skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd happily never customize a theme again if there were any other easy way to actually pick the background and foreground colors on all of my apps. I like having white text on a black background, not a "dark" gray background and white text (and certainly not some off-white background with some dark but not fully black text, which I find even worse than just a typical black text on white background theme). I'm well aware of the fact that it probably does nothing in terms of actually affecting the battery life of my devices, and that dark gray is considered "better" from design perspective, but I don't care, because I happen to like the way the color scheme I describe looks, and I don't see why it should matter whether it does to anyone else if it's just going to be on a device that I'm the only one who ever uses. For whatever reason, this is next to impossible to do without rolling my own GTK theme (not even just using one that someone else had made, because I literally couldn't find one that just changed the background to black without having a bunch of other opinionated decisions on icons and padding and stuff), so that's what I do. I'm grateful that this is even possible though, because apps that aren't GTK (or Qt, which is also possible to theme) often don't provide any ability to theme whatsoever. With the exception of coding editors, I'm not sure I've ever found an Electron app that actually lets me pick a fully black background color, so despite not being particularly dogmatic in my opposition to them, I always try to run stuff like Slack and Discord in the browser so I can theme them with custom CSS. (I'm vaguely aware that this might be possible to do with the electron apps as well by running in some sort of developer mode, but I can't be bothered to spend a bunch of time trying to replicate what I already have working in the browser for their sites).

Expressing their argument as "don't use custom themes" just makes it less convincing when there aren't really any other easy ways to get the flexibility from them that doesn't cause any of the issues they cite. It would be like finding out that a friend or relative uses the same password for every site, and then trying to get to them to install a package manager by uninstalling Windows and switching to Linux at the same time. Mixing together subjective personal preferences with objective technical advice just dilutes the latter to the point where it's impossible to find it compelling.
"Skills" is a free-form field, I can add "foobar cook" as a skill if I like.

I mean the "What kind of work you are open to" section that is relevant for being matched to open positions. I just rechecked a moment ago and still no way express that I am open for Rust positions.
As a person living in the UK, I really hope the rest of the world gives the middle finger to this pathetic extra territorial law by totally ignoring it.

They can ask ISPs to do the censorship if they really want to keep us “safe”.
No, that's overreaching.

If a country's citizens want to give away their data, it's well within their right to do so. At most, the U.S. Government should educate about it, much like tobacco dangers.

Having that said, U.S. citizens with clearance and/or government employees should be subject to data loss prevention measures, like they already do[0].

I'd be forward for a ban if it was an issue of public mental health, but the U.S. Government cannot take that angle because they'd have to kill Meta Platforms as well. They know they can't, Meta lobbyists will not allow that.

But restricting TikTok based on data control and free speech liberties, that's overreaching. I've already seen TikTok videos of people saying they'd stamp their U.S. passport on the forehead and give it to Chinese ByteDance rather than use Instagram. It is well within their rights to do so if they so desire.

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[0]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-tiktok-is-being-ba...
I used to be KDE nut until version 4 came around. I stuck for a while but once gnome 3 got a few years of development on it's back I started liking it more over the direction KDE took. Nowadays I just use GNOME and think their design and HIG works really well across multiple different devices. Be it a desktop with a big screen and tons of real estate for lots of windows showing up concurrently, running on a cramped notebook screen with mostly just a single FS widnow or two side by side or as a "couch" experience on my HTPC, with a great interface for a "ten foot UI" usage.

I've also heard some good feedback on how well it works on a phone/tablet context but haven't had the chance of trying that my-self. Perhaps the GNOME project is on the right track for converging all those computing experiences in one in a way that makes sense, specially compared to the train wreck that microsoft's attempt unifying stuff in windows 8/mobile was.
You are saying words. They make little sense however. The total cost of running these institutions can be broken down however you want. If the total doesn’t add up to the necessary amount they can’t operate
>not really. there are tons of scholarships and other assistance. hardly anyone who goes to college is writing $30-100k checks.

What was all this student loan forgiveness talk about then? Scholarships apparently haven't been cutting it, otherwise there wouldn't be a trillion plus of outstanding student loan debt.
Yesterday I used a novel AI technology known as “llvm” to remove dead code paths from my compiled programs.
> also contains the original versions of byacc and flex used for COG script parsing.

Interesting. As far as I can tell, the actual cog scripts aren't in the repo? I assume they need to be extracted from a copy of the game?

Would be nice to see an example of what the cog script language looks like if anyone has a link?
>The market price is the market price. If corporations could raise prices further (even without new taxes) without losing customers, they would. If corporations end up being taxed more, raising prices in order to "pass on" those taxes will just cause them to lose customers, and end up with lower revenue (and likely profit too), perhaps even more than if they just sucked it up, paid their taxes, and left prices alone.

I agree with part of this. Corporations will raise prices to make more profit whenever there is opportunity to. They exist to make profit, so they will do anything to do that. I also agree that in theory, a small tax increase on one corporation may make them want to take a profit hit versus a customer size hit. However-

- if all the corporations are all paying the same taxes (which hopefully is how it works), they are all able to raise the market price to cover it. They won't have competition - with lower expenses - to lose customer to. The only lost customer will be the one who simply can no longer afford their product.

- Second, as mentioned in other branches, corporations will do anything to protect and increase profit, including finding loopholes, paying the c-suite insane salaries, accounting for asset purchases and depreciations in ways to reduce the on-paper profit, etc. The more the company does this, the more the corporate tax burden becomes a normal cost of goods expense, which is passed on to the customer and the employees (in the form of worse compensation).
It seems like governments around the world are shifting their priorities away from their domestic economies.
At one employer our site outage recovery runbook specifically stated that one person was to be designated to communicate status outside the tiger team and be a buffer between panicky people across the company and the technical folks fixing the problem.
*Good Old Games
Blame lucrative white-collar jobs for delayed family formation
Case of Innovator's Dilemma.

This YouTube video talks about China's lead in EVs and batteries

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxKu_WQoBU

tl;dw:

- china - have 3.5x more than global battery capacity need for 2025

- china - evs cost less than ice cars

- shenzen - 5-6 yrs ago - transition to 100% ev bus and taxis

- china - 2024 - ev & phev - 47.6% of total car sales

- 2023 car sales - china: 21.7M, USA 16M, EU 10.6M, JAP 4.7M

- 2024 - china owns more than 80% production of every part of battery

- TSLA - relies on China for 40% of battery supply chain

- massive investment in battery and materials since 2000

- chinese govt vehicles, taxies, buses -> evs

- chinese govt - massive incentives for consumers - priority parking, green license plates receive almost immediately for low cost

- but only for cars that use chinese batteries

- researchers - china spent 200-300 billion on ev subsidies alone

- domestic car companies want to milk existing ice technology

- car maker's worker unions don't want to ditch ice car manufacturing for possibly less work

- local politicians don't want to push car makers, cause disruption

The only way out of the quicksand is for each local govt to create a temporary moat and force their local car companies to catch up using local suppliers (who also have to catch up with Chinese component makers).

But that's not gonna happen overnight.

And those local car companies aren't run by software people - the engineers at the local car companies are probably mech eng trained or finance/marketing types.
> I'll take immutability over types and interoperability

OK.

> Thanks for the segway.

A segway is a motorized transport; a segue is a transition to a different topic. So this could be considered a type error, and demonstrates why you need types, not just immutability.
Anybody want to summarize for those of us who don't feel like shelling out over $500/yr for a WSJ subscription?
To be fair, that assumption is highly dependent on the language. Highly unlikely you're going to get a job as a COBOL or Scala dev without prior experience in those languages (for all but the most entry-level positions).
If we can't understand the designs, how rigorously can we really test them for correctness?
High school is often sending the best kidsto college with half their first year done already with AP classes.
My point still stands though. The idea is people get jobs and pay the loans back.
The shareware version of DooM was more of a complete game than many boxed games at the time. It’s no wonder it spread so far - especially because it was also an amazing hardware demo.
This is just anti environmentalism, plain and simple. Sticking it to the libs is their number one priority.
Trump is China and Russia's best asset.
If UAP are real, the aliens can disclose their existence any day of the year, whenever they feel like it. Grifters and the USA government wouldn't even be speed-bumps.
Small aside, this doesn't read right for me? I assume the (the wikipedian) meant '"above and beyond" for their employers"', not employees.
Shifting their priorities towards stifling the speech of anyone who tries to complain about the domestic conditions.
It's much better at scamming and funding weapons programs than protest or disobedience because crypto transactions are non reversable but tend to leave a lot of tracks behind. If persons involved are anywhere that they can be arrested or intimidated they will be.
I think it requires a lot of mental gymnastics to dismiss the semiconductor industry as anything but critical to all modern economies and militaries. I think it takes similar willful blindness to lump "encourage investment" in with "bring on shore in the name of national security" as if they are exactly the same.

We do a lot of corrupt/wrong subsidizing in this country but that doesn't mean throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If I had a magic wand we'd still have tariffs and subsidize critical infrastructure and expertise - for example I find it very surprising that we don't make sure we always have wartime level of doctors and farmers trained and ready.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think addressing any of these - term limits, lobbying, campaign finance reform, congressional insider trading - is a good thing and we should be wanting to address all of them. RepresentUs had a really good platform for this up until COVID, then seemingly all of their credibility around genuine bipartisanship disappeared and the old open-minded, respectful, cross-aisle cooperative spirit was just thrown straight out the window. I was very disappointed by this.
Those diapers say 10-18lbs on the package, but they actually hold waaaaay less urine than that

—First dad joke my brother in law bestowed upon me after my daughter was born
Feel free to put a stop to it by buying liability insurance for all of these service providers, which you may have to persuade the underwriter should be free. ;-)
Results?
> This fbagent process ran as root, ran a bunch of subprocesses, called fork(), didn't handle a -1 return code, and then later went to kill that "wayward child".

In-band error codes strike again.
I am not saying it dismissively. As you could see this is a "pro" point in my list. I honestly recognize that it's a transition. But IMO better option is to have hybrid type EV with smaller battery + Fuel Cell generator.

Or just throw away combustion engines where they are not needed.
> So what can be the benefit of turning off charging stations?

It's a message about values. The message is fuck you. It's stupid on purpose, because fuck you.
Don't Recurse on Untrusted Input
Like you landing page! Simple and nice
I run a multi-million dollar business which I started with common lisp. I since moved away to go and then rust but I've been looking at clojure again lately.

For a team that needs to get s** done and has more per employee productivity than Faang combined it's hard to beat the speed with which you can build things when you have the repl and interactive programming.

The jvm while doesn't have great error messages is a fantastic runtime.
Especially true if the computer design creates a highly coupled device that could be process sensitive.
I think the most likely case is that electricity prices go down but demand goes up as devices more eagerly use power so you end up with an electricity bill that stays consistent.
need to verify my cell number from hackers
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Do other countries allow nearly everyone who wants to attend to do so? In the US, while you can't necessarily go to whatever school you want, pretty much everyone has multiple choices of schools they can attend. Even people with Down Syndrome are now earning bachelor degrees. Not special programs for those with learning disabilities but degrees in regular programs. If they're able to pay, they're able to attend. Since most of this is financed via student loans, living expenses are covered too regardless of if the student has any realistic prospect of ever paying off the debt.
If only gnome shell could be used on Mac OS, I would jump at heartbeat. I really can’t understand what apple developers had in mind when bringing window in focus which is present in the current screen it switches to a different workplace. Is it a bug or is it intentional is hard to tell with macOS.
Exactly what I'm talking about. CCP are now pretending they didn't know / fund these people from the beginning.
Of course you start the trip off at 100%, but the point is that charging speed varies substantially based on the SoC in the battery. So if you deplete most of your charge and need to stop, recharging to 80% takes substantially less time than topping it off to 100%. So if your battery range is 300 miles, you might get 280 on the first leg of your trip but will only be able to do maybe 220 on the second leg.
Have you tried using PythonCall.jl (which allows you to basically use any random Python library, in principle) with Pytorch?
It’s a fun idea but the ability gimmick makes me not interested. I imagine it will also quickly be overrun by AI copy/pasters.
Fascinating paper. Thanks for the ref.

Operating transistors outside the linear region (the saturated "on") on a billion+ scale is something that we as engineers and physicists haven't quite figured out, and I am hoping that this changes in future, especially with the advent of analog neuromorphic computing. The quadratic region (before the "on") is far more energy efficient and the non-linearity could actually help with computing, not unlike the activation function in an NN.

Of course, the modeling the nonlinear behavior is difficult. My prof would say for every coefficient in SPICE's transistor models, someone dedicated his entire PhD (and there are a lot of these coefficients!).

I haven't been in touch with the field since I moved up the stack (numerical analysis/ML) I would love to learn more if there has been recent progress in this field.
And without tracking?
Imagine you are creating an app for people who grow rare orchids.

One option is to find someone who is one of these people. The other option is to find someone who is very good at understanding people, and tailoring experiences to match. This is what UX researchers specialise in.

Also, your app raises questions about clinical methods, not just standard UI/UX to solve for user expectations. It would be best for those methods to be designed in coordination with professionals highly trained in managing OCD and its symptoms. Which is another reason it probably isn't essential that every member of your team has personal lived experience of it.
IBM and Dell should also be long gone by now, according to a laymen's understanding of their businesses. Unfortunately, business doesn't operate according to Internet forum ~/vibes/~, even though the stock market sometimes does. Comcast and Spirit airlines as well, based on customer satisfaction. But here we are. Unless we can coordinate, and designate, say March 20th as "pull your money out of Bank of America day", and get enough people to do something, corporations aren't remotely even going to notice you exist.
> which you can build things when you have the repl and interactive programming.

This is how I use Python to be honest. If I'm unsure of something, I just bust out the REPL.
This reminds me of this mobile game Tchisla[0] where you have to build all numbers up to 1000 (10000?) using only a given digit and a couple of operators (including sqrt and !)

It was a lot of fun, you tend to develop strategies and the game has a simple, efficient UX. Fair warning, it is very time consuming.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/tchisla-number-puzzle/id110062...
I’ve only ever done hard connect updates over USB and manually pushed updates over local network. The team I was on was on track to switch over to pulled updates using Suricatta but I left before they switched them on.
It's very simple: the pay at TSMC is shit by American tech standards and Americans capable of doing the job generally have much better-paying options. Paying US-competitive salaries would basically double TSMC's labor cost.
It's probably more of a "I don't like Brendan Eich" thing, but the maintainer can't really say that without sounding unhinged.

Then again, I actively go out of my way to be toxic on the internet, so maybe they have a point
> It's like local US news websites blocking European users over GDPR concerns.

I don't know if you said this sarcastically, but I have a friend in Switzerland who reads U.S. news websites via Web Archive or Archive IS exactly because of that.

Accessing some of these news sites returns CloudFlare's "not available" in your region message or similar.
In finance you can strut around wall street and cause a bidding war. In chip design you can move your life to a specific shitsville to work for the other employer and get sued before they decide to close down again.
heh.

by the course of looking for programming job, i have scanned hundreds of job-ads, incl. governmental. everybody-and-his-dog requires AWS/Azure/GCP knowledge as if it matters thaaaat much. These cloud-y things have become a mandatory buzzword, and i am not talking about sysadmin/devops.

In my last gig the system was kept cloud-agnostic, so moving between providers or on-prem be possible at any time. And i as CTO kept that good thing, although had to resist some pushes. But seems such cases are few - most places now dream of hyper mega-giga-scale and Lambdas and Big-queries.. while doodling few thousands of requests.

Lets see if there's any wind change.. vendor-lock is a real thing, with much deeper (architectural or life-cycle) consequences than usually perceived.
Developers really put their hearts into it. I loved the Dziady reference.
> framing race and gender filters as "merit" filters

Do you have examples? I haven't gone systematically digging into this, but the general impression I've gotten is that this sort of explicit demographic filters are largely associated with the "equity" crowd rather than the "merit" crowd.
How does this compare to CyberChef? https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
Just in case people haven't heard this, here is my straightforward advice (for those in the US considering college):

1. Unless you have schools falling all over trying to recruit you, go to an in-state public university. By "trying to recruit you" I mean schools literally flying you out to visit and offering you full scholarship because you are an ungodly talent in whatever you do (sports, music, etc.). Schools mailing you letters and offering you $5k doesn't count, that can't offset the cost of private or out of state tuitions. For most middle class people, the jobs you'll be getting don't care about whether you went to UNC or VT, or K-State, or whatever- public state universities are kind of all judged the same and it's not worth the extra cost to go out of state.

a. If you want to really get a good deal, go to a community college for a year or two and live with your parents, then transfer to the state school when you have done your core classes and are ready to focus on your major.

b. Still apply for scholarships even if you're going to a state school with in state tuition. Pretty much anyone can swing a few grand in grants and scholarships, and if you get a job (or are lucky enough for your parents to pitch in) you can graduate debt free. Being debt-free from a state school is far better than having $40k or more in debt from a private school with moderate name recognition.

2. Don't go to a private school unless you get a full scholarship or your parents are so rich they will foot the bill for you without taking out any loans. Most private schools aren't worth it. Probably the only private schools that are really worth it are the ones with undeniable networking opportunties- Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford. Maybe a couple others but the list is very short (and if you're thinking about where to go to college you probably weren't admitted to these).

3. Definitely don't go to a small private liberal arts college. I have good friends that teach at these kinds of schools, and while they are a nice community to work in, they are a bad deal for students. People are starting to figure this out, smaller liberal arts colleges are at higher risk of shutting down. They unite the costs of a private school with the faculty the size of a community college, with the uncertainty of not knowing if your school will be open in four years to give you a degree.

If you do #1 above you'll have done the common sense thing and you'll really appreciate it as an adult when you hear your coworkers complaining about their mountain of debt from their college that sounded cool but turned out to be kinda crappy.
> unintented consequences

Intended consequences no doubt.