skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monocultures never improve anything.
I don't. I do "good" things because that's the way I was raised. I actually dislike getting thanked or anything that draws attention to the "good" thing I did because it seems so needless.

Occasionally I'll feel a twinge of guilt if I could've helped out and didn't but usually I do it out of habit.
One of the best GDQ runs I've ever seen was one of the FFVII speed runs. This is a game that normally takes like 50 hours to complete start to finish. The RNG of the game is able to be manipulated by keeping the number of steps taken by the player absolutely perfect. This is a "speed run" that they play without any kind of tools or cheats for hours and the entire time they're keeping the exact number of steps taken through different levels on perfect track to be able to beat the game without spending dozens of hours training their characters.
My phone slipped out of my pocket on the subway on my last night in Tokyo. Realized 20 minutes later, talked to some employees and described what kind of phone it was (a cheap Samsung, really not a big deal), gone as can be. Flew back home to Miami.

Received my phone back in the mail a month later. A friend of mine there kept checking with the employees and it eventually showed up in lost and found. Refused to allow me to pay for the international shipping.
If you're interested in exactly what data is collected and what it is used for, this whitepaper is fairly exhaustive: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit...
What do you mean when you say eastern european countries "do well" (supposedly compared to China)?

Some (like the Baltics) are doing great, but I don't think I'd rather live in Moldova, the Ukraine or Albania rather than China.
Try the new Windows Terminal. Typing
in the UI feels pretty responsive. The UI is minimal; tabs, menu and the rest is the terminal screen. Configuration can be done using a JSON based config file. You can set it up to use Powerscript, bash, etc. It doesn't do the Quake style drop yet but we can always hope for more since it's still in pre-release. :)

It can be installed through the Microsoft Store.
Ask HN: Love fixing bugs but don't enjoy coding anymore. Burnout?
So I've been a software engineer for around 20 years now, doing mostly backend (from C++ and Go to PHP; and DevOps stuff like networking or k8s). I had offers of transitioning to mgmt but tried it once and I believe I was a mediocre manager at most. I'm an introvert and like a doing technical things rather than having management meetings or 1:1s.

Anyway, I remember back in the days I could easily spend months working on a the same project 8 hours a day with the feeling of excitement. Nowadays if the ticket does not look exceptionally difficult (in a sense - you have to spend waaaaay more time thinking than coding), it can take me hours before I can even force myself to take it and start coding - and I honestly hope something breaks in a meantime so I can work on an outage instead. My productivity is still above average so nobody notices, but I struggle a lot. On the other hand whenever there is a nasty bug nobody wants to touch, I take it on the spot and feel a lot of joy tracking it down 3 days in a row, going through logs, metrics and several apps I'm not even that familiar with. And I'm really good at it.

It makes me wonder - did anyone feel the same? Is there a niche/role where you can mostly take care of bug fixing/diagnosis? I would like to believe so, on the other hand it's harder to fix bugs in a piece of software you do not work with on daily basis. Or maybe this whole thing is a clear sign of burnout and I will get bored with bugfixing in a few months/year as well so I should still think about transitioning to a non-engineering role before it gets worse?
I've heard the 2025 date before, but I think that is only based on a "time since release" metric.

For IE versions the support windows have always been "X years since release (or perhaps X years since the next version), or until all Windows variant released with it are EOL". If Win10 is indeed evergreen, then that second part will never expire. Perhaps they'll count the biannual Windows feature updates instead of Win10 as a whole, and so count it from when they stop releasing install media with IE11 on them, but as that hasn't happened yet, we'll still be some years away for IE11 stopping. Even then '11 will still be around in some environments for a while after EOL.

We only recently got rid of IE8 support for some of our clients as they stopped using it. That was mainly because of the then upcoming EOL of IE8 in sync with the EOL of Win7/Win2008 (the last versions released with IE8). I hear some are not so lucky... I expect IE11 to be a problem (though an increasingly small one, thankfully) for some time to come.

In any case, can you link (or screenshot if it doesn't cooperate with deep linking) to an official page listing 2025? I'm not seeing that.
I think 50 percent attacks apply to any supposedly decentralized service don't they?
I’m unsure if how many layers deep alone is a good indicator of if it’s an immoral maze.

I once worked with a company that had 50 employees and the hierarchy was five people deep. I once worked in a company with 10,000 employees and the hierarchy was six deep.

The larger company with one more layer was much better.
So if you are talking about games I assume you are talking about something like the Steam store? When I look at their top selling list, there are lots of pretty deep games listed.
They are working on it.
Wonder why...

Microsoft: developers, developers, developers, developers!

Google: advertisers, advertisers, advertisers, advertisers!
> like pre-engage the next gear so the switch is faster -- I have no idea how that works

I think you're referring to dual-clutch transmissions: odd gears on one clutch, even gears on the other. So the transmission can switch from eg. gear 2 to 4 with the even-numbered clutch disengaged while transferring power through the odd-numbered clutch in gear 3. When it's time to move up to gear 4, one clutch is disengaged as the other is engaged, instead of having to leave a single clutch disengaged while the gear change happens.
My wife just graduated medical school and started residency.

The burn-out affected both of us and we're just starting to get over it.

* Med school is a freaking grind. She was either at class, at rotations, or studying. Pretty much 80+ hours/week for 4 years.

* We had to move a lot, which has limited my social life. Ended up spending a lot of time just "working" while she'd study in the evenings.

* Major life impacting tests nearly every year. Low scores or failures on a single exam can kill any career aspirations.

* Insane debt load. We're looking at total payback costs around $310k. That was with no undergrad debt and my job paying for all living expenses. If you don't become an attending, you're fucked financially.

* Not enough residency spots for the number of medical schools. Less than 80% of candidates matched into a residency spot. Follow on matching is very low.

* That's right, pretty much 1 in 5 doctors will not go on to practice medicine because they cannot get a residency position.

* Residency salaries are complete shit. It's not unheard of for residents to have to take out loans to payback loans during residency.

* Resident have absolutely no leverage. They are literally slaves to the program they're "matched" to. Program director changes, hospital gets bought out, peers are insufferable - sucks to be you, you're stuck until you graduate.

* Financially being a doctor doesn't make any sense. Everyone looks at doctor's salaries, but completely forgets about the 8 to 10 years doctors (a) make nothing (b) pay for education (c) make pennies. Even with the "doctor salaries", it will take my wife well into our 50's to be financially ahead had simply pursued a career in her STEM field. There's a lot of life that can be live in 30 years that a "big house and a fancy car" doesn't make up for.

* Mid-levels and lesser credentialed, like PA's and NP's, providers are being allowed to take on more and more responsibility. For medicine overall, I think this is the right direction. I believe technology means mid-levels can function at a much higher level than in the past. For physicians, it sucks because it's killing any financial incentives.

I could rant for hours about all of the bullshit my wife went through (and, lesser myself).
If you're thinking of becoming a doctor, do yourself a favor and do something else.

If you really want to work in medicine, becoming an NP or PA is a looking like an increasingly attractive route.
I would be quite shocked if increasing the number of people who can go see a doctor, for free (or some incredibly reduced rate), somehow resulted in doctors working less.

>2: develop things around doctors so their efficiency improves. (Hire assistants, write software, design better hospitals).

As for this note, a doctors time is more valuable than basically all 3 of these. If you assume medical corporations desire making more money, then they would already be looking into this step. It's not something that would be improved by increasing the number of customers.
Thank you for the recommendation of Rubicon. I enjoyed reading through this thread so I thought I'd take you up on your recommendation. It was this first history book I've read in probably a decade, so I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy it but I absolutely loved it.
> As for the quantity of advertising, I said this in another response as well: How do you intend to limit it? While any ban is obviously a negative to my business, on an ethical standpoint I'm fine with such a ban as long as it's complete. What I'm not ok with is saying "there can only be X number of ads" because THAT's when things get unfair. That's when the advertisers with the biggest pockets will get the advantage, because they'll be the only ones who can afford to buy such a limited supply of ads.

Just because it's a hard problem to solve doesn't mean it's not a problem worth solving or that there is no solution. That said, I don't think just lowering the number of ads is really getting at what I'm saying.

Lowering the number of advertisements doesn't provide me with any more choice, it just makes the current situation less annoying (to whatever degree). If I want a particular thing, I can go out and search for it. I don't need to be told about that thing constantly when I have no initial desire for it.

Here is a concrete example. I enjoy films, but I don't watch network or cable television at home, so I generally don't have any idea what new movies are out there. However, when I decide that I feel like watching a movie, I go online and seek out the advertisements (trailers) for those movies. I do this by my own choice.

Another example is that I will sometimes check out the recommended videos on YouTube if I'm bored, and these are essentially advertisements for various content creators. Again, I make the specific choice to do this.

When I'm driving down the highway, my goal is to get somewhere, not find a local personal injury attorney, and yet I am forced to see sign after sign for these with absolutely no choice in the matter.
Take-away: Starting a business is hard. Contracting is much much much more profitable in the short term.

I wish the author compared his contracting value creation with his project's value creation.
I'm a little skeptical. Many Japanese live in a pretty grinding form of underemployment poverty - "freeter" will get you lots of hits in Western media. Moreover, some truly deprived groups like the urban homeless are almost notorious for generally _not_ engaging in the sort of petty property crime we're talking about that's common in similar demographics in the West.

Those make me lean towards cultural factors.
I didn't see a single revenue figure in here...
Curology Raised $17M+ with Their Onboarding Funnel (and Selfies)
Google embraces the no-code revolution – here’s why it matters
> It's contracted to life support in order to empty the existing pipeline to minimize losses.

Is it really life support? Or simply, what is always should have been?

Do you really need 100 staffs for College Humor? For the production side, sure you may need quite a bit of staff for each individual production, but once a production is done, you no longer need them, but you still have to pay them. How long you'll have to pay them will be mostly based on luck (what are the odds that you can always produce something that require each individual staff qualification...).

It makes much more sense to have a minimal team, and then hire on a contractual basis based on the production needs.
Common Lisp Using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming (2015)
Knee and back are universal problem areas for old people.
I read the overview and it sounds a lot like QuantumGate http://quantumgate.org/
When mom asks me what is a Product Manager?
2012 -- electronic stability control made a pretty big difference. Past that, the jury is out.
It's not just digital goods.

In the EU all "distance selling" purchases (internet, phone) must be fully refundable within 14 days of taking delivery.

The seller may only charge for incurred costs, like shipping.
Angular Weekly #88: How to Manipulate the DOM in TypeScript
Yeah they sure are, they are manual transmissions with a solenoid controlled dual-clutch setup. One clutch engages the next gear as the first releases, there is no lost thrust as with a single clutch pedal, and you get to save all the weight of hauling around a huge valvebody and fluid and clutch bands.... Great stuff.

The Howstuffworks article is great. Have fun.
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/dual-clutch-transmission.htm
> New Edge is definitely less readable, and Google Chrome exhibits the same problem.

The left render has less contrast but, to my eyes, is clearer. Look, for example, at the upvote and downvote buttons.

The right image's buttons are faint and blurred (jaggy), while the left image's buttons are sharp.
Second it!
Though I think it's fair to note for that case that the battery unlocked to full capacity is going to wear out faster, and since Tesla has an 8-year warranty for the S, that increases their costs in a way that doesn't happen with pure software unlocks.
Also no one had NCSU as their "Dream" school when they apply to college. That's reserved for an elite few. This perpetuates into a brand when people graduate. There is a certain bar of candidates that companies expect from these schools. Not to say someone at other schools can't meet the bar. But it's easier for HR to just start with the top 10
Users can be tracked, easily, without third-party cookies, by an organisation with enough presence across the web. Google has JavaScript on over half of the top 100 000 most popular websites.
Sam might be willing to take a lot less money than IAC.
Because they need developers more than developers need them. If they become as dominant as Apple and Google in their respective spaces, expect your experience to degrade.
FYI, those details were originally posted on YOSPOS, a SomethingAwful sub-forum which is the world's best Internet forum for computer touchers.

They regularly lambast HN via this thread. It would be great if more people read their criticisms of the community here.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=39...
What about the Linux kernel?
Not understanding that an open source software can be co-created by many actors is a failure of understanding.
Hyundai and Uber Unveil Autonomous Pods, EVTOL Aircraft, & Hub Ecosystem at CES
It does not matter whether it seems like much or not, because approximately none of that market cap is coming from using BitCoin for payments, it comes almost entirely from using BitCoin as a speculative asset.

All attempts to use it for non-crime-related payments have failed so far, because of its slow speed and huge transaction costs.

And in a spectacular turn of events, it may be a worse polluter than any single American car company as well. I bet Satoshi Nakamoto didn't plan for this one, eh?
Yep. Advertising exists because of information asymmetry in imperfect markets.

Until humans know everything about every good or service in every market, there is going to be a demand for advertising.
On the other hand, I feel Hitchens' razor is useful here:

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

In other words, the "low quality" of comments may actually reflect a patent and blithe dismissal of a perceived "low quality" post. I think you must acknowledge, given the community's reaction, that this is potentially a low quality post.

In that case, such a reaction seems appropriate.
Love EconTalk. I can't find anything else that is as consistently thoughtful and thought-provoking. Any suggestions?

However, my impression is Andrew McAffee's research didn't take into account how outsourcing would affect the data! So I'm taking it with a grain of salt.

Someone shared this article with me recently that looks at how trade affects CO2, but I haven't dug into it yet: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
Why do these sorts of articles always give vague definitions of Soundness and act like it exists on a spectrum?

Soundness = Progress & Preservation.

From Pierce's Types And Programming Languages:

"Progress: A well typed term is not stuck (either it is a value or it can take a step according to the evaluation rules).

Preservation: If a well typed term takes a step of evaluation, then the resulting term is well typed."

There are not degrees to Soundness and it is a well defined term.
Edge (and Chromium) both use a custom C++ UI framework. Chrome wrote the framework to be cross-platform, so Edge was able to take advantage of that to deliver the macOS version. AFAIK there's no WinUI XAML components being used.
What are neural-symbolic AI methods and why will they dominate 2020?
Not they aren't. Facebook and Google are advertising businesses, and two of the most valuable companies in the world.

Poorly executed business models based on faulty data and no clear profitability are fragile.
Questions about the Apple Security Bounty
“Well” was the wrong word (unless one is thinking of the experiment as a test). I simply meant the percentage of lost wallets returned. In the study from Science that the LA Times article covers, this group of countries as a block did better than all countries from South America or Asia, for instance.
I've "accidentally" purchased something with Apple Pay before. Not because I didn't want the item, but because I thought once you press "pay" it'd take you to a page to specify shipping address etc. no such thing – payment went straight through and they just assumed the shipping address was the same as for my Apple account. I don't know if this is the same with all Apple Pay purchases, this was my first time using it for anything physical and some place other than an Apple property.

There was no confirmation page, or any way to really regret the purchase (that I could find) other than contacting the seller, which I did to clear up the shipping snafu. (I still wanted the item, just not to that address.)

I've never opted for Apple Pay since, only ever just using card payments instead. It's marginally more involving when you've got cards setup with a secrets manager, but it's worth it to significantly reduce the risk of accidental purchase.

If the purchase flow in this case made use of Apple Pay than I for one find the "butt dial" explanation very plausible.
It's not so much the profession itself, but not finding one's true "Ikigai". Too many smart people getting medicine for the money and prestige. Unless you truely enjoy helping sick people, you will get burned out at some point..
While I was having a vasectomy late last year I had a conversation with the doctor performing the surgery. It started with a quip about "It's not your first time, right?" or something to that effect, and went into the general process of developing new techniques which he claims is non-existent in the US right now, what with liability and the threat of malpractice squashing any incentive for innovation.

He gave a specific Urological example of a technique that was developed at MIT and took 6 hours, impractical for all purposes. European doctors have since come over and trained US doctors on a means of the same outcome that takes 1 hour.

My first thought was that the stagnancy of the field would contribute to burnout, but thinking about it more, I think just living under the imminent threat of malpractice lawsuits is probably enough.
The advice doesn't seem friendly, and ignores valid points. I agree with the above poster. The article is long and meandering.

Let's raise some specific complaints:

>So if you see "2 days 18 hours" that means "66 hours total time spent on this activity".

Completely superfluous. He goes on for 3 sentences explaining that a day contains 24 hours. WOW! AND he couldn't figure out how to keep his units, or make it unitless.

Chart 2:

>Here's how my work week tends to break down:

We break down the day into 4 time frames. Why? When does each timeframe begin and end? If the time is for a "work week" then why the hell does "monday" contain almost 200 hours? That's for 6 months, you say? Why?! It should be an average for a work week! No one intuitively knows how many hours occur on mondays over a 6 month period. Is that a lot of hours, or a few? You would have to do some mental math to even interpret this chart.

Chart 3:

>stacked bar graph

Enough said. It's impossible to comparatively interpret stacked bar graphs over time. You want to use a line graph when you want to compare things over time. Tell me, did he spend more time podcasting on 7/21, or the week after that? "Obvious!" you say, "he spent more time! It's clear!" Look again, however! The next week is 7/28, but the next label is 8/18. What? Where is 7/28? The labels are seemingly randomly distributed, with no rhyme or reason! Eventually you find 7/28 and lo-and-behold... they look about the same, but had to mouse over it to check, didn't you? Because they are separated vertically by nearly the entire chart.

And we didn't even get around to Happiness 3.0 Make a Change App Activity, which contains 41 distinct labels, and you can only read 3 of them at a time, and has all the same problems as the above... Or the Instagram chart that seems to contain the entire message as the label? Does an instagram post take 4 hours to make? What does this chart even mean?

Let's not sit here and suggest that it's "friendly advice" that a person isn't being helpful when they don't defend every statement they make. Anyone who tried to read this, actually read this, would immediately see that these charts are garbage and nearly meaningless. They probably make sense to the person who made them, but as a method of conveying information in a blog post to others, we can criticize without writing a dissertation about the mistakes here.

^ unfriendly advice
The cultural revolution was not the cause of this. Chinese history did not start in 1966. 1966 was preceded by six decades of brutal military occupation, a complete breakdown of law and order, and civil war.

I'm not sure you can point at any country that had gone through such a violent, unstable, and lengthy period of fragmentation and bloodshed, and came out on the other end as a cohesive, high-trust society.
This actually happened to my friend over the weekend who just bought a Model 3 Perf on a lease, and will only have the car for a few months until he moves out of country.

His phone purchased the $7k full self driving feature while it was in his pocket from the Tesla app.

Apparently Android has this feature where you don't have to do an unlock / purchase confirm if the phone is near your your body.

Contact to customer support said they can't do chargebacks and to contact the bank instead.

He managed to get the charge reversed at the bank level on Monday.

AFAIK he still has FSD enabled and we don't know what Tesla intends to do once the bank takes back the money from them.