skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly everyone is not a part of this conversation.

Technology - especially software - attracts people with ADHD traits like hyperfocus, so it's not a stretch to expect a higher percentage of ADHD brains on HN.

On top of that, "arguing with people on the internet" is an attractive source of stimulation for those of us with ADHD, meaning we will overrepresent ourselves in any discussion.
> I don't want to work with languages that attract this kind of person

I haven't used Rust professionally, but I find the community extremely inclusive and helpful. I joined the Discord server and asked all sorts of stupid questions and people always helped me and explained to me what was wrong with my code (or my assumptions). But, again, I haven't used Rust professionally and it may be different in that context

> I don't want to work with languages that require a relatively heavy cognitive load on simply reading the lines of the source code

Strongly agree on this, I haven't tried to introduce it where I work for the same reason. The cognitive load is massive compared to a language like C# or JS and the gain is minimal for the average developer writing microservices for React frontends. In this context you need a JSON serializer, iterators and maybe generics, and Rust is not much better than C# on this front.
I watch a lot of YouTube because I like non-fiction content over the fiction on Netflix. I used to like the documentaries on Netflix but they all seem to have a similar formula and sensationalism. I like how-to content which gives me inspiration to take on projects. I could see YouTube becoming an issue for me if I got sucked down a rabbit hole that didn't have any meaningful ends. But for me if consuming YouTube content leads to meaningful ends, it's not an issue.
What’s worrying about this is that we’re about 50 years into an unexplained epidemic of obesity and metabolic disease that nobody has a clear explanation for, and is also affecting lab animals fed controlled diets. It would be fascinating if this was all correlated with a common environmental contaminant, and the increasing use of various plastics could line up well.
The problem is mainly getting switches (and their keycaps) that are thin enough. All the switches that are available to be used by hobbyists (Cherry MX, Kailh Choc...) are way too thick.
> We're lucky enough that she was able to start school at 3 months old

Lucky for who?
I still use jQuery for frontend JavaScript when I can. It's so much more efficient than native JavaScript. I can't imagine anyone prefers to write document.getElementById('element').style.display = 'none' rather than $('#element').hide();
What about a recovered/recovering alcoholic employee liable to slip into this enabler trap?

I'm not personally plagued with this problem, but have no difficulty empathizing with the situation and think it's completely asinine for employers to encourage drinking among employees.
Yes, you will see examples of this in the Nordics. However, the equilibrium is fragile and does need cooperative legislation to disallow obviously bad behaviour leading to races to the bottom. Things such as Reagan/PATCO and union/mafia ties are probably making it very hard to restore any sort of healthy equilibrium in the US.
We used to have these things at our old company, and they were happy to pitch in with e.g. dinner; that way we've had board game, MTG or video game nights (for the last one they employed a company that supplied gaming PCs), sports events, hackathons, airsoft, you name it.

My current employer did a lowkey after work beer here and there, and during the pandemic, awkward "forced fun" zoom meetups which started off with the guy pulling things to remark on everyone's camera image. I mean I get it, someone has to do it because in this company nobody else will because they all just want to get paid and get on with their life, but still.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-elitebook-840-g8-notebo...

Just got a new one from work. It's literally in front of me right now.

Granted the laptop's build quality is questionable (the right hinge's case bulges higher than the left) and the trackpoint has a tendency to get stuck to one direction.
I’m with you. I think people that treat syntax as some completely unimportant detail are forgetting that reading code is a more important use case than writing code.

No matter how much you internalize the syntax of language X, as the sheer number of syntactic structures in the language increases, the higher the likelihood you’ll misread something.
I think understanding would be velocity. Acceleration would be change in understanding, which is proportional to attention.
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Are we forgetting about public transportation there? Climb in a bus/train and you will see that everyone is on their devices either for entertainment or work.

What about emergencies calls? As a passenger, I have called 911 and road services numerous times. Calling for help on the behalf of stopped cars, warning about road debris, reporting drunk drivers, etc.
Even fetch?
It seems to be alive. My client still connects to it. I saw a lot of trolling that seems to have simmered down now. I have had some odd/interesting conversations in the #freenode channel. 417 users in the channel at the time of this writing.
Probably most people don't have a strong opinion on eliminating plastic and even in that subgroup, few would be willing to pay the price (both in utility and literal price) to avoid plastic. In fact, if you're willing to go to a shop offering unpackaged goods, you can already eliminate a lot of plastic in your life.
How, exactly, would plastic be appearing in rock salt that was laid down millions of years ago?
I had the same reaction. I have a 3.5yo daughter now, and it feels like spending time and attention being truly interested in the things she loves is a great way to bond. The extra zing of needing to beat her is ego, and as you say feels like it would sour the positive effect of all of those hours.

Same observations seems right for many other types of relationships. Time and attention is a gift, don't ruin it with ego.
Auditory console logging: identifying bugs by listening to code execution
I see, interesting perspective thanks. Your tip about capturing the conversations to catch up later is a nice idea.
There’s a ton of data to back up the idea that cell phone usage while driving is resulting in accidents. The only part of this idea that isn’t backed by data is the idea that disabling the radio would stop people from looking at their phone while driving — but it’s probably a fair assumption, no?

I’m not actually saying I want this, it’s just an effective counter-argument when people claim that we should ban ie: smoking because it would save lives.
The HP EliteBook laptops still have trackpads. For example this one: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-elitebook-850-g8-notebo...
On the bright side, if you had gotten funding, today you'd be A) working insane hours, and B) staring down the barrel of a meltdown that could easily kill your company.

But I get it. Five few years ago, a woman friend and I were seated at a dinner with a VC who said her firm funded companies that were 51% woman-owned. To this day, that friend and I joke about what would have happened if she had just blurted out: "The two of us are starting a company actually! it'll be, uh, uh, Uber for dogs!?"
> Alot of people felt that unions were way too strong going into the 70s and 80s

I mean, now that we're a generation removed it's easy to forget that unions in this era were terrible. They were (generally) anti-immigrant, nepotistic, protectionist, and willing to sacrifice the jobs of their own members to get in dumb turf wars with other unions (plus the whole organized crime thing). You can also look up the whole "two-tier wage systems" many of them implemented.

Modern unions are clearly more well behaved - I wish more unions today pushed a "not-your-dad's-union" message instead of trying to sell Americans on a nostalgia.
And to be fair, Fly's blog content is very good for this audience (which is largely the result of tptacek).
Yep, that's another good example. Plumbing has always been an issue in the older houses I've been in mostly because it's next to impossible to change it.
Agreed, though mostly because of external consequences like the war on drugs.

Even so, the rest of the advice is solid.
Roger this
Cave explorers discovered a 630-foot-deep sinkhole containing an ancient forest
“We propose a cryptocurrency, Terra, which is both price-stable and growth-driven. It achieves price-stability via an elastic money supply, enabled by stable mining incentives.”

“Terra achieves price stability by creating stable incentives for mining (PoS consensus) via highly predictable rewards. We propose a framework to evaluate the stability of Terra’s peg under stress. […]
Our findings, based on 1 million years’ worth of simulation data, indicate that Terra’s peg is highly robust under both forms of stress.”
Isn’t it a lot cheaper to pay for a static ipv6 address?
Can ANYONE actually say what is wrong with it? I see no issue other than ascetically it could be better but it shows the data correctly.
You're splitting hairs.

Everyone has a little trouble regulating themselves, some people have a little more trouble, some people have enough trouble that it becomes a disorder.
Some Millennials and Gen Z don't see the point in saving for the future
This seems so curious to me. "I was concerned some policy in Firefox looked a little like ad delivery, so I switched to a platform which is 100% ad delivery all the time."

But that aside, maybe Vivaldi is what you're looking for?
For those on Gitea: What CI (if any) are you using?
See ’faith’ as believing in that doing the ’right’ thing, when no one is looking, by your definition is the best way possible (no deceiving, lying and all other sins).

You cannot have faith and despise the world, you are supposed to judges your failings first before judging others.
The PSP is a lot slimmer than Intel ME. It also doesn't randomly yank traffic for specific ports from your Ethernet.
I was actually wondering "hey, isn't that the old Fog Creek"? And went on their website, and yeah, not even a mention of FogBugz.

It's been kind of wild to see how FogBugz went from their main, almost exclusive priority, to something of barely any significance to the company, and now I'm guessing it's a forgotten product in a subsidiary of a giant CDN. Who knows how long until it's shut down.

It's sad; I still love the whole evidence-based scheduling part of it, and have never seen anything else like it.
Slackware downloaded in the format of ... 13 or 14 1.44MB floppy images from a BBS using my crappy 2400bps modem over many nights. Got it installed, played with it a bit but realized I couldn't run any of my games, shrugged and re-installed Windows... stayed like that until Red Hat 5.2 and then I've been running Linux as a daily driver ever since.
At least it's not a goat rodeo
I wonder how many more undiscovered areas are there and how might they look. Would they evolve to be very alien and different looking given enough time?
From the modern systems programming languages set, Go does better in this respect. But admittedly it doesn't reach to quite as low in fitness for low level programming as Rust.
I don't think it's healthy, and I suffer from that too. But I'll turn away if I see a tourist point a camera at me (well, not at me, obviously, at whatever interesting thing I'm standing near), I'm obsessively private about things like that, especially with colleagues. Sharing photos would be painful.

For one recent thing at a new company, we had to play "two truths and a lie" in a breakout room with 4 people I'd never met. Normally I can think on my feet but I ended up telling three truths by accident, and was then forced to lie about one of them being a lie to these complete strangers, which made me feel like a fraud incapable of even playing a basic icebreaker without being weird. And I'm not weird! Basic as you get. Ugh.

And I've got another one of those godawful 300 person-with-breakouts ra-ra sessions coming up in 15 minutes.
Passengers would be stuck bored, too. It’s a small price to pay across society if it saves human lives, right?

This isn’t a real argument, it’s rhetorical.
> You Eat a Credit’s Card Worth of Plastic Every Week

I'm pretty sure I don't. I'm not a subscriber (I can't read the article), but I take it that these plastics are so small we can't see them...

How do I even test this claim? Do I get my microscope and look at salt? Cos I have.. and I don't see fibres or anything.
Google banned one of my accounts for no reason
How long ago? I haven't been rejected in 6 months or so. It's possible they've improved recently.
We aren't. We're against some of the predicted negative consequences of plastic waste, but we like plastic. It's cheap, and incredibly useful.

Plastic goods enable the world we live in. For example, it would be interesting to see a mouse, and keyboard, and monitor housing made out of bronze, or wood, or cast iron, but I bet they would be worse in pretty much every other way — heavier, harder to shape, and very expensive not only because of the cost of materials, but because they'd take so much more work to make.

When I look around at all the plastic stuff around me, I think that some of it is unnecessary, but much of it isn't. Some of the necessary stuff could be made out of other materials, but much of it couldn't. At least not very well, and not at a price many people could afford.

Better for us if we can figure out a way to effectively recycle plastic, and capture microplastic in the wild.
> You would think that you can just tell you reports "hey you can be honest with me and speak your mind", but the difficult part about that is no one will take you at your word when you say that.

Of course not, because of the SNAFU Principle: "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth."

If I'm working for you, you are not my equal. You might be my superior in the organizational sense, because you have the power to demand I be fired if I push you hard enough. You are also my inferior in that you can't meet your KPIs without my cooperation. Under no circumstances will I tell you the plain, unvarnished truth. It isn't what you want to hear, especially if you've got senior managers or clients breathing down your neck. Shit doesn't just roll downhill in the Army.

You don't want to hear that it is flat-out impossible to come to me on Friday afternoon with a feature request that must be in production by the following Monday. Instead, I'd tell you that it can be done, but I'll expect time and a half for all of the overtime I'll be working that weekend, and it will probably be buggy because the requirements were scribbled on a fucking bar napkin and I probably won't have time to test it properly. You won't like that either, but at least you'll have the basis for a rough cost-benefit analysis you can present to your bosses to ask them, "How badly do you want this done in the current timeframe?"
Think most distros have backported the Alder Lake patches to their kernels.
> The only part of this idea that isn’t backed by data is the idea that disabling the radio would stop people from looking at their phone while driving — but it’s probably a fair assumption, no?

My phone has my entire music library on it. It also has all the local maps. It even has single player games. Most apps will open when offline and still have most of their features enabled.
Not at all, just trying to make a concrete example.
That is allowed in the US?
There are probably many potential users who wouldn't care, I've lived in Norway my whole life but my keyboards have been exclusively with an English layout for more than ten years now. If the thing holding you back from expanding to, among others, Norway is the lack of a nb-NO keyboard, please reconsider :)
I think the perspective of this article is a very healthy and productive one and I found it particularly useful.

Assessing if attending on the shoulders of the new Giants who stand up every few years is a difficult problem that I'm interested in and I appreciate the amount of context given here considering different use cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

Similarly in Germany we used to have only had 3 state TV channels, ultimately controlled by the ruling parties. Thinking about it now, I'm sure it was quite biased in all kinds of ways. And yet, people got their vaccinations without rioting.
I've 'learned' that there are always two kinds of workers; those who agree with the union, and those who've been brainwashed. There is never room for those who simply have another opinion.
That's why the lack of a union is more of a problem in fields where workers are commoditized. The trick though is to unionize before you're a commodity, when you still have leverage.
That's what most people say the first time they hear it but if you give it time, Icelandic metal will grow on you, I promise :-D.
Yep, same here. And with increasing urgency as Thinkpad quality control seems to have fallen off a cliff. Framework seems uniquely positioned to fix this though. Someone just needs to do a compatible top cover that takes Thinkpad keyboards. I'd take a stupid one without touchpad at all as I just disable it anyway. That shouldn't be too hard, it's mostly getting the plastic right and adapting the connector to the motherboard.
Yeah, it’s probably very confusing if you haven’t already encountered that inconvenience. Modern browsers are also file explorers (for the most part).
The thing that people who are agog about people actually liking Go should understand is "any general introductory programming education with a type safe language should have exposed them to it" is completely correct.

To the best of my knowledge, nobody is learning Go as their first and only language at school. Very few people are learning it as their only language, certainly not enough to account for its growth by any means.

Therefore: You have a model of the world. Your model of the world is making the busted prediction that Go shouldn't be useful for anything and nobody should like it. Instead of cutting to the assumption that "Oh, all the people who like Go must just be stupid and ignorant" to fix it up, maybe you should consider updating your model with something else. I doubt there's more than 5% of Go users who have literally never used a language with generics and are somehow unaware of them. It certainly doesn't cover me, I've used Haskell quite a bit and can easily find the generics of other languages quite lacking without trying too hard.

(One thing I can tell you is all y'all agog folk really underestimate just how many of the use cases for "generics" was covered by "interfaces". Quite a lot of the "generic" use cases that leap to mind that aren't data structures parameterized by types are covered by interfaces. Even some of the "data structures parameterized by types" use cases are covered by interfaces too, just with less compiler assistance. To my mind, Go didn't "get generics" in 1.18, it merely added in the remaining 25% or so. This isn't the whole story, but it's a fair bit of it.)
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There is an element of chance in chess. Whether an opponent plays an opening you have recently studied and how many mistakes your opponent makes is out of your control. The author says poker teaches you to focus on the process rather than the outcome. A chess player who wants to improve will not assume that winning a game means he played well -- he will analyze the game later, perhaps with a chess engine.
Although technically released in late 2021, the HP Elitebook 855 G8 has a trackpoint.
We could cut opiate deaths or gun deaths or heart disease in half but nobody wants to either. Too much money to be made and too many people taking their cut. It reminds me of the book Disaster Capitalism.
AFAICT, GP agree with you.
Fair. I think it just comes down to preference. Not sure if you can say one is better than the other. I had always just assumed everywhere had AC. Oddly enough, seemed like lots of buildings had it while the houses/apartments didn't. Maybe due to the body heat of so many ppl, it becomes necessary.
Exactly. If we're going to be told to vote with our wallets all the time, you better let me vote with my wallet.

I bought an ASUS ZenBook earlier this year because as much as I like Framework's product, I don't want to give Intel another dollar after they bent me over a barrel for a decade.
I wish my country would build outhorsing centers, but horses are confined to their stables. Bunch of social safety-net cheque grabbing lazy asses
Go is a systems programming language?
I'm sideloading apps. So I care about it. Apple won't get a single cent from me unless they allow sideloading.
Go is not a systems programming language.

I also personally find Go syntax to be horrible, especially now with generics.
You don't hear a lot about them nowadays because the hype now is ML, even though things like search or decision tree are probably more widely adopted than ML.

I believe things come and go in cycles, so we might see the rise of non-ML solutions if the current circumstances change. Just like the last time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter.
I hope that if Framework continues to be successful they can start dictating more changes to the manufacturers of the components to make the components easier to integrate into the laptop design. For example, a standard size for Mobos so that makes it easier to integrate AMD/Intel processors
Getting a hang of irc does take time, imho. It's not something you actively look at and interact. Rather it's something I look at occasionally and interact with. I think this style of irc'ing has made it ideal for me. Once you get more used to specific servers/channels, you tend to have different types of engagement. In my experience, a lot of new users come in hoping for this type of more personal/involved discussion from the get go and get disappointed quite a bit.

There are also different types of channels. I only talk in technical channels like #ubuntu when I need help. No point introducing noise. But I might have a monologue about some petty stuff in ##math-offtopic, for example.
i see a lot of

const $ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
The comments on code quality are somewhat fair, and there are better ways of doing things, but calling it "out of touch" because it's not been rewritten in kotlin is frankly silly.

Additionally, None of this is justification for removal from the store, the comment calling `requestPermissions` illegal is unjust, there's nothing incorrect about its use here (notwithstanding Play Store policies around contacts). ActivityResultLauncher is a more modern (imo superior) and recommended, but it is not a requirement.

God forbid we have some tolerance for developers who don't want to spend every waking moment rewriting their app to use whatever new API Google have just added...
But she beat him after that. Don't you see the enormous value in her knowing that she's beating him fair and square? Even after the enormous effort he's making? She must feel like the smartest kid in the world.

My son is 11 and he started beating me at chess when he was 10. I never once let him win, each of his wins was 100% earned and I tried like hell to beat him each time.
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Like something out of a Jules Verne novel! Looking forward to updates if they find the new species they expect down there.
Or Librem
Voting with my wallet. Intel bent everyone over a barrel for a decade and I don't want to give them another dollar if I can avoid it.