skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thirty years ago, I was thirty years closer to being a junior developer. That changes a lot of things. It makes it hard for me to judge.

Back then, I got to work on one thing, because one thing at a time was all that they expected of me. Now I get pulled in many directions at once, and it's really hard to focus on one thing. But that may not be so much because the processes changed, but because my role did.

Thirty years ago, the problems and projects were simpler, but the tools were worse. It kind of evened out.

I think the processes have gotten more complicated because the projects are more complicated. For the same complexity of project, I think the processes have often gotten simpler, because the stakes are smaller. You're building a web page front end for your ecommerce site? Your process is a lot lighter than when people were building NORAD air-defense systems, even if the complexity of both is about the same.

I still have the same limits I did. 100,000 lines of code is about all I can comfortably deal with; after that I start getting lost.

As I have gotten older (and I worked with older co-workers), the level of interpersonal maturity has gone up. That's been a good thing; both I and some others used to be jerks, and now we're not (or at least not as much). Again, though, that's just tracking with my age and seniority, not the industry as a whole.
your ridiculous hyperbole of "gas masks".

It's not hyperbole. Aerosols are very hard to filter and can even enter via the eyeballs. Maybe proper military grade gas masks can keep them out, I don't know, I don't think there's been much study of that. On the other hand good airflow seems more important. Very few cases were traced to planes and outdoor events.

"What you're doing is jumping between red herrings and then coming to the conclusion that the problem is intractable."

No, we never talked about whether the problem is tractable in theory. I started by pointing out that mask mandates didn't work. You then took the position that they would have worked if only everyone had worn respirators instead, which I pointed out is also wrong. Now you've moved the goalposts to some sort of theoretical exercise in which a solution might exist, one day.

Could we reduce flu and COVID levels by re-engineering existing buildings to have biolab-like air handling equipment? Probably! Was it possible to have done that during COVID itself? No. Is it reasonable to do that going forward? Very unlikely to have a good cost/benefit ratio, no.

"You don't take a public health recommendation to wear a mask, extrapolate that as if it's a suggestion to wear them at home in bed etc, figure that's ridiculous, throw your hands up, and then turn to Facebook for validation"

I never mentioned Facebook. I've been citing data from real world outbreaks and scientific journals, not memes from Facebook.

The public health recommendation to wear masks was in fact ridiculous given what was known at that point (and still is), because it could not have worked. In 2020/2021/2022 we do not have any way to stop a pandemic caused by an aerosolized respiratory virus. Maybe one day we will, sure. If you want to try and research ways to do that, go right ahead, but masks or respirators of any kind aren't going to play a part in a solution.
There are various gasses in atmospheres which if measured would be a biological signature. But we aren’t really able to spectrographically measure the atmospheres of exoplanets writ large, nor are biosignatures necessarily a sign of technological civilization.
Ford and Chevy have had three decades to work at making a system that has the redundancy, tolerances, and repairability to meet with the Clean Air Act requirements.

The ease of repairability isn't something that is legislated - but rather the "this is the minimum fuel efficiency and the emissions for a diesel vehicle". The placement of sensors and lack of redundancy is a choice from the company.

The existence of an electric vehicle has no bearing on using a pickup truck to do long haul loads.

That the company is making it difficult for 3rd parties to repair is exactly the issue of right to repair and intentionally making it hard for 3rd parties to fix even though they are in compliance with the requirements (by the Clean Air Act) to provide this information and parts.

(I will also point out that this sort of intentional tampering and violation of laws is what makes it harder to argue for a right to repair for other things.)

One's ire shouldn't be directed at the EPA but rather Ford and Chevy for making their trucks harder to fix and lacking redundancy in the systems to avoid the situation where it breaks and you're limited to 35mph.

Furthermore, as a working truck, it is probably necessary to have it tuned up more frequently than its passenger vehicle time schedule would suggest.
It is indeed a bit dull and bland. It's on the cusp of being hazy (where looking at your editor feels like you're trying to read something through a haze). And if the whole blue light thing is true, I would expect this to produce eyestrain.

I generally dislike dark themes anyway. Dark themes are less legible (I make more reading errors while reading code; there are studies that show that light text on dark backgrounds is less readable). The best themes IMO are:

- light, but not white background (something yellow-tinted)

- a restricted, bold color palate for text

- no primary or RGB colors, only muted/darkened to take the edge off; the colors must stand out from the background without searing your eyeballs

Imagine some baseline that dominates the bulk of your code. Now imagine that departures from the baseline can occur according to a few properties (boldness, emphasis, color from the restricted color palate). Any departure from the baseline that is intended to be perceived as part of the same logical unit or the same universe of things should only depart according to one property. Anything more will incur greater cognitive and visual strain because major differences signal a context change.

Solarized light is a step in the right direction, but the background is too warm and the text shades are too light in relation to the background color and resemble a disorienting fruit salad or a bowl of tropical Skittles. A good start is the color scheme in the Acme editor in Plan9, with a few additional colors added for the text, e.g., appropriate shades of green, red, cyan, yellow.
Darcula everywhere.
My pet theory is that people who exercise enough control over others/their environment get "bored" with it and want to feel like there's something out there bigger than themselves that they don't have dominion over.

Alternately, once you've had your fun with the more-complicated aspects of human technological advancement, you arrive at the gordian knot of religion-- the one construct nobody has managed to truly reverse-engineer. (I think this is what attracts the schizophrenics-- they believe they've succeeded where everyone else fails.)

To your point, Catholicism is very binary (pun intended) in terms of ideology. Little wonder it attracts the computer-minded.
Any time the AOM is mentioned people keep talking about how evil AV1 is and how evil Google is for pushing AV1 through YouTube, and those comments are consistently among the most upvoted comments. I'd say it's safe to say there's a decent amount of hatred being expressed, and I just don't understand it. It's almost as if a decent chunk of the HN audience has a vested interest in eliminating open patent-free media codecs.
Noctis: https://github.com/liviuschera/noctis

Specifically, I try to match the theme variant to my lighting conditions. I had some major eye strain for a while, and doing this with this theme seemed helped.
$10,000 USD in 2022 dollars that SAE Level 4 is not available in standard economy cars in the next 10 years. My 2022 Corolla LE, a base model compact car, drives itself just fine (SAE Level 2) even on city streets. It would do it better with openpilot, though.

It makes Tesla Full Self Driving look like a joke, in my opinion.
SAE Level 4 driving is several orders of magnitude harder than SAE Level 2. You are either good enough to drive without requiring a driver or you are not. There is a reason developing L4 systems cost billions of dollars.

George Hotz thinks Comma does the job with only a fraction of the spending compared to the likes of Waymo, Cruise, Zoox, but fails to realize his product also does only a fraction of what the others are trying to do.
Which precedent? The one where the 14th Amendment forbids racial discrimination, or the narrow carve out 20 years ago that has allowed it to continue in higher education?
I'm not exactly sure from what perspective you ask this question. As far as I know people misspeak when they say to minimize the lagrangian rather than find the stationary points (min max or maybe saddle). Applied to classical physics in the absence of quantum mechanics I don't think there is a good answer. It is just a rule. But, when combined with qunatum mechanics, it explains how classical physics is an approximation to quantum mechanics.

In the path integral formulation of quantum machanics, the evolution of a wave function from state 1 to a later state 2 can be thought of as occuring as a superposition of all possible paths between the two states, with each path contributing a factor of exp(iS) where S is the lagrangian. This means all paths either obeying classical physics or not.

In situations where classical physics is valid these contributions from different paths changes very quickly. The contributions from neighboring paths cancel each other out except at stationary points in the lagrangian, where there is a zero change between neighboring paths. Hence, we see classical physics are the trajectories that are the stationary points of the lagrangian.
I should have written "could have wiped us out"...
This is not news. He is saying that for at least two years now - https://reason.com/video/2020/02/24/george-hotz-fully-self-d...
AWS is True HyperScale. Even more so than Google. And yet their spend more money solution on hardware seems to work fine.
An origin story is how we came to be where we are.

Atheists think along the lines of evolution / natural selection. Not mythology. Before that, tons to be read, all of it science based.
I also grew up learning programming via textbooks--there wasn't really a choice for me, pre-Internet. It had its pros and cons, but what I miss the most is being able to have a single well-written textbook that, when you were finished, you will have gained a solid understanding of the foundation and reasonable approaches on how to use the language.

These days information is so much more readily available for free, but it feels so often I have to resort to reading StackOverflow, shitty YouTube videos, and even shittier OFFICIAL documentation from developers who obviously don't care about technical writing. Machine Learning is especially bad about this.
Prince Alwaled is invested in twitter since 2011, before its IPO.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/technology/at-twitter-wor...
> The fact that we get any Black students in under-resourced neighborhoods testing within 100 points of White students, who have been prepping for the test since the eighth grade, that is a miracle of over-performance

That is disgustingly, outrageously racist.
I'm on gruvbox medium. Everything feels clear and readable.
1989 - https://github.com/sonjapeterson/1989.vim
tokyonight in Vim and shell

https://github.com/folke/tokyonight.nvim
You are correct on both points, but you're drawing a connection where one doesn't necessarily exist.

When you donate to 501(c)(3) corporation, you can deduct the donation against your taxes and the organization does not have to pay taxes on your gift.

The paper you show the store is either a "tax exempt" certificate or a reseller certificate. In the case of your non-profit, it's probably a tax-exempt certificate, but other types of businesses can avoid paying sales taxes on items they purchase if they are for resale.

I know this may seem overly pedantic, but taxes are an area where there is a lot of misinformation online, so I'm trying to help reduce any confusion the post may have cuased.
That is not a fully self driving car in the sense of what people think when they say a fully self driving car or are you saying that I could order that car and it will drive me to New York under any conditions that a human would drive through?
The burden is not on the person with accessibility needs, it's on the team that puts the website online. WCAG is hardly new, and compliance with it is a legal requirement for government/publically-funded websites (so those can't use this palette at all right now, even if they wanted to)

It is not the responsibility of thousands of individuals with accessibility needs to each cobble together their own solutions on a per-website basis. That would be truly ridiculous. It's why WCAG was created: so that site owners have guidelines that they can follow, and tools they can use to check compliance. If you're designing something that you want the world to use "for interfaces", then you are on the hook for making sure it passes WCAG, too. If it's a side project that you don't intend to maintain, then sure ignore WCAG as much as you want, but that is not the case here.

And, of course, you can get away with not being 100% compliant (no one can be, it's a well known limitation of WCAG) but in this case things aren't even compliant with respect to the main selling point: the palette. It's failing basic things like contrast ratios, so even people who you wouldn't even call "disabled" or "having accessibility needs" are going to have issues with this scheme (we've normalized visual disability so much that barely anyone even realizes that having glasses is literally a disability, requiring medical corrective devices) which is pretty disappointing in 2022.
> why affirmative action in the US has always been race-based and not economic-status or household income based?

We have both. We reserve the term “affirmative action” for race-based tilting. But means-based aid is also significant.
He's a smart, talented guy, but it takes a very different set of skills to break other peoples' stuff than it does to create it in the first place. George never had much patience for the organization of people -- he's got something of a superiority complex, or at least he believes other people are almost always focused on the wrong things. This bias is true, to a degree, but it isn't perfectly true, and George was always destined to run with those who actually can and do give him a run for his money, and to run up against the limitations of his technical abilities.
> The feature was in development for far longer.

You know this?
I generally agree with what you wrote but have some corections based on having worked with arena allocators.

4. Nothing prevents arena allocators to track other resources than memory.

7. This is not a big problem in practice from my experience. You can just do like Zig and always pass an allocator or you can use global/thread local variables like PostgreSQL.

But I also would like to add my biggest issue with arena allocators: they do nothing against use after free.
"Ensuring diversity" is not a worthwhile goal for any institution.
Big words for the guy opening a comment with “you missed the point”.
RIP San Diego Technical Books 8-(
It wasn't just S/W engineering that was different, it was the whole world.
I graduated uni, and started work in 1983. There was no internet.
Although you could write to the NIST and they would send you free boxes full of books on TCP/IP.
The best part was, everyone wasn't lost in make believe. I mean there were books and movies, and of course LSD, but all of that is a temporary escape. After 6 or 8 hours, the LSD wears off.
Now, people are lost in make believe 24/7.
You think buying a house or being treated fairly by an employer is hard now, just wait. You're gonna be so much more fucked in 20 years, this is gonna look like the great old days.
Just keep gushingly throwing yourself at whatever corp exploitation scheme is popular at the moment (twitverse, twerk tik, app store) it's all gonna work out, for ownership... Best of luck with that...
Equal opportunity is more important than whatever “merit” means.
Let's Encrypt? https://letsencrypt.org/
Cryptocurrency is primarily designed to waste energy. Tor is not primarily designed for anything bad.
Who is "we"? Unemployed code wizards?
Show HN: Updated Absurd.design for HN Community
Ah, hygge for your screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygge
So, people aren't really understanding the motivations that Geohotz has for looking into this stuff. He is being a bit cryptic about it.

Here is a basic summary though.

The atheist world, of no life after death, is scary. We have not invented immortality. And even if we do, well there is an even scarier thing called entropy, that will end the universe anyway. There is no escape from death, as far as we know, and this is a problem that faces every human being in the world.

Now what? What do we do now?

Do you just lay down and accept that? Do you just sit down and die when your time comes?

Or do you fight?

George seems to have chosen the fight route. And to do that, well, our options are pretty limited. It involves looking into things that likely are pretty fantastical.

Things like "are we living in a simulation, and is there a way to break out of the simulation, to a universe where entropy doesn't exist". Or, alternatively "does the bible talk about any magic, hidden portals".

And no, this doesn't involve just praying to a sky fairy, and hoping things work out in the end.

Yes, these solutions sound pretty fantastical. But what other options do we have? Because if the current atheist world is the real one, then we are doomed. We are in the death world. Game over. Thats it. The most important problem, ever, is unsolvable. And we are all going to die, and nothing other than this fact matters.
Hi everyone, Andrian from absurd.design here! Previous HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039739

Have you heard about the absurd.design project? This project is maintained by me and my wife. My wife is a creative voice behind this project and I work on the technical side only.

So, in comparison to the 2019 thread, I'd like to show you what's new in the most recent HN submission.

The works on absurd.design are grouped into chapters of illustrations. Currently, four completed chapters are available for project members on absurd.design, and one new chapter is in the works. And, while the new chapter is still being worked on, we'd like to introduce you to Chapter 4 - the most recently completed chapter of illustrations!

Chapter 4 is a collection of 30 hand-drawn illustrations that tell stories about everyday emotions, self-transformation, society, human dreams and aspirations. Think of it as thoughts exposed as visual metaphors while the viewer is invited to spark their imagination, take a journey into an absurd, yet beautiful world and find their own story in each illustration. So, if you're looking for expressive illustrations to make your project stand out, please take a look at them - perhaps they'll be just the right fit for your presentations, transactional emails, newsletters, website, apps, or, why not, project status pages?

My wife puts so much love into each and every stroke so that we hope these illustrations can convey this special feeling to you.

Thank you for dedicating these precious minutes of your time to take a look at our project; We really appreciate your interest and I can’t wait to get feedback and suggestions from you.
Ask HN: Why Can't I Separate My Personal and AWS Amazon Accounts?
Ten or so years ago, when I was running a business of ~5 people, I signed up for AWS using my personal account. Now that the business is larger, I'd like to transfer the root account to our IT director but it's tied to my personal Amazon account so I can't do that without transferring my whole account to him.

I asked AWS to separate the two accounts (which is a thing they can do!), and the response I received a week later was:

After carefully reviewing your request alongside the Service Team, we are unable to separate your AWS and Amazon.com accounts. Having said this, please note that we continuously evaluate eligibility for this separation process. While we are unable to provide you with a specific timeframe that your account may be eligible, we may automatically complete the separation process for you in the future.

What does this even mean? Has anyone had this experience before, and, if so, how did you get this resolved?
I am an outlier here but I will say Wt, a C++ web toolkit. It is like developing a desktop application, server-side rendered, works even if JavaScript is disabled on client side, and includes lots of features. The final web app too feels like a desktop app even though it is not an SPA. Some of the things it can do is shown here: https://www.webtoolkit.eu/widgets

The whole https://www.webtoolkit.eu website is written in Wt.
How do you define a group, and determine whether an individual is inside or outside that group?
How would something like this support logging, telemetry, debugging, etc as part of enterprise-grade software clusters if it has “no other services”?
Can't he be arrogant and exceptional at the same time?
The average person is not someone who moves the needle in society and it's not what you would target if you were a parent pushing to give you child the best achieving something remarkable. You want to give your child an outsized chance to end up the very top top of the band: successful founder a large business, national level politician, C-level executive, high successful doctor, well compensated finance professional, managing partner at a law firm. Or more crucially to be know those people and get opportunities the average person does not through their network.

If both places produce the same average outcome, then you would be crazy to not pick the place that is several times more likely to have an amazing outcome.
I'm disappointed by not surprised, given that IKEA would win simply by out spending him.

In cases like this is there the equivalent of a public defender to prevent large corporations winning by default?
RIP San Diego Technical Books 8-(
It wasn't just S/W engineering that was different, it was the whole world.
I graduated uni, and started work in 1983. There was no internet.
Although you could write to the NIST and they would send you free boxes full of books on TCP/IP.
The best part was, everyone wasn't lost in make believe. I mean there were books and movies, and of course LSD, but all of that is a temporary escape. After 6 or 8 hours, the LSD wears off.
Now, people are lost in make believe 24/7.
You think buying a house or being treated fairly by an employer is hard now, just wait. You're gonna be so much more f__ked in 20 years, this is gonna look like the great old days.
Just keep gushingly throwing yourself at whatever corp exploitation scheme is popular at the moment (twitverse, twerk tik, app store) it's all gonna work out, for ownership... Best of luck with that...
any interns on that team who are going to get bullied by replits lawyers in the near future?
I hope to do a tour in the US Digital Corps some day. The nonprofit space would be great too, but hard to find a lot of them with problems that my skill set addresses.
That's a bold claim against fully-autonomous driving. Does operating a motor vehicle require qualia? If not, what else makes a human uniquely capable of doing it? It may be a hard problem to crack, but asserting that it's impossible is pretty unfounded.
Yes, if the IRS agrees that what your company does fits its criteria then they will certify you as a non-profit.