skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you expect the interesting work to land in your lap you are either one of those people that redefine (maybe invent) entire fields of research or you're incredibly lucky. In other words, your work speaks for itself and people want to give you more of it. For most people we need a job in order to keep up with the rising costs of living.

If, however, you're like 99.99% of people and are good at what you do then you'll have to find what is interesting about the job. I've worked at a company that replaced clipboards with iPads in a factory. If all it was to me was a form-builder application and the technology under it I would have been turned off ages ago. But I was incredibly curious as to why the product as successful and growing, what our customers liked about it, and I pushed for developers to visit the factories and see how people used the app. The results were quite surprising and it fed out team with dozens of ideas.

Technology for technology's sake is fun for a while but will eventually bore you. It helps to have a reason to work on what you do. Which I think is part of what OP is saying but I think you can find the reason in a "boring" job as well. You just have to be curious and look for it.

Although avoiding working at feature factories where the developers are just cogs in a Kafka-esque Agile Machine is a whole other can of worms. The OP's strategy seems like an interesting way to avoid it. Best of luck!
That's true of most consumption taxes, but this can be offset by giving a fixed tax credit to everyone. eg. if the median person is expected to pay $1000/yr in carbon taxes, then give them a yearly check for $1000 so it doesn't cost them extra. If they can reduce carbon on top of that, great! It's free money for them.
If it was more deadly it would spread less quickly. That's how diseases work from my vague university memories of an epidemiology course. They are on a spectrum of deadly to contagious.
Besides lowering income tax, what else could help offset this?
Find how much money any musician makes
As per my sibling comment - we need easier/better CLI and/or offline GUI tools for simple stuff like this.
That's actually the fairest point of critique about my rambling that I've heard in a while, and I have been rambling about this since 2012. :D

That being said, the Toshiba Portege showed that a big manufacturer can produce these at scale if they want to, and they haven't continued with it. If someone here is willing to share stories from the trenches if that particular battle ground, I'm all ears. :)
>A better term for it might be “Police Lynching”.

No, it wouldn't. That is unnecessary hyperbole. Unjustified police killings, instances where the police were at fault, are a rarity. The big problem here is not lack of police training nor overreach, but violent, uncooperative suspects.

>failing to show the correct level of subservience

While there are some grotesque examples of that, like with Daniel Shaver, most police killings, the overwhelming majority of them, are due to them being attacked by someone or being confronted with an armed suspect who refuses to disarm.

>Not saying all of them are racist, but to some police, everyone is the wrong color (not blue).

Are there any actual instances of racism being the driving impetus for police killings at any time in recent decades? I cannot think of any offhand.
I've been using Name.com for more than a decade and have had zero issues.
China censors the Oscars to block a Hong Kong protest film [video]
Facebook Flummoxed by the Town of Bitche, France
It's not physically possible. The car can't be operated with no one in the driver's seat. Autopilot shuts off automatically. Further, it was in a cul-de-sac, some place autopilot doesn't operate.
Dumb question ... but do "inflatable swimmingpools" exist for firefighters? Something that you can roll up compactly but unrolls around e.g. a car and forms a more or less watertight seal so you can literally drown the battery in water?
So can deer.
How to process large datasets without running out of memory (Python)
This might sound crazy but free may be worse than offering to charge. "Free" is saying my work offers no value and may even cost more through your time.
I’m not sure this would save you. The deer get CWD by eating the grass other deer have been around. A zoonotic CWD would find its way into plant-based diets.
Prions are like the real-life version of ice-nine. Just much slower moving.
I wonder if there might not be something similar to the Prion mechanism that cause the healthy brain protein to “change chiralities” and join the prion group on the atomic level that might give insight into the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem.
You can make veggie kebabs.
Absolutely - but in the context here of low-budget desktops, having GPIO is something relatively few users want? I personally tend to use an RPi Zero W instead of an Arduino/ESP* for little projects because I like having networking, cron, etc.
And the Lenovo IPS screens on the X220(t) were notoriously bad anyway. The ghosting being so extreme I used to think my xterm had transparent backgrounds enabled (imagine my horror when I realized I didn't).
Do you remember being able to run DooM and Winamp at the same time!?
People don't believe how typesafe Elm is until they start to use it, I never had a runtime exception. I worked a few years with TS+Vue/React, and now with Elm, and I will never go back. It is sad that a single FUD is shared much more than dozens of success stories.
> I’m surprised it doesn’t come up more in these discussions and people just “settle” for Signal

Not needing a phone number is nice, but last I checked Wire does little when it comes to metadata, while Signal is more or less the state of the art in that regard.

The phone number requirement itself is supposed to be eventually dropped in Signal (although I'll admit it's taking quite some time, and with the spam issues it might take some more).
Hi, thanks for your reply. It seems, though, I didn't make my point especially well, so let me try again.

I was not questioning the decision for offering an "Enterprise" tier. My point was coming from a user interface design angle: I was just wondering whether the specific design decision you took in the appearance of the Enterprise tier subconsciously discourages potential customers from choosing it.
The first step is organize ourselves.
What would the delivery system be? Waterborne? Food-borne?
I have two XO-1s; they're great to use while sitting on the end of a dock, hacking in a remote terminal.

Literally no other screen I have comes close to how readable the XO-1 is in bright light.
He's defensive because the news media is talking about a product that can't be operated in the way the news media is describing. It's not physically possible. The car can't be operated with no one in the driver's seat. Autopilot shuts off automatically.
This is not the first time that I come across an article where the author derives harmonic rules from purely physical or mathematical principles. I always find it a pity that the author has apparently not made the effort of reading up a bit on the history of musical theory.

The actual harmonic rules employed today in all kinds of western music, especially as they relate to musical notation and the physical layouts (the UI so to speak) of various western musical instruments, have as much to do with the evolution of music theory as with the physical behavior of sound waves and human perception thereof.

Case in point, the layout of white and black keys on the keyboard: the disposition of white and black keys has more to do with the theory of hexachords developed in the 12th century. The hexachord system used to notate and transmit music was originally comprised of three overlapping hexachords, each including 6 notes (ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la) , which together cover in total 8 notes to the octave: The natural hexachord C D E F G A, the soft (molle) hexachord F G A Bb C D, and the hard (durum) hexachord G A B C D E. I should add that this system was superimposed on the greek modes of gregorian chant, made of two tetrachords for 7 notes to the octave.

So the soft hexachord starts on fa - the fourth tone of the natural hexachord, and the hard hexachord starts on sol - the fifth tone of the natural hexachord. And if you you play a melody and you want to go to Bb - the B flat (B-molle / bémol) is actually a fa on the soft hexachord. Likewise, a B natural (B-durum - bécarre) would be a mi on the hard hexachord. The terms bémol and bécarre (Bb and B natural) actually derive from the soft and hard hexachords (soft - round, hard - square). So the Bb was in fact the first "black" key (although some of the earliest keyboards have 8 "white" keys to the octave, with the Bb looking just like its neighbors).

Later, from the 14th century on, as music changed, more hexachords were introduced starting at different places on the natural hexachord, for more harmonic complexity. Along with those hexachords, more "black" keys were introduced. Actually some baroque keyboards include more than 12 keys to the octave, for use with meantone tuning: they would have split "black" keys in order to play the fa or mi of the note, for example Eb or D#, which in meantone tuning are not equivalent. But as composers and keyboardists started exploring both equal temperament and irregular temperaments, those distinctions were lost.

The modern keyboard with its 7 white keys and 5 black keys is rather a consequence of the evolution of western music over long centuries, not of any kind of absolute natural phenomenon.
I will never forget the embarrassment of visiting the electronics store as a kid, and naively asking for a DB-9 sex changer :D
Stability and work life balance are terribly underrated.
Interesting. Works on Safari on iOS.
I am a googler and I am ashamed.
What I love most are the efforts spent protecting hypothetical people who may take offense and who aren’t actually there.

“Oh, you’re actually agnostic? Well, you still can’t say that word because another agnostic person may find it offensive.”
Anyone here want to make a job board for “interesting” work? There are lots of retired software engineers (and managers who miss coding) who would love to work a few hours a week.
> A single agent handles everything, hired by the seller, and charges about 1.5% of sale fee + VAT (once haggled down).

That seems like there's a huge conflict of interest there. A buyer's agent isn't legally required in the US (and I've heard of people negotiating lower fees if there's no buyer's agent to share with), but I don't think I'd want to be in a situation where I, a layperson, am negotiating with a professional. The buyer's agent provides knowledge of the area (building materials, typical maintenance items and costs, how to make a competitive offer) and a non-emotional set of eyes to look at things.

Yes, they are incentivized to make a sale happen, but they make far more money in the long run with a happy client (who will refer others and ideally use them as a Seller's agent in the future).
> Ancient and odd but relatively easy to talk about, viruses are the perfect vector for the horrors peddled by the BBC, New York Times, and their ilk.

Proceeds to peddle the "horrors" of prions.
I would love to read your sources. can you provide them?
I couldn't say the same thing for even well-architected TS apps. There are important escape hatches that TS gives that make it unreliable, as summarized in this article: https://incrementalelm.com/tips/typescript-blind-spots/

Refactoring code or updating dependencies is and feels a lot safer in Elm than in TS, and doesn't require asking for every npm package author to add TS type definitions.

I'd also argue that TS/JS have the esoteric/cool features. Elm is a very simple language, complete enough to be able to write most programs, but small enough to give you a lot of guarantees about how the code will behave.
ITYM affected, not effected.
> multiprocessing

Please.... That's literally the worst option for python on this planet. For all "just do multiprocessing" the tooling is horrible garbage. Then we get to Twisted and Gunicorn the Spring Framework of Python world.
The only people really bitching about GDPR are software engineers and lawyers at companies whose privacy practices are still questionable after all the time given to clean up their act. That's why, if you look at HN comments, everyone seems to hate it. Sample bias. None of the remaining 7 billion people on the planet really know much about it. I bet if you summarize the regulation and describe it to a random person on the street, they'll nod and think "sure it's kind of a good idea" and forget about it in the next 10 seconds.
I disagree. Engaging implicitly validates the argument. If you refute X, they can just come back with "yes but what about Y?" and, should you eventually get bored or run out of time, they use your failure to properly rebut as evidence of their thesis.

I'm also not familiar with any argument that a Gish gallop must make claims not supporting a single thesis, or that they must be hard to refute (as opposed to simply harder to refute than to state). Whatever it is, I don't subscribe to it, and I don't believe those are the traits which make the argument style inappropriate.
I don't think I was confrontational at all, I only listed facts on this thread. Other threads have zero relevance. Good day to you too!
Anything is interesting if you engage with it. And being bored is a state of mind. It's a fallacy to say "that's boring". The bored-ness is in your head, not in the task.
I was just replying to a flagged comment [1] and it became impossible to respond to,

> Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the intersection of "interesting" work and "valuable" work is pretty small.

Your comment was flagged/dead, but I absolutely think you are right.

Look at most of the jobs today. Laborer, factory worker, package sorter, delivery driver, fast food worker, government process worker, ... These aren't particularly interesting or fulfilling.

Apply that lens to our industry, and what do you see? Plumbing grunt work, glue code maintainer, migration work, form collection CRUD. There are so many jobs that don't do anything particularly novel or exciting. You might even be building something you hate, like ad tech.

I don't think the comment is too off base. Maybe the scale and tone is wrong, but there's certainly plenty of boring work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26863367
Matrix is not an app. It is a protocol. You can find the specification here: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/

There are also multiple client and server implementations already. You can find them here: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now/

There are also at least two companies offering homeserver hosting: https://matrix.org/hosting/
> Agreed. The money supply should be flexible to help alleviate the effects of inevitable financial crashes.

In reality, you either do it in secret...or it makes the crash even worse because people would be even more risk averse because they see the government using these non conventional tool...hence "it must be pretty bad, better save some more"

QE is the quintessential example of this. The only American who benefitted from QE was Bernanke, so he got to be hailed as a hero and now everybody genuflects to him and uses his "playbook".
It might come sooner than we thought with the Covid vaccines. https://scivisionpub.com/pdfs/covid19-rna-based-vaccines-and...

Ah yes, HN: we downvote science we don’t like.
The concerns about blood donations continue to this day. A few years ago I went to a blood bank event not even thinking about vCJD and was turned away because I happened to live in Europe for more than 6 months in the early 90s.

It is a bit unnerving to know you may or may not have a disease that there is no test for, and symptoms may not appear until decades later.
The German CO2 as currently implemented gives back the credits via the electricity bill (essentially lowering the high taxes there, but could also be a credit).

While not perfect, it strikes me as a rather great „90%“ solution since it gives back the tax in roughly the same proportion as energy use and cost (single/couple/family), so it‘s pretty fair to the poor as well.
This is a solved problem: look at how the Lua FFI does it. Lua both is capable of exporting its own garbage collector to its counterparty and has a plug-in system for GC so that Lua can use the counterparty's GC. That allows you to either use Lua's GC for foreign objects or have the counterparty's GC manage Lua's objects.

It's funny the hostility to JIT that some fans of compiled languages have.
(I read the OP comment as sarcasm.)
At this point why not do some research across HN, for example do lookup Show HN or on indiehackers and team up with other solo-devs on project they started for a minimum hourly rate and then just grow with them and eventually make higher returns
What about `&m[x]` where m is some map? Does that heap allocate and create a copy, or is it a pointer to the actual storage slot? If the former, that's a hidden copy/allocation that didn't exist before, and if it's the latter, resizing the map invalidates the pointer, so it must be updated somehow.
Right, but again my point is that developing this fully-featured library helps keep the lights on. The two things are not separate as you keep implying.

Not disagreeing that they are productive and accomplishing a lot.
I don´t know for all the eu nations, but for those that I know staff researcher positions still require degrees (and there is a lot of competition to get those because they are even more limited in number than tenure track positions, just with far less requirements)

In mine in particular everyone has at least a Master Degree with some publications. One of two even got a PHD.
Awesome! We also have a super passionate community at https://launchpass.com/serverless-stack
> A planetary extinction-level event has already happened where every land animal larger than 25kg died. Maybe it won't happen for another 65 million years. Maybe it will happen tomorrow. Maybe there will be a massive gamma ray burst that will sterilize the entire solar system. Who knows?

Right, but... Mars is already worse for human life than Earth after every major extinction event. That's like "in case my house catches fire, I'm gonna build a backup house inside a working industrial furnace". If what we're worried about is surviving an event like the several that have affected Earth in the history of life on the planet, Mars is both more expensive and worse than a bunch of other options, including other space-based options (though I think that whole class of solutions is really wasteful compared to boring, Earthbound alternatives). That's a bad reason for going to Mars, is all I'm saying. I'll still be cheering along when the first boot-print is made, mind you.

OK, here: strip Earth of all oxygen and its ozone layer and turn all the land into parched deserts that can barely support even the hardiest of plants. You want to wake up in a sealed shelter on Earth, or on Mars, after that happens? The smart answer is "on Earth" because the list of horrible things about your situation on Mars is still 5x that long, plus all those things are already problems there. Mars is very, very, very bad.
This attitude comes across as a little arrogant, and I'm not sure whether it's warranted without a host of achievements to back it up. Nevertheless, I hope the best for the author, who seems to know what they want.

I think they would have better success by actively seeking what they want, though, rather than expecting it to turn up at their doorstep.
Could you elaborate? I guess my thinking is similar to if someone wanted to try and buy Intel. The U.S. would probably stop it on national security grounds.

I hope that makes sense - at least where I was trying to go with that comment. Maybe it's incorrect or not well thought out but I'd at least like to make my point clear :)
I'm personally fine without color on a device I can use outdoors. Text don't need to be colored to be readable. I tried to work on a laptop outdoors - even in shadow in sunny weather I had to set brightness close to maximum which drains battery too fast.
Why all the time? Can't we identify conditions where flu is most likely to spread and encourage mask wearing specifically in those situations? When things are back to normal I will probably still wear my mask on the subway for example, especially during rush hour in the winter. But walking around outside I would feel no need. I'm not sure exactly where the right balance would be as far as public willingness versus effectiveness in preventing spread, but it's definitely not going to be "everybody should wear masks all the time".
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After kids and mortage, you will be upset with the boring part again :(
This comment got me to look at the article - and at least they are specifying that this is what they are meaning by the term.

I'd like to see the term updated, and a new round of tests run, where they take into account packaging, preparation and other environment 'standards' to the western diet.

Add BPA from canned foods.
Prep a percentage of the food with teflon or similar coated stuff that's damaged and leaching.
Pull some of the coatings from french fries boxes and similar packaging that's to prevent sticking - yet as one disgruntled former dupont employee announced, causes cancer.
Use some styrofoam that's been melted to show getting food made and put into styrofoam too hot - and also melted via microwave reheating.
Make a ton of it in microwaved plastic - as a NY times article laid out years ago this disrupts hormone especially in young.
Preservatives and plastic - might as well mix a chunk of that stuff in there as I'm pretty sure most in the west of ingesting good amounts of it.

The western diet includes dust, VOCs and other pollution depending on exact circumstances as well really.

I wonder how the levels of these things vary from state to state / city to county, etc. Sometimes I think fancy scientists have different grocery store options than the average western calorie consumer and don't take that into consideration.
According to the "inclusive language" page:

> When possible, avoid the use of figurative language that can be interpreted as violent, such as hang and hit. Although there may also be nonviolent interpretations for these terms, avoiding their use prevents unintentional harm that might be caused by the violent interpretations.
Agreed, the screen was one of the best things about the XO-1. Transreflective displays do live on here and there, I have an Amazfit Bip [1] which uses one.

1: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/amazfit-bip,review-5629.html
Correct! But the "just" life science business is actually bigger than the electronics equipment part.
https://imgur.com/a/xaRWqTY

Looks like you'll have to do some sort of value propagation.
Too long between "attack" and result? Most terrorists/freedom fighters (pov required) seem to be attempting to further their own causes.

Wouldn't this be more for the lunatic who either hopes to take humanity down in the long run, or just does not give an f?

More of a 12 Monkeys scenario?

Regardless, happy Monday, indeed...
A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality
From the paper:

> Signal acknowledged the issue of enumeration attacks as not fully preventable,

So rate-limiting is fine as long as you don't hurt user experience, e.g. you can still message your contacts within 1min if you have around 500 contacts. It's also nice to lower the load on the servers. But there's no real fix as long as phone numbers are used.

And it's fine, given that Signal basically leaks one bit of information: whether a phone number has a Signal account or not.

...of course, assuming that the account owner doesn't accept unsolicited messages (and thus shares their profile, with their picture and "About" field).