skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious about the hours of typing thing. I don't normally need much boilerplate, so I normally just type things. If I do need boilerplate, I yank the boilerplate into a buffer and put it into the file I am working on. Yet I feel like the overall time spent doing this is incredibly slight.

I feel like it's possible some time could be shaved off somewhere there, but this all happens very quickly and it's not an area where optimization would improve things much overall. For this to amount to literal hours of typing, I think I would need to be either very much slower at typing, writing an immensely large volume of boilerplate, or working over many many years. Typing stuff is essentially never a bottleneck for me.
GPU prices are already down. "Sell the rumor, buy the news" and all that.
Wait until these scientist find out about running.
Sure, you should study a bit. That doesn't mean you have to 'grind leetcode' or anything. I usually go implement a couple data structures (a heap and a graph search, or something) and then feel pretty good. Typical interview questions just aren't that hard and if you aren't too nervous about it you can figure them out live if you know basic computer science.
You are putting "individualism" where none was mentioned.

> "fine none of us then as long as I can insulate myself from the worse effects of it".

No. More like "there is no way that any central entity will be able to solve the conflicts of everyone without turning into authoritarianism and tyranny, so let's stop pretending that we can do that and create a plethora of different communities where people are closer to those with decision-making power."

I can (and want) to help my neighbor and those close to me as equals, but I have no interest in being a mere subject serving as an instrument to whoever is in power above.
Question for you, have you always moved directly from one job to the next? I'm contemplating leaving my current role and taking a couple months off before the job search, and while I'm not worried about landing a new job, I am concerned that being unemployed may result in lower offers.
Which artists?

Certainly not the deviantart artists who had their art stolen and sold as NFTs or the artists who drew the Bored Apes one of whom described her compensation as "definitely not ideal"[1]. Most small artists who I've heard talk on podcasts about NFTs say it's a pretty raw deal because minting costs money with no guarantee of returns.

I think the largest beneficiaries of NFTs are speculators and businesses. The art and artists seem to largely be a means to an end in this space.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vn5b/bored-ape-yacht-club-...
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Zoom was down
Got an old Burroughs C3155 calculator from 1971, fully functional. More reactive than Windows 10's calculator.
If you get what you want at current rates and they go up - got it just in time!

And if rates go down enough, refinance!
They're known.
I had an extremely fussy colicky infant. I never thought that noises would help him sleep. But I noticed he would sleep if I was holding him and talking to someone. One day he was overtired and screaming because he could not sleep, and I turned on the vacuum. He went straight to sleep. It got me thinking about why that would be. Almost all adults would not welcome a vacuum on to fall alseep. We got a white noise generator after and it helped him out.
To be fair, Instagram isn't nearly as Bloated as Facebook ever got. WhatsApp has also only had some annoying additions.
Half day!
People here are largely anti crypto, not anti Proof of stake
I can only speculate.

I assumed Valve decided that competing witu literally Apple, and Facebook, for VR headware wasn't clever.
Nope, same thing for NY State: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/eepc/laws/state-laws.page

The parent post is just plain wrong. Race and color are protected classes, for every race and every color, not just for specific ones.
- travelling is overrated

- learning foreign languages is overrated unless you're learning English or the language of a country you want to live in

- stainless steel pans are better than cast iron pans

- machine learning is boring

- going too hard on FIRE is a mistake for most people

- software engineer is a cool job title and it's pointless to gatekeep it just because it contains the word engineer. Same with data scientist - don't get caught up on the word scientit, it's data scientist, the qualifier matters.

It's surprisingly difficult to come up with these.
Zoom is returning a 502 Bad Gateway error, and, in some workspaces, it's returning the following Nginx error.

> An error occurred.

> Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
Please try again later.

> If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

> Faithfully yours, nginx.
All of that stuff comes pretty easily if you have spent any time in a day job talking to coworkers about algorithms. Running code in your head and talking about its tradeoffs is not like an esoteric skill.
One of the large benefits of roundabouts is the reduction in serious crashes. 90% reduction in deaths, 76% reduction in injuries, and 35% reduction in all crashes. [1]

1) Cars need to slow down to go through the roundabout safely, 2) If there is an accident it is more of a side-swipe type accident than a t-bone or head-on accident.

But as others have said they aren't the best solution for all situations but they could be used a magnitude more than they currently are here in the U.S.

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/odot/Engineering/Roundabouts/Roundabo...
The difficult part about increasing supply is that it usually involves dialing back state intervention, and there's very little incentive in the political system for anyone to do that.
> Go back and read it.

I did re-read it. That's how I could quote your words.

> You threw barbs and used the word "scam" as often as you could

Because that's what the absolute vast majority of crypto is.

> This is exactly like every crypto discussion on the internet today, it's very frustrating.

Yes. Every crypto discussion on goes like this:

- Crypto claims are refuted or questioned

- Crypto maximalist spouts some grandiose bullshit

- Crypto maximalist gets called out

- Crypto maximalist disappears

I've yet to see you actually address anything I said in my very first comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32850112

> I'm talking about deliverable perpetual futures.

It's a nonsensical term (like many other nonsensical terms) that only exists in the crypto space. And only works in the highly volatile market like crypto. This is short-to-medium term currency speculation, and I'm sure there are plenty of services that allow you to do that in "traditional finance". As I'm not interested in currency speculation, I couldn't tell you what they are.

> Now perhaps you see what I am getting at? It's not accessible

You've selected a single service revolving around currency speculation and you call "traditional finance" inaccessible because of that. That... is not what accessibility to financial services means. Or what "levelling the playing field" is.

> Is there some reason the system is the way it is? Yes, I'm sure there is.

You're sure, but at the same time you are completely uninterested to learn why it is that way, and you dismiss anyone telling you why it is the way it is because, let me quote, "it's an awful exploitative global financial system".

> There are a million and one ways to lose all your money, plus a million new ones that weren't possible before.

Indeed. And that makes this "accessible and a level playing field" unlike traditional finance which offers fraud protection, deposit insurance, etc. etc.

> And soon a new technology will come, and everyone who understands the current landscape will know immediately what to do with it

So, the "accessible system" will be accessible to those who understand current landscape, who have already lost money a million ways and cut themselves on sharp corners.

That is neither accessible nor a level playing field.

If you claim that it is "global financial system which can be participated in by anyone", where are the protections for those who "did not have access to existing systems" (I keep quoting you).

I'm a programmer, I earn quite a lot. And I still cannot afford to just go ahead and "lose my money in a million ways" and "cut myself when working with a sharp object". Where's your accessibility, huh?

> and everyone who has had their head in the sand will wait for the SEC for guidance

Ah yes. Instead we can just not wait and lose the money a million and one ways for the sake of.... something.

There's a reason for SEC guidances, but, again, you're entirely unwilling to learn why they exist. Perhaps, you will learn it the hard way.
Virtually every city in America destroyed itself in the pursuit of what you suggest: everyone will live out in Whiteville and they'll just drive downtown for culture, commerce, and employment. It didn't work. The freeways and parking lots cost too much, and the commuters don't pay enough taxes to balance it out.
Empirically, most people care more about making the trip efficiently then how exactly it's done. If all those people are motivated to not use cars, think of how much less traffic there will be for everyone else? It turns out that bike and pedestrian friendly cities are also some of the most car friendly ones for this reason.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RRE2rDw4k
> I'd bet that the racial makeup of the laid off employees is not an even sampling of the racial makeup of the company.

I would bet that your average "blind" layoff is not an even sampling of the racial makeup of the company. If they did anything at all here it was probably taking some sort of active role in preventing that outcome.
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As someone who learned lisp-like languages well after "baby's first program", what places Scheme in the same group as C in terms of "even worse than Java for n00bs"?
On the topics of gaming, the energy consumption isn't pretty

https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption/

- Youtube 244 TWh/year

- Gold mining 240 TWh/year

- Bitcoin 200 TWh/year

- Ethereum PoW 112 TWh / year

- Netflix 94 TWh / year

- Gaming 34 TWh / year

- Paypal 0.26 TWh / year

- Ethereum PoS 0.01 TWh / year
> Cell phone penetration in the US is above 85%. Cell phone penetration has been higher in developing countries for years.

Taxis should be available for everyone, not just the 85% that own a smartphone and don't end up banned by the app out of random [1].

That existing taxi companies don't follow up to the regulations is a different problem (and one where the government definitely has to step up), but Uber and friends aren't even required to follow the same rules, that is the whole point of why these kind of services are so dangerous for society!

[1] https://www.johnnyjet.com/got-banned-uber-fix-problem/
Open Source is just a MBA friendly term for Free Software.
I joined a few months back and got matched with a pretty stellar contract shortly after coming onboard. There's a pretty wide variety of work on the platform so you can be as picky as you like (want to work on crypto? or desktop apps? etc).

Jobs seem to be mainly split between full-stack, front-end, and mobile but there's quite a few openings for soft skills like PM work.
Their status page is green, though!
ok, removed. Turns out ublock can do that too... On the bright side, Avast has less cash and some cool dev out there got to bank on its project.
Adobe is a fate worse than death. For software, at least.
This is what explanations look like: https://www.nayuki.io/page/reed-solomon-error-correcting-cod... , https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_codes_f... , https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_codes_f...
So that is your definition of "restricting" -- not expanding?
I think you could productize this and sell it to solar companies. I imagine this data would be helpful to them for things like selling add-ons, upgrades, etc.
VCs have just been given 20B new reasons to fund a new startup in this domain. Could result in a cornucopia of new startups.
No.

PoW enables real decentralization. No party/company/govt can control a PoW network like BTC. This is why it’s considered a commodity by many.

PoS is almost the opposite. A small group with stake control the network. This is why it’s considered a security by many.

For Bitcoin, PoW is a feature not a bug.
Is Zoom Down?
Unable to get on any new Zoom calls (ongoing ones unaffected). Seeing "502 Bad gateway" but was an nginx error before. Have seen multiple reports of this. Might just be local?
Many of us think the VC approach to business has perverse incentives and is fundamentally broken, with large exits basically demanding megacorp purchases, who then hand large dividends back to the investors behind the scheme. No matter who loses, the house always wins. I post here in spite of YC and pg, who I both dislike equally very much.
What's LFG?
Mortgage rates hit 2% below inflation. Hmmm.

Somebody’s doing the subsidizing.
How to develop a plugin for CKAN: Part 1
I was at a site after a crane collapsed seriously injuring 3 people including one guy who took a cable to the face and, as far as I know, never regained use of his eye. The crane operator survived without injury. He’s probably still making picks despite being a proximate cause for 3 of his friends’ permanent life altering injuries. So in a sense they do have crushing expectations placed on them, except these expectations actually crush someone to death sometimes.

But yeah they’re also on call sometimes.
Any tool is a weapon proportional to its power & utility. Beyond that, there's nothing nefarious inherent in weaponry, the DARPA initiatives that birthed the internet were based in defense, against nuclear annihilation. Seems like a win-win, politics non-withstanding.
> I've never understood why operating systems allow focus switching.

KDE calls this "Focus stealing" and has a setting to disable it.
Roger Federer announces retirement from professional tennis
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Experience is an important factor here.

Minimal wage in 2022 is 3010 PLN (~630 Eur), so juniors/mids rather won't make 10-12x.
It always has been, where do you think that idealism came from? :-P
Well, back to Sketch I guess.
I think the most important skill I learned in college was the "Sanity Check." Everyone in my physics classes, myself included, tended to just plug things into the calculator and then barf the results on our papers. Time after time, professors drilled into us the concept of asking "Does this make sense to you?"
https://archive.is/QBxYR
Yes, Figma’s appeal is that it was not owned by Adobe.
Patagonia: Billionaire boss gives fashion firm away to fight climate change
Yep that’s the one, google search was pretty much useless for finding this.
Acquiring a competitor isn't going to automatically trigger antitrust laws. For one, web design is so far from critical infrastructure that it's just unlikely to be on their radar. And secondly, there's still a ton of competition. Even if Adobe and Figma are the two leaders, there's still loads of alternatives available. You can still use Sketch or Canva or any of the all-in-one beginner tools like Squarespace.
Nope, Tourism has some benefits but it destroys local communities. In many places in Europe there are movements against tourism. Google for "Tourists go home" and start digging from there. The gist is, only the business and property owners directly benefit from it and the economy created from it often don't offset the troubles it creates to the locals.

Factories are a different situation, they are a necessary evil if we would like not to go back living in the woods. Rich or poor, countries need factories and the pollution they create can and is managed. Not in poor, but in corrupt countries factories can create problems but other than that they are a good thing.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Figma followed the typical path for a company/product taking on massive amounts of venture capital.

If you are shocked by this, please take note and stop investing in products and services (no matter how good) that are investment vehicles, not real businesses.
Many government functions (unemployment, DMV appointment scheduling, etc) can not be accessed from any place but the internet. It's one reason that Public Libraries are so important these days.

That our government requires you to use the internet puts lie to the idea that you can live a complete life without the internet.
Fireworks was completely focused on web graphics, and Photoshop couldn't hold a candle to it for that use case. I used photoshop for touching up photos and generating things, then fireworks for cutting up and exporting the graphics, in a time before browsers could take practically anything and CMSes would autogenerate versions for different uses.

Also, Dreamweaver was heads and shoulders above GoLive or whatever that app was Adobe was pedaling for web page design at the time. It lost its edge once Adobe adopted it as their main web page editing app.
Even if I do retain a profit when selling, we’re going to be trading down to a worse house. Payments for the same house now based on the Redfin estimate and current interest rates are more than double.

Given how bad the tech sector is doing now that the real world is back post lockdowns, I’m not comfortable taking on that much more of a payment.
That's a pleasant mention of Gridcoin but I'd like to clarify that you do not actually mine Gridcoin. Gridcoin rewards scientific work for the BOINC(Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing).

(Not that your comment is wrong but one could miss the mention of scientific computing while skimming.)

(Also BOINC and Gridcoin both are open source and needs some love from contributors. I'd like to drop their links for anyone who has free time.

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc
https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Research )
Thank you for the recommendation! Looks interesting and I will definitely check it out.
Website doesn't really matter. You can't join their online meetings or even dial-in. Not a great day they are having.
Is that inherent to CRTs? Windows and Mac used black text on white background in their GUIs from the beginning.

Even some early text mode computers used a colored/bright background - my personal experience was on the TI-99 in its onboard BASIC environment.

Scanlines were normal at the time - I think we only see them as ugly now after getting used to LCDs.
The McD machine cleans itself by heating everything (machinery and dairy mixture) internally above the pasteurization temperature and then quickly cooling it back down. Kind of a different animal than flushing coffee grounds away with hot water.

I did a proposal for some engineering on one of those automated froyo machines. Most are just a dirt-standard freezer with a robot cup handling & topping dispenser attachment. There was no requirement for self-cleaning. And, judging by the finished ones I've seen in public, there's no way I would ever eat out of one of these. I would be surprised if they're cleaned up more than once a week and everything in that chamber is at ambient temps.
It's just an example of a non-monopolistic acquisition. There are other examples of larger companies that may be able to support it better, like Microsoft or Dropbox or Zoom or something.
I wouldn't be so sure anything will be similar to Adobe->Macromedia. That was 17 years ago and Adobe is a very different company today operating in a different competitive environment with a different business model. Also, Adobe's competitor to Figma isn't PS or AI, it's a newer tool called Adobe xD. Adobe has sunk a lot of effort into getting xD "right" but so far failed to make it competitive. This massive acquisition is Adobe admitting that the xD effort failed and giving up.

In recent years, Adobe's approach to mega-sized acquisitions has been to put the newly acquired company's management in charge of the relevant business unit, not the other way around. The users who should be worried by the news are those who love Adobe xD vs Figma (I assume there must be some). If the post-acquisition integration goes well, I'd estimate the chances at better than 50% that in a couple years former Figma management end up running Adobe's creative professional segment entirely (ie PS, AI, etc).

(note: none of this means you personally will prefer whatever the impact of that may be in any particular product.)
Well it does take a clever person to design a solid experiment, properly controlling variables to prove causality, and analyze data in a way to prove or disprove a hypothesis. You could say the same thing about most research, yet it's a necessary thing.
Yes, we should focus on surveillance capitalism instead. Perfectly legal.

If you want to talk about actively making the world worse look at most web2 "algorithms" and how the push to the extremes is tolerated by "but numbers go up."
> I don't really get what's so gloomy or un-interesting about the tech

It is probably the hype that’s the least favorable part that eventually tires us, all the noise… Undoubtedly, technology keeps on improving across the spectrum incrementally or in larger spurts. After a certain age though (mid 40s) I fail to be excited at every new announcement, I guess I started to care about other things…

The other day I downloaded an app that scans a lego pile and comes up ‘creations’ out of those parts. I decided to play with my 4 year old. A bad pattern fooled me into paying for it as I was in a rush and pressed the wront button, though no actual credit card is attached to my iOS identity. Regardless of dark patterns, I eventually went on with the free version which crashed a few times when I came to the realization that I don’t frigging need this, my kid and I don’t need to tie an app to our creative play, we could do much better without.

Back in the day Id go along with this type of thing but Im less and less inclined to and instead lean on classical technology like pen and paper for note taking and so on. Im excited about technology about the technology on the horizon line but I try to live my life without tying too much into it unnecessarily.
Those options are all great for non-professionals. Absolutely go for those if you're not using them for your job. Have to see what Adobe does with Figma before abandoning it, though
There are always options besides selling the whole company to a giant competitor, the difference is just that you won’t get as high of a return if there are fewer bidders in the marketplace.

A company like figma could have always just gone public if the founders/investors just wanted to get out.
This is probably dumb intervention but forgive me because it made me giddy to find: the pandas drop_duplicates() method is pretty great, if you're in a pinch. Again -- forgive me if you know about it!
I did a trial of Creative Suite on my mac. When it was time to uninstall, I couldn't do that using Creative Cloud Uninstaller. Because, apparently I have to uninstall photoshop and other softwares from Creative Cloud App before uninstalling CC. I couldn't uninstall photoshop etc. because my login to CC App didn't work. So, I contacted Adobe, there was some issue with getting 2FA to my email for some reason. I had to reset my mac just to get rid of Adobe spywares.
Are there resources that tell you how to do moderately complex things in ethereum/crypto properly/safely?

I've dug in every once in a while, but the people doing things in crypto seem to have crypto "stacks", and those stacks aren't transparently obvious. I haven't been able to find the useful entry point into these things.
Yeah my brain is a netburst. Not even joking. Context switches make me have to completely flush my pipeline. But once I get going on something my pipeline is pretty deep and my clock rate can get pretty high.
I still run Mac classic using SheepShaver, so there is always still a way.