skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal haha-but-serious interpretation is that we live in a simulation, which has set limits (maximums and minimums) for essentially all quantities because of the numerical methods used.

The speed of light is the maximum speed of information propagation.

Black hole event horizons are the maximum entropy per unit surface area.

Planck's constant (h) is the numerical precision ("ulp") and is the minimum representable change in the simulation state.

Etc...
Russia and China agree to develop cooperation in space
Last time I went to the ER, they checked me in under the completely wrong name. Like it wasn't even close. Luckily I noticed the wrist band was wrong and pointed it out, but they then had to re-do tests since they had been done under the other person. It really makes me think how bad that could have been though. What if I went unconscious, and they used the info on the wrist band to look up medical history? What if they gave me medication based on that incorrect history? And at the very least they wouldn't have the right emergency contact info...
How many of these tweeks can be done without editing the Registry? And if they are all registry modifications can’t you just backup the registry before applying the changes?
The more I'm reading this article the less I understand their point. Is there an actual paper that describes how their "random data" is generated?

I can also generate random data that looks like any distribution by carefully choosing the random distribution. What's their point?
So there was a content-layer market for the early PC-based DBMS's, a la someone marketing the early 1980s equivalent of Wikipedia or Encarta?
That sucks. Have you tried going the emulation route?
Most times that person not preparing the call with an agenda is told in the middle of the meeting that he should have invited someone else that has knowledge on some key point and it ends up needing another meeting to be scheduled. With more context, people may have told him prior to the meeting that person needed to be included to.
The authors approach, in my opinion, will lead to nothing but confrontation and probably decrease productivity significantly. Then again, it sounds like that's the goal
Waste heat from microwave energy? Am I missing something?
I think Steam is one of the few cases where genious software internals engineering completely match business.

Happy Steam Deck owner. Have Nintendo Switch and PS5 in place though.
Thanks for the reminder about Asciidoc! A few years ago I dug into various markup languages looking for a better way to draft legal documents. Asciidoc was the best balance of power & simplicity.

Unfortunately the ecosystem was pretty weak. In subsequent years there has been an effort to standardize the spec, which should unlock better tooling. I need to check in on that…
> 1) Cultural norms - This may not work in all environments

If you have the luxury to pick and choose, going to a company where that works is a huge improvement at large.

In my personal experience at least, I've seen no place where the "let me quick call you" is a norm and engineering is also decently respected and paid appropriately.

> 2) You have an issue which requires cross function help. Hard to frame a precise question when you don't know which features are the most significant.

You'll need more investigation either way, I'm not even sure you'll be able to properly decide who should be part of the meeting. The whole "who should I talk to" can be potentially be done better by chat, where you ask a whole group at once who's concerned by your problem and further narrow down as you get pointers.

Messaging a whole channel at once will probably be better accepted than inviting random people at a meeting to realize none of them were concerned.
Sometimes it seems that we're over focused on efficiency as opposed to effectiveness. And I get it, because it's very hard to "be both". You can either spend your day coding away solving problems or you can spend your day discussing with people figuring out what the problem is. Both pursuits have clear failure modes; you can spend a lot of time trying to understand the problem better without really getting anywhere and you can spend a lot of time solving the wrong problem. How do you know when you have the right balance? 50/50?
I will never understand people who write "Hello" or "Hi Joe" in Slack and then just wait. It has to be some form of mental illness.
+1 for Djot. Simple, predictable, and extensible. Made by the author of Pandoc.
Not a native speaker, but while I would not have reacted, it is strange to use a term some negatively connoted instead of "Chinese man".

I think the Englishman comparison is not very smart. With the same logic, it's fine to use pedophile to refer to someone because it's grammatically constructed similarly to audiophile and no one never complained when associated to the word audiophile. I don't think a pejorative word (recognized as such in all modern dictionaries) stops to be pejorative because it exists a similar construction that is not pejorative.

And I don't think you need to be the one accused to be a pedophile to be offended when you see someone uselessly accusing someone else to be a pedophile. (but again, I would probably not have reacted, and have given the benefice of the doubt to the interlocutor, assuming they were unaware of the pejorative connotation)
Simultaneously, 1) I am frequently annoyed when dealing with these help-asking, "can we hop on a quick call?", "good morning [name]" interactions and vehemently agree with the author's frustration with them, and 2) their tone is so condescending and rude that I'd rather deal with 1000 of the former interactions than 1 interaction with this individual. I can't imagine linking this post to anyone.
Just curious: What's been stopping you from actually writing more/some of new code in Objective C rather than C?
Distro grub is signed by the distro rather than Microsoft, so coordinating that would be extremely difficult
Yeah, that's why I qualified with 'could'. Really depends on what facilities the hardware and driver provide. If the GPU is on the same die, perhaps the latency isn't great, but I really don't have the data on that. But I'd really like to see something like voxel deformable/destructible environments leveraging UMA on the Apple M. Seems like that something that would be groundbreaking, if only Apple really cared about gaming at all.
Semantic Trajectory Data Mining with LLM-Informed POI Classification
The post is about requesting context and preferring long lasting traces for a technical interaction. Not about socializing.
Playstation is good for you: video games improved mental health during Covid
Half of the article is literally a comparison between pihole and adguard...
Thanks for the spot! I'll fix these up maybe after the HN traffic has died down :-).
Intestinal Parasites May Influence Covid-19 Vaccine Efficacy
Although MS' stance to block old vulnerable grub installs seems reasonable here, I've come to run Windows only for games and a single piece of legacy software (as a backup for my aging x86 Mac) without net access at all. The moment you allow Win updates, everything is up to chances. MS moving around registry keys and other shenanigans to force "telemetry" (aka ads and behavioral data scanning for ML) onto users, even on Windows Pro, should be telling enough. Needless to say, I'm running Win 10.
There's no problem with socializing, but this can also be a special appointment where everyone is free to join and can talk about stuff that is not related so a specific issue.

We do a weekly fixed appointment where we gather together and smalltalk about whatever is on our minds.
I like the idea of a web based text ui. But if it's a clone of an existing cli tool this seems to be going full circle, just use ssh or a web ssh client. Still a nice project though :)
Autonomy cooked their books to make it look like they already had income to justify the valuation (mostly by classifying one-off sales as recurring)
The phrase doesn't discredit the idea of virtue. Virtue signalling captures a thing that has low cost (like saying one word instead of another) and limited actual virtue.

Of course, people can try to smear genuine virtue by calling it mere virtue signalling. Philanthropy might be called mere virtue signalling by some, even though it does materially benefit people. But I think most cases are more clear-cut.
More often than not when I encounter people with these very strict prescribed communication preferences it’s due to either, hubris, inability to manage their own time or skills issue - people are just afraid to be asked a question because they might not know the answer.
Doesn't annealing take hours, particularly at the lower range of temperatures? Perhaps the additive process can keep the metal hot for a much shorter time. Granted, this also means stresses from the manufacturing process will not be removed.
I was hoping this would be a satire
Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–2022
That provided no context at all, lol (I legit laughed out loud). Like that's so far out of the common framework that any context provided is lost on most people (including me.)

I'm someone who often debates religion and appreciates someone who finds a philosophy that works for them, so this is no slight against your beliefs. I just find it funny that it was used to provide 'context'.
"I tell my reports to decline meeting requests unless the invitations include an agenda and a clear goal."

We have a team that works this way 100% of the time, assuming the invitation is not coming from higher management.

They are always the last to deliver and the team with the most critical bugs. If you don't make time for back channel sync, you will become an isolated island and your product will eventually suffer.
A quick call isn't socialising - it's solving someone's problem. It's not ephemeral happenstance, it's a planned interaction.

I'm not sure you understand the water cooler moments if you think the 'quick call' is in anyway a replacement.
Thanks for the feedback!

To deploy a new container, you have two options :

- From an image (in the "Images" tab), you can open the menu, and run the image as is (or press "r"). You will be prompted for a container's name, and it will be created.

- You can press "C" (for Create stack), fill in a docker-compose.yml file content, and confirm. This will create a stack from your file!

Let me know if I can help!
It's especially taxing for me because it means I can't concentrate on what I'm doing until I reply to them.

If I know the "Hi Joe" is hanging there, part of my focus is holding onto it until I clear it.
This is totally understandable, valid, etc.

OTOH, see script kiddies, WYSIWYG Stack Overflow C&P, etc.

It's just the way things are now.
Pushing and Enhancing the Loyalth Program: https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/case-studies/chipotle.html

Revamping their Digital Marketing: https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/case-studies/chipotle-digi...

Hard to find third party sources on how he revamped logistics after the Salmonella and E Coli scandals
Only Steam games, right?
I endorse the general thrust of this post, however:

Calls can be much more effective than messaging for detecting and handling the XY problem now that users can easily screen share, because you can often see why the user wanted to do X, not just (as in their two lines of text) that they wanted to do X, and you may be able to solve Y and make them happier.
Portainer is mentioned by the author in the README:

“What spurred me to build Isaiah in the first place is a bunch of comments on the Reddit self-hosted community, stating that Portainer and other available solutions were too heavy or hard to use.”
Firefox restores all windows.
OK, I guess you have ablesplained everything now, thanks for teaching me the error of my ways!

Writing a serious reply doesn't feel like a good use of my time. You have already demonstrated that you have no regard for the lived experience of minorities and prefer your pseudoanalytical explanations over everything a person from such an in-group could tell you.

The truth is, the story is much more complicated. But trying to explain that to you feels draining and useless, so I just stop here.
Honestly, I just ignore the conversation until they post something meaningful.
I prefer fonts that can be zoomed.
What do you mean you don't want to sleep with me? It's a date! I paid for dinner!

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Creativity has always been accessible to everyone. Creativity is a concept which only requires imagination. Those ideas can take many forms, including writing, cooking, sewing, doing skateboard tricks… It doesn’t mean rearranging pixels on screen by vaguely describing something.
Yeah. Nah.

1) are your goals aligned with the ultimate success factors of the company?
Probably.
2) are the people who want to stop you from doing your job aligned?
Probably not.

Ask yourself if people who "just want a minute" would go stick their arm in an industrial metal press, willingly. Don't they want to make a good impression? Or would this be a horrible act of self harm that is completely disruptive?
This article is from 2014, the year should be included in the title
They’re still working on the spec. Last release was five months ago. So, slow progress continues.
https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/asciidoc-lang/asciidoc-la...

Here are the minutes from the last working group meeting, back in Feb. looks like they’ll meet again in September

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1eqB2w5pungP2vxiF_DeM...
In my experience forced online water cooler talk has never worked and was always incredibly awkward and boring.
AI model is helping researchers detect disease based on coughs
Some prior work by Knuth on this subject: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361604.361612
As someone who works with both Android Studio and Xcode, I could say AS is lightyears ahead of Xcode.

Gemini on AS is so good and most of the time accurate and adopts to how you name your variables and functions. Xcode 16 on the other hand, what a shitshow.
Serious question, especially if there’s follow up reading. Where does that principle of assuming baseline good things about the other speaker in polite conversation come from?
What’s the best example of using Objective-Cs message system at runtime that could not have been achieved at compile time?

ChatGPT is giving me contrived examples or examples that could have been achieved with the knowledge of classes at compile time.
Ok. How lost and far behind am I if I think this is a strange tool? What did the people at Tailwind do to create the need for an AI-assisted tool to write Tailwind classes?

Can we do a LangCSS instead but for CSS? That will help someone new to learn better; otherwise, we are building abstraction on top of an abstraction of an abstraction.

Do one for CSS, then have features to convert that to the Tailwind or FooBar Framework of the future. See, Tailwind will also eventually go away, just as Bootstrap, Foundation, or Bourbon did. Developers who depend on the tools that help them write in these frameworks will always play catch-up and never learn the real thing (CSS, in this case).
Alright! I'll copy-paste an explanation I gave prior on Reddit. I legit had no idea this would spark so many conversations hahaha.

"I like to use a pen name generator, and use the generated name for my projects. It makes it easier for me to name things, rather than having to come up with new naming ideas for every new project. And also, I like the idea that every project has a person's name, as if, by using the project, you're getting the help of the person named X (X = Isaiah, Erin, Osmond, any other project I have published)."

I really had never thought of the religious aspect of Isaiah, I just went with a generated pen name I liked.
Forgejo is now copyleft, just like Git
It's interesting as I agree with the points the article makes, but come to the opposite conclusion. Euphemisms don't need to be changed, because it's not the words themselves that are a problem, it's the thoughts and stereotypes that people have about others that are the issue.

Wholesale renaming of something from A to B, doesn't very little to change perceptions of the root issue. It just stigmatises people who haven't got the latest linguistic memo.

I remember about 30 years ago, there was a fad of renaming disability to dysability and anyone who dared use the old term was considered to being completely insensitive to their needs, regardless of actions. Interestingly, that seems to all but vanished in the years since and there seems to be little trace of it left on the internet.

I think the real problem with euphemisms displacing the original words, is generally they're vaguer. One example is "person of colour" should literally mean everybody, but it's just used as a drop-in replacements for the words before it that are now considered offensive. Substituting one phrase for another does nothing to adjust people's prejudices or intentions when using a word.

So, the real issue is how we change societal attitudes towards other (people generally don't seem to consider any of these older terms offensive if the speaker is in the same group) in the subset of people who use these words pejoratively, rather than just creating linguistic minefields for everyone else to traverse.
Yep. Frankly, these articles are just keyboard warrior antics from introverts that are feeling on top of the world with the wave of WFH. Conflating “what’ll get me back to my IDE faster” and “how can I make all communication so structured that I never have to genuinely interact with anyone at work on a human level” with an actual increase in productivity is just a sign of immense naivety.

Thankfully these people tend to be quite vocal about these views online so I can appropriately take it as a soft red flag when hiring.
I don't know what it was like to use Windows anymore. It almost feels like I have never used Windows in the first place, and yet when I look back to the year I switched. 2018, when Proton was released, I am still kind of shocked how recent that is as a former user of Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 10.
> So we both embark on a completely needless adventure of changing random parts of the code and scratching our heads as to why nothing makes the error go away. I end up wasting hours because of a typo.

Wow. That's just straight up admitting being an idiot and blaming others for it. If a person leaving out a stack trace causes you to ask for a stack trace that is on them. They wasted some of your time. (Or at least I guess you can argue that.) If a person leaving out a stack trace causes you to blindly modify random parts of the code then that is on you and you only.

Confused people ask confused questions. Because they are confused. If they could ask the right questions they would have already helped themselves. It is your job to not let their confusion overtake you. Ask questions until you understand the situation. Software engineering is not a SWAT raid. You can and should ask questions and shoot only later.
> Those are common mistakes that people make when working remotely. Maybe you work in an environment where productivity is low, so everyone has time to jump on a quick call or chat with you any time you ask.

Classic 'you are with us or against us' level of argumentation. Saying hello is already a _mistake_, and paraphrasing: you either like to work for a company of underperforming losers, or you need to follow the advice of the article. How convincing!
While I totally agree with the post, I think the tone of the delivery is likely to undermine the points made. From my perspective, for these guidelines to be adhered to there needs to be a broader buy in. 37signals are perhaps a prominent example of how this works. And if it's presented in a more pleasant way, rather than in the tone of a parent chastising a child, I think these principles can take root and become part of team/company culture.
I'm a huge advocate of full-time remote working, but those like me who feel it is the future of work need to stop being so dogmatic about how communication should happen.

I don't really like posts like this. Sure, it's a great idea in a remote context to write down how you like to communicate, and how you like to be communicated with at work. (You should do it, it's great!)

However, not everybody will agree with you and part of being a good employee on a large, distributed, team is understanding and working with other people's communication styles.

Even if you hate it.
Well, you have a mortgage, meaning you at one point had waaay more disposable income than even more luxurious variant of those discussed would cost.

Some folks put money into ferraris or porsches and then race them, or watch them appreciate (if smart & lucky). Or boats. Some folks spend money otherwise. Half of this forum spent similar amount on just non-mandatory technical gadgets in past few years.

This watch making is actually an investment that can bring nice returns in the future, barring damage/theft/loss happens. Also an interesting skill learned, plus skill explained to others. I can't do anything but appreciate such folks.
Tesla and other car makers set their warranties at the mandatory minimums. Why would they offer more when they don't have to and consumers find them long enough and/or other car makers aren't competing on warranty length? That doesn't tell you anything about battery longevity.

Edit: Does my MacBook Pro die after 1 year when it's applecare warranty is over?
The last time I had to manages windows I used Unattended to wipe and re-install to a base level. I found that diagnosing and troubleshooting was not worth the effort.

https://tgup.net/
> I would never ... complain directly to a colleague who does it

True. Nor would I. I would push for the company to publish guidelines about remote and asynchronous communication. And then if someone repeatedly communicated badly, I'd provide constructive feedback either directly to them or to their line manager.
How can you say that the infrastructure costs are secondary?

How do you think that the video content is going to be stored and served if not through paid infrastructure?
Yup. Most of the anti-cheats have been ported to Proton at this point. Usually when games don't enable it, its because the games haven't been well-engineered and are too easily exploitable.

Destiny 2 is another example, turning on BattlEye on Proton is literally flipping a switch in the SDK. And they had a Destiny build for Linux because it was running on Stadia. But Destiny has a horrible codebase, and even with BattlEye on Windows there is a decent chunk of hard cheating.

And its not that just the non-competitive games choose to allow Proton. Halo and Apex Legends are good examples that play on Proton.
It is like calling someone and saying hello in the voicemail.
Major question for me is, are the grubs that are getting rejected completely unpatched, or were they patched by distros without updating the "security generation"?

I'd be also really curious to hear how MS was attempting to do dual-boot detection, I hope someone (more skilled than I) would reverse engineer that bit from the update.
ER multiplayer works on Linux. It crashed for me when trying to invade but installing PulseAudio fixed the issue and been working flawlessly.
Running Steam through the terminal can make debugging a bit easier