skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's preposterous to expect that software that has millions of line of code (like Windows or Firefox) is perfect. Software Engineers are humans as well and we do make mistakes.

You could argue that we should adopt the same testing strategy of mission critical pieces of logics where 1 LOC has 1+ LOCs of test code, aim for 100% coverage, ... . But then your windows license would cost 1000s of $.

And about your final remark. What you call real engineering has to cope with well defined requirements and the context is well known. You know beforehand the maximum weight a bridge should be able to support. You know the configuration and properties of the soil where the bridge will be built, and you have good estimates of 1 in 100 year extreme events magnitude.

Software doesn't have that luxury. If we build a web server to handle 1k qps it still is somewhat likely that said server might face spikes of 10k qps. Try to do that with the bridge mentioned above. Forget failing gracefully.
Additionally users have few ways to use the bridge. You either cross it by car / bus / on foot. The same web server might face someone trying to send a payload of GBs where you would expect few KBs. That's at least partly why code is messy. The space of possibilities is much greater and we somehow need to write software that still works.
>What's this about? Do we all secretly believe we can be truly better people if we can just get this right? Or are we just endlessly curious about what everyone else does?

I don't think it's just a belief as some of us have personal evidence of quality-of-life improvement from being able to easily retrieve a saved piece of knowledge. We then wonder if whatever system we happen to be using (paper notebooks, emacs Org-Mode, Evernote, plain text files, Roam, etc, etc) ... can be improved or generalized to others.

Earlier in computing (i.e. 1980s DOS) the acronym "PIM" "Personal Information Manager" was the meme for note-taking. You had attempts like Borland Sidekick[1] and Lotus Agenda[2]. In the 1990s, you had PIM devices like the PalmPilot where enthusiasts tried to convince us that it was worth investing the time to learn its idiosyncratic stylus strokes to save notes.[3]

Today's recurring "Show HN" of the latest note-taking software attempt is the continuation of an unsolved problem for the general population. Each of the following functions have many degrees-of-freedom:

(1) saving notes in a friction-free way: local-first file or cloud? save in freeform text files (Markdown?), or JSON, or in SQLite? Or handdrawn pen input on a tablet and save the image files with OCR conversion? Sync data across all devices how?

(2) organizing and retrieving notes : hierarchies? tags? graph links? mindmaps? or no friction of organizing at all and just use full-text search?

We get a combinatorial explosion of tools instead of everybody converging on The One True Way.

Personally, I've settled on not using dedicated note-taking software. Just use a combination of text files with a text editor and folders hierarchy in the operating system. But I acknowledge that my idiosyncratic system doesn't generalize to the population and it doesn't have simple data sync so I can't retrieve my notes on my smartphone.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Agenda

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)#/media/File...
Moscow’s Metro Dogs (2013)
I did this pre-pandemic with a local place that still had their own delivery couriers, it was great. Unfortunately scum delivery companies have taken over the market and most restaurants no longer have their own delivery drivers so it's difficult to find places that still do in-house delivery.
Absolutely "not necessarily". SWE requires an extensive amount of learning (if you're lucky :)).

Unless one has extraordinary mnemonic capabilities, note taking is a way to structure and store concepts.

Even if this wasn't the case, personal notes are still a more efficient/effective way than googling, for two reasons: 1. on the notes, one puts the processed version of a concept, so that it's safer/more stable/improved/cleaner/adapted etc. 2. personal notes follow the mind of who writes them, so the concepts are faster to find.
You really prefer this https://javascriptwtf.com/wtf/javascript-holy-trinity to a well defined equality operator?
I tried finding die shots of the M1.

Techinsights have a die shot of the original M1[0].

But for the pro and max, I could only find the die shots from the apple press release.

The pro just looks like a cropped max, I wasn't sure if it was just cropped for illustration purposes or actually a different die.

Are there any publicly available die shots of pro/max from a third party source?

[0]: https://www.techinsights.com/blog/two-new-apple-socs-two-mar...
The Authoritarians (2006)
So where is the problem? It is not something in realms of scientific discussion. More like with open-source or right to repair. When someone has issue with GMO lot of people assume that it is because of the 'technology' - not the politics.
I kinda wanna say "Shhhhh" but the whole world benefits from enlightening, so thanks for spreading the good word.
Especially the "I have no idea what I'm talking about, but you should take my argument seriously anyway" that the defense started with in that video. The prosecution should have eviscerated that argument.
When we are talking about "directly observing a part of space and time never seen before. Gazing into the epoch when the very first stars and galaxies formed, over 13.5 billion years ago." I guess 2000% over budget seems fine to me. Even if you are thinking only about profit, I think the discoveries will pay for themself.

Plus I think the budget didn't jump from 500 million to ten billion dollars in on day, project grew and budget grew with it, and someone had to approve it, we are talking about multinational project, so I think everything is well documented and well approved from people who knows the project well better than us.

I do agree with you that if that was military budget, I would think that something is really wrong.
A big part of modern identity is constructed of your beliefs and knowledge. The things you think about are what define you as a person.

As such, when we don’t write an idea down, it feels like we are losing a part of ourselves.
My partner and I bought a 36" yacht in Greece in Sept last year. We really haven't gotten to take advantage of it yet because it was so close to the end of the season (and we're both beginners). The plan is to live on it from April with our dog Miles (we've been digital nomads for 3+ years).

Learned to sail last year, and got my RYA Day Skipper (which allows for ICC).

We're not millionares, we both run businesses and make alright money, but no more than most of the HN crowd. If you're prepared to put the work in you can get cheaper, older yachts as well.

It's a decision. Like most things in life, you can prioritize it or not. Wanting desperately to do something and not putting in any effort towards it is a sure way for it never to happen. Note: Whether you're interested in sailing I can't tell from your throw away comment.

Since becoming a digital nomad it's been a real journey of understanding the trade-offs that one makes in life. There are things that are gravity wells in life -- family, kids, friends, jobs, commitments. They all have a pull that complicates things.

But not so much that they can't be overcome. I'm friends with a few people that travel with kids. Travelling with a dog can make things more complicated, but not impossible.
> No, it is needed, because that’s how you know the sentence is complete.

In Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, among other languages, people didn’t end sentences with periods. They didn’t even put spaces in between words. You can tell where one word ends and the next begins because you know the words of the language-and, in most languages words contain certain patterns; for example, in English, certain letters almost never occur at the end of a word, which can help you guess word boundaries even if you don’t know a particular word. Likewise, ending of sentences can be inferred from grammatical structures - although, ancient Latin style tends to involve massive run-on sentences, in part because when the end of sentences are not marked, people care less about how long sentences are. Alphabets were around for many centuries before whitespace and punctuation were invented and standardised.
I think we are in complete agreement, but for some reason you want to avoid using the word "censorship" in the case of a restriction of speech that you agree with (a restriction you agree with). Sure, free speech has limits. Beyond those limits, censorship is applied. At this point it's just an argument over the definition of words, not very interesting.
Facebook Loses German Top Court Case over Fake-Name Accounts
> might ... general case....

Or it might not and we are talking about a very concrete case.
The point is that everything is "large", low-tech and lots of stuff works the same. So replacement parts are fairly easy to get and easy to install. No soldering, no dexterity, no "exact design of every piece" required.

Compare that to fixing a smartphone, where you might need special tools to even open the device.
Looks auto-translated. I'd guess the original Chinese wordlist contained more nuance.
Agreed, it’s crazy they would want a coercive check in a dynamic language. I’m certainly glad ESLint will enforce sanity and ban ==
I wonder if such decisions are made by men or women.
> We need a European Alternative.

DailyMotion tried and failed.
French guy here, thanking panick21_ for answering an irritating post with a cool head :D
100 Rabbits are some other tech sailing folks:

https://100r.co/
> But regardless of men or women neither should be dictating how some woman want to show their body.

But, they can dictate how some men want to show their body? *shakes head*

Firstly, you claimed that men are the problem, not that people who object are the problem. This new claim is a different claim.

Secondly, whether you like it or not, women are more likely to complain of male nudity in a venue than men are to complain of female nudity in a venue, yet you want to portray the argument as "men are the problem".

Your argument only works in your head because you draw an artificial distinction between men and women, and you want to "protect" the women. Treat everyone as people and your argument falls over.

Distill your argument to the essential bits:

1. Does a person have a right to show whatever part of their body that they want to?

Sure.

2. Do people have to be forced to see that display in a public venue?

Depends on what the society has decided on.

3. Should the rule be based on whether the viewer/displayer is female or male?

Most definitely not.
The simple act of taking notes helps me to remember. Even if I don't read them again in the future, the actual act of writing/typing out notes helps embed them as memories.
> But they went v4 only, and acquired all the growing pains of making that work.

Because the major clouds didn't speak IPv6 well enough, back in the time - Kubernetes dates back to 2014 after all. And from what I've read on various threads here on HN and on Reddit, all three major clouds still have weird bugs and IPv4-only services...
I've used Windows 10 on a 4K monitor at 200% for a couple years and I didn't have any issue. macOS' scaling works best, but Windows has been HiDPI ready for a while, and only a small handful of old apps need you to enable the application-scaling option manually. Especially since Windows still runs 15 years old applications that use crappy old APIs, while macOS doesn't.

It's not fantastic by any means, but it's a disservice to call it _horrible_.
I realize the for-all-over-an-empty-set joke may be lost on some ...
Its because my note taking is an extension of me - it's a succinct representation of my knowledge boundary written in my own vernacular.

It's dynamic and heirarchical and gives me:
- Discipline for spaced repetition
- Creative stimulation through re-reading
- Generalized thought ordering

At some point the complex state machines, schematics and plans are too big to be held in my working memory all at once so I must decompose and interface them.
Is psychopathy something you can develop by lying?
RYF certification?
> I wouldn't say it requires more trust. It's not like bitcoin holds an election every few years for determining which party holds the economic majority.

But it's at least possible, from the protocol, to determine the balance of each address, and for each address to vote (with a message on the blockchain) for or against a given proposal.

Compare that to trying to determine which address "probably holds more influence", which seems like something you'd have to trust someone else's (off-chain) judgement on.
The working theory is the mods, including this one, were paid off to be a total disaster to try prevent the movement gaining further traction. Everyone in the subreddit voted no to a media appearance. That mod decided otherwise with a second interview with another mod not yet aired.
My wrong, I meant the two different non-english-like consonants.
> suggests it's most likely [Frank Abagnale] just made most of his life story up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27048793 "New book contends that Catch Me If You Can is mostly made up"
But we want to blame the black box, not our own enlightened view of what's "good"

/s
Sarcasm aside, i think GPT "did well" here in terms of picking up an average of what society deems good. This is not something comfortable, but i also dont think it is something inaccurate. Hopefully more of these ai enabled "revelations" (that back what some critical theorists have been saying for decades) will help us unpack and understand the collection of biases we each hold. Yes, the failings are societal, can it be a point of reflection? Or do we keep refiguring the model to obscure the issue?
Absolutely, in 20 odd years my muscle memory still opens notepad and the only thing I would love is some kind of autosave/persistence across devices as I always have a dread when occasionally I lose stuff on a crash or something.

However when I think about it this may be why notepad still works for me, it doesn't become overwhelming. I've tried to use quite a few systems over the years and the trajectory is always the same - it starts great but the unresolved tasks accumulate until the whole thing seems inefficient or pointless or just overwhelming.

In a round about Notepad along with occasional data loss solves that problem for me :D
Open Source Developer Network
Never done any recruiting, but here something I have noticed in recruitment efforts.

Figure out what you really need and how "good" is defined.

Good is contextual. My past company spent a lot of time on system design interviewing. Here is the problem. We didn't build anything close to a complex system. We created demos to show off to clients as MVPs. So we left positions open for months until we found the perfect person and they didn't want to join/did not stay as they wouldn't actually use those skills.

Said past company also wanted "product minded people", something in my own background. Devs had no influence on the product there. Yet they waited for people like myself to come along.

A job before that leetcoded. Nobody currently there could pass the leetcode. The dev doing the interview had never even seen a tree in production at any company. We certainly didn't care internally as the database was so small and it was a Scrum team focused on shipping tickets. But we kept reposting the job and then had to eventually just take a candidate (if you could solve a tree leetcode, you would not work at this place).
"Or alternately accept there never was a problem with healthcare capacity because if there was, we’d have demanded it to be fixed already"

Strange, that I head many demands of fixing the broken healthcare system way before covid, though.

When it would have been working right - it would have been possible to scale it up to the needed size.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Something like /proc or /dev.
I'm not the person you're directing the question to, but I actively have to self medicate so I don't remember every thing.

I also need to take notes to raise the important things above the useless things that I remember.
We shouldn't accept it though and there is a massive double-standard in the treatment of the merit of women who are also sexy and men who are also sexy. We don’t question the merit of Ronaldo as a footballer because he also uses his body in a sexy way to advertise for example.

Another aspect as well is homogenising around the social mores of America by default which particularly in the aspects of sex and sexuality are deeply troubled.
https://archive.is/9bwmQ
I am not sure if I understood this question but with unmedicated ADHD you really have to write everything down, even the smallest, simplest tasks, and a lot of information for "future me". I even have to write about things that I do every day. Nothing really sticks in your mind. Notetaking is not a choice but a neccesity. When you are medicated you still want to take notes it you want to be even more organized but you can choose not too and probably be fine like a lot of other people without ADHD.
I'm not entirely sure I get his meaning - which I take to be using your memory to filter for good ideas. Sounds like something a savant would say, not realizing they have an unusual brain.

But I bet Stephen King types his novels, rather than dictating them to his editor from memory. Jay Z is said (by himself and numerous collaborators) not to write his lyrics down. He writes them in his head, and recites them from his head in the studio.

I can't remember any ideas that originate in my head, that I haven't seen with my eyes. Except for those thrice-in-a-lifetime level ideas. I've tried the "if it's good I'll remember it" approach literally hundreds of times, and maybe retained three of those. I've had more than three good ideas in my life. I don't only want to remember the A+++ ones. I want the A++ ones, the A+ ones, and so on, so that I can work on refining them. Note taking apps are really handy for refining.
Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network
> malicious software

Keyloggers don't have to be malicious (e.g. you can use it for a global hotkey hook). Thus, writing such software doesn't have to be done with that mindset at all. That being the case, it is ambiguous whether or not those laws apply.
Same, but I never tried. Back in school we were encouraged to take notes during lectures, but I found that if I was focused on note taking them I wouldn't take in any of what was presented to me, and my notes would be useless. No note taking software even comes close to how my brain works either. Of the few notes I've actually taken I've never gone back to read them again. Sure, I will forget stuff, but I feel like in most instances I can just go back and relearn them faster than the time I would have wasted on taking notes, categorizing them and making them searchable.
Nice. What's the navigation system? In-house, or do they use some external service?
> Here's what I don't understand about this argument: Why do slander and libel laws exist?

I would be interested in abolishing both, in fact. I suspect society might adapt well.

Currently, when someone makes an unsubstantiated statement towards someone, it still carries _some_ weight precisely because the audience thinks that the slanderer wouldn't risk punishment for no reason. Especially if the slander is written and signed.

(And we've carried over this mentality even in the age of the Internet where anonymous slander is largely risk-free. For some reason, when @Goku69420 tweets 'Everybody knows that Joe Blow is a goat-botherer!', our brains treats it more like a fellow citizen writing a letter to the editor, rather than as the digital version of toilet-wall graffiti.)

Imagine if we let a generation or two of legalized slander and libel pass. I suspect we might become used to the idea that even the nicest people will occasionally have random strangers claiming awful things about them, and slander not backed up by evidence or at least substantial credibility will become a non-issue.

Then again, I might be too optimistic. In the heyday of the 'yellow press', did most ordinary people treat their bylines with skepticism and amusement, like most people do nowadays with e.g. the Weekly World News? Or did they have a large audience of long-term believers, like even the most partisan talk shows do nowadays?
Well said. Also fair play to you for being prepared to openly identify as who you are, in a part of the world where it's not necessarily as easy to do so as it is for many of us.
I didn't really follow the whole affair, but I found it interesting that Fox apparently specifically requested this particular mod for the interview - and that the mod had already given interviews in the past.

I haven't seen those past interviews, but if she behaved like that in the past, could it be that requesting her was the brunt of Fox' strategy?

Like, they might have known she would make a fool of herself (and the movement) without them even needing to trip her up with loaded questions.
>The author contrasts this with K8s by saying that K8s is declarative. This is not the important distinction.

I feel like declarative is some kind of technical manual meme for the last few years. I don't know at this point how often I've read that something is better because it's modern and declarative. Why it's easy to understand because it's declarative, etc.

There's a similar thing with "functional". In that case I at least understand the intuition why it's better, which is because if I/O behavior is constant and you don't have to think of an internal state, like in OOP. It is indeed much easier to divide and conquer when you can understand the parts of the whole individually. And as soon as you understand the parts you can piece them together.

With "declarative" I still have to find out what's the intuition WHY it's supposedly better, until then it's kind of like the 90s, where the washing machine was "better" because it had "fuzzy logic".
C# and few other .net languages can be used in SQL Server for more than a decade: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_CLR
It's one way for people to cope with information overload. Instead of letting the information firehose spray into space, try to store it somewhere.

You can certainly store some for future use, but when people get excited about fancy systems it's probably a sign that they should cut down their information input, rather than looking for fancier offloading tools.

It's analogous to a scarcity/abundance mindset. The abundance mindset realizes that all the information will still be out there when you need it, so there's no need to hoard. (Information that's specific to yourself is still worth recording.)
> Writing it down is a way to structure thoughts and get it out of your system.

Why do you feel the need to "structure thoughts" and "get it out of your system"?

Asking as a way to point out that feeling the need to do it is not a forgone conclusion.
100k$ is an achievable target without Leetcode. Freelancing/contracting will get you there. Frankly, contracting in London nets you 120k£ pre-tax easily, and contracting via a limited company means you can significantly reduce your tax exposure.

Beyond that is a bit tricky. It's not impossible, and you can land a high-paying job at a startup or established non-tech company (established tech outside of FAANG is usually terrible pay-wise) through your network or recruiters, but the workload might be higher.

The advantage of FAANG is that beyond the initial LeetCode grind and the relative mundaneness/uselessness of the work (are you really passionate about littering the world with even more advertising?), it being such a huge company means that once past the initial grind you can lay back and still enjoy a very good paycheck for lower effort than in a smaller company which actually produces useful output beyond advertising.