skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No it’s like no one even checks the price tag because their carrier is slowly milking it out of them instead.

Eh, iPhones are still popular in many countries where paying outright for your phone is the norm.
> maybe the reason people used robo advisory here is potentially ( mainly) because they are not aware of the other tool

Is there a term for self-aware aversion to the Dunning-Krueger effect? Where one recognizes a task is outside their circle of competence, and so avoids making off-piste judgements in its respect?
At least in USA.

It's the similar thing with a lot of online business:music, videos , movies or ride sharing. First it's illegal and then someone big enough does it and it's a great business. Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, Uber etc...

Technologically certainly fairly interesting but the real roadblock was regulations and contracts and conflicts of interest.
+1 for paper, you can even point to things on their c.v. to direct their attention to something you want to discuss... this is a good way to put them at ease, after all, if they don't know their own c.v. what do they know?
> Wealthfront has a turbotax import option. You tax accountant can press it too

Two issues: complexity of return and efficiency of turning pre-tax into post-tax income. Wealthfront is good at the former. It's half decent at the latter for moderate income levels. Above some threshold between $500k and $2mm, it's not the best.
just this currently? no demo or something like that?
Code interview practical exercises. Ive been asked to do them maybe 6-10 times. Each time I completed the test to a high standard and got rejected for other random reasons. Once I spend a day writing a PostgreSQL extension in C to shuttle data between tables, at the request of a company, and I didn’t even get an interview.

Once I interviewed for a company and everything was great but they said my rate was too high even though I had told them up front.

Once I showed up and the interviewer wasn’t even there and they hadn’t bothered to let me know.

Once a dude got me to propose and diagram an architecture for their actual system during the interview and I didn’t hear from them again. Swindled.

Then there’s having recruiters breathing down your neck and asking invasive questions while protecting all the details about the client and the job…

Yea. Done with it
That’s like, your opinion, and we all know the common analogy to that :D

Java is a tiny language with not too many concepts going around sitting on top one of the best runtimes with one of the biggest ecosystems. It is a very sane and good choice for almost every program out there, especially that empirically we have absolutely zero evidence for any significant difference between language productivities, other than managed languages being a boost (so your mention of C, which is arguably a language with so many faults one could fill a whole book about, is frankly, quite laughable).
So much this.

The perversion of it is that it comes across that I’m against DevOps. I’m absolutely the opposite. I’m against attaching bullshit marketing labels to good practices and making them a cancer on the project (cough devops, agile cough).

I’ve dealt with this recently. The “DevOps guy” was a toxic, condescending gatekeeper who wouldn’t co-operate with the engineers at all, but had the ear of the management.

He had a bunch of servers and builds he was really pleased with that were not at all documented and completely useless to everyone, because no-one understood it and couldn’t ask questions.

Good ops should be utterly transparent and utterly out of the way. Not hidden magic, just so easy to understand that it ticks over doing what it does without interrupting your workflow. And always reproducible locally.

Give a prick even the slightest chance to poison your company and they will is about the only 100% reliable piece of advice I could give anyone in this industry.
Unlikely, lasers are impacted by weather... unless they're shielded midway, but then you've got a fiber cable again.
Don’t they control pull by setting interest rates?
That's like a funniest thing I read all day, assuming you are being serious. Was an iPhone revolutionary in terms of smartphones? Sure. But calling it a greatest invention in human history, within 100 years of literally thousands of other groundbreaking inventions, is just hilarious.
> I don’t see how it can happen, on the same way we’ve been stuck

In-between Chromebooks and generic Linux distros (say what you will about the year of Linux on the desktop, use is only growing; slow paced or not, doesn't matter), specialised Linux distros (SteamOS - you might think it doesn't matter, it's only for a handheld console, the Steam Deck, but it will force many games to have Linux compatibility. And one of the main things keeping many tech savvy users on Windows is gaming) i think a duopoly is a bit of a strong word, and it's getting disrupted.
> Being stuck in problem solving

Am I the only one who loves this? My main complaint about my day-job has typically been that the problems are too boring and easy.
If quantum computers will ever work, by that time bitcoin will migrate to new algo, that’s not a big issue.
The Shit Content Self Referrential Magical Roundabout
There is a difference between blocking every other server and blocking a singular server and the different shades between. In particular gab is full of toxic, stupid, offensive, psychos wearing human skin masks so that they can blend in and prey upon actual humans.

Most people when consuming content at scale want SOME filter on the content whether they know it or not unless the community is very small and self selecting. This is because a singular scumbag can trivially ruin the good time of a thousand users. Large completely unmoderated communities always turn into nightmares at some point.
It was cellular triangulation.
It was the same in the US, you could get a new phone for $199 every two years, without any additional statement charge.

However it all changed after T-Mobile’s “uncarrier” bluff, now it’s all about lock you in 36 months with monthly payments and some credit against the payments.
I lived and worked in Japan and I was shocked how outdated the country was in many areas.

Opening bank accounts felt like I would imagine opening bank accounts was in the 1980s here in Germany. FAXes are still a huge thing. People buy CDs and DVDs. The architecture looks like it stopped developing somewhere in the 70s or 80s. Work culture is archaic, from absurd hierachies, to protocols (who sits where, who speaks first, who is allowed to speak louder, who must speak quite), to outdated offices (even for the most modern companies that i visited), tower computers, black suits with ties... puh, it was a nightmare. I dont want to start on the society and its outdated values (compared to where we are in the West): how they understand democracy, how they treat minorities, how they deal with their nazi-past.

I wonder every single time when media is reporting on the war against China and that Japan and Korea are our friends because we have the same values. Neither Korea nor Japan share most of values with us, in my opinion. Japanese and Korean friends agree.

There were other things that felt modern, but those were mainly driven by those state-sponsored and protected engineering companies that were founded during the post WW2 times.

Overall I would say: I did enjoy my time there, but I hated the racism, the work-culture and the bureaucracy.

Who to blame? I blame Raegan (Trump's big hero) who became president prior being a TV star and Raegan's slogan "Let's make America great again" and his campaign against Japan as he believed that he must destroy the Japanese threat by launching a trade war against them and by fighting the currency. Basically 1:1 what Trump copied 1:1 - just against China.
Better than nothing but it's far from what the title describes as "rains cash".

MS : $25k - $50k

Google , FB : $10k - $25k

For them, that's like saying "Hi".
For the financial value the OpenBSD foundation is creating, that's a miniscule return.
1) My server isn't its own insular community - it federates with many other Fediverse instances and I interact with plenty of other people from these.

2) You claim I complained about the "its own insular community" part; where? Care to quote me doing so?
Before Ballmer, Microsoft was a consumer OS company.

Microsoft was always a business facing company. Companies used NT from the start of time, and every business on the planet has been using Windows since the 90s. Microsoft has spent its entire lifetime slowly strangling and destroying other businesses, and pulling them over to their product lines.

Word vs Wordperfect is one example. Wordperfect used to be completely dominant.

Ballmer may have etched up Windows dominance a few points in a few markets, and I agree he continued this trend. He continued to expand into new markets. But it seems very weird to hear someone say he is responsible for getting businesses to use Windows, or caused M$ to focus on businesses.
Snowden was part of the initial ceremony, along with some other crypto experts. Not sure that qualifies him as co-founder
> People like that who have saved up $57k are likely to ultimately be much wealthier than the average American. If they won't need an advisor, who would?

There are fixed costs to wealth management. Traditionally, someone with less than ~$250k wouldn't be worth bespoke advice; practically, that limit is closer to $1 to 3mm. Wealthfront uses technology to reduce service costs, thereby bringing some of the perks of that upper tier of advice to folks with less money. It would be reductive, however, to expand that service offering to the PWM/MFMs of the world.
I disagree.

> the employer can easily weather

In a large business maybe, but more often than not in a large business you're a number and you're gonna pass probation regardless.

In a smaller business, the cost of recruitment process can be huge, it's not just 1 hour interview and you're done as an employer. It's hours of reviewing CVs, contacting people, arranging times, conducting interviews, weening people out, disruption to your primary job role, etc etc. That's a huge cost and drain on the business.

If the business decides they don't want you during that probation period, you must have done something pretty bad, because that's a huge cost sink to that business.

In a medium business alot of that goes away, sure, but they pay for in recruitment fees, interviews (less) offers, onboarding, etc.

My point is, its very difficult for a business to weather this stuff. If a business lets you go during a probation period, it must really not be a good fit.

I've been involved in some recruitment process over my 18 year career, never the primary person doing it, so only reviewed CVs and been in the interviews.

Only once did we let someone go during probation, because he was quite toxic and spent all his time complaining rather than working.

At the same time I've only seen 1 person quit during probation after 1 week. He was hired to do Design and HTML/CSS, but decided after 1 week he didn't like doing HTML/CSS and decided to leave. Which made my boss absolutely furious because of the wasted time that the typical 1 week notice was thrown out the window and he was asked to leave the building right away.
They would be very rare unless he’s talking total compensation (inc. super, stocks, bonuses) at the larger companies. Even then I’d expect the average to be low $200k for a senior depending on how they define senior.
The idea of learning to read silently and not though sounding out the words seems asinine to me. I couldn't stomach the entire article but it is difficult to imagine a rational argument for this approach.
It’s a market. It’ll adjust itself.
Interesting but the repo homepage itself is probably a more helpful starting point.

https://github.com/corsix/amx
On the Mac, there's a simple way to check cables:

Take a USB3 device, plug it in with the cable, and then go to System Profiler (Apple Menu -> About this Mac -> System Profiler). Look for the device, and check the speed. If it says 480MB/s it's a USB 2 cable, if it says 5GB/s, 10GB/s or 20GB/s then it's a USB3 cable.

I assume there's a way to do the same thing on Windows and Linux.
I have yet to find a dev job that includes serious engineering and problem solving. At that point if the check is high, I'd write yaml pseudo confs if they want to.
Or watch for small, neat signs in low rent business parks. Someone who cares enough to present a tidy and professional image while economising on rent is going to make a good boss.
> They often know who they want to hire before any interviews begin.

I've seen the same thing as well. One company even flew me out to their headquarters to interview for a position they knew they were going to give to somebody internally. I found out because they left me alone with a senior developer on the team. I asked him what my chances were of getting the job and he told me.

I wonder if there's a good way to filter out these roles earlier in the hiring process.
I think you need a balance. If you're completely stuck most of the time, you're going to start dreading work. But if you never have to make a real effort, you will be bored.
>Being stuck in problem solving

It's a little unfortunate the paper doesn't go deeper into this beyond a few lines:

>As one respondent commented: “I feel negative when I get really stuck on something and cannot get around it”. Another respondent elaborated: “I also thought of situations where I’m debugging some issue with the code and I can’t figure out why it isn’t working – when it seems like everything should work, but it just doesn’t. This is definitely one of the biggest gumption traps I encounter”.

To me, the most annoying part isn't just getting stuck, but getting stuck in conjunction with the (lack of) complexity of the issue in theory, and the time pressure (#2 on the list). A lot of problems just shouldn't take as long as they do, but communicating with frameworks, other people's code, poor assumptions (#3?), weird requirements definitely make problems a lot more difficult.

The majority of the work is just trivial plumbing in theory. It's not some complex algorithm. Yet the complex algorithms are often documented far better, you're given more time, and at least personally, it's a whole lot more interesting to work with than fighting a Frankenstein application just to do something extremely minor like conditionally changing font colors.
I’m not sure why buying cd’s and dvd’s is a bad thing. Those things are great.
There is more knowledge in your local library. But it requires discipline and time to process. Generating discipline and time at large scale is non trivial.
I must stink, because I get most of my rejections at the HR stage.

But I also have no idea what to ask during them either. They always give their 10 minute spiel about what the company is, ask me to give my own 5-10 minute spiel about my work history, then ask if I have any questions. I give my 5-10 minutes of regurgitating my resume in sentence form, and then generally don't have any questions. what kind of questions would I have for HR during a first round interview that hasn't already been answered in a job posting or basic company research anyway?
Also a follow up article with much more detail -
https://newatlas.com/energy/world-wide-wind-interview/
And then you take your account to a different server where you feel you fit better or that it doesn't cut the experience you want.
I didn't buy an iPhone until the 3GS, but I never used turn-by-turn navigation. I just needed a map with directions that I could refer to if I got lost. After I got it, I also discovered how useful it was for planning trips by bus. Did the original iPhone not have Maps at all? I think it would have been a killer app even without turn-by-turn.
I use it, and sometimes I unfollow people because the timeline gets to be too much to keep track of (so not dead). I have met people off it in real life.

I also have a twitter account, that I use to follow a few (6 maybe?) accounts I care about. I scroll through that every week or two. I like those accounts, but twitter feels needy, constantly screaming for more attention. This is the website, not using an ad blocker.

You say Mastodon is dead, so maybe you like a website constantly pushing you to engage more? I can understand how it would make the site feel more lively, especially for new users.

Mastodon is not the same as Twitter, but there are plenty of us that prefer it. If you want 100000 followers it's the wrong platform, I'll give you that.

> Even the users who 'moved' to Mastodon came back to Twitter again are still posting on Twitter. Why? Because there is no-one on Mastodon even after the Twitter 'exodus'.

There have been many small exoduses, and some people stayed with Mastodon.
In a similar vein: Is that Matt Farah's Million Mile Lexus? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0gPidvOLww

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a28991860/the-milli...

Toyota does something other manufacturers will call stupid (and some like BMW or Mercedes stopped doing). Toyota manufactures to an order of magnitude greater tolerances than needed. Even something stupid like 3 cylinder European fab Yaris is manufactured in white gloves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WhZSHo1b6M
The Simplified Spelling Board was America's chance to get out of this spelling mess. Of course it should have been made up of linguists, but those might have been hard to find at the time. It seems that the effort was thwarted by institutional conservatism. Why should my children use a sensible spelling system when I had to learn the insane one, am I right?
I am a non-paying subscriber to his Substack; I generally enjoy his writing there. I don't know enough economics to know if I/we/anyone should agree with him, but you might want to read a few of the articles if you're still interested in his viewpoints.
https://maemo-leste.github.io/

> Maemo Leste continues the legacy of Maemo ... based on Devuan Beowulf (Debian Buster) and all the supported devices ship with recent mainline Linux kernels. We are currently in the development phase and we are actively searching for developers. For some devices, we have development images available - such as the Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 4, and the PinePhone. There is also a 64bit virtual machine you can use to try out Maemo Leste.

Software WIP status: https://leste.maemo.org/Status
I just tried remote and it's a strange blend. No commute makes the morning a lot lighter. I can operate as I want without having to tag along others (lots of pauses or chit chat usually..) but it also makes me more stressed (I plan to do 20min walks outside to replenish). I don't get along with most my colleagues either but my main one is cool enough.
I used brouter to make a map of the vintage MTB fest:

Http://www.vintagemtb.org/maps
The iPhone was/is a good product, but I think mass indoor plumbing and the washing machine along with many other inventions ranks higher than the iPhone.
Just more working memory. If you know which things that you forgot you need when to remember, again it's not harder but just refresh and the next is easier. Sometimes to learn a new conception you have to suspend few others. Harder way you learn with every step back to refresh, that you need to cross-reference.
There is a sample app and tutorial here: https://github.com/liveviewnative
Does someone have an easy explanation how the text prompt is fed into the image.
Yep I’ve been itching to upgrade my monitor, but 4k 120Hz is still as good as it gets without compression. This is a DisplayPort limitation which should improve over the next year or two as new GPUs are released
Odd, I've felt the same but always attributed it to being "too motivated" by other stuff. I can't enjoy a sunset because I'd be thinking about something else I'd rather do.
The first release of TeX was in 1978.

Dr. Knuth could have plausibly gotten results similar to yours by writing a 'classic' floating point algorithm: but IEEE 734 [sic: 754] wasn't even published until 1985, so relying on hardware, let alone stable results from hardware, was completely impossible.

This would also have been very, very, very. Very slow. Adding a constant factor of 20-50X to TeX wouldn't have been fun at all.

TeX is also a famous program, the algorithms involved are well-known to anyone with an interest. The statement that it uses an expensive global strategy for layout is accurate.
I don’t think many give much thought to what it really means. They just use the term because it sounds cool, either to themselves or to their superiors. Same as with Machine learning.
It’s not that crazy, assuming they’re equating it with everyone having a general purpose computer in their pocket (probably a greater impact on society than the previous personal computer revolution). But yeah, maybe a bit over the top...
I had a similar initial thought - I find unsolved technical problems genuinely thrilling to work on - but then I noticed the word ‘stuck’. That implies having run out of ideas on how to approach the problem and I can imagine that being stressful. Perhaps you are similar? Or do you also enjoy having run out of ideas?
There isn't much weather in the mesosphere and above
That is correct for most older laptops.

However, many newer laptops have begun to use cameras with a MIPI interface, like the smartphones. This has created problems with bad device driver support for non-Windows operating systems, as discussed in a recent HN thread.
Honestly, that seems to be a common use case for GPlates (see eg[0][from 1]), and might even be more common than actually using it for plate tectonics work.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQvwgPFSN-I

1: http://www.youtube.com/user/Artifexian
Mirror: https://archive.ph/SoGaV

> In fact, the brain of a very young child does perceive letters
> differently than an adult brain: not as fixed, flat symbols but
> as three-dimensional objects rotating in space. That’s why kids
> who are learning to write so commonly exchange “b” and “d,” for
> example, or “p” and “q.”

This doesn't match what I've heard from ESL adults from a non-Latin background, who have frequently complained that Latin letters are too similar (so it's not an issue limited to children).

Also not my own experience as an adult learner of Japanese (which has similar symbol-pair challenges for ソ ン , シ ツ , さ ち). And it's definitely not my own memory of learning to read as a child -- to this day I remember the frustration of deciding whether "read" should rhyme with "reed" or "red", but no particular challenges with [d b] since they're easy to recall from [D B]. The worst part of learning to read/write in American elementary schools was cursive, which to do this day I can't sight-read if there's too many i/u/v/w in a row.

In fact, the only time I remember hearing letters described as "three-dimensional" or "rotating in space" is from someone with dyslexia. Maybe the author should get themselves checked?
How about you let them worry about what they wanna do?
I was a consultant working on two Meego projects at the time, fancy mechanics and some pretty interesting ideas about graph data storage and inference. Super talented crew of diverse hackers, kind of a tech head dream project thinking back on it now. This all was such a gut punch. I always thought they should have just rallied behind their own OS, but I don't claim to understand the business all that well.

(edit: a highlight was getting to meet Dan Ingalls once; he was cool)
Your link has nothing to do with free tickets, it is a train problem
I had an Android G2 (I think it was called) which was one of the first Android handsets and it was brilliant.

It already supported everything the iPhone didn’t (apps, copy paste, MMS, etc) plus had a slide out keyboard.

I still rate that phone as one of the best handsets I’ve ever owned.
I love the list of "See Also" articles at the end.

So evocative.
Why is it going up now?