skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like both could seem true depending on the lens of the observer. I've had projects where I feel like I'm cruising to the point of boredom and other projects where it does feel like long work hours. I don't know if I agree with the less social part either, a lot of devs I know are quite social in distinct ways(board games, video games, technical groups, etc...)!
Reading these words reminds me of "The Deeper Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams.

I'm tempted to make word-a-day calendar out of this and put it on my desk .. see if anyone notices.
Another complication is stateful processes like abilities: exactly how to sync, predict, lag compensate, and prevent cheating etc for a multistage ability. Lots of little edge cases to deal with, but I also read several interviews by indie devs who claimed that this wasn’t the hard part: the hardest was all the other tasks like matchmaking, hosting/joining games, invites, sdk integration, chat, voice, etc. It was just a mountain of small tasks
I can only speak from experience, but I've been on dates with women who openly admit that they've had bad experiences with IT people.
The Iliad is only boring if you read a euphemized modern translation. Nauseating, maybe; repulsive, often; but not boring. See my comment from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28937181
No, gold is an amazing substance in its own right. There are rarer and scarcer metals, but gold is special. This conversation relies in some part on the ductility and conductivity of gold to power our computers. It doesn’t tarnish and it is very malleable. This means you can shape it into some very beautiful and durable forms with even crude hand tools. The potential value add is very large. It’s use to back currencies is largely symbolic but it was chosen for good reasons.
It reminds me of Grandpa Simpson's "Onion on your belt" story.
Most things are boring in general, not just on the internet (https://xkcd.com/863/).
I'm sure there probably research on it.

But my guess is that we're in a womb of water for 9 months so subconsciously are soothed by it. Personal anecdotal evidence is any time I've slept where i could hear ocean/rain/rivers I've had great sleep.

Would 100% move to Hawaii in the future
Sign me up for that!
Great article! It finishes with this:

"The authors modified a well-used climate model for exoplanet research and applied it to the planet in Dune. The work was carried out in their spare time and is intended as an appropriate outreach piece to demonstrate how climate scientists use mathematical models to better understand our world and exoplanets. It will feed into future academic outputs on desert worlds and exoplanets."

Climate science hacking ;-)
One problem is a lot of people really will buy the cheapest thing without even thinking about it.

Then 5 years later they'll complain that wages are down, local shops are closed up, the quality of products they bought went to hell, and the only thing their town has is a raggedy Walmart.

It's kind of hard to compete with a multinational trillion dollar corporation that actively seeks to crush your small business through unreasonably low prices and third world manufacturing just to eliminate future competition and secure a profit stream. And now that people thought they'd saved their town from Walmart, Amazon is coming in to clean out the rest.
Scihub is what 100 tb ? That is like inr 80,000 + a server to hold drives say another 30,000 so in total around 110,000 or 120,000. That is around USD 1500. If I get a windfall of sorts, this is the thing I am going to spend on.

Donations, eh yeah but I feel like scihub needs everyone's support.
I thought web 2.0 was supposed to be easier sharing,

I'd say it was what, web 2.5 (?) where many started raising the drawbridges and closing off the wall gardens; making it harder to explore / share.

google, fbook, even insta, and I'm sure others purposefully making it harder for the little sites to be discovered, kind of the opposite of what web 2.0 was supposed to bring.
Yup that's my take. I think this is pretty one sided, but good look explaining what we're talking about to a jury or even some DA somewhere.

I have never worked at google or done anything close to the scale or complexity of building galactic sized RTB networks, but from their papers and the couple people I've talked to they put insanely impressive work into the beast. I'm sure there are all kinds of auction dynamics that I can't even imagine just because of their scale.
> there is a very real risk of fork

It might not matter much if Canonical or IBM decided to port a critical mass of open source extensions/packages. Then they could ship the new CPython in place of the old one and mention the differences in the release notes. With one or both throwing their weight behind it, it would gain significant momentum above and beyond the original project.
Hook a clock up to your turns, end your turns 64~ times a second and we're real time now baby.
How spies are caught (2001)
If 10% of developers are female, there's a potential for 20% of all developers to be in male-female marriages. The data shown here had just 12% which could represent 60% of female software developers marrying male software developers (staggeringly high but not mathematically impossible).

I think there's two problems with that premise: (1) a large slice of that marriage number could be male-male or other marriages. (2) the figure "10% of developers are female" is true only if you're looking at global numbers. It's higher in the U.S. where these marriage figures originate.
Not to mention I can't hire lawyers, researchers, illustrators, and all the other things my company does for me. It would cost me so much more, both in dollars and time.
Being an Older Dad
What do you use for x on macos? Xquartz was unusable for years. It's true that a new version came out recently, but it still doesn't feel great. Are there any better options?
does esp32-rs have working wifi yet?
"It recognizes that the end and aim of education ... is to lift every voice."

What does that mean and who agreed that it is the "end and aim" of education?
I think there's a pretty good chance this stuff gets incorporated:

"On a personal level, we are impressed by Sam’s work so far and invited him to join the CPython project. I’m happy to report he is interested, and to help him ramp up to become a core developer, I will be mentoring him. Guido and Neil Schemenauer will help me review code for the interpreter bits I’m unfamiliar with."
Like most of us are going to go start a company, have it succeed, and let alone base it on 1 or 2 good ideas (when we have many more).
I found the same problem, so I cataloged all of the books in the Library of Congress on archive.org, music, pictures, Project Gutenberg and created this: https://www.locserendipity.com
2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 percent of the planet’s population [1].

Calling 10,000 unaffiliated people "a small group" by comparison is kind of disingenuous.

1. https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10...
Very good exercise to attempt in new language that one is learning too

Doing the random page in a different language as a strategy for language learning is fun method itself to improve reading comprehension
Also there is the point-in-time architecture https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/databases/sql-server/da...
there is a fair point to be made that the government pay scale doesn't go high enough - especially for IT. And that's one of the reasons (or excuses) to outsource so much to for profit consultancies which just adds margin on top.
Knowing why people flag / downvote something is more interesting.

I don't see a need for knowing who did what, but knowing the patterns on the other hand would be very interesting. As a hobby data enthusiast I'd love to have a data feed of flagging / downvoting / upvoting without actually knowing the names. Even playing with historical data from six months ago or whenever submissions get locked would suit me.

Anonymising that data might not be easy but the graphs from it would be fun to explore.
The library card is more about making use of an existing subscription since they cost $100-200/year per family in taxes or increased rental costs. :)

(I’m a big fan of the library.)
No one is pushing them out of any field. If anything, there are concerted efforts to get young girls and women into any field that has historically been male dominant.
FB does not do business in China. This is rather a risk for Apple given they store keys in the cloud and do business there fwiw.
I agree it’s a risk for almost all other countries.
$500k stolen YouTube live stream scam (do not send)
The contradiction is in the spin.

Neither the peacful capitol protest or the thousand days of violent riots in Portland lead to significant upticks in corona virus spreading, but some spreading did happen.
I don't think the pendulum will swing all the way back in either direction. I think everyone will settle on some things being SaaS and some being self hosted.
4x as much as the july 2020 twitter hacker yet no media coverage

https://etherscan.io/address/0xDed28f848FE916E6Ec1400449eB26...
Your Android tablet probably does not last for two weeks of daily use on a single charge. The reMarkable 2 is power-sipping, especially with wireless disabled, without compromising note-taking or PDF-reading experiences.
And the rational that validates this was written back around 2006[0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090306191715/http://www.my-idc...
I would like to identify as a wealthy capitalist, where do I get my oppressed slaves to write patents for me? Monty Python skit voice
Not flaky at all. 10M+ LOC monorepo with a few hundred devs here. All it takes is a fast build system. Full clean rebuild for me is a few minutes tops (distributed on a shared cluster), incremental is O(seconds) - mostly linker. Precommit checks and code review system both warn if a build is failing, so there's no reason ever but sloppiness to check in broken code. Full test suite on other hand takes hours to finish and so gets broken half the time - the longer the feedback loop the more likely the thing is broken.
How about

[@raw organic cane sugar, @honey]{3%tbsp}

Here square brackets indicate that the ingredient will have variations separated by commas.
Nope. If your boss plays golf you play golf. If your bosses boss goes to church you go to the same church even if you are an atheist. If the higher ups stay late you stay later. If the higher ups get in early you get in earlier. You’ll shoot up the corporate ladder.
Fair point, I have no special knowledged of the pricing, but it is incredibly cheap.
Write Docs in 5 Steps
is there? are the rates of queer people reddit in tech that much higher than other fields?
I feel that's the case in many professions like plumber or car repair that people are reluctant or unable to DYI, whose services aren't going to be needed often, but that are accompanied by acute pain when they're needed. That tends to make people cost insensitive because they need pain relief, they have few points of comparison, and don't anticipate needing the same service again soon.

Sorry to say, but I'm not sure the IP law profession is different... I probably have worked with about a dozen attorneys hired by my employer to file patents on my behalf, and there were two lawyers that stood out a lot. They understood the inventions, what we claimed to set them apart from prior art, and produced filings that were relatively brief and to the point. The rest of them didn't really get the stuff, sent us draft filings that made me cringe because they were shallow copy-paste jobs, etc. If you're one of the better lawyers out there, I hope your clients are rewarding you appropriately for it!
Maybe this will lead to ColecoVision clones, and maybe even the Adam Computer?
Since Congress folks seem happy to threaten Apple too with changing the law to do what the FBI wants, I wouldn’t assume it would go the way you are thinking it will.
Your comment is full of misinformation.

> This sad state of affairs was the direct result of an election campaign which was deeply invested in denying that COVID-19 was a public health concern, or even that it existed at all, and thus recognizing the vaccine's importance and effectiveness was deemed a sign of a political defeat and admission of responsibility for countless unnecessary deaths.

You seem to be implying that the former president, whose administration helped fund the vaccine development, was responsible for all of the anti-vaxxer sentiment. Even as someone who is very happy Trump is gone, I must say this type of dishonesty has no place in a civil discourse about vaccination.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/04/rachel-mad...

> ...and subsequent infections are known to be more severe than the first

You have conveniently misconstrued what your own citation says:

> Reinfections have been reported, and in a few instances, the second infection was more severe than the first, but serological responses suggest that patients never seroconverted after initial infection and ADE is a less likely cause of a more severe second infection

Some people don't seroconvert after vaccination either. Using outliers to make broad claims is not appropriate.

> ...immunity through vaccination is believed to be not only more effective but also last longer.

Linking to an infographic that doesn't provide citations for its statements isn't exactly convincing, especially when there is evidence that what is claimed might not be accurate. For example see, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

Conclusion:

> This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.
Microsoft beats revenue expectations, reporting 22% growth
It can play out in different ways: creating software to scratch your own itch; writing a book to explore a concept that interests you (Tolkien and language is a good example); playing music that you like (and maybe only you will like; drawing, sculpting, painting what interests you.

The idea is that your target audience is yourself and no one else, therefore an audience of one.
Was it Charles Petzold's Code? If so that's a wonderful book.
Many of those “analyst” positions are now just labeled “architect” or “solutions engineer” instead.
Good news, I provided that in a reply above. Two of them, in fact.
Considering that using a service which is known by all to not scan, and is therefore the place the media says is ‘child molester friendly’ could cause the same reputational damage?

Might just throw my phone in a campfire.
Maybe not but Amazon has a massive partnership with Salesforce, and as Salesforce builds out the integrations with Slack I imagine we will be seeing a lot more of these kinds of things(not just in billing, but across the board).
Another SCP-sounding one:

noun.
endosciller
en·dosciller

a surgical instrument that conceals the central organs so as to be able to swallow blood
"a cardiac endosciller"
usually, discount is from publisher
"(We will take a 30% cut of every every meta-thing transaction.)"
Generally, most lawyers would advise their clients to Stay away from an area or activities that can be described this way - because it’s a really good way to be ‘right but dead’ (really, bankrupt or in jail or whatever).
In addition to this, sites are now focused on keeping you on the site, so they can serve more ads. There is no payoff in linking to a lot of other sites, so the web is no longer a complex landscape of interlinked sites, it is field of tarpits that each try their best to keep you from escaping.
Humidity off the right kind.
This is just desperate whataboutism. The inequality of life is certainly brutal but it doesn't make Bitcoin a populous utopia either. Besides that the numbers aren't equivalent. Holding stake and controlling its exchange are not the same thing, at least not for Bitcoin or democratic state controlled currencies.
Maybe some of us dont want to have to deal with people for a simple transaction.
Both require drilling that is a major factor in their cost and inhibit adoption was my point. Ground source heat pumps are called “geothermal” systems even though they don’t generate electricity.
It's a popular narrative, but one that Jason Hickel argues falls short. He disputes the poverty thresholds used in these calculations as far too low - $1.90 per day today is lower than the consumption of 19th century US slaves, he argues:

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2021/3/28/extreme-poverty-i...

As far as the Green Revolution, again this story that is has saved millions from starvation is a popular one. But we can look at Vandana Shiva for example who says it became a way for multinational corporations to take over the farms and food systems of India, leading to mass farmer suicides, erosion of the soil, and poisoning the land:

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/3/30/seeds-of-suicid...
> You didn’t.

I've said my piece. It's up to the readers to make up their own minds.
> The server depreciation changes affect all of Google.

Good point. Not sure why I miscontextualized that number.
For those who want more of a secondary source, but still deep, consider listening to the Literature and History podcast: https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episodes/all-epis...

The podcast moves chronologically through western literature. Each episode focuses on a single text, placing it in its historical context. It goes quite deep - e.g. the Iliad + Odyssey sections add up to roughly 12 hours of audio, and the section on Greek drama is particularly strong.

You can really feel that it is a passion project made with care.
Suppose a Python module written in C registers a method that ends up making a call to C functions larry(), moe(), and then curly() to mutate a global variable "global_mutable_temp" before finally returning a value generated from global_mutable_temp.

1. Supposing this method doesn't currently crash under GIL python, would it be true that this method will also run without crashing on the non-GIL python interpreter?

2. Would it be true that the non-GIL python interpreter will introduce a race to this method (resulting in a runtime error) that didn't exist under the GIL interpreter?
This is what I got from reading your comment:

Least Expensive Element: Invalidating prior art, counterclaim documents.

Actually Cost Money: Invalidating prior art, drafting counterclaim documents.
There are more sites than the ones you find on Google. Some sites don't have the Google Juice SEO power and fall to the last page of rankings.

For example I tried to find a video of Dave Chappelle talking about Hollywood forcing black actors to dress in drags for some movies. Instead I get a lot of the Dave Chapelle on Netflix making fun of Transgender people. It is all in the SEO.

Then again there is a lot of crap on the Internet it is better to avoid with fake news and silly videos so you stick to 5 or 6 sites you know are good.
In what way do users have control over miners or developers? If the assumption is that corruption can overcome a democratic state, I never understood why its so crazy to suggest it can overcome developers or a mining cartel.
There are tons of SoCs that theoretically support Linux, but in practice rely on binary blobs or out-of-tree drivers. Getting them to work with anything other than the hand-picked, patched kernel versions provided by the manufacturer can be a nightmare.
What do you think malicious miners can actually do?

The inevitable problem that I see is that they will be able to censor transactions, since transactions are not private. But they can't change the rules or the chain splits, so what else do you think people are trusting them not to do?
I think you should appreciate the fact that the guy opens up bluntly and sincerely in his books, acknowledging he is a human being with opinions, fears and struggles like everyone else. If you are into technology for the purpose of creating art or a software developer in particular, it is refreshing and cultivating to read how other people have faced challenges with the limitations of our instruments or our own minds: when you have the drive to achieve a goal and then truly realize all the effort it takes, the mundane aspects of going into business deals, coping with lack of initiative, burnout, and then pushing yourself back together.

I praise him for keeping diaries while developing Karateka and Prince of Persia, and then publishing them allowing us to take a raw look of how things were for him during that time of his life.
Easy to calculate. Assuming an efficient mining market, yearly costs are 900 * 365 * price of bitcoin. 900 is the number of new coins mined per day.

At current market price, $60,000, bitcoin costs $19.7 billion USD.

Or, 13x Tesla’s famous investment. You’d need a Tesla sized investment every month for a year just to balance sell pressure from miners. This is without any existing investor cashing out.

And this scales linearly with market price. People often talk of BTC to $1 million.

900 * 365 * $1,000,000 = $328, 500,000

Almost $1 billion per day. The 900 will change to 450 in about 3 years after the next halving, but until then that’s the cost formula.

Madness if you ask me. Bitcoin is a heavily negative sum game. You can only take out what others put in, and miners have to take out their share as well, a negative dividend.
The Techspot article is a summary of this Bloomberg piece:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/bitcoin-s...

which is itself reporting on this paper from the NBER:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29396/w293...
Worse, most people do not even know what they are giving up. But I agree with your sentiment. It is deeply frustrating that the public does not know enough to care and even when they do they believe the government is really there to help us.
>adjective.
>real
> very high opinion or commitment.
> "it is not the kind of performance that real fans would listen to"

>abbreviation.
>miles
> millions; a billion.
> "miles of people traveling in miles"
Well and also the government doesn’t need to have a “selling point” because of the whole being the government thing.
I just disabled Google Play Services on my Android phone to increase privacy... then I started to get spammed with about 10 notifications every 10 seconds (not a joke) to tell me that those 10 apps would not work properly without Google Play Services enabled even if they did work properly... Google and/or LG allowed me to disable 7 of these apps, but the others could not be uninstalled or disabled using the GUI... I had to use ADB to remove them. One of those apps, believe it or not was the LG phone clock and another was the calculator.

After I removed all apps that were complaining about missing Google Play Services and installed alternatives for the ones that I needed like the calculator, everything was working fine. (thanks to f-droid for helping me find viable alternatives)
How realistic is such a "10 year plan" though?

With 20 books per year, this list implies that spending only ~2.5 weeks on each book would be both possible and fruitful. I doubt that very much.
The jobs where "Elementary and middle school teacher" show up top are often the ones where a non-working spouse are most common.
Lehmer Factor Stencils: A paper factoring machine before computers
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