skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The setup that I have... I have 5 led flood lights, 1 3000K, 2 4000K and 2 6000K.

I point them at the ceiling to get diffused light. I use different combination of some on / off to get the right warmness depending the time of day. Ie. 3000K in early morning / late in the day. Combination of 3000K and 4000K for around 9am. 2 4000K if I feel sleepy.

They work quite well. I suggest trying it out if you have seasonal affective disorder or trouble sleeping
> text adventures about our neighborhood

That sounds fascinating. Are those available online somewhere? I absolutely love text adventures, would love to try it out.
TIL about Capnocytophaga canimorsus
Not the person you're replying to, and not retired, but I can offer some perspective as someone that does indeed like the job.

If I retired I'd be able to learn anything I want - but If I wanted to tackle the challenges I have fun tackling, state-of-the-art and involving some nifty constraints and difficulties... I'd need whole teams around me, and a large infrastructure comparable to a multinational company.

That's what I get now - working. If I retired, I could only find it, I think, by getting the same job.

If I'm already working there, doing the stuff that I find fun, in a schedule that fits me and keeps me healthy and safe, and already relatively financially secure - to the point where I don't have to bother with focusing on corporate ladder or anything like that - what do I gain by retiring? At least on this aspect (there is obviously a tradeoff)

Not to mention I get to do some empowered volunteering from within the company itself. It helps that I actually have respect for the leadership, up to the CEO, as actual human beings. Not reverence - respect. Specially looking at some other companies out there.

I have a whole other perspective. But toss me into a meatgrinder job and I agree with you immediately.

Finally, I hope you see how your comment on Stockholm syndrome and snapping out of it was mean and ignorant towards the parent poster
Does bundling 2-day deliveries make companies less willing to exploit workers or something? Is working as a gig economy food delivery worker better than working as an amazon delivery worker?
But there's a difference between working on a product that impacts millions of people, versus noodling on a github project with zero followers.
Joe Armstrong in his talk "The Mess We're In"[1]:

> Robert Virding, who developed Erlang with me, was famed for his comment... I think he only... Singular... The entire stuff he wrote had one comment. In the middle of a pattern-matching compiler was a single line that said "And now for the tricky bit"

[1]: <https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4?t=645>
You are conflating "the way you are born" with "something you've done" e.g. something you can't choose with something you can.
> If wealth ultimately is the driver for such a disparity

Fortunately, we know it's not. Black Nigerian immigrants slightly outperform whites in many careers, and very likely start with substantially less wealth (because they're immigrants).

So one variable is constant (skin color), a few are "worse" (wealth, knowledge of English), a few might be better (motivation, IQ, work ethics, cultural expectations, ...).
They want to make money can start by stop pissing their loyal customer/user. Apple was saved predominantly by loyalist. Many others too. But Mozilla is doing weird, actively modifying their product to alienate their hardcore users. Just look at thier users base trajectory. I've used it since the day of Mosaic. Religiously flip over to it even when IE is the best. But alas, now I had to move away from it.
My brother was a doctor and was able to take an extended hiatus for a long time. He gave me these words of wisdom that I have found true as well. “You need a job or you get weird.”

Humans are built for problem solving and the struggle and the adventure of challenge. I think we need it like we need food, water, sleep, etc.

I quit my job as a scientist and rolled over all my retirement into Bitcoin a few years ago. That has gone well. I started a business of growing medical marijuana and I love that. That has gone well too. Incredible amounts of work and 12 hour days and struggles, especially at first, but I love the challenge of trying to grow the best in the world and in my area. I will probably be able to quit if I wanted to soon. But I can’t imagine what I would do. I want to travel but I know that won’t last. I’ll probably just scale back my weed operation some but still concentrate on chasing the dragon of growing the best weed. I love it that much. I should also add that I don't even use marijuana. I just love plants and always have.
Order Flocking Out of Chaos
It's not about double spend. It's entirely possible two miners successfully mine a block simultaneously but one of the miners didn't include your transaction in the block they mined. Now there's two competing blockchains and every miner chooses which one is the truth... longest blockchain wins, so whichever gets the most participants is likely to be the final blockchain

Now your transaction may not be included until a future block or be lost forever, though I'm not certain what it takes to be dropped from the mempool.
Hey boss your investment is being fully utilized! Get ready to put down more dough!

disclaimer not a dba
There's a surprising amount of dust and what look to be "moth bits" flying around during take off. Between that, and the old admonishment from parents not to touch the wings or it'll knock off the dust they need to fly, I'm left wondering if moths only have a certain number of flaps in them before they can no longer fly. Since it's their last stage before death, I could see the evolutionary advantage to not wasting resources healing / replenishing your wings. Something to read about later.
I didnt get to read it because of the paywall, can somebody please post an archived link please.
Because then they'll figure the game out and revert to baseline.
Do people allocate emergency space on sea pods to free ships ?
If Joeys Pizza is only available on facebook then how do non-FB users find out about it? I dont have FB and anytime someone sends me a FB link I get a sign up page and no way to view what is being sent without signing up and logging in.

Assuming everyone has FB is part of the problem. Joeys Pizza doesnt need anything other than a static page with a menu and phone number/address.
> Joey's pizza did have a web presence before Facebook.

My recollection is that far fewer businesses had any web presence in 2004. Big professional ones did, but random family-owned restaurants usually didn’t.
> I don't think Ocado has a dense enough network of local warehouses.

yes, AFAIK, Ocado relies on a few large highly automated warehouses. (1)

The main issue seems to be that the level of automation is so high that a fire is not noticed soon enough. This has happened twice. (2)

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE

2)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57883332

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-49071456
I am now programming for just over 4 years post early retirement. Much better than working for somebody else. But then I have set goals in life that are extremely unlikely to change and are as unlikely to be all reached. Though 50 or so remaining years might make even moonshots to be accessible.
"Slaughterbots":

https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA
Good one.

I think a signature these days mean that you claim to have read and understood the document — rather than authentication.

After all, when was the last time most of us signed a cheque?
Race does not exist genetically.
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-res...
Why not? Arduino became popular among DIY enthusiasts, a lot of cheap arduino shields were produced, so many other dev boards now have compatible pinout.
Flying Microchips Are Headed Our Way
The problem with this approach at a glance is that it seems to aim to decrease the size of the gap by bringing the top end down, as opposed to bringing the bottom end up. We should be focused on providing more opportunities to the underprivileged, not removing opportunities from the privileged.

This is the whole "rising tide lifts all boats" thing, but in reverse. We should raise the tide further rather than draining the water so everyone can be equally stuck in the mud.

There are also problems inherent with breaking this down along racial lines. Removing gifted programs from public schools doesn't affect people who have the means to seek out additional tutoring, private schools, etc. Rich kids will still get extra education. But surely there are plenty of kids in these programs who _aren't_ from a privileged background, who are now having their opportunities to compete with wealthy kids reduced.

This whole idea seems incredibly poorly thought out, and the focus on race as the most important factor seems, to my eye, to be a big part of the issue.
Other primates self-medicate – and what they could teach us
This is why I don't use Facebook other than to keep up with my immediate family. They all know how to reach me via texting so Facebook Inc better get use to a world that increasingly stops using them or even allowing them to creep along their own services.
Actually that might make sense. I started "wood working" when I was 10yo and later helping with construction stuff. This was not child labor, but I would spend a lot of time at my grandparents. Thanks to crappy tv channels and no internet, kids would be super creative to find stuff to do.

My DIY face then went into sleep mode for many years and came back when I started taking breaks from work.

What you said might be spot on.
0% drop compared to what company? Stripe? Uber? Google?
Slowly progressing towards Idiocracy [1].

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Whoa ... I can tell it's prestigious because it has three accented letters in its name!
Boston has one of the highest per-pupil funding in the US. Yet excluding the exam schools, the majority of the schools are awful.

Here is the school my kids would have to go to if I wasn’t rich enough to go private: https://www.publicschoolreview.com/the-english-high-school-p...

Ranked 1644 out of 1667 in Massachusetts.

In 2018, the vice principal of anti gang violence was convicted of recruiting students there to deal drugs for him, then attempting to execute one of them with a gunshot to the head for withholding drug profits https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/05/31/shaun-harrison-guilty-b...

There is no talk on the left of how to fix these schools, other than giving them more money, which they are already the highest funded in the country. The progressives need to rethink their school reform plan otherwise society will continue to exit the public schools and go private or home school.
> word such as segregation, which has connotations of 'by design'

My entire comment does not rest on a false premise.

1) My comment commented on the use of the word segregation and it's implications. *

and

2) the fact that the program is not racially segregated using any dictionary definition of the word.

> Segregation is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as "the act by which a (natural or legal) person separates other persons on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds without an objective and reasonable justification, in conformity with the proposed definition of discrimination

This program is not that, no matter how hard you try and squint to make it seem so.
I dislike the racial focus just as much, it will result in authoritorian bullshit every time. But that isn't really a "leftist" stick, at least I hope so for their own sake.

Freedom and equality contradict themselves at some point, but I do think everyone has a right of participation in society and education. Forcing "representative" distributions is a flawed approach for multiple reasons. And we know it cannot even be true at this point, there is far too much contradictory evidence. I don't understand why people still believe it to be desirable. Women in IT is a staunch example.

Elite education lately just sold the correct contacts although the quality of education was indeed high. With todays communication infrastructure it would be a net loss to restrict the audience here.
The context for the use of "racially segregated" is probably within the current anti-racist movement (see, for example, Kendi's work). This movement has moved away from labeling racist a policy that was implemented with racist intent (like segregated schools during Jim Crow) towards labeling racist a policy that has unequal outcomes based on race, regardless of policymakers' intent.

If you start from that perspective, it naturally follows to label G&T education as segregated if we observe that one group being overrepresented in it and another group being underrepresented.

Of note here, it's the assumption that the distribution of gifted and talented eligibility attributes is uniformly distributed among different groups of students and that somehow the system is not picking up eligibility signals for specific students. There is some emerging evidence that this is the case for Black students, as the identification gap between Black and White students closes when the G&T assessor is Black (I think that Grissom has a recent paper on this). If we reject the uniform distribution assumption, we end up assuming that the G&T eligibility traits are unevenly distributed among students, which I believe is one of the longest lasting beliefs of racist thought in education.
It's a little disconcerting to see so much of myself reflected back at me in common data points.

It's a good reminder that really no matter how much I break away from the proverbial mold, I'm still average.
A single counterexample doesn't invalidate a trend, lol. One could say Nigerian immigrants, coming from the richest country in Africa, would show better outcomes over other African immigrants. Oh wait, they do.
Why would it necessarily enlarge racial inequality gaps?
> how do you restrict that, if the admin has total control over a project?

This isn't a new problem, how do you prevent a rougue admin from kicking all other admins and taking over. The simplest and a pretty effective solution is to have another privilege level: Founder. Of which there can only be one, and admins can do everything, except strip the founder of their rights. (And/or transfer the repo, if the founder can't easily undo that.)
You make a good point that hints at another often-undefined assumption in these discussions - 10X performance vs who, exactly? IMO, it should be vs "a typical peer in that profession". For court reporters, if "a typical peer" is a trained court reporter who averages ~200 wpm, and a superstar is at 300wpm, then it's a 1.5X gain. If a "typical peer" is a regular Joe, then 300wpm would be 10X - but this doesn't feel appropriate because we compare productivity of a "10x developer" vs a "typical developer", rather than vs "an average Facebook visitor".
I guess it can be done using stencil buffer trickery too.
Using "max" instead of "+" will work, but is will be a different effect.
Much easier to give health insurance to 100 drivers working 8 hours a day than to 400 drivers working 2 hours a day.
I like that the default renderer allow copy-paste.
Thinking that someone will perform better can help them perform better, sure. But that doesn't invalidate the whole thing.

> By starting so young (kindergarten!) in NYC they were creating the division out of essentially nothing.

I think that by kindergarten you already have lots of factors that will statistically influence school performance. I would argue that some will be environmental, and some will be inherent to the kid.

> Long ago somebody tried dividing an elementary school class into regular and advanced students. At the end of the year, the advanced students had done better. The selection was a random lottery. The difference in performance, was entirely based on expectation.

I mean, that's obviously going to be true. But how big was the difference? Was it bigger than when students are chosen with another method? Which method? Which one performs the best? What you're describing is basically the placebo effect, but applied to this situation. It's a good control group, and we already know that placebo works. The interesting part is to see if the current programs work better or worse than placebo, and by how much.
Even if it's not intended by design to segregate based on color, but just an unfortunate effect, when that effect is known for years and nothing is done, then I think it's OK to call it segregation.

Many of the parents I know who has kids that were accepted in the gifted and talented program had very expensive tutoring in order to be accepted. We are talking thousands of dollars for toddlers. That's tutoring that most Black and Latino New Yorkers simply cannot afford. And their parents paid these obscene amounts in order to avoid that their kids were stuck at the mostly Black ordinary public schools with kids from the projects.

I don't think NY Times claims that the parents are racist. But the fact remains that they try to get their kids from mostly Black schools into mostly white schools.
Would this be because Sonar was not being used as they would be under some "stealth" mode?
You're average in a pretty niche field :)
An excellent comment on this topic last time eliminating mosquitos were discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26837319
WTF, SlideShare is sharing my slides?????
This is a common refrain but just false, restrictions and regulations are very often the only thing guaranteeing liberty. We’re often told “free market good, government bad” but the reality is somewhere in the middle (without even getting into the fact that the free market is itself created through government regulation)

I’d recommend checking out Mike Konzcal’s recent book Freedom From The Market https://thenewpress.com/books/freedom-from-market
The article states that the GATE program featured a high-stakes entry exam which could place incoming students in a 5-years long separate "track". While "segregated" is a harsh term to describe this, it does seem like something which would introduce high disparity in outcomes due to what's essentially random luck/noise.

It looks like they'll be replacing this with a more finely-designed system featuring "accelerated" learning for those students who are doing well at any given time in some specific subjects, which seems more appropriate to current needs.
On that note, any nomads here on HN willing to share how it's been?
I just found out a trick where you can get rid of YouTube Shorts by marking all of them as not interesting.
Your claim that explaining is mostly useless is a bafflingly terrible take. The video you linked is a well known video of someone explaining how to write well.
But if the group (G&T program, or whatever organization) benefits not only from the best and brightest, but also from diverse backgrounds, then both of those things should go into recruitment, right? You wouldn't want to form an org that excels at solving typical problems but then is completely stumped (in a way where other backgrounds could help, even if it brings down the average so-to-speak) in edge cases. This is why many companies do DEI even when they aren't compelled by moral high ground and virtue signalling. It's actually a net win for achieving the core goal.
An Indie Hacker bromance – How one user got me back on track
I've been daydreaming about this for years.

How did you get into building polebarns? And then framing houses? Who did you convince to take you on? Did you have prior experience?
Webster, Dictionary.com, Oxford and others define segregation as:

> separated or divided along racial, sexual, or religious lines.

Perhaps the NYC editor was using that definition. If you use any of those definitions, then yes your comment is objectively incorrect.
Almost any advice is useless if you write code purely for your own enjoyment. This is why the context is so important. If you enjoy writing convoluted unmaintainable useless code then who is to stop you? Just understand most advice does not apply to your context.

Most software development advice tacitly assume you want to write code which works and is long-term maintainable (potentially by someone other than yourself) and which fulfills some purpose beyond just the fun of writing the code.
I agree. Another example, Linus T wrote git from scratch to hosting the Linux kernel in 2.5 months. I'd say 10x is a low estimate.

I've worked with a guy who wrote great code like he was typing an email.

Everyone has a ceiling of the complexity of problems they can handle, some programmers are outliers in this regard.
I watched the same video to inform myself prior to the purchase, if I remember correctly he was off grid in Hawaii.

If your into small scale Food Production checkout my channel: https://youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini

My house inverter is grid tied so I have a backup for the start up spike in energy.
Not really. Much like a bridge operates autonomously, so does a server.
I think because shorting futures is a leveraged position so max profit is more than 100%
Hey,

I'm the (mostly negligent) original author of waymonad.

Minor GC stalls are not an issue for reasonable framerates right now.
Major stalls are in the order of a single frame. Which I considered acceptable, but YMMV.

I fully agree on the issue with restarting. I had some ideas about how to improve that, but never got around to doing any of that.
wlroots was my choice, because I like the guys and worked with them on the project. Other libraries (most relevant probably libweston) are a bit more "fully featured" but also slightly less flexible.
It doesn't actually matter that much. Most likely it came from the same source, because journalism really doesn't exist anymore and 99% of what is labeled as news is actually the product of corporate PR and marketing teams who are trying to sell a product directly related to the

The reason I know about this is because back at HP we helped to pioneer the process/technique.

We found that editors and writers could not possibly develop relevant stories given the amount of research required and their publishing deadlines with their budgets.

We realized we could "prime/frame" the stories they published by providing 100% publish-ready stories/articles to them. The person who came up with this idea had worked in the publishing industry for 20 years so she knew reality on-the-ground.

So we identified both applications and product technologies for everything we sold and then created a minimum of 3 "articles" for each combination.

Then when we inevitably got a call from a publisher like EEweb asking for comment/pointers/info about a given market or product, we'd whip out one of the articles and give it to them.

99% of the time, they publish what we gave them without significant/any edits. That was a little creepy but hey it's THEIR due diligence, not ours.

This was started in the late 1990s. Since then ALL NEWS pretty much works this way now which the addition of "Think Tanks", NGOs and "Action Committees" writing the articles instead.

There is NO SUCH THING as "corporate MSM journalism" anymore. It died starting in the 1990s and now 20+ years later it's 100% dead. Only nontraditional VLOGS, BLOGS and such actually do anything that can be legitimately called objective journalism.

BTW I worked on MRAM in the 1980s for the military (I worked on "domain wall technologies" based on bubble memory back then but nothing ever 100% new - applying it to MRAM is an obvious thing) and worked with MRAM vendors in the 2000s, so the history and the content is quite accurate - you can NOT fake the laws of physics, thankfully. But non-technology stuff absolutely can be faked.
Most teachers deserve it.