skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dropped out of my PhD because I could not stand the pressure of having to do talks regularly. Even though I was pretty decent at it (I was told my delivery was fine and clarity was superb), and sometimes felt good ("powerful" for lack of a better word) while on stage, I would worry for months before every presentation, then basically get physically sick for weeks before, and take some weeks more to recover.

Then one poster I submitted got upgraded to a talk, which brought me over the tipping point, and I quit.

I keep wondering if I could have done more to desensitise myself to it, but the anxiety was never decreasing, if anything, it was getting worse each time. I tried therapy, medication, Toastmasters, martial arts classes and dance lessons (which became my hobby, incidentally), and even vocal lessons (since I was particularly self-conscious about my voice), all to no avail.

So now I have a co-founder to do all and any public speaking, and I do not plan to put myself in front of a crowd ever again. But I feel I'm missing a part of life by it.
Everyone will have kids one day or knows someone who will. And if that kid is born with type-1 diabetes they will require insulin everyday or else they will die.

The inventor of insulin sold the patent for $1 because the thought that it would not be available to all was unconscionable.

It is absolutely unacceptable that insulin is not free and available to all (including to those who can afford it at the cost of financial stability).

The idea that someone without means should have to pay Walmart $86 for a worse low-budget insulin is disgusting.
This statement, "You shouldn't have the right to decide for me where science happens," is anti-scientific. I'm reminded of Carl Sagan's description in _The Demon-Haunted World_ of people who make profoundly unscientific statements using the words of science, because they want the authority and respect accorded those words, not realizing that the authority and respect comes from the methods of science, not just the words.

You don't "decide" "where" science happens. It's not a question of rights. It demonstrably does not happen at your will or on the basis of your decision. It happens the way science happens, because that's what science is.

A scientist eating a sandwich is not doing science. A scientist talking on YouTube is not doing science. A scientist doing science is doing science. That's not my decision, it's the definition of science.
I can only imagine one of the big reasons to release Copilot to the public for free is to make it better by sending back to GitHub the "reviewed code". Example:

- Copilot suggests me a snippet of code

- It's almost what I wanted. I fix the code

- Copilot sends back the fixed code to GitHub

- Copilot gets better at guessing my (and others) wishes

Unless Copilot is running locally, I won't use it.
There's nothing wrong with drawing comparisons at different scales. If you're talking about how to accomplish something it's fine to talk about famous works as well as mundane works and everything in between. If you're seeing it as a measuring contest you're missing the point.
Until it automatically knows when and how it's wrong, you'll still need a human to figure that out, and that human will need to actually know how to program, without the overgrown auto-complete.

May or may not reduce the demand for programmers, though. We'll see.
You don’t read a book by reading the first 10 pages. You don’t learn a culture by visiting a place for a week. You don’t make real friends in a weekend. I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 4 years and I still feel like I don’t quite understand the culture here, feel like I haven’t quite experienced the city. I don’t understand how anyone could visit here on a vacation and think they’ve really “experienced” LA. This is even more true for foreign countries. There’s also something weird to me about going to a place with lots of poor people, “helping” them for a weekend, taking a picture, posting it on Instagram, leaving, and somehow getting a warm feeling from that. The common denominator is a shallowness- none of these experiences are as deep or meaningful as the people who do it claim to themselves and others.
How does ordering via QR code change the quality of the food itself? Just because you clicked a button to order the food instead of telling a server what you want who then wrote it in a notebook and went back to a terminal to enter it, should not have any bearing on how the food tastes.
Fortunately nothing important lives in the surface of the ocean, no need to panic.
More Americans have died from auto collisions than in all the wars we've fought to date. That plus the effects of poisonous exhaust and vulcanized rubber eroding from tires seems to me to be "reckless disregard".

> Cars have such enormous benefits...

Contrast with alcohol-fueled trains.
Lens – The Kubernetes IDE – Announces its biggest release, LENS 5
Doesn't look like it will be editor-agnostic which is a big shame. I've been using TabNine in Vim for a couple years, and I love it.
Whiler I agree with the thrust of your comment, your committing an error: the distribution of incomes isn't uniform across time/age. That is, the set of under 30 and under 40 household with 12k/ year is lower than 40%. If you look at not the median household at this moment, but the lifecycle of the median household from when it started to when, it probably couldn't save 10k/yr until recently.

And the early years are the most important ones.
> the need to transition from PowerPC to Intel, forced them to have multi-platform app packages (universal binaries)

Classic MacOS had them before that, during the transition from 68k to PPC.

NextStep called them Multi-Architecture Binaries since Next ran on 68k, x86, and a couple of RISC CPU flavors.
In Marina Del Rey, the rebar in the concrete sides of the marina are fed a trickle of electricity to prevent corrosion. I'm not sure how common this is though outside of marine environments.
MIT is the gold standard of education. Most of their computing classes already give you full access to all the course materials, videos, labs, readings, handouts, etc. directly from the course page. These direct resources are far better than typical edX/Coursera courses.

The same is not generally true of Harvard courses (with a few exceptions like cs50), which hide all materials behind paywalls.
Calling it a pair programmer is a bit exaggeration though. How can it match a human?
Already in the US, I'm seeing some restaurants where you pay right at the table as well.

In NYC, you can see this at World's Wurst [1] in SoHo.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/World's+Wurst/@40.7279645,...
> You shouldn't have the right to decide for me where science happens.

I mean, okay.
Neither does Windows 10, my mouse frequently stutters on the first few minutes after booting, and I don't use any particularly invasive customizations.
I'm a merchant in shopify and the data helps me a lot to figure out how sell new products
Could you share the proof?
> So no need to pay a high level programmer, just a mediocre one and the right AI assistant gives the same results.

I think of it as not needing juniors for boring work, all you need as a company is seniors and AI.
This looks pretty impressive and I'd like to play with it, but it's disappointing that you're forced to accept telemetry to enlist on the waitlist. I guess I'll wait for general availability.
Its even less than that. This micro masters is sold as an entry point for a full-fledged masters program. The order of operations is something like:

1. Complete the micromasters courses at your speed.

2. Get a passing grade in a proctored exam.

3. Get accepted to a masters program with 1/2 of your credits taken care of.

4. Finish the masters degree on-campus.
Most of my GCP clients shove PII into a GCP Service, like BQ. It's not put on a "server" per se, so firewall rules don't really apply here. The appropriate thing to assert is that necessary IAM permissions should be granted explicitly.

This is usually the case. As most of my clients use isolated GCP projects for housing PII data. This forces IAM permissions to be granted service accounts, which, hopefully, means that administrators are cognizant of the levels of access that they are granting to service accounts.

Not a guarantee, mind you, but hopefully some redflags would be raised if a someone requested PII-level access for a Service Account associated with a public facing web server.
I love this advice. I started working remotely in my 20s and negotiated to work 4 days a week, while traveling the world and deciding where I wanted to call home. I'd never trade that time spent growing up and finding myself, learning about other cultures and places, for any level of start-up monetary success.

Everyone is different and obviously has different priorities, ambitions, ideas of success, but that time spent not working my ass off has made me a more well-rounded person and I believe has contributed to a different kind of success and confidence now in my 30s.
Having been a TabNine user for a while I can say that it's less of a productivity boost and more of a quality of life win. It's hard to measure - not because it's small, but because it's lots of tiny wins, or wins at just the right moment. It makes me happy, and that's why I pay for it - the fact that it's probably also saving me some time is second to the fact that it saves me from annoying interrupts.
SQL Errors and Video Cameras
I'm not sure I have push notifications turned on for any of my banking apps.

I do get notifications from my banks through text and email.
Why Do We Work So Damn Much?
The internet is fine.

I would change the web.

I would remove JS and design browsers to natively run python instead.
Monetize not having money? Pray tell your easy solution.
> SWE is a complex field, way more than typing a few routines. In best case (technologically speaking) this will be an augmentation.

If there is a pathway to improving this AI assist efficiency say by restricting the language, methodology, UI paradigm and design principles, it will happen quick due to market incentives. The main reason SWE is complex is it's done manually in myriad subjectively preferred ways.
I’m glad you phrased it like that, because I think it explains a lot of the talking past each other that’s going on here.

The article is not titled “How to be rich af”. It’s How to do Great Work.

So Gates is the example here because he built a huge company that made software used by almost every human on earth, and because every reader will know who he is.

I guess the author could have used RMS, or John Carmack, or Bill Joy, but that would have excluded people who aren’t into free software or gaming or Unix etc.
This is discussed in the article closer to the end, when it explains the balancing act of continuously recognizing the difference of productive, interesting work and tired, harmful work for the sake of work and showing off.

PG also uses himself as an example of how the type of work can impact actual productive hours: about 5 for programming/engineering and almost a full day for coordination and communication.
WHO issues first global report on AI in health and six guiding principles
> I also found it pretty comical when server side rendering became a hot topic, like duh guys, that's what we were doing first! Did you forget?

A lot of new kids (we call them frontend engineers) haven't done the old school way. They just know SPAs, because that's what they've been taught in the last decade or so.
DNS.

Others here seem to be redesigning the entire intarwebs. I'll just pick one thing I might have been able to digest.

DNS is brilliant - but insecure, and centralised. The dependence on registrars was a huge mistake. The competition for names is an unintended consequence; the DNS created artificial scarcity, which resulted in commercial businesses that produce nothing of value.

So something like GNS, I guess.
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.html
This piece is slanted but if you click through to the local news story [1], I dunno, it gets pretty weird…

> The white affinity group was eventually named the "Whiteness Accountability" group and was intended for "staff who hold privilege via white identity and who want to explore how the advantages of whiteness interact with their identities, with their work and in the world," the complaint quotes from the program's announcement.

> The announcement also identified the white affinity group as being for staff who are "white identified, may be newly grappling with or realizing their white identity, or identify as or are perceived as white."

[1]: https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2021/06/16/federal-complaint...
> Reinforced concrete buildings have better thermal and sound isolation.

Thermal conductivity of materials are telling different story [1]. Polystyrene or mineral wool are good for insulation because they have low thermal conductivity 0.032 - 0.038 W/mK (these values are not exact obviously, you can also find mineral wool with values 0.033 not 0.038 but that is just detail). Timber here is 0.14 - 0.17 W/mK. We can find also concrete with 0.16 which is pretty low for concrete but unfortunately that is just aerated concrete which is different from more dense - reinforced one.

So for example in my home country (in central/eastern Europe) where we have Soviet apartment blocks and decide to insulate them we need to cover them with 30cm thick layer of mineral wool or polystyrene foam in order to meet current standards for thermal resistance. Most of them are already insulated at least decade now (unfortunately with just 10-20cm thin layer).

[1] https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Thermal_conductivi...
Yes, but we took it 1 step further and put the database inside the application.

Sounds crazy until you learn that you can expose user-defined functions to SQL and eliminate all network overhead when it runs in the same process. SQLite operations are effectively a direct method invocation across a DLL boundary. If you want queries to reliably resolve within microseconds, this is a great path to go down.

Not for every application, but it fits ours extremely well. Deploying our software to customer environments is trivial because we only have to worry about the 1 binary image. No external databases, docker hosts, etc. are required to be installed.
I feel like this could be a great way to help people understand new languages faster than they could otherwise.
Looks like Microsoft will be getting a lot of people to move over to Linux. My pc is more than capable with 2 xeon cpus but my Dell t5500 has no secure boot!
Heck yeah, in full agreement with all of that.
> but having the level of understanding TO write surgical DOM manip code should be a basic floor of ability for any web developer using react or otherwise imo.

I agree with you in general, but I can’t agree with this statement. Web development needs fewer gatekeepers.
Sam Altman's 'Worldcoin' Wants to Give You Crypto in Exchange for Eyeball Scans
The market is self regulating don't worry ;)
I think online menus are much better and environmentally friendly than physical ones.

Really hope many places just stick with online menu - also allows for quick updates and changes.

If navigating there is done via QR code, NFC or some other means is a different question. but QR codes seem to work really well for this sort of thing and even non tech users can easily figure it out.
> The math is easy, but convincing people that becoming a millionaire is a matter of consistent moderate savings is still hard.

Consistent moderate savings on top tier income, sure.

> $800/month is $9.6K per year. Approximately half of the maximum 401K contribution limit,

Also, approximately 1/3 of national median household disposable income after taxes and transfers (NB: not essential expenses, just taxes and transfers) in the United States.

> A married couple doing this together makes it even more achievable.

Yes, you can become a half-millionaire much faster than a millionaire—brilliant observation.

> Unless someone has maxed out their career options (unlikely) almost everyone in software could get a $10-20K bump in the coming year through negotiation or changing jobs.

“Software” includes a lot of different occupations, but most of the nob-management ones have median compensation around or substantially below $100K; so you are suggesting most people are leaving upward of 10-20% on the table. That's...unlikely.

> It just requires consistency over 20-30 years.

Asserting that that is easy in software would be more convincing if we were more than 20-30 years from a major industry crash, or had some structural guarantee of it not happening again.

Not completely convincing even then, but more convincing...
I had a look for startups working on this - not just QR codes and nice looking vertically scrolling menus (rather than paper-formatted PDFs) but analytics, realtime updates etc.

Found these guys: https://smartermenu.co.uk/ - no affiliation. It just seems like what I'd build.
Genuine question, what if you're too poor to live the life you want in your 20s?
Seems like it's best classed (for now) as an automated tool to generate and apply all the boilerplate snippets I would be creating & using manually, if I weren't too lazy, and/or too often switching between projects, to set all those up and remember how to use them (and that they exist).
The treasure inside beer lost in a shipwreck 120 years ago
If anything, military budgets of warmonger countries will increase, preparing for the worst case, to take control of valuable resources (water, food, livable land) by force.
The author manages to conflate globalist proto-CBDCs with an

>"...ethos of libertarianism and individualism".

>“Crypto-colonialism is the act of coordinated groups of tech-savvy individuals leveraging their wealth, which is often but not always generated by cryptocurrency investments, to settle in and exploit lands and laws favorable towards continued crypto activities,”

>Beginning in 2017, the World Food Programme developed its Building Blocks initiative to provide funding to Syrian refugees in Jordan using blockchain tech. In order to access the aid, refugees had to upload their biometric data onto a shared blockchain to verify their identities. When they buy groceries, they pay for them via retinal scan.

Then via sloppy generalization, they associate this with the use of BTC in El Salvador. By cherry picking the globalist proto-CBDCs they tarnish the use of cryptocurrencies broadly.

Nary a mention of the grassroots use of cryptocurrencies like NANO in Venezuela.
I wish that were true but it's really not. At least not within the public sector, maybe wealthier private firms can afford to do that level of verification.

Anyway, even then you still need to make trust decisions. How do you verify the ICs in your HDD haven't been tampered with? How do you know the firmware wasn't built with a malicious compiler? Or that a bad actor didn't add a backdoor to the firmware? Realistically there's a lot of components in modern computers that we have no choice but to trust.
True, except for the fact Javascript would have no reason to exist without a web browser. Do you remember when Netscape 2.0 was released? That's when Javascript was born. Its primary use cases were form validation and image preloading.
> There’s also a meta-discussion here. In human speech a common technique is to use X_j (j=1..n) diverse objects that each have k (k=1..m) characteristics Y={Y_jk} where for each j, there exists some k such that you can form a subset Z of Y which has the property that for any y_1, y_2 in Z, |m(y_1)-m(y_2)|<d, for some interesting measure of the characteristic m, and some small number d to illustrate an idea.

> Usually, the idea is that the diversity in X_j resulting in this form of Z points to some commonality among the elements of Z. The idea is usually not that all Y_jk are in an equivalence class but that the subset Z is in a single equivalence class.

Never change, HN. Lol.
Is there such a thing as insider trading for a company? Let's say for example that getting a contract with Amazon is likely to increase the stock value of company X. If a employee from X told me they were nearing/secured a deal with Amazon and I bought the stock before a public announcement from X I am guilty of insider trading no? Is bundling a sell of stock like this not similar?
Ask HN: What (new) tech and/or electronic items are you excited about?
What (new) tech and/or electronic items are you excited about?

Preferably upcoming or newish stuff— could be anything.. laptop, phones, raspberry pi type things, computers, consoles etc! Under the radar/eclectic type stuff too, please post!
I am looking at this witful product UI and I wonder what stops MS to make interfaces like this in office products. Their UX is so awful in most of products. They have huge customer base, data and products to create great experience. Then, why?
Yes, it is helpful to have cell service, both in China and in the United States.
It's completely maddening how backwards this thinking is:

> Racism is bad.

> People from the same race have the same traits, guilt (or victimhood) and needs.
Basalt rebar does not have the tensile strength of steel rebar. During extreme stress, steel rebar allots time for escape, increasing the survivability of an event. The behavior of basalt is significantly different.

Just different materials, with different performance profiles, that you can use to beneficial effect in different environments. But you have to know and understand the implications of the different performance profiles.

I'm not going to do a whole engineering lecture here, but there is a really good concrete nerd who can outline this, and so much more, for you on his youtube channel if you're interested. He's a good engineer and I've been impressed with the accuracy of the material he presents as well as the accessibility with which it is presented.

Tyler's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrvfiHNDS_QI-FgKQSmTITQ

More detailed explanation of tensile strength implications in structures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thUZImUTZn0
If you get used to looking 5-10 years ahead are you sure you'll stop and starting living that better life? Or will there just be more goals another 5-10 years ahead?

I lost a whole bunch of friends in my 30s and nearly died myself a few weeks ago. Later on doesn't arrive for everyone.

I don't think that means you should never delay gratification but just don't put all your eggs in the future basket.
I wrote this and would love to hear what people think.

I have been working remotely for nine years, and it just consistently surprised me that people wouldn't use every available communication channel. This is my attempt to explain a benefit of video.
Rather than trying to add a button at the front door, tap into your existing buzzer (or listen to it, maybe with an accelerometer on the Arduino)
Chargeback carrying compliance liabilities for many providers, especially considering that quite often there is fraud, money laundering or some other shady activity could be at the core of it.

Payment processors are under strict regulations and compliance and don't want to be part of anything shady
Chronotypes – Sustainable Productivity (world is unfair to night owls)
My insulin copay every three months is $100 ($50 for the Novolog fast acting, and $50 for the Tresiba slow acting insulin.) My insurance's portion is closer to $4000 for that 3 months, lst time I looked. Type I Diabetes is expensive, there was a period when I was unemployed and uninsured where I had to pay for type N and type R out of pocket, but the analogs like Novolog and Tresiba is so much easier to control. This is a very good thing.
Managers arriving in UK granted exemption from quarantine
The idea that there are only two options in life- world travel or being a corporate slave, is exactly the mindset of a shallow person.