skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Your appraisal is bleak and, fortunately, disconnected from reality. Cognitive dissonance, indeed!

Think about any life goal that requires significant work, such as "I'd like to be a superstar engineer" or "I've got no savings, but I want to save up and buy a house" or "I'd like to become a black-belt martial artist" or "I'd like to publish a successful novel."

How long does it take to achieve something like that?

There are a lot of goals in life that take five, ten, or even more years to achieve.

Now here's the thing...

If you're doing this life thing correctly, you will gain a significant amount of wisdom and perspective in any five- or ten-year span.

And with that wisdom and perspective comes the realization that some of your old goals weren't worth achieving. Or perhaps you will simply find other goals you like better. Or a different path to the same goal. That's not cognitive dissonance. That's learning and growing.
World's worst video card? the conclusion
Fame for the scientists who perform the revival...also, by doing so, our friends in the future signal to each that they are Good People
I couldn't help but point out the similarity – but I can see where you were coming from as well!
I have not used it personally, but Elixir is certainly in use in quite a few production environments.
This is the same search method I use to continuously play back YT videos on a dedicated small screen connected to a raspberry pi in my apartment. Definitely shows an amazing cross section through humanity. The great thing about the camera file name is it’s language and region agnostic. So you really get everything.
Hmm... Maybe I've been stuck by a realization: there is no such thing as a free society, only societies where you can or cannot choose your master.
It’s a convenient intellectual term for us, but if you ask the guy who is starving then he would likely disagree with you.
You consider Google less invasive? That is an interesting spin. Although, why do you think Microsoft is malicious? Google is showing you ads to manipulate your behavior for their own profit. I find that business model more problematic.
Huh? I don’t think anyone here is dishonest or incapable of using a keyboard. (Indeed, I’m convinced that idlewords is one of the most honest and generally capable people around.)

I said people who are digging their forearms into their laptop edges are probably bending their wrists down in a way that puts strain on the tendons used for typing (not to mention putting direct pressure on the tendon sheaths for the finger flexors), so they should be careful about RSI.
That’s an interesting thought that I’ve never personally had. I know dozens of people whose lives I’d rather have.
To run or not to run a database on Kubernetes: What to consider
Think of it as a linguistic problem instead. What is the minimum number of symbols needed to express the complexity of nature together with the complexity of the interpreter needed to parse them? Simple forms are just those that compress notions well.
All because they optimise for short-term design over long-term function, because there's no decent negative feedback loop into consumer decision making at point-of-purchase for many minor defects (and even major ones such as the Apple butterfly keyboard disaster).

If there was a requirement for manufacturers-at-scale to display visual overviews of potential defects over time due to normal use - and with the same prominence as the marketing material:

* a laptop with stressed / broken cables

* a defective keyboard

* inputs in iPhones that appear to fail due to microscopic dust / debris accumulation

then you'd have a forcing function which addresses the information asymmetry in consumer transactions and perhaps you'd quickly see a lot more attention directed at these kind of product defects.

Of course this kind of thought-bubble regulation might be totally unworkable: how do you determine thresholds of wear and tear considering 'correct use' as considered by manufacturer vs 'real-world' use by user base. But then again doesn't good design consider the practical over the theoretical reality wrt product usage?
Recursive Programming
I've always just had a full staging environment set up that you can tap in to with whatever microservice you happen to be working on at the moment.
most of what you need to know to fix usability issues will be discovered pretty quickly just by watching a single "regular" person use it.
This perspective saddens me because you’re not describing a productive developer, rather just some employee good at acquiescing to what product managers (often mistakenly) want.

10X developers aren’t wasting time debating scope with product managers. They are too busy doing things that directly help customers and stakeholders, generally as a direct result of flippantly ignoring what product managers say and the ensuing politics over who gets credit and what is politically allowed to be shipped.

One way to spot a 10X developer is that it’s someone getting lots of stuff accomplished despite product managers finding it universally frustrating to ask that person to take on the product manager’s agenda.

Honestly the reason why these people are so rare is not because they are too hard to find. It’s because product orgs can’t tolerate someone whose judgment supersedes their own in regards to what the customer wants. The 10X developer does product management circles around product managers all while getting their own software jobs done in the meantime.

In order for there to be possible options for politically arguing over bonuses & credit for what is shipped, you have to staff most of engineering with passive people who don’t push back on product management, hence very few 10X engineers.
They gave me a small project to do, and told me to do it as though I were building it for a customer. I think that was warning enough that it ought to gracefully handle bad input — any real-world program needs to do the same.
It sounds to me like you’re assuming that one path to happiness is best and because of that, are missing the fact that many people are happy with their jobs and lives.

I don’t think the journey is more important than the end here. “The end” is being happy. If you can simply exist and be happy, that’s going to be more satisfying than aggressively pursuing the path you believe leads to happiness.

Looking at happy people and telling yourself it’s a facade is a really bad idea.
Interdimensional cable, Morty.
Right, but then the government gets away with hiding taxes. VAT and sales taxes are generally taxes on the end consumer, so it stands to reason that the end consumer (who probably votes in elections) should know when they're paying these taxes.

Would you prefer it if income taxes were similarly hidden (i.e. when you negotiate your salary, you're negotiating the net amount you will receive after taxes)?
The misses are noteworthy for their relative rarity.

The G3 cube was a good idea but was overpriced, as it was inferior to the regular G4 in every aspect other than size. It was priced to be a 2000’s-era executive desk ornament, a relatively tiny market segment. A few years later a substantially similar product was released to massive success—the Mac mini.

The puck mouse was stupid, but it wasn’t as bad as people made it out to be. It was eminently useable once you got used to it.

Jobs’ biggest design failure has always been his refusal to acknowledge the importance of cable strain relief.

Also the third generation iPod. Yeesh.
Maybe you used one with older firmware or an older model?

Currently using one as I type, the stray / static finger rejection is near perfect and I can easily scroll with my index finger with my middle finger and edge of my palm resting on the surface.
Before I began to type this, I was resting my hands on the (thankfully hand-friendly) edge of my laptop, one finger on the page-down key. I probably do as much reading on my laptop as I do typing.
Even the assistants often times have their own assistants, very common in Hollywood.
Google gives Chrome, Android, Gmail, Search,.. away for free so that they can track and show you ads.
That makes sense, thanks for taking the time to expand on this point.
When I was young and foolish, I wanted nothing to do with UI either. Then one day I woke up and realized that to the user, the UI was the program in its entirety. Everything lives and dies by the UI. It doesn't matter how wonderful or sublime your code is if nobody can operate it.

I don't think you can be a 10x engineer until you realize this.
UrWeb deserves a mention as well: https://github.com/urweb/urweb
Don’t Count on Government to Protect Your Privacy
If you read the content you will find that it is based on the same sources that you linked to yourself.
While it would be possible to edit a film using the original camera reel, this is generally not a good idea because (1) most motion pictures are captured on negative film and (2) the repeated cuts, splices, and general handling of the film that happens during edit will inevitably damage it.

The solution to both problems is to produce a workprint from the camera negative and edit with that. This inverts the negative image and gives you a copy that you can play with freely.

Watching someone editing on a Steenbeck [0], you will quickly see the importance of not editing the camera negative directly.

Once the edit decisions are finalized, the original camera negative is carefully cut and spliced to match the workprint, and a pristine "answer print" is struck from the edited camera negative. Traditionally, this is also where color timing is done—the printer lights can be configured to balance different shots and scenes as the answer print is being made.

The final release prints are usually third-generation copies (if you don't count the camera negative as a copy)—(1) a handful of interpositives are made from the original camera negative following the exact procedure used to make the answer print, then (2) internegatives are struck from the interpositives, and (3) a large number of release prints can be struck from the internegatives.

A notable exception to this was the release of Dunkirk (2017). The 37 IMAX screens in the world [1] that were exhibiting a 15-perf 70mm film print were actually showing a first-generation copy struck directly from the original camera negative.

(All that said, it is possible to shoot on reversal film, which is positive out of the camera, and can be edited and projected directly. Also, I've never edited a film like this myself and likely got a few things wrong—so take this with a grain of salt.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUxbfiZ_-9Y
[1] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/imax-melbourne-is-the-onl...
Yeah I use HDMI-CEC to turn on and off my TV from the Apple remote.

I use an HD HomeRun and the app Channels to watch local antenna TV via the Apple TV, so no need for channel buttons.

I do wish that the Apple TV volume buttons worked without HDMI-CEC so I could use those to control the volume when playing games. That and the occasional need for the Input button are the only reasons I keep the TV remote handy.
> pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

This is nonsensical.
It's sort of like channel surfing all the "local access" channels in the world
Well, that's what everybody believes, which is why late model used Hondas and Toyotas are overpriced. Sometimes I've seen them advertised for more than brand-new.

In theory, you should be able to save money by buying a car from an unreliable, unloved brand, because by the time it's a few years old, any fundamental design flaws should be well known and you can avoid them.

For instance, Ford has a bad reputation because of certain cars that were flawed from the beginning, but that doesn't mean you can't find one that isn't, and it might be half the price.

I find Hondas and Toyotas more attractive usually, since I like cars and I don't economize more than I have to. But I know people that have had good luck with domestic brands that have terrible reputations in general. If they sell to rental agencies and taxis, then they can't objectively be that bad as appliances.
It's not that Jobs had irreplaceable design sense that makes Job's very hard to replace, but his ability to check egos and call out a bad design when he spotted it.

Everything I read makes it seem like Jony Ive is full of himself. Jobs was the only one that could tell him that.
Try this idea:

g(t) = (1-t) f(a) + t f(b)

where t goes from 0 to 1. At the end points, we get

g(0) = (1) f(a) + (0) f(b) = f(a)
g(1) = (0) f(a) + (1) f(b) = f(b).

This can be used to linearly blend any two things, as for t in between 0 and 1, we'll get part of f(a) and part of f(b).

Now, if we want to use x instead of t, where x goes from a to b, we need to convert:

x = a <=> t = 0
x = b <=> t = 1

The distance that x has travelled from a is (x-a). The total distance from a to b is (b-a). t is the proportion of that total distance, so t is the distance travelled over the total distance:

x-a
t = ---
b-a

Now (renaming g to f as we're changing parameterisation* )

f(x) = (1 - (x-a)/(b-a)) f(a) + ((x-a)/(b-a)) f(b)
= (1 + (x-a)/(a-b)) f(a) + ((x-a)/(b-a)) f(b) //since -(b-a) = a-b
= ((a-b)/(a-b) + (x-a)/(a-b)) f(a) + ((x-a)/(b-a)) f(b) //since 1 = (a-b)/(a-b)
= ((a-b+x-a)/(a-b)) f(a) + ((x-a)/(b-a)) f(b) //combining terms with common denominator
= ((x-b)/(a-b)) f(a) + ((x-a)/(b-a)) f(b)

Does that explain it?

* g(x) is something different: g(x) = (1-x) f(a) + x f(b), just by substituting in.
> who can both walk across the street and afford the same level of service

The people (often of color) who work in the back of the nice restaurants everyone with means loves to eat at can't afford to eat there, much less live near their work.

The nannies who take care of the children of high earners (enabling them to be high earners and avoid the stress of a big chunk of parenting) can't afford to have nannies for their own kids. In fact, they often end up having less time with their own children than they do with their "masters" kids.

I could go on and on.

Your cherry picking the waitstaff (usually white people, who get high tips) and baristas makes your argument better; though I'm sure most baristas will disagree with you. Making coffee in a rather social setting is a rather nice job where you interact with customers, and can be fun (I've done it). What about the janitors, who usually work at night, alone, cleaning our toilets (I've done that too)? It is very alienating. If you did that for a year, the stuff Marx wrote about stops being some intellectual hocus pocus and actually starts to ring very very true.

What about the farm workers that pick your strawberries and blueberries for that $14 plate of pancakes?

Again I could go on and on.
I'm a crazy fans to Fabrice Bellard. If he starts a religion, I will not doubt signing up....
Sit in Starbucks and offer $5 gift cards...
If Fabrice Bellard starts a new religion, I will have no doubt signing up right away.
>The force on me and on the kite is equal-and-opposite, but it was equal before I started reeling it in too.

Yeah, of course. The force is always equal when objects aren't accelerating, so when you reel in the kite at a constant speed with an increased force, the force on your ship is increased as well. When you reel in with more force you reel in faster, which means that you can make your increase in force arbitrarily small, but in doing so you'll make you're increase in speed arbitrarily small and make your reeling time arbitrarily large. In doing so, you'll end up accelerating the ship by the same amount.

The work done in reeling in the kite is obviously larger than the kinetic energy imparted on the ship and is minimised by reeling in the kite arbitrarily slowly. That energy doesn't just go into fluid interactions but also the potential energy of having your foil back at the ship as well as the ship's kinetic energy.

All of that is a bit of window dressing. To reel in your kite you need to increase the pull or force on its lines. That increase will equivalently act on the ship. The ship is being pulled a little bit stronger in the retraction process just like the original commenter asked.
Thanks for the in-depth reply, and I'm glad you sorted it out. Hope you never have to go through this again.
Any plans to share the program when it’s done? It sounds like something I’ve wanted to build but never gotten around to. (My idea was an unholy TiddlyWiki / sqlite hybrid so the aesthetics of yours will probably be superior)
Eh, I really don't subscribe to this mentality that stock Android is somehow superior and that all manufacturers should just make hardware and ship with stock Android. I say this as someone who drank the stock Android kool-aid, rooted and ROM'd more phones and ROMs than I can remember and owned a couple of (disappointing) Nexus devices.

My favorite phones to date have been my older LG G3 and my current S9+. I absolutely enjoy custom tweaks in both manufacturers Android flavors. Knock codes on the G3 were fantastic in addition to tap to wake and the LG G3 window case.
Ux Engineering manager here for a fortune 100 company.

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...but at the same time it’s because those people are the real deal. Most people I know are in the latter camp.

Yeah, they can run marathons and got into a DL team at Google and got 2350s on their SATs and made a million in crypto, what of it? I’m very skeptical that the people better than me aren’t better than me for a darn good reason.
by linking c modules, comparing it with v8 is no longer meaningful
Could also consider not throwing out food. I know servings in the US are huge, so either share the meal with another person or ask for a meal size that you can eat and no more.
> that 10-20% extra

We’re talking about the difference between an engineer approaching forty at an ordinary company earning a little over $100k versus someone ten years younger at a FAANGMI earning $250k+. There are a lot of people in the former group who would happily give up a few weekends and put up with more stress to be a part of the latter group.
Being hker also do not know
Then, when minivans started having sliding doors on both sides, the problem returned. Pretty sure our minivan won't let us open the driver-side door if the gas door is open.
That’s kind of like complaining because programmers don’t know every language.

GP’s refer to specialists because medicine is such a huge body of work. Keeping up with even a small field takes a lot of time. Someone that tries to keep up with and more importantly remember everything is not going to succeed let alone have time to help you. Sometimes the next step is to take these results go up the chain and try again not hope the wrong specialist can still solve your issue.

It’s not a perfect system, especially if you actually have multiple independent unusual issues at the same time. But, that’s life with imperfect humans.
Unfortunately this is only possible if you subscribe to a more tabula rasa viewpoint than most.
> Defining overflow as wrapping, for example, would be bad for security because it means we couldn't check it with UBSan.

You could always write “WrapAroundSan”.
Furthest Distance of Photon Quantum Teleportation: 300 Miles to Orbit
80/20 rule apply here you will get 80-90% problems with usability when you tested with 5 people today’s world though we need to have predictive analytics to increase this coverage and also Start creating customized journeys
Even better, have someone else tell you your weaknesses because you probably don’t notice them the way that others do.
OMG, that's great. i have the follow-up book, from mathematics to generic programming -- hardcore read for someone who is no expert at maths or cplusplus but still a phenomenal read.

i have had elements of programming on my wishlist for a while and saw the price skyrocketed on amazon. the book is being sold used for $200+ on amazon right now. i am just going to get the lulu paperback because that's a steal right now. big fan of Alexander Stepanov.
STOP HIDING THE VIDEO CONTROLS
One of the problems with live-in servants is this is likely to create an employer/employee relationship between you and your servant which creates a massive tax, liability and paperwork headache. That's why it's far less common in the U.S.
Will we have enough clean energy?
There’s lots of open land in the world. Is 100% clean, plentiful energy simply a matter of covering enough of it with solar panels? I know storage is an issue (for nights and cloudy days) but with nearly infinite clean energy, surely we can solve those as well - even inefficiently? Basically, should we be very optimistic about the future?
> No-one ever says "We spend billions on Football; let's spend it on poor people instead", or "We spend billions on the music and film industries, let's shut those down and instead tax everyone for the average entertainment spend and send the proceeds to developing nations". Or defense for that matter.

People say both quite a lot. Well, in case of the more general "industry" it's more like "let's roll back the spending quite a lot, except defense, shut that one down".
Or, just pause viewing history; YouTube has a control for that.
> we’ve settled on the greater of the two evils

in retrospect it'll've been the smoothest option for our eventual transition to submitting to algorithm/machine bosses. first get comfortable submitting to humans acting like machines, then replace them with machines.
Ah, looks like I got that all backwards. Been a few years since I last played KSP :)

Too late to edit it now though...
What would you do if your plane was swapped out? It's fairly common if one is late or maintenance issues, etc.
>The same Jordan B Peterson who asked ...

sure. I'm no big fan, but don't color good advice bad when it comes from the wrong person.

All his quote is advocating for is self-reference and relativity with regards to self improvement.

It's sort of like quoting Mark Twain. 4/5 people will enjoy the quote, that last person will bring up what a tyrannical bigoted racist he was. (opinion theirs)

The reality is that people who aren't necessarily great themselves can bring wisdom to our attention. Just because it was THEM that had the idea, or at least the ability to bring that idea to words, doesn't invalidate the idea.
Torchships – Atomic Rockets (2012)
There are issues with the BIOS on on of the systems randomly changing the m.2 PCIe speed between 4x and 2x. It only exists in the most current version of the BIOS but doesn't happen on older version.

Their are also other issues that should be fixed but haven't.
Oh boy... Wait till you learn about the backbone of our military air forces.
So in talking to people who knew Jobs well, he was the great integrator. He got people to work together and ideas to work together.
Sorry, what are you enumerating/describing?
Is there a language with this behavior? I would find that very confusing.
Skeuomorphism wasn’t a failure. The iPhone and the touch interface were new to the market. Making the interface look familiar was important at the time even though it went too far. The iPhone did well from iOS 1 - iOS 6 and I don’t remember too many complaints until iOS 6.
Left-arrow key goes back to the previous video, right arrow key takes you forward. Not sure if there’s an option for mobile.
If you just want to use a tool at a basic level, you do not need to be explained how it works. If you want to master a tool and be able to use it in novel situations you need to understand how the tool was created. Same with math proofs - without knowing why something is true and how it was discovered, how can you utilize its full power?
Source appears to be here: https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg

Some more info linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16570548
The RPi 4 is the first one with an Ethernet interface that isn't connected over USB. All the earlier RPis are seriously handicapped for networking usage by that limitation.