skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that the more senior you are the less time percent-wise you will allocate to just coding but for strong developers this doesn’t mean your output drops compared to juniors, it drops compared to what you could do if you were only heads down coding. It’s easier in many ways to have higher output as you become more senior if you stay close to the code, know more about the code base, and can be much faster, all the best devs I’ve loved working with are like this. Many of the less productive senior folks that drop in their output and don’t code much (i.e. modify < 100 loc in a month as a normal occurrence) become architecture astronauts which is not imho what a senior dev should be doing as they will lose touch and eventually their guidance is less useful on the complex matters where they are most needed which in turn means their team and company impact is not what it should be.
I recommend you to watch the movie "Transcendence", ignore the reviews. After that let it just be an idea for the movie plot and instead go walk through the woods for a while. I used to be where you are now, but no singularly can fix what is in essence a spiritual problem.
> most of the data is never stored.

Doesn't Discord currently have an infinite retention policy?
This paper claims quantum computer can integrate arbitrary non-linear differential equations with quantum advantage:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.06571.pdf

It does seems too good to be true.
A large majority of these elevations and building footprints donated to OpenStreetMap (over 900 Million) were contributed by Microsoft from Bing Maps. Microsoft now also incorporates OpenStreetMap data into Bing Maps.

https://github.com/microsoft/GlobalMLBuildingFootprints/

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microsoft_Building_Footp...
> Nomads, by definition, don’t meaningfully contribute to a community. They don’t create deep relationships, families, or traditions.

Guess how many of those things my wife and I were doing in the suburban neighborhood where we were living before we started our (domestic) digital nomad journey?
I just got back from the Banff Film Festival, where I saw Fire of Love[1]. It’s the story of French scientists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who become fully devoted to each other and the study of Volcanos for the rest of their lives.

Created using hours of their archival footage, it’s a story driven by a singular shared passion, amazingly found by two people born only 20km apart.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=kz95Xjd3l00
You can hook up the virtual serial port to stdin/stdout of the host by passing `-serial stdio` or `-nographic` in the QEMU args. You can then read from/write to the serial port in the VM.
Replacing Android with LineageOS: Fresh Breath of Life
> There are quite a few websites with little or no moderation working just fine, like 4chan.

Working fine at doing what? Emulating a thousand typing monkeys? Arguing that 4chan has some form of working discourse and rherefore everything should be like it is like arguing there is still some message at the end in the childrens game "silent mail" and therefore it should replace all methods of communication.

Don't get me wrong, there probably even is some sort of use in the existence of something like 4chan (I bet some sociology doctorate has written about the function of the platform for certain demographic parts of the population for example).

But there is probably a reason why you are discussion this topic here on HN instead of over there. And if I guess, this reason has all to do with you being able to have better, cleverer and more informed discussion here, than over there and is not at all hindered by the fact that the HN moderation would cut your voice off if you just pressed the right (wrong) buttons.

Some form of moderation is always better for discussion than none at all, unless you are making some sort of social experiment.
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Sure,"wrong" is a bit strong. I mean "wrong" in the same sense as Newtonian mechanics is wrong, which is exactly that it is an excellent approximation in some domains, but fails in others.

> It could very well be that they are both great approximations and it’s actually the underlying information structure that shifts depending on scale.

Right now, both QM and GR claim that they apply at any scale. If it turns out that the laws of physics change with scale, that means that both QM and GR are wrong, even though they may each be perfectly correct at the scale they have been seen to work so far.
The ownership is besides the point here. The point is the Wordpress installs don't talk to each other, neither do Discord servers, behind the scenes. Discord's servers aren't one giant big powerful computer, it's a lot of smaller ones. Behind the scenes, each Discord "server" exists separate from all the rest of them. After the load balancer, the StableDiffusion Discord messages don't intermix with the Midjourney Discord messages, so their internal architecture can be that each "Discord server" is self-contained to it's own group of servers that don't talk to other servers. (Discord's decision to call them servers here is really unfortunate and confusing.)

This means that for scalability reasons, it's easy to create a new "Discord server" as it only has to be connected to the other people on that server, and not the whole rest of the Discordverse.

Twitter has no such luxury. So when that one cat video goes hella viral, the system as a whole needs to handle that access pattern, which is actually difficult to scale. We'll have to wait and see how the site handles the world cup in a few weeks, as that is an event that stresses the service.
Read the tests.
Well, reporters do disrespect us.

When I had TV appearances they were calling me "Pulli Traeger" (wearing casual outfit). In publicity you are respected how you look, not what you can. Experts are frequently looked down, as they rarely can express themselves to a TV audience. On smaller private TV it was fine though.

Also upper management in Europe used to disrespect us as overpaid "coders" or code monkeys.
>Just being online and being part of the few select communities that existed back then was a commitment, and I believe that's in part what made it feel special.

I attended an offline conference after more than 3+ years yesterday. It was a welcome change after all the online interactions ;)
> non-web client that does E2EE

Signal?
You can use anything:

DNS Configuration Guide: https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/guides/dns-configuration
The first obviously-better idea is to use a/b instead of \frac{a}{b} and (x) instead of \left(x\right).

The next obvious improvement is to allow (not require — allow) me to write α instead of \alpha, ∈ instead of \in, and ≤ instead of... whatever the code for that was.
I wrote about a blog post about this: https://shubhamjain.co/2020/05/17/being-fast-matters. Basically, as your get better, you also get faster. It's an unpopular opinion but great programmers can often perform wonderful in a short amount of time. Hell, it took Linus just a day to start using Git for managing Git[1]. It's a product of experience, thinking clearly, and being knowledgable about good tools for the job.

People will retort: "But, but, but... what about pushing junk?" Well, if you've decent code review system how will that get merged? Pushing junk is often a less of a problem provided you've a good engineering culture. The best teams I worked with were just plain fast. The worst ones had plenty of engineers hiding behind meetings, reviews, and bike-shedding.

[1]: https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/when-overachievers-sel...
Any business operating at Twitter's scale (and I mean this in a business sense, not a technical sense) has far more to do, operationally, than sustain mission-critical activities. The accessibility team is gone; the curation team is gone; the moderation team is gone. This is what drove advertisers away: Musk promised that it wouldn't become a free-for-all hellscape, and then eliminated the organizational controls that were preventing just that.

It doesn't matter if they have enough runway to last a quarter without revenue if there's no prospects of bringing back enough revenue to sustain the business, and thus far, there's no hint of any revenue stream sufficient to do so even at Twitter's reduced headcount. And Musk now has to find those new sources of revenue in the middle of organizational chaos when Twitter is least able to execute on any new ideas or iterate effectively.

Do you remember when Digg was king of the Internet, and then they released a badly received update and a week later were no longer even a top contender, eventually to be sold for $500,000? This is the market in which Musk is trying to iterate quickly by lighting everything on fire to motivate those who are left. I'm sceptical, to put it mildly.
Hello from Sydney Australia.

We’ve got some beautiful weather here today (Sunday)! I just went for a surf with my beautiful wife while the grandparents walked our 6 month old around the beach.

I wish the world was a peaceful as our time in the water.
Great post! So great that this will be the first time I post a comment here on HN. I’m from Sweden and I’m passionate about two things currently.

The first thing is that me, my wife, my mother and my father is building a house from scratch to me and my wife. I’ve never built anything before so a lot of what free time I have goes towards reading up on how to do it. We started building 1,5 years ago and started taking down trees in the small forest where the house was to be located three years ago. Anyone on HN building their own house?

The second thing I’m tinkering with is coding a game in swift playgrounds using only the iPad. It is a fps game built with Metal using only SDFs for rendering and collision.
Yeah I've been having some regular PT sessions in between workouts. Amazing how much more motivated you feel and better you perform getting some 1-1 advice and teaching from an expert. Was both a humbling and rewarding experience and highly recommend to anybody wanting to get into going to the gym.
Thank you for posting this! Excellent idea.

Currently, I'm passionate about nailing pinch harmonics on the guitar. I've been struggling to get the right sound but I'm looking forward to the day I can do that so that I can cover so many amazing songs that use it!

Also, spending some time learning about docker extensions and thinking of some ideas of what kind of extension I can make :)
Well, that’s why Markdown was popular. It took existing conventions, codified them, and more importantly, crested a tool to convert them to HTML.

At its core, Markdown was little more than a perl script that converted a human readable doc written using many online conventions into HTML.

Others realized this was a brilliant idea and created their own supersets and/or alternatives of markdown. That’s why there’s so many flavors of markdown with little tweaks.

And that’s why Markdown is popular. Because it took advantage of convention built out of years of trial and error.
Yeah, you've done it legally (others are illegal immigrants perhaps) - but "taking something away from the locals" isn't the only measure, and income tax is part of that. Obviously if 5,000 nomads descended on a small town there'd be services that would be strained - of course even paying income tax wouldn't necessarily solve all of those.

Hopefully it'll be more hammered out as time progresses so there's more options available.
I'm not sure how to read your comment.

"there are quite a few frontend compatible with Mastodon API"?

Isn't the Mastodon API the ActivityPub API?

Of course one could write a new ActivityPub application from scratch.

But my question is: Can the Mastodon templates be easily changed?
Couldn't they solve this by letting you rebind/shadow `err` without requiring a new block? Then to make sure you don't accidentally ignore the error, the standard unused variables compile error would prevent that (it would right? it could at least).
Thats what Im thinking too, it shows carelessness and unprofessionalism from the lock makers. And the high pricepoint is justified even less.
>ECG device

An ecg device saved my dad's life, it caught a weird heart murmur he was having and alerted the doctors to an issue with his heart. He's now better becuase we detected it early, its so wonderful there are people like you working on these devices that makes modern medicine do its thing. Thank you!

Also, how do you prepare your coffee?
According to the very statistics cited by the lock company in their own defense, the odds are better than 1 in 8 (I only saw min/max) that they will rake your lock instead of kick it in. So that's 12.5%+ of the time it will get raked open instead of your door being smashed in.

> Even in physical pentesting, lock picking is rarely used.

As I recall, that's because it's known that locks can be picked. Unless the client thinks they have uber locks or thinks their guards should catch it, it's not the vulnerability they are looking for.
Hello from Colombo, Sri Lanka. I'm a former C++ dev turned manager, running an engineering team of about 60 engineers (stack: MERN + AWS). But my current passion is how to help bring about social change in Sri Lanka, after a series of remarkable events [1] culminating in this (which you may have seen in the news in July): https://youtu.be/hkuExq-WBEo?t=35. These events convinced me, and a lot of other people, that peaceful, positive change is possible in a country that we had almost given up on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests
In addition to the other context people mentioned (that Apple was in a very different state), Apple was also significantly larger than Twitter as a company with many , many more projects at hand spanning a much larger range of domains.
It’s going east-to-west in both hemispheres, that’s for sure. However, in the northern hemisphere the Sun goes from left to right, and in the southern from right to left, when you’re looking at the Sun.
Then you should be a fan of Nix
But isn’t that antithetical to decentralization? Would you consider mastodon decentralized if you had to rely on AWS?
So true,

Last week , I made 2 posts here got no response .

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33478431

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33478086
Monthly active users seems to be reported:

https://mastodon.social/nodeinfo/2.0
That's a great counter-point. Still, I believe that the "moonshot" Google Glass project could have succeeded as well if they listened to internal feedback earlier.
> have a designated home for tax purposes, regardless of questionable haven-status

I have a designated tax home in Florida where I do have a vacation home/investment property where we stay around 3-4 months per year.

> In either case... a tourist? Leaving aside the nomads who do have some permanent tax residency, regardless of whether or not it is questionable, do most of any nomads actually pay the same taxes that a local would in the places they visit?

Every hotel I stay at adds on legally mandated government fees for tourists. Blame the government if they aren’t passing laws that require AirBnbs to pay those same fees and/or Airbnb that goes out of their way to support illegal short term rentals.

I’m mostly staying in the US. But we stay exclusively at hotels and pay we pay whatever government mandated tourist fees when we stay internationally
Being Fast Matters (2020)
Holy hell. Is this just like one big ass MUD adventures convention? Pretty cool, man.
Yeah it's insane how shit gets funded and obvious non-brainers do not.
However, working on something that matters, despite the pay-cut, brings its own rewards. But it is not easy to find such work.
I have found that serrated pins are pretty easy to defeat by manipulating the torque you apply a little bit. I actually have a slightly harder time with spool pins although they do give you nice feedback about when they are set (and false set).
That should not have been Level's response. "You can buy part of a lock for $330, and maybe know you need to replace part of it to work" is very different from "here's a smartlock"
You can disable the Seamless DNS Integration[0], and configure DNS manually [1]. DNS queries will still have to go through Portmaster. It does regular self-checks and will nag you until you fix it.

[0] https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/settings#filter/dnsQueryIn...

[1] https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/guides/dns-configuration
The success of English is not the result of a “worse is better” situation. It’s the result of the fact that the English colonialists much of the world and then after colonialism ended and the world became more global through trade and communications, the biggest economy in the world with the biggest media industry in the history of the world spoke English.
Electrically moving the bolt is a waste of battery power. The decent locks just engage/disengage the bolt from the latch and let the human do the turning.
I cam do that on MY machine. I cannot do that on your. I can download code, inspect it, install, and then create a RPM package, which can be installed in a safe way by DNF package manager, but I cannot do that with `curl | bash` method of installation.
> If you have an example of Elon abusing his employees I’d be interested in seeing it.

I don't know how to say this any more clearly. Laying people off and then days later asking them to rejoin is just jerking people around. You might not agree, but that is exactly the abuse this subthread has been about. Not memes, not secret stuff that I claim to be privy to.

> You could argue layoffs are abuse.

This is exactly what I and the person you originally responded to were pointing at as abusive. But not just the layoffs; it was the layoffs then asking for a do-over just a day or two later. For someone worth $200,000,000,000 dollars, firing and rehiring hundreds or thousands of people might be seen as indecisive or fickle behavior, but to those employees it could be quite a lot of turmoil.
Hello from SF! Having a "me" night tonight after watching some very entertaining games, and enjoying this thread quite a bit.

If anyone is passionate about backcountry skiing let me know! I'm getting ready to split a lot of time in the Tahoe area this winter, and always love hearing about new routes/getting beta.
I’m no longer building a house. My family did when I was younger. One day my Dad took us to a random plot of land and went “we’re building a house here”.

I figured he meant contractors, did not realize that for the next 5 years, every weekend was going to be building a home from scratch.

My parents are retired and live there permanently now. It was a wild ride, learned a lot.
The impact if it disappears is perhaps minimal (though I do think it’s a valuable place for many topics like programming, art and game dev among others).

However the real impact is if it becomes a service to push partisan agenda. Elon has already shown his biases multiple times and his duplicitous nature. He is very much on the cusp of being the new Murdoch.

Whether or not many Americans use Twitter is going to be irrelevant compared to the impact it will have on society.
Every language steals words from other languages. Heck, eastern Asian languages have stolen an entire script from English (pinyin).

There’s nothing unique about English in this regard.
First a whole screen-long ad, and then an intrusive “subscribe to newsletter!!” pop-up. Why is anybody upvoting this?
Hello from across the Polk Strait (Colombo). Keep at it!
The thing is short term rents really do pay that much more in some areas. There's an apartment in my building on Airbnb that brings in over €8k/mo. It has a minimum stay length of 14 days. It's booked (well, the calendar shows unavailable) until February next year. To rent a similar apartment long term would be around €1500/mo. With the difference you can easily pay taxes and could even hire someone full time to look after it for you.
I’m also not interested any longer in my field (that I used to be passionate about so much that I swear would wake up out of the dead just to do).

So I am picking up another hobby. History, cooking, and ????
Very clever. I would be concerned however that GitHub may shut you down at some point and if this got serious it would have to be running on federated git servers and then you would need a secure synchronization protocol Etc pretty soon you're looking at Matrix
There's no mystery to Mars, just letting its crust hang out there for all to see.
I would expect better security against raking from a $20 lock.
No idea how to exactly but I will! Gave up on the idea many times but giving up is stupid, atleast in my case
The topic of timezones and jurisdiction does tend to come up often in my field.

(jurisdiction: because of handling of personal data)
I didn't even make it halfway through the article before I logged into Paypal and removed my payment info.

Strangely though, when I logged in I wasn't prompted to use a one-time code.
Hello from New Zealand, just completed my second degree black belt exam in Goju Ryu karate.

Martial arts a big passion of mine,currently I'm trying to internalise a weekend of training (the new things you learn slip away so fast) and thinking about the next step on my M.A journey.
Big picture, Mastodon isn't just Twitter minus the moderation -- it's Twitter minus the algorithm for promoting the most "engaging" content. That's a big win, because it's the competition for the most engaging content that always ends up as a race to the bottom.

The dumbest, silliest, and rudest comments and commenters get promoted on Twitter (and Facebook etc), because that gets the most clicks. Get rid of all that manufactured promotion, and what's left is a quieter space where users can self-organize their own communities -- more like a chill party or friendly conference hallway than a staged political rally.
Just from an employee perspective (speculating, I'm not there) I'd imagine that if 50% of your colleagues were dramatically fired, I'd be looking for a job even if I survived this round. How much of the expertise that built the platform will remain in a year?

And hiring is going to be difficult. As a techie in silicon valley, no way I'd consider joining unless they paid way, way above market since I know any job there will be just one Musk tantrum away from evaporating. Too risky.
Hello from Colombo, Sri Lanka. I was there on work this September. Incredible place. Like a more chilled out version of New York. I envy your distance from all the crap that's going on in the world.
Very fun project! My best to you
If they mostly are telling other people what to do to make the other people write better code, then yeah, they can be productive to the work of the company. In a good job, I will save more time by tweaking other peoples plans than any direct execution I do. There is a reason the best management is management by walking around, talking to people, finding it what is actually going on.
Solder a FPGA to it's NAND pins and create virtual NAND flash device with humongous capacity.
Next jailbreak and install tons of apps, specifically those that are at risk of being removed from the store. Never update, always be one version behind.
Next: Advertise that you have access to all of that. People will be happy.