skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Controllers are really small these days and fit just fine in the gaps between keys (see link below for a typical example). It’s almost certainly mostly for the battery.

https://rama.works/updates/2020/4/24/m50-a-pcb-inventory-2-b...
I never understood why the PinePhone does not ship with Mobian or PostmarketOS instead of Manjaro. Manjaro quickly felt buggy and fragile on the first minutes I tried it, while the two others felt more robust. I'd rather see the PinePhone ship with one of these distributions.

Why does Pine64 favor Manjaro so much? What do they gain by doing so?
Agree. See also: Suez Environnement
Might have some truth to it. Human attention does not scale (ie. impact many other people) very well, and jobs where human attention is crucial, like in teaching & care, don't pay very well.
> The cash-back arrangement reduces this by ~1% in effect.

For people with good credit, as the article mentions. It's effectively yet another tax on the poor.
https://montanadailygazette.com/2022/07/27/bugs-the-real-rea...

The linked article sounds scientific, but the same author wrote this: "they" are trying to poison "us" rant.
These guys already rejected me next my resume wasn’t exciting enough.
There's a strong cultural component when it comes to disgust. People in many parts of the world eat insects regularly as a part of their standard diets. In the US, most people don't think of honey or lobster (aquatic arthropod) or carmine (red food coloring) as "insect food" but these items most definitely fit in that category and are commonly consumed.

In the past, people in the west found yogurt, sushi, and lobsters absolutely disgusting. Now many will happily eat those foods, and even consider them delicacies.

Some disgust reactions are hard-wired (e.g. reactions to fecal matter or vomit), and others are culturally learned.
What Happened to Hyperloop?
Is there a large supply of teachers? My impression is that lots of countries have a teacher shortage. And that's partly because society doesn't value teachers as much as it should. Over a century ago, teachers were still considered among the important people of the town (together with the mayor and the local notary), and commanded some respect. These days they're often seen as glorified babysitters despite having manager-level responsibilities.
The New York art scene is like a small town even today. Everyone knows each other, at least in passing. People talk. I don't know how much Lohse could manage to smuggle and sell before running into someone with a serious ax to grind.
I'm currently working on a bookmark extension for Chrome, initially targeting my own needs, but I hope to make it available to others eventually. I'm wondering if there are any insights you could share about what factors led to the quality issues you mentioned.
I think it's worse. Pre-internet, people paid for access to the same information, information written by journalists, distributed by a select number of papers.

Today, and perhaps worse going forward, this is reversed: a select number of persons pay for access to journalistic quality. The rest consume what the market hands to them, for whatever underlying reason.
Try looking at out on mobile. It screams geocities.
Support is roughly 10 hours per week and we're now up to 270 customers. The rest of the time is spent on product, reviewing marketing content and occasionaly sales. I've been full-time since $5k MRR as trying to juggle all this with a full time job was miserably + slowed down growth.

$80-90k isn't actually that much less than a developer salary (in U.K., not U.S.), but it's an interesting question what I'd do if it didn't grow any more.

I'd probably put it into maintenance-mode, and start another micro-saas, as I love the freedom of working where/when/how I want. I'm hopeful of hitting $150k ARR by end of year though, and $250k next year.
The Shark That Can Walk on Land
Super helpful in that case :)
What I don't see anyone mentioning is that Horizon Worlds has an emphasis on being able to create your entire world inside of the app using tools in VR.

I suspect that a lot of the content creation has to do with that.

For example:

- Art director? Most of the content is user generated.

- Game developers on the team? Why? Their goal is not to make the game themselves but to make tools that let other people make stuff.

- Lack of user uploaded texture. Well, that can be easily abused so better to not allow user uploaded textures at all.

- No way to sculpt custom shapes. Well... that would be hard to do at scale in pure VR and allowing them to upload models from computers essentially creates two classes of creators. The regular people and the pros.

Etc.

I don't work for Meta and have no idea if any of this is accurate but I think it seems plausible.
Honestly, Facebook has tried to hire me like 3 times now and every time I got a completed offer at a different job by the time they finished organising their 8-step interview process so I never finished it.

FAANG might be interesting but their interview processes kill it for me. I have no idea how people find the time to do homework for it + are willing to spend months in this lengthy interview pipeline.

(Also there are problems with FAANG type companies being generally kind of evil these days, of course)
Yeah, a lot of that motivation lends itself to rent seeking rather than adding value
If current society can build things that land on the moon & mars, along with nuclear ICBMs among other things, but cannot build a self cleaning restroom, perhaps it deserves to fail.

I do however think that is not the case, & that it is a comparatively simple issue nobody has given too much of a fuck about yet, as highly capitalistic societies give zero fucks about improving anything the general public may have access to.
how likely is it that this leads to some type of universal vaccine?
> want to make everything a disgusting misery for other people

Wait, who's doing this? All I've seen is advocation for eating insects, not people trying to make others do the same. The comments in this thread would make one think there's a government mandate to eat some ration of insects daily and to criminalize meat consumption. What did I miss?
There will always be transients, students, travelers, and so on. In a world where most people rent and renters are indistinguishable from owners, renting will cease to be a signal that those people are present, but they won't disappear. They'll just be harder to identify.
Founder here. I use this site to find new platforms/ trends! https://explodingtopics.com/ then build them into tools using my framework: https://twitter.com/clokehead/status/1340949414081392640?s=2...
Why does the WeWork guy get to fail up?
I find this to be such a sad perspective to have on work or play. I think the author is trying to say “don’t go down rabbit holes,” which is good advice. But in general, solutions to hard problems provide the most value to yourself and to society. Just choosing wisely would be better advice.
Yes and no. There are ways around that for development like https://github.com/BeastyBlacksmith/ProtoStructs.jl.
But changing the definition of actual structs isn't very feasable because what happens with the structs that use the old definition, i.e an array of them.
A famous example is the old Tacoma Narrows Bridge[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)
“What is not known is whether Gutenberg knew about the Korean printing or not. And if we could shed light on that question, that would be earth shattering,”

Earth shattering seems like a stretch, but I admire their enthusiasm.
Clearly! One more dependecy gone away, phew!

On the cost of what? Driver safety?
He's not alone. I also have a lot of bookmarks and would like to be able to use them more easily.
This is not a satisfactory answer. First, "human care" is not a direct way of "producing value". Second, if these are the only " interesting jobs" we should be taking, how would society be able to afford it?
How exactly are you equating "stock manipulation" with the ability to "buy broad equity index ETFs at near zero cost" ?

That's clearly not what the OP was referencing.
what if I tell you that AppFlow is supposed to be easy to use haha
This is effectively legalizing theft.
> ... without Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Insert keys ...

My laptop has Home/End/PgUp/PgDn as the Fn function on the Arrow keys, and its actually really good. So good I've actually setup other machines with the same shortcuts wherever I can.
Also, horrible work life balance. Partner is a teacher and works till 9 every night.
Yeah, it looks interesting. I've got a huge pile of books to read already, but this does look good!

I always thought it was a bit off how Orc were just "elves gone bad".
> "No, it's not that asteroid, the one that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction,"

As I understand it, science is slowing updating this narrative. That is, it was actually excessive volcanic activity that was killing off the dinosaurs. The asteroid simply made shorter the inevitable.

p.s. The Atlantic article is interesting because it's also a story about how science is influenced by human nature.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosau...
I'm interested in knowing as well!
I use a 84 keyboard. It is basically a laptop keyboard layout and it works great for me. It has del, backspace, esc and 4 arrows. It shares the function keys with media keys but I have it using function keys as its default and works great as a layout. I don't know why it just isn't the most popular layout.
> The symbol on the fuel gauge indicating the side of the tank opening is a myth isn’t it?

It exists. It's a small arrow, and most _rental_ cars have it. For cars sold to the public it's hit or miss. My new car doesn't have it either.
It seems that if anybody is trying to change anyone else's eating habits, it's the anti-bug folk in here.
It's really not.

Fur doesn't have a near-monopoly on "raising funds for charity".

Like it or not, Amazon is the place most people in the US, and much of the West, go to when they're looking for books.

It's much more like paying for a newspaper ad in the early 1900s to promote your anti-newspaper radio station.
Intermittent Fasting Could Reduce Chemotherapy Side Effects
Would it make sense to mitigations and hyperthreading on a workstation?

Perhaps we're getting to a point that both disabled is faster than both enabled (and suffering from the mitigations penalties)
> And most credit cards give you cash back so it's actually cheaper.

Do you really think that banks and card networks work for free?

Even if you use the best rewards card and never pay a cent of interest or fees to your bank, you can bet that the program on aggregate is running a profit for the issuer, or they would not be offering it in the first place.

In effect, your rewards have to be either paid by the merchant (i.e. you, in the end, in the form of higher prices for goods and services), or by other cardholders in the form of interest, fees, using a suboptimal card/rewards category combination etc.
that was my first thought too, looks pretty great
> Shutdown of Stack Exchange careers noticeably lowered the quality of openings in my pipeline.

This really sucks because it was the one place I swear that wasn’t ruined by spam everywhere.
But fastfood restaurants and precooked meals continue to use margarine instead of butter. For example McDonalds switched away from animal fats in early 90s and never switched back. They wont mention margarine in the ingredients, instead they just say "vegetable oils".
No, it isn't common. As an engineer you know it doesn't matter if you're shown some code (what are you going to do? memorize it?) and signing an NDA should be a thing anyway if they are concerned about secrets, so what's the worry?

But, if you have any real experience in the industry (rather than making up fake advice which sounds good on the surface) you'll know that few companies will show their code, because there is little to no benefit to them doing so.
Sure.

Also co-authors, advisors, friends and all sorts of contributors. That said, the author is the sun and editors' role is to help authors write their book. The editor is not under the impression that it is their book.
The important thing to note is that this is not a passive route to the good stuff - there's no guarantee that being a good soldier will get you rewarded with interesting work. There's probably as many examples of excelling at the more mundane work getting people pigeonholed into the role of the reliable maintenance guy who couldn't possibly be moved off of a project because it would fumble without them.

And then you have the companies with work cultures that like to boast about doing "interesting" work - in companies like Google you get nowhere doing important, mundane maintenance work. You'll only get promoted for making the new shiny thing even if you're reinventing the wheel - it's the reason any new Google product that's not a main driver of the business gets shelved after a couple of years.
No, the outrage was over a few events
That bit's easy, it's all just quantum mechanics at superluminal energies.

It's printer drivers that are the hard part.
It's funny that you chose -Wall as an example because it is the exact opposite of what you are trying to say. -Wall is effectively frozen and new warnings are never added to it, in the name of backward compatibility.
Sounds interesting. Is there a website?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom - there's no clear separation between protecting people from themselves and protecting people from others:

"To expand the number of women smokers Hill decided to hire Edward Bernays, who today is known as the father of public relations, to help him recruit women smokers. [...] In 1929 Bernays decided to pay women to smoke their "torches of freedom" as they walked in the Easter Sunday Parade in New York."

"Philip Morris even sponsored a lecture series that taught women the "art of smoking""

The association of smoking with coolness, James Dean, Hollywood stars, it's clear that a lot of people wouldn't smoke "for themselves" if it wasn't for other people manipulating them to do it, for profit.
Nice graphics but gosh this website very hard to read!
Yeah, the "passion tax" is real unfortunately. :/
The rights to rebuild Nakagin Capsule Tower for sale
We also need saturated fats and everything else.
> They don't have to "hit the bricks" just because you'd prefer to tear it down to build a highrise.

Do you think I'm talking about eminent domain, or something? I am not. I can't build a highrise on their property unless they let me. They're going to have to voluntarily sell me the land before I can do anything with it. I'm not proposing anything except that they be allowed to do that, if they wish to. They don't have to do anything.
I really like this and love your website design. I’ve signed up for updates. Looking forward to buying it.

Edit: if you are interested in ever doing a webar thing, check out modelviewer js. If you want help with it let me know.
Doing a long term nutritional study is hard. You can often say about attempts as having one of two outcomes: "despite our best efforts we were unable to get participants to eat their assigned diet", or "This result only applies to those confined to prison/a hospital bed" (both of which implies other major lifestyle differences from normal people that were not controlled for). Otherwise people will eat what you tell them to for a week and then go back to whatever they were doing before (and often they don't remember what they ate and make things up later to fill out the diary)

This study gets around this because the trans-fat ban (which took a long time to come because of the above factors) was a nationwide thing and so lack of access means we can make assumptions. Even then they had to figure out what was this ban, what was smoking becoming less common, and what was increased use of statins, which is statistics that depending on input assumptions.
It looks good at some viewport sizes, but the margins are a bit messed up at other sizes: https://i.imgur.com/8XLzD0S.png
When people mention the high levels of bloom-filter in the Hobbit, is it also an oblique reference to all of those scenes with Orlando Bloom galavanting about?
A lot of it is motivated by a search for easy answers: Eat too much butter, get fat. The answer should be "Eat less butter, move more." It is unsurprising that "Eat margarine instead" is the wrong answer.

Not everything about traditional food is good. Cured meats, for example. But a too-convenient solution is often too convenient to be true.
Business Plot: Planned fascist coup in USA in 1933
We Are Going: Artemis I on Launch Pad
Most of the incompetent management I've had the miserable displeasure of working near has failed upwards. I've seen no evidence of consequences in my time in the industry. It's been very disheartening.
Bitbucket Cloud wasn't the immediate successor to Stash, though. There have been Bitbucker Server and Bitbucket DC or whatever they're called for years between the retiring of Stash and the retiring of the on-prem solutions. Where I am we already made the transition from Stash to Bitbucket on-prem (not too long after leaving Gitorious for Stash). When our executives heard "cloud VCS", we bought Gitlab licenses and are moving to that.

We also left HipChat for Slack shortly after leaving our own OpenFire server for HipChat. We recently left JSM for Zendesk because it apparently is way easier to get quality statistics out of it.

We have shadow IT programs all over the company using something other than Jira even though that's the standard the company provides.

We're moving from on-prem Confluence to cloud, but there are still many grumbles about it vs something as simple as FOSWiki or MediaWiki.
For Australia, it was not worth it, except to get a few thousand off the purchase price (then quit VPP as soon as humanly possible).

My experience was their algorithm is terrible and it gets into a charge+discharge cycle for no reason for hours at a time, costing $0.40 to charge and earning $0.10 to discharge, plus wear, for no benefit to the grid.

I used to turn off my battery a lot.
Were chickens present in the cultures 2000 years ago when the taboos developed? Honest question.
Somehow this reminded me of this post on LKLM:

- <odd>.x.x: Linus went crazy, broke absolutely _everything_, and rewrote
the kernel to be a microkernel using a special message-passing version
of Visual Basic. (timeframe: "we expect that he will be released from
the mental institution in a decade or two").

[*] https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/2/247

It's really interesting to see Linux getting more and more micro-kernel like features throughout the years.
Second for raindrop! Having a dedicated app outside of any browser was initially what pulled me over. Simple UI that does just enough, without trying to tack on endless features that I would never use (like many alternatives do). The webpage archive feature itself has also saved me a handful of times.
They ship devices with a completely broken OS[1], I could never recommend their products to anyone, except maybe someone who is a technical type and comfortable going through the process of installing another distro + happy to spend time doing that.

[1] At least as of a couple of months ago. I'm talking basic functionality being broken, like for example trying to add an icon to the home screen and the phone crashes. I encountered multiple bugs in just the first few minutes of usage.
That has nothing to do with nutritional advice, which is what OP is saying. That has to do with lower cost and/or maybe some other property (like longer shelf life).
Just limit serving sizes instead of outright bans.
Again, your statements are false. The fact that the majority of parcels aren't being individually inspected doesn't mean that none are inspected or that violators are absolutely immune to consequences.

As implemented currently, US import inspections are designed to maximize throughput while catching the most flagrant violators. Extremely easy-to-smuggle items in low risk categories like seeds are obviously more often than not going to make their way past enforcement checkpoints under this arrangement.
The question is in the context of a hypothetical society where everyone is paid the same.

In our current society, cleaning diarrhea in bathrooms is low pay is a consequence of lack of UBI (i.e. incentive to feed and house yourself) and high supply of people willing and able to do the job of cleaning bathrooms. Although, with a combination of lower fertility rates and lower immigration rates, I expect that to change.
This is just sort of how the internet is going right now. Global, free services like that are starting to make less money. Facebook is circling the drain, Twitter is in hot water. Going decentralized is sort of getting more popular. Companies are focused more on profitability than growth right now, so there's little incentive to grow these platforms and more incentive to ruin them in the hopes of making money.

I find myself using markdown files these days to store my links. That way I can also store context around the links by writing stuff around the links. This sounds foolish, but it does in fact check all your boxes:

- You can publish this markdown file on GitHub pages so it has integration with browsers

- People can follow you using RSS (yes, people still do this, myself included)

- I use Epsilon Notes and FolderSync Pro on my Android device to sync the markdown files over Dropbox so there's mobile app support

- Portable across time because it's just text

- Widely supported by different tools

This is actually also my note-taking system. I have shortcuts in them that allow me to take screenshots and store them next to the markdown and link to them. I store links by simply making a link in the markdown file of the paragraph I'm working on.
You still got to learn about POSIX!
In my case, I ran into an old coworker on the street that was working in a space that sounded interesting, and now I've been working with freight railroads for 3 years after spending ~15 at giant, well-known tech companies.

But it depends on what you mean by interesting? We build SaaS products for railroads. Day-to-day, that often means writing software that looks similar to other industries. APIs, web interfaces, relational databases, cloud hosting, etc. I wouldn't say every line of code I type is particularly interesting.

But when I'm feeling annoyed at working on some mundane feature, it's easier for me (relative to previous positions) to step back and remember that the overall space is full of interesting people, history, and different methods and processes that I would've otherwise never known about. And I still have that some of that childhood fascination with trains.
Engineering Festivus
The comment section is full of people complaining in general. Nice job OP, I think it looks great.
HFTs are definitely what I was thinking about. I remember reading about "quants", brilliant engineers working for investment banks to optimise their HFT algorithms, because that pays more than using their skills to invent or build things that are actually useful to society.

But the same is true for many other professions. I also remember reading that the highest paid engineers are working for Google and Facebook to optimise ad placement. CEOs get paid a lot even if their company does things that harm society. There's an entire industry just to help large companies avoid paying tax.
There is not really any good options for the sensors, it's all a few closed developers.
Reading like a rant doesn't exclude being truthy or informative.

But if your goal is to avoid rants rather than viewing a problem from a different POV, ignoring it is the best choice.
Reminds me of this watch I used to have way back in the day, maybe late 90's... It had a little eye and you would put it in some kind of programming mode and the eye would read the signals on the screen. If I recall correctly it looked a lot like this, just flashing lines on the screen.
Safe to say this project is dead? The repo URL given on the website 404s: https://bitbucket.org/zimbu/zimbu