skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm senior, or something to that effect. That's what my title says anyway.

A lot of these resonate with me but I also bucket about half of them under the "someone else isn't doing their job but our collective failure will be my problem even if it's not my fault, so fine I will paper over both your and our org's dysfunction in order to still meet my expectations."

So, I dunno. All orgs are dysfunctional to some degree, and things fall through cracks and people don't do their job (usually through no real fault of their own, their incentives might just not be aligned the same way yours are, or they're juggling things, etc). So these skills will be useful no matter where you go.

But I was senior at my last place too and didn't need to use many of those "papering over dysfunction" skills and was generally happier with my work and results and life and such.

So, I think some of these skills are about being senior, and I think others are a lot more like "how to be senior [at a big dysfunctional sufficiently FAANG-shaped type company]". My last place was not very FAANG-y and my current place is quite FAANG-y.

So YMMV. Mine certainly did. But the faangier it is, the better it generally pays, so... cheers I suppose.
Making general software faster is saving the planet, both by saving human waiting time and carbon footprint on electricity. We are not measuring on this domain enough and we should start doing so. The added bonus is that faster software/website makes better UX, and we saves time on doing "UX research" as well.
Not to mention that a big fraction of those panels are made in china, and panels generally generate much less power after 20 or 30 years.

They're also vulnerable to hail, and require a lot of copper wiring.

I would buy any stock related to mini nuclear reactors. It seems like a promising solution, since it's faster and simpler to deploy, they can probably be sold to less rich countries, they're probably even safer.

I'm not a nuclear engineer, but I wish there was more news about it.
"have startups stopped using Invision?"

Speaking as a designer, Invision has never felt like a serious design tool and they've had a constant struggle to find their place in the market. Invision started life as a prototyping tool, and they dabbled with Studio sometime around 2019, but recently they've morphed into more of a collaboration/whiteboarding tool. They're probably more akin to Miro or Jamboard than Figma these days.
I remember when I was very young I wrote something much simpler using PRINT and GOTO.
Hand drawn formula car (drawn using /\ [] and |) would scroll indefinitely in a simple loop.
NSA infiltrates China’s data infrastructure in cyberattack on leading university
the claims of censorship here appear hollow

Please do realize you didn't check any of my points. Found any footage of Merkel in Kyiv that millions remember from weeks of news coverage, but apparently never happened? What percentage of the global economy is the weapons industry? I could continue with more concrete examples of censorship, but we can't even tackle any basics as they are getting ignored.
When you submit a link to HN it does clever things about trying to find the canonical version of a URL. Some really clever things.

Unfortunately in this case (as it has in others) it ends up with an inaccessible page, rather than the page originally submitted, which is accessible.

Here's the original link:

https://mathstodon.xyz/web/@retr0id@retr0.id/109046752062665...

That should work.

Here's the image: https://mathstodon.xyz/system/cache/media_attachments/files/...

Here's the comment:

"The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash.

"You can download and hash it yourself, and it should still match - 1337e2ef42b9bee8de06a4d223a51337

"I think this is the first PNG/MD5 hashquine."

Perhaps it's also worth noting that the MD5 both starts and ends with "1337"
What's the message behind this submission, being so soon after the release of an adventure game by this article's author?
I've seriously always wondered exactly what the purpose of a cache for web pages in a browser is. Why is it there? It takes up many megabytes (or even GB) of space. Yet it seems to serve no purpose whatsoever: every time you navigate to that page, it always reloads it from the web server, even if you just briefly (mis-)click on a link and then click on "back". A lot of disk space could be saved by simply eliminating these caches.
I already knew your site. I don’t recall where I saw it. I shared it with Victor right away because of the sheer amount of content! Insane!

In fact, I think thought for a while about how to potentially integrate it with Krea somehow. But I came up empty. If you have any ideas, please reach out via twitter!
(After work) I sometimes lie on the couch with my laptop on my stomach. Having to do everything via the keyboard and CLI (I even disabled my touchpad) became a hassle and over time I slowly started using the mouse and GUIs again.
The state probably knows who signed up to use Signal, Whatsapp, Viber or some other service back when it was legal to do so. So what?
I don't understand how this is related to the future of work. Is it just clickbait?

Or are they making the assumption that the future of work is freelance gig economy? That sounds awful. And it's not how I've seen the phrase used before.
Ask HN: Good, developer-focused, AI newsletters
I subscribe to most of Cooperpress’s email newsletters (Javascript Weekly, Node Weekly etc). Sadly they don’t do an AI/ML newsletter. I’m more of a web dev so I don’t know much about the field but would like to learn more about it as to me it seems like it’s the most interesting/exciting field in computing atm. Does anyone have any recommendations for newsletters?

Here is Javascript weekly for the kind of thing I’m after:

https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/606

https://nodeweekly.com/issues/455

https://cooperpress.com/publications/
I stopped reading at “in 5 years the majority of workers will be freelancers”. Am I missing something? Seems like an incredibly naive article. The statement I mentioned, for example, either doesn’t know what a freelancer or majority is. Or am I totally in the dark regarding how the world is employed? Basic functions of society around the world will still require traditionally employed people as the majority, yes? Not to mention that the corporate workplace isn’t going away anytime soon in the developed world.

Take your typical painting/handyman/landscaping/small-scale-construction business as an example. In the US at least: you could call the owner a freelancer, but the majority of the small business is traditionally employed workers.
> They will then, in an absolutely confident tone, display their expertise by answering questions and stating their opinion as if it was a fact.

The irony of talking about this on HN, the home of Dunning-Kruger effect.
I would imagine that a catastrophic and sustained rise in temperatures would disrupt agriculture, reducing food production to the point where people starve to death before they roast to death. And in practice people don't just sit there and starve to death - they migrate, with the cooperation of other nations or not.

A lot depends on the rate at which migrants arrive, and where they go. If the migration is towards northern Asia, spread out over 100 years, with only a few tens of thousands arriving each day, Russia will probably be able to manufacture bullets in sufficient quantity. If 1.5 billion Indians descend all at once, nothing will be able to stop them.

These are extreme outcomes. There are so many other possibilities that could be negotiated. Perhaps India will gain economic leverage through exporting solar power, and be able to strike a deal to resettle some of its migrant population elsewhere.
This is simply untrue. The fault is not with the doctors, but the nutritional scientists.

Doctors just repeat advice given by national boards. These organisations are a bit slow, but still update their advice every few years, and these are heavenly reliant on statistics & research.

Just read Harvard's nutritional advice pages, they are exactly what a doctor will tell you.

The problem is nutritional science is highly unreliable. And the main reason is, that it's incredibly difficult.

Lots of the generic advice given is based on large scale studies over long years of population in the advice against red meat etc. But there are just too many variables. Which is why they keep changing their advice, however they thoroughly understand statistics.

Also the main focus has been on risk factors instead of understand in the mechanisms behind certain things, partially because the mechanisms are just so darn complicated.
No, the LoZ series aren't adventure games in the original sense, which encompassed text adventures (now termed "interactive fiction") and point-and-click adventures.

You also have the extra hint that this is Ron Gilbert's site, and if you know anything about him, the context for "adventure game" is pretty clear.

Such games are story and puzzle heavy rather than having much in the way of action.
Too many people believe you can colonise planets with the modern equivalent of a horse and covered wagon.

You can't. It's much, much harder than that.

Getting to any kind of self-sufficiency anywhere is going to be incredibly difficult. You literally have to invent a complete industrial production chain for materials, machinery, and food and air that operates in a completely different and much more hostile physical environment with a completely different mix of available raw materials, much less solar energy, and no initial biosphere.
Well, I don’t know the difference between “keto” and “fat-based keto” anyway. I just bleeped past all that.

It seems the main point of the article is that “official” dietary guidelines are a crock, and that real dietary science is coming along.

Out of all the info, I’m inclined to try to find some kind of moderate position — more leafy vegetables and whole grains, non-factory farmed fish/meat, less sugar, minimal ultra-processed junk. With that, cook tasty food for my family and friends, have a great time together, and never worry about dietary science again.
What? Chicken breast, broccoli, oatmeal cookies and fruits don't lead to anyone "wasting away", assuming he ate enough calories in total.
A "fit youtuber" probably isn't fit.
The problem is pretty clear - good data.

We need to run randomized clinical trials to tell if drugs work. We’d need the same to make any definitive conclusion about the impact of diet.

But the problem is unless say, cancer treatments, where an effect is obvious after months, the impact of diet can take decades to show up.

Can you run randomized clinical trials for decades? Not really.

So you do non-randomized, observational, retrospective studies that have so many holes in them you question the effort spent doing them.

That’s why we’re in the state we are.
One thing i'd like to see would be smart traffic lights. For example as soon as a person finishied crossing the road, when there is noone else it switches back to green immediately.
Yes, I have this recurring nightmare maybe once a year and I graduated more than a decade ago. I am all stressed out because I realize I haven't attended one of my classes even once because I completely forgot about it.
If you suspect that someone is cheating, playing against them can be very frustrating and decreases performance. Niemann is suspected and his mentor has been suspected in the past. Ken Regan analyzed Niemann online and offline games from the last two years and found noting (statistically) suspicious, but:

> It turns out that not only did Niemann perform almost exactly as expected of him in terms of move accuracy, but his opponents are the ones who underperformed against him. https://en.chessbase.com/post/is-hans-niemann-cheating-world...

Of course, statistical analysis over all games can't detect cheating that is used sparingly only on few important occasions. Chess players are generally not idiots and statistical methods are known to all.
If Niemann gets help only for 1-3 moves in few important games per year, statistics can't catch him.

If Carlsen can't find evidence, he can avoid playing in the same tournaments as Niemann. So can others. Attending tournaments and losing games on purpose is not right. It affects other people.
> TBH I would expect a senior developer to just be faster reading the code.

TBH, I would also expect this tool to be a lot more affordable than a senior developer for language X.

Plus, chances are good that your senior developer for language X will barely scrape by as an extremely junior developer for language Y that you also use in some capacity, and that there is a problem which involves stuff written in both X and Y. Also, many languages have horrid gotchas, where innocuous looking code does something quite unexpected. Like the C++ classic log->debug("Timeout: %d", config["timeout"]). If some tool where to actually tell you "Writes a debug log with the current value of timeout, if it exists, or otherwise sets it to 0", well that would be pretty useful for someone who has only superficial knowledge of C++.
Do you have any data to back up your claim about the overhead of using Docker?
You can start comparing with _serious_ threats like Rabies (100%), aids (90%), smallpox (95%), tetanus (50%)
Bubonic plague (40–60%). Yes in _that_ case I think maybe drastic policies would be justified.
The chances of mass extinction are a tad higher than those of use uploading to some non-corporeal construct and travelling at lightspeed.
That's actually normal for US: as of 2022, we have 42 concurrent ongoing states of national emergency. The oldest of which has to do with the Islamic Revolution in Iran, making it 43 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...
This deal feels very bizarre to me, albeit for completely different reasons. I frequently, even within one project with multiple designers will get figma, sketch, xd, photoshop and illustrator designs and it makes almost no difference for me. Perhaps I’m an anomaly, but when a creative asks what format to do something in I always tell them whatever they are most efficient and comfortable in. And when I do designs, out of years of Adobe dominance, I reach for xd, but feel comfortable in any of the other ones.
PicoGUS: Emulation of the Gravis Ultrasound ISA Card on a Raspberry Pi Pico
> Adventure games are almost always narrative driven and puzzle-oriented though

LoZ is highly puzzle-oriented. Not so narrative driven though so if both are required, that fits... but:

> and without RPG elements (because if they had strong RPG elements they'd just be called RPGs).

What are RPG elements in this context if not narrative?
As far as I understood they're making quite good on their analytics software/services. I had a discussion on this with one of my friends who is more knowledgeable on the issue about 2 years ago, and I can't remember the exact name of the service/product, but I got out of it that they're processing a huge amount of data as analytics for large companies (and their associated campaigns).

I remember that I found it strange back at the time that almost no-one was mentioning this in the tech media, all eyes were focused on the analytics businesses related to Facebook and Google.
> I want stronger local government.

Please, no. I get the rationale. It's the local knowledge problem, combined with state/federal being more likely to be populists.

But local government irrecoverably sucks for systemic reasons that I've just started to notice.

With local governance there is no way to resolve dilemma like incentives that cause negative sum decision making, i.e. locally good but globally bad policies. For example, restrictive planning laws. Good locally, terrible globally. So terrible that it is the kind of thing that is a threat to the stability of society.

Another reason is that the competence of local governance is significantly lower than state/federal governance, who have budgets to hire actual intelligent experts. I don't know if you're interacted with local government officials. If you have, you will notice what I'm talking about.

A third reason is that corruption is worse in local governments. It flies under the radar because they're not under the microscope of journalists. There's no good mechanism to decorrupt them.

Good federal governance is the way forward.
Nutrition "articles" on HN always lead to the unholy trinity of conspiracy nuts, arrogant 'I know better than anyone in this field since I'm a smart engineer', and people whose main information sources are quacks on YouTube coming out of the woodwork blathering nonsense.
Not necessarily. Just to be able to.
Not according to all the information discussed in the other comments.

> most of the circulation he's stuck in looks to be horizontal

This section has up to 60m depth, the underwater currents are extremely turbulent and will you pull you under the rock on the sides (the whitewater is just a 'slit' on the surface, there's a whole river running underneath). If he didn't have someone ready to pull him out in two seconds like in the video, it's a good bet he wouldn't make it out.
Looking healthy is very rarely the same as being healthy.
As much as I love text and point-and-click adventure games, there's always been an inherent contradiction to them. On the surface level, they promise nearly infinite freedom, more than any platform or first-person shooter game: That you can go anywhere, talk to anyone, perform and action on any object, and solve problems in whatever way you want. But in practice they're incredibly constrained. The world is an exquisitely constructed stage, with nothing beyond its margins, and there is only a very narrow, winding path to success. Puzzles have a single, usually somewhat tortured solution, and alternative approaches that would work in the real world are either not considered or declared impossible for spurious reasons.

Beating an adventure game is often an exercise not just in problem solving, but in building an intuition about how the game designer(s) wanted you to approach puzzles. Tuning into the vibe of the game world and understanding what interactions and approaches are likely to work and which won't. The most you can hope for is that the solutions have at least some logic to them. It's a bit like learning to solve cryptic crosswords, where you need to learn a hidden language to unlock the actual problems. This can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience, but it is definitely not the infinite freedom that the genre seems to offer up front, and I suspect for as many people who fell in love with these games, there were many who gave up in frustration at their paradoxical constrictiveness.
While that's entirely true, is there an educational system right now that doesn't scar its students as severely?

You say most countries, but if you forget homeschooling I'd say this is pretty much 100% of systemic education on the planet right now.
These are two separate problems that can be solved concurrently.

The future here looks bright. On the frontpage of HN today is an article on Ars Technica saying the cost of installing and operating new solar power farms is dropping below the operating costs for existing gas power plants, nevermind coal. It's not directly comparable because you'd need to add energy storage to be truly equivalent. Still, it's very promising. I have no doubt that we will solve these problems this century.
Similarly to how Final Cut is a video editing tool and Garageband is a music production tool. Why can't Apple also do a digital design tool?
The author of the pull request wrote a tool to deal with the serialisation/deserialisation which works great and has a passkey option:
https://simplewebauthn.dev/docs/
Jared Diomands: Collapse comes to mind, were island nations that overpopulated were taken down by a crisis of dependency.
So not at all a competitor to Figma then.
They never died out in Europe, and they were paricularly popular in Germany.

Interactive fiction had an underground renaissance, and some of the beat work in the genre were produced when it was technically a dead one. I agree that people should check out the IF Archive, and take a look at the state of tooling for creating them, which have made producing games much more accessable.
Personally, I’m thankful that they’ve locked down as long as they have. We’ve already had our share of death, long Covid cases and stress on our public health system. Simultaneously, people are generally free to choose whether or not they want or be vaccinated, and there are no heavy handed lockdowns like many other countries. It’s inevitable that Covid will still spread even with our best efforts, but not overwhelming hospitals and avoiding needless death and disability is very important. I think that Japan‘s response to this ongoing crisis is not perfect, but well balanced overall.

When tourists do return, I hope they respect the norms here and wear masks in public spaces, disinfect their hands, and do their best to avoid risky situations… and don’t act like Japan is a giant theme park where Covid doesn’t exist.
Didn’t. With food so dull, why bother.
Global times is a China media PR. Read it carefully
This is a fun book. I've read the 'Early Access' e-book and I think it should appeal to both engineers and hobbyists. I particularly enjoyed that they devoted a chapter to how they went about preparing and taking the pictures.
When I was in high school I got a second hand TI86 and started writing code for it… for one of the math-heavy subjects I effectively stopped studying and started writing code instead, on the calculator.

Whenever the teachers would do exercises on the whiteboard I would just do testing of my software, verifying its correctness.

Calculators were allowed, and the teacher kinda encouraged us to get familiar with our calculators (the subject was calculations-heavy) so I didn’t get caught.

Fun times, sometimes I miss TI-basic.
Having close friends who are successful suddenly makes us jealous. But we aren't that jealous of other kinds of successful people like say random sportspersons or astronauts. I feel that is because jealousy is a biological response shaped by millions of years of evolution. Someone close to you having more resources meant that your access to those limited resources was in some trouble. But now we don't live in those times where the tribe had limited food, mating partners,land etc. I feel mindfullness can help recognize this ape like behaviour. Over time you laugh at it rather than get agitated by it.
Samsung surprises Galaxy S6 owners with new update
Antonio Gramsci is pleased.
Morrowind – Auto-Enhanced with Nvidia RTX Remix AI
Singapore approach, basically arcology with a local state alliance to protect a comon border?
> Why do I need Docker for such a simple task?

Containers are more consistent and have less side effects than packages.

> I'm sorry but installing Docker on a tiny VPS last time I checked wasn't any light at all.

There's very little overhead and it takes a one liner[1] to install it.

[1]: curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
I remember Alt-J performing a cover of "A Real Hero", another song from the Drive soundtrack, at Glastonbury festival years ago. The film and soundtrack were really cool.
We could look at old journals. Maybe people who kept them wrote down their dreams.

Here's one from the early 20th century: https://nautil.us/read-the-lost-dream-journal-of-the-man-who...

There were indeed dreaming of school:

> I am an assistant professor. Suddenly I receive express orders from the dean to teach osteology at the very last minute. Anxiety, anguish * * * when going over the bones in my memory. I enumerate those of the hand: scaphoids, capitate, and I did not know any more. Meanwhile the class awaits me, the students yell. I ask to myself how I will lecture about bones if I have almost forgotten them? Growing anguish and I awaken with a sense of well-being, upon realizing that I am not a professor, I am old and no one is directing me.