skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah

Wall-E was solar powered and was just supposed to compact trash for incineration.

https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/WALL•E_(character)
Ebay can only wish they took the heat for this state of affairs.
A friend of mine is a fair few years younger than me and is a much better programmer than me. At first (maybe the first few months) I felt some small measure of envy, but over time I decided to take the attitude of, what can I learn from this person. If this person is outperforming me, what are they doing different, maybe adopting that can help bridge the gap.

I learned a few really good things from this, like, said friend is completely open about the things that he doesn't know. He doesn't hide or bluff his lack of knowledge, he went 'so far' as to google something in front of me that he didn't know. I realised this was a factor to some degree of attitude, upbringing, and socialization. I adopted it and I honestly have learned much more than I would have otherwise.

The other aspect of it is of course, I've taken a different career path than him. We have different sets of knowledge (even though I think if he took the time in about six months he could probably be up to my level in my path).

It's a manner of attitude, rather than anything else
To the wayback machine. The year, sometime in the mid 1980's.

Strangely while Facebook, Amazon, Netflix Google haven't been invented, Apple is here. Also strangely me too, but with long dark brown hair instead grey.

Like today Apple and a bunch of other high status companies are highly sought after employers of note. And just like today overwork and burnout their highly skilled workers and then toss them out like yesterdays trash.

Work for Apple, Microsoft, IBM and Intel they said. Make a name for yourself. Work on stuff other people think is exciting they said. Nope I said. And I've been happy enough over the last 35 years doing stuff no one else really cares about for companies and clients no one's ever heard of.

End of the day, No Name Corps money is just as good as Googles and Apples. Sure there is less of it. But the difference you paying for with lack of control and stress.

Edit: There's always someone faster, slower, richer, poorer, healthier, and sicker than you.

If there is one thing growing up in the bay area has taught me it's this.
In practice, nutritional interventions are much less favored over drug interventions.

For example, a simple ketogenic diet intervention can be a very effective treatment for type 2 diabetes. But most doctors still favor the 1960s-era, discredited science saying dietary fat causes heart disease.

So diabetics are given metformin and whatever fancy new insulin came out recently. And then in 20 years, those people will likely lose their feet and eyes.
The colorful iMac and iBook were a fun for the times reaction to the banality of mostly beige and sometimes black boxes most 90's computer users were used to seeing.

You have to kind of look at and consider them in the context of their time.

I do kind of miss fun colored devices. We're in a new era of beige with all this brushed aluminum and glass. I really would love some funky colored electronics again.
You are mistaken. Exploitaition supposedly occurs because of unequal workplace relationships that lead to workers producing above what is the market value of their labor. Marx did not deny a free and equal labor market, although he treated the notion with some contempt. The closest thing you're referring to is the notion of commodity fetishism, but applied to labor as a commodity.
You want to prove it to yourself at least once I think. Even if you only need the result, it’s nice to have at least once in your life a complete understanding of what you’re using.

I don’t remember many proofs that I did, but I’m happy to know the maths that I still remember really works.
> Maybe most of the above are too mainstream for the list.

While an interesting language may be obscure, an obscure language is not necessarily interesting. In many cases, being relatively well known is a benefit simply because it offers more exposure to new ideas.

I have found languages such as Forth, Racket, and Smalltalk far more valuable primarily because they are sufficiently accessible to be practical learning tools.
Same. There's the standard risk-aversion which would prevent me trading with the mean person, but sometimes you see someone who seems to have it better in every way and just obviously disqualifies my life from being Pareto efficient.
uh, even when just commuting to work every day, every gram saved makes a difference. when buying a new laptop, weight is my primary selection criteria, next is size and price, and only then any features. (although features factor into price)

the only time when weight is not a consideration is when getting a machine that i don't intend to move but just keep at home/work. but even then, i get annoyed when i occasionally have to carry around, or decide to change the purpose of the device.
Congrats, you’re human.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of being envious. Envy and greed turn into resentment and anger. You need to nip it.

If you know the person, you know what’s a great way to handle this... Give the guy a call or drop by and congratulate them on their good news.

And for yourself, grab a notebook, go sit at the library or wherever and write down the things you want to do. Anything, this is for you. Write that you want to be the president. Channel your inner Office Space and write that you want to have a threesome. Or be the next Zuck. Or catch a fish. Whatever.

Then write down a high level plan of attack to achieve each thing. One thing per page. Then write the list of things you really want to do.

In my personal experience, envy is usually more of a reflection of what I failed to do or dream or plan vs what some other person achieved. Be secure in who you are and what you want, and you will be better for it.
I have one (sans modules, obviously, for now), and I use it daily with great satisfaction. Not sure yet if it improves my RSI symptoms, but it's not making them worse. It does take a bit of time to develop muscle memory for the different layers. I'm eagerly awaiting the modules to be ready (got the trackball, track point, and the key cluster on order).
one other point, I did not find the palm rest to be very comfortable, and wish I could attach it at an angle to the keyboard itself. currently it's sitting in a box since I carry the uhk with me, and it's somewhat hefty.
> reached into cloud

Belatedly. I mean, they’re the largest software vendor on Earth, and they’re still miles behind a book retailer.
It needs an "upvote" or "downvote" button so people can filter out the better videos that others should watch.
Does a 10x manager make all his 1x engineers 10x engineers?
It reduces the moral barrier to buying new stuff. “Just buy it and recycle when you’re done!” The companies don’t deal with the costs of disposal.
I like the job Nathan Robinson did on this topic with his essay "Service With A Smile" at Current Affairs:

> In every restaurant, except a buffet (and I am not pro-buffet), I feel like an aristocrat who pays someone to put on his clothes for him. I know I can supposedly mitigate this by being polite and tipping well. But it’s the whole concept of paying someone to feed me that I don’t like. Yes, obviously, it’s better if I pay someone well than if I pay them badly, and better to be appreciative than abusive. It doesn’t make any more of a difference to my gut reaction, though, any more than it would if I found out that the millionaire who pays a valet to tie his cravats for him is extremely generous in compensating said valet.
Organic Solar Cells: The End of Silicon-Based Solar May Be Coming
I think the ability of a programmer to be 10x or 100x or 1000000x depends on the domain. If you are writing a sales tax calculator and need to implement 500 different local state sales tax regulations from a scanned Word document, your best developer is going to be maybe twice as fast as your average one.

But if the problem domain is “write a program to search the Web” or “write a program to allow people to send data-plan messages to each other from even very old feature phones” then the best developers can create millions of times the value of an average programmer.
Running kubernetes on a cloud system allows abstraction of the provider. We have tried it (in testing) between Azure and AWS, having a simple POC system running part on each.
If one is added to a playlist they can, at least.
Super ironic that apple stole the idea of the Mouse from parc and managed to completely fuck it up.

I blame jobs for this.

He basically tried to force an opposing idea for its sake on something that would be an FU to MS.

But the physical design of these mice with the recharge port on the bottom was an utter retard.
Maybe point to a counter example?
Wikipedia covers this pretty well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_pla...

Roughly, plastic bags are bad for wildlife and enough of them don't make it into the landfill that it's a problem.
Also got flagged as spam here. Might be worth checking your SPM and DKIM config.
i literally have both a macbook pro and a thinkpad x230 right now on my desk side by side, and i concur. the thinkpad keyboard is just so much more comfortable. it pains me to see how the newer thinkpads don't have that keyboard anymore.

if only i could find a more lightweight version the same size as the x230, then i'd probably stop using the mac.
No they will not be listed when the user searches for them.
you can use any old phone cable by the way!
What if you couldn’t program with loops?
Why are there no rockstar developers pulling in ten million a year?

I think there are, but they go by a different name - technical cofounder. There engineers at google and fb clearing one million a year though
US may bar big tech firms from offering financial services, digital currencies
What's with the sudden 10x engineer craze? Been seeing posts like that everywhere today, did I miss something?
In eighth grade, I got in trouble for trying to explain to another student how a letter-substitution puzzle worked at all. It was for extra credit.

The other student was Hispanic and spoke English as a second language. He had no idea where to even start. He didn't even know what it was.

My dad did the Cryptoquote in the newspaper every single morning. I knew exactly how this worked.

I was one of the "smart" kids at school, but my ability to solve this puzzle had little or nothing to do with innate intelligence. I just had seen such puzzles many, many times and helped my dad when he got stuck because he didn't like failing to solve it. So if he couldn't do it on his own, he began asking family members to look at it.

Meanwhile, I never have really become fluent in a second language like the Hispanic student I was trying to assist because it struck me as unfair that he had zero hope of solving this puzzle through no fault of his own.

But he was a poor immigrant of the wrong ethnicity. The school system and world around him placed no value on the extra knowledge he had due to who his dad was. Instead, it placed value on what I knew because of who my dad was, somewhat randomly and arbitrarily, not because there are careers to be of solving puzzles in the daily paper and not because being bilingual is useless.

There is so much luck, happenstance, born into the right family, right-place-and-right-time involved in "success" that I just can't be arsed to invest a lot of emotional heat in looking at other people and wishing I had their stuff.

I've worked hard at making my private life work. I think if I ever have "success," it will be sustainable and not destroy me/my life. In contrast, many people with public success got it by making crippling personal sacrifices. In some cases, it literally kills them.

I'll pass on that. It's simply not anything I want.
Ask HN: How does your company support your learning and development?
I’m curious to hear how some companies differ in how they think about employee learning and development. It seems like for the best companies My guess is the best companies (like Stripe and shopify) have a very different approach to this, and that’s one of their biggest competitive advantages. So what infrastructure does your company provide to support learning? What have you found works and what doesn’t? Do you use a learning management system?
true! I'm very tempted to finish mine with custom airbrushed patina á la "abandoned soviet cold war bunker" :)
Scale is the problem.

Just constraining yourself to the US and using the arbitrary 2000 calories per day per person, the US needs to produce about 2.4 x 10^14 food calories per year. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out how many greenhouses that is or how many 3d hydroponic farms, but the counter offer is a few thousand square miles of corn.
Your first paragraph is absolutely correct. The issue I see with your solution is that there's no fault tolerance, so the service is likely to be unreliable, and then of course there's dynamic IP which means it will be difficult to connect to from the public internet.

Honestly, the real issue is getting people to pay for things. Running web services has a cost, but it's hard to "see" it. If you're mom is going to want that server to be available 24/7, then she has to pay for a computer to run it on and an internet connection (which she has probably already done) as well as the electricity to keep it all powered on 24/7, and that doesn't add any fault tolerance to the system. If you can convince her that all that cost it worth it to stream music, then why can't you convince her spend a similar amount to let someone else deal with the hassle and get better reliability?

The best solution is to simply pay a service to do the hosting and take advantage of economies of scale to provide an always-on service at a great value.

"free" services that aren't actually free are the problem.
But since it's different teams using different providers, there's not much need to make a single diagram with multiple providers.
I just bought a new Mac and spent all of ten seconds looking at the "well-designed" Apple keyboard and mouse before buying the best third-party input devices I've ever had for less than half the cost. The Magic Mouse looks like it was build by someone who has never used a mouse in their life. The stupid little ball is so small it's basically impossible to scroll to boot.
Suggestion; purchase from manufacturers that have shown they are responsive to enthusiasts. Are responsive representatives actively monitoring customer feedback? Otherwise you may find yourself waiting long periods (or forever) on an indifferent manufacturer.

Why; The Gen 3 Ryzen is a very frequency agile design. Performance depends strongly on how rapidly core frequency is adapted to load. Frequency is governed by firmware, so optimal firmware is crucial.

Someone else speculated that the relevant firmware is the AMD provided "AGESA blob." Whatever it's called you're relying on the board vendor diligently bundling the latest version in a timely manner and not dragging their feet when there are issues with newer versions. Also, power supply is a function of board design and I wouldn't be surprised to learn of feedback mechanisms that afforded the board designer some degree of control; given the cost of high performance capacitors this actually seems pretty likely. If so then merely updating the blob may not be enough ensure optimum results.

In any case I suspect the firmware that shipped on 7/7 is far from optimal given the pressure to deliver, so pursuing newer firmware will likely have significant ongoing pay offs.
For me the first video result was, what at first glance appeared to be a robot welding a barbecue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LblUWrJXfSA
Why would someone who is concerned about their watch history have watch history enabled at all?
Many thanks for that.
Sad that people downvote without bothering to reply. To me, it sounds like you either don't like your product team in general, or they ignore your ideas for reasons of territoriality, or you're doing a bad job expressing your concerns to them.

Frankly, I don't see why an engineer would know what the customer wants better than a product manager. I do see how an engineer would know the kind of corners they most want to cut, and of course how any human would want to present their self-interest as the group's interest, but I don't know anyone's specific circumstances.
What this really makes me believe even more is that medicine as an institution is completely bankrupt. There are for sure selfless doctors who sacrifice for their patients. And medical care is fantastic for acute injuries and conditions.

But the system as a whole is very ineffectual for chronic diseases, and I would argue, outright harmed the public with its dietary recommendations.
None of this has anything to do with population. It’s all about money and short term gain.

If you’ve ever been to UMass Amherst, it’s in in the middle of the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, a fertile and lovely area of the country.

There’s a series of strip malls there that were mostly farms not long ago. What is now a Home Depot was a hothouse that grew flowers all year long.

That land fell in value because the US government invested billions to turn California into a farmers market for the world. That land is an asphalt parking lot because tax policy makes it easy for big box stores to be built for little or no investment. For example, Dollar General stores get thrown up for about $300k and the company invests something like $30k, that’s it.

That’s why you can be in a place like Georgia or South Carolina in the harvest season and walk out the door with peaches from 3,000 miles away.
But there's no easy and obvious way to make a good cable connector that will make the mouse usable during charging. You could add a connector that works somewhat poorly, on the theory that those shortcomings don't matter since the mouse will only be plugged in occasionally and briefly. But if you do that then many users will in fact leave the mouse plugged in permanently, "just in case", effectively transforming it, in their experience, from a nice wireless mouse to a dodgy wired mouse. (It's much the same story if you add a connector which is mechanically robust and doesn't make the mouse feel horrible to use while in use, but makes it laborious to plug and unplug the cable.) Now you could argue that the decision to avoid that is patronising design, or manipulative design, or design that doesn't respect the user's authority. But it's not an obvious mistake, at least.
True, I haven't heard yet when it will be rescheduled. I heard the remaining launch windows in July are extremely small, so it may be some time before another attempt.
LOL - found this diamond in the rough. Not sure if creepy dude filming women or actually his job?
https://www.youtube.com/user/federicomarocchio/videos
Perhaps your parents valued and validated your siblings, and you felt they did not value and validate you?
Or historical specimens to mine for data about health, diseases, environmental toxins, etc.

"Let's examine specimen <123> from 2019 who lived in a low-C02 atmosphere and is a carrier for heart disease (viral based)"
Would be very curious to hear more specific examples of this one, haven't seen it firsthand.
> Pretty sure our minivan won't let us open the driver-side door if the gas door is open.

My dad's low tech solution was to yell at me to not open the door when he was pumping gas.
The problem is that a lot of people buy for the look, so the design sells. Apple made a significant effort to cast iPhone as a fashion accessory.

And once you bought it for a significant sum, the sunk cost will force you to learn and adapt, even through suffering, and look for justifications to comfort yourself and kill any doubts.

To quote from memory, "Steve Jobs cared greatly about the experience of the user from the moment of walking into an Apple store and all the way until the free return period ends".
Where we are with "out of process" ReSharper
I'm the author. You are right. I think the above are all "mainstream" enough for me.

At the least, I've installed and played with them all at one time.
Why do you say parenthetically pre .Net? I programmed ruggedized Windows Mobile devices around 2008 using both C++/MFC and .Net Compact Framework/Windows Forms and they were both just like programming on Windows.
also /r/deepintoyoutube.
And yet, in every 100 bullshit tech-bro commenters, there are 10 who are actually getting really interested in the subject and taking the time to check their old Bio notes, research opposing viewpoints, or maybe even bring something new to the table.

Hating is easy. All you have to do is point fingers at people and tell them they know nothing. 100% of the time you'll be right.
Unrelated to the story, but could my ISP possibly be blocking archive.is? Is this a known issue with that site?

None of the links ever work for me, but it seems that I can access it anywhere but my home network.
Sure, if you can invent a methane extraction process that needs no expensive equipment, has no maintenance, and is safe, then it would be "free".
Exactly!

This is the danger of the '10x programmer'. The person 'gets shit done' fast and furious, but at the expense of the wider system which happens to be the team around them.

To the outside (managers etc) they look like they're a 10x programmer, but in reality they leave a trail of destruction and a mess that others have to clean up after them.

I have no doubt that 10x programmers do exist, but I'm not sure I've worked directly with one yet.
Do you know of any patches that keep the NIC turned off until Linux is ready?
Really depends on what you're doing. If you have something like a simple Rails stack it's fairly trivial.

From experiences it's easy enough to abstract NoSQL (i.e. AWS DynamoDB and GCP Firestore) and Serverless functions (AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions), although you need to write abstractions for them in your code.

I have no experience with ML, but I'd imagine that's where it gets a lot harder to abstract these out.

Both Microsoft [1] and Google [2] provide tables with their equivalents to AWS services.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-prof...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/map-aws-google-cloud-plat...
Many forms of competition are unhealthy. (think marathons)

But they're a good way to figure out what is important, and what you can do. And you probably can take the lessons learned and apply them elsewhere (in more sane/moderate ways)
I have, and it works well for some people but not everyone. You also get a problem where these ports close after several hours, leaving the user confused to why things just stopped working.
Fully Convolutional Networks for Handwriting Recognition
I've sometimes wondered about the differences and similarities between playing music and playing a game. There probably is some reason why we use the same verb "play" for both activities.
Do You Need to Upgrade Your Garage?
Our garages perform many great solutions to meet the needs of the average family. https://www.qualityovhd.com/new-blog/do-you-need-to-upgrade-your-garage
If by “stole” you meant Jobs made a deal with Xerox Parc to let it buy shares during the IPO....

https://zurb.com/blog/steve-jobs-and-xerox-the-truth-about-i...