skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many large sites have started serving ads through the hostnames that serve their applications. It feels like a losing battle to keep only blocking at the DNS level.
datasette is only sqlite, ROAPI serves up CSV, Parquet storage etc.,
> There may not be money at the end of that tunnel.

I don't know, I find that very unlikely to be the case. If ever there was value in "being first", this is the mother load.

The closest analogy I can think of is the arrival of European powers in the New World. Sure, it's strange, inhospitable and downright dangerous, but even if you fuck everything up along the way and thousands of people die, you're still reaping outsized rewards.

Space is an order of magnitude more inhospitable than the Americas, but (a) so is our understanding of the technology and the universe and (b) humans don't actually need to be in Mars for humanity to effectively reach mars.
Git as a Storage
It even has settings for Apple’s Ear Pods [1] (the wired earbuds). I remember being surprised how applying these values makes them resemble regular headphones.

[1]: https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq/tree/master/results/...
Are 12-24 week paid certs from MIT, Northwestern etc. worth it on a resume?
I have been seeing quite a few paid online degree/certs from prestigious schools. The sale prices seem to range from 2000-5000 dollars.

Will these help a resume, particularly when following a break from work or trying to redirect a career. I was looking to pad my resume to align with certain career paths in min.

These seem to be fitting for that, but how seriously are they taken? It seems like a different caliber of course compared to what has been offered in the past.
Sure, and I didn’t argue for or against the use of that term. The legal definition of theft varies by jurisdiction, but is not necessarily limited to physical objects (e.g. services). I have no idea whether it’s appropriate in this case (I’m not a lawyer), but feels more like copyright infringement.
I think that multitasking between multiple tasks has been somewhat-generally known to not be possible (for most people) for a while now. However, this part of the article was novel:

> Other studies suggest that people who frequently “media multitask” (like listening to music while checking email or scrolling through social media while watching a movie) are more distracted and less able to focus their attention even when they’re performing only one task.

This was novel to me. Listening to music negatively affects your ability to focus? I guess it's time to throw out my headphones...

Well, but that article links to "Multicosts of Multitasking"[1], which references studies made on "heavy multitaskers", defined as having high "MMI" scores. What's MMI?

"A high MMI score means an individual engages in a lot of media multitasking (e.g., checking email while also perusing Facebook and watching Netflix), and a low score means he or she does not (e.g., checking email without any secondary media)."

Whoa there - checking Netflix and Facebook are completely different than listening to music, and it should be obvious that the former two are mutually exclusive with performing other tasks (simultaneously) - but that doesn't imply the same for music.

I think that the HN submission page might be making some unsupported claims...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075496/
What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Kaiser Permanente suspends 2,200 employees who didn't get Covid vaccine
My wife has ADD. Along with one other person I know (who also has ADD), she can have parallel thoughts, ordinary, about 3 or 4 concurrent tasks, usually split along sensory modalities. She can multitask. The closest I have come to multitasking was on the rare occasions, I drink coffee, and that’s more of a predictive optimization and pipelining rather than multitasking.

I have asked around of other people who have ADD, and they don’t report parallel thoughts, just very fast context switching.
We work with many businesses that are larger (Fortune 500) and the T per pipeline is say 60 steps with 1200 columns at 10TB scale and uses multiple things not in SQL. They lookup object stores, lookup web services, use rocksdb, partitioning is important. At scale, cost becomes critical- some are even moving to their own Spark on Kubernetes. ML on done on data after ETL into Data Lake.

None of them can use DBT for core ETL, but DBT might be good later for views, some dimensional modeling. They have done a good job here.

Think of it as the modern small-scale data stack.
This is the issue at the school I taught at. Our guidance officers and previous admin have actively been working to gut accelerated and honors classes. All this does is harm those kids (I was one myself at the same school; I took more AP classes my junior year than they even offer now), as well as the lower level kids who you have to try to balance out the others for.

Hell, I've had collab classes where half the students have an IEP and the other half are in whatever honors classes are left (not science sadly!) because our guidance doesn't care. They also actively tell kids not to challenge themselves and do whatever's easiest. Actively ruining the school because they don't give a shit about education. Hopefully the new admin changes that
I think it's very far from clear that the Japan Post Bank example is a purely positive story.

JPB was for much of its history not subject to the same financial oversight through the FSA that other banks were; instead benefiting from a laxer regime under a different regulator and then subsequently from a separate supervision office within the FSA.

This unusual regulatory position is not limited to oversight. Up until 2011, JPB was not even required to pay into the Japanese deposit insurance system and is allowed to offer higher deposit limits than commercial banks. Japan Post Holdings continues to benefit from a unique position of being allowed to own both a bank (JPB) and an insurance company (JPI).

The investment policies of JPB and JPI directly subsidize Japanese government debt (which is ... not a great asset, rated A+ by S&P and on a worsening trajectory of outlook) in preference to performing the fundamental job of banks elsewhere and lending money to private enterprise.
Actually I own several dvds that contain legitimate copies of Mac OS X (back when it came on dvds)
No thats FCKGW

I can't believe I remembered that.
> How do you reconcile this view with the fact that asians were also discriminated against, but now do better than whites?

There are places where blacks do better than whites. In the Bronx, New York, the standard of living went up because of an influx of Afro-Caribbean immigrants who made more than the local white population. But minorities with an earned advantage are outside consideration of equity policy, which is focused on providing unearned advantage for certain minority groups to compensate for centuries of unearned advantage held by whites.

> The way you described it, there is a perverse incentive for people at the bottom to stay at the bottom. Is that considered a problem?

No. Iron rule of 2020s American politics: Statements that may give power to "the enemy" if they were true are always to be considered false, and even taboo to talk about. To give an example, consider the following statement: There exist cisgender biological men who are very willing to put on a dress and pose as transgender women, for the purpose of creeping on women in ladies' restrooms. Without even an accusative reference to a particular purported transgender woman, this statement MUST be considered false, and even transphobic hate speech, because if true it would make policymakers hesitate to pass laws mandating that transgender people be permitted to use the facilities that match their stated gender identity.

Here's another one: The risk of serious side effects from getting the COVID vaccine is far less than the risk of serious complications from catching COVID. Watch the right squirm at that one, and even shout you down for proposing it, because to them accepting it means implicitly legitimizing Biden's vaccine mandates.

"Perverse incentives for people to stay at the bottom" sounds an awful lot like Reagan's "welfare queens" rhetoric from the 1980s, which was widely considered racist and even a "dogwhistle" (a coded statement designed to appeal to far-right racist without raising alarm among decent people), so discussing such perverse incentives is pretty much off the table in American policy discussion.
Various forms of:

/* DO NOT remove the following line of code */

..followed by a seemingly innocuous line of code, which if removed all hell breaks loose.
Really nice! I'd be tempted to instead replace the whole screen with the new iMac VESA (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-vesa) and just use the base as a stand
No, you do NOT need to do frequent blood checks. Find yourself a doctor that you feel comfortable with, do yearly physicals and consult with them for anything in-between. Excessive testing will needlessly lead you into a spiral of health anxiety.
Curious, are you able to have parallel thought streams?

I know two people who can, and they both have ADD. (But when I asked around, many others who have ADD can’t, though they are capable of fast context switching).
> People are ashamed to be stupid because it’s a shortcoming.

So you are saying that people should be ashamed to be "special-needs" or "retarded"?

"Retarded" is not the same thing as stupid. You are using a similar but distinct concept as a stand-in for stupid. For example, I've heard people who were being socially awkward called "autistic" as a pejorative. They did not have autism, but they were being socially awkward because the two concepts are distinct. You can say it's bad to be stupid or bad to be a dork, but by using "retarded" or "autistic" in this way you're saying this group of people exemplify these traits and are thus "bad" themselves.
It's not unique in that respect. National parks, TSA precheck, and every version of the DMV are selling goods and services back to the public that bought them into existence.
Let them think that. As the GP poster said, it is unlikely they will ever be asked to work on a bigger program.
I think that is also because as a Junior one thinks that he should have opinions and be vocal about them and be right to further their career or to become Senior/Manager/Leader. Just like getting good grades in school you would have to put your hand up and tell that smart thing to the class/teacher.

After couple of years people realize that just having opinion and being vocal about it does not make one a Senior/Manager/Leader. There is much more to it and one learns about it on the job.
But if they don't allow overdrafts, they can't charge overdraft fees.
Run your private office with the OnlyOffice
Please think hard if this reveals your own cultural or religious focus.
”The 10x programmer is a silly myth.”

Incredibly high performers exist, but are rare.

For example, the following quote is from a talk given by Gabe Newell.

(Unfortunately, I do not have the URL to the source video for this quote.)

“At IBM in the 1980s, typical productivity would be 1,000 debugged, shipped lines of code per year. That was the metric that they used for their median employee. Where as, when we were shipping Half Life 1, one employee, Yahn Bernier, was shipping 4,000 lines of code per day.”
If I may say so, your friend isn't the brightest candle on the cake if she didn't research the rules before and then tried to dodge them. I bet she would have cried foul murder if CPS came to her house and threatened to take away her kids...
I don't know if there are any, but I can see value in a stablecoin representing a basket of different currencies.
A corollary-ish observation of my own:

* If coders could write useful documentation (starting w/inline comments) they probably wouldn't be coders.
It has nothing to do with actually preventing all infringement, but instead seeking enforcement in at least some cases. If a copyright owner is aware of substantial infringement and chooses not to pursue (or license) they may lose their copyright through genericization or other means.

(Caveat: I’m not a lawyer, but I learned broadly the above from an IP lawyer.)
Although rare, there are humans capable of parallel thoughts.
I’ve been using it for a few months and i’d day it’s almost ready for public consumption.

It’s essentially a better Safari, but (and this is what makes it the ONLY alternative to Firefox) with tree style tabs.

Progress has been rapid and the interaction with the dev(s) has been great. I see a bright future ahead for this browser.
Stop riding my ass, Ivana.
If it could be reduced to, say, 5-10%, you'd be able to cut food production by 25% to feed the same population. The strange part is that whoever is doing the throwing away is already incentivized by the potential reduction in wasted investment.

I don't know what food is included in those statistics though - I assume most of it comes from past-due-date food thrown out in stores.
Putting aside legitimate qualms about Brave’s ad blocking business model, “skeezy” refers to Brave themselves showing me by default multiple home screen ads for various crypto wallet and NFT brokers. Opinions vary wildly on HN, but for me that entire scene is kissing cousins with MLM.
Or carefully targeted squirts/droplets of a pyrethroid. That would add another interesting problem: how to detect and compensate for airflow.
For me, it's definitely "a stand-in for "significantly more productive" with an unknown value". Neither the input nor the output can be properly quantified, and we don't really know the full set of variables to control for, and it inevitably runs into serious questions of inequality, SES, and background that are likely to make people even more cross.

I see it as more of a compliment. Nobody should be seriously and unironically calling themselves a 10x programmer, it should be bestowed by other people.
It’s true that landlords don’t directly pass property taxes down; this is part of why taxes on rent are occasionally floated as a way to make being a landlord less profitable.

But, definitionally your rent must cover the mortgage and property tax of the property you occupy, plus profit. If you rent is less than property tax and mortgage, the land lord is underwater and will soon sell to someone else who will charge more or evict you for remodeling.
I mean, for the sake of argument, what's the alternative? Protect abundant resources and use rare resources? Use rare and abundant without discrimination? Or don't use anything / huddle in a hole and die?

More seriously - I think we went very fast from my post of "If I have a unique hand-made-with-love gizmo I will cherish it" to "having things makes assholes" and "we love to willfully kill animals for no reason". And that's fine, we all have our priorities and passionate topics and axes to grind, but I'm a bit sad we didn't get to explore that specific interesting tidbit of human psychology before reducing it / switching to one of the top-10 massive issues of the day...
Admittedly haven't tried KDE in a few years but I don't like their apps and although I think the UI has come along quite well when I tried it last I thought it was very ugly at first boot.

I have never needed a KDE app since I've used Linux. So the idea of running a DE that has developed a million apps I don't need instead of putting that dev time in the DE itself has always been a put-off for me.

Crucify me for this if you want, but I just want a GNOME clone built in QT. Or a XFCE clone built in QT that isn't ugly as sin like LXQT.
My job description says I must multitask.
Specifically, with regard to what we are discussing, it does as QT, technically, does a poorer job than the native libraries of the OS in "pushing" these pixels to the screen.

In general too, when it comes to user interfaces - a lot of work has already been done to make an interface that is familiar and easy to use for the user. Often the recreation miss some design goals or usability features or even edge cases, and that ultimately provides a poor user experience. (For example, some native UIs allow a screen reader for blind users to read out the the UI elements - if your UI library doesn't support it, blind users won't be able to use applications built with such a library).

QT does a great job for multi-platform application development. But like all other multi-platform toolkits, it does have its downsides.
Can distros quit shoving unexpected behaviors and options down our throats? Nothing like trying to edit a YML file and have vim go all wacky on the indentation, or trying to paste text into an xterm and have vim intercept my mouse. No, I was expecting to see my terminal's right-click menu.

Yes, that's what .vimrc is for, but now that's one more config file to keep track of.
and in a more costly, less forgiving environment, there is not enough abudnance of wealth so society becomes less free.

Neo-fascist autocracies here we go! (they're just cheaper)
> generalizing tables extraction from scanned OCR docs

I would actually categorize this as a human problem. As a society, we scan documents all the time. Data entry is a massive time sink usually involving lots of corrections.

True code golf would be like switching languages/frameworks for no discernable reason or trying to hit an arbitrary code coverage metric because you're unsatisfied with the current one.
In my experience most browsers based on these major engines, like Vivaldi, Edge or whatever have broken dev tools.

You'd be better using Safari for that imo.
The number one priority of all voters should be getting money out of politics. We've legalized bribery, so politicians represent donors, not voters. We've got it backwards. Nothing significant can be accomplished until you stop letting politicians take bribes.
It might not be obvious if you have a high-powered dev computer. It's very obvious if you have decade-old mid-range hardware (like me) or five-year-old low-end hardware (like millions of users).

"I don't know what you're talking about, Electron is fast on my machine." makes about as much sense as "The application runs on my machine." Other people do not use your machine.
I’ve never heard of Raymond Hill, so I think it wouldn’t make much of a difference
The reality of Wayland's benefit doesn't match the push for it on HN. If you want to improve security, then do what OBSD did to Xorg in Linux.
> I do however feel a great sense of accomplishment whenever I have several browser windows open while I work though. :|

This is a subtle point. I can easily have 10 tabs open and swap between them while mono-tasking. E.g — ignoring for a moment the fact I'm writing on HN... — right now I have 4 tabs open on Sentry, where I'm comparing stack traces for a couple of instances of two related errors. I have another tab on the relevant PR, and a few more with docs pages for the relevant APIs/libraries. Swapping between these things isn't multitasking, it's just managing the complexity of the one single task.
I think its perfectly reasonable to be opposed to a government's growing and seemingly insatiable need to inspect, surveil, and judge every aspect of our lives. And yes, I understand that "its just money". But ... at what point do even your feathers begin to get ruffled? And when they do - would you describe that as a paranoia?
Cutefish is very rough. I do like the look and feel, but I didn't like having what felt like a tablet OS on my desktop.

I will give it some more time to develop though. I love the direction they are going in.
Have you looked at Docsy? https://www.docsy.dev/
If you are good in tech that is transferrable skill.

Being good at what your company does is often not that useful anywhere else and usually you get non-compete so you cannot really use it.

If someone is a dev it is better to switch jobs and sharpen your "software stack" skills than waste time on learning whatever business needs. Of course there is some level that one has to understand the business they make code for - but don't overdo it.
HalfLife 1 wasn't shipped in the 80s though. Maybe HL3 will be shipped in the (20)80s.
If possible (a.k.a if Apple allows this) please integrate Keychain with this browser.

I am not sure if there are many people like me, but I am using Keychain and it is the reason why I default to Safari and using any other browser it takes effort that I am doing, but I really wish Keychain could be integrated in other browsers too.

LE: It seems they already support this as stated in their FAQ/"How does Orion store my passwords?"
Totally agree with you. I’m in the same category and have had to accept my fate to some degree. I keep improving relative to myself, but that’s all I can reasonably do.

What gets me is when I meet many of these “innate talent” coders I get to hear phrases like:

“I just want to work with the best possible team…”

And then from their behaviour, you see how they get irritated with the regular folks and try and convince everyone that if we all just “be more like them” it’ll all work better.

Many of them are blind to how much their talents make what is easy for them, very hard for the rest of us.

I call this the “talented arrogance” syndrome.
The FAQ says their iOS version does support extensions
I have a similar background, but I am perhaps later in my career. In the early days after my MBA graduation, I would have agreed - nobody seemed to care about the degree and I wondered if it was worthwhile. As my career progressed I found that it did matter, people just didn't mention it. I know for a fact that the credential was a deciding factor a couple times in my career when the competition for a role was tight.
I don't understand this article, it presumes tailwind as a sane default without really justifying it. It kind of comes across as someone who's trying to justify a bad decision and they know the the facts are not on their side.

This is despite the fact I also think tailwind is the right choice, and I'll be living my life as if tailwind is the modern replacement for bootstrap.

> Tailwind has large (200kb) JS payloads

My tailwind deployment is 7kb css (before gzip+min) and 0kb js (0 files).

But that aside, there are known studies that statistically speaking, users leave if your page is slower.

> Senior leaders care about cost, not artistry, when assessing technical decisions

so we'll continue using the thing that existed before tailwind, then? I think my CEO would get mad and fire me if I rewrote all my bootstrap stuff into tailwind.

I would really like to read articles that give strong arguments in favor of using tailwind.
This cuts both ways. When you have equal candidates and one has an elite MBA, you can safely assume the MBA got there because of more nepotism and the non-MBA is the more valuable pick.
Even if it is, they have managed to build a profitable and sustainable business model on the way. SpaceX is the launch company everyone wants to use and the competition is at least a decade behind.
No study will convince me about music and my personal ability to focus. It needs to be the right music (Emancipator, Nicola Cruz, etc) but I can write 2000 to 5000 lines of high quality, tested code with the right song on repeat for the day and I know its the same for many others.
A bit of a tangent, but not that much:

I loathe the new Safari “tabs”, with as much scare as you can get in those scare quotes. But, I still can’t leave Safari be, as I appreciate the history and Keychain sync with my iOS devices.

It’s that tight macOS/iOS integration that makes me stay on Safari, along with the relatively lighter energy usage versus Chrome. This looks nice in terms of using native UIKit elements (probably, it’s just screenshots) and probably the system WebKit, but I would really miss password syncing.

(Yes, I know, there are innumerable password sync options, but Keychain sync really does “just work” between iOS and Mac.)
How well does its autofill integrate with Keychain Services? I think that might be the only compelling reason to use Safari, that and maybe iCloud tabs.