skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, compared to some other providers they've clearly tuned the dial farther toward "looks exactly how we want, everywhere" versus "performs well everywhere". Though they're far from the worst offenders.

But yes, the challenge with building the UI for a product like this is that it has to run on everything. Android from 2014? Yep. Some weird vendor Android that was installed on TVs the same year? Yep. Apple TV? Yep. Roku? Yep. Every video game console and some handhelds? Yep. And so on. Your build target list is insane. Luckily for them, they can get access to SDKs or dev kits that Mere Mortals cannot—for instance, IIRC there's a "big-boy shops only" SDK for Roku that lets you link in C/C++ libs and have much lower-level access to drawing routines, since otherwise it'd be impossible to make things like Netflix look as similar on there as it does elsewhere. As a user, I wish they didn't have that access, because it'd perform better if they had to use the same very-efficient UI the small players do (plus it'd make it harder for them to have the damn auto-playing videos everywhere).
> the high seas

I appreciate the expression.
I write Elm and I hire Elm (and Haskell) programmers. It works great for our business so we’re going to continue doing that.
Which puts downward pressure on prices for things you buy with credit. And then you can refinance later so it's a wash.

The problem you hit along the way is that people get screwed out of any ability to save money toward a down payment on anything as their wages lag the increased price of everything that they need to spend those wages on.
Not so much in this case.

So as long as it's not off-road and it's properly charged, then electronic shifting is very, very reliable and standard kit for many ultra-distance riders, see, e.g. https://www.redbull.com/nz-en/trans-continental-race-kit-gui... and the late, great Mike Hall's bike https://road.cc/content/tech-news/219030-bike-check-mike-hal...

Benefits from an ultra-distance pov include quicker/cleaner shifting holds momentum better. Reduced chain rub and gear maintenance requirements. Less force is required to change gear which decreases the risk of repetitive strain injury. And the ability to add satellite shifters (aka "blips") to aero bars and the tops, which makes it easier to hold a riding position. Oh, and they can also be set up to be more intuitive to use than trying to remember how to juggle front and the rear mech's when completely and utterly spent :-)

All incremental at normal scale, but I can definitely see why it'd worth it to him at the scale of Lachlan's rides.
That's what I did 10 years ago when my TI-89 broke right before my Linear Algebra final. I somehow convinced my instructor that when I had my phone out, I was actually using the calculator on my phone.
I find the FIRE folks very interesting. If you read the followup post at https://livingafi.com/2021/03/17/the-2021-early-retirement-u... you will find out that this lifestyle isn't for everyone, or for everyone's partners.

One thing I think the FIRE folks can miss is the sense of worth, improvement in personal power and confidence that comes from struggling. Struggling could be making things, building a business, learning job skills, writing a novel, whatever. However, 5 years of just 'I checked my investments, I'm in within 1% of nominal, I guess I should feel no stress right now!' shouldn't be the end; many people interested in this lifestyle seem to feel like they have arrived when they can do that. As a launch point, it has its benefits. But to my mind, it shouldn't ever be thought of as a goal in itself.

I read the follow up post as a sort of tacit admission that the FIRE lifestyle can lead to this huge gap in personal development, and often during really key years for relationship and brain development, 30s and 40s are super prime years for learning and applying learning. It seems like a terrible waste to spend it sitting on one's metaphorical porch, sipping tea.
I wonder if software presents a unique situation as we generally make a pretty decent salary and to transition to a new career involves a pretty significant pay cut. So some developers become trapped in jobs they hate with golden handcuffs. I really don't enjoy software development at all, but at this stage, to even think about doing something else would result in a massive pay cut. I did it once when I was younger, quit software and started a new career with a 55% pay cut. Liked the new work and did it for 5 years. Then I had kids and needed more money so I returned to software, since then I just exist in a constant state of burnout.
I use reddit with an ad blocker on the web and I use a 3rd party client on my phone. Where am I seeing ads if I only subscribe to the subs that I want?
I think most of the legitimate uses could be solved in a simple statement: Let users know whether the device is mobile or desktop, and then expect websites to send all of the logic to handle the rest client-side, so the server does not need to know.

I'd love to see browser metrics being absolutely devastated as an analytic source: It just is used today as an excuse to only support Chrome.
I'm intrigued to know where this 2 week delay comes from. That's comparable to the time from first infection to full symptomatic state, but (based on US data) I see a much longer envelope of at least 2-8 weeks. Maybe this start measured from symptomatic or even test results date, but with test times <24hrs that's unlikely shift the center more than a week.

I'd expect something closer to a 4-6 week delay in the statistics.

https://github.com/ctesta01/animated_covid_rates/blob/master...
I don’t know what that looked like, but reading the article, I get the impression Apple added a superfluous (I don’t see it serve any useful goal) second “light folding element” to work around other patents.
The early UFC, when it was owned and run by the Gracies, was probably as close as we're ever going to get to a "real" fight in a sport-based situation.

And by that, I mean it was mostly two guys rolling on the ground, one of whom might have known what he was doing. I think that's fairly comparable to most bar fights a person is likely to encounter.

Your point about weapons, situational awareness, and so on are well taken. Krav Maga claims to focus on those areas, and they generally admit that it won't make you as good at one-on-one fighting as BJJ, but will make you more likely to survive a fight where someone might stab you in the neck while you're trying to sink in your gogoplata.

I don't know it that's accurate, but it makes sense. I also appreciate that, from the videos I've seen, Krav Maga stresses that the best self defence technique is enough cardio to run away.
Which makes this extra stupid, because they're acting its their first-party content, while it mostly isn't.
It's entirely possible that we'll have a series of supply chain crises in the future, and nobody can rule that out. The question is whether blunt central bank interventions (raising interest rates, reducing the money supply) are the right solution to those problems. Typically the "do we need to worry about inflation?" question is actually (implicitly) a question about whether we need to change central bank policy.
The Independent article is so annoying, the first 4 paragraphs are useless fillers, and they do the "let's aim for the illiterate" thing of having each sentence be a different paragraph...
The roadster was a “glider” (body minus powertrain) built on contract by Lotus, but it was not based on the Elise: it shared only a handful of parts with the Elise.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/mythbusters-part-2-tesla-roadster...
Boredom is my own personal fear. I hit my FIRE number back in 2018. I was going to retire at N amount or age 45. I hit N pretty early, couldn't pull the trigger, a few more years passed by. Now I'm almost double N due to stock market / money printing inflation. This is approximately 50x my yearly expenses. Ideal situation is 2 to 3 days of work a week, with very few zoom meetings, scrums, or other bullshit.
It's a completely wild thought to most people. It's one of the reasons why so many people end up struggling with it. "That won't happen to me, no need to make a plan for how to avoid it or make a plan for what to do if it happens, because it's not going to happen."

Obviously not everyone has problems filling their time. But for most people it's difficult to imagine what it'd take to fill years worth of free time, when they've never experienced anything close to having to do that.
Understanding the Process Automation Landscape
Which product are you moving to?
In the case of Reddit, first-party content is better in almost every way.

If I can scroll through content effortlessly, then it's easy. If I have to open each link in a new browser view/tab, ugh. Embedded images on Reddit load instantly, while loading an entire Imgur page takes forever.

Not to mention that linked content is often ephemeral, whereas first-party hosting ensures it always stays viewable together with the thread.

So across usability, performance, and link rot, first-party content is a win in every way.

And if you're interested in the content's source/attribution, it's often in the comments. Even when (often) the OP doesn't post it or doesn't even have it (because they got it elsewhere), someone else does.
Fair point: GraphQL is mostly a data retrieval protocol that helps you retrieve specific data as stored by the app. SQL also provides data transformation with grouping, aggregations, functions, where clauses, views, subqueries, etc. You could implement that in the resolver, but then you're at the mercy of the api implementer.
Fair point, I could have sworn your comment didn't say person-to-person when I first replied. I'll give you that point.

Personally, I still prefer links as I find them easier to sort and categorize in my bookmark library, or indeed take screenshots of the linked content if I deem it worth of it.

As it is with images, I don't really bother to sort them so I have them scattered all over. In the folder where my SMS app saves images, in the folder where whatsapp saves images, in the case of discord I rarely explicitly download and save the images outside the app, etc. Opening a link I receive opens the link in one program, my default browser, from where I can manage the link as I see fit. All these different apps have their own built in image viewers, save locations, or layers between the message and the content/image, making it much more of a hassle to manage that image as compared to a plain link.
Oh no. No no no.

Used cars prices are turbofucked for a good 5-6 years. You can't just magically poof into existence all the cars that weren't produced in 2020, 2021, and beyond.

In 2009, new car production halved and it wasn't until 2015 that new car production finally matched the 2007 peak. Meaning the USA lost out on about 45 million cars which would have been produced during those six years. As a result, used car prices were elevated for quite a while. I bought two new cars in 2014 and a new 2014 model was priced at the same as a used 2012 model, and 2010 models were barely discounted.

The USA has a strong "used cars = better deals" culture. So people don't generally buy cheaper cars new, they buy more expensive used cars for a similar price. This has lead to a nearly complete removal of the cheap car segment, meaning that there very few cheap new cars that people can purchase. Which means we need a 3-4 years of good new car sales in order to start really driving down used car prices.
My open letter to Sundar, in response to this interview, as a fellow search engine company CEO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819924
> Do you really find yourself reaching the end of a weekend and thinking Oh thank God I have work tomorrow, I'm so bored?

The comment above you is channeling the common need to say anything, no matter what it is, in response to an attack on tradition. This is why people in Oregon hear about a proposal to make pumping your own gas legal and respond "but what if somebody doesn't know how?", as if it were difficult to know what would happen in that case.
I don't understand why paternity leave is even a thing, anywhere. Having children in the first world is an environmentally destructive hobby, as selfish as any other. Sure, go for it, I don't mind - but why should we subsidize it? I'd love to spend 3-6 months with pay coding my dream videogame or climbing mountains, but the fact that I can't is not a societal problem. Why should child-rearing be any different?
kudos to @masslessdom and @oacstevens, we should be back up: https://massless.io/tool/face-maker-ai/
4-6 week delay is what I observed earlier in the pandemic. Once people go onto ventilators they usually take a while to either get off them or die.
For me burnout comes from the endless treadmill of external pressures (arbitrary deadlines, changing requirements) and the endless treadmill of development work. There's not really ever a chance to step back and take a breath - just constantly moving from one high priority task to the next.

It's also a bit thankless, being good as this job, in a lot of cases, means you are moving really fast from one task to the next without any down time in between. I find it hard to get to a place where I can feel accomplished or proud of a piece of work, because the next fire/high-priority task is already "behind schedule".

I think part of it may also be due to the fact that the job is constant problem solving. Even though its nice to find solutions to problems, knowing you'll be perpetually in a state of "there is a problem that must be fixed" is taxing on mental health (for me at least).
> [article author, to wife] ... I thought that what you wanted was to live a life of freedom, with me. We’d talked about this.

> [article author's wife] Not exactly. I wanted to have kids with you and work and be like everyone else. Live a normal life. I’m tired of being weird. And I don’t want to go back to work if you aren’t. That’s weird too. You wouldn’t even be a stay-at-home-dad. You’d be nothing.

> [article author] And that was it. That the second big ticket problem, critical issue #2. She couldn’t get her head around the idea that we were different.

I don't buy his analysis. I don't think she wanted to do those things because others were doing them. I think she wanted to have kids and a classic family and happened to point out, oh, by the way, other people do those things too. Maybe it's easier to think that your former partner is shallow and busy comparing herself to others, rather than admit that the desire to start a family is a normal and genetically ingrained emotion.

Ironically, his new partner has told him she's interested in having kids and they're both working. I know, it's easy to claim to understand from an armchair, and I'm not saying I've necessarily got this right, but it's definitely interesting to consider.
Thanks, yeah I'm also doing that a bit since I just started. My knees don't feel it because it's mostly dumbbells within 25 lbs. I heard that to lose weight it's best to combine cardio (which I can't do much) and weight lifting.
that's not the impression i got at all. the words did not say, "will be spared from the identical outcome as India" and it is obvious that US / EU have better vaccination/ medical infrastructure compared to India. The phrase is a qualitative expression only for the purposes of a blog post, this is not a medical journal article.
Or the software, as written, NEEDS to contact a server to ask the question "am I legit" - and to remove this need would require modifying the software and redistributing it.

Of course, if the companies funds run dry, they will stop renewing the url registration, and one of us can register it, throw up a server that says "you are legit!" To every request and the problem is solved.
My last job lost all Sr. developers including me (I think 7 of 12 total developers) in an 8 month period. Everyone was absolutely fried and could not go on. Some of those people had been there between 4 and 10 years.
That's the problem I have. I really want to switch to finance but I make so much money now I dread starting over at $60k or something.
> slowly or quickly realize that you are just a regular human being like everybody else.

The earlier the better, one of the best revelation that I had is that 'nobody actually cares about me that much'. So much of the peer/social pressure are self inflicted.
Because your parents aren't dying from air pollution tomorrow, but they might from COVID. And the vaccine can stop it, and there's a race between DELTA and the vaccine for your parents lives. The story is a bit different in the US, where its more about people not wanting to take it, and an often cited reason is that the virus is going way whether or not that get vaccinated (because other people are). If that story changes, then their reasoning is no longer valid.
I regular realise that a lot of my bucket list items don't require money and I then go do them.

I have also realised that there's no need to wait to write a book. I've procrastinated for many years and have finally got my act together and I'm writing one.
Take your text pre-processing, representation, and visualization from zero to
It used to be remarkably good. Agree that over half the other services I use have much better UX, now. Actually the only one I can think of that I don't like way better is Amazon. Back when it was more catalog-like it was far more pleasant to use and performed much better, but I'm sure that wasn't making whatever metrics they're optimizing for do what they wanted, plus that's way too boring-looking in screenshots for their designers' portfolios, I'm sure.
I think we learned this past year that at least a few teachers are quite exceptionally spoiled (disappointing, and for me a bit surprising). Maybe I'm biased by the witnessing the antics of the California teachers union, but their ranks have been an embarrassment to the profession. Their continued push-back against returning to regular classes has grown tiresome (California has decided, with union pressure, to defy CDC guidelines and require masking and distancing despite vaccines and low risk -- "follow the science" is no longer spoken by them).

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-school-board...

https://meaww.com/alissa-piro-california-teacher-zoom-rant-h...
Managers (MBA and the likes) will optimize only what can the tested and optimized. Can anyone define spark? We can all agree it's needed, but no regular management practice looks at it because everybody knows it can't be optimized. So this is what we are left with: optimizing butt time. Yes, there's also the discipline of engineering managers, but they seem to always be on the losing side when financial discussions time comes.
> basically breaking everything

This is unnecessarily dramatic, and far from the truth.
Studies aren't there to cater to your ignorance. Burnout is well defined, and generally quite well understood by even the general public, this is not news. You switched from "soft science is all subjective nonsense" to "I don't like how it's written". You don't have to like it.
Hey, that's my school. I graduated in 2020. This article isn't showing you the whole picture.

WRT the new admissions system, all I have to say is that the old admissions system wasn't that great either (the general consensus among my friend group and everyone else I talked to).

For the PTA stuff, I think it's worth noting that TJ has a PTSA (parent - teacher - STUDENT - association), not a PTA. I can't read the article but there's a large push from current TJ parents to completely replace the board with candidates focused on the school instead of pushing politics. You might think that all PTSA stuff is inherently political, but that's not the case. Concerned parents can push for/against admissions reform outside of the PTSA.
You have the wrong friends ;)
> I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular, especially outside of the tech-sphere

I see multiple reasons:

- Everyone knows how to take a screenshot, but very few people know what a URL is, why it matters and why you should use it to share content

- The URL is purposefully hidden by the app to make sure other platforms can't access the content. You must use the official app, with your account, to access content.
> You obviously move in different circles

Being an adult, I think I probably do. When was the last time you went into a pub, Covid allowing?

> your comment still sounds like that of a teenager trying to be edgy

Well I bow to your teenager observational expertise. Did you happen to notice any slight drunkenness on Sunday, perhaps?
On my AppleTV (the first one supporting Apps) for at least a year it could get horribly laggy when browsing, seemed to get worse and worse until you restarted the app, then it was fine again for a while.

Thankfully it's been fixed for many months now.
I'm 52 and have 2.5MM in an IRA (200k cash) and debt of just a $200k mortgage (and this is weaksauce compared to my peers who all became VPs or C*Os). And the idea of trying to live off an IRA that is currently stocks/bonds/ETFs scares the bejeebers out of me. I think it is more about the personality than the money: do you have the risk-tolerance like this guy to say "fuck it, it will all work out," or are you like me and think, "its still not enough ... inflation is gonna explode ... the market will collapse as soon as i quit ... if i stop working i'll never get hired again because i'm old ... if i retire early i'll probably get in car accident and go broke from medical bills...".

Some of us are just naturally full of panic, others can jump into the mist and be OK with that.

EDIT: Added this scene from Indiana Jones (#3) that has stuck with me my whole life (and I'm an athiest!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JIfjNnnMA
Perhaps for the virtual machine. If this concerns you this could be used with GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runners.

SHRs let you use github workflows while performing operations from local machines.

These machines can be set behind a firewall.

Perhaps some of the novelty of this project is that it doesn’t require any paid cloud resources other than AWS.

But it does not take much to set up a self hosted runner locally.
>> but I didn’t see the method I expected to find: Use the Taylor series for f(x) = e^x around f(0) to compute e = f(1)

Is that the one where e = 1 + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + ... ?

Steve Wozniak used that method to compute several thousand digits of e on an Apple II back in the day. I think Byte ran an article on it.

Super easy because each term is just the previous term divided by N.
In economic terms, there are no shortages. In practical terms though, it means that there are a bunch of projects out there that aren't viable without heavily working people and employers are incentivized to extract as much as possible from people.
For me, recent firefox releases have been MISERABLE. I guess it could just be my computers but the browser constantly locks, no performance whatsoever, and just no help on troubleshooting anywhere.

I went with the long term support releases and have had a better experience. Course, still no sound lol but I use Chrome when I want sound. I still like Firefox, just can't use recent releases.
It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t know. Lawyers and doctors also say the workload burns them out. Some doctors have to do 24 hour shifts which are more than 3x physically demanding than working 1 8 hour day.

I understand what you mean by hobby though. It’s toxic to discount people feeling shitty. But the biggest complainers I know - maybe the shittiest people - get into programming or the guilded professions to make money.
>although I don't think the NSA can just install anything on my computer

If it's not connected to a network you are probably right....otherwise 100% wrong, if your a enough valuable target. And just lets say for fun your OS is 100% bulletproof, your +30 firmware's are not.
Heh, it's like having a kid that is your total dependent for 18 years. And then having another, and another, and another. And unlike real children, they don't help take care of each other.