skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've grown up to something technically harder-to-use than an iPad, and I'm comparing today's equivalent.

If we normalize this to current HN audience's childhood (roughly), it's more like not touching a computer and not seeing a modem until 20s, while all the kids know at least how to turn a computer, use Windows Explorer/Mac Finder, developed motor skills to use a keyboard efficiently, know how to modify Word docs etc. and the social norm is knowing all these things (as opposed to our chilhood).

Sure, a legendary hacker might arise after touching a computer first time after 20s, but much less likely.
> Nix needs a new porcelain interface for it's CLIs.

The analogy I'd use is that Nix needs what "Github did for Git". Meaning, git is actually unnecessarily complex. But Github made git easy and accessible.
I guess the point is that you can make both cases. They would argue that a company with dominant sales and no profits could be bought by bought by a smaller competitor with profits.

But they had never seen VCs like today and could never conceive companies that could go for years with no profits and maintain high stock valuation. The world changes. So there's your answer: sometimes!
so I'm relatively anti-phone and have been for a while. There was a period of time where I didn't have a smartphone for a few years. When I started using an iPhone again, I realized I couldn't figure out how the heck to delete apps. It was kind of infuriating. I eventually had to look it up online, but the answer wasn't the top one. After reading enough answers I realized the 3d touch was the reason, and that I was touching too lightly or too hard or whatever.

I was so out of the loop that I had no idea the feature existed. When I eventually looked it up, all I could think was "how the hell was I supposed to figure that out?".... maybe they explained it during one of those apple conferences everyone watches?
I am not sure about dirt, but this will help Amazon collect a lot of data for sure
True. But as a tech company it is much better they fight tech battles like privacy policy, acceptable law enforcement behavior, acceptable tracker use, etc.

Let some other company fight the battle over what to put on the label.
I had a roomba 10 years ago, before kids. With all the detritus that comes with kids, auto-vac was not a good option. Now that kids are older and we maintain some semblance of control over clutter I want to get one again. Any personal advice on what a good unit might be? Amazon or not.
This seems in phase with their anti-Microsoft wave riding, which brought many (speculating here) new customers.

Interestingly, my employer too uses GitLab, and we too prefer Linux among employees ... so i think targeting is on point
You may say that but there is much more of a backlash against a fraudulent study than, say, all the people who lied the US into various financially ruinous wars. Despite one of those being objectively much worse for more people than the other.

The academy condemns people who publish fraudulent studies. The US political class is mostly at peace with the legacy of a George W. Bush or equivalent. Mild admiration for his political technique. Relatively popular president compared to the last 2. This is a difference of culture.

> There's nothing magical about the academy.

There is nothing magic about anything. Magic isn't an influence over our daily lives. :)

Things are still different from each other in observable ways.
> As a user I would prefer to be the judge of what is relevant. If the results aren't what I'm looking for, then I'll modify the query until they are.

Funny you should mention that workflow, because Google highly values reducing the number of times users have to do that kind of iteration. If they can work out what you actually mean and give you that first time, they count it as a win and stick with that approach.

> Having the search engine make these opaque decisions on what it thinks I meant to search makes it feel like playing a game of Peggle, where I have no idea if what I'm going for will be what I get.

I think on average this kind of "semantic search" works out for the better, for most people, most of the time.

I tend to like precise results too, but I often appreciate Google applying its "magic," so I'm not sure Google running in a "all magic suppressed" mode by default would be better. E.g. I recently searched for help with an issue I'm having with my refrigerator. I searched for "Samsung BLAHBLAHBLAH drawer freezing" where BLAHBLAHBLAH was my fridge's model number. The search results included stuff for other similar Samsung refrigerators, which are all very similar, so the results were quite relevant to my problem.
This makes sense, and I even thought it might be a good idea to think of Assembler (the program) as an interpreter rather than a compiler: each line of code can be seen as a command to emit a piece of machine code, allocate space, change state or mode, etc.
It sounds like this author hasn’t even attempted anything other than focus mode. Notifications are highly configurable in Macos. Having Siri enabled while on a conference call is just asking for an interruption.

I agree that notifications can be a nuisance, generally speaking, but my mbp is the quietest of them all.
Prime age participation is actually pretty high:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
> And basically everyone here is choosing cheaper Chinese goods so we're all complicit too.

I don't buy Chinese goods just because they're cheaper. I only do so when there's no choice to buy the same kind of product from anywhere else. For example, try to find a power bank made somewhere other than China.
Same here. I am really, really hopeful there is a drop in replacement for ULIDs if they ever get abandoned.
IMO, this is terrible advice. The core concept that school is passive and life is active is, at best, partially true. Very few people answer to no one and the rest get told what to do, all too often, throughout their lives. The rest is mostly based on the author's life in the academic bubble pretending they know what the 'outside' is all about. For example, the claim that college "is fond of seeing imaginary connections, like Arts and marketing, or Maths and computer programming" obviously doesn't understand any of those subjects.
The jobs are going to be all over the map, literally. Some will pay well, others won’t.

I don’t know what is like where you are, but I see ads for entry level jobs at $15-$19/hour everywhere around me. That seems very good.

I’ll also note that it seems to me like those jobs aren’t being filled. There still seems to be some power in the worker’s position, though this is all anecdotal.
I'm a pretty avid believer of Murphy's principles.

Your points above are definitely true, and I've been thinking hard about this myself for the past couple years.

My conclusion? I'm probably gonna keep my $300k+ FAANG job until the recession is over. That gives me more savings to fall back on in case something bad happens. It's ridiculous to suggest that it's a good idea to quit your job (or reject a high paying job) at the time when industry-wide layoffs are happening.

If your point is just about broader social responsibility and not fueling monopolies, you might have a point. But dealing with uncertainties on a personal level? Your advice about being prepared to lose your job and make sure to have enough savings and investments to fall back onto sounds a lot more reasonable than your initial toxic advice for people to reject a high paying stable-ish job at large corp right when the future is becoming uncertain.

When one makes two points that contradict each other, do they have two points or none?
For ruby projects where I could simply put the "new test" in a new file I do this:

1. Create new test (e.g. "spec/reproduce-bug_spec.rb")

2. Ignore it locally: `echo "spec/reproduce_bug_spec.rb" >> .git/info/exclude`

3. Run bisect (something like: `git bisect run rspec spec/reproduce-bug_spec.rb`)

If running the test gets more complex (e.g. installing dependencies as they might change travelling through history), I usually create a wrapper script (and ignore it) to bisect-run-it.
DreamWorks Animation to release MoonRay as open source
I have mine dry mop to keep the dust down rather than wet mopping every day. It's much less work than wet mopping, I just need to change the pad once a week.

It still takes a long time to mop and gets stuck more often than my i7 but it's mostly hands free.
This was basically the approach of Mozilla Research AIUI, which gave us Rust.

IIRC this talk goes into a lot of history there: https://youtu.be/9OHcJzJQ2Nk.
The two approaches can be combined!

You can use AES to generate and store the ExternalId column. As you pointed out, this saves you from having to encrypt/decrypt it on the fly every time, at the cost of an extra lookup and some storage (you're going to want an index on that column as well).

If it ever comes up that you prefer to do it on the fly, you can just drop the column. All your external references will still be valid since the ExternalId was generated deterministically.
You can add date ranges. I do this a lot.
It's relevant for anybody who wants to run their own flavor of software on their router for whatever reason.
Let me hide pinterest results. Or just hide them yourself.
I would not complement S5 that much. Mine can never return to the dock alone, which is pretty basic - it knows where it is, but tries to move there from a weird angle, repeats this few times and ultimately loudly fails. Also, it always gets stuck on dryer rack.

The engineering on the modularity is neat though, I agree.
The market is pricing this outcome. May 2023 onwards fed funds are expecing cuts not hikes.
I have a neato and yeah, I think its neato's software. Its chock full'o'bugs. It routinely loses network connectivity and has to be rebooted to restore it. Of course, support will blame signal, but I've had that issue too and the behavior is different. A dead spot will just lose signal until it moves past it and gracefully recovers. This causes a weird error beep and then it doesn't recover.

Beyond that, I've had it vacuum a floor twice. When it finished, it showed the space twice, because it became disoriented. Basically, it didn't just think the room changed shape, it thought it doubled in size!

I've had it get lost because it thought it was on the opposite side of a rectangular room from where it actually was.

They never update it to fix these things and, IMO, haven't shipped a truly new product in several years. I'm not shocked that a lot of other lidar-based products have surpassed them now.
You're still trying to gaslight HN users about this. Just ADMIT YOU and GOOGLE ARE WRONG.

Thread after thread of hundreds of people telling you your wrong and then you going "actually the community is wrong". Month after month, year after year, you pull this crap.

Admit it, Google search is worse now than it was before, and partly because they are abjectly failing at handling quotes.
So you actually mentioned web3, but not the technology from it that is most interesting to me for this problem.

I’m hopeful that “decentralized identity” is a solution here.

In theory this would let people cryptographically prove whatever small fact about themselves they would like to share with a service provider like marginalia, without paying you, or sharing their identity, or anything else.

Eg: “I am a human”, or “I have written less that 100k words on the Internet” or “my comments have an upvote average above zero”
In a similar vein, I grew up in the state of Missouri hearing jokes about how the residents of Arkansas, the state directly south, were dummies. Little did I know that Iowa, the state to the north, had the same jokes about us.
The car dependence in America is so strong, that I think 99% of the population doesn't realize what is possible even with slightly reduced (not eliminated) car dependence.

I grew up in the suburbs and felt *trapped* until I was able to drive. Legitimately didn't feel like I could be independent.

This is most people's experience, whether they realize it or not. I only became aware of what car-less life could be like when I lived in Chicago (the city, not the burbs). Even then it took me a year to realize how convenient everything was because I could mostly walk or bike to what I wanted.

IMO - the resistance to developing density in the US is because people associate independence with the automobile; and it's a very, very deep association. I don't think people understand that density can actually make you more independent because they haven't really experienced it.

And to be clear I don't want to ban cars. More so, just want to see our country have more options for actual cities other than NYC and Chicago.
Yup, I once tried using aes to create uuids but then ended up with a page that would send a thousand results to the client each one needing a uuid generated, multiply that by a thousand users and the cpu time started to add up it obviously wasn't going to be as scalable as just storing the uuid.

Possibly only doing one round of aes or skipping the key expansion steps would make it more scalable but I didn't have the knowledge to do that securely.
This is really exciting. Being able to fold will make it so much easier to carry around. My dream is to have a 24 or even a 27 inch monitor that you can fit in an every day backpack.

I don't really care that it's also a laptop. Heck, I don't get why you would ever want a foldable phone. But foldable monitor at this size makes a lot of difference in packing.

At 17 inch, it's not the biggest difference since you can still fit that in a backpack. 24 inch? Good luck. But I'd imagine the size to increase over time. Surprised nobody is talking more about this.
They specifically mention Dell laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled.
fibre-cement and stucco are very different. Just like FRP and plastic are very different.
There's got to be a tactful way to do this without interrupting users. If anyone's got some good examples I'd like to take a look.
> Apple should be shamed for choosing Chinese profits.

Raison d'être of any Corporation is shareholder profit, not whatever you think of it.

Shame on everyone involved - the Corporation, the short-sighted shareholders, the customers that enabled this behavior.

> If the US is serious about protecting Taiwan and bringing more chips to the US

It's the opposite, you want to "bring more chips in the US" so that the US is able to back off from protecting Taiwan.
Why isn't there a reasonably priced Google Search API?

Besides being overpriced, the last I checked, the results returned for the custom search didn't reflect what was returned from the normal search product.
If they can't manage to get people to be well equipped before tackling the peak, what are the chances they are going to be able to enforce a permitting system?

Honestly, as someone that has climbed Mont Blanc twice, what is necessary is not more red tape, but to actually enforce the current equipment rules at the Gouter. And based on the importance that mountaineering brings to the area, it wouldn't hurt to go and knock down the loose rock in the Gouter couloir.
With youtube, on the phone, setup an alter account, go to settings, switch on "pause watch history" and "pause search history".

You can then see how sick that algorithm is in recommending and pushing junk. Only now its junk you will despise.
Plenty of middle America is not like that at all. We also have these things called bikes that work really well in small towns.
I HIGHLY recommend you grab a couple of these: AOC USB Screens [0]. They are cheap, LIGHT, and great. I have two of them with my also 15" Omen laptop.[1] So I have a full size gaming/workstation machine, and TWO external screens, at 1920 while the machine is 2500 resolution... and ALL of this fits in my backpack. and is super light.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/AOC-I1659FWUX-USB-Powered-Portable-19...

[1] https://i.imgur.com/MJNWvif.jpg

(Also, I am designing a bracket using the VESA mount screws on the back of the screens to attach them to the small camera tripods I have which are also very light and fit in backpack - this way, I can mount one screen behind the laptop, and have that screen directly above my laptop screen, and then another to the side.)
tl; dr: Intern, side projects, make stuff.

If you don't know what to get a degree in, choose accounting. You're going to be dealing with money and taxes the rest of your life, might as well get good at it. This is doubly true if you want to be a rock star or sports hero or famous actor, all jobs where a lot of money comes into the hands of people who aren't prepared for it.
IQ correlates quite heavily with practice time on multiple choice tests though.

Who spends their time doing lots of tests? Rich kids. Being wealthy also predicts a wide variety of positive life out ones including income, health, longevity, and not being incarcerated
> Past history is not a moral argument.

Sure it isn't if it doesn't suit you, very convenient. Yet we live in very world completely and utterly in pure 100% mathematical way defined by only our past.

All the crap happened/happening/will happen in middle east and africa? Consequence primarily of european colonialism. Sure we can argue that enough time has passed, entire generations. Yet the places are as fucked up as ever, I would argue even more so.

Or you can explain this to germans who as a nation are still traumatized by what their ancestors did in WWII (shows how decent the core/soul of that nation is... imagine russians in similar situation, they would just blatantly lie about it and imprison/disappear anybody saying differently, like ie Katyn massacre).

Past is a moral argument, like it or not. It isn't a tool to justify anything and I am not commenting on current topic of intellectual theft (which is a rather pointless tea time effort) but ignoring it won't you any good since you won't be able to grok why people or nations behave as they do.
As long as you want to select entire words, just double tap and drag -- same as desktop to do word-based selection. And even if you don't want to do word-based selection, double tap is a good way to start selection and have the selection carets close to where you want them that you can easily manually adjust.
I'm very happy you found something that works for you. What method of ketamine treatment have you been taking? I just stopped after 2 months of troches, which didn't seem to bring significant, if any, benefit.

Interestingly, I found myself abnormally susceptible to the psychedelic effects. When taking ketamine orally, the expectation is that most of the medicine is absorbed while you hold the troch in your mouth for 30+ minutes. After a lot of experimentation, I found that I barely absorb any medicine through my mouth, but once I swallow it I absorb it very rapidly. This made it difficult to control the delivery speed, and likely hindered my treatment.

I haven't been dealing with depression for anywhere near as long as you, but I do speak from experience about how terrible it is to not find anything that works. I've gone through ~13 of the most commonly prescribed drugs for depression, anxiety, and sleep, and none brought any relief. I've now tried and failed out of ketamine, which I was really hopeful for. Now I'm just back to sitting around trying to get _any_ doctor to actually see me and maybe get tested for various neurodivergent conditions.
That's a better explanation for what went wrong at Intel. But I would also point to many other companies: Boeing, General Motors etc. that had really excellent products once upon a time and then faltered. Every case is very complicated and has many reasons.
> I find this a fairly bad policy.

How many engineers have you worked with that ONLY worked in Windows, and did it better than anyone else...?

It's just a filter.
I remember "NOT!" being a popular thing back in the 90s, and thought it originated then. Like, "Yes, you made up that original joke yourself. NOT!" only to see Steve Martin doing it on an old episode of SNL. Chances are any joke you hear dates back way longer than you imagine."
I haven't found a platform which caters to this group. I guess the approach would be find communities related to the subject matter, which unfortunately are very distributed and not cataloged anywhere.

You mentioned, that you practice intensely for months to develop a skill, talking to experts etc. I have recently started on a similar path to strengthen my fundamental skills in my subject area and, that means, learning solo and working on various domain topics for many years. Do you have any general advice on learning topics intensely for months, just curious about your personal approach to learning solo.
TBH, I think extreme skeptics (e.g., flat-earthers) play a useful role in public discourse.

They effectively shine a light on the limits of each person's ability to justify their beliefs, vs. what beliefs are generally accepted just because nobody challenges them.

I've seen a similar effect in several Christian communities in the U.S. If a Christian is mostly surrounded by other Christians, it's easy to accept lots of beliefs because they're not challenged. But if they end up in an environment where people challenge those beliefs, or if there's a lot at stake for holding wrong beliefs, they tend to scrutinize their beliefs much more carefully. I think, overall, they benefit from pruning down their beliefs to a smaller set of better-justified ones.

So to the extent that flat-earthers help others think more critically, I'm glad they're part of public discourse.
Generally I take an evolutionary view. If we accept that companies evolve through competition in markets, regulations should be designed to put selective pressures on having those values.

A regulatory moat, is in my view homologous to niches in biology. Things settle into a sort of equilibrium where evolutionary change drastically slows. The main solution to this: aggressively break up monopolies(I would argue duopolies too). Other ways this equilibrium breaks is just that the environment changes. E.g some new technological breakthrough makes older technologies obsolete. Or a natural disaster in biology, throwing the ecosystem into disarray.
Jones' perjury was way clearer than Clapper's.

Additionally, Clapper was part of the government, testifying on something the government wanted kept quiet.
The Omni is AUD $2500.

It had better be truly amazing, it's 4x the price I paid for my old Roomba 780 many a year ago that did a decent job of it until it died after 5-6 years of service.
I like to disable the menu on my Emacs but I do NOT recommend that neophytes do so. That's what it's there for -- to help you issue commands with a guide to what's available.
I'm not a fan of Amazon or Chinese companies connecting things to the cloud that don't need to be.

What I liked about the Roomba brand is reparability. They actually make quite a few wear parts replaceable including wheels. However, I decided against for privacy as there was no way to block cloud access without losing functionality.

Since then I purchased a Dreamy Z10 Pro and have been very happy with a rooted and lobotomized from corporate cloud services using valetudo while retaining nearly all functionality and integrating with home assistant.
https://valetudo.cloud/

With 3D printers nowadays, community should pull together to create an open source robot vacuum. There are a few out there but they're more like personal projects.
IIRC while it does under perform apples CPU’s it performed as well as intel’s mobile i5’s
I am not all that standards savvy, so pardon my ignorance.

>Introduce the nullptr constant

>They should have formally defined NULL as void* instead.

That doesn't make any sense to me. void* is a type isn't it? nullptr is a value. I don't see the overlap.
I think you may have taught your phone to misspell "counterexamples"
Calculators on phones would still work.
Uber's still not profitable
https://youtu.be/IFfdnFOiXUU

Half cringe corporate jingle, half mind-blowing list of accomplishments with a chorus punctuated by Nobel prizes.