skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have different ways their brain is wired. What’s absurd for you doesn’t make it a good test for universal experience.

Trance is distracting for me, but melodic progression works well for me, and sometimes vocal chillout trance. I still have to process random stuff with background noise from an urban setting, even on one of those noise generators.

Back when I was living in a more rural setting, the song birds, the wind between the trees, the rain makes for something that is easier for me to focus.

That is what works for me. My wife has difficulty concentrating without Netflix in the background.
I found DigitalOcean's Apps offering excellent for a bunch of static sites I've built.

3 free sites, followed by $3/month for each additional static site.

And it provides the same convenience of pushing to Github main (or branch of your choice) and having it automatically built and deployed.
Yes! https://github.com/kingdonb/dot/blob/ubuntu-vm/bin/qemu

This expects you're using the special qemu from the prior link, compiled with homebrew. (else I think there will be no virtio-vga-gl video driver?)

The guest OS is an Ubuntu VM. I think the instructions say to use a recent Fedora/Silverblue for a reason (there are some things that don't quite work right around window resizing.)

Each time I start the VM, it shows up with tiny tiny pixels and the menubar does not work. I switch to another app, switch back, go to the menu and enable "zoom to fit" and it's off to the races. Other things to be aware of, if you resize the window it actually scales the pixels, (which is OK and doesn't even have any noticeable perf impact because OpenGL, I guess)
https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
I don’t know about your must obey tactics, it’s just going to make more hardline people. Someone should just send them a link to the three and five year safety data of these vaccines, fight misinformation with information.
When does white space matter in HTML and how does CSS handle it
Assembly ahead of Ruby? That doesn't seem right.
Really, you can't simply copy files from a code repo you're working on? You work on a isolated workstation, not connected to any external network, where you are not allowed to bring anything other than plain clothes (TSA-style)? With a sizable army of developers all working this way?

And if it's a remote FB/VNC connection, what is preventing you from just recording the screen? Not really hard...

Most companies I've seen could see all their code extracted with one malformed NFS packet. These are "air gapped" systems holding the type of industrial secrets that we don't want to leak to china. Practically the only real line of defense they have is employee screening, which does not really stop the lone man guy.
You could have bought shares via someplace like Equity Zen if you had enough capital (like a couple million, I believe). Wealthy people do it all the time.
Sorry for that. I forget to include that possibility. It's still visible in the URL https://www.insider.com/pfizer-covid-19-immunity-protection-... ( to avoid the ... in HN: pfizer-covid-19-immunity-protection-wanes-reaches-20-four-months-2021-10 )
The head of the DNC during the Obama years was one of the top recipients of payday loan company lobbying checks and specifically saw to it that this income stream remained uninterrupted. They will certainly kill off this attempt as well. The only ones really at odds with this industry might be organized crime, since it's hard to compete with legal loan sharking.
RailsRocket: A no-code app builder that creates real code apps
I don't know, I think the syntax is ok but it definitely has significant downsides, like making lambda functions stupidly hard.

Python's competition isn't PHP; it's Typescript.
In the age of google everything, it seems like people don't even consider that built-in help could be a thing. And people just don't seem to read. vim's startup message contains:

VIM - Vi IMproved

version whatever
by Bram Moolenaar et al.
Vim is open source and freely distributable

Become a registered Vim user!
type :help register<Enter> for information

type :q<Enter> to exit
type :help<Enter> or <F1> for on-line help
type :help version8<Enter> for version info

Things in <> are even colored so you can see them easier. Wow, it's so hard to figure out how to exit! Oh well, vim is doing fine.
When I formed and ran my FinTech startup, I regularly got meetings with CEOs and CFOs of unicorns all from cold emails using these tools. I'm also 1 - 2 calls away from the types of people referred to in this thread, and then some, using these methods and nurturing relationships. It all depends on the value proposition and what you have done.
I disagree. Python's popularity is actually kind of tragic. The package ecosystem leads many to choose Python, which has both maintenance and performance scalability issues (not to mention the sorry state of packaging, distribution, and parallelism). So it causes plenty of headaches, despite its friendly syntax. In those senses, choosing Python is like a trap.
Why is the dumbest, most shill-like comment the top one every single time?
As a retro-computer kind of person, I find this disgusting :-)
It's not that I believe SpaceX isn't a great company, it's just that I think their potential markets lack the size to justify such a valuation.
I'm one of the worst when it comes to media multitasking, I actually watch uncut full-length stream archives at my own leisure alongside podcasts and whatever new music is out. A lot of it is knowing when to listen, not what. It's a lot easier to focus when you designate the music for work time, the podcasts for transit, and the streams for laundry-folding. I found it very liberating when I realized that I could really consume whatever media I wanted, as long as I made sure to fill the appropriate times with things I like.
There is no simple definition of immunity. It's not a binary condition. The human immune system is complex with multiple mechanisms at work. Long term immunity tends to depend more on memory cells than circulating antibodies.
Three and five years safety data of vaccines developed last year?
Worked for me too.

Maybe though, GP is meta, about how psyops efforts moved elsewhere.

Probably too silly but I found the thought fun. Hope you've enjoyed it too.
I find that I can focus better if I listen to a single track on repeat (I've done it literally for hours). The repetition helps for some reason because you're not surprised.
Articles in 100 days, bootstrapping $100K ARR: Anne-Laure Le Cunff's story
> a matter of taste

Taste, yes; and individual circumstances. My hearing is so good it might count as a disability, but I know where I have peaks and valleys in my sensitivity and a good EQ can help with the spikes taken by tinnitus ringing from youthful big boom car stereo work and explosives.

I checked their suggestions for my headphones against my EQ profile and theirs is pretty good. I like more lowfreq and much less high freq than the "flat" they're correcting for.

They're offering a great resource for skipping the "what does this set of cans sound like" stage. I probably spent 60hr or more dialing these in when i got them.
Well, computer games are literally made to distract, and mmorpg are even worse: they will outright hog your attention for themselves.
If I pay you less than what you need by 1000 dollars every month, but then raise your pay by 200 dollars, your pay "is at the highest ever level". Conversely, if I overpay you by 1000 dollars every month but make you take a 2 cent pay cut every year, my spending on you "will be going down for decades".

Ratios are great except when they obscure what problem they're supposed to address.
A thread about a smash and grab I witnessed today at Brannan and Embarcadero
2018 https://spectrum.ieee.org/skydio-r1-drone
Yeah, if I ever discovered that a potential employer took this view of PTO then I wouldn't want to work there anyway. Huge red flag.
Your proposal presupposes that their decision-making is grounded in fact. It is not. Data and evidence have no bearing on their mindset.
There will always be a more creative justification as to why it's the wrong thing in their mind. The goal posts will always move.
I just started getting into 20th century Italian film soundtracks for coding. I don't know why, but it's doing wonders for me.
The motivations of modern day billionaires regarding space aren't any different than the motivations of 16th century explorers to the Americas.

Iron isn't worth much by the pound. But what if you could mine a solid chunk a few times the size of Everest?
Curbing Amazon Land Listings on Marketplace
So Javascript, SQL and PHP hover around at 2.5%. This index does not seem to be very meaningful. More akin to "confirmed by Netcraft" (a Slashdottism).
Maybe I'm misreading this, but... If the question is about having a passible non-FB web presence (without implying on-line ordering) - then Joey's Pizza is almost certainly on Yelp, TripAdvisor, MenuPix, YellowPages, Google Maps, and a whole host of other web sites.

Other sorts of small organizations, which might make FB their main web presence - it'll vary, but generally a "Joey's Pizza" is the best case scenario.
Typescript is position #46 on the Tiobe index.
The problem is, that only an engaged user is valuable for a facebook advertiser. What will be the point in putting ads on facebook when most users use it like you do today?
Great rebuttal buddy.

Sites costs money, users need a way to pay site owners.
At headphone sizes, does your DAC have a good enough clock to even speak about phasing?
Ah, very interesting!

I think your previous comment didn't quite do its job, and including this would've been a big improvement, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cons of using Tailwind:

- In addition to knowing CSS you now also have to learn all the Tailwind class names that map to CSS styles.

- Development starts fast because you just drop Tailwind’s utility classes into HTML elements but then you end up with a long list of classes and things become unreadable, and worse, you have to repeat yourself if you want to apply the same style to other elements. Better group the list of Tailwind classes into a custom class. Wait, we have just re-invented CSS classes but need additional build tools.
I've always wished that Ruby had the place of Python. For all the love that Python syntax gets, Ruby syntax and the gem system are an absolute joy to work with.
Xmake v2.5.8 is released, Support Pascal Swig program and Lua53 runtime
Propagation without needing to use boxed trait objects can also be accomplished using `anyhow`[1]/`eyre`[2], which have nice downcasting API’s for recovering the original error type if you know what the possibilites could be. I only bring it up because they aren’t mentioned until the end of the article and only in passing but they offer really nice features for attaching context and downcasting that makes up for the pseudo-type-erasure.

1: https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow

2: https://github.com/yaahc/eyre
What's the bet this is trying to imply without the veil of Facebook, people turned to news sources to enlighten themselves on the real world?

Takes basic logic to realise that's not the case at all; people would've flocked to news sites to see why Facebook was down. Once it's back up they'll return to the bubble.
This is especially true if the company uses "unlimited"/not-tracked/etc. time. Otherwise, unless you know someone at the place (and even then it can vary by group), you're left with making assumptions about norms that may not be accurate.

Personally, I've never not used all my PTO in a given year and would consider being unable to do so a show stopper.
FYI, Vaccine side effects outside of the first 2 months are pretty much unheard of https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12143-three-things-to-k...

I am not going to say that's impossible. I am going to say that there would be Nobel prize in medicine waiting if 2-year effects are both observed and explained.
I should of moved my blog over to Jamstack.
I put this link out and then realised there was a magic link exploit in the ghost version I was using. I took it down to make some emergency changes...DOH!
As a long-time Pelican (CSS, no Javascript, serverless) static site generator, I am intrigued to know if this Javascript-free approach can be continued with this Astro and maybe Sevlte.

It has to be JS-free because I am a vulnerability researcher on JS/WASM-based “file-less” malware.
Yeah affiliates is how they make money. You can hide all that stuff, but it's a good way to support them if you buy crypto often.

Beats being the product using Google, or having a product fall behind like Mozilla because you had to fire all of your engineers.
I do 1 hour chunks of work 8 times a day, between 8am and 11pm. Some work
Gets blocked by other work, or other people being busy, pr some infra needing to be fixed.
You seem to have a complicated relationship with your past self. I foresee further trouble in your future. Its best if you take a torch or you'll be eaten by a grue.
Gonna expand on this just a bit. Software isn't a product or a service. It's a tool. No end user cares what your stack looks like, they just want to click a button that solves their problem.

Nothing between "click button" and "problem solved" is your user's problem, they're all yours.
>sometimes everyone else gets paralyzed with indecision and can’t even get started.

I once worked on a project where exactly that happened, and I view it as one of my biggest failures of my career. I often wonder why I didn't just sit down one day and type int main( ...
and just get on with it.

In the end the project got canned and both contractors terminated early, so I made sure that never happened again.
Oh. Now I see why this website is full of corporatist slimeballs.
You are discounting the potential military contracts that SpaceX will be awarded.
Note that it didn’t say immunity. The quoted number is saying the rate of hospitalization and death among the vaccinated is 90% lower than it is among the unvaccinated. It’s a simple calculation. Group a had X hospitalizations, group b had Y. Adjusting for population sizes, X is 90% lower than Y.
> That was about as expected. Going to 128 cores for cache-resident compute workloads helps, it hurts for anything else.

It looks like it has really good SPECjbb? I assume Java is non-cache resident? (Especially if SPECjbb is designed to emulate server-scale tasks). If anything, the SPECjbb results come full circle IMO: the large caches of Intel/AMD no longer help, and you're back to latency bound (Maybe??). Its very curious to me that this 16MB / 128core part is out performing the 32MB / 80core config on so many benchmarks.

I think you're right in that this processor has very little cache (and no hyperthreading). But it seems to just get around that issue by having a crapton of cores. If things are waiting on memory, it just brute-forces more cores to do more things.

I can't help but think that SMT2 or SMT4 would really help here. I have to imagine that most of those cores are waiting on RAM, given this architecture. Or maybe they ran the math and decided that 128 threads was enough to saturate the memory channels already?

I dunno, memory latency is always a killer, especially since this architecture has so little cache. My instincts suggest that SMT would still help.
I just feel like the practicality of it is silly. Music doesn't help you focus, compared to what? Pure silence?

Music helps me focus more than say, a noisy coffee shop.
==Right now CRT is a lens that allows racism and discrimination, the oppressed is allowed to oppress the oppressor, even if that should be impossible.==

This is non-substantive drivel. It also isn't relevant to the article because the children's book has nothing to do with CRT. It happens to be about a black boy and was written by a black man.

It's almost like the government is using fear of CRT to censor what it's citizens can read. Your response is the perfect explanation of why it's a move that works for them politically.

==But it is well known that CRTs followers do have some kind of problem with freedom of speech. Comes with forcing prescriptive language maybe.==

Another non-substantive attack. This article is about the government using CRT as cover to censor things they don't like. No need to focus on the perspective of CRT followers, they aren't and weren't involved in this decision.
most valuable lesson I've learned in 20 years:

* companies and/or owners don't care about you. take everything you can get and don't be shy about it. don't listen to them when they continually tell you that you're "highly paid"
This is absolutely wonderful, excellent concept and execution. I've been tempted to use a Power Mac G5 case for a modern build running helloSystem (a Tiger-ish skinned FreeBSD distribution) but this is far cooler!

In my opinion the '00s produced some absolutely wonderful visual designs across Apple's product range. The fifth generation iPod, first generation iPhone, and pretty much all the iMacs and MacBooks from 2002-2008 are just really nice objects to look at and touch. This is true for the software as well, Tiger remains to this day my favourite interface for any OS ever and I think it's a real shame you can't skin modern macs to look like 2005-era macs!
Show HN: RosettaBoy – the same Gameboy emulator in Rust, Python, and C++
Surprised the article has no mention of verbal oaths as a precursor to signatures before widespread literacy. Ivan Illich writes about this in “ABC”
Here you go, someone 'fixed' the tab highlighting for you, and for only $2!

https://apps.apple.com/app/activetab/id1588852241?mt=12

(via John Gruber: "I don't know whether to laugh or cry")
The new Safari tabs are so bad that I’m sure they can’t stay that way for long. I was hoping I would get used to the broken active tab highlighting, but after a few days I’m still clicking the wrong tabs in the tab bar. I can’t believe it.
> Many of them are blind to how much their talents make what is easy for them, very hard for the rest of us.

See also: Asking very old people how they managed to win so long.
What's the current best alternative for boat dwellers?
I'll hype my own library, SNAFU [1].

It simplifies constructing your own "leaf" errors and streamlines the ability of collecting multiple types of errors while attaching more context to them (e.g. filenames, stack traces, user ids, etc.). It allows you to smoothly switch from "stringly-typed" errors to strongly-typed errors. You can create opaque errors to avoid leaking internal implementation details into your public API.

Applied to the code in the post:

use snafu::prelude::*;
use std::{fs::File, io::prelude::*};

#[derive(Debug, Snafu)]
enum Error {
#[snafu(display("Unable to open {filename}"))]
Opening {
source: std::io::Error,
filename: String,
},

#[snafu(display("Unable to read {filename}"))]
Reading {
source: std::io::Error,
filename: String,
},

#[snafu(display("Unable to parse {buffer} as a number"))]
Parsing {
source: std::num::ParseIntError,
buffer: String,
},
}

fn read_number_from_file(filename: &str) -> Result<u64, Error> {
let mut file = File::open(filename).context(OpeningSnafu { filename })?;

let mut buffer = String::new();

file.read_to_string(&mut buffer)
.context(ReadingSnafu { filename })?;

let buffer = buffer.trim();
let parsed: u64 = buffer.parse().context(ParsingSnafu { buffer })?;

Ok(parsed)
}

The key parts are the `derive(Snafu)` on the definition of the error enum and the usages of `.context` and `XxxSnafu` at the error sites.

Importantly, this example demonstrates a key feature of SNAFU, here shown as "not all `io::Error`s are the same". Opening the file and reading the file are two separate error conditions and should not be lumped together as one.

[1]: https://docs.rs/snafu/0.7.0-beta.1/snafu/index.html
Small point: The author of the article does NOT have this attitude. He's calling it out as a bullshit attitude...FWIW
To me moving your hands and legs independently in dancing is multitasking, and I can’t do it. But some people can dance and juggle.

Best I can do is reading hacker news while compiling or training a convolution network.

But anyone can hire multiple people to do multiple tasks.
Moving Google Toward the Mainline
A mandatory gun for every person, but everyone only gets one slug.
Yeah the story that Facebook was down went viral. I don't think there's much deeper meaning to this beyond that.
The question I have is- when will we start signing documents with keys at scale? What will it take to make the DocuSign with keys?
Just finished looking into these more. While they seem really neat, even if I home-built one it would be way out of my price range. Just the filter belts alone would cost more than this entire project did.
Theater maybe, scapegoat no.
Hi, I'm Dennis, and I've been working on my own browser based OS for a decade. You can check out the "web native" CLI at https://denix.xyz/shell.os. Replace "shell" with "desk" to get to a friendly gui. Then we can start talking about browser-based encryption techniques. For simple command line utilities, porting via WebAssembly is always a thought. The way Denix works in the CLI is that you have to import command libraries. There is a library called crypto with 2 commands that you can import by typing into the prompt: "import crypto". Entering that command should give you the commands "encrypt" and "decrypt" in your runtime environment. It's been maybe a couple of years since I worked on that stuff, but I just tested "encrypt" and it seemed to be working. A word of caution: Denix is very much a chrome thing.
I wish we lived in a world where this approach would work. It does not.
I think for a practical machine the screen would just be too low-res these days, I'd put a more modern LCD in there too if I could although if it's anything like the PowerBooks of that era it'll be a bit of a faff.
There's a delicate balance. I've worked on teams where it felt like I could never rely on one team member because he was using sick leave, personal days, PTO, and going to appointments at every opportunity. I don't hold it against him personally, but professionally it's hard to estimate workload for a given task if one person on a team of 5 is hardly ever actually doing work.

I've also worked on teams that, same as your friend, heavily implied that taking longer leave breaks were a no-go.

As with all things, it's a balance.
True, my problem with Ruby is stuff like having select/filter/find_all or map/collect and then frameworks also inventing their own conventions and this somehow being ruby philosophy. Also naming conventions like to_i to_a to_s to_h. And then the scoping rules. I'm not a fan of the language or the design philosophy and will avoid in all future projects.

As for calling it retarded - it's the emotion it evokes, I don't find it particularly offensive - but thankfully I'm not from the pronoun declaring part of the world.
the hockey stick is about temperature, not CO2, and it's pretty shoddy. It uses current day pretty accurate data to estimate past proxies like corals and tree rings. But it combines all of them in a graph that is not really accurate. Much better temperature reconstructions have been made available.
> "Powered by Ghost."
None of these 3 is in the top 10.

Personally, I would only consider languages very close in popularity to the leading one when deciding on the language for a new project.
The Biology of Learning Featuring Dr. Andrew Huberman
The $10MM Condo in Orbit
I guess final fantasy is also not exactly depressive.
It doesn't even have to be this hard -- just be familiar with how the WordPress database lays out its custom post types.

I wrote a Jekyll Generator plugin that just makes a SQL query to the WordPress database and generates all of the sites' content a good 5 or 6 years ago. It's fairly trivial work.
> I expect to get downvoted because these are unpopular opinions.

Well, not really. These opinions are very common among my peers. We sold multi-million dollar transformation projects with the stated goal of making things simpler and easier to use and understand.