skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article. The author explores, among many things and in a sensitive way, finding a closer approach to Dunbar's number.

One way to approach Dunbar's number which the author does not discuss is combining "special interest" with "local geography" as well. For example, you don't need to find a subculture of DIY telescope makers who only use brand X drive software and brand Y gearing; it used to be enough to be a DIY telescope maker within say a club of county scope -- e.g. DIY Telescope Makers of Ventura County. When that was the dominant approach, you weren't comparing your work to the best result to be found on Instagram in the last year.
There's a pretty big legal tech scene these days. I run Free Law Project, where we're looking for experienced python developers and we don't care about having a CS degree if you're good.

There are a lot of other orgs doing similar work. I'd look around at those too, or check out our hiring page. (It says the backend dev position is closed, but we're expanding the position and hiring again.)
Just kind of a side note - Gilles's work is such a pleasure to browse, worth taking a look. Always made with deep understanding of the content and a spartan taste in design: https://castel.dev/notes
Asking the real questions here.

I finally gave up on using an XPS15 with Ubuntu because I could not get over the fact it cannot do high quality bi-direction bluetooth audio.

Edit: Looks like it does offer some improvments over pulseaudio: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/techblog/2021/05/31/better-bl....
I've got very different politics to Peter Thiel, but I've long been interested in why he thinks what he thinks. I think he's the most honest and interesting billionaire around.

The place to go seems to be Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, but I'll need to take a holiday on a beach somewhere to have the headspace to get through its ~500 pages.
That's true. But the Wandering King invites strong tactical aggression because the king is so enticingly exposed — which is super fun to play against!

In fact, the king isn't suicidally exposed, it's about as well defended as the king is during the Steinitz Gambit, which also involves an early king move under the main line.

I like playing the Steinitz too, but opponents rarely go along with it. Same with King's Gambit in general, people generally just play to defang it and trade trade trade down to something drawish. Yuck. I hate drawish chess.

I don't like the Bongcloud so much because it's even more cramped and I find it hard to play out of. But it could also be that it transposes into King's Indian / Queen's Indian lines I don't like so much, rather than Steinitz Gambit wildness.
I dont see anywhere in my employment contract that says my ass needs to be in a seat for a certain amount of hours per week. I just do my best to meet my employment obligations — especially when working from home I can meet those obligations in less than 40 hours per week. If my employer said I needed to work regular overtime or if they demanded I work a very rigid schedule I would just leave and find a job elsewhere. The tech job market in my city is so hot right now I get solicited by recruiters 3-4 times per week, it just isn’t worth it to spend time in a place which doesn’t treat you well.
> The user will look at the programming language and think that what is the easiest thing to do is the best thing to do

Hard disagree that this is what we should cater to. Programmers should also know the ecosystem they are working in. Just because you learned python with really long chains of method calls, doesn’t mean you should use the same style in Java… though it’s “easy” because that’s what you are used to doing.
Why are you writing as if being female is why you were told to ask less questions but then not explaining why that was actually confirmed to be the case?
I am convinced that the relationship between American universities and its public are entirely untenable. There is no reason to give them any money as their goals are not to educate people. I have no sympathy for anybody that goes to a university and accrues a massive amount of debt anymore. The general assumption now is that people who went to these toxic places did so fully knowing that they will be lied to about economic prospects and brainwashed into believing a certain brand of racist wokeism.

I do not offer any solutions to this. The only solution I can see involves some form of violent and total destruction of these institutions. It would also require a building of new that absolutely forbid all parties involved with the old institions from even contacting the people involved with the new ones. I do not know what this will entail. There is no means of peaceful transfer of power away from these virtue signalling sycophants and toxic soulless wretches.
Short answer: no. The capabilities of SHRDLU remain unsurpassed by modern systems.

A simulated robot hand controlled by natural language to move blocks inside a virtual world. It's not terribly useful but nothing that was created since can do any better and the state-of-the-art NLP approach of large language models is completely incapable of anything like it.

Which is a bit sad, really, if you think that SHRDLU was created by one graduate student, fifty years ago.
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Is this sort of sweeping generalization really necessary? I can tell you that it's not true in any case. I'm one of those Mac users that doesn't complain about performance, because I rarely see the spinning beach ball.
Flowing from the Orinoco to Your Cocktail
Developers will do things they like more often than things they do not like.

Hubris and laziness is the hallmark of developers, so the easy path is the most often used path, which becomes familiar, which then leads to a choice between familiarity vs FUD. You get a few mavericks, but unless they can prove a productivity change by some metric or miracle, they never make much headway.
I get what you mean, but I totally agree with the message itself.
I can concur. Many years ago, I had used Play v1 to solo develop a reasonably functioning website, in part time. But then came Play v2, and for some reason it never clicked for me.

Haven't looked at Ninja. Currently I'm looking at Phoenix as my go-to framework for side projects.
I never got why GPT-3 was so closed off, like you needed permission to use it. If it’s so good then why not just make it available?
Virtual or resident memory?
It's a bit odd, because you can skip newlines in many cases.

This works:

#!/usr/bin/tclsh
set foo [
lindex [
expr 2 * 3
] 0
]
puts $foo
Blind person here. I've been using LaTex for note taking since age 15. Since braille typewriters are heavy and clunky and electronic braille notetakers are expensive, I decided it was the right thing to do pretty early on. I started doing this when I transferred out of blind school. Being able to compile my notes into a PDF was definitely useful, considering I had to work with teachers who didn't have any experience with blind people before.

When I got to college, I started requesting all the materials that students normally get in LaTeX. PDFs generated with pdflatex and similar aren't screen reader accessible, but I could read the LaTeX source code just fine.

Obviously, what I write for myself isn't pure, compilable LaTeX, I usually omit the dollar signs, write things like 2^32 instead of 2^{32} etc.

By the way, the linked post was almost unreadable to screen readers, the soft dash characters inserted between every syllable made my screen reader say every syllable separately, which breaks the pronunciation rules.
Surprised to not find a mention of the second law of thermodynamics in the article.
Could work for alot of computational-x fields.

Historically, i tried to get software dev jobs that maximized my free time to do whatever i what on the side (also helped that i've been working remotely for ~6 years).
Here is the problem with these detectors and why they should never be used, period. They make the very stupid assumption that all ad blockers are browser blockers and can easily be disabled by the user/visitor. This is a crappy assumption, pi-hole, and pfblockerng, are dns and router firewall level blocking devices respectively. These will block ads on an entire network, not everyone on the network may have the ability to change these ad blocking settings even if they wanted to.
Similar to URL shorteners, I've had cases where I wanted to allow users to create a “share link” that persists data in an app that otherwise didn't have persistence. Typically I've used a Lambda job that uploads to a public S3 bucket, but next time it comes up I plan to try Workers.
Well, that was a grim read...
Disclaimer: I happen to work for Google, but speak on my own behalf and not my employer's. I don't have any relevant inside info.

Is it possible that people who are otherwise happier "segment" better as a result? Someone lonely or unhappy might naturally try to get their social needs met via work, for example.
Europe, the US, Canada, Japan, and S Korea are all incredibly nationalistic to varying different levels.

How do you know someone's a European? They tell you all about how Europe is better than America?

How do you know someone is american? They tell you all about how great America's freedom is?

Japan is one of the most nationalistic countries on the planet.

So is South Korea.

Your claim that these countries are 'internationalist' is based on a flimsy understanding of their self-interested cooperation.
This is mentioned in this article from a couple weeks ago: https://github.com/readme/featured/why-the-lucky-stiff

EDIT: Ooops, I had posted the title instead of the URL.
Hi, author here. I agree and I tried to address this in the passage pasted below, but you're right that this deserves emphasis. I hope the reference to Scott Lundberg's excellent article on SHAP and causality provides the additional context that was out of scope for this primer. I would add, however, that even if a relationship isn't causative, it's still potentially insightful to understand which variables are influencing an ML model's predictions.

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Caution should be exercised when deriving insights from SHAP analyses. It is important not to become over-invested in conclusions that certain features cause certain outcomes unless the experiment has been conducted within a causal framework (this is rarely the case).[6] SHAP only tells you what the model is doing within the context of the data on which it has been trained: it doesn't necessarily reveal the true relationship between variables and outcomes in the real world. Decision-makers are often tempted to view features in SHAP analyses as dials that can be manipulated to engineer specific outcomes, so this distinction must be communicated.
> Maintaining a national culture, at that point, will likely be looked on very negatively.

Only by those making a particular salary, which is ultimately the cause of the great right-wing movements in most parts of the world, America, Europe, Asia, S America, etc.

There are two classes forming... a globalist class where there is no national culture, just an international one, and nationalism is a dirty word. And a nationalistic culture of all the 'deplorables', where patriotism is still a virtue.
I’m fairly sure LYAH came from the Borat movie and not from why.
Which OS version? Personally I'm on 2015 MBP with High Sierra 10.13.6 and zero memory leakage. I go months without even turning off the MBP. Granted, sometimes I get memory leakage behavior from Chrome/Firefox. I usually stick to Safari.
I finally figured out how to get bluetooth headsets to work correctly on my desktop: output to 3.5mm, 3.5mm to dedicated bluetooth transmitter.

Throw hardware at the software problem, because software absolutely cannot be trusted not to foul this up. Not Windows, not linux, not pipewire, not pulse, none of it. Evidently not mac either, though I've personally never had trouble with bluetooth on mac. Bluetooth is 23 years old and its flagship application is still completely broken across huge swaths of the client/server compatibility matrix.
What is wrong with balconies?
Wow, that is pretty surreal! Do you know what these laws are called? I'd like to read more about them, but not sure what to google for...
There are few positive benefits currently to reporting things like sexism in the workplace, sexual harassment, even rape. It sucks that it's like that but that's the reality right now. The reality is that they probably won't be addressed. If less than one percent of rapists actually get convicted, what kind of "positive impact" do you think will come of reporting workplace sexism? Like the other reply to this post, things aren't so black and white. Maybe you report it, nothing is done, you lose your job, you can't get hired at other places because other companies see that you were involved in a legal thing. Maybe now you have mental health issues from dealing with how it dragged out and how people in your life aren't supportive.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't tolerate workplace harassment or not report crimes or abuse, or that no one should report it, but I'm saying that there are actual legitimate reasons for people not to and some of those reasons are that it's personal and traumatic to be dragged through the emotions and public display of this, some of the reasons are financial, and so forth. If you're a minority you learn to protect yourself by choosing your battles because you encounter sexism/racism/ableism daily, and every time you do stand up for yourself it brings back all the trauma of the people who attack you for doing so, and tell you you're overreacting, creating problems, dramatic, lying, and so forth. Sometimes it's not worth it.

Please show some empathy. You have no idea what it's like to be in a situation like this. And I didn't have "Access to a group of female developers for support". What do you think it's like some union where even if this existed, the members of this could have any kind of collective power to do anything? And I'm willing to bet if there was something like this the group for sure would be respecting a woman's individual right to do what she thinks is best in the situation that she's in, instead of blindly telling her to fight back and expend that emotional labor, because the other women have lived that and know about picking your battles.

Put the onus on the organizations rather than the people who are minorities because you have no fucking voice as a minority. We need allies to be heard and taken seriously and "Well YOU SHOULD HAVE REPORTED IT" is not being an ally. Fostering an environment where that doesn't happen and the entire burden isn't put on the minority to do something about it is what needs to happen. This isn't a "women's problem" or something that will "help women as a class" this hurts everyone. So be an ally to women and be curious instead of judgemental because you haven't lived life as a minority. The fact that you are posting things like this about what "should" be happening means that you're already judging, and assuming, and contributing to the problem.
Do you know how long the Carbon API survived inside the Finder?
Thoughts:

* Presumably everything starts as an extrinsic desire (when we are born). What is process of an extrinsic desire becoming intrinsic?

* If we figure out this process does that mean we can transform every extrinsic desire into an intrinsic desire and thus make our success chances higher?

* If so, how do we choose which desires we would want as intrinsic?
so its as useless as its target, got it.
To be honest linear regression on square feet and location is what potential (human) buyers would mentally use, therefore it's a very, very accurate prediction of the price.
The American dream is long dead. Do a simple napkin math - see how much of your monthly spending goes to owner/founder-operated businesses vs. corporations founded several generations ago. There is simply not much place in the economy for people that want to be more than a replaceable cog in the machine.

You can't outcompete Walmart. You can't outcompete Amazon Basics. You can surely start your own Youtube channel about authentic underwater basket weaving and get a few thousand niche subscribers, but you'll still have to stock shelves to pay your rent, because that <$100/month ad check that 90% of the youtubers get, is just not enough.

Most of the negative social changes of the past decades take root from this. Except, it can't be easily fixed, because changing the policy to crash the "too big to fail" incumbents is a political suicide. So we are stuck competing for brownie points and telling ourselves how wanting your own house and a family is bad for the environment.
Your position is that HN users are anti-apple and lying about this issue, rather than people with no agenda just sharing their experiences?
Sure, I don't mind that the hook, and controversial posts often create the most educational discussion. I only take exception to the idea that we shouldn't debate it because it's "not the point." (specifically for technical advice; being over-pedantic is a thing).

I certainly don't mean to criticize the author or say that they shouldn't have posted the article. If articles needed to be 100% correct then no-one has any business writing them. And it's still open to debate whether the article is even wrong or misleading.

> Are you not supposed to know what that is until you're some mythical ninth level DBA?

I think the world might be a better place if people _did_ wait until they were ninth level DBAs :p

Jokes aside, I have no problem with people learning 3NF. I'm more concerned that people can be too quick to take this sort of rule-of-thumb advice to heart (myself included). And in my opinion, database optimization is too complex to fit well into simple rules like "normalize when your query looks like this." My only 'rules' for high-frequency/critical tables and queries is "test, profile, load test, and take nothing for granted." But I know just enough to know that I don't know enough about SQL databases to intuit performance.
Yup. I upgraded from High Sierra around the time Big Sur rolled out.

To be honest, I’m probably not going to upgrade again at all until the new MBPs seem stable enough for me to buy. Nothing in Big Sur or Monterey seems compelling enough, apart from M1 support and access to iOS apps, for me to risk the disruption.
Pay writers better and the whole problem goes away. The fundamental problem is history is written by the losers and the journalists are upset all their friends are making bank.
Why does NOBODY mention Italy?
I don't think it's really anti-Apple, but these articles do tend to take what seem likely to be very isolated events and present them as widespread, systemic issues.

I have absolutely no doubt that this person is having bad memory leaks (though their narrative about SoC memory or other elements seem unlikely to play any part whatsoever). Software has faults, and something in their environment or stack is causing problems. I have an M1 Mac and used every beta of Monterey, and now the release, and have had zero problems. Like nothing at all. I use XCode, IntelliJ, Chrome, Safari, Excel, Logic Pro among others all day long, heavily. Loads of other people seem to be having no problem with their systems. Eh.

If something has literally millions of users, saying "{X} happens" will invariably draw out someone with a similar anecdote, but that doesn't mean it happens to everyone, or even a significant minority. Some unique combination of factors is yielding a poor user experience, and hopefully there is a resolution, but it just doesn't seem likely that it's widespread.
FAANG was originally a term for high-growth stocks. At the time it was coined, Netflix stock was growing rapidly while Microsoft was not.
Good idea - seemed to me like a big undertaking so I guess it makes sense that it's based on lots of previous work by Facebook.
Thanks for being empathetic. Not everyone is lucky enough to have empathetic interviewers, and it makes it a really tough experience for them.
I use Excel but now I'm curious.
I'm also experiencing this on 1 of 2 M1 MacBook Pro Max 32GB machines. I've performed a full wipe/restore on the faulty MacBook and the issue persists. WindowsServer is usually the faulty process consuming 20+ GB of RAM. The only difference between machines is one uses icloud and the other doesn't.

Given the similarities between both machines and application usage, I can't help but suspect some type of hardware issue is plaguing a percentage of machines out there.
Yep keybase was great, apart from being closed source, centralized and not having a viable business model.
A startup in early stage can’t afford to have such policy. Instead encouraging the obvious shopping around, try to focus on the good things corporates usually don’t have. Developers will appreciate continuous challenge, career path, anything that can tap the ego (e.g. encourage public speaking or blogging), and general out of the box thinking when it comes to company perks. Money isn’t the first factor that will cause attrition…
How many windows do you have open? 10 GB of RAM is a very large amount for WindowServer to use.
I’m intrigued by this. Did you have any symptoms that pointed to sleep apnea besides being tired/falling asleep during the day?

I used to fall asleep during class, which led to my (positive) life changing adhd diagnosis. While stimulants have since helped me stay awake, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s still an underlying sleep problem. May mention this next time I see my doc.
as someone with zero understanding of how Twitter works: did this author actually click "post" on 20+ individual Tweets? And hope that Twitter presents them uninterrupted in chronological order?

Or does Twitter provide some way to write a "Medium.com style" article and have it broken into tweets?

Am I old or something? I'm not even 30 yet and I cannot wrap my brain around this format or what Twitter is supposed to provide.
I've been doing a hybrid approach for a hypertext system I built.

All documents have a canonical position in a filesystem, but are arbitrarily "taggable". Tags themselves are also files, but the property of "having a tag" is encoded as one file linking to another. The only difference between a tag and say an article is that the tags are in a different directory (not that they need to be, but it makes it easier to parse as a human).

All documents automatically list internal backreferences, which means the tag files become useful for navigation.
I always get frustrated when I see Python code written by Java programmers. It's full of unnecessary classes and complicated abstractions, and doesn't make use of Pythonic features that might keep the overall design much more simple. Good programmers know the philosophy of how each language is supposed to be used.
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Next time it happens, can you try running heap(1) against it? It might help point out where that memory is going.