skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... I missed some miles. No big deal — I could make them up

Nope, it's common advice not to try and make up missed runs or miles.

This is actually one of the ways people get into ruts: they fall behind their plan a little and "need" to catch up. But needing to catch up makes them overwhelmed, so they actually fall behind a little more, leading to a downward spiral.

Fitness, like weight-loss and hobbies and other things, is very long-term. Years or decades long-term. So the short term - days weeks, even a month - barely matters. Yes, you can literally spend an entire month not exercising and you'll barely lose any fitness (like maybe a month's worth, doesn't mean you should).

Working out is a routine. A rut is also a routine of not working out. The key to not falling into a rut is to maintain the routine of working out. Even when you're not working out, whether because of laziness or injury or something else, you can still maintain the routine. For example, you can just do stretching or go for a small run - anything which convinces your mind you're still in the routine of working out. And if you do find yourself falling off of the routine, get back into it, not by doing a huge workout or anything, but just start working out again as if you never took time off. Not meaning to belittle anyone or sound rude here, getting back into a routine is hard - but in a way it's also not hard, because you put in the same amount of physical effort the day you're back into the routine, as the next day and every other day and so on.

If you approach every day with the mentality "I plan to workout today", you don't get into ruts. Because it doesn't matter whether you skipped yesterday or the last week or you're on a 500-day streak, you planning to work out today is the same.
May want to look into the VTOL space.

Many are looking at an autopilot capability to do the take off and land.
> You should be able to get 99% of the way there in simulation with a team of 4 really smart coders and an endless supply of Redbull and a year, tops.

I can say this about a lot of things, but man, it scares me that there’s people in the world who are crazy enough to think that’s true. Even Elon Musk isn’t that delusional.
“Autopilot feels like a novelty”

No way are you for real? Autopilot is incredible, for me it substantially reduces fatigue on long highway drives and decreases my stress when commuting in stop and go traffic. The difference between autopilot and simple cruise control is substantial. I wouldn’t buy a car that didn’t have Autopilot at this point.
> Jon and the authors of uxn commit a common fallacy in that they're chasing a brass ring of in-the-small performance metrics, getting it in the form of particular demonstrations, and then gradually accreting features to it until, most likely, they end up in a similar position to the old tech.

The authors of this post note the same tendency with Gemini [1] and demonstrate that the clients are actually quite fat, much fatter than their rationale documents claim they should be.

[1]: https://applied-langua.ge/posts/terminal-boredom.html
Keeping a certain layout in tiling wms is the main thing I'd say.
And also it's just a faster way of organizing windows compared to alt tabbing, it just takes a bit of getting used to since most people grow up with single workspace OSs.
Maybe, I guess we'll never know as their deliberations are secret but I can see what you mean.

A better example would have been for me to use the case of Extinction Rebellion and Shell: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/23/jury-acq...
I've made enough off TSLA to afford a Tesla, but I'm actually now considering the Ioniq 5 over the Model Y. Specs are very similar and it's like 2/3 the price.

I've been a believer in Tesla for a decade now but it is starting to seem like the competition is catching up.
Buy smart tv an remove wifi module
I agree that he has an impressive resume, but I believe the parent's point is still valid: live-coding compiler work doesn't make someone magically faultless. Everyone has their blind spots.

If Jonathan Blow truly does believe that there are "perfect" programmers who never, ever need runtimes that do bounds checking (and other useful things)[0], then that is a huge blind spot. Maybe these unicorns exist, but they are just that: incredibly, vanishingly rare. And Blow certainly isn't one of those people; I've played both Braid and The Witness, and I've seen them both crash (in game code, not in a linked platform library). They're amazing, beautiful games, but that doesn't make their author above criticism.

> ... but you’ve kind of signed up for a little of this: what the fuck is your CV?

Valid criticism/skepticism need not turn into a dick-measuring contest. Trying to invalidate someone's opinion by asking for their credentials is logically fallacious. Please don't do this sort of thing here.

Also not sure where all the anger is coming from. Why do you feel such a personal stake in Jonathan Blow's reputation as some sort of infallible coding god?

[0] Not saying that I know for a fact that he does believe this; I'm just going by OP's article, which could easily be wrong or at least exaggerated.
Discord will probably get you next to some script kiddies but i doubt anyone serious is on there.
It’s good to know that broken equipment can pollute the airwaves for years unchecked, and even if the broken equipment was found and the responsible party identified, they would still be given opportunity the rectify the situation even though they have been in violation for potentially years. But a guy with a bad judgment call in a natural disaster can get a $34k fine immediately, and the agency will brag about how it is the largest ever.
It was standardized fairly late. Before that it was a well-known informal standard and parsers existed for many languages. According to the Wayback machine, a web page with the JSON grammar was on Crockford's website in February 2003:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030228034147/http://www.crockf...
Honestly probably less than all the showers you took in the same amount of time.
Autopilot has Prevented far more accidents than it has caused.
I don't have cable, so I do OTA for anything I want to watch that's on network TV, especially football during the NFL season.
Boston (Cambridge) is also the global top biotech and life sciences center.
Serious question, is someone actually looking for this? Why would anybody want to find an employer that went out of their way to signal like this? If I was looking for a job, I would prefer the exact opposite, or generally I would prefer companies that focus on work stuff and not requirements unrelated to the job.
I’ve shopped for similar insurance (high risk investment management E&O) and the annual premiums are a fraction of the 5% spread they were taking on $44m
How long ago was that, Autopilot has been improving rapidly and since they stopped using radar I haven’t experienced and phantom breaking.
Great site!

One nitpick is that I don't like clicking left to access the older Journal entries (traditionally, right arrow shows older entries, like in pagination tables).
>all this stuff

If you aren't rich, you're allowed to do some of the stuff that rich people do, without doing all of it.

In my opinion, that's the entire reason for preferring a capitalist society where money determines what you get. It means there is some limited freedom from "social station" or class.
Yep my experience as well. I have worked with 10x developers that will quickly outperform any other developers in any area they start working on. I worked with a 10x that started with zero knowledge on a specific programming language and it’s ecosystem and in a few months delivered a well written, easy to maintain large business applications that a whole team of more experienced developers (in that language/ecosystem) had failed to deliver. Developing software is like any other activity. Some people simply are more talented than others. People who refuse to acknowledge this needs to explain why software development is the only activity where talent doesn’t matter. They can’t.
Or back further, the Teapot Dome scandal. Or “remember the Maine!” Or “it’s a war about states’ rights.” Or “I come not to praise Caesar but to bury him.” Or “we feel totes bad about attacking you so we built you this wooden horse as an apology.”

Maybe politicians have always been liars and people have always let them get away with it.
Interesting. Did that happen to kill the stinky bacteria living in the sweat glands as well? Or is the improvement in smell merely a function of the lowered sweat production?
It sounds like an X-Y problem [1].

X: I want to be able to recall relevant information when it's needed.

Y: How do I retain long-term memory of technical topics without practising them every day?

To solve X, it is sufficient to be able to reliably rediscover information as it is needed. Putting it into long-term memory stored inside your brain is just one layer of that.

Think of it like a computing architecture, where there are layers of data retention with trade-offs for speed vs reliability vs size. You don't just have a CPU and RAM and a hard drive. A modern computer has various CPU caches, RAM, ssds and rotational drives, possibly combined with offsite storage, cloud storage, tape drives, cdroms and usb sticks.

They all have tradeoffs: RAM is pretty fast, but not as fast as CPU cache, but it holds a lot more than cache, but it doesn't hold as much as an ssd, which in turn is a lot slower than RAM, but not as slow as a hdd, and meanwhile can hold a lot more than RAM, but (generally) not as much as that same hdd. You get the most from your computer by understanding these tradeoffs, not by trying to make your ssd do triple-duty as RAM+ssd+hdd.

Likewise, optimizing your brain doesn't mean trying to force it to keep arbitrary technical data/concepts only in long-term memory. Instead, you are already doing the right thing by keeping the information distributed across the internet, in books, in the brains of people who you teach and learn from, and knowing how to re-derive logically-deducible concepts from axioms, or rediscover data from first principals using experimentation and trial-and-error.

Let your brain do what it does best, which is act as a survival machine optimized for getting mates, finding food, and escaping lions.

Don't hamstring that machine by giving it unrealistic goals like "damnit you simply MUST be able to recall all relevant formulae for orbital mechanics and know how to write down the Navier-Stokes and Black-Scholes equations off the cuff and what is the full instruction set for the ARMv8-A architecture."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Tesla “Autopilot” is otherwise known as the combination of “lane keeping assistance” and “adaptive cruise control” for virtually every other manufacturer. Sure, Tesla’s version is better than many of their competitors, but it still doesn’t make the marketing Tesla insists on doing any less misleading.
Sure, but i think there is some truth to defining yourself by your enemy as a failure mode.

I obviously want my social media to be opposed to human traficking. However, if that is literally its only defining characteristic, it doesn't sound like a fun place to hang out.
One of my websites has been using SQLite3 as a backend database since 2018ish and works perfectly fine.
I agree with you, but it’s quite easy to see how any of those could be seen as a negative by a prospective employer.
It's a bizarre situation, they'd actually probably be better off voting to leave the UK and rejoining the EU.
It looks like a PAM thing. (Where if you screw up your PAM setup, you'll lock yourself out of your computer). Results of Yubikey usage look mixed.

It looks like there are some caveats around Full Disk Encryption, and with use with M1 Macs.

Here's a guide which uses the PIV module with the newer Yubikeys. https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016649059

For the cheaper U2F security keys (or older Yubikeys which do challenge-response stuff).. I've seen comments that had success using U2F for sudo/su, but not the login screen.
> and the center of the action gradually moved to SF

Is this true? Are there some numbers available for comparison?
As someone who has driven over lots of Europe and the US, this is absolutely not true in my experience.
System Bus Radio – transmit radio on computers without radio transmitting hw
Fun fact, you don't need user registration to do that.
Yeah just gotta raise taxes more on whatever businesses are left and that will solve it.
Not to accuse them of being dishonest, but it also costs them nothing to say that, loudly and often, in a political environment where they know it's not going to happen.
I post this from time to time, incluing here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28422944 with some editing. Recycling some replies. More context on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26182988

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100 (understanding codebases, etc.)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591067 (testing pipelines, scaffolding, issue templates)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103 (making the most out of meetings, leveraging your presence)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841 (product development)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222 (giving a damn)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223 (If I disappear, what will happen)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611 (about consulting and clients, but you can abstract that as "stakeholders", and understanding the problem your "client", who can be your manager, has.)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518 (on taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable).

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365 (product, architecture, and impact on the team)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716 (onboarding new hires to a codebase, what if it were you, improve code)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623 (being efficient learning from video, hacks. Subsequent reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632 (communication with the team, and subsequent reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886 (template for taking minutes of meetings to dispatch to the team. Notes are in GitHub/GitLab so the team can access them, especially if they haven't attended).

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646 (communication, alignment)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439 (useful things for the team and product that add leverage)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660 (more meeting notes. Reply to a person who had trouble talking in corporate meetings)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971 (management involvement as a spectrum)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120 (researching topics)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502 (keeping up with a firehose of information)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017 (fractal communication: communication that can penetrate several layers of management and be relevant to people with different profiles and skillsets)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539 (remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align)

Write better. Always.
Uh, that isn't the rule, for exactly that reason.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I live in Oakland, so have awareness but obviously not direct exposure to SF's current D.A. problems - it seems like SF voted in a person they thought would be a DA that would reduce excessive prison, juvenile->adult conversion, better diversion to mental health support, etc.

It turned out what they actually got was a DA that literally did not do his job, and just had literally everyone arrested put back on the street. Apparently also trying to get his father out of criminal charges as well?

That goes a long way to explain the overwhelming recall in last? weeks election.
> Hopefully at least one of the walls is made of solid brick / concrete / steel. Otherwise you have bigger problems!

Why? In the US it is very common that all your walls are studs for structure with sheetrock for surface.
Huh. This comes suspiciously after Home Assistant/NabuCasa rolls out their insteon integration.
I don't really know anyone who (openly) believed that online learning was going to be successful.

Online learning is fine for adults who have developed sufficient mental discipline and focus, especially college style where you're in classes only a few hours a day.

Expecting 7 year old kids and teenagers to sit in front of a computer screen and suffer through what effectively amounts to 7 hours of meetings is asinine- they can barely do that in person, where the number of distractions is far fewer.

OTOH, I will never go back to an office, full stop. The commute isn't worth it, and being in person more than a handful of times a year (tops) isn't worth it. I'm a fairly introverted person by nature, though, and my dogs and wife are home during the day, so I don't really get any sense of isolation.
thiswebsitewillselfdestruct is honestly one of the only places on the internet that allows anonymous writing that has a majority wholesome and meaningful content.
You don't go to that website looking for internet updoots, you go to that website because you have something to say, but no one to say it to.
> The cost was about 20% (that is, 80% off) from a comparable jacket from Loro Piana, and using the exact same fabric, which a much better fit to boot.

The first jacket I checked on the Loro Piana website cost $25k... wow.
what is the problem when you brain forgets things that are not important at the time? Your brain is working as designed.
San Francisco is self-destructing and sabotaging its own success. Instead of fixing crime and quality of life issues, they've actively made them worse or gas-lighted residents and done nothing at all. I've always thought it was insane paying the prices of SF to live in squalor and near so much crime. BART is also a completely miserable experience. I don't think anyone wants to commute into SF or live there if they don't absolutely have to. Maybe during the next recession, employers will have more leverage to require more in-office work, but I definitely think employees/talent who can work remote are going to when possible. I know I am and that I never plan to commute back to SF or another South Bay campus ever again. I'll take a pay cut to keep working remotely if I have to.

If SF wanted to clean things up, they'd have cops walking a beat in the Tenderloin--something I never say in the 12 years I lived there. I think the lack of any political competition has led to politicians who don't give a shit about what's best for residents and can just coast off the vote blue no matter who mentality.
Also make sure that you don't install Microsoft, Apple or Google software on the computer that will control it...
My days are always better when I start them with some handstand pushups against the wall. It's better than coffee at waking me up and is an excellent source of feedback on body weight status. Also takes very little time.

I highly recommend incorporating at least a static hand stand against the wall into your morning routine, then try work up to turning it into full blown handstand pushups just a little bit at a time.

Used to just do pushups daily, then my friend's girlfriend who did acrobatics and crap talked me into doing handstands with her one day. Never looked back, material QoL improvement ever since, thanks Stefi!
You are 100% correct. Talent matters in any activity. Including software development. Pretending that software developers is the one exception to this rule is just silly. But it does protect the ego of insecure developers.
> A lot of people can't get their head around this level of subtlety.

Have you considered that this might be intentional on Tesla's part?

In my original post I never said anything about full-self-driving being a real thing, I simply said that their marketing uses that term a lot and leans heavily on those capabilities. I'm well aware of the distinction, but I'm also aware that Tesla seems to intentionally cultivate the ambiguity as to what exactly FSD means. It's not fair of you to cast blame on those who get confused when the company makes the line very, very blurry in their marketing.

EDIT: I'm also not accusing Tesla of outright lying. They can "not claim it exists" while still making sure plenty of people miss that "subtlety".
So would you say your experience is very different from the one shown in this video[1], or is it that you'd describe the video as very very rough?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwduh2kRj3M
https://linkians.com/ I've spend hours playing around with different possible scenarios here.
My father grew up on a Minnesota farm, homesteaded by European immigrants. He got drafted into the army and married my German mom in Nuremberg after WWII. They provided for me enough to get educated, learn to program, and become a college dropout, software entrepreneur, and multimillionaire.

To answer your questions: yes, the work was worth it, because it led to having no financial concerns, which is very relaxing, and financial success let me help and support family members and let my wife support charities. I doubt there would have been a "more fun" path for me because I enjoyed programming so much.
Found as a link from Wikipedia, from the following article (6/11/2022):

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

This HN article/these links -- are intended for proactive/defensive/ethical security & security awareness purposes only.
The intended way to look at this is, “When I write code, I know what I wrote and the processes in my team (should) ensure other teammates know it as well”.
> Startups are founded in Northern California because of easy access to VC money and an extremely strong talent base.

And the illegality of non-competes. And the fact that your off-hours IP is yours.

One thing that tech people are forgetting is that California law may not apply to them in remote situations and there are a bunch of protections that you get when you are subject to California law.

If you don't think the corporate lawyers are already working this angle, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you ...
But it is also not the case that people are crashing and dying left and right from the FSD beta, or as a result of using Autopilot in less than ideal conditions. This despite OTA updates increasing functionality and millions more cars being sold. Even if what you're saying is true: it is empirically true that in practice, humans take over when necessary.

The statistics aren't there. The risks people have been shouting about for years just haven't materialized. If regulatory agencies are looking to reduce crashes, injuries, or deaths, there must be dozens of more effective places to focus attention on than Autopilot. But it's 2022, and yet again, it's on the front page of Hacker News, and the top comment is (you guessed it): the naming of the features is the problem.

It's Groundhog Day all over again. Geesh.
It specializes in two functions:

- looking exactly like some random rock to a layperson

- messing with the mind of a 21st century paleontologist or anthropologist