skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can only talk for me, but I watch maybe an hour of TV at most a day maximum - generally two episodes of a light comedy before bed each day. On top of that I'll watch one movie or documentary a week - I don't think that is excessive. But when I do want to watch this, I just want it to work. I use chromecast and since changing broadband provider and getting a new router it has misbehaved loads. Watching some last thing TV has become a chore - getting it to play first time, and then pausing or skipping is now a pain. Ordered a new router which should fix things - but a working tool to consume (however much or little you do) makes life simpler. I don't want to battle technology for my limited video entertainment.

Finding great stuff is hard - but the less you watch the longer the good stuff lasts! The Office USA has been great for wind down entertainment.
I would disagree that transgenic A-beta mice are a clinically relevant model. I mean, I understand why we started there -- at first glance Alzheimer's is amyloidosis in the brain. But after all this time, it's pretty clear that removing amyloid doesn't cure AD, and consequently that overexpressing amyloid in a mouse is not a good animal model of AD.
Only after shifting from a goal-oriented mindset to a process-oriented mindset; I now just love improving my intuitive structural thinking ability, and LC is for nothing more than that.
As in, a significant chunk of candidates cannot write code, have outright lies on their CV, have never used anything other than visual basic, etc...

In addition, basic statistics suggests you need all new hires to be better than 50% of the existing company, or your average skill level will go down, which makes hiring just hard mathematically.
Hubble Sees a Nearby Young Exoplanet Finishing Up a Growth Spurt
Nice, thanks for the link here
I remain unconvinced. I still think brain teasers help understand one's decisions. A tangent to this subject is Google's famous post-mortems. An incident X occurred - what did the team do? What processes were in place to minimize risk, etc? Was there anything that the team didn't think about? (Unfortunately most of the time these things are taught by experience and in production.) An so on. It might seem bogus but sometimes it's not. Reliability in certain domains is very important because sometimes human lives are at risk.

nobody in their right mind would let software engineers design airplanes.

I never said anything of the sort. Software engineers do have to know certain aspects of its domain problem otherwise the software controlling the hardware will be fundamentally broken.

When I was kid I thought maths were pointless - because I couldn't see how that would be applied to real tangible things - until it suddenly clicked how it all worked (this happened because I started reading more about it and actually finding interest in it). Brain teasers help one think even if the scenario at first seems completely random and bogus, and yes even "trick" questions are valid.

This new standard of thinking, about these problems as a waste of time, is probably related to something else; probably politics and the feeling that those said brain teasers are considered by some as "elitist" (or white as they call it now). If that is the case then how about explaining things to people in other ways? I'm a big proponent of educating the masses. (Something like what the Khan Academy or 3Blue1Brown are doing.)

Another reason might be because people feel anxious about job interviews already and having stranger shove in a brain teaser makes the whole experience even more stressful. If that's the case then maybe this person is in the wrong field or applying to the wrong company/job. Or maybe that person needs to solve other life's problems before applying to any job that's stressful.
The problem with the Kinesis is you're never going to always have a Kinesis available if you have to use someone else's computer, so it's really hard to really get to the point you use it correctly without thinking about it.

Dvorak can be a huge handicap too if you can't be 100% in control of every computer you touch.
In another part of the thread, a commenter linked the response from the department which pointed out that the definition of human subject research and even IRBs themselves are governed by federal statute.

A bunch did go wrong in this case, but the actions of the IRB weren't one of them. They were acting exactly as directed by the law. The fault lies with the researchers who conducted the experiment, and perhaps broadly with the academic community for not establishing guidelines for ethical oversight of non-human subject research.
There are tons of mechanical options that are reasonably priced and not particularly loud. Honestly as long as you’re not getting clicky switches it’s very unlikely to be an issue. If you get a board with silent switches then the volume is about the same as membrane.
Using Jetbrain products as well as VS2019 and VSCode occasionally. One thing I'd really hope to achieve is to easily define some editing behaviors and script it into a shortkey. I can probably do it using IDE scripting though so I need to look into it.
I wish PyCharm could finally fix a 4 years old bug where code within libraries installed in edit mode cannot be followed when working with remote interpreter. Please, please, please, give thumbs up so they fix it :)

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-25868
Yes, could you elaborate on the awful nature of most applicants? Do you mean that they are not fit to make software or that they are not Google material?
They should take whatever percentage they want, even 100%, as long as they allow alternative ways to get apps onto the iPhone and to charge for in-app purchases. The problem isn’t that their price is too high, it’s that it’s the only game in town. Allow alternatives and then the price they choose can compete with the rest of them. We can see exactly how valuable of a service it really is.
If you know how to leverage your experience you can literally walk in as the CTO of most small startups if you are an ex-googler and don't act like a drone.
Techno livestream. BPM increases when your website gets high traffic.
The just-beat-soltaire-plot
Whatever changes you think investors might react to need to be discounted by the likelihood of them being in a bill passed by Congress.

It’s not something I know a lot about, but it seems likely that Congress will make substantial changes to Biden’s proposals?
These price points are approaching Xbox Series S at $300, which is certainly a better streaming + gaming option.
Mediocre actors stockpile material.

Good actors react from first principles.
For Darker and Grittier content...try HBO Max. They have some of the darkest shows such as The Night Of, Watchmen etc.
> On one extreme, full right to repair is full access to all source code, schematics and documents related to the phone and all of its hardware and software. It would necessarily also give you the ability to arbitrarily flash firmware and install software without limitation. Clearly this can't be good for security.

Open source code and device schematics shouldn't be a significant security threat. If device security is reliant on obscurity, you have improper security controls. Frankly, that should be on the device manufacturer, and not the consumer.

As for the second point, I should be able to install whatever software I want on my device...as its mine.
> no access at all, which is clearly secure

Not "clearly secure" -- rather it would be 'security by obscurity':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_by_obscurity

Quote:
Security through obscurity (or security by obscurity) is the reliance in security engineering on design or implementation secrecy as the main method of providing security to a system or component. Security experts have rejected this view as far back as 1851, and advise that obscurity should never be the only security mechanism.
Tech wise not a lot

- $5 droplet in DO hosting multiple apps

- $12 yearly domain name

- ~$200 A few one off tool purchases this year

Luxury wise

- ~$70 a month on streaming

Recurring charges are something I try to keep as low and as few as possible.
My favorite resource: https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

"The Linux Command Line", also available in dead-tree version from No Starch Press. The PDF of the Fifth Edition is available for free from the link above.
I think there is something to that - a lot of stuff used to come up from random encounter with other peopl in the company and yet that almost totally absent now. A lot of stuff seems like it is still coasting based on that momentum (eq. people you met at a conference or at lunch) yet new connections are not being made.

That could be a problem over time unless people can met at the office again in some form and go to conferences. Or some remote form of that would be needed.
Buying a physical good or an upgrade to a physical good isn’t an “in-app” purchase. I don’t think Apple is taking a cut here — it’s probably just Apple Pay.
Their names are listed on the website. It'd be hard to convince someone you've got the stone if your name isn't listed there
yea, thats pretty easy. a small Go/Rust/whatever program to do WS and write (well formed, authenticated) message data via INSERT
I believe the flip side of it is that Spotify would not even give the user the option. So, to use Spotify, you have to use their billing system.
They use a decent size shoe of several decks and reshuffle more than just in between rounds. Furthermore, the dealer only deals from a subset of the shoe IIRC.
> Be aware that you'll be forced to share your GPS location with Google during the set-up

I think you're misinterpreting the meaning of the location permission: it's probably requesting that to connect to the Chromecast via WiFi Direct or Bluetooth. Android buckets that into location because you can figure out a user's location by looking at nearby WiFi networks/Bluetooth beacons.
Anatomically modern humans have been around for 2.5 million years. Behaviorally modern humans only about 200k. Initially this was assumed to be evidence of a simple gene that created a breakthrough to language, culture, etc. Continuing archeological evidence is now strongly slanted against that, particularly evidence from microlithic industries. It now appears far more likely that behavioral modernity emerged organically as a primitive social complex. Different locations independently discovered different pieces of the "toolkit" but it wasn't until the full kit of critical tools came together that we have the breakthrough to complex societies.

Basically, your perspective on IQ and heritability is very cartoonish. I'd suggest spending some time on wikipedia. I'd also familiarize yourself with the classic rebuttal of The Bell Curve, which clarifies the difference between heritability and genetic determinism. Culture and social complexes are heritable.
Because as "tech people" we live in an echo chamber. where we conflate our specialized knowledge as "easy with just a quick google". But in reality my Aunt that can barely troubleshoot her computer(avg person) probably shouldn't be risking an $800 device to save $80 on a repair. So when she buys a phone why would she care about the repairability of a product, she's just going to take it to a professional anyways.
Unless you're big enough to get featured, App Store discovery is pretty bad. Search has always been spotty and has not improved much. Meanwhile, if you want to associate your app with a keyword you can pay Apple (again) for iAds. This sometimes leads to competitors shoving their way to the top of the search screen when you're searching for a specific app name. Something that's pretty infuriating for me as a customer looking for a specific app.
This is how you know there are lots of people not doing much work who know their massive income depends on other people doing the work.
it's really good. the routing is just genius. makes multichannel audio really easy. also synchronous audio router and ninjam.
The ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft often get a wave of applause from HN.
This was our biggest hesitation when we were first evaluating the idea - we thought companies want to either "outsource" devops completely by using something like Heroku, or hire a devops engineer to do the devops work, obviating the need for a platform like this.

However, we were surprised to find that a lot of our users actually fall in the middle - they want to run things in their own cloud, but don't want to deal with the complexity of k8s. Perhaps the biggest change in the last 3 years is that k8s became a popular option even for startups - adoption of k8s has been "trickling down" and now the k8s user base is increasingly composed of those who "know the basics of k8s, but don't want to deal with all of its complexity". We've found that a platform like Porter fits in with that type of demographic, and we are optimistic that there are more of these companies based on our current data.
I like that they put all the table rows in for the next 1300 years. Reminds me of someone numbering a music collection and starting optimistically with 0000001 (they usually gave up at about 000005).
> I don't know why they couldn't just raise prices and sell a device.

They're publicly traded, so selling only hardware makes their business model too predictable and 'low-growth' for Wall St. Also competitors could eat their lunch considering that their hardware isn't any more complex than a $50 Android TV box you can get at a flea market.

In order to create a moat to stave off competition, you make your business model all about 'services', with an increasingly less important hardware component.
I don't find your conclusion obvious. Yes, the construction seems better than older Egyptian examples. But that makes sense: the later date of construction in the Iron Age means more ubiquitous iron tools. The inscriptions don't seem crude to me. Better than the Rosetta Stone. Worse than the Stele of Thonis-Heracleion. In short: You don't give Saite-period stonemasons enough credit.

But this is a digression. You want to use the refined, elaborately decorated Saite-period empty stone sarcophagi from Saqqara to suggest that the crude, unadorned stone sarcophagi of the Old Kingdom aren't really sarcophagi and the pyramids weren't tombs. If you're going to talk about how the impossible perfection of the sarcophagi at Saqqara means the Saites didn't produce them, for the sake of argument, fine. But you can't use the same reasoning to suggest the sarcophagi in the pyramids, which are by no means "marvels" of stonecraft, come from a different culture than the Old Kingdom.
Everything I know about Japanese wood carving is from David Bull's channel. Great content.
I'd argue that their cost scales to the price paid because credit card processors are taking on the liability for those transactions.

Additionally, a 2% fee is nearly inconsequential. If Mastercard and Visa demanded 30%, there would be literal riots.
I also found it difficult to find a nice quiet inexpensive membrane keyboard. I ended up just buying a $15 AmazonBasics model. Its nothing special but it works, could be a bit quieter. Still looking for something nice.
It could be that amyloid is the smoke. It could also be residue from the body's fire extinguishers. That is, something breaks, and amyloid accumulation is a consequence of whatever the body does to try to fix it. Maybe it makes it worse. The point is, we don't know, and 30 years of presuming that we do has led us to a giant dead end.
> a compiler issue that could be solved by escape analysis

It could be solved today, not in the sixties when Simula has been designed. It's fascinating how much scientific progress we're taking for granted, assuming that is has been that way forever.

> A Simula linked list has as much indirection as a C++ std::list<T>

Barring the same comment on the progress in generic types, intrusive lists are on a bit different scale. The difference between a T which can be a part of intrusive list and List<T> is in how T gets into a list. For intrusive list the links are already in your T. If you have an element and want to add it to the list then it's a bunch of pointer assignments. For non-intrusive list you have to allocate a new list node, and maybe even move your element there.
It seems that people already in that situation are already very vulnerable and AirTags don’t really add that much new vulnerability.

If someone has physical access to you and your devices, it will be very hard for you you be sure they are not tracking you. With a lot of Android devices, you can root them and get access to a ton of location data.

Many apps also store your location data. You can also side load apps that would do this even more so.
I hear "trickle down" and I hear rich people pissing on everyone.
In your view, would this critique also apply to a trait-based version in Rust which supplies a default implementation for `push_all`?

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

trait Stack {
fn push(&mut self, element: i32);
fn push_all(&mut self, all: Vec<i32>) {
for element in all {
self.push(element);
}
}
fn pop(&mut self) -> Option<i32>;
}

As far as I know it's impossible to invoke `super` to get at the default version of `push_all` from an `impl` which overrides `push_all`.

This is still "implementation inheritance", because the implementing type inherits the default implementation of "push_all". But it seems less brittle than classical OOP implementation inheritance.

• No "super" invocations.

• Shallow inheritance hierarchies.

• No direct member variable access from the trait (interface) code.
Permanent or official WFH arrangements are generally not a thing, but just taking days here and there informally as WFH days is something that many teams are pretty permissive about from what I understand.
Learn to type by floating your hands like a pianist. It’s the main thing that saved my wrists 10 years ago when I started developing first hints of issues after 15 years of daily coding.

Retiring at 23 because of wrist pain wouldve sucked.

Typing on yor lap is generally bad for all sorts of reasons. I’ve found it can work if you’re reclining in a comfy chair. But float your wrists!
Reusing implementation is the point.

Here is more specifically what I meant with my comment about specialization above. There is a class with four methods, three of which are exactly what you need but the fourth one, you need to modify.

Solving this with inheritance is trivial (extend and override).

Solving this with any other paradigm is... much harder and requires a lot more boilerplate.
Are you really comparing a device that costs hundreds of USD and has a form factor of... A phone, with a device that's supposed to be hooked up to a keychain and that costs 29 USD?
As said elsewhere, who was there first is not relevant, whereas having prefered treatment because of your monopoly at any stage is. Some are mentioning the App Store being the root of the monopoly, and that is probably true. But speaking from a legal EU point of view, especially as the EU is stating their case in the streaming music area only, wouldn't the simplest way for Apple to get away with it be to externalize 'enough' Apple Music and to have them pay the same fees as Spotify? Therefore, the only way to restrict anticompetitive practices here would be as others like Epic are doing: by proving the monopoly in enough different domains covered by the App Store? Would the antitrust laws in the US similar, that is proving monopoly has to be done by domain, or would a more global view be possible there?
If engineers acted rationally, we would not have so many technology fads.
Serverless has become a stupid marketing term, just like Facebook hijacked the words “Friend” and “Like”.

I look forward to true serverless software - that is either peer to peer or uses a distributed back-end with encryption. Now THAT is the future!

Serverless just means “we spin up a server for you”, similarly to how “the cloud” is just a euphemism for “extreme centralization of hosting myriad clients under the control of one company”.
> Why do users choose a platform?

In my family, some of the users chose their platform after asking me what to buy. I'll normally recommend Apple because the hardware is generally pretty good and their service and support through their stores is decent.

Applications usually don't matter, with gaming being the big exception.

If applications really were the biggest factor, Apple probably still wins. Through virtualization, a Mac can legally run more software than any other computer.

> Developers embraced iOS and Android over Symbian and webOS.

Users embraced iOS before developers. The day the iPhone was release, there were far more apps on Windows CE based smartphones but none of that mattered. So I don't think you can say it's all about applications.
> It’s unfortunate, because they stand to lose a lot over the course of a lifetime of investing.

On the other hand, it's worth gambling in stocks because if you don't your going to lose your shirt in the upcoming inflation, so you might as well roll the dice and shot your shit at not winding up poor.

Especially since there are tax increases targeted at the rich coming down the pike that are going to absolutely destroy you if you are middle class or poor, when a mcdouble costs $20 instead of $2 and the minimum wage is $100/hr instead of $15
I remember back in 2005-2005 when LinuxPro magazine gave a full dvd containing ALL of the tldp howtos and stuff, and that was kind of a sweet deal.

I never bought a magazine so fast in my life.
>it's all up to the content owner to decide where to distribute it. //

Maybe this is wrong.

Perhaps we, the demos should be demanding a sort of "least favoured nation" [do I mean 'most'?] deal where content owners have to make works available to all streamers at the same rate. Disney sell to Disney Streaming Channel? They also have to sell to $streamingChannel at the same rate, then people can watch copyright content without channels manipulating the market by restricting access.

Then, if they don't want to follow that rule we should say 'fine, no copyright for you'.

Seems fair to me. I'm already so over every streaming channel monopolising content.

This is entirely my personal opinion.
Both at the same time, presumably if they're willing to leave they've been there long enough to cash in said prestige somewhere else
What grass though? This subset of employees seem to value working remotely above free food or massages or whatever other in-office perks.

Work-from-home as a perk has a negative cost, so it's not crazy to think that companies might start offering it.
In fairness, you could write support for those in lambda too if you wanted.

As a proof of concept though, this is interesting.
The question is always why someone is not perfectly happy with a workplace, and what alternatives they have available.

You may work in a large bureaucratic corporation, want to work somewhere more dynamic, but you also have adjusted to the large corp salary.

You may work at a cool startup, but wish for more time for your family, however the jobs offering a better work life balance are uninspiring.

Add to that it takes effort to leave, and less effort to stay, and you have a lot of people "choosing" to stay.
It was very similar ideas that led to me making algo-drills.

https://github.com/travisjungroth/algo-drills
I assume it was a combo of familiarity and also related to whichever mechanisms Zarf was extracting world states graphs from Inform 7 and/or Z-Machines. (I haven't read the blog posts in a while, and obviously Zarf's blog is blocked on this work laptop because technical discussions about games can't possibly~ have technical insight into work.)
> You can get practically as much security by pushing malware signatures to the client without the massive privacy overreach

I think the issue with pushing malware signatures to the client is that it is reactive rather than proactive - i.e. by the time you have identified a malware signature, it is already too late (which leads to an inevitable cat-and-mouse / whack-a-mole game).