skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related: I believe my ability to retain an “internal map” of an area was ripped to shreds by non-euclidian games.

The first time I turned three corners and ended up in a different place it feels like my brain threw the desk up at the idea that 3D space had euclidean rules, and I’ve been struggling ever since.

Of course I still continue to enjoy those types of games, so it’s not like a single game did all the damage.
So, at a SW level the equivalent to HW's "no single static scheduling works in the face of $ misses" is "no single static scheduling works in the face of blocked IO"[0], and the practical solution for the latter has proven to involve (instead of forcing the kernel to be sufficiently smart about processes' access patterns) exposing nonblocking IO to userland, why not allow the ISA to query[1] if an L1 access is currently viable (enabling dispatch to different static schedules)?

[0] on a tangent: is the fact that modern cloud development uses copious amounts of Terraform et.al., explaining what is hooked up where[2], just an epiphenomenon of Conway's law? Or is there something more fundamental driving this particular pendulum swing?

[1] sure, there may have been security concerns before, but now doesn't the Spectre family imply that adversaries can exploit the $ state anyway?

[2] resembling nothing so much as text file versions of the "system diagrams" people used to draw in the 1960's with green plastic stencils: https://americanhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/ogmt_admi...
Or would JCL cards be a closer analogy?
Second order is good but I think if there's too much n-th thinking level it will become overthinking lol
What? Wisdom is expensive! If you're fresh out of wisdom, or just low on cash, you can TOTALLY use cynicism 1:1 in most recipes.
This is great marketing, nice job. Have you ever read Traction[0]? They call this engineering-as-marketing[1]. I built an open-source version[3] of Baremetrics when I was working on a loan marketplace for SaaS companies[4]. It did ok! I'd consider open-sourcing the tool since it's not your main business.

0 - https://www.amazon.com/Traction-audiobook/dp/B01705KMG4

1 - https://www.chameleon.io/blog/engineering-as-marketing#:~:te....

3 - https://github.com/mike-paper/pulse

4 - https://www.trypaper.io/
Most of the money is in the bullshit stuff.

You will get paid more if you are a webpack ninja than if you know how to setup a simple esbuild script.

You will get paid more if you have wizard level knowledge of k8s and docker than if you can program something that solves your problems as a simple single program running on a single server.
Looks like an amazing resource, thank you!
I like the point about overnight success.

Folks like to think they'll make a course or write a book and rake in $1M USD overnight, and miss the years of value that successful folks provide their audience.
Nobody saying or reading this sees this as a problem?
True. CKD kits are a great tax-saving trick, and you can also claim to have "a factory" in the country
Is this article actually just complete nonsense? I can just look at my wishlist to see how many books I want to buy that I haven't bought yet.

Then when I want to read one, I buy it. Then I read it.

I admit sometimes I hate a book so much I don't finish it and buy another, but I don't think that's the kind of unread book being talked about.

Maybe it's not nonsense, actually, is this article just some kind of post hoc justification for impulse buying tons of books?
Step 1: Get off HN

I'll tell you about step 2 once I figure out how to do step 1
well I guess that's why he's a manager...
Get paid next day for your eCommerce sales, Funding for eCommerce Sellers to scale up and purchase new inventory, simply based on seller history https://nfinance.io/
Yeah, it's tagged under “Z/OS”.
Incomprehensible without context.
Tesla makes one thing: automobiles.

Andy Warhol made one thing: paintings.

John Deere makes many things: tractors, lawn mowers, displays, harvester combines, excavators, and many more things, including stuff that works in non-john Deere vehicles.

"jailbreak a John Deere what"
This seems to be about the z/OS C API.
I'm almost in my 40 and I can feel the OP's pain.

But I agree with @jaitaiwan, you look you're burnt-out rather than depressed. It's too easy for us to focus on our skill and less about our emotion & other things. Then over time, we see less light on our career because what we left is only the skill which probably already obsolete.

Skill is tradable but a person is not. You're who you're. If you like what you do, then it's fine. But if tech genuinely doesn't excite you, then looking for what you like now is not too late.
I mean, simplest way would be to build a plant that creates hundreds of well-paying jobs. Companies do this all the time.
I feel the same way a little as a mobile developer. It seems companies are leaning into cross-platforms nowadays to save money and 95% of my career is working with native mobile. I'm approaching my 40s and I am just glad I have full autonomy on my decisions in the mobile dev department.
This isn't redistribution. It's a tool to download it for your own personal use. If this is illegal then so is using Firefox to browse the web page (It also fetches the content for your own personal use).

If you redistribute the generated epub, that's a different issue of course (though that is just as possible to do with copy-paste or saving the html in a browser). Don't ban tools for their misuse.
This article, and some of the comments here, seem to confuse "second-order" with "long-term".

Long-term just means doing the same analysis far out into the future: "If I spend less on maintaining software product $LEGACY, I will save money. If I continue to do this, I will save more and more money by each passing month."

Second-order means discovering neighbouring causal links. "If I spend less on maintaining software product $LEGACY, I will save money. I will however also have to prioritise which bugs I fix. This will lead to some bugs that would be fixed today not getting fixed. That might mean that some users of $LEGACY move to a competitor. In turn, it costs more to acquire new customers than to retain old ones, so just maintaining the same customer count while dissatisfying customers until they quit will cost more money than by trying to make existing customers happy.

"Quitting $LEGACY customers will however lead to fewer bugs being discovered in $LEGACY, meaning the reduced maintenance budget might be sufficient again. However, quitting customers doesn't only force me to spend more to re-acquire similar number of customers – it might also be negative for marketing, so it becomes harder to acquire new customers, thus having a non-linear effect on the customer replacement costs.

"Decreased maintenance of $LEGACY might make some developers happier, but signal to others that we are not serious about the lifecycle of our product. This might result in them not putting in as much effort to make maintenance easier in future products, which will increase the maintenance demand in future products. Thus, insufficient maintenance efforts on $LEGACY may lead to increasing maintenance demand, which leads to insufficient maintenance efforts, which leads to increasing maintenance demand, and so on."

As the last parts of that hint at, what's really important is not all the neighbouring causal links, but those that lead to nonlinearities and feedback cycles. By mucking about with things in a stable system, in particular when there are nonlinearities and feedback cycles involved, you can accidentally create an unstable system that wants to drive itself into the ground.
the result of the 1st book is you need to read the second
You're right. Can't argue with that. In the end, this is just another interface to do the same thing in a different way.
Yeah, New Plymouth or Napier might be about the right size. You are right about the car but we don't have suburbs far away from the cities like the states so it's possible to get around without a car.
Or Worcestershire sauce. Everything tastes better with Worcestershire sauce.
for iOS I like MapOut quite a bit.

https://mapout.app/
A person with leadership skills can still benefit from experience.

My current company is lead by someone with good leadership skills, and successfully managed a commercial team. Now he's trying to lead a company, and it is clear that he does not have the necessary experience to make the correct decisions.
A healthy skepticism can be a useful way to avoid vacuous thinking.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...
I had some kind of a career crisis last summer, I just couldn't do anything at all for days, and felt very bad about it, since I have always liked my web-development work, tech, and computers in general.

It took me quite an effort (money, time, psychotherapists) to understand that I am not my job, and more importantly other people being not very happy with what I do is not a reason for me to feel bad about myself. It was very easy for me to start scolding myself after getting not-so-positive or not getting the feedback I expected at work.

Anyway, I think it's a process - my attitude towards my work is never final, I used to think that vespene gas here will get depleted over time, but it's probably not how it works. Some day it's worse, some day it's much better.

Good luck!
It's an economic issue associated with stage of development. Remember the joke from Back to the Future.

Doc Brown (1955): "No wonder this circuit failed, it says made in Japan."
The Book Burning
What an unnecessarily combative response. The person never claimed that this service has no value; that’s a strawman you constructed. They’re just helpfully pointing out another (free!) way of accomplishing the same thing for those who might want it.
Didn't La Palma erupt in the last two years?
I just want some consistency in the grammar we use.

I made my point and was fully prepared to leave it at one comment, but others had to swoop in and tell me how wrong I was. you're not picking on them, just me.
A planner app that stores data as plain text or md and has iCloud cal sync?
I’m looking for an app to plan my freelance weeks/days. I’d like it to store data locally / on Dropbox / iCloud and in a way I can access it (plain text or markdown).

I’m also after something that lets me see my iCloud calendar events within the app.

Another plus would be a one off purchase - not a huge fan of subscriptions.

NotePlan is the closest I’ve found but the subscription cost is a turn off.

Sunsama is a really great app I think but also an expensive subscription and doesn’t sync with iCloud calendar.

I’m currently using Things 3 but it’s really not a planner in the way I want.
Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
A few weeks ago, I asked if I could see your cheatsheets (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31928736) and I was really impressed by all the high quality responses!

Today I'm asking about your scripts.

Almost every engineer I know has a collection of scripts/utilities for automating ${something}. I'm willing to bet that HN users have some of the most interesting scripts on the internet.

So that said, could I please see your scripts?

I'll go first: https://github.com/fastily/autobots
https://github.com/fastily/autobots
Why use Paxos instead of Raft?
Man, IBM mainframe stuff is pretty messed up. Attribute splitting much?
Aren't totally meaningless graphs the best though? ;) You're just bitter because you're already fourth order thinking... you assessed the whole thing as a dumbass waste of time.

Also, never show people graphs when /ok, never mind
> Have you ever wondered why Bitcoin makes such a poor payment network? Why Nakamoto ignored or sidestepped questions on the transactional performance of Bitcoin and instead would focus on bandwidth? What about the transactional profile of Bitcoin being far closer to something used to register real estate transactions, rather than a global payment network? The answer is clear, transactions in Bitcoin are not meant to facilitate payments in the typical sense, they are useful insofar as they allow Miners and speculators to realize returns on their investments.

> A speculative and deflationary ‘asset’ makes for a poor currency, people are disincentivized from using it today, as it might be worth considerably more tomorrow. This very criticism was leveled against Bitcoin on the BitcoinTalk forums in February 2010 [1], as the design of coin rewards combined with the halving schedule rendered the protocol useless as a currency. Few would spend something whose value appreciated 19% every year. Nakamoto participated in this very forum thread and was well aware of the criticism, but shrewdly chose not to address the issue directly, ever careful to misdirect, lest too much attention be paid to Bitcoin’s fatal flaws.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57.0
I myself was hit in a very similar way when 4 years old, while crossing a road outside a school, and also lost my front teeth.

My father tells of my clothes being cut off by the medics with scissors in the ambulance and my entire body being bruised and me having a Joker like smile from where the car ripped my face open. The scar still itches in cold weather.

He then himself nearly hit a child that ran out in front of him about a decade later and was totally shaken by the experience even though the car didn't actually make contact this time.

One of the reasons (there are many, I highly recommend it) I cycle commuted for years was that I didn't want to put myself in the position of being the driver that hits the kid that I once was.

Computer assisted braking and self driving both seem like good technical solutions to me. I trust computers much more than distracted humans and see the benefit for both the pedestrian who doesn't get hit, and the car driver who doesn't injure someone.
I just hope we don't start to see flabby legs like this become the next feature incorporated into the speculative designs of dinosaurs.
That's pretty awful on Lastpass's behalf. 1Password does this much better - your account is frozen in such that you can't add new passwords or make changes, but you can still read your data:

https://support.1password.com/frozen-account/
> function of emotional investment vs the emotional return

This!
I'll agree with all this, particularly the first paragraph.

I've burned out a couple of times and the fix has been to stop for a while and do other things. After a few months I catch myself coming up with ideas for projects, writing code, etc - that's when it's time to go back to paid work. Obviously that's more disruptive to perm employees than to me as a contractor, but I hear rumours that such things as sabbaticals and sick leave exist.

Becoming an "expert in X" seems to be easier than it might initially appear, it's sometimes the path of least resistance to fall into a specific niche that may or may not exist a few years later - but while it does you are in demand. (I don't unreservedly recommend it!)
https://github.com/pannous/netbase a semantic graph database (written in c++) used internally to host and query the freebase/wikidata datasets with almost a billion relations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase_(database)
https://www.wikidata.org/
How cynical!
Unrelated to the trial but their UX is a little weak: their signup page at least starts with finding a nearby location. If you start with putting in a ZIP code, it populates the drop down with possible autocompletes. Then when you choose one out of range of a site, you get the error "That address can't be located. Please try again."

That rather suggests an address entry error, not (what I can only infer) is a lack of nearby study sites error.

If you're not near a site for this study, you might also try the Valor study:
https://www.valorlymestudy.com/

I am not a doctor, and I cannot speak to the relative merits of one over the other. I'm also too far from either to participate :-/
>Curious why the city is so reluctant to support new businesses.

I'm guessing the town wants him to do very basic stuff to get the property up to code, and he doesn't want to. Anther person pointed out in a comment that comment chain OPs twitter had posts about about holding somebody at gunpoint in apparent frustration. To me it sounds like OP knew absolutely nothing about commercial real-estate, absolutely nothing about local laws, and plopped down a bunch of money on a property without doing some homework.
Predicting the future is notoriously hard and most of the time impossible.

Merely thinking about second or third order consequences is not sufficient if the predictions can't be reality checked.

The mental models we use are rarely good enough for that, unless you're playing a complete information game like Chess.

This is why "gradient descent" is so powerful and widely used intuitively.
IMO the problem is the perception that fast thinkers or fast decision makers are smart folks. I know a lots of people who would not give instant answers to problems, they will be always "I will come back to this, let me think through". They give much better solve, but take time. But we are surrounded by people who want fast solutions.
Musk City – one coffee to change the world
Have you been screened for assholery? I feel like making a mental health diagnosis on the basis of real estate investments is a mistake that one could make in those circumstances.
This is the root of the problem for me as well.
What are the inputs to this framework? Are we going "What happens if we defund the police?" in isolation or are we asking what happens if we take the money from the police and put it into housing, into medicare, into other social programs? The answers you arrive at might be different.

In fact if we extrapolate that line of reasoning out to the capitalist substrate of our economy we might find some surprising second, third+ order effects.
I tried to like wanikani but it got quite frustrating when you only learn the very basic off a kanji and not the 'whole' kanji.

But if I were to shill for what I today use it's kanji study for Android (one time cost around 20$).

It has two crucial features:
Learning how to write
Learning what the kanji consist of and what the radicals are actually is for.
> You realize most so-called warranties are issued with the expectation that the overwhelming majority will never make a claim let alone collect on it right?

Wouldn't that mean they should have longer stated warranty than estimated lifetime?
In a big enough society you can almost always find someone who has some fringe belief. If you had this once a week it could be relevant. But once? Doesn't reach the relevance threshold for policy discussions.
The last several years, every time I consider the idea of someday moving back to Portland, I always think of this "The Big One" article.

(With my mixed luck, the PNW mega-shark-quake-nami is just waiting for me to move back, so that'd really be irresponsible of me.)
If you really want to change jobs, ignore the '300 applicants per vacancy' situation. I bet 80-90% of these are thrown out after a quick screen. If you can put together a good package, you have a chance. You would be surprised with how many bonus points candidates get in my company just for being 'normal'. Age definitely not a minus.
But first, take care of yourself! Best of luck
Without entirely defending the article, its claim seems to be “people tend to read more when they own more”:

> [...] studies have shown that book ownership and reading typically go hand in hand to great effect.

So, you are unaffected by this claimed phenomenon, good for you; but you haven't really debunked the claim either.
Points 5,6 were key. It's most recent obsolete meaning was to describe adulterated goods.
While you work on doing great Product Descriptions, I wanted to share this fintech which I saw, this new startup called nFinance, they get you paid next day for eCommerce sales, with funding for eCommerce Sellers to scale up and purchase new inventory, simply based on seller history https://nfinance.io/
ALU, I've come to bargain!

ALU, I've come to bargain!

...
Virtualising GPUs: The Different Approaches
That is a really interesting perspective. How would the incumbent continue to be able to make risk-reward calculation fitting that of the challenger, even after it has "fossilized", so that it can continue to compete with the nonstop rise of challengers?
Mass spectrometry is relatively common nowadays It’s more likely no one wants to pay the hundreds of thousands or millions necessary to do a full test of a single supplement.
Static typing zealots have butchered perfectly good dynamic languages like Python and Ruby in recent years after M$ took over Javascript like Russians invading Ukraine. Even Ruby ffsake. Soon Clojure will be the only refuge for us devs who value dynamic languages.
A package appearing in go.sum does not necessarily mean it's being used. It just means it has been downloaded once, but might have been replaced by some other version at some point.
> less time then you'll sit in traffic in the city going a few miles to the same thing

Most people aren't going to drive for just a few miles though, surely. I'd just cycle or take one of the busses that arrive every 6 minutes. Although this is purely hypothetical, because I already have access to everything I need within walking distance.

It's a bad faith argument. You've claimed that it takes much longer to get somewhere, but only when you take the inefficient route. Ok sure, you have some special needs that means you must take the car, but this is not a problem you can claim most people would face.
>Convenient way of discarding any evidence you don't like.

I am sorry that reality and logic upsets you, after a software update you need to run tests again, the history of old tests does not guarantee anything useful.

Blah, blah, it only hits trucks if bullshit reasons, it should not hit giant solid objects ever.

Also what is the excuse for this one? https://www.thedrive.com/news/watch-as-teslas-autopilot-almo...

Last time the excuse was "that is normal, it is alpha software, it will be fixed in the next update". But if you read tesla subreddit you see people complaining that years old issues are still not fixed, like having issues with specific streets, road borders and similar.
This, but "commutable to London" covers a very large area, and you can still get cheap(ish) housing there. If you're in a town an hour away from London, daily commuting is uncomfortable, but doing it once a fortnight for a night out (especially if you've got somewhere to stay overnight in London) is much more doable. I used to do that when I lived in West Berkshire.
I definitely expected e-ink to be more prolific, and, when I was younger, I saw this EEG device which was initially marketed at gamers as an alternative control device for computers and for some reason was sure that this was the future, even though a little reading revealed it was pretty impractical.