skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that has helped me to learn better is not immediately ask for help but try to solve it on your own. While it might not be possible for everything, trying to solve on problem by yourself in a day goes a long way.

For example in programming, when I stumble on a problem, not immediately going to SO for an answer but thinking about it for a while has helped me to learn better.
A lot of other people have pointed out the current circumstances are extraordinary and possibly not a good read through for a legislative minimum wage increase.

Another POV, anecdotally, from the article:

> Matt and his best friend from McDonald’s, David Putnam, were making $12 an hour at Tim Hortons doughnut shop. The extra money meant David, who was raising his 2-year-old son on his own, no longer needed donated food from the “Blessing Box” near his house. He had recently even been able to treat his mother and stepfather to dinner at the Hunan Buffet across the parking lot from his new job.

If those are the consequences, bring it on.
> I'm not sure what this version adds.

Links to an opportunity to pay for almost certainly useless immigration advice. They're plagiarizing to get good SEO so that they can prey on young people hoping to immigrate to the USA.

(e: I'm highly supportive of skilled immigration and think there should be more of it... these "services" are a pox.)
Author here. I agree with you that it's a matter of personal preference. One of the reasons why I decided to write a blog post about this is because my team in general really likes Ruby and everything it brings to the table (autoloading included) -- so venting to them would not be as satisfying.
Poor communication red flags (2020)
Sars-cov-2 infection also has unknown long term effects. Why do you think they are less risky than the vaccine ones? Or you assume you'll very unlikely to get infected.
Is it illegal for a witness to withhold knowledge? I.e., saying "I don't remember" in regards to facts that they somehow can be proven to know?
Window.window
When has there been a government that doesn't tax?
Could someone with more familiarity in this area explain, what do the 'perpetrators' (for lack of better word) gain out of generating and publishing nonsensical (farkaktical?) papers?
I greatly prefer books over videos when it comes to learning programming topics.

I'm always disappointed when I am directed to a video, rather than text, when I'm searching for a particular topic.

It takes a long time to seek to what you want, and you're forced to learn at the speed of the presenter, rather than your own speed, as with text.

I also find it easier to learn things offline. I had to get up and running with the Spring Framework quickly, and what worked was putting the documentation onto the Kindle.
Unfortunately the competitiveness of x86 for desktop is completely lost now. Apple has destroyed x86.

If only Apple had a decent API for GPGPU programming!
Could be that I've been using Linux on the desktop for a long time and so I've gotten used to things, but I don't relate at all with the "desktop Linux is in a terrible state" statement. It works great for me, it's super functional, it's doesn't get in my way. Guess it's not for everyone (like everything), but on the other hand I'm pretty sure my mom would do perfectly fine with just surfing the internet, which is anyway what most people do nowadays. I feel it just took Linux too long, and frankly people have no reason to change, but it really isn't bad at all. Often helping my friends maintaining a virus/bloat/bug free environment on their Windows or Mac machines seems way more complicated.
Hello HN, here's an open source app I've been working on for the past few weeks.

I love Excalidraw[1], the virtual whiteboard (discussed recently here on HN[2]). Its UX is great - simple and intuitive - and really makes it easy for me to express my thoughts and explain complex concepts with a quick sketch. I want to use it to make slides!

However Excalidraw is not specifically designed for that. I used it for that many times actually, but the workflow is quite cumbersome: drawing a same-sized perimeter for each slide, adding to each slide watermarks and other common elements, exporting each slide as PNG into a powerpoint... it takes a long time!

So well, here's Excalideck to simplify that workflow. :)

It's still in early development, so it's not very polished. But you're welcome to give it a try, make some slides, and let me know how it goes!

[1] https://excalidraw.com
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109995
That is basically the spotlight search in iOS / Mac.
I like dart's cascade operator (..) a lot, that way you can chain calls on an object without the functions returning this. I'm sure other languages have something similar, kotlin has apply which feels a bit more heavy handed though.
I find KDE approach more suits my taste.

The trend for bigger margins in Gnome and MacOS (to unify Desktop UI toward mobile UX) is triggering my OCD and looks childish and unusable (lost of space and distraction for the eyes).

KDE customization options are immense. With minimal effort and without applying a global custom theme you can change window decoration, color theme and use Breeze Dark/Light as a default.

I put the taskbar on the top, resize it and the result is pretty close to what I am used to work with (Mac OS X), simple dock to the mix and customize some keyboard keys and voala - professional user interface:)
A distinction without difference from the end-user's perspective.
It looks great! But I’m having a hard time to understand your business model. A single, flat price may be cheap or expensive depending on customer’s revenue. I, for instance, run a very small publication and would love giving Wobaka a shot, but it’s steep price for my use case (one user, a dozen advertisers/customers per year). You said in a comment here you’re not chasing enterprise market, but flat prices also spooks very small business.

Basecamp solved this by offering a limited version for free — which I use to managed the editorial part of my publication.
This page is clearly consistent with the license granted at Matt's site.

It's still an inferior site, but it's kinda wild to accuse someone of theft when they're not stealing.
I finally convinced myself to buy an Ender 3 when I found out my broken stove knobs would cost $400 to replace. I tried Amazon fakes but none worked. Once I got the printer I designed and replaced the knob backs. Printer paid for itself in one job. I use it for all kinds of projects around the house. Vacuum attachment tools, plastic washers and shims, electronic stands, and so much more. They are extremely useful tools. I have no problems with adjustments or build plates, either because I’m lucky, not too picky, or because I mostly leave it alone instead of tinkering all the time.
The handful of random people you’re talking to on hacker news have zero hope of changing the culture of 300 million people.

It’s also a safe bet that, for example, nobody reading this wears a gun regularly.

If it were that simple, no country would have any problems, and everywhere would look like Wakanda.
Odds are, if you have two prime neighbours, you're a multiple of three.
I'm fine with the marketplace of ideas and all that but linux has plenty of shiny desktop environments. This was never really an impediment to its success.

what desktop linux is really lacking (especially with respect to hardware compatibility) though is really good QA.

It might have been coincidental but i can still remember when ubuntu threw it's weight behind unity after 10.04 (which i remember fondly coz it was absolutely rock solid) and quality really dropped off for a few years.

it's a perpetual problem with FOSS that people chase shiny baubles and underrate fundamental, boring stability and quality (or, for that matter, power usage).

This is somewhere where MS actually has a non-unfair advantage coz it takes stability, QA and power usage very seriously on windows.
There's an official Google Group for Chrome extensions. IndieHackers also can be a decent place: https://www.indiehackers.com/group/browser-extension-makers
>"The witness who “doesn’t remember” or “isn’t sure” about dates, times, distances, or amounts."

That would be me. I honestly can't ever remember any date / phone number / time / etc without writing it down. FFS I can't even recall license plate of my car.

>"Q. How far apart were your truck and Mrs. Agan’s car apart the accident?

A. I don’t know.

... and it goes on and on"

Yes I do not remember the distance. I can tell that it is probably between 5 and 15 feet. There is no fucking evasion here. Learn to ask correct question instead.

>"Effective exhaustion is the use of simple follow-up questions like the following after each answer:

...

"Tell me more"

...
"

I am sorry Mr. Lawyer. I am not here to create stories possibly endangering sides without merit. Ask fucking particular questions.
i think the person who designed the juciero is a better engineer than nikola tesla
Today PhD is just demonstration that you can do research and be understood by other researchers. Maybe 1 in 100 PhD's is meaningful contribution.

Postdoc research is where people truly become experts and expand their knowledge.
Palm pilots didn’t become pervasive. So you could have applied that argument to iPhones. It is a matter of if the technology is ready. When it is, it will take off
Stocks represent the present value of future claims on consumption.
pretty sure you weren't "arrested"- ah you said you're in UK, not the US.
It's about juicing the publication metrics by which academics are evaluated these days, especially in developing countries with less mature research cultures and heavy publish-or-perish pressures. It's especially effective if you have co-conspirators who will cite your nonsense papers. So long as you publish and get cited, the metrics don't care about the content of your papers.
Hm, I wonder if this could be circumvented by doing timing attacks against the CDN cache? That's still shared between domains...
For instance, the devices we make are not powerful enough to use the standard crypto algorithms. So we are looking forward to the results. Security, for us, only has to be guaranteed for a limited time: if it cannot be cracked in a few minutes, it does not matter if it ever does. So we benefit from 'not as secure but secure enough'.

Edit; by not powerful enough, we mean both: too high latency and too much energy drain.
These lines from the article about the owner, Enrico Francani, should tell you what you want to know:

>The owner, ferried by his driver, typically visited the Bradford location just once a year, employees said, and not even that often once the pandemic hit. Dustin believed that Francani was relying on his Pennsylvania restaurants — with their low salaries — to offset higher costs in New York where he had to pay his McDonald’s workers $15 an hour.

>Francani did not respond to a list of detailed questions regarding his Bradford location. In a statement he said that he had initiated a series of “listening sessions” with workers and was adding paid sick leave and raising starting wages in Bradford. “We’re very grateful for the outstanding efforts of the McDonald’s Bradford team,” he wrote.
> Calling people idiots isn't going to help the discussion

At this point, the only thing more idiotic than refusing to get vaccinated is trying to convince the voluntarily unvaccinated to vaccinate. The discussion is over. Positions are entrenched. The best we can do is isolate the population and move on.
@deshi-basara does each puzzle have a unique solution? Would be great if there was a way to ask for help on puzzles.
I suggest the same solution as using sex toys with casual sex partners - use condom on toy.
In the 1990s Erowid had trip reports from people who had halfway decent judgement. Today I don’t know it has been infiltrated by anti-drug crusaders or if it is really that hard to figure out that if you take a fistful of downers out of a bag you should leave the bag at home. (E.g. otherwise you find the cops go from being concerned about you to kicking you when the bag slips out of your pocket.)
Quantum computers to run Sydney’s transport network
I’m at a school right now where they teach C++ using Visual Studio on Windows. I transferred here, and at my old school we used gcc on the command line (using WSL if you were on Windows). The amount of time wasted in class trying to get VS to behave right is ridiculous. On top of that, none of the kids know how to troubleshoot anything outside of copy pasting their code out to Notepad and asking VS to build a new project (and sometimes that doesn’t work, and they are stuck). It’s a productivity killer, and they’re all super scared of the command line (so when Web Dev with npm or Cloud Computing with Docker is taught, they have to be hand held for the first few weeks on how to get to know the command line).

Apparently employers don’t care (probably because when they get to work everyone else uses a IDE anyway) but I don’t think it’s a good idea in the long run.
I'm not "anti-crypto", but reason that I won't touch it is that it's not stable. With dollars, I know that the money will have a roughly constant value across time. Cryptocurrencies do the opposite of that. By the measure of stability, gold is also preferable to crytocurrency.

If I were a speculator, that instability would be attractive. But I'm not.
Exactly, they don't have empathy. We have conscience yet we all these. So who is lacking empathy emotion tell me. We do much worse than any animal can do. Again go watch the docu to see completely to know what we do before replying. Humans are worst thing in universe because we do all these having conscience.
It's not an absolute principle. It obviously depends on the country, but also on the type of trial (civil, criminal...), down to the particular type of issue being considered and the position of the witness in the dynamic.
The flip side is that the more popular an off-the-shelf tool is, the harder it is to sneak something in. Someone somewhere is bound to notice fishy behavior at a certain scale. It lowers the skill level required to understand the choices you make and make better choices. I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to notice, much less explore, what AT&T is doing at 1111340002.

The more components with a million eyes watching it, the more attention you can direct toward the rest.
That's a reasonable way to look at it, but there is a missing component. In the early 1990s, I was a subcontractor at a large firm which had software people who were only interested in designing software, down to a medium-level pseudocode, after which the design was handed off to coders. These designers were great people, but, on this project, none of the firm's designers and coders had hands-on knowledge of and experience with the hardware and operating system (an early version of VxWorks). The coders would gain this knowledge and experience from writing and testing the software, but not so the designers.

My missing component was that there was no mind-to-mind feedback loop conveying this knowledge and experience gained by the coders back to the designers, from which it would inform the designers' future designs. (And there was no regular feedback about how well the design fit the problem and if the design required radical changes during coding and testing, although some of that is more an administrative concern than a technical one.) The "coders", by the way, were quite capable of designing their own programs - and did. I don't know why the firm had this subset of design-only'ers; they were smart and maybe the firm wanted to hang on to them and maybe "coding" roles were intended for brand new employees.
Howdy! I’m a maintainer (for DevOps) on this project! Glad to see it get noticed!
They really aren't.

Substantiation for some idiots who will downvote me despite parent comment not providing substantiation: Slowness, slowness, bugs, bugs, more bugs, security vulnerabilities mostly due to insane NIH ways of doing basic IPC stuff.
The article does not tell you how to use these techniques in a non-hostile way.

You need to have good social skills to even pull that off… in that case, why do you need them?
Thanks! What do you think would be a fair price for a CRM with email automations etc? I do think Wobaka is competitive in pricing, even for a solo businesses :).

I like Basecamps offering and they've been an inspiration for choosing flat pricing!
I must have skipped the "know everything phase". I've always felt like I know nothing. I have also discovered that no one knows anything (only have an MS, no PhD). Maybe it's just due to the nature tech - even if I know it know it in one tech right now, the tech changes and I dont know it in the other tech.
I've always thought 3D printed houses were a dumb idea. Even when you get your concrete monstrosity to print properly you're still left with some gnarly walls that only some "freethinker" of an architect could love. Any openings are a massive pain as now you have to bridge over it with a header because your concrete doesn't really like to float in mid-air. Hose outlets, electrical, and plumbing are just kind of shoehorned in, good luck to the tradesmen who get to deal with that crap. Even ignoring all of the adjacent trades that have to deal with the headache it fails to even serve as a decent wall. It's all but guaranteed to crack between ribs and start letting in moisture and insects.

It seems like every 3D printed housing shill out there always tries to point the camera away from the laborers coming in behind the print head to add in those headers, place horizontal reinforcing steel, clean up openings for windows and doors, etc.

Personally, if I were making a construction robot, I'd target standard dimensional lumber. A robot could manufacture wall segments faster and more accurately than any framer. Imagine taking a digital cut list and automatically optimizing lumber yield to minimize scraps and cut out defects that would ordinarily be culled. Just drop a stack of studs and joists next to Lumbertron-5000 and watch it cut, build, raise, and tie in wall segments all by itself. Never have to worry about headers winding up an inch too short, rough openings too narrow, sheathing nails missing the studs, etc. You could even have it pre-drill every penetration and hole for plumbing and electrical and ban those trades from drilling or notching any framing at all. No more dealing with drywallers forgetting to cut out an opening for lights and outlets, have the robot measure it on the wall, cut it out, and screw it into place. And for roofing? So many roofers die or are seriously injured from falls, it's the 4th most hazardous job in the country. If you can get people off of roofs that could save tons of lives.

And yet, with all those areas that are somewhat reasonable to tackle, the industry has decided that construction automation is basically just hobby 3D printers but swap pla with cement.
This is what I like to call a "Valley Bubble" comment.

There are lots of people working in tech-related jobs at/for companies not named Facebook, Amazon, Apple or Google who earn well above average incomes.

How to make this look like underachievement? Claim that these people are fewer in number than they actually are and suggest that there are hoards of 20-something FAANG engineers making $500,000/year+ such that a freelancer pulling in $120,000 is somehow a loser compared to his peers.

> There are other routes to moderate wealth but few as easy and reliable.

If it was as easy as showing up with a comp sci degree and a heartbeat, why is prepping for whiteboarding interviews even a thing?
This looks really good. I might even contribute. Is it actively developed?
I think you could, but I just don’t know how long it would last. The real benefit of microservices in most cases is that the network acts as an externally enforced boundary layer.

There’s no reason the vast majority of time that you need to pay the overhead of using network calls to enforce your boundaries. Yet time an again you see companies willing to pay the microservices tax because it’s just so hard organizationally to enforce modular boundaries over time.
Well, last time I checked, methane wasn't expensive by policy. We simply don't have enough of it.

You can have a much smoother transition if you make it expensive by policy before it runs out. But no, short-sighted people will complain all the way until they kill their jobs and throw everybody into a crisis.
> These are pretty big trains though, don't fit through normal bridges

Normal bridgdes where? They fit perfectly fine on the French loading gauge (max train dimensions), but the British one is much smaller on most lines.
Stop Apologizing for Bugs (2019)
For the past couple of decades or so, you're right. HP was founded in 1939. In its first couple of decades the HP way described management practices that were unusual for their time.

Bill and Dave were still visiting the varied HP divisions in the late 1970s (when I went to work for HP in Colorado). Hewlett was succeeded by John Young as CEO in 1978. Both Hewlett and Packard left the board of directors in 1993.

It certainly is a very tough job to establish a good culture that can last the test of time. Compared to many other founders, though, I personally don't think they did that badly, though of course many others disagree. While HP itself lost its way in the 1990s, many of these ideals were adopted by other companies or taken to new companies by HP employees.
relevant Web3 vs Metaverse article: https://experty.io/web-3-0-vs-metaverse-similarities-and-dif...
Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future
Our emotional underpinnings motivate everything we do. My step mom is a hoarder. But she’s so smart and well adjusted that I didn’t recognize it until I was an adult because everything is perfectly organized and rationalized. But the core emotional issue of not being able to throw things away is there.

The vast majority of Vietnam soldiers who used heroin overseas did not continue using heroin after coming home. They weren’t using different kinds of heroin, therefore it is the person and not the material.
Bill Gates on the vaccines: “ “You know, we didn’t have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduced transmission,”

Now go read my original post and tell me who sounds more in line with reality: the person noticing the relatively low efficacy of the vaccines to stop transmission and saying this deficiency should be incorporated in policy, or those who say it is very good (often because they do not want to lead people to avoid the vaccine, ironically, which happens due to loss of trust from such spin) and go on to write and impose policies that assume it is highly effective at stopping all aspects of the virus.
5D Brainf**k with Multiverse Time Travel (Julia Implementation)
>We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than 50 years ago

Therein lays part of the problem.

Yale and MIT and Harvard allow the sons and daughter of wealthy people in for donations. George W Bush got in to Yale because of his dad not his academic record which history shows to be below average.

But their problem is with for example making the huge campus safe for women?

Laughable.
“These results indicate that ethanolamine forms efficiently in space and, if delivered onto early Earth, it could have contributed to the assembling and early evolution of primitive membranes.”

This would not by itself be panspermia, but if these complex molecules can be delivered to the surface of a planet intact, why not nucleic acids?
Based on your comment, the biggest difference then ( second life ) and now is tokenisation and non fingible stuff monetization at scale, you can check it here https://experty.io/web-3-0-vs-metaverse-similarities-and-dif... to read more
So wokeness is SYSTEMD ???
Oooh I didn’t know this was a thing. I had that as an idea recently but it’s really interesting to hear it already exists!

I have been hearing a bunch of interesting things about Dart lately and feel like I should check it out.