skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think all of your statements need to be taken with a large pinch of salt.

Plenty of people will give you the stink eye if you're by yourself in public. Some arse once loudly informed me I was a loser for being at the movies by myself. That happened once, but it was enough to make me realize that some people really can't fathom the idea of people having fun by themselves.

Drinking with friends is likely to be much more dangerous than drinking alone, unless you're an alcoholic, or your friends are abstaining. Peer pressure is real, and it goes away entirely when you're alone.
Any extension of executors will require having a trait abstracting the executor used, and there just isn’t one in std yet. Your code already has to be tokio specific if you do something as mundane as spawn a task.
> I'm more interested in hearing arguments supported by evidence than having blind, lemminglike faith in self-proclaimed experts.

LOL. Your submissions include biblicalscienceinstitute.com and crev.info

Is benpiper.com your website? That site has a list of websites titled "Science" that include Creation.com:

https://benpiper.com/free-resources/#science

I'm so glad that religiosity is declining and that crazies like you are being marginalized more and more every day.
> All of the major operating systems are good enough or can be made good enough by installing a few packages.

And that's exactly the problem - macOS and Windows don't have "packages" in the sense that they do in Linux distributions. You can install software on both, of course, but it's relatively speaking a mess and Homebrew / Chocolately don't really suffice to make the experience anywhere nearly as clean and consistent as it is on literally any Linux distribution.

Other than that, I would agree, though for computer experts I would argue that Linux gives you the ability to fully understand how your system functions and control it at every level, and that this can be valuable. It's also a lot easier to use primarily open-source software on Linux. On the other hand, Linux can't run a lot of proprietary programs that are readily available on other systems.
So, yet another template engine.

I call clickbait. Spent a couple looking at the examples thinking whaaat. Turns out that's not hmtl but an extension to it, you see.
Why is this so slow to develop? I've heard for 15 years about it.

Nowadays we have great CFD and ubiquitous CNC machinery.

The temperatures are nowhere near jet engines.
> and be as consistent as my old Macs.

Would it help if I point out that this is just rose tinted glasses? ;-)

Or at least, when I used Mac full time back in 2009 - 2012, it was the least consistent thing I ever used: even such basic shortcuts as moving a word forward or backwards was inconsistent. Same with home/end: in one app it would be CMD + arrow left/right, in another it would be fn + arrow left/right. In Safari CMD + left meant back which kind of made sense but was hugely annoying when I filed out a web form in Oracle Enterprise Manager or something, wanted to select to the start of the line and ended up leaving the form, discarding half an hours work.

(Yes, bad web application. Feel free to tell Oracle that.)

That said, I kind of like Apple when they aren't messing up keyboards physically or logically and aren't busy snooping in my pictures. I've convinced my wife to use iPhone and switched most of my kids phones to iPhones and even use one myself and have bought a Mac mini lately - it is good as long as one can take it slowly, one careful step at a time - definitely not something I'd want to deal with in anger or if my life or the customers data depend on it.

And consistent - it is not!
> One guess is that lisps cope with being minimal through use of macros and metaprogramming, it's difficult for a typed language to support that level of metaprogramming while maintaining the various guarantees that one wants from such a system.

Difficult, but certainly not impossible [0].

[0] https://cakeml.org/
An economy grows by accumulating capital and then putting that capital towards productive uses. Merely holding bitcoin will not grow an economy, but by allowing people to accumulate capital more efficiently, without it being debased, people will have the ability to produce what they previously could not.

Suggested reading: "How an economy grows (and why it doesn't)"[1]

At present, due to rapid depreciation of the dollar and a growing demand in bitcoin, there are not many effective uses of the capital which would net the saver an increase in their purchasing power versus just holding onto bitcoin. This is likely to continue for some years to come, and bitcoin holders will be rewarded for their thrift. Eventually bitcoin holders must invest their capital or they will see their purchasing power stay the same or depreciate. In practice, bitcoiners will invest some of their capital into bitcoin-related projects, as this improves the likelihood of fast adoption of a more equitable form of money, and if this money does succeed in eclipsing fiat money, the companies developing these tools will be lucrative.

Money is not merely a tool for transacting. It is a store of value, a means of exchange, and a unit of account. Bitcoin serves all 3 purposes well. Admittedly, there are some issues with scaling the means of exchange, but I'm very confident that these will be addressed by solutions which are in the works. (Disclaimer: I am a contributor to one such solution)

Also disclaimer: I've been holding (and investing) bitcoin since 2011, before shitcoins were a thing, and for precisely the reason I've outlined here, because I immediately recognised it as a solution to the scam of fiat money, although I never actually expected it to take off at the time and it was more of a pipe-dream. What is surprising is how few of its proponents actually understand its reason for existing. Most are merely in it "for the gainz" and don't realize they're positively contributing towards replacing unethical fiat money with a superior tool.

> Young people will soon learn the value of real work, not quick and easy money. The last three crises were mostly fueled by rich people selling lies: dotcom, mortgages, I hope crypto is not another one (but it fits the pattern).

Incidentally, it was bitcoin that encouraged me to work harder, because the opportunity to acquire it NOW while it is cheap is too big to miss, since it will be more expensive later, I will acquire much less with the same amount of work. I work my ass off, am thrift and pile as much as I can into bitcoin.

"crypto" is definitely a bubble. It is fueled by SV investors and scammers promising "the next bitcoin," but are all solutions in search of a problem. Bitcoin alone fixes the inflation problem. You can't fix inflation by creating more money, as is done by all "crypto."

[1]:http://freedomschool.us/how-an-economy-grows.pdf
HFT, if you're good and want to sacrifice your life
I’ve struggled to successfully implement todo lists because I always run up against a thing that I need to do but really don’t want to. Its usually something that involves interaction with someone, and pushes my anxiety.

Does anyone have a mental trick for overcoming this sort of thing?
The only reason Jack Dorsey is "calling out" VC-funded crypto-scams is that he is in pre-marketing/marketing stages of his own crypto-scam.
The brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods
“In April 2021, Canalys reported that AWS has a market share of about 32%, while Azure ranks after it with a 19% share.”

AWS is probably ~20% above others from sources I know that work on AWS and Azure billing teams.
No proof of stake has been working without issues for a while now. Maybe you’re still in 2015?
Safari 15 IndexedDB Leaks
Some people take "If you don't have time to do something right, you have time to do it over." as a task list.
To do lists are part of a larger system that has made me a hundred times more productive.

For me, yes, it’s about remembering what I need to do in a given day, and holding myself accountable to getting it done. Mapping out goals and the many steps to get there gives me perspective on what it will actually take to achieve goals rather than losing momentum.

The one caution I’ll give is that for me, I’m also a somewhat obsessive organizer and someone who likes to tinker with my system. That’s a rabbit hole I’ve ended up going down and it can slow you down. I’m able to avoid doing that but I need to be mindful of it and commit to my plans and my system, revisiting it only at preset intervals.
Instead of drinking, all of these can be accomplished by taking a “spiritual retreat” for a weekend.

It could be a trip into the woods, a religious retreat with other people, or a stay at a quiet hotel far from home.

I’ve done all three. When I have to make the long drive to my parents for a mandatory family get together, I’ll book a hotel halfway to take time for myself.

The idea is to get away from your normal environment and sit down with yourself. I usually bring my kindle and a notebook.
I think it was really good! IMHO it’s much better to leave it open for interpretation.
In the Netherlands we can see the location of every passenger train since the train company just has a public api. Here is a map: https://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl/
I'm one of those six-figure junior-dev success stories. I had essentially no programming experience (and had been making <$40k) until I moved to San Francisco to attend a three-month bootcamp, and within a few months after finishing that I had a $115k job. Today I'm making nearly three times that.

What I would stress is that for a first job search, the coding is the easy part. You don't get a chance to demonstrate whether you can code at all unless you get past the resume submission and to the first tech screen, and as you've noticed, that's a very hard barrier when you don't have any experience. Job searching was brutal for pretty much everybody in my bootcamp cohort, even though a great number of them are very successful now, and this was entirely standard - the second half of the bootcamp was primarily dedicated to training people for job searching, and people generally spent 3-6 months job searching full time afterwards before landing lucrative jobs.

I have lots of things to say about this, but here's a few factors that I think are important off the top of my head:

1. Given that you have limited experience, you really need to focus on presenting it to best effect on your resume. You maybe have something of a leg up because you have actual work experience as a dev, as opposed to me and my bootcamp classmates, but it needs to sound as impressive on paper as you can make it. (And you need to be able to talk about it in the same way.)

2. Cold-applying through general job search websites like Indeed where you fill out a form is incredibly low-value - you're near-certain to get filtered out that way. There are a number of specialized job search sites for developers, some of which aim to skip the resume step in lieu of an up-front coding test (e.g. Triplebyte). Even better is networking, even kind of crappy networking: I got my first job, at an ~80 person startup, by cold-messaging one of the founders on LinkedIn.

3. If your resume isn't very impressive and so you won't get many tech screens or "onsites", you really need to train to pass those. I won't try to get into how to do that, since that's extensively covered elsewhere, but it's a totally artificial screening process that you absolutely need to put effort into.

People have mentioned that salaries are very different in the Bay Area than they are elsewhere, and that was certainly true when I started my SWE career - but given the enormous number of remote roles available, I think it isn't nearly as true any more.

Happy to give more info here, but if you want to email me, check my profile for an address.
Out of curiosity I've watched some of these. 50% of them, I can't even figure out what they're supposed to be. The other day I saw one where a girl was taking a selfie near the water. A guy picking up trash walked near her, she pushed him (I don't know why), she then dropped her phone in the water, jumped on a fence, jumped back on the shore and mean mugged him. I was honestly baffled as to what happened

Part of me thinks that these videos are being generated by AI and aren't real at all. A good chunk of them make absolutely no sense to me.
I write them, but rarely read them
Anything that can't walk around on its own is obviously a plant. /s

More seriously, the ideal is obviously an actual radiotrophic plant, right? That honestly seems within reach of genetic engineering, if it doesn't already exist.
In the US it is about 42% obesity and 42% VDD. Obesity also causes VDD (apart from bad diets, environment, lifestyles) so there’s overlap.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21310306/
What tools do you, or other HNers for that matter, have to share about breaking alcohol addiction? Especially covering the hard parts: what are the major hurdles to overcome?
Why can't ultrasounds produce 3D?
When the vaccines were first tested and approved they reduced the risk of infection by 20 times!

Of course that no longer is true because the virus has mutated under selective pressure.

I hope we'll be better prepared next time. Something like a worldwide simultaneous vaccine campaign, instead of disorganized every country for themselves approach we've seen so far.
The idea that fat efficiency can be improved via diet or training is often said, but the people I have known who both tried it and carefully measured it couldn’t.

Also there are perfectly ordinary ways to figure out you need to eat more, Ive coached some pro cyclists and done a decent amount of my own triathlon and cycling adventures and if someone gave me a free vo2 machine I don’t think I would ever use it.
You can’t even access a member though.
Martin Shkreli is barred from the drug industry ordered to repay $64.6M
Billionaires are many things but even the oligarchs with murderous goons are not beyond the reach of mockery of the common man.
The Shameful Decline of Scientific American
> If they wanted to abolish the police, they could have just said "abolish the police."

Interesting. What form would you expect this to take? Maybe an Op-Ed in the New York Times entitled "Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police"?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
Yeah, the bandwidth limit was a killer issue for my use case as well. I've heard from older businesses there were exemptions from limit for older enterprise customers but based on a couple sales calls I had with them, they no longer provide any exemption for bandwidth and there is no option to just pay for more bandwidth for any plan. The cost of accounting and having to always predict and significantly overshoot the amount of bandwidth needed easily outweighed any cost benefit wasabi gave for my use case. This seems like a strange limitation that they cant just charge me for max(storage_gb, transfer_gb) but it seems their infrastructure was designed with that limit in mind.
The quality isn't good, but the performance and features of the car are. We just got a Model Y Long Range in September, and have found it fantastic as a family vehicle. Handles far better and has considerably more storage than any comparably sized vehicle. Great acceleration even in the long-range. I could go for more physical controls for things like hvac, but the UI is still better than most other vehicles I've owned. Aside from the quality control issues, the cars are legitimately great.

Regarding quality control, we had one interior trim piece that was installed with the wrong pegs and so kept falling out - fixed by a mobile tech. It also had a small ding in the front fender, which Tesla had us take it to a local PDR shop to repair. That got it to about 95% - the spot is still technically possible to find, but you need to know where it was and carefully inspect from close range. Slightly irksome, but definitely wasn't worth trying to get the whole fender replaced.

Edit: For what it's worth I also own a 997.1 911 Turbo and a Honda S2000, so I'm far from just a Tesla/electric fan. In fact I really didn't want to want a Tesla as I'm no fan at all of the company for reasons like the OP. Tested all the competitors. But they're just legitimately good cars.
Tesla intentionally doesn't have any sort of PR department, so IMO it's an ineffective strategy to give them the benefit of the doubt until there is an official response- they don't do official responses, because they feel like it legitimizes their detractors (whether the criticisms are warranted or not)
The numbers, according to the article/pdf, are people checked in the hospital in severe condition.

Not the other way around
You can have nested quotes already, arbitrarily many levels deep.
>And, for the life of me, I never get copy paste from a terminal to work like I want it to.

Doesn't command+c/command+v work?
Weed is 100x better alone or with maybe one person you’re very comfortable with. It’s kinda fun out in a group but I much prefer listening to music on my headphones and writing and playing games alone.
I don't drink alone for the exact same reason.

How some people can function while drinking every night is beyond my comprehension.
What I don't quite get is why this needs a project; it just needs configuration options; for example, two-finger swipes currently map to mouse buttons (buttons 6 and 7 for left/right swiping) which most apps interpret as scrolling (in every direction). I'm about to write a script to remap those to browser back and browser forward actions (after a delay to prevent repeated actions), but I'm so surprised it's not baked into the desktop environment.

But thanks for the link, I'll check it out
Why don't we have dedicated "Copy" and "Paste" keys yet? I hate typing Ctrl+Key all the time.

Put them in the place of "Scroll Lock" and "Pause/Break" or "SysRq".
Is wasting resources inherently unethical? If so I suppose many other things like gold is also unethical, as we are wasting resources to mine it even if we already have big stockpiles of stuff and recycling it is pretty simple in many use cases...
> No one shuns…listening to music alone

This wasn't always the case (before the Sony Walkman introduction in 1979):

"The idea that a person could listen to music on his own was strange and novel. In Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music, Mark Katz mentions that in 1923, Orlo Williams compared someone listening to recorded music alone to “sniffing cocaine, emptying a bottle of whisky, or plaiting straws in his hair” (Katz, 20). This was an obvious exaggeration, but he emphasized the strangeness that society associated with solitary listening"

https://walkmanproject.wordpress.com/communal-vs-individual/
I have one. Out of curiosity, mainly.

I paid just under £100 for mine, about 3Y ago, and another £20 for the VGA/Ethernet dongle -- which doesn't seem to work, FWIW.

It's a fun toy but not much use. Lovely form factor, poor keyboard, poor trackpoint (and I like the things), and sluggish.

I wish they did a modern one with a better keyboard, though.
Is it?

Economy of scale would seem to win the day in the end.

Building an electric car is not fundamentally different than building an ICE one.

Changing the drivetrain does not change the rest of the vehicle that much, other than packaging, and thats pretty easy to figure out, any competent manufacturing engineer can do it.
https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto comes close for keyboard shortcuts
I agree. I am vaccinated and boosted and take lots of precautions voluntarily, but when I tell people that I don’t support mandatory vaccines (or coercion by threatening employment) or lockdowns, I get shocked reactions and uncritical responses. Part of it is that there is a current political trend, particularly on the progressive/far-left, towards statism. Censorship, bans, mandates, and purity tests are increasingly common and not just in the government but private institutions as well. I get the feeling that many who support authoritarian responses to COVID favor statist controls and view these incremental changes as bolstering the legitimacy or normalization of that type of governance.

The thing is, classically liberal societies are designed to accommodate disagreements and diversity of views among its people. We are all allowed, fundamentally, to perceive things differently and to value things differently. The system works when it makes room for that hyperlocal individual choice so this diversity of views can coexist. But when increasing amounts of statism result in a narrow political majority abusing their power against the rest (whether from the right or left), I think society is headed towards unrest and failure.
Yeah I think it’s that’s not normally said out loud, but many people think.

I’ve even caught myself looking at someone by themselves and wondering with some level of suspicion “what/why are they out here” despite me doing the same myself.
I’d just take them at their word they are functional alcoholics who formed a community around being alcoholics. If you think of it as a religion, maybe it makes more sense?
Doesn’t the incompleteness theorem say that any consistent proof system which implements arithmetic must be incomplete?

Then the system you are proposing, does it implement arithmetic or not?
i love Gnome and it’s always my choice when i’m in Linux land (40 was a great step forward, with a much more elegant virtual desktop workflow for one) but as far as i can see, there’s no universal interface for global menus (that is exposed on the UI anyway, there may well be something exposed on dbus…)

incidentally, KDE apps sometimes do expose global menus, and there is a shell extension for this on Gnome, but it didn’t work in 40 last i checked.

but yes, it is the perfect jumping point for the kind of workflow i desire :)
uBlock Origin + EasyList Cookies or Fanboy Annoyances.
PayPal has lot of third party data than most banks, but they stuck at decision making process.

"Shoot First and Ask Questions Later"
> > The committee seems to gravitate toward first adding the superseding features and removing those rendered obsolete only in the next standard, to provide a clean upgrade path to legacy code.

> Which gives you a constantly moving target, and code that once worked without issue is now in need of major maintenance, and (just like with Python3) the community spends vast amounts of what would otherwise be productive time just keeping application code current.

In practice compilers never remove anything they have had in the past. You may have to re-enable it with a switch though.
In the worst case you just stick with the previous standard until code has been updated.

> should've had a more light-weight "agile" development process, allowing what became 14, 17, 20, and 23 to happen without all the pomp and circumstance of the committee process.

To be fair, developing C++ without something like ISO would be impossible. It provides legal protection;
so many critical things depend on C++ that the committee would face accusations of collusion without a rigid process and a backing organization.

> C++11 was a mutant monster.

This is true to some extent, but it still was a big improvement on C++03, at least if you wanted to do generic programming and rudimentary metaprogramming.

> > C++ will evolve as long as programming methodology hasn't been perfected. At this point it is immortal and the committee knows it.

> I fear you are correct.

I have for a while suspected that people actually fear it. I wonder why?
20 years ago it may have looked like C++ could kill your favorite language but that's hardly the case today.
Now it seems like that it continues to be an expert-friendly language that is used to bridge the gap between human expectations and hardware.
I imagine that the future of C++ will look similar to its current symbiosis with Python.