skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently switched to the Brave browser, and had no issues reading the article.

It would nevertheless be wonderful if HN readers could manage whitelists or blacklists related to paywalls, so by choice we could never see posts for content we can't read. Publishers shouldn't get the publicity for articles they won't share.
Ask HN: It finally happened to me, how do you deal with burnout?
Hi everyone! As we all know this last year was rather stressful and due to some additional life events and pre-existing health issues it hit me a bit harder than most of my peers. I work as a data engineer and I'm rather green (4 years out of college), but I find myself struggling to focus or find the energy to work most days. I used to be so passionate about what I do and if myself 2 years ago saw the projects and responsibilities I have now, I'd squeal with glee. I know this is common in our field and I feel a bit stupid/guilty for it happening to me so soon in my career. Does anyone have any advice on overcoming this? Thank you guys in advance.
too bad the kelp has been dying off in mass in lots of olaces for the past 10 years or so.
> something they did not attached to their work.

Except it was very much attached to his work since this was happening at industry events...
As a beginner in programming i can say, learn elixir is the most enjoyable experience i ever had.
I wish there was a flag you could set on a CPU that would switch it between "fast" and "safe" modes. Security conscious stuff could switch it into safe mode and then it could be switched back to fast mode for general computation.

I don't like that everything has to get 25% slower because your SSL session setup needs to be protected.
I was just responding to your statmeent that Noah didn’t ‘didn't directly reply’ to the groping allegations. As far as I can tell, he did, as you can see in the screenshot.
Actually the state of farming was in flux. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio... for some of what was happening.

Of particular importance was a combination of increased productivity and decreased labor requirements. Yes, this happened before mechanization thanks to factors such as larger fields from enclosures combined with better plows. The result of the enclosures in particular was a wave of poor people migrating to the cities. Those became the desperate poor who provided a workforce for the Industrial Revolution.
That's nothing but a strawman. You don't have to get tested every 48 hours. You'll have to get tested if you intend to meet other people up close that you'd risk infecting with Covid, unless you're healthy.
That's simply an assurance for all those that cannot get vaccinated, and a low price to pay for a controlled return back to normality, without sacrificing everything we've achieved over the last months.
A Drunken Saylor
> Incidentally, the author seems to use some strange 'İ' character (a capital I with a dot over it) a lot. I'm not sure why.

This is because the author is actually a fractal within a 420-dimensional LSD hypercube, the 'İ' denotes membership of the set of infinity|UniTY<>Triome.

Also, you nailed in one, definitely timecube vibes going on here.
That's the thing. Fitness is an unknown that can only be evaluated through competition/survival. There is a function that compares organism size (the number of cells) and bigger organisms win collisions. But just because being bigger has an advantage, doesn't mean that size is the only determining factor. Organisms can move/reproduce in such a way that they end up colliding with their direct relatives, so like parents killing children. That is obviously not good for collective survival. On the other hand smaller organisms may be more organized, so the damage they inflict adds to self-inflicted damage by the bigger organisms, so the smaller ones end up winning.
Ask HN: How often are you ghosted by potential employers after talking etc.?
i seriously doubt that she would risk testing this out
“Numbers” Brain Game
There have been about 15 posts about this in the past month or so: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Most recent one with significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27569407

Many companies want remote workers, except from Colorado (wsj.com)

99 points by KoftaBob 2 days ago | 96 comments
> Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources? Can you give some specific examples?

Compare basic document editing in Office 365 with Office 2000 running on Win2k. Sure, 365 has loads of additional functionality, and your data follows you across devices. But the base user experience is largely worse.

> It’s easy to forget that 20 years ago we had 800x600 screens, 24 bit color was not ubiquitous, and 60hz monitors were practically non-existent.

This was maybe the case in the mid-90's. But by the late 90's 1024x768, 85hz, and 24 bit color were standard. 1280x1024 and even 1600x1200 were not uncommon.
If you need to work in Belgium I can imagine the problem. Though I've dealt with at least 4-5 Elixir companies just in Sweden.

If remote is an option there's really no shortage of people looking for experienced devs from what I've seen. Feel free to reach out if you want some options.
If you want the goods on this stuff from someone who actually understands it, read Kyle Gunn's "The Arithmetic of Listening".
Don’t feel too bad about the highly paid tech dudes. Tech dudes don’t stand a chance either because women don’t want to date another tech dude.

I’m turning 31 in a couple months and am coming out of a 5 year relationship. It’s looking grim AF. My only real hope is that I get back with my ex eventually.

I did the fancy vacations. I have the high income (~400k). I have a reasonably high net worth for my age (~2M). Even have the BMW! Didn’t stop her from walking away because she didn’t wanna date just a miserable workaholic techie anymore!!

Honestly, the best candidates that I think many women are aiming for aren’t the tech guys. It’s the guys with rich families. They’re the ones I see not really having any issues because they don’t really need to have any kind of shit job. They got parental money after all.
Newpipe hasn't worked for me for the last 8 months... Are you saying that its functional again??!?

Oh my goodness!
Second Life is from the 2000s, not so much the 1990s. But I kinda get your point.
I wonder what sort of security measures are in place to protect the server area from unauthorized access in the cargo hold entrance.
VivoTonic Review, Legit or a Scam?
I work in C++ and MFC every day and really enjoy it. Do you see a lot of new projects choosing those technologies?

I agree that web apps can't do everything. I'd go one step further though and say there are lots of things that shouldn't be in the browser.

Businesses love web apps for the ease of administration and (unfortunately) surveillance. Devs like web apps for the write-once, run everywhere aspect and the financial opportunities of SAAS schemes.

Users, I think, are often best served by well written native apps. Unfortunately, outside of Mac apps, iOS apps, and games, they don't seem to be willing to support the development of those types of applications.
I had to reread this part a couple times:

"How do you scare a Bellhead?" he begins. "First, show them something like RealAudio or IPhone.

Haha, I forgot IPhone was a trademark before the iPhone.
Learning to code was the best investment I ever made. Financially, I bought Sun Microsystems for 7 and a couple of years later sold it for 70 at the height of the dot com bubble because I had read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" and knew a crowd mania when I saw one. Like crypto now.
I don't blog, but writing in general has helped me immensely. A lot of people think writing is grammar and spelling. Try writing to evoke a reaction from other people, e.g., strangers, loved ones, friends. For example, try to write something that will make a stranger laugh. I think you will find that is substantially harder than explaining how a compiler works.

Writing effectively is communicating effectively. And as time goes on it seems more and more things are being written rather than spoken.
It's mostly Intel that's affected. They got the market edge by knowingly putting unsafe optimizations in their silicon and then never disclosing it. AMD is not nearly as affected, nor ARM.
There's a new book out [1] that examines the role of technology in the early film industry. One of the tensions is between the camera, sound, and lighting technologies mainly based in East Coast cities such as Rochester (home to Kodak, which basically had a monopoly on film production until DuPont entered the fray) and the production studios in Hollywood. Rival technical societies (including the organization that now hosts the Oscars) developed that mostly catered to an East Coast or West Coast audience. In an era before jet travel, attending a technical conference in New York was a much bigger commitment for a cameraman based in California.

The movie business was also for quite some time a niche audience. There wasn't much of a market in developing specialty cameras for Hollywood--the real money was in home movies. A few firms such as Technicolor emerged to cater directly to the movie picture industry. Eventually, a tech cluster developed in Los Angeles.

And regarding Fort Lee, my understanding is that it remained a center of the animation industry until around the 1940s when Walt Disney moved to California.

[1] Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System by Luci Marzola. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/engineering-hollywoo...
Someone has created an excuse, a research topic that upon investigation yields information about how these people figured out how to play video games, at school, at work, professionally, without as much as an audience!

So probably the actual content falls a bit flat? But that’s a guess, which part didn’t you understand?
The closest analog to what crypto seems to want to become in our financial markets is cash hidden in a briefcase. The value is primarily in evading currency controls for smuggling wealth out of China and other authoritarian states.
I miss that Intel iAPX 432 failed as a project, it looked like a great design (it was CISC tough)
Did you read the HN guidelines? I can vouch that you're wrong. Someone spent time working on an app they care about and has proven by the conversation here to be interesting to the community. If someone wrote an app on a topic you'd be interested in, would you have flagged it?

Please consider that there are varying perspectives on HN beyond your own and that sharing an app which allows people to study the Bible isn't forcing a worldview on anyone.
Would you be happier by checking equivalent paper printouts, check done by hand?
None, I try to avoid it unless I'm scoping out a new job. Are you saying Blind users include Apple in FANG? I haven't seen it.
SiFive are definitely amongst the most interesting players in RISC-V right now.

Though there other organisations doing things, e.g. the PULP Platform: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23768080

I hope that the acquisition doesn't go through, more competition would be great, and perhaps within a decade a wider commercial RISC-V ecosystem could emerge.
Another url:
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/31/fednow-the-federa...
I love elixir. But the thing that keeps me coming back to Typescript is the ability to interchange dynamic and static types. Such a powerful pattern. I found dialyzer to be slow and unhelpful quite often.
Soon enough, the cool kids will be the ones who don't carry phones.
> 2) While downloading your qrcode for the first time after installing the app (onboarding), it ask your for e.g scanning your National ID and/or holding your phone in front of mirror to verify your face (similar like other banking app do)

This is already way over the line. I can understand banking apps do it but for a vacvination certificate? No way. The QR code implementation is fine. It would also be fine if it would be printed on paper or in a PDF and valid for a year.
A parody of the song "That's Amore" by Allen Sherman has lyrics like
"When you're diving at night And your feet feel a bite That's a moray!" and
"When you see a big eel with its jaws made of steel that's a moray".
Inspection is quite cheap. In cases where it's not worth returning+inspecting, Amazon generally tells you to just keep the item as well as the refund. That's generally the case with items under $10. If you abuse this, your account will ultimately be banned. If Amazon's bothering to accept the return in the first place, it's because it's worth inspecting.

Also, individual employees don't get to "play it safe" in either direction. There are expected rates for grading returned items. An employee will be penalized or lose their job for wrongly marking resellable items as non-resellable (destroy), just as much as the opposite.
What kind of available material exists in this universe that such small aircraft can enter Earth without burning up?
My son got asked to do some yard work for a friend's boss. My son's friend bailed so I decided to help. After 5 hours of hard manual labor work for less than minimum wage we were finished.

When the boss lady showed up she tried to neg us on the work that was already done. She threatened to show us how lazy we were working on the cameras and that is why she was only going to pay us 2/3 of what we agreed on. We never took any breaks so it was pure insanity.

Thankfully the experience has him working way harder in school! No wonder there is a labor shortage; the beatings will continue untill moral improves!
Fantastic video, thanks for linking it. And I'm in 100% agreement.
Only if you have distinct keys. Most Redis use I’ve seen “at scale” has involved putting things in hashes/sets/lists.

(I’ve wondered for a while now whether it’d be possible to implement expiry in Redis for sub-key data, without introducing too much overhead to data structures that don’t need expiry. I’d think it’d be “just” a matter of having an alternative data representation that holds expiries for each element in the data structure, and then re-encoding the data structure over to that data representation when at least one element has an expiry — because if one does, then it’s likely that many will.)
Annotations add great value for works where the reader would otherwise miss cultural context (or can even reveal inside-jokes, as with The Annotated Alice). I wouldn't try to read James Joyce or Shakespeare without them. In the case of the Bible, there are books that rely heavily on well-known allegories, Aramaic puns, or just features of everyday daily life in the ancient middle-east that a modern reader wouldn't have internalized.
Blowing a 5000 a Fuse Takes Some Doing
Does the actual app have an animated carousel of video thumbnails like the screenshot on the site? Moving graphics are very distracting when one wants to read text; after a lifetime of videogames, I'm almost unable to read because unknown fast objects entering the screen require an immediate reaction.

The value of thumbnails for videos that are all "talking heads", even if shown fixed in place (like e.g. in YouTube playlists) is also doubtful; text with duration, name of the speaker, title of the video and possibly date etc. would be more compact, more information-rich and more elegant.
A good rule to program by.
As a college drop out I'm pretty sure I know more about writing efficient code than most CS grads - I've seen what gets taught, it's not impressive. I've also seen bootcamps (haven't attended, but friends have) and while they don't teach about efficiency, they're far more rigorous than college was. Anyway, I don't want to get into this really, but I found this part of your post to be annoyingly off-base, and I resent it.

That said, I'm in agreement that most devs don't know much at all about performance. Frankly, we're told not to... it's a sad state. Performance is explicitly referred to as a last priority, the "optimization is the root of all evil" quote is completely taken out of context and parroted everywhere (go look up Knuth/Hoare's context if you haven't), etc.

All that is to say, the issue is not specific to education but is an unfortunate part of engineering culture. We, as a large group, explicitly neglect performance and treat it as a dirty word.

IMO we need a sort of performance revolution the way testing got one. I've written lots of software in a 'benchmark driven' way, and the results are extremely fast programs - I've gotten programs down from just under 1ms to a few dozen nanoseconds like that.
WTF are they doing to burn out the employees?

How hard could a dating app company possibly have to work to make money?

They're not exactly selling ice cream to Eskimos.
There is no "healthy competition between x86 and RISC-V".
Are other browsers affected?
It doesn't obligate them to use them. It depends on what the API does and how it's designed.

My contention is that some common design patterns are violating the HTTP spec by using POST instead of PUT or PATCH.

That's fine -- I don't care and don't conform to the HTTP or REST specs myself. My original point is that these distinctions are not some hipster invention, but rather part of the original specs themselves.

From the link I posted:

> "The fundamental difference between the POST and PUT requests is reflected in the different meaning of the Request-URI. The URI in a POST request identifies the resource that will handle the enclosed entity. That resource might be a data-accepting process, a gateway to some other protocol, or a separate entity that accepts annotations. In contrast, the URI in a PUT request identifies the entity enclosed with the request -- the user agent knows what URI is intended and the server MUST NOT attempt to apply the request to some other resource. If the server desires that the request be applied to a different URI, it MUST send a 301 (Moved Permanently) response; the user agent MAY then make its own decision regarding whether or not to redirect the request."

The way this plays out in the modern CRUD world is as simple as:

POST = "create a new entity" (no ID provided)

PUT = "replace an existing entity with this new one" (ID provided for an existing entity)

PATCH = "update an existing entity with these new values" (ID provided for an existing entity)

The spec is clear that POST, PUT, and PATCH do different things, and it is explicit that they be used as described ("MUST" and "MUST NOT" rather than "SHOULD" and "SHOULD NOT").
DO NOT DO THIS.

I have a few servers exposed on IP addresses, but they are not meant for public access. You have no authorization for 'messing' with this site: what you deem playing around, might be hacking.

You may also hit a government or military IP address, known or unknown. If you mess around with them, you may receive some unfriendly visits from men in black.
Is there any particular reason you wouldn't want to wrap that workload in a function/module/... and call it in a loop? Is the problem that your commonly used tools are exposed only as command line interfaces and not as libraries?
I'd be a little sad if this technology only ended up being useful as a toy, but then again the biggest disruptors are at one point thought of as toys, so maybe that's about where we are in the process?
>> I would argue that gold having some meaningful value to anchor the price is what allows it to function as a means of exchange.
>Then please argue it; all evidence suggests otherwise.

Gold value is uncorrelated from its means of exchange, sure

>> Ideally though, we should use something else so that gold can be cheaper for electronics.
>Imagine if we had a form of money that didn’t permanently tie up a nonrenewable commodity… it could be based on, say, electricity consumption instead of permanently removing metal from usage!

So Bitcoin scarcity is a strength and commodity scarcity is a weakness? Let’s put aside the electricity needs commodities to, y’know, exist in the first place

>> Bitcoin is an entirely different creature with absolutely zero intrinsic value, and only successful due to the momentum of being the first mover.
>“Intrinsic value” is a totally economically nonsensical concept. Gold is also not valuable due to “intrinsic value”. They are both valuable due to monetization. Yes, this is based on “momentum”/impredicativity. No, that’s not a problem.

Valuable due to monetisation is a creative babble, I’m not sure what it’s supposed to mean.

>> Of all the major cryptos in distribution, Bitcoin is one of the least advanced and most limited in functionality.
>There is literally no charitable interpretation of this statement that is true.

Bitcoin’s value to you is what you can convert it to later, after convincing others and yourself to keep buying; your logic is tainted by this very conflict of interest. Good luck
Does anyone really trust Intel to deliver on 7nm in a timely manner? Who's going to bet their business on it?

Even under new management it will take time to sort out the dysfunction and replace lost talent.
There isn’t much of anything to directly show the end user the externalized cost of those things, so most people don’t understand it. If there was something akin to gas mileage, it would be much easier to see that you don’t want to install Yukon XL SUV of programs.
It's called paid vacation in Europe and all citizens have the right to at least 4 weeks per year. I hope this boon arrives to the whole of USA one day, together with paternal holidays, free education and other modern achievements that are standard here. I don't mean to be inflammatory here, it really boggles my mind how a week off is even a thing we're discussing here.
With CoronaCheck (https://coronacheck.nl) we have implemented one of the most privacy preserving EU Green Systems for use within our country.

We use IDEMIX, a form of Verifiable Credentials. The nice feature of IDEMIX is that - unlike W3C VC - it also has the property of being able to create unlinkable credentials.

Guess what? That's the reason that we've used them :)

Read our technical designs here: https://github.com/minvws/nl-covid19-coronacheck-app-coordin...
Fair enough. I have significantly more PSLV than GLD. I recognize that even the PSLV isn't sitting in my safe, but because it's in a retirement account, I don't have the option of taking physical delivery.
I just downloaded it and it's WORKING!

You have no idea how much of a positive impact this exchange has had on my summer! Thank you, stranger! :D
Adobe also does a sabbatical every 5 years!
It's a complicated relationship. The prices of assets are related to the price of debt (the cheaper the debt, the more expensive the asset). Housing is an asset that pays a coupon (rent), so it acts a bit like a bond. Bonds have been riding the coattails of decreasing interest rates for the last 40 years - if interest rates increase then stocks, houses, bonds etc are going to deflate.

While inflation with low interest rates might increase the value of assets - inflation that leads to higher interest rates might actually do the opposite. So it ends up being a choice of the central bank which way to push this thing (although there is a lean towards keeping interest rates lower for longer because of the size of the U.S. government debt interest payments)
$79 to $250, for a basic Golang "cookbook" that's barely over 100 pages? Bold.
You can access gmail via IMAP/SMTP. Any desktop e-mail client will be significantly lighter and faster than any browser based webmail client. And I don't care how shitty your computer is, mutt will run snappily on it.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229