skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a funny turn of events, I have put some of the same ideas into creating the project[1] I'm working on now, which wants to be a spiritual successor for (old)reddit but based on ActivityPub federation.

[1] https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go#littrme
> That is their mode of operation - they increase mental focus.

That's a misunderstanding of how ADHD works for most people. Most people with ADHD do not experience a deficiency with focus, but an inability to selectively focus on something. What someone with ADHD needs to do, they might not be able to focus on, and yet they may be able to hyperfocus on a task that they enjoy. Thus it can be seen that they do not lack the ability to focus, but merely the ability to control how they focus on something, and how intensely they focus on something. ADHD medication is focused on not improving focus, but improving their ability to control that focus.

The brain for people with ADHD is very different, and people with ADHD generally do not find that stimulants act in the way that they do for people without ADHD.

https://www.additudemag.com/understanding-adhd-hyperfocus/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-distracted-coupl...

https://www.mattressreviews.com/adhd-and-sleep/

https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/571987
What? Surely go fund me style cash raises should go mostly towards the product and maybe a bit to salary
Truly a tone deaf reply. I understood the point they were making.
> One-off pallets of cash stories aside, most of these "re-building programs" are contracts that go out to US corporations (e.g., Bechtel, Halliburton, etc.) -- and are essentially corporate giveaways or corporate welfare.

Not just McLean. Google "wealthiest counties in the US". It's no surprise they're in VA and MD, all suburbs of Washington DC.
In these types of discussions I think "good for the economy" is a weasel phrase -- what's good for the economy is not necessarily good for the worker. This should be obvious: child labor was great for the economy for the reasons you mentioned. Similarly, we've seen massive economic growth since the 50s but at the same time a single-earner, blue collar family can't afford to buy a house and raise three kids.

It's very clear that an increase in labor supply puts downward pressure on wages and there's plenty of evidence that the economy is not growing fast enough to offset that pressure.
Please don't cross into regional slurs. "This place shouldn't exist" is a step into that, and we need users not to go there here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Counter-point: my anecdotal observations suggest that folks are so intent on competing for housing that in the decades since dual incomes became commonplace the main effect has been to simply dramatically inflate the price of housing. In other words, the extra money may not be making it into the general economy much and it may instead just be supporting higher home prices.

Of course, home prices are not completely isolated from the rest of the US economy, but I think that's a far cry from the idea that each household just now has twice as much money to spend on goods, entertainment, food, etc.
in addition to how difficult costing cloud services is, what if you get it perfect but underestimate the success of your product?

great, "it would have been good except we were too popular" do you then cut off your popular product while it's gaining traction, and thus almost guarantee you kill it in its infancy?
I don’t think that it’s that people don’t value those things but that people are unable to have the luxury to act on that belief. I’m also not convinced that the choice was made by the broad base of society.
Yeah, I've been looking into wasm and am finding similar issues (not with Rust specifically). Languages designed for desktop/server usages are not a great fit in small places (embedded and the web).

With Go there's TinyGo which solves this problem (note, I haven't used it so can't speak to how well). I wonder if something similar for Rust is possible, a compiler targeting embedded systems?
I'm probably way incorrect. But the article kept talking about repos and the repo rate without telling the reader what it actually means. I just went with whatever was the highest indexed in my search. I don't work in finance beyond layman so my understanding of finance domain specific lingo is very limited.
I think you’re being overly picky and cherry-picking your argument here. I don’t know anyone who thinks that child rearing is not hard work, and all agree that it is valuable.

But in the context of this discussion, “productivity” is an economic term for the production of goods or services, and the generation of income for the workers. Child rearing does neither of those things directly, so as an economic activity, it doesn’t register and thus those parents are not part of the workforce. Again, that does not mean it is not a valuable thing to do for both the child and society, but it also does not directly add to GDP, generate income taxes, etc.
I think the idea is that if you don't want to carry heavy weights as your day job, you get a college degree. If you don't mind, it's easy enough to find work doing that without getting a degree.
"On a recent morning, Pioneer workers inspected parts that the automated equipment had made on their own overnight."

That's why.
> take courses at community colleges

I did that - in fact, I accumulated enough credits to complete a 2-year degree before I was old enough to have finished high school. On the whole, I don’t think it was a good thing and I wouldn’t recommend it. My GPA wasn’t exactly stellar (calculus really hurt my average), so I couldn’t use that credit to transfer to a great school. When you graduate, nobody cares how old you were when you took the classes (it wouldn’t even occur to them to ask): what matters is where you went to school and what your GPA was.
Still, it creates all kinds of problems for code generation (templates) and code by convention (as with generic).

I have not seen a case of it creating problems where there weren't already plenty of other problems with the code and metaprograming had to be abandoned anyway. But it does create problems.
Yep, once you get East of the Rockies there's really not much to see or do until you get to like...Minnesota.

It doesn't surprise me to learn that Montana has the highest suicide rate in the country.
How much do you pay for an ice cream with gold?
> It makes perfect economic sense: it's a simple supply and demand curve. Increasing the number of workers decreases their value.

That assumes that the number of available jobs is perfectly-sized and fixed, and that there's no other work that could be done (or no under-employed, existing work that could be done better) if we had more workers. That would seem not to be true.
How do you arrive at those numbers? If clothes cost 10x what they do today but fabric costs didn't change, I'd most certainly be sewing nearly all my own clothes. Give that I'm a software engineer in the bay area, this strongly suggests to me that 10x is too high.
It's about 60 miles east of the last tiny town discussed on HN [0]. Ingomar isn't _really_ much of a town, but it is a cultural waypoint. It's surrounded by historic farming/ranching communities and is within 50-60 miles of several more populous small towns. Driving 50-60 miles is a trivial venture in MT. When I was a kid growing up nearby, there were rodeos in Ingomar nearly every weekend during the summer. They pulled in a decent number of visitors (probably 100-200 or so), and the Jersey Lilly was, naturally, the busiest place in town. I believe they are still putting on the rodeos. It's not a huge amount of business, but probably enough to support a $200k price tag if you're looking for an unusual hobby/lifestyle in an area with a lot of western history.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21569610
This. I think acting like an adult is construed by other children as a lack of social skills, when it is actually great preparation for the 80-90% of their lives when they won't be children anymore. As adults, we remember all the "weird" homeschooled kids we knew as kids. But look around your office and see if you can identify someone as homeschooled (as opposed to any other, regular old kind of weird).

We're in the very early stages of homeschooling our kids and all we've noticed is that kids on the playground who go to school are surprisingly mean (obviously not most of them, but on average). Thanks to the internet, our kids aren't missing out on pop culture, but they're also not taking their social cues from the coolest 7 year old. Seems like a win-win.
Did not know about the kwarg only function. Neat. Although I wonder what it means for readability esp if the idiom is not well known.

A general observation is that the itertools module is full interesting nuggets. I am always finding something new.
Workers need a broad labor movement to stand up to this nonsense.
real meditation is enjoying being squeezed ;)
By french laws, “carrying heavy weight” («port de charges lourdes») means “up to 55kg” (for male workers). Doing so on a regular basis is way above “physical fitness” and constitute a serious health hazard in the long run.
What people mean by value here is murky. Some people are talking about intrinsic value in terms of education. Others, about market value, or overall value. If companies required four years of watching paint dry, would you call that experience valuable? It depends on how we're defining value.

Different definitions may be appropriate in different cases. Deciding whether to go is one case (extremely valuable, depending on discipline). Evaluating how useful it is for education is another (in my opinion, it's a pretty terrible value).
College is fundamentally a positional good, it lets you skip to the head of the line for a lot of jobs. Not everyone can be at the front of the line. So while it's still good advice to go to school, it's the height of insanity to try to elevate large segments of society via subsidized college education.
Infantry officer is a fairly specific and niche roll. Let's be real about it, too - the main function of the degree on an officer's wall is to differentiate them from the hoi polloi, the common soldier.
Mobile devices are locked-down way too hard. From the hardware, to the OS, to the SDK, to the walled-garden store. There's just no room for innvoation, and where there is, there's no way to count on what little bit the manufacturer has provide will even exist next month. And keeping "old" devices around to contiue doing work the way you wanted is near impossible.
what do you mean by too far to the left? how is america going to the left? america is "the" right wing goverment.. there is a whole healthcare debate going on?
It's funny you mention that since, although go is getting respectable use, I haven't seen that many shops in go. But I'm a Java guy and every other company is a Java shop in the bay at least. That's what I called ubiquitous.

What language would you want to work in?
Even if it were free, the idea that it would take someone with an existing career four years as a full-time student to pursue a different career is too much.

We need to start questioning bad assumptions about education. Shuffling money around isn't going to do it.
The Future of the Web Is Here Already, and It's Called PWA
College isn't two years (some vocational courses are two years, that isn't college though). Not all MSc are 1 year. And you will still need 4/5 years for a PHd if you do a MSc (in almost no cases is one year of a MSc a substitute for one year of a PHd).

Also, England's university system (three years, not two) is notorious for turning out unrounded graduates who are unable to think for themselves and know little outside of their subject area. The reason for a four-year degree is that you spend two years doing courses from other areas (inc. your own) and actually develop all the soft skills that are usually of vital importance in the work place. In particular, the ability to turn your hand to something new and manage is going to be very important going forwards.

College is about precisely the opposite of learning as fast as you can. That isn't knowledge that is useful in the real world. You need experience, and understanding.
If only Alfa Romeo did the same...
> I think that should not be a universal rule. You can leverage open-source solutions to cheat more than one of those sides

Dependency management, or the lack of, is one of those "be careful what you wish for" type scenarios. At my current team we perform a lot of manual copy/pasting of directories they many contain hundreds of not managed dependencies. I really think it would be substantially faster to burn it all down and do it right with few, or no, dependencies and an emphasis on automation at every level. That perceived speed increase takes into account the costs and lost time for reinventing many wheels.
Yes, there are a lot of us out there who use Signal and have this single missing feature as our largest pain point. My previous phone (iOS) would have been donated or sold to someone who could make better use of it, had I been able to actually get years and years of Signal conversations (with media) and memories out of it. But I can't (without prohibitive amounts of manual work), so it lies unused in a drawer waiting for the day I might.

The Signal devs don't discuss their roadmap, as is their prerogative. The result is of course that no one knows if such features are even planned, let alone worked on. Half a decade (?) of sad and frustrated forum posts and GitHub issues attest to that. I scan through them from time to time to see if there's any word.

But! There was actually a tweet from Moxie just a few weeks ago in a thread started by Matthew Green, I think, hinting that they might be working on it. It did make me a little happier. But yes, five years is a long time to wait for this feature, and we don't know for sure if or when it's coming. Me, amidst all the frustration I am very happy for the software they are giving me almost for free (I've donated a little bit).

By the way, Josh, props to you for your patience and professionalism in the debian-devel thread about librsvg the other day.
The granularity of staging and unstaging code, combined with the ease of doing things within the text editor that you're already using anyway are really great. I held off using Magit because I thought learning Emacs would be enough by itself, but Magit is intuitive and easy and I really love it. Made my git usage much more efficient within days of starting to use it.
The metrics that should be in your pitch deck
As a reminder, high education in Europe is basically free (well, as compared to the US, I've met a few low-middle class people whose parents refused to help them pay the remaining costs involved).
I was thinking about this, too. In areas where housing supply is constrained, the increasing prevalence of dual incomes means people can bid higher, more competitive offers on housing. And of course they do, because why wouldn't they?

I would even expect this to be true, though on a smaller scale, in areas where housing supply isn't constrained, since, in general, each individual house is unique to some extent; two dual-income families fighting over the same house will have more resources to throw at their bids.
Health, in my opinion, should not be a criterion for employment. As in completely illegal, not just discouraged.
No, at least not universally. My cousins growing up were all homeschooled, and all creepy to be around. One basically never grew up despite pushing 30, another went off to college and OD'd the first week. The other two are nice people who still live at home but feel a little 'babified' to be around. Fast forward to today, just moved in next to a home-schooled family. Parents are really nice people, but their kids remind me exactly of the eldest cousin...something just 'off' when you interact with them. I hope for their own sake they grow out of it.
Obviously nobody would advocate for them. But for a new Pandas programmer, loops are incredibly obvious, familiar, and do work. So, tons of people use them.
This comment reads like one from sometimes who stopped at the first sentence when it became clear I don't fawn over Neuromsncer because I _literally_ said I read it years later.

I also makes the point that it may well have been groundbreaking butt groundbreaking doesn't necessarily mean good fiction.

Interestingly Goodreads had it are 3.9/5 and a quick scan of the 5 star reviews all seem to mention how groundbreaking it was.

I can give credit for that but if you take that offer of the picture you're left with a completely forgettable work of fiction.

As for those who say how her predicted the future... Did he? Did he really? We don't live in a dystopia, VR is a gimmick, corporations haven't replaced governments and enhanced humans are still a fantasy.

As for the cell phone as a portable computer, the Pl prediction for that goes back to at least 1974 with The Mote in God's Eye.

This thread has done nothing but affirm my view that many people get completely enraptured with and are unable to separate themselves from nostalgia.
And yet, funnily enough, your phone needs a more thorough understanding of gravity than you do. The GPS system must correct for relativistic effects that cause the atomic clocks to shift relative to ground.
Unpopular opinion - but I think farming out the majority of the raising of children to daycares is a bad idea in the long term. Obviously some times you don't have a choice, but I think stay-at-home moms (or dads) are extremely valuable for the development of the child and potentially worth more than any monetary gains to be had from dual-income.

Yeah, you might not be able to afford a nice house or car as quickly, but you get absolute control over how much love, attention, and correction your developing kids receive.
Not really.

It seems the problem for the author is that either they get string based output with a big printf, or no printf at all, and replacing printf is hard. In c replacing printf with a tiny limited implementation is easy and common.
WireGuard can do always-on on Android.
I have a small sample size, but the two homeschool kids I met were brought up in a secular house by a Ivy League lawyer (at a nonprofit for farm workers) and a stay-at-home mom/homeschool teacher (which is two jobs). Although, the teenage girl did runway and elope with a 30-year-old for a while.

Maybe raising kids in the city makes them more streetwise, informed and cautious by sheer number of social experiences in the real world, and rural maybe more Turnip Truck? Like socialized and unsocialized pets? So goes the stereotype. Dunno.
I believe this has been in intellij for a while as well: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/02/intellij-idea-2018-1...
> I am wondering if female metabolism is fundamentally different. My wife tried the same diet and it just hasn’t worked for her. She gets too hangry whereas I find myself in a flow-state by mid morning.

Maybe she should try eating breakfast but skipping dinner. Different people have different metabolic "styles."

I have a hard time skipping breakfast and it doesn't seem to affect my weight very much, but when I consistently skip dinner (which is socially hard to do in my situation) I do lose weight - rapidly.

It's like, I feel terrible on keto, but my wife swears by it. Everyone is different.
> when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day

As I understand it, a switch will solve a shortage of ethernet ports, but will make the cable problem worse by requiring one extra cable. What's the purpose of the switch here?
Not in Eastern Montana, I don't think. It's a pretty depressing place to live. All the mountains and beautiful wilderness that come to mind when you think of Montana are about 300 miles west. All that's really out in the east is flat grassland, meth, and Indian reservations.

The state has the highest suicide rate in the nation.
This is exactly the case. You should spend as little on Facebook and Google Ads as possible. And spend the money on anything else.
If done the right way I think home schooling is the way to go. I would occasionally run into home schooled people when I was in the Marine Corps. They were often times a little awkward but I think that that comes mostly from their lack of recognizing authority figures.

Recognizing authorities and hierarchies are what most people mean when they talk about socializing I think.
Yeah... Ruby is in the wrong there. Not even js does that

Insisting if takes a bool like java does is perfectly acceptable. But just taking a 0 value and making it "true" makes sense only in Bash?
Working on it! I've just renewed the certificate and my hosting company seem to have screwed up :(
The tricky task of tallying carbon
I"m sure this was created for personal interest / development reasons but I thought I should mention that Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) will do all of this out of the box.
> Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego—accounted for more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth during the years 2005 to 2017

Why 2005 and why'd it drop off post-2017?

Also surprised DC and NYC aren't on the list. Lots of new companies and growth in those areas, but I guess they may not qualify as "innovation-sector growth".
Isn’t that market forces valuing a mother (or one parent, regardless of gender) at home raising their kid(s) more valuable than at the job they’d be giving up? I'm not sure I see a problem with the economy tilting towards parents being parents versus outsourcing their childcare (within reason, when one parent can comfortably support their family).
Adding these commands to a separate script seems like an unnecessary level of abstraction.

Concatenating the commands with &&, adding "--no-install-recommends", and adding " && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*" to the Dockerfile seems much more straightforward and maintainable.
How to Build a Bank in a Day
Wouldn't CNC machining be also an option in a community high school?
It all depends on your point of view. I have a nephew who lives outside of Roy, population 108. He grew up in central South Dakota but moved to Montana because South Dakota was getting way too crowded.
Also, AD is probably one of microsoft's best products.

It's actually rather stable, and can integrate with nearly everything.
I don't understand how companies like this think they are going to make money? Electric scooters are a solved problem. When there are too many companies in the same market it becomes a game of who has the biggest bank account to spend on marketing. Clearly they didn't, and they lost the game.
> There are some great pieces of tech that really push the boundaries forward in areas of scheduling and garbage collection.

There have been very low latency garbage collectors way before golang, see offerings by Azul for instance.
Thanks. How do you like GraphQL?
shorter total cable length and a less cluttered environment?
Unfortunately your example doesn't illustrate the point very well:

if (grass_is_green) { ... }

vs

if (grass_is_green != 0) { ... }

or

if (grass_is_green == 1) { ... }

The one with the implit comparison to zero is more readable
With Apple devices, at least, the location of said devices is never reported to anyone other than the device owner. Apple uses anonymous Mac addresses that are mapped on device to do their triangulation and they don't identify to other devices. Even if another devices were keeping a list of every device that attempted to connect to it, it would never get the same value twice nor would it get an accurate address so it would be functionally useless to anyone trying to collect it using that info.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/women-really-do-pref...