skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this wasn’t your point, but I’m a 3D printing enthusiast and I follow what’s going on in the industry.

I wouldn’t consider 3D printing played out, but I would say that it’s become more boring in the last few years. This is a good thing because it means that it’s being sustained by real work (e.g. medical, prototyping, micro-manufacturing) rather than hype.

I do agree that there was a hype phase, though, and the AI hype phase will probably be similar if not bigger.
> - Difficult transition to the cliques and more aggressive social dynamics of public school

Am I naive in thinking that the aggressive social dynamics of public school adds no value whatsoever to a child's or teenager's development?

Like, _why_ would anyone want to put their children through that? Is it _really_ integral to a person's social development to understand how to interact with bullies (worst case)?

I admit that I am rather nihilistic about public schooling, but I'm open to changing my mind.
It’s still awaiting approval from App Store reviewers, I just launched it today.

You can still use the trial build from the website until then.
It appears that there are certain people who believe that humans should strive to be compassionate and understanding and not publicly humiliate other people - and that there are certain other people who believe that this is all worth nothing as long as you're a "successful founder".

pg should really ask himself whether he wants to defend a person who is as morally bankrupt as Elon Musk.

I don't feel like Elon is gonna be successful with his approach. But I worry even more about a world in which he is successful and this kind of asshole behaviour is normalised.

Somehow, a subset of tech culture has embraced the idea that as long as you're technically brilliant (and/or filthy rich), you get to play entirely by your own rules without any consideration for other people.
Zeihan makes some extremely basic factual errors in his recent book The End of the World is Just the Beginning - the kind that make me distrust everything he says on the topics I lack the knowledge to fact-check.

I wrote a longer review of the book here in the unlikely event that anyone gives a shit: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4994497141?book_show_a...
I did Montessori from kindergarten until grade 6 (age 12), in Mexico.

I really, really like it.

I think it reinforces the kids natural curiosity.

In middle school, my first year out of Montessori, I was shocked at how little other kids cared about learning. I remember the teacher discussing something about astronomy, and I raised my hand to comment on some fact I had read, and what followed was mockery by my peers and antipathy by the teacher. I learned quickly to never again show that I cared about learning.

This was a huge contrast with Montessori where most us were eager to learn and share what we had learned. I had friends that had built the solar system to scale out of their own initiative (in hindsight they may have taken some liberties, nonetheless).

I kept tabs more or less my classmates that came out of the Montessori, and I think they overall overperformed the non Montessori people in middle school and high school. Harder to gauge adulthood success.

I also liked that they had children of various years in the same classroom. I think it promoted knowledge sharing from the older kids to the younger ones, and it removed barriers for friendships. Some of my best friends back then where older than I was. That would never happen in middle or high school.

Finally, I don't think it's perfect. Because we were all expected to join a traditional school after grade 6, the school made some effort to make sure that the outgoing class had covered all the basic requirements (a not necessarily a simple thing since we had great liberty of pursuing what was interesting to us).

All in all, I would strongly recommend it.
I remember doing this.

There is a problem.

Operate the sales.

I remember having the fullstack design and operations of the tech side of the product but the sales and support side of the product (conversion, adoption, tech support, tickets) required the same muscle volume than the tech side did.

So you can double your knowledge rasonably fast but you cannot double your attention and dedicated time.
An old friend of mine, who's now a crazy antivaxxer, sends his kids to Montessori because the public schools won't take his kids. Makes me wonder what'll happen after Montessori.
1. Does this mean I have to disable IDE autosave so it doesn't attempt to run tests when the project is in an intermediate, invalid state?

2. How does it detect what tests need to be re-run when a given file changes?
In other news: the several international banks are moving forward with their "Digital Dollar" experiment.

It's news like this that keeps me holding on to my Bitcoin. Once digital cryptocurrencies become in vogue again BTC will once again become valuable.
Because the workers produce as much (or more) in that arrangement.
Kinda reminds me of the ex-google engineer Damore case back in 2017.

Except Damore never did it publicly but it was leaked to the press anyway.

And anyone taking public adversarial stances against their bosses rarely last.

Corporations on general are ran like dictatorships, with few exceptions.
Rumor is that he did some of that “crashing down”.
This is a feature, not a bug. Casuistry is the science of determining the correct course of action in a complex situation. It’s complicated because the world is complicated. Attempting to create a moral system from first order logic (deontology) or a linear system (utilitarianism) was doomed from the start.
Waabi unveils its first generation self-driving truck
I see. Looked it up (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles), says "Strive to be Earth's Best Employer".

Did Amazon perhaps add it to the list because of lackluster workplace quality, and so this is still early in the journey?
I have had Perl scripts which I've not used for 15 years, run them expecting to need to fix something, but nothing needed ...
Those are not the conditions Twitter employees signed for when they started working for Twitter.
A portable water colour set.
Is it in India?
I was buffled when I found a lot of recent Youtube videos teaching Turbo C. Then realized all of them were Indian and for Indian students.
Most companies in my country pays developers by days and not hours and this contract situation means that by law you have no fixed schedule and can do the hours you want as long as you deliver.

Of course, it means that you are actually working more hours than what hourly workers do but on the flip side no one can tell you anything if you disconnect for an hour in the middle.
Oops, thank you

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo...
> It's crazy to me that our profession fights unionization despite repeated, predictable and consistent anti-worker, antisocial, narcissistic, ego driven companies that grind us up and spit us out

Unionization is no different from giving someone else control over your paycheck. Just as there are narcissistic bosses there are mafia-like unions and, in both cases, you're not going to know until it's too late. The benefit of the tech industry is that there's always a market for it and there are low barriers to entry. Programmers can vote with their feet. This isn't the 1950s. There are millions of choices for tech workers today that aren't street-sweeping or working for Big Blue.

> Giving someone unvested RSUs with no voting rights, in third class stock isn't meaningful.

Vested RSUs turn people into millionaires overnight. If that isn't meaningful to you, there are plenty of actors in Los Angeles that would trade their union cards for your stock.

> The capital class couldn't care less about you the person writing code or managing a team or building pipelines or maintaining dbs.
Am I the only one that remembers Office Space?

The lesson I got from Office Space was that working as a spreadsheet-filling accountant was boring and soul crushing. Little to do with tech per se. In fact, what liberated the protagonists from their drudgery was one of the character's knowledge of finance and programming. Tech, in addition to managerial incompetence and a building fire, saved them.
> Why not just leave that money with the people who are best positioned to make those decisions for themselves my minimizing wealth inequality instead?

Great idea! Unsurprisingly, pro-choice and pro-life groups are not in the EA top recommended charities. GiveDirectly, which leaves money with the people who are best positioned to make decisions for themselves, is. There might be a lot of authoritarian EAs on forums promoting AI safety, but please don't judge the whole group by a vocal minority.
How do you find such partner?
You can add biometric authentication to your webpage
Is that WSL 2 with version number 1 or the "old" WSL?
I don’t really get the point. My dollars are already digital. It’s not like my employer sends a stack of 100s to my banks vault every two weeks
Yeah, if you have 32 hours of fire fighting every week then you either love fighting fires or you need to find something that you do love.
I think this is certainly true. But my understanding of Twitter - and this may be flawed - was that it was always a mission driven company over a profit driven one. Elon said he wanted to continue that tradition, but with the debt load Twitter is literally in an existential crisis.

So this begs the question, can Twitter be successful being “twitter”? My guess is no, Musk can make a lot of money going after video or micropayments, or X or whatever (well this has yet to be seen, My gut says Twitter is in a worse position then anyone realizes when you combine all the factors, but some people work best backed into a corner, and he’s backed by investors with deep pockets) but the free speech public square open forum has to be a passion project. There’s too many constraints otherwise.

Ship of Theseus adjacent, when does Twitter stop being “twitter”?
I went to a Montessori school from pre-K through 6th grade. Overall I think it was a good experience. But the transition to traditional school was very rough. I was mostly fine academically, but socially it was brutal. I had been going to school with the same 10 people for most of my life, and then suddenly found myself in a crowd of hundreds of strangers with no clue how to make new friends. Add to that all the hormonal stuff going on with 12-13 year olds, and it's a bad scene. It took me about 3 years to acclimate. I think 7th grade is a particularly bad time to be making the transition. It might have been easier if I'd made the jump in grade 5 or 6.
>Cmd-shift-G or Go > Go to folder isn't easy enough? What's KDE's super brilliant solution?

Not sure about KDE, but every OS (admittedly not many), other than Apple's macOS and previous iteraitions I've used, have had an address bar with the file path. Both of the options you mentioned weren't obvious to me and I only found out about them from your comment.

This isn't only an issue of familiarity but also an issue of features being discoverable.
Most remote jobs I've worked at, I can't reach anyone on Friday. Probably not a coincidence.

Even years ago when I was in the office, everyone would go on insanely long lunch breaks on Friday instead. If you work an office job, I can assure you that the number of people actually working on Friday is statistically irrelevant.
Older mac applications used to have the running state of an application utterly divorced from the windows the application presents.

This has fallen away with time now, which saddens me.
Amazon is notorious for practicing _forced_ attrition e.g. forcing the relative low performers out of the org (who still might be performing at expectations, onboarding, etc.).
[Tangentially related] It’s funny, now that I’m fairly heavy into board gaming, I actually hear much more from Martin Fowler in the board gaming community than the software engineering community.

He plays a lot with the Heavy Cardbord group. [1]

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/HeavyCardboard.html
Scanning and making copies of portions of a book used to be encouraged. In fact, it's how you collected information for book reports and research. It wasn't uncommon, for example, for me to print out entire journal articles or scan entire chapters at the University library. Now, they'd probably shoot my dog.

I tried prime video once and the way it locked down my computer to guarantee so-called "rights" was stupid. I tried Netflix, same thing. I'm slowly but surely trending back to unabashed piracy because it's the only way I can own anything anymore - and that's sad. I will happily spend hard earned money as long as I can own something. At the very least I'd happily donate to my local library if they didn't spend time enforcing the will of some faceless multinational publisher.

Shockingly, as I've gotten older I seem to own less and every year the apes we elect take more of my rights away.
As far as the German TüV is concerned Tesla fails at being roadworthy. Its cars compete with Dachia in the fails first mandatory inspection statistic.
Ah, the ol' "move the goalposts" technique! A classic for sure.
No, because the between-machine bandwidth wouldn't be very good.
It would make more sense to make large boards integrating many M1s, each 1U, with a set of 8 100Gbps network connections to a highly scalable switch.
"I think that some translations from different languages in Google Translate will make the text understandable, but not clear enough to achieve this with just a few clicks."

(English -> Turkish -> Hmong -> Xhosa -> English)
Crypto ads all said this was the future. Sizzle sells, skeptics survive.
Why is this spam?
We deployed a private LoRa (and also an LTE) network on the Greenland ice sheet for one of our experiments. We use LTE for data transfer and LoRAWAN for housekeeping / control (and leave it on during the winter when we have no solar power and are basically just monitoring our batteries). We are taking full advantage of our remote location and Greenland's nebulous ITU region to have them in almost the same band (using LTE band 8 and LoRa in the US ISM band).

The most annoying part was porting LoRaMAC to the samd21, since getting the timing reliable was a bit of a pain. We used the sx1272 as our radio.

We use a Chirpstack backend, which handles authentication and such and passes the unencrypted the LoRaWAN messages over mqtt, which we subscribe to, decode, and stick into a pgsql database on our server on the ice sheet. We then use log shipping replication to get a replica of the database to a server sitting in our lab where we are not bandwidth constrained for monitoring.
It's not a problem, until it is. Mh, sounds familiar.
Part of security is acknowledging that business needs can't always fit in rigid ideals and coming up with compensating controls.
It seems pointless, difficult and dangerous all at the same time to try to police our speech and writing.

Some things have benign usage that is not harming anyone or any group of people and convey the intended meaning better than alternative words.
No.

His companies don't pay well.

Employees are cogs in a wheel to him, resources to exploited as much as possible.

He's a psychopath/sociopath.

He doesn't allow remote work.

I don't like his companies (well, SpaceX maybe).

I don't believe in his visions or his random outbursts.
Managers at Amazon are expected to put 5 to 10% on a PIP or manage them out every review cycle.

No matter if your team is amazing or not, 5% getting cut.
I believe setuptools is more frowned upon - in favor of PEP 517/PEP 518 tools - than deprecated.

Last I checked, there was no good way to package hand-written Python/C extensions than setuptools, but that was a couple of years ago.

In any case, there's a large installed-based of setuptools-based projects making it hard to get rid of.
JavaScript et al do have IO wrappers, they just call them promises and only force some effects through them.
Personally… gnome is where it’s at. Much better keyboard driven workflow than any other environment
Salt is also pervasive on roads that get a lot of snow and ice. UPS is about to implement EV trucks here and I talk to the drivers all the time so I guess time will tell how that works out. AFAIK none of the locals own an EV but they do pass through here on their way to Yellowstone.
Well go write Cobol at a bank. Or play office politics and write another pointless chat app that gets canceled.

What is wrong with a bit of chaos from time to time? I thought this was hacker news, I thought you guys like startups..
The peer comment to mine by dragontamer sums it up better than I could.

I’m not saying problems didn’t exist before Elon, but Musk has been a net negative for the company who thus far has only managed to make a bad situation worse.
https://app.pullrequest.com/signups/reviewer
The Lyriq also has an electronic glove box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sirCpkqvpE0&t=59s

Very possible we'll see the same in the Blazer, and maybe the Equinox too.

Which puts you in the stupid situation where if your 12v battery is dead, you can't even use the car's paper manual to look at the jumping instructions. The process has of course been made more complicated by the addition of a scavenger hunt for the positive and negative terminals hidden under separate plastic covers under the hood.

The 12v battery in an EV shouldn't die, but failures in the system to automatically keep it topped up are not unheard of, and batteries do go bad eventually.
How about one giant wafer with thousands of CPU's on it.

Oh wait...Cerebras.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

Though I understand the intent, I think it has the risk to run into a run-hack-run-hack programming style.

I'm currently reading Code Complete which advises against this practice. Instead, one should strive to write code that works from the start instead of hoping it to work eventually.
I went to a Montessori school through the end of grade 7 and then transitioned to a traditional school for grades 8-12. From what I can remember from the transition, it was certainly a bit jarring but ultimately I was able to adapt to the new system fairly quickly and got good grades throughout the rest of my high school education.

Regarding the Montessori experience, I have fond memories of the 7 or so years I spent there. Although it's impossible to tease out causation, I generally attribute my love of learning and personal autonomy to my years there and very much think it was worth it for me.
> Is intuitiveness the right word? I make the same arguments about Vim, that it's one of the most logically consistent editors once you learn the basic set of primitives (not perfect of course). But I don't think anyone would call it intuitive.

As far as I know, VI is actually an acronym that stands for Very Intuitive
> But how did recipient A get a personalised copy if the mail with that copy was sent to a list of recipients?

Watermarking added by the mailing-list manager software?
IIRC Basque (or a predecessor of it) had been spoken for hundreds of years in (what is now the Basque country) before the Roman's conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.

I think it's the oldest surviving language isolate in the world. Contrary to popular belief, Korean is actually no longer considered a language isolate.
Exact;y. I used to think that I'd go out of my way to jump at an opportunity to work for Elon Musk, and I've made many posts defending/promoting his ventures & skills.

But after what I've seen in the three weeks, and especially in the last two days, no forking way.

First, that he so obviously missed the issue with ID verification of important accounts, AFTER having worked in payments where you MUST find and block scammers & criminals, showed that he's just happy to waste everyone's time and make a mess based only on his own blustering ignorance.

Second, seeing his blatantly ignorant tweets about "1000 RPCs" slowing down rendering a Twitter home page, and how the actual number turns out to be "Zero", the emperor's cloths are truly gone. The now-fired employee was absolutely correct that Musk should have asked about it in the internal Slack or email channels, not in public.

Rather than the astute technologist, it looks like the curtain has dropped and he's just another blustering, manipulative, and abusive fool that got lucky at the beginning and had a large pile of funds to play with. I will grant that he is 1) exceptionally determined, 2) willing to take risks, and 3) does have some clarity on removing traditional bureaucratic obstacles. But I'd not want to be associated with him; we can learn that stuff from afar without the angst & abuse.
Thanks! I'll give it another shot; by the time I get around to working on marketing web stuff in my day (after work + parenting) I am pretty tired so I never give it a fair shot. Will check out carrd.io.
Please stop calling this AI.
But NASA has awarded a contract to SpaceX for $1.15b for second Artemis mission.
https://spacenews.com/nasa-awards-spacex-1-15-billion-contra...

Unless I missed something, it seems to me that NASA is being highly strategic and practical, in contrast to theoretical debate.
How the mighty have fallen.

Who the heck are Bending Spoons?
With all of the exciting directions knowledge management has been moving in lately, it's disheartening to see that Notion's product vision is already so uninspired.

Particular in the corporate space, the problem of finding relevant knowledge (and keeping that knowledge up to date) is a really hard problem. I think competitors like Mem are going to eat Notion's lunch here (categorization and perhaps tagging of stale content is a much more reasonable application of ML than this).

... further, Notion's performance is so absolutely awful that my very small company had to stop using it. Latency is incredibly relevant to note taking and writing apps.

The marketing page example is also so contrived: "Write a blog post introducing Notion's new AI feature." How would the AI even know what that feature even is? Where's the context? It seems like this just proposes static solutions to dynamic problems.
> I recently quit a job that made me use a Mac after less than 3 months, and I'm not even kidding, that was part of why.

Imagine quitting your job over an operating system.
"A programmer paired with another expert"

This is the key phrase here. I might tweak it to say "subject matter expert", but that is just semantics.

I help my friend customize and automate his trading research and strategies with my python and automation skills.

We are experimenting with openBB, and I'm learning about trading, finance, and other industries. He gets to do things that a Bloomberg cant or wont do. This is a win-win.
I bet your politics are junk too. Why do I need to care about your 2 cents about this or that "issue" if we are writing code?

I am not interested in your inner world or opinions. We aren't friends. We are coworkers. I have a life outside the job for that.
Theory building and why employee churn is destructive to software companies
Two other things that shouldn't be mixed are a programming language's features and what programmers are using them for.
As noted in other comments, Haskell is good at defining all sorts of functions, but the card castles of excessive and inappropriate algebraic abstraction are a tradition of rather uniformly extremist Haskell users.
If it's like most VW's that I've seen with no apparent way to unlock with a key, the physical key mechanism is hidden under the door handle trim piece. But maybe you're just saying that opening with the key is not provided as a primary option? For better or for worse, the "feature" is aesthetics.
I remember as a 17 year old spending 50 Irish pounds on a copy of Turbo Pascal and being giddy with excitement when the brightly colored box and manuals arrived. I pretty much memorized them, and of all the things from the late 80s its the one I wish I had kept!