skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My solution was to dump the Windows environment for my personal use.

I program in Arduino where I only have 2.5 K for my variables, programming with so little memory really forces you to think about your program methods.

I built small projects using 74LSxxx chips, building logic instead of programming it can be refreshing.

When I need more space I program in C++ on a Haiku machine, 32 GB of ram and 12 CPUs gives you the power, but the lack of frameworks means it is all your own coding.
I am with him. I was a professional developer for 16 years, but last year I got tired of saving startup money and not using it, and disillusioned with the path that global productivity is exponentiating toward.
Will these fend off attacks?
> Like I said, “getting directions” used to be a service. Specifically, back then—and still today, in many places!—you’d be expected to retain the services of a guide when you were in a foreign city/country. Who would often double as your translator, and potentially as your driver as well.

So previously, travel to foreign destinations was something few could afford, since it required sourcing and hiring a local guide. It would seem our current solutions scale much better and at a lower unit cost, opening up the world to more people than could have experienced it before.
https://amicable.io/
Contrary to popular opinion, Rockstar is actually not a competent game developer.
Thanks for helping make a mess and running away.

Pretty typical for your generation, to be honest.

Is it any shock the President embodies that attitude?

There’s little expertise on display here. Just a sad man who didn’t get his nuclear powered Star Trek reality his childish side was promised.

Get to the back of the Trail
Of Tears when it comes to generational suffering.

What an exceptional, gritty character the United Armchair Soldiers of America have created.
Sure That's a good point. Things can tend to extremes.

Instead of middle range products you get low tier and high tier products and those absorb their different shares of the market from the middle.

This type of extreme seems to happen in all facets of human society over time including jobs, housing, cars, etc..

The middle becomes pushed out.

That's been a big issue for a long time.

Alot of access is given to people who previously had no access but the middle is somewhat eliminated.
You make good points but Nintendo is such an iconic Japanese brand, it seems like their government would get involved if they were in dire straights.

As a Nintendo baby, it'd be a dark day if some conglomerate bought them.

I was just thinking though, if they needed money they could easily raise crazy amounts of cash from their fanbase via crowdfunding.
I think it’s more the point that it isn’t the profession that sucks but the job.

There are a lot of writers out there but few New York Times best selling fiction authors. We can’t saying earning a living as a writer sucks because most people write for blogs.
Nice article. But I am not sure I would use the word "productivity" here. Maybe "mental ability" would be a nice substitute. "3 basic rules to enhance your mental ability".
I guess they are only looking for silent partners? ;)
Pretty much alive and UWP, chose one.
Great article with good real world examples. It's easy to underestimate how many decisions you have to juggle when coming up with pricing plans.

I wouldn't mind a similar analysis for my own pricing page for an website SEO auditing tool if anyone feels like giving feedback: https://www.checkbot.io/#pricing

Related to the advice from the article, I resisted offering lifetime deals and going really cheap, I have a free tier to help with organic marketing, I don't offer a free trial of the full version but I offer refunds if you're not happy, and I avoiding using "Pricing" as the pricing section heading. I might try replacing the monthly plan with a quarterly plan so subscribers aren't having to decide so often if they're going to keep paying (I rarely see a SaaS doing quarterly plans without monthly plans though). I suspect I'm giving too much away for free as the free version will probably cover a lot of small business websites.
It most definitely should have been! Edited!
Code Is a Coastline
Change = risk

If you want to build new IP and there isn’t established funding you can go start a Kickstarter campaign to raise money from gamers to go build the game.
It's unfortunate that the Xbox Series X and PS5 are so, so, so similar. It seems stupid to have to purchase 2 nearly identical boxes. It's not just the console. You then need multiple controllers for each, and possibly other accessories (Sony has a PS5 specific headset, camera, charger, will have a PS5 VR etc.)

I've historically preferred PS exclusives (Uncharted, Spiderman, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn), and the cross platform stuff, was a little worse than Xbox in the PS3 days, and a little better in the PS4 days (at least prior to XoX).
Speaking as a biased PS4 owner, I'm happy with current layout of PS exclusives and cross platform stuff. Each new announcement like this sucks. I like DOOM and Dishonored. I liked being able to get them on PS4 and expected to get them on PS5. I don't think this will make me get an Xbox, but it sucks I'll likely be missing out on these games. I suppose what Microsoft hopes is that people like me get a PS5 and a cheaper Xbox Series S with Gamepass.

I love that the Nintendo Switch exists. It's completely different, and doesn't really compete with Playstation/Xbox. As a gamer, it makes sense to purchase a Nintendo Switch and one of either the Playstation/Xbox. I wish Xbox/Playstation differentiated somehow. I suppose Microsoft tried to do that with Kinect, but failed/gave up.
New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released
*your. This was the last straw. I've finally had enough of my OnePlus autoincorrecting me all the time.
Yes, correct. But that’s moving the goal-posts, kind of: “making something available to a wider audience” isn’t the same thing as making something possible. The original claim was that we’re now in a world where these things are possible. But really, we’re “merely” in a world where they’re more widely-available. They’ve been possible for a long time.

What I wanted to highlight, was that technology making something possible, that was previously impossible, is actually quite rare.

There really aren’t all that many innovations that come along and change the world in such a way that a time-traveller from the past, would need to learn an entirely new conceptual framework to understand how we do things now. Almost always, what we do now, maps in an obvious 1:1 way to what we used to do. Hailing a cab? You could hail a cab in Ancient Greece!

In fact, it’s pretty hard to think of genuinely-novel things humans only started doing in the last 100 years, due to some technological enabler. Playing single-player interactive story-games, maybe — even the progenitor of the medium, the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book, is AFAIK a 20th-century innovation.
Tons of stuff is being rediscovered these days thanks to LiDAR. If you can get past some of the gimmicky stuff (and have Disney+) There's a National Geographic documentary called Ancient China From Above that gets into this in the third episode. A neat thing I learned watching this is that the Chinese flood myth may have some evidence to back it up in the form of an earthquake dam in the Jishi Gorge dated to 1920 BCE that would have flooded the yellow river valley.
Ethical is a broad term. It's not illegal, or in violation of any industry ethics standards that I know of.

That said, it's not illegal (in the US) for politicians to receive payments from companies for consulting, giving lectures or such. It's not illegal (in most countries) to hire former staffers for a politician you wish to lobby as lobbyists, compliance officers or such. I would say that most people do consider some of these ethically questionable.

IMO, the issue is one of nuance and scale. The more subjective, arbitrary or ilegible decisions these employees can make, the larger the risk of corruption. The more employees can make these decisions, the larger the risk. The larger the economic impact of these decisions, the larger the risk.

This case, demonstrates a dangerous nexus. The marketplace has a lot of moderation (or whatever amzn call it). Subjective decision making. Culprits removed suspensions on sellers and products in exchange for naked bribes. For adwords, that might be ad copy approval, adsense categorization. IDK if an adwords account managers can affect quality score, but that would be a big one. I suspect they can. A lot of amazon and google employees make these decisions, another scale for the nexus. These decisions are worth a fortune. In this case, $100m in sales.

Subjective decisions made by many people affecting very large sums.

Once you are at Google or amazon scale, this is big money corruption. $100m in sales. There are whole industries where whoever wins at amazon marketplace, facebook ad market or adwords wins a major market.

In terms of ethics... Ethics either works against some sort of professional or societal standard (eg legal or medical ethics) or you have to examine it from a "who is harmed and is that fair" perspective. Here amazon itself was harmed, so it's straight crime. In other cases, it might be unfair to competitors or consumers. If you are outperforming your competitors on adwords because you hired the most well connected former account manager... I can see where competitors would consider this unfair.
I do index funds/ETFs, stocks, and options. I would love to buy some raw land for the future.
Thanks.

I think it's worth mentioning that I'm 27 and almost 4 years into my career in software. I am convinced I have the best job of any of my friends, or just about anyone I meet at my age. I make more money and work less hours than >95% of my (all college-educated) friend circle. I don't feel stressed at work ever. My team supports me, my manager encourages me to expand my skillset to whatever interests me.

My career trajectory is looking phenomenal, and I find software development generally fun & rewarding (although certainly not all the time!).

But who knows, maybe that will all change by the time I'm 55 and I'll hate that I spend my career in software dev. Seems unlikely.
You can also see the tach idling at 1000 RPM, but the "rolling down a hill" part is accurate.

I wonder if Nikola had their brakes working or not.
There is also a book titled "creativity - a short and cheerful guide"[0] but I haven't yet read it.

[0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224638/creativity-b...
Haha I've built a very rudimental version of this for my personal documents. No grouping or categorizing of text areas, just PDF->OCR->Database. I do scan for letterheads, though, and save them in a separate table.

A question, if I may: How big is your userbase?
2040 huh?
I'd have guessed Tencent (incl subsidies Facebook, Oracle, Microsoft, in order of acquisition) and Alphabet Activision share the market 75%/25%, with Apple still commanding a 30% sales tax in certain spaces.
From my experience with that shortcut, it does not show the window if it was minimised. The title bar does change to the application name though. Is there a way to maximise the window after switching to it?

I also miss ability to snap the window to the left or right of the screen with keyboard shortcut - windows key + arrow keys. Is there a mac equivalent that I am missing?
Stock manipulation attempt?
I think the Existence never begin because the Creation keeps creating more creations infinitely before going through startExistence().
I second this. Arguable one of the top 5 books that I've every read. I read it in my mid 20s, but found it to be very much along the same lines of philosophical thought that I'd been developing internally throughout my late teens and early 20s. Pirsig.
“after getting their parents' permission”
“I think that over time, the revenue model is the dominant term.”

Nah. The profit model. This has consequences for both the users and employees. The stockholders have shoved their way to the front, and their mercenaries are armed.
Heh...I assume you do know the meaning now. Got a chuckle when I learned that as well.
This.

I am paid pretty well at my company right now, but there are always my colleague that I know get a higher offer for some other role. I can choose to get salty about it or just try to transition with that role but with less satisfaction and more learning.

There are more to life than just chasing money. No matter who you are, peasants or kings, you are only given a limited time to live. We trade 40 hrs of our life for some numbers on the computer that can go up or down, meanwhile the rich just gained a lot of money due to this pandemic.
TIL that my IBM PC AT clone in 1987 was not a personal computer.
IPv6 does away with NAT since there are so many IPs that everyone gets one without needing NAT.

But proxies will still group the users on the same IP.
I see what ypu did there! :)
Tesla Patents Metal-Air Battery Pack, May Be Strong Clue for Battery Day 2020
I've avoided Valorant because it requires kernel drivers. But I'm in the minority, most gamers don't even know whats involved there.
I know HN likes to beat the drum around braking up big tech, but this is absurd. This is a move right up there with protectionist policies from the US and china, and does not directly benefit consumers, as it is being framed.
Yeah, we call it "kay-rab" to avoid confusion.
In a century you and everyone you know will be dead. So what difference does it really make?
Full Lab Details – September 2020
And Sun XDR.
We are busy signing deals with Microsoft.
Let us hope, at least
> Okay so it seems most people here on HN hates their jobs? That's sad but i think its not unique.

Internet comment sections have always biased toward people who hate their jobs, are unhappy with their lives, or are otherwise trying to escape into virtual distractions.

Not everyone fits this description, of course, but the negative comments are over represented relative to what the general population thinks. Never interpret any internet comment section as representative of the norm.

Growing up, my internet commenting activity was highest when I was least happy with my jobs. It was lowest or even non existent when I loved my job. (Currently I enjoy my job, but I have 10-20 minute periods of time to kill on my phone daily for other reasons now).

Also, don’t forget that HN comments are heavily biased toward cynical interpretations.

> Drop the fake self imposed yuppie consumer self policing and perfectionism mindset and just accept that we live in a crazy part of history where everything is obsolete after 5 minutes, so just do what you find acceptable, try to scrape some money together and remember to appreciate the fact that at least you are in a sector where it's pretty easy to be an entrepreneur if you want to

If you hate work, becoming an entrepreneur is the last thing you want to do. Dealing with grumpy customers directly will only make things worse.

The majority of people I meet in the real world have no problems separating their personal identity from their home life and well being. For some reasons developers are particularly bad at mixing their work and their personal identity while chasing perfectionism. I assume it’s because we grew up in front of computers and many of us spend our leisure time on computers as well.

Even the smallest bit of separation of work and personal life can fix this. In other words, learn how to disconnect from technology and do literally anything else for a few hours per week. We don’t need to go all in on quitting the industry to get a break.
A lot of people had a lot of questions after my last post with a full lab history, because I didn't include much detail in there

This is a full writeup of my lab with hopefully all questions answered. If there are any more, either email me, or tell me here and I can include it in the post for more people to read
This guy should be put in charge of the FAA.

The people previously running the FAA should go to prison.

Maybe the outdated aircraft can be converted to house some of the growing homeless population.
What I was saying is that the way you debouce a button comes from the customer (mercedes, ford etc.).

For sure you don’t act on a button press imediately. If you do that in automotive, all the electric noise will trigger the button randomly.
I agree that software is not always glamorous or fulfilling work. The same can be said for building in the analogue world. However, you will be hard pressed to find a career that will grant a higher standard of living for yourself and your family while offering the level of flexibility that can be found in software.
You're a piece of S.

F the poor as long as it doesn't affect me?
You're right that can happen in most cases, but look at Microsoft's recent acquistions: LinkedIn, GitHub, Xamarin, and game studios like Mojang, Double Fine, Obsidian, and inXile. All well-established brand names that have continued to maintain their own identity and team culture, albeit like any culture I'm sure they've evolved over time.
MS has plenty of "relations with the US public sector" already, they won the DOD JEDI contract. They didn't need to spend anything on TikTok.

TikTok is a fad, like Instagram and other social networks.
Capitalists can value the long term advantages of having a fairly compensated and happy workforce. A company might be able to gain a short term benefit by mistreating or underpaying workers, but in a properly regulated capitalist system this will lead to public backlash, regulatory attention, corruption, and ultimately employees leaving for competitors.
Wondering why your glasses are so pricey?
Bitcoin Blockchain Grows to 300 Gigabytes in Size
The central tenet of my career was focused on budgeting and building a portfolio that can generate post-tax cash flow to enhance my lifestyle. My portfolio consists of dividend paying stocks and all sorts of bonds. I know I missed out on capturing value from the many peaks in the market of late, but there is a very soothing feeling knowing that I get a stable and sizable paycheck from my investments every month.
In San Diego, in 1987, I attended college using Pell grants from the US government because my family was considered below the poverty line. They provided enough money to cover tuition, books, and room and board, but I lived at home and used the room-and-board money to buy an IBM PC AT clone.

This was not my first personal computer, but it was the first that literally has "Personal Computer" in the name, and is more than ten years prior to your claim.
I think this is almost the inevitable path of public companies. Even worse if its not founder run, but manager run. In that case the incentive structure is inevitably going to be about share prices. And share price incentives will slowly erode any culture into driving revenue higher and higher.

Of course there is always the possibility of staying private, but it seems unlikely if you've taken VC money, or have to fund expansion to get to profitability, which most tech companies do.
I wasn't merely generalizing from my own experience; that was something multiple tenured professors had explicitly told me. (I think their hope was that I would be less novel rather than leaving academia, mind you.)

I absolutely concur that academia has worsened. There used to be enough money sloshing around that you could get plenty without needing to be particularly good at selling yourself to grant committees.
I told you what I did when my first real transformation from unhealthy to healthy happened in my early 30's . Now I'm 41 and I'm having second transformation beyond what happened in the first. Most people really need the first transformation. And one of the driving factor of getting it rolling reasonably well was that I realized how little was truly required to get a lot healthier. There ways to optimize it, but most important thing is to make one simple change and stick with it. Two were real changes I decided were the lifting weights and slowly reducing number of spoons I put sugar in my tea. Everything else was just what I did naturally anyway. The huge point helping me to stick with it was that there were only two simple rules that I had to stick, and both of those were low enough effort for me to stick with.

It wasn't completely without civilization noise, but it was something where I could actually think better when walking outside than when sitting still in front of computer. It was quiet enough that fresh air and walking actually helped me to think.
Software development is like building a house with a hammer that continually change its shape and hence how it’s used.
The NY Times has a history of trying to smear Assange. The day after they began publishing the Iraq and Afghan War Logs, provided to them by Assange, the NY Times prominently ran a hit piece about Assange. Here's the opening:

> Julian Assange moves like a hunted man. In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London’s rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.

> He demands that his dwindling number of loyalists use expensive encrypted cellphones and swaps his own the way other men change shirts. He checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends.

The whole point was to paint him as a paranoid control freak, rather than someone who had completely legitimate fears of state surveillance. Does anyone seriously think that Assange was not under surveillance by multiple state intelligence agencies at that point?

Anyways, this is how they treated the person who provided them one of the biggest scoops in the paper's history. If you look at the NY Times page on the War Logs, they still feature the hit piece at the top: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/worl...

Yes, the NY Times has expressed opposition to the prosecution of Assange, but they've hardly reported on his extradition case. They should have this case on the front page every day, given how critical it is to the future of journalism in the US.
The EU or the nations which are members of the EU?

(Current EU VAT rules definitely suck for small multi-nation startups, but the rule as I understand it is “pay VAT where you customers are” which brings me back to the nations themselves rather than the supernational trading block).
In a similar situation, I'm hoping to help this somewhat by making global weather data more easier to access and thereby helping to understand and communicate better on issues related to climate change. Example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEI6d7K1E5M

If you have ML background and would like to play with the data, feel free to sign up at https://oikolab.com and let me know. Happy to remove usage limits while you explore weather data.
That's debatable but even if true doesn't mean he's not one of the most valuable and important journalists in history
What does it mean to be an indie game developer? If you're releasing with the help of a publisher you're no longer independent.