skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finding other places to talk to people is a solution it's just not one you're willing to take seriously due to prioritizing work over a social life. There is a group of people that genuinely have an excuse here, but most of their jobs weren't even applicable for WFH and they're working insane hours just for minimum wage.
Once I made an experiment: I wrote a book chapter like I was writing tweets. It felt a bit like a zip file.
We absolutely are. In the 60s mega corps started building campuses outside of cities instead of in them, but today that’s just WFH. Beyond that, pretty similar.

Anecdotally, I’ve also heard of more tech companies shifting offices to suburbs instead of urban locations. Eg Amazon opening offices in Bellevue and shifting workers out of Seattle. Most 30+yo people I knew hated the city and wanted a suburban office.

Eventually the cost and blight of cities will (are) driving out millennials who will have their kids and wfh jobs. As the boomers start dying we’ll see easier and cheaper “in fill” housing in nicer and more built up town. Prices in cities will fall with demand declining and a new generation will discover them and it’ll repeat.
I took a look at the original paper. I think it follows from the fact that they experiment used 10 qubits, the tenth Fibonacci number is 55 (depending on how you count), and each "tick" in the experiment lasted 100 ms. Put those together and each experiment has to be exactly 5.5 seconds long. (They ran ~100 repeats per condition, plus 10,000 simulations).

I'm admittedly not 100% (Nature papers are terse and heard to read even in one's own field and this is far away from mine), but it makes a certain amount of sense.
I don’t disagree that GitHub should tone down the gamification. However, I do disagree with this:

> which shows an extremely flawed gauge of the work you're doing (Code review, Issues, etc)

Reviewing code and triaging issues is real work.
I'm still on my Pixel 3. It's even been through the washing machine.
Dark patterns in mainstream IDEs, Jetbrains & Microsoft, are extremely common.

Jetbrains actively forces developers to avoid the terminal for vendor lock-in.

Microsoft, ha. Embrace, extend, extinguish, (first Python, now Copilot) isn't new.

Sadly, commercial software turns success into "selfish dark patterns," at the drop of a hat.

I've an extremely strong urge to go to Vim.

The quantity of work won't be small however. Setting up graphical debugging, refactoring, inheritance visualization, will be an enormous mountain.

I'm not sure I'll ever use Vim for JVM languages. JVM languages lend themselves to enormous complexity.

Likely because the IDE enables it.
Australia, Singapore sign 'green economy' pact
I don't know enough about the Eiffel Tower, since I was focusing on the US, where I have decades of experiences.

Disneyland has active cameras over every visible square inch of the part (including along the floors, dark corners, under the trash cans, et al). The Disneyland agents acting as tourists also roam the park and monitor suspicious activity. Anaheim's Disneyland is easily the most monitored public space on the planet. Pickpockets can still move about, but they don't tend to take phones from people in the open and then run with them. My comments were in the context of existing overt trust, not the gamut of every possible criminal activity. Pickpocketing, confidence schemes, violence, etc notwithstanding. The movie, "Welcome to the Giftshop", which is partly about Banksy, makes note of how Disneyland is harder to do something overt than the manned wall between Israel and Palestine.

Rushmore National Memorial is a difficult place to commit crimes in for other reasons. First, there are very few roads that come in and go out. The walkway up, that is commonly traveled, is lengthy, not very densely populated, and requires going through the giftshop. It's remote in a practical way, making it a very simple place to lockdown (just like Disneyland). Second, it's got enough federal employees to quickly act and they tend to do so with wide authority. Any sort of overt activity at the park, would be far more risky than going down the road to one of the bordering tourist trap towns 10 minutes away in multiple directions.
And that selection pressure hasn't existed for the entire history of life? I don't think genetics have nearly as much to do with it because we are not living in a "state of nature" where genetics are the dominant factor in reproductive fitness. Even Richard Dawkins recognized this many decades ago when he coined the term "meme" to refer to the units of cultural lineage that clearly influence evolutionary fitness by altering the behavior of the people who hold them.

edit: I mean, you're not wrong, but I'd posit that there is enormous selection pressure for memes that promote fertility.
Yes, many of the other services can do server-side rendering (SSR), deferred static generation (DSG), and/or incremental static rendering (ISR).
I think Lex Fridman and Balaji Srinivasan discuss the need to this, generally, on their new podcast episode together
If I could take you all to the pub, I would, because you are fun to talk to and listen to. But I can’t.

I go to the pub with other people and enjoy their company, but many of them don’t find interesting the kinds of things discussed on HN. At times, that makes me feel lonely in a crowd, Which is why I also come to HN.

Yes we are friends, but if I did not also have the pub friends I would feel lonely.
the Dutch company ASML, which makes the world’s only lithography machines capable of inscribing designs for the fastest chips, has produced just 140 such devices over the past decade.

This somehow reminds me of the this famous quote by the head of IBM, no less:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

Or what Arthur Clarke once called "A Failure of Imagination" - Clarke's Three Laws - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
Stay at-tuned
Can you drop an email address? I work at an in-person startup in SF and NY and I'd love to chat.
Nip this one in the bud right now. Be transparent with your partners, always, and expect the same. Don't be surprised if he has some feedback for you as well :) and you might not like hearing it at first, but you have to do this stuff. It's better to find out now, far far better. It's usually miscommunication and not a character flaw. The human mind tends to drift to the more negative "why" rather than just "miscommunication probably".

Also I found with my first business keeping a journal for the business was also useful so I could refer back. The human mind isn't really photographic so much as a fuzzy merge algorithm and memories change over time, and it's useful to write these critical points down, and some things won't seem "critical" right now but will become so. I am a journal-whore though and I advocate keeping a few different ones. Don't write a novel, I tend to write bullet points as it keeps me from rambling, like I am currently.
Did those studies show a causal direction of depression causing neural destruction? My current notion is that the causality is reversed - chronic oxidative stress and neuroinflammation cause physical damage to the brain, which results in depression-like symptoms (e.g. low mood, poor memory, loss of motivation etc.). If this turns out to be correct, then there is a clear physiological cause of depression which can be cured through neuro anti-inflammatory and antioxidant medication.
Show HN: Unix shell script tactics – a style guide
Original paper:

Dumitrescu, P. T., Bohnet, J. G., Gaebler, J. P., Hankin, A., Hayes, D., Kumar, A., Neyenhuis, B., Vasseur, R., & Potter, A. C. (2022). Dynamical topological phase realized in a trapped-ion quantum simulator. Nature, 607(7919), 463–467. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04853-4
That's fine, every hiring place has arbitrary rules to cut down on resumes. You can't just guess at what those will be and use those guesses to base major Career decisions.

You'll always miss some stupid filters - it's why your job search is a numbers game.
From your link:

> Pixel 6 and later phones will get updates for at least 5 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US.
I miss speed control per podcast feature on Pocket Casts. IIRC the feature was removed. Hopefully someone add it.
Wouldn’t the Russian way be more ‘defenestrecution’?
> Cryptocurrencies are, ... akin to the early days internet infrastructure. It's lower level foundational technology that can be used for applications to be built on top of.

No sign of anything, that is not a scam of some sort, yet.

The foundation is wonky. The distributed ledger algorithms have no utility and a huge cost.

Some interesting ideas in it that may make their way into versions of digital cash versions of fiat currency.

But the foundation? It is rotten, absurd, costly
Just remember that electric transmission isn’t foolproof as there’s been bad ice storms in Canada that took down the lines. Underground pipelines were more robust. And in much of Canada the temp can be at or below 0F for much of the winter. In such cases, heating has to be as efficient and effective as possible. The hydro power is there it just has to be transported from place to place.
> dropping config files in .programname is the de-facto community standard.

Fuck you so much.
For all the comments about Safari versus Chrome, I would love to see Safari take the lead in documentation although MDN does a great job. I mainly want to see that so we can extend the comparisons to web.dev and sites that probably wouldn’t require consent acknowledgment.
You can run Linux on iOS, so I guess it's possible, but the performance would suck I think. Of course, you would need a dynamic DNS as your IP would change all the time. If you connect to local WIFI, that might be blocking your server.

https://ish.app/

Set up a VPN server at home instead. You could buy a cheap Raspberry Pi or a secondhand computer. It will be much more practical and stable.
This is super cool! :D
This. It seems people forgot how to socialize or that they have friends outside work. I just hope don't comeback to the office for a long time.
> Hydrogen embrittles metal that pipelines and storage facility wells are made of, limiting usage in existing infrastructure.

This is incorrect with the type of hydrogen we would use and store for energy. Elemental hydrogen or hydrogen ions (H+) is an unstable state of hydrogen that exists in a very limited window after a chemical reaction who’s byproduct is a free hydrogen ion. H2 (two hydrogen atoms stuck together) is an electrochemically stable compound that naturally occurs and is specifically what we talk about in the context of gaseous hydrogen. We have containment vessels that do not leak it because it’s way bigger than a single hydrogen ion and it’s even larger than helium. H2 does not eat away at what contains it, either.
Just a little side note... my company bought a VAX 11/780, serial number 13, which was the 3rd one DEC shipped (DEC kept the first 10 in house).
Why Did Comedy Die?
3% is alarmingly low. We need enough vacancies that landlords actually need to compete on rent and conditions, and bad ones risk losing market share. When the worst landlord in the city can easily fill their building with (resentful) tenants, it’s no wonder they’re often despised.
4k on Netflix isn't worth the additional cost. Only Netfix' own productions are 4k, and the additional resolution is consumed by an excessive amount of artificial film grain.
The dictionary of obscure sorrows derives the vast majority of its new words from European languages and latin/greek roots: https://www.youtube.com/c/obscuresorrows/videos

There's no reason to believe this is just another case of "wow Japanese is so mystic". Lately, I'm seeing more and more people with a sort of imagined or conjured offense that someone is unduly appreciating a culture. I don't really get it.
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What makes collaborating with coworkers nicer than spending time with friends?
Oh right I forgot about those - I set some environment variables so I don't see any of those except for .pki

And in my opinion .ssh and .gnupg are okay since in some contexts, the "XDG variables" haven't been initialized in certain circumstances when using those utilities.

But yeah, I'll have to look into those - maybe there is something I can do to fix that
the article cites Gurri’s book, which is relevant to this. you have your own narrative, i have my own narrative; when i strive to find a shared narrative with ever larger groups the only bit i can preserve is “the status quo should be radically changed” without consensus on what it should be changed to, which simplifies to “the status quo should be toppled”, and hence the shared narrative is simply one of destruction.

the narrative of destruction isn’t universal, but the binary divide between those who share it and those who do not almost maps to progressive v conservative groupings for those who accept the labeling.
> I don’t get it. What makes it worth staying 1-2 years, but not 2-3 years?

Frequently, a vesting cliff.
Tuna, Turnips, Trek
Only if by very clear you mean unspecified 'Catastrophic Consequences' with the subtext it wont be nuclear. putin might be willing to pay that price.
Which was incredibly late

So we’re doing this? Instead of acknowledging your statement was incorrect, now it’s about how supposedly late Apple was in supporting the formats you said they didn’t support.

And no disrespect to Firefox, but them having WebP support 8 years ago (and AV1 support 3 years ago) in the big picture doesn’t matter that much outside of the web developer/HN/geek echo chamber and the single digit percent of market share Firefox represents. Nothing got held up; a properly designed site would fall back to JPEG or PNG if WebP wasn’t supported by a particular browser. Not the end of the world.

But when your device is in a “billion pockets y’all” it matters. That was true a few years ago when Oprah said it; it’s closer to two billion pockets (and desks and backpacks).

It’s pretty common on HN to trash Safari when it doesn't support web standards and then find another way to trash Safari when it does support those standards and then ignore Safari when it ships a feature first and pretend it didn’t happen or doesn’t matter.

A quick list of web features shipped first:

• first browser engine to implement the new color syntax defined in CSS Color Module Level 4

• first browser to support drawing shapes, text, gradients, and shadows with wide gamut CSS colors on Display P3 canvases

• first browser to ship a proposed web standard for measuring
advertising in a privacy-preserving way – Private Click Measurement

• the only browser that supports lch() and lab() color functions (and probably the only browser to support these predefined color spaces: a98-rgb, prophoto-rgb, rec2020, xyz)

• first browser to ship large, small and dynamic viewport units

• first browser to ship :has() parent selector (March vs August 2022 and later for Google and Mozilla)

There are more but these are the most current ones after a few minutes of Googling. Depending on the use case, some of these may be critical to some web developers.

I get it—Safari being current and in some cases, ahead with their support of web standards that they, Google/Microsoft and Mozilla have agreed to—I’m discounting the proposals from Google when they ship stuff only they want/care about—doesn’t fit the prevailing HN narrative that “Safari is the new IE” and is holding the web back. Just objectively examining the state of the web back then would show how laughably ahistorical [1] this view is, but that’s where we are.

[1]: ahistorical—lacking historical perspective or context
The Road to Kubernetes on ARM64
A comfy TUI for HomeBrew written in Haskell
When I click one of the "Click me", "Submit", "Preset" buttons in Components/Button section, entire page jumps with 1 pixel. Looks bad.

Checkbox labels text is selectable. Should not happen in UI. Same about title bars. Title bars also do not set cursor: pointer. Also happens in some other components.

Dropdown contents have wrong colors. I think they use default browser styling or something like that.

Those are minor nitpicks, of course. This style is very nostalgic, thanks for making it. I thought about using this kind of UI for some web app, I think I'll reimplement it myself (because that's the fun), but I'll keep this style in mind.
If text-scroll performance is an issue on a computer after the year 2000 or so, your terminal/app/lib is doing something wrong. Even the very atrocious windows terminal performance has been fixed by this point.
If someone has a couple bad jobs in a row, it's not a big deal. There are a lot of bad companies out there and it's easy to get lured into a couple of them.

However, if someone shows up and claims to have had five or seven bad jobs in a row, you have to start looking at them as the common denominator. At that point, it's not even about short tenure any more. It's a warning sign that this person hasn't been able to get along with any teams anywhere. Some people just can't get along with anyone in the workplace for very long. If you hire them, it likely won't be long before they think you are their latest "bad job".

> My sourcer will filter you out even before your resume hits my part of the pipeline, so you can’t depend on me figuring out if you are a good candidate despite your bad tenure.

I've found the opposite with some recruiters: They'll have several candidates in their network/portfolio who are always unhappy and therefore always changing jobs. They try to slip them into the hiring pipeline because they know these people are so easy to convince to accept a new job. When the recruiter moves to a new company/firm, they go through the list and put all of their reliable job hoppers back into the queue.
> In all the time I have been forced to use windows laptops that were of “premium” quality, I have never ever had one last into its third year.

I've heard this often and I find it baffling. I've replaced only one PC in my lifetime when it quit working. Everything else I've replaced at 5-6 years old while working fine. Dells, system 76, Lenovo's, Asus, they've all held together fine. Heck my old windows 95 Toshiba still works.
Number 3 is very interesting - Methionine is a crucial precursor to producing glutathione, the body's "master antioxidant". If the inflammation / oxidation hypothesis of depression that I'm spruiking is correct, then B-9 supplementation may help alleviate depression by increase synthesis of glutathione which is turn would reduce the level of free-radical caused neuro-inflammation.

I'm all for your particle-level simulation of the human body, I've had thoughts along similar lines (but unfortunately lack the skills and knowledge to implementation something like this).
Ask HN: Recent uptick in spam emails and text messages?
Has anyone noticed an uptick in spam emails and text messages the past few months?

I’ve consistently been getting ~1-2 spam emails per day and ~1 bogus text message.

The spam all seem to be imitating retail stores, offering some promo.

I use gmail and iOS.
be careful, this sounds like the type of guy who will take your pitch deck and start pitching it to others without you and then claim that you never got him to sign any NDAs or anything so it was perfectly legal to take the idea and run with it...
I think part of the reason behind such frail friendships is that, thanks to social media, and parasocial relationships with online personalities, like YouTubers and Twitch streamers, many might feel they are participating in a social group or experiencing social situations already. The reality is that most often in the new online social world, you are a consumer of the relationship but not actually a participant.

With that safety net, someone has to first accept a level of risk they don't currently need to, and they also have to meet that same risk barrier for someone else. So people are unwittingly trading more two sided, genuine social interactions, for shallow, one sided interactions.
Uh, no. While the basic risk formula is pretty much the standard one, the author fails to distinguish between the likelihood of a random or opportunistic attacker (the “most people” of the article) and a targeting/persistent attacker being deterred by a port number change.

If you have high value assets and are being targeted, changing the SSH port number has virtually no effect on likelihood. Blocking port scans?

Great, they will pay someone in your org $500 for an .ssh/config. Or $5000.

Changing SSH port numbers and the other mechanisms in this article are so much bike shedding.

Do the hard work first. Implement multiple layers, patching, monitoring, thresholds for automatic disconnect, etc.

(Aside: why do you even think the president is in that convoy? They may well be elsewhere, moved into the third suburban at the last possible invisible moment.)
I got an Apple Watch in mid 2021. I was a casual runner before then. By the first week, I was watching the 3 rings on the watch, and by the second week I had a streak going. I hit my rings every day for a week. Then 2. Then 3.

The only way to close the 'move' ring goal - 730 calories/day - for me was to run. I could brisk walk some days, but between work and other commitments, running was the only 'fast' way to close the circle. I went to the gym more, or ran around the town near the office.

And then I got to 4 weeks. Then 2 months, and so on. After several months, I didn't want to break the streak. But it gets hard - bad weather, feeling sick, personal commitments. I was doing... weird stuff just to hit the goals.

I got to 1 year. Then... even a bit more. I intentionally stopped on day 400.

I done a couple of small streaks since then, almost accidentally, but am not going to try for a long streak again like that. It started to consume too much mental space, and became a distraction. If I get to the point where I have less going on in life, perhaps that will be a new goal again. I've already proved I can do it, but I've now proved I can stop too.

Before all this, I had set up a goal of 'run min 2 miles every day for a month', and did that too, but my schedule (and weather) doesn't always allow for longer commitments.

But... I also didn't tell anyone about any of these until after I'd hit them. No, not true - I would tell folks in the office sometimes about "oh, I hit day 264 today" and show my watch, but usually only if/when the topic of exercise or apple watches came up.
Preservation of a cosmovision and a form of intelligence, not just a language. Furthermore, I hypothesise whether kids lose intelligence when adults shut their mother tongues off.
I started my career in embedded and I am strongly considering swinging back towards systems work.
Evidence Intuition: Transferability Estimation for Encoder Selection
Convert all the downtown offices to SROs, problem solved.
Most people use their spoken[1] language as a major part of their conscious minds. Do you expect that to change?

[1] (ASL speakers claim to 'think' in sign)
This is interesting and important in understanding the modern ai revolutions connection with biologically plausible neural computation. Very cool stuff!
Do you think that coworking spaces could be a potential way to merge the WFH ethos with our inherent need to socialize?
FWIW, we (rsync.net) defrag our zpools.

But, of course, there is no defrag for ZFS and so we do it the trailer-park way - we add free space to a zpool when adding a vdev, and then we 'zfs send' datasets to ourselves on that same zpool thus allowing ZFS to lay down those bytes in an efficient and orderly fashion ... as opposed to the inefficient way they were laid down over time.

This works.
I didn't know about that one. Looks nicer than the one I ended up using.