skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That can quickly become a seriously unhealthy attitude. It’s vastly more manageable to say in every activity there is someone at the top and everyone else is behind them. However, nobody is at the top of everything. The trick is making sure your good enough to do what you want to do.

Don’t try to be better at everything, get better at the things holding you back and then move on. You don’t need to be the worlds best cook to make lunch, but pick something and hitting the top 10%, 1%, 0.1% or even #1 becomes possible.

I have seen far to many overachievers who break down when they realized the vast majority of their time and effort has been wasted.
Lessons from Beeple on Creativity
I've seen more than one Stack Overflow answer straight copy-pasted into a single function, much of it leading to dead code anyway, and not cleaned up before being pushed into production.
> most of the time I do find some interesting nuggets of wisdom, though I never make notes on them

Copy and paste them to a text file. (Think of not doing that as throwing your life away.)

Arrange them by topic later, as the file size gets unwieldy. Read and reread them, which hopefully will be hard not to do, as they are your favourite quotes. Write little comments and commentaries on them as you wish – illustrative examples from your life, things it reminds you of, parts you don't quite agree with and why, etc.

I've also started writing my thoughts to the notes file, e.g. all ideas I have for something to do. Without doing this they'd just be idle thoughts soon lost. I've started making LaTeX PDF books out of stuff from the text file, one for the current year and others for particular topics as they become big enough and branch off. I just wish I'd started 30 years earlier! To the notes file goes anything of any significance that passed through my head and might be of value later. Sorting that into topics, and whether it's my or someone else's words, comes later.

I've come across many mentions of writers (from the last few hundred years) always carrying a notebook, and writing thoughts, ideas, images down in a notebook. Other people then read their books and think they're deep thinkers. Maybe, or they just realized the value of their thoughts — priceless — and never let one go to waste. e.g. Emerson's notebooks, Lichtenberg's "waste books" (more concentrated nuggets of thought, from a scientist/thinker). Emerson couldn't write the way he wrote – his essays are stuff from his notebooks of many years stuck together.

This Book is my Savings Bank. I grow richer because I have somewhere to deposit my earnings; and fractions are worth more to me because corresponding fractions are waiting here that shall be made integers by their addition. – Emerson, journals, Nov-Dec 1833

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? – Lichtenberg

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. – Lichtenberg

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, – 1. Never read any book that is not a year old. 2. Never read any but famed books. 3. Never read any but what you like… – Emerson, (VII 196)

You must keep two objectives constantly in mind when you are reading if you are to read wisely and judiciously: firstly to retain the matter you are reading and to unite it with your own system of thought, then above all to appropriate for your own the way in which other people have viewed the matter. That is why everyone should be warned against reading books written by bunglers, especially when they include their reasonings and arguments: you can learn of various matters from their compilations but – what is to a philosopher just as important, if not more important – you cannot learn from them how to bestow upon your mode of thinking an appropriate form. – Lichtenberg
Sure, but if paired with dezoning, the loss due to the elimination of rent-seeking through constricted suply would likely be larger decrease for landlords than the increase from demand surge from the subsidy.
I'm with you on this. I know very few people who generate passwords like that and most people I know use some simple "special word with special number" pattern. Often it's kids names, a random word they picked as a password years ago and have been reusing, and some part of their pin number.
The Net came out in 1995.
RS232 is the electrical signal standard; the chunky connector usually used is a DB25 but basic RS232 can fit in DB9

RJ11 (eg landline) and RJ45 (eg ethernet) were also connectors that achieved very widespread use, as did RG6 (eg cable tv)

(I'm not going to say they changed the world and I'm also not so sure I like the grab-bag nature of the various things the article lists either

for example, 8, 14 and 16 (and more) pin DIP were pretty important, or was it the TTL signals they carried or was it the connecting solder that ultimately made USB valuable... dumb article to write as a listicle.
"I would read articles about a 26-year-old entrepreneur with a billion-dollar company or a 16-year-old kid who invented a new kind of fusion reactor and a slow creep of panic would start to rise in my chest."

Great description of how we notice our stressful emotional responses in our bodies.

I agree with the article, and also know how hard it can be to "just stop" thinking those thoughts or having that physical response.

I'm launching a service to support software engineers in resolving exactly this kind of response!

Check out www.tinyurl.com/happyhackers if you want to learn more!

I recently worked with someone who described "paralyzing jealousy" when reading about companies that raised a ton of money -- pretty much the same thing described in the article. We resolved it in one session so that response no longer comes up for them. No more slow panic in the chest :)
Did you read it in original Japanese or translated?
Yeah, just over a year ago. Seems like ages!
Dillo Web Browser
I think hn is made from the comments. If comments are not interesting... The whole thing is worthless
I am glad I am not a fast food eating mouse then. Seriously though: what is true for mice may or may not be true for humans.
A couple of things I really think would help:

The password reset and login form leaks account info in the network response. You should return the same network response regardless of whether the user exists in the DB, instead of relying on the UI to communicate that.

Logging into your site sends back the full account profile object, including the password 'hash', which appears to just be a Base64 encoded string. Fortunately the Firebase API redacts that field so the decoded string is just 'REDACTED', but that's not a good thing to rely on, and I hope the password is actually encrypted behind the scenes..

Both of these are unfortunately common mistakes you see even on more well known sites.

Goodluck with everything.
I got mine for $200.
Intel’s Challenge: WinARM. By Jean-Louis Gassée – By Jean-Louis Gassée
Dropbox app does it free.
Oh? How do you know? We’re still waiting on ballot audits in 4 counties, until they actually happen NOBODY knows. Saying otherwise is just dishonest.
It is an ad. It worked. Don't expect a car advertisement to teach you how an engine actually works.
I dunno whether these count or not, but I enjoyed the hell out of Kid Cosmic, Steven Universe, and Adventure Time.

These maybe aren't the same kind of show as your traditional animes, but they all really resonated with me during Covid times.
I got a DecWriter on eBay for $200 and use the USB adapter. Works great.
Does this version support Windows 7?
I use this method as well, but instead of force adding files, I use an inverted .gitinore.

*
!/.bashrc
!/.config/
!/.config/monitors.xml

This lets me quickly quickly detect changes in my working dir while still explicitly adding each tracked file.
I’m finding GitHub files and blog posts dedicated directly to my topic more and more, even relatively minor questions or function syntax.
I was going to say "braille" but I suppose if you didn't have hands, your lips could be pretty good at reading it.
Guess it depends on the site cuz I have had pretty much excellent experiences overall using RSS on anything (the worst feeds are tech blogs with hand rolled software that end up messing up their RSS feeds every 3 months leading to full resyncs)
Exactly. Enter "accredited investors".
Not only do I find it somewhat rude[1], I also think the ability to delete comments is offering a false promise to the user - if you've publicly posted something on a notable site for any length of time, there's a good chance there's a copy of it somewhere else (as has happened with this post).

[1] subject to obvious exceptions like accidentally revealing personal/private information, it being spam/off-topic, or a misunderstanding (editing with a correction is my preference though)
I was commenting on this part of the post I was replying to. I had a person that fit this profile.

> So I would be wondering: if you're signaling you don't want to do those things, that means someone else will need to do all that for your code, which is not great for them and tends to be much worse.
Like you're basically saying you want to cherrypick the parts you enjoy and not give a damn about anything else. You might say you're only costing $1/hour but the risk of a bad engineer can mean you're still expensive or a loss.
Media Release: Suspected Poacher Killed by Elephants in the KNP
Hire me and provide a steady stream of well-defined work is what I'd settle for.

I'm currently about to abandon a 12 month contract about 3 months in because it's become apparent that the company didn't actually want a "DevOps" position, and I was hired as part of some incredible misconceptions about the regulatory environment they operate in by the managers who created the position.

The problem isn't "being bored" for me, it's feeling like time is passing slowly. I don't really care what if at the end of the day it's a surprise that it's all of a sudden 5pm.
Foundry Wars Begin
Maricopa AZ, Fulton GA, Detroit... did you look at any of the links I posted?

This is pretty pointless because people have already made up their mind that there’s nothing there and nobody would ever lie or manipulate a count to “save the country from Hitler”, when in reality we still don’t know if that happened or not because everyone with the ability to check agreed not to check. I am not claiming to know there was enough fraud to swing it, just that they never confirmed there wasn’t, they just took the word of the local officials that the counts were correct. To me, that’s absolute insanity, and how anyone who is pro-democracy would support that is beyond me.

The Maricopa audit is happening soon, so that should be interesting. And the Fulton ballots were ordered by a Judge to be turned over a few weeks ago, but the local officials are appealing to block the audit!
Neurotic journalists who don't build anything ever, much less sell it.

"OMG, this still runs on COBOL? haha"

Yes.
Twitter is not Official News (Granma, Pravda) nor is it the Ministry of Truth (though it tries) Even when we read official statements and we accept Twitter's censorship, we don’t actually know if Twitter is making the right or wrong call. WHO and CDC officials have equivocated themselves multiple times.

Meaning they have contradicted themselves meaning they have countered their own arguments.

Debate is healthy. Suppression is not healthy. It’s getting to be Orwellian and Dystopian. They are allowed to be wrong but not others. They are allowed to re-write history.

China has it where you report fellow citizens for "mistaken beliefs". I fear we're going down the same path and people are doing it happily. It's concerning.
I agree, and also find it meditative. I also feel like your thoughts engage differently when running. Some of the most incredible conversations I've ever had have been on long runs (marathon training, so multi-hour runs) with a friend - at some point you just start sharing and releasing vulnerability, and discuss things you would never talk to each other about otherwise (for clarity, not because it might be an embarrassing topic, but rather just very internal).
I'm a little surprised the authors didn't mention that this technique was used to obfuscate the Z80 with several "trap transistors": https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/Z80proj/Z80_traps.pdf

As the above images, and the presence of many Soviet clones shows, the obfuscation was not entirely impossible to detect.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale's last message to staff
A byte is a collection of bits - now almost universally standardized on 8 bits because of network protocols and encodings - but older computers the byte wasn’t as important as THE WORD which was the bit width the machine could process at once. We now refer to 128bit instructions but those are more properly an instruction with a 128bit word.

Lisp provides the ability for arbitrarily defined bytes.
A Terraform plugin for using files encrypted with Mozilla sops
With Google services specifically, it might be Google shenanigans at play rather than the other two browsers being genuinely inferior.
Also, https://www.troyhunt.com/passwords-evolved-authentication-gu...

forcing https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/02...

regular https://www.wired.com/2016/03/want-safer-passwords-dont-chan...

password https://practical365.com/security/microsoft-recommending-non...

changes https://www.scmagazineuk.com/end-password-expiry/article/147...

is https://www.sans.org/security-awareness-training/blog/time-p...

a https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2016/03/time-r...

bad https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/frequ...

idea https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2016/03/time-r...

can https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/frequent_pass...

you https://cryptosmith.com/password-sanity/exp-harmful/

please https://www.zdnet.com/article/changing-your-password-regular...

stop https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/articles/problems-forcing-regular-pa...

this was one of the more cheeky version I sent to a vendor.
Is it bothering anyone else that several of the images are incorrectly labeled? The female Micro B is clearly a male Micro B and the female Lightning appears to be the female end of a Micro B to Type C converter.
because there are ARM IoT processors but not X86.

Intel did try... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark
My first experiment with this certainly hasn't yielded the focused directed effort I was hoping to apply. I've worked permanent positions which felt a lot more like contract positions. At this point the main thing is for similar money I'm having to put a lot more effort into keeping track of my taxes.
It doesn't have to be interesting in a field defining level always. Purely technical problems interests some people too, it really depends on the person finds finds interesting and boring as your examples describe. You can find it, or as OP is trying it can find you .

I am not sure I agree with premise that most of us have put up with the dullest job to keep up with cost of living. There are plenty of tech jobs out there beyond the valley, in other parts of the world which are definitely interesting and pay reasonably above cost of living requirements.

It is not so clear cut to me that mpst don't have some freedom in choosing what kind of work to do without going to the highest paying boring one, tech is not minimum wage sector where we have little to no choice and limited in mobility. The cost of living is not that high that we have zero choice, other sectors don't pay as much in the same areas and they are able to manage after all.
You know, to figure out the encoding of files found in the recently unearthed (unmarsed?) ancient datacenter.
Google can fix the problem. They just don't want to. They were able to kill the Wikipedia clones by demoting their rankings. They don't want to surface non-profit ad-free sites on the first page results because that cuts into revenue.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
It's like the automated call center that picks up to tell you to please hold. What did you guys think I was doing before you picked up?!
Gundam is its own brand of weird, and while each series falls prey to toy commercial necessities (nary a protag old enough to drink), there is plenty of substance and a whole lot of flash to be found, and the focus on (critiquing) militarism means that most series is grounded in a way many series aren't.

8th MS Team, 0080: War in the Pocket, and Iron-Blooded Orphans are good to start with (even if you don't understand everything right off the bat, just flow with it). The first, because it is THE most grounded of all the series; the second, because it's by far the most moving, and the last because it's probably the most self-assured execution of the franchise's "child soldier" trope (with a fully-formed conception of just what kind of world produces that horror).

Mob Psycho 100 may seem out of left field and extremely Japanese at first, but it's such an effortlessly insightful, and universal, exploration of purpose, motivation, and the lies we tell ourselves about each, make it an easy recommendation, especially for someone who presumably might need some healing from Eva.

The Great Pretender will remind you a lot of Cowboy Bebop.

Edit: Oh, duh, Kon. Anything by Satoshi Kon.
IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
Why the Indian Covid mutation should worry Israelis – analysis
Yeah, they definitely should have bailed on the acquisition when the acquiring company asked for proof they weren't using code they didn't have a license to....
I have to wonder what phone you've got. I have a Pixel 4a 5G and it takes the best pictures out of any camera I've had (usually cheap Canon PowerShot's, which are GREAT cameras). I've been extremely impressed with its abilities. I can't imagine that any homebrewed solution could match it without thousands of hours of work.
For me it was the realization of being a loser, but being the difference between being a loser that busts your ass (dwight) and a loser that "gets it" (stanley).

It opened my eyes and I stopped caring about getting fired at my low paid office job. And guess who never got fired even after slacking hardcore?
2021 State of the Earth
This is just wild-ass guessing though, which is fun, but not informative. Do you have even a shred of evidence the NSA is ahead in the last 20 years? Talking theoretical crypto, algorithm design, etc. of the observers and folks in the academic side of this field many suspect academia more or less caught up to the NSA, for example and they would be best positioned to guess that. Call me a skeptic the NSA is categorically ahead these days.
The Engineer's Curse
For better or for worse, the people who fight fires often interfere with natural selection. Even when it means risking their own lives.
But if you did that, TCP/IP would no longer be a great fit. You’d want some sort of hypertext-specific transport protocol, I think.
Depends on how many people were involved in the trading. To pick a contrived example, suppose the only two transactions on the ledger were me buying 1e-9 dogecoins for $1, then you and me swapping forty dogecoins. That situation would match the circumstances you described. Kinda what this article is about actually.
Are most users net positive in their votes, or are there some that only upvote, and some that only downvote?
It depends on how complicated the codebase is. Junior programmers usually work on simple programs so they can get away by copy pasting snippets.
I've been looking for a workout that makes my head way bigger and my arms way shorter. Can't find any tips on tik tok.
You might get more milage in if the avatars are unique to the user viewing them rather than identical between users. If the nonce/salt used in generation it itself secure then it'd be phrohibity difficult for adversaries to force a collision without obvious detection, doubly so in communities.
The Pandemic Will Be More Deadly This Year
"Sumer is icumen in". I can puzzle that out more than 750 years later, hopefully without false cognates, "summer is a-coming in". It kind of matches the translations. A human being just like us wrote it, trying to be happy, get along in his life. What am I doing that will last that long or make an impact? I mean except for my twitter feed, obviously.
What if the app caches some (or fragments of) entries for some good reason? If you're unaware you're getting only one requested contact each time you may be triggering edge case behaviour. What if you have reasonable time-out behaviour which triggers each time now while user chooses which contact to expose to the app? What if the contract list is polled in the background, or when you receive a message to match it up with the right source?
I feel it's a strange consumption pattern to rely on a single news source, when Google News or Apple News is a much easier way to follow a story.

It makes more sense to follow the stories you care about rather than simply the sources you trust. Even if you trusted the NYT, many of their articles aren't going to be relevance to you. It's like going back to the old school RSS model where you scroll past a bunch of articles.

I would also point out Axios, which has been praised by Sarah Sanders when she was the WH press secretary, and has an interesting way of summarizing news as digestible bullet points.
>Problems like climate change and food insecurity are not technological problems at this point. They are political problems

Excellent and simple analysis. I should also add housing (in most parts of the world ) to the list.
Admitted it was true about Hunter Biden? What?

Also I don’t understand where the lie was? Was it unreasonable to initially report that an officer who died following the chaos had injuries from the event?

It’s fair to criticize the breathless coverage, but isn’t calling it a lie that served its purpose a bit much?

The correction that is supposedly being buried is on the top of Apple News, WaPo and on the front of the NYT.
Are the mouth shapes made by ASL (and other sign-languages) mandatory and/or standard? I sort of had no idea they were part of the language if so -- having never really thought about it.
What liability? Section 230 specifically says they are immune from liability.
Not my experience at all. Interviewers are often open and very frank about what is good/bad about the company. When they aren’t, it tells me that it is not a company for me.
I won't be treated like a moron by a moron.

That's just way inappropriate. Probably the only reason your comment isn't [dead] is you're in a discussion about moderation.

I wouldn't attack Dan so personally. Instead, think of the community here. There is a hint of who they are in the following quip. Actually it explains things well enough that it tends to get downvoted whenever I post it. Perhaps because it hits a little too close to home:

HN is open minded about intellectual inquiry as long as that inquiry doesn't challenge anything an average Californian already believes

I don't remember exactly where I found that. But just think about it. There are so many people on HN from the Bay Area. The submissions, discourse, and moderation all reflect that "bias". What you're observing is simply an emergent behavior.
In March 2020 they were down 30% from the peak a month before. There was a virus. You may have heard about it? It was in the news. :) People didn't know what was going to happen.

Previous peak to present might be a less misleading factoid. And that is +20%. Still a big number but less impressive. It may be that confidence in public markets was bolstered by the resilience of the big companies' profits in the face of the virus.
The H8 or H8S is also used in many Thinkpads as the embedded controller:

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Embedded_Controller_Chips