skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh I mean Eternal September has it's own wikipedia page for a reason, and Usenet stopped being strictly nerd/geek/math/science 30 years ago. The only thing it is useful for now is piracy, and everyone else has moved on to either Reddit, or hyper specific phpbb type forums, both of which just require digging to discover what you like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
DRAM Thermal Issues Reach Crisis Point
"government exists to represent the interests of the capital-owning class" - this is especially true for US, because US politicians need enormous resources to get elected (mainly for media access) and basically the only way to get them is via contributions from lobbyists. US politicians understand that what gets them elected are not people, but money.

So if US people want to change that they would need to focus on expelling money from election process: severely limiting donations, especially from business, compensating candidates for the election costs, and mandating equal access to media covering elections (most EU countries have that and it works pretty well). But, don't expect politicians and corporate owned media to support that in any way - you would need a major grass roots movement to change that. Unfortunately at the moment I don't see any major shift in this direction.
Isn't a browser something you always have running? Genuinely curious. Yes, Vivaldi takes a couple seconds to launch, but how often do you launch your browser? For me a browser is one of those applications I'm always running and I rarely shutdown my computer except when applying updates so the launch time doesn't really affect me. Just wondering what you're doing different than I.
I miss Presto :(
Love anki. On the topic of brain training, an n-back app working memory training app. Evidence is mixed on whether it works. Anecdotally I've used it and think it worked for me. It's free to train, only cost is your time. I think the risk reward is in favour of trying it for 8 weeks.
> I believe that software engineering can be made so simple and clear that it can be wielded by an extremely small team of engineers.

I think one thing missing from this line of thinking is that these are people. They have their own motivations and egos. They get sick, have families, take vacations, quit.

I think part of the way large teams and large companies are structured is a hedge against changing teams with highly variable capacity. It's hard to overstate how much it can hurt a project to lose a someone who has a ton of experience locked up inside their head.

The alternative is that I have worked for places that try to treat thier engineers like fungible tokens that can be shuffled and replaced at will. That environment feels extremely dehumanizing and demotivating.
and those will be the same people perpetrating this flawed interview system, because interviewers tend to look for themselves in the interviewee
Yeah it’s still pretty nice to have navigation
You can always try to do it. Succeeding is a different matter entirely.
> This is finally going to make it possible and turn junk into gold.

Hearing many people say this. I may write it up from a e-waste POV as
a big win for the environment.
I think what you miss is the time when only the intelligent and sensible <10% of the population are on-line. There was no social network, so Usenet was where the cool kids hanged out. Now that everyone is on-line, and dragged 99% of the intelligent and sensible people over to social networks, so the remaining 0.1% of the population is not large enough to make Usenet interesting any more.
Anyone remember getting android on early iPhones?

Blew my first gen up, well the battery at least, with the dual OS running together.

Good times
> If you answer immediately, you will "ummmm uhhh" a lot. Learn to take a breather and buy time.

Some of the best advice I've ever gotten for this was: If you're pausing to think, just be silent. Practice for a while and have someone call you out on it. It's a hard habit to break, but someone who doesn't fill space with "um" will sound twice as smart.
Cloudflare announces Private Access Tokens – verification without CAPTCHAs
That federal spending is done perpetually at a budget deficit though. Is it so difficult to believe that a state couldn't also figure out how to build a money printer?
> It's super fast, works great across multiple calendars, is super fast.

But how fast is it?
GitHub Kills Atom Text Editor (Shocker) [video]
Qualcomm Promises to Outplay Apple's M2 with Its Upcoming Arm Chips
What's the source for that quote?
One could argue that if an app in a class of apps is slow on given hardware while others are not, it's slow, particularly for something as basic and essential as a web browser.
It's free.

It actually has quite a lot of functions, and effects, but the UI/UX is so so in my opinion.

Video rendering and export is fast enough which is a good thing, even when using effects.

The real test with most of these authoring tools is text support and how comprehensive it is, or not, as titling is an important aspect of video editing.
This appears to be the source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-1...
This is a fun project, however, what values can it provide besides fancy "social coding"? There are tons of information with github, and how to dig out the values behind sounds more meaningful to me.
If you don't use custom fonts and strictly system fonts, you get a lot of performance benefits; which may seem minor, but multiple this by tens of millions of people and you're talking about a real world climate impact here.

If the choice is between style vs performance, we should always default toward performance. Besides many OS's have added more system fonts throughout the last two decades. If anything we need to encourage OS's to have more interfont operability (if that's a word), I don't know the legal ramifications (there's gotta be one) but there's no reason why the most popular google fonts couldn't be included in various OS's.

Obviously I'm not an OS dev, so I'm curious if the limitations are purely legal or implementation.
Not enough to justify copyright monopolies.
Not everyone, no, but I'd wager 97% are.
"Aphantasia: Aphantasia is a phenomenon in which people are unable to visualize imagery. While most people are able to conjure an image of a scene or face in their minds, people with aphantasia cannot."
I've done that in interviews: "oh hey, the most efficient known algorithm is this classic named X". That tends not to win interviews either, but in the real world knowing the name of the best algorithm (or even just that a best algorithm exists and a general idea of what you'd google to find it) is more useful than knowing the details of it. If I need to reimplement a well known algorithm I can often reimplement it from the Wikipedia description, that's trivial and boring make-work (and will always be trivial and boring make-work). But I need to know which well known algorithm sometimes and that's a far more useful practical skill.
For possibly 95% of HN, as long as they are using it for AV1, it is ok.
Pandas vectorization: faster code, slower code, bloated memory
You mentioned unbiased news, I read Reuters daily on my phone and think it fits the bill.
Yes, but the forms must be observed. You can't just skip the interview, or give people you like a softball interview compared to other candidates.
Great post, thanks for sharing. HTTP really is pretty amazing.
Regarding the open source part, Jon has spoken about it on a podcast from last year[0][1]. Basically the only think keeping them from full open-source is the license which they think would make the company possibly fall to another competitor. It's hard being a small business, this makes sense to me. They actively encourage modding of the browser too.

I'm not sure regarding the prevention of automatic saving/filling. I use Bitwarden and in my time using Vivaldi, I haven't had any issues, though maybe someone in the Vivaldi forums[2] would know?

[0]: YouTube link: https://youtu.be/ivDiL9XeDw0?t=3410
[1]: Podcast website: https://destinationlinux.org/episode-243/
[2]: https://forum.vivaldi.net/
There’s no scenario where a state leaves by force. There is a point at which apathy leads to dissolution. If no one cares, then it’s inevitable. It’s entropy.
Ask HN: What can I do to stop being so anxious and scatterbrained at work?
> Social Security, Medicare, and the Military.

Three areas of government that have broad bipartisan support. The right wants smaller government, in theory, but they also want to "keep the government out of my Medicare!" So the spending isn't ever going to down, only up.
For a minute, I thought this was a web app that did POP/IMAP/SMTP in the browser without a server backend, but I suppose that wouldn't be possible without browser extensions.
Cool. It looks like KidPix for adults.
I'm quite certain that making people dread interviewing is part of the point. Else why keep making people who've already passed multiple times, do it again? First FAANG to start routinely letting people who've already passed a couple similar interviews at peer companies in without repeating the leetcode-hazing, then the other companies have to do it, too, now suddenly the rate-of-increase of software developer pay's even faster than it already is, which none of them want.

Even having to pass such a test on a very aggressive set schedule—say, every 5 years—but only at those set times, would be better—for developers. Not for the companies hiring them.
I don't get this. 3 comments (so far) from people claiming slowness. I've been using Vivaldi for my "time wasting" browser (Hacker News, Reddit, Techmeme etc.) for quite some time and never see any slowness. I launch it dozens of times each day. I have a 2+ year old i7-9750H with 16 GB of RAM and I always have Chrome with 4 tabs min, and Firefox with 2 tabs min open simultaneously with Vivaldi.
Goes to 11
You're welcome, thank you for the discussion.

As someone who lives outside of America, I really wouldn't be so down on it as a country. I'm lucky to live in a very nice part of the world (Switzerland!) but even so, America is a country and culture I hugely admire. I've spent most of my career working for American firms because that's where the action is, that's where the bravest people tackle the hardest problems. Yes, America is a land of extremes and the lows can be low, but the compensation is that the highs are really high.

"For example, in every field, funding is corrupted. So I wouldn't say there are some fields that don't get much invalid research at all. Outright fraud is not the only kind of "invalid" research."

Ah, I see. Well, I'd say that the funding mechanism makes invalid research possible/easy but doesn't necessarily directly create it. The lights are out but someone still has to misbehave. In some fields there just isn't much incentive to do that, e.g. consider computer graphics or the papers that explore more efficient K/V stores or compilers. You could try and cheat in those papers but why bother? You'd just be undermining any possible future jobs in industry, so I find these papers to be pretty reasonable.

The corruption really seems to kick off in fields that can be twisted into forms of social control in some way, or where there's not much chance of ever getting a good job in the private sector. Social sciences are a great example but public health is the same problem. People see an opportunity to change the world through misrepresenting their science, they see that nobody will stop them, and so they take it. Power is the goal and the apathetic funders are the enabler. You can't change the world or control anyone via compiler research though, so it stays closer to the original ideals.

Now, I agree that if you wider the problem scope to include irrelevant research nobody cares about, then indeed every field has big problems with that. It's probably too much to ask people to care about both invalid and irrelevant research at once though.

"I bet Gates would be happy to admit a lot of the research he funds is "low quality." That isn't a personal indictment against him. He'd probably argue that a lot is "medium quality" and a lot is "high quality." I wouldn't disagree. I'm sure there is some proportion in all three buckets."

Well if you or anyone else can get him to admit that, it'd be a great start.
Does the Infinite Exist?
> However, the Caveat in the man page seems to contradict this, and indicates that you do have to fly in

This is an attempt at humor, because railway stations are not airports.
Linux is a kernel though. This feels like the opposite of Stallmans GNU/Linux rant.
Yeah, we've seen how it (hasn't) worked out for Germany.
On this point, there was some good practical advice in this HN comment that I've adopted and applied successfully:

What I did is I prepared 10 different stories about my career experience and then tagged them with a bunch of prompts. For example I have a story about one project that had dual PMs that experienced a lot of scope creep and eventually fizzled on release. I can now use that story to answer a broad range of questions from failure to various project management approaches. Overall I now have prepared stories to answer probably 50-75 different questions immediately.

Another benefit is that I have also told these stories multiple times in interviews now and I get better telling them each time. Even if the answer isn't 100% relevant, I feel more confident and likely come off better launching immediately into a detailed story about my experience rather than trying to awkwardly come up with an answer on the fly. It is also easy to drop irrelevant parts or expand on specific details when the basic framework of the story is already something that feels natural.

I will even have the document with all the prompts and story bullet points open whenever I am doing phone or remote interviews.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25519718

I also keep a document where I'll record new or challenging questions after I do an interview and outline a response so I'm better prepared next time.
See my comment above - the weaponise term is from a quote that was disavowed by the Labour leader-before-last, but that he certainly seems to have spoken.

Here's an article on the topic - from a socialist source: https://www.sochealth.co.uk/2015/04/28/weaponizing-the-nhs-i...

'many campaigners who want to “Save” the NHS seem to want to do the opposite – to politicise the NHS so far that reform becomes a practical impossibility. They create alarm about cuts to local services, privatization, postcode lotteries and TTIP. They seem more motivated by anger, and fixated on political totems, than on trying to promote progress within the NHS.'

'The problem with Labour’s campaign to “weaponize” the NHS and turn it into a key political battleground, and its politically motivated and gimmicky manifesto pledges, is that it distracts from the real work that is needed: devolved reforms led by clinicians. We could have yet another 2 year hiatus. The NHS can ill-afford that.'

The kneejerk downvotes on HN are so depressing, especially when they are borne out of ignorance (not you btw, your comment is good).
Practices. It's a skill, you get better at doing it by doing it.

However don't just drone through interviews. Do deliberate practice. Be mindful and participate fully in the process. After the fact reflect on your performance. What did you do well, what could you improve? The first few times will be super awkward. After 30 interviews you will feel more confident. After a 100 it will feel like second nature. Sounds like a lot of work? of course! that's what it takes to become good.

This might be overkill though so apply judiciously. Still, if you feel the need to improve, going through the process with a handful of companies should improve your skills significantly.
Secession would mean not paying federal taxes and repossessing federal assets within the seceding state.

If you look to the Civil war, fighting wasn't kicked off by the declaration of separation, the flashpoint was possession of federal armories in southern states.

I agree it is largely fantasy. The federal gov would never hand over bases in Texas, ect.
Actions can still provide the feedback even without a PR if you trigger on push, you just don't have a gate like PR for contribution. I do similar to what you're describing and would recommend a feedback loop for build/test 100% of the time.

I just don't think merging without review equates is an absolute negative depending on the situation, in this case no reviewers exist outside of myself and from my perspective this is how a lot projects start, someone just goes for it and starts committing! Yolo...
That’s great advice, you want them to know you have a valuable service to offer, but unfortunately, so many people want it you just don’t have the time…. slight pause… correct answer is “well what would make it worth your time?” wrong answer; anything else, then ghost them
Office work is dead, if it is not actually needed.
> The main problem is the mandatory spending.

Which, to a close approximation, everyone actually supports. We don't reduce government spending because we don't want to.
Citation on that admission?
What on earth kind of weapon is it? It's a nonsense statement.
He has a point in some areas. Combat jumps for example. They are largely unnecessary and to be honest, may be a relic of the past. Warfare has gotten advanced enough where putting troops on the ground via a C130 and parachute may be obsolete in most instances. Now, small insertions of Special forces may not be, but large scale 101st airborne ones may be. But they tend to do a lot higher altitude jumps of a different kind.

It is like the Marine Corp who just disbanded their armored division and gave all the tanks to the Army. If an army can put a javelin in the hands of enough soldiers, are tanks really that effective anymore?

Now this isn't to say all combat training it useless, but some may be. Some of those things we are doing may be relics of the past and no longer necessary. We seem to train like the next world war is going be just like World War 2, but I imagine the next world war will look a whole lot different.
Good for them. Computing performance is relative between machines.

I have no obligation to confirm for you relative truth. Gathering the evidence would be a waste of time and CPU cycles for what is ultimately an ePeen size competition.

Fact: my computers hardware and software configuration loads GTA5 in 5-6 minutes. I experienced it first hand two days ago. Sorry all of physical reality does not align with your experience, not sorry.

Don’t believe me if you don’t want to.
The slow startup applies to new Vivaldi windows, too, unfortunately. This affects me because I use windows instead of tabs for the most part. Tabs open quickly, but opening a new window is a 2-second lag.
Is it not possible -- even probably -- that Google had a legitimate legal claim on the work?

Aside from the argument re whether it is morally right, it's not uncommon for software companies to assert ownership over the intellectual output of their employees, whether the creative process takes place on or off the clock.

Joel explains it better than I can:

* https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
But...control of what? Instead of finding assembly lines of productive workers, they
quickly discover that their product is produced by utterly unpredictable, uncooperative,
disobedient, _and worst of all, unattractive people_ who resist all attempts at
management.

I feel like this could be a line taken out of American Psycho :D.
Love the interactive visuals. Would be awesome to see how that would work with other use cases at some point. Is that something you’re planning to do?
“Make it easy for them to start a BBS”

You mean, like this?

https://enigma-bbs.github.io/
More accurate title... I love the Linux desktop, but I just want one version of it so that I don't have to deal with competition and jobs with different tools. In other words, I'll likely switch to Apple.
Last version I tried (5.4 or something), it took >10 seconds to open. I didn't have too many extensions either. My PC is far from slow since Chrome/Brave open in <2 seconds.
Because they eat their young?
The US MBAs have figured out that procedures should be expensive. The health insurance industry as a whole would rather collect 15% of trillions spent than 15% of billions spent.
I find it disconcerting that a defective critical piece ended up being used anyway, regardless of the economies involved. That might mean you have no reactor, but you can't just go an substitute broken or out of spec parts for good ones.
If you mean me, of course you can.

But if you think that the root of the problem is CO2, then you'd better take it up with China and India. The EU and the US are doing a good job in reducing CO2 output and will continue to do so.
You're just stating the difference between a statement and an expression. FYI, other languages (e.g. rust) have embraced the "everything is an expression" and it works extremely well, where JSX wouldn't be so awkward (in this aspect) and we could write something like:

<div>{if (list?.length > 0) {
list.map(e => {
if (e.items.length) {
<div>Excellent!</div>
} else {
<div>Not good.</div>
}
});
} else {
<div>Nothin to see.</div>
}}</div>

Now, if you want to write this in actual JSX, you have to do this:

<div>{(!!list && list.length) // awkward way of writing code
? list.map(e => {
if (e.items?.length) { // normal way of writing code
return <div>Excellent!</div>;
} else {
return <div>Not good.</div>;
}
})
: <div>Nothin to see.</div>
}</div>

Do you see the contradiction of being forced to use only expressions, only in some places? And this happens all the time. The most frequent thing we do in UI is rendering lists, so we use `.map` with "regular" code constantly, mixed with the awkward "expressions only" areas. Sure, the reason is that JavaScript is like that, but that doesn't make JSX any better.
> and it’s likely the only automakers left after the EV transition are Tesla, Ford, and possibly Rivian

That isn't remotely likely. The European EV market is 3 times the size of the North American EV market at the moment. Here's what that looks like:

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL/Groups/Line/All-time-by-Y...

https://eu-evs.com/bestSellers/ALL/Groups/Year/2022

Have a look at Norway's sales for 2022. 4 of the top 10 vehicles are Volkswagens (VW ID.4, Audi Q4 e-tron, Skoda Enyaq, Audi e-tron):

https://elbilstatistikk.no/

> and deploys tens of Superchargers per month

So you mean people will have more places to charge their BMWs or Audis or Toyotas or Hyundais, etc? So what:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y33AArvMUQ
> We needed healthcare reform. What we got was the ACA.

> What we needed was them to bring back Glass-Steagall in the wake of sub-prime crisis. What we got was ?????

Wealthy powerful interests who fund politicans on both sides ensure those reforms fail or are watered down to nothing. This is not about complexity. It's simple corruption.
Your personal experiences have no values when discussing any trend in crime over a larger population
In particular some numbered zones are entirely contained geographically within others. In some places in the US, there's a ZIP for delivery to private homes and businesses but another for delivery within the Postal Service network, including delivery to post office boxes. The one I remember most readily is Quincy, Illinois. The city is 62301 and the surrounding county 62305, but PO boxes are 62306, located within the post offices that sit within the 62301 zone.
I think it was an intentional riff on/reframing of the phrase. They lay out the intended meaning very plainly at the top
That's weird, old people sure do love Medicare. "75% of responses are either very satisfied or satisfied with their Medicare coverage. Only 6% said they’re either dissatisfied or very dissatisfied." [1]

[1] https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/seniors-love-medicare-bu...
Aerosols from burning fossil fuels are masking global warming