skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sounds great, but I don’t have time for this

> Bullshit. Seriously, you probably have time to watch some junk content on YouTube or whatever

I get it, we could all produce more and do more to some effort, but really, why? Is the purpose of mankind to completely dominate the universe and know everything? I'm sure the author means well, but this rubs me the wrong way. Plenty of people who just live ordinary, only very modestly "productive" lives are plenty happy and neither you nor I are better than them if we do more shit like customize our text editors. When someone says they don't have the time they mean they prioritize other things more highly than that thing and it feels wrong to tell them their priorities are wrong by accusing them of lying about their available time.

I'm sure this comes off as overly sensitive and really I'm not that bothered by it, but I do think we as technical people can do better than I perceive us doing. Non-tech people seem to believe we're a very judgemental group and I can't say that I blame them.
Oh. You just described like 95% on my HN activity
If I understand correctly, numpy was (still is?) a wrapper around Fortran libraries such as linpack.
Thought that something like this would be good as a pre-boot environment. A lot smaller than EFI and perhaps more functional. Though debatable how good an idea that is. Guessing most folks don't want to program asm however.
Is there a way to play this on mobile? Tapping makes the pieces drop, but I can't work out a way to control the pieces.
Thank you, @uneekname. This is a great idea. I'll check out those packages. Thanks for taking the time to share your input.
There’s actually a setting somewhere which is why the OP got a picture of a puppy.

I can’t at all remember where that flag is, and tbh some products are shown anyway, but it’s there.
Success how?

If you're talking about providing housing in a country that had little quality housing 70 years ago, then yes, it's successful.

If it's providing affordable housing for young people, then I'd challenge that. You can't even apply for public housing unless you are married (otherwise wait until after you are 35). The government overbuilt before, so now it's a 4-5 year wait after you win a lottery to get a house. People are still pumping real estate like crazy and the average home in the resale market is >$1M now (which is a 3 bedroom, 100 sq m apartment with a 99 year lease).

Singapore is stuck in the exact same situation as every other developed country - housing is an asset that the middle class expects a healthy return on, yet increasing costs are a barrier to new owners.
They're working on their optics, amigo
You can deploy, you just can't trigger the builds automatically by pushing to Github. (This also means the Review Apps system is non-functional.)
Most also only ever go through a small number of real estate transactions in a lifetime. If it’s your first or second purchase or sale, the agent is worth it. On your third or fourth maybe not — but how many buy more than two or three properties in a lifetime?
PP refers to it as "Our true national bird" because the ever-practical Ben Franklin championed it (unsuccessfully).
1. If the tool is a good fit, why bother with annoying evangelists?

2. I agree, Rust has by far the most (falsely and misleading) advertising about the usage, politics and evangelism going on of all languages around. It annoys me as well. Especially the passive aggressive bullying of Go.

3. Large parts of the Rust community are not acting that way but are friendly and give balanced advice.

4. Focus on the good parts: The language is a good fit for many applications and large parts of the community are great - /r/rust is a good place for example.
What is this feature called in general? I'm looking to do this on Manjaro XFCE.
> Whoever in that company made the decision to invest in docs was right on the money.

Also the reason Django has always been so approachable (particularly in the early days, as it is orders of magnitude more complex now) and therefore popular

Older still, IMHO also why mIRC scripting was so much fun despite its shortcomings. The help file had literally everything you could want to learn about the language and it almost begged to be read. It's how I got into coding
@AnimalMuppet, one of the classes I enjoyed most was technical writing, which we'll be continuing in the second semester. I agree that expressing ideas clearly and unambiguously is important -- I'll continue working on this. Thank you for sharing your input!
WHO: Covid-19's full death toll is nearly three times higher than reported
If you're not paying attention, you can easily end up dozing off. You're either more or less paying attention--and yes drivers' attentions can drift a bit--or you're going to take some time to reacquire some awareness of what exactly is going on.
Why so many suicides? Let’s investigate.

Is it the constant noise? The lack of climate control? The lack of adequate food? The unavailability of mental health support? The feeling of helplessness to fix one’s untenable situation?

Couldn’t possibly be! More investigation required!

Ok, call me crazy but how about this: Put some mobile barracks on the docks away from the construction noise so sailors can sleep. Call in a half dozen food trucks so sailors can get fed. It’s not like the thing is out to sea. It’s literally parked at the dock.
The opposite of depression isn't happiness— it's vitality.
Pretty sure that's actually a new generation Pokemon
Thank you, @formerkrogemp. You're absolutely right -- GIT was touched upon, but only briefly. I've heard several people mention how important this is, so I'll focus on this. Really appreciate you sharing!
There are a couple things to take note of.

First is the setup. For an ideal studio monitor setup they need to be placed relatively far from the walls, with the tweeters level with the tip of your ears, placed to form an equilateral triangle with your head, and have their levels set so when you listen to a mono test signal (like a sine wave) the "phantom center" is obvious and directly in front of you as a listener. That's why they have a knob on the back. Then you need to take care as if there's a large surface in front (like a desk) there will be reflections off the surface that create phase interference, and if there is a wall directly behind you, there should be a diffuser or other wall treatment to redirect reflections away from you and/or absorb instead of reflect.

That kind of care is not expensive but makes a huge difference in the listening environment. You don't need to take as much care as a consumer loudspeaker for casual listening because it is designed to have more diffuse radiation pattern which has a less well defined sound stage, but much wider sweet spot so it's less influenced by poor placement.

If you do this, it'll sound great. But it won't sound like Stephen Fry is sitting across from you talking at you when you listen to the Harry Potter audiobooks. It will sound like he's speaking closely into a microphone in a vocal booth, which he probably did. And that's what studio monitors are used for, they are there to make it sound like the environment the recording was made in.

If you want to mask that to sound like a human in your room, that's an interesting design problem. What I would do is ditch the stereo setup and use one speaker, on a stand, far enough away from me that I was in the "far field" (about a meter, maybe more) and away from any walls. That will let the room sound dominate. I'd also enable a high cut (usually found on the monitor with a switch) to compensate for what's called the "proximity effect" (speaking closely into a mic increases the bass of a human voice, it's great for psychoacoustics in bad listening environments but alien compared to real people). The most important thing is to turn the volume down, because the timbre of the voice changes with loudness naturally, and the speaker probably didn't do that.

That's what I'd do, on a budget. It has drawbacks, like having a speaker hanging out in the middle of a room and cable running to it. If money was no object, there are better things to do. The first is gratuitously treat the walls with diffusers to deaden the space, and hire contractors to install line arrays in the walls. Then run the signal through a DSP brick that implemented a convolutional reverb with an impulse response of a studio's live room and meticulously EQ the signal for the mic effects for each book. That would cost $10-50k depending on how crazy you want to get and it will sound incredible. There are a handful of AV consultancies in the US that will do it, I've heard their work and it is as close to "holy shit that guy is in the room with me" as you can get.
Distantly related the USA's Jackalope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope
Agreed. It's absolutely awful. Even a slight scroll up makes it show up again which is horribly inconvenient when you're trying to go back and forth between the graphics and the text describing them.
> Font Bureau’s house standards for quality show up in a few subtle updates to Roboto’s neo-grotesque sans design, including switching the default numeral style from tabular lining to proportional...

Uhh why? Thanks, but no thanks
>I love binaural audio, I wish it was more common!< <: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31291379

search:>live-concert+binaural-recording< @Invidious : <https://invidious.snopyta.org/search?q=live-concert+binaural...>
I agree. With some customers/prospects who I know won't take wireframes as commitments or think poorly of something have baked, I share such ideas. I'm hesitant to do so to a wide general audience.
W3C Reporting API
Spectrum, brightness, etc. all help, but mostly the fact that they don't move relative to other stars very fast on a human timeframe. Even the closest star only shows motion over a decade or so. https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2013/22/3192-Im...
Those are all the same thing
Not obvious at all. Companies the size of Mercedes usually self insure for routine risks.
> haven't achieved anything in life, but i want to, i want to own things

Funny this is actually when you’ve “achieved” financial* success you kind of don’t want to own things.
I think you just need to be ruthless about what you work on. Probably 90% of jobs inside a big tech company are boring. Outside big tech it’s even worse. Refuse to work on old systems, any technical debt, on teams with bad developers, on any complicated proprietary infrastructure, avoid customer facing systems, critical services, etc. find out where the product is actively evolving, where you are building the first pieces.
Not really any current processors in the tested hardware list on the site. Would we expect it to work on current Intel/AMD architectures?
Cloudflare, Riot, Valve (among others) continue to do business in Russia
The obvious compromise is ASCII for code and utf8 for data. Although personally I like the idea of applying the function man in a business suit levitating. At least recreationally.
Oh, we've plenty of evidence of that going on.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/study-theres-no-blac...

> "Our best interpretation so far is that we caught this binary system in a moment shortly after one of the stars had sucked the atmosphere off its companion star, said co-author Julia Bodensteiner, an ESO fellow in Germany. "This is a common phenomenon in close binary systems, sometimes referred to as 'stellar vampirism' in the press. While the donor star was stripped of some of its material, the recipient star began to spin more rapidly."
I honestly wish no one used development debuggers. If your data structures and programs are so complex you need to have deep inspection the root of that problem is your complexity, not your tooling. Every pleasurable project I've been on has been a project where print statements were the best debugging tool, because the simplicity meant I could more quickly debug something with a quick print than a slow deep dive into some debugger tooling.

Granted, I get it, you didn't design the thing but you still need to debug it so no judgement, just more of an observation that if you limit yourself to simple tooling you might be surprised at how the pain points will force you to spend more time thinking about how to design your own code to be more simple and that's bound to have a far greater impact than any debugging tool could provide you.
The full draft spec for the Reporting API is available here: https://w3c.github.io/reporting/#intro

I think this would be a great way to get more insights into browser errors encountered when browsing a site.
Ability to hire has been the major constraint, but the fact that capital is getting more expensive is dampening the overall suction. I’d agree that devs aren’t going to lack for opportunity yet, but I believe the net demand is declining a bit.
Apple Workers Fleeing the Factory
Movement restriction measures imposed at the factory favour production over human rights of the workers.
The Making Of The Batman
When I got an email from Salesforce talking about Heroku I assumed phishing. Huge +1 on that 2nd point :)
Agreed, for the specific issue. But it seems like he’s asking ppl to contact him more generally.

It does pose the question, what is the most developer friendly contact method??

GET /contacts

POST /message

Interested to hear ideas.
Of course not. They used force to make unjust laws that allowed them to do it. The laws of royalty are fundamentally illegitimate.
Florida pension fund sues Elon Musk over Twitter deal
I think to some extent, the actual movement of bodies around for some X hours matters less than the feeling of tiredness afterwards and the level of anxiety and stress you take home.

In that regards, I think that tech jobs are much worse than traditional labor jobs.

At least this is true of myself with my prior labor jobs have been military, construction, and clerk at retail pharmacy. None of those ever left me as exhausted, tired, still anxious/stressed and in this weird state of wanting to just crash on the couch and close my eyes when the day's over. Now maybe it's age, but I feel it is more about the type of work itself and the surrounding expectations.

Everyone I similarly know who've transitioned to work in tech feel the same. I know people who were waiters, musicians, bar tenders, other construction workers, all hate their tech jobs moreso, though also wouldn't go back given the drastic pay cut and the worse leeway in choosing vacation and time-off/sick time.

And that's true even for "slacker" tech worker. Like I too slack off in comparison, if I'm on a construction job, I might work a 10 hour straight, moving constantly, while I really put out 4h to 6h of actually working in tech, but I'm still more tired at the end of the day.

Would be interesting to study the phenomenon.

P.S.: I'm really not comparing it to all jobs, I have no idea what farm work, or manufacturer work is like, mining, oil rigging, paving, etc. Those might leave you more tired and pay less, be strenuous on your health, etc. Just speaking of the ones I specifically mentioned.
This is a wall of text to convey one point: Don't be an a*hole in design while respecting your user's privacy.
> 2. Customers sign up at "heroku.com", the platform is called "Heroku", the CLI is "heroku", everything's heroku, so don't send emails from a parent company (Salesforce), send them from "Heroku".

They're working on something called "Project Periwinkle" that is intended to remove all Heroku branding and make everything Salesforce branded. Periwinkle being a colour between blue (salesforce) and purple (heroku). No more Heroku signups, you'll need a Salesforce account to use it. No more free tier either.

Heroku has been in the process of being sunset for years now. New features have been banned for years. Only "keep the lights on" projects are allowed. Not that they could do anything with the skeleton crew they have running the platform.

Bob Wise's LinkedIn doesn't even mention Heroku, only Salesforce. Lenora mentions the project here: https://www.lenoraporter.com/portfolio/salesforce

Source: I'm a former employee that left in protest because of this project.
California says it needs more power to keep the lights on
Just don't have cookies that are useless to the user?
Former Heroku employee here: everything you list happened within the first year of acquisition.

You’re correct that the lack of real integration with SFDC was a large part of the problem though. Though as far as SFDC acquisitions go Heroku was cheap. More expensive ones had far worse outcomes even with integration.
I also write `init` functions:

https://github.com/uxtely/css-editor-connector/blob/main/con...

And more often after learning about Capsicum (FreeBSD) and Pledge (OpenBSD), so it's easier to future proof them for capability frameworks.
Inulin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inulin
* A-Levels Imperial College London sequence on edX

* Sedgewick & Wayne CS & DS/Algos books & accompanying Coursera courses (alternatively, IIT Bombay's C++ sequence)

* LAFF Linear Algebra sequence on edX

* Open-ended puzzle/system design games (SpaceChem, EXAPUNKS, Magnum Opus, TIS-100, Factorio, Shapez.io, Mindustry)
This sounds like pop physics. Even with my undergrad background I know that spacetime isn't discrete in QM.
My phone number is definitely not my "most prized privacy info." If it was I'd be in trouble because there are all sorts of transactions, both digital and analog that require giving a phone number. At least in the US, if you refuse to give anyone your phone number, you'll have a hard time living a normal life.

And you compare to Signal, which also requires your phone number, and uses it as the primary identifier.
I'm in my 40s. I've been online since dialup BBS's in the 80s. I never had this kind of addiction to screens before the pandemic took away all my other outlets for novelty and interpersonal communication. I loved to travel, to go out every night, meet people in person.

It's terrible. It's a terrible world we've created. I'm really scared for the generation of kids who are growing up with no memory of what human interaction was like before this. I think it's lowered my IQ significantly. And I think it's worse for people with curious minds, people who are formatted to absorb information. When I was a kid, I read the encyclopedia for fun. I was on the debate team. I ran forums. 90% of my interactions were offline. There was a gradient between real life and online life that made online life a tool, not a habit. The current modality of endless scrolling harnesses both the debating impulse and the information-gathering impulse in the most harmful, least useful, most meaningless way possible.

I'm an alcoholic, and I smoke cigarettes. I am sure the modern internet is worse than both those things for my health and mental well-being. Having struggled with other addictions, I'm really only just starting to recognize it for what it is.

I think I need to find some kind of AA for internet junkies. Sitting around with a bunch of sad sacks and drinking bad coffee can't be worse than whatever I was doing at 4am last night.
You def sound burned out. I would recommend taking an extended amount of time off (3 weeks at least) and do NOTHING work related. Let yourself naturally come back to the things that really interest you most and figure out how to build your career around that. It may not be easy in the short term (money, etc) but the long term pay off will be worth it.
I actually found a few use cases recently.

Solving for the funding plan of a bank to balance the balance sheets and meet all the regulatory constraints (it actually uses a linearisation of a piecewise linear convex problem that I had learned in college decades ago, but completely forgot about, I asked for guidance from one of my professors who asked for permission to use the case as an exercise for his students).

Assigning cash flows to changes in balances when the two feeds are inconsistent and the timing is off (you need to do some complex combinations to match them).

But same as OP, you get a sense of self-satisfaction but that won’t get you any credit internally.
Yerba Prima Psyllium can not be beat. It takes a couple weeks to get used to it, and I don’t mean only your gut: it does not dissolve in water, so when you mix the powder in water, you end up drinking what has the consistency of sludge. There is no flavor.

Whatever psyllium you choose, be careful of lead content. https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/psyllium-supplements/psy... has reviews and analysis of 8 products, including lead content.

I’ve been using this stuff almost daily for many years.
I guess it depends on what "developer friendly" means. If it means 'easiest method for a developer to contact me' that's email. It's ubiquitous. Everyone has at least one. It's easy.

If it means 'easiest method for only developers to contact me' that would probably be some documented REST API.

Either way, I agree the answer isn't Linkedin.
That paper is bizarre.

> In this article an attempt is made to create a list of the possible sources of the signal assuming that, if it was produced by an extraterrestrial civilization, their exoplanet could be similar to Earth.

Citation needed. Quite simply there is no reason given, or obvious, that the exoplanet should be similar to Earth. (Though many Star Trek alien worlds look a lot like California.)
Agreed those restrictions should be... restricted. But, even luxury housing gets old. The primary driver remains a shortage in supply, everything else is approaching long tail.
The main application of Type Ia supernovae is as a standard candle. Generally speaking they all have the same luminosity, so if you see one you can infer how far away it was based on its apparent brightness. Distance measurements using Type Ia supernovae was how dark energy was discovered. So a better understanding of the mechanism of Type Ias can help to better understand the variance in their luminosity, which in turn would provide better measurements of the accelerating expansion of the universe.
And he's still alive at 89.
The article kind of says this, but I suspect the process of editing films and composing shots has gotten easier over the years as the industry has refined tooling and techniques. Not just CGI, but the ability to arrange and view scenes is probably much more fluid today than it used to be. This also seems like something where incremental editing improvements lead to incremental changes in shot duration.
very true! its more like it bullies everyone into having capital within the US
I agree with you about LinkedIn. I also would have agreed with you about how silly that is, until I started working with giant banks and other huge finance industry people. Many of the devs there legit do use LinkedIn. A number of people actually blog and post updates and stuff on LinkedIn. It was really surprising. Startup culture and big corporate tech, despite using many of the same technologies, are miles apart culturally.
Deploy using heroku CLI: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git#deploy-your-code

Unfortunately, git lfs isn't supported for CLI pushes, haven't found a way that works yet.
I find it interesting that most of the top replies here skew philosophical - death of religion, boredom due to being at the top of the food chain, and so on.

In my opinion my relationship to wasting time on the internet more resembles what I know about chemical addiction.

I want to quit it, but I can't, and it's because when I turn away from it I crave the feel-good juice I get from mindlessly scrolling through twitter.

I have concluded that I am not mentally strong enough to quit - and I consider myself to be reasonably happy and fulfilled in life other than the outrageous amount of time I spend online.