skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a mechanical engineering bachelor's straight outta highschool, took 4 years, got a job doing CAD work, didn't like it, got a job teaching mech eng as an assistant instructor (fun and fulfilling but bad pay). Learned to code in my free time, made lots of unique projects (online codenames clone, vehicle sensor visualizer, android app) then worked on a website that got fairly popular and started making money with it. During this time I was actively applying to places, getting no responses. Then out of the blue, got an interview, went well, was hired. Now I'm a backend developer and have my foot in the door. But boy did it take time and work.
+1 for the bootcamp route! I did a bootcamp in 2015 and never looked back - even though some are definitely scammy, when they work they work. If anyone's interested, I recently wrote up my experiences here https://naomiajacobs.com/Should-You-Go-To-A-Coding-Bootcamp/
Why does AWS dominate cloud so thoroughly?
I'm not really interested in a touchscreen on a laptop, but I'd buy a Pencil immediately if it worked on my Mac screen.
Introductory resources to type theory for language implementers
Selective breeding is a form of genetic modification which doesn't involve the addition of foreign DNA.
The article is terrible. What makes Impossible burgers taste more meaty is they have genetically modified yeast to produce the same heme protein that animals do (plants also produce heme protein but it's a different type that doesn't create a meaty flavor). This isn't about the fact that the burger bleeds or red dye, it's about the real novel patented IP they have that is actually responsible for why their burgers taste so much better than old fashioned Boca/morningstar/etc burgers. Here is a much better article that makes this clear: https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/20899-impossible-f....
I was obsessed with D&D in junior high and high school despite never actually playing for more than a few hours. I had binders full of NPC character sheets, a multiple continent world designed (which included, among other things, Middle Earth and Prydain plus many modules, both the letter-number'd ones and modules from Dragon magazine.

In college, there was a group who played in the dorm lounge and hearing them play, I ended up losing interest in the game. My imagination of how the world I'd designed would come out and the reality of a game just didn't conform to each other.
A garden hose and vacuum are still very close semantically though, at least in the entire domain of nouns. They're both household objects.
You have a book in you.
Same, it's been nothing but a liability and to be perfectly frank it makes my daily life way more stressful than it should be.

The biggest part I don't like is the inability to ever really be 'here in the now' e.g. enjoying the moment. All these important life events just fly by me without even reacting to them it seems, and only in hindsight do I start tearing up thinking about what I missed.
Same for me. I was super tight with my friends for 4 years during my college experience. We were in every class together for 6 hours a day. Did everything together. Took a few years after graduating but now we don't hang out anymore. Maybe meet up once a year.
That’s a major reason why Dr. Russell Barkley refers to it as Executive Function Disorder. We actually don’t have a problem with attention; we have a problem prioritizing what we attend to. Everyone with ADHD is familiar with the hyperfocus phenomenon. We can pay attention (even sustained, abnormally intense attention) to activities that provide a healthy dopamine payout, but we don’t really control what those activities are. It’s helpful if they happen to be socially useful activities!
Since we're talking about moving from Russia to the US as a technology professional (and seeing as I am and know plenty of "immigrant and foreign workers" here), I can assure you the Qatar concern does not apply.
Don't Introduce a V2 API
Clearly that only works if the shared interest is something you’re doing out in public where a stranger might come across you. But I’ve never had this experience. My hobbies range from at home ones to outdoor sports, but don’t include “tinkering with a thing out in public and someone walks up to me and starts chatting”, with the exception of a car stopping to ask me if I’m okay while I’m pumping up my road bicycle with some extra air.
On the other hand, I use pretty light switches on a desktop keyboard and still was thumping all the way down on the butterfly keys.

I didn't hate how they felt in the act of typing, but I hated that they hurt my hands after a few hours. And (as you note) if you breathed near the laptop, they'd jam.
I listened to this a few months ago. As a history podcast it's just ok. He has a habit of exaggerating the importance of the con in the grand scheme of the war. He also comes across as a little naive (for instance, stating unabashedly that Hitler is the most evil human to ever exist. He's definitely in the running for it, but it's certainly a race with competition). He is entertaining, though, and I have a lot of respect for his craft as a magician. That skill does shine through most of the time. It seemed to me that he was going for entertainment/showmanship first, and brutal accuracy second. I was ok with that, and if you're not too picky you will probably enjoy this as well.
Yes, I'm an indie developer who is struggling with this as well. I am learning a lot of things outside of programming and it's quite the context switch every day. By doing this, it really can show how dedicated and capable you can really be.

Here are some of the things I do day to day
- 10 cold calls with director level probation departments. These calls can go straight to voice mail or turn into a 30 minute conversation.
- vet through the last 24 hours subreddits related to my industry to see if I can promote my app or help people in need
- Verify the drug testing location data is fine
- Manage SEO/Google ads analytics to figure out if the website needs adjustments or are there different types of key words that can be used.
- Writing a blog post about the data of drug testing locations
- Update the app (google policy changed recently)

Then at the end of the day wonder how much success or insanity is this going to bring.

Webiste: finishprobation.com
Completely agree. I think it is just part of the general trend for people to try to attach themselves to labels in search of an identity or community - of course some labels are very readily apparent so you are kind of forced by society to identify with the label, but for a mostly invisible condition like ADHD I really don’t get it.

On a lot of ADHD communities it’s just a constant struggle session about how every problem in people’s life is because of ADHD. It’s exhausting and seems maladaptive.
Ha, "stick your head in the sand." You know there's middle ground between making yourself sick with worry and your description, but I'm sure you knew that.
Upon what do you base this? I know that my perspective is anecdotal, but I am curious how you reconcile your view with the current state of globalized society. If humans on average really needed multiple deep relationships, then how can the post-college doldrums be explained? Wouldn't people have created a greater abundance of ways to socialize? Isn't one's own family and occasional visits with relatives usually enough?

I'm not saying that I relate to this at all, despite that I am particularly solitary. I would like to have more deep and frequent connections with others, but my impression isn't that people actually want that. They might like the fantasy of having lots of deep friendships that don't interfere with their technological somnolescence or romantic satisfaction.
I noticed as you go down the list that thinking about divergent terms gets harder because of the suggestive power of the previous items. I suspect it's measure the ability to "think outside the box", or the ability to ignore constraints to find solutions. Interesting, but as it says it's a limited definition of creativity.
I do not speak to a single person I went to college with. I do however speak to my wife and my family and coworkers, as well as some childhood friends.
They were trying to sound intelligent, alas, it didn't pan out so well.
We're also in a weird economic state that despite all factors moving towards a recession, we are not and so there is high demand for engineers still and pay is as high as ever. So the industry is still incredibly transactional and rewards job hopping while disincentivizing loyalty.
>the educational potential of near-future world where storage gets so dense and cheap that the tide turns back toward local computing, away from the trend of the past 10 years toward "online cloud"

I'd argue that storage is already dense and cheap enough to "turn the tide back toward local computing."

The reasons why the cloud (more precisely: someone else's servers) and all manner of non-local computing and storage became so entrenched was (at least in the US) that ISPs mostly offered (and still do) asymmetric internet links for "consumer" plans, refuse to provide static IP addressess (IPv4 and IPv6) and actively discourage (via port blocking/throttling) running servers on such links.

And when download/upload bandwidth ratios (for my links they're 20 and 17) are so skewed towards downloads, hosting content becomes less viable.

Add poorly managed physical plant and resistance to spending money on upgrades, and you have unreliable links with inadequate bandwidth.

After decades of this, is it any wonder that centralized storage/compute/streaming services found a ready niche, and have exploited the anti-consumer/anti-competitive actions and policies of the big ISPs to the point that many folks don't realize it could be any other way.

Want to move back toward local computing? Make decently fast, symmetric internet links the norm. Getting that done (at least in the US) will be a tall order.

And even if/when we get there, such a shift won't happen all at once, especially since centralized services will fight tooth and nail to keep their customers (for paid services) and product (for "free" services) at our expense.

However, once decently fast symmetric bandwidth is the norm for "consumer" internet links, decentralization will follow.

It would likely take a while, especially since many (most?) of the developers of decentralized solutions (I'm looking at you, diaspora, mastodon and matrix, among others) make self-hosting their software inaccessible to non-technical folks[0].

There are many great reasons to move away from centralized compute/storage/streaming services, but there are significant barriers to doing so, at multiple levels of the network infrastructure. And more's the pity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783477
No they patented a novel process to produce animal heme protein without using animals.
Because you cannot differentiate a slow node from a dead node. People expect different responses to these.
I think naming this "Creativity Test" instead of "Max Word Distance Test" had gotten everyone in here really defensive about their scores.
> They pulled off a major hardware transition without big hiccups

This is easy to do when you eschew any and all commitment to backwards compatibility. Every major OS update has introduced breaking changes and I gotta be honest, everyone except the most diehard of Mac fans is getting pretty sick and tired of routinely re-purchasing software, not to mention Apple breaking their own applications. Example: obsoleting iTunes by force and coding hooks so it refuses to run without patching the app. (For those wondering, Apple coded a version check into the Mac version of iTunes so that it refuses to launch if the OS is "too new.") Ignore the fact that Apple Music is a shitty replacement that didn't replace all the features of iTunes (like removing the XML library sync, which a ton of third-party apps relied on, breaking them all in one move), but dont't let that stand in the way of progress.

Show me one person that has never been affected by Apple breaking apps, and I'll show you ten people with Avid or Pro Tools rigs who "never update the OS" as a general policy. It's 2022 and I'm still waiting for official EOL/support dates published by Apple. Everyone from Microsoft to FreeBSD does this. Saying "well they traditionally support N-2" or whatever doesn't cut it. People need hard dates so they can plan adequately. Apple's commitment in this area is like depending on your stoner friend to follow through on a promise.
> It looks boring. I don't want to look boring. I don't want to look like I'm permanently stuck in 2013.

Your consumer gadget choices should not define you or your "look".

Nobody else cares what computer you use. It's fine.
For a little while I was very interested in F#. It's not popular by any means but when I saw it I was really impressed. It's the functional language to C#.

I even found at one point an F# to JS compiler/transpiler and was able to set up a webpack config that let me write F# in a JS project.

I'd love to be able to use this at work - unfortunately my coworkers were less excited about pursuing this.
> Why not work towards abundant food that is as nutritious as possible?

Because we don't have a silver bullet. We have suggestions. But the world is increasing separating into cheap, low-nutrition food and expensive, nutritious food.
If the fed has anything to do with it we will be in one by year end
One of my pet theories/takes is that if any billionaire wants to make science more productive they need to fund a modern replacement of LaTeX and really streamline flows for things like this.

TikZ in particular but latex in general has awful compile times in part because of it's ancient design.
AND, crapulifically one day north of the deadline for those who didn't know about I-bonds.

Well played, sir. Well played.
> Maybe we don’t “need” to use that much (whatever “need” is supposed to mean)

He's talking minimal human survival. Though that depends on temperatures, body weight and activity level:

http://www.aircav.net/survival/asch13/fig13-2.gif

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/e1/22/f2e122972c93b1f2a67e...
I was either spared that one or my vaccines were still fresh enough…
I live in a city with things like a cafe nearby, lunch spots, etc., but making your own coffee at home is so much cheaper per year than being a “regular”. I’m not even sure how I could manage the time to do that, is that really realistic?
The activity is mostly the core professors doing research, a lot of teachers and students, and a number of enthusiasts.

It's been used by only a handful of companies that I know of (not counting Naughty Dog). Usually as one-person projects for which the person is allowed to choose fringe tools. A couple of those turned into major projects, but they still needed only a couple/few (super-capable) people.

Maybe the most interesting thing about the user base is the enthusiasts: as a resume keyword, Racket is effectively unemployable, and there's large opportunity cost in the current "tech" job market, of spending time on "technology" that doesn't facilitate job-hopping. So the enthusiasm seems to be for the genuine technical and community merits.
Thanks for helping me troubleshoot heh

Good you mention Vyvanse, I need to get the ball rolling on that. Asked my GP about it a while ago, he referred me someplace for the initial prescription and titration process, but then that place stopped taking on new cases before I had a chance to set mine up. Looks like they since opened back up with a 6 to 8 months waiting list.

Tolerance and/or the "honeymoon phase" are solid mentions, but neither is at play here. Inconsistent Methylphenidate effects have been a thing for me from the very beginning. No amount of exercise, diet changes, de-stressing, lower dosages, or even month-long break have had any effect. Seems completely random, it's just weird!
Most companies - no. There is very little tech writing and of that, it's of very poor quality. It's now normal for API documentation to be generated from the definitions, with a few explanatory comments thrown in (eg. see the Android API doco.)

I've even seen this regarded as a good thing! The software makers don't "waste" time, and they've created an "opportunity" for 3rd parties - an opportunity for someone to write a "Dummies guide to XXX".
Steam's UI hasn't changed a lot either really. A UI that works well doesn't have to change much and probably shouldn't. I personally greatly dislike the modern web UI look with text boxes the size of Mt. Rushmore.
+1 on termshark. It is pretty sweet. Much simpler to use compared to tshark/tcpdump imo since it avoids most of the cli flags complexity and uses familiar Wireshark filters
Even if you don't plan to make your own tracks, this is just an amazing way to experience music - as this big beautiful machine that you can play with.
I think that's actually a pretty good question. It shows how someone tries to tackle a very nebulous problem with no clear answer.

And keep in mind that these questions were for internships in making TV and film, where exactly this kind of creativity is necessary.
Does someone with dementia have a disorder?

Does someone with congenital heart failure have a disorder?

I'm not suggesting that ADHD is on par with congenital heart failure, but neither are skin color or one's propensity towards wizardry on par with ADHD.
Similar as in you're not recharging it on a daily or weekly basis, but only very rarely. A 3 or 6 month battery life doesn't make a big difference on that scale.
> The results aren't as pretty as the Ive era designs.

I'm not sure they're supposed to be. The design aesthetic of the new MacBook Pro is...chonky. And that has to be intentional. They've made a work machine. It kinda looks like one. And despite being very clearly of the same design lineage, the MacBook Air doesn't have that vibe, to me. It's a much lighter-feeling thing that feels closer to the older designs.

> And personally I'm not a huge fan of the current Apple typography and branding.

The font kills me. It's just not nice to read.
Wow 20 liters a day sounds like you need a lot executive function to make that work. Did you ever suffer from a lack of executive function (if you planned on doing stuff layed everything you need to do for the task, thought about it regularly and the taks just didn't get performed by you 3 times a week or more often)?

Did that get better for you?
I worked there on the earlier days... it is not that secretive. The Kindle was developed there (and it was one of the first devices made by the lab). After it, it came a bunch of other devices.

This arm of Amazon has both hardware and software engineers, mostly on the device side.
Why is this article blocked to the US region lol. I had to use VPN to look at the content. Wooooshhh.
What is the point of this post? No one is "getting rid of colleges", it's very easy to make friends outside of college in all different ways. You can meet people online, at social events, at activities, clubs, meetup groups, Facebook events, etc. If you need friends then you need to go out and get some: this is not a "we, the internet" problem.
Alternatively - becoming sick can lead to depression!
+1 for composting. There's something satisfying about putting down a deep, dark brown soil to grow some veges in. I don't grow a lot (peas and corn generally), but it's magnificent eating.

As a result of the composting, once my last winter crop of peas had died out, a bunch of mis-matched tomatoes began growing out of the same patch, so I left the trellis up and let the plants develop. Roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and regular tomatoes all growing haphazardly, totally unplanned. A most pleasant surprise that kept me in bruschetta for a few weeks :)

There's something soul satisfying about eating something from your own yard; must be a deep-seeded DNA/evolution thing, like the smell of a campfire.

Back to composting: it's amazing how small a volume of trash we throw out now that we're putting foodstuffs into compost.
Come to think of it, America has a long tradition of generals who become celebrities, but then fail spectacularly: Patton, MacArthur, McCrystal, etc.

Benedict Arnold was the first celebrity general to regret his fame.
Watched the video interview with him -- never thought of games as a purposeful mechanism to help keep friends together as they get older. Need to look into this.
Not sure I'd have a strong preference. Were you expecting responses to pick a particular choice?
Franz Von Holzhausen has been doing great work over at Tesla, albeit as Elon's editor, rather than the inverse Ive/Jobs relationship.

Elon: let's make a truck out of folded steel.

Franz: OK, I'll make it look decent.

As opposed to Apple, where it was more like

Jobs: let's make a nice laptop.

Ive: OK here's a block of aluminum

Jobs: bro, it needs a screen

Ive: Fine I guess the users aren't evolved enough yet.
There are so many different ways to run games. It can be disheartening to see people play very energetically to what is essentially one's own point of least interest.

Maybe it's similar to seeing someone speed run a video game where you mainly go for the sensory thrill of taking it slow. And you feel some pressure to get "better" but it doesn't exactly sound fun. Maybe something like that, anyway...

Personally I like to house-rule away just about everything that bugs me about any given game, if I like the setting for example. (And I also appreciate games with optional rules like "here are some ideas for making this game more heroic and less depressing for your PCs")

For example I was using one system and realized the writer didn't care very much about how one weapon differed from another, except in terms of raw damage. So I found a way to take the game in the complete opposite direction and I called my rules framework PaG, for "Play as Gun." (As opposed to playing as a character)

Every rule that the original game used for creating baroque characterizations was applied across to weaponry, and then ammunition. I started getting into all kinds of crazy smart ammo and it was a lot of fun.

This got me thinking of the idea of Ammo As Character in which you could effectively write up your ammunition as an archetype and play it as a character in the game.

That world got really cool fast, IMO. And mostly just to me. But that own-world, own-prefs stuff is a huge part of TTRPG culture.
this trend of trying to make ADHD into some kind of "superpower" is hogwash and a direct consequence of some deep internalized able-ism of the people that propose that view.

I have ADHD, there's nothing cute or great about it, it really sucks to have this disability, I have lost countless opportunities and had to work 10x as hard to achieve the same as everyone else because of it.

I'm not less valuable as a person because of it of course, but I would gladly return my "gift" if that was possible.

If you're interested to know what science says about ADHD, start here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549739/
Out of curiosity, I googled how much a DDoS attack goes for these days. Apparently they can cost as low as $10/hour. I don't know if the shady people will deliver, but that's what the internet says. So apparently it's pretty easy to DDoS anyone and make it difficult to trace back to you.
> the diagnostic criteria for ADHD and many other disorders require that the deviation amount to a disorder rather than not interfering with someone's life.

> interfering with someone's life

The specific phrase used in the DSM-V is: "symptoms interfere with or reduce the quality of social, academic, or occupational functioning".

Schooling started to become compulsory in the USA in the mid-to-late 19th century, and really only became universal in the early 20th century.

By the late 20th century we had decided that children whose normal behavior "interfered with or reduced [...] academic [...] functioning" had a disorder.

We created a system that does not accommodate everyone, then turned around and said that those who are not accommodated are definitionally disordered. The logic is clearly backwards.

Similar story with labor.