skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who was on the team, the skills that allow you to excel academically in life are the competitive math skills.

And to be honest, not only is the "honors stuff" and "common core" material deprioritized, it's not even taught explicitly. You just get to such a high level understanding of the subjects Frazer teaches that it becomes trivial.
Advertising is why people want to run/host wiki clones.

Not having the complete timeline/backstory/abilities/etc of every One Piece character/Pokemon/Simpsons episode is why people want to use wiki clones.
Hmm I like the idea of prompts, it has always helped me when trying to think of what to write... but I also like the actual act of physically writing on paper. This is a great idea for somebody who prefers to work on the computer though!
> Does the time spent writing feels worth it to you?

Yes, for the most part. I write things out to clarify them for myself, but imagining an audience of readers helps me do that. Communication is the hardest skill for me, and I don't always succeed, but I've definitely gotten better at it as a result of consistent practice.

> Did it help to get noticed/ find jobs or other opportunities?

No. It never occurred to me to do that. In fact, I take reasonable steps to keep my professional life and my personal life separate on the internet. If I wanted to write about topics related to my profession, I think having a blog could be a good way to do that, but that sounds really, really boring to me. In my off hours, I want to do other things. Obviously, other people think differently, and that's completely fine.

My unsolicited advice would be that if you don't like doing something, you should try not to do it. At the same time, if you are drawn to writing, but don't like some aspect of it, try to remove that aspect and see if it's better for you.

> Do you learn something new from it?

I'm sure. I've been running the blog, with a 3-4 year intermission, since 2000. It was one of my first web projects, and I went on to become a web developer and designer. It was the first place I published fiction, and I went on to write a couple books, or book-like artifacts. I met a lot of people, and got exposed to a lot of interesting ideas. I learned a lot about things I don't like on the web, like advertising, and SEO, and certain tendencies in online communities. I learned how much you can get done by doing a small bit of work every couple days, consistently, for a long time.
Serious question, have you ever been poor in your life or worked a retail job?
I've been contacted multiple times thanks to my technical blog. It didn't necessarily lead to any work because I was not interested in the projects proposed, but it did generate leads.

Now for those that write surface level programming language/library tutorials the story might be different.

Personally I just like to share small technical tidbits from time to time, and hope it helps someone out there.
I use SimpleMind: https://simplemind.eu/

It runs fully offline with Google Drive/Dropbox/Nextcloud support. Desktop and native mobile apps are available. No subscription, one-time fee for both desktop and mobile apps.

I'm tempted to move on to "infinite canvas" freeform notetaking like Muse, but I don't want to pay a subscription fee. I wish SimpleMind had some of Muse or Kinopio's features, like audio/gif/video support, but overall those features aren't worth adding yet another subscription product to my budget.
This is framed from a giant corporation's viewpoint. As a laborer in that giant corporation's pool of potential employees, it doesn't look so bad.
I don't know for sure, but I don't think so. The balls are very light, so there's almost no buoyancy. The only way to support yourself is if the balls are locked in place from the force of your foot stepping on it, which might work for a stack 2~3 balls in height at the most before it becomes unstable and slips out from underneath you.
correct -- see e.g. what just happened to lowell in san francisco

edit: but reversed! so maybe you could...
They likely also know better that televisions in boxes are fragile than that bicycle frames are before they have even handled one professionally.

Even if they don’t they will likely learn that televisions in boxes are fragile sooner than that they learn that about bicycle frames, as they’ll handle a lot more of them.

I also suspect most televisions crack sooner than bicycle frames.
If we look multigenerationally, the longest-living nations are still the nations that can maintain a high quality of life the longest. It is frankly nonsensical to say that nations fall because they reached a high point; of course they can only fall if they have someplace to fall from.
Well I can sympathize for sure. I love programming but really discouraged by things I continue to encounter in the industry. And for the first time during the height of covid I basically "gave up" -- as in, I had a remote job where I only did the bare minimum to not get fired. This lasted for about half a year before I got tired of it and went to another job where I was more engaged again. I will say that working like this -- appearing at morning stand up, hemming and hawing over slowly implemented tickets, and then going back to playing video games and doing occasional PR reviews, getting more engaged only when shit looked close to hitting the fan -- took it's own toll and was maybe only marginally less stressful to me than trying hard.

I have no answer. Maybe my situation isn't even the same as OPs, since I tend to overwork myself, get disillusioned by feeling that others are not pulling their weight, and then I get burnt out and it sounds like OP is in a situation where they are surrounded by jerks like me. But I can relate to the struggle of work stress, and trying to prevent it from spilling over into personal life.
super helpful, thanks a lot!
I can certainly relate. I've been programming for over 40 years, but I could only take about 10 doing it for a living.

I moved into information security. Where I have endless meetings and spreadsheets, although no micro management. But I write software in a way I enjoy outside of work.

I have to say that micro management is a bad sign in any role. I would certainly try to find a different role, even if you choose to stay in software.
It's not just brain drain, they refused to fix the performance issues, they refused to do something about the toolbar bloat, the browser became a nest for adwares/malwares, a security and privacy nightmare

Other than the shady tactics Google did that helped Chrome spread with the installer, for a majority of users it was a choice to stick with chrome, faster, lighter, more secure, that helped the browser grow at a fast pace
That's what AC is.
It's not a grocery store, it's a dark store. I.e. just a small warehouse of food that has delivery drivers coming and going 24 hours a day to make local deliveries faster.

If you read some prior discussions on this you'll find that in many cases the people operating them are disruptive to the neighborhood and really aggressive towards anybody who dares complain about it. So it gets escalated to the city and eventually they clamp down. As they should.
The thing is, we're moving from CPUs that at least had their external behaviors and interfaces documented to CPUs which are _not_. Apple has already missed plenty of opportunities to generate goodwill or even minimal assurances of interoperability, and the argument that "at least it's not as locked down as the iPhone" (where this would be outright impossible instead of just ridiculously complicated) is hardly reassuring.
Just FYI: Most weather models are free if your use case allows you to wait a couple of hours. Some are even free without the wait.
I don’t believe him. It sounds to me like he played the usual scheme, having people pay for his NFTs to inflate their value- while sending the funds back.
Yes.

Writing in depth about old projects is therapeutic for me. It also helps me appreciate others’ writings.
This advice actually changed the way I thought about this. Thank you so much!
If you stretch the quote for a long enough time, it becomes trivially true and completely not interesting: any society that falls was by definition in "good times"; and every society that rises was, by definition, in "hard times".

The quote implies though that there is a deterministic process: good times can't help but create weak men, and weak men can't help but create hard times. This implies a rather limited time frame - if generation after generation of people living in good times keep creating good times, then it's hard to take the concept seriously. Similarly, if generation after generation living in hard times keep creating more hard times, the other part of the concept fails as well.

Even worse, while it seems to be true that every successful society eventually falls, it is demonstrably false that every failed society eventually rises. There are numerous peoples who have been utterly destroyed without ever rising up; and there are regions of the world that have never been prosperous, or at least not for hundreds of years now.
They have reduced voltage but power consumption per sq-mm has gone up with increased densities. Many people run DRAM at above JEDEC speeds which usually requires higher voltages too.

Peak power consumption of DDR4 is around 375mW/GB @ 1.2V, DDR5 drops this about 10% but also increases the maximum density of a DIMM by 8x to 512GB which is like, 150W for a single DIMM.
Well that's a sensationalist title and hyperbole filled article.

Art is not illegal. Money laundering is.
I've always wondered why motherboards aren't placed at a slight angle like the wing of a car so that the air moving over it has a higher angle of incidence, higher pressure, and higher thermal capacity.

With the angle, you can also place cable connectors and whatnot on the bottom of the board so they don't obstruct airflow as much.

Basically, optimize PV = nRT inside the computer case at no extra cost other than a redesign.
Many reviews the reviewers don't have the product and instead cobble together information from the description and other sources, that's why there is no unique information in the reviews and they are so information light. They do this so that they can have affiliate links where they can make money, with a heavy understanding of SEO this can be a very profitable practice.

When I discovered this practice from a well known SEO guru, I was both sad and angry.
Indeed they are, previous discussion of the result: https://phys.org/news/2021-12-quantum-theory-complex.html
More of an issue on the motherboards where it will eventually get into something.
I found I only have something really worth saying every few years which isn't often enough to make my blog be content marketing for my personal brand. I do like my blog, I can read things I wrote a decade ago and still believe in them. Any sort of artificial cadence would undermine this.

Also as I get older I find the hot takes I used to write down are not interesting enough to share in article form. They live better as comments or tweets. I'm more aware of nuance in everything, and caveating my claims out the wazoo to appropriately constrain my claims is not worth it.

I see a lot of this hot take style writing from other young devs making it to HN front page. So that's not to say this style of writing isn't popular. But it isn't popular with me, and first and foremost I'm writing for myself.
The thing with Uber that I don't really get is this. Once it became obvious to pretty much everyone that it wasn't already obvious to that door-to-door autonomous driving wasn't going to happen in an economically interesting time horizon, why didn't Uber's board do something about it.

Sure, they cut back on those investments. But they didn't otherwise make the changes needed to get Uber to profitability given that nothing else was going to fundamentally change. Wasn't the logical thing to ramp prices up and let the chips fall where they would in terms of ridership and viability in various markets?

I get that Uber brought a better taxi service to quite a few markets. But as an Uber board member, I wouldn't really care.
This has always worked much more smoothly than vlc for me on raspberry pis
I use Gnucash essentially as a manual-entry glorified digital checkbook/register. I used to do it on paper for the longest time- it's how I was taught and my bank took a long time to modernize. I don't know that I still need to continue this habit digitally, but there's still something useful/comforting about keeping my own transaction list to constantly check against my bank's... Gnucash is adequate for doing this for me.
Oh boy, it's a huge subject. I'd actually start with the wiki entries on nuclear warfare & countervalue vs. counterforce targeting. The National Security Archive has some very good briefing books on the evolution of the SIOP which deal with the flexibility policymakers started to want over time as well as debates about launch on warning (where you fire once you believe you're under attack) vs. launch under attack (where you ride out at least some of the first wave).

Alex Wellerstein's blog is a good one and he links to other quality sources as well (though note some are decidedly abolitionist when it comes to nuclear weapons).
> something more like roadmap

Yes and: Strategy & Tactics

Beyond the inability to reason about stuff, not even asking Who What Why When Where and How, the inability to divide & conquer, the hostility to verifying assumptions (eg will any one buy our stuff?), etc. etc.

I've met very few people, any where, in business or politics, that can war game scenarios. Much less reason about tactical decisions. Or even know the difference between strategy and tactics.

My hunch, totally unvalidated, is a strategic thinker isn't especially smart or talented, so much as everyone else is fantastically, tragically inept.

I always marveled about the rise of Microsoft. Sure, they did some good stuff, made some good moves. (And then later was simply criminal.) But OMG their competition was terrible. Ashton-Tate, WordPerfect, Novell, Lotus, and probably a zillion others. So many defeated themselves. Microsoft was like the Bolsheviks; they found power lying on the street, after every one else imploded.
The article describes the lack of sanitation as a baseless part of the negative mythology, but a dearth of scientific studies (and questions of generalizability of the existing studies) does not mean that their reputation is without merit. When your kid finds turds in the ball pit you don't need a study to know there's a sanitation problem.
Anecdotally, as a child I had a near 100% rate of coming down with an infection after visiting the local ball pit and witnessed the discovery of fecal matter by another child, which, combined with the repeated illness, led to a ban on further visits.
Then China and Europe, not just China. Glad there was no comment justifying the other failings like the abysmal testing.
The GDR was the most developed of the Eastern Bloc countries, by a large factor. Roughly 2x the GDP per capita of the USSR. The GDR dominated the Eastern Bloc computer industry and were usually ahead of the USSR in terms of IC manufacturing.
Association Between Menstrual Cycle Length and Covid-19 Vaccination
this is a bad thing .... welcome back to the 00's.....CDMA.....was bad.
Actually, the original title was "the psychology of everyday things", but he changed it to "design" in subsequent editions/printings because he felt it was clearer more to the point.[1]

[1] The book was originally published in 1988 with the title The Psychology of Everyday Things. Norman said his academic peers liked that title, but believed the new title better conveyed the content of the book and better attracted interested readers. It is often referred to by the initialisms POET and DOET. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things
...and the American people would be correct.

We've belatedly come to realise that 'the news' is not the neutral reporting of events but rather the manufacture of information products for commercial or political gain, most preferably for the oligarchical media owners, both. We need a new revenue model, new ownership model of news media, before we can trust again what has been piped into our eyes and ears
Can I just say I'm so envious of all of you who are able to write publicly without worries?

I did try to start a blog many, many years ago, but I can never get over my fears that whatever I put out publicly will inevitably be used against me, by someone with power, in one way or another. (Yes, including this comment.)
Well, to start, of course there is no fan. So, that's quite a place from which to start.
> Also, you can call the place in advance and just come to pick it up, no wait time

I suspect both the orderer and order-taker are both a bit happier to have orders come in online instead of taking calls. It enables a bit more asynchrony and batching, and removes the potential for miscommunication.

Big advantage of moving food ordering online is that it's gotten rid of trying to read off an order through the phone to someone who barely speaks English, standing next to the phone in a loud kitchen with dishes clinking and people yelling in the background.
I really doubt that take. Then again I'm extremely price sensitive customer... And will always look at cheapest option or even pass if the delivery is a few euros more... And I can't be only one.
Homeoffice > Reading HN > Building Paperplanes with Kids ...
What does fragile mean? Does it mean you can’t drop it? I’ve seen people poorly pack a box so you can’t drop the box without something breaking and then they slap “FRAGILE” on it. People put fragile on all sorts of boxes that shouldn’t have it and so the meaning of fragile on a box has been weakened.

Whereas with a TV, everyone knows what a TV box can sustain and can’t.
Heat also moves upward so that would probably cause the board and its components to get too hot.
There is a limit to how low you can put the bar to these paid awards though.

There used to be a heart foundation tick on every second item of food in Australia. It was a paid award with a low bar. The award died when they started putting the tick on boxes of McDonald's chicken nuggets. Everyone immediately caught on that it was bullshit after that and the tick was seen as a laughing stock. The tick is no longer a thing at all since no one wanted their products to be seen in the same category as a McNugget.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2015-12-11/heart-tick-ret...
Yeah, but it exploited workers at a scale never before scene. Truly showing the power of technology.
I've had https://www.swiftjectivec.com for several years.

Benefits:

- I don't do much front end, so I enjoy learning new stuff to maintain it like Tailwind, Jekyll, etc.
- I learn new things all the time since I typically write technical posts.
- I Google something, and stumble upon my *own* posts sometimes!
- I look at it as a career benefit as well, something employers could look at.
- It does help with other things, for example, when I created a book series over iOS - people were aware of my work, writing style and more from years of my previous posts: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31534988)

Cons:

- It does feel that if you don't keep it up to date you become a bit skittish, so in that sense - having one means you kinda feel like "there is always something to work on." I am still trying to make peace with this.
- I ran sponsorships (they are still live right now) but wow did I not expect how much I don't enjoy them. Even though they were good money for, basically, doing something I already do - they are very mentally taxing for me.
- It also becomes your online identity, for better or worse.

Overall:
I love writing, so having a personal blog has been a no brainer for me. However, we are quick to say that this should be the default for everyone, and I don't think that's the case.
Hese robots were trained on AI. They became racist and sexist
> This is a great project. Can Apple be incentivized somehow to help the Asahi Linux folks?

> It is not possible to simply reverse engineer everything nowadays -- it could take years to build a polished system and in the meanwhile there will always be new hardware from Apple. It's a never ending game of "catch up".

I would think it's very much in their favor to help. If it takes years to build a polished release, a lot of people will value years old apple hardware over whatever more recently released. Cut that down to months and they just added a new (albeit smaller) segment chomping at the bit for their latest hardware.
1 MB is even too big for an image. Most 1 MB images won't suffer quality loss when viewed on typical devices when they are 100 KB or even 60 KB.

And they should definitely be minimized for mobile devices

I'd say that the only way a single web page should be 1 MB is if it has 10 or more images, which of course can be useful.
The problem comes when someone graduates with a liberal arts degree. Employers assume they were eating paste and finger painting for 4-5 years.
Enough weed turns you into some version of a deadbeat. Alcohol has a hangover and a lot is bad for your liver. Most nicotine delivery mechanisms are expensive and really bad for you. Caffeine creates a dependency.

If people are ok with the tradeoffs they should be able to go for it. It's not like this is back alley drug dealing. If people are getting these drugs from their GP or over the counter then they can be informed.
I can just open it in other tools and for example merge two sources. E.g. I do this on my laptop and on my phone.
Download both, open with Excel and sort by date.
I also considered more questions in the future or tracking numerical values.
They tend to mention generic things like "great culture", "career plans", "managers who listen", "transparency".

You are absolutely right, it's all fluffy and intangible. I mean, it's all obviously good, and also every company says this about themselves. Whoever heard of a company advertising "toxic culture", "you'll never get a promotion", and "nobody knows anything about the company's health until it's bankrupt"?
Katharostech/Bevy_retrograde Licensing Issue
It's good that someone is.
Probably just the college placements are enough. The other 2 high schools in Gainesville sent 2 kids each to Harvard, Princeton, or MIT during 2018-2020, while Buchholz has sent 8 according to Polaris List. The math team has posted where their students have gone to college and there are a lot of Ivy League and other elite schools represented every year (MIT, Stanford, U Chicago). https://www.buchholzmathteam.com/college-placement
SAME. We learned fast that other parents gambled with diapers in public/shared places.
SSE has scalar instructions - like "addss", "subss" etc.

These will be used by default (at O2 without vectorization enabled) for single-precision floating point math on x86-64 (where stack-based FPU is deprecated).

Vector instructions you're referring to end with "ps", they're very unlikely to be emitted for typical fp operations.
At least they offer OFX at all now... in the first few months, IIRC, they only supported PDF statements or something similarly difficult to work with.

I'd love for "shortcuts" to include a statement hook. "Every month, copy most recent apple card statement, email to xyz@domain.tld". But the "wallet" section of the shortcuts app is basically empty.

Until then, I email myself apple card statements at the end of the month, takes maybe 5 minutes but it involves a lot of tapping.
theres some third parties that give you an API directly I believe. Firefly III lists salt edge and nordigen.

https://docs.firefly-iii.org/data-importer/
Your blog rocks!
I dunno, the cotton gin was kind of a banger in that regard.