skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it real? Sure.

Know what else is real? The burden of normalcy.

This guy cleaned 4 cars in 3 months and decided to turn it into a career. I don't know how much freelance work he's done, but I know the pressure to deliver to a single client to whom you are personally and legally responsible for can be every bit as nerve-wracking as simply performing at your day job.

What happens when you wake up in the modern world where you are lucky enough to be driven by your passions instead of your need to survive and your passion is no longer your passion anymore?

Employees who are feeling stressed out need to sit down with their managers and hash it out with them. A lot of the time, employees are being way too serious about their own jobs, overdo it based on expectations their employer never had, and feel unaccomplished when they aren't recognized for their sacrifices.

A good manager will accommodate a good employee. Don't work for bad managers.
The use of `go get` vs `go install` was always confusing to me. Especially with the release of modules.

I say this is a change for the better. The cli is more consistent. The argument made in the post seems more like a philosophical "wah, wah, I don't want to".
TLDR: Ads do follow the limits - precisely.

Long answer: most YouTubers are not properly mixing their audio so that it'll hit -14 LKFS (which is the de facto target loudness for online content. Most movies and television shows are de jure targeted to -24 LKFS/-23 LUFS. LKFS and LUFS are perceptual volume measurement scales, LKFS being predominant in America/SMTPE while LUFS are predominant in Europe/EBU.), either due to being intentional (ASMR content) or not knowing how to do it.

On the other hand, most advertisers have the backing of professional mixers, and they will hit -14 LKFS constantly, period.

Note that Youtube has a loudness normaliser - but only for videos that is significantly louder than -14 LKFS (you wouldn't want ASMR content to be NASMR). This is only done so that poor speakers won't be blown up and not get the ire of EU et al. due to popped ears.
Fwupd on FreeBSD – Status Update
Hate is a strong word. Dismissing it as simply 'hate' is emotive language (and dishonest, I think) in that it tries to guide the reader to the conclusion that it is completely unreasonable. A more honest word to use would be 'mistrust'
Love the simplicity of this language, and written in Zig!
No mention of the elephant in the room: refresh rate. E-ink displays typically have incredibly low (full) refresh rate, which coincidentally is fine for reading. However for a desktop which may involve a lot of moving elements this seems like a major limitation.
Figuring out how to debug third party application in Windows on event it crashes. Without source code or anything, I wonder if I will ever get down to the root cause.
I don't think it's freaky at all, I do find it freaky that there's people who will choose fraud over code as soon as code was anywhere in the loop that caught the fraud.
On smaller version (Onyx Boox Max Lumi) you could play (well, almost) Call of Duty: https://youtu.be/2RQFYVfIgz0
> We should not be raising the federal MW and should instead prefer more localized measures, such as States, counties, cities, or individual industries developing their own policies.

Why? Abstract concerns based on ideal market assumptions that (1) apply the same to more localized measures as to federal measures, and (2) haven't been born out by 83 years of experiencing having, expanding the applicability of, and raising the federal minimum wage?

Yes, we should have more localized policies—and we do—but that's no reason not to raise the federal minimum wage to roughly keep pace with the lower of productivity and national price level.

Now, sure, if you want to argue that despite the relatively benign experience of state and federal minimum wages, there's a good argument that providing a floor through something like UBI would have less risk of inhibiting employment, and do we should transition from minimim wage to UBI (say, reducing hourly minimum wages from the level thet would otherwise be set at by annual UBI ÷ $2000 as we ramp up a UBI over time), I’d agree that makes sense.
A lot of this article (possibly the majority?) is actually spent explaining why Instant Games haven't taken over the world, despite some success stories. This is why he goes into some detail on Apple - if they can't go on iOS devices, there's a real ceiling on the trend.

I really enjoyed this article, but it's a bit of a discursive brain dump, which is why I think a lot of the criticisms have essentially been misrepresentations of the actual article contents.
Can we measure "impact" of changes?

PKI measuring just commit count is pretty silly. Like SLOC. Cite folklore.org story of -10,000 lines added.

Whereas Qu's suggestions are useful, important. Am totally ignorant about Linux, kernel, etc. But maybe there's already a leaderboard where the hivemind helps prioritize work.
> I have found that "I'll never kill myself. There's always something to live for" is something that is very easy for people who are safe and happy to say, and I pray that these people will always be safe and comfortable enough to not change their mind on this for their own sakes.

Maybe it helps to remember having said it oneself? I mean, if you are so badly off that you contemplate suicide, then everyone else saying "there's always something to live for" may be easier to write off; like, "what do they know of my life?". But if you've used to say so yourself, then sure, you may now think "so obviously I was wrong then"... But still, you're you, so you do know a thing or three about your life, so you may perhaps still hang back and consider "but wait, maybe I'm wrong now, and not back then?".

Maybe. At least feels like it should have a better chance than other saying it. So, hey, let's all remember to repeat this to ourselves now and then, mmkay?
Maybe a panel of maintainers could publish a quarterly review with attribution/thanks to the most important contributors. No metrics to game, only pure human expert opinions.
What's the relevance of it being older than `pip`?
That's interesting, do you have a source that describes Brazil's tech intervention?
>I want something half or a quarter of that. Able to scoop 50 lbs of dirt, repeatedly, and dig holes/trenches.

https://www.toro.com/en/professional-contractor/compact-util...
Do you mean like Florida Republican governor DeSantis just signed into law? Where students and faculty have to submit their political beliefs to the state in a non-anonymous manner?
Clicks "Download" on a Mac

Me: "Why is it downloading an .exe?"
I’ve been playing with bare metal Raspberry Pi programming and really enjoying it. There are two great frameworks — Circle and Ultibo. The former is in C++, but the latter is in… Free Pascal. Which is kinda weird but kinda fun. Having a Pi boot up and run your application in 2-3 seconds is pretty stunning.
> Star Citizen is a cautionary tale about how too much money can be a curse.

Star Citizen should be a B-school case study about how to raise money and make a good living doing what you enjoy.

The fact that they continually raise money over years is telling that RSI is a huge success. [0]

[0] - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-03-15-star-citiz...
This article is a pre-print with severe mistakes (in particular they inverted the results for the treatment and control groups in one of the studies, you can't make this up). Read the comments. It's highly unlikely the piece will be published.

Read this peer-reviewed and accepted meta-analysis instead [0]. Conclusion: low- to moderate-certainty evidence of a positive effect depending on the endpoint. Higher certainty would come from higher-powered studies.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journa...
How to WASM DWARF: Introduction to debugging WebAssembly code (2020)
Bring me another option and I'm there in the revolution with you friend. Sitting idly by is not my thing at all, bitcoin was a start to upsetting the existing system but it was never going to do it on its own.

So sign me up for the revolution mailing list but let's get some content.
There's value in delightfulness in CLI tools. Having "go get" be the incantation for Go to go and get something, that's a nice experience for a dev, particuarly when you're picking up the language/tooling.
JavaScript Pass Function as Parameter
We had instant browser games and the gold rush of mobile ate them. The AppStore stack had better discoverability and native performance...a lot of benefits, really. Why would we all go back to the browser?

I feel like a large leap is being made that instant games will win back users when their instant-ness didn't keep them in the first place.

I don't feel like any catalyst is explored enough to be convincing.
Well, looks like smart meters started appearing in US slightly later than e.g. here in Finland, around 2006-2007, so I'm not sure that explains the difference. Could be explained by lower mobile network coverage in U.S., I guess.

US statistic: https://www.statista.com/statistics/676472/number-of-smart-m...

In 2005 in Finland about 7% of households had smart meters, with 80%+ coverage mandated by 2013 and actual coverage of 99.6% of under-63A meters in 2016 (Finnish sources: https://www.vttresearch.com/sites/default/files/julkaisut/mu... https://tem.fi/documents/1410877/3481825/AMR+2.0+loppuraport...).
I've run a small side business for a while a few years back. It's a very different feeling / energy than office work (even if tech). I found I could be fairly burned out at work-work and energized on side business. Frequently change is sufficient to revitalize - It's like sometimes in exercise or run or endevour, you just need to switch muscles. So I can fully understand how a tech worker may get excited to setup google ads for themselves and be excited even though technically they're doing extra work.

(we may be misunderstanding what's the cynical part btw - that they are enjoying these activities, or that they're taking place, or something else?)
Arguably this is simply the wrong strategy for investment. Look at the US “Endless Frontiers Act” for an analog, 95% of funding for cronies and pork. Fear and tech-hype driven. This is not the “deterministic optimism” that achieves goals.
> privacy-preserving data collection system

I hate this. Viscerally. Why, why, WHY does every “privacy first” system, platform, whatever, start with the presumption that some people should get your data and it’s just a matter of vetting the “good” groups from the “bad” groups.

No. That isn’t privacy.

No one should get my data. And it’s ridiculous that all of these companies try to position their data grabbing projects as “privacy” oriented when what they really mean is they’re not quite as invasive and/or are slightly more transparent about their data theft compared to others.

</rant>
Yes - because where does it end? China, which has surveillance on anything and everything? I don't want to live in a society where everything is monitored by people I don't know and haven't heard of secretly, and neither I think do you.

Remember, this wasn't the insurance company that was spying. This was a data broker whom you've never heard of, who scrapes social media pages, and gets paid by insurance companies for reports. A bounty hunter using computers and scraping. That's dystopian.
There is a certain balance to this however. Where I work we generally have a rule of no formatting changes mixed in with real code changes to make reviewing easier. It's a huge pain to see a ton of white space fixes mixed in with logic changes. As long as they're separate commits in the same pull request it's usually OK. We also generally don't have formatting-only pull requests because it just adds overhead and indirection to git-blame, and doesn't add value to the end product.
I don't know the exact details. But I can find out, if you know someone that might be interested in such a project.

"My dad, who I copied on this email had a quick question regarding hiring a programmer to write a small program for a farm equipment control system" is what I responded to.
To be frank I was always trying to find something within computer. Like animations, illustrator paints which I realized not helping much.

Yea I need to find something which does not have lot of computer.
Let’s talk about backup storage media (2018)
Yes, Republican governor Ron DeSantis just signed a law that requires students and faculty to report their political beliefs to the state non-anonymously. Super scary stuff for sure.
I also started learning Elixir, really loved it.

But I have wanted to go through the whole of SICP for a while. I realized that that is a better thing to do (grow core, fundamental skills) during the pandemic where I can get uninterrupted time.

I can learn a language any time. But I was more focused towards learning the functional paradigm rather than the language itself. It's a fun language to code in, though.
"go get" is dependency management. It adds a dependency (module) with a specific version to your project and pins it in the go.mod file.
Wonderful poem. Thanks!
Fair point (although I wasn't the first person in the thread to use a derogatory term about antivaxxers, and probably wouldn't use it if I actually expected there were plenty of people somewhat sympathetic to their arguments browsing this forum)

I do think the fact that people die as a result of this messaging is worth emphasising though, particularly when weighed against the supposed human right to use Facebook to disseminate their speech.
The article disambiguates income pretty explicitly.
Last year I started to work full time on Loqbooq[0], a tool to improve decision logging. I got the idea while working for a digital agency and observing how teams were discussing the same things over and over.

[0](https://loqbooq.app)
Agreed. Python 3 and IPv6 are case studies in how not to do an upgrade.

While I can appreciate the care and engineering skill involved in upgrading a technology while still having backward compatibility, it turns out just to enable the worst possible behavior on the consumer end.

I think I like Apple's way of just forcing breaking changes down everyone's throats (e.g. removing CD/DVD, PowerPC->x86, 30-pin->Lightning, dropping headphone port, etc.). Sure the tech media complain for a cycle, but then everybody adapts and the world's a better place.
How much more productive is a person flipping burgers or bagging groceries now than 1968? I'm guessing that productivity numbers used are for the economy at large.
‘Store-Hailing’ Startup Robomart Launches Fleet of Mobile Minimarts in Hollywood
Did these 12 account for all or the bulk of 18 million pieces of information, and the bulk of anti-covid-vax postings? That is the lumping together I'm talking about.
I don't use this specific WD product, but I've had some other network devices automatically and silently add port-forwarding rules to my router using uPnP, even though I never planned to access them from the internet. Maybe that's what happened here?
I think what people do right now is an always-on Mac Mini with external drives connected. The Mac Mini strategy introduces a failure point at the USB->hard drive connection. Pretty low-maintenance, until the $3 USB thingy dies!

Apple's exit from the router business came at precisely the wrong time: they could sell an integrated smart home / mesh network / router / local+cloud backup that also provided macOS/iOS/tvOS software update caching / content caching. My guess is they didn't do it because they felt they could make more money charging for cloud-only services (they love their services revenue) rather than selling networking devices.
> But few governments have weighed the costs and risks carefully.

I'm not entirely comfortable with the narrative that the costs and risks weren't weighed carefully.

It wasn't that the pros and cons weren't weighed. Every human decision involves the weighing of pros and cons.

For every decision that harms someone, a person decided that the harms were justified because of some other goal they deemed necessary.

The solution is not to generally apply more careful and scientific thinking, because the problem is not a lack of careful and scientific thinking. The agencies in charge are full of people who study this exact problem for a living and are fully qualified and trained for it.

What we're really grappling with is a clear mismatch of priorities between the decision makers and the "decision-makees." Why didn't their study and training lead to a decision that we're all comfortable with? If someone is to blame for this poor decision, why have they not been indicted -- and if we, the public, are to blame for our complicity, why haven't yet we acknowledged our mistake?

No one wants to point the finger out of fear of being called divisive. But these children will grow up soon and one day ask, "Why us?" I hope we have a better answer for them than, "There was much we didn't know..."
Against Majoring in CS in College [pdf]
What if that server is a brand new shiny right out of the box? That's not very representative of the old and dull gray boxes that have been there for years.
I guess the reason I want a FAANG job is the career security that comes with knowing that other companies will give me a second look because I have them on my resume. And of course, it feels bad when friends are able to do it and I can’t :(
Isn’t it funny how employers want to play these games where they offer you 20% of what you’re asking for when you can go out and get so much more? It’s like they’re daring you to quit. Then they complain they can’t find talent. Same as it ever was.
>spineless creatures not being able to stand up for their principles

Why assume they have principles?
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> And what would the language you propose look like for this legislation that doesn't have loopholes, caveats, etc for people to get around once the lobbyists are done with it?

It already exists - it's called GDPR. It deals with the root cause of this design pattern which is collecting data about clients secretly. It's enacted in the EU and it's excellent. It's not perfect - there's still some oddities and extra work for implementers (and the 'accept cookies' on every page thing is a faff for users) but the overall effect is extremely positive.
What resources are you following? How are you learning this in general?

In most cases, it's just a big and elaborate grid search done manually.
This is a really good question, one that we've discussed amongst at our university (a lot of researchers at Carnegie Mellon).

To be useful, ML systems have to have some kind of bias. However, the distinction here is that some of these biases are harmful biases. Kate Crawford talks about allocative harms (how resources are allocated) and representation harms (e.g. stereotypes).

Some of these harmful biases are really blatant. For example, labeling Blacks as "Gorillas" is offensive for many reasons.

Some of these biases "correct" but that's due to biases in the data set or society. The ProPublica investigation of recidivism prediction is a good example, where it was more likely to say that Blacks should not be released. However, police are also more likely to arrest Blacks, which naturally leads to this bias. Other examples here include Amazon's resume system that was biased against women (since they used Amazon's hiring practices as ground truth), and image search for "professional hairstyles" that showed White women but "unprofessional hairstyles" that showed Black women.

Other biases are also "correct" but greatly miss the underlying context. For example, a naive AI system might tell you don't go to a certain medical doctor that is a professor, since they have a higher rate of deaths. However, this doctor might also be a doctor of last resort, hence the high mortality rate.

What I'm trying to get to is that even the term "correct" has a lot of subtleties to it. In many cases, figuring out what is "correct" (or ground truth in ML terms) can be a clash of values and world view, and might have different results based on differences in race, gender, age, culture, context, and power.
> maybe it's time to have sub-maintainers to whom such tasks could be delegated

They already have subsystem maintainers. The result was an even faster process.

https://youtu.be/fMeH7wqOwXA
There is no single EU when it comes to topics like these, some parts are much better than others. But no place will ever save you from really bad financial mistakes or tons of small ones.

But you won't ever starve or have no place to sleep and your health will generally be taken care of, albeit not always in best way possible (ie dental care).
Am I the only one who has read "Piracy First"?
Did hell just freeze over? AWS has acquired technology instead of simply copying someone elses? Im flabbergasted.
Yeah some comments are funny and insightful, but again I have no idea whether what they said was true or not.
This also kind of assumes that DDG is not a honeypot to begin with, which we have no evidence of.

Anyone can pay lip service to privacy, but we have no proof they're actually doing anything they say.
Probably going to use it to replace Chime.

Edit: For those that have never heard of it, its their own IM, that while publicly available, is mostly used internally for company communications, similar to Slack or Skype for Business.

https://aws.amazon.com/chime/
Customers using their speech to praise your business, in the process revealing you committed fraud, and the insurance company hearing the customers, is not "China".

If all this speech was in a central repository by government mandate, I agree it's China
For me, the most startling line in the article is,

"Nearly every SARS case since the original epidemic has been due to lab leaks."

I wasn't aware that so many cases have been due to lab leak. This would have been valuable information at the start of the pandemic.
Yes, they can, but not in a blanket fashion where a test with a relatively high false positive rate and a relatively low sensitivity (between 18 and 50% for this particular test) is released without patient outcomes as the main driver of whether or not to apply the test absent further symptoms.

Whether this test is one that can serve in that particular role is definitely not something that has already been determined and those advocating for such are ignoring a mountain of established science and are simply jumping the gun.

Policy is set by the overall effect of application, which can be quite different than applying that same tool in an individual setting. This whole thread started with

"This is one of those medical revolutions that I am waiting dearly for.

Facilities that are not hospitals(to avoid the risk of occupying medical devices that sick people need) built to _regulary_ check up otherwise healthy people for preventive care."

And that is not something you do without taking into account the downsides. Whether this is revolutionary or not remains to be seen, it definitely is a useful test based on what I've read about it so far.
There was literally no choice when it came to IPv6. Everyone who thinks they've got a clever compromise is forgetting that it's not a software problem where it matters.
What high-level conspiracies was he supposed to have been a party to, that he could have leaked?