skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed working at Google, but it was incredibly team dependent. Spent two stints there (4y and 2y), on three separate teams. First team was frustrating, second two teams were wonderful.

I feel like a lot of interviewing is figuring out if the company is good to work for. The one time I jumped right into a job, I had the above experiences like you did (small startup). Since then, I try to spend an hour with most of the people that would be in my decision tree. Quickly discover if they a) know where the product should go b) I get along with them culturally c) they are good at their jobs.
Do narcissistic people typically know they're narcissistic?
What about your not work related goals?
I have a similar opinion about skin in the game for war, any politician who votes for or pushes for combat action has to go themselves into the most dangerous part of the action to help carry it out.
Cheers! :) An interesting read!
> my more ordinary programming work as a Python backend developer

Did you use Python for your game as well? This looks really cool - congratulations on making the leap to full time.
Won't that just mean less investment in new housing, so over time less housing stock, resulting in (delayed) price rises and more people excluded from the housing market.

I mean in general the only possible solution is more housing ... which would mean

1) zoning up neighborhoods

2) make it financially interesting to convert properties and make them denser
Sitting on a phone hundreds of miles away talking to a guy in the room isn't really the same thing as being there yourself. Yes, you could stop the execution either way, but you're not seeing the consequences of your decision.
After the initial disgust, I don't have a problem with this. (I do with the pricetag, 300k per single occupancy?!?!?)
This is like paying less for a middle seat on an airplane. Somewhat uncomfortable to save money. For the love of God this better be cheaper for the students though, or else, absolutely not. There are plenty of other schools that aren't as sexy where students should feel welcome, and are not due to a variety of issues.
At this point they are probably not bad, but all models have error bars.

That being said, we are just as likely to get it wrong on the optimistic side as on the pessimistic side.

I was totally converted on the cause of CO2 by Elon Musk's framing of the question (paraphrasing):

We have one planet that is naturally hospitable to human life and capable of sustaining it on large scale. Is it really a good idea to do an uncontrolled experiment in which we dump massive amounts of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and hope it turns out okay? Maybe we'll get lucky and maybe we won't, but it seems like a crazy gamble.
It does suck that Lenovo doesn't put the care and thought into their other laptops that they do into ThinkPads, but this is where we are. And to be honest, the non-Apple laptop market is such a wasteland of planned-obsolescent junk that you really have to be persnickety about features and build quality, and know which vendors and product lines deliver on those, to not get something garbage tier.

Perhaps this is why the Framework is so enticing. Those guys seem to genuinely give a shit.
You should always acompany this documentary with a watch of this short little video. The Loving Trap (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg).

It mocks adam curtis style while making some very good points.
My opinion is simple. We should just never kill people except when there's an imminent threat. The death penalty doesn't deter crime, and life in prison is significant enough punishment. As far as I can tell, the death penalty mostly just serves to satiate the appetite of those who want revenge. Does it provide victims with enough solace to justify its downsides? I doubt it.
Thank you! The best complement I receive is when I hear that people are actually using this at the table. I'd appreciate if you stopped by the Discord (linked on the homepage) to share your experiences using it.
> 1.5Billion / 5000 == 300k USD per person

No, it's effectively 300k per room, not per person. This structure will be up for more than 1 semester and certainly up for more than than length of one person living in it.

That being said, I have no frame of reference for the cost of similar structures. It definitely sounds fairly expensive considering the size of the room + common area.
The logic with the public sector is that "the people" are paying for it so it's their business where the money is going.

I'm not personally much of a fan of private sector salaries, income tax paid, etc. being a matter of public record but it's also not obviously "crazy" either. There are reasonable debates about transparency at the margins and this is a margin.
I never had to read a book to use emacs well. Same with vim, VSCodium, and IntelliJ.

Sometimes I ssh into a machine that has only vim installed, so I use vim. Sometimes it is faster to open a file using vim, so I use vim. If I expect to spend a lot of time editing it, then emacs.

Currently I am using IntelliJ for a Java/Kotlin project.
User agent string parsing (already of dubious merit on its own) by no means belongs in the ECMAScript standard. It would fit right in with the work that the Web platform standards bodies are doing, though. If anything, ECMA-262 itself has already gotten too complicated and needs to be pared down to a smaller, look-we-haven't-completely-lost-our-minds profile. Compare ES5 to anything that came after ES2015.

Even ecosystems that do have developer kits with massive API surface area like you want (such as the ecosystem associated with the other TC39 initiative) had the good sense to define collections of common classes separately, speccing out their implementation as being optional. Then again, there's nothing stopping anyone from doing exactly that and just maintaining it outside the scope of the technical committee, a la Boost or Qt in the world of C++. The fact that people try doing this and fail to retain long-term interest from their short attention span colleagues gives you all the evidence you need for why the irreversible step of transmuting that work into a part of JS's core is a bad idea.
That an emacs user holds that opinion is a bit surprising to me, as to me most of the reason for me using emacs is to develop in lisp-inspired languages. I think lisp development is the raison d'etre for emacs in the modern times.

As someone who loves fennel, clojure, scheme, etc., I find myself drawn to emacs because the (repl driven) workflow is so good. That said, I've found that I can't give up vi-style modal editing. The interface matters to me. So neovim it is, for now.
Any good *practical* tutorial on how to use it?

Preferably in Go.
Is the name Coconut an intentional homage to CoffeeScript?
> A lot of people can't and drive because they can get 2x the space with a yard for kids to plan in for less than a 1BR in the city.

Until this year, this was true all over. Now, it's radically different. Homes go to all-cash buyers paying over list price. Scarce rentals get hundreds of applicants each.
To be fair, before we get carried away, VE against severe infection persists much better given the limited data we have and considering the in-the-field hospitalization & death rates. For adults, especially older, the vaccine is a big net positive.
I think calling this spyware is a pretty far stretch. We're talking about SAAS platforms that want to record events based on user behavior for a myriad of purposes; these are platforms that you are choosing to use, not tracking pixels dropped all across the web.

There are dozens of valid uses for this beyond ad-tech. Where we use Segment it barely even touches with marketing. Most of the value for Segment is piping user lifecycle events around to every platform and service you use to help enrich customer experience. Sure, call it sales or marketing or ad-tech, but that's really just an umbrella for trying to maximize revenue-per-customer - and isn't that the point of a SAAS platform?

I think we should be cautious about throwing the terms "spyware" and "malware" around right now; there are lots of very valid cases that should be labeled as such, but if we over-use the word it just makes it harder for us to delineate between powerful tools being used for good/valid purposes or deceptive ones.
Is that 10:1 ratio post or pre-digital films? Because in my experience as a young PA film cameras didn't have live viewfinders. Film was maybe 2:1 or 3:1 because you didn't have unlimited film and unlimited film processing budget. Digital and reality TV has made it normal to film everything in multiple takes and clean it in post. But old school DPs, who were used to film, would get the whole thing done in one take without a lot of waste.
This comments sounds ugly but before dismissing it, count instead how many of your own friends are poor or destitute. How would your own friendships be affected if you yourself became destitute?
Thank you so much as well
Ask HN: Why do smartphones take 16MB photos if 16MB of information is not there?
I find that most photos from an iPhone can be scaled down to ~400KB in an image editor and be indistinguishable from the original. There is no extra information in the excess data that the camera stores. What's going on here? Why doesn't JPEG compress away the excess 15MB automatically at the moment the photo is taken? Why isn't there an option in the UI to shoot at a lower resolution? Assuming that the excess 15MB is noise, why doesn't the camera itself automatically decide the optimum resolution?
I neither want nor need DRM to work.

I'd rather have the ability of ad-blocking and similar extensions to work on a deeper level, instead of crippling them, like on chromium-based browsers.

What about mono-culture and the risk there of?

edit: Availability of working DRM is what it all boils down to.
Thanks for the write up and congratulations on publishing the game. Looks great and can't wait to give it a try.

One of the keys to your success seemed to be that consistent, early morning routine. I've often find myself trying to hack on side projects in the evening, after much of my energy is already zapped. Even if I do have a highly productive session coding into the wee hours of the night, the next day will be ruined by lack of sleep, and as someone with a family it's too detrimental.

But when I am working in the mornings, once I'm awake and at my keyboard, I'm much more productive. Sometimes, it's hard to stop! But, leaving yourself a cliffhanger is also a great way to build excitement to jump back in the next day.
Thing is the difference between Emacs undo tree and …other editors undo is way more than the key binding. Your comment barely scratches the surface of the issue.
Thank you - HomeKit integration is great.
Five of the top six countries by total land area are:

Russia, Canada, China, United States, Australia

So it's not particularly impressive to bring up absolute forest coverage as a gotcha considering that's not the argument made in the article. Nor is wanting a country with 85% forest cover acting as a ~5x carbon sink to not develop its land or use its resources but pay a developed country which has already developed over its land and is acting as a carbon generator (such as the US at about ~5x carbon generator) simply because it is larger is a reasonable response from reading the article.

That being said I'm not sure I buy this is the best way to combat CO2 levels or the most realistic but not because of "face value" reasons rather the actual argument presented.
Rainforest blockchain, tokenise, earn interest, pay for weaponised defence against poachers and illegal loggers, maintain rainforest area
Looks like that's actually been accounted for directly:

"[The building] will provide built-in social distancing as required by COVID. Fresh air, the architect insisted, will be vented into all rooms at twice the rate mandated by existing building codes and will be off-gassed directly to the atmosphere without any transfer to other rooms in the dorm."
Ask HN: Should I convince university against Node.js, maybe Rust/Go/Elixir?
I've been using Node.js and Typescript for many years, and I'm constantly frustrated when hitting issues with npm, the memory usage, bugs in libraries, the state of the web framework ecosystem and so on...
I've been hired by a university course to make a full stack application to manage reservations. I've been very happy with Svelte in the past, it's a breath of fresh air, but I'm torn for the backend. My recommendation was Node.js, I'm very familiar with the gritty details, and it's easy to pick up when I leave. I also tried using NestJS and Prisma for a second time, and despite the amazing work that has gone into them, it's still painful for me to use when straying away from the "chosen path".

I also recommended Rust (been using just over a year, I've loved it so far, compiled code feels so much more powerful than janky and fragile dynamicaly-typed languages), Go or Elixir+Phoenix (anything to get away from Node.js, but they are all quite different), but my supervisors aren't too keen on a new language.

I'm not after performance, but a clean and maintainable architecture. I've heard good things about Django and Ruby on Rails, although I'm not particular keen on either. PHP would likely not be suitable, it has to do some background processing work. I feel like I could make any language work, it's just Node.js' dependency problem that gives me nightmares.

I would value some feedback or advice, I'm doing my head in with decisions.
I've used Emacs for 30 years, and I have no intention of ever giving it up, but IMO this is somewhat accurate. The package installation and configuration story on Emacs has gotten a lot better over the last ten years or so, but there really ought to be a kind of meta package installer and configurator that does exactly what VSCode does: when it finds a file that it doesn't handle specially but for which there is an existing package or set of packages, install those packages and configure them with reasonable defaults.

Spacemacs does this, which is the main nice thing about it. Unfortunately, it also carries a lot of other baggage rather than just doing this.
Discussed at the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26185603
Ask HN: What's the best place to look for dev/tech UX writers?
I am in desperate search of a UX writer with an understanding of how file API works. Upwork doesn't do the thing. :( I would hugely appreciate any advice!

Thanks,
Sasha from Uploadcare.com
Disrupting Cryptocurrencies 2: Lessons from the Poly 'Hack'
Still affordable in today’s market. This shouldn’t even be up to discussion as anyone can check the available houses for sale in Amsterdam and what they sold for.
I take codidact as a portmanteau of "collaborative" and "didactic".
Movies and Hollywood in general are a pretty bad source for that kind of material.
I think that's sightly misleading, if you measured it by percentage of landmass then I suspect the rankings would be different.
Pentagon Wars, which is about the nature of how products become ludicrously elaborate when political pressure is wielded… and about how testing is affected.
https://www.regeringen.se/4a76f3/contentassets/2c767a1ae4e84...

This principle is why most of the information that our government has is public, but not everything is in a database accessible by anyone on the Internet, but some information is. If I want to know what a private person makes I can call Skatteverket and ask, but this info is not available on the Internet, though some companies provide services for this.

If you have a registration number for a car you can get information about it using the link below, but owner info requires me to login with my bankid (online identity service that most government and banks, etc, use). I just did this and got an email with the owner and owner history within a few minutes. I did it for a Tesla that has BITCOIN as reg number that I've seen before, you can also try it.

https://fu-regnr.transportstyrelsen.se/extweb/UppgifterAnnat...
> I will probably end up converting the therapist to my world view unless they're too shallow to understand it

Don't worry, they'll quickly recognize the neurotic narcissism and respond appropriately.
Probably but in 10 years they will likely be dependent on google cloud so then the deal will start printing $$$.
Same reason I bought a dashcam. "That's what insurance is for" is a LOT easier when you have some kind of video evidence of what happened.

Anecdotal but investigative effort and interest from local police departments feels like it's at an all time low for low level crime like vandalism, package theft, etc. Not really passing judgement, perhaps those departments simply have more important things to do for society, but we might as well fill the gap with technology for now.
Attention Matrices Are Formed in Encoder-Decoder Architectures
They claim to address health effects of light with dynamic "virtual windows." I agree it would be useful to study how well this works. If nothing else, it would inform how we design long haul spacecraft eventually...

“All virtual windows will have a fully programmed circadian rhythm control system to substantially reflect the lighting levels and color temperature of natural daylight,” according to the statement. All common areas, the statement added, “have significant access to natural light.”
Point and Comment on 3D Files
If you own a home in the US, your address is public record at least unless you take steps through shell companies etc. to hide it. And while it's less relevant with the decline of land lines, so was your phone number unless you paid to make it unlisted.
The negativity about using the NTP pool seems unwarranted. The NTP pool monitors all servers in it and will kick out those who are supplying incorrect times or who are unavailable.

You're also much more likely to be able to easily find a pretty good and pretty local set of NTP servers if you use the NTP pool, versus needing to look up other addresses for NTP servers. You don't need to use your country code in the FQDN for using the NTP pool, the DNS resolution should do a pretty good job of figuring it out for you and giving you rather local servers in response.

https://www.ntppool.org/en/use.html
This made me laugh out loud. Technology is awesome.
When the ChromeOS-like sandboxing was dropped from Win11, I wondered if Microsoft was just resigned to the fact that Windows would never have modern security.

Now it seems they are perhaps just a bit more sly than anticipated and will roll out modern security incrementally, so not to upset their entrenched userbase.

You have to wonder at what point they unleash the "extinguish" aspect of embrace/extend/extinguish and block important OS telemetry from third-party apps. The bolt-on security industry will complain but I doubt anyone will get very far complaining to the government that Windows needs to stay insecure so as to protect someone else's revenue stream...

I predict Coming Next: random exes from random download sites cannot be given Admin privs (another blow to the third-party security industry but always a stupendously bad idea)
> Just out of curiosity, when you spent 9 hours at work, was that in a software field?

Yes, however the day job and night project were _completely_ different disciplines. Someone wrote that gamedev isn't really software engineering... I'd agree with that (not putting it down, but its not like anything I've done).

> If so, why would you choose to do the same thing 18 hours a day for 5 years?

Those long days came in the last 1.5-2 years. Why? I don't think we would have finished otherwise, or at least not anytime soon.

We found that momentum for us was critical. If we took it easy, then it slow days would turn into slow weeks and it would turn into slow months. We wanted to finish at some point. Even when we had a slow week or day, or when we'd go do something that wasn't the game, there would be a shadow of guilt that we are not finishing. I think that is personal, everyone does this differently.

And the second why? The reward loop of doing something with a realtime 3D game is simply joyous. I would sometimes have _so much fun_ making the game that on the good days I dreamt of quitting the day job and starting up a studio full time.

When the dust settled though, it took me almost a year to think about using the computer at home for anything other than playing a game or reading news / experimenting with homelab stuff. The burnout was harsh.

I don't regret it... but I'll never do it like that again.
> If you substitute Javascript for Lisp, doesn't that describe Visual Studio Code pretty well?

For the most part, except for the fact VSCode is owned by MS and has just enough proprietary code to break a lot of functionality if you try to use it without the proprietary bits.
Sure

Long haul prevalence:

https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/newsroom/studies-show...

For Parkinson's just google "Parkinson's viral etiology" There are dozens of legitimate published studies. None focus specifically on COVID, because its so new and the timeframes so long. But there is a link between infection with serious viruses (including coronaviruses) and later neural degeneration.
I heard the 10:1 ratio a while ago, and for "Hollywood films". So I'm guessing on-film, but where film/processing budget isn't much of a limiting factor. Primer was released in 2004 so at that time most things would have been on film.

That said, I'm not in the industry, this is just what I've read about the production of Primer, so if your experience was of 2-3:1 that may be more accurate!
Earth Floor Sealed with Oil (2019)
>Are you implying that Firefox is "surveillance malware"?
>Telemetry isn't surveillance.

(honest question) Why is this necessary then: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
Moneyball - Taking a data driven approach to a problem and trusting in the process.
I also think death penalty by lethal injection should be illegal. It is regularly botched, leaving the victim to suffocate or experience a fatal heart attack for minutes without pain killers while also paralyzed. Seems fairly cruel and unusual to paralyze someone and then suffocate them while leaving them conscious.

There’s also something deeply unseemly about a method of execution that is quite painful but designed to make the executioners feel better about what they’re doing. If we’re going to execute people it should be via firing squad, which is honest about what is happening and much less painful for the condemned. If we’re not comfortable with that, well then maybe we shouldn’t be doing this at all then.
There are different schools of thought, some people would rather have the kids home-schooled or completely different like Montessori, Steiner... so maybe the critique comes from that direction.
LibreWolf is a pretty good firefox fork, But i would always use firefox with tweaks and user.js. Don't trust forks much, As i rather put my data with firefox plus mullvad vpn works with them on their vpn service. And mullvad is a really good privacy vpn...
Its difficult to evaluate the value of the info, if no one can find it because its buried in menus then yes it is useless but that doesn't mean it cant be useful, in general if its worth printing its worth putting on your website.

I don't get the point of non web apps because usually they are just a subset of the website.
I suspect this guy popped over from 4chan just to see some new scenery.
I examined this and it appears that you can get the same effect yourself by enabling ETP strict mode, disabling telemetry and suggestions, and installing uBlock Origin in Firefox, which is a pretty common configuration for a lot of people. I suppose it's easier to just install this and have that already set up, but it's not exactly hard to do this in Firefox for the average HN reader and you most likely /already have/, so this gives you nothing except lagging security updates from an unknown developer.