skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Netherlands handles all your little gotchas fine, and so do more northern countries like Sweden.

Most people in the Netherlands who can afford it still have a car though.
Yes i do a lot by bicycle but a car is far superior for many errands and trips.
> Do they not join the legion of taxpayers?

If they're only making $20k per year, no, not really.
That sounds similar in some ways to (non-dual) awakening.
Desktop PCs. (Not laptops, not tablets, not phones, Desktop Personal Computers).
Albert Einstein said, “Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them”; he also likely was the main reason the US became aware of the need to enter the race to create nuclear weapons. [1]

At some point problems become impossible to avoid, especially if you’re biased [2] — though in the end, at a given scale, most problems (and their solutions) become as predictable as watching a man falling through the air. [3]

- Second-order thinking is not result of being smart, but not being lazy, biased, egotistical, etc.

_________

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein–Szilard_letter

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Va5T2KcYiOw

[3] https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?t=49
Ah yes, the brutal establishment plot to put new flowerbeds in at Heigham Park. I hear the highest levels of the Bilderberg Group are involved.
Paradoxically, back when the market was LESS efficient, the extra slack afforded higher standards because they could overengineer something and still sell it easily.

It always comes down to supply and demand. Supply of generic products like compressors and blenders skyrocketed. Increase the supply enough and you get a race to the bottom. All market inefficiency has been squeezed out of the market. The market has arrived at an equilibrium of making some things just high enough quality that they last longer than a few months while being as cheap as possible. Anyone trying to make something higher quality gets squeezed out. Unless there's also much higher demand to compensate for it.
How I store and backup data following the 3-2-1 rule
> 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.

There's two different questions. Combining the two will give you both answers you'd expect, not one or the other. And there's way too much going on to try and tackle both at the same time.

You could say "defund police marginally increases crime" and "increasing housing greatly reduces crime" but to what extent? And within what timeframes? Defunding the police could provide outcomes immediately, but to provide housing to a point where crime is reduced would most likely be a slow strong growth thing, that will take a generation or two to come about.

I'm not saying it's unimportant to look at both, but looking at them separately will be more realistic, and thankfully money is such an abstract resource that things can be separated like that.

> "We can find some surprising second and third order effects"

I think we don't quite want surprises when it comes to the safety and livelihood of many, and their generations.

It takes centuries to grow a forest and only a day to burn it down.
Exactly, so when replacing type systems with GPS, dynamic code with manual navigation, testing with checking if you're on the right track and architecture with city/land this becomes interesting.

In programming I prefer the most sound route to get to my destination. I think typesystems greatly help me with that by giving me warnings and errors when I take the wrong path.

In real life I usually only prefer to get to a destination so I use the GPS as I know it can get the fastest route better than me most of the time.

If I want to explore a city to find interesting places I don't use a GPS and resort to walking around. When I found an interesting place I will mark it down in google maps and maybe use a GPS next time I go there.

If I want to explore an idea with programming the code I write tends to be less sound and more dynamic, when I know what I want I'd refactor the code to be more sound and less dynamic.
Thanks for the rant! A bit longer than is normal for HN, but I enjoyed it and learned things from it.
Never about work, always about school. All the bad memories around pressure / expectations as an immigrant kid comes back and still haunts me to this day.
>This will be a thing for decades to come as we reach further and further into the number of 9s of reliability.

Cam you clarify? Tesla has 0.0 since they only have tested with a human driver + a driver assist that was marketed as FULL self driving. The Tesla numbers look similar with similar expensive cars that include drive assist. Tesla is not publishing the numbers when the human intervene or when the software gave up so your numbers are pulled out of Tesla PR or you mean something else(sorry for that but you are not clear).

Some organization can put Tesla to the test and record it traveling and count how man times it gave up and how many times the human intervene, when this number is zero in a few tousands test then you can claim Full Self Driving or Autopilot, until then you have a driver assist , that can keep lane in some conditions and stop for some objects or peole in soem conditions.
Get a copy of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and see if anything resonates. Its primary purpose was as a workbook designed to help overcome creative block but the exercises and tools are applicable for everyone in a rut, not just creatives. The official amazon blurb:

"Since its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron guides audiences in uncovering problems and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to open up opportunities for growth and self-discovery.

A revolutionary programme for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions and take the steps you need to change your life."

The book helps you reconnect with parts of yourself you may have forgotten. These could end up being avenues you end up exploring as possible career paths.
Not every comment reply on the internet is a counter argument to the one before it.
Researchers change blood type of kidney in transplant breakthrough
As hobby, whatever is hot, need to form an opinion, even if superficial.

At work, platforms dictate the choice of language, when picking a platform for a specific project, only the languages that have direct support without needing to install extra IDE plugins, custom build steps, manually writing bindings,....

Projects are already complicated enough without adding extra fun to them.
Part 1

Find a therapist you like. Not because of any mental heath issues, but because I guarantee you that they will save you more money than they cost you by a long way. The right therapist will be able to ask you the right questions to help you figure out what to do next, and even make helpful suggestions.

This is absolutely not the same as talking to a friend or partner. It is their job to use their experience help and advise you. They are entirely in your corner with you, just like you would expect from any professional.

Part 2

Perhaps a different perspective – I've been freelancing/contracting since I was about 22, and I'm now 37. Full stack, but leaning heavily towards backend given the chance. My latest contracting role is actually as a network engineer (which I gained the knowledge for because I started an ISP during the pandemic).

I've not encountered any issue with nearing my 40s. I think the three key things are: be a good communicator, be comfortable talking about money, and doing your job well. All three are equally important, and you can probably get by with only two.

I've always worked in either small companies, or in very small (or solo) teams within a larger company. I know that I excel in that environment, so that is what I stick to.

But if you really do hate technology, then perhaps it is time to find something else. Again, the therapist will really help so much with this.

Happy to talk more about any of this.
Ever decade or so somebody tries to re-invent or fix the notion of email - recently we had HEY from 37 signals but they wanted to charge $$$ so it never gained much traction.

Nobody has really solved the email threading problem - Outlook/Exchange tried but never got it right and Gmail never bothered but gave you very fast search ability on all emails you received in your account which is good enough.

MS Teams - don't go there - it is slow - terrible and confusing and only succeeded because of Covid and that it was free and made by Microsoft
"We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." - Warren Zevon

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43290-we-love-to-buy-books-...
> I’d need to operate administrative files (customer records, contracts, accounting) on a separate machine from dev

You're saying that like it is a bad thing?

A developer probably shouldn't have access to all that live data anyways.
Super interesting, it really depends on what you mean by "choppy".

Are you seeing the video re-buffer (a loading spinner re-appearing), or just the video looking stuttery?

My video engineer gut tells me that this is a frame rate conversion issue - do you know what frame rate your graphics card is outputting to your display, and do you happen to know the frame rate of the content that you're seeing issues with (or more generically, what type of content is it - film? TV) ?
Rituals for Engineering Teams
How does a human know what Obama looks like? They memorized thousands of images[1] of him, most of which were by professional photographers and, hence, copyrighted.

At what point is a neural network sophisticated enough that it can be compared to human learning for copyright purposes?

[1]: For most people at least. Some will have actually seen him in person, and for those this statement would of course not be true.
Open source password manager writen in Tauri
Hey, this is potentially a depression / burnout symptom. I am also not sure if you are currently employed or not.
If you can, take a break or a sabbatical. This however might not be an option for both. Whilst still employed see if you can have a few unofficial conversations with people in tech adjacent roles. Could Product be a potential pivot for you? What about becoming a certified scrum master? These might be completely wrong for you but you get the point. The easiest way to do a career pivot is within the company you already work for provided that this is the case.
The one single standard way to read a file in C. There are (potentially infinite) many non-standard ways using third-party vendored libraries or vendor-specific extensions to the standard C library. This article discusses a small subset of the latter, specific to a single vendor.
My scripts are usually for work so they don't make sense outside of that.

One I was particularly proud of/disgusted by was one that allowed me to jump around a network with a single command despite access being gated by regional jumphosts..

You are warned: https://git.drk.sc/-/snippets/107

Another script I wrote for our devs to get access to MySQL in production on GCP; the intent was for the script to be executable only by root and allow sudo access to only this script: that means also ''chmod ugo-rwx gcloud'' too though: https://git.drk.sc/-/snippets/98

I have another script to generate screenshots from grafana dashboards since that functionality was removed from grafana itself (https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/18914): https://git.drk.sc/-/snippets/66

Another time I got annoyed that Wayland/Sway would relabel my screens on successive disconnect/reconnects (IE my right screen could be DP-1 or DP-7 or anything in between randomly); so I wrote a docking script which moves the screens to the right place based on serial number: https://git.drk.sc/-/snippets/74
If a given task can be solved in both assembler and Python, then surely Python would be more than 2x as productive, given a developer with experience in both. This is why assembler is only used for tasks which just cannot be solved in a high-level language.

For most purposes Python would also be more than 2x as productive than C, again given a developer with experience in both.
Violence, the Fundamental Attribution Error, and Contempt for the Poor
Will law become lucrative again?
At the end of highschool in about 2010 I was pretty interested in becoming a lawyer. But all signs pointed to it being a terrible financial decision:

-law school grads I knew unemployed for years

-lots of debt, no way to pay it off unless you get into Big Law, need to be top 10 school

-highest rate of alcoholism (allegedly)

Too many law grads, not enough positions. Any sign this could change as the older generation phases out?
I was inspired by this tool, http://www.randomhacks.net/substudy/
It required to cut the video, with a lot of processing, cli knowledge and to storage the cut videos taking a lot of space, my idea was to make the process as lightweight as possible, the outcome of the extension it's a CSV with the marks for when the video starts and stops for each sentence, it has a negligible output size in comparison and can be used in low-end computers.

You described the functionality perfectly, I made it as a tool to have custom cards for practising languages without having to be locked in any platform, in my opinion language platforms are very bland with their spoken lessons and only have perfectly pronounced sentences, with the tool you can practice more real and engaging topics for yourself.

Another usage that some users commented was to use it as a learning tool for lectures and presentations, that's why I included a merge subtitles functionality recently, so the cards can hold more information as opposed a single sentence.
Plenty of stuff exists, the first one being lint, introduced in 1979.

The problem with C isn't lack of tooling trying to fix it.
Maybe watch a bit further when the guy uses his own kids for the test instead and show that it see's kids at the far end of the road, a long way from the car.
My brief review: the essays on technology are quite good, even great. The essays on politics and culture are shallow and bad.

PG is a good example of violating the Tom Watson quote: “… I’m smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.”

However, it’s helpful that PG writes political stuff. You shouldn’t have to be good a politics to practice it.
It's always fun when a headline is disproved by the same article:

> "[T]his seemed too insane even for left-wing climate scientists so I read the study summary. the authors don't blame climate change for children getting fatter, but that fat children may have a harder time dealing with climate change because fat people don't do as well in the heat," Simonson tweeted.

Actual paper title:

Moving in a hotter world: Maintaining adequate childhood fitness as a climate change countermeasure

Perhaps we shouldn't get our climate and/or political info from Twitter complaints about corporate broadcast Morning shows? If you watch the clip, the presenter actually undercuts the climate makes kids fat "theory".
Climate-Friendly Ethereum Is One Merge Away
I know plenty of people have gotten their dogs vaccinated against lyme disease, but to my knowledge it's not been approved for use on humans.

When tick season is at its height here in Eastern Canada my friends and I joke that we should try to bribe a vet into giving us the shot...
The weird thing is the browser is amazing - it's a great 3D rendering, video and playing, video conferencing, UI displaying and animating, vector and raster graphics drawing etc. thing. And probably I barely scratched the surface with my list. It does all of these things either as good as the best native apps or at least quite competently.

And it's all portable. No wonder Electron has eaten the native app scene.

But the JS ecosystem with its myriad frameworks, packers, metalanguages, each halfway between immature and deprecated, and constant churn and breakage is an absolute nightmare.
I'm currently reading "Thinking in Bets" by Annie Duke. I find her paradigm for decision making more accurate than this model.

1) She explains the physiology / psychology that leads to group think.

2) She proposes that decision-making is a spectrum. That there are - like poker, her profession - always knowns and unknowns.

3) She also has a solution for fighting groupthink and improving your post decision learning process via forming a truth-seek group.

Finally, I don't feel smarter === second-order. In fact, smartness is more likely to create a bias such that you'll act too soon due to overconfidence in your smartness.

Instead, second-order is about thoroughness, patience and the willingness to consider the full spectrum of possibilities. You don't have to have an above average IQ for that.
Same, resonated very hard with me. Thanks for this, OP.
I have a 2015 or so era Miele and have taken apart the dish washer and some design decisions are a bit dubious too.. cost down of physical relay from traditional bulky electromechanical relay to solid state (without heatsink might I add) and situated on top of the dish washer where it's warm. you can tell they don't really care enough about it, as the location which worked for older style relay but would be hostile for newer relay which on paper have better reliability.
How's the C++ career path? I'm considering it. Always liked C and more low level stuff. I'm just wondering if C++ will be worth the investment 10 years from now or are languages like Go/Rust killing it.
I want something stable where my experience will compound nicely over the years.
Desktop Apps with Deno
Counting start-ups isn't trivial. At least if you also want to count something meaningful. Estonia has a lot of finance start-ups due to a friendly regulatory climate for that sort of thing, but do they really count?

Also, for things that aren't purely nebulous (not just thinking of finance here) you can't just go out and start anything anywhere. If you start something in Norway you'd better not rely on cheap local labour, but you might gamble on cheap electricity. Saudi Arabia just has no comparative advantages apart from oil and Hajj tourism.

An actual advantage that I think Sweden has, is the combination of a highly educated and highly creative workforce. Your stereotypical Swedish engineer isn't just educated for economic reasons (because if it was about money, he could have done a dozen easier things anyway). He also has some serious creative ambition. If you are rich enough to pay him and clever enough to steer those ambitions down a profitable path, you can make a ton of money on people like that.
For 18V tools, Makita seems to be the safest bet since they have used the same battery standard since 2005. There are adapters for Makita batteries to every other brand readily available on eBay/AliExpress etc.
> Really? Do you read the 40 page small print for any service you use? On every cloud service it says we can do whatever we want without liability, then establishes you can’t sue - arbitration only and then says take it or leave it

Yes, really! It's called contracts - don't sign it until you read it[1]. The whole point behind a subscription is that you only get to enjoy the product while you are subscribed. I very much doubt that the fine-print said anything along the lines of "some functionality is available after subscription ends".

Now let's be fair, you work for a company. Presumably, your company makes money by selling its products.

Do you really think it is reasonable that someone who purchased your product, and who agreed to the terms of purchase (price, warrantee, etc) should be able to later retroactively withdraw their agreement?

Did you actually put something like that - "Customer is free to change their mind any time after purchase and we will agree to continue providing service and/or product" - into your purchase agreement?

Do you allow your ex-customers to get more product for free because at some time in the past they were customers?

In all other business dealings, do you expect to make the other party whole just because the other party felt that it was too onerous to read the contract you provided?

If you feel that people should not be held to the contracts they signed, why bother making them sign?

I feel for you, but this is all self-inflicted; agreeing to something and then complaining that the other party is adhering to the terms of the agreement is a a very unprofessional way to behave.

[1] I don't think you were given a 40 page contract to peruse; this is the actual contract you agreed to : https://www.lastpass.com/legal-center/terms-of-service/busin.... It's 12 pages of large font. The section about Fees, billing, etc is on the SECOND page, with an extra large heading of "Orders, Fees and Payment".
There is no big difference. The steam engine put 90% of the world out of agricultural work. That is a big difference. Now you can buy strawberries all year round and drink coconut water in Alaska.

Nobody will care where their art comes from any more than you care about how your food's field was plowed; and all their lives will be better for it.
The (Charlie) Munger Operating System
Favourite topic!

My "Bash Toolkit": https://github.com/adityaathalye/bash-toolkit

My (yak-shaving-in-progress :) "little hot-reloadin' static shite generator from shell": https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite

A subtle-ish aspect is, I like to write Functional Programming style Bash. I've been blogging about it here: https://www.evalapply.org/tags/bash/
> restaurants
> 20 or so shops

Forget eating out. We just moved from a city of 2.5M to a town of 1500, the next biggest town over has 3000. The thing we miss the most is the variety of food, especially Asian food. However that's all we miss and the benefits are many.
Fireflies Next to Spotlights: Direct Imaging Exoplanets
This. That's basically what I do too, with a small difference. First off: I usually keep all my text and non-fiction books, but I gave away most fiction. It doesn't matter if I bought it or got it from a public library. A lot of them just go back into another public library or just in front of my doorsteps for people to take em.

There are just some all time classics and fiction that struck me the right way at the right time, but I won't read most fiction a second time, so why keep em?
And yet another article explaining us how to be smarter
Someone should make a documentary about you. Just your Deuterium Deuterium Periodically Returning Orbit Fusion reactor is interesting enough (http://www.ddprofusion.com/), but doing it in Pine Bluff? I'm sold.
The World’s Largest Open Multilingual Language Model: Bloom
Beyond net-zero: We should cool the planet back to pre-industrial levels