skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When did hackernews stop enjoying strange niche software? If people think starcitizen is cool, why do you care if they pay developers to make their weird game? No one is going to come slap league of legends out of your hands and force you to play a space sim. I quite enjoy playing SC, and have spent a grand total of $50 on it 5 years ago, and gotten at least a hundred hours of play time out of it. Am I frustrated by the developers? Absolutely. Do I enjoy the product? Also yes.
You think you are entitled to returns just because you took a risk ?
Sorry bud, sad to break it to you but it does not work that way.

That's the idea that I am criticizing. Risk might be necessary, but never sufficient.

BTW I don't think, you think that way, but neither should you. Gratuitous condescension poisons the well.
There is quite some reason to assume, that when the German politics selected the "Gepard" as the first armored system which they would announce to be delivered to the Ukraine, they were playing exactly on this uncertainty. They could claim that they deliver "Tanks" to Ukraine, but chose an anti-air system. Which, ironically, from all German armored weapon system alledgedly is the most difficult to use (complex, 70ies style electronics). The Gepard is a Flugabwehrpanzer, and most people would just understand "Panzer". Of course that isn't even wrong as you consider that it shares the platform with the German MBT of that time, the Leopard 1. And for everything but a MBT it is probably more deadly due to the 1000+ rounds per minute it can shoot out of its 25mm machine guns.
Autoserver: Create a full-featured REST/GraphQL API from a configuration file
As someone who changed job last year, I didn't feel that pressure. My anecdotal experience was pretty much the opposite.

I was looking for remote work, could be related?
A lot of people complaining about a free course from Microsoft? I scanned through it and covers a decent amount of what one wants and needs to know. Plus, it's free. Guess it's impossible to please people nowadays.
I am curious at the number of downvotes to this which I take as disagreement, but with what? Have others had years of mental health crashes and found it a great positive in the end, or what? Genuinely would like to know.

TIA
The other benefit of a GUI is that you don't have to spend time learning things you'll use once a year, and then relearning them every time.

I don't remember any of the syntax for commands I haven't used in the last month or so. GUIs are very fast for one off tasks like "Sort this CSV and only take these 3 columns".

LibreOffice loads faster than I can read 3 different man pages and figure out commands I haven't had a reason to use in months.

Plus, commands tend to be less integrated, and there are some things that GUIs automate very well, that would require writing your own automation in the CLI, and I like workflows with an absolute minimum of ad hoc software.
There are few points I do not see much discussed so far:

- remote work, for jobs eligible to such model, does need a paradigm shift, it's not sustainable trying mimicking the in-office model in a "virtual" world. I see almost no discussion about that, especially in work division, outcome measuring, hw&sw vs hosted platforms etc terms. IMVHO that's a hyper central point to mainstream WFH for all eligible jobs;

- remote work administrative aspects from beyond-borders (different tax systems, rules, TZs, ...) and "global wages" vs "local wages". Again that's HYPER important because before arriving to something established and well-run on scale enough to stabilize a new model we must expect tremendous backfires in revenues terms;

- hybrid mess handling where companies have offices, with gears etc and have to move stuff back&forth AS WORKERS to handle less people, but still some, in the office and some from remote;

- where to live, considering local services since we do not eat from remote do not have "virtual remote connections" etc, and how such areas can evolve in a reasonably short and mean timeframe because if we choose to relocate we choose typically with a certain care. Personally I choose few years before covid to leave a big city for a mountain area, served enough, near enough to the "civility" etc, I'm VERY happy of the choice even if I miss a significant slice of local in-person acculturated environment for discussions, interactions, surely social life is better here, but at a low cultural level, just parties, not much real technical, political, philosophical discussions aside are possible since simply there aren't enough mass of acculturated people nearby to do them. That's another central aspect: how can our demography can evolve if we are not all together at scale like before?

- how a remote-first society can be organized, at least a general idea.

Just see sabre rattling and crushing between two party, one for one against, is spectacle, but of no help.
Lessons learned from the recent job hunt
On Form Versus Meaning
Interesting that you cite BRK, who famously have been sitting on ~150bn in cash recently. Professional investors absolutely sit on cash all the time.
Weekend is an invented concept, not some kind of natural phenomenon.

I prefer to work whenever I feel like to work. But I love my work, so I have no issues with motivation.

I also prefer to have days off on non-weekend days. That allows me to do errands and other activities in off peak hours.

I also like to take random days off without planning. Or take half day off on some random day when the weather is nice.

This flexibility is what makes me the most happy.
It's crazy that Apple would so easily throw away someone "leading the charge on cutting edge technology" just because they want him to show up at the same place every day.
But historically, not every tank was a breakthrough tank. Some tanks were not sufficiently armored for a direct frontal assault, and were made for flanking or reinforcement against specific targets. Some tanks are purely defensive, like the S-tank.
Well...all modern speech recog uses ML
Thanks for the explainer! TIL

I am sort of weirded out that having a computer and random tools that you do geeky things with needs a term, but hey, humans sure do love naming things.
They had a roadmap for the next three or four quarters, which they initially said they would only add items to they are committing to shipping.

That obviously didn't work out and people were getting pissed because the closer the release date for a feature got, the more likely it was for that feature to get moved back or even removed from the roadmap entirely, not to be seen again for several years.

It goes a bit beyond lack of progress, which is still being made. Mostly bad management.
> when it's clearly not you driving

In this case, don't you just tell the police who is driving? "This is my wife/son/carsharing-app-renter"

That is the case in the UK, anyway. You must either confirm you were driving, or say who else was driving.

(Example: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6298333/spee... )
sunk cost fallacy?
And yet, there's still no reasonable PDF editor on Linux.
Recently won an award for being power & resource-efficient by German group Blue Angel. Not from Germany, so not familiar with the award, and how much weight it holds.

Had no idea it was also for Windows, I might have to start recommending it to friends/family instead of Sumatra.
Time to lift your head out of the sand then. Macbook Pro now comes in 32GB RAM flavors, with fn keys instead of the touch bar, and zsh by default
I sure hope I am wrong.
What about various libraries that don't use a virtual DOM and have vastly better performance than React, for example https://www.solidjs.com or Svelte?
I just can’t read this with that uncloseable ad about an electric snowmobile at the top (Firefox, iOS). It’s truly one of the most annoying ads I ever saw.
It also reminds me why financially prudent overseers and other non tech people are needed in a well working company and are not necessarily as bad as some devs claim (within reason).

Star citizen was the attempt to free development from the shackels of "investor money" and the expectation was that this would remove the need to push out some unfinished product.

Having succeeded in raising enormous funding they instead opted to release...mostly nothing.

No investor would have accepted such a behaviour and at this point in time they seem really lost, working on meaningless details such as bedsheets.

Back in the day I expected one of the typical Kickstarter outcomes: "Great game", "Mediocre game with some innovation", "bad game" or "no game" but never in a million years would I have expected reading this article.

Over the years it has become clear why Chris Roberts was removed by Microsoft. He seems to be a fairly poor Project Manager.
The WPP and Epic Games Partnership: What it Means for the Metaverse. But what exactly this partnership means for the metaverse? And how it will achieve its goals?
Coder Named
A thoroughly enjoyable read. At one point I caught myself holding my breath. Thanks for sharing.
Well true, but playing Police Quest somehow also just worked when it has a command line.
Some VCs are telling their companies to not expect to raise another round in 2022.
I'm responding a bit late to your comment because I don't know how the HN comment ranking works and I was a bit afraid this would become the main narrative here, sorry.

The "with a Lisp" part of the title wasn't meant to indicate the source is open. I'd love to open source this when it's a more established platform, but as of right now I feel like it would be too easy for others to copy-paste the codebase and profit off of my work before I get a chance to do so myself.

I added the "with a lisp" part to the title for two reasons:

- I personally always like to see that lisp-like languages are being used in production, and I think many HN readers feel the same way. Not sure why the love for lisps is so high here, but I like it :)

- In the FAQ I mention some (current and future) advantages of using a lisp-like language. Maybe I should have gone in more detail there, as there's a couple more interesting things I'm doing in this app that I haven't seen anywhere else yet. I don't have a blog on the website yet. When I do I'll make sure to dive in some more details in a dedicated blog post about the tech stack.
My personal hot take:

I genuinely believe many people who prefer working at home are very young and have not developed social awareness and/or don't feel the need to separate life and work, because their life is their work and vice versa.

Most people that do not want to return to office are still in that phase of their life where they need to rebel to authority to feel alive and will end up being those "middle managers" that they critique today.

Also: WFH as the only possible option is not different from office as the only option.

I don't like going to the office when it rains, but I enjoy going out of my house when the Sun shines or meet my colleagues to have an informal chat on how to progress with some project, it makes everything smoother and a lot of the underground tensions generated by only communicating through video and voice disappear.

The truth is the majority of the workplaces are not "for coders only" and trying to find a balance with other people's needs, for example those people that have to work in presence, it's sign of and good willing and maturity.

You can decide to quit to WFH, IMO that doesn't mean you're standing up for yourself, it only means you're not willing to change your habits.
I previosuly owned a reMarkable 1. Today I use an iPad Air with Concepts [1]. The iPad just works and the Apple Pencil smoothness and responsiveness is unparalleled.

I was enamored by the idea of a "hackable" linux eInk writing tablet. But I found none of that matters when all you want to do is write/draw.

The eInk offers great readability and battery life, but you still have to charge the tablet. With an iPad it's daily vs weekly with the reMarkable. But I found myself with a dead reMarkable during the most inopportune moments several times. When something only needs to be charged weekly you end up forgetting. Whereas everyday charging becomes habitual. Also I was never really outside or in brightly lit rooms where the eInk made sense.

For me the eInk display was not a benefit. The pen had noticeable lag but was okay. What was really bad was the digitizer dead zones where the pen did not work at all, was overly sensitive (as in I could write with the pen a few mm above the display) or the writing had artifacts (stretching/jagged edges). Touch sensitivity wasnt great. Simple things like zooming and touch gestures was not intuitive. Writings had jaggeded edges and other artifacts. Never smooth like the Apple Pencil. None of the built in brushes where suitable for writing- either to thick, thin or just plain weird.

The OS was not really hackable. Any changes might be blown away by software updates. It runs a closed source Qt app called Xochitl which does everything from the UI, syncing, rendering. I hear the RM 2 is even harder to hook into things like the frame buffer. With RM1 you can use /dev/fb0 but in RM2 everything is done in software with QT. Did you know drawing on eInk display is temperature sensitive? The homebrew software leaves a lot to be desired. Can break or brick your tablet. Addingfeatures to Xochitl is based on patching the binary which can also brick the tablet and gets wiped out on software update.

Syncing to the cloud worked well but I was concerned about privacy. It could not find any definitive answer to confirm my notes where being encrypted end to end. I was grandfathered when they made cloud features paid but I wouldn't pay for what they are offering. The offline sync via local server worked okay.

In conclusion, the $400 asking price for a glorified eReader with a pen was not a good value. Also they started making their cloud a paid service. My guess is to have some recurring revenue coming in. This concerned me as I wasn't sure about the long term viability of the company. If they went under would my data be held hostage on the tablet. What about replacement parts like nibs and batteries.

Also speaking of battery this tablet is worse than an iPad. You basically have to destroy the case to get access to the battery if you want to replace it. And as far as I could tell there are no replacement cases.

[1] https://concepts.app/en/
We need a law that impose AVOIDING mandatory "smartphones" usage for anythings, starting from banks OTPs IMPOSING offline time-based classic OTPs or SSL certificates or SSH-based auth (never seen outside IT but very nice indeed) or classic matricial cards. IMPOSING open APIs.

That's before discovering we can't be cured after an car crash because our smartphone can't properly identify ourselves with emergency care smart systems, or we can't enter our hose due to an e-ID vulnerability of our connected door.
Except American tank destroyers did have rotating turrets and would be called tank by any reasonable person. Also, the S-tank is a dead ringer for German WW2 tank destroyers, and even fights in a very similar way (defensive/ambush) but is considered a tank. And then there's the Russian IS-152, ISU-152, ISU-122 which can be heavily armoured direct fire front-line fighters, but can also raise their guns for indirect artillery support.
Not until such products integrate into IDEs and not require a standalone app, it's a no-go.

Also, documentation highjacks back button on mobile safari and blocks gesture back swipe with a sidebar.
a co-working is simply an office paid by you instead of the one the company paid for you.
My wife doesn’t care about CPU architectures, but she was astonished that her new MacBook Pro didn’t get hot on her lap, and how she could work through the day on one charge. Then she was astonished by the sound quality of the speakers. It’s not a revolution but people care about the end result of those incremental innovations.
Show HN: Chimu, a Collaborative Learning Platform
Hi HN, this is Ved -- the creator of Chimu.

https://chimu.sh

Chimu is a collaborative learning platform. It combines an e-reader with a Stack Overflow-like Q&A forum. As people read books or papers, they can view others' questions and ask their own.

Take a look at a copy of Michael Nielsen's Neural Networks and Deep Learning with a sample annotation here:

https://chimu.sh/d/pdf/wWELr-jIorg4Tz6WZk_vX

(works best on desktop)

Chimu helps the 1001th reader of a book or paper leverage the knowledge of everyone who came before them.

My plan with Chimu is to create world-class educational resources. If ten thousand people read a textbook and only 1% of those ten thousand ask a question on Chimu, that's still 100 questions that a new learner no longer has to Google for when reading the textbook.

Chimu takes the friction out of learning.

The product is still in an early stage, but I'm excited to receive feedback from the HN crowd!
> I thought it was like tap dancing on the keyboard of the human mind, and when the computer lands an evocative line, which we thought this was, it has something to say about ourselves.

To me this is no different conceptually as 'seeing' a face in the grill of a car or the front of a building. A sort of mental version of 'Pareidolia'.
I would go for whatever is native on each platform (on Windows, WPF is still the best way, ignore anything WinRT/UWP related), as what bonus points are concerned, Qt would be my answer.

If staying with Web stack is relevant, then PWAs.
Past 100 years also tell us that there will be world wars, empires will go bust and some nations/people will be uprooted and have to migrate. That's a lot of uncertainty to bear, of course, and history does not predict what happens in the future. It just tells us something will hit us and we probably won't see it coming (paraphrasing Dan Carlin).
Any expectation of going over the paid amount of work time is not laid back.
Svelte is nice, although a lot less ergonomic than React as it is not "native JS" which creates the need for "two domains" of programming - one, the Svelte domain (which is later compiled) and one JS domain which is called as a library. Haven't tried SolidJS yet.

Cannot really say if Svelte is worse than React, as I have much more experience with React itself. My main blocker to adopt it (Svelte) is mostly library support - with React one can use "everything" in all kinds of "hackish" ways and with TypeScript, which wasn't really the case with Svelte last I checked, maybe 2 years ago.
disclaimer: I have worked from home most of my life, so I'm not against it, BUT, people like what they like and they have their reasons for it is a very immature thing to say when talking about work: work means taking full responsibility to respect a contract in return of an economic compensation.

If you signed to work in an office and don't like it, resign.

Nobody will cry over it, just know that you signed for something you did not like.
Your fault.

Also: people working from remote do that at the expenses of others too. When I am at the office to talk with my colleagues, the one person refusing to come over forces all of us (10 or so) to turn on the video conference in some meeting room, while we could have had the same chat in the garden of the bar down the office.
But if you want to separate life from work, you can work in whatever place you'd like. Coworking space, cafe, personal office etc. Then you don't need to live near your company's office, and can choose the best possible place to live and work for you and your family.
Looks like someone has resurrected F*cked Company :-) Brings back interesting memories of the period from 2000 to 2002.
Because, having an above-average grasp of tech, they've looked into it and have concluded that it's just glorified bullshit.

Edit: and a scam.
So, I'm a little unclear here.

Is the problem that immigration drags down economies?

Or that it leads to gentrification?

You know, all those lazy Polish plumbers coming over and stealing all those British jobs....

Sounds like you've found a cause for every problem you see.
I don't think they are "anti", just sceptical. Scepticism is like the brake on your car. Not the most exciting part, but handy to have.
it forces others to "follow their dream" for the sole satisfaction of remote workers.
Amazon is down 30%, and the sorts of tech companies that will be populating this list are already down anywhere from 50% to 90%. However, the biggest pain to come is private market startups. An easy call to make, simply because you can't directly profit from it, which lets the inefficiency persist. For now.
It’s not really a technology. It can only compete with cash, in a way that’s worse by every conceivable notion.

Crypto losers will see people point out how wasteful it is, how few problems it actually solves and how many it creates, and they turn their blind eyes and wonder “Why is EVERYBODY so wrong?”

Grow up. Build something that matters. I volunteer at a soup kitchen and I’ve seen regulars disappear and come to find out, some of them get killed by gang violence. Some are hooked on dangerous drugs and can’t get access to effective programs to help them. Some turn to crime when they can’t come up with enough money from working to get off the streets. Why should ANYBODY care about crypto, when it doesn’t propose any solutions to these problems that are present as a result of the current economic system? Crypto would only make it worse, if it did anything at all!

100% of crypto is a shameless grift, and the afterlife will treat none of them very kindly.
People should really just use a language like FUTHARK For GPU programming
I'm using this plugin for Obsidian and very happy so far https://github.com/st3v3nmw/obsidian-spaced-repetition

Essentially no need convert your notes to Anki cards, your notes litelarly became spaced repetition cards.
From the Tweet:

I hope I never become as intensely default-skeptical of new technologies.

That's an absurd take. It's ten years of hype, get-rich-quick schemes and other scams, hardly new.

It's not "default-skeptical" to be questioning it after all that. The bizarre position is the wide-eyed naive butt-hurt of the tweet.
Even OP admits that language and culture matters, so taking a foreign ambassador to task for not adhering to the American purist's definition, might be somewhat unreasonable.
> I'm interested in hearing what parts of wikipedia (and which wikipedia) you think have been turned into a propaganda channel.

As to "which Wikipedia" the answer is that of the versions I frequent - English, Dutch, German, Swedish and French - the English-language one seems to be the most affected. Native German and French speakers (who are more likely to have those versions at #1) may want to comment on whether my assessment is correct.

As to "what parts" the answer is less clear since this is a moving target. Anything related to politics is a clear target for ideologically-motivated editors so those parts are a good example but it does not stop there. Articles related to current affairs, media and culture have attracted activist editors as well. There are plenty of studies which show Wikipedia is politically biased to the "left" [1,2,3,4,5,6], this is not simply an issue of a few parts of the site having been taken over.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Do-Experts-or-Collecti... ("Harvard study: Wikipedia articles are more left-wing than Encyclopedia Britannica")

[2] https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/17-028_e7788... ("Harvard researchers: left-wing editors are more active and partisan on Wikipedia")

[3] http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-metho... ("top-cited news outlets on Wikipedia are mainly left-wing")

[4] http://archive.is/dDr7X ("pages on American politicians cite mostly left-wing news outlets")

[5] https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/ ("editors who support right-leaning views are over six times more likely to be sanctioned at Arbitration Enforcement than those who support left-leaning views")
that's a tool issue that should be fixed