skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any suggestions for books / courses for a developer who wants to go into embedded development both professionally and as a hobby?
Exactly. But Wordpress has been a resounding success because there is such a demand to own your data, brand and relationships. To have CONTROL over your own site and choice in hosting.

There has to be something like Wordpress for Web 2.0, so we can break the oligopoly of Facebook, LinkedIn, et al. and move the world from digital Feudalism to a Free Market:

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
As an adult human, my life experience contains too many variables to reach scientific certainty about the entire causal chain.

However, my early 30s were still marked with a heavy insecurity, ennui, lack of direction, failure to focus and achieve in the workplace, and failed romantic endeavors.

I began with work on boundaries and understanding self by Henry Cloud, ways to achieve like Find Your Strengths, and even business related work like Good to Great.

Flow was an excellent part of this collection, as it helped me turn work into something more enjoyable and progressive. Drive was very neat, and I really enjoyed Your Brain at Work.

I also have a personal interest in education, so I read a lot on that, including by Sir Ken Robinson. And I read Power of Habit.

Overall I think the things I learned improved my habits at home and at work, grounded me, improved my confidence, and made me a better resource for others. (Of course I must not assume I always have the answer or am absolutely right just because I read things in a book.) In general when I have deep conversations, I seem to be able to follow along and better understand how people work and how relationships work.

I'm very happy with my job, feeling very productive, significant and learning new skills (in my 40s). I've been married 6 years and have a very high satisfaction with our marriage. There's still a struggle with getting everything done I want, like gathering firewood for the winter, but largely I feel that I rise to meet my responsibilities.

Now I can't say how much came from dedicating time and effort into learning, and how much comes naturally from experience and age. But I certainly don't regret any of that self-education today.
Advice to talk about it with your doctor is useless if you can just stop taking it. If you cannot (f.e. due to chronic pain), then you may as well stop worrying about it. Your doctor will not be able to magic anything away in either one of those scenarios.
___ Students Have to Suffer (2016)
peak Hacker News.
I don't think they are changing their name like Comcast did to Xfinity in hopes of people not associating with their poor brand reputation.

Rather it's like Google becoming Alphabet, where it's just more of a legal process having a top level different name brand that Facebook and everything else falls under.
As a man, every condescending comment you get in person only tells you one thing: your deadlift PR is still too low.

Get jacked and all these problems disappear. No matter how silly your questions and objections, no matter how dumb they may think you are, all your concerns will be treated very seriously, criticism couched in most polite terms, and weird stuff written off as eccentric.

(It helps to be taller, well-dressed, and sound sophisticated but solid deadlift is by far the most effective.)
Such a great insight on management tools - that it is people and communication to blame not the tools.

But author fails to apply it properly to SPAs - SPAs are great tool - problem is that people use those wrong. They want to put ALL of their screens into one and build those too big. I find it useful to use SPA framework when I have one screen and multiple interactions/popups/elements that need to be manipulated in the same context. If it is different contex then it probably should be a different app for working in that context.
I have seen a lot of people "in it for money" and they are just horrible software engineers because they don't actually care about the profession. These folks rarely excel at the position and have to side-step into other titles (PM, business analyst, etc.) that require less technical knowledge. That is perfectly okay, I don't look down upon people or anything like that, just observations.

I also work with excellent software engineers that don't have CS degrees. The basics of what someone needs to know to be a good software engineer is available freely online to self-learn. If you don't have any interest in just taking an online free CS class or figuring out how things work without a financial incentive then maybe this profession isn't for you. Constant learning is part of the career. Try some CS classes before committing to a decision.

> I swore I would never be any country's bitch ever again

Seriously research visa programs for the US. You may be in the same scenario, just a different country. Or if the visa program is smooth for university you may end up "be a company's bitch" because then a work visa requires sponsorship by a company. There are many companies (typically smaller, like startups) that won't hire on visa's because they don't have the legal or financial capacity to sponsor. Heck some of them restrict their hiring to one or two US states because they don't have the HR/payroll side of things setup for other states.
Working well for Gab, Epik domains and others. I don't see why this should not exist, wasn't Airbnb bad idea too?
> Property tax cap keeps taxes reasonable and does not allow for straight up highway robbery.

Price controls always distort the market. Property tax cap simply gives earlier residents an advantage versus newer residents for a highly in demand land like California’s. It is a blatant wealth transfer from newer land owners to previous landowners. I guess there could be some benefits from that, but I am not convinced of the long term, societal benefits of it versus the drawbacks.
Found the migration guide from 3.x to 4 at [1]. Nice with some serious detail and advice, as usual.

I think the GTK project is a huge success and an open source triumph. I have an old app I started back on 1.x in the late 90s, would be great to port from 3 to 4.

[1]: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html
People may spend 3-4x as much time trying out and choosing a car as buying an expensive TV, even though the car costs ~20X more and more research, haggling, etc. on the car could be worth 3 TVs, but more on the TV could only be like at most .2 TVs.
Twitter specifically has a feature that allows you to hide certain tweets with based on a keyword blacklist.
Twitter also enables the posting of lewd content. Is it a coincidence?
Yes, but in general it's pretty noticeable when someone thinks you're stupid, because when people find a reason to place you "below" so to speak, all kinds of behaviour quickly come out.
Were we really that much shorter? I know people were much shorter in the middle ages but it's only been a few generations since the war. I'd be surprised if we grew that quickly.

I think planes and ships were just a lot smaller then. A DC3 is like a regional airliner now. And modern construction would permit bigger doors.
Peter Porker*
Tether has issues without a doubt. Yet as a long time media watcher, the concerted media push feels suspicious. Wouldn't be surprised if this becomes yet another way to rationalize CBDC.
One of the great advantages of having a Northern English accent is that people automatically assume I'm stupid because of how I sound.

And that's very often to great advantage when you're trying to discover something about a system that people would rather not reveal.
15 of those have had major accidents, which seems like a lot.
I came from janitorial work and temping. I am forever grateful for what programming has given me -- especially these days, where I make enough to live on and get to work on meaningful projects.

An aside, but I am truly concerned that our path from working to professional class via tech work is closing up behind us.

I think the key is the understanding that programmers are are properly paid for their work, and now we need to make sure teachers, janitors and garbage men and the like get to have good, stable lives. And yes, I think janitors and garbage men should make as much as programmers.
I agree, Flixbus goes for minimal service at minimal price, just like Ryanair. Space is cramped, the on-board toilet isn't guaranteed to work, but if you don't have to transfer it beats every other method of transport on price.
So basically your own Cloudflare then using bulletproof hosting, hmmm not bad at all.
If Geekbench scores are an indication, it is well into the HEDT league [1]. Some results of previous-gen servers are equally surprising, such as this 2-way 2x64-core EPYC Rome setup [2].

1- https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10508517?baseli...

2- https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/9997439?baselin...
Lithuanian news websites delete public coments to prevent COVID19 misinformation
I've seen one of those in service in Europe too. It was owned by a geosurvey company. Really easy to see because the engine nacelles were totally different.

I don't think it was that basler 67 either. The nacelles looked more vertical.

Edit: I think it was this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroy_Turbo-Three
This is a whole thing, like talking about money, people have all kinds of emotions about this.

Reminds me of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his practice of being obviously arrogant to assholes.
This is known as "purple teaming". You have security team segments actively trying to attack your own systems, using both established tooling/techniques, but also developing bespoke attacks that are specific to your systems.

Then, and this is crucial, they not only teach the blue team from their findings - they also rotate out to blue teams, to become the defenders themselves. At the same time, some of the blue team rotates in. Rinse and repeat. The whole point is that you have to understand both sides properly, and continuously work with the teams involved. Otherwise you're nothing more than a consultant.
> There is no feeling of permanence to your knowledge

I couldn't disagree more. Maybe it's my situation as a full-stack web developer that makes it different, but over the past 5 years my understanding of all the layers that a website interaction goes through (from mouse click to database and back) has only deepened, and none of it feels like it went out of date over that timespan.

Sure some company may use technology X for the job another company uses Y, but overall it feels more like different paint jobs for the same thing with slightly different trade-offs, than an ever-changing barrage of completely new things.
Why is it arrogant?
> If the Spanish hadn't ever set foot on shore and the Mesoamerican society was allowed to develop, they would likely have developed their own diseases and the subsequent immune response, which may have helped fight Smallpox.

The most charitable reading of this is "if cowpox, monkeypox or some other zoonotic pox virus had an opportunity to spread through Mesoamerican society, they might've fared better with smallpox."

A less charitable reading is "they might've faired better with smallpox if they had some other disease exposure prior to invasion."

Either of these cases seems implausible. I don't know of any pox virus from the Americas that provides immunity to smallpox. In Europe we know that cowpox provided immunity among milkmaids. We also know that it didn't spread between people. There's no reason to believe that the only missing element was time for some other pox to emerge. As for the less charitable reading, prior infection with a pathogen is unlikely to provide any benefit against an unrelated pathogen. In the decades after smallpox swept through Aztec society the Cocoliztli epidemics killed twice again as many people.

Fundamentally the problem was the introduction of a virus with a high mortality rate to an immunologically naive population. There's a major difference between a disease killing 50% of your under 12 population and 50% of everyone. The former is a disaster, the latter will collapse society, particularly one already fighting against an invasion.
Trump announces social media platform launch plan
If you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
It was temporarily censored around a critical time, and there was also some bullshit explanation floating around.

See the last paragraph in the Censorship section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man#Censorship
> utter dominance in server

Things are hesitantly shifting towards a more AMD-oriented lineup now. The enormous kickbacks and discounts don't (always) weigh up to the increasing performance differences.
I don't know to what degree, but both manufacturers and carriers absolutely do like to mess with reported signal strength.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18737008
> For me, it had been too long.

I have a 5 year old and a 2.5 year old, and hang out with lots of small children. Fear of looking stupid as a beginner is something that most people have right from the start: I have watched kids be afraid of incompetence (to the point of not wanting to try) at riding a bike, running, swinging across monkey bars, drawing, singing, reading, learning a new language, ...
I agree. As a person that has bought many new cars I try to spend as little time at the dealer as possible. I would assume most savvy buyers do as well. Getting a hard sell or bad information from an aggressive associate is not high on my list of things to do.

Same goes for doctors. I need a recommendation for somebody in my area that I can work with. If a close friend likes a doctor there is probably a decent chance I will like them as well. I can also google them and things like that before deciding to go. It also isn’t a lifetime commitment. If I don’t like them I can change doctors very easily.
Goto (2007)
Was there ever a moment in time when every company called themselves an “Excel” company? I feel the same about “AI”.
Polyglot programming and the benefits of mastering several languages
They can drive you from the internet pretty easily by refusing to peer with you or filtering your AS.
Splitgate is a recently popular free to play arena shooter which is basically a Halo knockoff but with the addition of portals like in the game Portal. It's worth checking out.
No but there has to be a new word invented
Unless they write higher quality code than you of course.
It's amusing how many people are literally offended that they didn't explain why. But the answer we have is: because they wanted the smaller box. They are paying for it, no further explanation is required to the employee or anyone else. The employee should get the smallest box as requested and then they can try something like "may I know why you want the smallest box? I might be able to provide better help".
Is this amazing?

It's not unusual to see an all-bus (or all-train) wrap with advertising, or the logo of the bus (or train) company.
Not really. The disease was a important bio-weapon, but the technological gradient was what allowed the conquering and exploiting. There was no basis for a American Native Confederacy and a renaissance like fast build up towards a industrial basis.
None of the American Native Factions ever showed the reaction that japan had - which is the only correct approach to a invading external force with technological superiority.
Perhaps the author jumped to a conclusion that number of dealership visits correlates with informedness.
That was copy/paste from the tweet
Access Control via OpenID Connect (OIDC)
I believe we were. If you look at the chart in the section "Increase of human height over two centuries" [1], we gained a good 10-15cm on average over the generation who fought ww2.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/human-height
Yep, you are completely right, this is extremely unwise. Problem is, a lot of material aimed at beginner developers basically instructs that. Also a lot of linter documentation shepherds users into doing it (I'm thiking of some Ruby linters here).

> there's nothing worse than a large surface area unless it's a library class

Yep, exactly. Even big classes are better than tightly-coupled classes with large surface area.
I've hit 48gb of ram while developing on Debian. Granted I am running about 10 docker containers and 3 IDEs. It depends what you are doing.
> Later typewriters added ways to do this automatically

All in at least the last 70 years did (I had a Remington that would be at least 70 years old now). There is a lever on manual typewriters on the right-hand side that you yank leftwards that does a CR and then a LF (or vice-versa, can't remember).
Yes, that's understandable.
Which Is the Best Social Media Platform for Lead Generation?
TeamOut (YC W22) Is Hiring
Hey HN, We're TeamOut, the Airbnb for team offsite. We raised a 1M round from top investors, including YC, and we generated half a million in GMV within five months of starting up.
Sales are becoming predictable, so we're looking for someone who can come in and build the sales engine to send that rocket to Mars.
In all honesty, we're really excited about this job. This is a critical role for the company, and we will do everything we can to make this person successful.
Map of network traffic between Monzo's microservices (2019)
I'm not saying it's rational, but I have some sort of deep seated disgust for these types of transplants.

Intellectually I know we don't have enough donations to match the demand and in my own life I've given blood and signed up to be an organ donor, but there is something across species like this that just makes my stomach kinda turn.
I don't know, maybe ask Twitter as to why they have harboured the Taliban on their platform for so long and allowed them to grow?
Yeah the car example did not resonate with me either.

(a) I hate car shopping, in particular any interactions with the salespeople

(b) I have the internet

(c) I don't believe there is some special deal I can unlock, I think that is a mistaken belief that many dealers like people to hold so they can make them feel like their getting them a special deal, when in reality the "negotiations" are just a bit of theatre

(d) I value my time and it's not worth a few $100 to drive all over looking for deals
Ask HN: Do you tell your salary to people/family/friends outside your industry?
Or maybe you lie about it?

Or maybe you say that you don't talk about this stuff?
All this makes me want to see Geekbench ported to other binary architectures. I'd love to see how POWER9 and POWER10 compare to Xeons and EPYCs.
Yep. As far as I know all the current geosurvey ones are Basler conversions, but there are different engine options if I recall correctly.

e.g. https://www.bellgeo.com/aircraft and http://www.dc-3.co.za/dc-3-south-african-operators/spectrem-...

There are other conversions though. The South African ones were done by Braddick Air Services, based on a licence from Schafer/AMI in the US, so it's subtly different from the Basler BT-67s.
Oh how I hope you are right, but from what I see, he still has a lot of support and believers.
Doesn’t the up arrow key show the last command executed?
October 2021 Quicklisp dist update now available
> You're totally right, but I see a lot of folks around me making absolutely bonker claims on these M1 devices.

I bought an M1 MBA to replace a 2017 (might have been 2018 - I forget now) top specced Intel MBP and it cut the time to run my large Java test suite in half. Of course those are generations/years apart in technology, but the MBA doesn't have fans, barely gets warm, the battery lasts days, and it's the low end of the first generation M1.

I'll fully admit that there might be other systems out there that can do exactly that in the same fan less, portable package that I'm unaware of.
Why do you think that is? It doesn’t bother me, and I’m genuinely curious why you (and I’m sure others) might feel that way.
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I urge you to examine where you got the idea that recycling plastic is such a bad idea.

"Biomass is so bad it's worse than coal"
"EVs are so bad you're better of with an ICE"
"Recycling is so bad you're better off not bothering"

Notice a pattern there? Attacking alternatives that are better, but not perfect (nothing is) is an obvious tactic to fall back on once the more blatant denial starts to falter.

Meanwhile, if you looked up a study about recycling, including specifically plastic, you'd see the consensus is that it saves energy, and carbon and money.

There's definitely nuance but plastic is unavoidable in modern society. No one is going to ban it entirely, even if they do ban most disposable uses. And if they don't ban it, then the people who create products with it should be forced to pay for the recycling and someone should check it actually happens. There is no downside to this. The extra cost being borne by the producer even makes it less attractive to people who only care about money.

Ignoring that easily achievable collective goal in favour of an impractical personal achievement of avoiding plastic is exactly the kind of thing people seem to be waking up to these days.

Reduce reuse and recycle. Yes they all matter, but not bothering to recycle the stuff you don't reduce or reuse is obviously only beneficial to the people who sell the fossil based input materials.
I'm 10 points in and this is already fantastic
I was about to say, the main issues with the DDG view is that it's all formatted in a single colour. One colour for links and one for titles is so much better on the eyes! This is a great project!
Reluctance to ask stupid questions comes from a fear of rejection. I studied physics in undergrad and I found it pretty difficult, but wanted to be a part of the group of smart physics kids. It left me with a pretty strong fear of looking stupid and a reluctance to speak up in class when I didn’t understand.

Not minding if you might sound stupid comes from a place of security in your life. If you already have a solid in-group, then the fear of being rejected by some other group starts to go away and you feel more comfortable risking looking dumb in front of people.

I think it comes from a deep instinct to find allies and show that you’ll be a valuable member of a group, or at least not a liability.
Not quite "into".

The pig kidney was attached outside the body via two large blood vessels, on an unresponsive organ donor who was going off life support.

Think of the ethics behind a live untested xenotransplant! But it's exciting that they got such promising results.
that's too grim, i think probability is much larger that we figure out a way to grow human organs inside pigs before we turn actual humans into mindless incubators.
That is a fantastic presentation. Wish there were more summaries of accidents that are as informative and as concise.