skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also tend to stay a lot at a given job (e.g. slightly more than 10y at the last one) but still found the current job through LinkedIn. I do 2 things:

1. connect to all recruiters, politely decline with a standard message if obviously not interested

2. when I get a potentially-interesting offer, I reply with "that's all fine and well, but I make <absurdly_high_total_comp> now; do you want to continue the discussion?". (note: I'm not lying).

I used to ignore recruiters at point 1, until I realized it costs me almost nothing to politely decline and earns goodwill; today's junior recruiter that works for a crappy company might be in 10 years the HR director at a company you want to work for. Why not be in touch?

Over the years, this adds up, a handful of opportunities actually said "yes" at point 2, and for one of them I actually went to interviews & got the job (and the very-good-offer).
What about on the Filipino Wikipedia? It's better to translate rather than start from scratch. I think it would be an excellent new English article with a mention on the Pepsi article, if there are enough sources to claim that it's significant enough.
Very strange. Facebook seems to more or less honor my "never show stuff from this person/page again" clicks. Also, if you unfollow someone permanently (not for 30 days), I really doubt their posts will appear in your timeline again. Unless they arrive through pages or communities you're members of.
I've seen a computer in 2008 that was like the bottom part of a laptop and between the keyboard and where the hinges would be it had a 3 row braille display.
It was pretty old at the time and quite thick, with modern technology could be as thin as a tablet.

These things have a very narrow audience so they're one digit more expensive than their regular counterparts.
Rails 6 API Development and GitHub Actions CI with Docker
The world has gone insane... treating a manufacturing company like it's a tech company and applying the "appropriate" multiples. People are going to lose their shirts on this one.
That wasn't a computer error.
I'm just starting the hobby and found Sketchup to be cumbersome and too big of a learning curve. I have been using graph paper and pencil to do 2d drawings, side, top, etc. to get the idea down.

I found a channel from the UK of a cabinet maker [0] that uses Graphic for mac - simple, easy and I can do the same style drawings.

Maybe Sketchup is more helpful when you have complicated joinery or need to sell plans online.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_FksrzP3q-IuoWTiG501LQ
Hey HN! I know this seems kind of silly but for some reason I felt inspired to build this yesterday.
Not only is it fast all around the world since it's built on Cloudflare Workers, but when you call it from another Worker it responds within ~5ms [0].

[0] https://uuid-rocks-speedtest.jacobhands.com/
"Has Tesla been able to meet their stated goals in the 1st 10 years? Yes"

Where is the full self driving car? They are selling a feature that most likely will never exist.
Matt Estlea is only young but he has a real talent for teaching. Fun to watch, goes pretty deep into the basics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWzA3ZlYEOLr1JkKH0ZMyg
I subscribe to the Times for that staff. I skip over the clickbait of the Stephenses and Brookses and read Blow and Bouie.
They certainly can. But they're a lot less likely to than a gun. I think their use would be justified in the case that a policeman was being shot at.
Windows 10 is de facto shareware at this point. If you don't provide an activation code it simply puts a nag text on the bottom right. ;)
It sucks for whoever got the “real” 349 bottles.
Congratulation!

I remember to close all my social networks when my daughter was two years old, about 12 years ago.

I will never know what I missed.
> wannabe thought leaders

A high percentage of which seem to be recruiters cutting and pasting words of wisdom, inspirational quotes that dozens of people "Like."

I don't know how people can take this stuff seriously.
Sane.

"There's too much risk either direction, stay away from it" sounds pretty sane to me.
The frontpage shows that it relies at least on apt-get:

from pyinfra.modules import apt

apt.packages(
{'Install iftop'},
'iftop',
sudo=True,
)

And search over docs doesn't produce results for Windows/MacOS

* https://pyinfra.readthedocs.io/en/v0.14.5/search.html?q=wind...

* https://pyinfra.readthedocs.io/en/v0.14.5/search.html?q=maco...
When I was taking psych classes in the late 90s, it seemed every single psych prof had a copy of this on their shelves. I saw it cited in some of the text books as well so I grabbed a used copy to read.

It's an interesting hypothesis, but seems roughly as valid as Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods?, that is, not valid at all. Were there any validity to the claim at all, we should be able to find supporting evidence in, say, the brain function of lower primates. It ain't there.
Retired WA Cop: Abandoning East Precinct in Seattle 'Unconscionable'
How about the famous quote: "The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
It is. From a fine woodworking perspective, however, it very often runs counter to purpose when the goal is to take advantage of the natural beauty inherent in the medium.
I guess one of @smckk's main points is that when one looks up tutorials and guides they tend to be introductory. Meaning they don't go to intricacies of critical refactors to introduce major new functionality etc.. i.e. I think @smckk wants to see how people approach the thinking about changes beyond the "initial build".

@smckk the closet thing I can think of that may help you is to visit large company's engineering blogs that sometimes do small to large writeups on big changes in their architecture, code organization style, etc. It's not as detailed as seeing the actual changes line for line but it can help guide your thinking of taking a piece of non-trivial code to another level of non-trivial code if that makes any sense.
Diurnal Preference and Grey Matter Volume in a Large Population of Older Adults
Bootstrapping my SaaS to 1M ARR
I use this for redirecting my searches https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxtana-pro-r...

FTA "Force Windows 10 and Cortana to use Firefox and your favorite search engine instead of Bing! This is the official port of Chrometana Pro for Firefox."
The one where shorting requires debt and a massive risk premium on the time value of money. Not to mention the unlimited risk piece. The two bets aren’t symmetric
my guess : they setup a machine that prints the successive numbers inside the bottle caps and there is no way to skip a number, they had to remove them afterwards.. someone simply forgot to do that.
> Aggressively unfollowing people that amplify meaningless posts is the key,

Until you realize "wait, I don't actually use linkedin for much of anything. Maybe I get a recruiter that has an interesting offer (rare)"

In my experience, most people use linkedin at one time: when they are looking for a job, either to update or create their profile. Beyond that, the only people I see with any activity there are desperate recruiters, and "CEO of my own BS company" inspirational garbage content posters.
They're in a massive growth phase. Look at their revenue compared to this time last year.
It sounds cliche, but "scratch your own itch".

My group of friends used to run a pool where we would handicap NFL football games and pay out prizes to the top 10-15% of finishers each season. The pool grew big enough to the point where it was a pain to manage manually, so I ended up building a small app where we could create new pools, users could sign in and make / edit picks, it would track the standings, etc. It would scrape the final scores/results of NFL games to grade everyone's picks, and each Tuesday it would scrape the consensus lines to set the spreads for each weeks slate of games.

Im not really sure "how" I made the jump per se, it just became one of those things I couldn't wait to work on. Anytime I ran into difficulty it was like getting stuck in a video game, I would try new things until I fixed it. Gradually over time things started to fit into place and a functional (but clunky) web app emerged.

It wasn't pretty (this was a long time ago), but it worked, and we used it for our pool for a few seasons without a hiccup. I still remember the afternoon I made the "final" commit as one of the happier moments in my career.
I would like to play this level of Sonic the Hedgehog. Which version is it on?
A recognition that the market may continue to be irrational for a long time, so even if you believe a company to be extremely overvalued it may be unwise to short it unless you have infinitely deep pockets.

If you insist on a single word, may I suggest "experience."
What kind of company are they?
I agree with the sentiment, but I feel as though 75% of the unmaintained stuff already got killed in Catalina.
That there is so much tech conservatism on Hacker News is quite baffling. The idea that self driving cars will not exist is just nonsense, and Tesla is best place to exploit it.
Abstract:

Eveningness (a diurnal preference for evening time) is associated with a number of negative health outcomes and risk and prevalence for psychiatric disorder. Our understanding of the anatomical substrates of diurnal preference, however, is limited. The current study used Voxel-Based Morphometry to compare grey matter volume in a large sample (N = 3730) of healthy adults determined by questionnaire to be either definite morning-type or definite evening-type. Eveningness was associated with increased grey matter volume in precuneus, brain regions implicated in risk and reward processing (bilateral nucleus accumbens, caudate, putamen and thalamus) and orbitofrontal cortex. These results indicate an anatomical-basis for diurnal preference which may underlie reported differences in behaviour and brain function observed in these individuals.
Sorry if this seems willfully ignorant, but what advantage does this provide over just using something like Ansible?
I wonder if this is a third-world thing, soda contests for cash.

I remember when I was 12 in Bolivia, we had literal Coca Cola scratch off cards and had to collect bottle caps with the numbers to make a lot of cash. Kids would trade bottle caps, rumors floated about fulanito having the rare cap and he would sell it for the right amount, etc.

Been in the states for a few years now and never heard of something like that here. Then again I haven't had soda in the same amount of time.
Volatility, or Uncertainty
OMG, that list of frontend dependencies is just soul-crushing. How does anyone stay sane using NodeJS?
Free energy theory is so interesting to me - I think there are some very interesting, unexplored, overlaps with Boyd's OODA loop that are begging to be studied
South African pay-TV operator will now offer Netflix and Amazon Prime
It wasn't a no knock warrant, though. They said they announced themselves. They obviously lied, but this lie exposed the truth that the raid was their own initiative for their own reasons. The lame warrant story is likely meant to hide the more nefarious truth that there are rogue cops roaming around and raiding random apartments as they see fit. Basically, police no longer needs to consult with courts.
The valuation basically assumes that the Corolla of Tesla will come around sometime in the next 10 years, otherwise volume won't be enough. But not before they run out of all the most profitable markets. Thus the consumer-level truck.
How to Run an Online Conference
That's a nice fuckin' miter saw[1] for $300! At that price you practically stole it, and you pretty much gave it away while making a $200 profit. The list price for a new one is $16,700. And no, that is not a typo [2]. If you ever have another one you'd like to sell at that price, please contact me :-)

For those not in the know, Northfield makes only industrial tools. There's a reason you don't see their stuff at your local home improvement store. Or your local Woodcraft/Rockler.

Tannewitz, incidentally also still exits and is still making the GHE.

Sadly Oliver, once one of the greats, is now another badge stuck on the same castings coming out of the same foundries as Powermatic, Grizzly, and everybody else.

[1] Actually, it might be the nicest miter saw mere money can buy.

[2] http://www.northfieldwoodworking.com/pricelist/pricelist.htm
Then the advertising and the spying/telemetry are part of the bargain that you struck.
There is no “going back to normal”
agree - and in the case of the latter it feels like its being permeated by influencer culture, by that i mean (im going to paint with a broad brush here) recruiters and the recruiting industry seems to have exploded and with seemingly non-technical agents. so they naturally gravitate towards shiny things - FAANG positions, hot tech (ex: React), well known schools. outside of power users, its becoming a requirement to play the game if you want to have any success. /oldmanyellsatcloud
Actually, really the opposite.

People will never understand Tesla unless they understand it really is just a car company.

There is no magic leap here. Cars are becoming smarter, and more electric and car manufacturers have been adjusting all along.

Most car buyers are not caught up in the heady-dreamspace that the Tesla brand is built on - they will just by what they perceive to be value at price.

What is 'amazing' is that someone was able to actually break into making cars in the 21st century! That's a hell of an achievement.

But it's just a car.
Only speaking for Toronto here, but the Toronto Public Library very quickly amended their application process to allow you to get a card/membership online. (For any faults in this city, the TPL is amazing)
They did, and recently dropped the charges[0].

0: https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/prosecutors-drop-attempted-mur...
Me too. It has been noticably worse the last two months, and I often see things that look like CSS loading errors.

I'm using Firefox (beta) and uBlock Origin too, so that could be a common factor. But it varies from load to load. Sometimes it's completely fine. So I don't think it's likely to be a simple rendering bug.

I've been using Firefox and uBlock Origin for years, and LinkedIn more over the last year. I only noticed rendering problems in the last couple of months.

(Plenty of other bugs. Search is unreliable, and the mobile app is not without bugs either (some buttons don't do what they're supposed to), but rendering seems ok on mobile.)
So essentially Microsoft is suing Microsoft on behalf of Microsoft?
Honest question: why is Tesla in a better place to "exploit" self driving than Waymo?
Today, sure, using a van would be much more efficient. But this is probably a way to test and improve the technology, working towards making it more efficient than a van.

More importantly, the optics here are not just about you and me and other adults. Think about it how it looks to a kid. You can have your library books show up in a van, and that might be fun, but if you could have a drone drop off your library books? What kid wouldn't sit around outside all day waiting for their books to arrive?
New Zeland hasn't tested more per population size than the US or the EU. If the argument is scale the EU is a counter-example. If the argument is management there are literally dozens of countries that have managed things better than the US. NZ and Taiwan are just examples of where things were done particularly well, but there are plenty of others.
You don't achieve success by somehow avoiding failure, rather you repeatedly fail (in small, safe ways), grow, and learn.

Perfect is the enemy of good. Your tech doesn't need to play buzzword bingo out the door, it just needs to solve the problem.
> How would that work?

There are a few different Rust frontend frameworks that compile to assembly that are roughly based on the ideas of React. Yew is the most prominent.
Understanding the differences is only important if you're hopping jobs to a different tech stack though. Which is why the 'following the market' reason is mostly bullshit if you live in a good city and didn't pick something originally that's gone the way of the dodo.

You may open yourself up to more opportunities by being familiar with multiple front-end frameworks, but you're going to be a worse fit for a lot of them, because if my stack is React and Django, why on earth would I hire a veteran React dev that has spent 3 months learning some Vue instead of some Django? Or AWS? Or anything else that I could possibly have in my stack. You're basically resigning yourself to hitting only one checkbox, when there's other candidates out there that can hit more.

The big front-end frameworks are far from the most egregious examples too. You raised a great point about people not learning enough to be effective. I'm a big fan of React, but it's ecosystem has a massive problem with this. People are so dependency crazed that every single dev has experience with 10 out of the 200 commonly used dependencies and it's always a different 10 to whatever is being used on the project. Most team's solution to this is to crank their package.json up to 100 dependencies so everyone can feel at home, and everyone goes on these fucking odysseys of superficially learning a ludicrous amount of APIs other people have written without ever producing anything meaningful themselves.
Expats buy Japanese country house for a song, get more than they bargained for
"(Strangely, HN, that loved Apple in Steve Jobs' glory days, seems to have a lot of irrational hatred for Tesla)."

Jobs was vocal in public about products they have already launched. They delivered products that were obviously best at what they were intended for. Musk is vocal about - well, apparently everything - and ICE:s are still a superior option for a large category of car owners.

I think the biggest gripe is probably about overpromising autopilot capability years before it's actually production ready.

Still, Musk is up there with Ford on a list of industrialists who made a dent in the universe in my books.
Just a thought, it's a PITA, but you can do it yourself by buying one, if it has dead pixels resell it and buy a new one.
“ Psychedelics act on certain kinds of neurotransmitters called neuromodulators and literally disintegrate your belief-updating, freeing this neural population from the evidence and the influences of this population. You’ll now be unable to call on high-level representations of selfhood to constrain your qualitative experience at a lower level of abstraction. You may experience a lower-level disillusion of the ego, literally the “self” representation may now not be able to influence experience. You might be attending to vivid sensations that would now have other interpretations that are not glued together by a self-centered, egocentric narrative. You will have alternative explanations for what caused this sensation and what caused that sensation. All of this is perfectly sensible under a generative model where we remove the constraints of one level of processing from another. If that’s going on, you now have the hypothesis that if I am me, there’s another hypothesis, I’m not me. If you start to remove the evidence of these two hypotheses, then you create an enormous uncertainty about me-hood. You’ll get depersonalization and possibly a bad trip.”

I’ve done some so-called heroic doses that dissolved my ego, what he calls depersonalization. If one is not prepared for that sort of thing to happen and/or doesn’t have the appropriate setting or people around to make sure you don’t hurt yourself or others then yeah it can certainly turn into a bad trip.
> Turned into a serious drug venue and eventually fell apart. Sounds like it sort of restarted, albeit with regular Danish law enforcement and other city resources.

As someone living in Copenhagen, I would not consider that anything near an accurate description of the history of Christiania. What happened was that an old military area and barracks was left abandoned and disused, so a group of squatters moved in, fixed up the place and built a community.

It did not turn into a "serious drug venue". They had issues with hard drugs in the 1970s, but kicked all of that to the curb and there is a strict community-supported ban on all hard drugs. Over the years various sellers have popped up here and there, but they are generally shunned and chased out by the community.

It also did not "fall apart", although it has had its ups and downs. The political winds have varied from indifference to acceptance to attempts to abolish the entire things, raze the area and built apartments. The current state is that the area is owned by a foundation and is treated partly as a part of the city of Copenhagen and partly as an independent enclave. Danish law enforcement is grudgingly accepted in cases of actual crimes, but otherwise not exactly openly welcomed.
> When looking for your next job, the first question asked is "Do you know tech stack X?"

I've never been asked that. I have had jobs where i was expected to know a particular programming language, but never some specific framework within it.

I don't doubt that these jobs exist. But if someone is hiring permanent employees on the basis of flavour of the month frameworks, they have no idea what they are doing, and i would advise against working for them.
And even if you have infinite money, a short squeeze in the meantime can mean that you permanently lose money on shorting the stock before it goes down.
Here un mexico some providers tie your accounts to your IP (phone/internet provider has a Netflix like service) so one you login / auth from one device, it will read your ip and save it for other devices.
Not the land but the sites, if money can erase your history you already have done something wrong in your country.

History has to be preserved no matter what.
The car metaphor still leaves a choice between driving a Rolls Royce or a VW Bug. They'll both get you there, but one is totally miserable in the winter. Although that is covered in your second paragraph.

If it is the 8G version, it might be worth implementing a ramdisk for the web server and web logging directories. That way the sdram doesn't get trashed as quickly, and response will be quicker.
monetary policy
Is there a non-Zoom client that can connect to Zoom meetings? My company implemented RingCentral about a year ago, which appears to just use a rebranded Zoom architecture for the online meeting component. They're not going to get rid of it anytime soon.
OTOH I find it incomprehensible that the Tienanmen Square student leaders would risk holding an online meeting through a Chinese controlled video messaging platform.

I mean, there are loads of other options. Why would they choose Zoom, knowing that it's being controlled (directly or indirectly) by China?
It's really interesting that HR person wasn't seemingly concerned about turning you off from ever applying there by writing you that and ... rejecting you before you'd even applied yourself..

I feel like some internal miscommunication had to have happened but maybe not.
it supporting apt doesn't mean it "relies on apt". Looking at the list of options, it supports multiple package managers, including ones for Windows and MacOS.
You're somehow assuming that doing things properly in the US requires a testing rate that's 1000x larger than everywhere else. I was just putting numbers to the absurd scale of testing everyone 3 times, which is far far beyond what is actually needed given examples of everywhere else.
Declining revenues? I want some of what you're smoking.