skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After 10 years fullstack I moved into WordPress. The code I deal with is a mess but to be honest so was everything else I've ever been paid to work on.

WordPress is stable and maintains backward compat for as long as possible.

It's a real joy to build things on top of as you know you won't need to run framework updates every month to prevent a Nasty suprise down the line.
I've experienced it many times how intimidating it can be to ask about things in a new workplace that seem to be commonplace there. Especially in the US, where abbreviations are used for a ridiculous number of things. You just can't break through this barrier if you don't ask what people mean, and it gets worse over time if you avoid it for fear of seeming dumb.
> Oh, I'm also not a fan of how unbearably slow the nix package manager is compared to pacman.

Building a declared environment takes quite a while and switching a NixOS or home-manager generation takes even longer. It was my main complaint about NixOS when I was starting out.

The thing I realised though is that the main scenario where you actually need the speed is when you want to try things out and for that, Nix' ad-hoc environments are much better suited.

When I want to try a new program (btop for example), I simply run `nix-shell -p btop` rather than adding it to my declared environment and sitting through a `nixos-rebuild test`.
That's usually faster and, more importantly, cleaner than installing the package to a global environment with a regular package manager.
>why don't you reveal your goals or thought process when challenged after asking a question that might be perceived as stupid?

People are shallow and often don't spend a lot of time trying to understand other people.

You won't always have the luxury to explain yourself.
I searched for "DROP TABLE search_index" and then after that everything stopped working.

Did anyone else experience the same?
Facebook Will Create 10k Jobs to Build Its Metaverse
Hah! You're using it like it was intended to be used, the DX-7 is first and foremost a performing musician's tool, that's exactly why it was built as strong as it was, made to be tossed in the back of the car on the way to gigs.

If you ever can't find a part let me know.
No, you are wrong. The Western Europe inherited a lot of experience, tactics and fighting methods from the Roman empire.

And OFC from their enemies.
Speaking as a professional artist, art can burn you out just as surely as programming can. Just try painting six novel paintings a month for a couple of years.
I disagree. We are in this mess because nobody took it serious enough for long time.

Now that serious money is on the table, it might actually get solved and fixed once and for all.

We/us in tech had 30 years to fix our shit on our own. We didn't, that's the result.
If a billion people need two doses, that's two billion doses. One billion is halfway there, leaving one billion left.
would it count as cannibalism to eat such kidney?
If you must know, neither “lobbying position” nor “social media shitstorms” were on my spreadsheet when I was in the decision making process and comparing features
Decision making is only easy if you know what you want (short- & long-term)
If you know what you want,
and you are aware of that,
making decisions is easy.

It sounds too easy, but it is very practical.

Some questions that will help with decision making:
- What do you want?
- Where do you want to go?
- How definite is the decision?
- How long will it take to apply/execute?

More on this here: https://segro.app/articles/how-to-easily-make-the-right-decisions-without-overthinking-it
> Understanding and constructive discussion can only arise in an environment where we try to understand the opposition, ...

But people aren't trying to understand each other, nor are they trying to have constructive discussions. The very nature of the platforms makes that really, really hard, and it just doesn't happen.

Instead, the platforms are used to whip up mobs and dog-whistle followers, and that's a "Bad Thing^{(tm)}".

Consider the paradox of tolerance:

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

Giving intolerant people a platform is a recipe for bad things to happen.
I don't think it's overrated, but it's often oversold.
This is one of those things that once you use it you wonder why it's not more common. Especially for scrolling having touch on a laptop is very convenient and you get used to it quickly it becomes muscle memory to the point that you start touching non touch enabled laptops.
Had a lenovo yoga with touchscreen and replaced it with a thinkpad, until I switched I hadn't realised how much I was using the touchscreen before.
High-Level Equilibrium Trap
If you don't know where your onions came from, throw them away
Cash-Rich Tech Companies Are Remaking Post-Pandemic Manhattan
Lol can’t they just buy “bulletproof hosting” from shady foreign vendors? There’s a whole ecosystem of platforms that cater to hate speech sites, illegal pharmacies, phishing portals, etc.
Here is its website.

https://truthsocial.com/

Politics aside, HN demos loads of landing page startups like this. I don't believe it's a valid reason to flag it.
Hehe, the 'stackoverflow blindspot'.

Probably you could extend your theory to 'first google result for question 'x''.
My takeaway from all this is that monads are kinda hard to explain. If something is hard to explain, that further suggests to me that it's probably the wrong abstraction.

(Personally I find the railway abstraction makes a lot of sense, but maybe that's just me.)
Covid means remote workers can live anywhere. So where’s 'anywhere'?
> It might be a long time before it makes sense to buy a non-Apple laptop.

A laptop that can do some light gaming is not a niche requirement, and ultimately Apple decided to completely turn it's back on that market with the ARM transition.
> The other day I got confused by a decimal separator on Hacker News and posted a comment saying so. I am pretty sure some people assumed I was stupid. Perhaps they did not want to put in the effort required to understand why some one might get confused in the given situation.

When you try to post low-level questions on a high-level forum (no matter what trade it is), you will get negative responses, because you dilute the topic. It's like having speed bump in fast lane.
I retired this year after 4 decades of writing code; now I write code to make art (in addition to other digital painting and effects). The code is actually much harder than anything I ever did before since I don't use other people's tools but make my own, but way more fun since its what I want to do, not what someone else wants. Programming without meetings or JIRA or stupid processes or politics or impossible deadlines/requirements or anything is so much better. Becoming successful as an artist is even harder than programming, that's still WIP.
https://truthsocial.com/
If it happened, he purposefully chose a request that he knew would generate confusion and discomfort in a situation with someone he has power over. It reminds me of the high school bully who fake-punches you, knowing you'll react, and then punishing you for how you react.

At best he purposefully made things more difficult than they had to be. She was absolutely right to think that he was a "bozo." I generally strive to make things as easy and painless as possible for service workers I deal with, because I've been a service worker. It wouldn't surprise me if he has never spent a day in his adult life working a service job.

Regarding whether this actually happened or not: did any notice that "small box" item is one of the few he doesn't actually explain and he's withholding information from us just like he did from the salesperson? It feels like a "look at me, I'm so very smart, watch me manipulate my audience" move.

His disdain for his readers is pretty obvious from the fact that he puts zero effort into readability; there isn't an drop of formatting, it's just a massive wall of text from edge to edge of the browser window.
A lot of workloads are going to clouds and cloud providers are increasingly offering non-Intel and non-x86 CPUs at extremely competitive prices. For a long time, compatibility with the x86 ISA was the Most Important Thing, but that's no longer an issue, at least for infrastructure.
Research has “The bar” being lowered for many years. It is pretty clear at this point that all but the most sparing consumption of alcohol has measurable negative effects.
dan if you are around why did you want the smallest box?!
I wonder how many hated the stupid trend of passing electricity thru rocks rather using vacuum tubes to build computers.
It won’t be about the name, it’ll be about the corporate restructuring and it’s attempt at grift and legal shielding.
Time to get worried about Tether, the “stablecoin” at center of cryptocurrency
If the examples are in Haskell, it should definitely use the Haskell term, so that people can then run the code.

An alternate might be to have examples in multiple languages, colour-coded.
I disagree. He might not be morally obligated, but his is certainly socially obligated. Customers ask for the wrong thing all the time. A problem solver, as any good retail sales person should be, will ask questions to help the customer understand their own needs and the available solutions. That story just shows that Dan Luu doesn't understand the social process that happens in the retail environment.

That he doesn't care if he looks stupid is besides the point here. He looked stupid to the retail worker not because he didn't explain his underlying reasons for wanting a small box. He looked stupid because he didn't understand the retail sales process. That is to say, he was stupid, about that one thing, and that is why he looked stupid.
> 1) Arc GPUs

I've been hearing the same story for 10+ yrs on how Intel is going to disrupt the GPU market any day now. For real.

Remember Larrabee?

It's not going to happen. Intel is not good at disruption. They're good at several things. But not disruption.
As others have said, the large group of pictures of non-white people is about a specific feature: a camera that does a better job of capturing darker skin tones. So we can ignore those.

The other pictures I see are:

- White woman

- Asian man

- White(?) man (the guy with a man-bun who's jumping)

- White(?) man looking at mountains (his hand looks beige, so he could be any lighter-skinned race)

- Black woman

- Black man/woman

- White man/woman

- Asian family

- Asian man/woman and Black woman

- children that are too small to see

- Asian woman

- Asian woman

That's 20 people, 15 of whom seem to have an identifiable race. Of those 15, 3 are White, which is 20%.

The US is ~60% White and humanity is ~15% White.

So what exactly are you complaining about? In the grand universe of marketing pictures, White people have been dramatically overrepresented. Did you complain about that in the past?

I think they will survive being slightly underrepresented this time.
I used to work with a kid who while very smart and energetic but would start every conversation as though he had started it 10 minutes ago in his head and just let it come out of his mouth when he saw you. Everything would be pronouns and it would cause an amazing amount of cognitive dissonance listening to him trying to figure out what "it" was.

The best part was how condescending he would be when you asked him to explain himself. You could tell he thought you were a dope because you couldn't follow him because in his head he was a genius.
Thanks vax mandate, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists face mass firings
> I don’t think I fully understand why, but asking dumb questions is often a subtle act of leadership.

Very much so. It helps establishing an environment with less ego, more helpful people, and people who aren't afraid to learn. It also diminishes feelings of imposter syndrome in other people, by showing that not everyone knows everything.

All of those are things leaders should incentivize.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/truth-social/id1586018825
Absolutely, married partners have a transactional relationship. I wasn't clear enough that I was referring more to the parent child relationship, which, although you could say is also transactional ("I pay for college and you study hard in return") it is mostly unidirectional in terms of investment.
I get the appeal of minimalism in the format, but at the very least some margins or a max line length would be welcome. Having to read this with lines extending all across the screen is ridiculous.
>like we're still living in the 90s when you could realistically master the whole chain of tools and ideas as an individual.

Well, I personally quite near the beginning of my career had the exact same problem as the OP in the 90s. I started off learning the MacOSX API and C, then C++. Then started looking at Windows API - DirectX and COM were also new then (Win 95) and MFC was just getting started as a direct response to OWL and the Borland tools and VB 3.0 was starting to make big inroads into RAD dev. Then the straw that nearly broke my back was Delphi, which I have never used but was wildly popular and a 'must learn'. By the time Java came out I had decided to stick to the WIN32 API and COM and ignore the rest so I had a career focus but a lot happened in the 90's and it was easy to be totally befuddled as to where to focus your energies.

Programming is hard, let's go shopping.
I bet you Microsoft teams on android takes less memory than the bloated electron based desktop version.
Coming from a website on AOL in the mid 90th till today as head of 500 FE devs for a well-known financial service company, I think this applies mostly to the field of small projects and large companies who treat their apps as small projects.

I love abstractions and I love tools, especially those that need to be invented to help people do better work namely the devs.

I transformed our FE area (ca. 200 devs) into working with a self-developed platform on top of a framework. We rely solely on Angular since 5 years now and never looked back. (Why not React? Try to develop large apps with many, many teams in different countries with different skill sets 24/7: opinionated for the win. React is like C while Angular is more like Java or Python in this case. Great tool, but people are the "problem".)

Results? Highly reusable complex components, a No Code Editor on top of it - and highly motivated FE devs which can work on projects or on the platform, depending on their skillset and motivation to tackle more complex problems.

Why? Because I've been where the author has been many times as a dev and as a Manager this is what I did: Do not repeat the process mistakes over and over again.
https://truthsocial.com/gdpr
The article opens with a couple of examples of people allegedly not doing research:

1. Most people make two trips or fewer to a dealership before buying a car

2. when picking a doctor, many individuals use recommendations from friends and family rather than consulting other health care professionals or “formal sources” such as employers, articles or Web sites

And, of course, the last person I would look to for objective advice on buying a car is a car salesman! Surely people have a good idea what they are going to buy, what they are prepared to spend and how they are expecting to finance it etc before going to a dealership for the car?

Ditto too the doctor; if you are searching for a doctor, do you go and cold call other doctors for an opinion? Or read the blurb on a website provided by or sponsored by the employer? Its much more straightforward to ask people you know which doctors they recommend.

Is the subtext of the starting examples meant to be saying that people should defer to car salesman and should ask doctors rather than friends and family to recommend other doctors?
Surgeons have successfully tested a pig’s kidney in a human patient
I wasn't aware "ego depletion" was studied in such a direct and simplistic/naive manner.

People with ADHD can attest "executive functioning" can be depleted or even borrowed from/overexhausted - like a resource. E.g. an extended period of hyperfixation may lead to days or even weeks of near complete inability of executive control, or "lethargy"/"depression". There certainly is some kind of budget/debt and some tasks are more taxing than others.

I assumed it's some deficit in homeostatic balancing stemming from a partially deficient brain preventing "burnig out".

'Ego depletion' was a fitting term, but now I cringe at myself for using that in presence of people knowing psychology/psychiatry, if it's something of a more defined thing.

Maybe the situation in ADHD is different as reward/expectation of reward/"dopamine" is very much different than "ego" in neuro typical folks. Guess with NTs it could be more related to "exhaustion", priorizing of activities over rest/sleep.

Is there a better hypothesis/theory related?
Can't allow that. Either M1P and M1M or M1O and M1X.
WordPress is the Excel of Web Development. Especially when people keep building complicated flows with it, for which it was not designed for. OTOH, the UI is known by everyone and is intuitive, so from a users perspective "it just works", and "you can do these advanced stuff if you learn scripting a bit".

Many projects explicitly look for freelance WordPress developers, it's a huge market and I respect it deeply, but I'm glad my career put me in a position where I can totally ignore it.
> Twitter, Facebook and others have neither legal nor moral obligation to host Trump, or anybody else.

I completely agree with this. So let's strip them of their section 230 rights[0] and let them have full control of their platform, instead of their bad faith application of censorship to political ideologies they disagree with. Why, for example, did Twitter and Facebook ban The Wall Street Journal's reporting on Hunter Biden's emails? Or why do they consistently block and remove Project Veritas reporting? This is compared to the dubious Steele dossier which is freely discussed.

Somehow the policies of these companies end up hurting right-wing/conservative media outlets more than left-wing media outlets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
If you want newer software, why not upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or even just the latest Ubuntu?
Quality could also have been affected.
Yes, the three big problems: environmental regulations, worker rights, and public health. Without those, industry would be booming.
Get surfraw and use Links as the browser.
"My Name Is Peter Parker, And I've Been Pig-Man Since I Was 15 Years Old."
Science is always wrong, it's just about knowing that. That's what makes science great, it knows it is constantly being corrected, sometimes in big ways and sometimes in little ways, as we slowly get closer to "the truth." Reaching for that truth is the impossible objective. If we ever think that we have found the truth, that is when we have stopped doing science because we have stopped questioning. Put another way, science is about finding the next less wrong view of the world. It will still be wrong, but it will be less wrong.
This dubious 78% statistic has been discussed to death in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28510520.

The submitted title is badly editorialized and leaves out the actual point of the article: only "1% on PHP 8" despite a whopping 78% total, if we take the dubious statistic at face value.

For the record, the submitted title is "78% of the Web Powered by PHP" at the time of this comment.
Depends what you mean.

I believe burnout comes from forgetting who you were before you learned your professional vocation. For me the little kid that likes legos and video games, where “computers” are some weird abstract thing in the lab at school. Putting my work-self before that kid leads to disaster. I’m a human being before I’m a programmer. I can allow myself to change: to even dislike programming, to explore other ways of being and playing.

How do you fix that? Of course depends on the severity:

- A solid vacation leaving your work laptop at home.

- getting into hobbies and interests away from work so you get some perspective

- taking an n month sabbatical

- deciding to switch careers entirely…
It showed they had decent boats a long time ago though.
There are an awful lot of people with USB issues on the M1. Its clearly not as mature a platform as previously.
Nice, "install chrome" yields 0 results!

Edit: Apparently "install" is a keyword.
I think the sales person was causing the trouble tbh, if a customer knows what they want take the sale don't waste their time with 20 questions at the end of the day we both know the sales person was just trying to upsell the customer something they clearly didn't want. Its the sales persons job to take the hint and just make the sale tbh.
I think the lack of excitement is misplaced! RISC-V is already amazingly successful, and I would argue it is already the most widely available technology.

Tens of high quality OSS HDL implementations that target FPGAs and ASICs. Many tens of successful hardware implementations, already shipping multiple billions of cores.

The board Bruce mentions is an amazing value. A board in that form factor that you can bring up a graphical Linux and the distros are already targeting it.

You can get a 4-Stage 160Mhz RV32IMC with 400K of SRAM for $1 in the form of an ESP32-C3. Dev board for $15.
One rule I have is that I won’t work for companies that don’t charge money directly for products/services. No companies that are revenueless, no companies that are ad-supported.

I also avoid anyone without a crystal clear path to profitability. Like selling “premium memberships” that nobody buys and hoping to get acquired isn’t good enough for me. I want to see every customer getting their wallet out.

Working at an unsustainable business isn’t for me anymore.
> fairly modest

> 5 drinks/week

This makes me wonder strongly what you would consider a significant amount of alcohol consumption, because 5 drinks/week seems like a huge amount to me already.
By the way, consider throwing some contact info in your profile. It sounds like you have a lot of interesting ideas, and I've gotten a lot of random emails from HN people in the past.

(I reached for your profile to email you the "nice username" thing, but there wasn't any way.)
There's a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode featuring this idea (I'm rewatching the series right now so this was oddly timely) - the idea was a company genetically modified a pig to grow up a set of your own organs and keep the pig around in case you needed them as a type of insurance policy.

Which did get me wondering where we'd got to with xenotransplantation and it looks like this is very much the result of research in that direction: the pig was genetically modified to reduce the chances of rejection.

Good to see we're still doing this research, since bioprinted or pure lab-grown organs are by no means a sure-thing.
I think it makes sense. Facebook develops a bunch products, the "facebook" social network is just one of them which also happens to be the most problematic. I don't think there's anything fundamentally evil with FB or Zuckerberg. It's just that social networks pose a lot of challenges.
kkk lovely. AI full circle
From the wording, it sounds like he only answered the one question. Since he kept his work, all they know is that he answered at most[0] one question correctly.

[0] It's possible he gave an answer that wasn't what they expected and it was "incorrect".
Yes, it's a scraper extracting results from HTML. Which is very different from a screen scraper...
This question will be even more pertinent in 2050, when instead of modifying pigs so that they're more similar to us, we'll be modifying Homo sapiens to stunt their intelligent.

Those Homo stulti will have neither the agency nor the ability to decide their fate, but their organs will drastically improve the quality of life for sapiens.

Interesting times :)
i have a feature request for "tax depreciation" formula and no one seems to care. i tried libreoffice and they were like "if excel doesnt have it, why should we".