skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I own an electric cello that I occasionally play and used to take lessons with. Back when I was looking for a teacher, I had a hard time finding anyone who'd let me use it during lessons. Most of them wanted me to rent a wooden cello.

I get that there are a lot of bad electric cellos out there, and there are some good electrics that are bad for beginners. But, mine is a Yamaha SVC-100 [0]. It's a professional-worthy instrument, even if most professionals don't use it. It has all the correct touch points as a regular cello, and it responds like a normal cello, so, as far as learning goes, it's just fine.

With cello people, I think it's a sense of conservatism or something. I didn't really want to rent an instrument, so, I kept looking until I found someone who would just let me play my own. The guy I found was amazing, and owned his own electric. He also played cello in a rock band. I'm sure all those other cello teachers were fine, but I had a blast with this guy, and I'm glad I found him.

[0]: https://www.yamaha.com/en/about/innovation/collection/detail...
> Its attempting to build tolerance to sudden transient latency spikes interacting badly with congestion control algorithms. You can hide packet loss, you can't hide some random packet taking a lot longer to be delivered due to having to be retried.

Good point. By using UDP you can get around head-of-line blocking. I didn't consider that
I share your opinion (I particularily like essays; I follow along the arguments, think whether I agree with them or not, etc. but absolutely hate the "how-to" kind of books which I strongly associate with the hustle and self improvement culture that I find quite toxic.)

But I agree with the author that the later kind of books seems much more popular with the general public, being handed solutions appears to be more attractive to many people that being encouraged to think about problems that probably aren't even relevant to them. And in a sense it's perfectly understandable, but I personally prefer the intellectual stimulation from a good essay over what is essentially a marketing speech from a professional hustler.
The strawman reared its empty head earlier regarding "financial literacy" (a
vacuous notion) as a nostrum for pointless student debt. For whatever reason,
you seem to think formalizing "buy low, sell high" and "keep your savings on
the right side of zero" would somehow deter the general population from doing the opposite,
rather than two things which would: learning a trade and mastering basic math.
Most sites won’t want to do this, because HTML forms are useful! Also, that’s just one example, there are plenty of exemptions to the same origin policy: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Same-o...

In practice, for now you either use anti-forgery tokens, you don’t put your auth tokens in cookies, or you use strict SameSite auth cookies AND block all traffic from browsers that don’t support them (mostly legacy browsers).
The comments here are incredibly harsh. As someone who has self published two books, quite a lot of this resonates with me.

First book addressed a timely topic but ultimately aged out very quickly and I got burnt out trying to keep up with updates. It made roughly $80,000 in lifetime sales, of which I kept 96% (credit card fees + hosting overhead).

Second book addressed a broader niche but fell into several of the traps he describes and only made $3000.

I will likely buy his book and try to apply it on either a revision of book two or something new.
What is Google if not a website that openly flouts copyright law? I don't remember Google getting license to store my website in their index or to show my images in Google Images.

I don't mind, of course, but it goes to show that the whole thing is bogus and a different set of laws apply depending on how much money you have.
“I wonder if I have twenty years of experience making websites, or if it is really five years of experience, repeated four times.”

This sums up how I feel about my entire career as eloquently as possible.
I've not seen our cast iron or carbon steel pans flaking off into food like I have seen with Teflon. I doubt there is much of anything harmful coming off during cooking -- not any more harmful than the cooked food itself likely.
>People become obsessed with things to such an extreme degree that they end up drowning out anyone without an equivalent level of dedication. It becomes a problem when people chose to play status games instead of just enjoying their hobby.

It's true in academia and in technical fields as well. As you become an expert, details most people skip over become very important parts of your day.

The real difference is between people who disdain you for not knowing as much as they do about some issue, those who enthusiastically try to educate you, and those who recognize not everyone cares about it as much as they do and tries to speak to whatever level you are at (or slightly above it if you've expressed a desire to go deeper.)
Mutual Explainability, Or, a Comedy in Computerland by Simon DeDeo (2020)
The real reason why most non-fiction authors don't make a profit is because only scam topics which sell a dream but don't add any real value can make any profit in our current scam economy.

Self-help gurus, spiritual charlatans, snake-oil salesmen, get-rich-quick con men, corporate consultants, slick marketing experts; these are the people who are making profit in our scam economy.

Just focus your energy on a fucking scam and you will make money by the boatload. You don't need a long article to tell you that. Just open your eyes and look around.

It's not just writing which is affected; every 'intellectual' industry is affected; art, music, science, politics, technology... All the successful people are scammers. That's why you can't find any good content anywhere these days. The shit always floats to the top. The media is concentrating all our attention on the shit and away from the good stuff.

Also, the rich people who are running the show are morons with no taste and 0 intellect.
I think a better one would be a manager who was not participating much who, when learning of some major illness of a code center, diagnosed by an external consultant, attempts to fix it and instead makes things worse.

The metaphor would be that if the manager was doing their job they would agree with the diagnosis of the consultants.

Thinking about it perhaps it's not a manager but a senior developer. Someone with some limited power.
I somehow lucked out and was able to find an appointment on my first try. My friend, in contrast, couldn't find anything and ended up driving to Yakima from Seattle to get a shot from FEMA.

I don't understand this. Why would a large city, which is much higher risk but with far more hospitals and ultra-cold storage be far less capable of providing drive-up vaccine service than Yakima? Did we allocate far too many vaccines p/person to rural communities?

The article suggests rural communities are less likely to want the vaccine but it doesn't make it clear if distribution was based on demand at all.
At the same time, in keeping with the theme of the article -- spend the $75 for a good (i.e. well-regarded for your use case) pair of headphones if you enjoy music. It is absolutely night and day compared to $10 crap.
I wonder if the single monitor limitation is a hardware or software issue?

The reason I ask is that my ThinkPad X1 Extreme can only handle a single external monitor running any recent version of Ubuntu, but on Windows 10 I run it with two or three external monitors with different scaling factors. I've used either a ThinkPad Thunderbolt dock or currently a Cable Matters mini-dock with two DisplayPorts and one HDMI.

So I gave up on Linux on the hardware and run it in a VMware VM under the Windows 10 host, or under WSL2 depending on what I'm doing.
Non-stick pans require a bit of care as well. The trick is to ensure no sudden temperature changes to the pan, which will differentially expand/contract the cooking surface. Differential expansion/contraction between the top and bottom surface will crack the non-stick coating in no time ( think expansion cracks in concrete and sidewalks ).

What that usually comes down to is to let your non-stick pan cool to room temperature before you run water over it, even if you like seeing all that steam. Also, you weren't expecting to sear meat with your nonstick anyway so don't slap a massive cold slab of meat on your unoiled non-stick either.
I believe slashdot experimented with meta-moderation for that issue, but I actually never found out what came of that system.
We would have lost our gosh darn minds in the late 90s seeing that site while we were still popping flat Flash bubbles off the sides of the viewport.

But I can hear the criticisms now--I don't get it; Why the jeep? How do I know how much content is present? How do I find project x? Do I have to drive this truck all over?

[Answers: Cute&amazing in-browser experience. Follow the sign to projects--drive really fast to count them. Follow signs to projects--drive slow and read labels. Yes.]
It seems like the attempt to gather compelling evidence ends up skipping over foundational elements. After all, if someone quits consistently then progress is likely to be difficult. The idea of grit potentially also connects with two other potentially interesting related ideas:

First there is Victor Frankl's observation that those who were expected to survive in the concentration camps were the people who were young adults, healthy, well fed, smart, and quick. However, these people often reacted very badly to sudden change, chaos, and the lack of obvious opportunities and would end up dead in a week or two as much from hopelessness as privation. Meanwhile people who were skinny, weak, sick, and wounded often survived one trauma after another because they had something they were determined to live for--often family, sometimes cherished places or work. Something they longed to return to could keep them going.

Second there is the actually rather robustly documented phenomenon of John Henryism in which people suffering from discrimination or lack of opportunity find success by expending tremendous effort only to fall victim to illness early in life as the tolls from their exertions accumulate. This is a good example of how the grit to success story could have a serious downside that should be considered even if the success side might actually be realistically and meaningfully obtainable.
There was a calculation on what if Xkcd that every water droplet at one point in history was inside a dinosaur
I'm an avid user of carbon steel pans, but I bought one of the hexclad pans just to try it out. It's actually really nice. I've used it about 50% of the time for over a year now, and it has held up really well. It's not as pretty as it was brand new, but it is still non-stick and there is no noticeable degradation.
Amphetamines, cocoon, and modafinil are the likely targets. Other than that look up stimulant nootropics.
Which is why I asked what the issue was and the author replied he/she was using Gmail/Apple Mail. I can see using the lkml with Apple Mail being difficult since Apple Mail sucks but sending plain text mails with Gmail should just work and nobody should have to change their email client if they are fine with using Gmail.

Even not using lkml, it's a standard conforming mailing list that (presumably) will accept any plain text mail just fine and I do not see why anybody would need to install a separate email client like aerc just to use this mailing list. So, to me it read "I know how plaintext emails work but for some reason my workflow does not work so I changed it to include something else" and I was curious as to why... Curse me for asking? Curse me for damning Apple Mail? Idk... I guess curse me for being curious and trying to help a fellow nerd out while shitting on Apple Mail at the same time.
Heh yeah pretty much same reaction I had when I stumbled over them!
This is mainly because Beats headphones are just terrible at any price and a perfect example of all their budget going on marketing. Other headphones in the same price range or even below can be very good.
> Thinkpad X200

I clicked on Go to Shop, it leads to Amazon with a search for "thinkpad T series" and nothing related to the X200. Useless.

https://www.buyforlife.com/products/185/thinkpad-x200
Right. There's an element cleaving both ways of the developer being obligated to do complex and disempowering things for users for various reasons, and then users rejecting their disempowerment and trying to work around it.

And I think if there's a future here it belongs to targeted protocols that decouple the use case from the UI, and filters like Reader view that reformat content to the medium the user wants to work in.
I was following along on fast cash money plus, at which point do you tell users to stop and that it is a scam ?
I mean, it's kinda clear, but do you let them go all the way ?
Amen that. Speaking of resource-extraction, I'll just add-in US history in South America for over a century. There the wars were, and still are, fought by the dictators against their own people. For example, Thatcher's 'friend' Pinochet.
I think more interesting differences could come from cultures within America; do Irish Americans have different attidues than urban modern atheist ones, for example.
Steam Tinker Launcher: Making Tinkering with Steam Much Easier
I used that too, but Google could adapt Inferno for modern standards. No, not material, that's atrocious. At least for a desktop.
can you please explain me what do you mean?
I haven't heard of such stories here personally (Germany), it may exist, though my guess is that such behaviour is reserved for the upper class. There's also only one article on wikipedia in another language for this concept.

Health insurance is compulsory (most have the basic form that is cheap and subsidized and some have fully private insurance).

We have another issue though: Doctors and clinics have admitted to overtreating private patients even if an operation is risky or won't be too benefitial (e.g. artificial hips at an age 85+ or similar). Just to cash in 6 figures because the private plan is known to pay it. In such cases relatives will of course also have an influence on such treatments.

Edit: style/grammar
Edit2: what i have witnessed personally is that it's very easy to get pills for anything in the US. I once had a torn toe nail and got codeine for 40 days, that totally baffled me. I would not have gotten opioids at home for such a thing, maybe Novalgin for a few days on request and over the counter NSAID else
Yes it is an error, but the underlying point is true.

I also thought that, whilst it was easy to recognize the error, the point was still easy to understand. I think it is a good point, let's hope the author redrafts.
Having an unstable teammate on a project I led. Long story short, they:

(a) saw things in terms of them being persecuted, and took critique of their work or approach deeply personally

(b) tended to see things as us vs them, and not a two-way street, where both sides bore responsibility. And that sometimes crappy things happen with no malace.

(c) resented other's success at the company, and thought that the 'successful' person was only successful because management supported them unfairly in a way my colleague was not supported. My colleague perceived themselves as a secret failure for not doing what the other person was doing. They also thought others telling them they were successful was not genuine.

(d) lacked a kind of self awareness, and tended to take over meetings with their grievances and upsetness. They couldn't see that other team members needed to discuss their own issues, or with the issues they brought up, that other people also had valid emotions and points of view on them they needed to hear and appreciate.

The time we worked on it as a leadership team went beyond having difficult conversations. I've had difficult conversations, where you talk about someone leaving a job, or someone's difficult behavior. You give it in a loving, compassionate way. Some people can get defensive, maybe upset, but will hear the feedback and take some time to digest it. Even when they're upset, they take some part in the responsibility for the feedback they hear.

This person, assumed off the bat, you were going to attack them. They couldn't see the compassion you were trying to bring. They froze up and got defensive. They tended to carry their own narrative of how they were the victim, and didn't take responsibility for their side of whatever they were having a problem with.

I give credit to our leadership team that we kept at it. We didn't accept this person's sometimes abusive behavior. We tried, and frankly, by letting others know it was not OK, and that we kept our focus on it, it helped the rest of the team understand that "yes we get there's a problem here".

We wanted to help the person. We gave them lots of opportunities for improvement and to do the kind of work they said they wanted to do. We gave them coaching and their own time to develop their own interests into new business directions.

After trying and trying, probably helped a bit through some coaching, this person realized the company wasn't a good fit for them, and they left on their own accord. This was a good outcome. Though I wish there was some way to have accelerated it and/or let the person go so they weren't as destructive to the team.
this p.s. is simply not true

article is bery pleasant to read, I as a history buff even learn few new things
> Or you can use an actual mail client.

An "actual mail client" is any mail client that speaks SMTP. This "use a real X" or "real programmers always do X this way" stuff is why many tech communities are considered hostile and toxic, especially to newcomers. It's childish in personal settings and unprofessional in work settings.

The funny thing is that most of the people who continue to hold these attitudes weren't even around or on the internet when it was slow and expensive to sling around rich text or binaries. I mean, I was born in the 80s and got an account with my local ISP in the early 90s, after spending a few years hanging out on BBSes playing door games (anyone remember Virtual Sysop?). I agree that binaries or anything other than plain text was a pain to deal with back then; I had a 2400 baud modem, and even when I managed to get something faster, the phone lines in my area were too noisy to give me anything faster than 19.2kbps. And I'm not some greybeard either; I wasn't around when 300 baud was state-of-the-art.

But we've moved on from that time. It feels like the height of arrogance and gatekeeping to look down on someone who just wants to be able to italicize or bold some text in their emails sometimes.
> Currencies have to be less valuable over time, otherwise no one would ever spend the currency.

Ah, that would explain why we abandoned the gold standard. No one ever spent those gold coins, and no trade existed before 1933.
Some of the 5000 series are Zen 2. Be careful, and look it up.
Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’
At least one screenshot is nice. A demo video or GIF is amazing.
I can see why someone would like to buy a long lasting tools or pots and pans but for cloths or electronics it is just a waste of money. Fashion changes and electronics advance too rapidly, you don't want to get stuck with something for too long.
Same goes for the ordinary English word "Eigenvector".
Was like 12. Speed was set via a dial.

One would think a treadmill needed ramp up time to get to 15mph.

Life lessons were learned after being tossed into a filing cabinet.
Discussed recently:

Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26821388 - April 2021 (90 comments)

Actually it's rather unclear whether there's even a proposal.
No, what is the threat model for the agent who wants to hijack text messages to a million random phones? Why are they doing it?
Same as a silicon chip stuck in 2 dimensions can.
The hexclad pans do not use teflon. And you're expected to season them...the non-stick nature is actually very similar to carbon steel.
I mean, there is no regulation for it, but it seems like an incredibly risky design for the manufacturer. Quick release forks famously have "lawyer lips" that make sure the wheel doesn't fall out in case you are riding the bike without actually closing the quick release.
AFAU you use keyset as upper/lower bounds in your SQL query, so deletion is not problem. Example:

Cursor ($ID:$DATE) = "123:2012-01-01"

Query: select * from tbl where id >= $ID and date >= $DATE limit 100
That blanket statement holds no water. Apart from -great- cultural differences - e.g. respect for nature - indigenous Americans had -a lot- of knowledge about their world, and how to care for it.

May we have time to catch up with that knowledge.
> because they have the wrong political opinions.

Supporting a double murderer is way more than simply a "wrong political opinion."
Yep. ZX81 BASIC had 26 string variables (A$ through Z$) and 26 floating point variables (A through Z). No integer variables per se, but you could POKE and PEEK to get at 8-bit values anywhere in memory - which typically maxed out at 16K.
Uncensored anonymous comments.

What can go wrong?
Say whatever you want. At one company I left I brought up the manager’s poor communication skills. The company was a joke and declared bankruptcy 6 months later.
Honestly I've gone in the other direction. Quality for its own sake is not a virtue; all that matters is whether the item meets the needs you have. An item that breaks and needs replacement is waste, but an item that is overbuilt and never used to its potential is a different kind of waste.

I don't need the best tools in the world for my home toolbox. I use each tool maybe a couple of times a year and even the cheap ones don't break at that level of use. I bought a $250 RC car and a $10 one, and while the $250 one is awesome I've gotten more use out of the $10 one. Sometimes you need quality but sometimes you don't.
Doing business with Iran will help Central Asia stabilize the region
It's nice to see a news story that says "this thing is going well" for once.
Yes, they are designed to select for most engagement, regardless of the content.
Specifically here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26685894
I can certainly empathize with the daughter from California. Life moves very fast and the lucky few notice before it’s too late.
Child safety groups ask Facebook to scrap plans for Instagram for kids
I tried a cast iron skillet and could not for the life of me get it to heat evenly. I'm talking like French toast burnt near the middle and uncooked at the edges.

Stainless steel triple-ply (copper + aluminum) pans though have been fantastic. Even heating and nothing sticks with a bit of oil.

I haven't figured out how to cook pancakes on them yet though, without relying on the Leidenfrost effect, at which point they just kinda burn and don't cook right.
See also: https://www.manning.com/write-for-us
I love when people reference Kaczynski's work in serious discussions like this. Ted Kaczynski the domestic terrorist and murderer was not a person to be admired, but Ted Kaczynski the anarcho-primitivist philosopher is one of the most underrated and important intellectuals of the late 20th century. There's an awful lot packed into his manifesto, and I wish more people could see past his crimes in order to take that in.

BTW, I found out he's updated the manifesto, and that it, along with some other of his works, was published in an anthology in 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Other_works
This might be out of date, but IIRC GMail, in plain text mode, will break lines at 72 or 80 characters or something like that, which will mangle inline patches. LKML's policy prefers (requires?) that you send patches inline and not as attachments.