skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's the design, it's the usability. I might argue that it has always more about usability than design.

Sure, the iconic designs of the G4 Cube, iMac, metal Powerbooks and later Macbook were what drew people in, but the usability is what kept many people with Apple.

Is the better scrolling a design or a tech thing? Probably tech, but I'm sure it's only that good because someone really understood how people use it and what it really needs to do well and then insisted that the tech worked flawlessly.
If you live in a loud and brightly lit environment, I highly, highly recommend blackout curtains. They've been a revelation in terms of improving length and quality of sleep.
I hope that junior engineers/employees take all of these with a grain of salt. You can't skip meetings because you won't add to them. Part of your job is to observe and learn.
Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience
Almost certainly not.

Given a circle with diameter AB and a point on the perimeter C, is ABC an equilateral triangle?
You can describe your interpretation all you want, but the English used (excess purchase) is able to be interpreted in either way (the excess over the allowed about or a singular purchase that went over the allowed amount). There is no real way to know which is accurate in this situation unless the OP or someone who works there answers the question.
Yes, it's a very desirable trait in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Monte_Carlo_method

Quasi-Monte Carlo has a rate of convergence close to O(1/N), whereas the rate for the Monte Carlo method is O(N^(−0.5))

For such applications it's best to use quasi-random numbers (a.k.a. low-discrepancy sequences) such as the Halton sequence or the Sobol sequence instead of pseudorandom numbers.
Someone I know mentioned wanting to do something similar to this. I guess the hard part is how to get the model to generate what you want and also generate it in the format you need.
I know this is in reference to a project that the author hopes to make money from, but many people start open source projects simply to scratch an itch and solve a personal problem. In these cases, I think it's worth asking if you want the project to grow. Sometimes GitHub stars are empty calories.

Once something grows beyond a certain point, it can be annoying for users to constantly be asking for new features that you personally will never use. And documentation... Not suggesting open sourcing things is a bad idea, but there's no shame in throwing some code up on GitHub and being clear about what people can expect from you.
No one I work with uses this in the office. I am the only one and they complain that my screen "hurts their eyes" because of its orange hue.

I would not be so quick to dismiss the effects of staring into light bulbs for 8-12 hours a day.
I worked on few projects in c++ many many years ago, so I don’t define myself as an expert in that language, but c++ nowadays scares me, looks like the language complexity have exploded and code looks like complex to me. All those templates … I have the feeling that languages like Rust have a chance long term to replace c++
The problem is that most things don't have specific antonyms. The "not a cat" label could be applied to literally any image without a cat in it.
There are really good marketplaces for buying game assets.

Especially if you adopt a low poly style, you can get very far with bought meshes.

My go-to sites are CGTrader for meshes, SoundSnap for sounds.
Hi there. I'm the cofounder of Flagsmith and have been helping work on this spec. The main goal of openfeature is to provide a standard set of interfaces to the variety of feature flagging platforms that exist, to help prevent lock in and make it easier generally to work with feature flags.

The design is pluggable, such that vendors can provide a backend implementation to drive these new interfaces. As a result the project is just as relevant outside of the k8s ecosystem as it is inside.
You should have received a brief screen saying the jailbreak is being installed in one of the steps.
What app are you using that has already adopted this font?
I think jupyterlite is a compelling application of Python in the browser. But it has to be something like that, an application where the actual Python environment is important. If we're just implementing user-facing features, the downsides of Python (size and speed) should make us prefer other solutions!

Links:

https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/lab/

https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite
Here's another approach for situations which fall in the middle:

https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/committing-changes-...
I think the same could be said for wanting part-time employment.
I wasn't trying to be sarcastic, just to give evidence against the statement

> "he/she should not be able to tell" isn't the same as "he/she should not be able to make a statistically-probable guess".

I'm in agreement with the sibling comment by baobabKoodaa.
WWCD= what would crew.co do?
When a cell is cloned but not yet functional, how does it gets its ATP needs before the mitochondria turn on?
Is there some kind of uber delivery system that would cross cells?
I believe to guess the real answer but I don't want to influence speculators.
You’re right in what the consumer brings to a piece matters just as much as the piece itself. But being able to process the piece at all is what I was trying to get at there, in a media literacy sense. It’s very easy to dismiss a piece of work due to a lack of media literacy (with caveat that it is possible to also be so up the ass of the institution that one makes art for which the only people who can find it comprehensible are other institution-saavy folks.)
The email clearly says that the excess purchase will be refunded. He lost me here; I was mystified when he decided to purchase another $9975.
Yea, I can relate to this article a lot. I'm hiring people for everything that I dislike doing at https://webtoapp.design
In my case those are namely accounting/taxes, customer support and other repetitive tasks. I should probably also hire someone to write blog articles - currently I almost exclusively write about how customers can use feature X with webtoapp.design, like documentation.

Hopefully at some point I'll be able to hire someone for sales too.

The thing I really enjoy is coding and strategizing. I have no problem thinking of growth channels, but actually following through with the execution (which is often just writing emails all day) is what I dislike.
incensed

oh, totally, things like that would drive me mad. if i am ever going to buy a plot of land then i'd want to do it far away from anyone who can tell me what do do with it (short of forest fire safety and pollution)
Pandas makes it really hard to do easy things, and really easy to do hard things. But its more useful to the people who need it to do the hard things.
I agree with the string argument. I felt the same struggle, too many string types. It is hard to remember when to use what.

I wish there were one string type to rule them all.
There is value in the burn of mining. Understanding this requires understanding how humans evaluate risk and reward. Not all human evaluation of risk may be influenced by outside thought. It is ingrained from childhood.
Oh cmon seriously? Did we really need a guide? I’m not arguing you shouldnt be professional, rather scared of a future where we all talk like bots with no emotions. Are we so fu**d up?
This feels like a question of motivation. What is driving a person to have a side project, and potentially want to grow it? First, I need to take a step back and talk about my perspective on work units in a holistic sense.

The larger the company, the more I feel I can specialize. The smaller the company, the more I'm expected to work outside of my defined box. As a company expands, at some point it breaks up into multiple units. Those newly formed units are typically too small, and people in them are expected to work outside of their defined boxes again. This is a pain point of growth. Eventually those units expand until the pain stops. They sometimes continue their expansion until they must again split. Obvious correlations to cell division and growth abound. A side project is the single cell organism, and it will eventually evolve and grow; or it will achieve equilibrium; or it will die.

I feel like I'm an equilibrium-oriented kind of person. I don't want to grow and evolve beyond the resources of my immediate work unit. If my work unit fails to meet my needs though, I move on towards a unit that will better help me achieve my equilibrium. People who enjoy working on specialization might better enjoy overemployment[0] with multiple pre-existing work units rather than turning a hobby into a venture. Alternatively some companies offer work at internal innovation groups, and those efforts sometimes offer rewards beyond the base compensation.

I also feel like some people are more like viruses in the Agent Smith sense that they never achieve equilibrium and have an insatiable desire to expand. Unlike the movie, I don't think viruses are inherently bad, it's just another form of life. It's tough to discern boundless ambition from a significant deficiency in workplace satisfaction though, and that can lead people to try to expand a hobby into a side hustle.

I think first a person has to identify whether they are motivated by boundless growth or are simply no longer achieving equilibrium at their current workplace. Moving to a new company or division, or even moving to a new career altogether, may be preferable to trying to evolve a hobby into a hustle.

0: https://www.overemployment.org/
Many of these statements come off as being passive aggressive, but to the authors credit, sometimes you don’t have much else to respond back with, or just don’t engage at all, which can cause its own issues.

What made me chuckle a bit is how real these situations were on a daily basis at Amazon, and how I’d write an email or Chime message only to rewrite it and discard it… “hmm, how do I respond without being passive aggressive? How do I keep my mental sanity?”
But they didn’t measure that. They’d have to measure that by showing a bunch of people each sequence and asking “is this random?” Instead, they threw a complexity formula at it, which measures some specific thing, but not “other people”

Though perhaps there is a body of existing literature showing that their complexity estimator matches people’s assessment of “randomness”? If so, does it include people over 60?
The suggestions here seem like they're taking a sentiment with negative framing and just recasting it in a positive light. A lot of the corrected phrases assign blame, are hostile, overly confrontational, flippant, accusatory, curt, and impolite. Are you saying this kind of communication is how you think normal humans should speak with one another? What kind of environment do you think is created when everyone speaks that way to one another? Is that a place you'd like to work?
The rise of parental surveillance of their children
I mean, it's both: They are all great (I've used many of them in the past) AND it's stupid that we have to use polite euphemistic speech at work!

I wish I could tell people at work "Check your goddamn E-mail, this is the third time I've asked you to do your job!" or "Can you stop talking? You're derailing this fucking meeting!" but we can't if we expect our careers to go anywhere besides the basement.

I think another awesome translator would be the reverse: When someone tells you something in corporate-drone-speak that sounds CorporateUpbeat, help me to figure out what it's really saying. Is this person really happy, or are they seething with rage at something I did, and can't articulate their anger in a work setting without coating it with passive aggressive euphemisms?
Felt like a wallstreetbets post. Inflation is only at "8%" (still remember back in 2021 calling this a conspiracy), so 8 / 12 = ~0.7% = 700 USD loss / month on 10k deposit.
> Are we so fu*d up?

"Is the alternative way to express these sentiments?"
The most common usage I saw was something along the lines of:

*You [do/don’t] like Elon Musk. Perhaps that is because [you’re as bad as him/you are jealous of him]

Obviously use your vocabulary and sentence structure to fluff it up and make it a little less blunt.
> What is sad, is companies that release shoddy hybrid apps, developed by lowest-bid offshore shops (who often do a better job than onshore ones), then refuse to continue supporting their crapplets.

The other thing that bums me out about cross platform “solutions” as a fellow UIKit/AppKit dev is their lowest-common-denominator design, making them incapable of the features that make each OS unique and interesting. I’d like to see the opposite approach, where if platform A was missing something that platform B had, the framework would instead fill the gaps and provide that capability on platform A too. At least for me that’d make cross platform development a good deal more pleasant.

As you noted, a robust set of widgets and capabilities out of the box is important too. The miles-long dependency list that comes with the typical JS app stack is unappealing at best, and nothing is worse than having to hunt down an implementation of a widget you need only to find that the 4 options available all have huge holes in functionality in different places, with 2 in some state of disrepair and 1 not being suitable for your project for some miscellaneous reason.
> Java and COBOL still get hired

I work for a fairly well-known and successful tech company that's only about 10 years old, and Java is the main language for the company's flagship product. It's strange to me to see it lumped together with COBOL.
Otherside is a gamified, interoperable metaverse currently under development
This was massively exaggerated by journalists when AVX-512 was first announced.

It is true that randomly applied AVX-512 instructions can cause a slight clock speed reduction, the proper way to use libraries like this would be within specific hot code loops where the mild clock speed reduction is more than offset by the huge parallelism increase.

This doesn’t make sense if you’re a consumer doing something multitasking and a background process is invoking the AVX-512 penalty in the background, but it usually would make sense in a server scenario.
Cook scaled up the iPhone (and its broad ecosystem, which includes the iPad, iWatch, iServices), maximizing its global potential.

I don't know if it qualifies as genius, however it's plainly obvious that Cook is an exceptionally competent manager and logistician. He has also been a stable hand on an increasingly sprawling behemoth that easily could have gotten out of hand (~$400 billion in operating profit every five years - in the wrong management hands that's a disaster waiting to happen). He's successfully operating a mass consumer product company with the profit of Saudi Aramco, a once unthinkable outcome (Aramco used to tower over the profit of most every other corporation globally). Ten years ago Microsoft was one of the few global profit giants with ~$20b in annual profit; Apple is near six times that scale now. Cook has done a relatively good job of keeping a leash on Apple's financial behavior.
8.5% rate is based on locking in 7.12% for first six months (Nov 2021 - Apr 2022 rate) and 9.62% for second six months (May - Nov 2022 rate). You only "get screwed" depending upon how much the rate drops in future adjustments.

I personally think this is an overblown concern given the absolute dollar amount is so tiny. We're talking about interest on $10K. It's just not that much, a few hundred dollars.

https://tipswatch.com/2022/04/24/lets-handicap-the-i-bonds-f...
I quite liked "A Whirlwind Heist", if I'm not mistaken it's still free on Steam which makes it the perfect endcap to your weekend if you haven't checked it out already!
The very first sentence of the article disproves your claims.

It has nothing to do with caffeine, blue screens, or artificial lights.

It's the first sentence!!

"On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t gotten any more hours of sleep than a typical Western city-dweller who stayed up doom-scrolling on their smartphone."
If you don't like money
I understand the thought, but a weird reality about book writing is that, since the author bears the cost for fact-checking books, they're often less extensively fact-checked than longer reported pieces for newspapers or magazines.
Or in US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day
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Hey All!

Just saw this in a forum: https://lunarpad.co/
I am not an expert in this area but I believe it may be related to the primitive mechanism the cells are capable of activating and reverting to when the mitochondria are damaged. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06e-PwhmSq8 [video]
Yes, these are hers, minus the “moist” jokes. They do credit her at the bottom of the page at least.

https://www.tiktok.com/@loewhaley
And it’s technically not a Monty Python sketch. It was originally from ‘At Last the 1948 Show’, and was co-written by two people who would go on to be in Python, but also Tim Brooke-Taylor, Marty Feldman, and quite possibly Barry Cryer.

It was re-performed by the Monty Python team later. Possibly one of the only real comedy versions of a cover version being more famous than the original.

anyway, it suggests that if you like that but not Python, maybe you would be better off exploring the comedy of ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’ instead…
The only practical purpose of crypto is buying drugs, illegal porn and tax evasion so I'd say Monero comes out on top.
Swift gets weirder and more difficult, C++ gets better. Will the two lines intersect? Probably not, but I'm starting to wonder.

I wish C++ had a few more cosmetic and convenient things that I've gotten used to in Swift. 1. Properties with get/set/didSet blocks. 2. Non-nullable types, ie `T` and `T?`. There's probably no way to add those, even as a GCC-specific non-standard extension.
I wonder if Python has yet reached legacy status when it comes to web development. A quick skim of the schedule for this year's PyCon US suggests that maybe it has.
First, that's a high power cost - industrial zoned areas often pay less and in many states even consumers pay about 1/3 of that. Then consider that the cost is variable - gas will likely continue to increase while power could get cheaper and reduce co2 per mile emissions as local power production tech is upgraded.

Second, investing in EV improves EV adoption rate and support networks. Investing in poor mileage ICE at scale will likely inflate fuel prices for everyone else.

When estimating lifetime costs you are simply assuming that prices will stay at current levels when this investment itself could create unfavorable changes to the estimate.
I find it hard to believe that not showing video previews from links is a breaking issue for a lot of users. But I get your point that Matrix is kind of complex in some ways. Federation surely doesn't help to combat complexity.
The Extraordinary Wealth Created by the Pandemic Housing Market
I’ll have to look into it. If I ever put any amount of effort into one of these ideas, I don’t think I’d mind paying commission for some stuff either, but at the end of the day I’m just a guy who can write code ok and has some neat game ideas. I don’t have a massive budget for my side projects.
If everyone responded to content they found unwelcome with hostility and insults, the site would be nothing but a shouting match. That's why there are tools that remove unwelcome content without adding more, like downvoting and flagging.
Anyone used microaquire on the buy side or sell side? If so would love to hear your experience?

I’ve got a few side projects I was going to throw on.
So make the power pack replaceable during the pit stop.
Remote Pseudoterminals
Both. By selecting conservative industries high capital intensive industries its very likely that incremental improvements can be made. Large companies with large capital investment try to leverage those as long as they can. Musk build his company with consistent improvement as the core strategy.

> As a follow-up to the former: do you think that's the case for Twitter?

I have no idea. Its such a different thing. I don't think its a great use of his time.

> As a follow-up to the latter: for how many companies do you believe Musk can simultaneously ensure success?

I don't think he can ensure it, but it makes it much likely.

But I would say the number is not static. It depends on the problems that exist within the companies. In 2017 during Model 3 ramp it was likely 1 of them, but lucky at that point SpaceX had nailed the most fundamental things in terms of reuse and the company faced on lethal issues.

He he access to lots of great people that he at least partly trust to put into these positions. So that helps, and he pretty good at recruiting young talent.

So I don't really know.
Yeah, I was homeschooled. It sounds to me like public schools actively discourage this kind of thing.
R is a mixed bag. Base R is like PHP - an organically grown mishmash of stale, ugly, inconsistent conventions, beloved only by people who have been trained in it or used it for decades. But the tidyverse has an extremely thoughtful API that is easier to learn and use than anything else in the data science world.
The US is trying everything to force their copyrights down the rest of the world's throat as well. Switzerland was added to the US copyright watch list[1] because its copyright laws are a bit less draconian.

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/online-laxity_us-puts-switzerla...
"empirically" can you show the study that says this?

You are saying it's easier for short men to grow several inches than for a woman to change her desirability?
As smart as the tech is, the smartest thing Matrix ever did was investing in solid bridging. Backwards compatibility is the best way to transition to something new, particularly if it's only incrementally better. Which is why large companies will always kill open APIs sooner or later. It's just too big of a vulnerability.
Advertising is all about getting you to buy things you don't need.
But Buffett's point is that each unit of investment he pursues has the potential to produce incrementally more value. You're saying the aggregate technology underlying bitcoin has value - which it does. But you don't get twice the tech value by doubling your amount of coin owned. Conversely, if you double your farm holdings, you have double the ability to produce food.

Also, Buffett's quote here isn't some significantly new perspective. Hasn't this been the primary argument against bitcoin since the beginning?
Agree. Haven’t gone through the whole list, but the first few strike me as avoidance wrapped in fancy jargon.

I think a direct, kind, but clear and unambiguous response would go a lot farther. Followed by a suggestion, to demonstrate you’re not just complaining, you’re trying to be helpful.

To your point about culture: feeing like you couldn’t say any of the following probably says a lot about either the environment, or about your own comfort with candor.

You are overcomplicating this -> This sounds overcomplicated to me. Have you considered X instead?

That meeting sounds like a waste of my time -> Can you clarify what you’re hoping for from me being in this meeting? Can I read the notes, or send feedback async instead?

I told you so -> (Ask yourself why you want to even say this. Then, don’t say it, and say the why instead.) 1. “Well, that’s a shame. Are you looking for suggestions on next steps?” 2. “Should we go back and consider plan X?” 3. “What did we learn from this outcome?”