skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It IS natural (unfortunately; not all truths are palatable). And not only that, it's systematic (at least in the States). For example, I am currently "fighting" to get something covered by my health insurance. In the past I have "fought" in court to defend myself from traffic tickets, etc. It's inescapable that you will have to fight for yourself in this life in some form, IMHO. Maybe not physically, necessarily (...home intrusion? attempted robbery? unjust police use of force? Trump getting himself installed as dictator?) but force, willpower, "oomph", it's all connected. Your tone of voice on a phone call or in person? That's an expression of force as well. Fuller comment I wrote on this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896777

The other night I was speaking to someone I just met and realized I was (without even thinking about it) dominating the conversation, so I consciously pulled back out of respect... Perhaps that is the key to managing force, simply respecting others
They aren't quite dropshippers. Aliexpress has something like 9 weeks wait for shipping.

I happily pay 4-5x the price for a $1 part because I'll actually have it in hand this week rather than 2 months from now.
I don't think that them being "full of themselves" is necessarily true.

Apology serve a purpose - to communicate to another person that we acknowledge the mistakes we have made and commit to not doing them again, in order to assure them not to break the relationship (be it romantic, business, friendship or any other kind). So a lack of apology could also mean that a person either doesn't care whether the relationship continues or not, or is confident that the person needs him more and will not break the relationship regardless of an apology.
"Life at low Reynolds number" https://science.curie.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Purcell_...
I am aware of the label and also that Okular got the first certification in Germany.

However I believe that the certification in its current form has limited value. But we thrive to integrate it into our toolchain.

Have you been part of the team that went through the certification process? I would love to get in touch and ask some questions :)
This reminds me of a great scene[1] from the British show "Yes, Minister". It's from an episode called The Compassionate Society where a minister for Department of Administrative Affairs learns about a newly built hospital which has some 500 employees but no doctors & patients. The scene I linked is a conversation between the minister & his private secretary where the latter explains why administrators are essential no matter what.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAk448volww

Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLU-Evdlt-A
It is literally impossible to build a new house in LA, so obviously you're not going to see the parent's point illustrated there.
That people accept this stuff is really beyond my understanding. You now need a third party's permission and a business relationship governed by a large pile of legalese in a jurisdiction that isn't yours in order to use a device that you bought and paid for.
> In the field, devices are far away from each other. So they will only be able to hear the devices that are next to it.

And I'm out. Mesh networkers really should spend a bit of time re-learning all the lessons from decades of ham radio packet networks.
https://bbpress.org/

BBPress is forum software built on Wordpress (blog) by Wordpress.
“ We spend 90% of the time reading code, and only 10% writing it, and that 90% happen to be my least favourite part.”

I don’t know - I like reading others’ code, I learn a lot from it and makes the code I do write a bit better.

Of course writing code is easier - you’re expressing what’s in your mind. Reading what others wrote is hard because it’s a reflection of what was on their mind but it will help you understand them more.
Draw the diagram in e.g. Inkscape and add `class="animatedLine"` to the desired paths (select the path and hit CMD+Shift+X).

BTW, in Inkscape, you can Path -> Reverse if it's animated the wrong way.

document.querySelectorAll('.animatedLine').forEach(animateLine)

function animateLine(elem) {
elem.style.strokeDasharray = '6 1'
elem.style.strokeDashoffset = elem.getTotalLength()
requestAnimationFrame(anim)
function anim() {
elem.style.strokeDashoffset -= 0.2 // speed
requestAnimationFrame(anim)
}
}

https://blog.uidrafter.com/freebsd-jails-network-setup#-diag...
In my head Kurt has a sound and presence that doesn’t necessarily match the whole body of their work, but makes sense to me when I think about their songs.
Life Pro Tip: Always apologize if you make a mistake, even if the apology is delayed. I went around far too long with this "don't apologize for anything" power move mindset, but truth be told - you turn into a colossal douchebag. People remember, simple as that...and if you have even an ounce of conscience, it will all add up. I can understand that narcissists and such can go through their lives without giving a shit.

People that never apologize is a huge red flag.

edit: To expand on this

Yes, being on the other end of the scale is not good - being a pushover that comes off too insecure, can come with its own set of problems. Perception is a bitch, and unfortunately something you'll get evaluated/judged on in your career.

I've seen that especially in tech, there are lots of very opinionated workers, that take things like knowledge very personal. It's okay to not engage in discussions you're not 100% sure/confident on, or just tell someone that you'll get back to them when you know.

Just know that some people know they're wrong, but will still try to steamroll you. It's just one of many suppression techniques.
Well, because it is. No two situations are alike. If we only keep to not-doing things we've been warned about on the internet, then we'll become paralyzed and not try anything.
When I started programming as part of my job in 1967, there were no screen editors. I used a teletype terminal (ASR33) with a paper tape to load and save my work.

Line editors like ed were the way to go. You’d keep the state of the program in your head and type out sections of it once in awhile to confirm your conception. Maybe print the whole thing once an hour.
"A related point is why are we seeing equality as something desirable?"

Should everyone be equal before the law? Is it possible if half the population can't afford a lawyer?

Should everyone's vote count?
How does Democracy survive when a small group of people own half the country?
I like it. Looks great in reader mode, too. Not that you really need it. I think posts should have a link to the previous/next post in the blog. And I wonder if there is custom CSS.
The game engines Unity, Unreal, and Godot all have strong support for visual scripting as well.
If people accept it, then it will get normalized, then the next level of abuse will come and you'll be happy because the water is only going up a degree or two. Frogs are best boiled slowly. They'll never notice, the suckers.
Intel Core I9-12900KS Review: The Fastest Gaming Chip Ever
I bet! That’s why I wrote it that way of here’s my experience maybe others experience something similar
That's a music video. They traditionally have sounds and dialog that aren't part of the music itself.

Here's the regular version, same as Spotify, also on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4inWiKCt-E

I don't know if Spotify has music videos, but Apple Music for example does, so you can have both versions.
So you screen out everyone who cares about their online privacy?
I find constant apologizing distancing, having the reverse effect. It's like not putting trust in me having empathy enough for whatever little inconvenience the "offending" party is causing me. It also sometimes feels like projection, like an unconscious way of expressing that I should be sorry for being brash.
> Trippen shoes

You can just buy any Goodyear (or Blake) welted shoe to have rebuildable shoes, there are dozens of makers that offer more uh… conventional and mainstream styles of shoes anywhere from $200-$2500.

England: Loake, Alfred Sargent, C&J, Trickers, Church’s, Edward Green, Saint Crispins, John Lobb

US: Allen Edmonds, Alden, Rancourt, Red Wing, White’s, Nick’s, Grant Stone

Canada: Viberg

Spain: Meermin, Carmina

Hungary: Vass
> People at large don't want to pay for software and would much rather take ads instead.

What the point of paying, when even a retail copy of the most common commercial OS still has ads for frickin' Candy Crush in the start menu? Not to mention an amount of telemetry that dwarfs what's described in OP's comic by multiple orders of magnitude? The best software is for free these days, any paid support is completely voluntary. Commercial software should be treated as abusive spyware unless it can prove otherwise.
S mode is the name of this restricted variant. Comes on surface and low end devices mostly. You need to do the "add microsoft account, go to the microsoft store to leave S mode, go through what is effectively a OS reinstall, create local admin account, remove MS account" dance if you want to convert to a regular windows install from it.
It's amazing how long such people can avoid facing those long-term consequences, while benefiting from the powerful ego-defense of being "often wrong, never in doubt."
Please consider the fact that anyone here can click on your name, look at your comment+submission history, and place a value on your arguments. It's actually a good exercise that puts in practice some of the claims made in the comic.
Not to mention, it was less than a decade ago that one could have said about neural networks "Decades pass and you realize they either have little to no application or are incredibly niche".
This is a good message to get out, and I wish it were more likely to make it into the hands of people who wouldn't otherwise get the message. I applaud the effort.

I'm disappointed with a few things about it, though, because:

- It makes it sound like Scott McCloud did this, but he didn't

- It unfortunately includes a political viewpoint that is irrelevant to the message

- It omits context on a few points to make them sound worse than they are, which is completely unnecessary, because the message is devastating without them

When you're speaking truth about a powerful and deceptive entity, you have to be absolutely factual and focused, and this isn't quite there.
The idea that Nadella is somehow a saint vs Ballmer's evil is really testimony to the fantastic PR exercise that MS has been engaging in. But ask yourself where Nadella was working when Ballmer was at the helm of MS and you'll see that he isn't as much of a change at all, it's just a nicer package.
Paying for software used to be high-friction 20 years ago. By now, I can pay for software in multiple ways, with near-zero friction. Equally easily I can pay (and do pay) for software-based services, like Youtube, and a number of others.

But of course an ad-supported "free tier" is an easy way to try a service with zero obligations, and it will remain popular. Also, if for me $10/mo is not a big deal, for other folks this may be not so. Those who can't pay with money pay with what they've got, with attention and privacy. They might like to pay with money, but sometimes can't afford that. Count all the ad-supported free services you likely use (e.g. Google search, Twitter, Facebook,..), and at the rate at $10/mo they'd add up to a noticeable sum.
It will also mean a healthier used market with modern garments that will last years and years.

New cars are disproportionately expensive too. Shrugs. I think it's okay that not everyone can afford everything new, as long as they can afford enough to not be further disadvantaged.
I primarily make hip hop music, but I would absolutely love a platform like this where I can listen to a classical piece, and download the score and MIDI files.

Are there any legal reasons preventing this ? I don't have the ability to play classical music myself, ( my weighted 88 key sits taunting me), but I'd love to be able to take these compositions and integrate them into my own music.
Well just tried it. Edge > opened Bing > "Firefox" > Click on first Firefox hit > Download. And nothing like that happened. No pop up or nothing. And I'm using a Windows 10 PC with an MS account logged in for Office365 + Gamepass

This is what I don't like about social media sites like HN either where only the rage will reach the front page

Edit: screen recording https://streamable.com/wpjv2h
I was trying to buy a Flexi brand dog lead on Amazon yesterday, and despite my search including the brand name, and me filtering the results by brand "Flexi", more than half the results were sponsored listings for Chinese knockoffs that people are drop-shipping from Ali. I gave up and went to a shop.
The really stupid part is that the new Edge is actually great.

Letting people figure that out for themselves word spread organically would be more effective than trying to shove it down everyone’s throats.
For most consumer appliances, it’s vastly more wasteful and energy intensive to run them for 20 years than to replace them at ten. That’s true for cars, refrigerators, washing machines, and obviously IT.

That’s because energy efficiency does tend to improve.

The lack of appliances that last this long is itself a result of better production: if you have some large number of components, each one must have a 50 year expected lifetime if you want a chance for the machine to work for even a decade.

It’s improvements in precision and knowledge of materials that tightened down the variability for individual components, making it possible to construct something that is likely to survive the decade, then see everything failing at around the same time. Cutting down on over-provisioning in this manner obviously saves resources and costs, as well.
Not so sure about that.

First, this will revive the second-hand market, which is where you got clothes for cheap in the past.

Second, The absolute price for a clothing item is not really relevant without considering its lifespan.

A metric of sorts "square meter of fabric per year" per capita would be more useful, and the super cheap clothes don't look good at all here. Even poor people will not wear a super cheap shirt for years, when other people throw it away after 2 weeks.
> I'm more than happy to spend 2-3 hours on a separate remote call with an individual, where we go through a socratic'ish discovery, using things like draw.io or mermaid to quickly sketch out concepts and architecture.

I'm sure you are.

If you have time.

Thing is, at most companies, most employees are perpetually swamped. Or at least quite frequently.

I'm a new employee (3 months) at a company. The documentation is quite bad. In other words, it's quite standard compared to all other companies out there. There are some wikis, tutorials, confluence pages, etc, but the links tend to get reused, and in the end you have just a handful of true documentation sources, all being 10 or 15 or 20 years old. My team members are friendly and eager to help. They have all gone through the same pains as me. But they are super busy. Some times, I say "hi" on chat, and tell them I have a question, and sometimes they help me, but some times they tell me "can you write your problem in an email, and I'll take a look by tomorrow". And sometimes they tell me they are super-busy "this week".

In the end, I got the most help from another new joiner, who joined 2 weeks after me. He's helping me, I'm helping him. We really depend on each other. Because of him, I'm probably twice as far as where I'd be without him.

But here's the thing: our company has a 3-day-a-week policy. And his desk is just next to mine. Whenever we are physically next to each other, we interact a lot. But when we communicate on zoom, the interaction goes down maybe by a factor of 10.
Yeah it's safe.

The biggest problem SQLite has is it's size limitations. It can only hold ~281 TB in a database unfortunately.
If you need more storage than that - that's the only reason I could endorse someone using a different database.
:P
According to which objective metrics?
Alternative life pro tip: Don't do anything in extremes.

Neither do always X nor do never X.

PS: Yes, there are cases were "always" or "never" should be used but they're special cases and easy to identify because they relate to law, ethics, identity.
Do you have any suggested content for someone who is starting from 0?
Evaluating Elliptic Curve Implementations Side-Channel Attack Resistance [pdf]
I like modern web minimalism and modest design wave. Laconic and elegant.
I do not know - this can be a great product for “SEO consultants”. I.e., creating blog spam.
Legal code is identical to software in the respect that they are bounded by complexity and human understanding more so than physical constraints, and so both need to be periodically refactored to reduce complexity.

Software engineers get this, politicians seem to not.
Answers from this thread might help:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425483
Minimum Description Length Recurrent Neural Networks
I read that book at the end of last year. It seems like there is something to intentional action, not just going through the motions. (Had a similar thought listening to a recent Huberman podcast where the guest said that you would make more gains by imagining the muscles working during a workout.)

I tried to apply this to my last attempt at doing the advent of code. I tracked every error I made with every solution. It was interesting because a few days in I would think, "I don't want to do this because it leads to this bug".

If I were really meta, I would go back and analyze it.
It’s on the blockchain forever!

...as long as someone finds it worth paying the costs of continuing to run the blockchain, and the people who run 51% of it don’t decide to wipe out or change anything, and...
At the end of the day, we must... mooooooooonetize our assets...
Wordpress has an API. Also, the underlying MySQL DB could be used, but I don't know if that is exposed by WP.com.
It kinda starts to look like that the EU is cleaning up with laws behind USA's turbo capitalism mess. They could start to optimize this ritual a bit...
Things cost money. The fact that they didn't used to cost money is not sufficient inertia for them to not cost money in the future.

I too maintained a free WordPress blog which, I suppose, will be impacted by this. But my nostalgia for keeping the musings of my 28 year old self alive and well SHOULD cost someone money...and that someone should be me.
I don't actually think that (a) is nefarious; I'm pretty sure any of the companies that I listed will personalize any server responses based on the user. If logging interactions with the product and personalizing based on that is an ethical concern at that level then I don't think you'll be able to justify working at any major web/app companies in general. I had a Bloomberg interview where the systems design question was to implement exactly "user logging for contextual personalization in other places".

I think most users genuinely do prefer to get personalized suggestions instead of irrelevant ones. Firefox is still doing this by default implies pretty strongly to me that the feature is a meaningful benefit to the product, and isn't just in Chrome as a covert data collection mechanism.

I don't believe that (b) is true for Google (paid placement in autocomplete). Google, for all it's flaws, does consistently mark Ads as Ads. I'm pretty sure smaller companies like Yelp and Uber are much more likely to be doing some "secretly paid placement" than Google (but I'd still presume any one of them is not).
I'm not a HAM guy - would you care to distill the lesson that they are ignoring? I infer that, by definition, this is not a mesh, but more of a train. And I further infer that a single node falling out would break the chain and split the "mesh". But I'm just guessing.
Haha, well, Postgres does have some niceties like isolation levels, JSON fields, etc.
It's also contextual to the crowd, houdini guys don't live in os/framework land where cruft, legacy and culture change the way people have to program things.. they just dataflow everything naturally and the tool is made for that (and the reward is extremely high).

It's a bit like c/simd vs APL
> The really stupid part is that the new Edge is actually great.

Stupid eh?
As a developer, I confidently place Edge below Firefox in terms of usability and customization for my purposes.
I never really understood the parable of "The Emperor's New Clothes" until the last few years, but at the deepest level it's about the ability for the powerful to create their own reality and enforce it on others. When do you think Bezos last heard the word "no" in relation to any question he's had?
There's also Patagonia (not a smaller brand) https://www.patagonia.com.au/pages/worn-wear

They'll not only repair their clothes for free, even if you've been careless and damaged it yourself, but also you can pay them to repair other brands in their shop.
Show me a single example. Not to mention aliexpress shipping usually takes about 6-8 weeks.

There are no items where it’s 5 times as much for the same item with the same speed to your door.

I buy things in aliexpress all the time. You’re paying in unavailability. Much of the time orders are actually batched
Absolutely, there's often a context that isn't always obvious to people not directly involved. In with people directly involved actually, which may be specific to an individual.
Yeah, it's just that normal people don't consciously perceive this is a rational transaction. They see that they've hurt the other person and realise that perhaps damage can't be undone, which feels terrible, but they can at least give the other person the feeling that their suffering is at least visible, and matters, which is often the best that we can do. So we apologise.

Then there's the other kind of person, who sees other people as pawns to be used for their own ends. Everything is a transaction, sure they might apologise to you if you can do something for them, but if you can't do something for them, then they can devalue you to where no apology is needed, in order to make themselves feel superior, in that way, they can extract something (self-esteem) from you regardless. In this case the wronged person has insult added to injury, since not only were they wronged, but the wrong can't even be acknowledged, which can feel quite invalidating, and can have the effect of gaslighting people into questioning whether or not THEY were the bad person in this scenario.
Yes, I’m sure Alex Jones had some very good reason to hatefully accuse the parents of murdered children of staging the event, the funeral, and their professions of greed.

And that Milo whatshisname guy, he certainly had some totally legit justification to say that he “can't wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight".

Now I can’t even think of anything that would make that remark seem anything other than the ramblings of a fascist lunatic, but we all know there are no bad people in the world, so we should have given him a bit more time and he would have certainly made his case for indiscriminate murder.
The "train models" or ML portion is what I'm disappointed with unfortunately. I make ML models to predict things from genetic information somewhat regularly, but we all are aware of the enormous issues with that. I am more interested in the ab initio methods, as I have seen them be spectacularly useful in other fields - like Bethe salpeter equations in condensed matter physics.
Web3 is a scam for extracting cash from the uninformed, it's not a solution to any problems and it's orders of magnitude costlier to operate than a centralized server.
Op said “most cases”
(Writing this from a Linux laptop:) If you pay for Win10 enough, you get a Pro version without all this baloney, without forced updates and reboots, etc. An extra expense comparable to buying two or three large pizzas.

Still this extra expense turns away a huge number of customers :(