skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Everyone can, but why would anyone do?"

Some of us do care and see the big picture of things, but that mostly limited to tech/product companies/startups, much less so to enterprise employees, or agency-supplied contractors.

I.e. it boils down to incentive alignment, and to a lesser extent professional curiosity.

> "I don't care what you do, that knowledge is a distraction detrimental to my own work."

Agree, so it doesn't matter whether this distraction is done by issue tracker, email, or an actual meeting.

At least in the issue tracker case it's stored in a structured database which I can easily query (even programmatically via API/bots), and much less distractive than in email/meeting.
> I think the anti-life bit was about entropy, but avoided the word for some reason

But it wasn't, it was about the anti-life equation, a reference to DC's Darkseid.
As oppose to VW charging 5k for "Auto parking" - no one seems to mind that. But 10k for Auto Parking, Summon, Enhanced Auto Pilot and maybe future autonomy is unacceptable!?

It's like people forget the rest of the car industry when talking about Tesla.
Thanks. I am into programming but it's more focused on web development. Gaming is how I got introduced to web development tho, specifically making Quake clan sites and being a part of a Quake III ladder site.
I agree and if I thought I got any value out of communicating extra to them I would. Fact is, this is open source, I'm doing this for fun. I'm not here for you and I don't owe you understanding or complete information.
I totally get what the author is saying, and I mostly agree with him.

The arts, the social studies, the courses targeted by this are important

At the same time, especially in the US, there's a whole industry dedicated to selling naive young people the idea that they totally should get a $100k student loan for their Harvard Basket Weaving Bachelor's. Or Mongolian Literature. Or for a Cinema Course in Ohio. And then just get another $100k for a subsequent Masters.

The problem is of course not in the studies, but on how overpriced they are. And of course the tuition doesn't translate in higher salaries for the faculty (because of course they don't)
> Can one expect to earn like a full time job working on it?

It really depends on where you live. A full time job in California earns much more that many other parts of the World.

That being said, most indie games fail financially. There are hits, of course. But there's also a a middle ground if you can live on low funds.

I have been full time indie since 2013. I have released about a dozen games and 4-5 of those have been financially successful.

I made about $250k net (after all taxes and fees) in these 9 years, so around $2300 net / month. That's about 3-4 times the average wage in my country and is close to being on par with what I could earn outsourcing my programming skills to the western companies. I'm doing what I love and enjoy having freedom of being able to choose when I work and when I go on a vacation, etc. Sometimes I work 16-hour days for weeks. Sometimes I take 2-3 weeks off and just play games, read books, watch movies and hang with my friends and family.

You probably never heard about any of my games: Rogue Bit, Son of a Witch, Watermelon Party. I'm perfectly fine with that.
>it's going to be difficult to convince me that there's a difference between "you can't do this because you're working" and "you can't do this because you're on-call"

But there *is* a difference, and that difference is exactly why you're paid 2/3 of your normal rate instead of 100% (or 150% as some people are saying). You aren't working, but you aren't entirely free either, so you are compensated for that by being paid something that is not quite your full rate. *OR* (at least by Google guidelines) you can accrue enough time to be able to fully take a day off later to make up for that time lost.

By the way depending on the day, requirements, oncall shift, style, etc you can definitely relax, play games, go to the beach, etc. Just because you are oncall it doesn't mean you can't categorically do any of those activities (unlike if you were *actually* working), it just means that you need to have a laptop nearby with internet access and temporarily drop whatever you are doing to be able to deal with an outage if it happens. For this reason, the company pays you, but it's not a full rate.
Of course I would take, and so would most people. And this is exactly the problem. This will mean that it will be harder than ever to get rid of old, entrenched ideas. It's already hard now: Most decisions are taken by old white men, who are out of touch with today's world and don't have any real incentive to care about the long-term.
Theology seems to fit this criteria, i.e. highly profitable for those practicing it. No different than the brothers from across the ocean.
Individual incomes seem like one of those areas where that isn't the case. The modal individual income is likely 0 for most countries (economically inactive people), but the earnings of the people the economically inactive are dependent on will vary hugely.
> everyone can see it on issue tracker

Only if you have a perfect board, no things ever come up out of order, a be everyone has the same idea of granularity. In practice, no, that information is going to be either unclear or wrong.
What made the switch for me was NNT's Black Swan and the rest of the books in the series.
Same here. Without the comma AND the double quotes, I only see what's obviously a copycat.
I would say that the difference for me was that I already had a more specific plan of what I wanted to achieve, so it was easier to focus on the more useful fundamentals. And even in computer sience itself, it is not set in stone what the fundamentals are that should be covered in 6 years. The field has become so specialised that many new courses have emerged in recent years, such as bioinformatics or humanities computing. The latter is now branching out into subfields, because what an archeologist needs (digital maps, 3D models, image processing) is very different from what a philologist or archivist needs (text encoding, long term storage, information management). And wat makes humanities computing particularly difficult is that it requires a deep understanding of fields that are very far appart and hardly overlap. Think of it like this: Normally you train an historian for 6 years and a computer scientist for 6 years. What should a curricilum for both look like in a time frame of 6 years?

I think the most important benefit of a university degree is not so much what specific fundamentals you are trained in, but that you get an idea of what it really means to know the fundamentals of a subject and how to get there. Later in your career, you can then use these strategies to deepen your understanding of everything that comes your way. Of course, it is easier if your education roughly matches what you will find on the job. But you never know what aspects of your training might help you later on. In my case, I would say that the many difficult debates and deep essays in philosophy prepared me much better than probably computer science might when it came to working out a plan for a software module with others and writing an accurate specification.
> You can't predict educational outcomes for future employment on the basis of priors ...

What was that qualification in again? That's an absurd statement.

Best case, I'm assuming the author means you "can't guarantee due to the human factor". But given the rest of the anti conservative jibes littered throughout I doubt it.

Edit: loving the blame of all economic woes on Brexit. I don't know a serious supporter who didn't expect a contraction immediately after leaving due to at least market fear. But frankly the massive lockdowns of the last 2 year bare much more responsibility in this "new" reality.
I work in human diabetes genetics. We're just publishing work on a gene that doesn't even exist in mice - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.23.21262262v...

Part of our message is basically what you just said. We have multiple examples of genes where mutations cause diabetes in humans but don't in mice.

The other one we have is the fact that human pancreatic beta cell lines in labs don't even 100% act like human pancreatic beta cells in humans.
> How was the education in Britain organized during that era?

Mostly, intensive one-on-one tutoring starting at a very early age. See https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einste...
The Microwave Conundrum baffles me. I have in my head a picture/video of how it must have gone...

Monday-morning Team Standup at Microwave Corp. Debate has been raging for 20 minutes on what to do when the timer runs to zero on the new Model F. Finally the Product Manager calls it: "OK, let's make it beep four times. That feels about right. Oh, and let's make the beeping really high pitched so that older people and the hard-of-hearing can't actually hear it unless they're right next to the machine."

"And four times again every 30 seconds if the door doesn't get opened."

"Oh, and make sure the light inside stays ON while the door is open, because otherwise it won't rust quite as quickly..."

Somebody -- some team of somebodies -- actually spent time and mental energy deciding to make their product more obnoxious.

I don't get it.
You'd want to measure butt in seat hours since the problem isn't the distance but being sedentary.
It would have to be a specialized sub to go to that depth right? I think normal nuke subs don't go anywhere near that deep right?
Hahaha the guy has found and commented on the article
Pardon my ignorance: Are messages sent through this guaranteed to arrive in order?
Because it chips away at one of the only valuable things you have: autonomy and peace during your leisure time. That exact thing the fruits of your labor actually are supposed to prop up and maintain.
How do you see that happening? Would you just exclude people that are older than, say, 100 years, of doing anything that affects the world? They will still try to influence the world according to their old, outdated ideas.
I thought this was a fantastic podcast. I'm not sure how so many people can hate Lex and his (free!) work. I've been waiting for some of these interviews (with a technical interview for years/decades). I'm a bit confused why you'd want to speed then up or skip them, surely this is missing the point of settling into a thought provoking conversation? I happened to have a longish drive yesterday for a day of walking in the hills and listened to the whole thing in 2 sections. Never felt bored and had quite a few interesting thoughts come up during the conversation. Thanks Lex!
First of all, I would wonder what you consider a "normal car"? The older Citroën cars shown in the article were all "normal". But indeed ahead of their time.
The shape of "normal" cars, which I assume are ICE cars for you has very much varied over the decades. In the late 80ies and early 90ies there were quite a few models designed strictly for good aerodynamics, later on the aerodynamic efficiency unfortunately dropped quite a bit. Recent years car designs are not very good in my eyes.
To answer the question: a lot of the traditional car design comes from designing around combustion engines. They need cooling and more space than an electric motor. See for example the return to rear wheel drive, as this makes most sense with a tiny electric engine. The huge front space is basically only needed for crash safety. At least some cars offer a good frunk. Of course the shift to electric cars will lead to different designs. Aerodynamic becomes much more important, no big engine, but instead a large battery, but at differen places in the car.
And of course a good bit of marketing. Beyond the technical needs, you want a new generation of cars also to look "new". Good design though combines new looks with the new technological requirements.
Toyota has nothing like FSD, Enhanced Autopilot and it's version of Autopilot is closer to Tesla's passive lane-assist technology. Nothing like the rail-like feeling of Tesla Autopilot
Ask HN: Point and Click Recommandations
Good morning HN,

I've always enjoyed Point & Click games a lot but I've lost touch with the video game industry, and I'd love to know if some decent games in that genre were released in the latest years.

I'm sure there must be some, but HN, show me the best, please!
> “We have flexible working hours”, they say. Sure, but there’s also a stand-up meeting at exactly 8:30 AM to ensure everyone will be online early.

This is the thing about daily stand-ups which I hate the most. I work as a freelancer which requires me to do a dance around social expectation everytime I get on with a new project.

Oftentimes I work with full remote internal teams which are used to dailies in the morning, even when a substantial number of team members hate them. The (private) feedback I get when I'm the one who tries to reschedule them later in the day at the kick-off meeting is very astonishing.

I simply don't get why even many relaxed employers don't realize that dailies in the (early) morning can be a very good way to reduce overall productivity and sometimes even set wrong incentives.

I know a good share of employed people who only came to terms with early stand-ups because it means they can clock in early without doing any meaningful work for the first hours of the workday. But I think it's just fair that those employers with proclaimed "flexible hours" pay them for involuntary getting up before their time. Make me get up early, pay for my breakfast time. Or just stop pretending that you have flexible hours.
I'm a strong believer in minimum viable process when it comes to team management. As teams grow, processes need to grow with them. But imo every process - stand-ups included - should be introduced as an experiment. The experiments should have a clear hypothesis, and a period of evaluation. The evaluation should be conducted by anyone who is expected to participate in or benefit from the process. If process experiments don't work - take lessons and throw out the process.

Our current stand-up has evolved[1] to people posting their done/doing/blockers in Slack each day. We still have a daily 15 minute zoom meeting - which was once a stand-up - but it's changed. Now it's a time-boxed meeting where we shoot the breeze, or play small multiplayer games [2]. The rules are simple - no work chat, no politics. We meet in the middle of the day so people have the morning period to get work done.

Our stand-up wouldn't work for all teams. We've specifically hired people that would work well in our team - and they're thus more inclined to work well with the processes we've developed.

[1]: I wrote a bit about this at https://blog.getchinwag.com/posts/calling-all-remote-teams-s... - though our stand-up has continued to evolve.

[2]: Assembling jigsaws has proven to be quite fun in recent weeks - we use https://puzzlegarage.com/
I Landed a (Model) Rocket Like SpaceX. It Took 7 Years
Scrum masters are one of the reasons I chose to be overemployed. Their presence in an organization taught me that it is highly rational to be performative over performing.
Not sure if you read my comment in its entirety. I said that I think it's important that we do things that improve the qualiy of life for people, which includes organ transplants. Which is different from investing into resources which will make the old and rich live hundreds of years.
No need to apologise. It was delightfully ironic to have achievements there, regardless of intention.

In the end, you have to ask yourself who it benefits, and at whose expense. Intent matters a lot. In this case, there's no case for growth hacking. It would be different if I hosted this post on a professional website.

I run a content website, and I constantly need to remind my business partners that I answer to my readers, not to them. If you perceive the internet as a giant conversion funnel, users become a lot more like cattle: a commodity whose well-being is only considered in support of profit. The incentives are all geared towards squeezing users.
I"m an Austrian film critic, who just watches most good movies.

Since Indian movies rarely make to to western festivals (mostly only Rome), there's not much to compare with. The ones which make it into Cannes are entirely different, and not as the good ones which make it into Rome or dominate the local markets. Berlin has nothing (but Dil Se won there ages ago, still the top Indian movie), Sundance had at least Gangs Of Wasseypur.
At least what happened at my company, is that they hire an idealist who preaches agile to management, and then gets frustrated when reality doesn’t match what they preached, because now their job is on the line.

It was somehow hilarious to watch him weasel his way out of missed deadlines and failed project. Every developer ended hating him, since developers got the blame for everything, since we didn’t follow his idealistic view of agile.
Guix channels (not to be confused with Nix channels) let you turn a Git repo into a package collection:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Channels.html

I guess it serves some of the same purposes as Flakes, and it comes with other bells and whistles such as authentication (which I think is kinda important!).

For the rest, your description of Guix is largely incorrect ("has none of that", "you have to roll back the complete Guix system", etc.), but as a Guix hacker I'd be interested in better understanding your experience and perceptions if you'd like to get in touch with us on the mailing lists!
Yep saw that too.
I hear this "luck" thing a lot but not sure that's the case. It's probably more originality + quality. So few undiscovered gems out there, thousands of average things though.
If you read the details at https://www.longevityprize.com/prizes/hypothesis, it's really aimed mainly at people with relevant training who's already working in the area of their submission or ready to do follow-up hands-on research, rather than being a public suggestion box. I agree it doesn't preclude randos from winning though.
> All to a background of trying to push as many people as possible through the institutions of higher education in order to certify that the individuals were sufficiently tractable to obey orders, perform rote tasks, and conform to expectations—necessary prerequisites for employment.

FINALLY a good article that mentions this point! Employers have been shifting the risk of selecting an "unfit candidate" - including discriminating against otherwise protected candidate classes, given that people protected by anti-discrimination laws tend to not have university degrees because they simply cannot pass the hurdles - and the cost of basic training to the candidates for decades.

It's high time for this to end. The world doesn't need academic degrees for paper-push type jobs.
Similar experience.

We have 2 meetings per week, all in the same day.

The rest is intra-teams communication without management butting in.

Everyone is extremely productive.

Why people think that daily standups are useful is beyond me.

95% of the things in the 2 weekly team meetings that we have is already useless for most people (but having everyone there is useful since otherwise you're just waiting to ping someone to respond, you zone out anyway if the topic is not to your relevance).
This is a bit simplistic, the general plan is to slow growth and then reduce aiming for net zero around 2050.

There's plenty of science looking at those trajectories and arguing about if we are on schedule and what needs to be done to stick to the schedule and if its enough.

But its a bit more sophisticated than, if the line isn't going down today, we should just give up.

Another weird thing is that, it's fairly easy to make fossil fuels less carbon intense to eke them out a bit longer e.g. don't flare or leak raw methane which is much worse than the carbon you'd get from burning it. That's a good change that actually increases fossil fuel production and that we currently subsidize doing the opposite in the US.
Took me a while to figure out that "finds highlight" wasn't verb-noun but noun-verb in that headline!
> While I agree with your sentiment, I don't think 1.5x for 48 hours for being on call over a weekend is a sensible or reasonable ask

I don't think me being asked to work weekends is a very reasonable ask either so here we are. Pay me or find someone else. Pretty basic.

> Personally I'd be happy to ...

Personally I won't. That's my point..

> Don't risk being mis interpreted as being a money-grubbing mercenary by pretending you'd be happy to do it for a high enough price

That is exactly the situation though? I'm not working for you for feels. If you pay me enough I will work weekends on top of my normal 40, but it will cost you.

"Fuck you pay me." Comes to mind.

https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U

> then PIP you out for being a jerk

Mate, if you were to suddenly ask me to work weekends without pay you wouldn't need to pip me I'd already be interviewing.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper, easier and less time-consuming to just fast ?

Why bother with the unproven, uncertain outcomes of a (commercial) supplement when you can undertake a proven and broadly beneficial action ?
This is the only thing I miss about macos. Last Mac used was snow leopard and I _still_ sometimes find myself wishing for menu search on Linux
It scares me how much of the oceans we still haven't explored and how much stuff there still is down there. I think more than 80% are unexplored so far..
No, but it's not like we are going to see an investigation of the video where a Russian POW is executed by slowly pushing a knife through their eye-socket.

Not like anyone will even be looking into the case when Ukraininan commander confessed on state TV to ordering to castrate prisoners.

It's always curious to look into how the evidence is gathered, but beyond that it is no more than a game of manipulating attention.
Deploy to AWS Amplify from Gitlab CI/CD
Deploying to AWS Amplify from GitLab.com (Saas) works "out of the box", but AWS don't currently support self managed. I wrote a simple CI/CD script to handle it.
Came here to say the same thing.

Wisdom is linked to a life-long experienced person. No one can be said to be "wise" at 15.

And doing random things expecting to get "wise" is like moving frantically and randomly your limbs & expecting to learn kung fu.... Time has to make things decant.
The Adam D'Angelo mentioned is the co-founder and CEO of Quora.

Zuckerberg's only other comment on Slashdot: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=61425&cid=5774262
> The initialization sequence for the ADC is documented as requiring a wait until the ADRDY flag is set, so the fix is just to wait for that for each ADC in turn before enabling the next one.

Hmm?
Ok, it may be the clock or something else subtle but if they tell you to wait...
I can relate to this, I am a dedicated fan of the Toyota Corolla
Well, no-one's going to accuse that of being overengineered :D
Large animals are pretty flimsy. If a human can survive something reliably it shouldn't be hard to build a wristwatch that can do it all day every day.
I think that (one of the) point(s) of the article is that it's not "the masses" that want all this noise, but the attention-craving product managers in appliance companies that want it. (And an Apple or Windows computer is an appliance, hardly at all a General Purpose Turing-Machine Equivalent.)
> We hope to use massive amounts of data to aid in analysis, but your individual data will never be seen by anyone else.

I read the "vow" as a promise to collect massive amounts of data.

As for the project - "Zuckerberg and friend Adam D’Angelo created an MP3 player that would keep track of every song the user played on a computer and, as it learned what the user liked, would begin to make playlists."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/10/23/not-so-artific...