skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but I think it depended on the community. Some communities had very active forums and others were barren.

This is not something negative, some communities were just some witty or funny title and others to have genuine discussions.
This article is either massively overpromising in its title, or I lack massive understanding. Given my academic background I suppose it's the former, but I can't be sure.

I can be sure it's badly written.
Throwaway because I run a large dental software company.

Dentistry is practiced as a business focused on maximizing revenue. Dentists are routinely coached to deploy sales tactics to increase their treatment acceptance beyond what is needed. If you walk into a dental office, you need to protect yourself from being abused. A second opinion unfortunately puts you in the same position, but now with a new dentist who will play into the narrative of only needing to monitor your condition for a while.

The business of dentistry is unfortunately antithetical to conservative treatment, which is almost always in the interest of the patient, because it results in significantly lower patient lifetime value.
This is something I struggle with. I was raised by a child molestor (my father) and he raped me from birth until puberty. Did the same to my sister and also made us perform for him. I feel like this is impossible (or at least, it feels like it) to ever really come to peace with.

I have at least TRIED to come to peace with it, as much as I have been able (I am not young), but it resurfaces in ways that catch me off guard. Triggers that I have a hard time identifying (and that seem minor or inconsequential from a logical point of view) can instantly send me into a spiral of depression that can be very difficult to get out of. I have a hard time hiding it at work (in tech, higher up) when it gets bad but I feel that I must.
Unfortunately that kind of (now) obscure platform is unlikely to get great support from web browsers in general.
good point! (I knew that, honest)
It sounds like you have enough to get started on this path. I would want to see a "full" project built and deployed if I were interviewing. It can be anything really, it just needs to be "real world" / complex enough that you had:

1) Make decisions about things, and did the required research to make those decisions (and can talk about what you did and why).

2) Went through the entire deployment lifecycle. Its really easy to just do the interesting stuff then call it a day, but if you have actually gotten to production with something then you are forced to address a bunch of tiny paper cuts along the way which will round your skillset out significantly when trying to get your foot in the door.
Where did you get the price figure for a parking space in Zürich?

It's CHF 300 per year in a blue zone where you have to find a spot whenever you feel like parking your car.
You’re right, but it’s worth noting that nothing about that is particular to wasm. A JS app could equally avoid the DOM and render its own UI components via WebGL/WebGPU.
I may have missed some turn here, but if your thesis holds, what would be the motivation for them to vote to force-move their own coins..?
That is why we go to great lengths to civilize ourselves. Sports fanaticism is a fetal nationalism. Maybe we should challenge our hardwired programming, it does seem to offer a lot of control in our actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism_in_the_Un...
Well said! I would add that, I’d you feel you don’t know what you’re doing, there’s a third possibility: you actually do know what you’re doing, in any meaningful sense, but your memory of your past work is dominated by the few cases where there wasn’t a clear right answer, and you made a call you couldn’t rigorous justify, even though you were doing most of the job very competently.

Those situations make it seem like you’re just shooting from the hip/groping in the dark all day … but that belief is wrong.

Either way, the right response to the feeling of impostor syndrome should not be to shrug and say “oh everyone’s like that” (which is how you get the Elizabeth Holmeses of the world); it should be to look for objective heuristics to identify whether you are, in the large, performing competently.

Edit: earlier comment on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214749
Testing and building C projects with Zig
people w/experience, how does this transfer to other languages once you complete this?

Edit: generally, i would love for any text based or even MOOC based courses to lay, out at the end, where does said student do after finishing the course i.e. what courses the could potentially take.
My mum is in her late 70s and can type faster than anybody I've ever seen. No idea how to use a computer, though.
> "I need the time anyway. Provide it in a spreadsheet by end of day."

I'd offer a time that's 4-5x as long as a reasonable ballpark. If they take that time, it gives you some slack. If they balk at it, you can explain that the estimate takes into account all of the unknown variables, and that if they'd like to shorten the time, they'll need to invest a little bit of time into discovery to get a breakdown of the timeline. Once managers start being faced with the real costs of their decisions, they start to be reasonable. But you have to do this in a calm and reasonable manner, not passive aggressively. If you do it just to get back at a manager, it will backfire on you.
i stopped using Facebook, google and Twitter in 2012. I am even more sick of it now. Back then I didn't like what it did to me, and I really disliked the fact that we were giving a private company such an important part of human communication and society.

It hasn't gotten better. I have now stopped visiting some of my favourite restaurants because I can't read their opening hours or menu because I don't have a Facebook account. I don't know when Facebook started doing that, but one day they closed their business pages and excluded me from a lot of information that used to be public.
Volvo has started testing trucks with fuel cells powered by hydrogen
Of course I'm moving goalposts. This kind of shit should be banned before someone gets the idea (or audacity) to implement it. The time for "move fast and deal with the law later" is over - it's obvious that the technical possibility is easy to implement and hard to detect for the average user, it's obvious that there is nothing good for the customer that comes out of it, and so the law should for once be proactive instead of reactive.
This is exactly the point. Simulated rain isn't real rain, it's a digital representation. So, the argument goes, that a simulated consciousness is not a real consciousness, but a digital approximation. It's as real as the fake rain.

In other words, there is something inherently biological about consciousness. Simulating rain doesn't produce water, and simulating a brain doesn't produce consciousness.
too similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31809635
> If you lose your Facebook account, it's annoying but recoverable.

Tell that to the large portion of the world living where government services, clubs, community and social events, second hand markets, contact with family or communication without usurious data charges are unavailable without a facebook or facebook subsidiary account.

At least with apple you can just use a different phone. If all of the social activity in your area operates over facebook you can't get a new social graph that isn't owned by them.
Two spaces between sentences is how I've always typed them, even if it's in HTML or MD or other forms that will condense them into a single space in the final render. The two spaces mark a clear intent to end a sentence instead of a period to punctuate an abbreviation.
The last issue of Transactor was going to be 1982 Vol #3 / Issue #6, when they were going to shift its readership to the much larger US publication, but they got so many inquiries to keep it going, plus a new sponsor / advertiser that they went to the new Vol #4 and switched to a "professional print publication.". Those two volumes are interesting to read.

[0] https://www.commodore.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/the_tran...
[1] https://www.commodore.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/the_tran...
Speak for yourself, I find it interesting.
I'm doing that almost systemically when writing Markdown for similar reasons to the blog post author.
£25 each way is a walk up fare, you just need to take the slightly slower train (which is still faster than the car and about the same speed it was in the 90s), arriving in London about 1030.

Peak time commuting tickets are likewise a bargain. Brighton-London for £5,300 5 times a day 50 weeks a year at 65 miles each way is 32,500 miles, or 16p per mile. For a car doing 45mpg that will cost you £6,300 in fuel alone, let alone parking, depreciation, wear and tear, etc.
I'd say the biggest slight of hand is that human's understand other humans "knowing" something as something happening internal to an individuals brain. Holding a biology book in front of you doesn't mean you know everything in the book. What you "know" are the things from the book that you've stored in your brain.

We can modify the thought experiment so that it's something internal to the persons brain. The person doesn't learn Chinese as most people do, but a computer rewires their mind to be the same as someone who did. Think of The Matrix, when Neo says "I know Kung Fu." Would people then say this person speaks Chinese? I imagine just about everyone would say yes.
A q.bio report. Basically MRI + DEXA + blood work + urinalysis. It's a few thousand dollars each go but much better value than doing all the tests as one off's (if you can even get them).

I did not supplement with any drugs but your body does produce up to 1,250% more HGH in a long-term fasted state(!). You're also completely deprived of glycogens so your ability to perform anaerobic work to gain muscle is probably not going to happen without some more bio-hackery.

I heard second hand that Tim Ferris did two long term fasts. One under medical supervision where he was confined to a hospital and lost significant muscle mass; another where he went about his normal routines and (surprisingly) didn't lose any notable mass. Which matches what we know about muscle atrophy in ICU patients for instance - confine someone to a bed and they're going to waste away.
A sad state if appending reddit leads to better results but it is true. For many terms you get news sites and you are not sure if the content was written by a bot or a human. Click farms certainly seem to have cracked the matrix of SEO.

I hope this is not because of the conquest against misinformation, Google heavily preferring "authoritative voices". If a term fits anything out of the news circle you get endless amount of articles of the same. They use different words but it is always the same content.

Although many people in their usage patterns are to blame too. If everyone forms a non-crawlable discord community, you should not complain about a lack of discoverability. IRC had the same problems but at least there were always alternatives with forums.

A button to filter any kind of media publication would really help.
>However another option is that the job becomes simplified and dumbed down so home owners can do it themselves or with low skilled labour.

I come from a DIY family, I don't think skill is the primary barrier. The "why would you do that when you can just pay someone to do it?" attitude is pervasive. That's not a dismissive characterization either, that's paraphrasing as best I can what a friend said when another friend and I were on the couch watching a youtube maker video. And it's an attitude I've heard again and again over the years.
Notes on the WDC 65c816
Open android builds, postmarket os, ubuntu touch and sailfish still exist (if just barely) for now.

Please use them before we lose free communication and access to banking and government services without signing over your life to one of two companies forever.
> you will probably work on tickets, adding features no one really cares about or fixing bugs that you didn't create. It's awful. If you were a real quant, you can probably use your CV to get something a lot better.

Now I'm depressed :( I get what you're writing, but depending on the project, the people you work with etc., even a "Jira job" can still be fulfilling. Also, as a manager, if you have this "I don't understand how you can do this awful job" attitude towards the developers you work with, I'm not sure if that's really healthy for you either...
I don't know your audience but calling $25/year or $3/month "Symbolic support" on your "Donorbox" seems a bit ungrateful.

I do support creators moving off the sluggish excuse for a website that Patreon is though - especially if they can't even provide the main advantage of a centralized patronage platform: to keep fees low by aggregating smaller amounts distributed to many creators in one credit card/bank transaction.
In the finance space, yes.

Regular financial data is stuff like trading volumes and earnings reports. Alternative data is looking at satellite pictures of car parks to see which retailers were busy this quarter.
You should really be angry at Slack and not your colleagues. There are loads of ways to prevent this like sending at most one alert per user per minute (if message is unread). It's not rocket science.

Most times when loads of people are "doing it wrong" then it's the technology that is at fault, and not the people.
This is HN, so complaining about Facebook and similar social media sites isn’t really an unpopular opinion.

As I get older I actually enjoy social media more. Keeping touch with friends who have moved away and having spontaneous interactions with people I like but don’t get to see very often is easier than ever.

My social media experience doesn’t really match the weirdness that gets described in alarmist articles or the compulsive, addictive patterns that some users describe. I haven’t found it difficult at all to shape my feeds to display what I want while hiding what I don’t want to see. I suspect if I just randomly followed people and never gave the platform any positive or negative signals (likes or hiding posts) then I’d have a less enjoyable experience. If I had addictive tendencies and had uncontrollable urges to scroll forever I’d also have a bad experience.

But that’s not my experience. I log in occasionally, enjoy updates from my friends and their families, share some photos from my family, and have some quick conversations with people I like to talk to.

And honestly it’s great. I guess that’s my contrarian tech opinion. Social media is fine and even great when used appropriately. If it’s not for you, just don’t use it. I will note that HN is absolutely a form of social media, though, so it could be that your preferred social media experience is just a different format than what others enjoy.
I don't see it that way at all. I believe qualia exist, I'm experiencing them right now. I think consciousness is a real thing too, again I am experiencing that right now as well.

I suspect that consciousness is an emergent property of systems which reflect computationally on a sophisticated model of themselves, their environment and other such systems. See "I am a strange loop" by Douglas Hofstadter. I see no reason why such a system could not experience qualia.
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there's a recently developed alternative inflation measure here that looks rather good. https://app.truflation.com/
Does GDPR apply to employment data? I wasn't aware of this.
I have been one of those people.

Ever since mandatory WFH ended, I've been in the office almost every day. When I'm alone at home, it takes 2-3x more effort to do anything compared to when I'm in an office. Also, work-related stress easily "pollutes" my home headspace, which makes it hard for me to relax if I'm working from the same place I rest.

Things would probably be much different if I owned a house, had a dedicated "office" room, and lived with someone else. But I'm still a long time away from that. A tiny rented noise-polluted apartment is definitely my least favorite place to work from.
Assuming the US, its a shit show right now for teachers. Burnout is hitting hard and only getting worse, as the replacement rate is no-where near keeping up. Several people in my circle are now either former teachers in new careers, or retired teachers (who were not really planning on retiring when they did).
I'm in the South though. XD
"Conscription in the United States, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the federal government of the United States in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Sta...
I remember struggling to write essays when I was in highschool. Well, I was fine, but my teachers insisted it was long-winded gibberish. Concerned, my grand’mother told me: “Ask Sonia” I knew she was her friend, and they liked to argue a lot, but I was a bit confused by the advice.

It turns out, editing was Sonia’s job: she was the head reader at a very prestigious publishing house, meaning she was giving notes and feedback to very famous authors, including four Nobel Prize laureates. You kind of have to know what you are doing when you are sending a manuscript full of red in the margins and the person can respond “I’ve got a Nobel Prize and you don’t.” She definitely had the icey stare to match.

Oddly, her advice was incredibly simple, and fitted in two very short pieces:

* Subject, Verb, Complement –– in that order. If you see two verbs, but a period between them.

* Things are confusing if you don’t put them in order: start by the beginning, find the widest piece of context that explain the rest.

I don’t apply her rules every time, but for every technical document, every time I’ve tried, it’s been night and day.

That typographic argument is really resonating with me.
I've been thinking in a similar direction lately. A lot of the more effective practices historically assumed that a single unit of value end-to-end was deliverable by a single engineer (with supporting QA and review, etc.)

The reason those single stack skills diverged into specialisms is because the results were better, especially beyond a certain scale. An SPA done right provides a much more responsive and rich user experience than forms and a full page reload. A DevOps engineer can create a system to deploy quickly, in a reproducible manner and safely when compared to copying a bunch of files over to some servers (and provisioning those servers manually too).

I don't think it's sustainable though, for a large set of use-cases common to everyday web and app development. Having separate front end and back end roles requires maintaining a minimum of two projects instead of one, defining and maintaining an API, managing co-ordination between different developers and understanding how to split scope boundaries between technology and people. It's lot of extra communication both for people and machines. It's more difficult on a management level as well - separate recruitment streams, different evaluation mechanisms, parallel promotion ladders, resourcing headaches, etc.

Now we have the benefit of knowing what's required to compete in the modern landscape, I think we'll start to see the return of a new set of frameworks and runtimes which give 90% of the benefits of separate FE/BE/DevOps roles whilst allowing a single engineer to focus on application development. I'm thinking of things like Elixir's Phoenix LiveView, and eventually frameworks that compile a single codebase to WASM for the browser whilst providing seamless integration with the backend.

It seems like an economic inevitability; anything that lets people ship value more quickly and efficiently has to win out in the end.
I disagree. It just takes time and practice.

Someone can master a subject in 5+ years if they do it everyday. A fullstack dev with 20 years experience can master all those stated and more and I know fullstack devs (granted not many) than can maintain entire apps like this.
The parts of the job you can't estimate are actually your managers job to estimate. To illustrate that:

> I am in the middle of developing X right now

That one you can estimate likely. It is a task that you can complete on your own without the rest of the organization. As a individual contributor you should be able to give a time frame for a task like this.

> I am also handling some bug requests related to unmentioned, previously delivered projects A and B

Software is going to have bugs, but I've never worked at a org that labeled bugs correctly. In my experience about half the time a so called bug is a specification miss or a feature request (a management problem), the other half need to be prioritized (again, management problem). If they want you to work on a bug over a project, deadlines are going to slip, and that is a management problem to solve. Your estimate of two weeks doesn't include washing the CEO's car or whatever other random task they want to pull you off to do, two weeks is two weeks and they gave you less than two weeks so of course it isn't done.

> I am in the planning stage for project Y, and working with client and analysts to pull some requirements together

So far you have been responsible for resource management to a large degree. You have to know in advance how many defects your software is going to have, how long it's going to take for a pull request to get reviewed, when the other team is going to get you what you need to complete the work, how often you will get pulled off to work on other tasks, etc. Now you are writing the requirements? What exactly is the management team doing if it isn't managing the product or the people building the product?
> What causes wave function collapse in the quantum realm? A conscious observer.

Definitely not, this is a common misconception - an "observation" that causes a wave function collapse in the quantum realm is any physical interaction with external macroscopic environment, entangling the previously temporarily isolated system with everything else again. There's no relationship whatsoever with consciousness, there's not even the concept of "an observer", only "observation" e.g. when the measurement apparatus becomes entangled with the state of the studied system.
Without an understanding of what consciousness is, there is also no reason to expect an implementation of an adder to not have some subjective experience.

We simply do not know.

Formulating this is terms of what there is "no reason to expect" simply obscures that we do not know by glossing over that we have no reason to expect pretty much any other explanation either, because we have pretty much nothing to go on.
How would we know what it is "like" to be something? It's like asking the fish what is water. We've never not experienced it. There is nothing to compare it to.
Can someone provide the text of this article please?
Kut, meaning something like "fuck" or, more literally, "cunt", but in terms of offensiveness it's closer to the Australian context of "cunt" than the American context.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kut#Noun_4

I don't think the name would be that much of a problem given how often the word is thrown around informally.
Some languages use "dictionary".
That was my plan, lol I want the company to last for like 2-4 years so I can get my fast promotions and leave haha
Please clarify what you mean by capitalism. I have a hard time following that part of your statement.
It might be "being complacent" if you switch teams. It's still better than what this person did. He probably chose the worst path forward that he could have taken amongst many different paths he could have chosen.

He could have tried to talk with the managers manager, talked with HR, or done anything except behaving as a passive aggressive child...
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Well, I am afraid Switzerland can read our messages and then jack up the prices on watches and chocolate!