skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this guy has a too-rosy view of the 80s and 90s. Probably used only Macs as most of his examples are about Mac.

By the way, a Mac still lets you select a boot drive in the exact same way. And current Macs still remember the positioning of icons and on a Mac you can still run apps from anywhere (unless the developer didn't follow Apple's standards but that's not Apple's fault). If you take his comments purely within the Mac field of view which he seems to do, some of these statements are simply false. And the unrestricted, non-password users? Well yeah it would be nice but the cold dark world of the internet has caught up with that. Good luck with your botnets.

I don't think he's ever edited config.sys and autoexec.bat files, struggled with setting nonconflicting IRQs with jumpers and set up XMS/EMS high-memory drivers, just to have enough to load all the TSRs you needed and have enough real memory available available to run a program.

Or used Word Perfect which required a 'cheat sheet' with all the different function key combos. Most programs required classroom training for all non-geek people to use them.

I loved that time too. But it was definitely not easier than it is now.

By the way, someone looking for this simpler experience can find it in the mobile OSes. An iPad already provides most of these things while being secure (but at the expense of Apple deciding what you can and can't do with your device). A lot of people already use a mobile or tablet as their sole computing device.
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Apollo used pure oxygen, and skylab was 3/4 oxygen, 1/4 nitrogen. For context, this was done to simplify systems, and lower the pressure in both the spacesuits and spacecraft; low-pressure in the spacesuit is important because it makes the suit more flexible.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/why-apollo-had...
It's interesting how spot-on Coinbase's 'prebuttal' was (https://blog.coinbase.com/upcoming-story-about-coinbase-2012...). There's very little in the NYT article that isn't mentioned. The only point of inaccuracy seems to be that the story was published on Friday morning, the day right after the prebuttal, not Sunday as originally suggested. Maybe the prebuttal forced NYT's hand?
Depends if you want to answer “what” or “why”.
Maybe try doing extraordinary things ?
only when the tide turns, you get to see who was swimming naked.

luck plays an important part, but not everyone realizes it or admits it.
> It already exists, it's called giving cows the right feed ...

Hmmm. That's the equivalent of saying "Giving people a good diet is the same as Yakult". :(

Not really what I was going for. ;)
Books Read by Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Tim Ferriss and More
At least weight saving is easily measurable and indisputable. Audiophilia focuses mostly on areas that are not so easily quantifiable.
Hot trash from the NYT, what a shock
You can prove that you can complete things in other ways though.

A degree shows you can complete things that you are told to. I.e. conforming.

A lot of people seem to come out of university and be somewhat useless in a workplace.

I think that's because university is 4yrs of doing what you're told, so by the time you come out your default mode is, "wait for someone to tell me what to do".
Algorithms and Coding Practice via Advent of Code 2020
Check out the 25-day Advent of Code for a great way to brush up on algorithms or a new programming language!
In the sentence, the outcome of a murder is being put into effect, rather than the outcome is being altered or affected.
USA's Supreme Court's scientifically illiterate decision will cost lives
Look have a carbon ebike that's fairly close: E-765[1]. It looks more like a traditional road bike in geometry and handlebars. 29 lb, ~53 mile range. Removable battery.

[1]: https://www.lookcycle.com/us-en/products/bikes/e-bike/road/e...
Go GUI Apps on Mac App Store with Fyne
What would have been the right time? When you were a student studying during your first degree or your second? In hindsight, I think it is almost dubious to assume that exposure to this article would have helped you at any given time in the past. It's quite possible you would not have come to the same realization about tech entrepreneurship had you not obtained your AE and had the experiences that you did.
Thanks, Dang.

If HN is like a flowing river that supplies the world with wisdom and perspective, Dang is the filter that removes pollutants and the keeper that adds tributaries.

People around the globe are indebted to your tireless and exemplary moderation of the HN community. The kindness, graciousness, and patience you exhibit -- even in the face of nasty remarks and biting insults -- is a model for everyone to emulate.
If your goal is advancing your career at a FAANG company, I think it's a waste of time.
The major problem with this "people of color" designation is that it sweeps specific discrimination against African Americans* under the rug. It is certainly possible to have 100% employees "of color" while consciously excluding African Americans, which I have witnessed at private companies (blue collar jobs mostly) in California (where I live). The result is that affirmative action for African Americans, which has been replaced with affirmative action for women and non-white men, does way more for non-African Americans than the originally intended recipients (collectively). Even black African/Caribbean immigrants are used for diversity accounting-- see the NYTimes article from 2004, "Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?".

Please note this is not a slight against women, immigrants, or anyone else. They obviously have valid discrimination claims. But if you work in a community where less than 1% of African-American students are scoring at grade level in mathematics, and your company claims it is "diverse" yet hires no local African-Americans, there is still a serious problem in your community that should be addressed. (It's OK if you don't care, as long as you don't pretend otherwise). So please do not conflate hiring "people of color" with hiring any specific group.

* By "African-American" here I mean descendants of slaves who lived in the USA, and are thus severely disadvantaged because of it, having actual wealth stolen without any legal means available for recovery. I do understand that "African-American" is commonly used to mean any black U.S. resident.
I dunno man - for a 'high tech' sci-fi movie, there aren't anything resembling modern phones in the Matrix. My 7yo has a hard time understanding pay phones. At least the Godfather is set in the past haha.
Thankfully, Ismo explains it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igh9iO5BxBo
Standalone Nashorn 15.0 is out
You can be accepting of one race and still be racist against another. Racism means discrimination against a particular group or groups. It's not mutually exclusive, you don't get a free pass for thinking Asians are great while still persecuting Black people.

So you're the one redefining the meaning of the word.
If you switch to the Hatching tool, you should see a select box for Floor Style. Changing that value will change the floor to various different textures. There isn't exactly a way to do walls like that, but using a second layer, you could choose a different floor style and draw around your floors. I'm hoping to make it possible to add your own floor and hatch styles in a future update.
What can be quantified is then optimized. What can't be quantified is ignored or even denied.

Chinese or Russian historians in the distant future, rustling through the bones of our fallen civilization, will disagree on many things. Marking the rise of the nerd as the beginning of the end won't be one of them.
I don't feel "running a 200 person company (ref: article) at 23" is remarkable if you look at who runs a 328.2 million person country now.

Running a company is a different skillset from getting to the position.
Breaking HTTPS seems to be the way to go.

https://mitmproxy.org/

It's open source, and handles that issue. It could spit out logs of everything.
Come visit Armory's (YC W17) booth AWS re:Invent Nov. 30th – Dec. 18th
I also grew up on Macs, but I swore off Apple in 2009. I keep a few old systems around, though, since I'm a nostalgic person. I just got my Power Macintosh 7100 on the net yesterday. There's still a couple of Hotline servers up. Good times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billiard_Ball
Thanks, I'm glad it's worked well for you! That's a really good idea, and something I'll make note of. I've never played around with creating PDFs from javascript, but it sounds like a fun challenge
Even without the state intervention, a lot of people feel safer with ordering things than shopping for them during covid
As I have said elsewhere in this thread, these harmless explanations for something that can be perceived as discriminatory are perfectly reasonable when there are only a few isolated incidents. However their believability has an inverse relationship to the number of accusations. When there is a clear pattern of behavior, as their is in this instance, it gets harder and harder to argue it is anything other than discriminatory.

And at a certain point the motive for these decisions doesn't even matter. If an overwhelming majority of Black employees feel they are being discriminated against at work, that is a huge failing for a company whether there is active discrimination happening or not.
Draw a Venn diagram of people who 1. have the interest to do it 2. have the skill to do it 3. have the time to do it.
I've also heard of "heroes" as referring to software developers that are seen as great by management because they're always working hard to put out fires (usually that they caused). Meanwhile those who write stable software and work normal hours are not praised because stability is not noticed.

Now that I think about it, I guess we're talking about the same thing.
retention is also a problem. Coming from a place where I gave a shit to a place where I only care about the product, but not in an way tied to my identity, it's so much more emotionally liberating. I check in, do my job, and leave caring to my side-projects. I was done in by management at the last place (half due to getting the short end of the stick in an necessary reorg, and half due to management incompetence of my new manager), and that is EXHAUSTING.

Now, I have competent and organized managers, and they help me push code with high efficiency, which is satisfying, but in a very different way than one that is more tied to my identity.

From a management point of view, you really do not want to hire a person who gives a shit if you are a shitty manager, let's say top quintile, (statisically, if you are if you are manager, you are), because when that person leaves, and they will, it's not going to be any fun for you.
Good questions.

Sure, everybody has a history. Nobody agrees with everybody all the time. Same for me. My issue with this essay is that it doesn't examine that history and how it affects people.

As to the latter, I think you're confusing nonattachment with detachment. I've written more about that here: https://www.quora.com/I-have-learned-that-attachment-leads-t...

Another way to look at it is in terms of having a choice in response to some stimulus. If somebody expressing a desire compels me to do a, "Yes sir yes sir three bags full" routine, I'm not free. But I'm equally unfree if my response is to shout, "Fuck you, you're not my dad." To me, really thinking for myself comes after my reactions pass and I'm at peace again.
Umatrix makes the web usable again (2017)
This is exactly the kind of company I wouldn't want to work for unless they highly, highly reward me for "giving a shit" (aka working like a dog for the exec team to have a better exit when they sell the company).
For taking video time stamped notes I use https://annotate.tv. You can write markdown and then export all your notes to PDF.
Probably partly with how they started. Pyenv is meant to manage multiple versions of Python. Rustup is meant to update Rust. It's possible to have multiple versions of Rust installed (not just stable + nightly, but multiple versions of Stable, for example) but that isn't the main point of the tool.

The "env" tools are about managing the environment the (interpreted) application runs in. The "up" tools are about managing the compiler & toolchain of a language, and make no difference to the applications.

Of course someone will go and make pyup to manage Python versions without changing the environment just to increase confusion.
I have been shitting all over people like this for a long time and trying to get people to see the light that a job is a job and nothing more, but then I get blamed for having a “mercenary mentality” and “not a team player”.

You are renting your skills to an entity that needs your skills for an agreed upon rate for a certain amount of time. If another employer offers you a better situation and your current employer doesn’t counter with a better offer you leave. The rules are simple and your employer knows how to keep you if they really want you.

Getting a job is not like joining a gang or a fraternity where you are first promised a community and good life and then the money is just a formality, but that’s what people seem to see it as. Rest assured, it should always be about the money first. Money is what I’m all about and my career isn’t any worse off for it nor have I ever had to work myself to the bone for no reason just to please the company gods.
Compare: Indian bullet train vs. CA HST
India vs California

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai–Ahmedabad_high-speed_rail_corridor

Planned opening
December 2023; 3 years' time

Cost: approx 3.3 billion USD

Technical
Line length
508.18 km (315.77 mi)

Character
Elevated, underground, undersea and grade-separated

Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge

Electrification
25 kV AC, 50 Hz, overhead catenary

Operating speed
320[1] km/h (200 mph)

VS

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

Status: Abandoned. After 10 years voting yes (collection of) on taxpayer funded bonds.

Budget projections: 68.3-98.1 billion USD

[..]Technical
System length
c. 171 mi (275 km) (central leg)
c. 520 mi (840 km) (Phase 1)
c. 800 mi (1,300 km) (proposed including Phase 2)[1]

No. of tracks
2 (4 in stations)

Track gauge
4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

Electrification
25 kV 60 Hz AC overhead line[2][3]

Top speed
220 mph (350 km/h) maximum
110 mph (180 km/h) San Francisco–Gilroy[4]
110 mph (180 km/h) Los Angeles–Anaheim[5]

[..] On February 12, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom in his first State of the State address announced that, while work would continue on the 171-mile (275 km) Central Valley segment from Bakersfield to Merced, the rest of the system would be indefinitely postponed, citing cost overruns and delays.

Project costs have escalated significantly from an initial estimate of $33.6 billion in 2008 for the Anaheim to San Francisco section according to the 2008 business plan and a $40 billion total figure given to voters whose approval was sought in 2008. The 2008 business plan proposed a 2028 completion date for Phase 1 and a one-way fare of $55 from Los Angeles to San Francisco. In 2012, the Authority re-estimated the project's cost at $53.4 billion ($2011) or $68.4 billion (YOE). Federal funds are dependent upon rail service, though not necessarily high-speed, starting on operational rails by December 2022. In 2018, the Authority pushed estimated costs to between $63.2 billion and $98.1 billion (YOE) and delayed initial service to 2029, with Los Angeles to San Francisco service in 2033. Environment reviews for the entire San Francisco to Anaheim route would continue.The cost for Bakersfield to Merced is $12.4 billion.[..]
> I guess Clojure doesn't count as interesting and/or a lisp then

The Schemers and Common Lispers have been saying this about Clojure for years, you know ...

And, in the interest of full disclosure, I don't disagree with the choice that Clojure made. Not being able to process a "list" as a sequence is a PITA.

However, articles like these get written with "Look how easy it is to make a Lisp" without saying "Except that we didn't implement these really hard features that actually make a Lisp"
I would suspect the current solution is roughly comparable to the built in Windows performance minus the general hypervisor penalty. But it’s certainly something that could be exposed at the API level and optimized in the future. I’d be really curious to see if Microsoft would let Apple show them up on relative emulation performance. In the old days I’d assume no way... now I kinda think they’d jump at the opportunity to let Apple be their flagship reference hardware.
StuffIt is third party software (Aladdin, now Smith Micro)
When they Cry (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) has a very intriguing crime weapon at the center of its mystery: a weaponized virus / biological weapon.

As a biological weapon, it causes death but under a most unusual manner: the victim believes that worms are crawling under their skin around their throat, so all victims claw at their own throat until they die. Other symptoms include paranoia, distrust, high levels of stress, and outbursts of violence.

Without giving away the "whodunit", it suffices to say that the villain takes advantage of the symptoms to accomplish the villain's goals.

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A virus that affects the brain, and causes a predictable change of behavior makes for a most interesting "murder weapon". With some careful planning, the villain is able to have some cause-and-effect, the paranoia / violent outbursts of the villain's victims was used to make the villain's conspiracy deeper and more mysterious.

Its not like the villain can read minds: but knowing that a victim will slowly grow more paranoid and violent as time goes on is sufficient for the masterminded plan to be carried out.

As such, it was insufficient to solve "the murder" of the story. To find the mastermind, you had to understand the meta-weapon. Yes, X killed Y in the local landfill, but X wasn't the mastermind... just another victim to the paranoia that the mastermind infected upon X.

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An unusual crime weapon is most needed for a mystery. By making something unusual, it provides a dramatic promise to the reader that the story is worth following.
> it will be more common for people to interview for the brand rather than the substance

lol!
Email doesn't run JS. That's why they have to use tracking pixels (images) and unique links.

Your first sentence was great, but the whole JS rant didn't land. I can't see how side-channels are relevant unless an attacker is already in the system, at which point they could just grab the plaintext.
It's important to notice that the NYC article is very light in details as well. Maybe they're keeping the details as ammunition for a legal battle, but until more is revealed to the public, it's hard to either excuse or condemn Coinbase. especially given the political campaign going on against it[1].

[1]: https://coinbaseopenletter.com/
I am working with ADLINK under the 5GDIVE project. We are currently integrating it for our use cases, as we plan it to use as our DASS inside the architecture. For more context: https://5g-dive.eu/
We are the only partner using Java instead of Python so we unfortunately haven't yet tested it, as there are only bindings available for python. But they plan to add it soon in Java. Pretty competent company as of my opinion while dealing with them, especially with the creators of Zenoh.
affect: to influence (someone or something)

effect: to cause to come into being

I can't find anything definitively stating "affect" to be incorrect and "effect" to be correct in this instance. I say they're interchangeable in this context.
Please tell your Dad I saw the 30 on 30 on him called "Slaying the badger". It's the most fantastic testament to his grit and achievements. If he's ever in SF, I would happily buy him coffee / beer :)
Is the other facet of the joke based in the trope that for something to be interesting lately it has to be about rust?
To repeat the grandparent, what else can they do?

Many of the "issues" bought up in this article aren't even problematic. It says John Russ left because Armstrong took public stance that he wanted Coinbase to focus on crypto space stuff.

Coinbase's stance there is fair, reasonable and moral. It is desirable that some companies just do what it says on the tin. If Russ had a reason for quitting that was race-related then the NYT didn't uncover it.
VSCode actually runs that stuff over on the remote host. There’s no lag when typing because it’s pushed to the remote host async, so your editor doesn’t lag like if you were typing something in over SSH. It’s quite seamless and you forget you’re remote.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this. I just want to say Thank you for engaging in this kind of discussion. It benefits all of us.
Ha, yes! Same thing :)
Genuinely one of the best TV programs ever made.
The universe was condensed in a singularity. It expanded. That condensed heat is still there just thinned out. Empty space has a temperature. That's what I think of when I hear about cosmic microwave background radiation.

When I hear parity violation, I think of spin and beta decay. Even if the beta decay is the same, the way the nucleus is spinning means something completely different.

And by spin, we mean a model of angular momentum of a quantum point:

Heat transfers through conductive surfaces, convective mediums, and electromagnetic radiation. What's EM? Nature transferring heat by speeding up and slowing down clocks. It's easier for nature to slow down the watch, run a mile, and speed up the watch again, than it's just to keep the watch steady. Nature has no mind. It takes the easiest route like a pressure vessel pushes on all seals. You can say EM is heat transfer using time frequency as it's medium. White hot means relative clock ticks fast. Gravitational dark means relative clock ticks slow.

Since something needs to charge up a little before EM'ing brighter, you have a finite start and end, you have a particle. That's the photon. The photon hits the entire surface at once, so frequency matters not intensity, and the internal voltage of the conductive object increases, that's the electron. So angular momentum and spin here means something completely counter-intuitive. It's a model, a mental shortcut, but plenty of room to hide applications in translation.

When I hear polarization, I think of interference. This heat transfer through EM travels through a medium. That medium provides loss and transfers the EM into internal heat.

How soon before we are looking at our own shadows on this? Side effects of lenses focusing across great distances?

Cars going the same speed on the highway see a de-acceleration when they measure the speed against the road vs. the speed against another car. That's theory of gravity enough for me. Just replace those cars with what we know about electromagnetism.
I believe that lists are generally defined in the "Lisp" standards as a set of cons pairs terminated by nil.

This makes things a lot harder than they need to be--you effectively MUST process lists by recursion as you don't know you have a list until you hit that far right "nil".