skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've definitely heard the life advice to avoid trying this kind of thing in case you do like it, then everything less is permanently tainted with the knowledge that it's not as good.

Does that actually happen though? I know a thing or two about wine and sometimes buy bottles in the 50-100 euro range, which I feel are totally worth it, but I'm still happy to drink cheap plonk with friends most of the time. This works because (1) you forget about what the high end experience was like quite quickly and/or (2) you drink it in a very specific setting so you're not likely to conclude "I now always need/want this" and (3) a lot of what makes high end cuisine / wine / spirits so fun to try is not just that they're better but that they're different from what you're used to, the scale is not just worst-best but also ordinary-extraordinary, and you're not always in the mood for extraordinary.

My guess would be that the phenomenon of permanently hankering for the good stuff after having tried it once is probably more likely to happen with everyday luxuries: good bread, slightly-above-average wine, etc. And in that case, you get a little bit more enjoyment out of your food for a little bit more money, which seems like a fair deal. But even in that case, I don't know anyone who, after trying craft beer, has vowed to never drink a cheap pilsner again.
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The Most Important iPhone Ever
But if you're the first to learn of it, trade, and then tell others about it so they trade, you still have the timing benefit. That's the thing of current-day amateur trading; some people get the first scoop, then hype it up on e.g. reddit for the masses to follow along. This was also a thing in crypto trading, where there are groups of amateur traders that plan internally to cause the stock market to change. They start the change, hype it up on social media, then sell off again before the hype hits its peak.
In addition to Libby, there is also Hoopla and Kanopy. Hoopla is pretty similar with ebooks and audio books, while Kanopy is mostly video
Reminds of of reddit. Man that text edit box is so dysfunctional. Sometimes you type and nothing happens. Sometimes typing will start selecting random stuff on the page, hiding comments, saving some, and other weird stuff. Cut and paste is a 100% gamble. Random keys won't work some times. Sometimes you post a comment and only half shows up or other weird things.

It's really bizarre and I think has to do with some sort of logging/spyware they run on the site.
Companies are not people — there's no need to be sorry for them. Bankruptcy is a normal, healthy, and necessary part of capitalism.

Customers can switch. The government already has incentives for installarion of heat pumps and insulation (it could do better).
> What, exactly, do you want someone with a house that has appreciated to do?

Pay taxes based on the housing appraisals that we already require for property tax purposes?

> What about someone who worked for an early-stage startup, received some stock that they aren't able to sell yet, but whose 409(a) price has gone up?

Use the secondary market price (at least as a floor), or pay taxes in-kind with the stock.

> Bizarre take. You think everyone who invests and has capital gains did it specifically for the purpose of avoiding taxes?

I think it's an either-or situation. Either you saved a bunch of taxes - which means you probably did it deliberately - or you didn't, in which case you're not going to mind much if your tax treatment changes.
Maybe God Saying You Have to Stop at Red Lights
You may feel secure but it's only because you don't know what is really happening on a daily basis. Snowden and Assange tried their best to show some of that.

I myself was almost killed by the LAPD in 2011. The FBI didn't give a fuck. VICE news didn't give a fuck. And many of the other information packets I sent around the country were ignored.

Contrary to what you may think, you can be tortured in America and there will be no recourse. Adult or kid, this country isn't some safe haven.

These are the kind of burns I incurred after being hit by a militarized microwave beam [1] [2] for three days in a row, unrelentingly nearly every second of those three days. This device was gifted to Los Angeles by Raytheon and was only intended for 3 seconds of pulsed use in dispersing prison riots. But of course, the device had no misuse prevention mechanisms. I still have scars to prove it.

[1] https://youtu.be/CwYvhY-g10A

[2] https://www.wired.com/2010/08/pain-ray-rejected-by-the-milit...

Below are images of the burns which caused sepsis (blood infection) and nearly killed me:

https://i.imgur.com/lBt6kK6.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nyymDmu.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LTWYysB.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DrMyaS5.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Dwvwrh9.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/OXos1Ji.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/duILx9R.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/UkFyQIR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/PDsGaB8.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/HcQfgqu.jpg

The LAPD is so corrupt their members and even the sheriff have been known to be a part of a Neo-Nazi gang:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynwood_Vikings

Lee Baca, the sheriff, was recently convicted for having his men strongarm an FBI agent but his sentence is only a few years.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-05/former-l...

Who knows, maybe they did get my memo and never responded personally. I'll probably never know. I'm glad something happened though.
Careful, you might let a few shots off in Quake like that. Trigger discipline and all.
FHPNC 2021 – Is Functional HPC the Key to Low Carbon Computing?
I just had to double check because of your last sentence, but we're not at the point yet that 10-50million is a small town in china: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop... here we have 6 cities over 10m.
In case it’s not entirely clear: I was referring to HN guidelines.
Accusing others of acting in bad faith is never helpful. I will continue to remind others of the rules, no matter how often they’ve been broken in the past.
The article seems to argue that you shouldn't focus specifically on hiring 10x engineers, not that they don't exist at all.

Bad/clickbait title?

Some people seem really uncomfortable with the idea that individual performance can vary massively from person to person.
So… 10x engineers exist, but they don’t count because their productivity comes from superior knowledge or other factors? This is sort of silly. Just because you can ‘control for a factor’ doesn’t mean that said developer isn’t 10x more productive than everyone else. And providing one example of how this can go wrong says nothing about the general case.
If we're taking about is just output on a larger macro scale, then yes, hiring enough people will replace 10x engineers.

But some things i think you won't be able to replace --

You won't be able to replace speed on short-term projects. Lots of people means lots of communication overhead, which really kills fast responsive speed. If you value time to answer, you'd prefer a small team of really smart people instead of a large team of average people.

You won't be able to replace the insights. Tasks and knowledge are distributed amongst many individuals in bite-size chunks, so you miss out on insights you only get when someone holds everything in their head at once.

You won't be able to have a small team / small company culture anymore. You have to be large, standardized, bureaucratic, catering to the least common denominator. And then make up for it with volume.
When people say something like this, what do they think? You can exchange manually, you can exchange via offshore accounts and you can simply life in a country that does not hate everything they can't regulate. For a big portion of crypto users not much would change.
Ok that I agree with - German conservative culture does value 'keeping everything as it is and not changing anything except when absolutely necessary'.
Wow. You must be going places with some seriously luxury crash carts ;)

I'm normally happy if the power cable for the screen is still there...
Starting with Machine Learning gets you funded, though.
After 9/11? No.
OP is not a US citizen- “working for a US company”
What if the ladder is rented out to do-it-your-selfers, is it then private property?
Combinations with Media Keys and Numpad keys is a good solution to this problem.
Did Heliostat Cost Cuts Help Likana Bid CSP Under 4 Cents?
I understand, and as I wrote above that may actually be the case (or part of the case) described above, but there could also be a background we're unaware of (the children's personality).

As a father of 2 little children I can tell you you're constantly being judged by people around you for for not doing good enough a job parenting - especially by people who aren't parents themselves but think they'd be much better at it. In these situations there's often a lot of background information the casual observer simply has no way of knowing.

Just saying we should maybe give the parents in the anecdote above a bit more benefit of the doubt before judging how wrong they handled the situation.
I think these are reasonable demands. I was employed as a undergraduate assistant and of course that includes temporary contracts. It was never my intent to continue that position after graduation but working conditions slowly kept to creep upwards the academic ladder and affected everyone that stayed in academia.

Yeah, you would take that very expensive robot arm from very friendly corporation too if someone offered it... Of course there are dangers that pupils are locked into certain technologies or groomed by recruiters, but on the other hand this may still result in general knowledge. Our comp sci and electrical engineering faculty was often besieged because of issues like this. I think explaining students where things stand is the best approach (the group here is referring to slack channels...).

Some points seems to be over the top. There is a problem with dependence on industry, out of the question, but my least my faculty wasn't patriarchal or against equality. It got the people that applied there. There is no wizard in the attic. When I looked left and right towards my noodle-armed colleagues I was firmly convinced they were making fun of us.

Still, overall these are sensible requests to improve academia.
What's the problem? Making a company 'more efficient' makes it more attractive to potential buyers.
There are a lot of likely failures on a laptop/computer which shouldn't require any more than an hour of downtime, because they should be trivial to fix, but can take your Apple device out of business for weeks even. As much as love my Apple devices, this alone might drive me to the Framework laptop.

Things which should be fixable by the user/IT personal on site:

- the battery

- the fan

- the keyboard

- storage

Luckily I have discovered an independent certified service provider for Apple devices, which is as flexible as the Apple rules allows for repairs, but just my experiences of getting the fan of my Mac Mini fixed by Apple were horrible.
'My Library' by Julien Keith, is great for Android users... Over 1m downloads and 4.6 star average... My own library is only about 600 odd books, but it was easy to use, interesting, and great now it's done!
This is called pump and dump. It is illegal to do on the stock market.
> BI tools are generally incredibly poor at dealing with the bag-of-spanners heterogeneous data landscapes

It's not that they are poor, it's that they eventually require some moderately-challenging coding - because there is only so much complexity you can hide behind point&click before things become untractable. Programmers get bored doing BI plumbing, and those commercial ecosystems are quite secretive and often expensive to train in; so the talent pool is small and costs can skyrocket pretty quickly, making the whole proposition unappealing.

Maybe if we accepted that "BI Programmer" is a respectable career and something that is fundamentally unavoidable, providing clear career paths inside companies for it, instead of trying so hard (and failing) to get rid of such figures as soon as they progress a bit, there would be more predictability and less angst in the space.
Exactly: it shows how lack of backward compatibility slows technology adoption. 25 years after IPv6 there is still no benefit for ISP from using it. They still needs IPv4 address (and NAT, DHCP etc.) - IPv6 do not resolve problem of limited number of IPv4 for them.
There are yellow/orange/red filters on some e readers. And it's often black on gray, not black on white (it depends on the e reader though).
> And yet not only has Apple already done exactly that for iPhones (specifically: migrating from the iPod connector to Lightning)

That’s the point though is it not? Apple was just out of a connector switch, which required users to throw out all their old accessories and get new ones. They were not going to do that again within just a few years.

> so has virtually every Android vendor done exactly that for Android devices (specifically: migrating from USB micro-B to USB C).

Historically, Android had nowhere near the accessories ecosystem of Apple.

I believe that is why Apple is starting the switchover to USB-C, with the new iPad using USB-C:

* the dock connector lived for about 10 years, we’re approaching the 10th year of Lightning, that’s a pretty good lifecycle for a connector

* the universality of USB-C amongst Android manufacturers means there now is a large ecosystem of accessories and Apple won’t have to rebuild their ecosystem from scratch

I wouldn’t be surprised if the ipad was basically a warning shot, and Apple switched the rest of their mobile devices over to USB-C with the 2022 releases.
Well, to do the exact same trade, they would need to place the trades at the same time.
What they are doing is coming late to the party.
Like these altcoin telegram channels, by the time the operators say it's still pumping, they have already placed the sell orders.

But this could have another cascading effect, if the tiktokers followers do the same after them, the price might go up in the cryptocoin space, but not on the stock market.
As it happens, I have a USB stick with Fedora 34 on it. I tried it a few months back after Ubuntu and POP OS and found it to be great with one issue: Nvidia graphics! Too much fannying about to get them to work.

If i just used the built-in Intel graphics it was perfect. Every app worked (I'm a .NET dev), everything was fast and stable... it was great.

The issue with the graphics was to do with having an HDMI and DP connection at the same time and caused a crash in 46x version of drivers. 47x wasn't out at the time but it is now... perhaps it's time!
Wow - an actual intelligent well thought out post on this very crazy subject. I agree with them ! And love the call out to psychological safety, an important and usually under- values area
Might have taken a little while for gases to get up to the surface.
> I feel like picking C++ with Qt is the best in terms of portability and performances

It is! I personally have a personal preference for Rust (though i've never done anything GUI with it) but i'm really glad to hear you're not building yet another electron horseshit that's unusable if you don't have the highest-end hardware :)

> wasting resources by going through a browser

We are. I personally don't use Youtube (though all my friends do) but when i really need to, i use an invidious instance. When it works, it works fine... but in my experience some videos require trying from different invidious instances, not entirely sure why.

I also took part in a web-based lightweight peertube client that works well with noscript [0] and here the experience is much more convenient because there is no private API and you can just hit (ActivityStreams) JSON to figure out everything about videos. I sure hope your client will support Peertube videos, too!

Back to the topic of wasting resources: ideally a video client would support local proxies like apt does for packages. Especially in places with slow uplinks, folks can get creative with their LAN setup, but deploying your own CA's public key on every connected device (for HTTPS MitM proxy) is not realistic.

> (playing and downloading media) to vlc

As a tech person, i love that. Just pipe stuff into stuff, and keep everything simple stupid. However, for non-tech people that kind of UX pattern is not always straightforward. There's already many ytdl->vlc/mplayer CLI pipelines, but nothing i can recommend to my friends unfortunately, at least not those who are not familiar with command-line.

If you'd like to build a popular client (i don't mean famous, i mean accessible to most people) i would recommend to consider a single-window experience where people familiar with a youtube.com browser tab will feel at home.

> youtube-dl (need to switch to the new and maintained equivalent btw)

What's the new and maintained equivalent? I thought ytdl was well maintained, although it also has popular forks which change some CLI behavior.

> I plan on doing some cleanup and post an MVP on HN, I'll keep you updated!

Please do! If by any chance i'm not on HN just drop me a mail my user name @ thunix .net or you can find me on many selfhosting/anarchism Jabber/IRC chatrooms.

[0] https://tildegit.org/southerntofu/simpleertube/src/branch/le...
I tried Roam's linter. I hit bugs with the CLI and the LSP server. I fixed and reported a few of the bugs, but eventually I gave up trying.
> the mere existence of the tobacco companies today is a blazing signal that corporate evil attracts no penalties, emboldening the sociopaths and criminals who will kill us all to make a buck

That resonated with me.
That sounds like strapping a jet engine onto a barn. No need to go with NVMe when SATA SSDs are still available and fast enough.
Hai Robotics picks up $200M for its warehouse robot
ooh third time I see this in 2 years,
I recommend part 2: The Ghost Not if the pseudo-psychology turned you off.

https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r2/index.ht...

it pushed me to spend a little time on the question, hope you appreciate my pseudo-philosophical prose :p

"Time being of the essence, consider this: by which miracle do you live forward, not knowing whether the next five seconds are to be your last?

A trust has been set, and until next time, all will be well.
We might consider this the Original Sin, the natural unwillingness to envision a World where one cannot ever know (Death being somewhat final as far as we currently think it is).

And thus a negation already inhabits our minds, the Ghost Not.

Without it there is no point to knowing because you’d never be able to make sense of it, the World would be too big and it would be too easy to just say “we’ll never know for sure, I could die before I find out”.
Yet armed with this negation we built things, some were poised to end earlier than planned while others thrived on disbelief.

One could argue it is the only available tool, and as such we should have learned by now that this tool has terrible Flaws.

We are limited by the size of the blackboard on which we work, and we can only write what we can make sense of. Therefore separating Objectivism and Subjectivism, cutting us from a “true” way to assess Value.

The Ghost Not is the consequence of having to expand energy to get closer to Truth, how much work we are willing to go through to finally know if we were right.

The flaws of the Ghost Not are severe, nonetheless its efficacy cannot be doubted.
Its methods are at least 99.99%(how did we reach this result?) better than magic in broad spectra of real conditions.
We can by definition never reach Truth, but we could get indistinguishably close to it.

A fundamental axiom can be delivered at this point:
Truth is at least worth the time and energy it takes to get to it minus one single moment of usefulness.
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>I have had headphones ruined for me because I tried the Sennheiser HD 800 once and then there was no going back to cheap plastic cans.

It's not really the same as being unable to appreciate anything but a glass of Petrus or DRC. For a one time payment of $1k the HD800s will easily serve you for the rest of your life. If you prefer fine food and wine that $1k might not even get you a single meal.
I am currently becoming so sick of WFH and boring to-dos that I am making the 10x software engineer myth true for all of you. You can thank me later.
Or just have two switches on the train tracks
Can I self-host but still pay you an enterprise contract for when things go wrong? Or is that not supported?
Satoshi Nakamoto is a great example of a 1000x engineer (or a bunch of 1000x engineers) with an impact measured in trillions of USD, but the article may be right that he wouldn't have been able to have that impact inside a big financial organization, as his engineering is disruptive.
It makes me glad to read such success stories as I can partially relate.

I have been working on 2/3 side projects for almost three years now, and my partner realised soon how much happier I am when working on my startups and ideas...but mistrust in myself is still too strong.

Also I only have experience with "manufacture-centered" businesses, maybe the risk with a Saas feels different?
I wouldn't run it myself out of price sensitivity, but more because of trust.

Then again, I imagine the keys are generated on the device and the code can be audited to never share them, plus it's WG under the hood.
In my experience, the prototype never gets thrown away when it should be, and sometimes it's never thrown away at all. It just gets extended, poorly, until development grinds to a halt because you can no longer add features or fix bugs without creating new bugs.

Then you either a) stop what you're doing and spend many months rewriting, or b) spin up a parallel team that does the rewrite, while the old team maintains the old code and does their best to add the most critical features and fix the most critical bugs without breaking anything else in the process.

Neither approach is good. (a) means you'll probably lose customers due to lack of progress on their pet issues. (b) means your development costs have doubled, and you have a team full of people who are demotivated and demoralized because they know they're working on something that's soon destined for the junk heap.

I usually build the first version expecting that it will live on for quite a long time (and sometimes/often be the only version), and build with an eye toward ease of refactor and even ease of rearchitecting. Yes, it's slower than building a prototype-quality product, and yes, sometimes product managers complain that the extra time needed will blow a market opportunity. Those PMs are usually wrong, and even if they are potentially right, building the prototype always takes longer than expected, so the PMs end up fretting over time-to-market anyway.