skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A novel can make you addicted? Like you have to read it every day?

My wife used to spend multiple hours a day reading Harry Potter fan fiction to the detriment of other aspects of her life. It might not be designed to be addictive (same way HN isn't), but it can definitely have that affect.

>I played a lot with friends, but I never made friends through playing.

I know people who have made lifelong friends through online gaming. I do not know people who have made lifelong friends through reading books.

>I was enthralled by games, but when I was finished I wasn't "richer" in any way, just shorter of time.

What games were you playing? I've definitely felt absolutely floored by the technical achievements, storytelling and genius design in games before; the same way a good book or album leaves you shocked that a human could have created this.
I'm mainly concerned about bouncing back as a developer should this not pan out.
Coingecko api has historical price lookups going back years and it is free to use. It would be cool to see a historical weather report.
It also makes the assumption that Windows just works out of the box fine for everyone...
I think the author is pointing out reasonable expectations for a web browser, but did not get the memo that “web browsers” are now portable operating systems and we’re not going back.

I have strongly mixed feelings about that, FWIW.
For engineers who want to make less silly user interface mistakes, I second the recommendation for don't make me think. Since it was one of my first engineering books, the gang of four design patterns book will always be on my recommendations list.
When does linux not "just works"? I have been running linux on my thinkpads (x200, x220, w540, T470, T480s) etc and "it just works", with appreciably much less fiddling around than I would on a similar windows desktop with drivers etc. (My last install of linuxmint on my T480s I think I spent more time fiddling with vimrc than the actual OS).

And I dare say that on servers, linux certainly "just works".
For enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 21.04 now start supporting AD Group Policy thanks to samba. I wonder how does it help.
I'm talking about protein subunit and DNA-based technologies, not adenovirus viral vector. Protein subunit vaccines at least (e.g. the novavax and GSK vaccines) have proven themselves against COVID-19 as well.
I noticed this as well. Newegg is the only place I know of that lets you order by number of reviews.
DeepSqueak: System for detection and analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations
Honestly, the only reason I'm still doing work in front of a computer is that it pays well. I'm really starting to think I should have followed my gut instincts when I was 17 and go to trade school to become an electrician or a carpenter...
Also note that you can install the automatic tiling extension in other GNOME-based distros, you necessarily don't need PopOS to use it (though I had some weird bugs with it in Manjaro, it's probably going to be more unstable than PopOS's integration)

https://github.com/pop-os/shell
It clearly is true when, of the 3 times in the past 30 years that Republicans won the presidency that they only won the popular vote once, and in those cases Democrats won urban areas by overwhelming margins.
He is saying that all data is ultimately (potentially) code...
Did you actually read the linked studies? Several of them show clear evidence that vitamin D is a potent inhibitor of COVID-19 (although less potent than vaccination).

The latest meta analysis indicates that ivermectin is also a fairly potent inhibitor, although the evidence is weaker.

https://doi.org/10.1097/mjt.0000000000001402
Personally, I have a tendency to lump them together because they always seem to be propagated by people with certain characteristics.

- They think "questioning everything" makes them smart even though many questions are answered to a point where being contrarian is irrational.

- They're generally just anti-intellectual. They enjoy talking about stuff without introducing any rigor.

- Probably the most interesting to me; they tend to have rather isolated jobs. I suppose they haven't been exposed to incompetence at scale.

You're right, it's not correct to just lump everything into one bucket. But when they seem to be pushed by a different incarnation of the same person every time, I get desensitized. Especially because, when I do bite and ask some follow up questions, I never seem to get any answers.
Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation
“People can create tech debt, but robots can do it at scale.”
FUD makes money

Its why its literally everywhere on the internet/news now

I switched from weather.com to accuweather.com years ago when everything on weather.com became

10 PEOPLE DIE IN EXTREME HEAT IN LOUISIANA

plastered all over the place

now accuweather.com is starting to resemble the same

I will probably end up at just weather.gov, which is less featurefilled, but at least is not covered in FUD
Wish Nvidia Docker issues were resolved, otherwise I'd happily skip ubuntu to enjoy the window tiling manager from Pop_OS
If I subscribe to Ed Snowden’s Substack, on a scale of 1 to 10 how much “monitoring” am I about to be under…?
A Bioprinted Pancreas Could Spell the End for Diabetes
Based on these very unreliable sources, the number of drummers in the US may have increased from ~1 million in 2006 to ~2.5 million in 2018. That's during a time when the population increases from 298 million to 327 million.

So, during this period, a ~10% increase in population saw a 250% increase in drummers.

It does not appear that the drum kit killed the drummer.

Big caveats about what these surveys defined as "drummer" and that this doesn't reflect professional drummer gigs, just the number of drummers.

[1] https://m.facebook.com/Bumwrapdrums/posts/how-many-drummers-...

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-play-drums-in-the-US
Look at definition 2 and 3. Don’t be obtuse.
You can install Pop!_OS on your machine if you wish to keep the HiDPI screen. I have used it on my XPS 15 for years and it works flawlessly, even with the nVidia GPU!
Verbosity in frameworks and languages.
https://freecomputerbooks.com/
Honest question - can a list really be curated if it’s basically just algorithmically generated?
Linux as an ecosystem is a lot further along that many people seem to either realise or give credit for.

It most certainly works out of the box for most general tasks.

Of course there are still limitations like a lack of some software (Photoshop...) and peripherals support, but these are becoming far more uncommon. I even find with Steam's proton implementation I can install and run most Windows games without a second thought.
Hahaha nope nope nope. I gave up at windows 7. Windows 8 sucked and Windows 10 was a spyware OS. Now they are not even hiding it!!! Beware of consumer software, operating systems and hardware. By Jove, it’s like someone warned us about this 30+ years ago.
The trouble with (true) conspiracies is that too many people benefit from them not being investigated properly and openly.
Perhaps the author is just dreaming of another browser in addition to the one you prefer. One with different/less features. It is interesting how this is somehow a controversial idea. Is there some reason that the number of web browsers needs to remain small.

Different browsers can be really useful. Personally I do not need want the browser the author suggests at all, but that's just me. Every user is different. I use "links" heavily for reading HTML; it is particularly good for printing HTML tables. I do not expect anyone else to use it. (But some do, including user who actually paid money for features.) A different browser is simply an optional program I choose to make use of. I do not use it for anything financial or otherwise sensitive. There are other browsers for that.

In recent years I frequently see comments that seem hostile to the mere idea of more web browsers. I do not understand this. If this author wants some browser with some certain set of features, that is his business.

"Disagreeing" with someone's desire for a browser with different/less features because of the annoyance of native apps. It make no sense. (Blame the developers of today's "native apps", not users who want alternatives.) AFAICT, there is no suggestion in this blog post of trying to take away anyone's preferred web browser and make them use native apps. The author just wants more options besides the popular ones. A browser with different/fewer features in addition to all the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink, do-everything-under-sun ones written by online advertising-supported organisations.
Manjaro is currently what I'm settled on. It manages different kernel versions and graphics drivers really well, much better than Ubuntu. And the package manager is much easier to use (It's easy to create your own packages from PKGBUILDs) The XFCE version is incredibly solid, and with a few tweaks you can even get i3 to work alongside it!
Looking at it a different way, it’s entirely possible that those grants are the same ones that the companies would have applied for to roll out broadband to rural areas. In that sense, it doesn’t spend tax dollars in excess of what would have been spent anyway if they got the cable company to do it for them.
Meh. As a Type 1 diabetic I hear things like this constantly. I’d love it to be true but like another new revolutionary battery I’ll believe it when I see it on the verge of mass production with all of its various certifications and approvals in place.
So nice to be beaten to the chase. It's almost eerie reading a sentence that is nearly verbatim to what just went through my head.
Since many comments mentions that hard-work alone doesn't matter.

According to Daniel Kahneman, mere hard-work doesn't click unless we have access to expert feedback in the domain we work. He used to compare hard working f1-formula-driver without any input from past drivers vs driver with input from expert.

Hard work without mentor won't click. Environment and people around us also matter as much as the hard-work we do.
Ask HN: Other books in the style of HTTPS://hpbn.co/?
The book High Performance Browser Networking was absolutely fascinating because it explained the history, challenges and design decisions of the Internet in a high level way (no deep tech background necessary), allowing me to keep that knowledge in the back of my head when developing web applications.

Are there similar books like this?

Perhaps about browsers in general?

Understanding stuff like „display: none is costlier than opacity: 0 because X“ (fake example) would be immensely interesting and helpful.
I’ve been running it with a Radeon GPU and a beefy Intel desktop professor. It’s a real joy. I can play so many nice computer games via Steam. Pop_OS is a joy to use. It’s not a lot different from Ubuntu, but it’s quite reliable and fits my work style these days quite well. Can’t complain at all. This is the longest I have been pure Linux in a long time. It’s hard to believe I have been using Linux for over 20 years.
Would you say then that Erlang has low latency and low standard deviation of how fast it will respond to any request under any amount of load.

It might not have the highest transactions per second, but for those transactions it completes - it’ll do it fast and with the same low latency.

There’s other languages that can perform more transaction per second but as load increases, their latency and standard deviations grows exponentially.

(This is seen in the stressgrid benchmarks).
NYC election board didn't remove test data from election results
Dive Deep into TiKV Transactions: The Life Story of a TiKV Prewrite Request
Spent a few hours delivering for Uber Eats
One can quibble about the word choice, but the simple truth is that human interactions very frequently involve some sort of conscious/unconscious manipulation.

So one is better off to interact with people who are decent at that activity and seeking to build us.

Had my boss just yesterday close the office door and gently chide me about interrupting other people on the call. Best rebuke I've had in years.
Interesting to see since Nat was a founder of Xamarin
The basis of copyright isn’t that the sum product is 100% original. That insane since nothing we do is ever original. It’ll always be a component ultimately of nature. The point is that your creation is protected for a set amount of time and then it too eventually becomes a component for future works.
Sleeping in the Outdoors
Your tech stack is going to have 99.99% less to do with your first week's success than your business plan and execution.
https://greenwald.substack.com/archive

https://mattstoller.substack.com/archive
Well, there are few things many programmers enjoy better than automating away repetitive tasks. If not exactly intellij or eclipse, something that achieved the same end would certainly have arisen.

I'm sure there's at least a few relevant XKCD strips to insert here.
It’s masturbatory.
>when I do bite and ask some follow up questions, I never seem to get any answers.

You may be asking the wrong people.
Have you used Phoenix? With it, Elixir is easily the best language to build CRUD app in. No other web framework even comes close.
You can get me online. But you can't

stop the murders

stop the thieves

stop the arson

stop the ODs

stop the corrupt feds from using military intelligence weapons on me

stop your Marxist friends from mass murdering millions with a bioweapon

Asia in the sixties left everyone else alone. Greatest economic boom in history. More people out of poverty than ever. Limit the violence. Stand up to the criminals. Enforce the law. That's all you have to do. Once you drop the fantasy of unchecked celebrity ambition, everyone lives better and makes much better decisions. If you want to go into the internet business, go into the internet business. If you want to govern others, govern others. Why do you just light up when it comes to telling people to build servers and run wire, but then just go mute when some murderer is raping and killing everyone?
While it could be presented better, I think this point is fair. We seem to mostly be happy to write-off the downsides because 'but the alternative is worse.'

Sure, but let's not stop applying a critical eye and measured caution with things that are still in trial phase with inconclusive evidence for long term success.
I felt like a kid in a candy store, even if only briefly. While not a comprehensive list, it is a good start.
Normally I can come up with at least a hand-wavey explanation for a decision like this, but I'm at a loss with this one.
Eggplant is commonly used as a substitute for male genitalia. What hand gesture near such object does this invoke?
There are certain topics which Youtube will not allow, they have various soft means of enforcing boundaries around those edges. One of those topics is analysis and discussion of Covid 19. They (Bret and Heather) have been very careful to stay within the stated rules, yet this still happened.

At some point, enough of us viewers will decide that it is worth overcoming the network effects, and get used to some new platforms for content sharing.

There are plenty of things you won't see anymore on YouTube. A year or two ago, videos focused on guns were removed. Even machine shop channels talking about the machining of parts had those videos removed.

Our ability to discuss things like adults is under threat.
I'm not the best person to ask about Erlang's performance characteristics. I know them in broad strokes from light reading about the BEAM VM but I've never written any Erlang that has made it out to production, only for the smallest of hobby projects. So I don't know, e.g. what the P99 latency of a given Erlang program might be.

That being said, my point was that concurrency is an independent topic from runtime performance (including latency), which is the domain of parallelism. Erlang's big selling point is it makes it possible to write concurrent programs whose functionality (not performance) would require oodles and oodles of code and discipline in some other languages.

EDIT: On reflection I do think if what you're talking is catastrophic latency overruns caused by cascading queuing failures then Erlang can indeed help make it easier to avoid those pitfalls.
In a competitive field full of people working hard, luck isn't enough to win. Neither is working hard. You need both.

So when you look back, you can genuinely say you worked very hard, at least as hard as anybody else. Because it's true. It's just not the whole story.
> Erlang still performed noticeably worse than other languages

I think you need to define worse here...unpredictable spikes in latency will give you plenty of headaches when trying to guess how much hardware you should throw at a service. Erlang's consistent latency here is what I would choose above everything that benchmark shows for almost every problem I've ever solved.

Going fast at all costs is not a desirable trait for my software and I suspect it isn't for most peoples software. I want predictable behavior that operates gracefully under extreme circumstances.
>When you do an initial OS install today, you have to boot the computer in the mode that you intend to use (Legacy BIOS / CSM mode vs. UEFI mode

That's one worthwhile technique.

Not many users want to go much further since then you need at least twice as many boot files as the minimum and it's best to test each configuration thoroughly.

If you're dual-booting you are already putting twice as much effort into OS installation & maintenance already, this is not really popular but I did post my latest findings just a couple days ago how I use 4 sets of boot files for W10 & Ubuntu on BIOS & UEFI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27629350

It's a little entensive background info, the basic outline is shorter than that.
I’ve had no issues running the BEAM on Windows.
Oh well, shouldn't that be Centralized Distribution Secrets?
https://outline.com/DMNUXu

Most of the article talks about post-retraction citations
CSS Nesting Module - W3C Editor’s Draft
My favorite example of this is the tinfoil hat conspiracy of the early 2000’s. An open joke in the tech community that the government is always listening and knows what you do online.

then Snowden happened
Buying SPY is like buying Toyota
Manufacturers aren’t going to do nothing in the hopes that literally every country on earth elects someone that is petrol friendly. Even if Canada has a change, if the US, UK, EU, etc all enact similar laws, they aren’t going to make IC engines for just Canada and electric everywhere else. Their entire game is economies of scale.
California Lawmakers Approve Bill to Legalize Psychedelics Possession
$25,000 Tesla Hot Hatch Coming in 2023 to Rival VW ID.3
There are many things I trust neither a native app nor a website to access. Most browsers seem to opt into far too many APIs and expect me to blacklist them all in hidden advanced options. But there is no reason that everything about reading from my computer isn't off by default. Geolocation, accelerometer, raw mouse data, battery level, hardware info, fonts supported, etc.

Heck, default to running code on every site is too much for me and the first thing I turn off. All the fine grained stuff is always I fight to find and remove.
Either way it wouldn’t matter since the only thing short of stopping the cycle is stack overflow to close down and a new stack overflow not to open up. A very unlikely scenario for this industry. Either way , no matter the difference in time frame, the result would have always been permanent.
The amount of "programming time" I spend actually writing code is also quite low compared to the amount of time I spend figuring out what needs to be done, the best way for it to be done, how it fits together with other things, the best way to present or make it available to the user, etc. Ie most of my time is still spent on figuring out and refining requirements, architecture and interfaces.
What do you need to do with LVM on a laptop that can't be done in another way? Adding physical volumes to the logical volumes is not a big use case for laptops with limited space for expansion. As for encryption, it can be done without LVM.
Microsoft authentication is terrible. It breaks at random times with misleading error messages (telling you that TFA failed for example, when in fact it’s one of their servers is down). Sometimes it just times out or goes into a loop until you close the page or clear cookies. And authentication for teams on Safari doesn’t work at all, even though the rest of Office works fine.
> after you know one language well, you know them all instinctively

This isn't strictly true. Elixir, while functional, isn't completely pure and has a dynamic type system which definitely lowers the learning curve.

Developers who know one language well are likely equipped to pick up a language like Haskell faster than even a mathematician, but I can't imagine that a Java one trick would pick up Haskell (or APL, or Scheme, etc.) "instinctively"
That's true! But it's easy to think that that's something you can fix (no pun intended) because each reduction just takes you back to the same state again, which is easy to recognize as an infinite loop. After all, there are lots of things like finite state machines that can have infinite loops but no decidability difficulties. By contrast, the Y-combinator (together with the rest of the usual suspects) means you can write programs whose termination behavior is undecidable.
I use Linux not because of control, but because I don't like both MacOS and Windows. PopOS is my preferred choice because it's just work.
>You are misunderstanding the subject of "amendment to a bill"

Probably.

>PS Intimating is the wrong word. I think you meant infer instead of imply.

...no, I don't think they did? They denied implying anything about Ohio.

Incidentally, it seems like the usage of both imply and intimate in this way comes from about the same time, ~1580s.
> Chomsky responds with the typical comment that it would take an unprecedented amount of coordination to have so many people keep the secret that it doesn't even make sense.

I remember hearing that argument made back in the 00's about government surveilance. The secret doesn't have to be kept perfectly, it just has to be made ridiculous.
The CCP isn't going to stop with Hong Kong. The US needs to get its act together, stop flagellating itself about race, and present a viable opposition before it's too late.
It is quite sad that SASS-style nesting doesn't make it to the CSS spec.

Now we need an additional `&` before each rule and also a `@nest` in some situations.
That is because we have another word for it. Probability. If something crosses a threshold of being highly improbable yet people still believe it we call it a conspiracy theory.

You can think of it as humid weather vs rain. That’s just a spectrum too. And yes the world is grey but when it rains I’ll be damned not to know the difference.
Headlines like this are extremely misleading and the framing of articles like this need to be challenged.

A bot did not fire the driver. A human created a bot that fired the driver. A human decided that the bot was most efficient for deciding these cases. A human within Amazon pitched this idea to their boss and a human accepted it, planned it, and rolled it out. By ascribing features to the bot, we (the audience) are lead to believe it’s some kind of glitchy programming error rather than deliberate choices made by the humans who work at Amazon
I'm not sure if using the Picard app has some kind of magic API whitelisting for the client going on or not, but I'll drag entire folders with 50-100 disorganized albums to the app and tell it to fingerprint everything and I've never had an issue or gotten a rate limit / API error.