skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a great idea but not fully baked yet. My former colleague is using it for internal apps and it seems to work fairly well (UI is not fancy), but not for anything going into the high volume apps, which has much more complex behavior (designers are asking for stupidly complex UI). It's much better in the upcoming OS since they added better navigation, but requires the latest OS, which is not supportive for many companies who try to support back at least 1 year.

Will it ever be mainstream for iOS/MacOS? Maybe, if Apple would use it way more than they have so far, thus improvement by dogfooding. It is nice to build apps this way, but there are way too many bizarre gotchas still for most people unless you can live with more flexible designs.
Most comments here are "my phone is already stolen because google bad", or "dont use 90% of the features and youre fine".

Here's an answer for normal users.

Buy a pop socket with a ring, keep your finger in it - it gets difficult to take the phone from your hands. Keep your phone in a closed bag when not in use, on the front of your body, like one of those "fanny pack" things, for example. Keep all your important things synced, and know where to find and how to use the "find my phone" and similar features.

For android, for example, you can remotely find and hard-lock your phone and SIM. Know where to find and how to use that.

Buy a non-apple phone, or any other phone that isnt highly desirable by thiefs. iPhones have a very high resell value.
Step 2: Spam the blockchain with marketing, false stories, and smears against your competitors products. If the blockchain requires a fee to write to (most do), you win because you have a marketing budget and the average consumer does not.
An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)
I dont like scrum but I did like that it did manage to convince managers I worked for circa 2009ish to do away with arbitrary deadlines (which were common until that point).
So on a grapefruit, rather than the standard PLU sticker, there's a jumbo one with a cigarette-style warning?
The cheapest way to scale mental problems is to use the state to replace the father's role in a family. I know plenty of large families with perfectly well adjusted kids. I can't say I've met any well adjusted kids raised by a single mom.
Have you run a startup? Are you a senior dev? Have you managed a team?

I'm not asking to be rude, but if you are 45 having run a couple of startups (even if they both failed) I'd be really interested in this opinion and what experiences got you to it. If, however, you're still at college and this is "pure philosophy" it's of much less interest.
> I've been burned by fake products a few times and learned my lesson long ago. Sure, amazon does make it easy to return them, but going to a real store avoids it all-together.

What makes you trust a brick and mortar store's supply chain more than an online store? There are counterfeit items everywhere.
Hi Alex, did I get my Tipler back from you?

Just kiding, nice article.
Goes to show just how much of a scam VC really is.
> Baptist’s data and arguments are convincing, and I must agree with him in acknowledging Southern cotton slavery played a significant role in the development of industrialized capitalism in the U.S. mainly because the first types of factories were textile mills, which used the cotton picked by slaves.

Okay, so we're all agreed then. Thought they were going to start denying basic historical facts for a moment there, and undermine everyone's faith in yet another academic discipline because they spoke the politically incorrect truth..

> Still, I believe it is incorrect to say slavery was the most important factor in capitalist development in this country. Slavery in itself does not promote capitalism, as evidence by the lack of capitalist development in Latin America and the Caribbean where slavery was just as intense, if not more intense, as it was in the American Deep South.

I don't think anyone was claiming that the Deep South was 'capitalist' at that time, just that the capitalists got rich off the slave produced raw materials from the Deep South in their factories. Which you just agreed happened.

> Additionally, the abundance of cotton in itself did not spur entrepreneurs in the northern US states to open textile mills and inventors to develop accompanying technologies. Something else—the American free market system, property rights, the freedom to command one’s own destiny, and the rugged individualist spirit—did.

I love that last paragraph. It wasn't the slave picked cotten that fed the textile mills, it's was good old American pluck and ingenuity.

> Another important point of discussion is how the country can live with itself knowing the role slavery played in its development. Many liberals and leftists use the types of findings and arguments found in works like Baptist’s as fodder for iconoclasm aimed at this country

Ah, here we get to the point. You can't connect capitalism to slavery, because slavery is bad and capitalism is good. To prevent that connection being we'll just brazenly deny slavery ever happened, if you prove it happened we'll suggest it was a good thing, it you prove it's a bad thing we'll say it was nothing to do with us.

This is very reminiscent of climate change. Somehow they don't get that this makes them look worse. Climate change wasn't caused by capitalism? You just pretended it wasn't happening because you didn't like the policy implications? That's not a good look. If you question someone about a murder and they claim that no-one died, it doesn't do their credibility any good when the body slumps out from under the table and they claim "Wait, I just had some minor quibbles with your police procedures".
HTTP 451 is not quite right for these non-results. But having no-go zones within an AI's domain seems destined to be a long-term problem, so maybe a status is indicated. Something like

HTTP 9000 - Query outside the area of competence

I can't think of a /^4\d\d$/ number with ominous AI undertones.
Most foods don't have so many interactions with drugs. It wouldn't hurt to put a reminder on the grapefruit juice to check that stack of paper that came with your prescription to see if it's on the list.
It is also featured in the article
> but at the same time the docs are terribly lacking at how to handle any kind of edge cases.

I agree that Apple’s documentation needs help (this year’s improvements are a nice step) but can we really expect them to provide extensive documentation for handling edge cases (you’re telling me UIKit docs offer that)?
Pistachios are a high-value crop, and other places under drought like the La Mancha region of Spain are also switching from olives and wheat to pistachios.

Compare this to alfalfa, an ultra-low-value crop the Saudis are growing in California because they bought senior water rights, then shipping to Saudi to feed cows, essentially laundering water.

Agricultural water is heavily subsidized in California, and the absurd system of senior and junior water rights means a senior rights owner has absolutely zero incentive to be efficient, so instead of installing efficient drip irrigation, they simply flood fields. But reforming the system would take so much litigation no California politician has dared to do it.
Which is the one mentioned in the article, which is touted to be the single thing responsible for their success?

> This open-source library had only 580 lines of code

I'm sure it's in there, but even filtering out forks there's 289 results.
Pity that even ISO C fails at it, and needs language extensions to play game.
I'm in my late 30s and worked with an absolutely brilliant 18 year old who exceeded all of us oldies with his raw talent.

He had passion projects outside of work that were already popular within our technical niche when we hired him, and continued to deliver on these, very impressively!

We had him present at an international conference on some of the work he'd done for us, which really helped with his growth - it was very different from his other skill sets but he did an excellent job too.

But I think to be honest, the biggest change in his life was finding a romantic partner. Perhaps it was this, perhaps it was just maturing anyway, but he seemed to gain a lot of confidence and wellbeing. She certainly enriched his life in a way that the technical work didn't.

So my advice to you would be:

- keep doing what you're doing!

- but also, challenge yourself in other areas that you can branch out to

- and take some time find a candidate for your future life partner

Best of luck to you!
Most project management frameworks are tricky.

The best is to have no project management. Just a stream of ideas and high trust to prioritise effectively in an autonomous way. This only works when you have full alignment and everyone is competent at managing their own time and expectations.

Invariably someone will get flustered with this approach because they need visibility or believe things to be unaligned and hamfist scrum into the process. They usually do this with Jira and then claim there’s no better software. So we have two bits of pain for the price of one.

I really believe that we have a real lack of competence in project management in general; estimations are hard for sure, but reaching for tools without understanding trade offs is the kind of thing mid-level engineers do; seniors usually being marked by not adapting to tools but making tools work for their ends.

This is all a digression and what I originally wanted to say was that IME; scrum is the cart leading the horse.

Agile is also a difficult fit for something brand new; as how can you get user stories properly told without having users? but I think it’s quite good for refining something existing.
"The general feeling I have is that if I do not do this effort of gaining expertise, I am not fit for life."

That's really the more pressing issues that you need to work on.

We all have blind spots about how things or people work, and we're all in a condition where "good enough" is almost always "good enough."

If it helps, the slow process of remaining curious and caring about the people and work you encounter that will build expertise, and that's a thing that takes decades to show itself.

And while we can do many things quite expertly in life, we can only do a few of these at a time.

What you might understand is that, to take just one domain, people looking to hire programmers are looking for is someone who knows about a certain domain, so anything that you're doing outside of whatever narrow field you're discussing with a single person doesn't really matter as far as many people are concerned. T0 the person hiring a junior JS front-end developer, the chemistry skills isn't often relevant.

Further, there is very little learning that a person can do outside of a job. That is a problem, but the way I personally solved it was to lower my expectations for jobs until I got one, and then keep looking for new ones until I found a position I have been quite happy in.

However, all that is outside of the problem you are describing: simply being a person is enough to make you "fit for life".

You don't need to be consistently grinding on learning new things if that's not an end-in-itself for you.

Simply being good enough at one or two things is what almost all of us have to be okay with, and so what you might consider is which specific issues leading you to feeling this resentment.

Are your expectations unreasonable?
Are the people you're dealing with assholes?

I suspect that answer to either or both of those questions my be yes; the fortunate thing is that either of those are easier and more useful to deal with than, say, becoming an expert physicist.
Duolingo Math
I really enjoyed Zodiac. It’s reads like a thriller novel but it’s a little more grounded and less weird than Snow Crash. I think it’s a good entry point for Stephenson novels.
They can put in place some things to mitigate/prevent this. One example that comes to my mind is the use of trading windows for employees. I.e: you can buy company stocks only during some specific time windows announced at the start of the fiscal year.
Is expertise the means, or the end? How would be an expert in x or y improve your day-to-day life?

Counterpoint: on a whim over Christmas I bought a flute. I don't play a musical instrument, I've no particular musical talents, but I've been working at it consistently if not deeply, half an hour a day, every day, since. I will never, ever be an expert at the flute. I will be better at it though; there are pieces I can play in August which I couldn't play in July. It adds to my life. If the goal were to become an _expert_ flautist then a) I would be delusional but b) it would no longer be a nice little interlude in the day. Were I to magically mature into a concert-level flautist, _would I enjoy giving concerts?_ Pretty sure the answer is no. Expertise is neither a realistic nor desirable goal.
The problem is that it's not just "stupid" that creates problems. A warning would reduce the lethality of neglect and forgetfulness.

The risks that come with grapefruit juice is much less obvious than the example with broken glass from the wine bottle.
Are you sure she would have even see it? After eating grapefruit for 40 years, she'd become accustomed to ignoring the warning. She wouldn't have thought this warning suddenly applied to her.
Open an IT ticket, and the software shall be provided in SLA time.
I think scrum is best understood as a push back of waterfall.

Breaking large parts of work into small chunks, where it makes sense, which are testable and negotiable is better than the massive brittle project designs that collapsed under their own weight, with nothing to show for it.

Of course, not everything can be done in small chunks. But a lot can be.
It's weird how many people are seemingly against this. It's simple, cheap and will probably save lives.
Yeah, this is an extremely weird take.
Morally? Yes, a very reasonable request.

OTOH - is there any large real-world corporation which has ever gotten itself into a sustained info-war conflict with a well-armed and angry nation state, for the purpose of protecting one "ordinary" person from that nation state? I'm guessing "no".
> when they're the only ones in a position to have vetted the real seller

I've yet to see any evidence that marketplaces are actually interested in vetting sellers ... or buyers, for that matter.

Marketplaces are basically all about taking their % of the sale, yet getting to shrug and walk away if the transaction goes south.
I bet computer and video games are an extra hard trap to uncover for many (in here).

For me personally they often have been and still are a much needed way to escape plus a conduit to a multitude of other interests and my professional career (not directly related).

OTOH and more often than I would like to admit these days its meaningless, consumerist time wasting at best and an addiction at worst.

Taking away from other things and relationships even.

Yet even with the same old games and principles and all the addictive aspects I’d still love it as a hobby (in low doses) but I’m probably also not the only one still fooling themselves that it’s more than that.

Maybe it’s time to finally move on again (feels very hard though).
ELI5? what can a user do potentially with this framework? detect drones?

edit: wow i just saw the lecture video and this seems like a tool that lets you detect/analyze radio frequencies emitted from almost any device (?) and lets you emulate the packets (?) or wave patterns to manipulate the data it sends out?

this seems like a really powerful tool. I wonder if you can open car doors with this. Also wouldn't this mean that this tool could become illegal as a result?
But what does that mean? Do they receive event data or timeseries and graph it?
> including finding methamphetamine that was actually sugar
Is it not the responsibility of the doctor prescribing or the very least the person who is taking the medication to be aware? They put warnings on all medication that has interactions with grapefruit, because they don't want to check a piece of paper on their prescription or mention to their doctor of their diet.

It's your body, your health ultimately, in hand with the doctors support.

How would you even mark fresh fruit? Force supermarkets, farmers, why stop there?
>>> That will sometimes, not always, but deterministically when it's most annoying,

Oh yes. totally true :-)
You can get it at the hardware store, it'll break down tree stumps pretty quickly (and very inexpensively).
Uh, they literally paid MILLIONS for the antispam company POSTINI and thats what the original anti-spam features for GMAIL are based on... in the last 18 months or something, google apparently deleted that tech from their stack, I posted about this when I first started having so much spam inbox my gmail....

So yeah - THEY _supported_ the product by paying millions for it...

Then they did "the other thing"
Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream…
I used to swap between bicycle and public transit. I had a bag made for me from https://northstbags.com, which was in my neighborhood. The bag doubled as backpack or pannier. During some commutes, i would swap modes during transit. Pannier/backpack combo met my needs! You have a different requirement set, but my bag delighted me.

Aside, i had a medical issue in 2021. While at the doctors office, one of the medical staff swung by and said that she personally fabricated the bag on my back. It meant a lot to me to be able to tell her how grateful I was for it! She had pride in her craftsmanship, and indeed it was excellent.
> It's not magic, it's a machine with design limits that extreme weather events can push up against.

We have yet to see 80°c water in the rivers upstream. As I said earlier, the issue is never cooling the reactor, it's always about the state of the environment downstream.
Some decent advice here already, so I'll provide something from another angle by just picking something for you. That is, if you continue to be bothered by this, and think you have the actual capability to become an expert in multiple things (rather than a fanciful desire), first become an expert in longevity therapy research and help bootstrap yourself and the rest of the species into having enough time to pursue whatever you/others want.
I've also struggled with this, and I'm not sure there's a silver bullet answer.

But I think a lot of the common advice (too simple to work!) is actually helpful:

- Limit scope

As much as you think 'no one will use this without XYZ feature'; no one will definitely use it without it existing at all. Just make the basic functioning product and see below:

- Get real users using it early (release early)

Having real users (perhaps even paying users) using my project, relying on me for fixes/updates, seems to be a nice kick-in-the-pants to fix/work on the project. Even with minimal users or zero-revenue, having that feedback that someone finds what you're doing useful rather than coding into a void is really motivating.

- Build something for yourself

If you need/want to use it, you'll continue to work and improve the project to suit your needs. Theres some additional work likely to make it available for others to use, but if you're using the product yourself often - perhaps thats motivation to see how others could benefit from it as well.

Also realize - it's never 'finished'. If it's a project that you either (a) enjoy working on or (b) actually has users, there will always be more to do. So embrace that and find (a) or (b) early.
The posts like this are all fantastic, because they're all "we built a dumb product in two weeks that nobody wanted, and then when that didn't work, we built a data harvesting rig and everybody threw money at us". It's just the Mitch Hedberg joke about "that inspired me to make a movie about a gorilla"

My other favorite was the one that started with a dating app, then a corporate benefits HR package solution, before eventually finding "product market fit" and "success" by turning it into an internet payments company, with the founder going on all the podcasts to talk about all the lessons they learned. Then they shut down a year later, with the founder getting a hefty parachute for their wonderful invasive innovations they generously thrust into our world.
>They are not directly responsible for anyone’s safety and have no reason to take down content that isn’t a direct threat or clear defamation.

From the article: the author is asking to have false, defamatory content removed.

> That’s the police or justice system’s job.

That is not an available option to the author of this article. The author is alleging that false posts are being made to lay the groundwork for the author being detained and tortured by the local justice system.
For whole grapefruits sold by the kilogram or pound, there could be a sign next to the price.
Wow, they're even Prime.
> I don’t think Amazon’s choice is the same for every one.

I believe it is the same for all users for a given keyword search, but it is also dynamically changing.

From [1], the algorithm itself is a black box though:

> One innovation the company devised is “Amazon’s Choice,” a distinctive black badge typically bestowed on a single product per search term. The company says the award is given to “highly rated, well-priced products available to ship immediately.” But for many categories, dozens of options fit that description. How does Amazon choose its choices? Do humans have a hand in the decisions, or are they governed by an algorithm?

> The company won’t say. “Amazon’s Choice is just our recommendation, and customers can always ask for specific brands or products if they choose,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/what-does-amazons-choice-mean/
AFAIK, one type of saltpetre (potassium nitrate) was also widely used to preserve cured meats. Today we tend to use nitrites to avoid the spoiling of bacon, sausages, salami, speck, jamon and other cured meats. These became more used in late 19th century, known as Chilean saltpetre.

The nitrites and nitrates is what gives cured meats their pink colour and are considered cancer inducing.
most folks don't want to go to prison?
Not as convenient but you could label them, if the port was actually factored in.
The instant cold packs commonly found in first-aid kits use a closely related chemical: ammonium nitrate. While technically a high explosive, it is effectively useless as such in the hands of the average person.
I kinda moved away from a full stack web dev project recently that really showed me the down and dirty of using express and EJS templating. I didn't think it wouldn't work or I didn't have something, I just felt like it was a bit of busy work, especially on the front end, because I could move much faster building that with something like Angular or React. Because of all the drilling I got with the low-level frontend stuff, it's making Angular much much easier to learn than previous times I tried before.
NTSC and PAL had very very different color gamuts.
I am starting my kids off with Python personally.

I don't know if best, but I know it well and with the repl and existence of notebooks like Jupiter (https://realpython.com/jupyter-notebook-introduction/) it gives me the tools to get started and teach quickly.

Interested to see what resources others share as I not using any right now just my own knowledge of python. I did have kids learn scratch using a book as a prequel.

I did come across this book but still have not decided if I will use it:

https://nostarch.com/pythonforkids
Sounds like The Road to El Dorado :)
This discussion definitely sets a record for "people writing the most words to explain to me things I already know". Hopefully some spectators got something out of it.

Fun story, I once volunteered to play a piece at 440 and a piece at 415 in the same concert, not realizing that it would take a long time for the instrument (a viola da gamba) to "settle" after that drastic of a change.
of course. not.