skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish someone would do a study on self-help books/materials, to see if they actually have ever helped anyone.

My issue is not that the advice they give is necessarily wrong, but it's that the format usually goes something like this:

1. Survey lots of "successful" people.

2. Identify common behaviors of these people.

3. Recommend that other people practice these behaviors.

I mean, just look at the title, "Never eat alone". I don't doubt that most successful people have a wide network and rarely eat by themselves. I just don't think that telling an introvert, or worse, someone who is painfully shy, that making them engage in a behavior that is naturally uncomfortable for them will lead to equivalent level of success. I kind of feel like it's the same as telling an alcoholic "stop drinking".
What I've witnessed a couple of times is that there can be tremendous amounts and great documentation if the feature/framework can be broadly marketed. If it's on a marketing pamphlet it gets a lot of attention but as soon as it becomes standard or a bit less desirable the quality and extent of the docs are the first thing to go it seems. Sometimes "better docs" is the marketed feature but as all marketing campaigns go, they seldom leave a lasting impact.
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More Plumbers, Less Firefighters
Haha someone actually made this: http://left-pad.io/
a simplified list, not one word about duties levied on imported wood even though the United States has not been able to supply it's own needs for years
They'll also go through your recent history and downvote any comments you've made that are still fresh enough. Downvote culture has some clear drawbacks that I have never seen validated, let alone addressed, by any community mod/admin. Dang responded to me once, but not with validation, and not to my follow up. It's the best I've ever been treated by a mod. I must be a bad person with evil opinions.
The "what actually happens" answer is often "let them both book successfully and then rebook the person with lower loyalty status".
Yeah, I've noticed this too. Most of the time when you look up something gRPC related, the first links are for some of Microsoft's gRPC documentation!

gRPC is one of those projects that I'm not sure if Google really wants uptake or if it's just a dump as a means to open source other things they want uptake in (GCP client libraries, tensorflow, etc). The documentation is awful.
I definitely work longer but the intensity is much lower. Its a voluntary choice to work less intensely so I can handle childcare or lunch or take a nap. The total time spent is probably still lower if you include the commute during WFO.
I've actually wondered if a True Hipster (tm) ever thought of starting a company to develop software for vintage Apple hardware emulated by one of the many open source choices available. The thinking here is that such software affords a higher degree of reliability since the platform is totally dead.

The thinking for a long time was that computer software was compute-limited, that all applications were as intensive as video games, audio / video editing, and 3D rendering. In reality, people may pay for innovative interfaces and data formats when they organize their work in a new way. Software could be used in an "offensive" way to take entire industries as interlocking roles within organizations. Each of these roles, save manual labor and janitorial work, benefits from education, and the nature of that education is to develop certain patterns of thought & behavior.

Software could be designed with the educational background of the user in mind. I'm speaking mostly of enterprise software here, but it could be applied to CAD shops, publishing, anyone who has an education and uses a computer. I'm not talking about Mechanical Turk here.

The idea is to take education philosophy as the common software for all education computer-enhanced roles and design software for educated people that exposes stuff like

- the ideal way to learn the structure of the software data model

- text and point-and-click data input and output

- data processing language
Firefox is for browsing the web and rust is for writing software. Neither is for stress testing or benchmarking the users computer. That would be like arguing that your thermos manufacturer is responsible for providing a good experience to the user using it to hammer nails.
> does your Apple watch get Matrix notification with the same polish as iMessage?

yes, actually. Element iOS has dedicated Watch support and provides parity to iMessage (ability to react and reply etc to msgs). There’s also native Apple Watch Matrix clients so you don’t need to be tethered to your phone.
Hospitalized Covid patients have one thing in common: They're unvaccinated
https://www.catholic.com/tract/primer-on-indulgences

The powerful hoping to keep people ignorant seems like conspiracy/folklore.
> Investors rarely care about dividends.

This one statement reveals that you have zero idea what you’re talking about and are just presenting yourself as knowledgeable. Why do that?
Are we running out of tweets?
.NET documentation is incredible, not just for the language but also the APIs. It's such a joy to work with and even complex concepts seem to be explained very thoroughly.

It gets a bit uglier once you cross into WINAPI, COM, etc., but Apple's is still not even close to being a match.
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That’s projection.
Unfortunately, firefighting is kind of fun :(

At a previous job that had very stable infra, we'd joke that we should cause some production outages for fun because it was so boring when everything worked.
Its inflation. Despite very high levels of production, there is even higher demand and a willingness to pay the higher prices. When you consider the fed printed trillions of dollars for easing in the last year this should be even more apparent.
You might like the Tailscale Machine Key approval feature. If enabled for your domain, no device can join your tailscale network unless they’re manually approved by your network’s admin or the API.
Sony sadly has a long history of limiting devices in crazy ways. Their beautiful ebook reader was a disaster from a software perspective.

Paradoxically, since they are a conglomerate some divisions have sane policies. Their mobile phone one is among the few manufacturers that release kernels and make it easy to self-compile your own AOSP.
And crypto projects that are derivatives on real world assets, like fiat currencies (stablecoins) or stocks (synthetic tokens), have equivalent backing. If the project were to dissolve, there would be assets backing that. Not suggesting this is the case here, but I keep seeing this worrisome trend where people are stuck in the Bitcoin and ICO world from 5 years ago and think nothing has changed and they don't really understand the technical details of how DeFi protocols work today.

In the case where tokens are not backed by anything they are often governance tokens, which are kind of like startup equity. Startups without much IP or real estate are commonly valued at millions of dollars. This is no different in that anyone is a VC investing in e.g. future governance rights.
> If I have your IBAN [..]

Bank account details aren't typically regarded as (worth keeping) secret, to the extent that many businesses are happy to stick their IBAN on their website.

Credit card details, on the other hand, aren't ever published in this way.
Yeah, bullshitting was always the easiest way to get people's attention. Specifically if the bullshitters believe their own bullshit, I mean, they're sooooo confident in what they're saying, the gotta be right, right?

Just seems like a human weakness, always believe the person that appears the most confident, no matter what they say. And a bullshitter will say anything that people like because they need positive feedback because they're so convinced that what they have to say is pure greatness, and they don't even realize that they just always say whatever gets the most applause. And man, these people are good in that specific respect (and literally nothing else). They perfected their bullshit to a degree that its really really hard to see through it, at least it will take time. And then the next bullshitter comes along and one's fooled again because fuck they're good.

And yeah now we got a system called social media putting those people on steroids. Its not like that didn't happen every time we invented a new way of communicating. But every fucking time we believe this time it's different and people are better now and all that shit won't happen.

And of course then you get in a competition between those bullshitters, so they have to turn the heat up more and more to beat their fellow bullshitters. And what gets the most heat? Well, hate and fear and division and polarization of course. And now we are where we are and have to deal with fucking QAnon bullshit.
Merging two networks is problematic. The same nicks and channels are owned by different people on either side; in this case the server software is distinct as well with different features supported.
I skip all the middle-men and assume everyone is wrong, regardless of reputation OR content.
> How is that different from what the atheist side offers?

That one is easy: we don't pretend we have the answer to everything. In fact, that's the first thing we say.

Is the sun going to appear in the sky tomorrow? Probably yes, as far as I know, with 99.99999 certainty, but it is never 100%.

Pure theological questions are answered by me with: is that even a useful question? I don't even care if a god exists, because so far they have been unable to interact with the world in any meaningful way. And you people worry so much about your next life, you are forgetting to live this one.
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> Regardless of setting boundaries, the noise just starts earlier and ends later.

It's a bit annoying that some employers think that somehow they own the commute time you've reclaimed.

I'm lucky enough to be able to switch off my phone as soon as my working hours finish, but even in my (fairly laid back) environment I had to remind my manager about those boundaries.

What pisses me off a bit is that these things happen when they can be completely avoided, e.g. there is no fire to put out, the question could wait till the morning.
Yeah, I was thinking static html pages generated once per day or once per week from a database, depending on how often the backend is updated.
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What semantic tagging does markdown miss?
Hah! You're right, of course. My mind must have been elsewhere when writing the example, considering that I was literally reading the APA guide and thinking of the rule you laid out while at it.
Not the parent poster but I can recommend some books

- The Craft of Scientific Writing, Michael Alley

- The Craft of Editing, Michael Alley

- A Guide to Writing as an Engineer, David Beer and David McMurrey

- On Writing Well, William Zinsser

There's also a plethora of stuff on the web, as you might imagine, too much to go into it all, but McMurrey has a website https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/textbook/acctoc.html
This is the same study that was on HN a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467764

Economist's distillation is borderline disinformative, especially since it runs with overgeneralizations without qualifying what the "work" in question was. This study was based on a single IT services company in Asia.

As a rule of thumb, when someone makes generalizations about "remote work" the first thing to ask should be "what is the work", because there is a complex, non-linear interaction between the remoteness and the job description. This is important because I think there is some effort to subsidize remote productivity losses in certain ladders *cough* managers *cough* by lumping all remote work together and setting policies based on averages.
Your benchmarks link is broken. It goes to https://github.com/millionjs/million/tree/main/benchmark but it should be https://github.com/millionjs/million/tree/main/benchmarks (with an s at the end)
Only a squabble over the name of the distinction

Everytime the legislature gets involved they curb stomp the courts view of reality, thats the only point
Where are you seeing the "high levels of production?" The attached article seems to say just the opposite.
TLS is kind of icky (so many size fields), but it's not really a monster if you limit your scope; you can use ciphers from elsewhere, maybe limit to TLS 1.3 if daring, or just 1.3 and 1.2 if you want broad (but not infinite) compatability.

The monster is x.509 certificates.
These licenses are essentially interchangeable. The ISC license just drops a bit of text that was determined to be unnecessary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
Sweet, as someone who's never reached the front page, or the second page, I applaud this effort.
In your situation it seems like a non-technical person in charge of technical decisions. Those decisions are by definition poor quality.

But the really bad moment is when the developers themselves make those bad choices entirely on their own.
That’s why I implemented this warning in my client: https://twitter.com/quasseldroid/status/1397824682259329024
Ever since reading Bertrand Russell's "The Conquest of Happiness", I've thought a lot about the importance of being able to sit inside my own head. One quote that I wrote down:

> A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stimuli are needed to give the thrill that has come to be thought an essential part of pleasure. A person accustomed to too much excitement is like a person with a morbid craving for pepper, who comes at last to be unable even to taste a quantity of pepper which would cause anyone else to choke. There is an element of boredom which is inseparable from the avoidance of too much excitement, and too much excitement not only undermines the health, but dulls the palate for every kind of pleasure, substituting titillations for profound organic satisfactions, cleverness for wisdom, and jagged surprises for beauty... A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that ought to be taught to the young.
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I do want to give a shout-out to this tool[0]. The "official" SwifUI docs leave something to be desired, so a developer wrote an awesome doc tool. I found out about this tool from an instructor at a class I took.

[0] https://swiftui-lab.com/companion/
YMMV. My output is higher and I work less: basically the complete opposite. I won't ever go back to working fully on-site, thats for sure
It seems to work during that 5 minute segment, but at 1.45 it looks like this system could get gridlocked. If vehicles are blocked from exiting a roundabout for long enough, there's a risk that the whole thing will fill up. When this happens, it can only get unblocked quickly if the vehicles blocking the exits wish to leave via those exits. Edit: nope, the system can continue to move, but when more exits are blocked, the system throughput drops sharply to zero. I'd love to see this roundabout during rush hour.

For cyclists safety, this system works because the cycle lane is so far outside the vehicle lane, and it is right before pedestrian crossing. Most of the roundabouts with bicycle lanes that I have encountered, they just used a different coloured tarmac at the edge to show cyclists where they should risk their lives. They're not at 90 degrees to the cars, they're literally side-by-side. In that situation, cyclists are in greater danger of getting side-swiped by a car exiting the roundabout.
Firstly I strongly agree with everything you said and also just wanted to say this was a very eloquent description that i hope i remember a year from now.

I wanted to suggest a kind of alternative for discussion. I think there was something magical about the early web in that it offered a new way of interacting with the world that did not previously exist. It was difficult or impossible to find people that shared my interests (etc) before it, and usually that meant to just kept a large part of myself internal. I agree we have also changed, and there’s nostalgia involved, and that the internet does exist still the way we remember and even ion more ways we don’t appreciate but our kids will.

However i think there is also a bit of frustration that that initial burst of excitement did not continue to develop. When i read on HN and realize just how many people there are like me, or that there’s people that are also way too into disc golf, acoustic guitar, or any other semi niche activity i wonder why it is so hard to make more regular connections and interactions with them. Posting semi anonymously to HN with people i may never speak with again is a HUGE improvement over life before it, but it’s still a very limited experience. With facebook and reddit we have imho suboptimal platforms that have captured much of this magic and perhaps stunned their growth. I don’t mean to be pessimistic and the current internet is absolutely improved on uncountable ways from the one we remember. I suspect a bit of the frustration is some people’s inner belief that we could have something even better and somehow we are stuck.
Fair point! (But also I will say the relative smallness of my projects in other languages has proved no defense against code breakage w/ time :-)
The principal author of this paper, Timothy D. Wilson has done some awesome research. I can highly recommend his book Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. I found it it be very illuminating and even useful for understanding others and myself better.

https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-to-Ourselves-audiobook/dp/B...
Spain does export culture and media, and is not that difficult to watch, and if you don't want to use Netflix or Amazon you'll be fine.

The thing is that english is lingua franca, and there's quite a lot of people in the anglosphere who's aware of this fact and actively tries to influence foreign countries. In the past it was mostly leaning towards free-market ideas, nowadays is mostly this american social-liberalism brand.

There's intellectual feedback between Latin-America and Spain for example, but it's nowhere near in volume nor intentions.
> However I think you're grossly building up Germans as ignorant goodmen.

That's not at all what I'm saying, if you mean Germans during WW2. However if we're talking about today, it's certainly the case that Germans are unequivocal about their past while Japanese people as a whole are not.
More like 50+ years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar
6s/6s Plus are great devices.
Last (full size) iPhone with headphone jack.

Put a case on it and it should last a long time.
"bigger" as in having a massive outsized advantage compared to their opponents that contributed to a championship. The reason individuals, but not so much teams, are vilified for the steroid era is that it was relatively widespread. There are a lot of wrongs in baseball, some explicitly illegal some not, but ones that cause extreme disparity perpetrated at the organization level (the level championships are won at) cause the most outrage for the size of their unfair effects, be it Black Sox or Astros.
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I know, right? The sheer audacity of Freenode to believe they own the communities of FSF, Arch, Gentoo, GNU, Python and countless other FOSS projects is unfathomable. I just can't believe how entitled Freenode believes itself to be, banning project leaders and performing hostile takeovers of established communities being run by their official projects. It really does blow my mind.
I have a very similar stack of lined graph paper with my Z80 'trek' game that I developed when I was ~15yo. I found this book [i] to be a fantastic resource - it taught me so much about microprocessor and computer architecture.

[i] https://archive.org/details/programmingz8000zaks
Lol, that sounds like Java in 2011... put an annotation on a function and it's a service :) SOAP and all that.

Maybe they had something right! It did cause problems when users put something on a tight loop that was actually a remote call but not easy to see.

Anyho... what's old is new!
Two sides of a coin. "Deviant" and "interesting" are the same kinds behaviors but with different value judgements.
I would have gone with Alibaba "Eve" LiFePo4 cells. They're less than $100/kwh in bulk. You can get $50 "Daly" BMS. For $800 you could have gotten 6kwh battery

also dont need expensive current meter when you already have shunt. you can get $20 solar power meters that work with the shunt.

I like the idea of using a dolly.
> It gets a bit uglier once you cross into WINAPI, COM, etc., but Apple's is still not even close to being a match.

I feel like .NET documentation has significantly improved. It wasn't that long ago when I had no idea how to find the documentation from the MSDN home page and had to rely on search engines, but outside I agree. Microsoft's documentation gets a bit rough. Most recently, I found the NDIS documentation unbearable, with broken links and links to 5.x versions. Additionally, I was trying to find the documentation on OLE, and google kept leading me to MFC specific stuff, which was not what I was looking for.
Was hoping someone would mention SonicStage. Sony forced you to use that awful software if you wanted to add music to your Walkman flash memory based MP3/4 players before they eventually gave up and let you just drag-and-drop as if it were a USB stick on newer models.

That software made iTunes on Windows feel fast.
Seems like a regular run-of-the-mill supply and demand mismatch. Once new mills are open, and existing mills start ratcheting up production, the prices will fall.
In this case I think the title is just meant to be something provocative that will get you to take an interest in the book.

The actual book focuses more on the importance of networking and relationships.

I haven’t finished reading it myself yet, so I can’t say with 100% certainty, but so far it seems pretty clear that the author’s main intent is not to suggest that you should always eat with someone else.
DeFi can't do much financing at all since smart contracts can only replicate a small subset of financial products which aren't very useful to begin with. Even calling it "finance" is a bit of a stretch.
Poor use of sarcasm (as most sarcasm is).
Russia prepared to extradite cyber criminals to US on reciprocal basis
Fixing it right now, thanks for reporting =)
> I know all this is true because my kids love the internet and find their place in it with all the joy I used to.

I might as well say that I know that this isn't true because they don't know what the Internet could be... all they know is the centralized cloud.
Also worth calling out that the even older (2014) iPad Air 2 will be supported by iPadOS 15. It is the lone A8-series device with 2 GB of Ram.
I don’t know. Telling an alcoholic to “stop drinking” seems like pretty unambiguously directionally correct advice (albeit difficult to execute) in a way that “never eat alone” is not. In that way “never eat alone” is probably much worse advice.
What do gorilla suits and blowfish fallacies have to do with climate change?
I don't know these particular people, but, absolutely, many people grew up with IRC and similar earlier online social forums as a refuge from trauma, or to find community or acceptance.

(That started in the age of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_... , before more conventional social dynamics took over the 'Net.)

If that theory is correct, I'd guess there's a good path to something that everyone feels better about. But it might involve Freenode being turned over to a nonprofit. I think many traditional users wouldn't go back, but the right nonprofit might find a way to pivot to new service to the world. In the credible nonprofit scenario, the value of the Freenode brand now might be of the flavor: we made mistakes, learned dearly, came out much stronger.