skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang is great most of the time but effectively ends up pushing a "centrist" semi liberal view point.

I do not envy what dang does. It's a hard job. But at the end of the day these positions end up effectively enforcing the middle ground logical fallacy.
Maybe Ocarina of Time was oddly prescient and we'll soon have little quadcopters following us around saying "Hey! Listen!" to alert us to fairly-obvious details.
Friends Found Daisy De La O’s Murder Suspect on Instagram
I was looking for more details about these Ethernet pause frames, as I'm pretty sure I experienced the problem using a usb-c hub..

Found a relevant article and discussion from 2016 here, so this problem is not new!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12339902
> Is there any non-exploitative way to interpret this? The only thing worse than wasting my time on features for promo rather than users is working overtime to make more money for those with significant equity/ownership in ways that will never seriously affect my comp. Without promo or "promo by a different name" i.e. money, how do you incentivize people? How do you decide who to allocate your finite equity and money to?

Easy, there is no promo, you just pay everyone 450k like Netflix and raise everyone's pay each year to stay at the top of the market.
mmm I'd rather they work on something 100% useless like NFTs, instead of airplanes.
I just made a headcount. Of the 22 members of Boeing's Executive Council, 9 have a MBA, and 1 has a Master of Science in organizational management. Still, a slight majority of Boeing executives do not have a MBA.
Figure 2 that shows the rates of major depression among boys and girls is shocking.

1 in 4 girls and 1 in 10 boys have been diagnosed with major depression.

I wonder what the distribution is of others who haven't been diagnosed or deal with depression to a lower degree.

Something that may be surprising to some people is that this trend isn't limited to boys and girls.

From data collected in 2019/2020, 30% of people aged 18-25 years in the USA have diagnosed mental health issues. This number is skewed heavily towards women too.

Source: Table 8.1B
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2020-nsduh-detailed-table...
How good is water at capturing CO2 compared to the other absorbents? My guess, not as good. So is more CO2 released because they're capturing with water?
It is easier and cheaper to store liquid fuel. Making liquid fuel would allow fuel to be made and stored in the off season in a greater quantity than could be reasonable be stored in batteries.
no. as a european who moved to the US i can tell you that even though US companies have the remote fad going on, they want you to be in the US. they are not going to pay you US compensation while you are in europe. remote really means, we can pay you less because you live in a cheap place. it’s not what you think it is. there is a reason people move to the US.
if you can part it out, you can fix it. It's all nuts and bolts.
DXM on the other hand, as a less funny matter of fact, regularly makes people do stuff like shit their pants and/or die if they combine it with the wrong stuff like maybe a bit of booze. I don't know why people think it's somehow safer.

It hits so many receptor sites and interacts with so many other drugs in the brain/liver, ketamine is not a dirty drug
in that regard. I think this puts restrictions on its comparative therapeutic use. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_drug
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What bothers me most and even on HN, where you usaully get intelligent discourse, the alarmist pessimism. Everything is falling apart! Just another form of self-indulgence. There must be something compelling about pretending the apocolypse is tomorrow.

Yes, there are problems in our social, political, ecomonic systems. They need to be recognized and addressed. Democracy makes that process slow and difficult. But the pessimism to me is one of the biggest dangers.
I want video
You retain whatever functionality you want when you unlock the bootloader, or relock it after flashing.

Apps can choose to not service you if they detect modifications though.
Being quiet in a taxi is perfectly normal. Barking orders at them, complaining that they're not going fast enough, treating them as beneath you, etc.: those are rude.
How is somebody with no experience or education supposed to get a job when they cannot generate that much money for a company? Perhaps they can get lucky and find a company who will hire them, but many poor, young, and people with criminal records will be priced out of the market which will lead to generational poverty.

There is also an increasing number of lower paying jobs that are going away due to automation. Raising the minimum wage will speed up the adoption. This will make it even harder to get a job.

I fully agree that some companies and customers do not treat employees with dignity. This is not really relevant to the minimum wage.

I also fully agree what we have doesn't work. We need good paying jobs for people with minimal / no experience and education. I don't think just raising the minimum wage will fix things. At best raising the minimum wage is stop gap that will cause damage in the long term and create even more poverty.
One major hurdle is getting the existing app developers to stop intentionally hindering efforts to make their apps work through compatibility layers.
They also won't give a second glance to those who would like to move down the stack, even in markets where these sorts of skills are practically non-existent.
“older generation thinks something different than younger generation”
They need to open source they’re engineering specs abs let startups have at it.
> I'd actually bet that homophobia is more common among immigrant taxi drivers

i wonder which of your demographics predisposes you to judge such people in this way?
Actual paper has video. http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abm5954
There's a difference between hearing about a social event that you missed after the fact and seeing it going on live without you in real time.

High school was hard enough for me when the web was just barely coming out of its primordial state of "some nerdy stuff for dweebs".

I also can't imagine the magnitude and speed of social and interpersonal relationships that happens as a result of social media and just instant communication. Trying to navigate that as a teen is just something I can't comprehend, before one learns how to truly be equanimous as an adult who has a separate identity from how they are perceived by others.
But at least with Android, the freedom is still there and is just quite hidden and inconvenient. With Apple you don't have it at all.
Go look at political donations by employees from your random law firm. 90% is a conservative number.
Can confirm, it’s a great choice. Step one, convince a FAANG/MAGMA to let you work remote at the same salary level you already have. Step two, move to an extremely cheap cost-of-living area. Step three, avoid promotion at all costs, and just fix bugs.

Provide value, but _never_ get promoted. Every year come review season, talk about how your goals for the next year are to improve latency/perf/whatever. It doesn’t have to be specific, just something that’s important enough to be useful, but don’t be ambitious. Just keep your head down and make enough improvements that people consider you to be a good “grunt” worker.

Yeah yeah, inflation sucks and technically I’m making less because my RSU’s have mostly vested and my yearly grants haven’t made up for it, but I don’t care. I’ve saved up enough that I could retire now if I really wanted to.

Every day for me, I work 9-5, fix a few bugs, provide some value, then work’s over and I get to play with my son and completely forget about my job. Then once he’s in bed I smoke some weed, watch shows with the wife, talk about the good old days. It’s heaven.

(By the way, I say all this, but I kinda failed at it because I got promoted last year anyway. I got hella worried because I thought they’d start expecting more out of me, so I actually slowed down my pace even more. I just got a mid-cycle bonus last month. Maybe I’m not so great at keeping my head down after all…)
Are any of them aeronautical engineers?
Blade Runner RPG Hits Kickstarter, Gets Funded in 3 Minutes
That’s pretty horrifying to be honest
> Youtube has some good overviews of how to complete the form.

This is the most unhelpful comment Ive seen in a long time. YouTube has billions of videos, and now that downvotes are hidden, its quite difficult to even determine what videos are of any value.
I don't think any of that actually adds up though. I had about 10 years of music reading experience when I started learning the piano, and it was still hard. Took me years to get to a decent level. Because playing an instrument (or learning an instrument in a different class to ones you already know) is actually just very difficult in itself.

I don't think music notation ever held me back for a second - I remember when learning, you'd learn the music notation for something new first in a few minutes, and then spend days of practice doing exercises learning how to play it well on your instrument.

Similarly with science, medicine, etc. - you can know all the terms, but the real difficult part is trying to understand the massive complexity of what they're describing!
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I think another big reason for lower compensation is because a lot of companies working at a low level tend to be companies making physical electronic products. Profits for physical profits don't scale as exponentially as they do with software only products, so companies don't have endless amounts of cash to throw around at engineers.

If you're after good compensation and want to work at a low level, then go for companies that sell both hardware and software. FAANGs are an obvious choice but B2B companies (usually IoT-ish) that have have both a software and hardware subscription component are another option worth looking at.
they think they do but are just sniffing their own farts. not all FAANG are the same of course. innovation happens at startups or under the radar bootstrapped companies. FAANG buys them and integrates their work. i would argue real innovation does not happen at VC funded startups because they don’t have years to work on their own schedule. they need to raise all the time and focus on growth. blue sky tech development does not fit in those plans.
>I - am not exempt from deteriorated concentration

It's a muscle. Anyone who hasn't done school for a while will have to rebuild that muscle. It was like that before social media, just gotta relearn how to learn.

Programming is similar. If you do nothing but CRUD for a while (for whatever reason), when you gotta do the hard stuff where you have to keep a bunch of structure in your head at the same time, you're probably gonna struggle with it. After a few weeks, you'll be in better shape.

Same with reading complex documents, writing, math, etc.
This is one way to think about it. If you take your glasses off and squint a little, underneath perl and python work in extremely similar ways, and basically do the same thing. Python is a dynamic language created to provide uniformity of syntax. Perl is a dynamic language designed to provide flexibility of syntax - wherein it has natural language features like list/scalar context.

Both of these approaches have their advantages. I have a saying I overuse: "Python helps you think more like the computer does, Perl helps the computer think more like you do". The consequence of this is that python is good at helping people think about tasks that the computer is good at in - like statistical problems. On the other hand perl is good at helping to contain the mess and chaos of the real world in a way that makes it more tractable for the computer - which is why it remains popular in the recruitment industry backends and other less tidy business areas.

Perl's very raw unvarnished object model is in fact based on python's, so it is very similar, but it's also built for flexibility. This means object models like Moo[1] which are really nice flexible and done right make it really easy to write extendable applications. Implementing python's object model in perl (i.e pretty much the exact specification) is easy. However you can't implement perl's object model in python except by messing with the guts of the python interpreter.

I haven't done any commercial python - I only have a passing aquaintance really from messing with sympy and the like. But boy perl has been good to me. I earn a good living in an interesting job and I can maintain interests out of work as well. And I haven't had to look hard for work for years. Of course currently I'm neck deep in recursive SQL queries.

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Moo - My favourite job to date was building a back end to spin up network devices, that got one gentle refactor after the initial implementation and was then subsequently extended to three or four completely different network device architectures extremely quickly. Mostly by virtue of making almost every object property read only and memoised on demand (extensions to existing methods would are likewise inlined on complilation - all done with object composition rather than inheritance too for an added layer of sanity)
The article says they are delivering two Presidential planes, total cost paid by the gov’t 3.2 billion.

Can someone explain why two these planes are more than a third of the total cost of the James Web Telescope?

What exactly do they need to do in order to protect one apparently irreplaceable man?

Don’t they fly with fighter jet escorts so the need for offensive weapons can’t be significant. Seriously, why do they cost so much?
Labor is not an efficient market, so the "market rate" is already -- and always -- distorted to begin with. Especially when your economy is built around approximate "full employment."
They outsourced it for some reason to some weird company. You would think a multi-billion dollar contract would be enough money.
I don't think an RPi4 can keep up with Jitsi, but I have never attempted it.

I have not tried yunohost, but the interface looks nice.

docker is not required, but docker + docker compose, on an RPi4, with auto-restart of failed containers has been very solid for me.
Uncle Sam will ensure that the US has an aerospace industry adequate to meet military needs. Whether this will forever include Boeing I'm not certain. Seems like there is an opportunity here for companies such as Lockheed to make a move?
India Orders VPN Providers to Log and Hand over Customer Data
All the best to them, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I'm also skeptical that petrol / diesel / long chain hydrocarbons are even the right fuel to make. If the average length of the carbon chain for something like diesel is around eight, you can make roughly eight times the number of methanol molecules for the same carbon input. Hydrogen requirements are also lower, so the cost limitation there is reduced as well. It just seems like an inherently cheaper $/kWh pathway for storing energy, especially when you consider that there are already amateurs doing methanol conversions for cars for a few thousand dollars.

Obviously this doesn't work for aviation, but the calculus there is a bit different. LH2 has a number of advantages for aircraft, and depending on how much cheaper it is than synthetic kerosene, it may prove to be the better option.

On the subject of direct air capture -- have any studies been done on its efficacy relative to fast growing plants? Some seaweeds can grow at a rate of a meter a day, which obviously requires pulling carbon from the water (i.e. indirectly from the atmosphere). Similarly, it seems like there are pre-existing (and potentially cost effective) pathways for shorting the carbon cycle by, for example, using sewerage as a source, since all of that carbon was at one time pulled from the atmosphere by a vegetable.
Even if that's the case, it's still way after April 13th.
Hmmm almost none of the process has to do with HHS. UHC could make this a lot easier. That's why we submit via mail instead - that makes it their problem.
"If you think safety is expensive, try an accident!" - Stelios Haji-Ioannou
It’s Time to Say that Mac doesn’t Just Work
Too late, they already took over Amazon's drone program[1]. Who knows where else they've spread?

[1] https://dronedj.com/2020/03/31/ex-boeing-executive-to-spearh...
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Pseudonymous rather than anonymous, generally. And it can work better than you'd think, depending on how you've met! One interesting facet of how internet relationships are formed is that certain phases of those friendships might happen in different orders than they might in the physical realm- for example, on a rule-less gameserver that I used to play on (think literally 4chan in game form with a very old persistent map), the users would tend to go through trust first, and then getting to know each other later. This is efficient due to the lack of consequences you deal with for most things online, since if someone breaks that trust you will just find ones who won't. In the case of that particular gameserver, I've seen groups of like a dozen people capable of sharing even their account credentials to various things without having much fear, and this kind of thing really speaks volumes IMO.

A number of people I've met in this way (chatrooms, games, etc) I've actually come to work on real projects together with. Though at this point, considering how comfortable we are giving info about ourselves, I suppose the pseudonymity somewhat lifts itself away over time.
Can you expand more on this? Are they deliberately trying to detect compatibility layers?
Thank you sir, for you sir comment of sanity
They are rarely good books these days. The fact the Python for Devops has 4.6 rating on Amazon baffles me. The book is unreadable, full of anecdotes that don't add up to anything. And as always, they gotta teach me python once again in the first few dozen pages.

I keep asking myself "what is so brilliant about this book that it deservers 4.6 stars?". Maybe the average developer can't tell bad content from decent.
We’re talking trad nerds, not Allnerds/techbros.
SimpleCD is a Continuous Delivery system written for the Bash shell.

https://github.com/manuelkiessling/simplecd
9 of them have engineering degrees (mostly aerospace, aeronautical, and mechanical engineering)
The company won’t be allowed to dissolve. What that means for shareholders, who knows? In the worst case, the government buys the company outright.
I'm guessing you mean they should post drafts of opinions to github (your sentence could mean either).

I think it's entirely reasonable not to post drafts until they're ready.

Hell, even on github, you (generally) don't put up a PR until it's ready for review.
Apparently writing compilers isn't systems programming....
I am not familiar with his work, I watched his videos on YouTube. In the videos he is frequently talking against diversity and equity, and I was surprised a Professor of his stature advocating against diversity and equity. I found his arguments divisive and thought it was directed at the diversity and equity initiatives aimed at increasing enrollment of people of color in major universities and technology companies like Google.

Maybe his books are good, haven’t read it. I will listen to it on audible.
Network effects work differently in video games.

Often you'll have a relatively niche game like PUBG that validates a concept (battle royales) which is then done in a more polished way by a second-mover (Fortnite, WOW, TF2, CSGO, StarCraft 1, Unreal Tournament, etc) with commensurately greater success.
You bejewel a plane with the president’s name, then suddenly there’s a new president! Your fixed-price contract just got a lot more expensive.
Yes, you're talking about despair. We get constantly feed a steady stream of doom and gloom from old media and have been for decades. I assume social media is just more of the same. I try to catch myself and try to be optimistic, but if I consume a lot of it, it's overwhelming.

I definitely have been limiting my intake of news over the past several years. Election cycles are the worst for doom and gloom, but they all sell it, all the time.
https://archive.ph/eq61K
I see no mention here of the most straightforward way to generate a pdf - pdfmarks.

Create blank pdf with Adobe as your base, then add what you want to it using pdfmarks and distilling.

I spent a very, very long time diving into the rabbit hole that is pdf to come to this conclusion.

There are lots of libraries out there, but none I came across that met my needs would do named destinations, for one example. I think there might be some very expensive ones that might, but pdfmarks will get you sorted.

Here is the manual, if you search around there are few other references.

https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/acrobatsdk/...
I think what's being missed here is the function of a minimum wage is preventing workers from selling their labor below cost, just as we might attempt to prevent companies from selling products below cost under certain circumstances.
Not surprising to me at all. I just have to look around me and it's super obvious that social media has ruined people's lives, especially teens who don't yet have the mental maturity to understand how their brains are being hijacked. As an adult you at least have the mental facilities to logically understand what's happening, and you are less exposed to peer pressure and not in need of acceptance from your tribe(s). But for teens there is literally not way out.

I'd happily take all the NFT scams if in turn we could shut down TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc. They are the worst thing that has happened to humanity in the last decade.
I don’t think limiting information is the solution at least among older teens/young adults.

I think people have a right to know the world’s ugly, harsh facts and crazy opinions. Not knowing something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

I think the solution is to remind them of all the good facts and reasonable opinions. Warn about particularly bad stuff like gore (and do block this content from children until they reach young adulthood). And most importantly, teach them how to better manage their thoughts and emotions (techniques from therapy), so they can learn about bad stuff without being hurt or biased from it.

Then again, this take is from my own ignorance and personality. Maybe I haven’t been exposed to the real ugly stuff, or maybe I’m better at not reacting to stuff emotionally than others. But the main issue with restricting harsh information is, not knowing something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
"almost" was written intentionally.
Good for you dude, keep sharing - Hacker News content feels like it is predominantly from top-tier CS-degree'd wunderkinds, and for anyone just getting into the industry it feels like an awfully high bar to reach.

Your stories show a less traditional but just as valid approach, and I think it's an important thing to show people that you can get into tech and still make a decent living even if you're not one of the stereotypical HN FAANG crowd. The whole world isn't Silicon Valley, in spite of what you often see here.