skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it means they reduce costs to what’s supportable by just inserting ads into RSS feeds every x items.

This isn’t very likely. But it’s more likely than someone charging to aggregate IM statuses and put them in chronological order.
What was the macronutrient breakdown of your meals? I heard evidence that if you reduce carbs you keep more muscle weight.
Yeah exactly. I have been going on like this for almost 40 years and recently I decided to take a different approach:

- Stop working on projects that I know for sure I can't finish, basically that means I'll work on zero CS projects.

- Start hobbies that are either 1) Not of same type of CS projects, or 2) Something that takes a long time to understand.

I have been collecting fossils and learning Geology for a few months and so far it goes well:
- Collecting fossils is easy to start

- It's very difficult to find good places to collect and even more difficult to collect very well preserved fossils

- I don't get to collect fossils every day, not even every week if the whether is bad, so zero chance of burning out

- Geology is not something that one can "figure out". In general science is not something I can "figure out" and then apply. It's not engineering.

However I still want to work on CS projects because I need an in-door hobby for the winter, maybe some day I can figure out a way :)

Good luck on your side too!
I'm afraid I have to disagree with your point.

From an evolutionary perspective, “vessels to propagate our genes” carries a lot of baggage with it, including the need to be healthy enough to take a baby to term, care for yourself/other family/group members, and raise it until it reaches sexual maturity, all of which require efficient energy gathering, storage, and usage strategies.
Funny, those are all the things that Firefox also focuses on. Seems like a duplication of effort.
Unless someone regulates it, no! Of course FB has no interest in that…

One has to realize that FB is only optimizing for profit (and Zuck not going to jail). The only times they curbed was when bad PR was threatening their profits (and Mark’s freedom).
Not entirely correct, under F-150 (and Heavy Duty 250 etc) brand they sell essentially two different vehicles (or three, if you count Raptor), which differ in price more than twice. Non-luxury version is priced low, has no extras and oriented to price-sensitive work truck segment of the market. King Ranch/Platinum (and Limited nobody buys) are premium tiers with all the latest tech and amenities, which are priced like luxury cars. Although both are “F-150s” they are oriented at distinctly different market segments.
> What so bad about having to tell what you've been doing yesterday?

What value does that provide anybody? Our tools can tell you what I've been working on. You can see the item I have in progress. If I'm blocked, I'm not waiting until tomorrow's standup. If I need to collaborate, I'll schedule a meeting or start a chat.

If you need to know what I did yesterday, either you don't trust me, or you don't know how to use the tools we have to track these things.
T1D also, with not great control. I've had about a dozen injections over the last two years. A couple laser treatments and a full on surgery. The laser treatments are uncomfortable mostly because of the time it takes. The injections don't hurt at all and I barely notice them, but the little clamps they put on your eye lid to keep them open makes me uncomfortable as shit. Easily the worst part of the entire experience.
Just bait and switch. You don't have to be loyal to the platform that helped you grow, because it has been using you from the beginning. It has always been a mutual relationship, but people somehow realized it late.

YouTube being the most profitable platform only means that people will consider it as /a/ primary target, but nothing prevents them from using other platforms. As long as the cost is justifiable, multi-platform approach is always better. Luckily, operating on multiple platform is extremely cheap.
Welp, my endgame has been reached!

Many years ago, I joined Google with a mission: solve drug discovery to the point where better molecules got approved by the FDA and made a real difference without costing tons of money. I was convinced that Google's technology (ML and data processing) could be applied to many biological problems and that it would be 'obvious' what the improvements over the existing state of the art were.

Eventually I managed to work on these problems full time with enormous resources but Google proper never saw the value in it- which makes sense, because Google is an ads company that happens to run a popular website, with the goal of funding long term singularity research. And I burned out over time because dealing with the Google leadership is incredibly painful.

Verily was a big waste, it's a joke, they have not and will not do anything useful, while continuing to provide funding for projects like Debug which have no future.

Calico is... a retirement project for Art Levinson and a bunch of other smart people. Maybe they're do something amazing, maybe not. my money is on "not".

However, DeepMind is completely different. They are a company founded with a long time of solving hard general intelligence problems and using those solutions to change the world dramatically. I knew from the very first time I saw Demis present his work on Atari games at Google (just after DM had been aquired) and it was obvious what the long game was: biology. Look at Demis's background and the way they run their research labs.

It doesn't hurt that DM convincingly solved one of the hard problems in biology: cystal structure prediction. Now, don't let anybody's press releases convince you they solved protein folding (different problem) and the work doesn't immediately help drug discovery (no matter how much breathless articles will claim that).

Instead, I think DM will continue with their promising work applying transformers and other methods to biological data. It's been one of the most fruitful areas in science I've seen so far, easily solving problems that plagued industry and academia for decades. Hopefully, they will do so in a way that benefits humanity, while also recompensating them for their efforts.
my setup is 200 line long. on a new machine I just scp it over. many years ago they dropped support for automatically decoding files with a 'Z' extension, so I had to change that sometime in the 90s.

total time invested over 40 years - less than 4 hours.
I don't buy the "novelty" thing, either. Between high school and an evening job, about three of those years were the most regimented of my life, and high school definitely wasn't providing enough novelty, in any way, to make up for it. Yet those years felt extremely slow compared to now. I feel like I blink and a season's gone. Fall or Summer used to feel so long back then. And Winter, practically eternal. Now it's like, "wait, didn't Summer just start? Why are the leaves all turning?"

Some time around IIRC 25, the effect really started to take off, and it's never gotten better, no matter how much my life is shaken up.

[EDIT] and on shorter time scales, back then, tell me I've got an hour? Fuck yeah! Enough time to do several things! Now it's like... ugh, barely enough to even start something. Guess I'll putter and tidy the house until it's up, which'll feel like about ten minutes from now.
> MailChimp and Squarespace are easy examples, but are name brand ecosystems like Steam and Spotify necessary evils, or would the writer encourage sticking with indie alternatives like itch.io and Bandcamp?

The author does not say you shouldn't use other kingdoms. To the contrary he says you should use the heck out of them. Just don't set up your whole castle there.
"I would ask her why she didn’t do well on her math test and encourage her to think about strategies she could use to do better on the next one." How has that worked with your own kids? If my kid comes home with an F on a test, they don't want me to sit down and think about strategies. They are going to probably be upset (if they think academics are important) or not care at all (not a great alternative). First thing your kids wants is just to be told its fine and that they will do better on the next one. But them doing better on the next one will not result from giving them strategies, they are kids, you have to sit down with them, go over the subject matter and discuss it with them to ensure they understand.

"I feel like she would be missing out on important aspects of life; the pride and comfort that comes with self sufficiency and personal accomplishment." letting kids fail a ton of stuff in school so that they can learn better strategies sounds good in practice but in reality it will probably end up in the kid feeling terrible about themselves, and mentally resigning themselves to academic failure. Kids don't need strategy they need to know their family cares about them and are actively there to support and work with them.
I don't do anything to mine as well. It sits in the fridge for weeks at a time. But I do use the exact same flour.
There's a whole world of difference between Manhattan and 2500-sqft single-family homes with large setbacks, street-facing garages, loads of surface parking, and vast backyards, set on culs-de-sac in exurban environments reachable only by car.

And it's not hypothetical. Every pre-war U.S. city has districts full of duplexes, tri-plexes, and other kinds of modest density -- with limited setbacks, small yards, spaced fairly close together, mixed in with commercial uses. Historically, many of these buildings would be owner-occupied.

These are medium-density neighborhoods. They look nothing like NYC, but they look nothing like the typical U.S. exurban development, either.
What you're discussing is nothing new. State marijuana decriminalization has existed for decades, states have selectively chosen to enforce immigration laws differently for even longer.

What state gun laws are intended to supersede or nullify federal ones?

None of this is new or shocking. It's largely the way the republic has operated from day one.
I poked fun at them in an attempt to be self-aware, I'm currently wearing Sinn 656L as a lowly postdoc. Nothing crazy, mais quand-même.
I sure don't want to waste time going to the grocery store every day. There are about a hundred other things I'd rather be doing.
Yep. The peculiarities that make this Excel workflow unreasonably effective are pretty easy to identify:

1. Tabular data. There's some tricks with named ranges etc, but for the most part your entire application state is spread out before you, scrollable in every direction. It's just tables, and clicking into a cell highlights relationships (data dependency) between cells.

2. Visible data, hidden code. =macros are hidden behind their result; the most obvious thing is to treat them as tiny black boxes, applying a single data transformation (or small set of logically related transforms), and immediately see the result applied to your data set. This is a tiny bit like functional programming, and a tiny bit like Pandas or Spark (immutable data, lazy evaluations). Except unlike those worlds, Excel pushes the data front and center, not the code.

And prob a bunch more I'm forgetting. It doesn't even feel like programming, more like building data pipelines in Unix or something. Except you can easily preview the data at each step in the pipeline. What I really want is Excel or Siag, but with Python and SQLite and a nice spreadsheet UI.
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Could you share the reasons you don't pick Next.js? Are you only finding value in the file system routing?
Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological flamewar tangents. They make discussion more shallow, more predictable, and nastier. We want the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Both can be true in their own way though.
Man, I used to love all those "Quest" games!

Some of my favourites were Space Quest, The Colonels Bequest, and one I forget the name of, which was set in medieval England (it might have been called "Heroes Quest?).

I also liked the Leisure Suit Larry series, which weren't "Quest" games, but AFAICT used the same engine.
Put simply, zoning doesn't allow it.
> People saying "oh but it's natural" are also making a naturalistic fallacy. It was also "natural" for much of human history to be infested with parasites and ravaged by disease. Natural is not necessarily good.

I think you are committing a fallacy here too. The naturalistic appeal is not about how things were before, but in what conditions we evolved. For example, we could try to eliminate every single germ everywhere, but that would make our immune system weaker, because our immune system can adapt itself. Vaccines are a way of leveraging that knowledge about our immune systems. Same thing about light: we spent most of our evolution time following the Sun cycles, and now we see that people that work shift hours are in a worse condition than people that don't.

A big difference between the way we fast today and the way people may have faster before is that we don't have to hunt or gather for our food, we have certainty about the presence of food at the end of a fast. Though by writing that, I wonder if early humans felt constantly the need for food and the fear of not finding it. I don't even know if animals do.
We use the telemetry data as input to many product and business decisions. It is very important.
Maybe one day an EV charge from grid fueled by renewables will be about as expensive as a can of cola.
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> If you see the whole thing as post modernism, where everything is to be interpreted and nothing is neccesarily real but there is maybe a real truth in the underlying arument, then that's fine.

No, it wouldn't be.

If someone found that Baudrillard flat out mis-attributed a theory to Lévi-Strauss or something, that would be a real criticism of his writing. Baudrillard fans would really be forced to admit it. Even back in the day Baudrillard was alive he would probably have been forced to revise it.

There are so many problems with post modernism, many of which Alan Sokal wrote about in his book "Fashionable Nonsense." But there is a good reason he didn't title it "Fashionable Falsehoods."

I'm honestly curious now-- why did you decide to add that last paragraph? You gave a nice critique of the author which I'll definitely use to be skeptical of his output in the future. But now all I can think about is how you managed to casually write one of the few critiques of post modernism which is rarely true.
I work with these systems in my day job, and yes, if any one wants to work on this problem I would love to be a part of it.
A lot of my tech friends (as well as myself) are fans of the HHKB. Very compact design, it takes a little getting used to. It is not new, however.
Absolutely:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/S-F-...
Anecdotally, I've always felt that traveling to somewhere new feels like a longer experience than coming back from that place, unless the return trip has an emotional component to it (boredom, urgency, anxious to return). I tend to notice the details of the unfamiliar road more. On the way back, my mind has already cached that path.
Seems to be another Meta:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200727005211/en/Sta...
Please do not do internet psychiatric diagnosis on HN. It rarely ends well.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
The article doesn't say where those immigrants are from. Swedes and Norwegians have different cultures and histories, but there's a huge difference between 20% Norwegian immigrants and 20% Chinese immigrants
The only game in The Zuck's arsenal is Three-card Monte.
because it serves no real purpose except to make the person doing the referencing feel a bit smug
He isn’t taking his money to the grave I guess. At some point he’ll want to spend it.
it wasn't a crappy tool (mapreduce was amazing) but it definitely was an impedence mismatch for this particular job. Later, we tried to get SIbyl to move to the underlying compute engine that Flume was built on top of it but it turned out to be more profitable to just let it die slowly.
I think every social media will grow until it reaches politics, stock / investment or pornography. And you would think having a special channel for those would fix it, but no, it always creeps back in. It is sort of strange to continue see the same pattern over and over again.

Personally I think we have a human nature problem, and not a technology problem looking for market fit.
Entrapment.
You realize that under your proposal, your own proposal would be banned right? You are advocating policy. That’s politics.
Crossing into personal attack will get you banned here, regardless of how narrow someone's world view is or you feel it is. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this again, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: you did it twice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106710. That's definitely not cool.
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What benefits or compromises of not having a smartphone surprised you?
Justice Dept. conducting cyber crackdown
The diversity in the emacs ecosystem has a hand in this I think. There are so many different ways to switch buffers: vanilla, Ido, Helm, Ivy, and all of the other ones I haven't heard about. This kind of diversity is unseen in other consolidated, centrally managed software ecosystems.
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Just remember MS names everything bass-ackwards and it all makes sense. Or incredibly verbose bordering on insane... "Documents and Settings" anyone? How about no permissions implemented but "Don't look in here" banners in Explorer. :-D
Except they're my main source of ire on not being able accept a bill. Also, modern vending machines are now accepting cards
I don't know anyone personally whose parents were involved with them during their school years and they achieved moderate or high grades.
That brings back memories of Infocom’s Planetfall where you were a janitor on a space station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall
There are a lot of rules to reduce cost, assure safety and to make it more competitive. You can not for instance have moving parts. If you could the top speed would increase a lot.
I split my time between Emacs, Rider, and VS Code these days. Of those, I spend the most time in VS Code.

I have spent way more time fighting against the VS Code configuration than I would like, and even comparing it against all the time I've spent customizing Emacs over my lifetime, I don't think VS Code can come out ahead. All this because I'm not building my project with some build system that has a simple, easy integration with the IDE. When VS Code instantly works, it's great. Otherwise, I'm editing JSON configuration files. That doesn't seem like some massive improvement over editing your .emacs file. It's often worse.

Often it comes down to working with larger projects written in multiple languages. If you are working on some bog-standard JavaScript project that runs in the browser, Node.js, or both, maybe you won't run into this stuff.

Emacs is my escape hatch for "damn, VS Code is messed up again, and I just want to work on the code instead of fussing about". I've had major problems getting VS Code to deal with the C or C++ code that I work on, like, at all. I'm hesitant to even try CLion because it sounds like many of the problems are the same there (it has great CMake integration... but I don't use CMake).

> One simple example, maybe Emacs can do this. Can Emacs through a press of a button, show a tooltip or a hovering window, directly over the text where my cursor is?

That's how code completion works in Emacs. Integrates with LSP, if you want, with various fallbacks.

LSP has really leveled the playing field between IDEs and Emacs. It lets you get a lot of the high-quality integrations, and they work well in both Emacs and IDEs. Prior to LSP, I'm going to say that the only easy way to get that kind of tooling was to use an IDE for a specific language, and it only worked well if your build system was integrated with that IDE.

> Plus, IDEs have professional developers writing integrations so I don't have to, and they're paid to do that for tens of thousands of paying customers, so they pretty much are guaranteed to work. They are also pretty much guaranteed to work well with other advanced integrated features.

My experience with C++ mode in VS Code is extremely rough.

This is the age-old problem... I remember reading people making the same complaints about IDEs and text editors on newsgroups in the 1990s. Like, if you are a Mac programmer, you want to use CodeWarrior... if it works. If you have a more complicated build system, then you need MPW. Too bad.

The experience with IDEs is getting better, much better, and I think all that is really happening is that Emacs users occasionally pop their heads over to IDE-land to see if will work for them. Sometimes it does, and you get one of those articles you're talking about.
Addiction is complicated. There's the drug and then there's the (mental) illness and/or pain the (eventual) addict is trying to cure. And finally, there's context. That is, being in an environment where drugs are available makes saying no difficult.

Dealing with the drug part of the equation is certainly a positive. But there's still the individual and her/his demons, as well as the environmental factors. Without "cures" for the latter two, the former (drugs) isn't going to get as far as conventional wisdom likely expects.
> This stuff has been known for literally decades now.

Doesn't seem like that long to me.
This was posted today, but he missed the biggest change yet. The replacement of its founder with a MS PM.
Looks much more worry some to me. Why? Why so suddenly, and not announced at the yearly GitHub conference just a few days ago?
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109906 and don't post like this to HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is.
> Next.js' routing is very limited compared to React Router

What specifically do you find is lacking?

> I've been very vocal against Next multiple times recently, so I'm definitely biased, but I wouldn't use it for anything more than a basically static web app. Its whole API is very basic, and quite shallow and underdocumented when you need to go a little deeper than "compile this React component into a static html page" and filesystem-based routing.

Could you be more specific? Next.js was originally designed for server-rendered React apps, so I'm wondering how you landed to using it only for static web apps.

Especially would love to hear more about what you think is missing from the docs.
How do you compare strong voices of a few on a site like HackerNews or Reddit against many many many millions of data points of users around the world.

Should written feedback overrule a bigger data set?
Keeping the side project work different from day to day work is huge, too.

- Frameworks are great when you need to keep a team to a standard, and keep standardized answers available. There's no way I'm going to debug someone else's dependency errors on my own time though.

- Dev tools and automation are nice to have, but if I spend a whole night fixing tooling that's time I could have spent on the project. Some loose unit testing and tools that work without configuration is all that's I'm willing to use.

- A while ago I would have said that paid tooling is worth it if it saves you time. Open source and freemium products have gotten good enough now that that's no longer the case for a small enough dev team.