skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about flamewar. It's just personally important to me. Not resurrecting any flamewar, if you saw war there it was only in your attitude...I'm just saying what I wanted to say in response to what you said. I didn't see your comment before then. If you don't like people's responses to what you say online maybe be more considerate of how they might respond before you say something online: I posted a lot of data, and you just invoked some general "impossibility defense"... I feel scared that people won't see my work because of that. So it hurts, like trashing my work without reading it. It's irresponsible to blanket dismiss something, and speak as if you know enough to dismiss, when you don't. There's no need to be mean like that. I think it's better if you're nice and/or substantial.
I think the idea is, actually, valid. But I don't think the measurement is. I think this plagues all creativity measures: you're asking the subject to be very open in their thinking, but the evaluation method must be narrow and objective.
Yeah, I tried hard to read this post as un-judgmentally as I could and found it very difficult to agree with how "righteous" it came off. It made me feel like I was metaphorically gagging reading the following quotes:

> The people at this company actually believe in the mission of bringing the world closer together.

> I have seen people at various levels of the company fight for the interests and safety of the billions of people who use our services

> people who rely on us to be good stewards of their data

That being said, I can completely respect staying for an intellectually stimulating environment, loving the content of your job, awesome compensation (autonomy, pay, etc.) and a company culture that feels comfortable to you.

As other comments have said it feels comparable to someone working at the digital equivalent of a Big Tobacco company and sharing how what they are doing is beneficial.

I would love to be checked on this which is why I am commenting: am I too in a bubble? Is my reaction to the perceived righteousness of Meta too much of me being overly anti-Meta?

P.S. sincere thanks to the post's author for putting their views out there -- although I disagree with their stance I applaud them for feeling fulfilled and caring about what their company does
If the article is to be believed, Ive had already stepped away, at least mentally, by late 2014. Which does mean that the much maligned 2016 Macbook Pro might not have been fully his fault. Tbh that seems a lot more likely than the usual HN "Jobs kept Ive in line" argument. Ive had been leading design at Apple for a long time. It's be a little odd if he didn't learn any sense of pragmatism from working with Jobs or from being the design leader.

Instead it makes a lot more sense if the 2016 MBP was a result of the other designers being let loose with no supervision from Ive. Lacking leadership, they went in on no ports and a gimmicky Touch Bar.
TL;DR: IME, outside of the USA, high school friends > uni friends.

I grew up in Italy and lived in Australia for many years, I have the impression that in both of these countries, high school has a bigger role than uni when it comes to life-long friendships. This is attested by the fact that in both countries you see a lot of very expensive private high schools (I attended one of those). But I've heard that in the US, uni (or "college" as it's called there) is the main networking environment for most people. I have friends from many different countries and from what I've heard, in this case the USA are the exception to the rule.
Counterpoint, I've been on this site for over a decade now and am not a good programmer. But yes, I guess effort, experience, talent, and luck are the best cocktail for a really good programmer.
Well, Qatar has highest GDP per capita in the world, yet it treats immigrants and foreign workers very poorly.
Try looking at it as a solution, not a problem. In dire straits you can actually recover the machine, vs having no other option like GP noted.

Normally, and for normal users, the recovery mode is just a startup key combo away to re-image the machine.
I find it funny that people think printing money is a good idea.
>Honestly to me the M1 era of Apple is the more exciting than things have been in years.

Not if you look at the style. It's another a boring grey slab. Jony Ive's job was making everything fashionable.

While computer geeks tend to under appreciate fashion, it's incredibly important. Fashion is the main difference between a cringe bluetooth headset and Airpods. Right now Apple's best offerings seem permanently stuck in 2010s fashion, and it's getting really tired looking.

Frankly, I'd rather be seen sporting a tablet thin Samsung galaxy laptop with punchy colors, stylus, and 360 hinge than a Macbook now. I don't care if the M1 has 50 hours of battery life. It looks boring. I don't want to look boring. I don't want to look like I'm permanently stuck in 2013.
Or better yet, Pimantle: https://semantle.pimanrul.es/
Hey, thanks for the site. I appreciate your reply. I'll be looking forward to it. Cheers.
It's interesting because we're at a point where we might consider how to fix this.

If solutions in how to use less water as well as increasing nutrient uptake are interesting to you, check out aeroponics!
Yes and I tell junior developers the only way to be good is to know assembly language like I had to know. /s
I don't know if those are better. They sound like the same superstitous interviewing techniques that led Google to ask engineers to estimate the number of ping pong balls that would fill up a Boeing 747.
Even in your scenario over email you agreed to sell to the dealer for $30K, I still don't think it would be a binding contract.
The problem is that I don't get to make the decision to use meson or cmake: you make that decision when you develop your project around meson; which ties back to the point of this thread: as a user attempting to compile something (which FWIW should essentially always be a cross compile... a native compile is essentially never what you want as it bleeds way too much random machine state into your build), autotools is still king (and certainly much better than the haphazard piles of programmable cmake that people tend to throw together when they use cmake; at least with cmake,npeople tend to develop stuff where I just give up on their compilation scripts and compile all their code with my own replacement scripts... sadly, I haven't managed to do that reasonably for glib yet so I could avoid their meson hell).
If you're in California, check out California Rare Fruit Growers. If elsewhere in North America, check out North American Fruit Explorers. Both focus on rare varieties that are really good to grow but are not commercially available. I imagine there are similar groups in other parts of the world.
I would suggest quitting coffee if you are curious about that. Do it on a Thursday and you will probably be fine by Monday. Try it for a couple weeks and evaluate, most likely your productivity will be unaffected. Your boss won't notice.

On the more general question of whether stimulants are necessary for work... my experience is this idea is bizarre and out of line with professional programmers more than a few years out of university (where desperate students take adderall to cram for exams, and thus come into the workforce with that somewhat normalized).

Once a few years out you will have so many employment options that the idea of risking your heart health for a programming job will seem asinine... like biking to school without a helmet.
> * That full video of Will Forte playing white supremacist "Hamilton Whiteman" at Seth Meyer's actual rehearsal dinner: copyrightable. I actually watched the whole thing at one point, but it apparently got a copyright claim so I can't share it with anyone. I just added this one on the off chance someone on here has a copy and feels daring, because dammit, it was funny, and I want to watch it again.

Was the thing you're looking for longer than 2 minutes, because the DDG results page is filled with those 2 minute videos, including the top result is one thrown to by Seth himself: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=will%20forte%20Hamilton%20seth
Interesting, I suppose that could have happened to me as well had I gone to a different school. I do wonder sometimes what might have been. Thanks for sharing.
> The hardest part of coding is not technical or even getting the job, it’s liking the job. If you do not enjoy the often stressful and thankless role of staring at the computer and doing frustrating logic puzzles, usually alone, eventually you will burn out and wonder why you ever got into the industry.

I really wish this was the thing that was most difficult about the jobs I’ve had. I really wish it was.

Instead - I’d say the promise of autonomy, ownership, and craftsmanship but in reality none of that is what bothers me most about the industry. On top of this - extremely bad managers are not just common but the standard. This is talked to death on HN and elsewhere but it’s quite insane that people who make $500k+/yr cannot learn how to be slightly less of an asshole and more empathetic as a human being. It’s weird to me that most managers I’ve had are borderline sociopaths when it comes to the workplace. It’s a weird thing too because if they were just honest about why they did things - people wouldn’t be as upset with them. But most managers I guess think it’s better to lie to reports or maybe they’re too ashamed to say, “well we’re doing this because I might get a good perf review and a promo out of it.” It’s never said but it’s clearly the subtext for anyone noticing.

I just dislike the dishonesty that is so rampant in the industry and the completely insane amount of mixed incentive structure going on that ultimately hinders many companies. I am not surprised that some of the companies I’ve worked at that have over 1000 engineers seem to get even less done than when they had 100. Mixed incentives causing roadblocks everywhere.

I find the technical, the code, and other “programming” like aspects of software dev to be completely boring - and if I’m being honest - a bit below me. They’ve always been… busy work.
>> Candidates at lower-tier schools generally can't pick up concepts fast enough to keep up with our work. Most CS programs around the country outside the top tier are diploma mills, and it's hard to even trust those students complete their projects independently without hiring someone to do the classwork for them.

This isn't just reporting Palantir's hiring, this is offering a personal assessment that the majority of CS programs are crap and their graduates are likely as not to be cheaters. It's very pretentious and presumably offends most people here, who probably went to "lower-tier schools." Not really surprising that it would provoke a negative reaction.
I will gladly download a terabyte of model data if that’s what it would take, your numbers don’t scare me!
Russia still offers China one very valuable capability, it's nuclear arsenal. China can 'help' to wield that threat without risking sanctions by actually making nuclear threats itself.
It’s under appreciated what having a specific passion - and continuously exercising it over time - can do. It does wonders. It’s essentially finding reward in the journey itself.

ADHD, dropping out, etc are all beliefs that society labels as “non-productive”, but when somebody has passion and determination and a lot of time doing what they enjoy doing with no reward other than feeding this passion, then that’s all it takes. Consider yourself lucky because in my experience a very small number of people can do this, nobody wants to put the time it takes. Sometimes it takes decades. Coincidentally my form of ADHD disappears once I am in the flow, makes me wonder if ADHD is just aka for “I just don’t fundamentally enjoy what I am doing therefore my brain needs to reward itself in other ways”.

Even better if we end up pursuing a nice hobby in a booming field like technology.

Reality is that most people give up, because ultimately they pursue fields they are not deeply interested in to begin with. The ultimate curse: to dedicate our life to something we don’t care because we didn’t spend enough time exploring what we really cared about.
NixOS (although yes it could be even more elegant than it is)
The great friends I made were not from my major but from the dorm I lived in for a couple of years. The people on my floor (approximately 60 men and women) socialized a lot. People would go to the dining hall in big groups, to the pub in big groups, watch TV and play games together, and would invite each other to social events at school clubs. If you wanted to order a pizza or go for a coffee, you just had to stop by the common room and could reliably find two or three people to join you. A few times each semester we held a party for the entire floor. Sometimes one floor in the building would invite another floor and a lot of friendships (and many romances) were formed.

In my third year I moved off campus and lived with people I met in the dorm. We were all in different programs.
I don't keep in touch with any friends from college, even the ones I hung out with for a majority of my time there.

IMO for most people it goes the same way as earlier schooling periods; as people venture out to do their own thing, they make new circles of friends and generally you no longer fit into those circles. That's not to say nobody continues lifelong relationships, as you describe, but from my experience it can be like that.
Ask HN: Is the USA in a silent Covid wave?
Over two years into this and now so many friends and family I know are coming down with Covid. Is anyone else experiencing this?
That's great to hear, that's much better than I thought. Beating apple's touchpad i find hard to believe, but I'll make sure to try one out if I get the chance!
If you were a customer and were presented with two chocolates, which one would you pick?

"non-microbial approach called moist incubation, in which dried, unfermented cocoa nibs are rehydrated in an acidic solution, heated for 72 hours and then re-dried"

OR

"traditionally covered in banana leaves and left for a few days to ferment. During this time, microbes in the environment degrade the pulp surrounding the beans, heating and acidifying them"

?
The lawyer that tried to take these companies to task for the environmental disaster Biol Oil left on the amazon.... has now lost it all

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-...
They can. That is already common in farming areas where we have the infrastructure to move water.

https://modernfarmer.com/2015/03/california-farmers-are-sell...
Same happened at Christmas 2021
Unfortunately there are many companies that allow people to "fuck around all day" and excuse it as "they're still learning". I'm pretty good at being able to spot people who are genuinely trying to learn, or who are just trying to cruise through and be carried by their team. The latter do not last long if I have anything to do with it.
The person you are replying to is well aware that it's a bad thing, that's why they pointed it out.
I might even settle for tasting like a tomato. But what I usually get from a supermarket doesn’t even do that.
Honestly the same problem exists in many fields. I wish more careers had something of an apprenticeship model.
> Ask any amazon director and they’ll go in and on about hiring being next to impossible in the US

Everyone I've ever heard talk about working at Amazon has complained about it, one wonders if their reputation as an awful place to work has something to do with why hiring is hard
Elon Musk Isn't Buying Twitter to Defend Free Speech
PyScript: Python in the Browser
> Also Amazon is top tier, wouldn't expect someone with 3 months experience being able to keep up unless they were really top notch.

I attended a bootcamp in 2015 and know two people, one in my cohort, and one in the next, who both got jobs at Amazon right out of the bootcamp. At the time, cohorts were every 6 weeks with 80 people/cohort, so that's ~1 out of 80 bootcamp grads who made it into Amazon (granted, with a small sample size), with more in FAANG generally (Google was more open to bootcamp grads than the others).
I’ve known SQL for close to 25 years. Composing queries programmatically is much easier and less error prone than raw sql when using an ORM.

In the case of C# Entity Framework, the ORM abstraction- LINQ - is a first class language feature with full compile time type checking and auto complete.

The same LINQ query can work across databases and in memory collections including RDMS’s and Mongo. Eventually in any object oriented language, you’re going to end up doing “something” to convert relational data to objects.
Elon Musk Already Showed Us How He’ll Run Twitter
Same here: this one will be a game changer for me.
> your projects take up 180% of the time?

For some projects, 180% would have been an improvement. I've even had a few projects take ~500% of the time. Arguably I should have cut my losses sooner, but I wasn't very good at recognizing the sunk cost fallacy back then.
Absolutely not.

Humans are attuned to have happiness that's deeply connected to interacting and mutual appreciation of other.

Despite the best efforts of Twitch.com, television and other activities do not fill this void for deep appreciation.

Deep relationships are truly essential.
With 2) I got 91.28 with happiness, basement, electron, cricket, morphine, artichoke, philosophy. Nothing notably advanced here. (My last 3, which weren't included were: pop [like soda pop], disecretion, moon).
Separate from value to other currencies it still effectively shrinks debts, and prices in different areas/sectors take different amounts of time to adjust. So still lots of effects.
> There is just not that many organizations that can pay for 100-200 thousands hours of training on A100 GPUs.

How much is this in money?
Strategies I used to create leverageable work as an engineer
I think from their perspective, publishing it was a mistake. A lot of companies publish anonymized user stats but usually they don't say or mean a whole lot. I'm pretty sure OkCupid didn't intend to get in the middle of a hot political topic and prove that the incel movement might have a point.

I imagine a lot of tech companies are holding on to some extremely volatile truths about society that they do not want becoming public.
> a person only needs 0.5 gallons a day

This is simply wrong, by a lot. Americans use about 100 gallons/day of water per person on average, including things like toilets, showers, etc. Maybe we don’t “need” to use that much (whatever “need” is supposed to mean) but it’s the way people live, which is not going to change any time soon.

Even just considering drinking this is wrong. Adult men should drink close to a gallon a day, women somewhat less.
> Well, I don't think it's coffee that is implicated in that, more likely sugary caffeinated drinks

Well, you think incorrectly, this literally has its own wikipedia page [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeinism
Your condescension is not necessary, nor is it correct. But I don't feel like continuing to debate someone who is so rude.
Heck of a drone that can’t turn (yaw). That drone was doing everything it could to keep the tornado in view except turn.
Is Australia supporting atrocities in West Papua?
Most of my surviving friendships are from high school, a few from university, and my oldest friends are actually people I randomly added on MSN Messenger by copy-pasting their email from stickfigure animation forums...
For several years, I tried keeping track of each expense, using both quicken and gnucash. I found the same thing as you: entering each transaction is too tedious. If I got real benefit from it, I'd have stuck with it, but honestly I never found the data actually useful. Currently, I've adopted your idea, and just track basically month-to-month net worth in a simple spreadsheet. Even that is more of a motivational tool than something that provides actionable data.

This maybe different for everyone. Currently, I'm fortunate to be saving about 80% of income. But even a decade ago when I was much more in a paycheck-to-paycheck situation, I didn't know what to do with this per-transaction double entry data.

I also think that the entire design of accounting software, where you assign a given expense to a specific category ("groceries", "fuel", "household", "vacation") is too limiting because they are artificially orthogonal. What if I have a "fuel" category and a "vacation" category, but I'm filling up on vacation? Same with groceries, but it's even worse because I needed to buy those anyway. It's really hard to use these categorized transactions to figure out if I need to cut back on vacations, or buy a more fuel efficient vehicle.
The latest 5th edition deserves a lot of credit for this. They did a fantastic job. It’s easy to learn, easy to run and you can do a lot with it. I’ve been a tabletop RPG player since the early 80s and never really got on with D&D, but 5th edition is a lot of fun. It not my favourite game by far, but it deserves its success.
Trucking shortage shifts from drivers to vehicles
No, these people are being paid what they're worth. It's everyone below them that is getting stiffed for pay.

If your company has >$100B market cap, there is literally no reason why you shouldn't be paying juniors $100k starting at least. If you work on a platform bringing in billions of dollars of revenue per quarter, you deserve to reap the rewards.
I counter this. I had a couple of years of experience and a Masters degree in CS when I first picked up SICP. Then I understood computation . I wish I could go back in years and learn from SICP first. I would could save myself from a lot of dead end perspectives and frustration. SICP is a peerless jewel imo
Damn you. I just lost.
There's nothing seeing with using words like moon and elephant, it's a relative measure between words, not absolute.
this recreation of Luke Abbott's Brazil is gorgeous https://noisecraft.app/233
As someone diagnosed with ADHD later in life, a lot of these ADHD superpowers are just the result of taking dopaminergic stimulants. Especially the hyper focus and feeling superior to people staring out the window or failing to heads-down work for several hours straight. Yes you can hyperfocus even without stimulants, but the real superpower is having access to them so you can channel that consistently.

I personally believe everybody should be allowed to take these stimulants if they want to, because many people would benefit from it. The propaganda around stimulants working radically differently on those with ADHD vs those without is just that (I can go on about why I think that in much more detail). Ask anybody you’re close with how taking their friend’s adderall to study worked out. Look into people like Paul Erdos.

Anyway, I think you can definitely argue that there is a lot more nuance to psychiatry than you see in clinical settings (probably many disorders should be broken up into multiple others, others are just symptoms rather than a problem itself, others are not even disorders but just a different way of being). But really all that matters is that psychiatrists can match symptoms to treatments that work. Matching poor/misdirected executive function to medication that “boosts” dopamine and norepinephrine works pretty well, so why worry about the name of the condition?
I agree; it's also one of the few issues I have with Linux (and possibly Unix generally).

Zombie processes (dependent on some lock that will never clear) shouldn't be possible. At the very least abort (kill -9) should always be possible.

Failure should always be an option; it should be the default assumption. All other order must be wrested from that chaos.