skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting! I'm the creator of Paced Email. I wasn't expecting it to be shared so quickly to Hacker News. A prominent dev Tweeted about it today and the site had a healthy footfall. Paced Email is definitely an MVP, but it's a solid one. I have many more features to add and would love to hear your feedback on it as it stands.

What it does:

Paced Email aims to help reduce distraction in your inbox. By batching up frequent emails into paced summaries, you’re able to concentrate more effectively.

How it works:

- Grab your username
- Create programmable email aliases on the fly
- Use your aliases on sites that send you emails too frequently
- Get a single email containing all the emails received

Examples:

johndoe.shopify@daily.paced.email
johndoe.stripe@weekly.paced.email
johndoe.github@monthly.paced.email
I don't know about how much eating at home has changed, but I think people today would be shocked at how small a restaurant meal was in 1990. Back then the large, upscaled items would be the "small" of today.
Great Idea. I can see there is room for monetization too. Although ads are distracting, they could work as occasional in a room. Also, if it caught on, this could join the likes of leetcode...Ppl would pay for this b/c peer learning can be far more efficient or at least engaging. I can certainly see leetcode wanting to copy this idea.

This already has something over twitch which is sort of similar but not interactive. Also, I could see fb ads as quite effective to keep organic traffic up and help this catch on as a competitive way to get a job. You could even market the data you gain to companies looking to hire.
It is essentially the same problem. A sports bar may have some tvs hooked up via Comcast and some via DirectTV with noticeably different physical layer lengths.

Additionally, the modern OTT services resemble personal devices and trade synchronicity for scalability.
Or allow submissions from people...
Re: had you been using VB best practices.

Everybody had a different opinion about what those were. Things that look obvious in hindsight weren't.

Re: While with hindsight we mostly all agree "webforms" was a bad idea

Do you mean in general or early versions? It seems a git-er-done platform for smallish apps without the fuss and muss of MVC. Our Webforms group is more productive than our MVC group. If MVC pays off in the distant future, nobody can really tell yet. Our MVC stack is poorly tuned, but that's the problem with MVC: it requires decent oversight. MVC typically can have more JavaScript eye-candy to dazzle, but I'm not sure it's worth it from a raw productivity standpoint. The org is paying a toy tax.
Thank you for this comment! I am actually in a similar situation right now, took a break from college and working on myself, learning about programming and trying hard to improve my english. Sometimes it just kinda feels pointless, like why am i even doing this and theres a plethora of self doubt and self hatred. But your comment kinda made me feel a bit more motivated, so thank you for that :)
It would also be good to have the backblaze stats linked to on here
Pricewatch still exists!
Though I'm tempted to agree, there is an old macroeconomic observation that might throw a wrench in the analysis, which is that the waves of new technology seem to be coming faster and faster, and likewise, the turnover of companies in major stock indexes has also gone faster and faster.

In an imagined hyper-accelerated future market where the trend continues, companies will be born, grow large, be disrupted and die in a figurative eyeblink. And Google's lifespan would be cut considerably shorter in such a circumstance, if for example something like Brave's business model were to hockey-stick and disrupt their golden goose.

However, the counterfactual to that is that there surely is some kind of end to accelerating turnover in the markets. And it's a statistical rule; individual companies can be hardy survivors given the right circumstances and management, and companies with longstanding platform monopolies, like IBM, MS, Oracle, and now Google tend to have a lot more freedom to redefine themselves; it's the customers that get screwed, not the company. All the company has to do is find a way to move its customers to the next-gen platform, and even when they start failing at that, like IBM, they have a lengthy fall.
Well we have pair programming now, but unfortunately that has all the problems of two surgeons with none of the benefits of complimentary skills.

For a while I was paring with someone where we did take on more of a surgical team model that worked quite well. The other guy was the c++ and domain expert cranking out code and I was the unix, git, etc expert and acting as the toolmaker and "magic spell" provider.

That said, in a real surgical team some of members make considerably more money than the others so I doubt we'll see it take off in our industry.
Yeah, I wonder how far 100K or 150K could get you in San Francisco if you're single. Got a random email from some recruiter for a startup who seen me on Github offering me to move to San Francisco - be cool to be around more like minded tech people though.

Sounds like some apartments for even just one bedroom starts at $3,500 a month where in other parts of the US that's enough for a mortgage and all the utilities with a bunch still left over, plus the high taxes, cost of food, etc...

Personally I've been wanting to get my own startup going and probably putting the HQ after funding in Austin(but costs are starting to go up too) - someone I was talking to who's also a tech person told me I should aim for Dallas instead but he's from there so maybe bias. I was thinking maybe parts of Florida or Tennessee(Where my family is originally from) would be interesting too. Which FL or TX would be a lot warmer too so that's a plus so less winter blues probably boosts productivty and morale too, but who's maybe if you get big enough get multiple offices and a private jet haha. Also not a huge fan of dressing up either, super causal or even shorts - but I know some other startups feel that way unless you are doing meetings with clients and stuff they want you to dress up a bit nicer.

265 times the average worker sounds like a bunch! Personally I think it'd be fun to reinvest mostly in the product itself, and then set apart parts of the profit for a bonus pool but then not sure how to distribute bonuses fairly, I know I seen some companies let others review each other internally with some also. Also in tech heard that even when you take off for vacation, they still bug you and expect you to be in touch which I think isn't really good either unless you are the only person who can do something but that's bad too to depend on one person.... Kinda getting ahead of myself though, got to focus on a prototype first before thinking more about that stuff though.

But I guess if you took the risks and effort to get something started, should be awarded but 265 times sounds way too high. hmm but looks like Google's CEO gets 2 million, avg engineer is about 150K maybe. Be nice to actually be able to afford to go on vacations too, I'd love to go on a cruise or to Disney World at least once or twice a year - which is more than most people... I kinda like the idea of company retreats too and also letting people off on the holidays but I guess in tech you still need people to monitor and make sure nothing breaks and some other stuff with a minimum staff.
Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
"Never write software for a hardware company."
It's best to think of the notebook as a REPL. So you'd want to run `del foo` on the old name.

In fact, this is a good counterexample. Why should the notebook delete the old variable name? What if its value is a thread currently executing?

Notebooks are REPLs, and it's better to get used to that than to try to enforce some confusing time traveling.
Corporate AV is like the guy who makes you throw out your ware bottle at the airport. It's a delicate blend of ass-covering and theatre.
One oft ignored impact of Bahaus is the impact it had on how design taught. Amongst other things Bauhaus introduced the first cross disaplinary program (both applied and fine art) and the now ubiquitous foundation year (the first year of a design school).
Unplug, get away. Travel. Run, eat healthy, do yoga, meditate, take psychedelics (?).. and re-discover what you love about life. Make new friends.

It's been a very tough transition for me after a complete burnout two years ago.

Now I am divorced and the healthiest I have been in a long time.

I took a pay cut but I am enjoying my work again. Unplug. You can retool later when you actually care again.

Life is so much more than stupid computers, corporate bs and the technical puzzles we fret over.
RunKit does this: https://runkit.com/home

> RunKit allows you to rewind your work to a previous point, even filesystem changes are rewound!
Microgreens seem like they'd be great for submarines: cheap power and water are all thats needed to 'unzip' compact seeds into nutritional food. As a happy byproduct, photosynthesis would scrub a little bit of CO2.
I have reviewed two take home programming tasks. for both of them, there was a high correlation between submitting quickly and passing. so I guess if you're down to the wire and spending all your time on the problems then you're not gonna pass anyway.

also they are by far the easiest way to screen people who will fail later. isn't that ideal?
"The people most steadfast about traffic laws get punished at the pleasure of people who flout them, which doesn't seem correct."

Exactly. Each person acting in their own self-interest causes a reduction in road capacity and longer journey times. Those who try to stay in the right-most lane that's going their speed don't gain anything for themselves, as they only increase road capacity for people behind them.
I go through regular bouts of depression and burnout due to lifestyle, at this point they're more like colds as I handle them quickly with a system(due to how the business is doing/what's happening in life).

Others can feel free to agree or disagree with me, this is what works for me:

Read - A minor level of isolation is okay as long as it's not with your thoughts, read something uplifting or insightful (I recently read the Rosie Result, and Meditations post breakup).

Active - Physically, join a gym or running group, something social to at least be around people, you don't necessarily have to engage, but in climbing gyms for example, people tend to.

Active - Socially, like many have said: keep the job, join a group where you can help others, there are plenty of chances to volunteer, or join groups where you can help in Toronto, it's useful for distracting from what was, and thinking more about what can be. Talk to friends about your issues, maybe they're been through something like it and can help unlock an important facet as to why you're feeling the way you are.

Consistency - a pattern will help you to keep moving along, I can't stress enough that as long as there's no serious underlying psychological issue, only time and mental distractions will help.

Mental - Professional - Get help (I see that you are which is amazing, this is only to cover my suggestions). A good professional can help guide you along if you're willing to help them.

Mental - Personal - Meditation helps, I've recently been doing transcendental meditation, and honestly, it's pretty rad. It's not life changing, but it tones down the thoughts by a notch, at first the 20 minutes seems like forever, but after a couple of weeks, it's over in no time.

Time - Sometimes no matter how good your systems are, mental/emotional depression and burnout are no different that a cut, or broken bone. They need time, and no modern technology will accelerate it past the bodies maximum rate of healing.

Be patient, don't beat yourself up about not being productive, or positive, it's okay to feel like shit, or nothing at all, you win by not giving up, no matter how long it takes.
Republicans Passed Tax Cuts – Then Profited
To add to what you said, a 64 bit ARM ISA didn’t publicly exist yet when Berkeley started RISC-V.
most people don't know that these things are possible, don't want to learn another tool (IDE) and are not interested in longevity of the code, just in the results.

This approach is arguably more effective than wasting time trying to refactor everything into a library of functions.

Programming-as-crafting needs to be more of a thing. Not everything is written to be long-lasting. Even HN ushered the ugly code into hook functions that weren't shipped with the main codebase.
I'm surprised no one has brought up Joel Spolsky's takes on open offices (from 2006) from right at the beginning of this fad:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/07/a-field-guide-to-d...

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/07/30/private-offices-re...
Thank you for quickly acknowledging and fixing it--a simple error anyone could make. It also appears you are right that my claim of >.4 is too high. Browsing the listings, it looks like .3 is probably closer.
I just don't get it. Who can respond positively to the continuous 1/2 second fast-cut edits and obnoxious "hard rock" music of videos like this? It's like everybody involved wants to advance from producing cruise ship documentaries to working for early 1990s MTV or something.
Reasoning about cause and effect works both ways. A causes B also implies B can caused by A. Your example is actually strengthening the idea of a simplistic view of cause and effect.

People getting their umbrellas ready is caused by the expectation of rain.

"Why are they taking their umbrellas out?" "Oh it must be because it is about to rain." "Why do they have an expectation of rain?" "Because they saw the weather report and clouds are visible"
Yep, the real complaint is “dead state”, not out of order execution. Worrying about linear flow per se turns out to be misguided based on lack of imagination for/experience with a better model: reactive re-rendering of dependent cells. Observable entirely solves the dead state problem, in a much more effective way than just guaranteeing linear flow would do.

* * *

More generally, Observable solves or at least ameliorates every item in the linked article’s list of complaints. (In 2020, any survey about modern notebook environments really should be discussing it.)

I found the article quite superficial. More like “water cooler gripes from notebook users we polled” than fundamental problems with or opportunities for notebooks as a cognitive tool. I think you could have learned more or less the same thing from going to whatever online forum Jupyter users write their complaints at and skimming the discussion for a couple weeks.

I guess this might be the best we can hope for from the results of a questionnaire like this. But it seems crazy having an article about notebook UI which makes no mention of spreadsheets, literate programming, Mathematica, REPLs, Bret Victor’s work, etc.

From the title I was hoping for something more thoughtful and insightful.
How Republicans made millions on the tax cuts they pushed through Congress
I'm very sorry to hear about your experience.

I went through a rough patch recently with mental health too. I know how hard it can be but I have come out the other side a much stronger person and a lot clearer on what is important in life. Always hang in there, it gets better.

Everyone is different I know and I don't claim to be an expert but thought it might be worth listing some of the big things that helped me and seems to help a lot of others as well, just in case you find something:

- Exercise like you've never exercised before. If you ever had dreams of getting in shape or conquering a fitness challenge nothing motivated me more than knowing I might feel a little bit better mentally for it afterwards.

- Sleep. I got serious about making sure I got a good night sleep which was extremely hard at times. All the sleep hygiene tips are worth learning. Not getting too hot at night, blocking out all light, ear plugs, sleep meditations, stretching before bed, reading something calm and positive before bed, writing everything on your mind down so you can let it go etc etc

- Every day writing down 3 things I'm grateful for (even small things like a warm cup of tea), 1 happy thing that happened in the last 24 hours and 1 thing I'm looking forward to. There's something to all the gratitude diary stuff.

- Meditation and mindfulness were often the best way to get a break from it. Learning these skills is one of the best things I've ever done.

- Controlled breathing gave me some control of my nervous system. To calm things down and slow my thoughts (especially in the middle of the night) I personally found the 4-7-8 breathing technique worked well for me if done properly but there's lot of others taught in yoga etc as well.

- Socialise and talk to people a lot, even if you don't feel like it.

- Help others. It is the right thing to do and it feels good and takes the focus off you.

- Learn new things, take on new challenges, things that you have no expectations about.

- Possibly the hardest but best lesson I learnt of all though was not to buy into the negative thoughts my brain was having. Realising that I'm only thinking that way because of the state my brain is in and that the state it is in today isn't necessarily the state it will be in tomorrow, next week or next month. The world is a great and amazing place. If it doesn't seem that way right now it's just because of the state I'm in now but that state will change and when it does change the world does indeed seem great and amazing again.

I also tend to agree with the advice of staying in your job. For me there was an element of not being able to deal with too much but at the same time, running from all responsibility and work wasn't the answer either so it was a balance to be found until I could get back to full capacity. Taking on as much responsibility as I could handle at each step helped to improve my self worth and helped a lot too. But that's just me so I hope you find what is best for you.

Hang in there and best of luck to you!
And yet another example why "OS" owners (since it pretty much boils down to this) should NOT be allowed to own an "app store" !
Agreed he was most likely upvoted for his comedy. But there is this from his wiki page:
"Jones wrote books and presented television documentaries on medieval and ancient history.
...
Jones' TV series also frequently challenged popular views of history."

So there's some contributions to history, depending on how you value it.
I used to work as a Network Admin at a big university in Cape Town years back, and one of the urban legends at the time (late '90s) was that one of the long distance wireless (microwave? Line of sight required) network links were reported to drop every day at the exact same time for a a few minutes only. Lots of hours of troubleshooting hardware etc. later, and still no solution. Eventually a site-visit was done at both sides of the link, binoculars entow. The problem? The line of sight was going dangerously close to the top of a hill where a farmer had led his cattle every day at the same time. The cattle blocked the line of sight for 5 minutes every day.
No idea if this is true though.
Because "privately registered" vehicles don't matter for purposes of road damage.

A fully loaded semi is 18,000 lbs per axle. A really huge personal vehicle, an F-350, is 4000 lbs per axle. That's 4.5x the weight, 4.5^4=410, so the semi is doing 410x as much damage. There's really no point in trying to tax personal vehicles for road damage when over 99% of the damage is being done by trucks.
This is a great list, and totally matches my experience. I also agree this is solvable with tooling.

A) VS Code / IDE needs to be the primary editor
B) Results are not stored with source
C) Export (build) allows packaging for whatever platform.

Python notebooks especially also use some crazy mutable APIs. In general notebooks align with other code written by people who aren’t usually software engineers building production systems. They’re much more about getting things done, APIs and tools are less questioned, a lot of pain is swallowed because PhDs have plenty of time to write a few lines of code. I don’t want to sound disparaging towards these people, it’s just a different set of tradeoffs from writing production grade software.
>Probably just incompetence... Probably

Right. Just like Zoom.
There is relatively compact pamphlet by the German government on disaster preparedness that is aimed at ordinary people with no prepper ambitions and mostly limits itself to practical advice like a minimal food stockpile and stocking up on candles. It doesn't try to shame the reader into becoming a whole different (much more paranoid, completely no-fun) person, which is a nice change from the usual prepper reading lists. Some parts only apply to Germany (e.g. how to call for help in an emergency), but most of it should be relatively widely applicable. They refresh it periodically, the current revision from fall 2018 is vailable in German[1] and in an English translation[2] that seems to capture the extremely arid dryness of German government language even better than the German version, but is still quite readable.

[1] https://www.bbk.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/BBK/DE/Publikat...

[2] https://www.bbk.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/BBK/DE/Publikat...
Backing Up the Death Star: How Cloud Storage Explains the Rise of Skywalker
It wasn't a serious comment. I thought it was obvious from the tone.

> But if you ran such an analysis across public GitHub repositories per-language and wrote the results up in a blog post, I'm sure HN would love to see it.

I'll see what I can do. I do have some repos in sight that could be used for it.

But even then this won't be as straightforward as you say since different languages have different applications (eg cpp for games, julia for scientific computing). This would require writing the same code in both indexing patterns and then comparing them.
No compile time type / function signature checking - no deal.
Where the Electric Scooter Industry Will Go Next
Indeed, Schneier covered this in this essay:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2020/01/were_bannin...
Is this just another client that wraps SSH and provides a Web interface?...

Or am I missing something?
This is a good start. We really do need to regulate this stuff. There are far too many ways this can be abused.
I'm a consultant and have a practice of asking to be paid for these kind of silliness. If the company want they can look at my github profile instead.
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There are psychological benefits. If you believe that things like rain are within your control then you can be confident instead of feeling helpless.

Obviously religions take advantage of this desire for the illusion of control and convince followers that practicing the religion will keep their lives free from external bad influences.
I agree. I use JIRA at work (cloud hosted) with all kinds of plugins (TestRail, Aha, etc.) and its a horrifying experience, on top of that all the fields that are used for (micro?)managing people and work is cumbersome to work with.

For my personal projects I use JIRA server (solely because its cheap at $10 and has a decent mobile app to capture ideas in tickets/boards on the move) and my experience has been pretty good.

That being said if Github had a good mobile app I'd switch in a minute. My main problem with Github issues is that you cannot edit milestones in the mobile web app.
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I wonder the impact of working mothers and need for fast, convenient processed meals?

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FT_14...