skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making that assessment based on one appearance on a podcast is a pretty weak conclusion.

David Swanson has taken several openly anti-Russian positions:

https://davidswanson.org/why-russia-is-crazy/
The flip side, is the premium bike manufactures which have all gone to a custom part model, particularly with mountain bikes. Every couple years the wheel size changes (try getting a 26" mountain bike these days, even for smaller riders), axle changes, bottom bracket, head tube, shifters, chain dimensions, rear hub sizes, etc, etc, etc. Then after 5-10 years the parts become unavailable.

So, your premium bike might last longer, but when it breaks your screwed, time to go ebay shopping for a used part. I don't even think the manufactures know how to deal with this. Trek gives people lifetime frame guarantees, but after 2-3 years they can't actually provide a replacement frame that works with the bike components. So, its become like the 120+ month battery guarantees, they know its not going to last 120 months, the scam is to prorate it enough to force you to buy a new one. Sort of a built in loyalty discount.

In many ways I think the Walmart type bikes tend to be easier to repair since they are mostly still using older "standards".
> Much of the rest of the world has realized that society requires and is capable of supporting advanced education for all...

I don't know about all of the rest of the world, but many countries require you to "test in" to college (and then it's free). The US basically lets anyone go to college if they can pay.

You can argue one is better than the other. But you should be honest/aware of the difference.
The only controversial thing I can think of here is when it comes to the definition of abuse. People are on the sex offender registry for public urination, although I suspect that this happens more often with repeat offenders.
Wow I forgot all about MagicLeap, surprised to see they're still getting funding.

re: Simula, this is the first I'm hearing of this device and it's a pretty cool concept. I have an Index but IME the larget bottleneck for productivity is the "screen door effect" and resolution. Text is tiny. The 2nd bottleneck being difficulty using peripheral devices (KBM) while in VR. Curious if anyone has tried this device yet and can confirm whether these problems are addressed?
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You'd be amazed how well these work.

Sometimes the order falls through, sometimes the washer needs to be returned. The thing is that these items are so high-profit that targeting this small chance of purchase is very valuable. And these users, even though they have just bought this thing that typically they need 1 of for 20 years, are still higher probability than average to purchase another.
There are many men who suffer through sexless marriages for 20, 30 years or more because their partner was victimized as a child. (I'd assume that some women also have similar problems because their man was abused.)

Such a man can work really hard to please and love a woman and try to create feelings of safety. They might blame themselves, thinking that it's because of that argument they had this morning, or yesterday, or last week, or two years ago, or the time the bed collapsed when they were having sex 25 years ago. But no, the woman doesn't feel safe because of something that happened 40 years ago that didn't have anything to do with them. The need for safety is a bottomless pit. Maybe the woman sees that the man is trying really hard and fakes a response but it's not real and the man sees that and it never blossoms into real mutual satisfaction.

It' s completely frustrating because the woman has adjusted well to being asexual. Perhaps she could struggle through three years of therapy to attempt to change, but it is unlikely to be effective because she's not doing it for herself. The man, on the other hand, might be willing to plumb the depths of hell or storm the gates of heaven to change things but it's pushing on a string.

(If the man has been traumatized by child bullying and subsequent sexual invisibility, rejection and being shut out from dating in high school they can be re-traumatized continuously by this demonstration that they are unlovable.)

I was reading about how the actor Danny Masterson had drugged and raped women, stealing their sexuality not just from them but from their partners. Thus a single act of abuse affects not just the direct victim but their lovers, their children, and many others in the community.

In the past two years we've seen a normalization of doing things over video and there has been an explosion in things like camgirling and OnlyFans -- many of the performers are people who had their sexuality distorted by abuse and I'm sure than many of the men who become victims of it (paying $1000 for a jar of farts, spending $80 for an Aella video) have themselves been victimized ) or are suffering because their partner or potential partners were abused.
SaaS was mainstream but e.g. Creative Cloud was not really SaaS - it was "we give you desktop products and you pay an yearly fee instead of the one-time cost". Adobe tried very hard to add Saas features but especially initially, the appeal was purely in the payment model (and I know a lot of individuals didn't like it! But a lot of companies did).

Arguably, Netflix started this trend even earlier - with their exclusively-subscription model for renting DVDs (something that one used to at least be able to pay-per-rental).
I use the Quest 2 almost exclusively for my day job as a programmer (any time I don't have to be on camera in meetings), and have been using VR to do this for years - I'm the guy behind this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041

The Quest 2 is remarkably capable for its form factor, but has some significant limitations and requires a lot of babysitting to get it tuned "just so" to make it that productive. Reaching that flow state, or even making it more productive than a traditional physical screen layout, isn't particularly accessible, certainly not yet on a mass appeal level. So yeah, it can work, but there's a LOT of room for improvement.
They seem to have trouble providing even decent journalism to the US...
I applaud your efforts my friend, part of our problem is we've never lived anywhere with good public transit. I will also just throw out the world changes quite dramatically from 2 kids to 3 kids, once those little buggers outnumber you things get a lot more exciting in parenting.
Down 6.6% from Fall 2019.

This is likely some combination of Covid making college temporarily less attractive (the social connections are just as important as the education) and lower-income students who have families that need them during the pandemic (community college enrollment dropped by a higher 13%).

I would expect enrollment (at least at 4-year universities) to fully recover once the pandemic is well and truly over.
> I'm under the impression that the industry needs to learn to treat amateurs as amateurs regardless of their age. It feels like I'm not allowed to be an amateur professional simply because I'm over 30 years old.

To be clear: Someone using only your age to discriminate is not okay and I’m not suggesting it is.

However, reading the hints in your post (“amateur professional” and referring to a manager from another field) suggests that this is more of a recent career change for you.

When changing careers, it’s important to be able to demonstrate that you’ve accomplished things and gained experience in your prior field. If it looks like a complete career reset and you can’t really explain what you’ve learned in your career to date that makes you a better hire than a fresh graduate with similar experience, why would the hiring manager assume you’ll thrive in your new career path any better than your old one?

> "why hire you over a younger graduate?"

Not very tactful, but this should be a softball question for you: They’re asking you to explain how your prior career experience, even if not in programming, makes you a good choice. Think of what you’ve learned and accomplished and explain how it makes you the more mature employee and team member. If you can’t think of anything, that makes you more of a liability for them because even average new grads can accumulate some degree of accomplishment and achievement.

> I had my former manager from a completely unrelated field introduce me to someone looking for web developers, and that didn't worked out because they wanted me to learn their stack and build an assignment within a week, which failed gloriously.

Being able to do a basic assignment is table stakes when it comes to getting jobs with a non-traditional background, like it or not. You can’t win them all, but I’d suggest working on getting to a point where you can demonstrate your skills quickly to new employers.
From what i hear you need at least a Masters degree in Chemistry to get lab assistant style jobs at entry level now :(

And no, they do NOT make good money.
Banning behavioural advertising is not the same thing as banning advertising in its entirety.

Newspapers, for example, survived for centuries on a mixture of subscriptions and advertising before they could snoop on their readers to decide which ads to show.

TV and radio advertising right now works as a funding model without syphoning personal data.
I’m surprised how little the histories of the web include the contribution of the French tech sector for DSL, the technology that made computer networks easy to expand to every house, and the general idea that the Internet could be a domestic technology. Until the late 80s, the Internet was a military and gradually academic tool, but even until the mid-90s, having an internet connection at home was quaint outside of France where accessing your official records, buying certain things online was a convenient reality. TCP/IP and Tier 1 networks were only one half of the story, and the far smaller, easier half: connecting every country is a matter of a few big projects; connecting everyone is something, that to this day, many still struggle with.

There’s an occasional mention of Cepremades as an inspiration for the Internet Protocol, some technicality about Alohanet, but never a history of why that should be in everyone’s living room, except a mysterious prescient and unhelpful AOL, their omnipresent CD, and nothing about the government-sponsored, centralised project to make cheap modulator-demodulator use long copper wires — something that proved both incredibly difficult and relevant.
I guess we could just use normal ram slots assuming it could be powered and whatnot by them. Might be able to build something into the mobo microcontrollers to recognize if ram or ultraram is plugged in and then know what to use each for.
I think this comment sums up my complaints in a lot of ways.

Google's entire business model is based around customizing content to an individual level. Youtube's whole deal is that it theoretically understands what I want to watch.

But it doesn't. And it's really weird to me to even have a discussion about what the average user might or might not want out of a recommendation engine. I feel like that misses the point -- with all of the data Youtube collects on users down to what portions of every video they watch, why is it so hard for individuals to tell Youtube what kinds of videos we want recommended?

Why is it showing repeat recommendations to people who don't want them? Google's entire business from Youtube to advertising to its calendar features, it's all built around knowing what individuals want, and this is an instance where even when people are consciously trying to signal to Youtube that they don't want something, they can't, and the site just kind of ignores it. It's a failed outcome no matter how you look at it; the average person's recommendation tastes for repeat videos don't matter because Youtube isn't just the "trending videos" page, it has a section called "your recommendations".

Those recommendations should reflect the preferences of the individual using the site, that was the entire promise behind all of this invasive user tracking.
Or, later, when all of your kids are moved out.
I've been working at home for about 12 years now. I would not even start a conversation with a company that wanted me "onsite".

My work location exceeds anything any other company could possibly provide me.
Except, maybe I don't have snacks sitting around all the time, I don't get free lunches.. and, I don't have a ping pong table to challenge my co-workers at.

I miss a few of those things, but, generally, I'm happier working at home.
Because the AMT course is typically 24 months long by itself (for a combined airframe and powerplant certificate)? It’s 30 months of relevant, supervised maintenance work experience or a qualified AMT school program, which are often 24 months full-time.

That’s far more time than a typical creative writing minor.
Not sure to follow, my point was that the Lenovo is currently on sale for $2045 and that using $3500 as a price is kind of misleading as you would never buy this laptop at MSRP.

That being said your Kickstarter rebate is a real rebate (or sale ;)), I was using "sale" because Lenovos laptops are always on sale hence the real price is the price on sale.
But then why are people saying that hiring is so difficult now?
E.g. "I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892437
This strikes me as a very strange argument. If physical ownership is moot because we don't have ultimate control over physical reality (at least, not to the point of bossing giant meteors around), why does that not also apply to the physical interface to the systems that allow a more "pure" form of ownership?

You have supreme power "as long as your private key is truly private", but that is obviously impossible. At minimum, your key must be known to at least one device that you did not design and don't fully control - the one signing transactions on your behalf.

Let's suppose that you completely eliminate all supply chain issues by building your own hardware wallet from a box of scraps in a cave or something. Congratulations! You have now embedded your "supreme power" in a physical object, and your ability to exercise control depends entirely on the model of physical possession and ownership that you have declared unsound. Hooray?
Thanks. Do you know if this covers other kinds of services, such as global load balancers (Akamai, Google Load Balancer, etc), for instance? They do know about source IP (which is considered PII), destination hosts and in many instances (where they terminate TLS, or unencrypted connections) pretty much all the information being transmitted.
In my undergrad, when I was living in dorms, it also came with a meal plan (I think ~2 meals a day covered). So for in state, 10-15k was tuition. The rest was rent + meals. So 15k / 12 = $1250 a month, which is not cheap, but considering it includes food is really not bad at all.
For sure, totally agreeing it has increased - just wanted to shed some light on why specifically Dublin/Amsterdam (and to lesser extent Paris/Berlin) win a lot of these jobs.
Academia is a hostile environment for a right-leaning person. When less than 5% of professors identify as conservative, why would you gravitate to it, as a conservative? That's half the country, by the way. Maybe that has something to do with low engagement. Consequently, the institution suffers dramatically from its own groupthink.

That being said, there's a difference between academic education and other forms of education, such as vocational or work experience. One is not better than the other. I'm weary of people that think they're smarter or better than someone else on the basis of what school they went to or how long for. Academia does not have a monopoly on knowledge. Particularly in the information age, but even well before the age we find ourselves in, there's always been value in the pragmatic experience of less intellectual pursuits.

I'd say the U.S.'s slant towards pragmatism and away from intellectualism is one of my favorite things about the country. I'd say it showed itself pretty well on the Covid response. Red states were more quicker to re-open, quicker to drop restrictions, and quicker to move on to living with Covid and in spite of it. People knew intuitively that you wouldn't be able to control a virus more infectious than the common cold.

And many people know this, intuitively as well, that's why New York loss record population last year and why Florida and Texas grew dramatically. The intellectuals running New York and New York City probably have tons of education and not one bit of common sense, because all they know is conformity. When an ordained expert says jump, they ask how high?

That doesn't even begin to cover the other part of it, which is how poorly adapted academia is for the 21st century. Even if it were free, it wouldn't fix that problem.
Why did you need a minivan when a camry or equivalent can easily and now comfortably seat 5?
Great stuff, got 315 on third try. I made a game in the same vein sometime ago: https://vladimirslepnev.itch.io/zigzag

One thing to note about this kind of endless runner games is the scoring system. Everyone uses the system "get as much points as possible in one run, each run starts from zero". But that forces people to slog through the early parts each time, and also makes them more likely to stop playing after an especially good run. I thought about this for a while, and came up with the idea that a better system would dock points for mistakes. The run would continue, a misclick would just give you a short breather and set you back fifty points or so.

I made some prototypes like that and the effect was striking: you stick with one run for a long time, falling into a kind of meditative state, never wanting to stop. Eventually you find an equilibrium where wins and losses balance out, and keep playing there, at the best of your ability. If I ever release an endless runner again, it will use that system.
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> Shang chi

Shang Chi had some good long-shot Wuxia-style scenes.

It wasn't as good as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" but unlike the rest of the Marvel films, Shang Chi actually had proper fight scenes in them.

But you're right in that most Marvel scenes make no damn sense from an action perspective. I'm constantly annoyed by their cuts personally. I'm just surprised that you threw Shang Chi into the same boat, because Shang Chi had more proper action shots than I can remember.

I'm not talking about the CGI-dragon fight at the end (which went back into the Marvel mold of CGI + jump cuts). I'm talking about like, the first scene between Ying Li and Weng Wu (Shang-Chi's mother and father). Or the Bus-fight, which was pretty good IMO. At least, good by Marvel standards (which are pretty bad).

It doesn't hold a candle compared to a good Jackie Chan scene, but at least they kept the camera still _SOMETIMES_ in Shang-Chi, rather than never keeping the damn camera still.

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That being said, I enjoy Marvel films. I just wish they shot the action better.
Also try to imagine the thermal stresses when you have cryogenic propellants on the pump side and hot exhaust gases (gas generator or staged combustion) on the turbine side!
The confusion is what is input and what is output. The string "Bob'; drop tables students --" should not be sanitized/encoded on *input* to the application. However, if you're not using parameterized queries, it should be encoded on *output* to the database.

Data should only be sanitized in transit and not stored in an sanitized form. That's what the article is really saying.
Mozilla has a Rust QUIC implementation (one of three good ones in Rust) https://github.com/mozilla/neqo

I'm not sure why it's not used here.
>I am astonished how many people prioritize the social/pub/restaurant/movie theater scene over the literal survival chances of millions of people.

We all do. We have always done this. That's why drugs exist. That's why transportation exists. Life is not a "maximize your lifespan" game, it has never been.
Toxic culture indeed!

Saw a very interesting bit of a talk yesterday, using how Seal Team 6 selects the team - two axes, Performance and Trustworthiness, and a grid, High/Medium/Low for each axis.

Obviously no one wants the lower left corner of low performance and low trust and everyone wants the High of both values.

But it really turns out that you will NOT want even the best performer with low trustworthiness — a very average performer with high trust is a better choice.

The problem in large organizations is that they have many methods and metrics to measure performance, and almost none to measure trustworthiness.

I've for decades observed that large organizations seem to actively filter-in and select for sociopathic tendencies at the top; there are only a few, ad seemingly by happenstance, who I'd rate high on the trustworthiness and ethical scale.

This talk made the mechanism immediately apparent -- all the selection is for performance, and there is little to no selection for trustworthiness. Fro trust, there's only a few rails that seem to resemble 'don't get caught breaking the law'.

Of course, when high-performance/low-trustworthy individuals get to the top, they are not going to institute or support systems to select for high-trust.

So, organizations will tend to ratchet in the sociopathic direction. And, sociopaths at the top can barely do anything but create a toxic culture.

Now we see the results: MIT studies show results "consistent with a large body of evidence that pay has only a moderate impact on employee turnover...In general, corporate culture is a much more reliable predictor of industry-adjusted attrition than how employees assess their compensation."

This correlates with many other studies I've seen that people to not really leave bad pay, but bad management, and often in particular, bad managers.

And now, the measurement of only performance and not trust has made toxic cultures endemic, and — surprise — nobody wants to work there.
For about 7 years Google Maps couldn't give me directions from my house to work. Not that they gave the wrong directions, no, literally couldn't give me any route.

Any mapping company has errors for individuals. Question is, in aggregate are they better or worse.
Please do not take HN threads further into flamewar. There's more than enough suffering to go around, but this is not the way to open up a thoughtful conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Agree on this point. I have a "compact" pickup and I absolutely will not even try to park it in a garage as the spaces are too small.

I wish the judgement would stop on what people need/use. If they cause a huge impact, add a tax. (lower the gas guzzler MPG requirement, etc)

Any before anyone says anything, I do construction/wood working on the side so yes, I absolutely use it but do not daily drive it.
Only in a small handful of states (CA, MN, PA, WI, CT):

https://www.aarp.org/work/job-search/info-2021/employers-age...

For the rest of the US, age is only a protected status if you are >40.
Who would someone speak with about licensing things made using waifu? My email contact is in my profile...
Not to claim that what you were told isn’t true, but when people make such claims, it is often the case that they have little experience going into those areas themselves, and are simply relaying the stereotypes.
> Shitty code is shitty today.

This is really helpful.

I think I write reasonably good code. When people who are junior to me ask me, how to differentiate between premature abstraction and writing good code, I don't generally have an answer. This comment made me realise what I actually think while writing code.