skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In his defense, I guess there wasn't much to do. The same can be said about pretty much any monopolistic corporation; the money will keep coming in regardless. It's better to sit back and do nothing than add complexity and risk compromising the monopoly position.
Chording requires synchroised keystrokes, and chaining chords can be awkward and error prone. It also puts unnecessary stress on your wrists, and not moving your hands for long periods of time in the name of efficiency is a sure fire way to end up with carpal tunnel syndrome.

In almost 15 years of programming, I can't think of a single time where the marginal theoretical efficiency gains were worth more than being able to one handedly type in a TOTP code on a numpad while drinking coffee with my other hand, or my co workers being able to navigate on my computer for 5-10 minutes to show me something only they understand from 10 years ago that still has a "TODO talk to Jon" comment.

> In most other standard computing tasks where you're primarily typing

The only computing task where I'm primarily typing is when I'm practicing typing. When I'm actively writing code, I'm primarily thinking, planning, and transcribing. When I'm reading code, I'm semantically navigating. When I'm taking notes, writing documentation or responding to communication, again I'm not primarily typing I'm composing. As someone who can touch type to a proficient degree, the improvements I would get from increasing my keystrokes are marginal at best. The real wins are using tools that reduce the mental overhead of those tasks, e.g. when composing an email having automated spell checks fix my most common typos, when writing markdown having a live side by side preview, and when editing code having tools with semantic knowledge so that I can navigate mt code structurally, not as text. Those things give me orders of magnitudes of productivity increases.
For sorting nuts at the day job on the production line?
So far. It's entirely possible that Musk ends up running Twitter into the ground.
About My Father
not sure why this is being downvoted - apparently you need to post only "feel-good" advice else your voice will be suppressed lol
Sure, it’s a great optimization opportunity — though I would argue that replacing pointers with indexes can be a bad thing (often seen in Rust when people don’t want to argue with the compiler), since then not even valgrind and the like can catch your “use-after-free” errors.
Yes, aircraft are designed to be transportable and repairable so the wings and other control surfaces are easily removable.

The wings on an F-16 for example are secured by two bolts all you need is to disconnect the avionics remove the bolts and the wing comes off.

You can replace a wing on an F-16 within under half an hour without skipping any steps it is like changing tires on a car.
There is also the the contention that the huge injection of money went into assets rather than goods and services, leading to asset price inflation - that is, an asset bubble - rather than elevated consumer inflation.
Germans had the experience of that speech at least being partially responsible for more that ten million people being murdered by the German state.

Of course speech wasn’t the only factor (far from it) but virulent antisemitism didn’t just suddenly appear fully formed.

If you agree that speech is powerful and important then you necessarily should also agree that speech can be harmful. As such it should be easy for you to understand that rational people can conclude that unlimited free speech is not a necessary component of liberty.
Sorry tech execs do not qualify as brilliant. A word reserved for minds that are truly doing step changes for humanity.
I like that this article bookends with the young person finding that the real cause of their symptoms was isolation from their peers. Not that it’s always the case, but, I hope it’s a common cure that more people seek out first
- Tests run for long enough to get distracted: 1% interest rate on the production code per second of test runtime. If this calculation could be worked out to anywhere near ballpark accuracy it would be a huge benefit to knowing which language/framework to choose for production/test code.

I am not sure if I agree with this (or maybe I just don't understand what you mean).

I am working on a large, horribly legacy system (running for 25 years now).
When I add/alter some functionality, the time for materially executing a test is < 1sec.
The time needed to verify that the result is exactly what I expected can take 15-20 mins. Or balloon into hours if I find something that I do not expect and I need to confirm that the result is the correct one (and I just missed/forgot about the interaction of decades old business rules).

So if had everything rewritten in Assembler, to take your idea to the extreme, the test would take maybe 1/10th or maybe 1/100th to run.
And the verification of the results would probably take days of human work to complete.
Seems the issue is the request being fired off to get the actual script (xss concerns?), my guess is that it would work by copying the requested script into the js url string, rather than requestimg it.
Inflation in 1972 was fairly low, 3.4%. In 1974, inflation had jumped all the way to 12.3%. Hmmm... what major geopolitical event, with significant economic repercussions, occured in 1973? How about the Yom Kippur War, the U.S. military aid intervention on Israel's side, and the subsequent Gulf Arab oil embargo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

> "By the end of the embargo in March 1974, the price of oil had risen nearly 300%, from US$3 per barrel to nearly $12 per barrel globally; US prices were significantly higher. The embargo caused an oil crisis, or "shock", with many short- and long-term effects on global politics and the global economy. It was later called the "first oil shock", followed by the 1979 oil crisis, termed the "second oil shock"."

The 1979 oil shock was caused by the steep drop in oil production in Iran, and was only partially mitigated by the petrodollar recycling system that US and Britain had set up with the Gulf Arab states in the latter half of the 1970s (initiated under President Ford's administration). It was later offset by the deepwater oil boom, in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico, as well as by falling demand to the rise of more energy-efficint vehicles and energy-saving initiatives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut

By 1983, the inflation rate was back to 3.2%, which seems to match the notion that energy prices were the dominant inflationary factor over the 1972-1985 period.

It's curious that the author of this piece entirely neglects this fundamental dynamic, instead claiming that it was due to a push for full employment (which is something of a neoliberal trope, i.e. it's an argument in favor of decreasing domestic US employment by shifting manufacturing overseas to sweatshop zones).

Just look at the US unemployment rate - it dropped from 10.8% in 1982 (3.8% inflation) to 6.6% in 1986 (1.1% inflation).. i.e. Inflation plunged while employment boomed... doesn't that completely upset that argument?

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-33...
Acoustic performance of flexible bellows (1998)
You're using intersex ppl and the very real issues they have faced to then push gender ideology (your transition at the end to "A group whose bodies are functionally male but who feel a deep revulsion at being a man"). That's exploitative of intersex people but is sadly consistent with gender ideologues always trying to piggyback on other group's issues (e.g. the attempt to piggbyback on the struggles that same sex attracted people have faced).
A "Hello World" code example would be worth more than 1000 words.
> One thing is certain, none of those setup look used. They don't look like the desk of someone that has just finished designing or creating something very hard for the past few hours.

If you share a photo of your bedroom with someone for whatever reason do you share an unmade bed to show how it looks after you've slept?
I’m taking the opportunity to reshape my digital life around the POSSE model. I’ve always considered that the right way to go about it, but I haven’t done the best job of actually doing things that way.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Publish (on your) Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere

I’ve seen too many publishing platforms fail at this point. Even ones that, at the time, seemed too big to fail. Geocities, MySpace, Orkut, G+, and so many others have failed. Now Facebook and Twitter aren’t looking so hot. I don’t even believe YouTube is invulnerable. Lesson learned.
> but the last bit of legislation supporting EU-wide application was passed in 2009 and we’re still waiting for it to be cleanly implemented. Classic EU.

Careful what you complain about...
AFAICT pinning is temporary? E.g. even Java's native interface allowed pinning objects for a limited amount of time, which had to be incorporated into the design of Java's long series of GCs.
It’s satire. They aren’t harassing anyone, they’re making a joke about a public person. It’s a joke and it’s completely different than “targeted misgendering”.
How does this secure you a severance payment?
Many of our civilisations have ended because of resources running out/the environment being broken by their own acts.

I’m optimistic about the potential for technology to, for example, disassemble the planet Mercury into a Dyson swarm and use it to power the direct transit of a fleet of von Neumann replicators to the closest 90% of galaxies in our future light cone; but until we’ve actually built ourselves a self-sustaining off-Earth colony, we can’t be sure we can get to the future I’ve just described before some random thing goes wrong here, including but not limited to a petro-state with nukes throwing a hissy fit and starting WW3.
Not really an advice, but just a phrase: “Can you show me something you have done?”. My brother was introducing me as a developer for a project he was responsible and the supervisor wanted to meet me first. I was prattling about all the stuff I know about and I was real proud about it. He interrupt me with this. That’s when I realise all the things you know don’t really matter to people if you can’t actually solve their problems and they aren’t confident that you can. I switched my methods after that. And instead of pursuing knowledge for its own sake, I make sure, I actually practice and build thibgs instead of just be satisfied with “I know this”. 2 years later, I started making money on gigs and contracts as a programmer.
Making the Talos II into the Biggest Power Mac (2018)
I've only heard that in the “brilliant kid, what a waste” quote describing his reaction to learning that Gates had left academia to start a company, which is a little less dramatic sounding from a then relatively early career professor but, again, the point is not that Gates was stupid but rather than his intelligence was only part of the story.

If you look at software of that era, he wasn't doing something nobody else could do. They had a BASIC interpreter, but it wasn't the first or notably better. MS-DOS certainly worked, but it was at least heavily inspired by CP/M even if the plagiarism accusations were wrong. Being a capable programmer was necessary to his success but it was far from the reason: there were many others around, and they did well but the legendary wealth came to the person whose mother was on IBM's board when he made that company-defining sale. He subsequently executed well but again not uniquely so — anyone who used Microsoft software of that era could tell you that it wasn't the quality of that software which kept people using it. He executed well, and certainly wasn’t shy about an … aggressive … legal strategy but there was also a substantial portion of nepotism and luck.

The world has many people who were smart and hardworking but will never be close to that level of success because they didn’t have the family connections, startups capitol, friends they made at the right school, or the freedom to make a big gamble.
For not bleeding out when multiple T-rexs were feeding on a creature. A larger appendage could be eaten by mistake and then they would bleed out as health care was still a future idea for a future species.
It’s annoying that Apple already has an implementation of OpenGL on Metal, but they don’t share the source and they also put up a lot of deprecation warning noise to discourage you from using it.
It presumably has to support Aurora urgently: https://www.alcf.anl.gov/aurora
No, that way is safe. Just make sure that your workers also check for items in the queue when they start.
This is great: "Jeffrey stop, I'm your moderator, it's enough"

("democratically at home and ruthlessly imperialist abroad")
> you can safely assume that it did not suffer fundamental structural damage

I don’t know where you are getting that they assumed anything. Most likely they carefully checked every part of the airplane.
Ask HN: Technology for a Meeting Room?
Dear HN,

I'm a professor in a math department. We just moved back into our building after a year-long renovation, and one of our rooms -- currently piled high with junk -- is to be remodeled into a seminar room. I'm on the committee that will make recommendations as to what to do.

The room will host: formal seminar presentations (some using a chalkboard; others with PowerPoints); informal math discussions and study groups; various committee meetings; perhaps other things too.

Traditionally everything has been in-person, and for the most part academia is back to in-person. But, since we're planning for the future, we want to make sure that we can accommodate hybrid in-person/online meetings, online presentations where an audience can hear and see someone at the chalkboard, ... whatever use cases might arise in the future.

I'm not sure I'm the best choice for this committee -- I'm something of a luddite and I don't personally like remote meetings. But I've been asked to serve, and I want to make sure I do a good job of planning for the future and anticipating the diverse needs of the department.

Any advice as I go about this? Examples of successful designs (in any setting) that I can read about? Discussions and reviews of various technological solutions? Anything else?

Thank you!
> ["Brilliant" is a] word reserved for minds that are truly doing step changes for humanity.

The British would like a word.
Usually it's that kind of clause (change in ownership). Basically all equity grants immediately vest, even the ones you got last week that would normally vest over 4 years.

It's a great deal.
While I think a US non-profit makes a lot of sense, I would exercise caution with the non-profit board.

The board’s job is to provide oversight and to appoint a director [1]. In this case it would clearly be Thibault, but what happens in a few years when Thibault is ready to go? Does he have say in his replacement? Does the French organization take precedent over the US nonprofit when it comes to leadership and governance?

I say this because Lichess is extremely valuable (even as a non-profit) and that will attract the wrong kind of people. Thibault should take every precaution to make sure he retains control of the org, with good people around him. I’m not sure if there is a non-profit equivalent of retaining voting rights, but I’d want to be sure he retains control until it’s well established as a non-profit and a succession plan is in place.

The wrong board could evaluate his performance (which right now he says he works at his leisure and loves what he does) and say “we need more fundraising and appearances in the US at tournaments” and he could balk / want to focus on the product. They could then look to appoint a US director of the nonprofit and things could get awkward and extremely costly.

It’s incredible what has been built and maintained with a small team. I think they will see extreme diminishing returns after they hit a certain level of governance. Whether that’s going international with a nonprofit status in the US or at another point is beyond my level of expertise.

If someone more knowledgeable that I am can correct what I’ve written above and point out that my concerns are overblown, I’d be happy. I’d also ask that person to volunteer and help Lichess establish a presence in the US.

[1] https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/tools-resources/board-ro...
You can find the details of executive severance plans in the SEC filings of public companies, they make for fascinating reading. Typically accelerated vesting of all equity, 12-ish months salary, extension of other benefits like health insurance. It’s also usually guaranteed in their employment contract if they’re terminated for any reason other than just cause (basically everything other than committing fraud or harassing employees).
It's private now, all current shareholders were bought out in cash.

So lotsofpulp makes a good point. The prior leadership may have done a crappy job, but if you're a shareholder, you likely got bought out at the peak of value.

No doubt they are happy.

So maybe Parag was a great hire?
There’s a Hello World on the page
28k pretax seems really low. For the record, with a master at a government job in France, i was paid (as a junior) 27k after tax 5years ago (34k pretax but with government jobs you dont pay the social security tax or something, so its basically 40k pretax).

Now i work for Banks and energy companies, and the pay skyrocketed.
It must be shocking to discover that part of your life was a lie. Not easy to digest, imho.
You don't have to be an executive. Anybody can get any kind of parachute they want... if they're valuable enough to the company and negotiate for it.

If a company wants you bad enough, they'll give you what you want... the trick is being that valuable.

So just be really, really good at what you do.. or at least have a great reputation in your field, and you may have the leverage to negotiate yourself a sweet deal from the company lucky enough to hire you.
I didn't read it that way. The authors propose "homeostasis" as the alternative to extinction. They give Bhutan as an example of a country that has opted for homeostasis rather than growth; Bhutan has reduced neither living standards nor population.

It seems to be a sociology paper. I find the writings of sociologists impossibly dense and obscure.
There is such a thing as a bad tool. In most industries, they simply refuse to use the tool anymore. Not so much in software development, for some reason.
Uber has basically given up on self driving, is losing money, now has more competitors and is still charging less than its suppliers real costs in most markets. It's really not clear we won't be having the conversation going on about meta today about uber in 5 years. Maybe worse, since meta at least makes a profit
The actual amount of contact area in a soldered joint is much higher though. The crimped joint will have the tangent of each strand on the connector, for lots of tiny little contact points. Soldering, you can take the same contact points but also add the higher resistance solder for all of the area in between, dramatically increasing the cross sectional area of the contact.
> You must balance enjoying your time now with investing in yourself and your future.

That is, to me, one of the most difficult things to apply in life, and I feel like the rest of your post doesn't exactly provide an answer on how to achieve this. There are so many things that I want to do in life but that I cannot afford to do now, and which I always postpone to later. And it feels like I'll let a great deal of things unachieved because I'm already too busy on things that are consuming my time right now.

The same applies to budget. I try to save as much money as possible for the future, and thus I restrain myself from doing things that I may consider too expensive for what they are worth, or choose not to do/purchase things which I do not consider essential as much as possible. I think I managed to do quite well up to this point (I'm 22 and have 20K in savings, starting from barely zero), but I'm still questioning on the utility of doing all of this. Even if I lost all my sources of revenue tomorrow, I wouldn't survive for a very long time with my savings. And if I wanted to launch some business in the near future, I doubt such an amount of money would take me very far.
Did you watch "Yes Man" starring Jim Carry? This is the exact plot conclusion you're describing.
> in helping companies of any kind to use the Blockchain

Such as? There's pretty much no problem that isn't solved better by a solution that doesn't involve a blockchain.
Not sure if the Civ series is, as of now, more popular than PDS games - for instance Hearts of Iron 4 is only slightly behind Civ 6 in terms of Steam players !

(And Vicky 3 is way above both, but that's normal for a brand new game with tons of advertising and hype...)
But the parachute is when leaving. Why would the company not simply fire you and pay you the minimum severance package offered in your contract?
Being "one the most tested products on the planet" (citation needed, btw) did not prevent Heartbleed.
It's easier to get forgiveness than permission
Still doesn’t resolve why we have not come across any signatures of beeping and blipping electronic entities that are not our own in the galaxy.
Because C# covers all bases, specially since they started bringing Midori features into C# 7 onwards, as I mentioned, I only use it for non portable code out of convenience.

In fact C# actually has three models of pointers, regular references, JIT intrisics like IntPtr/UIntPtr and raw unsafe pointers.
Duchamp's Fountain is a great example, because most people couldn't care less about its artistic value because they reject it for its lack of aesthetic value. Just like you don't see people gluing themselves to postmodern art which emphasizes what is artistic over what is aesthetic.

Most people don't care about what is artistic. It's the experience that matters.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369902
For anyone reading this and thinking about spending your last 10 bucks on a programming book please use Libgen or a free mooc
What's New in Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap – Oct 2022
Half of them simply have tiktok addiction, and if they were to uninstall tiktok and go find some real friends instead of following semi-celebrities, the other mental health issues would probably subside too...
"They successfully transferred tens of billions of dollars in cash from the richest guy in the world into shareholders pockets."

Was it done because of them or in spite of them?
Most of the tags you mentioned should only have a single one in the document, generally speaking, so insert them yourself as part of the template. You could make an argument for wanting to have different <section>s which I figure could be built when you encounter a level 2 header or similar. If you want to create more complex documents, use HTML. Markdown isn't the right tool
Wait, I thought that PDS games were actually celebrated in how they're few of the rare games where you can just ignore part of them and the AI will (more or less incompetently) play those parts for you ?
Unless you have some actual news or content to post, Twitter is best consumed passively and anonymously.

It’s real easy to not follow assholes on Twitter. Just don’t follow anybody who is posting BS. If someone’s tweets are irritating to you it’s not worth following them. Just block and move on. You’ll forget about them, and you won’t develop FOMO.

I’ve followed this rule since day 1 and I contend Twitter remains the BEST social platform.
Seeing the headline, I wondered if the article would be about the IBM iSeries. Spent first 15 years of my career working on those, always a fond memory. Great machines to develop traditional database apps on.
The things that annoy you the most about your partner will be the same things that you will miss the most when they are gone.

I try and reflect on this advice when I am struggling to communicate with my wife. Having been divorced once I feel that a positive living relationship is always (well, usually maybe) within our own control.