skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I wouldn't put it that strongly (I didn't write the post you're quoting), but it hardly demonstrates journalistic integrity. (But then what would you expect from a site that's just Gawker rebranded?)

For an example of "reporting" that comes closer to what you describe in your quote, I'd point to the pile of hot garbage that former Google exec (and deranged lunatic) Yonatan Zunger posted on Medium.com, which was very widely shared and cited in the weeks following Damoregate.
Edward Feser has written a bunch on this topic over the years:

> Despite its adherents’ pose of rationality, scientism has a serious problem: it is either self-refuting or trivial. Take the first horn of this dilemma. The claim that scientism is true is not itself a scientific claim, not something that can be established using scientific methods. Indeed, that science is even a rational form of inquiry (let alone the only rational form of inquiry) is not something that can be established scientifically. For scientific inquiry itself rests on a number of philosophical assumptions: that there is an objective world external to the minds of scientists; that this world is governed by causal regularities; that the human intellect can uncover and accurately describe these regularities; and so forth. Since science presupposes these things, it cannot attempt to justify them without arguing in a circle.

* https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/03/1174/

* http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/03/scientism-roundup.ht...

* http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2018/07/fallacies-physicists...

See also naturalism:

> According to Robert Priddy, all scientific study inescapably builds on at least some essential assumptions that are untested by scientific processes;[15] that is, that scientists must start with some assumptions as to the ultimate analysis of the facts with which it deals. These assumptions would then be justified partly by their adherence to the types of occurrence of which we are directly conscious, and partly by their success in representing the observed facts with a certain generality, devoid of ad hoc suppositions."[16]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)
But is it really a problem?

Someone here recommended the book "Refuse to choose". Its not a great book but has a gold opinion: Maybe doing just a bit of everything isn't bad if you enjoy it.

Some people want to do everything, just do that, don't feel like you have to achieve mastery or complete the project, just keeping doing these new things because you like them.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287818.Refuse_to_Choose_
If you need sponsors, you should sell your project as a business. I don't think we should expect sponsors for hobby projects that may grow large.

Always a tricky thing when your project gets traction and then others start to use it and expect to "hire" you for free.
As always, depends!

When I'm interviewing someone and they ask this, I try to answer honestly, although I think it's human nature to still try to put a positive spin on it because a) I work here and there's some element of post purchase rationalization, for want of a better term and b) if they're a good candidate I want to sell them on working with us.

However there are forces in the other direction - it's not in my interest to deceive a candidate into a role that doesn't fit them if they're going to leave when they inevitably find out, or if they're going to be demotivated as a result. I have a vested interest in this being a good fit from both sides.

I also want to give candidates a great experience - we're a small company and not many people have heard of us. Word of mouth is the most powerful recruitment tool we have, in many respects.

To some extent this only works because I genuinely love the place I work and so the bad things I talk about genuinely aren't that bad (I would call them tradeoffs rather than things everyone would consider super negative).
Useful tools for checking and fixing C/C++ code (and others languages too)
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Ask HN: Vitamin D in a Household Product
We all know about iodized salt, vitamins in wheat, fluoridated water. What can we put Vitamin D into, that will neither risk overdose nor leave anyone out?

The only product I can think of is, toilet paper. Folks all use approximately the same amount. But that would work only if Vitamin D was effective if topically applied. Is that the case?
There are always naysayers or people who simply do not believe your idea can potentially work.

I was there recently, some guys told me you can't make filament at home cheaper than what you can get from Amazon.

And then I made my own filament:
https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Now I am selling my filament on e-commerce websites under my own brand name and making good money, I'll clear $4000+ in sales this month alone.
Building the Ultimate Deep Learning Workstation
Until it isn’t.

I can still play pong. So many kids today will never get to relive their childhood.

I once thought about a business model where once a year I would go buy a phone and pay for all the top games.

Then professionally remove the battery and stick it in a drawer for 20 years.

The old 32 bit games kids played 10 years ago don’t run anymore. They likely won’t be available in the future.

The issue is that so many games require a net connection and a server that won’t be here in 20 years.

Otherwise these phones would probably fetch an enormous sum of money when all these kids are in their 30’s.
It’s the shotgun approach to detecting gravity, literally
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One might as well complain that when that one kilogram pile of protons, neutrons and electrons flaps and squawks like a chicken, it no longer "follows science". It's just that biology is a better, higher level tool for getting meaningful than particle physics for explaining the trajectory of a chicken.

And it's a well-known aphorism that "in carefully controlled conditions ... the experimental animal will do as it damn well pleases". And yes; it becomes more difficult to reason about the trajectory of that chicken when its internal motivations and factors like hunger, tiredness etc. are opaque to us. And I think that's directly analogous -- DNA and the processes of life have programmed and reprogrammed matter, and does make reasoning about them harder.

And it highlights the importance of metaphorically aseptic technique in the analysis of malware and computer interaction; and in doing so highlights the problems of "laboratory conditions" being distinct from real world ones since malware might detect the abnormal sterility...

(I'm not even sure whether I'm agreeing with you or disagreeing. But your post was thoughtprovoking.)
I'm not sure just increasing funding to thep would generate new ideas, why would they not just funnel it into the same "safe" programmes as they have done the last 25 years? There are some small "fringe science" programmes here and there, but we probably shouldn't pour all money into those either..
I mapped my Caps Lock to Ctrl years ago and haven't looked back; can't recommend it enough.
Note to self: stop making non-obviously subtle posts on HN, they always get downvoted.
My experience is U.S. focused so might differ from others.

I'd argue that a single pinnacle is not the norm anymore. Rarely does someone go through life and stay with one company and climb in a linear fashion toward some career peak. Instead I think it is more normal in the past 30 years that most people go through a few different climbs. This is mainly because it is fairly common that people have more than one career anymore, and even those with one career usually have varied roles over time which means resetting expectations at some point. An example, many people in the U.S. go from climbing a corporate ladder to being a small business founder, which is a whole reset. Entrepreneurs as a general rule start over many times, so they typically have multiple peaks, and troughs for that matter.

I do agree with the sentiment another post says though, when you have fewer years left in your career then you have already worked you start viewing things differently.
This isn't directly related to the post but the root of this website is hilarious:
https://benwiser.com/
Yep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm#Other_forms
Friends come and go, family is forever :)
Lock-in proponents like NDAs, I'm sure. No one else like this garbage.
I see people downvoting so I just wanted to say, as a person with anger towards my dad, this makes some sense to me. He was a terrible father, and surely a large part of that is due to something like poor mental health from a rough upbringing. It really sucks that my siblings and I suffered from it, but I can also sympathize with what he went through.

It's still really tough to know where to go from here. I feel like I've learned from his mistakes, but is the same true for him? Why hasn't he tried to change, is it the society/culture he grew up in? How much is his fault? Still figuring out how to deal with these questions. But I can be angry, and have pity too.
There was a story in panchatantra series (Indian folklore). Four brothers with extra-ordinary skills in medicine, were walking through a forest. They found a dead lion on the way and decided to test their skills on it. Three of them healed different parts of the lion's body and the last one gave life to the lion. The lion jumps back to life and kills them all.
At least no organization that requires votes.

Absent illegal activity, money will continue to flow when a person dies, but votes can be guaranteed to stop.
This advice might apply to written applications too. In college I was applying for a scholarship, in its first year, in which they picked one recipient from each state. It was a long application. The very last page was the question, "Is there any other information about you or your family you would like to share?". I thought this was an odd question. Maybe they wanted some information about special hardships or something. I instead wrote a table that had the height and weight of every member of my family.

I told my parents about the application and my mother was so mad at me. She told me I threw away my chance at the scholarship. It turns out however that I got the scholarship. Not only that, some of the recipients were invited to the capitol building in DC if they lived relatively close. A senator came up to me at the luncheon and told me she loved my answer. It also turned out that they gave some extra scholarships beyond one per state. It turns out my state got one of those extra scholarships. I suspect maybe I got the scholarship only because of my smart ass answer at the end.
Sorry, I forgot that HN is a humor-free zone. Or maybe some kids are too young to have heard of this joke. Or maybe some running gags have simple reached the EoL, in which case I understand the downvotes.
hahahah. terraform has bugs that were opened 8 years ago and were swept under the rug countless times.

the fundamental problem is that terraform is not even a half baked tool (what version was it again? 0.12?) and people are betting the farm on it. guess i’ll go build more software while others are twirling their hands with the super HCL language (what’s even more aggravating is that Hashicorp got this part - the language - right with Vagrant but I guess reinventing the wheel and using go was sexier).
seeing secrets.txt in the repo gave me a fright for a second and it's not even my project
I've used Racket for many prototype languages and tools and love its facilities and philosophy. The thing that always gives me pause when considering it for a new project is that it has no robust mobile or client-side web story.

If the tool lives on beyond prototype then I have to rewrite it in a native language or restrict it to the subset of Scheme that can run in Gambit on iOS.

I really hope that Racket can evolve and adapt to a world where more computing and even development is going to happen on mobile and web.
Yes! :)

They're on the Confreaks youtube channel, and we'll release individual talk videos a few weeks from now.
I stumbled on how universal links in iOS and Android cause accidental Zoom bombing. I reported it to Zoom but no response.

I had people in upper management always getting random emails from Zoom that guests are waiting for their meeting to start (waiting in the waiting room). But it’s not any meeting they had scheduled or were expecting.

Randomly one day I wanted to check a FedEx tracking number from my iPhone. I tapped on it from Firefox and my Zoom app opened and dropped me into a random Zoom meeting. The meeting number matched my FedEx tracking number.

It seems that Zoom’s meeting numbering scheme for meeting IDs is somewhat similar to FedEx tracking numbers. UPS uses alphanumeric, FedEx uses numbers. Somehow universal links in iOS and Android pick up FedEx tracking numbers in email and web pages as Zoom meeting IDs.
Masks are widely available! There isn't a single person without mask in the supermarkets. Not one. Social distancing is widely observed. I don't know where you get your information from but my experience is very different.
That’s as silly as saying “we already have particle colliders, at this point they’re just an engineering problem”. It completely misses the forest for the trees.
I remember playing Ragnarok Online back in 2005ish. I was working on my merchant. Merchants had an ability to get better sale prices to NPCs, so one common way to make money by buying some item from players in bulk for more than they could get vendoring it, and you make margin on it by getting even more. Arbitrage!

My skills weren't high enough to compete with other merchants on the highest margin common items, so I decided to try one of the lower priced things. Squeeze into some kind of niche, you see.

Around this time, I discovered the censorship list was enforced client side (oh the wild west old days...),

To make a long story long, there were these crabs and they dropped an item called "nippers". They were kind of a cute thing because though that was what they were called by the game's creators, the game censored you for saying it. I removed "nip" from the list of gylphs, I could shout an offer to buy them without interference. This let me
buy these items from players without any competition. As the only dedicated purchaser, I was able to preserve a much higher margin.

Thanks to a soft monopoly preserved by regulations and information asynchrony, I was able to make significantly more money than I would have otherwise. That taught a lot of lessons to ~15 year old me. If only I could have applied those lessons in the real world!
There’s a good story about the jar and the sand out there.

Fill the jar with sand and it’s full. No room for rocks and gravel.

But fill the jar with rocks and it’s full, yet you can still pour the gravel. It goes into tiny holes between the rocks. The now even fuller jar still has room for the sand finding those tiny crevices between the gravel and the rocks.

The rocks are your family and your health. The gravel is your job and other pursuits. The sand is social media and netflix.

Now here’s the kicker: You can still go and pour a glass of beer in the jar. It saturates the sand and gravel and finds room.

Because there’s always time for a beer with friends.
Nope, only Chrome based engines.
It seems even more is the understanding that other disciplines are useful for answering other questions; that science or the scientific method cannot be used to answer every question.

It makes discussions with people who feel this way nearly impossible because when coming up against questions science can't answer, they reject all answers because no scientific "proof" has been provided.
I would think someone would know if their mom celebrates mother's day unless they have known them for less than a year.
> And by that I mean I never managed to land without crashing. :)

Sure you weren't just playing in Launchpad McQuack mode? :)
Yes, their business model is sick with anti-competitve tactics, DRM and other despicable methods that are all aimed against users and developers. NDA is just some cream on top of the pile of manure.
How does your mother feel about it? I respect your inclination to reject marketing driven social manipulation, but if it's important to your mother, that might be an reason to set aside this viewpoint. You would be doing it for you mom, not for Hallmark.
> Do I still have a duty to call my parents multiple times a week, despite us never having anything to talk about?

No, of course not.
Covid-19 Is Exposing a Virulent Strain of Broadband Market Failure Denialism
Re: your corner case... Currently we defer to the incoming invite and remove the block IF you accept the 2.5+ meeting invite the overlaps. One exception: if the invite happens to mention lunch is being served we auto remove it. In the future we will likely offer the option to auto reject, but we don’t today.

Re: your other comments, you are right that the core platform (mostly dictated by the iCal standard) cause some of the limits on these workflows. But we designed Reclaim to do most (all?) of what you’d expect both for you (a Reclaim user) and others (non-Reclaim users who just stick on the core platform).

Try it out :)
Usain Bolt, Lance Armstrong and the Duck Test
Again you just hand waved “native”. The UI definition here is in Lua, it then calls a backend that renders to the system, not sure if that part is C or not.

But... this setup may be a lot simpler, but no different from Electron in that they are both scripting languages that eventually use C to render.

Also, you can’t just cherry pick an example. It’s very possible to write pretty fast interfaces using v8. Certainly going straight html/css is slow, but that’s not necessary and VSCode is a great counter example (not crazy fast, but faster than many “native” apps).

I think the HN crowd has invested so much emotional energy into hating electron they literally can’t think straight about it, including just admitting that this is no more native than any electron app.

In fact, if you take native to mean some combination of “using OS APIs” and “accessibility support and behavior similar to the OS”, then electron wins hands down because of the latter part: font rendering, text selection, input controls, copy and paste, everything mostly just works like native. It’s the Lua app that I’d say is far less native. It’s just a bit faster.
Yeah, I do almost the same but my rules set different colors on emails where I appear in To or CC. This way I have a quick way of determining the important (To) and perhaps important (CC) from all other emails. I wouldn't want to work with email without these rules.
Nations are ultimately made up of people and they are subject to peoples' pressure. Its the people who we must convince and wake them from their deep slumber.
I am a workaholic who also loves his mother and has tormented himself with guilt for not calling her enough. Now 42, I've sort of come to terms with that guilt and realized there's a reason I keep mom at a distance. Talking to her is like groundhog's day, the same conversation every time. I do not look back and wish I had been having that conversation once per day instead of once per month.

I'm pretty sure on my deathbed I'm going to be glad I spent so much time working, because that's what makes me happy. When I look back on my life now, my most cherished memories are of times spent on my computer enthralled by a challenging project. Most of my memories involving family involve feeling bored and/or trapped, even though I do love them and have a good relationship with them.
I don't think that, I just think a) you have to be careful not to let the halo effect from them being charismatic bleed into your technical evaluation, and b) you seemed to be making a huge leap from a single question, not even adding a caveat about e.g. delivery, just thinking he's suddenly brilliant from a "clever" question he may not even have thought of himself.
If only there was a way to bottle sunshine. Then we could hide in our homes and have our bodies safety convert cholesterol to vitamin d.
Does this mean that the cosmic background could be adding energy to the blackhole (Maybe helping with stability?)? I'm not sure how temperature and heat transfer would work in this context.

Edit: For those interested, there is an entire article on "Black Hole Thermodynamics" on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_thermodynamics)
> IMO Linux still has pretty poor graphics drivers.

IMO Intel is generally very well supported with the open-source kernel driver and amdgpu is getting there. This feels like a trope that always gets repeated but never updated, kind of like "you need CLI to use Linux".

> the whole Wayland thing is in a weird spot right now too

The whole Wayland thing is already much smoother for many than X11 ever was and it actually takes security seriously. I am running GNOME on Wayland full time since 2018 and by this point there's nothing I miss from X11, any specifics?
It’s a bit strange hitting the google redirect notice when linking from the site.

You also might want to put your .idea directory and secrets in a .gitignore
This project actually does decode of Rs232 data, with the special prefix triggering the interpreter mode where you can control the color and delay between the cycles. Only ground and TX pins are used to connect. Oh, and no interrupts - poll for the start bit while running the currently programmed light animation cycle :-)

One thing that made the development of it all immensely easier was having a Saleae logic analyzer. Highly recommend it (no affiliation, just a happy customer).
When you fund a huge project using state money, not just physics projects but anything, it's as much about all the side-effects. A 10 year $10B project.. I mean, those $10B will not go into a bank account, they will be used to funnel work (both in related physics and engineering) down the years. It's amazing how they pushed some manufacturing methods to build LHC and I'm sure those methods will be used for some other good, for example.
Didn't Feedly already meet this demand? Seems like almost everybody I know who used Google Reader back in the day switched over to Feedly.
At least in Illinois, opening targets are based on agent-based simulations of disease spread. Specifically, the simulations predicted that if Illinois had reopened on May 1, we would have seen a larger peak than the initial one in June. You can read about it here:
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/look-insi...
> Frankly saying “happy Mother’s Day” feels like I’m defiling myself and mindlessly buying into propaganda.

It's not about you, it's about her. If your mother would appreciate a call on this day, call her.

The "official" holiday is just an organized opportunity for you to say thanks. Of course, you can send her flowers and call her any day of the year, but most people don't. Having a set date gives you a reason. If she's anything like my mother, she'll be happy you thought of her. It's a gesture, not an announcement that you will from now until the end of times surrender to the marketing of flower shops. It's not about you, it's about her.
How do you express yourself when you drop something heavy on your toe?
The querying capabilities of SQL shouldn't be ignored though, another issue is that your data must fit in memory.