skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is disappointing. An NFT is the most pointless use of technology imaginable and here is the architect of a fundamental tech we use every day dipping to this level. To make money to give away? Is that why he needs to do this? Just give away some money you already have.

As with other NFT's, you don't get anything you don't have access to already. In Tim's case, any code he wrote has already been out a long time. Perhaps worse is that the "sale" is disingenuous and transfers no real rights. No ownership of any code (or graphic, or song) is conveyed by an NFT purchase.

Buying any NFT is not different from buying virtual credits in a video game, with the exception that the lifetime of your NFT may be longer or shorter than a typical video game.
It's not just the lack of a neutral tone, it's the way that it mixes real facts with (pulled from an ass) motivations.

It is completely plausible that the CIA has done really evil things, but with honest intentions of stabilizing regions.
Sure, but then that really boils down to: be subjective, use your manager's intuition.

It's what most managers do, but I'd argue it is not very effective. People regularly overestimate their ability to judge others. Most rigorous studies have shown that judges make worse decisions when they see defendants in person vs. sentencing based on facts and history alone. Intelligence agencies are frequently tricked by moles despite intense training.

If judges and counter-intel agents regularly fail at this, isn't it foolish to think that eng. managers have some secret sauce?
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My home office consists of a laptop, wireless keyboard/mouse, a monitor and a table to put it on. That's all I need. I could even get by with just the laptop if I wanted to or had to. I make good money but I'm nowhere near rich by US standards.

I get it though, everyone has different preferences and/or requirements.
I did not say I want to make it illegal, just pointing out that it’s not some completely bizarre idea.

I think it would be reasonable to have various restrictions on all kinds of large scale datasets, especially when they include data that is easy to connect to individuals, and especially when it was not compiled with their explicit (informed, opt-in) consent. This includes public information such as what I’m wearing, where I am at what times, when and where my wifi is on.
If all you want is an ereader with ssh, a Kobo with Koreader will do that for you. They just run Linux, so it's quite a fun device for hacking around in.

Plus Koreader itself is in Lua and is relatively easy to make changes to.
This is also my practice. Any code that is complicated enough to require a special comment is also complicated enough to be its own function.
Nicely said. One small adjustment I'd suggest -- because I care a lot about setting incentives -- is that we generally want not just _more_ "why" comments, but in particular concise "why" comments that empathize with and improve the life of future developers. They're a kind of message-in-a-bottle conversation.
I’m 36 right now and have always made sure to have a desktop computer with accounts for each family member and it’s used all the time.

I agree it’s a feature that’s disappearing, but if anything it’s because people are getting more personal computers, like a laptop or modern smart phone, than ever before.
Most people who argue the point shout about how cheap, iphones, TVs, nice cars, and flights are. Something 80% can't afford regularly.
The American dream has never been to live a low stress life.

The American dream implies stress. If you work hard, you will be successful.
Oh wow. Sigh. I didn’t even look at the date.
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> If it's data heavy, it means you still need to fetch data from db before you return html, so SSR is pointless.

I'm very confused by this statement. Maybe I'm just being slow. If you want to fetch data from the db before returning html, then SSR is exactly what you want.
There was never any real reason to ever "upgrade" beyond Windows 7, except that MS stopped supporting it. It still works fine. I know numerous people who still run it as their daily driver, including playing all the latest games (there are very very few that actually _require_ Windows 10).

I also have to question whether these UX changes provide any benefit to users at all. They strike me as nothing but a cost to users in terms of familiarity and discoverability. Unless the new UI changes are somehow objectively better in any of those regards, it's a net negative change. I know some people will say, for example, "you can change the task bar back to where it was". However, apparently less than 5% of users ever change default settings, according to an unfortunately-anecdotal article[0], so a change like this presumably decides how ~95% of people will use the OS.

I can't wait to explain to my 83 yr old uncle (who doesn't understand the difference between a website and an application on the computer) why everything just randomly moved over and looks way different, after he has spent years just getting familiar with basic usage of the computer to begin with.

[0] https://archive.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/09/14/do-users-chan...
It’s just blatant overgeneralization by grandparent comment. You can’t really describe a whole continent like that, especially on a very variable human attribute like drivenness.
I learned that 9-10 inches is to small to annotate pdfs so I decided against remarkable or supernote a5. To be honest, most science-y documents I read by the computer, because I try to use knowledge right away in some notebook and/or repl.

But then I noticed that I also read substantial amount of soft skill/self help/popscience books and they're easily obtainable in epubs. I pulled te trigger and bought supernote a6x. It size is perfect. I can read and annotate on the go, I can jot during coffee breaks. I take notes on the meetings and then I can put supernote on the stand beside monitor and see bullet points/todo lists for this day.

Supernote support and community is very helpful and constant upgrades take user requests into account.
Wikipedia does the same thing
I find it's often useful to put a 'what commment' on a block of a few (2-10) lines of code. Then you can skim through the function without reading every individual line of code.
Very similar experience for a lot of math programs in France. For about a year we did a lot of repetitive and uninteresting stuff (integration by parts, compute Taylor series on the whiteboard, ...).

The only concept from that time I used in my day job is the binomial coefficients. Yet I don't regret taking the class, in some inexplicable way I feel it has made be better (at what I have no idea).
I had this same reaction to next/image. I see where they're going with it though. They're obviously prioritizing e-commerce publishers because they tend to have high traffic, semi-static content, and a clear business use case for fast websites. They are also the most likely to pay Vercel to host their sites.

As long as features like next/image and "live" remain opt-in and don't otherwise affect build/dev times, I have no problem with Vercel targeting a lucrative market. Anyone who relies on Next should want Vercel to be a long-lasting company.

Besides, this is the first release of "live" – I can see this workflow becoming appealing to marketing and design teams. It's good practice to separate your marketing website from your application, so why not use "live" to enable non-devs to edit it? That's what Jamstack is all about – empowering the marketing/copywriting/product teams to edit content in real time. Maybe "live" is simply the next logical step of Jamstack – teams of non-devs editing the code and design of websites as easily as they can edit their content.

Developers should be all for that, even if they aren't the target audience of the live features. Reducing friction between dev and non-dev is a win for everybody. Marketers are happy because they can edit content without waiting on devs/deploys, and devs are happy because they talked the non-devs out of using WordPress, and got to build a new site with a hot technology.

I wonder if Vercel considers Automattic a competitor. The "percent of the web" stat is a juicy KPI to compete for.
Median wages in the US are still much higher than in Europe
and it's always been 'bad' to be at the 'bottom' in the US.

It's been that way for 150 years at least (read the stories of relatively well paid American GI's in UK WW2), no signs of changing just yet.

I wonder if it's a culture problem or a scale problem or both.
I had a SW license for sure when I was a stress analyst . I'd use it to look at a part to take a dimension, and maybe once a month use it to make a drawing from an existing part that would go into a report. I never modeled in it. By far the most important software for me was Excel though.
That is not going to happen because unlike a lot of the comments in this thread making various sorts of fairness arguments, prices are never determined by fairness but by supply and demand. Morgan Stanley pays high salaries in New York because it must, but if it can open those jobs to be done anywhere in the world where there is an internet connection, then the supply of workers for Morgan Stanley just increased massively.

Arguing that a massive increase in supply should not result in a price drop because of some fairness idea is like arguing that a ball should not drop to the ground because of some ethical concern (e.g. it may drop on someone's head). Look, that ball is gonna drop whether you like it or not, there is no amount of tweets and open letters and hunger strikes that will prevent that ball from dropping.

The only way to prevent the ball from dropping would be to try to make working from home illegal, thus forcing Morgan Stanley to hire from a much smaller labor pool.

Now there is a flipside to this, because the above argument was just for the highest paying employers. Lower paying employers will need to pay more, because their workers can now be poached by Morgan Stanley. E.g. Expanding the market increases supply for the highest paying firms but decreases supply by the same amount for the lowest paying firms. They are going to feel a big labor crunch, particularly those firms that opened up shops away from SF/NYC in order to pay low wages.

But the end game -- e.g. competing with global labor -- is going to be a big threat to Silicon Valley wages, especially for individual contributors.
I'd like to argue against the author's disdain for javadoc-like comments.

> If you wonder what the method does, or what the valid input range for a parameter is, you are better off just reading the code to see what it does.

I feel that this is a very inefficient approach to coding. If you tell me what the function does, what its valid inputs are, and what it returns then I don't need to look at the code at all.

More so when I'm collaborating with people outside my area of expertise: a colleague of mine wrote a function to "convert molecule SMILES into their neutralized form". What does it do? Beats me, I'm not a chemist. But thanks to the comments I don't need to know, and I'm grateful for that.
Interestingly all of those images seem to be for their camera products. But long before those, X10 sold remote control systems that switched devices on/off over in-home electrical wiring (using the independent X10 protocol). The reliability of these systems were pretty bad as I recall. They offered something like 16 channels with various management devices that allowed for complicated scheduling of device switching.
For anyone reading this, finger-touch may be enabled or disabled on BOOX devices.

My BOOX cover has a stylus loop.
In a way, it's the Family Feud problem. Spiders are not insects. But if you are playing Family Feud and the prompt is "Name the most popular insect", you should say spider because a lot of people will off the cuff say spiders are insects.

So it's possible they are not answering to how conservatives see themselves.

And let's not ignore that the MFQ is kinda shaky at best.

I also find it interesting in that link is the why they were the most off. Liberals seemed to have been wrong because they regressed to the mean when answering for other people. They seemed to think conservatives were more group-focused than they were and less individual-focused. And vice versa for liberals. They thought that the average liberal was less group-focused and more individual-focused than they were.

And it's not like conservatives weren't wrong. They got it right when estimating the average conservative and liberal answers for individuals, but not groups.

Moderates were the most accurate in estimating the average conservative and liberal answers for groups. And both conservatives and liberals over-estimated conservatives concerns for the group.

So I really don't think it's entirely fair to frame the results as "conservatives know how liberals think better than liberals know how conservatives think". Because another reading of it is that liberals give conservatives a greater benefit of the doubt. And also that conservatives don't even know how little they care for the group.

And that's also ignoring that these are self-reported morality questionnaires. It's not really indicative of how these people might act in real situations. Even Hitler thought he was a swell guy just trying to do right. We all kind of think that of ourselves. No one thinks they're the monster.
"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table"
In this case the table pounding is in the form of saying it's not dispassionate enough for their high standards.
I've looked at it seriously a while back when it was on presale, but it's definitely a heavy chunk of change, especially since I'm Canadian and have to pay the exchange rate prices.

I do like the idea of no distractions and being able to move stuff around and organize it, unlike with paper, but most of my life is at home (since I'm self-employed) and I already have a computer on all 3 floors of my house that I'm usually at with OneNote and Notepad++ with a ton of tabs on each, so I'm worried that I'll never really use it unless I want to sit on the couch and focus, but then will I be wishing I had all my subsequent notes and such already on OneNote and in my various notepad++ tabs? What happens when I go back and sit at my computer for the majority of the day where I do work, play, research, side businesses etc.? Do I need some stand and will I just be cross copying notes back and forth?

Is it something I can comfortably hold and write on while sitting on a couch, or on some random chair or while leaning against a wall? Or am I going to be doing weird grips and being forced to counterbalance my writing on a floating pad if it's not sitting on a desk? I find writing in a small notebook way harder if it's not just on a table, so even that already worries me. Will I get less legible or not be able to as effectively write on the entire surface area of the device while holding it if not on a desk or having it setup on my lap (which may not even be that feasible without some cushion or stand)?

A 30 day trial could definitely help me figure this out, but I'm leaning towards the fact that it probably won't work out, at least not with the current version and I'm always afraid I won't commit the time I need to really test it in those first 30 days, haha!
There are roughly 6,000 hospitals in the US - they sampled 100 and concluded 17% of those were fully compliant.

My question is, is that even CLOSE to enough of a sample size to make any meaningful statement?
> To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with "_nomap." For example, if your SSID is "12345," you would change it to "12345_nomap."

LOL. Are they kidding?
I don't think one can make the general statement that "when you publish a website, you intend for it to be aggregated." People have attempted to sue Google for exactly that sort of aggregation. And there are plenty of sites that disallow crawling via their robots.txt (for obvious reasons, we don't see them as often as they aren't reachable via search engines).

And certainly in the era when search engines were being developed (in the early '90s, when robots.txt came into existence), there was no such aggregation expectation because the technology wasn't there to do such aggregation yet. Linking from one document to another has always been a part of the standard, but I don't think one could assume anything one published would end up in a vast auto-generated index.

On the flip side, Google operates under the general assumption that in the absence of reasons to the contrary, there is nothing wrong with info aggregation. "Aggregation is okay" is their default stance. Organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible are tent-poles in their mission statement.
Yeah completely agree. Also forces you to admit to some of your personal faults.
Yup. Further, thawing tundra, ocean acidification, burning forests have also joined the positive feedback loop. And throw in "blue ocean" and thawing methane for bonus points.

Meaning: Eliminate all human activity today and atmospheric carbon would continue to increase, the earth warming will continue to accelerate.

And we're still blathering about recycling plastics, the politics of going carbon neutral by year 2030 (or whenever), the morality of geoengineering, blah blah blah.

Our only chance is to quickly remove carbon faster than it's being added. From both human activity and earth's own natural runaway feedback loops.

Full stop.

(Cue the inevitable misanthropic pedant "well acxshwally, earth will be just fine w/o humans".)
It's not anti Apple, your view is just severely departed from reality.
The author is not very positive about JavaDoc. I agree that using it everywhere is probably overkill, but when you are writing a library JavaDoc can be useful for documenting it.
It's a shame Twitter Bootstrap wasn't around in 2007.
GitHub with GPG signed commits?
I used to copy html from the previous page and then modify as necessary.

Overtime it evolved and got cooler! But, there was no need to go back and update old posts.

I think charm about this is severely underrated as seen by the downvotes.
>My handwriting sucks (I literally can't read my own; I'm 42yo - don't tell me to practice / it'll improve, just don't be that arrogant ignoramus ;).

I am close to 40, 2 - 3 years ago, I re-practiced handwriting with my daughter who wanted to learn (out of school) writing. To my surprise, my handwriting did improve and I was actually surprised by the result (cursive, I am French), hers was miles ahead of mine but really I was damn surprised by how effective it was.

I used to have teachers that refused to correct my copies because of my handwriting, so it's never too late.
Actually you can receive (modest) grants for this, for example from NLnet. I've been writing open source software full-time for the last two years funded partly by this.

There are also other grants I believe, but I'm not really an expert on this. I just know there are actually possibilities.
Oh I don't mean I would ever expect it to play out precariously, just that it would be an awkward technicality of the way something happened to be phrased, and fixed when noticed/required.
I do hope the kids can retain any enthusiasm for using the RPis after the course is over, otherwise it might just sit on their shelf doing nothing. That's a bit pessimistic, I guess, but I definitely went through seasons of ignoring tech toys I'd been so excited about initially.

+1 for being able to break things, though. I know I'm way more likely to try risky (and educational!) maneuvers on a spare computer than the one I have to use for (home)work, assuming I even have one.
Well then that's certainly a use case! :-)
Many intentional functional ingredients in sunscreens are known carcinogens and absorbed at levels beyond any safety testing:

https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/2020...

Contamination of sunscreens with common dangerous byproducts of industrial processes like benzene is common:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/benzene-su...

By comparison, shade contains no carcinogens.

Sun exposure correlated with longer life (even while also being correlated with more cancer deaths!):

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heres-something-unexpect...

An earlier broad survey also finding natural sun exposure decreasing all-cause mortality (but not use of tanning beds, despite similar effects on Vitamin D production, again suggesting D-supplements alone don't replicate the sun):

https://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/20/4/582

I'd agree, it is hard to disentangle these correlations with things like general levels of outdoor activity and socializing.

But even so: if people who are healthy for other reasons tend to spend more time outside in sun, maybe it'd be a good idea to join them, & perhaps absorb their other habits as well, rather than live in fear of the sun? (Maybe even the sun is damaging on many levels, but the other benefits of activities inherently done more under the sun offset those effects, even if just via mood/optimism?)

I'd say instead that it's an incorrect framework to embrace an illusion of total control "through different lifestyle choices" without tradeoffs. Every activity has a mix of risks and benefits. Certain vigorous activities with a higher risk of accidental death may deliver other fitness and social benefits. If an extra 5 hours of sun every week doubles melanoma death risk, but reduces cardio/cancer death risk just 1%, that sun would still be a net-mortality benefit.

Such tradeoffs are real & everywhere. Trying to engineer both benefits – "can I do everything other healthy people do usually do outdoors indoors? can I find the least-dangerous sunscreen? will vitamin D supplments, perhaps with a bunch of other diet changes, simulate the sun's benefits?" – also includes costs, in research time, psychological focus, neurotic behaviors, etc, for diminishing returns.
In English too. I remember my high school calc teacher saying this (except IIRC it was differentiation is science, not craft).
A Sankey diagram depicts flows of any kind
Being older now (Gen X) I've noticed a change as well. I've wondered if the US culture has grown an unhealthy level of competition. Young people internalize lessons that the people around them (classmates, neighbors) are competitors for spots in prestigious programs and later, jobs. You're taught that you should be friendly, but not "too friendly" as you are going to need to be better than them to get what you want. I don't think this explicit, but something that is incentivized through grades, tests, and gamification of everyday life. That and the deepening divide between classes. If you don't get good grades, get into a good school, get a good job, etc. you may fall off the cliff into the lower classes. If that means you need to be ruthless in your social interactions, that's just the price.

It's like we've decided to let psychopaths dictate how society operates.
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Your second point is very interesting! Can you point me to any problems of that type? I’d be interested in learning how to make a mathematical model of something, and then simplify parts of it with various assumptions.

The one I can think of offhand is the pendulum problem, where sin(theta) is approximately equal to theta for small values. But you made it sound like there are problems with multiple parts, and many different simplifications.
> If you made a peach smoothie out of nothing but pure peaches, it would be identical to eating the peaches, I'm sure.

Faster absorption means higher peak serum glucose levels and higher amounts of insulin released. More insulin translates into more promotion of insulin resistance. IIRC, high serum glucose is also not good for your arterial lining.