skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must be a hoot at comedy clubs on amateur night. I don't see anything remotely funny about anything in that link.
MPW.

Object Pascal.

MacApp.

Ahh, memories. (Some of them are even _good_ memories! ;-) )
IMHO the only people that think remote is bad, is the middle managers losing their fiefdom

Edit:
JohnHauge

Just because that is your idea doesn't make my comment incorrect.
Its not my kids career that Im worried about, its her mental well being.

There might have been no school, but I doubt the kids didn’t go out and play with their little gangs.
Chilean prefer lat/lon?
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. For one thing, it is exceedingly repetitive and therefore tedious and therefore usually nasty.

We want curious conversation here. That means people hearing each other and learning from each other across differences. This is very different from (and incompatible with) ideological battle, in which the goal is simply to defeat the other side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679.

We've had to ask you about this quite a few times before. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? We'd appreciate it.
Pie charts let you tell percentages at a glance, which is a good thing to be able to tell. If your data is not dividing up a pie, a pie chart might not be the best fit, and if you need to tease out questions like "which is the biggest" given several close numbers, it definitely isn't a good fit. It especially helps when you order the slices in a hostile way - if it was otherwise confusing, just order them clockwise by size instead of going with the (irrelevant in this format) data order.

Any chart format has a set of data for which it's a terrible fit. Different formats have
different information optimized to communicate at a glance, and if you're deliberately using the wrong one, you'll end up with a bad graph; that's not a takedown of the format itself.
Alright, I grouped in PayPal with software, but point taken. That being said, it makes the simile in my original post line up even more. I also think Ken Griffin is highly intelligent, I just don’t think either of them are the political experts they seem to present themselves as. Thank you as well, appreciate the dialog.
Personally, I find it in service and hard, physical work but I think anything that breaks you out of overthinking and just doing can work. Another good book along this line is Shopclass as Soulcraft. Totally different subject but also about finding a why.
Did you notice how the US never had a war with USSR (beside proxy wars, like Afghanistan in 1980s), but still defeated it economically?

Of course a war is not a great idea, and is a device of last resort. But who are you friends with, and who do you depend on economically, plays a very large role on which regimes last, and which get changed, one way or another.
He can say and do and present himself as this and that all he likes and everyone will run around hanging off his every word defending this and impugning that. He has money.

Money is power. Power is money.
Vaccinated with Pfizer then Moderna ... Either I haven't got it yet or I didn't notice.
Ah I see what you mean. I use fractional scaling without an issue.
I have a problem with calling him a libertarian, I would call him an opportunist in the same mould as shikreli who doesn’t seem to have any moral/ethical lines when trying to make money. That is what defines him more libertarianism.
I agree with you. That's why in the past I made this issue: https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery/issues/153

The developers don't seem to be receptive. But fortunately a nix flake exists: https://github.com/marcus7070/cq-flake

Takes ages to compile thought so I advice you to either be patient or add the cache.
Good point. I think you can get them embedded in consumer devices for pretty cheap lately; I bought the Dylos about a decade ago.
If your variable is a class without a trivial default constructor, then you're out of luck. Otherwise, the workaround is to not initialize the variable, and to instead assign to it immediately after declaring it (e.g., replace "int x = 42;" with "int x; x = 42;").
I have seen managers who were very effective at their work. But they actually understood the software in depth and were very skilled at shielding the team from politics.
This might be the most "programmer" post I've seen on the site today.
Your thoughtfulness and moderation is one of the reasons this is a safe intellectual space. Thank you for your generosity.
Thanks for taking my criticism as constructive! (that's how I meant it.) I found myself very interested in the exploration and discoveries that guided your process.
There are overhead rails you can use in tunnels. Nothing stops the high voltage arc issue (the whole advantage of overhead is high voltage), but without all the equipment to tension the cables you don't need as much room and the power will be one the middle of the tunnel.

Anyone building new tunnel should allow the little extra room for overhead, but retrofitting may not be worth it.
Being alone for long hours in your house is unrelated to remote work. Go on walks in the morning, go to the gym in the afternoon, go out for lunch (even if you cook, go eat in a park or something).
Ah yes so we must ban crypto. NK definitely didn't have a missile program years before the BTC white paper was released. Definitely not.
He's on the list.
I think censorship actually could help us in a huge way back to cultural health; start censoring big data, rage cycle algorithms, sexploitation, advertising. Then on top of that giving people independent, client-based, advanced AI powered tools en masse, and making sure they know how to use them and why, for accurate elected censorship on their own devices of things they personally find detrimental to their mental health. Basically, do what you can to allow for the censorship of the influence of the people with money, onto the people without it.

Unfortunately, it's unrealistic to expect this to happen on a big enough scale to overturn the profitability of the effects we've already seen. So it's still centralized censorship by the people with power, onto the people without it, which badly damages everyone's mental health and in particular the general societal trust, especially on the part of anyone hit by it.
Most people are not going to make your life a net positive by dating or marrying them.
I think given current trends giving your kid a linux computer without internet access at an early age and teaching them programming will secure a much more successful life than any trade, and they will have the finances and flexibility to pursue any physical/non-software hobby they want.

I totally get manual labor being a virtue and I agree we should all seek it out to some extent, but making it your primary profession, in my opinion, does not hold a candle to software development for life quality.
There was truth to it in my family.

I had a great affinity for my GPs
DOesn't the problem with Marek's disease have more do do with the horrendous conditions of poultry handling worldwide (mainly close confines)? I don't think that's generally transferrable situation unless you consider humans to be under similar conditions.
This. Before the pandemic I'd go work from somewhere nice once or twice a week. That made home not that boring. Not possible anymore with the pandemic, although things are starting to feel normal again and last week I worked from a coffeeshop in front of a nice lake which was wonderful.
He's on this list at 54.
Exactly! There are numerous studies stating to limit screen time for kids because it’s not good for them, but now it’s okay for the same kids to be on zoom calls 8 hours a day!

Zoom school is one of the worst things to happen to kids since the beginning of computers.
Excellent pun and glad I could be of help. I have kids too and I work with many other children I tend to think of as my kids as well. They are always a joy and a balance. Good luck to you!
How is dang not there?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

It looks like they should be in 85th place?
Sounds like a nice home office. The only thing I'd change would be to get 6 more monitors so you can play Tic Tac Toe.
I think I understand now; just not sure what the definition of a political expert is, but I'm not sure if anyone fits the bill (or even would want to.)
the one and only reason i've heard and been sympathetic with is that working from home, near the kids, is hard
Some magazines I've really liked:

Quanta Magazine has excellent content for the math/science inclined : https://www.quantamagazine.org/

Same with nature.com

ScientificAmerican or Science

Makezine for those who like building

For print-only, I would recommend books like:

* Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire which is Quanta's book

* Best American Science Writing

All of these can probably be found for free at your local library
Helion Energy
I disagree that most tests should be integration tests. He seems to dismiss them in the article because of his experience with diminishing returns with test coverage and tests that test implementation details which basically means the tests aren’t made correctly and/or targeted at the right areas. He also seems to dismiss the pyramid rather quickly without giving a good reason against it (unit tests are quicker to run and cheaper to implement). This is not to say we should ignore integration tests entirely (or e2e tests for that matter), just that a shift to the traditional guidance is still valid.
> how much of the problems could be solved with tech?

Tech's a big part of the problem as the only variable is how photogenic you are. Real life and real relationships are based on knowing/experiencing somebody, and the best way to do that is be around someone in person.
Suggestions: daily standup (or a few times a week); pair programming more often; book club; 1h-presentations on technical topics once a week.
If you are displaying images with one pixel lines, yes. Buy how often do you view an image scaled to exactly one image pixel per screen pixel. And when it comes to UI and font toolkits, they account for variable scaling aren't usually drawing single pixel features. Anyway I haven't noticed any blurring. You'll only really get noticable blurring if you render at say 1x and display at more than 1x because the detail just isn't there.
Humor is subjective, but I've always found Craig's performative sense of humor to be more annoying than anything else. The smug brainiac shtick is so old at this point that the dude practically steps on Steve Ballmer's feet.
https://gadgetbridge.org/ might do the trick, but I've never used it so no idea how "serious" it is.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It depends on what settings actually change your finger print or not. If only 10% of people use dark mode toggle that's still 90% of users being tracked, which could be worth while.
In the last major extinction event, it was the scrappy and efficient bottom feeders who survived, and the big dopey apex predators and megafauna who didn't.
Thanks for this response. I know what a few of the words means but this nicely puts it all together in my head. :)
I didn't say I heard that specific phrase from teachers, but I hear it from other people in real life all the time.

Do you deny that people hold this belief? Do you believe it yourself?

P. S. Why do people keep bringing up the civil war? Did I miss something?
Markets don't care about revenue as much as growth. If a company isn't growing, it's dying and static revenue figures don't assuage investors.

With declining user engagement and investments in the metaverse still many years away from an ROI, the markets are essentially saying that Facebook doesn't have the high-growth runway they've been used to for all of these years anymore.
Sorry I can't help - I'm responding because I spent some time today looking for a "dumb" running gps that just tells me how far I've run without trying to connect to anything else. It seems they've stopped making them. I think theres a real need for some simple open source hardware that can support fitness applications without being part of some saas gouging or data collection "product".
Yeah, in 1918 the sort of car centric sprawl that is ubiquitous now would be unheard of. It's doubtful that removing school would have removed social interaction the same way it does now.

Especially when the alternative is social media.
Griffel: CSS-in-JS with ahead-of-time compilation
> Money is power.

Money is just one form of power, not the most powerful.

Putin for example has way more power than any wealthy Russian oligarch. They have money but they will do anything to avoid getting on Putin's bad side.
I wish we'd stop calling it "return-to-work" - I've been working for years. We should call it something closer to what it is. "Return-to-burning-hours-every-day-on-the-interstate" maybe?
It's also removed because the content is abhorrible, or beginning to push the boundires to make the previous abhorrible content seem palatable.

The assumption that users cannot see or understand the slide towards abhorrent content is incorrect.
Work from a co-working space. You get the social aspects with more freedom (to move spaces, to be friendly or frosty with a co-tenant without risking employment, etc). I co-own a co-working space and we have part-timers and remote workers in the mix.
Which is much better than Musk who's a "libertarian"; constantly posting how America should do away with regulations to Twitter.

Meanwhile he's not saying a single thing about China (except once where he simply said "China's great!") since he has a car factory there.

Really it's not hard to see most rich libertarians as completely full of shit. They want to pay less taxes and regulations for their business but they don't really show any signs of libertarianism when it comes to the most authoritarian threat to us all: China. In fact they'll happily have factories there.
It says we value free products over morals, which is pretty accurate of the current market forces.
The idea that America "needs" international conflict is kind of terrifying.
They closed a month ago due to Omicron, a measure multiple sensible countries followed to reduce risk. The intent is to remove this restriction at the end of Feb.
> All that to say, what you are feeling is perfectly normal.

Thank you for the kindest, most useful comment
I like chasing (relatively) arbitrary things (current flavor is a random addiction to trying to speed run Tony Hawk Pro Skater remastered levels, go figure, but I digress).

Anywho, saw this list early in my now almost-decade old lifetime on HN and wanted to try to join the ranks. Gave up a while ago, but now seeing the list on the front page here is making me itchy to participate more…
I think you are right. I've been fully remote for about 13 years. I love it, but I also have other things to keep me busy. I am a member of the local tennis club, and have many friends and acquaintances there, as well as year-round activities.
We also have many church friends in the area, and my wife and I do gardening and other outdoor activities, so, any "free time" that we end up with is easily filled.

Don't just be remote and a total couch potato, enjoy the freedom, and make the best of it.
Must've been quite the statistical masterpiece to disentangle it from the World Wars and the Great Depression. Off course extrapolating conclusions from early 20th century education and career progression to the 21st will be an even greater achievement.
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These aren't the views of the poster you're responding to -- they're just speculating about what Thiel's unstated motivations could be. So accusations of bad faith don't really apply here as far as I can see.

Thiel seems pragmatic, if nothing else, so it's not a leap to speculate that he's thinking in terms of tradeoffs here (minor violence now vs major violence later).

He could do as you propose, but that might not be an effective strategy (seems likely not to be), however pure it might make him in our bubble's calculations.
Yes, objectively the managing of production for profit has benefited the world in some very real ways, but there are irremediable contradictions in this system that harm the world in other ways. Production should not be for profit anymore and for that to happen production must be in control of the producers not the profiteers. Its about going forward, not back.
A Guru Meditation from Openculture.com
Looking up an article from openculture.com, I got this:

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Backend fetch failed

Guru Meditation:
XID: 71467068

Varnish cache server

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Wow! I loved the Amiga. Didn't realize is was still in use.
School is a game. If you master some winning strategies (whether they be getting good grades, being socially popular, being good at sports, etc), then you get through the game, and you're better prepared for the rest of the game of life.
I lucked out, in a completely arbitrary move, I did a quick renovation project in December 2019 that gave me a decently set up office space in our house. Fast forward to March when we were sent to work from home for 'two weeks'.

Since then I've been to the office maybe 15 times, never for more than a couple hours at once.

I do not have any desire to be back working in the office. Couple big reasons:
- the commute, while nothing compared to some of you, 30-45 min in the car each way is a mental drain, not to mention my current vehicle with the price of gas would be a killer on the bank account.
- Family - I love that I am home to pick up my son off the school bus, get a few minutes to chill with him before I go back to wrap up some end of day business. Then I start making dinner for the family. Pre-pandemic was the rush to the after-school program, rush to get dinner made before any evening activities.
- Structure of my day: I was always subjected to the 'drive by chats' at the office. Now, I put some blocks on my Teams channel in the calendar, and just get shit done when I know my brain is more likely to engage in deep work. If people try to schedule meetings, I point them at the calendar to look for a slot. And for many days, I know that from 12-2pm I can never really seem to focus, I just take a long lunch, and if the weather is good, go for a run. I do a bit more follow up on things in the evening and feel less rushed about the whole day.

I have no real desire to be back in the office full time and will resist as hard as I can.
In real life, you’re starting a conversation on getting to know someone given a certain context (e.g in class, at an event, doing an activity etc.). The context gives you a starting point for getting to know each other. Online dating gives you no starting ground and conversations do not turn into dates.
> I wonder what made ANSI pick 509 as the limit for the length of string literals.

Just a guess: In a 512 byte block, a 509 bytes long string literal would leave room for a NUL terminator and a 16-bit length field (prefix).
The efficiency of a modern engine at best is what you say. However in the real world you rarely see the best and so the other claim is also right, your typical car is running around 20%efficient ,but it can get over 40
I'm surprised that unlike the forums I spent most of my time on when I was young, I don't really remember anyone here at all. This format is great obviously but I do miss avatars and weird personalized signatures that gave people some personality and recognizability.
I am truly shocked to learn that Johnson & Johnson's baby powder might cause cancer.

This is from a company whose vaccines every single politician and journalist in the western world has assured us that they are 100% effective and safe. Can't the people who developed those vaccines in 6 months talk to the baby powder people to make sure they reach the same level of safety and effectiveness?
im sure the belief that people "owe the state" has never led to most horrible atrocities in human history.
>FWIW I do see the extroverts struggling but hey, us introverts struggled for decades before...

I'm an extrovert. It was hard at first, but then I stopped "waiting to go back" and I sunk my teeth into "working remote". I shifted my personal social schedule to emphasize face-to-face friends. I crave leaving the house on the weekend - and I spend more time at the home-improvement store. I have spent money on my home office. I have shifted my body language to express myself within the bounds of the camera
The tax return says it is only for people making at least $5k, which would be $70k today.
In addition, you most likely had at least one female adult continuously present at home. This has changed dramatically.

People forget that part of what is driving many of the problems is that a single worker with only a high school education isn't enough to stay above the poverty level.
You shouldn't be baffled. Your ancestors routinely fasted for a few days at a time because they simply had no food (especially in the winter).
I see most discussions around liking/disliking remote work include the infrastructure/equipment as argument. I personally like remote in great part because of it.

I love my 4k display, my standing desk, my keyboard, my Aeron Chair. However, I doubt that if those were offered it'd be reason alone for me to go back to the office.
https://www.callapple.org/tag/vidhd/

You have to email order that one. Worth it. I am super pleased to have HDMI. This card gets the subtle details right. Few others do.

But, you can get a nice CRT TV too. Apples look great either way.

http://www.a2heaven.com/webshop/index.php?rt=product/product...

Ask him for a 65816 version, if you want the better CPU and may program for it. Real time speed control. Goes from below 1mhz to a little over 16! I run at 4 an awful lot.

https://applerescueofdenver.com/products-page/apple-ii/cards...

Apple Rescue is special. You may get a full computer from them. Check in and inquire. I got my //e from them. Nice folks.

https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/cffa-v1-0-rev-c-rm-for...

Not cheap, and none of this is. Best modern flash storage solution. Others include the Booti. These come and go.

https://finapple.hho.fi/finapple/index.php/category/msx/

I just got one of these. Have the Z80 piece, have the MSX, Colecovision, Sega game add on coming.

I do not have a sound card yet. I kind of like the standard bloops and beeps from the 1 bit speaker, lol

The card you want for sound is some clone of the mockingboard.

Have fun!

Someone here mentioned a GS. Building one of those up can be just as fun.

I am partial to the //e myself.

One thing to note: when this stuff becomes available, buy. It comes and goes.

I have been chipping away at my 8 bit workstation for a decade. Now is a great time. Soon, that time will pass.

Expect to spend $1k or so. That is about my spend over some time. I like to get a card, and enjoy it, then get another one... no rush.
But I am a productive and responsible member of society and I have a good relationship with those who matter to me. I also volunteer my time online to those less fortunate.

Why did I need to be hazed for 18 years?
Error: this developer has lost interest in the project, good luck at resolving this error!
Why is that disingenuous? Plenty of people/governments/whatever have backed awful people for "the greater good." His theory of change might be that it's worth destroying American democracy in order to preserve American hegemony because he believes it's a fundamentally better world with America as the sole superpower; my point was I don't have any special insight and that people are really complicated and sometimes just because they do things we don't like, doesn't mean they're bad people.