skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. In the last three years I picked up Joyce's Ulysses, which I sputtered out on 35 years ago, and Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, which I sputtered out on 15 years ago. I now believe that Ulysses is the best book I've ever read, and Mason & Dixon is very good.

So much process. People think there's a formula, not well known, that greatly raises the chance for "success" however defined, for everything. Nope. IMHO the key to "anti-mimetic"[0] living is to cultivate your inner bullshit detector. My friends have a fully functioning one; people who turned out to be false do not; I have no idea how to nurture one for anyone else. There is no process, other than get as broad non-digital experiences as you can and use those to learn to think for yourself. I have no idea how you can do that, because apparently no-one who is not my friend appears to think doing this is sane.

[0] This Rene Girard stuff, fueled by lavish attention from Peter Thiel and his acolytes, is bullshit. Think not? Well a while ago, I thought it might have some validity, but then I read the review by Joshua Landy in my previous HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955489#21956253

The child comments are interesting too. A moral of the story is that my bullshit detector initially failed me, but eventually, with more experience, I got it straightened out.
Anyone who claims one language or tech stack is going to become the be-all, end-all of how we build things on the web is either naive or selling something.

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of ignoring grandstanders and focusing my time and energy on learning how browsers work. If you understand the DOM, CSS and core JavaScript fundamentals, you can apply your skills to virtually any front-end stack.

In the end, the thing that hurts the web the most is complexity in the name of DX. We are tricked into thinking that the simple thing is too hard to learn on the one hand, while being asked to juggle multiple layers of "sophisticated" abstraction on the other. These days there are entire businesses rising on the need to reduce the cognitive load created by our layers of sophisticated abstraction. But, I bring you the good word: you can still build incredible experiences without pulling in most of the complexity (and without sacrificing as much DX as you think).
Be careful not to conflate those west of the Cascades (esp. Seattle and Portland) with those on the east side (e.g. Bend, Spokane). Those who who live(d) east of the mountains handle snow just fine.
Alcohol, the solution to all world problems
This reads like it needs a (2015) in the title ;) In the meantime, VR has gone from massive overhype to at least having a small place in niche gaming (mainly combat flight simulators) where it will probably survive until the next hype cycle is due in ca 15..20 years.
Basically, this author is clueless. It's HIPAA not HIPPA, and it only applies to a very limited number of orgs, not a typical employer. HIPAA doesn't even really give you medical privacy- it's a law literally written to make it easier to move data around (the "portability" part) and hold covered entities (like health care orgs) liable if they disclose certain types of data, or business associates, if they signed a particular type of agreement.

That said, nearly everybody gets the law wrong, I've had to explain to lawyers why the law didn't apply to my startup (a biotech that was neither a covered entity, nor a business associate).
Why does this site need https?
It's a description of reality. We can agree the situation is unfair, and that the big companies show an arrogant approach, but if you want to get hired you have to conform to what is asked and expected.
I don't disagree with you because I've gone through a divorce that halved my net worth but I don't think "don’t live in a common law state" is decent advice.

If you ignore all of California, you miss out on higher compensation and interesting work opportunities. Should you live your life such that you limit your opportunities? I don't think so.

I don't think ignoring serious relationships altogether or avoiding children because of the potential financial headache they could cause is a healthy way of thinking about your future, purpose and what you want, just my 2 cents.
> 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!

I don't see how you can have a mere two job interviews (that likely have many applicants each) and then arrive at this conclusion.

How many jobs have you applied to? What are you doing to stay up-to-date or get back up to speed?
Time doesn't have to be hard though? Just stick to an international standard and stick to it. Reject anything that doesn't comply with your chosen format. It's better to fail than to continue running after you receive garbage data. I admit we have a close system at work be we never have time issues.
Will 5g also affect radar-based cruise control in cars?
> You need to have a cookie banner to have a third party provide ads

No, you only need a cookie banner if those third parties collect data.
> Dismissing it as luck can only work if the author succeeded on the first try.

This is wrong, or your definition of "luck" is different to mine and most other people, I assume.
Maybe it is his job to execute the interview design.
People tend to emphasize the negatives, like you mentioned, but WhatsApp has revolutionized communication in the low-income country I came from. And I think ultimately creating a net benefit for society (even though the conspiracy theories are really bad). Calling/texting using the cellular networks is still pretty expensive, so a lot of mom-and-pop shops conduct a significant portion of their business over WhatsApp (for a fraction of the cost of an equivalent 1-800 number).
I feel you, sudo port install <package> is way too complicated. btw, anything in brew can be anywhere else, like macports or nix, all it takes is a maintainer to sponsor it. But I have to respect your brand loyalty, even in spite of fatal flaws and less than a quarter of the packages available elsewhere. It is then recommended that you never install anything else into /usr/local. But some tools will install there by default, such as BBEdit command line tools that will default to /usr/local/bin, which actually abides by the UNIX filesystem standards by doing so.
Yes actually it is, because the analogy is your storing your fiat in your house or in your pocket, which can of course be robbed, have you even insured cash stored in your house or pocket, I highly doubt it.

Just like fiat you can store your crypto with an insured custody provider (and still own your own keys), which is the norm with smart people who have a decent amount of crypto assets.
You say:

- You don't want to give more priority to non-Linux users

- GTK feels terrible on those other platforms

- You don't believe those who care about licensing issues would use it

- You cannot build releases or installers for Mac

The first thing that comes to mind on reading your response is that the non-Linux users are a market you are not really interested in - and even if they were they are not a market you can effectively serve (installers, updates, issues).

You should consider formally abandoning official support for non-Linux, as in reality you don't currently have actual support for them anyway. Be honest, cut your losses, and choose your customers. Cross-platform is not a benefit if it is unsustainable.
Indeed. Whenever i hear of "labour shortage", I'm immediately reminded of the "show! Me! The money!" clip of Jerry Maguire.

There's no labour shortage. There's a lack of currently available labour for the terms you're offering.

Edit: and perhaps some folks who should not be considered as on the labour market, but are labelled unemployed nevertheless.
Some tough love here, from the parallel universe you. It was people like you in the late 1970s who inspired me to be a programmer (literally, talking to Hughes aircraft programmers on the bus to high school about the JOVIAL language), but one thing I knew by the time I was about 12, say, 1973 or so, was that aerospace engineering in the Hughes aircraft world was boom and bust. I did not learn programming until I was 21(completely self-taught), in the early 1980s, but what I understood from the beginning was that I had to keep my skills up.

Ever since then, even after getting a job as a program manager at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, I have continued until this day to assume that I would be fired and would have to find another job. Which means that I have studied every day for almost 40 years because I knew someday I would get old and less easy to hire. For the last two decades, I ran an extremely lucrative business, yet continue to keep my skills up.

But I haven’t heard from you is that you have tried to adjust to the market. The simple fact is, if you want to get paid what programmers get paid these days, you need to know what programmers know these days. After all, you made a good living in the 1970s because you had a special set of skills for that era. The easiest thing for you to learn at this point would be database backed web development, perhaps in python or (my favorite), Go. You could learn what you need to learn part time in about a year.
I would say all FAANG are in desperate need of lawyers with a technical background - personal experience suggest it's probably the single largest unmet need in the market. You can easily start at 400K talking to eng and maybe swing some coding in between the meetings.
I think my main issue with the PNW is the absolute cacophony of road markings and layouts (especially around cities).

There's just so much shit going on on the roads, compared to the east coast. They're little things here and there, but I found myself completely unable to drive on "autopilot." Nothing is intuitive; there's gotchas everywhere. Either there's an absolute bombardment of road markings and signs, or there's none at all (so you're either completely overloaded with information, or you don't have enough).

For example: you have bikelanes that merge into the center lane from the outside (without any strong indication, so I always assume the right-hand lane is disappearing -- but no, it's still there, so you always miss the turn). You have the absolute mess of highways that exit off into major stroads (!). Everything is so densely-populated that it's impossible to figure out where exactly you are, because there's so much going on.

It's like too much thought was put into road planning. There's too much shit going on.
> The net effect is that the house uses 75% fewer total BTUs for heating than it used to when I had a gas fueled furnace.

You do realize that the 75% reduction is from your insulation improvements, not changing your furnace to a heatpump.

Given the current construction/remodeling costs it's not very cost effective to insulate. It's financially "better" to just burn more heat. Yes perhaps worse for the environment longer term but most people still make decisions based on direct costs not indirect environment.
> then the banner isn't helping you avoid it.

That's just plain false. I know many people, especially in the older, less technically literate people, who now systematically disable such analytics thanks to these banners – people who had never realised the real dimension of users tracking before this law.
Contract life requires one of:

a) Dependence on recruiters/headhunters who take a cut (20-50%+ of your 1099 income)

b) A strong, solid network so broad as to always have leads and offers to keep you busy throughout the year, year after year

c) A giant's reputation: you're well-known elite in one of the FAANGs and built something a lot of people use; you've published books or make speeches at conferences. You're the inventor of some open source tool everyone uses.

Since c is out of my range, I attempted b and find I didn't have that type of skill (or energy) to schmooze and booze my way to a vast network. My past connections from previous jobs are OK, but reasonably loose and they tend to hail from large corporations where there's no contract possibility for my skillset anyway.

I was left with A, which meant that I didn't truly feel independent, but also in the last 3 months of my contracts I would be scrambling and not exactly able to take those 3 months or 6 months off to travel the world like I dreamt. Instead there are lease renewal, healthcare (in the U.S.), and other headaches.

I'm happy to be proven wrong or be offered a "d" option.
You can scan your pets in Meta. They can then travel the Metaverse with you. Once the AI training completes, your pet's personality will be synced to the cloud. Your dog will now be with you forever so you can happily put the meatspace version to sleep.
Thanks a lot for this !
I’ll try them out too
I thought in science fields most publications are based on styled templates (for Word or LaTeX). So there should not be any need to 'recreate' a styled layout from scratch.

Figure and table placement is still manual per pub requirements, but page/section/font/size styling should be already defined.
In my experience spamassassin works wonderfully. There are some few false negatives (1-2 mails per week), but I did not have a single false positive which is very important for me. For example Google is much worse in that regard, which forces me to check spam every few days to ensure no legitimate mail ends up in spam, so it's like no spam filtering at all, I have to read it all anyway.
To be fair, the advantage of being ready for the few days of snow in either place is pretty low. I remember all the cars stranded in the interstate in Atlanta. Had to walk to pick up my kids from the school about two miles away because the buses were stuck in traffic.

Here in Seattle, I was lucky that I was only a block from a grocery store. Roads may have been bad, but I wouldn't know. Just stuck closer to home.

Of course, now I live out down a non city maintained road. Guessing it will be longer before I get out, this time.
> I hope not, too, and I really don't understand the desire to wear a HMD all day.

Not everyone is privileged enough to live in an environment perfectly suitable for work or living their life. A virtual world creates space that doesn't actually exist but is still quite useful for the person working inside of it. I don't own a movie theater but I could potentially enjoy the experience of one with VR. It would also enable me to arbitrarily define my workspace in such a way that is not even physically possible in the real world.

For example, I have large studio monitors that physically require there to not be obstructions in front of them, which creates constraints on the size and placement of my display(s). In a virtual world that sort of limitation doesn't exist. I could still sit at my same desk with the same studio monitors but with a limitless space for the displays that could be placed exactly where they're most useful, without concerns for obstructing the studio monitors.

> Are these folks' lives so empty that this is better than just, like...being present?

Why would you infer that people's lives are 'so empty' just because they find using VR appealing? Even if someone wanted to spend 100% of their time in the 'virtual world,' what exactly about that makes their life empty?
It opens with some fair points why somebody might not, but the main reason —perhaps on par with the constant security headaches— isn't there. You will never block spam as effectively as Google, Microsoft, FastMail, etc.

They see [for lack of a better word] infinite times more spam and ham than you'll ever be able to train your little Spam Assassin database, and millions of users to sort through it.

Email without spam control is not a pleasant experience.
Rogue nations may want to incite chaos and panic by means of lying about the snowfall in Portland, Oregon.

Duh.
Pixel resolution of HMD without stating FOV is useless. Much better unit of comparison is pixels per 1 degree (PPD).

Original HTC Vive (2016), which was basically the first gen VR product, was 9.81 PPD, current Vive 2 Pro (2021) is 20.4 PPD. Oculus Quest 2 (2020) is 20.58 and currently the best is Varjo VR-3 (2021) with 70 PPD for central display and 30 PPD for peripheral display. Pimax 8K is 22.58 PPD.
To all the folks peddling VR, just take a look at the 3D TVs.

At one point they were the future, now they are nowhere.

Same will happen with the VR headsets.

Note: just like the peddlers are predicting that VR is the future, I’m predicting it’s not. Neither of us know the future. I’m as confident in my prediction as they are in theirs, or probably more since my prediction is not driven by self interest.
As context for non-Portlanders, the "revolt" against additional freeways was one part of a larger effort to manage urban growth so as to avoid endless sprawl and preserve the agricultural landscape surrounding the metro area. One of the freeways that the city specifically opted out of building fifty years ago would have taken up the entire west side of the city's waterfront; because we _don't_ have a freeway running there, we instead have a beautiful park that is one of the city's gems and that provides space for music festivals, etc. right in the downtown core. Instead of strip malls and condos running all the way to the ocean in one direction and Mt. Hood in the other, the area surrounding the city is home to a whole series of vibrant agricultural industries (wine, various fruits, etc.).

Like anything else, it's about tradeoffs. This series of planning decisions had a ton of downstream consequences, both positive and negative (and I'm happy to enumerate plenty of examples of either). I certainly don't enjoy the amount of traffic that has come with the city's growth --- I'm a lifelong Portlander, and have watched it happen --- but I firmly believe that more freeways would not solve the problem. Induced demand is a thing, and there is also geography to contend with. For example, one of the biggest traffic choke points is the freeway coming in to downtown from the western part of the metro area; since the 80s, there have been several major (one might even say "meaningful") projects that have widened it about as far as it is possible to go, but at this point there's literally nowhere else to put another lane. Of course, part of why it's a choke point is that after the tunnel it immediately intersects with another ill-sited freeway --- one of the last ones built before our "revolt," and one whose siting and construction caused logistical problems that the city is still dealing with, fifty years later.

Anyway, it's complicated, but the local government "betting the future on light rail" is not the reason traffic has gotten as bad as it has. Population explosion, geography, and seventy-odd years of path-dependent decisions about freeway placement and urban planning are the reasons.
Doesn’t the number of antennas make location more precise without beamforming? Doesn’t seem like it has anything to do with location precision.
It's tiny by US standards, but they use different types of furniture, so it's comfortable. They tend to use a lot of wall hooks, tons of tiny drawers, smaller convertible beds, etc.

I was living there with my wife and her two family members and had no trouble at all. That place was about 700 square feet, but it felt like an 1100 square foot place would in the US with giant furniture and large open floor spaces. I had a ~150 square foot room set aside for my office and VR space, the in-laws had a bedroom with tatami mats, there was a large-ish living room/kitchen with a big TV and couch, and then a bedroom for me and the wife
> Those who who live(d) east of the Mountains handle snow just fine.

I spent most of my life in Minnesota, and even there, people think they can handle snow (which they do better than folks here in the Puget Sound region). But every year, there are huge pileups, gruesome accidents, slowdowns, etc. They, just as people east of the Cascades, have more experience, but I would stop short of saying that they 'handle it just fine.'
Ok, but the same would hold true for any exchange app. But that does not make it a lightning app. The coins would be held by the exchange and the app only displays your balance.
My path to financial independent: be lucky.
A used laboratory grade NGS system can be had for less than 10K

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265148387179

Nanopore is still not quite ready yet for precise and high accuracy sequencing. Give it another five years.
Open source alternatives to try in 2022
UK National Crime Agency finds 225M previously unexposed passwords
Well, then I must do something wrong. I run my personal email server based on Debian stable on my own SBC hardware in a colo for a couple of years now . Manual maintenance is just upgrade to the next stable Debian version every 3 years or so. I had zero of the problems you describe.
Here you go! https://www.hackernewsdaily.com/ :)
> As a consequence your website makes no money. At that point why run the website at all?

Many European websites are now proposing users to either accept cookies or buy a subscription to the website. This looks like a very sane way to address the problem to me.

> You'd just have more and more websites that block European users.

Why should I care? Market changes, adapt or disappear.
Yawn...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592786
Your wrong. BTC is the 100$ in your wallet because it's literally in your digital wallet, your solely responsible for it. On the other hand a digital custody provider (which now has legal banking status in several countries) is much more like an insured bank.
Not much really... In many languages ORM's require just about as much boiler plate or careful error checking as copy pasting SQL strings with supportive structs... Not saying ORM's are bad, some are OK some are maybe even good. Project/team dependent...

That said, I find the concept of abstracting ML ingredients outside of languages a nice one although its not entirely novel(python's been doing this from day 1 :D). The strength for keeping it in 1 language can be profound though. Compilers can optimize across operations. Calling many atomic functions from an API/server from a client loses that unless implemented carefully. That one language benefit is a big part of what Julia has to offer.

I could see a value addition statement being made if the "whole market" solution included a lot of goodies. But every time I think of what that looks like - I think it looks like Julia in 2-5 years....
1,000 New People Arrive in Texas Every Day. Half Are Newborns.
I was going to say, IP blocks for DO make it one of the last places I would use for serving mail I actually wanted to be deliverable.
I think you should consider this view in the context of various country's immigration policies. Privilege definitely comes into play.
Because I can't install uBlock Origin in my city.

https://ublockorigin.com/
good luck! it’s not that tough, just a lot of new vocabulary.
Thirded (if that's a thing).

I've been working recently on two code bases: one using angular and the other htmx (with python/jinja2/FastAPI). Both aiming to deliver broadly comparable interaction - so approximately comparable in essential complexity.

In a month, or a year, I'm confident I'll be able to check out the htmx app and work with it pretty much right away. The dependencies won't have changed much; the build will still work; and I'll be able to understand the code. I will lay bets now that the same will not be true of the angular app. On any one of those three counts.

If simple, understandable, stable and effective are what GPP meant by "primitive", then I want more "primitive" tools like htmx.

Light sabres, not death stars.
Moving a lot of water is very expensive. Perhaps not impractically so, but it’s getting there.