skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misunderstand me. Changes in the brain happen from all kinds of behaviors. Some harmful behaviors can change the brain, and then removing those behaviors will change it back. ADHD brain is an explanation of the symptoms, but it does not constitute a cause. People with similar anything in behavior will have similar brain scans in some way. It may very well be the case that bad behaviors modify the brain and cause ADHD symptoms. This does not mean it's a disorder, or needs medicinal treatment, any more than obesity is/does. You can treat obesity by stopping the behaviors that caused it, or exercising, even when obesity has physical changes to the body and brain. This means obesity is a problem, but not a disorder. It can be treated without chemical intervention, and it's not an intrinsic part of the person's life. I have seen no scientific argument why this is not also the case for ADHD. I believe the current treatment methods for ADHD are basically the equivalent of treating obesity with cholesterol medications; that is, it's treating a second order symptom.
I would wager that all that the the majority of Tesla buyers know that they are getting into is "It's a Tesla." It is a social statement/signal/fashion accessory as much as it is a car.
You're never alone with the best Christmas movie ever made, Die Hard.
Not withstanding that HTML and the DOM are garbage to work with in any language
Interesting.. Could make for a cool Chrome extension, to analyze text on a page and show tooltips about the person that wrote it (I bet you can infer more than just where they're from!)
I believe a good brain benefits from less stimulation and periods of downtime where one can think of a problem peacefully.

When studying diseases of the brain, there are some dementia cases where a good approach is to modify the environment to be very simple and minimalist so that the brain stays focused and keeps a grip on reality. There is no reason to think that this doesn't also help healthy people.

Linus Torvalds famously works from an empty room with light green walls and a nearly silent computer to enhance his focus. I do similar.

I sometimes see people who are known to be scatterbrained and their work environments are obnoxiously overstimulating. I think to myself, "It is no wonder such a person struggles to grasp difficult concepts and repeatedly fails in their code. The work environment is basically a barrier to their ability to focus."

All of this is to say -- do not overstimulate children. Do not introduce them to low quality content that will rot their brain.
Probably. Tesla easily sells every car they build at the moment, so they can increase their margins.

Some of their cars are still good value. The LFP Model 3 in Norway for example.
The BLS has a page that shows the CPI over the last 20 years[1]. Looks perfectly fine over that timeframe. Some ups and downs as one would expect but generally on target.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
It makes sense. The first rain after an extended dry spell can be treacherous until the oils are washed off the pavement. Once it starts raining consistently in the winter, the roads go back to normal because modern tires have great traction on wet pavement.
Global trade report – Battling out of supply-chain disruption [pdf]
Probably. The article itself had a comments CTA in point #25, a newsletter subscription CTA in #15, and then I stopped reading because it seemed like a hypocritical list in that it was on course to hit all the typical content marketing milestones. Struck me a bit like Thoreau praising the wilderness from the comfort of civilization.

Which is not to say it's all nonsense. I think the front matter sums it up nicely. Life is about what you focus on. Your personal focus is what will separate you from the "dead fish".

Focus is dividing what matters from what doesn't and that's unique to each person. People do this focus calculus all the time when deciding whether and who to marry, how many kids to have if any, what school subject to study and how hard to study, and so on. The "dead fish" in the article's analogy aren't really dead, but they're acting on subconscious, pseudo-instinctive drives (usually some form of search for social validation) whereas we can at least attempt to be more conscious of what we want our life to be about (social validation maybe doesn't matter as much as we often feel it does, at least relative to other things).

This can sometimes mean abandoning, at least in part, the principles of those around us because they don't lead where we want to go (a common experience between parents and their children). Or at least being able to better negotiate compromises when someone knows what they actually want rather than just trying to get along.
Tesla motors explained
> ... if we shared all knowledge with each other and worked towards a common goal ...

I believe that will happen before we reach Type 2 at the Kardashev scale.

The question now is how do we reach Type 1 asap (hopefully within the next 50 years)
I now live in Asia, where almost everything built recently is induction. It's wonderful. Hardly an electric garbage stove to be seen anywhere.
Not for a car comparable to a Model S.

The parallels are almost perfect though:

- If you want to buy just the cylinder block (not even a short block actually!) for 10 year old top of the line Mercedes Benz direct from your dealer? $24,000 https://mbparts.mbusa.com/oem-parts/mercedes-benz-cylinder-b... And that still needs another 10-20k in parts to be a functional motor

- But buy a rebuilt long block from a junked car and you can probably get one for about 10k

- If you're willing to do some work you can probably pull one yourself in a junkyard for a couple thousand. (really a couple of hundred, but factor in getting it to your installer, tools to get it out, etc.)

-

I will say the challenge with EVs is the risks are higher for reconditioning.

If you buy a poorly rebuilt engine, yes in theory you car can go up in flames, but most likely if it doesn't seize up after install, you're in the clear.

If you buy a poorly reconditioned car battery, you have a permanently dangerous problem lurking, and it likely only gets worse...

Edit: Also the floor is definitely lower for ICEs. There are engines out there that are so ubiquitous you could replace them for a couple of beers and a friendly pick and pull place.

Battery packs on the other hand are way too complex to have that sort pipeline. Even if old packs become ubiquitous the risk of improperly handled battery packs means there'll have to be a "blessed path" batteries follow after removal. You can't exactly start tossing battery packs around with cranes the way we currently do with scrap ICEs
Thanks for your suggestion. I did try by making a TODO list (and even breaking down to the extent of what I should be working on at a given hour), but couldn't adhere to the scheme.
It’s definitely the message cloud marketing has been cramming into people’s brains, and most of them are falling for it. Why am I seeing cloud ads in an airport, and never ads for any other low level technology like Ethernet or LDAP? Because they’re doing an end-run around tech people and targeting CEOs with these completely unrealistic messages.
You carried around that starlink gear? Or with a vehicle?
That seems to be completely untrue: https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/
I don't know much about either the author or libertarian theory in general. The point in this article specifically seems sound. Is there something I missed?
Amazon isn't hiring all those people to suck up to the government. They would happily replace them all with robots. They are constantly trying to automate more.
Apple reportedly hires Meta’s communications lead ahead of headst launch in 2022
I don't agree with this because you want to have kids if you are to have any chance of anyone caring about you when you are old. I guess some might be satisfied with people caring about the money you have when your old, potentially leaving some of it to them, but that's not my cup of tea.
IIRC I was copying the way that HN displays submitted links vs the link to the comment thread.
When you send an e-mail, as soon as it leaves your mail server it's out of your control and you have no say in where it goes before it ends up at the recipient. There's no such thing as self hosted sent e-mail.
PSA: You might have trouble setting up new iPhones and iPads this holiday
All the numbers are public so you can follow how I’m doing with EmailEngine and if it’s worthwile or not in the long run https://www.indiehackers.com/product/emailengine
How can you put extra into the Roth? I thought the cap was like $6000/yr (500/mo)
step 1. start with a high income with tons of disposable cash

its a variant on the general rule that the best way to become rich is to start with rich parents
I like to define commands in LaTeX. These allow me to easily reorder parameters, change formatting for parts of the replacement rules. When I modify its definition, it changes everywhere it is used. How do I do that in word? Can you discover it without resorting to a search engine?
All companies would fail, if wages were increased beyond a point.

The argument is about where that point lies with respect to a minimum, living, or worthwhile, wage.
Pan-Coronavirus “Super” Vaccine
Yes but they did bet on Hydrogen and lost and were in denial for way too long. In my opinion, their best EV today is a rebadged Citroën van. Their Lexus ev is a shame.
This is absolutely wrong. Pretty much every single piece of evidence we have shows that zoning has a massively impactful effect on the supply of housing. Similarly, the vast majority of studies looking at the issue show that induced demand doesn't occur for housing (that is, adding housing supply does lower prices, rather than simply causing people to consume more).

With regard to NYC, even though it has added around 250-300K housing units over the past fifteen years or so, it has added around three times that in jobs. If housing supply isn't increasing in line with people, you will see increases in prices.

Some links:

- https://www.planetizen.com/news/2019/06/104783-doubt-cast-in...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FB_xI-U6w

- https://furmancenter.org/thestoop/entry/supply-skepticism-ho...

- https://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/SOC_2017_FOCUS_Changes_i... (the key quote here being: "In 2016, NYC had 8.2 percent more housing units, 11 percent more adults, and 16.5 percent more jobs than it did in 2000.")
I certainly hope this dystopia will never happen, and VR will still be a fringe niche.
I agree that this is what manufacturers would want, but am hopeful that consumers will reject it, as they did years ago when manufacturers would deny warranty claims if they found a non-OE oil filter in use.
I think the main take-away is that financial independence like this is possible in USA. Not so much in Europe or pretty much anywhere else.
Being autistic mean I don't really need to make an effort for that. Silver lining, maybe?
I thought that's the one part that had a bunch of frameworks already made
It is interesting to note that the Chatterjee paper makes a point of mentioning Pearson, Spearman, Kendall's tau, whereas the ones focused on in this paper all appear as citations but aren't explicitly discussed.
Spokane in eastern WA stands in contrast, where there is an average annual snowfall of 44 inches and 17 inches of rain. Seattle averages 5 inches of snow and 40 inches of rain. Hence Spokane maintains an enviable fleet of snowplowing equipment and a deep bench of citizens-plowers… Seattle has little of that sort but quite a bit of rainwater harvesting.
IMO the way to avoid being resentful to an arbitrary half of people is to continue distancing yourself from the herd until you're at odds with most everyone. From my perspective, people who don't wear masks AND people who continue to wear ersatz surgical masks are all ignorant. Since this ends up being 97% of the population, I obviously cannot carry this opinion prominently. I just wear my own functional respirator in public, quietly model them as the petri dish they are, and deflect their questions with empathizable breadcrumbs.
__mega backdoor roth__ or whatever the fuck it's called.
> And, contra what Mr. Harris says, today the trend is not obviously in javascripts favor. Five years ago, we, as founding members of the javascript resistance, were despairing of any hope of stopping the Javascript juggernaut. But then something unexpected happened: Python took off and, at the same time, javascript flat lined:

Why yes... if you use Stack Overflow usage as your measurement.

The problem is that doesn't tell you anything about JavaScript or Python... except whom is using Stack Overflow.

As a JavaScript developer (primarily), I use Stack Overflow far less than I did in years past, not just because I need less help in general as a senior, but because SO is so littered with JS answers that are outdated, poor quality, and conflate JavaScript with jQuery, that it's simply not worth using 99% of the time because MDN provides excellent documentation.

It's been a while since I've used Python, so maybe things have changed, but I remember the documentation not being comparable. It's good documentation, but MDN is excellent.

I'm not saying that either one is better, but that to use Stack Overflow trends to prove a point seems very fallacious. By that point I couldn't finish the rest of the article.
Exponential Backoff in Distributed Systems
Not really. This 3 year pilothas many restrictions like you can only be parked in one of 240 designated areas. You can't rent in the city core.

This is about balancing normal scooter uses advertising
I meant CSI haha, that was a bad typo
One interface to two different package managers is preferable to two interfaces to two different package managers. My experience with Homebrew is that it has what I need more often than MacPorts does, this is why I continue to use it.
Yes, a little boredom helps flights of fancy, too much is bad for some kids
Thanks; so then the question is hth did the US manage to do this 5G allocation without thinking about the consequence?
I have never heard of a dealership repairing the part that is not oem. If you bring a tesla with non oem battery they may still repair your brakes. They will not repair the battery.
I say memorization because they don't allow you to look anything up. I can, for example, look at a problem and remember vaguely that there's an algorithm and/or data structure that's ideal for solving it and some of the high level concepts/keywords I would need to find it. I also know the right google foo to find it again, see if it's still current best practice, find a decent implementation of it, where good documentation is, and so on.

I can't always bang it out on a whiteboard from memory though. If I could, I don't think that would somehow make me a better developer. It might make be a better T/A in an academic environment, but that's not typically what these kind of interviews are hiring for.
Some knowledge is dangerous. Bomb making isn't very difficult. Any chemistry grad can manufacture explosives from commonplace chemicals. But we don't put the how-to guidebook in highschool libraries. We actively put hurdles in front of such knowledge to regulate its use.
Linux is a different beast, and the big variety of choices you get is a special thing about Linux and not a detriment.

If you're not sure what to use, just use Ubuntu. It's a great default distro.
Fantastic list, and was quite happy to see, I'm already doing most of these, many for most of my adult life. The big ones for me were I threw away my phone a couple years ago, and have essentially stopped using all social media. I also made an effort to go completely analog when hiking, something I do daily, for instance barometric altimeter and contour maps vs gps/google maps.

There are 2 that I weren't on my radar at all though, and will take them to heart and work them into my lifestyle: "Return Anger with Kindness" and "Forgive Someone. Repeat.". These are really hard in today's divisive world, but someone has to take the first step.

Thanks for putting together a wonderful list.
Ask HN: Been writing code for 40 years and can't get hired
Merry Christmas to all!

I would like to ask the advice of those who have possibly been in my situation:

I am over 50, and have been developing software since the late 70’s. Over the years I switched from being a full timer at Hughes Aircraft in LA to a part time consultant in Hawaii. Things went pretty well for decades, but after a family loss I lost interest in work for several years.

Since then, and after my skills no doubt became somewhat outdated, it is absolutely impossible to find work. The continuous news articles about the “great quit” where many folks are leaving work, as well as the claims that hirers are having great difficulty finding employees seem to be fictional from my POV.

Over the past few years I have been only interviewed once or twice a year by anyone who seemed interested, most notably Google and Facebook, but neither decided I was a worthy hire. At this point it seems impossible to get even a junior developer job! The only interest I ever see is from recruiters overseas, who seem to be matching my resume up with job listings by keyword only.

Does anyone have any advice for a developer who has been writing (and delivering) code for over four decades on how to find a job? How do I make someone believe they are hiring a developer who can deliver? I know it sounds ridiculous, but that’s the situation I am in!
This doesn't line up with my experience. I have the option of having anywhere from 22-37% of my RSUs withheld to pay taxes. The IRS only forces you into the 37% supplemental withholding rate if you make more than $1,000,000/year which alas is a problem I've never had.
The DOM is a tree model. Navigating a tree is highly imperative. Developers allergic to imperative code tend to require unnecessary abstractions to make sense of the technology. Everything that follows is a foot gun of dependency hell.
Not only that, but riding the appreciation of AMZN and GOOG stock (or just tech in general) in the last couple of years. It appears from the graph that this person had a lot of investments in tech and that the recent bull run helped them tremendously. As someone, who has similar investments, I've seen it firsthand, but I don't think it's a trend that will last forever.
Here's the RFC thread from that tweet:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20211226153624.162281-1-m...
> Better Way to See Pixels

I'm not sure if the poster has actually used VR. Pixel density is still substandard, for two reasons:

* It's easy to forget that you have to drive two displays. Double the resolution, half the framerate, double the nausea. If you choose lower pixel density, then your users will enjoy pixel grid. Keep in mind that the pixel grid was a big issue for the Vive (the last HMD that I owned), at 2K per-eye.

* Manufacturing processes: we have to be able to make smaller pixels in the first place.

We need way more graphical power in more efficient cores. Apple will need to seriously push the GPU envelope on their next chip if this is to become a reality.
Benchmarking Ruby 2.5 to 3.1
Thing is their diesel in Europe offerings were far from stellar reliability wise. I seriously looked into used gasoline Toyota but found out many engines had a gasket issue.

In the end I bought a Renault, knowing that it might have issues but so far nothing happened.
I didn't say to ask if someone would buy it. I said to actually sell it to someone. As in, collect the money or get a contract signed.
Would you be willing to link to it?
Sure, but that’s a known flaw, and it’s also not a use case I have. I already said I’m not a fan of it’s design, but feel compelled to use it because of its dominance. Brew is solidly a “worse is better” proposition. I do not care nearly as much about how my package manager works as long as it has the packages I need when I need them. This is the priority for user experience.
Those days never left. There's been a ton of TBS games released throughout the years, some of them very very good. It's my most played genre by far.

Endless legend, XCom 2, Fallen Enchantress, Age of Wonders 3, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, battletech, some tbs rpgs like divinity original sin 2, the total war series is a hybrid RTS/TBS genre, card games, tower defense games, and auto battlers.
Common security principles and how they are applied in daily use. For example Root Certificate Authorities and how they apply to having https://your-domain.work.securely with no browser errors. Using bought and certs created by openssl command.
I've owned two Hondas, and they both had major transmission failures (granted, they occurred at about a quarter-million miles). After that experience, I'd probably lean to Toyota more, although the Toyotas I've owned have been more rust-prone.
This is perhaps the most important point right now in our increasingly polarizing society:

“The time has come for us to forgive one another. If we wait any longer there will not be time enough.” He understood that the only way that we wouldn’t be ‘battling to the end’ in a never-ending mimetic escalation is through an anti-mimetic movement away from violence and retribution and toward reconciliation and peace.
Wait, what's the point of a secret patent though? Like I get the point of keeping military innovations secret, but patents are supposed to be a trade where the government offers a limited-time monopoly on a technology, in exchange for making the secret sauce of said technology public.

If I re-invent/re-discover the tech behind a secret patent, can I be sued for patent infringement, despite the patent being non-public? What's the point of granting patents for this?
Metadata, which isn't encrypted, and is still the most powerful part of Prism/Xkeyscore, because most people don't try to understand it.
> Isn't there some kind of indicator the software can produce, as do the laptops and iphones? Or are those indicators not very reliable in practice?

A full "coulomb count" of a battery can somewhat reliably estimate the amount that a Li-Ion battery has worn out. Its a pretty simple idea:

1. On one charge-cycle... count every electron that enters the battery.

2. As its discharging... count every electron that leaves the battery.

Typical phones and laptops will perform a coulomb count whenever you go through charge / discharge cycles (and a full coulomb count will only occur if you go from 0% charge to 100% charge... and a full count is the most accurate).

However, this is an external "blackbox" estimate to the life of the battery. You don't really know the battery's condition. There's no chemical test involved where you're sampling the contaminants inside of the Li-ion cells.
TL;DR: Toyotas tend to be more reliable, easier to maintain (less yak shaving), and thus tend to last longer and be more valuable.

Toyotas have earned their cult-like status because of an extreme focus on quality at manufacture time (see Toyota Production System) which results in durability and reliability of the finished products (the vehicles themselves).

For a real world (rather ridiculous and unscientific as it may seem), see this video where a popular automotive show set out to 'kill' (render inoperable without inputting new parts) a Toyota over the course of around 3 videos[1].

Here in the US, I drive a 1998 Toyota 4Runner, a cousin to the vehicle in the video, and I know that every single repair dollar it is fed translates to more miles on the road.

Yes, if you feed new parts to old cars, they get slightly less old. But some brands (ancedotes are not data, yada yada, but:) primarily US domestic brands (though foreign BMW etc. can misbehave too) tend to make strange design decisions that result in an unreliable, poorly aging vehicle. A 199x Buick Rivera required my father to drop the front axle IIRC just to swap the oil pan, or something similar.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk