skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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“The Draft Eisenhower movement was the only successful political draft of the 20th century to take a private citizen to the Oval Office.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_Eisenhower_movement
Seems almost every PG essay is controversial now. I got downvoted for pointing out someone was insulting him rather than criticising the essay.

Which leads me to say - I don't think HN is particularly fanboish towards PG. His recent essays have been mixed in quality, and certainly not up to Hackers and Painters (which I just reread for the third time) and I do feel that HN has thoroughly called that out. There are nuggets of wisdom but also signs of how difficult it can be to write generally when your life paths constricts you somewhat.

I really don't see a groupthink towards hero worship. Ironically, it seems the entrepreneur and nerdish need to be contrarian is at work here - looking to push back against PG, and somewhat justifiably so. And I'm sure he'd be the first to appreciate the need for that.
Bear in mind that I can't stand the taste of coffee nor like hot drinks.

The author writes: "I thought like this, until I became a 9–5 workday zombie myself." .. "I wish I had that kind of time, but I find some for the occasional stroll to the local beanery."

I have a different interpretation - you always deserve a 6 hour work day (or shorter).

That's two more hours per weekday to brew your own coffee, take a walk, take a nap, hang out, etc.

While the author appears to have a full-time job plus a side-hustle, if I read https://medium.com/illumination/start-your-side-hustle-as-so... correctly. ("I have to force myself to relax sometimes. I’ll spend an entire Saturday inside blogging and won’t realize it until it’s 7pm.")

I grow increasingly supportive of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" theory, the idea "that over half of societal work is pointless, which becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
I find Ray Dalio's thoughts on this and other related subjects much more compelling than Paul's.

Mr. Dalio has recently, within the past year or two, started sharing his thoughts publicly in an organized way at https://www.principles.com/ and on social media.
I don’t see why we need to be debating politics all day in the work place. I can guarantee you my politics (libertarian / capitalist / corporatist / anti-collectivism) will do nothing but enrage you and debates in public chats, lunch, etc. will serve nothing of purpose. Isn’t it better if we save the philosophical debates for beers and the ballot box? I don’t want to hear your soap box and you don’t want to hear mine.
Yeah, I meant primarily Excel and Sharepoint, and maybe MS Project (though that has commercial alternatives). But also that once a company commits to MS ecosystem - including Sharepoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and the whole Office suite - all that software suddenly gains a lot of additional functionality thanks to deep interoperability.
From today, India will officially be in recession
From a Reddit comment: "The home assistant tp-link integration already makes use of the local api connecting to the devices. I'd definitely recommend using a reserved dhcp address and specifying the devices in your ha config (not using auto discovery)."
One issue with PWAs is that Apple has hobbled what they can do on iOS. I think this prompts a lot of would be adopters to skip PWA and go straight to packaging their app with electron.
First step might be a console using an ARM cpu, which can push gaming adoption, and then windows proper can follow.
What's the error rate nowadays?

In the early 2000s, what I could find published suggested somewhere in the 0.2-1 bit error per GB per day.

I had a consumer desktop (no ECC) running as a home server, with plenty of spare memory, so I tried to verify that. I had a program that simply allocated 128 MB, wrote a pattern to it, and then every 60 seconds checked to see if any of the bits had changed.

At the low end of the expected error range, 0.2 bit errors per GB per day, my 128 MB pattern should have had an error on average every 40 days. Or every 80 days if the bit flipping only went one way because the pattern had an equal number of 0 bits and 1 bits.

I ran this for a couple years and never spotted an error. I never did figure out of the published error rate was too high, at least for the kind of RAM I had, or if there was something about my local environment that was making it harder for radiation that could flip bits from making it to my computer.
> Yes, typically for roles where it is difficult to vet a candidate's skills appropriately during the interview. It is also not an improvement for Software Engineering, imo. If you ask Software Engineers if they might prefer this process over the current process, I think, most would not.

I think you would be surprised, I am sure there are lots of people who wouldn't be interested in such a methodogly. But you need to remember what the purposal is. Do you want to be interviewed and tested on your skills in an interview and then sign a job contract or would you rather do a possible 2 day tech test. You also need to remember the job market, if I have 5 companies in my job pipeline (I stop adding companies at 5) why would I want to do 5 1 day tech tests?

And 1-2 tech test is extremely common.
Unfortunately can't be "universally relied on", as it remains disabled by default and in many distributions (mostly Linux, but e.g. Python for Windows has an SQLite with few extensions, which you can fix quite easily though by replacing the sqlite3.dll).
> I'm also assuming that the US, IL, and SA are pretty interested in regional stability if only because stability favors their own interests.

A completely stable and peaceful region is very much NOT in the interest of Israeli right-wing politicians (currently in power) hell-bent on expanding illegal settlements. Israel is the only modern nation in the world without a fixed border. This can only be maintained by denying Palestine statehood, and the only moral way to do that is by selling this image of "our savage, uncivilized neighbors will destroy us if we grant them statehood. We're in an extraordinary circumstance, so that's why we're taking the extraordinary measure of denying millions of people their human rights for 70 years."

Btw, 2014 Gaza war killed 5 Israeli civilians vs around 1500 Palestinian civilians (UN). It amazes me how Israel still manages to play the victim card in the western world.
I need to use it as a database solution for a small grocery delivery ecommerce service in my area.
if 7nm Zen3 is close, then 5nm can probably match without a fan.
That's pretty interesting. Is it due to the taste, i.e. can it be replicated with any non-caloric or low-calorie sweetener, or is it an effect specific to xylitol (or sugar alcohols in general)?
Most of those techs are not consumer-facing though.
Defining Champagne to be made in Champagne doesn’t seem like a “cop-out” to me?
Who owns your synthetic self?
Black Friday Impulse Buys
I'm so sad to see people uselessly spend their money and time to learn all of a company marketing content.

Imagine if walmart was selling a certification on all the best way to distribute your money in their stores...

Anyway, everyone is free to do whatever he wants, but I'm very annoyed and worried about the network effect of such a thing.

For example, because of his bullshit aws certificates, this person will have the feeling of being part of a special club, and a sunk cost incentive to push for whatever possible aws solution to any problem instead of anything else.

And sometimes companies could use that as a requirement or plus in recrutement against other candidates, when, in fact, anyone will be able to do the same job by just spending a few hours only reading the doc for what is really needed!
This Holiday season, ignore the ‘buy-small/buy-local’ nonsense
Thinking for yourself in Silicon Valley is nigh impossible these days without becoming a disliked outcast. If you even question the legitimacy or viability of a potentially flawed mission or irony in company values, experienced startups will manage you out silently and tactfully. In some of the worst places, you'll also get treated poorly and excluded so that you leave.

Company values really are just words on a wall in pretty much every company. I don't think you will find a single company where the values aren't silently broken by leadership and management. The best companies have ways of hiding this through shallow apologetic acts (e.g. self-washing on social media).

I've seen this happen to plenty of people who found out something they shouldn't have, at companies who would otherwise appear like great places to work.
yeah, I know. And the ETH graduates are probably top-quality. But the parent poster said that he didn't experience cutting edge technology in switzerland and I wondered whether it's the same in Zurich.

In germany, I've experience that you can excel at one technical property (usually your core product, manufacturing something, designing some material) while also being very conservative in virtually every other dimension. It's different in startups, but I wonder about zurich in general. So I think that both is possible, moving very slow and being very conservative, while on the other hand excelling at one particular thing (where you would need the high-quality ETH graduates). It's usually that IT is not the main focus here (in germany), so you can end up in slowly moving, very conservative, magnitudes behind cutting edge organisation. The swiss are not really known for a silicon-valley kind of attitude. I think it's a mindset and a lot of companies only see IT as cost instead of investment, much less as a driver of innovation. That's why I'm asking.
This is not what I see; these things go-go-go, even if the rider puts out no effort. I see people going over 40 km/h on e-bikes while basically just barely pretending to pedal.
Krakatoa skies: when the Sun turned blue (2017)
The H3 Microframework
Via a loadable extension: https://www.sqlite.org/cksumvfs.html
I'm waiting to buy into a sleak looking, sub 30 pound e-bike for commuting. I'll probably pay up to $3K for such a bike. There's advantages to having it be an e-bike over just buying a scooter or such, like storage, parking downtown, etc. so it'll be pretty easy for me to justify a budget for a bike, as long as it's nice.

I don't really like the external gearing of this bike, and not sure it needs standard Di2 type of components for shifting and whatnot....

This bike looks about 10x better than almost every other e-bike I've seen, so far. I'm sure we're about to see a lot of improvement in the next couple years of e-bike styling and tech...
They don't have Canadian payroll set up and don't want to hire contractors.
When All Else Fails, Write a Book
Corporate life can be traumatic sometimes. I can only imagine how employees at IBM felt and they were asked to sing one of these songs.
And the ARM chips are?
The technique the article presents is clever. I like exposing the fields I need to query as columns, and the way that making an extracted field NON NULL can supplement/replace complicated json check constraints is neat.
That number isn't very meaningful - because it applies to the base clocks only... which is a big catch.

Go beyond that and the power usage balloons quickly (won't repeat myself, see my other comment on this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25231798).

On laptops, more power efficiency maps directly to increased performance (turbo clocks provide higher performance in bursts or at the expense of your laptop's fans sounding like a jet turbine).
Just a suggestion: "If you are familiar with Core Data or Realm, Dflat occupies the same space as these two". I'm not familiar with either of these, even a brief description of what this is would be super helpful.
There's a wonderful podcast [1] on Youtube that deep-dives into the collapse of various historical civilizations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew
Ryzen 5800u - on TSMC 5nm - might be better than M1, let's not forget the new generation of process that Apple has paid for.
I take it that these people have never watched the turkey drop on TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFtV6-ALoQ
The hardest of the hardcore maths I do on a daily basis is calculating percentages and actively knowing when to multiply or divide by a percentage. Then also knowing what value that is.

The only other one I can think of is dimensional analysis which sort of goes hand in hand with the percentages thing. But with this you can make conversions into different units as well.

Aside from just standard accounting, what does trigonometry and calculus really benefit to the average working class individual?
I mean, I don't think the advice of "work on projects you're passionate about" is wrong.

It's just that personally... I feel the passion maybe 10% of the time, even on projects I'm really excited by. I feel passion sharing stuff, hitting big milestones, etc. But I need more than that to get myself through the grind of the unpleasant bits.
>To ask the same question in yet another way, Is Entropy like C to the majority? If it appears to decrease, it's our understanding of probabilities for the system that need to be reworked?

The popular intuition of entropy is often wrong and incomplete. The most general definition is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)

You will see it is inline with what I'm talking about. Entropy is an arbitrary concept defined relative to your choice of a system (entities axioms and theorems) and arbitrary macrostates and arbitary microstates defined for the system.

Nobody has this down, they all talk about entropy without defining what kind of entropy they're talking about. Usually it's a half baked definition involving temperature and conservation of energy.

In general when you add conservation of energy into your system, microstates and macrostates then it becomes more inline with the popular notion of entropy. Because for atoms to self organize into planets they must stop moving, but because of conservation of energy that motion must be transferred into something else. So in general self organization in one part of the universe must mean another part of the universe gets hotter.

If I define a macrostate and microstate to account for conservation of energy meaning that my microstate must make sure that if a particle stops moving another one must start moving then things usually fits the notion of getting more disordered over time.

If I define the microstate to be just the position of atoms then things appear to become ordered over time as the position of atoms coalesce into spheres.

So there's different perspectives on it and all perspectives are true. It's just one perspective is examining the phenomenon of conservation of energy the other is not.
>Do you value independent thinking?

is there somebody on earth that doesn't value independent thinking?
Lately Lenovo has been quite quick releasing AMD variants of Thinkpads. I'd say March or April.
I would say "code it yourself, if it doesn't significantly slow you down". There's definitely something to be said for minimizing your dependencies, but if you're spending weeks implementing things completely tangential to what you're trying to do, you made a wrong turn somewhere. It's all about picking your battles, and I think you can go too far in both directions.
Windows for Arm runs on ARM (and emulates x86 to run win32 apps).
One chain ring is the new thing these days, with 11+ cog cassettes.

Lack of aero shape probably facilitates putting the battery in there. Though they could do the handle bars and seat stays at least.
I believe there is no law if you cant finance legal action. Nowadays we have tons of flexible and temporary contracts. These people have just about the right to do as they are told. If you have a contract for a fixed number of hours and unlimited duration that doesn't mean the employer has to stick to the rules. It really doesn't matter what laws or contracts there are. In some companies (hard to tell how many) it's a game of looking what they can get away with. For a union there is prestige in court over [say] a 30 euro pay cut or a few unpaid hours.
This is a false premise. Human beings are a hierarchical animal and experience stress if uncertain of their position in the social order. Even in a professed leaderless organisation, the group will invariably form into an informal hierarchy, with those possessing more ‘social credit’ occupying positions of power. The rest spread out along the totem pole.

• ‘social credit’ being any of: good looks, intelligence, money, high-status relatives, a car ..
> there's a level of self-assuredness that feels increasingly disconnected from reality

There's a unique type of hubris that comes from operating in the startup/VC world for a long period of time. On a long enough timeline, investors and founders alike start to forget that selection bias has shaped their perspective of who is successful. The failed investments and bankrupt startups are quickly forgotten, almost as if they never existed. What's left is a few home run investments and headline startup founders that get to rewrite their history to make their success seem obvious from the start.

It's also a side effect of coaching early startup teams. Startups are hard and often spend more time looking like failures than successes in the early days. Advisers and investors get into a rhythm of praising their founders to rebuild confidence and energize the teams. It's common for investors to tell their companies that they are uniquely talented or exceptional as a way to short-circuit any doubts that their problem space is too hard for anyone to conquer. Spend enough time telling people that they are one in a million, exceptional, and not like the general population and eventually you'll start believing it too.

This essay feels a lot like the advice we received as an early stage startup: It's what we wanted to hear, maybe what we needed to hear to keep going, but it's not necessarily generally true advice that can be applied to all situations. If you're a startup foundering experiencing doubts, this type of writing can provide a kick in the pants that you need to keep going. If you're not in the startup world, it just feels out of touch.
Yeah, there's nature-nurture stuff going on, but there is also a strange inability to grapple with context shifts. What is “conventional” is changing, and an idea which seemed “independent” is no longer.

This is why Alan Kay’s talks about the same are nicer. He is explicit about “you find yourself in a pink world surrounded by pink things and then you have a blue thought which could take you out of the plane of your existence... but you have been to school, to church, you have othe things to do today, and so you squash it—it becomes a ker-splat. But every once in a while you have an unguarded moment, maybe in a shower or waking up, where those things don’t kick in quite so fast and instead your idea gets to suddenly expand for a bit, it becomes a ker-pow. The scientific term for these is ho-lee-shiiit.” It’s not something that is unavailable to others, it is a common human experience.

Then he defines something similar to pg’s idea, but more grounded in two preferences: are you more interested operationally in getting your tasks for today done, or are you more interested in an idea for its own sake even if it doesn't have pragmatic function? And are you intimidated by the reactions of your peers (to whom the blue thought seems insanity?) or do you not care what anyone thinks?

Finally, our inability to invent the future is generally traced to our funding sources. These sources prize innovation, producing an amazing version of whatever is already out there and really perfecting it, rather than discovery or invention, heading out in a risky direction where you don't know what the tasks are, and you just have a vague dream but no idea what challenges you are going to face. He usually mentions NSF proposals, the ones that are successful say here is what I'm going to do and here is how I will do it.
Actually I've struggled with bipolar disorder for two decades so I'm rather well acquainted with suffering caused by distorted perceptions of reality. Maybe that's why it's less daunting of a proposition to me :)

But yes you're completely right, the actual odds of an adverse psychologic reaction are much lower. My point was moreso that dealing with terminal illness can lead to its own kind of detachment from reality and all sorts of stress.
Unusual murder weapons in crime fiction
Proper multi-user support (which is something that the iPad still doesn't have at all today...) and a reliable operating system that doesn't crash multiple times a day are definitely customer-facing features.

A fast processor and a machine that doesn't heat up are customer facing too.
Using carbon fiber is saving on the order of 1 or 2 lbs though, not 25.
I live in US (though not born here) and truck and bike ones give me a bit of a pause too. The fact that bike is both a bicycle and a motorcycle doesn't exactly help either. And btw is scooter a bike?
It simply says "Permission denied", with no explanation.
5 Years of University Mathematics in ~550 pages [pdf]
This is ARM version of Windows running in virtual machine on ARM hardware. Microsoft uses it on some of their Surface laptops. It has software emulation of x86 instructions on ARM hardware. x64 support is coming soon.

Apple has their own version of such support named Rosetta 2, it uses a combination of static recompilation and emulation to run x64 macOS apps on ARM hardware. Both systems have about 20-40% performance hit when emulating x86/x64 on ARM.
You need to have an approved I-140 immigrant petition for your spouse to qualify for H-4 based employment authorization.

However, if your or your spouse's country of birth is also Canada, then at the present time you and your spouse can file for green cards concurrently with the I-140. Both of you will receive work authorization via these pending green card applications.

So the H-4 employment case wouldn't be really relevant to you. That program exists for people born in countries whose green card lines are backlogged, and who can't file for green card with their I-140.
It seems to require a vacuum to spin.
And then it needs to launch at Hypersonic speeds and then meets atmosphere. Instant encounter with a solid barrier == blow-up.
I am thoroughly skeptical about the technology both on the incredible G forces, and then hitting atmosphere at huge rates of speed.
So everyone else's nuclear bombs are for....?
I agree. I never understood the fetishisation of Silicon Valley... it's not the be-all and end-all for everything tech related.
Stable. 100% stable. Every and all OSs should be stable to the point that standard use should not throw an error. It's the number 1 thing that makes using Linux so hit or miss. Distros rise and fall because of this. There are issues with many but the primary issue that prevents users from adopting an OS is because it's unstable or there is an issue with the OS that requires significant effort.
France will begin labeling electronics with repairability ratings in January

https://www.gsmarena.com/france_will_begin_labeling_electron...
Both are true:

Gaming metrics is good for your career.

Having bad metrics is bad for society.
What’s happening in our culture seems more like a case of several competing conventions, split on tribal lines, rather than individuals thinking their way to unique positions.
Ceci n'est pas une bicycle.
Thinly veiled insults aside, you didn't address my actual point. The people in the article risked all the repercussions you mentioned by formally reporting the abuse and speaking with the NYTimes. Saying that they would do that but not risk snapping a pic of a racist e-mail, as an example, doesn't make any sense.