years ago. Still have to use Windows servers at work, but I’m even supplanting many of those with Linux servers as and when I can
Same. Calibre works pretty seamlessly as well with transferring and converting books to and from mobi/epub with targeted layouts depending on whether you're on a full sized Kindle vs Paperwhite etc.
Night shift premiums have been a thing for a long time. You'd need another mechanism to make labour market effective at per-hour basis to adjust for the weather.
Declining enrollment is a problem with a hard answer, but it's hard to take this opinion article seriously when seemingly every other paragraph is a rant against the left, Democrats, or blue states.
it worked for me on win11pro 24h2 just a few days ago; maybe you had a lan cable connected?
Sure, but why not just cut out the middlemen? Just install a EU representative in each Apple office, and they can watch over all the developers and dictate features.
My two-cents, I found myself in this position about six years ago. I started Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - a sizable time commitment in an of itself - and for the first time really had balance. Now that by itself won't solve the problem. Around that same time I unexpectedly found myself in a new vertical in software (building game backend services). So perhaps moving to a different vertical in software, combined with something to bring the balance - might just be a possible solution. I get that I'm not answering your question, but this worked for me.
Windows 10 is very solid. I'm going to assume it will get updates for about as long as Windows XP did... I'll re-evaluate when they actually EoL it. Who knows, maybe that will be the year of the Linux desktop! (Spoilers: no.)
What has been rewarding for me has been meeting new people that work in different industries and seeing how my existing skillset could improve their work / job, not sure if is this is great advice or answers your question but I wouldn't necessarily look for different day-to-day work just different industries to apply your work to, but I also don't generally see myself as a "coder" but more a problem solver, so ymmv.
Sounds fascinating! Can you disclose the name of the company?
Is this a case of perfect being the enemy of good?

I don't know anything about the legislation, but the linked article's main complaint seems to be that anti discrimination language was removed from the bill. Ok. I don't understand all the issues involved with that, or what that language was.

Regardless, is it still good without that? Does it increase our privacy rights? Why not move the needle in the right direction and then lobby for additional things?
A single-page index of all posts is hands down the number one feature every blog should have. Also, no images to clutter the index, and slow down the page.
Last I checked you could only exploit Switches manufactured in the first couple years of its lifespan without going the hardware mod route.
I was trying to install security updates into a ~8 years old laptop the other day. It's been updated to Windows 10 before. The updates were OTA, but after it completed there was no way to log into the local account without logging into a Microsoft account first (while it being connected to Wi-Fi). Here's the kicker, since this still being on the pre-login setup screen, there was no option to disable Wi-Fi either.
> Assuming you're logging in with a Microsoft account

The whole issue lies within this assumption. Microsoft does not want you to use a local account, and they make it extremely difficult to setup your Windows machine without one.
Like it or not, in the current US Capitalist's Environment (as opposed to some mythical earlier time when corporations were supposed to have some social responsibility), in this current environment, Humans are a Commodity.

If there is a human surplus, the cost(pay) goes down.

If there is a human shortage, the price(pay) goes up.

When there are fewer desperate humans needing Uber to eat, and Uber can't find drivers, then suddenly Uber will start paying and treating people better.

This is only newsworthy because Uber by its nature of having all independent contractors with a very obvious 'market' linking drivers to passengers. Makes this clear.

It becomes very starkly clear the value of the driver and how much a human is worth. And that Uber can tweak their algorithms to minimize how much drivers are paid, thus providing a 'market' price for humans.

Uber isn't special, it is just this human value is starkly on display.
It seems like having real drones monitor the water and these robotic boats could make a difference over time.

An AI lifeguard seems like a tractable problem, making it possible for human guards to cover a lot more area.
... not exactly.

It's possible to essentially reimplement the logic of how scrollbars look, where they are, and when they appear, in just CSS on modern browsers.

Ended up having to do part of that once because it was easier at the time than to figure out just why a mismatched browser scrollbar would show up due to complex layouting issue (in embedded world, so we didn't actually have to worry about end user preference there, otherwise I wouldn't dare use such a hack)
These employees, or at least one style of these employees, are super-frustrating to work with as well.

Like, I have no problem with someone who is in the ticket flow, is conscientious about their work, tries to understand the business purpose, anticipates and asks some unanswered questions, and takes care to truly finish the work. Then, you know, sure, work your eight (or six), take your breaks, and leave it out of your brain all other times.

But the other style is all-too-common: Do only what's listed in the ticket, and the laziest possible interpretation at that. If something is undefined, well, that's their problem, if they realize it, they can schedule another ticket. Don't ask questions, don't collaborate, don't do anything extra and then if pressed, say phrases like, "Well they didn't say.." or "well, they didn't ask..." Take no ownership.

Those people suck.
I gave up trying to run cgo-compiled Go on an old appliance[1] the version of libc was simply too old. Has anyone ever successfully built cosmopolitan-flavored cgo binaries? I see Cosmopolitan libc supports Linux 2.6, so I'm hopeful.

1. Linux 2.x on little-endian MIPS.
T+LC cabs use Curb, which can call taxis and be used only as a payment method.

https://www.gocurb.com/
This would be a better argument if Apple didn't also lock down the capability of web browsers not called Safari.
I can strongly recommend trying out NixOS in WSL; I love this setup so much with komorebi. I have a starter template[1] available if you'd like to try it out. It takes less than 10 minutes in most cases to set up a fully functional NixOS WSL VM.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/nixos-wsl-starter
Even games with EAC and Battleye ("anti cheats") work well. That was pretty surprising.
A person I know reasonably well is currently the Lord Mayor of London.

I suspect I could get him to do an AMA here if people would like to hear more about the City and its fascinating ways.

Seriously, we could actually do this!
Reverse Engineering Claude Artifacts
Try marketing, being a software engineer is a great force multiplier there and most marketers are absolutely awful.
If the lead car hit the brakes for no reason, he has been negligent and would be liable. This could happen if you hit the wrong pedal, or presumably if your AEB system malfunctioned and thought it saw someone in the road. It might also apply if a squirrel ran into the road and you mashed the brakes to give it time to scamper away. Most people would say it is negligent to create a substantial risk of human bodily injury to avoid the possible/likely death of a squirrel.
> in all markets.

I am an Uber driver. I do not see the approximate destination prior to pickup. I don't know what percentage of Uber markets actually have that feature.
I just use it for playing games on steam, but lately it’s annoying even for that. I tried steam on Linux with proton and whatnot. It works okish, but there were too many issues with screen flickering. The Xorg/Wayland/nvidia info out there made it too confusing to deal with work arounds. A younger me would have persisted though.

So it looks like I’m in it for another Windows-issued flogging at least.
Believe so
Isekai (e.g. wish fulfillment + power fantasy) is absurdly popular in the anime/manga industry so I guess I'm rather unsurprised that its leaking over to more traditional novels as well.
Pivoting from React to Native DOM APIs: A Real World Example
These are almost certainly contract prices for the store. "Just in time" is not compatible with retail grocery stores.

The real parsimonious angle is the cost of refrigeration changes on hot days. Although that means ice cream should be 25% of it's original price during the dead of winter.

And I haven't seen an ice cream truck with a digital price sign. Yet.
Firefox on Windows autoplayed the music, fwiw
Study sheds light on Antarctic English slang
Contrary viewpoint to what? I don't think anyone claimed that there was no English equivalent.
3rd party app stores will still be subject to GDPR, which apply to all European customers, so calling it a wild west is a weird claim.
https://archive.is/bfOND
Wonderful.

Also. Komorebi is a Japanese word for the way light dapples through layers of leaves to illuminate a forest floor. I also made a tool called komorebi (an internal tool used for visuallly highlighting features in genomic comparisons) and deeply appreciate the name.
I company a cofounded went bankrupt last winter, and then my first child was born a few months later. I was depressed about the bankruptcy, but it was nice to be able to focus on being a parent.