skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Working for a couple of small startups in the early years, which meant writing code 8 hours a day for 6 years and being responsible for delivering not just features but full products to users from the very first year.

If my first job had been at a larger company, filled with meetings and processes, I never would have built up strong confidence writing code, coming up with solutions and building things.

2. Starting out 20+ years ago, when Googling the answer wasn't possible also played a huge part. Coupled with a 1 above, it meant that the only way to solve a problem or to work out how to do something was to work through it over hours and days myself.

My early solutions to unusual problems or tech shortcomings were not always ideal, but they always worked.

Both of these helped build up confidence in my own abilities, a knowledge that there's no problem I couldn't solve, and the certainty that I was fully capable of building whatever I wanted or needed to build.
There likely won’t be one. They have other ways of reducing headcount.
>No one outside of the USA is using iMessage

Why should I continue reading rest when you already made insane claim based on nothing. Or have I suddenly been teleported to USA? I primarily use iMessage when I'm sending messages with my phone. I have only one contact that uses Whatsapp.
Is it possible to use a font like this in a terminal emulator?
The people in the article were not selected because they are terrible bosses, because that's nothing unusual, but because they do not conform to the mainstream leftist narrative. Duh.
I don't see more people being loyal to WhatsApp than they are to their iPhones.

Also, having lived in 2 different countries in EU, I have never used WhatsApp. Only iMessage, Signal, and SMS.
That isn't true, though. The phrase "devil's advocate" almost always refers to taking the other side of an issue where doing so is understood to be negative. When used to low-key argue in favor of the position because one believes in shitty things--and it's usually pretty obvious!--the user of the phrase is merely telling on themselves.

"Well, maybe shitty people doing shitty things is good, actually??" does no one any favors.
I thought they released Safari for Windows to enable developers to test their web based iPhone apps. Before the App store all iPhones were supposed to only run web based apps, and Windows was a much larger platform for developers.
Now wait for all the apologists to come in and tell you how this is actually protecting free speech.
I believe it was Edward R. Murrow who said as goes Kathy Griffin so does the rest of the civilized world.
The problem is that it was always at the whim of some opaque internal Twitter process. There always should have been an actual process for anyone to be verified. It creates resentment when the criteria for verification are not transparent.

Is this going to fix it? No, one of two things will happen: (1) Musk will end up with a gigantic tax write-off when he sells what’s left of Twitter to Verizon for 140M two years from now. (2) Musk will turn it into something that is successful by some definition but isn’t Twitter and no longer commands the same attention from the world at large.
If China had the same Covid death rate as Canada, this would result in millions of Chinese deaths and even more disabled due to long Covid. Why does pursuing their strategy, that has worked extremely well for them so far, “defy logic”? Why are you reaching for a political dissent explanation when avoiding mass death and disability is a far more obvious and logical explanation?
I remember iTunes and Safari on Windows being less polished 'by design' to nudge users who were able to experience them on Mac to think the hardware/OS was better.
Initially, but once the technology is proven I don't see why it wouldn't become more generalized over time.
> claims that it’s better for cooking

It's not really "better" it's simply easier keep a constant heat. Most electrical cooking stuff works on intermittent on-and-off cycles. An electric oven power up, then start cycling it's internal resistences let's say 10" powerd 5" off, then again 10" powerd etc. Some users here show me in a video an induction plate who use "mini-coils" who seems rotating constantly nearly nullifying such cycle effects on food cooking, but most other electric gears choose a "simpler" approach for their OEM.

Personally I'm all electric since around 8/10 years or so, I've made a habit and not a professional cook (while remaining a professional eater) but I understand those who dislike the initial impact...

Beside that: most actual tech is developed in crappy ways, most product explicitly made not to last and not to ensure evolution with plugged-in recycling but simply ensure a constant buy of new gears who are just crappy like the ones they substitute. Now most people might not realize that as well as a techie but anyone feel that. So...
I would argue that these accounts are parodying, not impersonating.
I'm curious to hear if anyone has recently changed their opinion on Elon Musk, in any direction, and why?
Thank you, this is a great ressource for understanding how cd ripping works!

I added this to the article along with some other things, I took from this discussion. Thank you HN for providing more details!
This isn't a case of partisanship from the critics. If one side claims to be on the side of anti-censorship, then engages in censorship once in power, that is a case of hypocrisy. It doesn't take tribalism to call that out.
Had to check: your typical rainfall is about the same as Sydneys rainfall this year with the year long La Nina system. That is nuts.
> Apple thought too little of their users to allow them to store files on their phone?

So where do you think these files that are used are stored?
i thought comedy was legal now on twitter
That's profit, not revenue.

I'm asking why their revenue for increased exponentially for having 10% more clients.
>Sure. On my back, and that of countless others.

Yes, that was the point. People who could not afford healthcare, are now receiving it. Hence people who can afford to pay for others to get healthcare, have to pay for others to get healthcare.

>However, doing it by causing serious financial harm to likely millions of families is not right, at all.

There was never going to be a way to redistribute wealth without taking to from those who have it or to give it to those who do not.

>Here's an example: One of my kids ended-up in the hospital with myocarditis due to the Covid vaccine. That cost us over TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, cash.

And you are insured for amounts that go over the out of pocket maximum, which is legally around $17k for families. So if you need a $500k heart surgery tomorrow, you only have to spend a maximum of $17k.

Obviously, the price of healthcare is a problem, and the only way to fix that is to lower demand (let people die) and increase supply (more doctors, more taxpayer funded R&D into medicines that go into public domain, and tort reform).
Came here to say this. For me it was just obsessive curiosity and loving building stuff with computers, whether it was websites, or trying to code up a virus.
You know, you might finish reading my post before replying to it, it’s not very long.
But why no in-hub motor? Must be because of the silly pedals.
If you count optimizing your ill-formed function into an inlined panic [1] as "bug eliminated at compile-time", then it may be true!

https://godbolt.org/z/M7Gr3TazE
A few things:

Elon has no idea what he bought.

Elon cannot post, despite desperately wishing he could.

Elon has done the worst thing you can do if you are being trolled online ("mooom the Internet is being mean to me!"), which harkens back to #1.

He's rapidly pissing off the reason why many people are on Twitter in the first place.

All while laying people off and then sending them messages with, "wait, no, please come back".

...

It's like watching an any% Speedrun of "destroying one's own company".
"Free speech is what I allow it to be" - Elon Musk, probably
Surely context would show that these are parodies, not impersonations.

Are these people trying to impersonate Elon Musk, or are they parodying Elon Musk on their clearly-marked "not elon musk" (due to the handle) accounts?

I'm inclined towards the latter.
I suspected he was pretty shitty and petty. I no longer suspect, I'd say he's absolutely confirmed that now.
Being able to combine programming knowledge with knowledge from my previous domain. I don't need to be particularly great at either, but they multiply together to make me very useful.
You wrote: <<The head start you get from an elite school in the US, in things that have nothing to do with education per se, can not be overstated.>>

I have posted about this before on HN: One thing that is frequently overlooked, better schools (usually) have better/smarter students. My first uni was medium famous. My second uni was part of Cal[ifornia] State. The first was full of intelligent, highly engaging students. The second was... well, much less. The best parts of my uni education were working with other highly intelligent people on hard engineering problems. My second uni felt like an intellectual desert, but, hey, I got my degree.

More: Good schools act as a filter for employers. Why look for "diamonds in the rough" at a low quality school, when you can pay marginally more salary and get much better students at medium quality and above schools? I am on the hiring side now. I rarely find a diamond in the rough from a low quality school. The best candidates are mostly from the best unis. The same is true for former employer. If your CV has a bunch of low quality companies, you are also likely low quality. Again, rare exceptions exist. I won't name the employer: But one has had a 100% failure rate during interviewing. It is so bad, that I now regularly discard CVs with this current employer... unless the CV has something exceptional.

In closing, what if you are a diamond in the rough? My advice: Change employers as often as possible in your industry & country. Each change needs to be a step up the reputation ladder. If a sideways move, make sure you get title and/or money. In my last employer move, I move down one step in reputation. The quality of employees is much lower here than my other higher rep employers.
iCloud is awful on Windows to this day. Basically unusable unless you have < 100 files.
Yup, I think some (all?) cities have banned ICE scooters. I only ever saw electric ones there (though this was 5 years ago now).
Iosevka, a customizable monospace font, also has quasi-proportional (almost monospace) varients: Iosevka Aile and Iosevka Etoile.
In circumstances, and depending on configuration, the code formatter tool may still aim for alignment, such as assignment operators on subsequent lines. Whether you like that or not, for me the question still stands: how does that jive with "almost monospaced".
Sadly no that would bad but not nearly as bad as what I believe.

Please don't flame me for this opinion, it is just my opinion and do not want to get into a big discussion where I end up looking like a conspiracy nut.

I feel that most "Board Certified" doctors have a pretty good life and would not be naïve enough to step into the quagmire of the vaccine debate, but would rather let their "Board" provide an opinion and then toe that line!

I hope that makes sense, but if not, I will try another angle;

I fear many doctors may be biting their tongues, rather than speaking out against the board approved narrative. The board who also answers to others...those others may have interests that conflict with any other narrative. Like they may have to admit they made a mistake which would have political consequences and may end their bureaucratic career!

That is my honest opinion. Right or Wrong it seems reasonable to me.
We've hit 1M monthly active users
That wasn’t their point. But to be honest I do think FreeBSD is.

Linux wins in terms of market share which makes it appear easier (eg more software support, bore install guides, etc). But if you look at the base OS itself, FreeBSD is a lot more consistent to manage.

I think it’s a great pity FreeBSD doesn’t get more traction to be honest with you. I have no major qualms with Linux on the whole but FreeBSD is a really nice platform to work on too.
I think iTunes Match still offers this, too.
Um, yeah... because those are prominent. The ID is smaller.

Don't be verified and pretend to be someone else. Or just don't pretend to be someone else regardless. Seems pretty straightforward...
The much vaunted Plextor aren't as good as I thought they were...
> If verified accounts violate terms of service, eg spam/scam/impersonation, they’ll be suspended, but Twitter will keep their money!

Yup, they were warned and they done it anyway and now they are crying over that suspension. So this over-reaction isn't newsworthy.
You really think so? EU are still buying Russian gas today.
Allowing people to join Facetime calls through a browser is not "opening up" the platform. Until they have an API I can write a custom client for it's just a different kind o
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> Nobody wants a language where whitespace is significant as a debugging extension language!

Nobody just not true, and also overdramatizing at the whitespaces, lol. Taking the expressiveness over C anytime, and also over Javascrpt's uglyness and insanities. What's your fav then?
We come back to urban design not vehicle design. This is a fine vehicle I am sure, and fits in similar category to eBikes etc. Small, designed for town and city, can be lugged up and down steps so kept in non-car spaces. But vulnerable to a ton of fast moving metal.

We have to bite the bullet and redesign urban environments away from the car.

- seperate lanes and roads for "vulnerable vehicles", for manual vs motor powered.

- license all powered and manual vehicles - treat them all the same. (this most importantly includes insurance. I am a bike rider hit by a car and still not seen a penny. But if I had a giant bureaucratic insurance company on my side it would have been sorted already. And the externality priced in better.

- All the other arguments on StrongTowns, 15 minute cities etc. It's too late for Houston but maybe we can save other towns.
If the voting process was made as simple as possible (taking into account the best available evidence from user testing, psychology, linguistics, and so on) and someone decided to deliberately disregard the instructions given, and avoided all efforts to be educated on the topic, then at that point I would agree that the individual's agency was at fault.

To be clear, I don't think that such an individual would "deserve" disenfranchisement as a "punishment" for their actions, since voting is a fundamental right that needs proper due process to remove from someone; it would just be an unfortunate practical consequence of their poor decisions.

Let me reverse the question though: Is there any point where you would concede that the voting system was unacceptably flawed if it caused one or more people to mistakenly fill out a ballot that didn't reflect their true intention (or made them choose not to vote at all)?
Consider this: how is changing your profile name _in the wake of removing verification_ not speech?
Yes, this behavior was already against the rules. What Griffin is doing is a form of civil disobedience by intentionally breaking the rules to call attention to them. Previously this was a rule that was rarely broken because verification was hard to get and usually reserved for people who had a material interest in keeping it. That gave a strong incentive not to pull these hijinks. Next week verification will be as easy as spending $8. There are going to be a huge wave of accounts that think whatever they can get out of impersonating someone is worth more than the chance of losing their $8 investment.
I really like Tesla and SpaceX but I have really started to hate Elon over the past year. Just STFU and build quick cars and rockets. It can't be that hard but he thinks he's some kind of edge lord that thinks everyone loves him.
I guess that last episode of "Fuck around and find out" didn't really take with Griffin.

Finding out that, apparently, there were under the table "You get a blue check for $15,000" schemes going on will make things ... super-interesting, if any forensics can find out a goodly percentage of the culprits. And I wonder exactly what overlap will be with this crop of sudden whiners.
> The bulk of blood transfusions will always rely on people regularly rolling up their sleeve to donate.

I always cringe when I read sentences like that. "Always"? Really? How could you possibly know that?
The bird was supposed to be freed
> If the user really wants, they can make a custom slice wrapper that implements the `Index` trait in a way that returns `Option`.

You can't, because indexing is required to return a reference. It's hard to get creative.
2 and 3 along with constantly building side projects. you build enough side projects, to completion, and you get much, much better.

One of my side projects even got venture funding (and not in 2021 when things were overheated -- back in 2003).
Have you spent very much time on Twitter? Lots of people have silly names like this. You quickly learn to use people's handles & the verified check mark. This is very much parody that is normal on Twitter & which most people would immediately recognize.
I don't know why you'd want to deal with the European or UK system. It means your housing payment can fluctuate, possibly dramatically, due to actions entirely outside your control.

Mortgages in the US generally don't have a payoff penalty after a certain amount of time (and some don't have one at all) so in a falling interest rate scenario you can simply refinance.

To answer your question: the ultimate buyers (or should I say ultimate lenders) are taking the interest rate upside risk in exchange for stability. Mortgages just don't lose much money. When defaults are high they lose out on future interest and may take principle haircuts but they don't evaporate. Even most of the garbage from the 2007 financial crisis eventually recovered as housing recovered - comparatively few of the actual mortgages were written off.

If you want that kind of stability you can buy US Treasuries to earn 1% (or even less). Or you can get into mortgages and earn 2.5% for almost the same risk. Those rates would be higher today of course since the fed is raising rates.

You might rightly say that LIBOR or whatever rates don't fluctuate that much... in which case the same argument applies to the risk lenders take on in the US market.
Twitter "impersonations" have been around forever and are easily spotted from a mile away. If anything they are a fun social engineering hack of that platform's outdated UI and bizarre lack of oversight on already-verified accounts.
The exact shape of the bureaucracy is the problem. The US lacks in-house capacity and relies on outside consultants and contractors who are more than happy to overbill if not audited properly.

The California HSR project was at one point using a staff of less than a hundred full-time staff to monitor over a thousand consultants which led to a lot of cost blowouts.
Sure, the text is here:

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_24733.htm

"Prospective members will have to have:

Demonstrated a commitment to and respect for OSCE norms and principles, including the resolution of ethnic disputes, external territorial disputes including irredentist claims or internal jurisdictional disputes by peaceful means"

I first heard, the argument put forth General Patreaus. He has mentioned it several times on various television programs when asked what he thought about claims that Russia invaded to keep Ukraine out of NATO. That motivated me to look up the passage.

I'm not certaint what you mean about Cypress? It has not applied for NATO membership.

Edit: the ideas behind the above quote seems likely to be based on the langjage in Article 1 of the NATO Charter.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_17120.ht...

"Article 1

The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations."
>thus cost everyone including the government even more money...

Americans were simply going without healthcare, so it was unavoidable that it was going to cost the whole country more money.

>I cant fathom why the majority of Americans are ok with their weird sociopathic Job = Health Insurance based system.

Because once the government gives a subsidy to a certain tribe, that tribe no longer has an incentive to vote to increase that subsidy to members of other tribes.

For example, in the US, old people have had healthcare for many decades. And they have the highest voting rates. But as a politician, you are not going to get far advertising that you will increase their taxes so that non old people can receive healthcare, especially if many of those non old people do not look like the old people.

But, completely screwing people is also politically unpopular, so what can pass is a half measure, like Medicaid, where politicians can say they helped people get healthcare, but also keep taxes low. How? Well, you simply pay the doctors and drug makers and dentists less for people covered by Medicaid. And you pay more for people covered by Medicare.

And as the tribes get more and more politically influential, you can keep adding various tiers of subsidy recipients. And that is the beauty of “health insurance companies”, or rather, “managed care organizations”.

Businesses with young, healthy, office workers can pool their health risks into less risky pools and pay much higher reimbursements so they get premium healthcare.

Poor people get directed to Medicaid, which will have a network of fewer and overburden doctors so they get less care, and less quality care.

Medicare will provide old people with enough healthcare to keep their votes coming.

Federal and military employees get decent healthcare because their coverage pays more.

Others get dumped onto the statewide exchanges that are you get what you pay for type deals.

And all of this is funneled through the managed care organizations so that people cannot easily measure who is getting what and who is getting more from the system versus less.

So tl:dr is that as a country, we do not actually want to help everyone equally. Just enough to say they were helped, but at the same time, make sure we get as much of the pie for ourselves as possible, and give up as little as possible.
You can't compare a moka pot with a french press, they are fundamentally different things that make different styles of coffee. Espresso and coffee are not identical.

Personally I find french press too grainy, so at home I use aeropress, but when out prefer a properly done pour over filtered coffee. Black of course.
Ok, then the problem with such projects in the US is obviously the lack of plannability. New York has now (finally, after decades of planning) built 3 stations of the Second Avenue Subway. Wether it will ever be expanded is currently unsure. Compare that to Munich, where between 1965 and 2010 there was always a subway under construction. Even without the inherent interests of the companies and workers involved, it should be obvious that when you build more, the cost per mile will be much lower.