skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree with that, and I have been on both sides of the coin, with a little team doing a lot of projects very quickly and also a corporation job where things move very slowly. Also having done so many side projects.

The unfortunate usual thing is though that the jobs that pay a lot usually involve a lot of people. Because when a small group of very productive programmers start out, their business is not proven yet, but when it actually is proven and will start to make a lot of money, there will be a lot of people hired and which breaks what it had initially.

And the more people and teams you put on something the slower the pace will be per developer, for sure.

There are moments in time in a lifecycle for a start up or a business, where there is that golden point, but it always seems temporary.
I'm not sure, but I'll bet there's a ton of blogs and wisdom on it, these days.

Most of the new stuff seems to use SwiftUI, but UIKit has been around since they first opened the SDK, and AppKit has been around longer than that.

Apple likes to pretend everyone uses SwiftUI, but I'll lay odds that most AAA apps are ObjC-based.
the relationship this forum has to the VC is similar to what a lot of forums had to their operators. There is little direct revenue gathering here - the VCs make money in other ways and spend a small fraction of it on this forum. At most, they advertise their other activities sometimes. The whole web used to be like this.
It's powered by the same models, but it's not submitting questions to the Q&A prompt like people do when they ask ChatGPT to generate code for them.

(..I guess? I don't think any of it is public - one might naively suppose that by now it's actually using only a subset of ChatGPT's MoEs, or something, but who knows?)
Huh, we have really different experiences. I often describe things the other way. My email is full of automated messages, things that get blasted out to the entire organization, status updates that got sent to an entire mailing list and I don't need to read. I assume at this point that if it's an email, it's probably not important. That is to say P(important | email) < my threshold

I mean, I glace at them at some point, but I don't put much thought into them.

At least I know slack/teams messages are meant for me. If it's important, don't send me an email about it, ping me on one of those.
This is much better and normal rather than the bs the original author is proposing where they are the main character and everyone caters to them
>If the clients are already customers of the new company, then he can make them offers which he knows they would find tempting. There'd be nothing to suggest he ever did anything untoward, and even if a case was made, it'd be thrown out of court pretty quickly.

I am not sure what are "clients" here (I asked about customers but you have some distinction between these two terms, important enough to turn same behavior from benign to criminal). Let's make it simple: I work for Widgets & Stuff Ltd. and our biggest customer is Google. Google buys widgets at $20 a pop, and we make 100% profit on these because Google is not renegotiating price for some reason. The Widgetco Inc. offered me a job. I come and see it's not selling widgets to Google. I call Google (not using some secret number, which you seem to be so concerned about, it's literally Google, the famous tech company) and tell them that I am offering widgets at $15 now.

Who is a client and who is a customer here? Am I going to prison for espionage in UK? What is Widgets & Stuff Ltd. to do if Google decides to buy widgets from Widgetco?
And before that we had roff.
Android TV boxes are really like the Windows ME of yore.
While there are of course frequent chats and interactions while in the office, the called "water cooler brainstorms" is a complete and total myth propagated via soulless linkedin seo and ceo posts. Like this stuff never happens on random and the few technical discussions I've seen or participated in a third place (i.e. two+ coworkers meet at any place which is not their workstation - kitchen/watercooler/smoking area etc.) were never resembling anything productive for the project or innovative. That in my not quite humble opinion is an utter BS perpetuated for the misguided RTO policies.

PS: disclaimer a) I do support short spontaneous calls and like them, but try to never initiate them on my side, because I understand they ARE very disruptive. disclaimer b) I actually like working in the office in some aspects, but it is totally not worth 30 full awake and unpaid days of my life per year wasted on commute. Like not even order of magnitude close in benefit compared to the waste of time.
Yes and it's not specific to the US or any specific administration. It's also not in this case a long term thing, the problem has appeared quite recently.

Earlier this year a gap opened up between what Americans were reporting in economic confidence surveys and the official stats. Historically they've tracked very tightly, almost in lockstep, so that gives some confidence in the official data. Then suddenly Biden was touting an amazing economy and the job numbers departed from what people were reporting as their on-the-ground impression. The cause is probably double counting due to remote work, zombie job ads and so on: lots of jobs that are being advertised but are duplicates or don't really exist, caused by a combination of the pandemic and new job board websites. But if you're on Team Biden are you going to prioritize figuring out why the gap between your data and public sentiment has appeared? Maybe making yourself look bad in the process? Or will you decide that there are more important priorities elsewhere? It's probably the latter and won't even feel political, just like it's the right thing to do. Of course because these are unarticulated decisions not policies, there's always a risk of some other process or person coming in and rearranging priorities for you, which maybe is what happened here.

For another example look at the UK. Their population statistics are a mess and have been for many years. At one point the ONS even reclassified them as experimental. If you're a strongly pro-mass migration politician or cabinet, are you going to be down at the ONS giving them hell about this every day? Probably not. It's not that the numbers are cooked, but more that problems arise that nobody cares to fix because the fix would create new problems for them.
Thats a quite surprising view to me! Thats explicitly not what the Simons foundation set them up to do.

I do agree that they are much shallower than the true scientific papers, but I would argue that that is pretty much necessary given their intended audience of non-experts. For people who want the true depth you can go and read the papers that Quanta bases their articles on, but for "normal" people I think most Quanta articles get pretty close to the optimal amount of depth you can give without completely losing the reader.

I don't agree that they overly focus on things being proven or disproven - looking at their current front page, they have one article (this one) which uses those words. The article on the Hubble tension quite sensitively describes how the various measurements we have right now disagree, and I think shows quite nicely how the scientific work in progress is going. The article on tensors is (imo) fairly boring but certainly not overly sensationalist or buzzwordy.

Basically without an example of an article that you think is really bad I don't really know what you're talking about, they're certainly not anywhere near to as bad as the big bang theory is (although I only ever watched one episode of that, so I can't talk about it properly).
I find her tailwind incredibly difficult to use, because I know what I want to achieve in CSS, I have to constantly convert to tailwind classes. It’s effectively a new language.
You're completely backwards. The priority is more games running on Linux. The least important thing is the dynamic linking config or the games. Do not sacrifice - by raising dev costs to support Linux - game support for dynamic linking config.

If devs that supported Linux before can do so now for less effort, that's a good thing. I don't care what ldd says.

Also, wrapping up the myriad dependencies a game can have under a centralized system like Proton is better than native apps. Much easier to centralize compat fixes.
The learning curve depends strongly on what you are trying to do.
Many things are very undocumented in Nix, and the interpreter being lazy creates very hard to read errors. No static typing makes everything worse.

If you are trying to configure your system using NixOS, the available options are very well documented so I personally rarely get into trouble.

Packaging an application however can be very difficult.
To me it seems more about scheduling a meeting when a simple email or message might do. Which is kind of the opposite of scheduling meetings with agendas etc.

If it’s really a “quick question” just write it down and in the off chance that it develops into something else you can have that meeting.

Of course it’s also a cultural/etc. thing. Some people are just horrible at expressing themselves in text or communicating asynchronously (the “Hello [I won’t tell you what I need until you reply”] ones or those that think that they are being helpful by making their messages as terse, short and consequentially vague and unspecific as possible)

I’m not sure how can that be beneficial for the team/company if it significantly affects productivity.
I grew up with "System Error Type 11" (or whatever the exact quote was, hard to find on google).

I think the only button on the dialog box was "Restart".
There's nothing simple about jet engines :)
I remember a presentation at DEFCON some years ago on this topic. Most of the state death registration systems had virtually no security or verification at the time. It's probably a stretch to describe this as "hacking" when it was probably more akin to fraudulently filling out a couple of forms.
Scheduled social time over zoom is not social time, it’s work prescribed team building

If anything these kinds of “meetings” felt like they made the culture on my team worse because they felt so forced and inorganic
I have a Thinkpad that did something like this, it would try to install updates, fail and eventually boot into some kind of recovery wizard that demanded the bitlocker key. That wizard wasn't able to actually fix anything either but after failing a few times the system finally would uninstall the update. The whole process took over an hour with zero feedback.

I had to switch to Linux just to get a machine I could rely on.
> perhaps if a stray shell hits the Zaporizhzhia or Kursk nuclear reactor we'll be reminded of that again.

We don't use graphene reactors anymore, so at worst we will experience a Fukushima-level event. And by that I mean what was expected from Fukushima in the worst-case scenario which did not happen (still, people in the exclusion zone were forcibly moved out of their houses)
I liked Paul Hudson's Hacking with macOS (https://twostraws.gumroad.com/l/hwmacos) which includes an older AppKit edition of the book. You'll have to account for changes in Xcode since the book was published. Also, there's a chapter that uses the now-defunct Dark Sky API but you can replace it with Pirate Weather's API which is 1:1 compatible.
Yes, but that doesn't change the problem.
Australian penguin dies, ends famous 'same-sex power couple'
This just feels like the classic “maker vs manager schedule”, except viewed from only one side.

Most larger orgs run on a mixture of those depending on role and where they interact you get friction

If you force the one on the other in either direction that person gets nothing done. Which is functionally what this article attempts - solves writers problem (“do it my way”) but ignores the consequences for others.
Random - yes. Productive - no. Also never observed it on my big project. How would it even work with a member of a separate team working on totally different subsystem of the project?
I suppose it's an underlying principle of good faith discourse. And good faith discourse is an absolute requirement to have a meaningful conversation or debate that moves (whatever) things forward.

Part of the reason that political discourse is currently so polarised and pushes us towards bad outcomes in our societies (thinking particularly of US and UK here, but I'm sure it applies elsewhere), like the recent riots in the UK, is that so much of it is bad faith, dishonest, assumes the worst of others, casually alienates to score points, etc.
https://archive.ph/PePOh

Secure Boot Advanced Targeting
was wondering when this guy would drop a video on nix. pleasantly surprised by the result, although i do find it funny that he had to go well over the usual 100 seconds. that's nix for you.

one benefit that doesn't get much lipservice in elevator pitches for nix, here included, is the experience of packaging. i think the average line count in my personal collection of obscure software is ~30, and that's including license/homepage metadata and other such junk -- it can make even bsd portfiles look tubby by comparison.
Think so? At some point you'd assume the other parent would be pushing for the payments through some avenue that would lead them to tell her that he's dead.
I agree but stating isn't going to change the culture of corporations or even countries.
ThinkPad != Desktop

There also isn't such a thing as the linux lockscreen
> It can save you a lot of time vs the old APIs for simpler things but it can make hard things even harder.

Yup.

I like to have a lot of fairly involved stuff, and SwiftUI falls down hard, when you stray from the beaten path.

That's not unusual, but SwiftUI has no "in-between." You either do it 100% their way, or ... good luck with that.

I really despise Auto Layout, but with IB and UIKit, I can do just about any type of UI I want.
Generate possible domain hacks like goo.gle and instagr.am on 1300+ TLDs
Wouldn't the mother just fill a complain in the court 1 month later to solve it?
In my experience, writing in a public channel gets slower responses, if any. Especially if nobody knows the exact solution to your problem. Some people don't have notifications enabled for group chats / public channels, and even if they see the message they may think "someone else will reply".

Asking someone directly almost always results in a quick response, even if it is a "I don't know" answer. And an "I don't know" from a senior colleague can mean a lot, for example that the problem is much harder than you initially thought.
I imagine a dystopian feature where ransomware hackers encrypt people’s brains and ask for ransom to unlock the contents.

Anyway, this seems cool tho.
Attribution is the opposite of Privacy.
Look I love Debian a lot but I'd never classify it as a user friendly distro. There are forks of Arch that are friendlier than Debian across the board. most users can't deal with hardware not working and Debian seems to excel at that.
> "I can [think about where to] look and it goes where I want it to. It's insane.”

Aimbot! :)
It is wild to me that they have 1700+ employees. With that headcount, it’s easy to see why there are dozens of places undercutting their price on .COM.
I wonder if there is a chance Valve could release a standalone proton wrapper for such situations. Then We could install and run these DRM free games or even games you legally purchased years ago and still own.
The artic is already contaminated: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00279-8

Even the Antarctica is starting to see microplastics: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-micropl...
GNUStep has never been popular, but it's out there (Aug 2023):

https://www.mail-archive.com/discuss-gnustep@gnu.org/msg2550...

As you guys know, Algoriddim makes use of GNUstep on Windows. It has just been released in beta: https://www.algoriddim.com/store/djay-windows-beta
Paul Hudson is excellent. He has a bunch of video tutorials and blogs, that I still find useful. He's good for SwiftUI, as well.

I like his sense of humor, as well.

To wit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a905KIBw1hs
Mining the Microbiome: Uncovering New Antibiotics Inside the Human Gut
I have a suggestion: use the existing tabs sidepanel to display "bookmarks" and "history" in it, for a consistent experience, instead of two different kinds of pop up panels.
Remembering Aaron
[1] https://uizard.io/
[2] https://www.usegalileo.ai/explore

There's one more I will have to ask around for that.
Agree. Production quality != overall quality. I'd much rather have great content badly produced than professionally produced crap.
Ok, then please implement the following in CSS:

Outer
+---------------------------------+
| |
| Left Middle Right |
| |
+---------------------------------+

Everything should be vertically centered. Left should stick to the "left" of the outer div, "middle" should be centered, "right" should stick to the right. Left/middle/right can have different widths and heights.

In AutoLayout this is achieved by 6 constraints:

- left.left = outer.left

- left.centerY = outer.centerY

- middle.centerX = outer.centerX

- middle.centerY = outer.centerY

- right.right = outer.right

- right.centerY = outer.centerY

I'd like to see how you implement it in CSS. (note: extra wrapper divs are not allowed)
Fake Biden Robocalls Cost Wireless Provider $1M in FCC Penalties
> For some reason free customers are the most demanding

Ever try giving something away for free on an online marketplace?

If not, don't. Always charge something. Even if you'll just tell them afterwards you don't actually want/need the money.

You'll run into the worst people imaginable on the internet.
Ahh, that would explain why the intersection of algebraic integers and Q is Z. I wasn’t convinced of that when I had the notion of algebraic numbers in place of algebraic integers.

I like teaching this kind of stuff to my grade 9 and 10 advanced math classes. It’s not that hard to understand and yet it gives students a sense of wonder about how math works. I might try to show the grade 10s algebraic integers now.
The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice Bach is readable and provides a very good high level overview that overlaps Linux.

https://archive.org/details/DesignUNIXOperatingSystem/page/n...

Operating Systems, Three Easy Pieces is a reasonable book about operating systems in general.

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

If you are going to run Linux, I recommend Ubuntu as the easy path. There are good arguments for other distros. But you probably don’t need an argument.
I Just Cracked $1M on GitHub Sponsors
Shinichiro Takagi sees a way forward for fine dining in Japan
From what I understood, the parent's question is not about Microsoft updating grub; it's about a person hit by the bug, and thus in a situation where Windows boots but Linux doesn't, using Windows to copy the correct file (probably extracted from an updated package from the Linux distribution they're using) to the correct place in the EFI partition by hand.

(The first obstacle would be that AFAIK the EFI isn't mounted by default on Windows, but I believe it should not be hard to tell Windows to mount it and give it a drive letter.)
I was one of those 3-4 people who felt compelled to drag the conversation forward just to avoid awkward silence and fill the time slot, ugh how I hated that period of time with remote work
Verisign hiked prices, once again: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/verisign-vrsn-q4-domain-name...

> VeriSign announced that from Sep 1, 2024, it will increase the annual registry-level wholesale price for .net domain names by 67 cents to $10.26 from $9.59.
From Iran's perspective: yes exactly.

No one is attacking Iran. Because they have weapons to defend themselves with. This is because attackers like weak targets. They don't like attacking someone who can defend themselves.

Russia would not have attacked Ukraine if Ukraine could defend themselves.

China will not attack Taiwan if they think Taiwan can defend themselves.
No, they won't. For example: Tickets are easier to discover, don't suffer from bus-factor=1, act as searchable documentation, can easily be handed over to another team if misrouted, can be queued and prioritized, all those nice things. But people are too lazy to search the ticket system and documentation, then open a ticket and ask incomplete time-wasting questions in chat instead.

It is actually normal for individuals to be lazy, and searching docs is more work (for the asker) than just asking a quick question. This is why rules are necessary, otherwise every asker will just waste someone else's time. It shouldn't just be on the two parties in this interaction to enforce structured communication as a rule, it should also be on the company hierarchy to do so. Because in the end, the whole company will suffer if e.g. the knowledge about fixing problem X died with Bob who always just answered inquiries about problem X in private chat.
Or you could be a bit more approachable and people wouldn't feel the need to ask permission before stating the problem. And a quick, "yo what's up" is easy enough..

The truth, once again, is in the middle i suppose.
FCC Settles Spoofed AI-Generated Robocalls Case
> Your disinterest is ostentatious to the point of itself being a fashion statement.

Which part of what I said was unwarranted?

> Also, 'nerf' and 'grammable' are obvious?

If you know the brands, the verbs/adjectives can stick easily.

> I think you've got some unexamined ideas about language that have more to do with the words you learned as you were coming up than any principled or aesthetic reason.

I think you have problems understanding why people say what they do.
That's why ENTSO-E has just completed a software vendor interoperability workshop. :-) And import/export/validation worked just fine for all participants.
Exactly - in my experience, it seems like many managers often have a notion of engineers' work being done somewhere/sometime else, isolated in another dimension from the meetings, and hence meetings not having much effect on that "actual work".

Once you start adding tickets for every meeting and ad-hoc call, and from that it becomes obvious that these are now taking 70% of your time and what little remains is not nearly enough for the "real work", you'll find how the attitude shifts and those managers start protecting your time...

Interestingly, managers often don't seem to consider meetings "real work" for engineers, but it's almost the only type of work they do, and take credit for...
We do let millions of people in without documentation, and they are nearly all poor. The underclass somehow manages while the upper class ducks everything up.
Which is precisely why it's so powerful.
People often create to fulfill a need. The need might be intrinsic -- the need to create something.

But back to the point: Agreed, you described well the existing tension. At one end of the spectrum you've systems like LaTeX and DITA; on the opposite side, Markdown. I don't think Markdown should ever be extended. If anything, it should be encapsulated.
I've been curious about seeing if harfbuzz etc could help create a styled Elianscript font but not really sure where to start.
Here's a link to the FCC article on the spoofed AI-generated robocall.

FCC Settles Spoofed AI-Generated Robocalls Case

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-settles-spoofed-ai-generate...
> What made this so much more infuriating was that if I knew it was just a leaky abstraction over C I wouldn't have made that mistake. But I thought it was on the same level as languages from the Pascal family or Java or any other modern programming language.

Post-rationalization can always blame the tools instead of one owning its own's mistakes. You can blame tools or documentation that omit crucial surprising information or explicitly lies to you. Everything else is assomption you'd better check, or just humbly accept that they will bite you, by definition, in the most unexpected ways.