skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Projects like Proton and Lutris are making it so that most of the configuration work is encapsulated in installation scripts that make most of that grinding go away.
Thank you so much! This looks like exactly what I need as well. I'll give it a go. I wonder though if there's something similar available for AWS or GCP.
Yes, we use Akka for all the actors.

Akka has two types of actors: typed and untyped. Typed actors allow the compiler to type check messages, while untyped (or classic actors) perform runtime checking. This also means references to actors can be typed, so if you have multiple implementations of actors that implement the same protocol, you can substitute between the different actors and verify the protocol at compile time.

https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/typed/from-classic.htm...

I had played with Erlang before using Scala/Akka, so untyped actors were a familiar experience. My team decided to use typed actors going forward after an Akka version update since that seems to be the strategic direction of Akka (and it does help to have the compiler complain if we try sending a message that the actor doesn't understand).
I can't stand the ads. I feel like a sucker whenever I use windows for games, like I'm just there so the computer can extract something from me.
> Masks clearly have a measurable impact on mental health.

Bullshit. Citation?
>Most of the population, including most people who have economic stability and freedom, have not had STEM jobs and very likely will not have STEM jobs.

For now. Let's look at young people though. They're indicative of the future.

Outside of finance and STEM, it's really hard to see a clear and reliable path to prosperity for a 20-something year old. Perhaps some trades as well.

What's even worse is that the paths to prosperity seems to get narrower and narrower by the year.
Yesterday, Comcast tried to start charging me 2.5x for my Internet service... I called to cancel the service and all of a sudden, they were able to give me the old price...
I'm saying liberal arts schools fail to provide you with a liberal arts education. You do not learn how to write better nor do you dive deep into the works that you study nor do you learn how to think. Instead, you learn surface level facts about random things without any pressure to go deeper and actually understand what you're studying. Very rarely will you actually analyze a primary source in depth and you definitely won't analyze multiple in depth.

I went to a school that had top ranked humanities departments across the board. There is zero desire for rigor in any humanities courses or departments. It's a way for people to show up to class and get a degree without effort so they can party all day.
>When America becomes a place where you're punished for having invested in your children, it becomes a place where you will no longer want to live.

I'm sure they'll be itching to move to a new country where their children can spend another $200k on their grandchildren.
> Sorry about your situation

I think you misread what I said. If you look back up up the thread, you'll find there is absolutely no reason to pity my situation at all.

Sure, I got a LOT back from the USA, much more than anyone deserves really. And even without that stroke of good luck (sure, maybe it favored my prepared mind), a lot of people can live "like kings" in the USA compared to the life they would have led elsewhere.

But I do not believe that the suffering of those who lead much worse lives in the USA can justify my own comfort (or that of anyone else's). Nor the opposite. The fact that it is possible to succeed here in ways that might never have worked "back home" does not justify the oppression that continues to affect millions of Americans.
Do you (or anyone else) know of any tools to help with the autofocus system?
This is nifty. How does one get a deeper understanding of why this actually happens?

Feels a bit like "just put sine here, multiply this here, and you have some buildings". OK, but why does this happen? How would you figure it out from scratch?
Minimum wage in Australia is ~$25/hour... and has been for > 10 years... still no new machines.
So much this, a UI that understands traits, structs and automatically displays a control for that type in both bulk edit and single form mode would get money from me.
It might happen faster in NYC with the nudge from these fines.
What you’re seeing there in Windows is a two-dimensional, stylized representation of the bloody turf battles between business units within Microsoft. Most recently adtech has entered the battle and seem to be really killing it.
> is there really even such a thing as B2B video on any scale?

All I can come up with are training videos.
As a ballpark 10-20% would be expected given other harsh viruses cause CFS/ME 10-20% of the time and Covid is a particularly harsh virus. Not as harsh as MERS though.
I'm building a house in Northern Europe (-25C / -15F). Those are both the default options here too.

Modern air source heat pump systems (e.g. Daikin Altherma) are quiet due to variable speed compressors, work in heat pump mode down to -25C and have built in backup heat if it goes below that.
SAT is one of the strongest correlations of academic success and future income. Where did you hear that it isn't?

I worked in edtech analytics for a while where SAT among other factors were correlated with student success. SAT scores correlate with graduation rates, college GPA, job placement. Most elite universities also tend to receive applicants with higher SAT scores (A no brainer)
Or they have kids whose parents have much greater respect for education and work ethic than other high schools.

I got a 99th percentile score on the SAT with just the typical prep books you find on Amazon (which I pirated) and self study and reflection on mistakes. If you keep blaming the system instead of holding people accountable for their own failures those underperforming high schools you mention will never become top scorers.
The problems of higher education not withstanding, I will always be grateful I stumbled into a superb liberal arts education as an undergraduate and I will always feel a little sorry for men like Altman who aren’t even aware that they missed out on anything.
Im pretty confident about Shopify - while it can't demand profits like others in the list, it's platform will make the others irrelevant as pseudo-monopolies

(Disclaimer of course, my opinion is mine alone)
Have you seen a highly trained Malinois? Even if you're surrounded by highly reliable humans, they're probably not as reliable as the dog.
Do we no longer have the attention span to just read text? Do we need 'multiple entry points'? Do we have to convince the reader that each chunk of text will provide 'value' separate from others? How sad.
There hasn't been enough time for anyone to be conclusive, Omicron has only been out for 4 months. Most health professionals expect more long COVID from it. The destruction of cells throughout the body is still happening and patient outcomes are still wildly different because individual health is wildly different. Reinfection also results in worse cases.
I studied mechanical engineering and a bit of CS, though I didn't complete the degree. I work as a SWE now.

Regarding knowledge and intellectual skills, the vast majority of my knowledge gained in the last ~5 years has been from self-teaching or exploring things I found interesting and I think I developed far more intellectual skills from doing that than going to university.

University felt extremely intellectually restrictive to me. You were given a ton of material that you needed to learn at a surface level to pass tests. There was little room for exploration and deep understanding within courses.

Most of the material did not seem like it was going to be useful for me. I don't like learning for the sake of it, I prefer to try and focus on usefulness.

Why do I need to learn about how to draw structures in isometric and oblique or understand CPU registers when I have absolutely zero interest in those things and never want to do that kind of work?

Because "foundational knowledge" or something, even though the vast majority of people will never use the vast majority of the knowledge they learn. I've asked my friends who completed degrees how much of the information from their degree they use at work and it's practically nothing.
Even going to her cousin’s birthday is negotiable.
Wasn’t there an issue with that plugin getting bought out and then used for really intrusive analytics? I could definitely be wrong. It might have been a different plugin.
If anyone else uses Steam Link, Steam link works well on the ChromeOS Linux Development Environment

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.SteamLink

As does the Android App in the ChromeOS Android Play Store.

Can't wait to have the full steam experience!
A “No” answer by itself implies one of two longer answers; either “No, and you should already know why not” (i.e.: “Hey, do you want to rob that bank with me?”), or “No, and I don’t owe you an explanation” (i.e.: “Do you want to go out sometime?”)

I feel like in a work context, ‘no’s really need more of an explanation than that in most cases (with obvious exceptions if a request is wildly inappropriate or unethical). For work-related questions from folks higher up than you, a ‘no’ is a chance to give them more of a view of what’s going on in the trenches, and for those lower than you it’s a chance to mentor them and give them a wider view of the work, helping lift them up a little closer to your own level. And either way, that explanation for the ‘no’ is where all the value of the communication is coming from.

If you don’t give the longer explanation immediately, it leaves the asker questioning whether you meant the “and I don’t owe you an explanation” or the “and you should already know why not” version of “no”. Neither of which is great for maintaining cordial work relationships.
The article mentions help being available, but what really does it recommend if you do have long-covid?

Everyone knows vaccines and masks help, but there seems to be remarkably little being studied about dietary habits/supplements/physical activities that might aid before or after covid.

Anecdotally, my brain fog was lifted pretty quickly once I started taking vitamin D and B-complex, which I just took on a hunch, but I honestly have no idea if it actually helped. Does anyone know of any larger-scale data collection efforts?
1. I didn't count, but probably less than 24

2. I don't keep my sources closed, I did publish them on xda-developers[1], but they've changed things around a lot since then and the links in my post broke. I need to reupload them somewhere. I avoid lawsuits by not being related to the US in any way whatsoever. And either way I don't think patching someone else's code is illegal, especially since no DRM is circumvented in the process. Making "get an official apk first" the first step, instead of distributing decompiled smali files, probably also helps.

[1] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-mod-4-4-instagram-wit...
We talk and I've commented on posts about 'misinformation' 'propaganda' the role of social media and pernicious tentacles of marketing. The amount of surveillance, terrible software promoted as amazing (remember the articles about Shotspotter? or LIDAR? or facial recognition by airlines?)

We're already doing a pretty terrible job educating people and it shows. How much worse does it get when its outsourced to the 'community'? Communities in the US (and everywhere) are fragmented, class stratified, religiously bound structures that we have seen the detriment of when it comes to civic participation. Just check out the IG page of any former evangelical or mormon female.

A secular democracy requires education and time to participate in civic and civil society. That education must imho be grounded in not just how to think, but also the history of humanity. Otherwise we are signing ourselves up for a return to much darker days.
"It's hard to know how many of the stories about ridiculous stuff happening on campuses to believe, but even if a small fraction of them are true, these are clearly no longer places hyperfocused on learning."

College students have been protesting things since well before Sam Altman was born.
Until the 1970’s, college was something some people went to. By the 1980’s, it was something “everyone” did.

A return to the way it was from 1096-1969 would absolutely be properly labeled a collapse.
Long Covid is basically CFS/ME with some extra complications. I wish CFS/ME could be treated so easily, it's not like people are not motivated to try.
Yeah absolutely. If it wasn't clear, that social value was extremely helpful for me as well.
There is no lack of building. There's an insane amount of single-family and multi-family construction going on where I live, far in excess of natural population growth. But corporate landlords are buying up entire neighborhoods and replacing for-sale signs with for-rent signs. Corporate landlords will squeeze every penny of rent increase they can out of existing tenants, because moving is hard and they've blocked all the alternatives.
And adults have always occupied those jobs too. How else did you get McDonalds Breakfast 30 years ago on a Wednesday at 8 AM in October going into the office?
Yeah, the ground loop is a really big chunk of the overall expense, I think it was $20k of the cost by itself for our most recent quote, but it's expected to last 50-100 years, so it's amortized over a loooong time period of significant energy savings and increased performance over an air-source heat pump. Home buyers probably won't properly account for that when you're reselling, since it's not visible in the same way a remodeled kitchen is, but hopefully they'll start to as it becomes more common and/or energy prices increase.

Also, there are a lot of tax credits - 26% of the entire cost this year as a federal tax credit if you install this year (decreasing to 22% next year), and a number of state and local incentives bring the cost down significantly. And there are obviously financing options available.

If you combine it with a large solar array, I think the biggest thing it brings you is reducing uncertainty about future bills - you're locking in your expenses, a little like what buying a house does vs renting.
The way to raise standards isn't to lower expectations. But you have to offer something in return, money or job security, either will work, no one will work for free.

And what's this obsession with firing people? You can get rid of subpar performers, but the rapid turnover isn't going to improve the average unless you manage to hire and retain above average performers. In the long run, it's a supply issue, and the revolving door model is going to do nothing about the subpar supply.
It seems to frequently be true that Microsoft releases a horrifying nightmare OS, polishes is up and removes hated features, and then releases a new version. It's been a bit of a pattern.

Windows 8 -> Windows 10

Windows Vista -> Windows 7

and even before that:

Windows Me -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP was a pretty solid chain that shows it over three releases (personally I think XP was buggier, I don't know what the idea was there other than to make some more money?).
The guy who wrote the article is Michael Descy. The article mentions GTD a few times, THAT is what David Allen is responsible for, but the article also mentioned the Autofocus system, which was a new concept to me and which I am now quite fascinated by.

> cults... programmers

I've been coding for 20+ years and have yet to see any correlation between programmers and any cult (cargo or otherwise... ok maybe cargo SOMEtimes, but certainly nothing else)
This is a great call-out.

To put it another way, if the university system was a public company, there would be activist shareholders advocating that the company be split. Each of these entities would perform better without the distractions of the others.

One problem with splitting, is that each sub-system has become somewhat parasitic on the other three to a harmful degree, as you hint at. The particular blend depends on the university. For example, NCAA division III teams would not survive without the subsidies of a university. But maybe they shouldn't?
It's a skill that needs practice to perfect. I wish somebody offered a service where a professional would bargain on your behalf.
Sort of like Leon from Curb Your Enthusiasm showing up to make sure people aren't taken advantage of financially when they're getting work done on their house/car/etc.
Parent post that I replied to was replying to grandparent which stated: "Good manners? The business he represents is unable to accommodate a customer's needs. He should be nice about that."
The cash cow will always be Microsoft Office. That's what governments use and because of that companies use it, and because of that everyone uses it.
Doesn't YC (Sam Altman) invest in things like Lambda Code school?

Is this not like Ford saying "ICE Vehicles have a long future" - It's clearly bias and its truth has no basis in fact. The "Student Loan" crisis, is a US crisis. Where as the university system is a global one. So you're really saying that the US will stop doing Higher Education, while the rest of the world continues? That feels like a bad move.

Is the problem with the US College system an educational one or a financial one? Seems like the latter, which means the solution isn't to stop the former.
Dogs are definitely used for palliative and mental health purposes in hospitals they are pretty trivial to manage without any danger to humans with a marginally competent handler.
Meanwhile...
Ballooning Ivy League Endowment Forecasted To Top $1 Trillion By 2048
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/10/31/bal...
The only thing keeping me on windows at this point is getting all 5 of my monitors to work under Linux with my 3090 and 2080ti. The only other issue was fusion 360 but someone fixed that.
The set of jobs that require moving around a truck full of tools is tiny relative to the number of workers -- blue collar or not -- that don't need this.

So who, really, is the common man?

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20140409.htm
only “tolerated” because we don’t have actual journalism but instead a PR (propaganda) arm of our kleptocracy . asian communities have been under represented politically. #stopasianhate was a positive turning point to engage asian communities , and we need #stopasiandiscrimination next
I think there is a danger, but hubris has gotten them way up shits creek & their relevance was rapidly moving to 0. Desktop platform is dying, mobile barely matters and they have no presence there... Microsoft started playing with others because pretending they were the unilateral giant that could dictate terms to the world landed them on a small shrinking pathetic island. So help them gods if they try that shit again.

That said, I 100% absolutely endorse caution. The past couple years of behaviors are no indicator Microsoft will stay a societally-positive technological force. The corruption & darkness & manipulation could play back in at any moment. Already, Microsoft creating very special terms of service for things like VSCode Remote Development Plugin, having extremely fantastically proprietary implementations for the incredibly useful/popular/fantastic LiveShare are harbingers of the old ways, indicators that Microsoft just wants to force the door open, not really engage & participate.

For now though, I still overall think they are doing good work, pariticpating/not domineering (with some caveats). They learned very very very personally what happens when you violate the core rule of software, the most important maxim, not couched as such but absolutely of key vitality to computing: "Create more value than you capture." -Tim O'Reilly. Of course, all organizations forget the/their past. And I quake thinking of how many people pretend they are using/learning Linux while never seeing systemd, freedesktop, the greater Linux project: WSL is amazing but a dark & tragic small death for the real open source, & it's cheered on & fanboyed endlessly for enabling the blessed ignorant. You are right. Adopter beware.
Ironic considering this is the market where feedback has been gradually taken away to the point of being so vague it is effectively useless, if there is any. Because ghosting and poor one-liners are more cost-effective.

Let's not cover up bad systems because a few individuals rise to the artificial challenge and bite through.
I feel like this glosses over the fact that more people than can be admitted are qualified to be admitted to the schools who "discriminate".

When the pool of qualified applicants is 3x your available positions, it seems to make sense to me to attempt to match the population makeup of the United States at large when selecting from that pool, since otherwise you're more or less going to do it randomly.

Helping one group of people does not mean hurting another group of people; life is not zero sum, and pretending like getting admitted to Harvard or not is the only metric in this conversation is ridiculous. There are approximately zero children, Asian or otherwise, whose only shot is to get into Harvard or not go to college at all.

Being denied admission to Harvard due to a luck-of-the-draw is not discrimination, it's a lottery. Sam Altman may have a larger point, but the Harvard discrimination case is not an argument that supports that point.
Student debt has exploded because notwithstanding their outrageous tax advantages colleges are demonstrably profit maximizing firms. They induce unlimited demand for ever more credentials though a process of continual devaluation and then charge as much as the market will possibly bear through extremely sophisticated price discrimination.

Politicians answer to this crisis of rapaciousness is to suggest that the public should pay the ever escalating costs while suggesting nothing to rein in their growth. This suggests that the politicians have been captured in some way.
For about a year I've been watching a guy on Twitch (in the background while working my real job) who day trades everyday. I thought TA was BS but I was wrong. I've learned a ton from just watching/listening and after paper trading for 8 months I'm now comfortable using real money. You're right though almost everything out there is BS selling a book/newsletter/chat room. (Twitch streamer = StockJock)