skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, I would bet many people who trash on the book haven't actually read it.

Beyond that, I imagine many people who did read it thought that simply reading it would magically make them have the idyllic life of travel, few hours worked, and good income. It still takes a lot of work to setup an income system, and it probably takes multiple attempts and variations before finding some success.

For me, the most valuable section of the book was about worst case scenarios. The author also had a TED talk, "Why you should define your fears instead of your goals", which basically gives you an exercise in a series of "what if?"s.

What if I quit my job and try to do my idea? What if that fails? What if I run out of money? ...

Eventually you arrive at the bottom, where the only two paths are death (which I don't think he goes into :P) or getting back up. And this is where the illumination comes - once the fears are defined, and recovery is imagined in some detail, it becomes clear that the fears are probably way overblown and scary. In reality, especially if you have some talent which you can convert to some kind of income (even working a regular job), then you can recover. It's not the end of the world if you fail.

There are other nuggets in the book, just as there are in many of his other books. Just don't expect that reading one of his books makes you him (or some other successful figure).
TL;DR: "The team thinks it could be linked to mental processing—a sign of high attentiveness or concentration"
Is sounds like now you will need an Oculus account that is linked to your Meta account which is then linked to your Facebook and Instagram.
Is this your area of expertise? I'm asking because making this distinction does sound useful to me, but I'm no biologist nor philosopher.
I got into this a few years ago and it was really fun! Highly recommended just for the experience itself.
Good article. A similar thing happened here when the Australian Federal Police enacted an operation in Cambodia and similar areas to shut down the production of safrole, extracted from the root of the Sassafras tree (also the flavouring in root beer and sarsparilla). Ecstasy became much harder to get on the street and pushed users towards harder drugs like meth and heroin (resulting in a large number of addictions and increase in overall crime).
A smarter cat plots better ways to murder small animals and calculate more comfortable resting places.
Having a smart ones he seemed to be doing all the cat things pretty optimally.
For social conflicts him being huge enough that other cats and roaming dogs where scared was a lot more useful.
A super high IQ could maybe useful for hunting in dangerous places (it would avoid getting hit by cars and other hazards in cities).
I think these programs are attractive but few are real, I only see it because of how complicated it has been to process some visas in my case the easiest was the one for Russia from the website https://www.russia-travel.com/visa-services/ with that I had to get an idea that traveling is expensive and above all that it is not for everyone or you are a person who knows how to move or you are a person who has a lot of money.
trying to minimize our own action
That's hard to answer, because i can only say it depends to both questions.

let me repeat what i said earlier: i don't think that the current generation of consumer headsets is ready for prime time, all of the reasons are however solvable. that's why i used the cop-out of "at least 10 years off".

theoretically i can use it indefinitely without getting a headache. It however always feels like a slap in the face if even the smallest hiccup or framedrop happens.
Another thing thats hard to stomach is movement done by controller. Its (for me) doable while sitting down, but if i stand up while moving with the controller... lets just say i usually stop within 5 minutes if i'm forced to do that.

the low pixel density on consumer headsets make it hard to consider them for anything but casual gaming usage, even though I think that VR-Headset gaming will always be a pipe-dream.
It would be a different story if fantasy-style VR Capsule ever become a thing, letting the player also have touch etc, but the First Person View that current games try use is in my experience just too lacking with a purely visual headset, especially with the poor input quality like we have today.

The potential I see in VR Headsets is really in productivity while sitting in front of a desk using a regular mouse and keyboard. 8k displays would be a minimum for that and once you target that market new designs become viable again, as few people would want to wear such a headset directly on their face. Letting in your surroundings will be less of an issue if it's not aiming for complete isolation/immersion and onboard graphics will likely be less of an issue if the device doesn't have to render a complex video game scene.
I think this is the best take on it. It's actually full of specific actionable advice, it's just very little of it is stuff I'd actually use (IIRC there's a fair bit of "how to outsource technical bits of having a web presence" which probably isn't recommendations the HN crowd's looking for). And if I was convinced my mailbox was busy enough to benefit from a personal assistant in the Philippines, the advice on where to find them is probably a bit out of date, though IIRC the advice on evaluating freelancers is solid enough.
But it's core thesis is "Pick a side project in a niche you know and like. Charge money for stuff in it. Value your time. You don't need hockey stick growth followed by a seven figure exit to have most of the tangible lifestyle benefits of being rich if you have low-maintenance recurring revenue" which is actually much better advice than the "how I quit my job to work twice as many hours for less money building a loss-making business propped up by VC money" blogs for many of the people browsing HN. But it's written by a pill-selling huckster with some dubious anecdotes, and somehow the four hour claim gets more attention than PG's even more exaggreated claim that startups are about compressing your entire working life down to four years!

I get the feeling if instead of being a bestselling book written by a guy with a background in the shadier areas of ecommerce it was a series of Medium blogs written by a web developer, it'd be a lot more popular here for its messaging, even if nobody purchased a single service from his long list of recommendations.
>And in these cases, time to market, speed of refactors and maintainability is much more important than the row speed (which again, may not even be that significant at all. Eg, often most work is done on the db side)

About the raw speed. Maybe you want to take a look at these nice benchmarks? https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

You don't have to ditch Java or C# for your app and use C or Rust instead. But you can write Java and C# in a more performant way while not sacrificing time to market, speed of refactors and maintainability.

Also, if performance, throughput, stability wouldn't be a thing, we have to wonder why Twitter switched from RoR to Java? Couldn't they just buy more servers instead?
> Facebook has realized that their main product does not appeal to everyone,

Let's don't fool ourselves: the only reason to change the name of the company is because "Facebook" name has many negative (and fairly earned) connotations. Every time "Facebook" (the company) launched a new product there were concerns about the privacy and invasion they do (and to me their were justified).

They want to reduce that by being able to say "Meta just created X" instead of "Facebook just created X". Let's see how far it goes...
What's stopping SV startups from hiring in Argentina/Brazil/Mexico ? Similar time zone...and that's a pool of hundreds of millions of people.
I saw an interesting video about Roblox a while ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ
The mentioned issues apply to truck drivers everywhere in the world.

The UK just added that 11th bullet point and is now suffering the costs of Brexit.
It’s so that you get to read the whole thing. Granted, it’s written well, so the time reading it has been spent well.
I consider them long copyright periods, but not extremely long. I can tolerate life+70 years. Though, I'd prefer them, ideally, to be life+25 years and, considering life ain't ideal, life + 50. But I can live with life+70. But not more.
I used Rust for the first time to bridge two softwares, here’s how it went
The downside of this approach is that most people will not read what you wrote. Especially if it's more than, say, three sentences.
> enforcing digital scarcity in a federated metaverse

Why in the hell would I want to enforce digital scarcity in a metaverse? Do we really need to make sure people in the metaverse are poor just like in the real world? If someone is going to shell out money for VR kit (and Internet access, etc) why should they have to pay more money for their avatar to have a particular set of clothes or accessory?

One of the great things about digital worlds/goods is they exist in microscopic (nanoscopic now) electrical circuits. They use practically no resources and can be duplicated for next to nothing. They also take up very little physical space to store. They're free from or at least resistant to most natural phenomena that create scarcity.
It absolutely does. It adds capacitance, which means you need stronger drivers and higher voltage levels, which means you end up with a quadratic power increase to maintain the same performance.

You cannot push a 512-bit wide memory bus like on the M1 Max through a connector and longer PCB traces without massively increasing the power consumption of the interface. Remember, those laptops have a memory bus equivalent to 8-channel traditional DDRx RAM. You'd need 8 SO-DIMM slots just to get the bandwidth, at a huge increase in power. LPDDR RAM isn't even available in modules for this reason; it's designed for low power, and using connectors goes against that design goal.
Philosophies of Optimization
IMO speaking TP is not restricted by licenses. i can speak it completely offline. and IMO it's designed primarily to be spoken, not written. so a paid or non-free book is not an obsticle, since TP's design philosophy wants to include everyone possible around the world (eliminating voiced/unvoiced plosive pairs, hard to pronounce vovwels, consonant clusters), so a latin based script does not belong to the language's core; there is even a Hangul script for TP.
> Put the cooler in a corner of the apartment, and forgot about it. … with shakes of the jar every couple of days to keep everything mixed.

I know it’s just a figure of speech but still.
Ah, that's not visible on mobile. Thanks!
>>It should be, but well... corona has led to massive issues

Not a truck driver, but I was in the centre of Manchester around February time this year(pretty much peak lockdown in the UK), and it was impossible to use the toilet anywhere. I went from business to business, cofee shop to coffee shop, literally begged to use their toilets as I really had to go, no one agreed, corona restrictions, bathrooms only for employees etc etc. The only public toilet on the main square was out of order too.

So I ended up going behind some bins in a back alley. Absolutely bonkers and stupid.
How is it brutal? Dependeing on the job and the applicants CV/interviewing skills, it would be easy to consider that she/he is not a good fit for the company or the role.

The fact that they have created their own site is not a reflection on Codecademy, just that the interview process is not necessarily great or even that they would still not be a good fit for CA for whatever reason.

I don't like the tone of naming the company then basically sticking two fingers up at them "look at me now". There is a tonne of stuff involved in these sorts of sites and we will see whether they can keep up or not.
interesting no one mentioned- cats do something similar!
The title doesn’t give a hint of what the problem is or why it’s annoying, but it’s an interesting problem: how efficiently can you determine whether two finite groups are isomorphic. It’s annoying because it seems it should be easier than it is, given that you have so much structure to work with.
So the new experiment has three flasks. One is borosilicate, the other two are teflon. One of the teflon flasks has pieces of borosilicate floating in it. Both the teflon flasks failed to reproduce the results of the original experiment.

Couldn't the takeaway here be that life is allergic to Teflon?
That’s a cogent argument; your earlier comment was not.

I think our core disagreement is the pernicious impact of the engagement algorithm. It’s not hard to fall into extreme content: you just have to engage with something adjacent to something adjacent to something adjacent to it. “Slippery slope” is finally a meaningful phrase.
Universal Library (1987)
Oh yeah, and I do that 99% of the time. Only if somebody asks or if I want to make a point on HN.

As time goes by (I am 41) I really find it less and less appealing to argue with people, on HN included. People can tell you "just do X, you won't regret it!" or "use Y, most of your problems will go away" but you are there happily doing A and using B and they serve you perfectly.

So if I am asked about what would I recommend as best practices, I always say: "if you have needs X, Y and Z, then using A and B is perfect".

Just saying "use Arch, it's best Linux eva duuuuude" is of course unproductive.
“Rethinking reactivity” by Rich Harris (2019) - https://youtu.be/AdNJ3fydeao
..and the deluge of feature requests begins! Do you know what else would be a good idea? Lots of things. The difference between the successful company and the unsuccessful one is the ability to say, "not really the most important thing at the moment but thanks for the idea"
Also note that DNS queries might be overridden by your ISP. I've seen a few ISPs override DNS queries to 8.8.8.8 and respond with their own stuff. It might not be the case for 1.1.1.1 since it's not that popular.
The US courts also found that he had, in fact, done those things. Their main evidence for this was internal e-mails and memos by Donzinger and his colleagues where they talked about, planned, and carried out exactly those actions. (I read the ruling back when this last came up on HN.)
It's actually split. The NVMe controller is in the M1 SoC, but the flash modules contain their own dumber controller and connect via PCIe in the back end (using a custom protocol, not NVMe).

Apple could and have put their SSDs in modules - that's how the T2 Mac Pro does it. They're still proprietary though, of course, due to the split design.
Assange extradition appeal: lawyers cite new claims of CIA plot to harm him
>Couldn't the takeaway here be that life is allergic to Teflon?

Shocking
IoT Production Testing
You lost me there. Which version of Windows will install the monthly cumulative update without a reboot?

Server 2016 (and older versions of W10) are horrendous for updates. You can have servers stuck on "configuring updates" during shutdown or startup for over 30 mins. Server 2019 is much better though.
so is bad code, the distinction is about emergent properties
I've been holding off writing long form because of the strain of typing and was looking into dictation but my brain forms better structures better when I write. Have you noticed improved physical performance with steno? I also wonder if it might be easy to pick up, as a pianist.
That's actually a good point. I'm quite against international economic integration since it usually ends in exploitation, stratification and social de-integration.

But you've got a point with regards to physical warfare.
Thank you! We require an exact match to our merchant DB. We experimented with fuzzy matching in the past, but due to the sensitivity towards false positives in this domain, it didn't work for us.
It's worth noting that Apple's SSDs tend to be on the high side of the industry for write endurance. I think their calculus is that no reasonable user would exhaust the lifespan before the rest of the computer is well and truly obsolete.

(This was briefly not the case with that Big Sur SSD thrashing bug, but that's been fixed now)
For starters, chording requires significantly more hand coordination than a normal keyboard. This is a significant show-stopper for many.

Think about all the people you know that still have to look at the keyboard to type, that type just using one finger and one hand at a time, that still hunt for common symbols. None of this would work with a chording keyboard.

Unless you're transcribing, typing is not usually a limiting factor. This is especially true for programmers. For example I'm using three different keyboard layouts due to the commonality of languages around here and as a result I keep doing typos due to switching. I never bothered on improving because it's simply not a limiting factor.

What's even more ironic to me, is that we would have much simpler improvements to keyboards to make RSI and typing more efficient with minimal impact (I'm thinking ortholinear layouts - not chording!), but nobody really seems to care.
Because the digits increment in groups of ten.
The problem is that college selects for intelligent, functional, successful people. Whereas this institution (yes I used that word) would select for dysfunctional people. So it would be less pleasant, and the likelihood of making high-quality friends lower.
Or a socialist, which is equally bad.

Isn't it interesting how the moneyed classes successfully arranged for the workers of each nation to despise each other while still being able to exploit all?

Classic!
Varjo review by Tested: https://youtu.be/slRKY1cIr6E
Interestingly I found Tim Ferris' podcast put me off of him and any other products he might produce.

It seemed every other episode was about microdosing with LSD or taking some kind of mushroom. Just things I've no inclination to get involved in.
I do not fully agree with you. Although it is a small language, it has language constructs that are foreign to English (and some of which I do not know of being used in any natural language, although I expect that there is an obscure language that does have them, as it is my experience that many 'wierd' language constructs found in constructed languages appear in natural languages). Just having fewer words, does not make a language simpler to use. It simply means that a lot of vocabular is created by combining words. This is also seen in a language like Chinese, where more complex concepts are made by combining two or more characters into a new concept. Over time, some of these sequences are used for other things than orginal intended to the extend that native speakers no longer are aware of the origin. You also see this in English and other natural languages.

English is not my native tongue and besides my native tongue, Dutch, I also understand some German, a little French, and a very little Chinese (Mandrin). I made some attempt to learn Toki Pona (about 10 ago). Although, I am not particular good at learning languages, I am more of a visual thinker, I have always had an interest in languages and have a collection of foreign language books and linguistics, see https://www.iwriteiam.nl/BookShelves.html#1.1
>That's not how E2E encryption works

Stage one is that the old email servers become an end for all of their users. From there services can start shifting to having clients where users control the keys.

>Every client would need to support whatever E2E encryption scheme chosen.

If someone couldn't use gmail with an email client the author of that client would have a big incentive to add support for it else risk their users switching to a client that does.
Even if the SSDs were modular, you still wouldn't be able to do offline data recovery on them, because they're encrypted with system-tied keys. So this is tangential to them being replaceable or not.
My grandfather said his first job (as an apprentice) was measuring the Lea and Perrins factory for new mixing vats.

It looks like they've replaced them again, since that time.

And couldn't they have told the scientist that it's "Worcestershire Sauce" and not "Worcester Sauce"? Worcestershire is the county, Worcester is the largest city in that county.

At least it's pronounced correctly. Worcester/Worcestershire rhyme with Leicester/Leicestershire, and pronunciation of "Leicester" should be familiar to Americans as the personal name "Lester". ("Wuster" hasn't caught on yet.)

-cester as a suffix to a place name is from the Latin castrum, meaning fort – these were Roman settlements.
Have you checked out Cloudflare Gateway? We used that to do DNS filtering on some iPads we deployed
That was an issue with the language Loglan where the author claimed copyright on the language. As a reaction the community created Lojban. Basically GNU/Lojban.

Whether you really can copyright a language is pretty dubious though, probably not. In the case of Loglan it was not enforceable but Lojban is now far more popular anyway, so it is moot.

As for Toki Pona in practice it is not much of an issue because the free learning material is good enough. The language is very small and not that strictly defined anyway but I get your concern.
That your company wants to control your PC is understandable.

What is less understandable is that they are not making you happy.

They should deliver you a controlled laptop until you agree to work with their configuration, not the other way around.
As someone that has worked remotely for the last 10 years I hate to break it to you but skill levels just aren't the same. The reason I moved from Australia to San Francisco was because there were no companies in Australia that could reasonably stretch my skillset anymore (that I wanted to work at atleast, there was local Google office and Atlassian).

I moved back when I reached a point where my skills were good enough that I could secure a job remotely due to social proof/references.

The thing people are missing here is that not everyone that is living everywhere in the world is equally good and those that are 10x as good get paid between 4-5x as much (it should be more but the world is inefficient, overpays for poor quality, underpays for high quality in many cases).

I'm not worried that increasing remote hiring will affect my compensation.
Hi, I am crowdfunding the Barrier effort [0] that would finally make Wayland usable for me.

In the meantime, I do need continuous Xorg updates.
It's not by choice, Wayland just doesn't do the trick and is unusable on my machines until workflows like Synergy/Barrier are supported.

I really hope that there is an awareness in the DE communities that, for some use cases, Wayland is still not able to replace X and that left behind users are stuck with it until then.

[0] https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109
> is that the Swift Foundation was created to address the principal concerns you've articulated

Swift does not have an incorporated "Swift Foundation", instead Swift.org's about-us page is surprisingly frank about Apple's control over the language and ecosystem ( https://swift.org/community/ ):

> Apple Inc. is the project lead and serves as the arbiter for the project. The project lead makes senior appointments to leadership roles, with those leaders coming from the worldwide Swift community of contributors

And the site's footnote reminds us that Swift.org is not separate from Apple, but again, owned by Apple Inc.

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On an unrelated note, the .NET Foundation had an upset a few weeks ago: https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/11/dotnet_foundation_com...
The doctors care. They just don't have any better treatment options.
It's not practical due to coding requiring special symbols, camelCase, and you tend to not write code just going forward.

Steno is good for transcription or taking notes, but it's not great at other things.
Oligarchs live well because they exploit their subjects.
And Japan has katsuobushi, which comes in dried blocks, but it's ultimately fermented tuna and is used all the time as soup stock.