skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty cool idea!

I've tended to write free software, designed to meet needs (as opposed to make money), but this is a good idea, and one that I think could be useful to folks that need to come up with "that big idea."
> IT departments will never have enough money/time/staff to keep systems up to date with the latest OS (look at the number of people still running critical systems on Windows XP).

It's not like Microsoft has an explicit EOL date announced for every OS release...
I'm always amazed when (or how) an article of mine shows up here. I suspect it came about through this twitter exchange regarding a mystery device that came with someone's Calcomp plotter: https://twitter.com/artandtech/status/1387838582149287939

What I could never adequately explain is just how nicely made these digitizing sights are. They give a very bright, crisply magnified image of the point immediately under the pen position. This contrasts with how massively fiddly it is to try to operate exactly the right buttons on a pen plotter while squinting down a tiny optical sight.

Even though pen plotters weren't rare in the 1980s and early 1990s, I've never found any software (beyond the terrible script I wrote for that article) that uses this capability. There's probably some HP BASIC code lurking on a half-forgotten instrumentation archive that does the job, though.
Yeah, but the counter to all that is building new housing, which unsurprisingly very difficult in these areas.
Hah, interesting. Lends new meaning to “have fun staying poor”. A phrase intended to chastise those who didn’t help raise crypto’s hash rate.
Yep, completely agree.

But notice how this argument is based around the margins. When labor goes up, rents go down and food costs go up slightly. Someone who used to just barely be able buy fast-food from McDonalds will suddenly not be able to, and instead be forced to buy more from the grocery store. But there might be two customers that would have otherwise bought food at Five Guys who now buy from McDonalds.

You might see a shift from commercial to residential, or you might see a shift to 4+1 mixed. The town might buy the space and put in a park. You might put in a high-rise. Anything could happen based on the situation.

Whenever the argument of raising the minimum wage comes up, we always hear these stats that 50% of businesses will go in the black, and we will destroy the economy. It's much more subtle than that. The effect that we see is tiny tiny percentages that are overwhelmed by other factors.
By far the most frequent user of the documentation I wrote was ... I again, but two to ten years down the line.

It was still worth it.
> Without the word of God, all we have are opinions.

Hopefully, data can slowly dispel this human flaw: https://m-g-h.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c22

> we should ask ourselves: “Is Christianity true?” And if you think it’s bogus, then: “Why do I let these ideas influence my worldview so strongly?”
Little kids are a lot of work, especially if you don’t have redundancies like grandparents/aunts/uncles, or daycare and other little kids to entertain them.

If it’s just going to be you, the spouse, and the toddler stuck in a suburban house, I hope you genuinely enjoy playing with them a lot because they need constant attention.

Even after having kids, I think I’d be just as happy if I didn’t have them. I certainly wouldn’t want them if it was just going to be me and spouse, but luckily I can diffuse the responsibilities between daycare/grandparents/etc.

I also would lean towards not having them if I wasn’t completely financially secure and could afford them a home in a good neighborhood and colleges, but that’s due to me believing the income/wealth gap will continue to increase.
I know of a company that had a pretty large set of creative commons licensed learning materials they put together, along with tools to customize lesson plans and rearrange/edit material, make online quizzes, etc. It was offered as a good low cost digital replacement to traditional textbooks, aimed at colleges. Follett, the #1 textbook distributor (which interestingly has common roots with Barnes and Noble) bought the company. Shortly thereafter, the product mentioned was discontinued. The professors that had adopted it, I assume, were somewhat inconvenienced.
Wearable augmented reality will probably be very big some day. (The probably being mostly a hedge against essentially the Glasshole factor--i.e. never becoming socially acceptable for day to day casual use, as opposed to commercial applications.)

But the when is anyone's guess and could easily be a decade or three out.
Selling to e-commerce sellers is a particularly difficult set of customers though. They typically know just enough about technology to demand things that aren't possible. And often skewed towards a type-a attitude where being loud and obnoxious is their go-to. So, high-margin, but you'll earn your money in that space.
I'm not the commenter you replied to, but I'm a designer who agrees with the sentiment. To me, it seems pseudo-scientific at best, creepy and manipulative at worst. It's like when I see a pop science book that is aimed at executives, with a sub-title like "how the latest quantum physics research can give you an edge in business!" Whatever validity the psychological principles underlying these observations may or may not have, they are almost certainly being misconstrued and oversimplified to sell easy answers to a lay audience.
The mobile version is in progress. The layout doesn't quite work on mobile, and the editor library I used doesn't work on mobile, so it requires some tweaks.

The reason it's not done yet is because I have a job and this is a side project :)
If you've had friends involved or lost to Ponzi, HYIP, or MLM, as soon as you see "investment club" and the guy in a gaudy cheap suit, with logos like these? You know. It's a nearly-reflexive gut feeling.
Theres a lot of issues with abandonment. Do people expect to pay $1-$6 for lifetime support of an app, otherwise its 1 star? Or should the developers have warned that the product is EOL'd, without refunding money to previous buyers.
“Embarassing words”– on a relationship between natural and programming languages
I actually only know CL and Elisp. I played a bit with Clojure, and its Emacs story looks pretty solid, but I was thinking it might be difficult to translate idiomatic clojure code to Elisp when Clojure has more emphasis on purity.

I'd guess that CL is closest to Elisp, especially when you use the popular "cl-mode", and you have the same mental model of hacking on a live lisp system. I learned CL from Paul Graham's "ANSI Common Lisp" back in the day, but I'd too be interested in what's recommended in 2021.
Ask HN: What are the possible future opportunities for C++ developers?
As per recent trends
1. 90% on newly created libraries/tools/frameworks have support for Python and JAVA languages by default, but not with C++, driving the adoption of those languages even higher,
2. Every other job opening is either for Python or Java developer.

Looking at above two points, what are the possible domains/opportunities where C++ will still be relevant or rather in high-demand in near future?
I wonder how often that is the case (the limits not being stated).

I've looked a bit for an nvme drive for an older computer, so I wasn't looking for the absolute best performance, but rather larger capacity and better endurance for a low price. And all the reviews I have seen had rated endurance numbers.

I've just had a look at WD Blue drives [0], and the spec sheet is easily accessible on their site and gives the endurance in GB written, not some timeframe based on an unknown "normal daily usage".

---

[0] I've chosen WD specifically because of the recent shady PMR / SMR drives.
Do you send the data and the labels to the plotter, or to the driver software running on your computer? I always imagined HP-GL would be a list of lines/curves, and that the plotter would plot them in whatever order they came in.
That's the thing. Someone acting in an immature and dumb way is not automatically racist. I've made my share of insensitive jokes because I was young, dumb, and lacking life experience. Then I grew up, in many cases by being called out.

The woke crowd does not appreciate personal growth. Unless you are born with God-like perception of every person's sensitive points, you are a shit-tier human for life. And the hypocrisy of that crew - case in point - is sometimes just breathtaking.
And so? A title such as "Monotremes: Weirdo Australian animals" might be a little better. But not much.
> religious morals

Mind expanding on this? I'm quite liberal and don't personally care what you base your morals on, so long as they don't result in, for example, you denying the lived experience of LGBT people in this country.
I'm new to this terminology, but it looks a bit like lazily computing a data stream vs. eagerly computing it, doesn't it? Or am I wrong.
Anyone have good tips on how to monitor web vitals in an ongoing basis? I've found CI solutions to be lacking since they don't easily run in a production-like environment that includes realistic content and third-party stuff (especially ads).
I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches [pdf]
the downloader version won't change as often as the actual app version. The downloader can (should) handle any newer version of the app tho
> Money doesn't buy happiness. The best things in life are free.

No. No. Happiness is extremely difficult to find if you are financially insecure.

Money has a marginal effect on happiness after a certain limit. But to say money doesn't buy happiness is an utterly stupid lie repeated for ages by those that have more than enough money.
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That’s the least dramatic part.

Dating drama is exhausting.

Late teenage rebellion period is exhausting.

Nothing like years of effort, lectures, standards tossed out the window.
Umm daughter, your boyfriends profile picture is of him sticking a can up his ass. “”He loves me!, your stupid””

For younger ones chore battles are my current stress point.
Presumably, suicide is illegal where I live because it may involve another person. Obviously, destroying my own life by my own hand leaves no perpetrator, though it does leave suffering [0] in my social circle. Of course, if I'm unsuccessful, our social net must pay to pump my stomach or sew my gash. Presumably, there is a punishment in place to prevent a proliferation of expensive, half hearted attempts. I agree that policy, unfortunately, affects people who aren't intending to harm themselves.

But, consider my semi mobile 97 year old, arthritic grandmother. If she did harbor a desire, she probably isn't in a position to end herself without suffering while she expires. She's not in a position to get a gun, or jump into a river. She doesn't control her pill supply, so she can't swallow all of her opiods. Maybe she could starve or dehydrate herself for an age.

Her greatest hope for dying without complication means involving an able bodied person. But, it's hard for uninvolved people to prove that murder didn't happen, given that the consenting party is gone. Sure, maybe the medical professional isn't interested in killing this person, but benefactors might be. It looks like murder in Los Angeles County in 2018 was 5 per 1e5 [2] and suicide was 14 per 1e5 residents [3]. (LA county contains 1e7 residents.) That is many cases that would need to be audited, and hence an expense that would be simpler to avoid with prohibition.

To be clear, I'm answering your question of why a society may choose to continue criminalizing suicide. I say this as someone who plans to off myself before my quality of life reduces to what (I perceive) my grandparents have experienced. Of course, it is easy for me to pronounce my intention [4] while my preferred date is still decades in the future.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvkbHIrrrvU

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25526104

[2] http://www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr02.php

[3] https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measur...

[4] https://twitter.com/Ashton_Murdock_/status/12617511652110868...
It is not about opening a text editor. It's about what you would type into that editor. The value provided is in the templates, not in the editor.
Could this have bearing on Mandela Effects? I mean if you rule out "false memory" for a specific case or two. I.e. you have seen a flip/flop of one within a week and it's so huge you can't possibly deny it's existence. (I won't try to convince anyone but that's exactly what I experienced...)...

Say for instance there's billions of realities and they're all like bubbles but also venn diagrams that sort of intersect at commonality, now say the multi-verse isn't infinite, say there's some entropy or finite size... if we're nearing entropy could the bubbles "pop" causing realities to merge into one?

Seems this would be a scientific way to possibly describe how two realities could merge and why people indeed have different memories of those realities.
Does anyone have experience using this?

I have only used modern VR devices and was really blown away how visceral and real they felt.
Oh no!

Yet another group of people who have banded together, believing that they can control all of Space! <g>

(How many times have we seen something like this before, in Earth's History -- first with land masses, and more recently, with Space?

Also, prediction: This won't be the first or last group that believes it can control all of Space! <g>)

(Disclaimer: The above was written for humor writing purposes only! <g> Take with the proverbial "grain of salt"!)
I don't think fulfillment and peace of mind are psychiatric diagnostic criteria.
Those emojis are like rainbow puke that actively hinder the reading of the text. The bright colours jump out so much that it's harder to stay anchored to the text. Rather ironic.
Marketing != advertising. There are a ton of things companies do with respect to marketing that are mostly pretty invisible to the average consumer.
Not quite. The key of the profit motive is it generally produces at least some useful output. For example, if you mine oil, you have externalities of course, but at least someone finds the end product useful and humans get a benefit. And you can create a framework of laws and rules to capture the externalities. (We haven’t, but we could, and are starting to)

A paperclip maximizer is incentives gone wrong. People wants profits so they can do something with them. But the AI wants paperclips because it is programmed to want paperclips, and it does so to the detriments of any other goals. It would devour the child of the AI designer to turn her into an input for paperclip production.
the mailing address for Ferranti-Cetec was at Crewe Toll. I have a vague memory of the Ferranti-Cetec office being further west, though, but I could be wrong
Putting a WiFi router into a wall charger (Part 0)
Your team is incentivizing it during code review.
Do many people watch through embedded videos or do people watch in the YouTube app? There's a convenience in having all your videos in 1 place. I've had a couple podcasts move to Spotify only and I stopped listening even though I have a Spotify subscription.
So they have an asshole list of "funny" names. When they get caught they argue that most of the people they are racists towards are white, So it's fine?
White people can definitely be racist towards other white people, you can easily find examples of that in Europe, so that is definitely a thing.
As an ethnic Norwegian, I'm not impressed over doing the list in it self, and then doubling down on the racism towards us by pretending it isn't. That makes it way worse.
One skilled engineer and a few mechanics operating and maintaining a network of conveyors can move a boatload of stuff in a day. They use this tech as leverage.

If they replace, say, five hundred people with carts, we can say that the conveyors replaced 495-ish people.

But the carts replace probably another x people. And the gloves the workers wear. And their boots. The factory is probably climate controlled, which helps immensely. Simple clipboards with paper do so much to keep the wheels of industry turning. Even safety goggles contribute to productivity.

Which of these technologies have to ge “paid”, and how much? This isn’t a simple approach at all, and very easy to game by production facilities.
I was using a CP/M computer - there was no driver architecture. You sent HP-GL instructions and data as text via the RS232 interface. The plotter obviously had a limited buffer size, which would prevent certain optimisations, but then so did the CP/M computer!
Accenture is always hiring. Go to their careers page.
This is an extremely odd article — it almost feels like a sponsored post.

The argument seems to be: plastic bags are better than cotton assuming you ignore the impact caused by littering AND the pollution of oceans by plastic.
It’s not really a big risk, here. It’s hypothetical. A scare tactic to argue against increasing the minimum wage to even moderately adjust for for inflation and overall productivity growth (and cost of living growth).
There's nothing arbitrary about paying a living wage. I could rephrase your argument as "Shouldn't businesses be able to pay poverty wages, and taxpayers can make up the difference?" If you can't stay in business without the government supporting your workers, then your business doesn't work. These businesses are effectively being subsidized by the government without giving the government a stake.

Also, I feel like this isn't even worth addressing, but no, work is not a government-sponsored day care for workers.
Yes, most new homes are plumbed with PVC (or actually, CPVC, which is a variant that tolerates higher temperatures and is sized like copper pipe) or PEX.

I wouldn't trust sharkbite fittings for anything really permanent (inside a wall, etc) but they are super handy for quick repairs.
Ding ding ding ... you summarized most of the reasons why but your conclusion is wrong. What does not and likely cannot exist is not important.
SMS Numbers for 2FA, Account Verification, Apps
I tried that. I'm not motivated enough. Totally my problem but the structure of communting was really helpful in getting me to do it everyday.

Also, I live 300ft up in the Oakland hills so going out and back in the morning to WFH means I have to climb back up or jut ride in the hills which involves more climbing. Going to work is downhill!
Go start your own blog, then I'll post opposing views all night and day but you can never delete any of my comments no matter how many F-bombs I lay at your door, because your site is as MUCH a "commons" as Twitter, Facebook, etc.
It is a little a bit like that. But the regular formulations of "eager" and "lazy" assume expressions that are evaluated once (or at at least if evaluated the again will yield the same result).

It's better to think of this stuff with constantly changing underlying data, which adds a lot of "color" to the domain.
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It's not that they only consulted them, it's that they included them. That seems entirely reasonable - these people are going to be entering the workforce. Google wants to be attractive to them, or at the very least prevent being actively unattractive.

Additionally, gen Z is growing up with technology in a way that surpasses even millennials. They may have deep expectations about how technology should work in ways that older people don't.
If you want a non-shallow piece on what good UX actually means:

"The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/what-ma...
> And all of this is free market capitalism at work. It is a continuous process of reinvention.

I agree with this sentiment. Mostly. But I can't say it freely, or with impunity - I'm on the lucky end of the spectrum partly by my own hard work, partly blind luck to be born in a middle class family, partly because my country has racial equality laws that give me the opportunity. I can negotiate my own terms for work and when I'm out of work I can freelance or build a product. But I can't swallow looking at workers as a line on an income statement. Something about it feels uncomfortable, uneasy. Like casually throwing talent and skills into the ocean when theres still so much work to do.

Sure, it's great for some. Most people in this forum are part of the economic and cognitive elite. I would expect words like automation to be thrown around freely because "optimization" and "free-market" are fantastic myths to belive in. They might even be self-fulfilling prophecies. They just never come up to help people get a leg up. Those families that could be paying taxes are going on welfare, which means we get taxed more but do we have a right to complain and try to dodge out of paying taxes to support the people we've put out of work for the sake of automation and progress? Would we be happy to automate to our hearts content if you had to pay more taxes?
The counter examples don’t disprove the effect. Yes we’ve had long considered ideas like communism that have resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred million people, no that does not disprove the notion that on average ideas that are more considered are of higher value that ideas that are not considered.
I'm surprised Kissinger is still alive.
Why anyone would ask sociologists about how tech work should be done is absolutely beyond me.
I know that some guitarists hate them, but I enjoyed playing my stereo Marshall ValveState (a newer one with an ECC83 instead of the classic 12AX7). I think it was the right balance between both worlds. You could barely tell it was mostly transistors inside. Well, it was a Marshall after all. That being said I have played the new MG ones and you can feel there is something missing.

I once had to repair my circa-1990 Crate GX160, so I bought its schematics. Most of the passive components went into multiple stage filters on every freaking section. Talk about overkill. I doubt you could even hear the effect of some of those filters, but they definitely played safe and took care of designs back then. Except for a few vendors, now it's all about packing as much they can on the digital side and penny pinching on the hardware.
"make you a better person" how incredibly arrogant,and I would argue having children is incredibly selfish. You are filling a need for yourself no-one else, there is nothing that couldn't be improved by less people on the planet.
Mind sharing how one could go about testing for this condition? (This sounds a bit familiar)
As I understand it, the current refugee crisis at the American southern border has a large Covid-19 component.

This report says that at least one facility has a 10% infection rate.

At the current time, in my opinion, The American border can't keep out any pandemic if our neighbors have it. And vise versa.
They might have yet to encounter it. Git is hosting some really big repos.
So true. It's easy to think that our contemporary problems are somehow especially dire, but as a species our lives are incomparably better than any generation before.

If you were abount to be reincarnated and could pick a decade to be born, knowing that you would be born into a random family somewhere on earth, you'd be a fool to pick any decade in the past. Today, you'd have a ~10% chance of being born into extreme poverty. As recently as 1990, it was ~50%, while back in 1900 it would have been ~90%!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty
So much matches with my experience. This is an indication of which company will survive two years down the lane and which not.

Too much perfectionist? You will enjoy the journey, but probably won't reach your destination.