skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Many people stick with their jobs a long time, switch roles via networking, and barely put in any work off hours. That’s well and good and I try to do it as much as possible, but the fact remains you will not progress as quickly as your peers who are Not Doing That, and you run the risk of having your skills stagnate and becoming unemployable-ish.

This is the painful reality that anyone self-taught who wants to break into this industry will have to face. I spent my entire 20s grinding endlessly. Constantly learning, constantly coding, working 18 hour days nonstop. I studied CS theory, engineering principles, frameworks, OS internals, etc., etc., etc. to the absolute exclusion of anything else in life. Now at 32, I see my peers all married with families and personal lives. A life that I do not, and probably will not, ever have at this point because of the sacrifices I made back then. But I am also lightyears ahead of them technically. At my current job I've been promoted 3 levels past the midlevels I started with 4 years ago.

Life is full of decisions, and unfortunately attaining excellence requires commitment, dedication, and focus. You can do alright otherwise, but if you really want this and have the aptitude to reach the top, it will consume you.
Some of it could be done through tech. Especially if blocks were decently sized, like 5cm by 5cm.

Redstone wouldn't quite work, you'd need wires or pre-stoned blocks, but you could use wireless, or adapt the concept slightly with other things like pneumatics.

You could have all the blocks have removable decorative tops, and an inner part with some kind of Lego style grid that can support gears, and have a train of them where you want the redstone power.

If you could find enough interesting ways to make blocks customizable you have crafting, especially if it's an open standard you can 3D print.

Water would be possible if you just accept a lot of leakage(Make your thing an island and have a pump that recycles faster then it leaks), or your make your pieces fit well.

If it got big you could have clubs and contests like we have shared servers.

At some point you'd really just need electronic blocks to properly do a lot of this stuff though, and it would probably be hard to pull off.
Music major and vocalist here. Seems like the problem is framed as “mapping dots to pitches,” which is a pretty good reduction of what notation does but glosses over some things I value in standard notation.

C4 and C5 are not the same. Singing them well requires different techniques, as would playing them well on some instruments. So it doesn’t really bother me that they’re “different” in relation to staff lines (8va and 8vb notwithstanding).

More importantly, knowing which scale degree you’re on (in relation to the key) is valuable for interpretation; it has implications for where the harmony is going. Likewise knowing how you function within a chord. If you’re on the third in a diatonic triad, much less volume is required for good balance with the other parts on the root and fifth. Even more so for sevenths, seconds, sixths.

You could argue that just listening carefully might allow you to achieve a similar balance by adjusting on the fly, but one advantage of being a skilled music reader is that you can make interpretation decisions before you execute them, even if you’ve never performed the music before.

Edit: clarified difference between scale degree and function within chord.
I think the other tradeoff over the long run is long-run lifetime costs of replacing "solar panels, and the wiring, fuses, breaker box, charge controller" under the assumption that these aspects do have lifetime costs and are at best rebuildable and at worst produce waste (e.g. think about how Vaclav Smil calls wind turbines 'the perfect embodiment of fossil fuels' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkj_91IJVBk&feature=youtu.be... ).

It's important to ask these questions of what the tradeoffs really are when thinking about Energy Returned on Energy Invested, whether e-fuels would actually decrease new car production (i.e. older cars get used longer if e-fuels really make sense), the political economy ramifications if these things really worked, etc.

In prior waves of interest of things like algae-based fuels (see https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lessons-from-th... ), my rough understanding is that they could be done but the numbers just didn't work out.

Finally, it's really worth pointing out the concern of any of these things falling under solutionism when also thinking about the state of our planet from a more integrated framework such as the planetary boundaries: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-bound...
How is that different than just regular VPN?
How to fix social media: ignore the losers who are on it all day and aren’t there to promote their thing. Charge the people who are there to promote their thing.
A very large portion of what Europeans pay for gas is tax.
What's striking and sad is how much of their business is now people living in an Airbnb staying longer than a month. Signals something wrong with housing and the economy.
What were the qualities need for an executive then?
Thank you! Some interesting things scheduled around NFT and metaverse.
Authoritarianism is on the March!

America will have fully adopted the China model in a few years.

I miss the old American internet and the freedom mindset of it's netizens.

The new Internet is becoming a lost cause. Time for a new network.
Interesting little article. To me, it speaks like the author is a bit remorseful for spending so much time on academic pursuits, and not building important social skills.

I can recall in my youth making the assumption that someone was entirely stupid because they didn't share my breadth of knowledge. Like the author, I never considered that they spent their time in pursuit of other knowledge.

I'm not sure where that inclination originated. It seems like a modeled behavior, but I can't think from where I learned it. Or perhaps it's just human nature, and the behavior we need to taught is to appreciate how vastly different everyone is from yourself.

P.S.
It's funny to see the replies to this post where the people thought the topic was "Ask HN: What video game are you playing right now?"
watch at 9:20 mark. He starts with “We have this idea diversity is good, and diversity has many good effects, “BUT .. “
I don't see how you make a leap from "he took too much Tylenol" to "don't take Tylenol".

Anything will kill you in a large enough dose. Drinking water will.
Unicode should not be in public APIs. This is a standard around Julia. Flux is breaking the standard. Yes, it's not a good thing.
Awesome. It does have lot of benefits especially reversing the metabolic disease.
> Depressing to see so much vitriol in here for an idea to improve living standards for people who earn less

I’m all for people improving their living standards - but some here think people can’t do it on their own.

If my kid only gets D’s in tests do I teach him or do I just give her B’s

> We are mostly all commenting from the privilege of skilled labour and all the freedoms and benefits that come with that.

Yes, and that benefit comes from the increased skills of labor

Why not help other to catch better fish for themselves ?
I’m reminded of http://home.xnet.com/~warinner/pizzacites.html where a spike in pizza delivery at the Pentagon would foretell major events.
Steel is superior to wood in almost every way. Currently they are almost the same price as LVL beams with out the 4+ back order wait.
Is it social media? Or is it also the knowledge that they effectively have no future. Rent is going up and mortgage rates are going up faster. A shrinking portion of young adults can now afford housing. The economy is becoming so disfunctional there's almost no reason to bother participating. When children end up in that position their family will turn on them and they have nothing materially or socially.
You can make meals in Airbnb, but cannot when you rent the same property on vrbo or booking?
Personally I think it looks like going back to when your online and offline identities were totally separate. Inhabiting the internet under your real name is living in two different worlds with two different rulesets and pretending the same identity is well-suited to both.

100% of your online identity was under your control in my day. You were exactly who you chose to be. Not anymore. Now if you're ugly, fat, gay, a minority in real life you're the same online. The internet is not an escape anymore. That's why it's making more kids kill themselves now than it was twenty years ago.
Interesting, whatever works !
Wonderful! Showed this to my wife who, bless her, hates stuff like this and she’s captivated.
Those aren't "extra dollar bills in your wallet" any more than a tax refund is. You still paid, you just paid less. In the case where you didn't go back, you'd have had even more "extra dollar bills in your wallet."

An (absolute, not relative) reward for good behavior — i.e. a positive-ROI outcome for doing the right thing, vs. not doing the right thing — would be, for example, if you came back and told them you didn't pay, and so they gave you the drill bit for free and also gave you a nickel. Any less and it'd just be "no reward, no punishment."
To be honest, it doesn’t matter how much it costs if you can get to a point where you can deliver the American contract without going bankrupt. At that point, airlines should offer carbon neutral first class by default and optional carbon neutral economy, regardless of cost. Unlike BEV/carbon neutral ICE cars, the longer it takes to go to market, the more of a moral imperative it becomes for airlines to offer a carbon-neutral product.
At this point I’m ready to wait until it’s too late for anything else and just re-dedicate myself to something interesting.
Unfortunately we have to overcome both instinct, motivation, and willpower.
The link discusses it being international, not just American.

I'm also curious how "coddling" would describe social media.
Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2022
> Most of the web is just CRUD apps

I disagree, pages for web apps don’t just CRUD one entity, they mix and match many entities in complicated ways. Also, I was referencing rails auto generated crud pages where there’s a single form and a single entity table.

If that’s all that’s required then kudos but rarely has that been true for the companies I work for. I wish it were true.
> From an organizational level, we're 98% regarded as human resources for management's usage.

100% of employees are regarded as human resources for management's usage, so "nerds" aren't unique in that regard. The idea that money goes in and business value comes out applies to business nerds, facilities management nerds, HR nerds, accounting nerds, etc. Everyone is beholden to a business operating system responsible for creating value.

This can seem like a bit of a downer when viewed through the "what's it all mean?" lens, but hey, that's capitalism.
This is a little tangential but it’s kind of funny that both you and the person you’re disagreeing with, and the camps you represent, agree that SCOTUS judges are political. In fact, almost everyone seems to agree with that (myself included) except notably for the judges themselves, who consistently insist their jobs are apolitical. Roberts in particular has embarked on the fool’s errand of convincing the public of that.

It kind of reminds me of this nonsense that universities offering liberal arts degrees still pay lip service to: that everyone is there for education for its own sake, oh no, it’s not a giant machine that gates public employment, it’s there for knowledge!

Uh huh.
California program will let you borrow down payment at 0% interest
Congress also has the power to impeach a justice
It's a form of the birthday paradox. In a large enough room, there will be at least one person with a horror story about any airline.

All commercial airlines are pretty much awful. I've flown first class on one or two occasions and--while it's relatively more comfortable than flying in the main cabin--on an absolute scale it's still an uncomfortable, terrible experience. Flying sucks and airline management is the reason why.
> What the process _does_ reward is whitepapers, tech talks, daily updates, and delegation. It sometimes felt like the goal was to make every little change as noisy as possible: if you just fix something yourself, you get no points. If you plan it out, generate whitepapers, announce it, convince other people to work on it, send daily updates to every possible stakeholder and then a triumphant announcement, and then do a round of tech talks on every piece of it, you're a shoo-in for promo--whether on not the 'it' was actually important or valuable to the company.

This is absolutely my experience at Google. If you want to move up quickly you have to write docs to convince people to work on your ideas.

> Forcing _everybody_ to follow the one path to progress means a lot of noise. A lot of tech talks from people who have no real interest or talent for giving them, on topics that nobody is particularly interested in, just for the sake of a line on their promo packet.

This doesn't really align with my experience. Most people I interact with at Google do not try to do this. They are happy being ICs at L4 or L5 doing their own thing. There is plenty of room to be an L5 or even L6 IC without constantly self promoting, it will just take you much longer to get there and you will never move past L6.
> it seems like a soul sucking marathon run by relentless ladder climbers fueled on concentrated avarice and amphetamines.

That’s very inaccurate. Some of us use Ritalin instead.
The only time an Android "upgrade" has given me a better experience was when I updated a tablet from Android 3 to Android 4. Every other time it's been worse performance and broken workflows.
Depends whether he actually delivered the thing in 2018.
I doubt you're all that familiar with his work if you think his main point is anti-diversity. Read The Righteous Mind. It's a really good book.
The author's argument for high dpi is unconvincing. I mean, if you magnify something by 24x of course it's going to look blurry. That doesn't mean that you actually need/want that high pixel density. You can use the same argument technique to argue for 8k/16k displays. It's also strange how the author mentions that cleartype is a thing, but for the conclusion comparison he ignores it entirely. If anything, by taking cleartype rendered text and magnifying it (thereby making subpixel rendering pointless), he's making low-DPI look artificially worse.

He also makes the baffling suggestion to use 2x scaling for 4k. That means that your 4K monitor has the same amount of screen real estate as a 1080p monitor, a reduction in surface area of 43% compared to a sane low-dpi monitor @ 1440p. While I agree that it would likely result in better looking scaling, I can't imagine how slightly better looking text/scaling can make up for the loss in surface area.

Personally I've regularly used 4k 27" and 1440p 27" monitors, and while the 4K monitor is clearer, it's not something that I'd fork over a few hundred dollars for.
You are making a flimsy argument. If you want kids to be able to save up why not make it $100 an hour? That would make it more likely they could afford college and a good retirement.

The point of a teenager having a job is not to support his family, but to have some extra spending money and to gain experience. I don't think a person should make a career out of minimum wage jobs. They have them to gain experience or to fall back on in hard times.
I think WSL is the official workaround

There is also https://github.com/cloudhan/jax-windows-builder
P.P.S. Minecraft with my daughter. It's the first survival play-through for both of us.
My condolences, that sounds horrific.
Everything Gitlab CEO Sid Sijbrandij Does in a Day
Pick any company on the Fortune 500 and you’ll see the same behavior to climb the “ladder”. A small corporation could be less than 1000 or so people and might not have that culture as much.
Even if you "get permission" that's only for copyright. They still claim ownership of other IP (patents, trademarks, trade secrets), ... on _everything_ in your private life. I doubt it gets enforced often, but the employment contracts are draconian.
Can't say I am, I haven't bought a game console since the original Wii, but that hasn't stopped me from playing the latest Zelda and Metroid and such. I think Stallman hit the nail on the head when he said that "all software wants to be free", and I have yet to see any evidence that it isn't true. Phones I try to keep for as long as I can until they're unsupported via software, but traditionally yeah I do get a little miffed that hardware vendors don't encourage people to run aftermarket software on out-of-support devices. Cars are mechanical devices that ultimately decay into unusability after a certain point, but there's not really much difference in core functionality between them as long as you can obey traffic laws while driving them.

I don't really see what you're getting at. Maybe I'm not consooming hard enough for this site? If I subscribe to Disney+ and AppleTV will I finally be cool too?
Swarming drones autonomously navigate a dense forest
Not the OP, but lots of places have HR-mandated uniformity of interview questions to try to avoid some sorts of bias.
The worst case when you fail to get promoted is still making salary at the current levels.

The worst case when you fail at a start up is years of lost time, money and health. And starting way behind others, should you(now that you are out of money, wouldn't you?) start a a job again.

The term mediocre is loosely used there, pretty much every one who starts a company fails, and thereby ends up being mediocre compared to a person working a job.

Salaried jobs have a better path to financial success than a start up, for nearly all the people.
Testing for misrepresented goals. Right in line with some companies.
32 is too late to get married and start a family? C'mon, you're still so young and have plenty of time to do all that stuff and more.
That wouldn't require a browser bar redirect though. You just include fonts in your CSS or HTML, the user never sees it.
Hey now, taco bell is the sh*t! But seriously, thanks for the insight. Do u think this is solvable? It would be so helpful for online discourse.
This is 1.24.2 while the phone was connected to my charger over night

https://i.imgur.com/hQU6Orz.jpg

Tailscale app not force quit but also not connected
Google only has a couple 100k employees at most. Other organizations dwarf that.
I recall reading that this is true, but the narrow eating window is believed to contribute to ease of adherence. (No citations on hand, sorry.) My dieting successes have come from both a narrow eating window and lower carb (basically less sweet fruits, and non-root vegetables).

Last time I adhered for 40 or so days I hit the wall hard (approx. -10 kg). Zero energy, and miserable. I wasn't sure if it was electrolytes or if I finally found the keto flu (seems a bit late though, and didn't pass in 3 days). So I abandoned ship and have since had no trouble putting 5 kg of fat back on my body. Time to restart!
"The feature still exists, behind a dark pattern of undiscoverability" really isn't as good of an excuse as you seem to think it is.
Yes, rent is expensive, but it’s more than possible to make your way in today’s world provided you don’t fall behind due to drugs or avoidable diseases.

The people for which success is out of reach do not browse HN.
Fasting definition keeps changing. There is water only and then there is water only and less than 500 Cal.
Your decision wasn't the worst thing assuming you actually enjoy what you do. In contrast, one of the most tragic mistakes anyone can make is working that hard for technical excellence, having the talent, but then realising after many years that they actually dislike or even hate the work.

For the reasons above, I think it's crucial that people take extended breaks every few years to really think about whether they enjoy what they're doing, or if they're just doing it because they have the ability and otherwise kind of fell into a certain path.
Age of Empires 2 had a wonderful revival in 2020 and has a huge European following where the top streamers have some 300k subscribers on YouTube. The plays are on par with BW in its prime. Only difference is the first half of an Age game is slow - it focuses on the macro, and then later the micro
This is similar to allowing full network access for custom keyboards on iOS. You can't allow it via an easy prompt, you must navigate into settings and explicitly enable it

Same for always-on location access. I think this is the right way, users who intend to enable these things should really have to think about it and know what they are doing to allow an app that much access
Are there any studies showing using 4chan, tumblr, or reddit has better mental health outcomes than non-anonymous social networks? I'm skeptical from my own experience.
>Fourth, any new platform that is similar to another is simply going to be a haven for those that are banned on the original platform or who otherwise feel they proselytize whatever whacko positions they hold. This is not the basis for a healthy platform.

wait, you think people get banned for wrongthink on whatsapp? lmao
it really depends on your application, for a site like Rails, Django yes htmx makes sense.

One of the key complaints from the blog is GraphQL (too may requests wasted), in that case, SSR might make sense as well.

Other cases, e.g. a normal RESTful backend, or a JSON-RPC backend, or the API-based services, SPA fits well IMO. Sometimes you don't do full-stack, i.e. you don't control the backend and all you have is the API, sometimes you want to make backend simple(just spit out data), a lot of low-end devices can not even do heavy duty SSR(embedded devices), all these cases a SPA makes sense to me.

For me React and Angular are harder to learn than Vue, and I don't do enterprise complex SPA anyways, my choice is Vue when SPA is the right choice.
I didn’t read it that way at all. It felt like a thoughtful and circumspect article about the way we see others.

Are you sure you’re playing the right game?
Node/JS definitely is a lot worse and in a different category by several orders of magnitude.

My theory is that this is because there is no standard library in Node.

My JS frontend has something like 20,000 packages that need to be installed to build the app. The next highest-dependency lang I use is python, where my average python app will have approx 100 packages all in. And then it only goes down from there with other systems.
> In the world of "decades ago" we are pre-smartphone. How, exactly, are you going to call up the taxi driver for a chat?

People... talked before phones were invented?

Why is it so hard to imagine that the guy from the car service you always use might exchange some small talk when he drops someone off? Sometimes a friendly relationship develops between people who regularly interact
Smoke and a Sandstorm, Seen from Space
500 cal doesn't constitute for water only fasts.
> "Generating Parquet"

It is also useful for moving data from Postgres to BigQuery! ( batch load )

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/loading-data-cloud-st...

Thanks for the "ogr2ogr" trick! :-)

I hope the next blog post will be about GeoParquet and storing complex geometries in parquet format :-)

https://github.com/opengeospatial/geoparquet
EUV and raw materials aren't the bottlenecks, with respect to most devices. There's a correlation effect whereby a shortage of minor components will halt assembly of finished products, so the tail risk scenario likely starts with more mundane chips (legacy nodes, 200mm wafer) rather than flagship processors on leading-edge nodes.
Right, but this is about teenagers, not people who browse HN. Not everyone can be a software developer or startup founder. Someone has to build and maintain all these buildings, roads, and farms.