skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cal Newport is probably one of the "best" salesmen in the space because he has an actual non-meme job and seems to have more good faith than most others. But at the end of the day, his actionable material can be easily compressed into maybe three blog posts. Even if he had good intentions at the start, he still got caught up in the nonfiction sales logic.

Teaching productivity is not like teaching mathematics or philosophy. There is a limited range of things to learn and apply, and the core ideas are concise but difficult to put in practice. A good teacher in that space would essentially be able to impart their wisdom in maybe two hours, at which point the success of the teaching would lie in the student actually following what they were told. An ongoing productivity podcast or book series flies in the face of this. The mere act of commercializing productivity dooms the entire edifice. If the student is still on episode #23, the sales has succeeded but the teaching has failed.
Too confusing to understand what to do here.
Without subtitles you can go back later and rewatch a fairly different show for the first time :)
That's kinda problem of many 2FA systems, my bank's send me the reason for 2FA and amount + last few digits of account if it is money transactions.
> find all the hidden junk

Hm, I loved doing that in platformers (most recently Ori and the Blind Forest), but wouldn't associate achievement hunting with GTA, but I'm clearly not familiar with recent GTA games.
The History of Mega Man 2 World Records
Or you just have a bad boss. Which if the company you're working for has assigned as your boss then yeah, by extension you're working in a bad place.
my productivity system: not having a productivity system
Can you recommend a good explanation of the different types, how they are recorded encoded etc.? From a naive sonar perspective it seems like two mics one on each side of a head sized camera would do fine for encoding all the angle information. But then you would have to register and apply that knowledge to each boom mic input, and synthesize it for every sound effect that wasn't there at recording. Tl;dr Why isnt two channels enough to generate the correct output for N speakers spread around me?
This is pretty much what happens to a ton of games. It seems open, but you can’t do any creative solutions because it isn’t part of the design. Not saying it isn’t tough, but a company like Rockstar should have the ability to pull it off.

Just yesterday I learned that in Skyrim, there is a caretaker in the orphanage called Grelod the Kind, who is terrible to the children. So apparently if you are a pacifist, you can put a fear spell on her and she will run out the orphanage and she gets killed by a beggar there. That’s brilliant! It tells a story (beggar must have got her kid in) and it’s another way to solve the problem.
Resign and work on something interesting. Not worth your time.
I used Akka many (10?) years ago and back then the landing page and documentation was amazing. It was super clear what it did and why it's necessary. I really enjoyed using it. I'm sad to see such a good project being mismanaged so badly because someone needed to build a company around it.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1571063488860286977.html
this guy wasn’t a dev. He was in marketing.
For the downvoters, do you want platform controlled censorship, no censorship at all or something else?
Ask HN: How to pivot into Software development from Economics?
I'm a college student, currently in the last year of my Economics degree. I followed the typical hacker path (found computers super neat when I was young, was messing around with things like Haskell and Prolog at 15 (not that I understood them completely, they were just really interesting), made small tools to optimize things I was doing). I very much wanted to study CS in university, but was blocked academically (long story, Tl;DR is I'm blind and live in India and our education system is relatively draconian w.r.t. allowing visually impaired students to study science and science-adjacent fields).

I'll be done with college next year, but I really don't want to go forward professionally in Economics. I don't have a formal CS education,, but I've gained some sort of gestalt by programming for a while and going through blog articles and following up on interesting things. I'd love to get into software development professionally, but I don't have a formal degree. What should I do?
I think it's true in principle. It may be true for most. It was not true for me - one day I finally acknowledged that all my fast paced noted ended up as a squiqqly unreadable line, and went back to block printing my notes.

I think of cursive as an art or craft - not to say it's not a valid thing to learn, but also not a particularly practical or needed thing for most people today. I'm 44 and last time I did cursive was about 23 years ago.

I certainly don't think it's a necessary gate for my kids to go through. Things change. Life changes. Other than inertia, I feel cursive should go the way of logarithmic tables etc.
Mergers in the Digital Economy (2020)
"...Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's strategies...

...To do so, we identify 6 different user groups gravitating around these multi-sided companies along with each company's most important market segments. We then track their mergers and acquisitions and match them with the segments...

...This exercise shows that these five firms use M&A activity mostly to strengthen their core market segments but rarely to expand their activities into new ones..."
Nice and beautiful systems aren't the job, but a system that will continue working in the future while still allowing people to keep adding features and that won't suffer massive security breaches really is. It sounds like the current system is one bad feature implementation away from hosing the database, one hardware fault away from no longer existing, and one interested hacker away from a complete compromise.
I have severe carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand. I'm relatively certain that it was brought about by being forced as a child to write cursive for hours on end. We were even forced to hold our writing instruments in a specific manner. I would have horrible hand cramps each day, severe pain and I even have an abnormal growth on one finger from it.

I was forced to waste hundreds of hours of my life getting instruction in an arcane, obsolete format.
My experience is that people in technical jobs (like many people on HN) work on teams where facts and logic dictate how things are done. People are free to speak their minds as long as they say reasonable things. I think this is the case because work like engineering tends to have clear requirements and you can more easily argue about how to meet them.

I've worked more and more with non-technical teams, where the end of the goal of the work is not as clear cut. On those teams, people speak up less and authority by title is a lot more important. I think this is because there is not necessarily a right or wrong approach to a lot of the things they work on (or at least they don't see it that way) so arguments are less logical and feel more like ego trips or power struggles.

This may not be 100% accurate, but my main point is that technical people probably don't have a clear picture of this power struggle scenario from the pov of non-technical people. It's just a very different work environment.
Why is it similarly bad in TV and movies they always knew would be direct to streaming?
Same. I think it's great. Saves me having to take out my passport and the border control agent has all the info they need. Yes, your face is saved in their DB but so are your fingerprints.
Unless they’re properly compensating you, and I mean something like a revenue share on that mess if you fix it, I’d walk if I were you. The job is high risk, isn’t properly staffed, doesn’t have management support, and sounds intrinsically miserable. They’ll balk I’m sure, but point out to them that their only real alternative is contracting high end consultants who will demand even more.

If you do manage to get them to give you some points of the revenue from the project, then start with introducing source control and follow by building up a testing process and integration environment. I’d probably use tcpdump to capture a week’s worth of live traffic and replay it with a suitable speed up to replicate testing in production in your integration environment. That should give you serviceable integration tests. To start by writing unit tests will be pointless because it sounds like there are no discrete units to test.

From there you’ll want to apply some kind of strangler pattern where you incrementally replace pieces of the system. Doing that will require some refactoring to start separating concerns. Again don’t try to do it all at once and don’t try to make it perfect. Then you can start introducing unit tests.

Then there’s the database, which is a full size job in its own right.

And who knows what other unpleasant surprises await, but bank on them being there.
Obsidian[1] is an all-in-one solution that doesn't have much in the way of lock in. It fundamentally runs on Markdown files sitting in your filesystem (and you can even "reveal in Finder" from the UI). It has its own custom indexing to make things quick. They offer sync as a service, but people also use other sync solutions. They have a mobile app version to access notes elsewhere.

Beyond just folders for categories and tags, Obsidian also supports easy linking between notes (and shows backlinks for the current note).

In the end, it's great: should I decide Obsidian is no longer right for me, I have a bunch of Markdown on disk that I can take elsewhere.

[1]: https://obsidian.md/
Because they get a salary for not surrendering? Because they have a family? Because they can be punished? Because they're mostly professional soldiers?
Ah, Ion Storm Austin (Deus Ex). And Looking Glass Studios (Thief).

We didn't know how far in the future we were living...
The line about jalapenos being mandatory to cause customers to crave soda and beer gave me a good chuckle.
I think it only works/is a lot easier with head/earphones? Since you know exactly where the ears are w.r.t. the speakers in that case.

Not that that's really an explanation - if that was the best sound and it was available on Blu-rays and streaming platforms, and legacy 5.1 content upmixed nicely, then yeah why wouldn't I use headphones even at home in front of the television. Less obvious for joint/family viewing I suppose.
If someone uses my computer to lie to me about bank transaction, SMS 2FA still shows amount and type of transaction. That's kinda a problem with few of the 2FAs, there is no context attached to code
Games that utilize techniques available on the latest generations of hardware. For example ray-tracing. Ratchet & clank, Returnal, Astro's Playroom. On PC decent example is HL Alyx.

There is a huge expectation towards GTA since Rockstar has a history of being one of the best. The RDR2 was stunning on the previous gen.
I enjoyed it :D
lol, my kids were schooling me about today's social medias over dinner.

The cool gamerz all hang out on discord apparently. Facebook is for parents and other boring old people. Instagram is for narcissists and attention seekers.

Etc, etc. And Twitter is for .. pretentious twits.
Ukraine. We were taught extensively how to write cursive, for whole elementary school, we were writing in special workbooks which reinforced the correct shape of the cursive letters, teachers were looking at us and helping us write correctly. Only it appears they didn't teach us the writing movement itself.

Quick question - do you hold your pen in the hand parallel to the middle and outer phalanxes or your pen lies between thumb and index finger? Apparently the former position is optimal, while I hold it between fingers. Also my palm is always touching the table with a wrist so I move the pen mostly with my fingers (which a) strains them when writing a lot and b) produces wavy cursive, less legible that it should be), and the correct way is to move pen mostly with whole arm movement, don't touch wrist on a table and don't move fingers too much, only correct movements with fingers, not do all the work with them.
Related anecdote: I've recently had a banking app on my Android that would close itself after reporting that I had "Flappy Bird" installed on my phone and that it was malicious which of course isn't true. (It's the original authentic version of Flappy). That said, it is very eerie that the banking app would scan my phone for other apps. I didn't log in and uninstalled the app. It was either it or Flappy Bird.
But if we were given a roomba and had no basis of knowledge for electronics wouldn't it be just as mysterious as an insect?
To reiterate after giving it a bit more thought, this actually could be very useful if combined with fingerprint or facial detection as approval method - a bit like what Apple is now doing with passkeys, but will work with many more services out-of-box...
As an aside, if you wish to put your revulsion to parasites to a very visceral test, I can highly recommend the Meguro Parasitological Museum in Tokyo (when Japan finally opens up again). It's absolutely fascinating. https://www.tofugu.com/travel/parasite-museum-tokyo/
since it's PHP it can run with very low-resources available
> If you actually take the time to learn it

"take time to learn" is a BS excuse from a readability point of view, unless you're talking about something very specific. Some things, yes, you learn. Some are just obviously hard. There's no reason for it being that different even from Kurrent

> What objective measurement did you use?

Similarity between letters (themselves across systems and others). Comparison with similar and preceding writing systems. All objective criteria and in most of them it fails miserably.

Ideally you want letters that are similar to the printed form but dissimilar to each other. https://bighack.org/font-accessibility-and-readability-the-b...
I had the same reaction to his post. Regional ingredients popularized by the same person…
There was a comment here that was subsequently deleted that I wanted to respond to. Somebody said something like "Prices are fixed for medical treatments in many countries and there's no worse clinical outcome."

I wanted to ask that person the following.

What are the prices for medical treatments fixed at?

a) Below Market Rate

b) At Market Rate

c) Above Market Rate
We’re very open about it. I don’t like it, I don’t agree with her philosophy about why it’s circumstantially acceptable, and she’s well aware.

I’m not concerned about her getting caught (I think that would be a good thing), I’m more so concerned that the activity contributes to rising prices, it’s a detriment to the commons in a sense, it should have a real impact on her conscience, and it’s laughably unnecessary. We earn so much more than the median income for our over priced region; we could pay double for everything and barely feel it.
This is also sending your credit card information btw
I wish I could turn subtitles on for this comment. I have no idea what you are saying.
There's no threat of violence.
I shared it with my wife because she likes puzzles. It took her about a minute to figure out how the game worked. Once she knew what to do she how do play - she was done in under a minute and said it was fun.

Nice work! Any feedback I would give is in other comments.
I agree 100% with this statement (and with the article in general):

“Basic hygiene” is arguably better than any of these bolt-on option, including things like:

* Knowing what dependencies are present
* Being purposeful about what goes into your software
* Choosing a tech stack you can understand and maintain
* Choosing tools that are appropriate for the software you are building
Read Keynes' "general theory of employment interest and money" and Silvio Gesell's "natural economic order".

After that you will have to update your understanding of money to the modern system of deposits being created through debt which is a simple result of money being equivalent to accounting aka MMT. I recommend reading Wolfgang Stützel's "balance mechanics" just to get a basic understanding about global mathematical identities in accounting and dividing the economy into large sectors that interact with each other and "Money Syndrome" by Helmut Creutz.

If you are lazy and don't have time you can also watch the root bug videos on YouTube. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQn56Dtslk
This is the way. Moving also reveals the location they are on, if obscured.
I agree that these things all use C++, but the parent’s claim was that there are areas (industries?) where C++ has no alternatives. Drivers and high performance systems can all make use of C, Rust, Ada, etc as well as C++ depending on requirements.
GTA is fairly shallow? IMO it seems like one of the richest experience games I’ve played. It’s shallow in its blatant materialism, but that’s part of the point of the game.
Those are stunning:

1. <https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2021-shelter-from-the-rain>

2. <https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2021-night-eyes>

3. <https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2021-raw-moment>

4. <https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2021-storm-fox>

5. <https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2021-ibex-at-ease>
I assume all public testimonies in front of government officials are a political exercise. The politician gets some video clips they can use as evidence of “taking action” or at least attempting to take action, and the business gets to keep doing what they are doing at the cost of an executive traveling to DC and saying nothing material over and over for a few hours.
Should people too strong exist?

Or too smart?

Or too resourceful?

Billionaires are merely an emergent form of notoriety.

If these did not exist, the lives of others would not be uplifted one bit. The opposite may actually be true.

Would everyone else suddenly receive a dividend through redistribution? Would everyone else learn a smidgen more financial resourcefulness?

Despise others not for what you covet for yourself, as that is hypocrisy!
I didn't have a problem with that edge.
Yes. Unfortunately, hypocritical is the foundation of contemporary American politics. It's been dumbed down to the Blue Primates and the Red Primates shamelessly tossing shit back and forth at each other.

The Fourth Estate has fallen in love with how well the Shit Show sells.

The employers (i.e., voters / citizens) don't even matter any more. As a result disgust is one the rise, the the employees are too busy doing their shit tossing that they haven't even noticed. The employers are slowly dividing into those who have lost interest (and respect), and those who are willing to express their anger with action.

What could go wrong?
It feels like anything targeted at consoles (so, all AAA) must sacrifice simulation to performance.

In the PC-first era, "Your machine just isn't fast enough" was a viable position for a developer.

But with fixed console specs, there's no "more" to encourage players to upgrade to.
You are looking at this for the wrong angle.

You have inherited working code generating revenue but in state which makes it hard to develop new features and manage productively.

As you say that the roadmap is agressive and management has no understanding of the situation, you have already established what you have to do: explain to management what makes development difficult (avoid statements like this is the worst and focus on what needs to be done to establish best practices and identify where the quick wins to gain development velocity are - more expertise and less judgement is always a good idea). Then you propose a realistic roadmap and start making the changes that need to be done.
> why do you keep a portion of image to be discarded?

I can't speak to the context of the feature in JXL, but this is very very common in mobile image editor metadata formats, so that users can later "undo" a crop they did, because no data is actually lost. Both iOS and Android support this for all images cropped on device.
s/cursive/COBOL/

Being able to understand old stuff is not a skill everyone needs to attain at school.

If you need it for your chosen academic or career path, you’ll learn it.
I'm pretty sure he would be able to impart all his "wisdom" in 2 hrs. But, like you said, it can be difficult to put in practice. That's why a question and answer format is helpful for many people. Sometimes its really hard to pick up a seemingly easy idea and apply it to your own life. Having help from someone who has seen it applied in many different ways, and dealt with the usual problems, is really helpful. That's what he does with his podcast. Not really selling anything there, besides occasionally mentioning his books where some concepts are expanded. I honestly don't get the hate.
There were exceptions. There was one forum I was a part of where none of us knew each other in real life and yet we had long, intense, good-faith discussions on touchy topics that stayed meaningful.

I think what made it different was that we were a tight-knit group that was invested in our pre-existing relationship: we started as a clan in a very cooperative video game and we had each other's backs every day in-game. The political and religious discussions occurred in our private forum in the off-topic section.

So I suspect you're half right: the conversations have to occur with people you trust and respect. But at least in the early 2000s, they didn't have to occur in-person.

What matters seems to be not that they be in-person but that they be private and that all involved cherish their relationships with each other. A lot of what happened in the last decade is that people have left the private spaces and moved into public spaces, where such conversations really do become toxic quickly. Even on Facebook with posts set to friends-only, the system encourages adding so many "friends" that it may as well be public. By the time most people get to friend #300, neither of them really cares about the relationship, so meaningful discussion about touchy topics becomes impossible.
The best way to do a rewrite may be incremental, but the terminology of "full rewrite" doesn't usually refer to an incremental rewrite, it refers to starting from scratch.
Indeed those things are even more worrying
> “In many ways, Airlift raised the bar of ambition for Pakistani startups in a big way. Our teams at Airlift redefined the standard of execution, strategy, building a world-class culture, developing a cutting-edge product, raising sizable fundraising rounds.”

Are they literally bragging about burning money in style ?

If what article was describing is correct about their operation

> In his recent conversation with Rest of World in August, Gul remained firm that the company’s failures were not the company’s fault. “Airlift’s demise was ultimately the result of an unsuccessful fundraise amidst a global recession — while there are broad critiques on things like operations and supply chain, the reality is that Airlift had particularly strong operation and financial metrics, something that was reflected in our quarterly shareholder updates.”

That's either investor lie or he's in denial