skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds of Cordwainer Smith's [1] most famous story, Scanners Live in Vain [2]. In the story, a scientist named Adam Stone has found a way to conquer The Great Pain of Space that affects humans who travel into space. To do so he builds a ship whose walls are teeming with life that shields the human inside it:

"I have loaded ships with life."

"Life?"

"Life. I don't know what the Great Pain is, but I did find that in the experiments, when I sent out masses of animals or plants, the life in the center of the mass lived longest. I built ships -small ones, of course- and sent them out with rabbits, with monkeys-"

"Those are Beasts?"

"Yes. With small Beasts. And the Beasts came back unhurt. They came back because the walls of the ships were filled with life. I tried many kinds, and finally found a sort of life which lives in the waters. Oysters. Oysterbeds. The outermost oysters died in the great pain. The inner ones lived. The passengers were unhurt."

"But they were Beasts?"

"Not only Beasts. Myself."

"You!"

"I came through Space alone. Through what you call the Up-and-Out, alone. Awake and sleeping. I am unhurt. If you do not believe me, ask your brother Scanners. Come and see my ship in the morning. I will be glad to see you then, along with your brother Scanners. I am going to demonstrate before the Chiefs of the Instrumentality."

https://archive.org/stream/ScannersLiveInVain/SmithCordwaine...

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain
This was a beautiful and magical thing to discover. Here I am, bumbling around this new open-world game, not really caring too much about the main quest, when a white fox crosses my path. I decide to follow it and it leads me up a mountain to an ancient, mysterious shrine. With a quest in it. It was completely unintended but so rewarding, and I really hope that the next one keeps it. Because getting rewarded for acting like someone in a fairy tale is exactly what these games are for.
Why bother with the complexity of drones when you could add armored “defense” weapons to the sides of the railcars themselves?
That’s a perfectly sustainable policy.
so you agree that most are not keen
thanks for the nostalgia, the arcade days were fun.
Completely agree with this sentiment. I can't stand MacOS for this, and various other reasons. I'll never use it again as a personal OS.
Definitely not rose tinted glasses. I regularly use an old SE/30 to write notes in Word 5 just as an escape from distractions when I'm trying to get thoughts down and organized.
You can fix inflation by actually putting the money to work, so that production equals money supply, not sitting idle by borrowing with nearly zero interest rate to buy bitcoin (ex: microstrategy's balance sheet)

Thanks for the resource, I checked the author (as I do with any source).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Schiff

Is bitcoin biased by a libertarian viewpoint? Schiff does not believe in paying taxes.

It might not look apparent in the US, but countries where politicians are actually corrupt and devalue their currency without backing it with any production, tax evasion is a major contributor in furthering a country's GDP decline.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/070115/under....
In the immortal words of George Thorogood:

“I drink alone, yeah
With nobody else
Yeah, you know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself”
Another way to think of it is that foxes travel in more or less straight lines in the curved navmesh-POI space (/s)
The parking lot at Santa Cruz (California) Harbor flooded and there was some minor damage, though a lot less than from the 2011 tsunami from the Japanese earthquake. It was only about a 30 to 50 cm surge (one to 1.5 feet) but happened at high tide.
... Hug-o-Death?
It at least gets more attention from the tech crowd.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=recall

The only car recalls with more points on HN than the Tesla ones are Hyundai (regarding South Korea being soft on them; the issue was already a recall in the US) and the VW emissions scandal.
So, there are basically no consumer products on this table that have a respectable accuracy, right? The ones with good R² values all seem to be $1000+ scientific tools.
Thanks, this might come in useful at some point.

That said, on Windows and in Linux this is extremely much simpler and more consistent, I can write it down right here and now, it doesn't need a full web page:

arrow keys: move

ctrl + arrow left/right: move left/right to next word boundary.

shift + arrow left/right: select a character to the left/right.

ctrl + shift + arrow left/right: select to next word boundary.
I don't think this is about performance. At least I wasn't referring to it in my comment.

I was just saying that top performers who I respect are very skilled at "being useless" when they need to maintain their autonomy, competence, and relatedness within their career in big tech.

I don't know what you're seeing on reddit / hn, but there's also plenty of people talking about automating their "useless"/bullshit job and feeling guilty about it.
Many centuries ago reading alone (i.e. silently rather than aloud) was viewed with similar suspicion. In his Confessions St. Augustine defends his friend St. Ambrose for his strange habit of reading silently.
Does anyone have reference enough to say if this is the normal performance or if the site is getting hugged by hacker news?

It's taking 5-10 minutes to load US state wide views fully, with parts not loading in at all.

I have a good connection on my end and was just wondering if I should check back later or if this is more a slow mapping service.
Besides the ridiculous failure of QA and the "not a problem" attitude, I'm also surprised at the lack of parts availability; are Tesla brake pads yet another proprietary design? I think standardisation of wear parts would be a good thing across the industry, and provide more aftermarket opportunities (not that there isn't plenty already), but of course manufacturers like Tesla would be against that.

(I do brake jobs myself. It's not hard, and having "skin in the game", you'll definitely make sure to do it right.)
Yes, but it was like that from the start.
My understanding from a mostly disappointing, failed career:

Being in the right place [at the right time]. Keep in mind that HN is very Bay Area centric. Sometimes life sticks you in a shitty market, or maybe you lack insight/information to allow you navigate it effectively. Other places like the infamous r/CSCareerQuestions nearly exclusively target FAANGs, and other large tech companies, and if you haven’t been optimizing for that, you probably won’t see those outcomes.

$70k-$80k may seem like something unobtainable now, I’ve been in nearly the exact same situation as you there. In a few years, however once you’ve built up some experience, you may find that a lot easier to achieve, even at a less than desirable company. I had to move to reach that much because at the time, the market I was in was just total shit. The positions I was interviewing for then, versus when I was firdt entering the field were miles apart in terms of pay potential.

Also as much as Hn loves to shit on formal education it does offer some value. University hiring pipelines can be incredibly useful. I had an old friend graduate and then immediately got work in a really cool domain. I was kinda jealous. How did he do it? Well the university provided clubs and programs he worked in and potential employers, partnered with the universities worked to source entry level hires from the school.

And remember whether you’re better or worse than average, skills are not particularly worth anything till the interview at least. It’s more likely you aren’t getting responses due to things like ATS screening.
I agree with everything in your comment, I guess what I'm saying is that despite what i would call the "academic" success of mRNA it has not actually got us out of anything yet, we still have a pandemic, we still have restrictions, etc. And so even if there are hypothetical pathways that these vaccines can be a part of to get us back to normal, until they happen in practice, I think it's premature (and a bit cultish honestly) to talk about how great they are. Let's withhold applause until we finish solving the problem
Thank you for this wonderful comment. I'm especially struck by that word "fundamentals," as I think their very ordinariness makes them easy to neglect.

I tried working through some of that conceptual space here:

https://arunkprasad.com/log/amateurs-and-professionals/
Everyone has their own set of experiences. I'm just an average guy living in the United States. I am particular, tall and large, so people may not want to challenge me much.
I drink alone, and have decided it's the best path for me (YMMV).

I see alcohol as a "frenemy", of which I'm OK with so long as I remain leery of it. There is no "healthy" amount of alcohol to consume -- it's basically poison. Rather, I see it as "not ununhealthy" to consume small amounts, in strict moderation. For me, that's at most 2 Ol' Fashions on weekends (Fri,Sat,Sun) - each measured (1.5 oz). I want no daily relationship with it, and I also want no drinking buddies (where drinking is a purpose/sub-purpose being together). I don't want to talk about booze, or times spent drinking. Outside of that, my strict rule is: alcohol is never allowed for stress relief, only for celebration.

I think this view and rule set make me a pretty boring, weird drinking companion for others, anyway, so it's likely best for all. I grew up with alcoholism destroying lives all around me, which I guess led me to distrust it. I regard it as healthy distrust.
Tour of George Eastman Museum Technology Vault (2015)
Ah Miami. A very special place, for "very special" people (if you've lived there you know what I mean).
I made a FOSS alt-tab drop-in for macOS: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

I also list alternatives on that page. That may inspire you
"let's buid car in a tent to meet quotas" - and people lauded that.
https://elementary.io/ might be interesting to you if not looked already
I agree with your point, the issue becomes that while you want to write everything down so you don't forget it, if that item is months away from being relevant, you have a large cost of having to read/see it constantly and figure out it's not important, multiple this by a large amount of tasks and it soon becomes overwhelming.

The method I try to use, is am feeling a weekly review where I review everything and check in with myself to see how I am feeling, what i got done and if i am on track, from there I can choose the things that are relevant to this week and ignore all the other tasks.

So when it comes to managing things on a day to day basis, my brain only has to deal with stuff coming up this week, safe in the knowledge that I have taken the time to think through everything else.
... Plus the moment you type any crypto-related statement or question you'll get flood of contacts from "friendly" individuals willing to help you to part your crypto from your wallet
Its a blown transaxle! She's just grinding metal!
I’ve been using Macs since 2009 for programming and have always used _by default_ Option+arrows in all apps for jumping between words and Cmd+arrow for beginning and end of line/file. I have never experienced “fn” to be used for moving the cursor around. It’s interesting that you had a different experience since these have been OS defaults and you can change them of course. I wonder if these was another software which messed with your shortcuts?
https://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/30/2012-chevy-sonic-brake-p...

GM received a single report from a mechanic of a missing brake pad on a rental Chevy Sonic. They investigated, found some kind of root cause, and out of precaution recalled ~5000 Sonics manufactured around the same time for inspection. (and estimated 20-30 vehicles were affected - it'd be interesting to see how many turned up)

Tesla's response thus far is miles apart. Nothing about it gives me confidence in their QC.
Thanks for the advice and for the links! I didn't negotiate, maybe I should try to do so now for a raise?
No. Because companies are already doing this. At least for my employer they’ve told us that they talk to their “peers” in the industry to set prices for labor. So more a yes and a no.

BUT if candidates were able to know what the bands are they could move wages to a more fair equilibrium. Here’s how I think it would play out.

There are two scenarios. If radical transparency were to be enacted AND all companies share the numbers before hand putting all their equivalent roles at the same salary levels then not much would change since I think this is already happening at least in Europe and specifically in Berlin.

But if companies started publishing this data over time say over months such that all information about salaries and compensation outside of wages was revealed in say 18 months (giving the market time to adjust I.e folks to leave to go to higher wage paying firms) then workers could readjust their wages to a more fair market rate. This is how I think things would play out — or so I hope when in reality it’ll likely just be the former case.

People will fight for salary transparency and the firms will give it to them but they will have shared salary information already because a Python engineer is a Python engineer whether they’re at a mid level company or a FAANG company. And then nothing will change other than folks will likely all try to cluster around the top end of their now disclosed salary bands — more folks will get marginal raises I guess but it’s not the large shift or readjustment of entire sectors and employees I had hoped for.
A little while ago they forgot to upgrade their SSL certificate.

Their suggested work around? Users setting the clock back.
A design or manufacturing defect is not the same as an obvious missing part, which incidentally, is critical to car safety.
Making all their real-time sales data public, and thus available to their competitors, doesn't seem like something most companies would want.

If the blockchain does enable this, wouldn't that just lead either to 1) companies not adopting blockchain, or 2) some solution for hiding the data and defeating third-party analytics?
The Riddle of the Doomer
Last time the undersea fibre optic cables (international and local) were broken (2019-2020) [0] a Kacific [1] K-band satellite emergency link was installed for and by the Tonga ISP EziNet [2] and others.

(the 2019 break was caused by a Turkish oil tanker prematurely dropping anchor in a restricted zone [3])

"DS Venture Ltd (DSV) was the owner of the Duzgit Venture. On 20 January 2019, as the vessel approached the Port of Nuku'alofa, its starboard anchor and chain were prematurely released from their housing. As the anchor and chain were winched back in, they caught and damaged a cable. The cable was one of two undersea communications cables owned by Tonga Cable Ltd (TCL) connecting Nuku'alofa, Ha'apai, and Vava'u with Fiji. As a result of damage to the cable, Tonga was without cable telecommunications for almost three weeks. "

[0] https://samoanews.com/regional/tonga-cable-break-located-rep...

[1] https://kacific.com/

[2] https://matangitonga.to/2019/01/26/geek-heroes-rescue-tonga-...

[3] https://cmlcmidatabase.org/ezinet-ltd-v-ds-venture-ltd
I am posting this since I am curious if anyone has any experience using it? I have done a few toy projects with it, and like it, but am not sure if it works well in production or if anyone has had any bad experiences.
Maybe use something in the name about it being a structure editor. Like GNU StructMacs. By the way I think it is an awesome program.
Seems I am not alone.

I have recently started to use it for personal things though, but again just things that I can use all the time in the world for.

I tried installing a dev environment on it and it was instant frustration.
I watched a pretty old Q&A with Linus, and he called out distros for breaking "app space" all the time as the main reason why the Linux Desktop hasn't happened. I think he's definitely identified one of the bigger issues (but not all of them).

NixOS, by accident or intention, inherently circumvents this problem. It also has actual non-existent UX: you need to manage your own home-manager configs (for now, I want to change that). The maintainers have put good effort into being able to express tons of preferences in your nixfile (to the degree of Firefox plugins).

You may get nerdsniped by it.
> But beyond that, I've found that honesty is the best policy here. If you want to tell your boss something, tell them the truth. By telling the truth, you're telling your boss a little bit about yourself. Their response is going to tell you a lot more about them.

I've seen bosses become incredibly petty towards their former golden child employees once they've indicated that they're looking for work elsewhere, like suddenly claiming to anyone that would listen that they're unprofessional, abdicating responsibility and abandoning their job/coworkers.

I'd keep it vague, something about personal and professional development or opportunities. If the boss is really a cool guy and your friend, you can share the real reason you left once the dust settles and when they have no power over you.
Elon/Tesla is within their right to ask the Law firm to not have a particular attorney represent them or work on their business.

Elon/Tesla is NOT within their rights to ask the Law firm to fire one of their employees just because he doesn't like that lawyer. This is just Elon being an asshole and exerting his power as the CEO of a big client of the Law firm, perhaps one of their most important clients.

But on the other hand it is not surprising, Elon has again and again shown what kind of a person he is, an extremely smart, but morally very corrupt person.
Very interesting! I've also seen this in a number of books about raising kids. The Self-Driven Child recently was the one on my mind.
> From it I ascertained that the first two questions one should ask are when encountering something in life are, "is this actually important?" and "is this a problem I can actually solve or make a meaningful difference in helping solve?" - anything one can answer "no" to either of those questions one should just let go of, and try to focus one's energies on other problems.

This puts succinctly something I try to practice that I likely got from the same source. My parents were both in AA for the entire time I knew them and I was carried along to many meetings and, later, went along with them of my own volition. I have a great respect for the organization and, especially, the people humble enough to recognize their need for support.
If all brake pads came in standard sizes, and Tesla didn't invent their own, that would solve the supply problem.
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Thank you! That's encouraging to hear.
Three beers max. No whiskey on a weeknight. Wine is a wildcard. You have to blast off. You have to get outside your own head.
Sounds older than what I worked on, one of the beloved (by Mac fans) 2009 Macbook Pros.
PSA: 230 feet ≈ 70 meters
I've had to dial-back my ad blocker over the last six months or so.

More and more web sites stall, or refuse to load at all with ad blockers enabled. Even ad-free ones like government web sites, because they use the same tracking mechanisms.
Have you got a name? I'm curious.
> 476 it just temporary lost direct control of it's Italian provinces

Which also happened several times during the Late Republic, a full half millennium prior.
First we lost respect for millonaires, and they became billonaires. Now we will make fun of them, so they can become trillonaires! Nobody disrespects a trillonaire, EVER.
> Standard corporate "disaster management" is essentially "hide everyone, don't say a fucking word, wait to get out of the news cycle."

Usually, they throw in a lightweight apology. Saying something like: "we deeply regret the experience this particular customer had."
Before they go to "no comment".

I guess Elon innovated by simply saving "apology" part :)
I used to run without an ad blocker to support the websites I visited, but then too many would rev up my CPU and freeze my browser just because of all the ads they loaded. The experience of clicking a link started to become unbearable, and I went back to blocking ads.

I know that circa 2018 the ad industry suffered a shock as major players started measuring more precisely what value ads brought, and CPC went down, I think things just got worse at this point because websites crammed more ads in response.
> but starting with Unity and now also Gnome has copied this to be bug comptible with Mac

This is simultaneously one of the saddest and funniest things I've read about GNOME in a while (which has a surprisingly high bar on both accounts)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/arts/dawn-of-everything-g... a combination of archaeology and anthropology research, including very recent findings as well as reassessments of old research
Command left/right arrow, for example, switches between terminal windows in different spaces, and to terminal windows within the same space as well. Press the shift key as well to shift between tabs. (At least on my MacBook Pro's Japanese keyboard.) I don't recall have modded this behavior.
I use hyperswitch: https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch

Unrelated, I also use Hyperdock, from the same developer, to get the dock into the 21st century.
But the device resistance won't be very big, would it? If I understand correctly, you are just breathing through a tube, and this device measures the flow through the tube. Or is there something in the tube that would cause a lot of resistance?
Oklo, Gabon had an underground nuclear reaction for hundreds of thousands years:
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/zhao1/
Web3 is a fraud. There are no intelligent people working in this space. It is a giant Ponzi scheme run by tech bros who have no material experience working for major companies or corporations. The sooner it fails the better.
My whole point is that it wasn't feasible 12 years ago. Java 10 (which came with var) was released in 2018.
> it seems clear that there was a catastrophic fall in science, technology and living standards

According to what evidence and causes?

Besides, what's this "great science" of the ancient world? Science did not become a sustained enterprise until much later in Europe. Even Greek natural science was a relatively short-lived affair, pretty much dying with Aristotle (Stanley Jaki used the word "stillborn" to describe all other attempts to give birth to science in all civilizations other than Christian Europe, the differentiating factor being theological). The Middle Ages were a period of intense intellectual activity (the Scholastics) in which the intellectual bedrock for modern science was birthed. The Renaissance was comparably weak in terms of intellectual rigor, the philosophes later on mere pamphleteers. And today, scientism and other weird ideologies threaten to undermine science and intellectualism in general.

We do not give the Middle Ages enough credit. The question isn't why it is a fashion to deny medieval decline, but why the fashion to deny the period's excellence.
The things I remember using for work back then was eclipse, Textedit(not sure about the name, but at least the simple text editor that came with Mac), Safari, Firefox and Chrome.