skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can always count on developers to ignore the emotional cost of a decision or action and only count the wall clock time.

It's why Scrum is fundamentally rotten at its core.
The main problem I’m having here is that I can’t think of any JavaScript framework that has solved this problem.

Angular is just too cumbersome, though it gets an honorable mention.

Perhaps there is so much churn here because the correct way hasn’t been discovered yet?
You might consider NX if build times are an issue. It is monorepo based and includes computation caching[2] and incremental builds, but under the hood uses the angular build tools. We've found it pleasant to work with.

[1] https://nx.dev/latest/angular/core-concepts/computation-cach...
Sorry about your friend, I knew someone who went through something similar and it's awful. To rephrase, mental illnesses are very real and horrible. Seek the right resources when you encounter such issues.

I just want people to avoid reading articles on burnout from the internet and thinking it immediately applies to you. Trivializing and attributing burnout with hard, driven work is equally harmful, in my opinion, because burnout is just as much a larger combination of other factors. Worse, one could easily overlook actual mental issues present in their lives because the internet tells you its burnout.
I always thought a headset is better than external mike as you can move around and dont get background noise. Is there a reason not to use a headset mic?

Half my team use speakerphones and it drives me nuts.
“The problem solved quickly then we thought “

Which means Elon Musk SpaceX killed our business :)
Basically, it all points back to your concept. Have you identified your bridgehead target group? The target group that is willing to pay ten times as much for your service as their current best alternative? If you cannot describe them, then there is a real risk that you are not on the right track. You then have to ask yourself: Why can I not do so? Is it because they do not exist, or is it because we have the wrong approach with your current concept.
Moral basis for regulating social platforms
A generic term for hardware able to run linux and/or windows. Or any personal computer not build by Apple. You can have any combination of open/closed hardware and OS.
This sounds nice, but who gets to choose what attributes of populations are the right ones to group together into districts? You suggest grouping by population density, which certainly makes sense for grouping together certain political interests (like zoning). And yet by doing that, you've essentially maximally fragmented people by gender, which is another attribute that makes sense for grouping together certain political interests.

That's an extreme example of course, and I'm not suggesting to instead create single-gender districts, but I hope it illustrates my point.
"After reviewing the pilot results, we have decided not to move forward with this iteration of the program. Later this month the Verified badges for pilot participants will be deactivated and the Sponsored shelf on the AMO homepage removed."

Good. It came across as an extortion scheme. "Pay us money or we put a nasty message up to prevent people from downloading your add-on". I started to sign up, read the terms, and rejected the program, sent in a message to Mozilla add-on support telling them why.

Their old system, where you requested review and it took a few weeks, was fine. The slow speed tended to keep out scammers.
Super cool, where's my replicator?
Decentralization is also in the National Security interest. Makes it much harder for an adversary to take down large swaths of the US Grid.
Pivotal discovery in quantum and classical information processing
>We certainly can! Look at how opening or closing a single large factory [...]

The standard objection, I think, is to refer to the economic history of Argentina, but that's neither here nor there.

Here's a satellite image of an area near Chincoteague. This is a small town in coastal Virginia with a healthy but not skyrocketing tourist economy. In other words, it's the kind of economy most of our small cities "should have". It also happens to be next to a major government Space Race-era facility.

https://i.postimg.cc/QtsGMbrL/chincoteague-trails-end.png

In the green circle is the original town of Chincoteague. It is built and designed like a town and like many towns in beautiful areas it has generally resisted transformation into something more like a city. Again, pretty standard Americana. It has a simple road layout, a mixture of development patterns, and is not too hard to navigate on foot.

In the red circle is Trail's End, a parody of a caricature of the epitome of a suburban cobweb. It is full of mobile homes and cheap plaster houses crammed as close together as county zoning rules allow. It exists because local municipalities and their constituencies did not want to accommodate housing demand within their usual town fabric. This pressure builds up and, eventually, some land development agency gets hold of a big parcel and chops it up in to what you see here.

The ongoing "carcinogenesis" of such developments ossifies municipalities. The layout and design of streets within and leading to the red circle is actively hostile not only to walkability and the adoption of transit, but also to the development of a connected regional culture, due to the access-limited (access both to and within) design:

https://i.postimg.cc/qR8KspYh/trails-end-closer.png

This is by no means unique to northeastern Accomac County! It repeats in nearly every metro area in the United States that hasn't either banned it or surrounded itself with swamps (NOLA, Miami). It creates neighborhoods that everyone can survive in but nobody wants to live in. It creates an exclusion zone separating the city from the countryside, and the farmers from the city. Worst of all: it is practically impossible to reverse.

We will live with the Trail's Ends of the 20th century for decades if not centuries, and they will still be inaccessible, unwalkable, petrified replicas of Stepford, CT, with more mobile homes and fewer gardens. Why? Because we didn't want our Chincoteagues to change.

We all have skin in the game. We only have one country -- don't mess it up.
Interesting. Is this true for hardwoods as well, or just for pine and other softwoods?
> That is, it's in the interest of the news industry as a whole to not list their content for free, but if individual news companies do that, they will lose out relative to the alternative, so every individual news company is trapped in a situation they don't prefer.

No it isn't, because what they do has very little to do with what anybody else does.

If your options are get listed for free or don't get listed at all, you have the incentive to be listed because the traffic makes you more money than not. This is true regardless of what anybody else does. Meanwhile anybody choosing to be listed doesn't hurt the people choosing not to be -- it hurts the other people who are, by providing more news sources in the Google search results and diluting their traffic.

What you're really saying is that if the largest news corporations form a de facto cartel through the use of the legislature to prevent Google from freely linking to everyone, they can monopolize the industry by disabling a discovery mechanism for independent news competitors.
> "Video chat is hugely useful whenever there is any kind of discussion, debate, or negotiation. With video chat you can read facial expressions, cut down on overlapping speech and interruptions, etc."

this just screams "citation needed."

a planar, poorly lit, relatively low resolution video image doesn't provide enough detail to read expressions nearly as well as you can in person. it's actually much easier to misread expressions over video than just listening to voices, because we can focus much more on voice and it requires much less bandwidth to provide roughly equivalent clarity as speaking in person. long distance discussions, debates, and negotiations have happened just fine for decades without video.

as for interruptions, millions of years of social conditioning seems to suffice at allowing us to negotiate overlap adequately. besides, simple technology like a wish-to-speak signal can be employed if need be (though they're unnecessary).
I'm not disagreeing with that in principle, but practically speaking North Korea is not going to cooperate and I doubt there's enough trust between the other nuclear powers for a full disarmament treaty. The second best, and more realistic, option is to make everything very public and transparent... which is really just MAD, but with smaller arsenals.
Excellent points! A note: for some, in HR/R, there is a material incentive to get a candidate to take a lower range, i.e. the lower the one doing the value-generating job gets paid, the higher the commission bonus /imaginary career bonus points for the HR/R.

I've spoken with (drunk to be honest?) recruiters that got a lower overall commission the higher the salary for the recruited person got.
Well, yes, but it is a press release spinning a failure.
Oh I agree. It's all insane. Ready for native web components and/or web assembly to become mature and get rid of this JS framework, 5 layers of transpilation, nonsense.

But to address your point, you're locked into JSX a lot more than someone writing in native browser code that doesn't need transpilation and can be ported between other frameworks at the end of the day.
I know it's intentional, but it's unfair and broken. There's no valid reason for a WY resident to have 60x the voting power of a CA resident.
They haven't copied any content. Outline is a javascript app that changes the way your browser renders the website.

It's your browser contacting economist.com and fetching the webpage. The javascript app then changes how it is rendered by removing stuff most people don't want to see.

Outline is available as a browser extension, if you don't want to load it by visiting outline.com.
Related: Fail-Safe (1962) is a fictional novel where attack codes are transmitted to a group of US bombers on airborne alert (standing by to attack the USSR) - due to the failure of an electrical component. I think it's still very relevant in this day and age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_(novel)#Plot_summary
Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models [video]
the ironic thing is that I program computers for a living yet I cannot achieve the basic functional level of a 5 year old with an Android device...that's not even counting the deliberate dark patterns. I see young ones automatically pinch-zooming stuff right out of the womb, however, so I suspect that it's "just me" having the issues...
Speaking of great bug reports here's my favourite: Cat sitting on keyboard crashes lightdm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1463112
> stock market has been very profitable since march. I made 100% last year just on random long term investment.

Hmm. All this makes me wonder if the country opening back up is going to cause the market to flatten out for a bit as people have less money and incentive to invest. Food for thought.
Yep. Great reply. Said it better than I would.

NN went away in 2017. Reading the replies on reddit is troubling, thinking we need something that we actually don't. With plenty of data to back it up.
It sounds like GP drank the mobx juice to me.

Honestly, after using mobx, it's almost impossible to understand why Redux is popular. MobX is more concise, more performant, has a crazy amount of built-in optimizations, and lets you forget about tracing your crazy graph of relationships just to update some view.

Of course, mobx had "bad" (read: used decorators) syntax for a while, and only with MobX 6 did they clean it up, but boy oh boy is it clean now
To clarify, this only applies to GitHub Enterprise – great for intranet sites. If you are on GitHub Enterprise.
Decades are not very long, in the grand scheme of things.

I would argue that the first step would be to combat deforestation.
Neither of your examples illustrate the nature of monopoly, even by technical definition.

There are basically zero markets in which there is one completely dominant player due to the nature of 'product quality' alone, there are always external factors or even natural artifacts of the system that facilitate a dominant player.

For the same reason that YC companies don't go ahead and just compete with airliner manufacturers such as Boeing whereupon the only competition is derived from massive, state-backed players - it is not possible to complete with Google today.

The barriers to entry towards building a great search engine are likely more insurmountable than even those for airline carriers, the notion that some entity with the 'right stuff' could go ahead and do it is laughable at face value.

Compounded with the fact that Google has entrenched and most likely anti-competitive distribution to market via Android, Chrome - the argument becomes moot.

So first, we need to separate Android, Chrome and Google at very least, and then ensure that access to browsing technologies is on a truly level playing field. That would be a good start.

At this point, frankly, many other browser technologies - even those materially inferior would start to come to the fore - which is probably illustrative of where the 'true power' of Google comes from, i.e. more from distribution dominance than from actual search tech.

While we are at it we can legislate grounds for app competition, platform openness, personal data ownership and the rules concerning the objective self-regulation of social media companies.

At the same time, we shouldn't leave the 'sleeping giant' MS Windows distribution monopoly out of our sights either.

Google has been a barrier to progress for almost a decade now, they are just another Oracle but with pink and green hair.
I've worked on large C++ projects. Debugging hard to find data corruption, data leaks, data races was one of the most frustrating aspect. In a 200kloc project with 10 devs, there was always a crash worthy bug. Always. Automated tests could only catch so many things. Often the crash made it to the end user, causing them to lose valuable work and time. It sucked.

By far though some of the worst issues were ones involving heap fragmentation because of all the damn heap loving C++ classes and shared_ptr wrappers.

Rust doesn't solve everything. But it solves the most time consuming parts of C++ for me. Debugging. I've yet to need a debugger for Rust, after 5 years writing many 10s of thousands of lines of it. I trust the random crate I pull in won't segfault on something asanine if it stays away from unwarranted unsafe usage.

It's a breath of fresh air to not need a GC, be able to trust most other code won't cause a crash, and that once it compiles it's most likely going to work barring any logic bugs. It saves me immense amounts of time, and mostly avoids debugging hard issues in production. Mostly.

While people sit in their debuggers adding watch points, stepping through some 3rd party lib to figure out a crash, I'm busy working on the next killer feature.
I'm coming around to the "b) quality goods sold to specialists or companies, usually severely overpriced", is actually fairly priced. It just seems expensive compared to the junk that is incredibly cheap. I used to be worried about getting ripped off I never bought good quality but now I appreciate it.
"old style" from the horse-and-buggy-olden-days of 2010+ :D.
I feel like that's the point. Make free software be attractive to use, then attach riders such that it has network effects. That way, user freedom is maximized. It's taking the long-term view that it is better to work towards having a free software ecosystem, rather than just having a particular software be widely used as soon as possible.
This might be controversial, but how about no tyranny at all?
Presumably the NYT would be referencing "Larry Wachowski" for some deliberate purpose, like tying into previous work or detailing some aspect of being trans. Bringing up the past is unavoidable if its an integral part of the story.

This situation is more like reporting on someone who transitioned long ago, didn't do anything of note before then, doesn't broadcast trans as part of their public identity, and yet NYT still felt the need to inform everyone that they used to be a man. We'd rightly question their motives for that unkindness.
> So deplatforming by surprise is okay?

Yes. Abuse and copyright violation doesn't get a pass, so why should extremism?

You take calculated risks in these industries when you're using a service provider. Depends on your goals. Sucks to suck.
Per the article, the details of that will be released next week. Seems like a cool idea.
No, I get all that. Just wondering why you wrote this in the wider context of your comment:

>Additionally, it belittles the consistent effort and energy spent by these individuals to train their minds
for a walkthrough, why would i want to look at you the entire time, rather than whatever it is you're walking me through (for which a rear camera is much better positioned, with voice instructions)?

nothing else you mentioned requires video.
The other part is if you have a quality HD or better camera its a huge load to GPU and network which will chew your battery. Lower resolution is actually probably preferred if you could see the alternative.
I also love how you can see the probabilistic nature of electron orbitals in action. The crystal fades in and out of existence during the early stages of nucleation. And even after the structure is established, the boundaries continue to be "fuzzy."

Even the movement of the crystal looks like a wave, but I don't know if that's because matter moves as a wave at the atomic level or if that's just an artifact from the camera.
I've actually heard rumors of SSD controller firmware that uses SQLite internally.

Not quite what you're asking for, for sure.
Have you looked into the Carnivore Code in regards to autoimmune issues? https://carnivoremd.com/book/

It's full of useful information even if you don't intend to go full carnivore.
Could you explain in some more detail how you know you have lots of internal damage?
Vlang 0.2.2
Big fan of Userbase here — I started using it just under a year ago when it launched, and have built a number of different things with it.

It's incredibly simple, which is its main draw for me (besides being able to offer e2e encryption to users, which is a huge win for privacy).
Gaim was one of the best apps out there. I'd absolutely love to use it.

But what do I use it for? Nowadays I talk to people on Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Slack and Telegram and none of them can be used on Pidgin.

Not Pidgin's fault I know. Just companies trying to lock people in.
Look to a more beautiful and faster Node-RED alternative without dependencies
God I hope so. He got his 15 minutes his whole wasted life.
Long-lasting instrumented moderate altitude balloons are interesting to me for science reasons, so this is unfortunate since it'd be nice if a turnkey commerical solution existed.
My barometer is whether I'm passionate about how I'm spending my time and excited for the future potential.

It's interesting because I'm currently at that crossroads in my life. I just left the PE that bought my firm and am unemployed for the first time in 20 years. Wife is freaking because loss of income is detrimental to the house we're currently trying to buy and just scary to her.

Building great things from the ground up with great people is where my passion lies. I'm not really the guy to get a job with one foot out the door or do 2 things halfways - and I know ultimately living my time passionately will win out. I guess I'm just saying that I understand where you're at, from an inverted perspective.

It's an exhausting life at times but feels well lived.
So I guess they realized that Starlink was gonna be a whole lot simpler to maintain. While probably not as cheap to start off, it might become it.
> That said, isn’t part of the allure of apartments being close to your destinations? Walking to the park, a 1-mile trip to the grocery, etc.

It can be, but there is another reason to chose living in an apartment: It's cheap. I live here because it's inexpensive (< $1000/mo) and I can save that large down payment quicker.

My apartment is not convenient: 45 minutes from my work, 15 minutes from an affordable grocery store. But there is a very nice park within walking distance.

> You could look at home chargers around you and strike up a friendship.

This is true, I could. But that's a lot less convenient than buying another hybrid when the time comes. Gasoline is 5 minutes away, refueling is fast, and I only need to do it every other week.
Everybody here has a computer. I suspect that lack of resources isn't the thing that's holding us back.
He sounds like someone that hasn't done any web dev at large scale. 90% of the web devs at my place of work just fulfill business needs day in and day out. Around 10% actually spend any time messing with the tooling. Sure, when you don't know what you're doing and you're working on a smaller project, you can get bogged down with the tooling aspect. But in every job I've worked with a healthy engineering culture, the tooling side of web dev is invisible to most of the devs to the point where they wouldn't know how to make a config change if they wanted. They just build shit.
Ask HN: Recruiting Participants for an Interview
Happy Friday, folks! Was wondering if the community had any experience/thoughts on recruiting participants for a taped interview. The idea is to talk with a diverse group of people on a variety of topics on life, work amongst other things. I see a few user research tools that fit the bill, but wasn't sure since this isn't a product but more of an interview series with the common people.

Will be happy to compensate for their time!