skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What this really shows is that it is a lot harder to do most anything other than being a CEO. Steve Jobs held CEO positions at Apple and Pixar simultaneously. Seriously doubt that either was a 20 hour a week job.
Exactly. Not all forms of development require deep thought mode, and a lot of them add value to your overall productivity and code quality.
It's definitely difficult at first - the loss of polish, and the extra up-front setup to make it nice.

If you do try again, my advice is: Play to the strengths of the new OS.

MacOS makes decisions for you (usually good ones), but you're SOL if you don't like them. This culture affects native apps, too.

For me, getting good results out of Linux has been a question of putting in more up-front work to figure out what I actually want the computer to do. The result is... very comfy.
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Or simply be making the rational economic choice given a lack of better alternatives.
One of the absolute easiest ways to add structure when unemployed is to pick a substantial exercise goal and work towards it. Endurance events are ideal but could also be something like a new Deadlift PR. For the former, if you pick a long enough distance such as Ironman or Half Ironman you’ll be training in the region of between 10 and 20 hours a week which is a part time job in itself.

For the latter, you’ll be doing less but the time spent commuting to the gym, doing your workout and showering is probably still going to add up to somewhere in the 5 - 10 hour range if you’re doing it 5/6 days a week.

You can pretty much find an app for every mainstream sport imaginable where you can get a full year of personalised programming for under £200. If you then combine this with a training course of some kind to learn a new skill and a creative project/side hustle, you end up with a self-structured life by default that is pretty satisfying.

If anyone wants app recommendations for specific sports leave a comment and I’ll write a list of the best ones I’ve found.
Which is stupid because who cares if you get it in one or ten tries? Allowing retaken classes to replace old grades should be the standard.
I have the best success when I leave it on the coat rack as soon as I get in.
That's why controlling the discourse is so important. You don't have to lie by telling falsehoods, you only need to be able to omit details that are inconvenient to you.
Ah yes, the image format I get when I airdrop photos off my iphone that 90% of the internet doesn't handle.
I'm worried the field will increasingly become a niche where ML takes over cases where accuracy guarantees are not very important, time-to-market is important or where complexity rules out mathematical modeling.
It wouldn't be legal to build these in my California city. Our minimum is 175 sq feet according to our building code and that’s for an ADU. An apartment would be even bigger.
Yeah, exactly this. This is an unwitting article about how people are desperate to deify celebrities. I've always been a bit bewildered by the phenomenon. It almost seems like internalized marketing.
That's my point, though. The goal is to knock the asteroid off course sideways. (Perpendicular to its direction of travel, so that it misses the Earth.)

You slam something into it, and that changes the asteroid's momentum because total momentum is conserved in a collision.

If the asteroid stays in one piece, then after impact, it will be going sideways at some particular velocity. If instead some pieces break off and speed off at a greater sideways velocity, then the parts that didn't break off have to be going at a smaller sideways velocity.

In other words, if some debris breaks off, it carries away more than its "fair share" of momentum, and the remaining part gets less momentum.
> We should strive to make anyone who gets manipulated into changing their behavior based on an ad they saw feel ashamed and stupid for falling for their tricks,

This sounds great, but:

A) how do you know/can you prove that you've been manipulated?

B) How do we know that we haven't all been manipulated? (After all, millions of people bought into this ecosystem to get away from ads, I think every person who's angry has a case that they've been manipulated)

and C) where is this social movement gonna take place? Social media, the bastion of internet advertising?

The answer is make tech less important in our lives. There's been a pattern going back decades that technology grows in scale and utility and eventually becomes corporatized to that point that it generates more income to work against its users. The answer is to live a lower tech life. Less time on phones and apps and more time in the real world.
Why Postgres? (There's already a WASM version of SQLite [0], btw, and it's very cool.) We did this with Postgres for a number of reasons:

1. It's a slightly difficult task, and in doing this we hope to spur others to think about using WASM to run things they didn't think were possible before. Before Crunchy did this, nobody really knew this was possible. This project is a framework for you to port something new and exciting to run under WASM in the browser. What's that going to be?

2. We love Postgres. It's our favorite database and this tool gives us a quick and simple sandbox to try out new things that might mess up our production (or even dev) database. Got a crazy idea that might not work? Try it in the browser and if it doesn't work, refresh the page and start over.

3. My goal is to eventually have an entire version of Supabase running in the browser as a basic dev / experiment tool. This would make a great quick and easy way to try out Supabase, or even to do full scale development, after which you can migrate your data up to your staging or production databases.

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Their EOL policy says the APU 2/3 should be available through 2024. However, it is their newest model. I wonder if a replacement is in the works.
I was a firmware engineer (now doing web development) and knew plenty of ASIC designers who wished they did software. They were good at what they did but felt the pay and opportunities were better in software development.
For Windows 10, instead of getting the $1 HEVC / HEIF one from the Microsoft Store, opt for the free version for OEM's (named "HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer") instructions at https://www.howtogeek.com/680690/how-to-install-free-hevc-co...
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William Shatner answered this in 2009:
https://youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0
It's a different exploit. The original exploit is an issue with the Tegra's recovery mode (RCM), requiring a USB payload to be sent to the Switch at boot every time.

I believe the hardmod is a voltage glitching exploit, as described for the Vita here: https://yifan.lu/images/2019/01/Injecting_Software_Vulnerabi... . It is able to inject code through the onboard memory then load a payload from a memory card rather than USB.
>We need to start a social movement to punish advertisers. Ads are pernicious and pervasive thought manipulation which systemically decrease the life satisfaction of nearly every person in society. It is a cancer.

Will never happen until we can dispel the notion that human are free agents. People will never give up this believe about themselves. Meanwhile, it's proven to be effective by virtue of it being a trillion dollar industry or something. Same thing with gambling.
The default photo format of iPhones. If that's important. Support was added to imagemagick a year-or-so ago.

In imagemagick, a HEIC image of quality "75" is approximately the same file size as an image of JPEG quality "95".

For the same quality "number", HEIC images are often larger than their JPEG equivalents, which can be confusing if you assume the number directly indicates a "quality" level, which it apparently doesn't.
> And even there you can turn it off.

Does Apple's System Integrity Protection protect apps like Stocks?
Vintage photos of the Romanovs at the 1903 Costume Ball
That's such a good idea. Just today I have not taken my phone to my bedroom and instead left it downstairs. Best sleep I've had in months.
If that's legitimately Apple, Steve Jobs is rolling over in his grave. Good lord.
I just use the secondary monitor for my Final Cut output when editing.

Maximized windows, yeah it’s all kinda gross to me.
> this guy lived a /very/ charmed and privileged existence

His experience in tech doesn't sound so charmed to me. He was obsessed with climbing the corporate ladder. He slept in the office and woke up early every morning to start grinding again. He worked so much he didn't even have time to play a game with his son.

He tried another kind of work to see how it compared, and he learned stuff. There's nothing patronizing about that.
Complex systems tend to fishtail when they're about to collapse. Peak output can go up while averages are declining.
The article claims that 1/3 of Japanese have never had a houseguest so I don’t know what you mean by “lack of community”
> I had what I would stereotype as a traditional Chinese upbringing in America, which meant my parents very much expected straight A's. Anytime a B happened, something had gone wrong. The explanation was never like you lack the talent or whatever, but that you didn’t work hard enough.

It sounds like the author never got a chance to figure out the intersection between what he liked to do and what he was actually good at. Instead, he was trained to respond to the approval of authority figures. So the true north of his internal compass pointed to whatever the person in charge at the time thought of him.

Fast forward to 2021:

> I think most people who dream of retirement think that it's going to be awesome. And it was—for about a month. I skied on weekdays, shopped at Target at 11am with nobody there, and played video games. But after several months of pursuing various hobbies as my whims and interests—all the things which people who aspire to retire young might look upon with envy—I felt unfulfilled. I became unmoored, set adrift in a sea of theoretical possibility only to drown in unbounded optionality. Novelty and excitement turned into a spiraling vortex of depression as I began to wake up sometimes at noon, sometimes 2pm, and on the rare occasion even getting out of bed at 6pm.

With no authority figure to send the positive vibes he craved, the author felt adrift. This is where the gig at Amazon comes in. Authority figures galore and a clear sense of what a job well done meant.

Some are chalking this up to poverty tourism. Maybe it's something else.
My mother-in-law was a nurse at an orthopedic surgery center. She always said the major classes of patients she saw were:

1. old folks getting joint replacements
2. young athletes
3. middle aged construction workers or laborers
Pebble's IP was done for. No one wanted to make any more Pebbles including Pebble themself. They were acquihired by Fitbit. It wasn't a case of "we'll continue allowing team X to operate independently bait and switch."

At the end of the day there wasn't a robust market for hacker-focused e-ink Android watches.
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> Paul said he never owned the record, which means he would have heard it on the radio, or in a record store listening booth

or in a discotheque, or in George Martin's living room, or other people had the record and he heard it at parties. People used to get together to play records. I'm not doubting he has a good memory, and especially for music, but he could have heard the song many times.
US ABET BME here.

we for sure took mandatory signals and controls, and we basically regarded ourselves as EEs whose circuits tended to be squishy and alive.

A disgustingly useful class, and damn hard.
These two are not the same thing. Every app is allowed to serve you personalized ads, without asking. ATT is about cross app/site tracking between other companies, which is something Apple has never done.
If you want to view them on Windows through system apps you need to install 2 codecs from the Windows Store, one of which costs $1 but you can also get it for free if you know the secret URL.

So ridiculous...
Do you not think HEIF might be interesting to HN readers, or that everybody already knows all about HEIF, or something I can't think of?
Having spent over 10 years in a university and been a professor, the problem isn’t attention seeking behavior but a lack of accountability. For example, you can literally make up any data you want in a grant proposal and so long as it sounds right no one can or will double check it. The foundation of academia is rotting, but maybe it’s always been like this
I see it in Canada too. Really quite disappointing.
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The rp2040 as an Adafruit Feather works great for me. No floating point unit though.

I have an old Pi Zero W and I love it. I watch Adafruit for the new version constantly but no luck.
People identify with the predicament.
I use cua-mode with a few key bindings and mouse modifications of my own to make it work the way I want. Its pretty easy jumping between windows apps and emacs for me
Apple also restricts what app developer can offer to people who don't agree to tracking.

Imagine if you are less monetizable user, in theory, app should be able to restrict what you can do in the app. It's a business transaction after all

But apple gets a say in this too.

Also apple uses it's app store moat to restrict tracking on websites too, similarly.
Not quite what you're looking for, but quite relevant:

https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/actuarial-tables
Replying to myself as I just realised it was written by the same person:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/europe-s-descent-into-de...
> (And for physical copies, reinforcing a book's binding seems to be prohibited as well, all to keep the number of acceptable lendings per copy predictably low!)

This is awful! Where's the exact wording of this prohibition available at?
No, I don't think a wikipedia link with absolutely not context is interesting. In fact, I think it's low effort and shouldn't be automodded away.
The big problem for me is that there just... isn't a way to do a lot of things on Linux without a looot of effort.

I use Linux as a daily, but I still have a windows computer for all the things you can't do anywhere else. Random executables that I (begrudgingly) need for work, life, etc.

It's definitely getting better, but it's still not quite there. I still need my windows computer for various things that have no alternative.
In Germany, a master's degree in CS is definitely valued higher than a bachelor's - this is similar in most (west/northern/mid) European countries.

Most master programs in CS are 2-year programs, this might be important for the degree to be considered equivalent to a European master's degree if you decide to start a PhD.

There are quite a number of English language master programs in CS in Europe and you should usually have little problems being accepted into one with a bachelor's degree from a US university (though there will be a lot of bureaucracy involved...).

Some advantages of studying in Europe are that there are no tuition fees in several countries in Europe (at least in Germany, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark and Norway AFAIK - though the Norwegians are discussing the introduction of tuition fees for non-citizens) and a European degree is recognized throughout Europe due to the Bologna process (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process).
A local rooster waking me up everyday at 530am has done wonders for my productivity. I'm not even joking, I wake up and close the windows so my wife doesn't get bothered, make coffee, code for a few hours before work, then do my work day, play with my son, and finally I end up going to bed quite early (10am) due to being dead-ass tired. I was about to try and get rid of the rooster, but I actually love the little dude now.
When I typed that I didn't mean showing a picture or serving a text file. Anything that's not a static page will probably require JavaScript.
I could do that and then go work at the Costco food court. Somehow that doesn't feel any less like larping.

On a serious note, how does one do that? It doesn't "feel" that way, but I know that's lifestyle inflation.
Well you certainly know a lot about their business practices…
I'm pretty sure it's also the default on newer Samsung Android.
>we should drop the ruse that this thing is an educational board.

rPi stopped feeling like educational material when they moved on from whatever low price they were at the beginning.

You are not going to convince me that a computer selling for $150~300 each or whatever it is nowadays is "for education". An educational computer is something like an Arduino board, which apparently sells for $25~50 currently from some quick checking.

If I'm dropping two or three Franklins on a computer, I'd rather just get an older Intel NUC or something so I can take advantage of the much larger and capable Windows and Linux ecosystems.
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What a hot take, I may have spent too much time on the internet myself today.
North Korea launches missile *over* Hokkaido Japan
He's being overly generous. Seems extremely likely SNL did rip off his idea, it's too much of a coincidence. I like this guy's version better, as it's much less annoying.

Signs of the times, SNL can't keep good cast members and has resorted to stealing ideas from small-time ytubers.
There's eMMC and SATA, even NVMe via PCI bus (with addons) as well as sd cards (hell even boot from usb now too).

You can also reduce your write wear with putting stuff like temporal logs in ram etc.
I imagine the signals or intelligence corps will take you in a heart beat providing you don’t have a history of mental illness or some other condition that disallows entry such as autism. They were even contemplating lowering the fitness test requirements for devs because they were that desperate to recruit. At least that’s what I heard over here in the UK about our military. I thought about joining long and hard but ultimately decided it wasn’t for me.
Don't worry too much about trying to make sense of that advice. It's a bad take that only comes from people who've had the privilege of all of the problems they've known in life being self-inflicted[1]. (That's for the original commenter. The person you're responding to now is engaging in a major moving of the goalposts.)

Here's what I've been prone to tell people instead: you know how to always get what you want—always? It's by wanting what you're going to get.

Some people misunderstand this. It's not about settling or doing nothing. It's rather the opposite. It's to get people to go through the process of interrogating themselves about their wants in a way that engages the logical part of their brain—which is ultimately most likely to be the thing that leads to working out a path to whatever that want is, so long as it's reasonable to think that they can actually get it. In the extreme case you present: "Is it unreasonable for me to want to the abuse to stop?" The answer, of course, is an emphatic no. There's no need to stop wanting that.

In figuring out whether it is reasonable or unreasonable, the question becomes: what is required in order to actually get it?

1. Example <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25468799>
Best case you are making like $20/hr. It beats a burger flipping job but not by much. In n Out starts you at $18/hr and actually provides benefits. Factor in the wear on the car, lack of a career trajectory (managers at in n out do well), and you paying for health insurance yourself, maybe it doesn't actually shake out too nice. These are uber drivers after all, who work in a field that's hard to gleam solid info about from online search engines with all the SEO spam around ridesharing topics, not accountants who are taking all these external costs into account when they calculate their actual take home pay.

https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/jobs/uber-and-lyft-driv...
Up the thread someone claims Apple calls it "personalization" when they ask you to opt in to it from them but "tracking" when an app asks you to opt in to the same thing.
I have been daily-driving Plasma (KDE) for ... eesh, at least 5 years now, maybe 7. I can't remember the last time I booted a Windows or Mac OS (for my own use). Plasma just keeps getting better too.

I use it as a generalist dev (so, interacting with lots of different environments) as well as hobby & entertainment (incl. photography).

The biggest pain point IMO is lack of a good email application. They're all aggravating in different ways.

The initial getting-started process requires a bit of reading to figure out hardware support and get a few things dialed in. That's a little painful, but shouldn't be a deal-breaker for dev types.

If you want to jump ship from the Windows/Mac dichotomy, check out Plasma. Runs great on Debian. Debian's less "sexy" than other distros, but it's a great solution for the "I just wanna get my work done" crowd.
> If drivers were actually losing money, you wouldn't expect to find nearly as many multi year drivers as you do.

That might be an oversimplification too. That suggests at least some drivers are finding it worth sticking with, absolutely. There could be systemic reasons there are others who give it up in 6mo or whatever. The ration may be interesting also.

It would be particularly interesting in how many people are maintaining a one income household with it, without other sources of income.