skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think KaiOS is probably the closest thing that you can find. It will also have a browser, but trust me when I say that on most phones it's so slow and unusable that you won't be tempted to use it often.

I had a similar issue for myself, only my strongly desired application was Spotify (instead of WhatsApp). Ultimately I weaned myself off Spotify through a phone with KaiOS and ultimately I took the plunge on buying the Light Phone II.

It's a real bummer that there are so many limited solutions for things like this. FWIW, the contracted software company that worked on the Light Phone OS put together a blog post detailing how they used Android to build their phone here:

https://medium.com/sanctuary-computer-inc/building-lightos-w...

> All of that is to say: when we refer to the LightOS, we are referring to “our custom fork of Android 8.1 that embeds a platform-signed React Native app as the default launcher” (amongst other drivers and low-level customizations).
The range question was addressed by 1960.

Costs fell markedly from 1930 -- 1970. Far less so since.

It's popular to point to how much airline ticket prices have fallen since dregulation (under Democratic president Carter) in 1979, without also noting that 1979 was a local price peak driven by the Iranian oil embargo of the same year.

Safety has increased, of course. That's largely been a continuous function from the first days of flight ... with a curious exception in the first decade of the 2000s, where passenger deaths/mile fell markedly. (Also in Gordon's book.)
Not American, but your comment amused me because I just spent the last hour reading about how to migrate there :)

I'm half Croatian, half Australian, and speak with an American accent due to my childhood friends. I went to an international school (IB) followed by a Dutch high school (VWO). (Basically I'm an alien everywhere I go.)

My school called itself a Dalton school, but upon reading the book by the creator of the original Dalton school (Education on the Dalton Plan, Helen Parkhurst, 1905) I was absolutely blown away by how radical and futuristic this school sounded, and how short my own school (which supposedly was the same kind) fell of that mark. I investigated why my school did hardly any of the things Dalton schools are supposed to do, and found out that they were against Dutch law.

As you say, Europe is not (yet) a monolithic entity, and perhaps there is even a country here where letting kids do what they want isn't considered a crime. Hopefully I was wrong to generalize in this regard, I would certainly be happy to hear about it.

As for my bias, I admit freely that I absolutely hated school, consider it an abomination and a crime against the human spirit, and almost certainly would have left if it weren't illegal (they send the police after your parents). I say "almost" because I did rather enjoy the part where you get to see your friends every day—although at the time it wasn't clear to me that this would go away with graduation, or how much I would miss it.

To be clear I have no problem with people willingly submitting themselves to such a thing, it's the coercion part that I can't stand for.
I'm slightly nervous. I just bought a house about 2 months ago (sub 4% interest rate), and while I have more than a years worth of savings, I don't like being out of a job at all unless I consciously decide to leave it and take time off. Fortunately, I quit my old job in a cyclical industry last year and moved to a company that operates in a market that is more recession proof.
And trending searches in the US are:

1. Texas school shoting
2. Rangers
3. Tampa Bay Lightning
4. Aquaman
5. Johnny Depp-Amber Heard
...

https://trends.google.com/trends/trendingsearches/daily?geo=...
I’ve already told my wife that when her parents die we are just going to burn the house down. I’m just half joking.

I truly don’t understand people that fill up their homes with stuff. You can’t take it with you. And I have no intention of sorting through it. It’s all going straight to the landfill.
This is good advice. Sometimes fixing things requires not fixing them yourself before getting people to agree that it's a problem
Netflix historically paid in all cash. Recently, they started letting their employees choose.
In 2008, most internet users were too young to know what a recession is. In 2022, most internet users remember 2008 very well.
I think that people are generally neutral rather than good. Most of us conform to social norms and do what is expected of us and no more. It's a pretty severe lowering of the bar to consider that good in my opinion. We are neutral and generally motivated by harmless self interest for ourselves and families.

There are people who are genuinely good and almost without fail, they are people who have devoted their lives to helping others. Often they fly under the radar and aren't very well off. They don't make the news but you know one when you meet them and they have a huge impact on those around them.

There are also bad people, if you'll forgive the Marvel level depth of that proclamation. There are people who make the world worse, usually for their own benefit or entertainment.

Generally I think 95+% of people are neutral - just minding their own business. Is that virtuous, or just the minimum?
Cyclists in the US are mostly well aware of how hated we are for even just basically following the law and somehow surviving with motorists who probably shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
Maybe. But by then (2011 IIRC) it was way too late, sales had been going South, so one wouldn't need too much of a genius to figure out that Symbian was dead.

The problem was that in the mid 2000s things were going just too good and management didn't want to see how it could become problematic, or at least take the risk. We were selling smart phones, that weren't really phones anymore (heck, we called them mobile terminals!) but it was pretty hard and painful to develop software for these. This made hard to convince external, indie/hobbist developers (they ended up creating most of the apps for ios and android) and, of course made internal development pretty expensive. Worse, it must have made experimenting and thus innovation slow. Hence the UI was stuck. Not as if Nokia ever put too much effort into innovating the UI. Touch screens were somewhat frowned upon. Though that may in part have related to the existing UI, the effort needed to try out something new and the fact that those touch screens were still resistive back then. Which is really not a great UX.

Though I remember once trying a prototype phone at an internal conference with a touch screen providing haptic feedback (through some piezo efect). So you could kind of feel the on-screen buttons.
To say these things and not mention his business acumen (he runs a few) makes it sound like sour grapes/ad hominem attacks on the guy.

Yes, he's an oddball and he has some weird fetish around controversy, but he's a business leader studied by other business leaders. He delivers. He managed to put electric cars on the map, he made rockets that land, he's now boring tunnels and doing neuro network engineering. Not sure why baby names are mentioned over these.
I hate to just pile onto the other recommendations, but you can get a beautiful ducky with real MX browns for only like $100. They're no-fuss and built great. Probably an extra $20-40 if you want individual RGB lit keys that can do whooshy rainbow effects.
What do you conclude? How does one person's perception of one example impact the overall issue?

> Based on the demeanor of everyone there it seems like a great place to work

If you mean it is your family scrapyard, I will suggest that many employers have formed that impression - often mistakenly (myself included!). I've heard it many times. My favorite was someone who told me how people loved working there and they didn't have the absurdities so common in business. Then we were walking around the cubicals, and it was observed how many Dilbert cartoons were posted.
I don’t think that is the way the IRS views things.
Couldn't this go the other way too? People who have no experience with programming languages have no basis for evaluating the comprehensibility of a language's syntax. I didn't have any complaints about BASIC until I tried Pascal, etc.
The Data-Oriented Design Process for Game Development
It doesn't have to be this way.

Synopsis of "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" by Margareta Magnusson.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Gentle-Art-of-Swe...
Yes, because we have the ability to differentiate reasonable vehicles from unreasonable vehicles regardless of their designation. E-bikes with pedal assist seem ok. E-bikes which are basically just electric dirt bikes don't seem ok (for bike lanes).
I'm can't be the only one exhausted from all these pointless bloggers trying to point to how their promotion to hierarchical title N is justified because it's arbitrarily different than N - 1 at their org. Let's just acknowledge these things don't actually map across different organizations and therefore have no meaning. Hierarchical titles are for engineers that hide their mediocrity behind HR appointed titles.
The materials for the home are cheaper (adjusted for increase in quality/utility). For example, insulating a house to the same level is cheaper today than in previous decades. Same with the plumbing and flooring and many other advances where plastics technologies made a lot of things cheaper and safer too.

Land in certain locations of course a different matter, as well as labor.
> anyone who has hands on building experience would immediately recognize the difference in materials and construction techniques

The point is that the differences are largely incremental. Same stick built frames, same flimsy building wrap, same poorly installed fiberglass batts.

None of that compares to the quantum leap that was indoor plumbing, in home telecommunications, automatic kitchen and laundry machines.

But it's also that such massive change happened prior to the 80s that afterwards we have focused more on optimizing than new categories in our houses. And optimizing isn't bad, it's just a different type of advancement.
I supposed that bicycles evolve to suit a lot of people's different ideas of whats fun. I'm glad that I was introduced to the joy of less and I salute Sheldon Brown on the road beyond for inspiring so many to take a second look at something simpler.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixedgear.html

Are you sure you need a bicycle with gears? The purest, simplest kind of bicycle is the fixed-gear bicycle. Riding a fixed gear will make you a stronger, smoother cyclist...and it is a ton of fun!
As far back as the late 1970s a surprisingly similar scheme was used to record digital audio to analog video tape. It mostly looks like kind of stripey static, but there was a clear correlation between what happened musically and what happened visually, so in college (late 1980s) one of my friends came into one of these and we'd keep it on the TV while listening to whole albums. We had a simultaneous epiphany about the encoding scheme during a Jethro Tull flute solo, when the static suddenly became just a few large squares.

Can see one in action here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSpS_DiijxQ
Fixing Memory Leaks in Rust
I'm not sure what it's but all books suggested for all self learning seem to be not like books I am used to having as textbooks. I expect textbook to have lot of diagrams, colors (as dumb it sounds, pictures/colors help me remember things), tips, questions and answers in the back. But all recommended books seem to boring novel style books and everyone swearing by it. How can you learn math by reading novels?
Curious to know if any have a good presence in East Asia too
I graduated in 2001. I had an offer from campus placement in the summer of 2000. Things were rosy till March, April 2000. And then everything moved very fast, most of the offers were cancelled. I was utterly unprepared for this. I picked up pieces and went for the masters. About 18 month later I was in the middle of masters I got an email from the company saying they are honoring their offer.

2008 wasn’t that harsh for the tech sector. I was at Amazon. I was visiting colleges for campus recruitment, we were given reduced head counts to fill but nothing bad. And I don’t remember there being any mass layoffs.

Given this experience I would say the current downturn to last for about 18 months. Here’s what I’d do differently.

1. Always be on the lookout for opportunities. Even if you get a job offer don’t make plans around it.

2. Develop network your university alumni who are employed. Figure out ways of making yourself useful for them.

3. Internship or part time work is totally OK. You will be abreast of the ecosystem.

4. Learn macroeconomics and business cycles. We all are impacted by it. Whether we like it or not. So we might as well be prepared.
Because no one wants to solely exercise. They want to have some fun while doing it. This is like saying that if you only want to exercise when skiing, then you shouldn't take a chair lift - just use your legs!
Back down to whose earth?

Even if you’re only making $250K, that puts you well within the top 10% of earners in the US.

I think Amazon has seen the largest drop out of the BigTech companies and it is down 30% year to date. Amazon has been adjusting SDEs cash component up even before the crash.

Netflix should have never been put in the same category as the 1 trillion+ market cap companies.
US citizens may eat much foods made in US everyday, but outside US citizens may not. I'll care this if I live US, but I don't much care as a non-US resident, because consumption is low. Amount is important factor.
I'm not sure if your examples are sticking to 0 or 255 RGB. If it is you might get a win by using HSL to pick your colors. If you change the lightness dramatically every frame maybe colors won't bleed across a frame. Then perhaps you can encode 2+ bits in hue and another 2+ in saturation getting a win and another minor one using 1+ bit on brightness (ie first frame can be 0 or 25%, next frame is 75% or 100%. I'm not too familiar with encodings though and how much it'd interfere with the other transforms
> This metaphorical braid shows the integration of the foundational fields, labeled S, OR, and C. Figure I.1 Integration of Statistics, Operations Research, and Computing

Brilliant.

The single biggest issue I see working in this area today are two things:

Lack of historical context. People have no clue about the history of quantitative management (rocky, lots of ups and downs)

And sales. Terrible, terrible salesmanship from nerds.

Anyone involved in this field professionally needs to read this book.

Rapidly.
Don't throw things, get specialists that can sell and redistribute it. You can negotiate to not get money back and they can even take care of what's really trash.
Cool thanks. This is an ingenious idea in the true hackers spirit. Well done.
And if it were “successful” they would be “profitable” and not “VC funded”.
Someone recently replied to me with comments by Dave Cutler, designer of the kernels for Windows NT/XP(...) and (Open)VMS:

“I have a couple of sayings that are pertinent. The first is: ‘Successful people do what unsuccessful people won’t.’ The second is: ‘If you don’t put them [bugs] in, you don’t have to take them out.’ I am a person that wants to do the work. I don’t want to just think about it and let someone else do it. When presented with a programming problem, I formulate an appropriate solution and then proceed to write the code. While writing the code, I continually mentally execute the code in my head in an attempt to flush out any bugs. I am a great believer in incremental implementation, where a piece of the solution is done, verified to work properly, and then move on to the next piece. In my case, this leads to faster implementation with fewer bugs. Quality is my No. 1 constraint – always. I don’t want to produce any code that has bugs – none.

“So my advice is be a thinker doer,” Cutler concluded. “Focus on the problem to solve and give it your undivided attention and effort. Produce high-quality work that is secure.”

https://news.microsoft.com/features/the-engineers-engineer-c...

Unfortunately, I do not have this level of talent, but I do what I can.
ebikes create a shift in how we should build neighborhoods, if not cities. The quality of life frontier has already shifted out from under the previous equilibrium: living in a place where you can comfortably ebike to amenities is a massive life upgrade.
React is amazing. Throw in ESLint, typescript, and copilot and you will be shocked at how fast and beautifully things come together.
No human folly can obviate the sunrise.

OTOH, the reckoning has been pending for some time. How long depends upon whom you care to blame.

Let's get it over with, clear the decks of the deadwood leadership that have plagued us, and apply the good distributed sense toward a prosperous next several decades.

Until the cycle of "derpery" repeats.
It serves the utility of not being able to hear people breathe on the other side of the home. Speaking as someone who grew up in old New England colonial houses, I'd say that if anyone wants to understand why Californians build so many tech products without privacy, one needn't look any further than the lack of privacy to which they grew accustomed in their homes.
You are totally right. 100%. For over a decade, I basically sold myself as a hero-for-hire (or as one of my clients called me, a mercenary). My general schtick was two-fold: help the company/team out of the immediate problem they were facing, and, if they were game, spend some time with the team to help figure out how the problem came to be and how they might acquire the skills to prevent it (ideally) or solve it on their own next time.

Looking back, I am still pretty amazed at the turn-around I helped facilitate at a bunch of smaller companies.

Presently, I am an employee, and this is one of the most painful uphill battles I have ever had to fight. I have tried warning colleagues about issues that seem obvious to me, but face exceptional pushback all the time, only to have things blow up exactly how I predicted a few months (or sometimes weeks) later. In my own work, people generally let me be and do good work, but as soon as it becomes a group effort the “damn the torpedoes full speed ahead” minority steam rolls ahead and makes a mess of it.

The worst part is, I know exactly what the problem is, because I’ve been on the other side of it: organizations pay way more attention to external consultants than internal resources. 90% of the advice I have companies for how to change was suggestions gathered from their own employees, slightly curated and abridged into something easily digestible.

And so, while I’m exhausted from trying to change things from inside, when shit hits the fan, I step up and do the old mercenary thing to solve problems at the last minute and great expense. I keep trying because I do have a ton of exceptionally bright colleagues who I love working with, as well as an actually world changing technology. We’ll see… after this next demo… maybe we’ll take some time to breathe and get back on track.
Cultural. It’s cultural.
Yeah, it could play out differently. But it could also play out to be the largest crash in American history. We don't know, so don't bet anything important on it not being a crash.

Worst case the graph tells the story of the rest of the world shifting their industries to be less dependent on the American one, ending American dominance, that is how this would lead to the biggest crash in American history. Best case USA just slowly starts to shift back to producing things internally and creating new goods others wants to import and things stabilize.

We will see what happens, but it is very rare for curves to shift without huge consequences.
I get 0.05gbps, for $45/mo.
You're not the only one. Not a fan of plastic, but we've come to depend on it heavily. Any remediation strategy has to be highly directed in its approach. Humans tend to be bad at applying the right level of precision to large scale problems, and the consequences could be very dire.
I can't imagine a world where there's an economic recession but AWS does better. I'm sure they'd slow hiring too. Companies of all industries will scale back spending, including cloud spending.
Just having proper semantic closing syntax would be a huge improvement for any member of the TeX family. It drives me nuts wrestling with shit falling into or out of some macro expanded function based on argument parsing logic. If it had defined closing syntax the damn tools would just tell me there was a mistake or get it correct not mysteriously screw up my document because I added or removed one row from my document. Or my favourite because I added a second table and that macro could only handle one table of that kind per document because it was designed for a table based bibliography that would only exist once at the end of a document…

I put TeX and Perl in my “decent tool with extremely shitty syntax” mental categorisation of languages. I basically never look at anything TeX related directly anymore unless I have to. It’s either the input material I converted to something better like plain text or vector graphics (fuck Tkiz based graphics are so miserable to use) or it’s the output from putting something more sensible into pandoc.
This article is partly accurate and partly pseudoscience woo. VO2 Max is inversely correlated with all-cause mortality risk. However, there are no reliable biomarkers for aging.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama35/
What, like 5 companies? There are a lot of companies out there on a lot better footing/less overvalued than the big names you’re reading about that are still going to need skilled workers.
Relationships with weak ties are more likely to be good as well. If you never know much or interact much, you can't hate each other.
Bugs don't evolve but the bug generators do. We build code with more and more complexity until we reach an equilibrium with our ability to debug the systems.

If there is no competition in the evolution then systems can become arbitrarily baroque and fragile, which leads to rules like 'no software updates/patches' and 'all config changes via the CCB and pass mandatory tests' or 'your problem is handled manually', the wire wrap of systems development.

Rebooting (the process or the computer) is trimming the state space. Model checking driven design really helps tame the tendency to let program state evolve without bound. FP tends to follow a bottom up design which makes this easier too.