skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I did not mean to imply a dramatic and sudden change either. I just perceived this as a turning point, like you say (and with only my limited first hand experience there, of course).
Just wanted to say genuinely well done, this is an inspirational post.
What would you say kept you going back then? What was your motivation?
There is no middle class anymore. What you mention are lower class pressures.

Middle-class pressures, back when there was one, meant you were expected to get a new car every year. There were reasons for that, back then: tetraethyl lead additives in the gasoline destroyed engines in no time. But it was not a big drain on middle-class people, just an expense to keep up with.

"They" have been very, very good at convincing lower-class people they are now middle class. It worked! Fully half the voting population imagines, when they think they are voting to keep their own money away out of the poors' hands, really are voting to keep extreme rich peoples' money in the rich peoples' hands, along with most of what could have been the voters' money, besides.

They have got so good at it, people actually elected an out-and-out confidence grifter to the Presidency, and helped stage a coup attempt to keep him there.
It's not all Google. The entire medium has shifted for the average user.Overfitted even.

The prior barrier if entry for quality content was that you had to be tech savvy. Now anyone and their mom can publish shit content, play the SEO game, and spam dunk the Internet.

Maybe the solution to this is really some kind fo web3 variant which Wil put up some hurdles again.
How is Apple making money from a company that makes a free app and sells physical goods?
I agree, I feel that I only scratched the surface unfortunately but even then I'm glad that I cleared some big misconceptions about him. Spending a few hours to ask direct questions could lead to a big progress from 15% to 20% or more. Plus, there are the voice and video.
Sorry for your loss. I am envious. My dad died when I was young. I never asked any questions. Example: He was in the navy, stationed at Naples. I never even asked whether that was Florida or Italy. Sigh. Life is short.
I’m actually working on another project where I’m trying to design fully optimized categorical colour palettes for people with colour vision deficiency, so I’m fully aware of this issue.

When trying to encode highlighting with only chroma and hue and still be accessible, one would probably have to limit the palette to two hues which obviously isn’t practical. This means it would be necessary to use luminance, which expressly goes against the design goals and would eliminate the advantages I’m trying to achieve for people with normal vision.

But you're right, I should have been more clear in the docu, this palette is actually particularly unsuitable. (update: clarified it now)
What exactly is meant by explaining variance? I can't really make sense of that term.
There’s certainly dns support on mac… at least with Mullvad there certainly is.
Interesting. I look at my children and the realization that I will likely die before them and miss out on a part of their life reminds me of my mortality.
I've seen this reported a lot with lots of climate change deniers triumphing. I'm not really sure what is going on. The AJ article has more detail including:

“While the coral cover is similar to what it was in the 1980s, people should not believe in any way that that means conditions on the reef are the same as they were in the 1980s,”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/4/parts-of-australias-...
"Writing well" can mean two things: Putting together clear, concise, grammatically correct sentences that are pleasant to read; and organizing your content in a useful, rational way.

Technical writing needs to do both, and it also needs to teach well.

Teaching well doesn't always mean you're writing well, and vice versa.

Teaching well means using what cognitive and learning scientists have discovered about how best to teach adults.

Books like Strunk & White's Elements of Style are good resources for putting together good sentences. Fewer books teach organizing your content, and even fewer teach how to teach well.
Linkrot is the Mandela Effect-maker of the internet.
Google is Microsoft's enemy. He will always try to defame her and deny her.
That may have been in the past, not sure, but I am 90% sure all Ecobee products today are "hubless" wifi cloud encumbered products

Very Few thermostats on the market are Zigbee, Centralite has one (the pearl) but I am not aware of any others honestly
how do you rate the online CS degree at WGU?
Equifax issued wrong credit scores for millions 9
The study you reference: https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/heritable/adoption/2022-...

The South Korean twin had an IQ of 100 (Slightly below average for her country) and the US twin had an IQ of 84. (Significantly below average)

So, still no evidence of an intervention that can increase IQ, but plenty of evidence that it can be lowered.
I'm mostly interested in it for kernel code though, so the second point at least does not apply, at least not directly. Maybe there is something analogous when preempting kernel threads, I haven't thought it through at all. But interesting.
That makes sense; I thought it kinda looks like comment. Pretty pleasant colors, otherwise. Good work!
This is - more or less - what the Twirp and Connect protocols are.
This take is not based in reality.

An individual income of $200k put your firmly in the top 10% of income earners in the US.

But the claim is they are lower class?

This seems really disconnected with reality. I’m not sure you understand what life is like for the average American.
That doesn't make it any less impressive
The images shown at the top are (probably) designed to show off the full "dynamic range" of the color palette, but reading those code snippets is a bit overwhelming (and I suspect it's just because you've crammed so many things into a very small space). I think it might be easier to get a visual "grok" of the color scheme with a longer snippet that is more representative of real code.
Could it be because of Ip Man/Bruce Lee connection that mythologized that place?
There’s also BloomRPC, which is like Postman/Insomnia for GRPC:

https://github.com/bloomrpc/bloomrpc
Second this. One of my favourite programming books. The advice is applicable to pretty much every domain of software engineering, and the lessons are philosophical (as the name suggests) rather than technical and specific, so they serve as a great jumping off point for many specific issues you might face in programming. It’s also very short which helps!
I think this happens far more often than people realise. Part of the problem is ownership: It's so easy to become proprietorial about code. But another part is that people ideate solutions very differently and "style" is big in code.

The gap between XEmacs and Emacs is noted in the xemacs website in all it's painful glory. It's got politics, it's got lawyers, but it's also got code style and complexity.

I did a package for homebrew via git and PR, and the CI cost to make it "fit" their expectations was a multi-day iterative nightmare. I can see how it would be a barrier to entry for a lot of people.

The other side, I have managed to get one-line fixes into the hands of competent coders. There are times they will simply accept it, apply it, and move on.

Early in my career (1984) I accepted community patches for a body of code I was employed to maintain and imperilled it's IPR. It was a big deal at the time. I didn't think patches to C being used by the community was going to wind up there. I was pretty sure the patch submitters didn't mean to go there either (by stealth I mean, they would have been delighted if the entire body of code was in the public domain) -This was when we swapped code by 1200bpi tape reels in the post.

I think "too risky to accept community patches" is an excuse rather than a real reason. They just didn't want the paperwork and hassle to adopt the code. But the negative effect I can totally believe. I would have been very de-motivated by this.
I really wonder how much of this is due to loneliness and how much is just a lack of mental and social stimulation. If you're looking at groups of elderly people and seeing stronger effects over 65 you're probably getting a lot of frequently housebound folks who don't often interact with others and may not be doing/seeing/experiencing a lot of new things outside of what comes on TV. Some elderly people may not even be able to do the old things they used to love, or at least not do them as often.

I'd really like to see this sort of result shown in people who are routinely active, engaged in hobbies they enjoy, and surrounded by/interacting with many people but who still report prolonged feelings of loneliness. Plenty of lonely people out there meet that criteria. Busy, surrounded by people, but still feeling loneliness. If there are impacts to memory for them as well it would more strongly suggest it was the loneliness that was the issue and not isolation, boredom, depression, lack of simulation etc.
Shameless plug: I have been building https://www.HeyHomepage.com as an easy-to-use website builder, with RSS/OPML built-in for what I call 'really social sites'. It has a style creator that inexperienced people can use, it doesn't depend on external code and even the visitor statistics work without GA.
Haha, this is a hilarious political issue, as evidenced by the existence of fact-checks on it. For example: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-environment-oceans... People have their politics entwined with whether or not it recovers.
> Ballmer’s Microsoft

"Google Meet Premium v3.1 Personal Edition - 2022 August Update™"?

Huh... I guess it actually could be worse.
Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
Black mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
> combined efficiency of ~17%. Growing potatoes -- a calorie dense but not particularly protein rich crop -- converts only about 1.7%

Efficiency of light is not that important, because plants reach their maximum rate of photosynthesis at fairly low light levels. In reality yield is limited by low temperatures in winter, avaliability of water, etc.

The process being proposed here requires much more investment of capital and resources than simply planting potato in the fields -> now we need solar panels, electrolysis, etc.

But if you want to improve yield by throwing money at the problem, you build a greenhouse, invest in hydroponics, etc. and your yield will grow several times.

So that would be a better point of comparison -> for a dollar or physical resources invested, does this approach give you more extra yield than a state of the art greenhouse would?
I’m willing to bet someone `JSON.stringify`’d the entire user object without realizing the password hash is in there.

The broader conversation I think here is facilitating a shift to passwordless. Magic links, OAuth, Yubikeys all make passwords redundant.

If I put in a password I still need MFA and I can reset my password with just MFA, so why do I need the password at all? Let’s just switch to MFA-only signon.

Slack kinda led the charge to magic links and passwordless so it’s strange to see they’re still stuck on this. Many enterprise orgs have moved SSO setups to enforce solely passwordless already.
I'm really sorry to hear about your loss.

My family recorded an hour long interview with my grandmother recently, and when she passed away it was something that we were really thankful to have it.

One of my coworkers had a similar inspiration for https://www.dominomind.com/ (it's still an early WIP) but the whole goal is to capture lasting memories to make them searchable later.

I feel like it's important for digital memories to be increasingly more searchable as time goes on. I capture so many random pictures, I worry sometimes if the important ones will be lost in the sea of food pics.
I use an nvidia shield TV for many many years. It was perfect, after having tried raspberry pis and cuboxes and all manner of shit low perf SBCs as a HTPC.

Mid 2021, Google forcefully replaced the launcher/home screen for all android TV devices, such that the first 1/3 to 1/2 of the screen is taken up by an ad. You can't disable it, you can't remove it, there is _nothing_ you can do about it. Every time you use this home theatre device, the first thing you're presented with is an ad. I paid for that device and the software on it. I paid for youtube premium to avoid ads. I paid for google drive space to store my data. It's not like I was getting a free lunch.

I've got an Apple TV now, and an iPhone as well - replaced my OnePlus.

I use chrome for work unfortunately, yesterday I was _delighted_ to see that Google had very helpfully placed an add for their new wireless earphones on my new tab page. Very cool.
The Biggest Chip in the World – CHM
> Someone do the math, what is the value of this comeback in USD?

About USD 120 billion.

I’m always sceptical of these claims in the media that economists say that something “could be worth up to $X billion/year” or “X costs the economy $Y billion/year”. They are based on assumptions, whose veracity may be unknowable-if not just totally unrealistic; and the error bars on such estimates must be huge, but many journalists will only cite the upper error bar.
> Why would a brand manager role interview have leetcode questions?

(i think OP was making a joke)
Why do I need to authorize you with my GH in order to see your track's contents? I would recommend opening the curriculum so a potential buyer can preview whether the product is right for them

I think this is an interesting idea. I find it hard to justify paying $80/mo for an extended period of time for just Git, Docker, Redis, and SQLite clones though. You'd need a plethora of content to have me stay for more than a month to simply power through it all. $80 is even a lot for just those considering there are easy to find tutorials for these. The real selling point is having a lot of modules colocated and I am merely paying for convenience and manicured delivery rather than novelty
There are simpler and more effective ways to waste spammers' time. First of all, I can't remember the last time I've gotten email spam that expected a response. On the other hand, phone spam, which is much more disruptive, is usually trying to screen me briefly then funnel me to a scammer.

So I pick up spam calls, press 1 immediately, then put the phone back in my pocket. This usually connects it to a real person who hears ambient noise, thinking I'm nearby. Usually I waste like 60sec of their time for 2sec of my time. It's hard for them to protect against this because no matter what, they need some victims to talk to the real person, unless they develop a very smart AI. But a relatively simple bot with a list of likely scam numbers could automate the fake victim's side.

A colleague was dealing with more advanced scammers who had already made some progress with his unaware mother. Their scam was unique in that it required calling them back. He managed to collect all the phone numbers they were using, then he put up fake Craigslist ads for free couches... and you can guess the rest.
I would love to understand more what limitations you faced with GSheets that are non-existent in Excel. I used to think the same but then I built some pretty complex computations in GSheets that I could not easily replicate in Excel. And U have built some complex stuff in both.
To be fair, there has been an explosion of evolution since the 1950s due modern agricultural practices and cultivation.

For a striking example, look at the changes in chickens since the 1950s.

https://miro.medium.com/max/639/0*hwEcw5y6Ky1vQkBi.jpeg
Lovely, it's like if LCARS and Pingus built a website together...but no complaints here, it brings back a lot of good memories!

I took a deep dive into BASICs earlier this year and came away with some unexpected results. In software, these stood out:

- SmallBASIC ...not the Microsoft one. Wow this is quite an interesting set of tools, and I was impressed by ongoing developments. I started with it on my phone and continued on my other platforms since it worked so well. There are some faux-OOP convenience features even, like myfakeobject.value = 10

- QB64pe ...this really holds your hand and the documentation is great.

- To-try: https://wonkey-coders.github.io/

In discussions with developers, I was surprised to find some extremely intense, protective vibes. I'd consider "my BASIC == my childhood" a pretty reliable model. Simple how-to queries that would get ordinary answers in other languages sometimes brought out defensive responses.

In group discussions there was also an interesting overlap between "strangely protective of my past" and "prefers writing BASIC" that came up over and over while I was trying to figure out the overall ecosystem of languages.

For example, somebody wrote an algorithm example full of $ii $tk $zx and so on and I asked them about this (who knows, maybe there's some logical reason to not use my_variable_name for example) and the tone became very defensive, even insisting that maybe it was wrong but they are never going to change! Which didn't exactly have anything to do with what I was asking...

In the various online forums there was frequently an ongoing argument over who left, for what reasons, where they ended up, and are you a member of that forum, and so on.

Overall there was a surprising amount of interpersonal drama given its proportion to the active surface area of this language. And a lot of emotionality that just isn't as prominent in other communities I experienced, even though it's probably there at some level.

Since I have spent a lot of professional time doing relationship work with techies, these things kind of reminded me of work pretty quick, and I found myself heading to some more modern languages just to get beyond the unaddressed, or unaddressable, feels-factor.

Still, I look forward to coding some more in the future and particularly in trying out some of the newer tools I discovered.
Code is a Craft, not a Competition– and why it matters
650 years is not much on evolutionary time. But a lot depends on the selective pressures and the amount of mutation. IDK if much could be attributed to natural evolution, but I'm doubtful.
The way it makes money is through Google Workspace.

You have to pay for a higher priced plan (maybe Business Plus) in order to get Meet features like recording and other extended host controls.
I saw a few episodes of the anime… it wasn’t the best show in the world but it was surprisingly sex-positive.
> The usual analogy is that you can always lower the IQ of a child by hitting them on the head with a hammer or by lacing their food with lead powder. But no intervention has been found that raises IQ.

Since almost no one, without deliberate intervention, experiences an environment completely free of known factors that are detrimental to IQ compared to the optimum environment, it's purely a semantic game to say that there are no known interventions that increase IQ.
Australia is just a few steps away from V for Vendetta.
Fortunately there's an xkcd for that

https://xkcd.com/2502/
The Century of Biology and the Role of Software in It
https://centuryofbio.substack.com/p/whats-different-part-four-software
The active people will also be generally healthier, and sleep better (which is critical to memory formation). This would be a much more interesting study, though I suspect it would have a much less interesting result.
Misread. Would delete if I could. Thought this was a reverse accusations against Ukraine, wrong.
RSS or similar is the solution.
Lisa Cron's book, _Wired for Story_, is aimed at fiction writers, but any type of writer can benefit from her book. She gives excellent cognitive-science-based reasons for each writing tip she gives.

I'm an editor/book project manager at a major computer book publishing company, and a former software tech writer. I recommend Lisa Cron's book to all my authors.
Lex Fridman has his ups and downs as a host but how on earth can you call him terrible? He made Zuckerberg prove his humanity by solving a cardboard captcha ffs
Yep, that’s exactly how those came to be — as many colours in as short a snippet as possible.

I honestly haven’t put much thought into “marketing” the theme yet and I would want to properly think about how to best do the highlighting before showing it off in real code. Ideally the latter also with the help of more seasoned programmers.

I appreciate the feedback and will try to keep it in mind once I get to that stage!
I still use the old excel way: Alt+E, A, V
One big ad-infested crapshoot. Here's a better version: https://archive.ph/dF3F3
That was my impression also. My understanding is that your page "quality" is 1 + the sum of the quality all pages that link to your page, divided by the total number of outgoing links. So the quality of pages with incoming links matters, but the quality of pages linked to doesn't, just the number.
The reasons people go to colours can be varied. If you told me there are good colour fast, sun resistive purple dyes now, and that its a hue in times past which failed in public use, but now works, I could believe it. Yellow and gold has had it's day, but in Australia, you cannot go past "green and gold" as a subliminal signal "it's australian" and red-white-and-blue is very very old school here, we have far lower tolerance for flag-patriotism than the USA. Canada is stuck on red and white, for similar reasons.

If the mounties had been uniformed in Purple, things might be different north of the border.

People used to talk about the "pink dollar" being coded language for product which was gay friendly. Maybe purple is a newer walk to a shade/hue which is undefined in that space and so can appeal to people of all kinds. Undefined, but with strong roots in the womens sphere, its been a colour of womens services in all kinds of ways for decades (centuries even)

It's said 75% or more of significant purchases in families vest in women's decision making, not withstanding the inverse balance of income. Maybe purple-ising the logosphere is in part a reaction to attract womens discretionary decision-making powers?
Have you heard of microsoft Access?
This is something I faced in both Excel and GSheets (when working with formulae only). That is the need to repeat myself occasionally.
My comment was purely in reference to the person wanting to ban weedwackers

Trees make great habitats for local wildlife, short grass does not
This is apparently only for one particular kind of fast-growing coral, which means coral diversity is lower and that makes the reef more vulnerable to damage and less supportive of the wider ecosystem:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-04/great-barrier-reef-re...
No idea why people keep recommending Refactoring. It is super outdated showing low-level refactoring techniques in a 20 year old version of Java. If your IDE doesn't already have all these techniques built-in then you should get a new IDE.
I'm amazed at all the people here criticizing Rogan's interview skills. I think it's an instance of disliking a person in general and applying it unwittingly to everything they do.

Rogan may be a shitty person but he is a phenomenal interviewer. He manages to connect with the people that he is interviewing on a personal level in a way that makes them open up like they have known him as a childhood friend.

He's the new Larry King.