skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am just in the process of digging into this paper and covering it in an article, so I'm quite familiar with it.

But as bad as this is: What the COMPare project is doing here is documenting the flaws of a process to counter bad scientific practice. The reality in most fields (including pretty much all of CS and ML) is that no such process exists at all, because noone even tries to fix these issues.

So you have medicine where people try to fix these issues (and are - admittedly - not very good at it) versus other fields that don't even try.
On the other hand, I had a not-too-old fridge with a broken ice maker, which I tried to repair. The replaceable part was "the whole ice maker", which was out of production and not available anywhere. With some knowledge of electronics and 3d printing, I could probably get it working again, but at the cost of multiple hours of my free time, with no guarantee of success. The best intentions can't always defeat planned obsolescence.
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Dont forget 3dlabs.
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I wouldn't mind if it were labelled better. But from the consumer point of view, what's the difference? The texture is different and it's been disinfected. Doesn't seem like a huge deal.
I think it's a mistake for you to value your own mending time over my particular hobby, which contributes to a sense of well-being.
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He’s had few difficulties. Executive positions simply aren’t being filled, for some reason. He’s proposed many judges. AFAIK every name proposed for any position has been approved by the senate.
That is correct. Payment term after you invoice date.
Curious if you are familiar with Emacs, org-mode, and Babel.

https://orgmode.org/

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/
It's true, and I've had enough horrible managers to understand and appreciate the appeal.

All I'm saying is when most programmers envision being a solo, independent dev they think of the freedom but it's really (IMHO) a series of tradeoffs that don't necessarily make it significantly better than working a 9-5 for most people.

Everyone's situation is different. For some it's a dream, I'm sure. But I read lawyer, accountant, contracts, billing and think I'd rather just go back to work.
Didn't know what Y86 meant, but found this:

'The Y86 is a “toy” machine that is similar to the x86 but much simpler. It is a gentler introduction to assembly level programming than the x86. Just a few instructions as opposed
to hundreds for the x86. Fewer addressing modes. Simpler system state. Absolute addressing.'
C++ has come a long way, and C++20 is extremely promising.
Modern C++ can be as safe as Rust.
You can try eBay.

I was quoted 600 for a whole system part of a car (dubcomponent wasn’t sold separately), the actual necessary used sub-part was 50 on eBay.
Github got offended over the use of a word "retard" and they nuked a whole repo.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150802/20330431831/githu...

There's lots more examples of their employees getting triggered and offended by various things and then arbitrarily banning or censoring projects.
It's definitely a two way street, but there's less incentive now for the US to stay involved. We're a net petroleum exporter now, Texas of all places is adopting renewables like crazy (proving their viability), highly autonomous and mechanized manufacturing is almost comparable to outsourced production and we don't need soyuz for space launches (soon).

All of that combined, plus the growing need to address our own impoverished parts of the country is making a lot of people in the US think it's time to let Europe do it's own thing.
Integrating the display with the computer offers two advantages:

1) It's easier for customers. No need to think about which display to get -- you know the integrated display will just work, and it will be very high quality.

2) Tighter integration: the built in display wakes immediately when the computer wakes, you can adjust brightness via keyboard, and you won't have trouble connecting the display and fidgeting with a crappy OSD to set the picture settings...

Dealing with external displays is extremely frustrating -- there's always something that doesn't work right. The display doesn't wake up, refresh rate is limited if you use the wrong cable, colors look different depending on brightness setting of the monitor, ...

If you just want one computer and one display, an iMac saves a lot of time and frustration.
The teeth of a zipper on my backpack came detached from the tape material on the side of the zipper and a friend said that it looks like I would have to get a new backpack.

Well... it turned out that the teeth of the zipper are just a plastic string wrapped around a cord (and both still perfectly fine) and that stitching the cord back onto the tape material required not much more than some dexterity and accuracy. It took maybe half an hour from diagnose to the finished fixed zipper.

Bonus: feels empowering to do things that someone else considered impossible.
He can't. We have actually tried before with a sowing-craft set he got for Christmas (which my wife ended up making with him watching).

To be honest I shouldn't have to defend what chores I choose to spend time doing with the kids. I'd be interested to know how many on here have kids, do all of the aforementioned chores and still find time to teach 5 year olds to mend socks, shirts and jumpers? There seems to be an inordinate amount of "high-roading" happening today.
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This project was more about learning the schematic, PCB, firmware and laser cutting work. There might be some fun learnings from 3D printing the keycaps, but I didn't want to expand the scope of this too much, since there were already quite a few "risky" parts of the build (given my current electronics skillset). The top and bottom plate design was mostly about simplicity.
The How to Start a Startup videos from YC are goodhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5q_lef6zVkaTY_cT1k7q....
I buy $12 synthetic fabric shirts that last for 100+ wear/wash cycles without needing mending.
You are talking about EV certificates. OV-validated certificates require (the best case) the user to click on the padlock icon to reveal more information about the certificate.
> the risk for a non-smoking teenager who picks up vaping definitely increases because there was not any risk before (as the article points out, we went from 0% vaping teens to 20%), and the nicotine will likely produce some fraction of smokers down the line.

Are you just pointing out that since some activity that didn't exist before has a non-zero risk, one class of risks are going up? This is not a good argument for saying that total risk is going up, or that that activity should be suppressed.

> And we all know that Juul styles itself as a tech brand that looks cool for a reason

Starbucks tries to loop hip and trendy, but really they're just selling an addictive drug too: caffeine. And they sell it to children. They even sell hot chocolate, which is a sweet drink that appeals to children who wouldn't normally drink coffee, but is served very similar to coffee and is derived from some of the same ingredient. Once Starbucks gets them in the habit of getting hot chocolates, they graduate to coffee as they get old.

> They should be evaluated in the light of not inhaling toxic substances at all.

Caffeine and nicotine are both addictive stimulants, and nicotine is stronger, but neither are "toxic" in any reasonable sense.
"Waymo’s autonomous vehicles leave Apple in the dust"

https://www.therobotreport.com/waymo-autonomous-vehicles-app...
This sounds like a previously known effect known as “negative luminescence“:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_luminescence
Ha not sure "9-12 months" is "quick". If I wanted to quit my job and travel, I can do that with a regular 9-5.

Maybe others can do this (and if so, more power to them) but if I was taking "free time" while a solo dev I would just feel like I was constantly losing money.
Guessing you're not a big fan of combination beef pho.
If you don't need minute-by-minute accounting, you might like TagTime [1]. It will pop up a window at random times and ask what you're doing. Over the course of several weeks it can build a good picture of where your time is going in aggregate without the hassle of having to manually punch in and out of a timesheet or the potential privacy problems associated with completely automatic tracking.

[1]: http://tagti.me/
This is exactly what I'm talking about. You've been on both sides and can appreciate each. You should formulate your experiences into a longer Medium post (or blog post) and share with HN.
The throwaway design of the products should downrank environmental to a C. I'd give them a D but they show real efforts in recycling and ethical material sourcing.

Doesn’t the fact that the iPhone 5s from 2013 still getting updates in 2019 kind of contradict that? You can still get battery replacements and screen repairs for it.

iPhones are getting too expensive

Apple sells more than just the $1500 512GB iPhone XS Max. You can buy an iPhone 7 for $450 and still have a faster phone than most Android phones and probably get updates longer.

the Air/Mac Mini price increase mirrors the iPhone's and we've never heard again of the new Mac Pro, while they STILL sell the trash can.

The $499 4GB Mac Mini that Apple sold was a computer that no one should have ever bought. $699 was the cheapest of the former Mac Minis that anyone should have bought. The $799 Mac Mini has an extremely fast SSD hard drive, thunderbolt 3 ports, etc.

Apple said during their round table that the Mac Pro wouldn’t come out until this year and they reiterated that when the iMac Pro was introduced.
It does depend on the car part. There are a lot of low quality fakes on ebay, which won't either work, or will break quickly, and finding information with which to sort through which are good and which are not is a task in itself.
Not to excuse Github but now it's Microsoft. I've never used Microsoft properties that included a public presence like Github before, what is their history like in these cases?
From the regulations linked in the article:

‘‘Chopped Beef’’ or ‘‘Ground Beef’’ shall
consist of chopped fresh and/or frozen
beef with or without seasoning and
without the addition of beef fat as
such, shall not contain more than 30
percent fat, and shall not contain
added water, phosphates, binders, or
extenders. When beef cheek meat
(trimmed beef cheeks) is used in the
preparation of chopped or ground beef,
the amount of such cheek meat shall
be limited to 25 percent; and if in ex-
cess of natural proportions, its presence shall be declared on the label[...].
> Edit any text input using a real text editor

Does anyone know if you can do something similar in vimium on Chrome? That sounds absolutely awesome.
I did a test with both Siri and Nuance’s app on my iPhone. I set both to listen to a podcast playing on another device. Nuance’s app did far better with dictation.
I see, you're right - according to Wikipedia:

"Muscarine is only a trace compound in the fly agaric Amanita muscaria; the pharmacologically more relevant compounds from this mushroom are ibotenic acid and muscimol. A. muscaria fruitbodies contain a variable dose of muscarine, usually around 0.0003% fresh weight."

Looks like there's a historical reason why muscarine is associated with Amanita muscaria: it was first isolated from the mushroom by a German chemist in 1869.
How would they be instantly caught?
It’s about signaling social status. If you dress in cheap clothes but you drive a really nice car no one’s going to think you’re poor. If you wear the exact same clothes and don’t have a car people will make a different guess as to your social status.
IIRC, they nuked 4chan's C Plus Equality repo [0]. The project moved to Bitbucket later, which then again got removed. However, you can still find some copies of it on Github [1]

[0] - https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

[1] - https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equa...
For a second I wondered why would you fight such a thing ? Then it hit me...
I did the switch to Firefox too but can't help notice during frontend (Angular and React) development that Chrome reload my apps significantly faster.
Yup, not having to fix your own car happened one generation ago. Now it's happening to computers.
Most devs I know make a lot more than 100K but maybe that reflects my old age.

But let's dive into the numbers for a moment. I have no doubt you can book 250K in a year...but you only referred to the base salary of a developer, not all the other paid-for benefits.

Health care is a huge one. Take a big number out of that 250K.

Paid vacation is a second. Let's say you get 2-4 weeks off in total PTO, that's worth thousands of dollars.

None of the expenses the author mentioned -- lawyer, accountant, etc.

Free computer hardware. An office space to work in. Colleagues you can call on instantly for help.

You don't have to spend unpaid time looking for work.

I'd love to a see a spreadsheet comparison of each lifestyle and see if it's really raining money down as a consultant, because my (admittedly unscientific) gut says it's not.
Why is the new MAC Mini so expensive, it used to be the budget option.

The number of people who buy desktops is minuscule especially low end ones. The people who buy Mac Minis are doing all types of specialize things. I welcome the high end Mac Mini.

The “budget” $499 4G Mac Mini was always something to be avoided.
> I cannot pay for a lawyer or an accountant yet most of the people recommend it

Things are simple. The rule is: "If you can't pay for it, you probably don't need it". I am also one of those solo consultant, personally I got mine when I found out the price I was paying my accountant was multiple time less than the loss of not having one. To give some numbers, if you give to your government more than $5k, it will be worth your while with all the tax cut you can claim.
ACME protocol is fairly straight forward to implement, and you can easily write your own implementation with existing code (OpenSSL, Apache/nginx, etc).

With many commercial registrar's, although they offer a valid and long certificate, their technical aspects aren't very good. Many CAs don't support ECC certificates, the must-staple flag or CT SCTs embedded in the certificate.

I work a lot with web PKI, and every time I have to deal with a CA that's not LE or Digicert, I sigh out loud.
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries probably is as close as it gets to what you’re describing.

Anything more specific can’t take variations in context and market development into account.

There’s no cookie cutter way of creating a successful startup from scratch.

If you have an existing network and if you’ve done it before then the chances are higher that you can reproduce successful outcomes. Still, there are quite a few examples of entrepreneurs who’ve created a successful startup but weren’t able to achieve similar results with their following endeavours.

Uncertainty and the search for a business model are the very nature of startups. Reproducible results come with established models.
Ha, yes, that's fair. There are few worse features of corporate america than annual reviews -- not because of the process itself but more often because of how poorly they are run by untrained managers.
You probably don't need a single-page app
If we paid more, would the factory owners have built a safer factory? No, they'd pocket the profits. If they didn't have factory jobs, would they be subsisting on coastal fishing and be killed by tsunami?

Poorer parts of the world are poor by default, not because of trade.
"There was just whitespace, everywhere, it was... frightening"
Exactly.

And that's fine as long as you'r transparent about the tradeoff. But we tend not to frame solo dev as "mostly business-related work with a little bit of programming" instead we think of it as "Programming on your own! No boss! Wahoo!"
I had a zipper go recently in a way where the whole zipper did need replaced. I was annoyed to learn that at least my local REIs don't do repairs any longer like they did in the past. I'd have sent it out for repair to a company that specializes in outdoor gear repair but a friend of mine was able to do it for me. (I don't have a sewing machine myself and this really needed one.)
I'd say it depends on the 9-5. I've worked enough terrible jobs to know they can definitely destroy your happiness but found a few good ones that make me happy to come into work every day.

For some people the tradeoff of going solo is worth it and good for them. But I read the OP's post and wait, I have to study contracts for XYZ? I'd rather just go to work.
I almost thought it was going to be a 2.7 vs 3.x discussion until I saw the cover photo...you got me, OP. Haha.
I know someone who picked up a stainless gas BBQ free from the curb in front of someone's house. It was in great condition, the burners and grills looked like it had hardly been used. New, it would have been in the $1000-2000 range. What was wrong with it? All it needed was a new AA battery for the ignitor!
That's possible of course.
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In what sense is the US a crutch for the rest of the world?

I totally understand wanting to focus on domestic problems but all too often campaigns based on that like to blame everyone but those who are responsible for domestic problems. We saw this with the UK's EU referendum (or "Brexit" as it's now known) where immigration was a key point. We saw this with a great many despots that come to power that blame other cultures corrupting their way of life. Even Hitler used the same rhetoric. And what good does it ever bring us? The US has had frequent shutdowns and regressions to universal health care and the growth of the UK's economy has slowed, cost of goods have gone up and jobs have and will be lost. We are all worse off for it!

Blaming everyone else for your own domestic problems wont help solve your domestic problems. In fact more often than not, you're only going to make them worse because you're just giving more power to those who actually cause those problems to begin with.
Exactly, you don't agree on who the enemies are and 'bad guys' mean the enemies the US, not of all the countries you lumped together.
Not the person you’re replying to, and fuck me if I’m wading into the question of sexism, but professionalism and maturity are things. We get paid the big bucks now, we’re not snotty kids in our parent’s garage; a whole world of acceptable professional behavior goes along with that.
It's possible you're right, but that's not what people were saying IIRC.
These are great points.
Whether you are talking about old or new, it depends upon what you are trying to accomplish as well as how you go about it.

Think back to the computers of the early 1980's. It was quite easy for someone to pick up BASIC and create simple programs. Their understanding of programming will be basic and their understanding of the machine will reflect that. That is quite similar to today.

Someone who whetted their appetite will move on to more advanced concepts. With early computers, that typically meant learning about the hardware or learning about algorithms. You either had to squeeze more performance out of your software or you needed to extend your reach beyond the language (and libraries). Today's programmer is, more likely than not, going to dive more deeply into libraries or learn more about their programming language. Yes, there will be exceptions based upon the domain that interests them or what they wish to gain from their learning.

Let's say that they decide to dive deeper into how the computer works. In the case of an early personal computer, the task was relatively easy. From a programmer's perspective, almost everything can be viewed sequentially and shuffling data across a bus. If they were more interested in electronics, it was relatively easy to see what was going on by looking at a circuit diagram or the board itself coupled with reading (admittedly more difficult to obtain) datasheets. With that knowledge, it was possible to modify the existing hardware and practical to build new hardware.

The notion that we are abstracting our understanding further and further from the workings of the machine while letting that limited understanding decide how what we can do with it isn't exactly a new one. My first real encounter with that idea was from one of the pioneers of digital computers, who described the machine as fundamentally physical and analog. In other words, making the physical world digital is in some sense and abstraction in its own right.

Granted, the article's author had relatively little to say on the fronts of programming and electronics design. It was more of a critique about younger people using software with very little understanding of its features or how it works, the sort of thing that can get you into trouble when things are not working as expected. While I disagree that this problem is specific to this generation, it is a solid reminder that the stereotype that younger people are better with technology is just plain wrong.
I feel I can relate to what the writer is telling. Amongst the names mentioned, I think Thomas Jefferson, was someone who fould talking much difficult that writing, iirc he significantly contributed to the eloquent language of declaration of independence and other documents, but struggled to participate in verbal discussions of the Continental Congress.
This matches my experience. In addition to taking the course as an undergrad, I was the graduate TA for three semesters. While it wasn't super deep on any one topic, the course was far from easy and required to graduate.
Stylo was attempted in C++ twice. Both times it was too buggy and had to be thrown out.

The third time, they used Rust. And it worked.
>broadly positive fact that automation has drastically reduced the cost of goods relative to labour

Only because the huge negative external costs of a new appliance aren't priced in - pollution created in manufacture, environment disposal of the old one, long-term exhaustion of raw materials.
Does this mean that if the working spouses loses their job, and then gets a new job with a lower salary, they will still be paying the higher amount of alimony?
Contracts are legal devices, but they correspond to agreements between humans that have moral meaning. I am entering into an agreement with the driver when I book and Uber, and the terms of our (moral) agreement are reflected in the legal contract. It's not rude to take advantage of something you've bought.
Maybe.

I remember having a hard time searching for information when I was young, as it was pre-internet and I was reliant on my parents on driving me places like the library to access information.

Nowadays, if you want to learn the ins and outs of something, you can order books online or watch informative video tutorials made by people who have been in the tech field for a significant amount of time.
That is an absolutely terrible idea.