skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Unsong. I love this book, Scott Alexander is such a genius. He has knowledge of modern physics, of Jung psychology, ethics, biblical stories, and he intertwines everything in this book. Also, he is witty man! In my opinion, his fiction is on whole another level (I like it much more than to his non-fiction blog.)
I've never done any of that.
There will always be people that lie or embelish what they did. One of the big reasons for technical interviews is to assess how much of what the candidate claims is true.
In extremis: The life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin, by Lindsey Hilsum

This year i didn't read as much as i wanted but between the two books i really liked* i choose to post the above.

* The other one is Digital minimalism by Cal newport.
I run Jammed - https://jammed.app - booking software for music rehearsal rooms. I only really started during the lockdowns in 2020, but now have over £400/m monthly income, looking expand and be my main source of income in the year ahead.
The article makes a string of assertions without evidence. For example, that an “artisinal” email server will not “measure up in usability, features, and performance to the email infrastructure that is run by big providers.”

One reason that I continue to run my own email server after more than a decade of trouble-free operation (thanks Postfix and Dovecot) is that it performs better than my Gmail account, which I maintain as a 3rd-level backup and for some email lists. Delivery and receipt from my personal email is so fast that I can use it for real-time conversations with anyone else on a good-performing server, almost like chatting on WhatApp. This doesn’t work with Gmail, because it takes so long for a message to leave their servers. Plus on my own system I don’t get the spam false positives that plague Gmail.

Those are only two ways that a personal server outperforms Gmail. I can do plenty of other things with it, because I control it, that are impossible with Gmail.
Thank you for taking the time to collect and post these, that is indeed an interesting starting point to dig deeper.

From what I gathered from glancing over a few of the links given, my own takeaway right now is “it’s complicated” since the effects on an individual seem to be mostly determined by the type of interaction as well as who you’re interacting with.
Every language has their own conveniences but, I agree, Julia is well-suited for these types of problems.

I’ve used Julia previous years but I didn’t use Julia this year because it’s been more difficult to gain traction with it professionally.
What the US could learn from China's nuclear power expansion
Good recs. I should get started on brothers karamazov, feel like it's required reading at this point.
If you live in NY state, your government blocked you from using all kinds of crypto platforms. I live in a more free state that doesn't have such problems.
The stickers don't have to be software related. My current ones are not.
If you need determinism, I recommend avoiding objects and using pairs of arrays, plus they can generalize to matrices. Just use the same index in all.
In the 90s, I used to imagine the future to be one where "browsers" would be much less than combined JavaScript execution / DOM+CSS layout engines and hence able to do much more by downloading (signed) decoders/renderers on-demand for different content types, of which DVI would be just one of many.

There are still huge conceptual leaps to be made in the notion of a computer as a document creator and content rendering, and Smalltalk provides some clues in that direction, though I doubt we'll see it in my lifetime, considering the weight of the last twenty-five years will make it difficult to change course.

The relevance of the above flight of fantasy to your point is that LaTeX, for all its awkwardness, is absolutely a local maxima in document creation, and I love seeing its results appear from the markup, knowing that it's following the numbers precisely, as if by magic, and print them out and marvel at the quality of the fonts close-up, and we need more such systems with which to create and render content, before denting the DOM+CSS hegemony in the manner I described above.
In the past Latex symbols were rendered on server as an image.

It was not pretty but it works virtually anywhere.
Peeve: cars/ car owners that lock the car and the horn beeps.
Of Birds and Men
For me it's positive memories. Every time I pull my laptop out I'm greeted with a mash of events I've been proud to have been involved in and technologies I've done good things with - it's good motivation to continue to do good things. Same goes for every place I've glued the case back together (and frankly a lot of the scars on my body). It all reminds me of a story so why not collect the good ones.
The author might be assuming public knowledge that some kinds of corruption in the United States, for instance, are getting worse:

See [1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/28/report-transparency-int...

Also, it might be hard for them to mention the strongest examples of brazen corruption in leadership without being accused of being political, so I don't blame the author for using the even-handed examples drawn from all quarters -- which does make it easier to characterize as cherry-picked noise -- when the thesis of the article is that leadership, a necessarily tiny fraction of the 1% in the public spotlight, are growing increasingly shameless.

But the author well could have mentioned certain boundary-pushing, prosecution-taunting illegality by political actors in the United States, including actions rescued only by equally brazen presidential pardons -- actions in the public sphere that are almost without precedent.

Those kinds of actions, so few in terms of data points, could be characterized as 'noise' for their rareness, but the author's thesis (which seems sufficiently plausible not to be discounted out of hand) is that extremely brazen action by different kinds of leadership are at least leading indicators of institutional inability to deal with corruption and wrongdoing, preceding spillover into society at large -- and that maybe, due to the outsized impact that leaders have on society, those actions have an element of influence or causation.

Well, a thesis like that doesn't, to me, mark the author as being morally dubious himself for having it.

If a society is getting more corrupt, over the short-term, (see [1] for proof that at least some well-informed people think this one is), then an increasing number of individual members of society will be corrupted.

The author simply draws an obvious corollary that we may not have considered: hey, reader -- we are among those members of society. We should assume that we can, and will, be influenced if corruption increases, or if we're exposed to very public and visible examples of it.

That may be uncomfortable to consider, but I'm glad the author helped us consider it. Is it really only other people, other people's children and families, who are corrupted if they live and grow in a society in which corruption is on the rise?

(It's clearly an opinion piece, and I'm not sure how HN-ish it is, but it doesn't seem like a particularly trashy one to me)
de-amped link, I think: https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2138114/china-discourages-...
He mentions multiple members of Congress and several business people.

From the article:

> My congressman, Tom Malinowski was actively trading stocks and options during the pandemic, shorting stocks and then not disclosing his trades by trade disclosure deadlines. He won his election in a squeaker and disclosed his trades shortly thereafter, but remains a congressman.
Nice. How do you police unauthorized uses ("no audiobooks" for example)?
A grid also has a nice property of maximum 1000 rows, which holds back from bad practices of showing tables entirely. Much easier to find data by paging and a special search box rather than searching through the page.
<blink>YOU MAD MAN</blink>
There’s a midpoint at #1.5 where you control the domain and rely on an external host, but also have a continuous archive of your historical mails on your own server. Otherwise with a standard IMAP setup, if your provider locks you out, you’re limited to only the most recent N messages on connected devices.
> And now it's even less scalable to larger sites

And how is 20MB js SPA with 20 wss connections more scalable?

I've see too many react/vue projects bundling everything into a single main.js file even pages I never click. e.g. some crazy map or graph module. Is there some magic in webpack to make sure the needed functions gets executed in "eagerly" fashion?

Or does json provide streamable parsing capabilities?
Politicians regularly inflame racial and political tensions for attempted personal gain. That doesn’t seem like a good argument.
Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December
It's exactly this. I know of a couple people who will throw on a reading of a thread from a popular subreddit (AskReddit, TIFU, etc.) and treat it like any other podcast.
> “I would be very, very interested in Mozilla,” Mullenweg said.

Nice. I hope if Mozilla is ever in jeopardy of losing its independence, Mullenweg can scrap together whatever it will cost to buy and fix them. Seems like the right person to look after them.
I’m sorry what? You think the US tracks people through out their life and assumes they are alive unless otherwise proven?

No, they just look at deaths. If someone leaves the US, their life expectancy isn’t counted.
In my parents business it has been a disaster 100/100 times. All friendships all family relations have been completely destroyed by them trying to run a business together. I know it's just an anecdote, but yeah, I'd be careful.
Given what Tesla has said publicly about their cars/software and the response of regulators, I would say impotent is pretty accurate.
This. The issue is that once you start and put one on your laptop, it's hard to stop.
It doesn't require a top-quality businessman to instantly recognize this type of subscription approach is supposed to come from those lacking the acumen to provide lasting value.

Hasn't Toyota differentiated itself in the past specifically by trying to provide lasting value?

With thousands of workers marching toward that goal for years?

What happened?

Even the less savvy consumers say WTF, so you can only imagine the cluelessness of the actual "businessmen" involved.
The company I work for handed out stickers when I joined and I put my company logo sticker on the work laptop so that I don't confuse it with my personal one.
That does seem laudable, but Automattic isn't open sourcing all the things they are buying either.
Agreed. They aren’t driving everyone crazy, they’re driving one blogger on sub stack crazy
that's one of the risks, indeed.
What stuck with me is how we basically discover that we could work with physics (he has a story that goes something like this: "We had discovered that energy can produce force way before we had trains, when we cook the bowl seemed to move on its own."
Try reading a 19th century or earlier math paper and then tell us again that proofs don't need maintenance...
Perhaps it’s because I write JavaScript. Interviews in JavaScript, at least this year, are leet code for backend and strangely the Node API never seems to come up. The front end is islands of declarative logic in React. That’s it.

GitHub and LinkedIn profiles only serve to reinforce the job experience printed on the resume.
Yup, this. And in places where logging companies aren't ruining forests, it's because of government regulation.
I had my own company in design and development. Too much administration regarding everything and taxes. And thought I could do it ALL by myself... (Administration, Development, design, getting new customers, giving support etc)

Next time I would do this, I'll probably will pay someone to do administration and taxes!
While some Honda parts are not exactly cheap, many Honda dealerships have these nice parts websites with diagrams and ship direct. https://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/ is one of the most popular ones, but many other sites seem to be based on the same parts search and diagram system, though each dealer sets their pricing.
Actually not sure about pricing for more common vehicles, I've just got 2x first-gen Insights, no not exactly as many of them out there as Civics.
That is less the case today. Back before SPF, absolutely. Today, with properly configured SPF records, not so much.
Systemd 250 Released with a Number of New Features, Improvements
They install touchscreens because they think people want them. The cars sell, because the only choice is touchscreens, and their decisions are validated. Rinse and repeat.
> I’m not familiar with [Zig] or its Windows API interop

Incidentally dealing with very interesting complexity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29610302 (from a couple days ago)

The issue honestly reads like a Rust-hustle level of "we will figure these issues out correctly". Really cool to watch from the sidelines.
It’s mostly because LaTeX is deemed mature for its audience and features like these, while flashy, are not going to see much use day to day.

Most academics want to take plots they make in Matlab or whatever and put them into the template supplied by a journal and get an elegant looking document with well typeset equations and a bibTeX bibliography.
Arbitrage crypto bot, two months ago was only an idea.
It seems like it serves the same kind of purpose as SyncThing (https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing).

SyncThing seems like a safer bet (better community, proper OSS, etc). :)
Just bought mission control plus (As soon as I read the description, my first reaction was "Take my money", I wouldn't have minded paying 15-20 usd for that but to be fair, 8.99 meant that I just bought blindly instead of doing the free trial). Experience buying on your site is not great:

1. After entering my credit card details, I'm redirected back to your site without any message (I did receive a confirmation email a few minutes later)

2. It's a nitpick, but there's nothing I dislike more than forcing me to convert to my local currency. First the exchange rate is much worse than what my credit card charges, second I lose out on miles.
I had a sticker on my work laptop at my old company with the company logo edited to say "ecstasy" and no-one ever commented on it
Pretty certain that Google will lower the payload on expensive connections. These things get A/B tested to death.
So a decade old MacBook is only 4x slower than the cutting edge one?
Fiber gets closer to the speed of light, even when accounting for retransmission delays, than just 50%. The index of refraction for glass is commonly quoted as 1.5. That makes it 33%. Also, Starlink isn’t vacuum speeds either (unless you are talking about the inter satellite laser links and not the downlink to CPE, which even they I’m not sure operate at full “speed of light in a vacuum”).
I'd expect a 10 year old laptop to be quite a bit slower than a new one, M1 or not.
I am very happy with my artisanal choice. I have been doing so for several decades, now. Usually only trouble when I have to move to a new IP range (changing colo provider), as it means re-establishing reputation and so forth.

Not a huge issue, and worth it for me.
How do you get the 3 year trial subscription? My Camry is barely a year old, and I've used up my trial. They spammed me relentlessly trying to get me to sign up for the subscription, for a service I never actually used.
I'd rather say the tl;dr quote is:

> He plans to spend the rest of his career building the web’s one true platform, the open system the internet deserves.

and his Camus quote later on:

> "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Ask HN: What are sites that you find useful?
I am somewhat familiar with Ohio; I have relatives living there, one of my parents is from there, and I have driven across Ohio border to border several times already this century, and I grew up just one state over from Ohio. My surprise was not from lack of familiarity, it was because Waffle House is clearly based in the Southeast, not the Great Lakes and upper Appalachia region.
The copyright owner would always have more rights than someone using a GPL licensed copy of the source. Automattic itself doesn't have to abide by GPL terms for whatever use they want to make of Wordpress, WooCommerce, etc.

Edit: Seems there's no contributor licensing agreement for Wordpress, so complicated here. Though the general point of copyright holders having specific rights beyond licenses they release under is still relevant, IMO.
I completely agree that investments have inherent risks, which is why investors usually transition into lower risk portfolio nearing retirement age. And I believe you already know that.

The point of Retire 35 is therefore, not doing precise financial modelling. I am not qualified for that.

Instead, what I propose is a change of mindset and how we view retirement. It should be a more of a "mid point" in life, rather than the "last lap", if that makes sense.
It was forced through by breaking the rules of the process and overruling the committee that should have made that decision. Many old-school Debian maintainers quit in disgust at that point, so if subsequent votes have been in systemd's favour then that's probably why.
It matches the WakaTime results (not a survey, just stats on IDE usage when WakaTime plugin is installed).

https://wakatime.com/a-look-back-at-2020

Change the url to 2021 to see the new results after midnight Jan 1 2021.
What's worse is the stickers will fade after a while and then just look bad. I used to put stickers on my laptops, but I stopped doing it a few years ago. I especially don't want to put a random company logo/brand on my laptop (as opposed to a library or programming language, which I'd be a little happier with, at least)
No, Wordpress Foundation does.

Wordpress might be very openly developed but that does negate legal ownership and responsibility.
"Mice lies Monkey Exaggerate"

The title is deceiving and it should contain mice. And such criticism are okay in my book.
I have an Air M1 and it definitely hiccups once in a while. It is noticeable. I am guessing it is Rosetta related.
I love the idea, but wouldn't use it for bigger pages, because it means you cannot link to individual sections within one page, because then :target doesn't apply to the top-level <section> anymore, right?
Cme btc futures can be spot settled if you can find a willing counterparty for an otc block trade.
I did run my own email server for 20+ years. As you may imagine, I had to learn a thing or two about DMARC, DKIM and SPF, but spread over the years it is not a big investment to make.

Most of the time, delivery problems were of my own creation. Like running out of disk space or accidentally disabling TLS.

Once in a while, Microsoft would start swallowing emails or Google would push everyone to use DMARC.

But overall, the experience has been very pleasant. I host my mails, I own my data. I am not shy of using Google, but my work is not defined by their whims. When Google tells me I ran out of space in my account I just delete stuff because I have copies of everything outside of Google infrastructure.
If, every time we look where the theory says and don't find any supersymmetric particles there, you say, oh well they must be somewhere else, that is no sort of prediction at all.

It cannot be said to predict black hole numbers if those were known, and dictated which subset of the 1e500 possible string theories are still under consideration.

Predicting a number of dimensions is no good if there is no slight indication of any extras at all, and no conceivable way to discover any.

There is no circumstance in which no doubletalk can be conjured to prop up the empty tent. Deliver actually measurable consequences, or GTFO.
The entire post your responding to is explaining what is wrong "this line of thinking" and while you may disagree you don't really argue, you just assert.
These articles never clearly state what problem they want to solve. Some candidates that seem obliquely implied:

- That you personally don't feel motivated to make OSS because of the way it's structured. Of course no one can fault you for that; that's the default position. Same for me and, say, juggling. But should the ecosystem really reorient itself around encouraging you--and specifically you--to participate?

- That there was some implicit social contract that has been recently violated by the commercial use of permissively licensed stuff. But there was no such social contract, the OSS dynamics haven't changed recently, and the whole point of the MIT and Apache licenses is to allow this.

- That the ecosystem doesn't have a structure that lends itself to the flourishing of OSS. This one is just clearly untrue; look around.

I hear all this vague grousing about the state of a system that seems to be working really well and for which participation is entirely voluntary. What problem do we want to solve again?

(There was also something in this article about ads in paid products, which I also find obnoxious, but that seems like a non sequitur? Did I miss something there?)
Kotlin is not Java vnext, first of all because Jet Brains is "married" with Google's fellowship of Kotlin, secondly because they seem to be focused into creating their own Kotlin based platform, finally OpenJDK will never be rewritten in Kotlin.

Rust editions are no different from selecting language versions, on their current state they require compiling from source with the same compiler, a very tiny set of language changes that might be supported.
Remote doesn't really refer to the geography, but the asynchronous workflow. In the manner, many of those companies are far from remote.
This is completely wrong, SMTP is decentralized. Own your future, self host your mail, it's not hard. I predict that eventually all messaging apps will use SMTP under the hood! Xo
Yes, The market cap of a company is an indicator, but it is an indicator of something real: Acquiring the full ownership of the company.

The market cap of crypto doesn't even indicate anything. "Buying every bitcoin" doesn't mean anything. There's no value in doing so, unlike buying an entire company.
indeed, it is easy to miss the shoulders we stand on
Dump the flash over serial or see if there is tftp support (or maybe nfsv1) These bootloaders usually support high-speed serial (maybe even up to 921600 baud). Alternatively, if it supports tftp, the transfer would be trivial (ha).

I recently had to download flash via serial converting an aerohive with old firmware to ddwrt. Bootloader supported Kermit, xmodem, and ymodem.... really brought me back!
Here is a summary of 13 failed commercial software products. It is from 2010, but a lot of the reasons for failure are just as relevant today:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2010/05/27/learning-lessons-f...
Exactly. I spoke about comments only. I can turn blind eye on occasional non-English comment or short note here and there. But naming variables and functions in local language is an inexcusable sin. I am from small country of Czechia with 10 mil people. Naming function in Czech is utterly stupid. Even if you’re sole developer, there’s a good chance you’ll want to paste a snippet to stackoverflow, sooner or later have a collaborator from nearby Ukraine or Pakistan (very common), or god forbid! - your product will be so successful someone will want to buy it. Good luck if the code base is littered with language nobody speaks :-)
Yeah I think the JavaScript one is the only one ham-fisted enough to get spotted without explaining the joke.