skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I've thought about doing exactly this, with a Google Group and a cronjob that checks for new postings every few minutes.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account because it's not what this site is for.

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I agree with this, and yet, I love these new languages (esp. Rust) so I'd hate to halt progress.

Instead, what I think we need is a solid cross platform native UI library targeting C (libui would be a candidate - before it lost momentum). It would then be a reasonable amount of work to create multi-language bindings. Instead we have things like wxWidgets/Qt that are a pain to create bindings for since it is written in C++. As proof this would accelerate things, notice how many languages have GTK bindings (C based).
Right now, Kobo is the best, IMHO. Pocketbook is overpriced and underpowered, Onyx Boox run locked-down Android, Amazon is full of customer-hostile practices and spyware.
The problem is not ignorance of the constituents interests or their volition.

The political system this claims to help was not created by and for the working class, it was thought out, designed and implemented by and for the bourgeoisie. It can't serve the majority even if it tried. There are no mechanisms for it, and, not only that, the whole system will prevent their creation. It's not about adding plugins, it's about changing the system.

This app was probably funded by the democrats to seem more radical and progressive, but is just a tool for aesthetics. They use these to gather well meaning non conforming professionals and citizens around actions that are ultimately inconsequential and also wont waste the opportunity to trigger conservatives while they're at it, adding kindling the useless culture war that owns the US.
Lions mane always sounds like pseudoscience to me.
Ask HN: Should an experienced engineer join a startup?
(throw away account since I will be sharing a lot of personal stuff)

I have been working at big and respected tech companies for years, and lately I decided that I wanted to do something different and join a startup.

At first I was very happy to find that many companies were interested in me, and several of them sound promising companies, but when the compensation conversations start, I can't help to feel like I'm getting the short end of the stick.

I have no expectations that any startup would match my current comp, but after crunching the numbers of expected equity and using VERY optimistic scenarios, the opportunity cost is too big to ignore. For reference:

- I make around $0.9M-$1.2M per year today. Is a public company, so everything is liquid.

- If I accept a position with 1% equity, the company exit would need to be at least $500M just to match my previous comp.

- Investors are getting a much better deal than I am, their money can buy more equity that I would be able to buy with my work.

So far I considered the following options:

- Accept my golden handcuffs, and stay where I am.

- Accept that this is the price for the privilege of working at a startup.

- Become a founder myself, so the exit value doesn't need to be so insanely high.

- Become an angel investor, since they are getting a much better deal, I might as well join them.

I'm curious with other people think about this situation, while I think I'm in an uncommon (but very fortunate) situation, is hard to believe I'm the first one. I'm interesting to hear if I'm actually missing something and is not as bad as it sounds, or if there is other options which I did not consider.
I'm stuck between that monitor and 21:9 34" ultrawide. Any opinions?
Targeting windows is really interesting actually - Microsoft has made such as a hash of the development story on Windows I'm surprised more folks haven't made a run at that market. In my case, I like rich local app -> remote data store.

Does anyone know how well this performs on windows.
That would require thinking for themselves. That requires say too much effort for most people, especially when they work at 9-5 doing useless work and want to shut off part of their brain to survive in this thing we call society.
Untappd is pretty good in the same space - https://untappd.com/

Kind of like Foursquare for beer.
Another surprising example: by default, some compilers attempt more aggressive optimization if there is ample memory available.

(We discovered many surprising causes of nondeterminism during the development of Blaze aka Bazel, which prides itself on reproducibility.)
Haha, thanks. I guess my educational indoctrination won out even when I tried to type it wrong. too late to edit and fix.
https://dataprot.net/statistics/spam-statistics/

Did you actually read that, and the sources it cites, before posting it? If you had you might have noticed that it's full of the worst kind of junk stats. Several of the sources cited, the ones that supposedly support your arguments here, don't even say what the piece you linked claims. They literally have completely different numbers. Not that it matters since there is no indication of methodology used and the exact figures are clearly impossible for anyone to measure accurately. Some of the other "sources" are just links to organisation home pages without identifying any specific research or analysis at all.

If 90% of all the messages in your inbox were spam how long would you continue to use it?

As someone old enough to remember the time when that was actually the case, obviously we managed. But this is distorting the argument again because you are implying a false dichotomy where the alternative to overly aggressive blacklisting policies such as you advocate is all of the spam reaching our inboxes. Clearly that is not realistic as less aggressive defences are still highly effective and have consistently been so for a long time.

No one can force anyone to do anything.

Really? Then where can I sign up for a mail service that will reliably deliver both my incoming and outgoing legitimate messages without undue monitoring or interference with my own business? I contend that possibly no such service currently exists.

Personally, I'd prefer to hold them to the same standards as everyone else, but the problem of the largest players throwing their weight around giving them unfair advantages exists in every industry and until someone comes up with a solution for it, we're all just stuck playing along.

Which is exactly why some of us are in favour of statutory regulation to compel anyone participating in such an important technological ecosystem to be a good citizen.

So your alternative to blacklists is just more blacklists that are run better?

I don't believe I have ever suggested anywhere in this discussion that using blacklists to block traffic from proven spam sources was unfair or inappropriate. My objection, which seems to be in line with the submitted article, is to big mail services that think spraying fire into a crowd of 250 indefinitely because there was once one bad person there is a reasonable response to the problem. There is huge collateral damage being caused and the defenders of this policy are trying to sweep it under the carpet and use highly debatable arguments of necessity to justify their damaging policies.

This is not the best system we have. That's the point being made here.
Edward Tufte's various books like The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and Envisioning Information are old but good books.

That said, they are more of an inspiration than a practical handbook of templates to make your own visualization.
You're correct. Apologies for writing that could be misinterpreted.
> source code is really meant for humans to read. The canonical form of software is more like the object code produced by the compiler. You can probably just produce this directly

They key advantage of producing source code is that you can usually tell what the produced program does.
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Former IBM VP: IBM contemplated building an AWS competitor as early as 2005
I have a delonghi. Only a few hundred dollars but the support service has been fantastic which I didn’t really expect either.

I’ve noticed a few responses to my post mentioning drip coffee machines - the one I have steams milk, makes lattes etc
It needs to be high enough to clear the tallest cars (plus enough distance to prevent arcing), and then the pantograph pickup on the locomotives needs to be tall enough to reach the overhead wires.
As a "vent-er" myself writing things to a group of strangers seems healthy. It is like a prolonged and much needed hug without the other person awkwardly patting on your back to signalling you to end the hug. People are honest here. Sure there is a delusional ambiance of success here but in the deep nests of the comment jungle you find solace that some one has your desired traits has gone through the same shit.

You can't find a place where people are honest yet direct with you without the burning bridges.

I personally wouldn't want to be in any place where you don't see the frustrations of people in the same page where people discuss their interest. Twitter and Linkedin is vent free and I find them to be hypocratic.
Recently switched from a Kindle to a Kobo and here are my findings so far:

Kobo Pros:

* Natively handle .epub files

* Overdrive integration for library books

* Dropbox integration so it's quick to transfer files from my laptop

* Pocket integration. Being able to read long form web articles on an e-ink screen is a game changer for me.

* OS is generally better

* Minor, but I like seeing the book I'm reading on the sleep screen

Kobo cons:

* Buttons are slightly worse than the Kindle's

* For the Sage, the battery life is worse than the Kindle. I've heard the other models are better though.
And canola oil is even better than olive oil in terms of fatty acid content
You are now looking back at a significant part of your life and that is changing your perspective. Not only are you not going to be younger in the future, but you may not enjoy the agility that you had, good looks, and all other niceties of youth.

Our western civilizations do not value age that much these days, it's not a good fit for the always-on high-throughput life required to not go under.

Some get lucky, married, have children, which yet again gives you a different perspective on life (and you start to see how little things matter that you thought matter). This can be a significant impulse through your 30's and 40's.

A guy I know is forever single, about your age - a cultivated man, who enjoys a few recreational activities, but who also wastes a lot of time (something people with kids cannot afford any more).

Not sure what has been driving you, but with a nice chunk of savings try to cut back on stuff you do not really value for a few years and try to refocus on a thing that captures your spirits, whatever that may be.

You probably need to let life capture you again, in its weird ways and I see some people just not crazy enough to allow themselves to.
I have a three 27" monitor setup with iMac. I tend to dedicate one display to communication and entertainment apps--Outlook, Slack/Mattermost, Spotify; I'll have my IDE in my center display, and on the third display I'll have terminals, utility editor windows, or browser windows--depending on what I'm working on, e.g. when writing front-end Javascript, I have my browser and developer tools open, and maybe a window open to MDN's docs.
That probably puts you in the minority these days. The typical buyer is willing to pay $500/month in perpetuity to lease a BMW rather than pay $500 to finance a Honda even if it means they'll own the Honda outright in X years.

I don't not-sympathize with them. It's not like when you bought a model year 2000 car. Ten years later it didn't end up being significantly worse than a 2010 car. Nowadays if you buy a 2022 car, you're probably going to end up having a Flintstonesmobile in 2032.

Due to the way they're calculated, the lease payments can often be determined in an opaque way that is not apparent to the customer in terms of a car's MSRP. Thus you can end up with a $50,000 BMW whose monthly lease payment comes out to be cheaper than the monthly payment leasing a $35,000 Honda.
Thanks for sharing, but can you (or anyone else) elaborate what he means by "the cognitive dissonance of the pre-COVID era"?
EasyOS 3.3
Most of your examples are not actually the big leaps. I had a Diamond Monster 3D 4MB and then a Voodoo 2, and the revolutionary one was the original.

You mentioned the Pentium M which was the accurate choice.

The M1 has a better argument as being first but I probably would’ve selected the A series chips since the M series is really an extension of how great those are.
That is a way but its obviously not encouraged or it'd be a built in feature. Sending yourself a message with a custom URL isn't exactly amazing UX.
Sears was the Amazon of the day. Order by mail, receive by rail shipment, completely bypass local retail infrastructure. In some case this meant unmarked crates to avoid trouble.

Here's a link to a catalogue page for DIY telephone equipment from those days. At least the link works for me right now.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101066805050&vi...
EasyOS 3.3 release forum thread.[0]

[0] https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=5103
There were early studies, yes. Subsequent studies suggested no. "Having promise" isn't enough for something with side-effects like Ivermectin, which is why the FDA didn't clear it for this use.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...
Whoops! Thanks, I've fixed it.
Interesting. Fascinating how you can go a lifetime without noticing CSF but one thing goes wrong and suddenly you can't even stand up. Good to hear you got better
Agreed. There’s a question of ownership in that too. It’s frequently brought up in regards to Copilot. If companies had had to pay to license all the photos or code or writing they train on, a lot of these datasets wouldn’t exist, and then neither would the models.

Which is why I wish there was a copyleft open source data analogue. If you train on everyone’s public data, your model should have to be just as publicly available.
Python is a great language. Really nice to work with, if you don’t mind the premise (no static safety etc). It’s not really focused on UI though; packages exist but are kind of niche, I’d say. Not exotic: you have wrappers for Tkinter, Qt, WxWidgets etc. But most people writing serious native GUI apps avoid Python. I’ve always found Python GUIs slow and clunky.

Web is different for many reasons and there Python does well.
My seatbelt rule for judgment
F1 has a problem (if you want to call it that) where it's not in my timezone. I wake up on the west coast USA and an entire race will have started and finished while I was asleep.
I would consider using this but don't trust their privacy policy. People have been canned for expressing political opinions or donating to political causes.

How do I know this company won't leak my information? This is especially a concern for people they would not consider political allies. Is there a more anon way to use it than giving your phone number?
> without trying to kill people
Do you suggest that Tesla is trying to kill people? That would be a ridiculous statement.

I bet the risk of getting injured by Tesla beta version of FSD is miniscule compared to a risk of getting into accident caused by a human driver. I am not for banning either of them. Even when we get to the point where FSD is much safer than drivers I would be against of banning humans.
No, you pretty much nailed it, except for two things:

1) You're critical to getting the company from PowerPoint pitch to shipping product, but you won't be treated this way.

2) You'll be diluted to almost nothing if the company got to a .5 Billion exit.

If you want the excitement and experience? Go for it. If you want the money? Buy a lottery ticket.
Similar here. Slightly smaller monitor, but 3 of them. Only two at a time is typically used for development. The third is for me to tile apps like Slack and Spotify.
Huh, would this be noticeable from e.g. intermittent fasting?
The grade inflation and college promotion happened in other countries. It was a naive political progressive trick that failed.
The way I think isn't "people shouldn't don't have kids", it's "don't force yourself to have kids if you don't want them, and don't expect kids to be the path to solving your own problems -- they may, in fact, just magnify every problem you have". I'm fairly certain that even everyone agreeing with that wouldn't lead to the extinction of the species, but it may lead to less children being raised in dire or abusive circumstances, and less parents miserable with their own existence.

I agree that this way of thinking probably runs contrary to the evolutionary code of the species. But we live in a world where that code is outdated, and education should allow us to teach people that marriage and child-rearing, while the right path for many people, is not the only route to self fulfillment and happiness. And those that choose alternate paths should not be treated as, or feel like, outcasts.
Yes that's it, I always get it wrong..
The first example undermines the argument. It’s a demonstration that the author doesn’t understand a tool.

That pie chart tells me that the slices are approximately the same, which is a useful message to effectively deliver visually. Pie charts are great for understanding relative value.

Divining or comparing the precise values is not a good use for it.
Could be, I suppose. Though for most of those, I'd expect them to have approximately the same impact as voter id laws. The big exception being voter roll purges in states without same day registration, that one seems most likely to have an impact.

> given the narrow margins that we often tend to see.

Most elections really aren't that narrow (hence the high incumbency rate). The few that are just end up dominating the news cycles.
Yes, this is very far from average human level performance. Error rates need to go down by maybe 100-1000x to be viable. They are years away.
It never works well because the platforms are not simply the same thing by different companies but they all have their concurrent ideas, conventions and differences.

The toolset for "Write once. Deploy everywhere." that works is HTML + JS + CSS and nothing else. This is because browsers work about the same everywhere.

IMHO if an app is not going to leverage the platform but will simply show some UI to display or collect data, the way to do it is HTML + JS + CSS in the browser.

When you try to support platform specific features, you end up doing much more work but instead of working on the primary App, you spend you time on integration and replication of platform behaviour or functions.
You seem to be projecting your personal experience on to a large population.
As someone who speaks hebrew and doesn't do PHP at all this was very strange to discover :D
I use a printer, a filing cabinet, hanging folders and manila file folders. I could never dream of doing anything else.
Interesting result about the fiber plus probiotic. To me that’s saying that’s your body mostly knows how to maintain a micro biome if given the right building blocks.

I wonder how the immune system comes into play to actively shape the microbiome, vs our typical understanding of just “fighting bad bacteria”.
I’m curious in the “breaking free from unfulfilling corporate tech job” part
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grapefruit-history-and...

The bland URL doesn't do that article justice, this is a great read.
I've been using a LG 27" 4k60Hz with a MBP for a few years.

Recently got a 32" LG monitor from my employer, and I really tried to make it work, but it was plain impossible. It's too big, and due to scaling (which I don't need with 27"), fonts are very blurry.

I ended up with my 27" again and using the 32" for my bike trainer :)
> but that’s a really hard plan to pivot to at a certain point in life.

or while the cash flow is just too low at any point in life
No that would be a waste of money with no real synergies. They are better off buying a video games co like Take Two or Roblox for advancing the metaverse
The CTO who used to be a dev. More generally anyone in management with a technical background. They may not exist in some companies, but that's not because it's "a major unsolved problem in the structure and organization of working", it's because the company sucks in that regard.
no, whether id is easy to get or not is entirely beside the point. by constitution, we're decidedly not a papers-please nation, despite the slippery slope you seem to support.

voting should be plentiful, accessible, subsidized, and unimpeded, not gatekept, especially not by a surreptitous effort to implement national id.
is this just apps remoted individually via rdp rail?
> Two patients and no control group is virtually useless for drawing any conclusions

That is a frequentist argument.

If the response to treatment is significant enough, then that is a worthwhile signal (cliché: parachutes save lives without a control group).

Placebo is an obvious contender. However presuming the patients had a chronic condition with plenty of previous interventions, then the placebo effect has had plenty of chances in the past. If it were due to placebo then there would be something to learn about why the placebo effect were so effective in that situation!
There's an asymmetry in the risks associated with choosing either a) to restrict or b) not to restrict the set of foods you eat.

Overconfidence in (b) carries more risk than overconfidence in (a). The set of chemicals that are toxic is much larger (as in >>>) than the set of chemicals that are necessary for sustaining life.
Sorry, but by the moderation standard here, that was clearly an unsubstantive comment. This was not a borderline call and doesn't have to do with liking or disliking.
Autoimmune protocol diet exits for this.

Spent a month eating sweet potatoes. Best I ever felt.
> Why isn't any engineer, chemist or physicist asked to at least do some basic calculations if what they are attempting is possible or makes sense.

I'm sure most of them perfectly know what they're doing. The purpose of most of those debunked Kickstarters was never to deliver a working product, it's to get a few hundred thousand to live on while pretending to try and deliver something. It seems to be legal as I never hear about legal repercussions for these people, so I guess why not?
Even small errors in measurement will greatly change the location of the projected plateau so this is not usually useful in practice.
I find the UI experience to be significantly more of an off-putting factor than the Joe Rogan experience
Thank you for your nice and constructive feedback so far.
I plan to keep polishing the game and to implement some of the suggestions.

The approach for the project so far was to use only „VanillaJS“ (so no frameworks, except for CSS) and to keep it as lightweight as possible. I think I might deviate a bit from this strict approach in the future.