skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever tried to teach programming to beginners? 6 weeks is an absolutely bonkers timeline for zero-to-employable-as-six-figure-React-Dev (people were pissed at lambda school for dropping from 9 months to 6, and with good reason). I feel like step 0 of this would have to be “Be really familiar with computers to the point where you’re almost a programmer already”, because a lot of people take at least a couple weeks to fully grok things like:

- Where to write code

- How does a webpage actually work

- How webpages and other stuff get served

- How does the terminal work

- What does a compiler do

- What is a syntax error

- How scope works

- How functions and abstraction work (this one is often a huge mindfuck)

Then there’s the CSS and git stuff you mentioned. Beginners often find CSS super frustrating. The tutorials from different years recommend different things, and I occasionally find people trying to build pages using weird combos like position and grid or floats and flexbox. And then there’s git, which has a huge learning curve and is very difficult to pick up without someone to tell you “you’re trying to do this? Here’s what the command is called”.

In the end, even if you can figure all this stuff out that quickly (again, starting from zero) you’re going to be starting as a junior dev (You won’t be passing any tough technical interviews) and unless you’re in the bay area there’s no way you’ll be making close to six figures. And finally:

> you don’t need to be good at programming

If I smell this attitude on someone, I’m not hiring them. If someone is new, applying as a junior, and is willing to learn, that’s fine. But when I hire someone junior, I know I’m going to have to do a lot of work to train them up and fix their stuff as they get acclimated to working in software. And if they don’t follow directions, learn from their mistakes, or show a desire to improve because they’ve internalized the mindset that “you don’t need to be good at programming”, I’m going to be quite disappointed in them.
DNS is distributed, by design. Your ISP operates no differently than Cloudflare, and receives routing information from peers in the exact same way. There is nothing special or unique about consumer ISP-provided DNS. A DNS provider is either the definitive source and the buck stops there for a lookup, or it forwards to a peer for resolution.

Cloudflare is not a telecom, which comes with regulation baggage that can be enforced. This matters a lot to a subpoena.
The BLS doesn't provide a "software engineer" option, though.

(Well, they provide "17-2061 Computer Hardware Engineers", but I assume that's not what you had in mind)
Just use a 4kg battery! :)
I feel you. I was on escitalopram in my twenties too for a depressive episode. It wrecked my libido and 10 years down the line there is hardly any sign of improvement in sight.

I have a very understanding spouse, luckily, but I'm honestly devastated in not being able to accommodate this dimension of our relationship anymore.

Recently, my GP offered to prescribe me antidepressants again for an episode of burnout, but I'm absolutely not keen to go down that road again. I get that it's cheaper and more available than therapy, but I've been burned before.
Yup, I strongly recommend you do at least the ones I mentioned above, it's possible that your issues could be very simple to fix.
I agree with all of this. I wrote a book for Packt many years ago (2005-ish?), and I was kind of underwhelmed about the whole experience. The editors were not native speakers of English, and introduced grammatical errors into the book. They published the wrong version of chapters I submitted. (Things would be revised after feedback from editors, I would revise later chapters for continuity with future chapters, etc.) Their editorial oversight basically made me look like an idiot. I could have done better on my own. (I got 3 stars on Amazon, and basically deserved that rating.)

They also changed the terms of payment at some point. I used to get quarterly royalties via Paypal, but they wanted to switch to European bank transfer or something. That is impossible for people based in the US, and they just didn't seem to understand that. It sounds like something I could have sued them over, but the book was definitely past its prime at that point, so I just said "remove my name from the book and don't contact me" and that has worked out pretty well so far. (I think someone else did a second edition. Good for them!)

It was nice to be forced to write an entire book. I signed a contract, got an advance, and delivered it. Today's me would just tell users "read the source code if you have questions", but a book length tutorial was probably good for the project in general.

If you have the mental energy to write an entire book without anyone pushing you to complete it, I think you'll enjoy the enhanced control that you get by self-publishing. Collecting money for PDFs is a solved problem, and honestly, PDFs are a lot more useful than printed books anyway. It is always "neat" to show people a printed book that you wrote, but I'm not really sure that's worth the downsides. I buy programming books, but I haven't gotten a printed copy in years. They just live on my computer, where I'm actually doing the programming.
Trader Charged With Securities Fraud For Using Twitter To Operate Pump-And-Dump
More or less so. Welcome to crypto wonderland
Have they improved the way the system figures out its inventory in order to know what patches it needs?
You'd be hard-pressed to find an actual city anywhere in the world that's entirely car-free for personal transport.

Venice probably is the only place that matches that criterion.

On Malta, there also is Mdina, which is largely car-free but still allows for limited car usage by residents. Still, although it's called a city, at a population of less than 1,000 it doesn't really qualify by any modern definition of the word.

As for the US there's this list, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Car-free_zones_in_the...

However, probably none of these places could be called a city in the narrow sense of the word.
Has anyone taken SSRIs and actually thought it was worth it? I have severe social anxiety and I’m trying to decide if I should try medication or not.
> What about modern society drives the need for such widespread use of antidepressants? Is that something we should be willing to give up? It hasn’t always been this way, has it?

It's completely possible that there's something messed up in modern society that causes depression, or in medicine that diagnoses depression and/or prescribes antidepressants, but the null hypothesis would be that before modern times, people were... just depressed. And then more recently that they'd try treating it with cocaine/meth/etc. Or that they'd fail to treat it, and some percentage of those people would commit suicide, and the remainder would never admit that there was anything wrong, both of which mean the outcome you observe wouldn't happen.

Again, this isn't to say there isn't a more interesting answer, just that you have to at least consider the possibility that it's not something about modern society.
> Yeah. sure. Which vendors proposal do you pick based off analyzing their stacks and devops procedures? The one that smells nicest? The consultant that bought you a steak?

> Your tech leads think you should use one architecture, your consultant insists it’s another. Who is right never-made-software-before-cto-jack-wagon?

I think these types of decisions apply to many "leadership roles". Those arguing for different ways should be able to explain pros/cons or cost/benefit/risk for each solution. Ideally you would want all parties to be able to agree on your list of pros/cons or cost/benefit/risks. If you can't get agreement over a majority of the items, hiring a neutral party with technical experience might make sense to help with the decision if it's important enough.

I do think knowledge of your company's technology is important. In my experience, people without an interest or passion for it tend to make poor managers as they're harder to communicate & relate with.

In short, I do think that your people skills & management skills are more important than your tech skills. I do think your team should be making most of these decisions. An exception here would be very small development teams (teams < 10).
There's a 100Wh restriction on laptop batteries imposed by civil aviation, which the 16" MacBook Pro hits, so this is not a problem that can simply be solved with thicker chassis and larger batteries either.
> And while I understand, that Project Gutenberg has limited resources and may have no desire to do the extra work of blocking works on a case by case basis, it would not have been difficult. Instead, they have chosen to collectively punish all people from Germany, which resulted us to be seven years without access, at least as long we did not utilize a VPN.

They explain their rationale for this and it is a very sound one, it is not about the difficulty to block, it is about opening themselves to lawsuits. Here is the relevant quotes:

> Because the German Court has overstepped its jurisdiction, and allowed the world's largest publishing group to bully Project Gutenberg for these 18 books, there is every reason to think that this will keep happening. There are thousands of eBooks in the Project Gutenberg collection that could be subject to similar over-reaching and illigitimate actions.

> [...] There is every reason to fear that this huge corporation, with the backing of the German Court, will continue to take legal action. In fact, at least one other similar complaint arrived in 2017 about different books in the Project Gutenberg collection, from another company in Germany.

I agree with their assessment, once the German court decided that all international treaties and public domain basically don't exist, and decided that German courts have jurisdiction over the US, it means that ALL works on the project are equally "illegal" (or at least many, they can't know which ones), and therefore nothing on the whole site is safe to be accessible in Germany. Their only option was to block the whole site or open themselves to uncountable other lawsuits (and limitless amount of punitive damages).

As to how they reopened the site for Germany now, I can only speculate, but I imagine that in the settlement they somehow got some kind of assurance from the big publishers that they won't sue and seek punitive damages for other works. With that the project decided that the risk of lawsuit is now low enough to allow for opening for Germany.
I'm with you bro
He's a very good writer, and he's good at finding interesting things to discuss.
Lol what a nanny state. Jason masks still fine I assume?
Everyone understands their own bubble of experience, like this truck driver. But it seems like we often go off the rails on things outside that bubble, as this truck driver does when he starts generalizing (nobody will do this, everybody does that) and assigning motives (greed, stupidity, etc) to everyone else. I am trying to be better about this. It is definitely a bad habit of mine.
Use a DoH/DoT oblivious proxy? I have no idea if anyone commercializes that.

https://try.popho.be/doh-proxy.html
Copyright is, probably, very Continental. In the late 15th century, before the arrival of the printing press to England, Venice had become the "capital of printing," and the Venetian Cabinet granted the first exclusive right to publish a particular book to Daniele Barbaro for a term of ten years. Christopher May (2002) The Venetian Moment: New Technologies, Legal Innovation and the Institutional Origins of Intellectual Property, Prometheus, 20:2, 172, DOI: 10.1080/08109020210138979. It was only later that England codified the concept of copyright.
Bought one this morning from PiStore.us for shipment to the United States for $15 + $8 shipping.[1]

1. https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-zero-w-2/
The greatest thing about books is that they are easier to read in bright sunlight. I wish we could crack that problem for computer screens, even really bright screens like the iPad essentially must be used in a very shady environment.
I guess something else that makes the water muddier is that lots of people across many professions spend significant time writing and editing code, even if they aren't coders.
I actually think this sort of thing is counterproductive - makes me more sceptical of potentially more credible assessments.
Monero is a private alternative to Bitcoin, all transactions are anonymous. Cardano, Solana, Algorand are smart contract platforms like Ethereum but with different technology and tradeoffs. These are just a few examples.
Creating fake and augmented retinas so WorldCoin no longer can viably succeed
Are security mitigations a consideration here?
My reason for desiring the media attribute on video sources is so you can use different videos in dark mode and light mode, with no JavaScript required, which I have definitely done with image sources. (No public examples, sorry; but it’s stuff like including a screenshot of a third-party web app which has its own light and dark modes, so I take a screenshot of each and have it choose the appropriate one.)

For that matter, I want audio sources to support media queries, so that you can present dark and ominous music in dark mode and light and bouncy music in light mode if you really want to, but mostly just so that <source>’s properties are consistent regardless of the parent element.

As for making poster support multiple sources, I came up with a technique that makes this work a while back. I should finish that pair of blog posts off. Short version: poster="data:image/svg+xml,<svg><foreignObject><picture><source …/>…</picture></foreignObject></svg>". Yep. Seriously! :-)
Programmer, here.

I could express the difference as "those that make the systems" (Developers) vs "those that make the systems RUN" (Programmers). That's not a great distinction until you're facing a specific problem however.
Fingers are very crossed for a touch-capable Blender.
So they're banning red jumper suit with a playstation controller mask? I can get why they'd say watching the show isn't age appropriate, but a costume is just a costume. Did they ban slasher masks as well? Those are 17+ too iirc.
So is this enough to emulate a fly (like OpenWorm)? Or is there stuff missing?
Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs
I love Blender, but have been stuck on version 2.7 due to what I can only describe as some sort of icon dyslexia.

For 2.8, all the Blender icons were replaced with monochromatic ones. This is a very popular trend and a lot of programs are replacing their icons in this way, so it's obviously fine for most people, and I realize this is probably a niche accessibility need I have.

But, to use the new icons, I find I have to check each one every time to find the one I want. Instant recognition is no longer possible. For me, this extra cognitive load makes it difficult to use Blender for more than a few minutes at a time.

Blender is a fantastic product and one of the best examples of what open-source can be, but I for one will be appreciating it from afar, and remaining on 2.7 until there is a way to get more usable icons.
That's true, but do they have much headroom to do that without increasing the watt-hours? I know max size Macbook Pros have been at the TSA flight limit on that metric for ages and that's one reason it never increases.
I think the later Pi 3 models are still fine; they're a little slower (CPU and IO), but they're cheaper than the 4 while still running 64-bit ARM and being reasonable capable. I would agree that unless you have existing stuff to replace in place the Pi 1 and 2 are irrelevant today:)
> Or, for a nocebo result, people have actually died because they thought they had been cursed

Source?

I have yet to hear about an objective malady that can be fixed via placebo/nocebo, like stage 4 cancer, type 1 diabetes, etc.
I have a friend who co-wrote a book on TCP in the early days and it still sells because it hasn't really changed much in the interim.

On the other hand, how many times do you see something like Java 2.0 or C#2 books which are out-of-date very soon after the author has slaved over the whole process!

The trick is obviously writing about something that won't change too much like Design Patterns and avoiding very specific things unless you are motivated by love!
A once-quiet battle to replace the space station suddenly is red hot
Are you thinking more along the lines of an x-ray, or a colonoscopy camera?
SSRIs need to be obsolesced already. Screw the sexual dysfunction, how about increaased risk of suicidal ideation? How about them taking two entire weeks to work?

The thing is the rest of the world doesn't seem to feel the burning desire to get as many people on them as possible and even have alternatives which aren't as limited. Reversible MAOI drugs like moclobemide have been around since the 90s and while they have a higher interaction profile (Can't mix it with anything serotonergic basically, so no amphetamines or cocaine or other antidepressants, which is fine), the reduced side effect profile is considered a bonus and the biggest reason for lack of adoption of this along with other treatments (It's astonishing how long we have known about the ketamine thing without using it) happens to just come down to marketing and doctors scared off by the early MAOIs where you need to strongly consider diet. The new stuff even reportedly improves sexual function. And you can't get it in the USA.
Dating apps are awful, but were a lot better once I challenged my standards (and lowered them a bit; I’m not the young hottie I used to be and that was a hard realization).
Is he doing nothing right now? Is his entire department stalled because he’s out of the office? Does he have a plan for a quick fix that can’t make any progress because of this? Just wondering where your info is from.
Economics of scale are the whole point of large vessels so yeah, there's much less money to be saved eliminating crew on ships vs semi truck drivers (or even shipyard equipment operators).
Adobe's AI Strategy
No one wants to host a 480p video and pay for it. They want to host a 4k video for free. YouTube captured the entire market by giving it away and now it's the expectation.
But he'll do that whether he gets $10000 or $10005 a month.

Giving to someone who makes less is much more of a change for them, giving you more bang for your buck.
Haskell is unreasonably effective at writing CLI applications. I haven't worked on it in a while, and the code is not the best, but this is what I built when I was starting out:

github.com/joelmccracken/reddup

https://haskellbook.com/ is how I got good at Haskell. If you can't get a copy, there are other ways to get good at it though! Just not necessarily any all-in-one resources.

I'm always willing to help folks learn Haskell tho, so if you have any q's get my email from my bio.
I found a solution to the shade problem. Introducing my outdoor office chair.

https://twitter.com/geoffreyhuntley/status/14531947902169538...
> For that matter, I want audio sources to support media queries, so that you can present dark and ominous music in dark mode and

Okay I feel like this computer/internet thing has been a grave error, maybe it's time to pack it in and start over.
Even if true I'm done with Intel. I'd rather give my money to AMD at this point. Team Red moving forward. All those years with 4 cores maximum is over.
Doesn't the answer to "Why isn't China (yet) producing a lot of top-tier research?" have something to do with the large language barrier? I did hear that English is taught as a second language in Chinese education, however couldn't it be that most of these papers are being published in Chinese and are consumed nationally?

This could be made worse by non-Chinese nationals not wanting to learn Mandarin et al. as much as other foreign languages.
And from GraphQL APIs as well :)
If I recall, some sites providing help and information on certain things were flagged as adult content and blocked which made a bunch of people mad.

Cloudflare I think corrected a bunch, came out with a fairly reasonable explanation why, and then even showed how to setup special rules to override it.
Idioms are common in every language I know (about 4-5 depending on which you count that I speak reasonably, and a few more I can read with some effort).

> Could the number of "friendly noises" and idioms in English be because most english speakers only speak english?

I don't know. My experience is that a lot of languages tends to have a much more formal hierarchy of terms to use for greetings, while English is all over the place. I think maybe part of the challenge is that English is used by people spread out much more and with very varying degree of experience with the language, including people using it as a second language, and so it's in some respect more internally diverse. It also lacks a strong effort to direct the language.

E.g. I'm Norwegian, and Norwegian has an official organ that gives government and the public advice on the evolution of the language, and language reforms have regularly passed as acts of parliament. French has Académie Française. For a lot of languages there are these official or semi-official organisations that sets out how the language will be taught at schools and what the official use should be like. It doesn't stop proliferation of variants (Norwegian authorities have more than once had to admit defeat and undo language reforms that failed to catch on, or just adjust the language to reflect use rather than vice versa), but it does tend to tame it somewhat.

When I first started learning French a quarter of a century ago, one of my classes was "mercantile French" which included lessons on French business correspondence, and one of the things that stuck with me was how much more formal it was (at least back then) in terms of greetings and signoffs and formatting than English correspondence. I'm taking a refresher course for my French these days, and the perceived more formalistic determination of level of formality is quite interesting.

> you've also the interesting thing where lots of americanisms have been adopted here

Yeah, in this case it may well be part of it.
It all depends on the governance and securing model. Unlike most securities, which have a direct tie to the state apparatus through their legalization, the proof-of-work coins, at least, are governed like their own little consensual nations with ideosyncratic characteristics. Think somewhere in between fandom, religion, and collective and you have many of the more "open" ones. There are also many examples of tokens that are VC plays following the corporate model, where the token is meant to support a core business rather than acting in a national mode. Both are pleasing to speculators for different reasons.
LOL at the comments down in that article:

>So someone sent you some bullshit in the mail and you jizzed all over yourself. It means nothing unless you tested it. Anyone can make a graph and fill it with whatever number they choose. Intel has been making up numbers for more than a decade.
Something I don’t read enough about that would make autonomous cars a lot more reliable is smart tech in the road infra. Why don’t stop lights send a beacon? Roads and lanes should send a signal. Cars should send signals to each other about their intent eg. turning indicators should not be purely visual, etc. Are there standards for this stuff being worked on?
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_i...
Camembert President
The difference between a 50k 4Runner and a 50k boat is that while both are status symbols to show off you don't expect to be minimally engaged while operating the boat. Driving it is part of the fun.
Not that it's commendable but we had a guy come in full tactical gear with airsoft guns one year at my old high school. The administration shrugged it off and said it was fine because of the orange tips and there were no batteries in it...