skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I thought I would resurrect my HN account for this.

I wrote this article a little over a decade ago, when I was still in college, and I knew almost nothing about the world. (I still don't, but I didn't then, either) It's fun to see that it still resonates with people despite the naivety and the slight sense of "I am headed for success" that makes it hard for me to re-read.

My initial reflection on the article was that I had fallen off the "do things, tell people" wagon a little bit, having let go of my twitter account and with it much of the easiest path to doing things and telling people. I still work in tech but I haven't created anything I'm particularly excited about in a good while, so I felt that I was failing my own ideal.

Then, of course, I remembered that I hiked all of Ireland's long-distance trails (https://toughsoles.ie) and have a reasonably successful, if niche, youtube channel (https://youtube.com/toughsoles). Funny that my mindset, especially regarding this article, is so tech-focused that I automatically discount something I've been doing for five years.

All that said, I'm starting to look for new opportunities in the larger-than-startup space. Shoot me an email at carl@flax.ie and let's chat.
What would the lawsuit be and who would it be from? Shareholders?
"You need to enable Javascript to run this app."

No doubt. But do I need an app to read the information delivered by the website. I use the web as an information service.

curl -s -A "" https://jremissing.com/api/episodes|(tr \{ '\12';echo)

Sorry but I see no need to enable Javascript for reading text.

Of course, the Ads by Google component of the page does require Javascript. For ads/tracking, one does need to enable Javascript.
> Overt racism, antivax anti-science shouldn't be excused with free speech, which doesn't in any way impact wether or not and who can criticise what.

All those things are covered under "free speech". There's no legal definition for "hate speech", or "anti-vax speech" or "anti-science speech". They are all ALLOWED.
I am not a software engineer so I am obviously not the target audience here, but I do like reading these types of articles because sometimes they have nuggets of wisdom that can be applied to other fields.

Having said that, I would make the following points to writers who wish to engage outside of the narrow circle of their profession:

* It's nearly 250 words into this piece before we even get a hint that we are talking about software engineering here, and even then it's only because the writer mentions a PR. I know enough to know what a PR is, but a general audience would not. It's not until some 620 words into the article that software is actually mentioned and the general reader can say without a doubt that software engineering is what we are talking about here.

* Along with PR, IC is something that is never defined and this one was new to me (and a little tricky to search, but I now understand that it is an Individual Contributor). The PRD was easier to track down, but again not obvious, even from the context.

Again, I get it - I'm not the audience and this is a bit of industry in-talk. But I think it's something that worth thinking about - you don't have to dumb down your ideas for them to be understood by a much larger audience than your immediate colleagues.
>Damn Scandinavians!

Yeah it's a state of mind, you do something for and with a community and not exclusively for your personal gains. In the US that was often compared to communism (just listen to the questions from reporters in the early day of Linux)
But isn't the cross section dependent upon what is interacting with them? Like, my understanding is that the cross section of hafnium is massive with respect to neutron capture, but not with respect to photons.
Damn, makes me realize my mortality
They also illegally refuse refunds in the EU for games you've bought but never downloaded or launched
Antimaskers, then? I don't believe they are administering vaccines in-flight.
I understand how it all works mechanically, I just don't think it models the real world conceptually. OOP works well when you make classes to represent fundamental nouns, those nouns with properties describing their existential makeup. But day.ago is not that -- it's just abusing the syntax to fake a natural looking expression.

On finding out where a method came from, I appreciate that I can look to see if it's core or else must be from a gem, but I want to know _which_ gem did it come from.
An overworked ER Nurse who just can't take it anymore may decide to not update a patient's medical record when a patient is in decline and instead will simply discharge the patient. If the Patient dies at home, the medical records will not indicate a decline, therefore no EMTALA violation. That is how my Mother was basically manslaughtered by West Hills, CA ER back in March of 2018, right in front of my own eyes. I still have PTSD from the incident. After Mom died at home in my arms without ever having been treated for her pre-pnemonia, NOBODY would investigate. How cruel and complicit is that?
All of these episodes have been preserved online, see for example: https://archive.org/details/jre-001-837

So there's not really a need to 'save' them.

Also if you want to crowdfund something there's much better ways to do it than an NTF, though in this case it's unclear that you need to do any kind of funding because people are can just donate time.
> gender dysphoria (just like body dysphoria) is, and should be medicated and treated responsibly

I'm sure you were trying to be offensive here (no surprise here, coming from a throwaway account) but apart from it not being called that anymore (DSM-5 calls it "Gender Incongruence" now) and it not being a disorder (again, see DSM), you are mostly correct. It should be treated by medication (HRT) and social transition, and of course appropriate therapy should be provided.
I tried for few months, but unfortunately DDG results are really poor for local searches. Whenever I want to find something in Polish, half of the results are from some autotranslated websites. Also Google is the only one that shows local business in a useful way.
> well microservices scales and monoliths dont'

The world we live now in. It's not funny anymore.
Which was then fixed in space by astronauts during 5 consecutive EVAs.
Apple claims on its website to support 1,000 nits sustained brightness and 1,600 nits peak brightness. If in reality they can only sustain 500 nits brightness, that's probably a disappointment to people who spent extra on the newer, fancier display in the hopes of working on the laptop outside.

If they can't sustain their sustained brightness, that might even be false advertising.
I've heard that's how merchants used to count in the Mediterranean. However much like QLC and TLC SSDs are more finicky to work and require stricter discipline than simple on/off storage, the same can be said for fingers and is it up or down.
I always find these comments amusing. Counterpoint: I listen to JR but thought the joke wasn't funny. Neither comment adds to the conversation really.

I don't think it is fair to say Joe is bloated - what does that mean? Fat? And he's not slow mentally or physically either.
I quit having a phone number and just rent virtual ones for shitty webservices that force me to have a number. Zero regrets.

I quit Facebook years ago and do not miss anything either, so maybe it's just me.
I would pay $10 a month for an ad free search engine that serves objective (not "personalised") query results related to what I'm looking for that doesn't sell my data, with similar features to Google Scholar and ideally even greater granularity, but for the whole web.
I have a good chunk of these in MP3 format, what would be a good way to share?
It's still maintained under the name ZealOS:

https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS
Put also unruly tax evading people and companies on no-foreign-accounts list
The temperature of deep space is 2.7K due to the cosmic microwave background. JWST's cold side is going to be about 40K, so it's substantially warmer than that.

I'm not sure how much of that heat is coming through the sunshield and how much is heat from the equipment.
Launch cost is actually a _significant_ fraction. Even more so, because a lot of the complexity arises from design and systems to get things right on the first try, since launch costs are so prohibitive.

Put another way, if launch costs were cheaper, it would also have been cheaper to design and build the telescope.
ofc. easy money.
If anything, the trend is in the other direction: podcasts were once federated, but it’s getting rarer and rarer to be able to get the raw feed instead of going through a platform tied to a client (Spotify, Apple podcasts etc)
HN crowd is usually mixed, better than Reddit or anything where the US clearly dominates.

I can tell by reactions to some more critical answers, and how they change depending on the time of the day :)
I just systematically unfollow everyone I connect with. My news feed is "blah blah blah was mentioned in the news" or a few posts in various game development groups I am a member of. Got so tired of the "Amens" and the "but the interviewer was the dog" and the "only 5% of the population can solve this" memes.

Oh, and I say "fuck" an awful lot. And I posted bad artwork of a bear fucking a gallon of orange juice, and a recruiter saying the word "no whore" with a duck swearing. And some blood spatter. And a programmer telling an entrepreneur that nobody gives a damn he got six column inches in the San Francisco Bee. But I didn't say damn, I said fuck. And a programmer fighting a mechanical octopus by stabbing it in the eye. I also posted a poem about entrepreneurial exploitation which I am currently illustrating.

Apparently this is unprofessional and would make me unhirable, but I like to think that really, I'm just a guy wearing a duck suit disrupting synergies in the meta or something.

Also, my standard reply to recruiters is "Thanks for making me aware of this opportunity. Sounds boring and exploitative. Good luck in your continuing candidate search."

Definitely am guilty of the "broetry" style of separating everything on a to a single line though, don't know what it is about the cluttered LinkedIn UI that makes a paragraph of text hard to read.

Guilty of a few "respect" posts though. Mostly around the "and then flipped the bird and hung up on the toxic interviewer" type of post. Was interviewing last year and just "got up and walked out" (or the Zoom/Meet/WebX/Skype equivalent) of the meeting. "Well would you look at the time, it's already I-don't-give-a-shit-anymore o'clock, thanks for your time today. Bye!"

Footnote: My colleagues tell me I am joy to work with and brighten up any team I am a part of.
You mean, it is unpleasant to fly side by side with people with another ideology? So society have to strip them of their rights to move freely?
The up arrow to store was the biggest problem for me. I ended up doing this about 10 times in about 40 pieces, just because it's muscle memory from Tetris.
for shits an giggles obviously

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matryoshka_doll
> Maybe? Alex Jones still hasn't accepted reality regarding the Sandy Hook massacre, even after losing a trial. Éric Zemmour still peddles blatantly racist and false information after being fined multiple times for it. Is there a way to even stop that kind of person? Anyone listening to them ( and Trump, and Nigel Farage, and Boris Johnson) obviously isn't interested in facts, because everything out of their mouths is easily debunkable with a few minutes online

Do you have any examples of left-wingers producing misinformation? You know, people on CNN or MSNBC? Or are you going to produce only right-wing examples because you live in an absolute bubble and have no ability to see that there is daily misinformation on all corporate-owned networks: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc... and even in a very egregious way.

It is clear to me that you only read Democratic-party aligned news sources and have a terribly biased and skewed worldview where apparently only "tHe RiGhT-WiNgErS aRe RaCiSt hurr durr". Your guy Joe Biden has produced more racist outcomes with his Crime Bill than Donald Trump has ever done in his tweets.
Good start! Keep reading!

Ivermectin may or may not help people with covid, i have no idea. My point is that dismissing it outright based on tabloid characterizations is not helpful. It’s propaganda.
The distinction between NEVs and actual cars is more a legal one than a practical one. Basically, there's very little stopping an NEV from going faster than 35MPH. This is a legal limit but not a practical limit inherent to the design. You could feasibly build one that can do 40-50MPH and not massively increase the budget. There would be safety concerns and other concerns; but it's not that hard technically.

The point here is that most of the cost of these vehicles is the battery, not the electrical engine. There are a lot of cheap electrical vehicles for sale in China. Most of those actually ship with lead acid batteries because they are cheaper. They have unimpressive ranges and performance. And most of those are not street legal at all. But they are dirt cheap.

Elektrek has been running a "Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week" series of articles that highlight some of the more wacky, weird, and wonderful designs people have come up with. Some of the more serious form factors there look like they could be perfectly alright for well under 3000$.
I can't think of anything, but people undersell how reasonable his misses are.

Eg, there was the Pizzagate thing where he apparently claimed that there was a child sex trafficing ring with political involvement in some pizza shop, but the actual child sex trafficing ring was Epstein. Or the war in Afghanistan was a disaster because it was an inside job when it turned out to be a disaster for more mundane reasons.

So on the one hand he's wrong about everything, and on the other hand it is entertaining trying to keep score of which bits of the madness turn out accurate. There is a hilarious argument that someone starting from his position and then taking a levelheaded approach to policy could get a better outcome in many instances than what actually happens.
I rarely find an area where I've needed libraries and there haven't been decent stuff available in Ruby other than when doing quite esotheric stuff (e.g. there's no good low level X11 client implementation for doing raw X11 stuff). Often multiple competing projects.

E.g. for ORMs ActiveRecord which is Rails default is in my opinions nowhere near good enough compared to e.g. Sequel, and there are several others.

Sometimes those projects involve wrapping stuff - including Python - or porting Python, but most of what I use is pure Ruby.

With respect to Python, to a lot of the Ruby community Python is in many ways the antithesis of what we want in a language. Python looks horrendous to me. It matters - I stare at code most of my day. If I were to switch languages, Python wouldn't make the shortlist even. It's not that I think Python is objectively worse, but subjectively to me it's unreadable and messy and I can afford to avoid using it most of the time.

EDIT: To expand on some of what I use or have used Ruby for: web dev with Sinatra and Padrino (my main reason for avoiding Rails here is that most of what I do is mostly API driven, and because I prefer Sequel as the ORM), financial modelling (I work for a VC), my text editor of the last few years is written in Ruby (but not packaged up to be useful for others yet - I'm gradually splitting parts of it out into gems, though), DevOps by generating terraform, service orchestration (proprietary pre-Kubernetes orchestration of containers and vms across on-prem, colocated, managed servers and VPSs split between openvz, docker and KVM), system to auto-deploy replicated sets of Postgres servers with logs and backup dumps automatically distributed to a Ruby storage service (pre-RDS, and running on the aforementioned orchestrator), PDF generation, messaging middleware, scraping, large scale crawlers, trading bots. And many more.
You were banned for either one or both of the following things:
1. Violating II. Restrictions on Use of Licensed Materials of the Developers Policy => A => ) provide use of the Twitter API on a service bureau, rental or managed services basis or permit other individuals or entities to create links to the Twitter API or "frame" or "mirror" the Twitter API on any other server, or wireless or Internet-based device, or otherwise make available to a third party, any token, key, password or other login credentials to the Twitter API;
2. violating the security model of the Twitter API, because with your Service Twitter is no longer in control of who can access their data over the API.
Wow, I didn't know that this eventually knocked out a whole array of satellites! I wonder if there was restitution of some kind to the respective operators.

Edit: It seems the only disabled commercial satellite was Telstar [1], where it wasn't possible to point to a single cause because of Project K [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Project_K_nuclear_tests
Too bad only one side of the analogy gets banned.

It's not a very well thought of equivalence when the individual can't even yell "I think there might be a fire" without being censored, because platforms think (and most of the time they're right) that consumers are too stupid.
He's using an Apple laptop. If he's trying to work outside... i'd like to know how long till his keyboard breaks from the tiniest speck of dust.

Thus, I'm assuming indoors.
Up until about a year ago, IC meant independent contractor to me.

Individual contributor sounds like a human resources rebrand for lower pay or power.
I wonder what the other differences and considerations are. The article is focused on issues that might arise from switching, but does not really cover the “why” of switching beyond bundle size. A valid reason, but I assume there is something to say for React or is it really that similar that switching is a no brainer?
Sounds like a pretty easy division of when to use which search engine though, no? Better than the hit-or-miss issue being completely random at least
This reenforces my decision to jailbreak my Switch Lite. It's been sitting unused for 2 years, I don't like it, gives me cramps, and the store prices are ridiculous when used to the convenience and sales offered by Steam. And I have to pay for the Nintendo Online subscription to install a NES and SNES emulator. Yeah, no.

Any good Switch jailbreak resources? I'm comfortable doing it, I don't know what's the latest and most effective hack these days.
It opens the door for competition.

This is why platforms still try to cater to both sides as much as possible. Watch how uncomfortably the giant platforms handle political squabbles. They don't know how their actions will be taken, so they try to come across as inoffensive as possible.
I was honestly shocked by the lack of agent provacateurs.
Well yes, even that would be useful if working with text. (although I’m sure some will also be doing some graphic work)

But this can’t be done either. That website has the whiter-than-white text because it chose to do that. It’s known that every app has the possibility of rendering HDR content at more than 500 nits.

The problem I was trying to solve is how to do that from the outside, on apps that haven’t implemented HDR logic (which is about all of them)
I wrote 'de-facto monopoly'. That was for a reason.
AFAIK WSL doesn't support nested virtualization, so you wouldn't be able to run a VM inside WSL. You can probably get it working, though, because Hyper-V definitely does support that.

Hell, it might even be useful! Windows 11 should add desktop shortcuts for Linux applications, so this would be an easy way to run programs inside an older version of Windows (if you install Windows 7 in the VM, for example).
> Julius Springer

yeah, I confused these two
Shame on Spotify.
XWayland as a whole is itself a Wayland client. So as long as any X11 window has focus then any other X11 window can steal the clipboard. But once a Wayland window is focused, X11 windows don't have access anymore.
People change their mind.
The Qubes clipboard model is one of the reasons I use that OS: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/how-to-copy-and-paste-text/
A profit growth framework for IT services firms
They’re not even similar softwares, its really not worth it to spend effort, to find a n unused name from thousands of softwares.
Yup. Yet another shitty 2022 website that displays content for a second on my phone and immediately clears the page afterwards. How hard is it to create a https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/?
Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just getting old and tired. Maybe I'm just sick of the constant trolling, yelling and generally lots of people trying to out-asshole one another on so, so much of the internet. But I don't mind LinkedIn. I find the cynicism on display here very sad. Sure, there are plenty of narcissists and vapid people posting on LinkedIn. So? At least they're posting "inspirational" stuff, and you know what - even if its BS - if the net emotional effect on other people is generally positive - well wtf is wrong with that? The right kind of BS can be inspirational and drive good behaviours (just as the wrong kind can drive terrible behaviours) - I offer as evidence every religion ever.

For me, I use LinkedIn as my work memory. I've been working since 1987 and have had gigs at so many companies, and worked with so many good people over that time that it's literally impossible for me to remember my own resume (let alone names and faces). It's how I stay in touch with the people who move around and may be the one to help me get my next gig.

A lot of people on HN often go on about freedom of speech, but it just seems to me that where people are happy to defend asshole's speech, no matter how terrible, the kind of saccharine, do-gooder, positivity found on LinkedIn gets torn to shreds. Live and let live. If it's not your cup of tea, please feel free to develop and use an alternative. I'd love to see it. Unless its full of people being total assholes. Then I'll stick with LinkedIn. And HN.
Being easy is not the point ... the purpose is to learn how to do things when there isn't an alternative.
The butterfly keyboard mechanism responsible for breaking on dust particles is gone on newer laptops.

The current MacBook keyboards are quite nice, they have the same mechanism as the external Magic Keyboard sold by Apple, and they seem quite resilient. I had no stuck key in the last 2 years.
Do you associate with many serial killers, so as to be familiar with what they say? Note that I'm not saying that killing animals is right, I'm asking why it's wrong. This is not a positive statement about the world.

It seems like you think this is very obvious, so why is it so hard to explain why? Shouldn't obvious things be easy to explain?
Bloodborne PSX Demake
Idea: create a small web browser or movie player app which plays a 1x1 nearly invisible HDR video in some corner and get the nits limit higher.

I had sometimes problems with color management on mac on fullscreen videos and to prevent that I put a small window from Helium or Pennywise (always on top browsers) into some corner to fix it.
On the other hand, sketching with constraints is very intuitive. Making interesting shapes that aren't trivial CSG demos by fiddling with code just doesn't sound that great.

The future dream mCAD for me is something where extrusions and fillets and other 3d stuff is code, but sketches are GUI edited.