skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As computer lovers, I feel we must endeavour to remain mindful that almost everyone else aren’t like us. They’re trying to get a task done. They don’t want to maintain or talk with the computer.

This was pretty much my point. 95% of the population isn't like us, and don't need to interact with the terminal; thus, thinking the terminal is what's keeping Linux back doesn't make much sense to me
Many of our systems boot under 10 seconds after GRUB. You can make GRUB menu to timeout quickly or be completely hidden if you want.

A modern system with a connected network can boot quite fast. Windows' instant boot is not boot actually, it's thawing hibernation.

One of the biggest features touted by systemd is "embarrassingly parallel" booting capabilities, which Parallel SYS-V already sported.

IOW, Linux already can boot pretty quickly given no hardware device is holding it back.
For broader coverage/accuracy (minimization of misinformation), I think "religion" should be replaced with something like "the symbol representing the the metaphysical framework the individual subscribes to"....this way it also covers the science crowd as well.

For science I guess the symbol would just be "science"? Not sure what one would use for mystics.

Are there more than these three?

> Religion has filled the gap between that absolutely blissful state that one can achieve in his own nature, and one’s present level of instability.

Interestingly, this is a faith based belief: "X has Y" ("has" varies...."explains", "is caused by", "is the fault of", etc are some other variations) is reductive, and speculative. If it is presented as fact rather than opinion/belief, then it is belief without adequate supporting evidence, aka Faith. Or it could also be propaganda, misinformation, etc.

This is probably in violation of the dominant metaphysical framework of the era/region though, in which case how about we attach a "That's pedantic" or "Just joking!" label and call it even.

I'm actually a big Sadhguru fan, but he himself admits that he avoids reading too much so as to avoid contamination by ideological frameworks (like in this case, say...Set Theory, Semantics/Semiotics, Taoism, etc).

And presumably he is optimizing for personal peace and comfort. That is all well and good, but I personally have great concern for others suffering around the world, and brushing things under the carpet (to achieve solace, ironically) with Meme Magic like his is a big part of what causes those problems to persist across generations and centuries, even though it is (presumably) not necessary.

When COVID was on the scene, the well being of others was a big deal...but now that it's largely gone, we are back to "every man for himself", or "that's just the way it is". Disgraceful imho.
I use Waze a lot, but have not encountered (noticed) anything like this. Is it only a US thing?
the sample was "roughly 1,500 young adults 20 to 35 years of age" so, in today's environment, I don't think it's possible that there were not at least a few who self-identify as non-binary and nonconforming.
Wait do folks not remember the "I get to tell my wife 'sudo make me a sandwich'" jokes on Freenode into the early 2000s? "Pool is closed due to AIDS" from Habbo Hotel?

I think this "genteel internet" that came pre-Web was much shorter lived than the periods after it. It reminds me of crypto where the initial halcyon period of Bitcoin seemed full of hope but once the technology had to scale it just couldn't keep its initial values due to both technological and social issues.
Yes, and it will happen, it would just colllapse the world economy and start a world war if international capital flows to China stopped overnight
Are you referring to some sort of asset marketplace with in-app purchases, or something like that? If so, I've never used it. I can say that you don't need to be logged in to use Affinity Photo, Designer, or Publisher: I don't even have an Affinity account, let alone do I need to log in to use the software. My recollection of buying their products is: you pay them over the web, they send an email with an activation code, you paste the code into the app, and that's it.
The internet archive managed to save (part of) the collection? Neat!
When you think about it's actually pretty ridiculous that this difficult in the first place, in the internet era. In principle all you really need is a standard way to tag each keyframe with an NTP-synced timestamp, and any camera with an internet connection would be able to achieve this effortlessly.
Cool, buy why?
I generally tend to think that complaints about dependency management in Python are way overblown -- it's usually not a problem for me. But lately I've been trying out some off-PyPI projects to investigate time series foundation models, and it would have made my life so much easier if the implementers of these libraries hadn't decided to pin to extremely specific versions of ten or twenty different dependencies. No, your library does not need exactly NumPy 1.22.3. You're just throwing unnecessary obstacles in the way of people using it.

That pinning wouldn't really be a problem ordinarily, where I control the environment, but I'm running this particular code in a managed environment that I can't easily modify.
Well, Wayland support was a sore point for Nvidia for a very long time. And it's the prime example of why they don't see Linux as their normal support target. Otherwise they would have worked with upstream a long time ago, instead of just trying to start now.
Here in Brazil, it is not uncommon to hear about people being kidnapped/shot/killed because Google Maps decided to direct them into a zone controlled by organized crime.

When news came out that those routes were being chosen to make the app more "inclusive", I found it amusing how someone in Palo Alto presenting a PowerPoint with a couple of ESG slides could lead to someone else being shot with an AK-47.

If the above sounds unreal: https://www.reddit.com/r/brasilivre/comments/mtfwfq/carro_do...
Making the point over and over and over for two and a half hours gives you time to run away and hide.
I don’t think she’s saying “only _I_ can do this!!” - it just read to me like a “this is a what happened and what I learned from it”. Actually, I think I’ll send this article to my high school physics teacher - he was a good mentor, and he might enjoy giving it to his students.
From anecdotal evidence(just reading news reports) and testimonies (verbal anecdotes from people who still work at Twitter IRL), I think Twitter's current headcount is pretty close to what it was when Musk originally bought Twitter.

The difference is they now use a lot of contractors. Many FTE's that survived the acquisition have stayed because the money is good and they don't want to bother with something affecting their work visa status.

I think scaring off advertisers did affect the num of employees needed. Twitter was slightly profitable at the time because they had built out an effective sales org. Musk eliminated most of them, and many of those who kept their jobs soon quit in frustration.
the page is dark grey text on a black background and half the text is covered by grey rectangles
India needs to focus on decreasing its birth rate, which it completely ignores. They can’t just keep making more people and expect things to world out
This painting evoke a sense of movement and freedom
A really good video on the subject: https://youtu.be/_KRb_qV9P4g?si=x0pmLkBhLYXud4G0

The gist is that, for animation, frame interpolation messes with intended timing and can produce incoherent images on interpolated frames and odd frame rate issues for certain kinds of animations. Interpolation can thus cause animations to lose their punch and feel wrong.

While interpolation may be nice for live action films, it should still be an option to turn off.
Is there a streaming-native way of encoding multiple camera angles simultaneously in a video? The ability to toggle between different angles is a feature on DVDs and Blu-rays that IMO is underused but awesome for educational videos where different aspects or angles of a demonstration might be useful.
Technical skills come and go. Soft Skills and Project Management are universal and always (but not explicitly) in demand. No matter the technical stack or project domain, you will always be working as a team negotiating requirements, writing tickets, estimating work, and communicating across domain boundaries. Getting good at this process and then executing on that work is the one-two punch of a Senior developer and above. The management track is getting a team of people to do these steps in harmony.

> something to specialize and build complex products for

Generally you specialize in a particular business domain. Being realistic, you get this skill by repeating the above (PM and PR) in a particular domain enough that it soaks your brain like a brine. This is particularly true if you work in a regulated industry. If you wanted to get into a particular domain, target working for teams and companies explicitly working that domain as a way to immerse yourself. Once there, get cozy with the Product Manager as a way of drip-feeding learning the domain.
Install arch with a couple of different bootloaders and disk layouts, and you'll learn it all. The simplest option is potentially systemd-boot + an unencrypted rootfs.
Besides what Phil mentioned below, I can't write more than one record to the WAL. You're closing the file after every write, the second time you write the error `seek data/rebuf.tmp: file already closed` is returned.

I also think your rotation will delete the wrong segment when you have more than ten segments - imagine you're writing rebuf-1 to rebuf-10 - what's the "oldest file" to delete now? Besides, should you really delete those files?
Yeah :) It's actually netctl. I haven't used it for so long, I forgot what it's called.
Except that doesn't work in the real world, where encrypted and authenticated boot disks are increasingly common.

So you'll need a significant amount of code that isn't the permanently-resident kernel that has enough device support to access keys and decrypt and authenticate what holds the kernel that will launch the OS.

IOW, you'll just have to reinvent a bootloader anyway.

Or you can address the problems with GRUB, extend it to do what you need, and avoid doing the traditional linux folly of Yet Another Unnecessary Reinvention.

Or was systemd vendor lock-in not enough for your shareholders?
Ah yes, unified kernel images.

Finally, an end to the tiresome and obsolete notion of Linux running modified versions of the Linux kernel. With unified kernel images, Linux users can finally be confident knowing their kernels are signed by companies with Microsoft's blessing, such as Red Hat and Canonical - and Linux will be have proper support for the use cases of companies like TiVo, who want to run Linux, but also want to ensure the device owner can't make any modifications to the software on their device.

This will be well worth it, to protect against the ever present issue of criminals breaking into my hotel room, finding my unattended laptop, and deciding not to steal it to sell on ebay - but instead to secretly modify my initramfs. I don't know about you, but I've had two covert CIA teams rappel in through my window this week alone.
EFISTUB requires recompiling the kernel every time initramfs, microcode or commandline change, no? That would get annoying pretty quickly on desktop PCs, which are not that fast with recompiling, and would need to do all of this quite often, e.g. on nvidia driver updates.
I haven't been in the java ecosystem in a while, but when I was using Maven you could just download the portable version and run it, and towards the tail end you could just include a simple mvn build shim that would pull down the correct version of maven and run it in a portable way (I think this was an idea borrowed from Gradle).

Maven itself, afterall, was nothing more than a java application (as was Ant before it).
Shrinking is built in to libFuzzer! (`-minimize_crash` in libFuzzer, `cargo fuzz tmin` with cargo-fuzz)
I'm not going to die over it but Twitter constantly shows me tweets it already showed me 10 seconds ago. They're doing it wrong.
Z-library is (still) available via a Tor link which can be found via a google search or reddit.

Five ebook downloads a day and if you want to do more you need to donate via crypto which increases your download cap depending how much you donate.

No ads or subscriptions.
Ok, I appreciate your suggestions. But now I'm thinking about some utility where you can say:

run-http-service myfiles bashbro -s -p PORT

And then it would just allocate a new port (clash-free), invoke bashbro with the given flags and substitute PORT by the newly allocated port number, and such that it uses myfiles.localhost as the domain. And when bashbro exits, the port number is garbage collected. Somehow, it feels like this should already exist ...
Recent experience for a large stadiums event suggests they have fixed the notifications. I got a lot of notifications encouraging me to a) charge my phone and b) download the ticket before arrival.
I was a Premiere user, switched to Davinci Resolve a few years ago, and never looked back.
I still wonder why such a great piece of software is free.
There's a learning curve though - nothing serious, but I had to put in a couple of hours to learn how to do things I used to do in Adobe Premiere.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/davinciresolve

There's a paid version too, but I doubt anyone who's not making REAL money from editing ever needs it.
Freeing literature and knowledge is no excuse for violating federal copyright laws
Vaccines required -40c temperatures, which most general purpose refrigerated transportation did not manage. Sure medical stuff already manages that in small amounts, but the COVID vaccine required population sized scale.

It was a very minor problem. They got help from the folks who own Dippin' Dots, who had made a business out of exactly that problem 3 decades ago, and some research that put more confident bounds around where and when in the distribution you absolutely needed specialty refrigeration.

Fun tangeant, Dippin Dot's as a business basically died, because nobody in the 90s was willing to pay $8 for a mildly interesting physical form of ice cream. The company managed to reinvent itself as a service provider of novel food modification techniques for bigger food production companies. They sold tech/solutions/services to make flash frozen tiny drops of fats and oils that could be mixed into things like vegetarian burger patties to make them have better mouthfeel.

They still sell Dippin Dots stuff, and in classic venues, like Kennedy Space Center, it's still $8, and it's still hella not worth it, despite the inflation between then and now.
I'd say the navigation aspect of Apple Maps is far superior to that of Google Maps, but the reviews and business directories on Google Maps is much better, not to mention all my favorites and PoIs are stored in Google Maps.
When the people who run those business factor this exact thing into their decision making, then yes, it's precisely that. You're acting as if the company is somehow entirely detached from these circumstances or that this all happened to them by accident.
Whether you agree that it is a genocide, surely you're not going to pretend it isn't obvious what they're talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
Renewables, conservation, and stop growing so many people.
> Open for some, in some cases, in EU only, is not helping really.

Would you mind explaining how the status quo is better without them? I'm confused.
Google Search gets most of the attention for being ruined by Google, but I think the Maps trajectory is just as bad. It has shown remarkable consistency in getting worse year after year, for a long time now. Basic functionality is regularly broken or degraded, and the UI is increasingly covered in ads of various types.

Maps is a prime example of the costs from not enforcing antitrust laws. Google spent billions of dollars from its ad monopoly to control this market and is now squeezing it for all it can. This product is only going to get worse for the foreseeable future.
Well, it gets them out of your hair for 2.5 hours...

Unless they don't bother to watch it. Then it gets them out of your hair permanently, because they know they're supposed to watch it before hassling you about it again.
I've replaced Adobe with Affinity and am mostly satisfied, although in the latest versions I've been experiencing bugs with the renderer (eg artifact lines or the canvas being cut off by one pixel) which introduces some difficulties.
You just answered your own question. Developing nations aren't at 100% renewable because they already have a large amount of installed non-renewables.
The U.S. fed spends more money and political capital going after open libraries than the numerous and destructive violent offenders. Federal corruption is now so common it's a base expectation of life. That's how we know cyberpunk isn't fiction.
Also a philosopher who believed in the harmony between science and faith.
The self-righteous attitude of so many parasitic tourists is sickening. Dance for my Instagram you locals, here's a bone and you better be grateful.
Might find some inspiration and complement with https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Potentially related: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/15fcrmd/transcri...
>To be clear, systemd-boot doesn't replace GRUB, in that systemd-boot can only boot other EFI binaries, so it still requires the kernel to be compiled as a UKI. A GRUB setup with a regular vmlinuz + separate initramfs in root partition (or boot partition that's not the ESP) can't be replaced with systemd-boot directly. You first need to switch to a UKI-in-ESP setup.

That's wrong, my laptop right now uses systemd-boot with a vmlinuz and an initramfs, no UKI. See a configuration example here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot#Adding_loaders
Jujutsu: A Next Generation Replacement for Git
Japanese urban area hunting rifle ban to be adjusted after bear attacks increase
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c06458

That study puts it at 9.4% of gross production. Many other sources exist which put 5% at a very realistic number. Fossil gas is dirt cheap, invisible, and leaks are large self-reported, so the companies have 0 reasons to properly test for or stop leaks.
warp and and some powershell version were the only “terminals” i used that seemed fixing the input line, but also did not quite feel right. the worst parts of terminals for me are that input line does not behave like a normal text field with mouse click, select and everything a user would expect in another context, that history mostly scrolls on a line basis instead of smooth pixel scrolling like any other document (don’t get me started on pagers, i still don't manage to disable man pages opening in some archaic mode that takes 3 tries to even exit from git), commands that default to tuis or clearing the screen. i tried to avoid unix as long as possible because of this and the absurd random / hostile folder names + layout but just because *nixes won does that mean we have to keep these archaic absurdities alive? why does even something where innovation would be simple like the vscode terminal feel like that and not like the chrome console with a normal text input line with graphic autocomplete and mostly immutable command response history with collapse/expandable sections? even unix commands that would not work in this mode could just run in something like an inline widget or new tab where they could read input lines by character or whatever weird behavior they expect.
Michigan Dept. Of Transportation Still Has a Century-Old Ford Model T in Service
Why are NFTs dumb?

How can I buy a digital asset sold by an artist?
I think the lowest hanging fruit would be doing something (anything) to improve discovery of commands. I have great grokking abilities but terrible memorization skills, and I end up forgetting how to do what I want to do and maybe even have done before. Browsing man pages for every command is my bane. It's also why I dislike GUI with unlabelled icons, I never remember what each one does.
But the other way around, it's all too common that a 1 bit array is stored equivalently to a 32 bit array.
Last I checked (somewhat less than ten years ago), it did do things with DPI. Note that if you were using it with a sorry distro-packaged version it might have been broken because proper DPI support requires a patched X11 dummy video driver or something along those lines, and if you had an unpatched one DPI stuff didn't work.
“Canada could already be absorbing 20 to 30 per cent more CO2 than we emit”

https://financialpost.com/opinion/canada-may-already-be-carb...
> Obstinacy is defined by a lack of imagination, good judgement, and intent listening

I think that may be a mistake.

Any value strategy that is primarily conservative (e.g., protecting sunk or resource assets) will be obstinate. That doesn't make it slower or stupider.

So oil and timber companies and monopolists et al will keenly monitor opposition and respond immediately and deftly -- with reality-avoidance. As will individuals who are primarily guarding something they feel is at risk of being taken away.

They have the same or more intelligence, judgment, and active listening; it's just that their strategy is not creation or innovation.

Indeed, in a fair fight the innovator will lose to the conservative, because it's just plain harder to make things happen, particularly when it involves convincing others to change their patterns or minds.
> I wouldn't expect a small VC company to have that may engineers let alone an engineering culture, if they didn't they better be paying you hundreds of thousands to define one, especially since I'm assuming that you seem to be engineer #1.

Yep, I'm the only full-time eng. Base salary is significantly lower than Big Tech, If carry compensation pans out, total comp is significantly higher. Write about this in a previous post: https://www.swe2vc.com/p/compensation-comparison

> This looks like a serious red flag, are the other people (early founders and partners) also in the trenches doing this with you?

The partners and founders work all the time too. They just have support structures and lives that allow them to be singularly focused on work. I had a more balanced life before starting this job.
Sony killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning – TechSpot
This is a good point. If I'm being offered a list of skills to rate myself on, I'd have no trouble marking a 1 for COBOL or a 4 for PowerShell.

Same goes for the 9s or 10s. If it's an area I've truly mastered, then that 9/10 becomes a good starting point for discussion in an area I'm really confident in.
Eton bans smartphone for new pupils
On Mac, I'm using Continuity Camera with an older extra iPhone I have + Elgato Cam Link to hook in a DSLR.
Then I use OBS Studio to mash them all together, you can then use some plugins to switch between cameras live while streaming (or recording).

Hope it helps
Do you not ask interviewers questions during an interview?

Like yes, during an interview you should attempt to learn what it would be like to work there.
I've been using it for the past 3 years. Things I love about Apple Maps.

1. Limited distractions.
2. Traffic Lights, Stop signs are so easy to follow!
3. Lanes are rendered very clearly.

Of course, once in every other blue moon I have to open Google Maps when I find myself in an alley with no outlet, while Apple Maps is telling me to drive through the building.
I don't have any data to back it up, but I've never seen as strong a reading culture as I did in my two years living in Russia and East Ukraine. Very strong cultural respect for books and the written word.

Also, zero enforcement of western copyright law, or at least that's what I've observed.