skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you don’t mind the question, it’s not meant in a bad way, it’s pure curiosity and surprise: do you have a high-level, high-paying position and/or a family (kids)? Meaning, critical things that are negatively affected by the things you might simply not do?
Timeless Career Advice for Software Developers
Sorry for my ignorance but…can’t this be turned into an energy source?
Whenever I drink, I do it alone, and it's because I don't have much else to do. I'd rather be doing something else, but Covid has made the area I live in insufferably boring.
Many 9-year olds know how to type. I play videogames with one.
> https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme

Thanks for this! I didn't realize that such a thing existed.
There's a big difference between being self-taught and going to school, doing well, and being self-taught.

I'd suspect most people getting high-paying Jr. Dev jobs check all or all but one of these boxes; Started programming early, went to a good school, contributed to open source, quick learners, got good grades. Those are the types of people who tend to get Jr. dev positions with FAANGs.

Take a look at this post on HN from ~7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195

The blogger here was an intern at Repl.it, but if you look at what they created, their overall output on github and their blog, it's impressive. As a dev with 10 years of experience, I wouldn't be able to do a lot of what he did; I'd posit he's just a more accomplished and better dev than me, and that's OK! The bottom of the ladder for him is going to look different than it did for me and than it does for you.

Don't worry about comparing yourself to other people too much at this point in your career (your first job). If you're making enough to pay bills, focus on leveling up your skills and working towards being a better dev, and when you get to a point where you think your comp should be much higher, ask for it (another offer in hand doesn't hurt either)
Worse, he wrote an entire font design system as a way of procrastination during the aforementioned procrastination (therefore, Metafont ought to be called MetaProcrastinate).
Middle-click paste is a non-starter for anyone who uses a pointing stick (TrackPoint), since the middle mouse button is held down to scroll with the stick. Pointing stick users will usually try to disable the selection clipboard to avoid having unwanted text pop up in unexpected places.

Regardless, from my experience, the terminal is the only place where Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are not the standard shortcuts to copy and paste on Linux. These shortcuts seem to be universal everywhere else.
> Tesla has not yet had a chance to investigate what happened and provide the media with an official response.

They have no communications department.

No such response will ever come - there is no mechanism to request or be provided with one.
unfortunately the line of work i’m in demands i have immediate access to Adobe CC, which is notoriously borked on linux thru wine (for now!)

if and whenever i’m able to make the jump though, i would absolutely love to do the same. i would love to help organise and coordinate efforts towards it
Putting aside all the other `tonyg` comments:

> … not the least interoperable…

Well there was Distributed Smalltalk, we should be able to agree that provides something we might think of as interoperability.

https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/95apr/apr95a11.pdf

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There's stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29951172
I don't think Google practices American morals. If it did, it wouldn't be at the center of so many controversies in America.

That said, with morals being so different from one location on the planet to the other, it's worth wondering how Google will train its "AI."

Will it pick the least restrictive set, the most restrictive set, or some kind of hodge podge? (For varying definitions of "restrictive.")

My money's on a hodge podge that doesn't make anyone happy.
Yeah same, even prior to covid there’s not much for someone like myself to do on the weekends unless I really want to start losing money.
I actually did take photography and use Photoshop pretty extensively.
If video plays per page load is the metric the techbros of Google are what gets them promoted then you can be sure that's the reason behind it.
Some people just like to get fucked up. Better not to judge
I would highly recommend the book, "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande. It is written primarily from the perspective of Medicine however, it shows how checklists of different kinds are being used to revolutionize many industries.
Yeah, not sure I'm going to give much serious eartime to an academic who is most famous for predicting democratic neoliberalism was going to sweep the globe, pre-9/11 and the ascendancy of China.
I know very few people who can consistently drink alone, and drink very little. Maybe once or twice a year would be fine, but who does anything with such long frequency?

Rather, I see people who normalize alcohol consumption on a pretty regular scale (2-3 times per week, each day per week, each weekend etc.) and of those, quite a few have a chance to increase their consumption to full on alcoholism IF there isn't some other reasonable constraint. Only drinking socially is such a constraint.

I have seen too many people who say: "I am fine to have a shot of this, or a glas of that" when in reality they drink a lot more than that.

Edit: That being said, the Hunter S. Thompson full on alcoholism lifestyle is a valid choice. Not everyone needs to be healthy and have a long, productive life or whatever. Some sort of nihilistic, self-destructive Zen philosophy can also be a net positive for the world, especially in the arts. I just personally think it's a choice that leads to a painful, sad and miserable end. The problem is - who really chooses this conciously?
As long the author uses flowery language instead of just saying it's alcoholism as a lifestyle, I think something is amiss.
Apple gets around that issue by using a differnet modifier key. They have a different modifier key since the original Macintosh dropped the mostly standard control key. It was added to their Macintosh keyboards later, for interoperability with other systems. Windows, on the other hand, has the same issue as Linux. As soon as you call up a command prompt, they are using different shortcut keys.
- “ This is the "frankfurt school tried to invent a new communism" conspiracy theory” - I am sure I could google exact quotes from I think Marcuse that states the opposite. Maybe his utopia wasn’t called communism, does it make any difference? Having said that, what I find more interesting is how Marxism is the only theory adopted by all of western humanities, because it is the only theory that defines what social progress should look like. I feel we desperately need some alternative view of what progress is, because what we use now clearly isn’t working
They "seek to" cut off immigration altogether, and work towards it. They "would like to" send immigrants back to their countries of origin, but know it's not going to happen. The sentence seems carefully constructed to me.
you chose the editorialized bits instead of the content that explains why the author finds such editorializing suitable. going to disengage here
For me it's the sense that the world is rapidly heading out of control, with big companies and governments everywhere performing a mass stitch-up, and if you haven't already made it you're probably not going to. And they're driven by greed alone, and those trying to build a better world are losing. And it's got a lot worse since covid started.
C++11 is almost 11 years now, you no longer have to enter the type twice. Use auto to tell the compiler to infer the type.
I'm running pfBlockerNG already but not devel. Is that the key?
Given that Tesla's default strategy when confronted with defects is to deny and deflect, why would they want to pay their software developers to build systems that reliably collect evidence of defects?
The bill had been only law for 10 months when Reagan repealed it. It seems dubious that either the bill or its repeal had any significant impact on the national trend which, as the gp pointed out, was well on its way by 1980.
> So what is it about the car that makes them so popular now?

They're very popular with the type of person who genuinely believes that their Tesla vehicle will receive updates that will turn it into a robotaxi any day now, just like Musk has been promising for years.
what I don't understand is how even high profile tech people don't seem to be able to see through these lies. Reading the Wikipedia article "Criticism of Tesla, Inc." [0] is openly shocking (accounting fraud, insider trading, pressuring whistleblowers, endless lies and missed predictions among many others).

Just today another crazy investigative article was published in the Wall Street Journal [1]. Sam Altman and others rally to defend Tesla [2]. Elon Musk is lionized and can do no harm. Criticizing Musk is like criticizing technology itself - a blasphemous act; the believers are undeterred.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29947890

[2] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1130913917864034304
If you are doing it everyday, I agree, but only living for others is a recipe for burnout.
> "drinking with others tends to spark joy and even euphoria, while drinking alone elicits neither—if anything, solo drinkers get more depressed as they drink."

Never been the case for me, even when I used to do it a bit too often.
Is Open Source Free If We Aren’t Allowed to Break It?
I think you may be 'sane-washing':

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/js84tu/how_did_...
They do have a way of creating distractions to bury the stories that they don't like. The Cyberwhistle was launched just around the time of the whistle blower stories that were coming out. Kind of smart and I did not realize the connection until after a while.
For me, reading the AA Big Book[1] was a powerful start. I actually went to meetings for a while, and while I realized I had the same tendencies as the people there, I mostly had a problem with binge drinking. I created rules around alcohol consumption which I follow with some loose structure that helped a bunch.

I found the Personal Stories/Testimonies section to be pretty relevant for me, others may find other things. AA fundamentally is the best tool you can find to get you sober, and keep you sober, but it in some ways IMO, works as an addiction transference program. But if you need to stabilize your life, and find your own path to permanent sobriety, AA is literally the best tool you can find to do it.

[1]https://www.aa.org/the-big-book
Also reports that Marak Squire’s GitHub has been restored.
It's been a while since I used a Mac but my recollection is that the same Emacs style key bindings were available for all text fields pretty much without exception.

https://jblevins.org/log/kbd
fukuyama has more than a few ideas at least 30 years out of date with the field research
The title is a tad misleading because the HTML in the link is described "an extension to HTML" featuring numbers, booleans and variables.

The popular YouTube channel Computerphile tackled this topic back in 2016:

HTML IS a Programming Language (Imperative vs Declarative): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2mWqLUpzw

Me? I'm happy to describe it as a markup language.

An interesting related question: Is CSS a style sheet language, or now something more? It has variables, performs calculations (using the calc function), can add strings to the page (using a pseudo element) and can create animation. It might not count as a programming language, but it has morphed into a strange hybrid beast between style sheet and programming language.
They can, but since the data is very noisy the 3D reconstruction is usually not very good.

If you actually need to measure something, analysing the 2D images is much more precise.

EDIT: Also, it's really hard to visualise density in a 3D view.
> Since then we had "war on terrorism" and PATRIOT act, big financial crisis of 2008, rise of social media and surveillance state, and now COVID pandemic.

Don't forget rising authoritarianism again, which was one of the characteristics of Fukuyama's notion of the end of history, the fall of totalitarianism with the USSR.
Ryugu Sample Database System
Late, but I will note that the more people pay the nicer they treat you and the less they expect from you.
That sentiment is just part of their marketing, and it's working.
Ah so a more robust and reliable, multi station system is formed? What's this beam forming and positional information stuff? Are they tailoring signals to individaul devices? That's so cool! This stuff is starting to feel like electro magnetic magic, haha.
> EXbot only sells directly after a buy transaction, allowing you to sell as the price goes up ...

Does it work like a gridbot?
A coal seam has been burning for 6000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain

A long list of similar fires:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire

In Colorado, coal fires have arisen as a consequence of fluctuations in the groundwater level, which can increase the temperature of the coal up to 300 °C, enough to cause it to spontaneously ignite.
It is not shunned tho. It is weird because most people go to cinema only because friends do, they don't see difference between cinema and watching at home. Just more expensive.
It's a controversial but good opinion. Mathlib marches on and gets better and better.
>>My money's on a hodge podge that doesn't make anyone happy.

My guess is on whichever makes them the most money; seems a pretty safe bet to me.
This thinking is a profound illusion I fell into. You might be surprised how far that money goes. And you also have the skills for more money to come in easily. You also probably spend way more than you need to survive.

Particularly if you don't have a family. You get one life. Take the leap.
"To Do" lists are useful, and responsible people use them (or hire PAs that manage them for them).

Personally, I use a plain text file, ~/todo.txt (by design the only non-directory file in my ~/), in combination with an A5 paper notebook. For the online file, stuff that gets done gets moved from the beginning of the file (heading "To Do") to the end of the file (heading "Done"). A todo command helps quickly append an item to the file without opening the file. The paper notebook includes other notes than to do lists as well, and its to do lists are meant to eventually make it to the online list (if they don't get ticked off as "done" before).

EDIT: I forgot to mention that (1) for projects, I usually have separate per-project "To Do" lists, and (2) I use my online calendar to mark deadlines in it. The system works reasonably well, although the calendar could be better integrated.
Hilarious! It can very much be the opposite too. I know a guy who is an in-denial-alcoholic (I can't remember the last time he was really sober) and he's just become such a piece of shit over the years he has basically alienated everyone in our social group. It's sad and yet bringing it up isn't even worth the trouble since it just creates an angry defensive meltdown.

Drinking alone might be fun but, seems like if you let it go on long enough you won't have an alternative to being alone.
My only drinking alone is I have a glass of Glenfiddich when someone I care about passes away. I'm in the middle of second bottle since I started.
What makes you think Tesla can resolve all their problems and produce a car everyone wants to buy at the right price point before everyone else has time to implement their responses?

There are plenty of drivers like myself that specifically buy reliable vehicles, 2nd hand. Tesla can’t even match the reliability of my current car that cost less than 1/4 of the cheapest new Tesla. The incumbents have plenty of run way. It remains to be seen what happens.
I have, and I’ve read the field research that shows how obsolete his ideas are
Yes, but it hasn’t been considered economically viable to try. Another significant concern is if placing heavy equipment here would cause another collapse.
This is not quite right and I think this is where we let our egos get away with us. Their responsibility is to maintain a good team, not the best person. In the cost benefit analysis, keeping a couple of pretty good people at the expense of your 'best' person might work out better. And a high maintenance person costs more than money.
Tesla's problems aren't the drivetrain. They're "Literally every other bit of the car except the drivetrain."

Other OEMs are reasonably good at those bits, and can, at worst, buy a drivetrain from someone good at it - but there's nothing particularly exotic about an electric drivetrain, especially if you've been putting out hybrid drivetrains for a while.
Yes, the behavior of fleeing foxes leading you to points of interest emerges from the unintended consequences of the implementation.
> What I don't quite get is why this needs a project

If this was MacOS, I'd agree. But on Linux, it's a different hardware landscape. There are hundreds of trackpads that Linux is compatible with, but not every one of them is multitouch (or implements multitouch the same way). Gesture support on Linux has been a long time coming, but that's mostly because getting uniform trackpad support over thousands of laptops is just not a very fast process, whereas on MacOS, Apple can make certain assumptions about the hardware it's running.
I would, too.

This data exists in many cities. It's what powers the "Next train/bus in xx minutes" signs. But somehow it doesn't make its way into live view applications. At least not in any of the cities in which I've lived.

I'm sure it's complicated for the map companies because America is a big place and can't be covered by one simple rail or bus company. There are hundreds of public and private transit companies in America. But it would be nice if it would start appearing in some cities.

Heck, even Amtrak would be nice to see on Apple Maps, instead of having to use Amtrak's own live train viewer: https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-train.html

Are there any transit agencies with live train/bus views integrated into Apple or Google maps, and I've just lived in the wrong cities?
Hm, so you'd dispute uHoo's claim of "±20 ppb or ±10% of actual value" for their NO2 sensor?
I would be more forgiving to hand over the term "roguelike" to roguelites and other PGC-based games if I had a term to replace it. The problem is - what's a better term than "roguelike" to mean "more like Rogue than the other things which are (sometimes only very slightly) like Rogue"?
People don't want to hire completely unknown entities. They want someone to have vouched for them a little.

Just applying to quality job listings and getting responses back is largely the domain of people with some prestige on their resume. A university or name brand employer.

Absent that, your network is the thing. Software developers willing to submit you as a candidate internally or to otherwise vouch for your skills. These can be friends, people you work on hobby or open source projects with, people who read a blog or something you write. The most common source will generally be ex coworkers. If you're genuinely performing above expectations, and you're good to work with, then they should be happy to mention your name for openings at whatever better employers they've moved on to or when they hear people within their own network talking about looking for someone who is good at [your skillset].

"Networking" as an intentional activity is making sure you have the kind of relationships with as many coworkers as possible that when they leave, it wont be weird to stay in touch and talk about what you're both up to every now and then. Increasing the amount of people you have out in the world who know what your current skill set is like and who have spoken to you recently enough that you will pop in to mind when they hear someone looking for it.

LinkedIn is both this on easy mode as well as a way for third parties (recruiters) to see that vouching rather than just your ex coworkers network.

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Then separately from that and not something that would have landed you a 6 figure salary in your current role but that is still crucial. Did you negotiate? Coming from a poor background myself there was a very strong "keep your head down, work hard, and people will just give you more money than they need to" sort of mindset around. If you didn't negotiate, that "just over $20/hr" could very likely have been $30/hr if you had. And whatever your first six figure position is, the offer is likely to start around $80k.

Read this and part two to see the impact negotiating can have for your income: https://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i...

Then this from HN regular Patio11: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
As others have said, Debian Stable is not the way to go if you want up-to-date packages. Personally I find Fedora to be ideal in terms of update cadence, packages are kept up-to-date but still get some more testing compared to a fully rolling distro.
Marxism isn't even an ideology though - Marx didn't concretely define what socialism and communism would look like outside of "collective control of the means of production", which really just means "factories are used for public rather than private benefit" (oversimplified but that's the gist). There's so many flavours of leftism that are completely mutually incompatible.

There are also alternatives positions: anarchism of many flavours, the singularity people (post-scarity ideology, effectively - I like Manna [1] for a practical example - it's functionally equivalent to "fully automated luxury communism"), the degrowthers, the urbanists, the social democrats, the solarpunk types, probably a bunch of others I've left out. There's no limit to the number of futures being imagined on the left. There's lots of future-imagining on the right too, but the qualifying trait of the right is that their future is the same as the past.

If you mean that western humanities have adopted Marxism as in the Soviet or Maoist visions of Marx - they haven't, by and large. They're mostly onto critical theory now, which is really interesting because it's a systems analysis of societal structures. Marx did a systems analysis of capital, so many critical theorists are also Marxists, but that's about as far as it goes in terms of their direct relation.

As far as "not working" goes - trade unionism brought us many workers' rights, the 40 hour work week, and is the only thing big businesses are really afraid of. Marxism-Leninism was a massive failure, but the anarchists called that one in the 1920s.

[1] https://marshallbrain.com/manna1