skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd try not to beat yourself up over this too much. As you've described, you had little to no control over the situation. In cases like this, I think it's often actually healthy to focus on things you do control (so long as it's not at the detriment to your overall health/well-being).
Not surprised.

Perhaps Im wrong but their price offering compared to Google Drive and iCloud is a bit much right?
How Far Does Wildlife Roam? Ask the ‘Internet of Animals’
Analyses like this are a great indication that the main effect of refining neural networks around chess will make neural networks more exciting and ultimately make chess more boring.
For a similar use-case I found the oauth-proxy a decent standalone solution:

https://github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy

It allows me to put different services behind oauth-logins, with confidence. Not too heavyweight or complex, and has a decent history of good support.
> It's not stupid to be open minded, but it is stupid to ignore plausible explanations of phenomenon because you are hoping to find something new.

This sentence reads like you are casually dismissing all of science..

Surely "The Earth is flat", "Rain spirits make the rain fall from the sky" and "We are at the center of the universe, being created by God and all" were plausible explanations of phenomena that were eventually ignored by scientists hoping to find something new.
I didn’t skimmed the article. Quick question, is it only Sales and Marketing or layoffs does include engineering too?
Lots of people have tried to capture this distinction, I'm sure I'll do a worse job here briefly than you can find around, but for me the tell is how people spend their time, and an attitude.

Hackers in the sense that I mean it have an innate need to understand things deeply, and a tendency to value achieving this directly (e.g. do something, don't just read up about it). As a result most hackers with any real talent will have achieved an unusually high level of expertise/mastery in at least one, often a few, technical areas. This is a result of having really spent a lot of time with it, in ways that may look "obsessive" to others.

This is by no means restricted to software. Another common characteristic is a tendency to take things apart (physically or virtually) to see how they tick.
Another thread from this morning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25759604
For jobs created is it only FTE? I'm surprised at the Doordash/Instacart numbers
Sexuality is a protected class like religion, gender, ethnicity, and so on.

Politics isn't.

This is a very simple concept, yet I find myself having to explain it to a lot of people.
This is not correct. Anyone can design and build a RISC-V CPU without ever getting permission from anyone.

Anything that uses the ARM ISA on the other hand requires a (costly) licence from ARM.

SiFive has its own proprietary *implementation" buty that's not required, and there are many free open source implementations.
The mechanisms were there, but ease of deployment mattered.

To compare things: you could publish a book in 1970 and you can publish a book now, but the process back then, with no text processors and digital printers, was much more complicated. To use an expression of von Clausewitz: "there was more friction".

A digital system that limits driving ability of individuals is much more scalable and also fine-tunable than its old alternative. For example, the government has many more intermediate options. It can choose to limit your driving ability to 10 miles a day only, then proceed to 5 miles a day only (unless you clean up your act, of course), or ban you just for 24 hours or a week.

These smaller, graded punishments would be impractical if they had to be enforced by human officers, but are perfectly feasible with remote control.
Google bans political ads until inauguration
Person you replied to here: my fulfillment with employment was temporary. Like I said, I was - past tense - most fulfilled after a breakup, for some time.

I worked for other people during internships for a few years and after college for about 5 years before hitting a homerun. I've never done anything for a decade and would imagine being unfulfilled by that kind of conscription. I'm not the kind of person content with just a job, and I always loathed and scoffed at the surrogate "family" that some corporate environment and startup founders try to create.
I kind of agree. Among all the professors I had when I did my bachelor, perhaps one or two were worth listening to in person (because you could interrupt them and ask questions if needed. They really knew their subjects and were good communicators). All the knowledge the other professors were broadcasting was vastly inferior in comparision to reading the top two books (from cover to cover) for their given lecture.
I still use Dropbox because I care about what you mentioned, but I think the next best thing is Seafile, however it has bad symlink handling.
They could’ve stayed small if they hadn’t taken VC money and hired hundreds of engineers in downtown SF.
I used to work from home semi regularly and always enjoyed it, I found the transition to 100% WFH easy and net positive. Conveniently I had setup a new home office in late 2019. No need to waste time and effort commuting and I am more productive at home with less distractions. I also had more time to think and reflect and took the opportunity to change job/employer to a role I find more satisfying and meaningful.

I find that I exercise more regularly as the logistics are easier - no need to try and get up at 6AM for a class, or forget my running shoes, or try to lock my bike up securely. Everything I need is here at home.

With more time at home I've had the opportunity to improve my cooking which I've always wanted to do and the extra time with my partner has been great.

Downtimes have been learning to live with less alone time; whilst my partner and I are comfortable and do things separately its not quite the same alone as say a full day WFH whilst they were out for dinner or in the office.

Seeing my family in person less often is not ideal but I've compensated with video chats and in the process I now talk to my family more frequently and with more of them. I'd say that is a positive.

I see people on sites like instagram that seem to need to demonstrate how they have used this situation to somehow radically change their lives with extreme diets or levels of fitness etc. which is unrealistic expectations. For me its been about gradually doing more of the good and less of the bad, and overall found a good balance.
I think GP may have worded that poorly, and "most compilers" in your quoted portion would be better read as "most other languages".

Taken this way, the sentence becomes something like: For computing, transistors are the lowest level of abstraction (they are literally the things doing the computing), Lisp and kin languages are at the extreme end of abstraction, and most other languages fit somewhere in between.

Though not entirely true (Lisps let you get pretty low level if you want), it's a reasonable perspective if you look not at what the languages permit, but what they encourage. Forth encourages building your own abstractions from the bottom up. Lisp encourages starting with an abstract machine model and building up even higher levels of abstractions (same with most functional and declarative languages). C++ (for something in between) encourages understanding the underlying machine, but not necessarily to the degree that Forth does. Forths and Forth programs are often closely tied to a specific CPU or instruction set. C++ can be seen as abstracted across a particular machine model that's typical of many modern CPUs but not with a direct tie to a specific instruction set (doing so constrains many programs more than necessary). And Lisp's abstract model is (or can be) even more disconnected from the particular physical machine.

I'd put Haskell, SQL, or Prolog and languages at their level at the extreme end of abstraction before Lisp. Their abstract machines are even further from the hardware (for most users of the languages) than Lisp's.
Don't give Amazon ideas.
At least in Kansas, because she’s permanently disabled she’ll have Medicaid as secondary insurance until she’s an adult. It covers the nightly nursing care, she has central sleep apnea and can’t yet tolerate a full mask so someone has to watch her at night to make sure she doesn’t forget to breathe. We don’t even have to pay copays for her doctors visits. We get the EOB with the costs paid sometimes and my eyes about pop out of my head at how expensive a week at the children’s hospital is.

Surprisingly enough, because I was unemployed the day she was born, even if she hadn’t been disabled the birth would have been “free” (no out of pocket costs to me or my wife) because neither parent was employed when she was born.
American health care prices are a constant series of traps. If you are not careful, the insurance won't pay, or the hospital will out of network doctors or they will run tests you don't need or want. And pretty much everything is way overpriced without the patient having a realistic chance to determine the fair price. All in the pursuit of sucking more money out of you.

And it's almost impossible to avoid these traps. It's basically a gamble every time.
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Sure

Technologies:
--Development--
Javascript (7 years) React/Redux (4 years)
Node.js (4 years) HTML & CSS (6 years)
NoSQL (4 years) SQL (2 years)
C# (2 years) Python (3 years)

--Visual--
Adobe Photoshop (10+ years) Adobe Flash/Animate (10+ years)
Adobe Illustrator (7 years) Adobe Final Cut (6 years)
Adobe After Effects (3 years) Adobe Premiere Pro (6 years)

--Marketing--
PPC (2 years) Google Analytics (4 years)
Google Search Console (2 years) SEMRush (1 year)
SendGrid (4 years) MixPanel (2 years)

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-rozin-062bb8121/
Email: Jmrozinatgmail.com
You are free to simply NOT USE GOOGLE. It’s not that hard. Literally, I abandoned all my Google services in about a week with no interruption to my needs.

Imposing your authoritarian will on people in a competitive marketplace is authoritarian socialism. It would be one thing if Google offered something akin to a monopoly. But they don’t. Full stop. Everything they do as a service is done by someone else (and better in most cases).
> 200$/year for three times more storage space isn't a terribly bad deal.

If you use the storage, then sure. But I would assume that you can then find better prices for 3TB.

You can see it this way:

- if you want an office license, it's 70$/year, and as a bonus you have a dropbox equivalent for free for 1TB.

- if you want some storage, up to 1TB, OneDrive is 70$/year, and as a bonus you have access to the complete office suite for free (yes, you can download all the office applications to run them locally and up to date, and also have access to the web versions)

I personally don't see how Dropbox can compete. The competition is cheaper, has more features, and offers almost the same user experience.
> because it was just too slow

The WAN to LAN throughput on a wrt54g is only like 34mbits/s. It’s just too slow to handle a fast internet connection. I guess the fact that so many are still being used shows how ISP connection speeds have stagnated.
I've been in the industry for almost 10 years but never managed to network my way out of the engineering circles into the money/decision making circles or thought leaders as you call them.

This is mostly by design by companies to keep engineering side detached from the business side and the borders are strictly enforced to have every engineer as a replaceable cog.

Is there a way to build that initial network as a dev or is it just a matter of luck, like the right contacts in university or being at the right place at the right time? Since just cold calling business people or approaching them at gatherings doesn't get you anywhere since nobody trusts strangers they just met.
Damn, didn't read about that technique in Hennessy and Patterson.

Odd.
For the 4G? It's not ideal but there are some options [0] - though the list would be nicer if it had a few filters, like interface and supported bands.

[0] https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/cellular/hardware...
> And online porn is not a very good career option as its winner take all.

Wasn't the entire point of stuff like OnlyFans that this wasn't the case and that there was decent money to be made from have a small but loyal follower base with "personal" customer relationships?
Or all the big tech companies could ban every journalist outlet that commits sedition by publishing negative headlines.
FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing
I don't know the history of non-laptop mobile CPUs. I assume they have pretty much almost all always been ARM. Please correct me if I'm misinformed. That hasn't factored into desktop/laptop considerations in the past. Currently, it seems to only factor into Apple's plans for unifying their OS X and iOS stack.

ARM is growing in servers, but AMD is as well[0]. It's not clear though how either smartphone or server architecture will affect desktop/laptop purchasing for consumers en masse.

Of course if we're talking about 2025-2030, I'm sure any predictions I make are a roll of the dice, at best. But right now I don't think there's enough momentum of any players to have absolute certainly about 2025 and beyond. There is a lot of inertia with x86 in desktop/laptop, and so far Apple's Macbook Air/Pro and Mac Mini are the only high performing options on ARM.

I like AMD but I'll be happy to see any technological progress that makes significant improvements to our quality of life.

Anecdote City:

Just five years ago I didn't consider laptops viable for gaming, and now I do most of my gaming on one. The Macbooks with M1 seem like they are capable of some level of gaming, but not "max setting" 1080p gaming, so it's not yet an option for someone like me to switch. But when I'm working, I do most of that on a powerful but very quiet desktop. The M1 chip would not improve my quality of life on my desktop because the efficiency of the chip won't really change anything for me. There's no compelling reason to swap out of my custom built machine to a Mac Mini.

Anecdotes are very personal. And so are computers. For many consumers where an M1-based machine work, the benefits are all but lost on them anyway, for a variety of reasons. They don't make decisions based on CPU efficiency - just what they are used to and what features they need and want. If a feature is really life-changing for that particular person they might be OK with change, e.g. switching out operating systems.

For a developer, it's either easy to think about switching because you know everything is cross-platform, or it's perhaps impossible to switch because you use exclusive software.

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/318217-amd-arm-both-in...
Affirm pops more than 100% after market debut
> Imagine how programming and operating systems might look in a world where processing power is 80x cheaper.

Just wait 10 years?
But Subsaharan Africa will more than pick up the slack[1][2].

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Lin...
64-bit floats have 53 bits of precision. 32-bit floats have 24.

The rest goes into sign and exponent.
That having a plausibly good opinion that doesn't jive with the static status quo is considered "bizarre" is a sign of the times.

> it's very funny that you seem to have somehow linked P.P.S. (Post Post Scriptum) with Perspectives on Psychological Science

It's even funnier considering "Perspectives on Psychological Science" was referenced in the article, and I also quoted it right in my comment. I will requote it again:

> P.P.S. At this point you might ask why are we picking on Freakonomics? Nobody cares about them anymore! Shouldn’t we be writing about Al Sharpton or Ted Cruz or whoever else happens to be polluting the public discourse? Or recent Ted talk sensations? Sleep is your superpower! Or we could see what’s been published lately in Perspectives on Psychological Science . . . that’s always always good for a laugh, or a cry.

See in that last sentence there? This too seems like a sign of the times.

These comment sections get funnier every day.
>As a user of mumble I care about waste of limited developer (time) resources spent for features I don't need, and maybe even degrading performance.

You don't, but many others do.

>edit: ...makes me wonder... makes ME wonder if you ever used custom layout? OFC still no tabs, still single box, but filtered/disabled almost all server messages/rejoin spam.

I have. I don't want to have to filter them. Sometimes they are useful.
I have a rather dumb question about C#.

A skillion years ago I had to do a .NET project and somewhat randomly chose VB.NET as the language over C#. However, I did buy some C# books which I never looked at. Given that the books are now about a decade old, is there any point in keeping them? Has C# changed enough in the years that the language is sufficiently different from what was created in the book that I might as well pick up a newer volume?

I tend to gravitate toward stability in languages. Something of a flaw of mine.
I imagine that sharing files would be the same regardless of whether you are remote or not. Even in a real office people don't usually hand USB sticks back and forth.
I'm very familiar with an environment that has about 120 TByte of databases - Mongo and Postgres - 100% run in containers over about 75 namespaces in GKE. Handles being restarted without issue.
man I love evernote. I dont want to use ios notes and deal with all the confusion icloud brings. I love using a service that is hyper focused on one thing and does it well.
Dropbox Paper itself was an acquisition.
WFH for the last 10 years. 2020 I went from full time to part time at the same company to better homeschool my two children. No more on call. Lost benefits and we moved onto my wife's plan (not as generous). She went from five days to four. Letting go some of the work responsibilities has reduced the related work stress. "Work" problems seem so much smaller now. Family bonds feel stronger. There is a lot of laughter at home. Our work/life balance improvement has been worth the financial changes but no career or professional growth for 2020. Just maintaining.
Self-censorship is important. But so is integrity (literally being "integral", that is, there being only one of you). You need to not have to hide who you are or fake being who your not. You need that for your mental health.
> You can also stop updating firmware after few years so everyone trash old devices and buy a new one.

Routers aren't really the kind of devices that become obsolete quickly though, are they? A bulk of all users will just use they one they will get from their ISP. Since the main interest of ISPs is reduce ongoing costs for support (reduce calls to hotline and sending out technicians for the setup of a new router), they should also be motivated to provide cheap, long lived routers.
Some of them are open source: https://github.com/sifive/freedom

So this board has an open source CPU: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive1-rev-b

This does not: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched

Although, I get the feeling they will open source design on a rolling basis. Pure speculation.
This is a great example, I think it exemplifies the problem well. Individually, farmers/distributors absolutely have (and in my mind, should have) the right to avoid shipping to areas which would actively lose them money.

When everyone avoids those areas, though, bam: food desert.

I honestly don't know the right balance to strike here. On the one hand, I fervently believe that businesses shouldn't be forced to act against their interests. On the other hand, though, the sum of these individual actions produces an unacceptable outcome.

I'm sure there's some balance of regulation, incentives, and public-private partnerships that would strike a good balance here, but both the extreme solutions (Groceries can locate wherever they want vs. groceries have to establish branches in food deserts) seem to be totally unsatisfactory, at least in my mind.
Professor here. Any professor that punishes you for asking for stuff/asking for time is not doing their job and you should feel happy to complain about them. Ditto if they bawl you out or make you feel bad. Don't tolerate it.
Perhaps, my understanding is the government came up with this though likely as a result of lobbying.

As an Australian I have found the campaign by Google very distasteful. They have ads everywhere against it and it's prominent on their home page.

Now, as for the law itself. It's probably flawed, but I appreciate that the government is looking into this space and the effects on discourse.

Hopefully next on the radar is newspapers and media.
Most recipe sites have the long stories for SEO purposes, but I wonder why they can't just automatically show the the recipe in a modal directly.
This is true, but the fact that heat absorption scales with the surface area is pretty brutal for tiny cooled objects.
Wrong. People with the highest salary are usually the first to be let go, regardless of their status or contribution.

update: you think rationally, looking from the "greater good" perspective. Decisions are never made like that in reality. The way it happens is the board says "we need to cut expenses by X% or else", and that becomes your new "rational" -- or you lose your CEO job. Nobody cares about long term consequences in situations like that.
How do you find out if you are getting laid off from the article exactly?
> One phenomenon I've always noticed about workaholics is that they THINK they are being more productive, but often times they are just spending more time spinning their wheels.

>The effect it has on their mood/interpersonal skills, and the pressure it puts on the rest of the team cancels it out.

> You will perform better if you go to bed and get a full nights rest and clean your brain out

All of these claims are situational and often untrue. It's entirely possible for workaholics to be more productive, inter-personally smooth, and a team player.

The most convincing reason to not be a workaholic is not that it's a counter-productive effort. It's that workaholism will lead to decreased long-term fulfillment (for most people).