skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly good, after 10 years of being almost completely sedentary, binge eating, and living practically like an animal I've gotten control of my life. I'm on a weight loss journey that I feel confident I can maintain on my 3rd attempt. I'm eating a balanced diet. I'm going outside and walking close to 7 miles every day, I'm lifting weights 5 times a week. If I have one piece of advice for people in the situation where they have depression and are lying in bed all day. Fix your sleep, make sure you have 0 micronutrient deficiencies, and go outside for 10 minutes a couple times a day and expose yourself to sunlight. Sleep at least 8 hours a night and make sure you are sleeping consistently at the same time every day.
There are luxury condos right where I live that are sold by a property management company. They are unoccupied, and have been unoccupied for months. The prices have not gone down.

There's no super strong market force to push the price of a house down, while there is a large market force to keep it valued where it is or make it go higher.
NixOS uses systemd, although wrapped in their own DSL, example:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/24903b5de2e07cc7b65eae...
On the one hand, passing it would get them a good grade 7 test score.

On the other hand, not passing it lets them keep their job.

This seems like an easy decision, especially for someone smart enough to finish a degree at Harvard. /S
Long Covid limited my ability to do things, now eye surgery reduces me to sitting in front of a screen for about 3 months... it hurts to look down, looking forward doesn't, and it was my dominant eye.... the gas bubble they injected is about 40%, so I'm past half way... but it's really not a fulfilling existence right now.

Hopefully I'll be doing much better towards the end of summer. 8)

PS: In the meanwhile, I've got some programming projects to try.
Misinformation is not making people worse programmers or worse engineers or worse doctors or worse lawyers at the same rate (or higher) that good information is making more people better.

Misinformation is mostly affecting a relatively small portion (~10%) of the population that is predisposed to believe conspiracy.

It's not like your BiL who thinks Lizard People are running the world would've won the Nobel prize in Physics if it weren't for that Facebook post by your aunt that rotted his brain.

Information as a whole is good (so far).
The same some people claimed for sportmen especially footballers but the statistics of e.g. FIFA showed the opposite.

People only pay more attention to.
>Why? Because we have an irrational attachment to certain prestigious institutions.

I've heard there are employers that have an irrational attachment to certain prestigious institutions.

Also if you've always been the smartest at your school you might not realize you won't be the smartest at Harvard until you get there.
Be careful. Fixing inequality could be helpful. "Fixing" it may be disastrous.

Remember that political changes often don't do what the label says.
You can still buy the (current model) Apple remote separately from Apple TV; current Mac OS versions still have built in support for the basic media control buttons (pause/play, volume control, maybe a few others) and you can use tools like BetterTouchTool to implement custom actions.

I use mine (previous-gen Siri remote) to control volume, display brightness, display power on/off, and to switch between display inputs, the first using OSC[1] to the RME mixer app and the rest via a trivial Web service I wrote[2] that controls the LG TV I use as a display via RS-232 (which, for UI reasons, is noticeably faster than using the TV's bundled remote for the same tasks, and much faster than using the buttons and OSD to input-switch on my previous, non-TV display).

While I have keyboard hotkeys set up for the same operations on the Mac, I frequently USB switch my keyboard and mouse to other computers connected to the display, with HDMI audio routed via S/PDIF to the same audio interface (RME Babyface Pro), so having "always-on" copies of these controls is handy.

Before the Apple Remote, I considered using controls on a small MIDI digital piano I have within reach for the same purpose, but this way is slightly more convenient in that I don't have to toggle the controls off when playing the piano.

[1] https://archiv.rme-audio.de/download/osc_table_totalmix.zip

[2] https://github.com/jasminetroll/LgTvControl
> There are payphones in the stations still. They were talking about on the surface sidewalks.

There are at least four other payphones on sidewalks in the UWS.
Wtf! I had no idea.
Yeah it's really disappointing that even in high cost consumer electronics there's very little incentive to innovate in non-sexy areas :(
Stay in backend or build some frontend competency?
Hi! I am a long time backend engineer (~7 years now). I recently joined a startup where I have come to work on heavy frontend changes. I am a noob at frontend changes and my state switches from despondency to regret at having left my big tech job, and at times brief hope when I make some progress before I inevitably get stuck.

For people who have dabbled in both, is it smart to endure and gain competency in frontend (react, redux etc) or should I try to stick with backend with the occasional frontend task that keeps me growing but not despondent hopefully. Ultimately, I want to grow in the management track whenever I get there.
I'm wondering the same
> It may be a smart choice, but not all smart people who try to make that choice get in.

But not all top students in mid-tier attempted to go to Harvard. So if you were basing the "smartness" of these two populations based on this single decision alone, then the low-tier students at Harvard would be smarter because 100% of them attempted to go to Harvard, which was a smarter choice than the choice made by some of the students at mid-tier universities who chose not to apply to Harvard.

> After those first two-ish years, people’s abilities correlated more with who they were and not where they went to school.

In my experience, peoples' first few years out of college has a huge effect on their career trajectories. People I know who had high salaries out of school continue to have high salaries. People who didn't get good entry-level jobs continue to struggle (relative to the rest of the pack, they're not starving).
I can't imagine this is going to help curb inflation, which is the number 1 thing on everyone's mind right now.
Yeah, I saw this type of argument after I made my original comment that you responded to.

While this argument undeniably makes sense, I guess it boils down to what assumptions are made about the user.

Like, if we assume that the user is this paranoid, then why couldn't they just check the JS file/bundle with a local copy that is verified? Think of a Chrome extension or whatever.

We still run the JS locally on our own computers.
Still runs Android, so it will be obsolete and vulnerable long before any iOS phone.

Plus, it’s Android, so all your personal data and behaviour will be flowing to the mothership in volumes that will give the NSA and CIA some serious chubbies.

And then, it’s Android, so it has an App Store that sees more maliciously exploited and just plain malicious programs in a single year than Apple has had to work with with since theirs first opened.

If you’re gonna put out a traditional flip phone, do your users a favour and make it a non-smart feature phone that can stay dumb, not leak your entire life to an evil company, and is commensurately more difficult to infect with malware due to its dramatically smaller attack surface.

Just once I would love to see a dumb phone built on the same principles that OpenBSD uses. Simple, secure by default, and has nothing that isn’t absolutely needed for essential operations.
I can imagine an incredibly rare situation where I need to use a payphone, it once happened to me.

I also know that I don't know any phone numbers but my own from memory.
> Printing a lot of money doesn't always cause inflation, but any time there is inflation there has been a lot of money printing.

In fact, you can even argue that inflation causes a lot of money printing! When the government has trouble affording things that have gotten more expensive, they have to print more money to be able to buy the services they need!

(Of course, any responsible government would then also provide a drain for the corresponding amount of excess money -- e.g. tax it back out of existence shortly thereafter -- but somehow it's much easier to get elected when you promise to buy things, and not so much when you promise to tax the money away again...)
I love it when people come to me because their big spender investment in bottom dollar software they splurged for on fiver is failing and they're in panic mode. Like what did you expect performing an act of labor exploitation, a working machine? Loyalty?
It currently uses systemd quite heavily. There at least was some conversation about making it more service manager agnostic so that others could be used, but I'm not aware of that having gotten anywhere. I haven't checked in a while though.
But it also follows, this is survivorship bias. If we'd had early cosmic instability our rocky planets might not exist at all. We can only have been nurtured in a solar system that had this good fortune!
This hasn't been true for the past 20-30 years, or ever since the average trader switched from a Lacrosse player to a physics grad.

Been in the industry for 20 years and never seen nepotism on the trading floor.
Ask HN: Repeatedly joining dead-end projects
I’ve worked as a software engineer for 15+ years. Whenever I look for a new job, I’m picky about the company’s prospects, but despite that, I often join teams, only to find them reaching a dead end in a few years, even if the company is successful. I’ve never been part of a team that grew its mandate and size five years after I joined; they’ve all fizzled out and been absorbed by other parts of the org.

Projects die all the time, so I don’t take this personally, but I wonder to what extent I’m a common thread in this. Is it because I’m good at getting projects in a stable place, and the quiet wheel doesn’t get the grease? Is it that I lack vision for the project? Are most projects just someone’s vision, but the backing story is actually weak? Or are most projects fundamentally close to going into maintenance mode, and this is the expected case?
I would just say I went abroad to travel and worked odd jobs here and there. Say you wanted to do it and now that you crossed that item off the list, you are ready to join as their most loyal employee who'll make all the difference.
The point is not their existence, it’s that the Case report is even more of an apples to oranges comparison. Imagine a time when for the same share of your income you could pay off the same house in half the time.

> it is quite possible to get a 10 year mortgage on a house on the median income.

If you don’t mind living in a meth infested trailer park maybe. I assume of course you’re talking about regional median income, not the national.

If you want to live someplace with a decent school district and a good community for raising a family on a single income like the silents and boomers could in major cities then rural America today is no magic bullet.

I have no problem with rural living but suggesting hey why not go homestead in BFE Alabama or something isn’t a refutation for housing policy destroying the middle class, which has largely been urban and suburban.
I think in many ways, you're reinforcing his point. Your perspective here is one that doesn't even consider ways of interacting beyond touching a flat screen.

When you talk about haptics, you only mention passive haptic feedback: annoying bumps, buzzes, and rumbles. You're right that those are annoying and mostly useless (though the haptic feedback on MacBook Pro trackpads is quite nice).

But that's not what he's talking about at all. His whole point is that interacting with tool's isn't "fundamentally virtual". That's a choice that technology has made because screens of pixels are so amenable to software control.

If you want to, say, decide which restaurant to eat at, there's nothing intrinsically visual or 2D about that. We assume that a screen is the only natural way to do that simply because we're used to that paradigm, which is exactly the problem he's ranting about.

Imagine a "restaurant tray". It has, I don't know, physical sliders and buttons at the top where you can specify what kinds of restaurants you're OK with. When you do, a bunch of tokens appear on the tray for every potential restaurant. You and your party can reach out and grab them. Group a few together as potential ones. Sweep the ones no one wants off to the side. Maybe let each person take and hold their favorite, or pull them over to their side of the tray. Swap and trade them like poker chips.

Think about how much more immediate and collaborative that process would be for reaching agreement on where to go.

That's the kind of stuff he's talking about. You might be thinking, "Well it would be too hard to build a system that creates physical tokens for every possible restaurant." But, again, that's a technological problem we'll only solve if we have a vision for those kinds of experiences in the first place.

If we can't see beyond pixels on screens, we'll never get there.
I’m always grateful for the corrections, but thank you for doing it so gracefully.
I think the misinformation risks are overstated. Qanon-ers are a tiny part of the population. Even antivaxers are a distinct minority. Good information wins out, even if the process is not perfect.
Ask HN: Are there any benefits to cubicles?
Where I work there are discussions and planning starting for some spaces to change from cubicles to "something modern" for the work space.

But is there a benefit to having cubicles that an open workspaces loses out on?

Has anyone changed from a cubicle space to something else and there were regrets?

Any suggestions on updating office floor/work space?
>Also, the deadliest school shooting in US history was done by a student at Virginia Tech named Seung-Hui Cho and all he had was two handguns.

See above (emphasis added).
This feels almost identical to GraphQL

With GraphQL, you'd define types -- say something like:

type User {
id: ID
name: String
age: Int
todos: Todo[]
}

type Todo {
id: ID
user_id: ID
text: String
is_completed: Boolean
}

These can be autogenerated based on, for instance, the tables in your SQL database

Then you can use tools to generate query functions, like:

query {
users(where: { age: { _lte: 25 } }) {
name
todos(where: { is_completed: { _eq: false } }) {
text
}
}
}

And finally generate a typed SDK so that operations are strongly-typed for whatever language it is you're using to query the GraphQL API
A Detailed Explanation of the World Generation in Minecraft
Linux allows memory overcommitment and Windows does not. On Windows, when the system is out of memory, attempts to allocate more will fail. Each running application has to decide from there on out exactly what to do. On Linux, running processes can allocate more memory than is available, and the OOM condition is triggered when too much of that memory is actually used. Once that happens, the OS has to decide which process to kill in order to reclaim some memory.
Indeed! The economy might grow significantly if people worked longer hours!!

what do you mean that's not what you meant at all
This has been obvious since 1865. We only have a United States because self-educated Abraham Lincoln picked up the pieces left by elite New Englanders like Buchanan and the justices who decided Dred Scott.
San FranCisco, not Fransisco
DuckDB has become my preferred tool for hardcore data wrangling. Excel is fine for like 80% of data processing tasks, but the remaining twenty percent are a pain, especially when you're CPU bound on a remote desktop. Smuggling the DuckDB JDBC driver onto said remote machine was the most productive infosec violation I've ever committed.
The statement gave two reasons I can see for moving the venue, both were related to recent law changes in Florida:

> Florida no longer represents the safe and family-friendly destination we envisioned when we first selected the location.

> we feel a strong moral and ethical obligation to ensure that the location of GopherCon aligns with the values of our community.

The latter justification leads me to ask: how do we ascertain what our community values are? Why do these particular values weigh more than others?
> The removal of public street payphones began in 2015 after the city acknowledged that advances in technology made them virtually obsolete.

Hey, congratulations on Manhattan for finally solving poverty and homelessness. I wonder which technology they used for that.
I have taken both jnj and Moderna. But I have to admit that the grandparent has a point. It feels it’s almost heretical to say, but the vaccines were terribly over-sold. In the beginning they were sold as traditional vaccines - prevention against infection not just serious disease. But very soon we saw “breakthrough infections” (not even written about anymore as they are so common) and the goal posts started being moved.

Public health establishment deserves a D- for their handling of the pandemic starting basically on day 1.
Currently in the end stretch of a client project from hell. As long as I don't get fired, it'll all be OK in a few weeks.
Not totally on topic, but I just bought a new Mac running Monterey. I've been running Win 10 and 11, and Ubuntu since 2014 or so, otherwise.

And the current OS X interface is nauseating. How we had decent GUIs when computers were 1/1000th what today's are, and this flat, ugly, undefined, pasty BS is acceptable is beyond me.

No joke, I'm returning the M1 machine and will go back to dual-boot Win11 and Ubuntu. Sorry, Apple, but you've lost your way.
They actually can, they're not a brand new never before seen kind of magic. They're using mechanisms that viruses and vaccines have used and which we've studied for hundreds of years. We don't actually know nothing about them.
This isn't a great example because most species will experience sigmoidal growth, not exponential growth, and consequently not suffer catastrophic collapse. As they put pressure on the carrying capacity of their environment, the environment pushes back effectively and puts pressure on the populations. In most systems some sort of stasis is reached (or you get some kind of cyclical population trend).

The trouble with humans is, because of ready access to fossil fuels and non-renewable energy, we have been able to artificially (or maybe more accurately phrased "unsustainably") extend beyond the carrying capacity of our ecosystem.

Indigenous populations of the Americas had populations in the millions but never risked, at least in North America, systemic collapse because they largely lived sustainably.

Ironically it's precisely because Malthus was proven wrong that we are in trouble. We have way, way higher energy demands than can be reasonably sustained without relying on a non-renewable source of energy. This completely disregards the additional problem of climate change. This sets us up for a type of collapse that is not usually a problem for most species, such as your lily pads.
No metaprogramming as in no separate metalanguage (e.g. templates, macro_rules!)
> My life would be perfect if I could find a way to stop failing as a person. Every day I'm afraid I'll lose everything because I can't "make it happen" and turn things around.

For what it’s worth, you’re definitely not alone in feeling like this.

Best of luck with the job hunting. You’ll get there!
IMO tactility was sacrificed in favor of versatility because we don't have a material that is both tactile and versatile and simulating such a thing is hard. And IMO it was a good tradeoff to make, instead of a tactile keyboard you have a keyboard that is infinitely adaptable. Maybe that changes with AR advances, could be gloves? embedded chips that send electrical impulses to your hands? an actual material versatile enough to be tactile and adapt to all the needs of a modern computing environment? But all those seem pretty far fetched to get into consumers hands in the near future and certainly back then. There are slight advances here with things like haptic engines in phones but it is still a far cry from the feel of a real tactile substance.
While this article discusses the macro benefits of maintaining population growth, the reasons for the birth dropoff in developed countries is microeconomic. Kids are expensive to raise and it's hard for two parents to have successful careers with kids. Even after the one child policy ended, China's birthrate is still declining.
Indeed, we need a New Deal, not a Final Solution.
Now that’s a stunning display of cultivated ignorance.
E-scooters?

I feel theft, portability, and price are the big reasons why E-scooters are taking off like crazy while E-bikes are not.

You can just fold up and bring a $500 E-scooter into your apartment and office, and also charge it while you work. Not to mention onto public transportation.

Unless you're very lucky to have an accommodating place of work and home, you probably can't do that with a E-bike.

Yes I know folding bikes exist (I personally have a Brompton), including folding E-bikes, but they're still not as convenient as a scooter. As much as I love my Brompton, I'm tempted to replace it with an E-scooter.

Edit: all of the above applies in comparison to normal non-electric bikes too.
Fun times. Until Win XP SP1, i think, if the memory is full windows will just crash.
I live in Ontario, Canada. For a long period of time the province reported deaths _with_ COVID, not necessarily deaths _because of_ COVID [1]. So when public health officials and the govts do stuffs like this, I cannot blame people when they are skpetic of COVID data.

[1] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-is-changing-how-it-report...
Just a note that the person you quoted is not the person you responded to.
It also seems that the upvotes don't register immediately.
Maybe it's Maybelline :)
Not true. There was one literally less than a year ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_shooting

Another one in 2018:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Moss_Side_shooting

And another in 2010:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings

And in 2009:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massereene_Barracks_shooting

Britain has also had numerous mass stabbings, bombings, and vehicle ramming attacks.
I did consider the possibility that one could say "I got into Harvard but went to X because..."

This could have made sense before Harvard's financial aid became so generous, but now they give loads of aid to middle- and low-income students.

It would sound a bit weird to keep saying "I got into Harvard...", likely for the same reason you mention at the end. Who wants to be an eliteness snob? Unfortunately there are many such people in the world, which is part of the reason their cachet persists.