skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which everyone should be made aware of, because it's worth asking how did it get that way, and how do we prevent other industries from suffering this fate.

It's been modern economic theory that has encouraged this stripping of US industry...unfortunately it's a lauded theory.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you're saying.

It sounded to me like you were suggesting an hour or three a day of actually focusing your attention on your workplace is plenty for a full-time, salaried employee.

If that's not what you mean, then I've obviously misunderstood you.

What do you suggest regarding hours of "butt in seat" when WFH? It's a truly wretched metric for productivity, but I think ignoring it entirely is unwise.

I would (and do) encourage my teammates to use whatever editor or IDE they want, as long as it doesn't cause issues for the rest of the team (which I have seen crappy obscure tools do, in one memorable case by converting line endings to classic Mac OS style across many files, but only on edited lines).

> That's like asking all else being equal, would I hire the person who wore Air Force 1s to the interview or the person who wore chelsea boots. That has nothing to do with your performance of your job and any distinction on that matter is personal preference. The only thing that is important is are you getting the job done on the pace it needs to get done.

Whether a candidate thinks they should put in 8 hours a day vs. two or four, if that's all their current task takes, is directly relevant to how effective an employee they will be.

It is not at all like what kind of shoes they wore to the interview, which is indeed unrelated to their technical skills or workplace conduct.

As far as ethics or working hard mattering, I think of them as necessary but not sufficient. If I have a great work ethic and bust my butt but do not achieve anything, I'm a poor employee.

When I have a task estimated at four hours but it takes me two, I don't think "Sweet, HN until lunchtime," I grab the next thing off the stack.

Like I said, perhaps I'm not understanding what you're trying to describe.
In what niche does your favorite programming language surpass all competition?
And why? What makes them special? How do they make the job so much easier than everything else?

Some examples include but aren't limited to (not necessarily my opinion):

- Web Programming: Python(Django), Ruby/Rails

- REST Api's: Haskell(Servant), Python

- Machine Learning: Python

- Embedded Software: C, Rust

- Domain-specific languages: Haskell, Ruby, Racket, Lisp

- Data Science: Scala (spark), Python, R, Julia

- Game Programming: C# (Unity), C++
Rubbish. Speaking as someone with seventeen-odd years of professional C# experience and no professional Lisp experience, Emacs Lisp is both easier to learn than the Visual Studio SDK and, more importantly in the long run, far more likely to be worth the bother[1] for personal use cases.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1205/
Can someone emulate a Cray using JS and HTML 5 please? I want to see this HTML 5 super computer.
The lack of attention to (or, rather, the complete disregard of) proper capitalization is ridiculous. This is the second post I'm seeing in two days that feature this "style". Quite a disturbing trend, if you ask me.
> Proper due process would have cost me a year or more of hell plus a lot of money.

This is the REAL problem and not the camera.

"Innocent until proven broke" needs to be fixed.
I don't really think so (at least regarding my tiktok usage)

Being thrown right into the mushroom thing, into the action, forces me to keep focus and attention. The pseudo-introduction is just dulling my mind while not bringing anything of consistence.

I had some tiktoks that started like "So I read something incredible the other day and I just had to try it. I am gonna show you what happened when I decided to eat an orange under the shower". Don't care. Starts with you eating the orange.

As another sibling commentator wrote it's a different narrative structure.

> Being able to get consistent, instant stimulation from doing effectively nothing seems dangerous to me.

The same could be said from books but I get what you mean. I still read books, so I guess I am okay (it could be worse !).

edit: to be fair, I have very low tolerance and patience for people who beats around the bush :/. On the other hand, when walking outside I can stop and look around me for 2 or 3 minutes every 100 meters because there's always some piece of architecture or natural landscape to look at.
They probably mean "detected", as in users noticed something behaving differently between devices or after clearing cookies.

It could also be looking for possible A/B flags in cookies/localStorage.
People holding long positions do shady stuff all the time as well. I don't see the distinction.
R is a very...haphazard language. Not to say it isn't elegant in places, but I wouldn't describe it as a consistent, well planned language. I suspect it's not the rightward assignment OP has an issue with, but the fact that they're looking at R as an example to follow.
The difference is knowing the costs ahead of time versus getting a bill and being unable or unwilling to pay. Most post paid services, as you call it, have unknown costs at the time of service. Not so for dining at a restaurant.

Not paying tax can’t land you in jail.
I don't know either, but I think they're figuring it out release by release. I played it when it first came out, and a bunch a few months ago, and there's way more, although yeah, not like CK... yet.
Pretty sure you can't.
> The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer,

Should have added some blockchain while he was at it.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here: I've already said that I don't have much respect for either person.

It seems like you're trying to say that because Elon does it and has been successful, it's okay for Trevor to do it in his own pursuit of success. Which is a big nope nope nope. It just means both of them are doing shady things.
Many people feel the same way listening to Elon Musk talking about AI and self driving...

And yet every Tesla owner tells me that their car is just one update away from driving itself across the country.
> “good citizen” features like turning off colors when stdout is not a tty.

Better solution: do not detect whether your output is a tty or not.

Let the user decide they want colors or not by using `--color=always` or `--color=never` or similar.

There's few things worse than writing a script and getting different output just because you're no longer running the program interactively.
Because, to simplify, shorts are hoping for people to fail, while longs are hoping for people to succeed.
One of my side projects is https://twitter.com/diffroot a twitter account that publishes changes to the root zone (except for nameserver IP address changes). Alongside that I have a couple of Twitter threads commenting on the changes.

The relevant one is https://twitter.com/fanf/status/903709051606978560 my collection of dead .brand TLDs which is now 3 years old (tho I didn't keep it very reliably the first year).

It's also amusing to see if you can spot a .brand TLD being used for real services, where the brand is not an Internet company. The biggest one I know of is SNCF.
Linux Mint (Windows-like) is free and elementaryOS (macOS-like) is pay-what-you-want, $0 if you so desire (https://elementary.io/). It takes less time to flash a drive and boot from it than to endure one Windows update on my desktop (although you can also get GNU preinstalled on fairly Thinkpad-comparible laptops from eg. “Laptop With Linux” https://elementary.io/store/#devices, and Thinkpads themselves will likely ship with GNU soon — many Lenovo PCs are already certified for compatibility with multiple major distros).
Exactly, and this is why users don't want to give it to you.
Study Reveals Lactose Tolerance Happened Quickly in Europe – – SBU News
Yes, insofar as organisations and corporations are named after people: .agakhan, .bentley, .dupont, .lamborghini, .scjohnson etc.
It's my opinion that GM felt forced to enter into this partnership with Nikola because Ford was able to get into bed with Rivian when GM pulled out of that deal. For GM's sake, I hope that these guys are completely wrong.
As climate change was a key driver of these fires and those in Australia earlier this year, then I feel like it's perfectly reasonable to say this is man made pollution.

Coal and oil are also a "natural" fuels, but we burn those too and we say it's man made pollution.
You set goals and work towards them.

Becoming an inter-planetary species doesn't happen in a year.

I want SpaceX to succeed and they have a track record of execution such that I now believe they really can. I was hopeful before (and if you listen to Musk talk about it he didn't think they'd be able to really pull it off early on either but figured they'd at least make progress towards it even if they failed), but now I think a mars colony is a real possible outcome.

It's not a bold take to just state something is impossible until it happens, that's pretty much the default.

The bold take is to look at what might be possible and execute goals in pursuit of that.

For SpaceX this means reusable rocket technology to bring costs down (massive success here has them ahead of everyone else). Starlink as a revenue source is also a really good approach.

For Tesla it's the 'master plan' of roadster -> model s -> model 3, reinvesting in infrastructure and battery technology with vertical integration to build out superchargers and drive costs down. This has been massively successful and their EVs (particularly the model3/y) have no equal at any price point EV or gas. The level 5 autonomy was really a bonus on top of that EV transition that they've added to, and if anyone can pull it off it will be Andrej Karpathy and the fleet of Tesla's they can train with (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx7BXih7zx8).

Bullshit and really big ideas can sound similar, but that doesn't mean they are - there's a lot of value in being able to tell the difference.

In the case of Nikola, they're just lying to enrich themselves and taking advantage of those that can't see the difference between a person like Trevor Milton and a person like Elon Musk.
Piggy backing off troquerre, I should mention that Handshake is a decentralized blockchain project called Handshake that makes it possible for anyone to get TLDs like ".johnnywu", which can then be used as "linkedin.johnnywu", "email.johnnywu", "paypal.johnnywu" etc.

Normally to get new TLDs you would need to pay an $185k application fee to ICANN, which isn't even guaranteed to be accepted! However Handshake instead distributes TLDs through auctions — the highest bidder wins the name and only pays the 2nd highest bid, so in an auction where there are no other bidders, the winner receives the domain extension for free!

Note I already own the ".johnnywu" Handshake TLD and wrote an article on this that can be reached via https://hns.to/article.johnnywu
> I always find these stories interesting, because, frankly, these cameras I'm sure DO help catch criminals very effectively.

Data from the UK disagrees with this hypothesis.

They found that CCTV camera usage had no correlation with crime reduction.
That's certainly the funniest bit, but "so using it lets us build our own chips" is the biggest head scratcher.
It's pretty basic, but it gets the job done.
what prompted the chicken restaurant bit of your comment?
Parsers and eDSLs: Haskell
Do you accept cookies?
It was never a "political mess" until Murdoch offered Tony Abbott the prime ministership in exchange for hamstringing the NBN.

100% of the blame lies with those two men. Nobody else.
If it is too hard you’re doing it wrong.
That's a strawman, because no one is seriously proposing getting rid of all cars, and there's just no possibility of it happening any time in the foreseeable future.

Wearing masks is a real, tangible possibility, and has already been accomplished on a very wide scale, though not everyone has been convinced yet. We are close, though, and the more people get on board, the more lives will be saved.

Also, getting rid of cars has many actual practical negative consequences, particularly in places with poor public transportation (much of the US). People without cars in such places can't get to work or shop, not to mention all the deliveries that need to be made by truck.

By contrast, there are absolutely no practical negative consequences of wearing a mask. It's a purely cosmetic choice.

Why some people value how they look more than another human's life is simply beyond me.
When I was in my 20s I lived on a bicycle for a year, going around the lower 48 and Canada, and then up to Alaska. I lived for two weeks in Joshua Tree with a guy named Tom, who slept in a cave the whole time.

One morning we were sorting our gear and a piece of paper fell out of his wallet. As I handed it back to him, I read the three lines on it:

Work hard.

Be strong.

Don't complain.

I asked him about it, and he said that was advice his grandfather had given him. He wrote those lines down and carried them with him to remind him of what his grandather had told him. Those words have echoed in my mind for decades now. They're not absolutes; there are times to let go of work, to let yourself not have to be strong, and times to stand up and complain and protest loudly. But the spirit of that advice has certainly been a guiding force in my life.
Please share some examples. I'd like to understand so I can compare to the things in that link.
Colour Palettes and Gradients
Maybe we'll get a Good Will Hunting version. Concrete pourer solves what billions of dollars and academics could not for years. I would watch it.
I'm more concerned about TLDs like:

.ACCENTURE
.AIRBUS
.AMERICANEXPRESS
.AMERICANFAMILY
.AVIANCA
.BAIDU
.BARCLAYCARD
.BARCLAYS
.BENTLEY
.BESTBUY
.BLOOMBERG
.BNPPARIBAS
.BOEHRINGER
.BUGATTI
.CALVINKLEIN
.CAPITALONE
.CITI
.EPSON
.ERICSSON
.FERRARI
.FUJITSU
.GMAIL
.GODADDY
.HDFC
.HDFCBANK
.HITACHI
.HYATT
.HYUNDAI
.JAGUAR
.JEEP
.JPMORGAN
.JUNIPER
.KERRYHOTELS
.KERRYLOGISTICS
.KERRYPROPERTIES
.LACAIXA
.LAMBORGHINI
.LANDROVER
.LANXESS
.LPLFINANCIAL
.MASERATI
.MATTEL
.MCKINSEY
.MICROSOFT
.MITSUBISHI
.NETFLIX
.NORTHWESTERNMUTUAL
.OLAYANGROUP
.PANASONIC
.PRAMERICA
.SAMSUNG
.SCHAEFFLER
.SCJOHNSON
.SONY
.STCGROUP
.SUZUKI
.SWATCH
.TIFFANY
.TOSHIBA
.VIRGIN
.VOLKSWAGEN

It's disgusting.
> But you can't just dismissing complexity by deeming it irrelevant, it's there.

This is my sense as well- by refusing to allow complexity in one area, you often just end up forcing it into another area. Moving the toothpaste around the tube. Overall Go was a bad fit for me in ways that come down to differences of opinion, and that's nobody's fault.

But I did also come across the dismissiveness you mention. Overall I feel there is a callousness to the community, not just interpersonal interactions but the ways that certain things aren't provided for and tough shit if you don't like it.
Marking XCSme as "probably not a user" :)

Appreciate the skepticism -- I'd challenge you to try it and let me know, although obviously if the value prop I laid out doesn't resonate, it's probably not worth the effort for you. Will let you know how it shakes out!
trademark names sure. But getting a TLD like .sucks is very nearly extortion.
This seems custom tailored to be the least convincing argument against wokeness to the people who'd generally support it in my experience.

They are making some technical point about the importance of the profit motive for the decision making. Process of CEOs. I could imagine this going well with a person who views all jobs as exploitative or thinks society should be egalitarian or something like that.
Yeah, after that talk I was pretty skeptical Jack Ma was anything more than just a CCP figurehead or maybe friends with someone in the government?

He comes across as a complete idiot.

Maybe you don't need to be that smart to run a company like Alibaba, but I find that hard to believe - I suspect government protection and party favoritism plays a part.
> I'm in favor of cameras in public places.

Then turn your own phone on and continuously upload your video and data to a lockbox.

If you want to be continuously surveilled, you have the technology to do it to yourself for a fairly cheap price nowadays (see: arrest recording apps). It also has the advantage that it is WAY more likely to exonerate you than some random CCTV that just so happens to be able to provide an alibi.

Don't force ME into that situation via government fiat, thanks.
OP's comment wasn't about Woz specifically but the population of potential Wozs who, but for a few hundred dollars, could have contributed something great to the world but didn't.

Right now a generation of young people in the United States are completely priced out of going to college, or facing eviction from COVID related layoffs. The slightly older cohort are seeing a much higher proportion of their wages go to high rents and student loan debt than Woz's generation.

As a society, we're are missing out on bottom up innovations because would be inventors are too busy trying to survive than to create.
This comes with the assumption that maximizing the profit motive actually is sufficient to make solving our social problems possible, and that serving the narrow interests of corporate responsibility to their stakeholders is worse than serving the narrow interests of their shareholders.
> The 8th bit was used for selecting the color pallet (eventually; initially the 8th bit was just ignored)

The palette selection was achieved by...

(Yes, it's that cool)

Shifting the 7-pixel group half-pixel to the left (IIRC, could be to the right). It was a trick used in HP terminals (Woz worked for HP) and printers to have nicer fonts without doubling the pixel clock and character ROM sizes.

For color, this put the pixels at offset positions in relation to the chroma wheel and that caused the switch from green/purple to orange/blue.
I'm not saying market forces are categorically bad. I'm saying they're bad at some things. Market forces are terrible at distributing housing, healthcare, and primary education. As with most things, there's a happy medium between unfettered market forces and central planning.
This argument boils down to
1. It’s difficult to prioritize multiple things (the environment and public interest are mentioned as examples), so why bother?
2. Prioritizing profit has worked so far

Regarding 2 - strictly from the lens of shareholder value, yes, but in terms of environmental impact and public interest, no, it hasn’t. Most corporate profit and presumed value to society has completely ignored negative externalities imposed on the public and on the environment. Our society is increasingly unequal and rigid, and climate change Is already having an impact. When corporate actions result in the eventual loss of cities, environments and lives to flooding - these things are important, and the corporations and their shareholders socialize the costs out to everybody while retaining the bulk of the benefits and profits for themselves.

The author does a shockingly bad job of defending the current corporate ethos and the fact that increased stock value and corporate profits are many times at the expense of society and the environment.
SpaceX is unquestionably a success at this point, although their end goal is probably something that will take longer than a single lifetime. Boring and Neuralink are still early, and Neuralink may also be one of those century-long things.

Tesla and SpaceX have both achieved their original nearer term vehicles, Dragon/ F9/FH plus Model S, X, and 3. Full reuse and full autonomy currently are still out of reach, but both of those are incredibly ambitious that no one else is super close to doing, either.

Both Tesla and SpaceX are very successful, but of course Musk keeps raising the bar on what he considers success.
Musk states that his company's intention is to advance computer vision to the point where it can safely drive a car, and then offer this technology with the sensors deployed in their current vehicle fleet.

Milton stated that using a very secure HTML5 supercomputer that's linked on the data network allows them to build their own chips.

These statements are not equivalent in what they imply about the speaker. It's not subtle.
So theranos!
I agree with you that they’re working towards these goals. And there’s obviously a ton of daylight between Musk and Milton.

But the point I’m making is more specific than that: you can’t call them successes because they haven’t achieved their goals yet. (But they haven’t failed yet, either. The jury is still out.)
The IANA TLD list should never be used directly. What you really want instead is the Public Suffix List [1]. It will help you determine the "effective TLD" of domains like amazon.co.uk or sflawlib.ci.sf.ca.us, and gives you more insight in to how a technical allocation at the root transforms politically in to implementation.

1. https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat
Not to go threw this again but ... if you actually read in detail what was going on, the 'submarine' was developed as a contingency only for the smallest child. It was developed because expert at the scene were not sure they could get the kid out. It was a worst case contingency plan for 1 kid from the very beginning (that's what it was sized for).

Of course in the media it was all like 'Elon rides in on spaceship and promises to build submarine to save everybody'. And we don't know if it 'didn't work' as it was not tried, because the smallest kid was eventually brought threw with the same methods.

The whole point here is that Elon wanted to help but clearly he couldn't help with diving, so with a team of engineers they tried to work on a small part of the problem. Only to then get shit on relentlessly for working something out of the box.

It was similar to when everybody was shitting on Elon because apparently he delivered the wrong products to help with Covid. Later turned out that Tesla had excellent contact with doctors in China because of their production facilities in China and focused on delivering what doctors in China told them was useful.

All in all there is no way around it, Elon has started many successful companies and pretty much all of them have done some or many impressive things. Very often with the experts in the field claiming his plans were impossible or buissness suicide. He might say something wrong once in a while, but you better actually listen what exactly he is saying and why, before dismissing it claiming he is just smelling his farts.
“Rem Maps” Logo Through the Years
> NASA was reusing orbital 'upper stages' (although not boosters or ETs) for a few years. This little thing called a 'Space Shuttle.'

Oh, the thing that had to be essentially refurbished before being able to fly again?
Pretty sure no one pays for their own social security at this point.
I really look forward to reading the book about the inevitable meltdown.
It all depends on context. Honestly, I've rarely (never?) needed to store GUIDs, IP addresses, or byte arrays in a configuration file. So that's not as common of a situation as you're thinking - maybe for your experience, but there are many different uses for configuration.

The example you give would suck in any configuration file format, and honestly I don't believe it belongs in a configuration file - I'd put it into a data file (e.g. a CSV as you show) and then in the configuration file I'd include a pointer to that data file to be loaded separately.
What argument do you think I am making? It was never my intention to make an argument. I'm just pointing out that the Shuttle was a reusable rocket. I'm certainly not talking about practicality or economics. I'm not detracting from anything SpaceX has done, though it seems like you have to walk on eggshells around some fanboys who perceive mere mention of the Shuttle as an attack I guess.
Now GM has the unenviable task of picking up this turd by the clean end.....