skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, its just another fast-food chicken sandwich, I guess. IMHO, the sandwiches from every other major chain, including McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King are pretty similar. Nothing differentiates the Chick-fil-A sandwich from the others, that would cause me to wait in the long, traffic-stopping lines that form at their restaurants at meal times. It really baffles me.
To put what OP wrote in tl;dr format: Get good, like REALLY good, at one specific thing. You don’t have to reach levels of a pro, but if I ask you “what are you good at” you wouldn’t even have to think before you told me.

This mastery will give you confidence.

Edit: it also helps to have a hobby. Pro tip: media consumption is not a hobby. It’s just passive entertainment.
Some of my favorite obscure books are

-What Not by Rose MACAULAY (all caps just because I pasted it). It's a dystopian future book written during WW1. I've read that it's a inspiration for clockwork orange, 1984, and brave new world but much less well known. To be honest I find that it's the most relatable of all those dystopian books.

-The Story of B By Daniel Quinn (also My Ishmael and Ishmael but less well known then those). They represent a fundamentally different way of viewing the world we inhabit.

-The Foxes Of Harrow By Frank Yerby (Idk how well known it is though). This one is like those classic English lit books but focused on an enterprising Irish charlatan who goes down to New Orleans to build a life in the years leading up to the civil war.
But you aren't objectively in better touch. You just think you are. This is literally why we have gauges and other instrumentation panels, so that you can see what is happening. Otherwise, you would stick to the very bare necessities that you have in most go-carts.

Which is not to say that stuff isn't fun. It is. A great feeling and when you are able to say something is off from just the feel, it feels good. Diagnosed some bad spark plugs this way. I just know I wasn't any closer to "feeling" the stresses on the rest of the machine. Especially when you consider the stresses hitting shocks and other parts.

Again, I liken this to my road bike. I love the experience. It is nice to recognize that one of my gears needs replacing because I can feel it off.

Nothing is lost here, for the folks that have internally geared bikes, though. Because I can still experience my derailer one. Which is the point. The experience is still there for those that want it. Just no longer on the same path as the rest of the folks.

Your computer analogy falls flat. You can't just blindly put together a computer any easier than you used to. Which is to say a standard computer has always been easy. But design one in constraints. Get an arduino and make a small rc car. Use a Raspberry Pi and add a camera. :) Plenty of challenges that you can have along the way. You could almost certainly relive some of the old challenges.
Personally, I find tea to be a much stronger diuretic. Even herbal tea (zero caffeine). Coffee used to cause diuretic symptoms, until I reached the point where I drank it every day. I drink tea most days now, but the diuretic effects never subsided.

/rant. Bodies are weird.
Looks like there's some overlap with nixOS, Guix and https://reproducible-builds.org/. I'm pretty glad that there's been a lot of work in this space, especially https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-b...
I originally just down voted this comment, but I feel it warrants a response rather than a down vote. I removed my down vote so here are my thoughts.

Big tech, Google and Facebook in particular don't have "weird process gaps". What they have is a willful ignorance of any and all customer service. They are the vanguard of a new economy devoid of any and all notion of customer service. That quaint notion is too expensive in today's economy. Today, "customer service" is provided via a one way email black hole.

The only way anyone gets customer service from any unicorn is either by shaming them in a vial social media post or leveraging an internal contact. There used to be a time where one could call and talk to an actual person who actually worked for the company and might, just might be in a position to help. Those days began to end with the shift to offshore call centers and now have completely vanished thanks to canned email responses. I NEVER in my wildest dreams would have though "I wish Google had an offshore call center to support me".

Years ago, while flying British Air from Nairobi to London I had my camera equipment and dress shoes stolen by ground crew. I called up BA and explained that I had watched a person on the tarmac open my bag as it was being loaded onto the plain. I don't even know if the ground crewman was a BA employee or an Airport employee, but the BA rep on the phone told me she was mortified at what had happened and the next day they couriered a check to me. No bickering, no stonewalling, no email voids, just pure customer service.

That one great experience was snatched from the jaws of disappointment by a timely customer service rep with the authority to help and has meant that I will fly BA whenever it is possible over all other airline options. Would they do the same today? I doubt it, but they did it once and I will always be a fan as a result.
Even if you're aware they're recording you, they're still recording you.
I believe what you're referring to are the required steps to create a public link to a developer story.

This isn't required in order to appear in search results by recruiters. As long as a user has their job search status set to either "Actively looking right now" or "Open, but not actively looking", they will be included in candidate search.

(source: I work for SO)
I think you would like The Story of B By Daniel Quinn and his other books. They are light and fun, that one especially. Additionally allthough maybe a little more involved Tom Robbins' books are in this vain as well.
People hating avocado toast eating wealthy millennials is a real thing.
Houston's sprawl drives up transportation costs
PhosphorJS
The idea is that it isn't limited to breadth first searches. It provides a way to write algorithms such that they are automatically differential in nature.
Why do you want ECC specifically? Isn't that an implementation detail?
> Achieving something like this with Proton is a tall order.

That's kinda obvious since Proton just uses wine under the hood. But everything else about what you're running will be native. With wxwidgets it will use true Windows widgets as reimplemented by wine.
Google Memo (2009)
Self-esteem can come from empowerment. Becoming good at something is empowering.

So instead of self-help books I would recommend books/videos on a hobby you want to become better at.
yeah, the fact that facebook locks the accounts of people who are currently incarcerated is the most interesting part of this post to me. why is that any of their business?
Can you elaborate? Detach to another thread maybe?
I recall that one of the demos included with some versions of Irix was a multiplayer fighter combat simulator, one of the first users of IP multicast :D
Why should we stop them? If you demanded to buy back those 100 copies and burn them, we wouldn't even consider enforcing that.
They get to decide what they display as results. What do you suggest they do instead? Display all of the internet and let the user filter things for themselves?
Perhaps you never lived in a poor southern town, I saw this happen. I supposed it's universal.
I used a product called Wean Caffeine to successfully avoid the headaches. It steps you down by 10mg every three days. For anyone wanting to quit, I highly recommend.

https://www.weancaffeine.com/
I hate to say it but the reason I’m in SF and not in Ohio is 100% due to the culture. There’s simply more stuff to do here, more creative people and I feel like I fit in better than Ohio (where I’m from).

I’ve had the opportunity to move back but I won’t, not for any amount of money or prospect of owning a big house or early retirement.
Thinkspot, MeWe, and Mastodon.
Facebook is just a dumpsterfire at this point,slow burning with occasional intense flares. Best to avoid it.
The frustrating thing is, if they had a support team, they'd be inundated with really simple questions. A few years ago an article discussing some new Facebook login feature became the top search result for "Facebook login". What happened next? Thousands of comments on that article in the lines of "I want to login to Facebook, why am I seeing this page instead, please give me back my Facebook!". Google started offering an open-to-the-public question and answers on search results, and some people think that's the place to book a restaurant table after googling said restaurant.

There's some article that said 90% of computer users are below proficient, they have their routines but get totally lost if something doesn't work...

OTOH, having no support isn't the answer either, especially if the issue is actually on their side, and the user is genuinely inconvenienced.
Or even more specifically: it’s a person who has an ulterior motive for being nice instead of being altruistic for its own sake.
Just 3 years ago BA went above and beyond for me when I left a wallet on a plane, but didn't find out until I was in a different terminal (45 minutes later), and couldn't go back due to security/visa checkpoints. BA sent runners to the plane in the other terminal and they physically carried my wallet with all cards/cash in it to me.

I've heard a lot of well-deserved criticism of BA as well, but it does seem like many of their staff are still willing to go above and beyond.
Bit of a tangent, but do the blue LEDs that hand driers often have now do anything? Or is it just marketing buzz?
Introducing NodeTube, an open-source YouTube alternative powered by NodeJS
> IPFS doesn't encrypt the content, or the connectivity, or hide the hosts. Solutions exist around that, but they're niche, and honestly I question the motives besides just ideology.

Hiding connectivity metadata and host identity are essential to protect users from adversaries.
I didn't realize Facebook had this policy and I'm curious if other services do.

I would have assumed that an incarcerated person could give their credentials to a trusted person outside to manage their account for them and relay information.
I'm wondering if IPFS might be better thought of as a common data-publishing protocol that might be used to push content to any number of CDN's?

So, you could publish content to IPFS and tell your favorite CDN to pick it up, and you pay them to keep it active. But IPFS isn't limited to one CDN, so you could always pick another one. And your users could also go through a different CDN. Or some people who really want to could run their own CDN and pin whatever they want to host.
The draw is that it's the only fast food place besides popeyes that can make a decent spicy chicken sandwich for only $4.

The wendy's spicy sandwich costs more while being cafeteria food tier and is barely seasoned. BK and mcdonald's offerings aren't much better. Not sure who else is even in this spicy chicken game, but it is a massive game to get into. There is a reason why popeyes still can't keep their sandwiches from selling out instantly, and howling ray's has an hour wait on a good day. Good spicy chicken sells itself.
Godel's Lost Letter suggests that these are not finite machines
Some estimates here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot -- the most recent listed study (2017) estimates a half life of ~2 years for an average link on Yahoo.
Or perhaps better would be random seeding of additional content you didn’t view.
Does it matter the country? Do you lose fb access if you get locked up abroad? Or is just US?
Coffee (and tea) have some antimicrobial action. They made it safer to drink the water, and did not have the disadvantages of the other alternative, alcoholic drinks.
LOL. Yeah, knock out the camera and win the Cy Young award.
I've gone through their website and I think I have a reasonable grasp of the difference. Unlike NixOS and Guix which enforce a store, all builds are performed in a container[0] and produce a self contained executable[1].

I speculate that the container approach will make porting slightly easier as dependancies can be placed where they are expected, thus no patches are required for project build systems. On the other hand producing a self contained executable seems more difficult, and I wonder if they'll go with an AppImage like approach to minimise patches required.

Overall the vision has overlap but the end result is very different from that of NixOS and Guix.

[0]:

> Typically, we use an executor which uses “linux containers”. However, for the most part, we try to consider that an implementation detail. Executors might also be simple chroots; or virtual machines; or other interesting kinds of sandboxing. Nor are executors strictly limited to the Linux operating system; it's simply the most common place to work.
https://repeatr.io/design/executors/

[1]:

> Radix “Packages” are similar to packages from other linux distributions… however, we're aiming to do something not like linux distributions: our vision for Radix Packages is that they go anywhere, with or without the rest of a distro associated with them.
https://repeatr.io/welcome/what-is-radix/
This reminds me of something my dad taught me long ago:

"Be careful what you measure"
They do it all the time.
The really awesome thing about gateways over central hosts is if one goes offline you can still easily access & verify the content from one of the many other gateways (https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/). =]
We're looking at two very different sides of the coin and likely working in different environments.

Thoughtfully delegating project leadership helps engineers grow their leadership skills. They learn how to make things happen and it sets them on the path of driving impact, even without authority.

It also helps the engineering manager - myself! - with potential succession planning. In fast-growth tech companies, it's not uncommon for third-half the engineering managers to be promoted from within.

I'm at four engineers who transitioned into engineering management in the company, as a lateral move, after gaining much-needed lead experience with projects like these. I'm also certain that these skills will help some of the other engineers take on lead roles in the current, or future companies.

>The cycle ends with the engineer exiting

Odd enough, all engineers who I've supported on taking lead roles in 3.5 years (about 20 of them) are all still with the company, and have moved upwards in responsibility/scope/level/pay in no small part thanks to hands-on leadership they keep demonstrating.

>the manager will link to a litany of excuses, they'll offer vague assurances, they'll encourage the engineer to exercise more leadership!

In practice - as well as in the guidance document[1], I specifically ask engineers to delegate upwards to their manager when they see a need: "Delegate where it makes sense. You can both delegate upwards (e.g. to your manager or PM) as well as to team members.". I often step in to help with things that are outside the scope of an engineer or where they struggle. Why on earth would I not help the project succeed?

All in all, it feels like you've not had good experience with managers or leading projects.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kngKHUCS0DHNvZAO8PfkcsTD...
> puts a high cost on making constructive recommendations.

A "constructive recommendation" is fine, so long as the reviewer still clicks
"Accept" on the PR instead of "Requests changes." Otherwise, reviewer must
make the change himself. It's called "work" for a reason.

> Requiring others to fix bad code... removes an incentive write good code.

I don't think you understand programmers then. It's an exacting profession --
it's against our nature to embarrass ourselves like that.
What's your experience with the third party clients that you've been linked? It may be worth submitting another bug report if they don't have these issues.
Sounds interesting. I’m sure the book covers this, but isn’t this how you wind up with perverse incentives? Once managers figure out that you’re measuring X as a proxy for Y “thing we actually care about” they’re going to start optimizing for X, with potentially unpleasant results.
> a Github/bugtracker issue, which was nowhere in the search results, were the exact error message appears verbatim.

Did you put the error message in quotes? I've never had this problem.
I was locked out of my FB account for no reason a couple months back. The option I had was to send myself a text message but after a dozen tries over a couple weeks and never receiving the message I gave up for awhile. I didn't want to upload my ID to some unknown person. 3 weeks later I tried again and this time I got the SMS message and was able to get back in. I took a back up of my account as well just in case.
They all censor the results. Fuckers.
Short Term Rental (2018)
Maybe they don't want to have, e.g. convicted rapists going on the books as 'liking' ads for paying customers
I created this template using steve blank's book

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f8pRkNiRiG7FWYJRaylVSyoRfAX...
Agreed - having a lot of gateways helps (https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/), but eventually integration directly with browsers is the upgrade path: https://blog.ipfs.io/2019-10-08-ipfs-browsers-update/
If those gaps are that rare, then how hard could it be to employ a few human beings who are empowered to help the vanishingly-few users who fall through the cracks?

Either the gaps are not that rare, or FB doesn't give a shit. There are no other options.
OllyDbg is technically dead but it still works as well as ever (for 32-bit software). I still break it out sometimes. I find it much smoother to use than x64dbg (maybe just due to using it more, but I do think OllyDbg nailed the debugger experience really well).
Only if you arent adapted to it and you are given lots.

https://fellrnr.com/wiki/Caffeine
I think you misunderstood, I was not arguing against WEBPKI, I was advocating for a better ideal solution that does not exist. WEBPKI solves real problems well. I don't care for DANE either.

To address your concern, clients will have TLD certs in their trust store. TLDs issue intermediate CA certs to registrars. When you get a domain, they issue a cert (not x509 neccesarily) that allows you to issue certificates like an intermediate but restricted to that domain and its subdomains. So news.america and news. Under ycombinator.com will have separate certs,signed by the owner of ycombiator.com which on turn has to have their CA cert signed by a registrar.

This actually can improve security, because you can isolate your intermediate signig key from the rest of your services, and possibly have a dynamic process of issuing extremely short lived certs by your CA box to all of your services. Code signing certs,s/mime,client certs, eap-tls,etc... Can all be more easy to use. For example, if I could use eap-tls to connect to wifi at an airport or starbucks using a cert I issued myself under my domain (or under my work/school domain). Things that have been notoriously hard to adopt like TLS client certs could easier to use because anyone can have a client cert issued to them by any domain owner (likely the domain of their email provider for most) because any site can verify their client cert using this system and anyone with a domain can issue certs. This is the natural and most sensible way.

As for trust, you already trust them with the power to transfer your domain. If someone compromises your registrar account, what stops them from taking over the domain,pointing it at their own servers and getting a new cert from ISRG? Imagine getting a government ID and to verify it's legitimacy,people have to contact 3rd party companies instead of the government, that makes no sense. Things are the way they are because public key crypto was not used widely when DNS and the internet became a thing.
Lol, most of refactoring is bad code or not future-proof code.

Dynamic typing won't help with that.
Opensource is not about having a source code but having a license to use it. You can easily get in trouble with them if you'll distribute your non-trival modifications otherwise.
Why the assumption of left or right, when at least in the US most people identify as independents?

And to be even more fair, you aren’t talking about “people” here but the OP who can clearly state their own personal preferences, without the need for you to construct a theory of hidden bias.
Mixcraft+8+Registration+Code+++Serial+Keys+Full+2019-+ProductkeyFree
This is one of those times when, while trying to be funny, using the wrong one of "affect" vs "effect" really puts a ding in the credibility of the author.
Rewriting history with deepfake moon landing could help spot misinformation
Where did you learn how it worked? Was it just through his other blog posts?
Lila delves further in the Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality (MOQ) which is quite fascinating. His dialogues on static vs dynamic quality coloured my view of the world for years.
Personally I don’t think it has to be professional, but it should probably be a skill of substance (e.g. not mastery of video gaming). Fitness, a martial art, carpentry, a musical instrument, or a trade (plumbing, etc) all come to mind. And specifically, master of just 1 element of one of those, at a time.
Toward Copyleft Equality for All
I too think its the most interesting.

But of course its their business to know who usess their service and choose whom to allow to use it.

Facebook use is not a right!
At the other end of the spectrum there is Harper Lee, who wrote one and a half novels but received widespread acclaim for it.
“Jim Power: The Lost Dimension” and the Pulfrich Effect
Wow I had this exact idea for a product a few months ago. I’m glad someone is already doing it.
How is this better than PeerTube?
Name a fast food chain besides popeyes that can pull off a better spicy chicken sandwich. Even chick fil a's isn't heavenly (my preference is for a thai take on the sandwich from a local place albeit 3x the cost), but it is head and shoulders above any other chain in that market.

There is also something powerful about the spicy chicken sandwich in particular. Every brewpub offers some nashville styled whatever cut of chicken these days. Popeyes is still selling out their sandwiches a half year after release. Howling rays is still getting people to wait for over an hour for a chicken sandwich, and crashed the postmates website when trialed delivery for one day a few months ago.
The fact the content is copyright makes it no less amazing to witness (at least for me and many friends). It has been a source of inspiration in a time of predominantly divisive news.

The quality of the coverage has set a new bar for space companies / agencies. That alone is amazing because we all get to benefit.
That quadrillion results bit is like a relic from a bygone era, when people actually cared.

I have not hit captchas very often. Even IP bans only last hours. It is annoying, but low risk. I do searching from shell prompt, never browser.

What always amazed me about Google is that they are not willing to let users to skip pages 1-11 and immediately jump to, say, page 12.

Sometimes queries are non-commercial and there are no ads. Still, jumping straight to page 12 can trigger a captcha.

I wrote a script that reverses or randomises the order of Google results, as an experiment.
I totally agree, but want to emphasize one thing.

Let's say that stuff was encrypted during transmission, and also when stored by peers. But peers could see each other's true IPs. That would basically give you a modern version of Freenet. And just like with Freenet, users could be arrested, and prosecuted based on hand waving. When you get down to it at trial, "plausible deniability" depends on having a suitable expert witness, and convincing a jury that the prosecution's expert witness is full of it.

So anyway, none of that helps unless true IPs of peers are hidden.