skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really feel like you're reading too much into the term "burned out". You can get sick of doing anything and lose the spark. I've never managed to do anything consistently for half as long as he's run his blog. It's kind of amazing to me he lasted this long.

I just get the sense that his interest in it is waning, and he doesn't want to just "check the box" every day. It's his right. Just because some people live in terrible conditions, doesn't mean he can't be sick of his job.

I'm curious, would it have bothered you as much if he'd just said: "I'm sick of this blog and I'm quitting it?" because that's basically what he did, except he promised to come back (I wonder if he'll regret that promise in six months).
Bitcoin is fundamentally anti-government. The fact that many westerners currently consider their governments benign enough to not understand the need for such a thing is truly a blessing. Even so... it's always good to have a backup ;)
You only need what’s appropriate. I doubt missile launch systems are using react or whatever fancy frontend engineers want to use. SPAs are responsive which is nice, but some projects could better spend their time ensuring the project actually functions.
And the story.
Does the Netherlands export their knowledge of handling below sea level engineering? With coasts around the world more prone to flooding it seems like it could be a lucrative industry
> The range of actual temperatures in an oven is pretty small

The range of temperatures you use is about 200 degrees?
The classic article is https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scou..., from 1998. Did this one just lift the title for a different piece on the same topic?

Related:

The Radioactive Boy Scout (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23538908 - June 2020 (1 comment)

The Radioactive Boy Scout - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18396332 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

The Radioactive Boy Scout (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466860 - Oct 2017 (34 comments)

“Radioactive Boy Scout” who tried to build a homemade nuclear reactor dead at 39 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957768 - Nov 2016 (67 comments)

The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9867739 - July 2015 (5 comments)

The Radioactive Boy Scout (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310748 - Sept 2013 (1 comment)

The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611583 - May 2009 (18 comments)

Also related, a little less directly:

Middle school student achieved nuclear fusion in his family playroom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24705563 - Oct 2020 (82 comments)

Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction in playroom lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19472076 - March 2019 (14 comments)

12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19229433 - Feb 2019 (92 comments)

“I built a fusion reactor in my bedroom – AMA” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12118525 - July 2016 (127 comments)

The Fusioneers, who build nuclear reactors in their back yards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11777553 - May 2016 (54 comments)

Nobody builds nuclear reactors for fun anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6867072 - Dec 2013 (102 comments)

The Nuclear Scientist Who Skipped College - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762449 - Nov 2012 (50 comments)
They may pay half, or most, or all, or none. OP didn't say explicitly?

But... you may not be able to get your own with any tax benefits if your company offers something and you choose not to take it. That's my understanding anyway. And... health insurance is just totally hosed in the US, with regulations like that on the books.

Take employers out of the equation. Let everyone buy their own, and/or, institute some basic govt policy, and let people buy private on top.

If you're buying for a family, it can be prohibitively expensive. Even a few years back (2016/207), high deductible plans for some of my colleagues were north of $1500/month with $10k deductibles for 2 people in their 50s with an early 20s kid.
Redwood looks promising, but it only went 1.0 ~a month ago. Rails went 1.0 in 2005.

The JS ecosystem has had a long time to come up with something equivalent.
I guess it's mostly just about putting people in a stressful management situation to get them used to it. Not much of an ultimate lesson there, just some experience so they can keep calm once they encounter it in the real world.
Small feedback: I tried `Iterable` as the search term and there's no mention of `typing.Iterable` on the first page - case sensitivity may help?
> Example from the article

... is incorrect, by at least a factor of 10.
What CPU and GPU do you have in each machine?

Low powered laptops without HEVC hardware decoding will probably struggle.
I have heard that for a birth (since you have some advance notice), you can go in to the hospital, sit down, and say "I will be having a baby here, and I will pay in cash, in full. Let's hammer out some costs" and maybe actually negotiate something acceptable.
Not good?
Feel free to reply here later, I’d be happy to hear whether that helped with figuring out your problem!
This is probably just a for loop where they've called for(it in suggestions) print(title) rather than for(it in suggestions) print(it.title).
- Cmd-Shift-G opens a fuzzy complete path input

- “Show hidden files” is a preference you can change.

Once you’re comfortable with the CLI and know the paths you care about for a task, in what cases do you prefer a GUI open dialog on other systems?
Looking at the US specifically, what do you think about the Federal govt ceding power to groups “closer” to the individuals?

Dedicating more budget and leaving more laws up to localities like States, municipalities, etc.
> Unfortunately it is going to require people to sit with feeling uneasy

People throw around this phrase, but it always strikes me as nonsensical.

There's a lot of stupid opinions that can make people feel uneasy, so unease is not some magic barometer of truth.

People are going to feel really uneasy if they are listening to you defend your appreciation of child pornography, but that doesn't mean you have struck upon some deep uncomfortable truth.
The problem with this is that it prevents you from knowing when the microwave has finished.
To be fair, I have 0 experience with GraphQL so I probably should not have mentioned it. I spent the last 10 years in pseudo-embedded land and systems programming and some purely backend high throughput systems (ad tech), not doing much 'web' related. I'd like to play with GraphQL.

That said, GraphQL is not a relational query language, and works in the world of hierarchical/graph database land. I think Date & Codd did a good job of critiquing that model and showing its faults the first time around (the 1970s).
FYI:

David Charles Hahn (October 30, 1976 - September 27, 2016),

sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout" : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

The Nuclear Boy Scout - A Short Documentary : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WyFktKBGfIA

The Nuclear Boy Scout (TV Short 2003) - IMDb : https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0378468/
> The Scoutmaster’s wife noted that a typical kid working on this badge goes to a hospital and asks about x-rays. David decided to build a Breeder Reactor. This was perfectly logical to someone with a rather naive social awareness, accompanied by a passion for collecting all the Periodic Table Elements.

Can someone explain the logical connection between "naive social awareness" and "choosing to go way above and beyond for this merit badge"?

As someone with Asperger syndrome (very mild) and the parent of a kid with it (more so), I may be overly sensitive to stereotyping on the topic. So in that excerpt above, what I hear is a neuro-typical adult dismissing the kid's amazing accomplishment here, just because he's socially awkward.

I'm sure she's actually a lovely person, so I'm hoping someone can give me a better explanation.
Queen Elizabeth will not open UK Parliament this year, Buckingham Palace says
"Alita: Battle Angel" might be a candidate. I thought the 3D cinematography was pretty good.
Indeed, Almere is a sleeping city. Many inhabitants moved from Amsterdam to Almere since gentrification has made housing in Amsterdam almost unobtainable for people with a median income. Almere is comfortable enough and you can get by without a car. But the fun still is in Amsterdam only a half an hour train ride away. In the US it would be called a suburb of Amsterdam.
Don't get distracted. Grass lawns aren't all that common in the desert. Yes, some people pay for the water to make it happen, but by far most do not.
Not on the first go around. AFAIK, they are looking at exposing more of the internal scheduling API but that's likely not going to be a part of the initial release.

The executor services referred to in the blog are for the order of execution of tasks on the virtual thread pool. For a "virtualThreadExecutor" service, every task will get a virtual thread and scheduling will happen internally.

You can still use a fixed thread pool with a custom task scheduler if you like, but probably not exactly what you are after.
The new game "Diablo 2:Resurrected" has more modern requirements ( i believe an NVidia GTX 1060 card for example).
I used a handwriting font with dynamic variations ~99-00 to generate address labels for someone entering competitions because printed labels were considered somewhat "cheating". Wasn't entirely convincing if you looked hard but miles better than 50 identical Times New Romans.
These patterns are clearly visible and so similar that I don't even behave differently to them. I don't care about any of the variants: I wait until I see Skip Ad and press it as soon as I can. It's not even like it's ever in a different place... unless I'm earnestly interested or have time to kill and want the channel to get paid with my time.
I once did something similar in C# to deterministically test some concurrency-heavy code (injecting custom TaskScheduler instances). It gave me a lot of confidence that it actually worked.
You could cut the paper along the X axis, and subtract the area below from the area above.
Don't forget the Forrest Mims electronics books that were in every Radio Shack back in the day.
Im not sure about essential in all cities, but in Manhattan its quite impossible to move out of your apartment without the truck being double parked.
The game mentioned is Diablo II: Resurrected. See system requirements[0].

Minimum: Nvidia GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7850

Recommended: Nvidia GTX 1060, AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT

They aren't terribly steep, but they are not on the same level as the original game[1]!

> DirectX compatible video card, 8MB Glide or Direct 3D compatible video card for optional 3D acceleration

[0] https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/284798

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-2-resurrected-pc-system-requi...
So... what's the Web3 part for then?
It's interesting that this article is coming out now that Elon has acquired Twitter.
Can you perhaps summarize?
No, absolutely not. This is not a problem that other microwaves have. It seriously impairs the functioning of the microwave. Chesterton's Fence tells us that there is no cost to eliminating this ridiculously awful functionality, because other microwaves already don't do it. An explanation doesn't help in any way. The solution is to stop misbehaving.
That's just my guess at the difference. It could also be a figure including other things like the per household usage for hydro-electric power like some other people have guessed in this thread. That would fit with the other mentions of losing hydro-electric power if the lake level were to fall too low.
One of my favorite shorts from SNL
Since I need to actually get off HN and get something done for a change, I can't reply 100% to everything you wrote here, but I appreciate your critical response.

> TBH having worked on multiple high traffic, large-ish MVC apps and high traffic, large-ish react SPA's, I'm a fan of "the old way" of building apps. [...] Maybe I'm looking at the past with rose colored glasses?

That bias exists in all of us, but I wouldn't guess you're looking back with rose colored glasses.

I'm actually more of a fan of "the old way" than I might be letting on. My work for the last 4.5 years has been almost entirely on SPAs, so I'm part of the problem, but I think I've seen the weakness in it as well.

All in all, I'd like for us all to try and avoid complexity from the get-go. That means starting with sites that are server-rendered and to try and not immediately jump to fancy SPAs and other tools. Maybe not everything must be containerized. Maybe monoliths and relational databases are A-OK for most purposes, and scaling up in response to financial success is something that can be handled when the time comes.

At the same time, if we're going through a sanity adjustment as an industry, let's make sure we reexamine the old assumptions that we ran away from in the first place. Otherwise, it's just a pendulum swing.

My main concern about the new/coming generation of tools is whether we also see a similar brawl we witnessed at the Cambrian era of frontend frameworks. A lot of things that seemed like innovations turned out to be headaches and even universally reviled. I can just picture the blog headlines of the next 5 years: "Why we moved away from Phoneix Liveview"
> I can't remember the name of the guy everyone blames for this, but he talks about minimalism and reducing app UI in favor of putting content forward during OS feature reveals

I believe you might be referring to Jony Ive (who is named in the portion you quoted). He left Apple a few years ago, which is what the comment you quote is talking about.
I'm excited about this work. Traditionally it's been hard to bridge local files and cloud documents, meaning that cloud data tends to stay siloed in specific editing UIs. This seems like the right first step towards letting traditional file-based editors work with realtime-collaborative cloud data.

Ultimately, in the long term, I think the filesystem probably provides the wrong abstraction for this use case though. The API we really need is "make these changes", (w/ changes represented thoughtfully in a mergeable way) not "here's the new final state." For now, diffing filesystem states is a reasonable workaround.
Most yards are just natural local grass. A relatively small number of people put in extra effort to make it a monoculture, but most just let it settle into whatever the local grass variety is, and then mow it periodically.

And in the desert, most people don't have grass lawns.
Maybe that's just as far as he got before he got bored.
I don't think farming in California will ever go away, but conserving water (say, cutting back by 20%) means that some crops might not be grown in California anymore. And the farming that's done will use water more efficiently.

(Also, regarding the "bread basket," grain is not typically grown out west, I don't think? That's east of the Rockies.)
I miss the days when Web 3.0 was semantic web!
Hey on that topic of a non compete, I've recently been offered a different internal role that would force me to sign a non compete. What was your experience like interviewing/searching for new roles? I would also like to hear what your general opinion on what it make it worth it to sign a non compete, although it sounds like you a generally negative view of them from this comment.
Umm if this is the topic the author chose to complain about, I don't know what will please them.

HTML is really easy to write, and really fast if you have the right shorthand plugin. Not to mention, it's markup, so it's not much of a cognitive load to figure out and write. Especially when compared to writing in a programming language/framework like js/jsx/react/<insert language>.

Sure CSS can be a pain in the ass, but honestly it's really not that bad and not worth writing a seething blog post. Like this dude's rant is just overkill at best and annoying at worst.
Agreed, absent Roe v Wade the states must choose for themselves. I was hoping to clarify that:

"States are putting severe limitations on abortion - despite any attempt to conflate, it's not in fact a "ban." Even if Roe is overturned, that's not outlawing or banning abortion." was incorrect as several states have put in place abortion bans if Roe v Wade is overturned.
This blogpost does rely on plugging in an executor. While the API was removed, it’s one private variable away (documented in footnote). As you say, it seems like it’s an ‘on the way, but later’ thing - the last Loom preview I used (a while ago) actually had the API so when I started drafting this post I was unhappily surprised!
Education is a unique industry and market on to itself. I worked in a part of it, and edu is just different than real business.

You have government funding, both for research and education.

You have tuition and fees, which students pay but there are student loans and grants etc.

You have endowments.

You have alumni and donor funding.

You have schools that develop technology and own profitable patents.

Sports is its own topic that I don't know enough about to comment on.
> A 3rd party corporation is deliberately deciding which browsers are legitimate and which are not. They prevent users of these browsers from accessing millions of websites with a flip of a switch. There's no transparency and no accountability to their actions.

Yes. Private monopolies/oligopolies are bad. They're literally a threat to civilization. We already realized that monarchies are bad because they centralize (judicial) power into unelected, opaque bodies controlled by a single person, and now we've done the same through the private sector.

This is not something to solve by begging Cloudflare to be reasonable. You need to lobby to break up oligopolies.
I don't think it will. If everyone was clamoring for Java and settled on Go only because of goroutines, then sure, but I think Go was liked for a lot of reasons aside from that. I also don't often see people complain about wanting more control over the scheduler for Go (could be that I just miss those).

I'd be surprised if Go adoption plummeted because of this, but who knows, I sure don't have a crystal ball.
This is exactly how Shopify operates on their primary monolith, afaik.

https://shopify.engineering/shopify-monolith
h.265 also lives on in open source software other than browsers. VideoLAN has been ignoring the whole licensing disaster because "Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as patentable" for ages :P
What are examples of things like this working out for the better?
I also just had my ebay account banned for no apparent reason. I listed some watches that I had, and with no reason banned the account.

I guess I'll be using facebook marketplace from now on.
I think they alluded to that in their reply
Don't some financial service businesses operate on similar principals.
Way back in college, I talked myself into doing a white-hat hack of a service another student was running that I valued highly.

"White hat" describes someone acting on behalf of the owner of the system being tested. It sounds like you acted on your own and thus were grey hat hacking. I only bring this up because it has different ramifications, legal, social, and otherwise.
Got any interesting stories to share? Would love to hear more
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Sure, I have a choice.

I can buy YT Premium.

Or I can run adblockers.
What portion of video I decide to skip watching on my device and which HTTP calls I make and which I don't is something I can decide and it has nothing to do with ethics or morality IMHO.

Watching a free YouTube video is something like getting a magazine copy for free. There is no moral obligation to look at the ads there, I can just skip those pages and pick and choose articles I want to read, even though I got the copy for free.

If the creators are giving away too many copies for free, they can start selling them instead. Or giving them and asking for voluntary donation. Or they can find another business.

It's not my responsibility to make sure the creator is profitable running their business. That's entirely on them.
Web MVC and mobile MVC are completely different IMO. I've done both, it's incomprehensible industry lingo for them to wind up the same name.
Apple is a force in AR. It’s also been holding the technology back
Wait... If I power off (not sleep) a typical phone, it still transmits?

I know there's the baseband processor that does its own thing, but I would've thought the userland "off" state shuts that off, along with everything else except for whatever watches the power button and battery charging.
The commercial Pinegrow editor comes pretty close to what the author wants: https://pinegrow.com
Finding people who need hardware is a harder task in the hyperscaled world. I want this company to do well, I think it does good things. But oof it's hard!
> Sometimes

None of that prevents Apple from building a more featureful dialogue

> In theory, yes. In practice it’s hit and miss as developers don’t seem to care about using native widgets (that, and the fact that native widgets have vastly different capabilities on Windows thanks to years of cruft they cannot remove).

I agree it sucks when developers roll their own but that’s not really relevant because we are comparing two very specific dialogues and not the wider OS ecosystem. (I’d use macOS over Windows any day of the week. But that doesn’t mean I have to love everything about macOS).

> sorry if it sounded harsh

You didn’t and we are good :)
It’s been really interesting hearing another viewpoint.

> It’s just that the file selection dialogs are a particular pain point on Windows and Linux.

For you. :) Personally I think KDE got it just about perfect.

I guess this just goes to show how completely different two peoples preferences can be.
If Mac OS spent two OS update cycles just fixing the usability kinks that plague window management, context switching across apps, mouse support, multi desktop support, and finder, then it would be the most pleasurable OS to work with out of the 3. As it is, these flaws make up most of the interactions I have with an OS moment to moment, and as a result Mac OS frustrates me in ways Windows and Linux (using Pop OS with Gnome) don't.
With H.264 they retained the right to renegotiate the terms every 5 years. It was only after Theora and VP8 got some traction that they pledged to not alter the terms for the rest of the patent term.

AAC audio hit the exact same problem. Apple refused to support it until they dropped some of the more ridiculous licencing fees.

Even physical DVD players got shafted by MPEG patent prices becoming a significant share of the entire device costs in later years.

It's always been a scam. It always will be a scam. Exactly like the social networks that are so open and friendly till they've got you locked in. That's the whole business model.

HEVC lived and died by licence fees.
People fail expected value calculations all the time. "Then" was just CYA