skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm about to finish the second year of my Masters degree in Robotics Engineering, ending on a particularly difficult mathematics heavy course (which was my biggest fear and weakness going into the Master's program).

I had graduated in 2009 with a robotics engineering degree and found not a soul hiring due to the economic collapse. After years of building a software engineering career (which was hard in it's own right) I can't find anyone who will take me on for a robotics oriented software position; most require tons of experience I wasn't granted the option to earn and/or advanced degrees.

...So I bit the bullet two years ago and started my Master's at night after work. It's exhausting but I'm inching closer to an advanced degree and, hopefully, a job working on software directly controlling robots in some way.

Decade+ career switches are hard
Go explicitly prioritizes productivity in large Eng orgs with a range of programmer experience. This is often at the expense of what language enthusiasts this is important/new/cool

You may not agree, but they are doing what they said they would from the start, and it’s been fairly effective.
You should be pissed off that your OS doesn't give you the freedom to choose which browser you use as a default. While you may think Edge is good, I use a different browser and my OS shouldn't be allowed to override the preference.
especially in California if it's under a certain dollar value/amount.
This kind of theories imply there are a relative large number of well organized, intelligent people behind it… I tend to doubt such a group of people exists, specially in this context.
I will say myself personally, that after I got my steam deck I haven't turned on my desktop in 6 months. Slowly in the process of converting my windows desktop into a media server. My two laptops are not windows machines.

I have't looked at the steam surveys but I hope there's enough users to encourage more publishers to make games linux compatible.

I know for me personally, all the games I enjoy are available for linux gaming. Even "recent" titles like Spiderman and God of War.
You don’t need an IDE, as I explained in my two preceding posts in this thread. Please at least try to respond to someone who is actually making the arguments that you take yourself to be refuting.
What does "9th-circle privacy adversary" mean?
No, the parent comment is totally fine. The technique is indeed new and yes will be applied in the treatment of other diseases in the future. Don’t know why you went to open with a contrarian tone.
A lot of devs don’t want to tinker with Linux. Myself included. And this is disregarding all of the work places that only give out Windows or MacOS machines.
Arctic space centre could become the first to launch satellites from Europe
ooo this one sounds cool. Thanks for the recommendation!
What about riding a $10,000 bike to work?
That's definitely true, but just for the third person.

For the second person, "you start taking the bus at age 30" is an imperative statement, which has a totally different meaning from the observation "You started taking the bus at age 30".

And for the first person, "I start the project on Monday" refers to the future, "I started the projected on Monday" the past.
More recently he's been on the Changelog podcast in the last year and it's a great listen: https://changelog.com/podcast/454
TIL you can make 10k a month on a solitaire app.
My personal definition of a senior engineer is "a person who noticed that they already forgot some things they used to know by heart".

You can't know everything and you can't keep up with this firehose of new knowledge that is published every day.

Most of that is not relevant to your field anyway - whatever it might be, so you don't actually have to know any of it.

I mean, you're free to take it all in, but don't expect anyone to quiz you on it in a professional environment.
I like it because I think airships are super cool, but I have no idea why I feel that way. Seeing as this, unlike some other solutions-looking-for-problems these days, is cheap and benign enough for some rich guys to tinker with even though it's a little whimsical, have fun, y'all and watch out for the Rocketeer.
I'm open to technical and non technical podcasts. What do you mainly talk about?
Since the announcement of the Steam Deck, Valve has made various promises to work with the AC providers to bring support to Linux. So far they have brought support for Epic's EAC, and it seems they are working on bringing it for other titles as well.
The sometimes high cost of tooling and low cost of materials is a boon for counterfeits...

When I worked on an anti-counterfeiting and supply chain integrity startup, one of the kinds of counterfeits I heard was of factories that make the legitimate product secretly also make the counterfeits. (Sometimes called "third-shift counterfeits".) They'd not only reuse the design and processes, but also reuse the same tooling.

Corner-cutting the design/materials/QA is optional.

There's huge money in counterfeiting (hey, the brand hand counterfeiters their IP and brand-building and even tooling; and counterfeiters just pay materials, labor, and distribution), and some other supply chain shenanigans.

My impression was that besides hurting many businesses large and small (e.g., lost sales, price pressure, brand damage, and support/returns costs), and consumers (e.g., substandard product), it might also be concern for the relative economic power of countries (e.g., interests in one country steal profits from a major company, then that company sometimes also gets bought out by interests in that same country). (Though, bought-out companies still sometimes face supply chain fraud problems, including originating in other countries, so it's just not one single coherent national entity that's the problem.)

Had Covid not hit right after my startup's successful factory launch, and then the subsequent VC skittishness when we really needed a round (to grow our big-ticket enterprise sales/partnership and high-skilled engineering), we might've made bigger dents in the problem.
Yeah, I just use it so my employer can't see what websites I'm browsing
If there's ever a time to ask such a question, it might be this thread.

Can I get some brutally honest feedback on a podcast I ran for 2 years (100+ episodes at once per week) at https://runninginproduction.com/? It's a podcast focused on chatting with developers around how they build and deploy their web apps. It mostly focuses on the "why", tech stack choices, libraries, workflows, lessons learned, production war stories, etc..

In my mind I thought it was a good idea but it got so little listeners that I had to abort recording new episodes due to burn out since there was no path forward to ever sustain it by outsourcing the burn out inducing parts. I still think it's a good idea but I wonder where I went wrong.

I tried everything I could think of. Guest variety from solo devs to bigger companies like Mux and Dropbox, audio editing to ensure the highest quality I could get for a remote guest<->host podcast with new guests having assorted mic qualities, removing a lot of "ums" and other fluff but not over editing things to make it unnatural, tags to quickly find tech stacks you care about and a ton of clickable timestamps with a summary of each show that's skimmable in seconds along with tons of reference links.

On paper it feels like I did everything I could to make things "good", but in practice after 100 episodes I had like 200-300 listens per episode which made it no longer viable to continue doing since each episode was about 6 hours of end to end time to put together (finding a guest, editing it, show notes, etc.).

I learned a ton from chatting with every guest and regret nothing but I overall see the podcast as a total failure since if it didn't gain any traction on it, it must be trash. I'd love to revive the show because chatting with someone new about what they enjoy working on was really fun.
> The vast vast majority of people are not "signaling" when they do things, they are just doing things.

I agree with you that most actors don't consciously make decisions based on how they will be perceived and instead just do things.

However, I don't think that stops other actors from, without thinking themselves, taking those actions as signals and judging others by those signals.

We as the actors being judged can choose to think through those things or not. Either way we're being judged by those "signals". And either way I'm judging others based on those signals.
We always used to say,

Eeny, meeny, miny mo,
Catch a tiger by the toe,
If he hollers, let him go,
Out goes Y, O, U.

...which adds an extra syllable.
Thankfully, it’s his problem, not mine.
Someone has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-interacting_dark_matter

They even think about dark chemistry: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac75ef

Didn't have much support last time I checked.
The Steve Jobs example I immediately think of when talking about imitating unnecessary behaviors are all the people who started dressing like Steve Jobs. Elizabeth Holmes and Mark Zuckerberg come to mind as people who did this in an obvious way.

But the 'asshole boss' or authority figure archetype is an old one, from long before Steve Jobs, and it can be an effective motivational tool, although many of us, myself included, don't have the stomach for it. Obligatory pop culture example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elrnAl6ygeM
The meme probably started with Outliers, and really took hold online when he misspelled "eigenvalue".
Wait, aren’t the poles the most energy expensive latitudes to launch from?
Orion has splashed down off the coast of Baja, California
I keep hearing that helium acquisition is getting trickier and trickier. Would these airships meaningfully impact that further? Or is it not actually a problem at scale yet?
i used to do all sorts of stuff with Windows XP/2000 (like sysprepping reg-tweaked/debloated/pre-loaded Windows ISOs for myself). but now i have fully moved away from Windows to EndeavourOS/KDE and haven't looked back; many others have jumped ship to PoP_OS. yes, you do have to slightly limit/research your hardware options to get a great experience, but i've always been an AMD GPU guy (due to their better thermals / power efficiency), and all of my laptops are Thinkpads w/Intel wifi, so take this with those grains of salt.

i do miss Foobar2000 and HeidiSQL (DeaDBeeF and DBeaver aren't quite as polished), and Affinity products are hard to get running without glitches in Wine/Proton, but otherwise it's been fantastic. though i've had to fiddle quite a bit with Chromium and MPV settings to enable GPU hardware acceleration for video decoding.

first straw was slow filesystem access due to Windows Defender, last straw was unstoppable Windows updates full of ad garbage and apps i previously removed with various debloating scripts. i ran Windows 10 with these addons to get back a more Windows XP experience:

disable TPM v2.0 (keep it at v1.2) to forever prevent Windows 11 upgrades: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enable-tpm-2-0-o...

debloat: https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows. there's also LTSC, but it's basically impossible to purchase an actual license, so you have to pirate it: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l...

start menu: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

taskbar: https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

search: https://goffconcepts.com/products/filesearchex/index.html

archives: https://www.7-zip.org/

task manager: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro...

Notepad replacement: https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3
a lot of windows people i know, dont bother with a proper shut down anymore, they let it run 24-7, or they just hit the power switch and nuke it all instead of waiting.
The other great reason to use iTerm to run tmux is that copy and paste work correctly.

I started doing this last week along with tmuxp for managing window sets. It works great.
There was recently a NYTimes article about how there aren't enough Heat Pump installation technicians in Germany to meet demand, so some folks are learning how to do it themselves.
Linux is a usability mess, and has been for 20 years. I give a new shot once every other year.

Basic flow:

- Works out of the box for a basic desktop
- Once you start installing drivers and software outside the package manager (Which you'll need to do immediately) and doing C+P CLI workarounds, the system state starts decaying, and things break.
- The easiest way to fix things is usually a clean OS reinstall, in the sense of a car "total".
Most is a stretch.

The FPS in the top 100 currently most popular games on Steam[0] and their status [1]:

#01 CS:GO - native
#04 PUBG - anticheat
#05 CoD MW2 - anticheat
#06 Apex - Works (it has anticheat that works on Linux)
#07 TF2 - native
#09 Rust - Works
#12 Destiny 2 - anticheat
#21 Rainbow 6 - anticheat
#22 DayZ - Works (it has anticheat that works on Linux)
#26 Warframe - Works
#69 Payday2 - Works
#78 Arma 3 - Works (it has anticheat that works on Linux)
#79 CS:S - Native

Native or working: 9/13

Broken: 4/13

Non-steam or outside top-100:

OW2 - Linux is second class and not actively supported - but Blizzard have unblocked Linux support when issues were reported
Battlefield (all?) - Works
CoD (before MW2) - Works
Gundam Evolution - anticheat

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed

[1] https://www.protondb.com/
TPM2.0 is required because it allows for running of encrypted binaries and microsoft will need that feature to ensure people can't modify away any user hostile features.
But what are your steps if you loose device1? Log into each service with device2 and unenroll device1’s key?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...

I saw it within the past year. I didn’t save a screenshot anywhere I can find. I believe I applied defaults overrides (like in the link) to prevent it from coming back, much like Windows GPO policies.
Gonna give this one a listen. Thanks for the recommendation.
You're trolling here, right? It is not actually your position that it is more ethical to be a steel baron who orders the shooting death of striking workers than it is to be an adtech CEO, right?
You always have to check that its output doesn’t have subtle (or nonsubtle) errors. That is, it can save you time, but it’s dangerous if you’re lacking the skills.
Yup, I’ve been listening to them for a number of years. I appreciate the balance of discussing technical concepts and general banter on developer life.
Unless you already took that mentality to the next step, and put your Esc key where the most people have their backtick key, with the (comparatively rarely used) backtick key on a second layer.

But then again those types of users are also likely already hyper aware of hotkey modifications and optimizations.
Since no one's mentioned it in the comments, I occasionally use tmux's pane synchronization to run the same command across multiple panes: CTRL-B, then "set synchronize-panes". I've done this to do things like log into multiple different servers and startup some process all at the same time. 'set synchronize-panes' toggles this behavior, so when you're done, run the same command again to disable it.
Thanks for sharing! I will definitely plan to go through this course.
Ask HN: How do you protect your eyes while coding for long hours?
We often spend long hours staring at a computer screen, which can take a toll on our eyes. What are some effective ways that you have found to protect your eyes during these long coding sessions? Do you have any specific techniques or strategies that you use to prevent eye strain?
Interesting that LIDAR is one of the sensors used to monitor the helium cells. One thing that isn't clear: is there any appreciable helium loss through their fancy triple-layer skin? Or can this just be filled once with helium from the factory and then forgotten about for the life of the airship?
One important feature is to enter copy mode, select and copy text without using mouse

enter copy mode:
LEADER [

highlight text to copy:
press space and then arrow
w and b to highlight words (like vi editor)

exit copy mode:
press enter key or Q

paste copied text:
LEADER ] OR cmd+V
Luck indeed finds you hard at work. But also, if you’re not sitting at the table, you’re on the menu.
That's not my impression at all about them--I've been listening to three of their shows for 5 years now. The interviews are top notch and there are rarely episodes without any specific focus.
I did for a short time. My feelings on it are mixed. Objectively, you can absolutely stay fit and build muscle with resistance bands alone. That being said, it has problems. To do heavy excersizes often requires very thick bands with a lot of tension applied which can result in the bands pinching your hands in a very uncomfortable way. Same with movements where you stand on the band to anchor it, it can be very uncomfortable for your feet.
Also, it’s much more difficult to progress in a measured way compared to free weights. If you haven’t made enough progress to move up to a heavier band, you can vary the weight by tensioning the bands more before starting your movement, but obviously this is very imprecise.
For these reasons I personally found it much more difficult to be consistent with my workouts than I do now with free weights.

If space is a concern, I would still probably recommend going with a set of adjustable dumbbells and a bench over bands.
Site sells memberships, doesn't accept crypto for payments.
They did strike. And when they did, Fick had a private army of Pinkertons kill them.
Yes, or, more likely, just do nothing because it needs a PIN that nobody else has.
> I was once unmasked in an old video game though because of a mistake specific to that game and people from my country, a mistake I had internalized since childhood. That was quite shocking to me...

I'm curious to know what the "mistake" was here. Is it something like referring to in-game items via their name in your native language, instead of English?
I just don't believe the math on efficiency. Wheels are darn good in efficiency. Wings sure can work in some scenarios, but most flying cars I see are some type of quadcopter or like which I find questionable. And anti-gravity is not happening.
The existence on non-consensual application would not change my opinion on the value of research.
I mean if you can negotiate well (& are absolutely amazing at your job), you might be able to convince them that they either pay you full time even though you only work part time, or they pay you more than full time (i.e. give you a big raise) if they want you to work longer, which would result in >100% output for the current position... which they might not need. The guy sounds like a f'ing machine (in a good way), so probably he has big leverage in his negotiations...
It would take too much energy to keep them off the ground.
It's unclear that Microsoft providing up-to-date guidance on the continued leverage of various professional features included with your Windows license qualifies as "nagging". I would double-check if you actually have experienced this.
I wonder if the lock screen could take a picture of the person trying to unlock - maybe only turned on when "find my" phone is activated. Could that be enough grounds for a search warrant?
Not only do I not believe in a flat earth, but I don’t believe in flat-earthers, either, or at least I have never seen anyone who convinced me they really believed it.

It feels like the statement they’re making isn’t “the earth is flat” as much as it is “you can’t trust anybody, especially people who claim to be experts”, but it’s less fun to voice that feeling in that way, and you can’t build a hobby around it like you can around the idea of a flat earth.
Do you have a sense of what specific anxiety you feel? Maybe not (and that’s ok) but to me that’s the more interesting question.

I could imagine fears about job security, maybe some sense of falling behind? A simple fear missing of missing out on all the fun in specific sub-fields?

We have such a large field in general, I don’t think anyone can know it all, but that can be something to celebrate too. Never a dull moment :)
> The vast vast majority of people are not "signaling" when they do things, they are just doing things.

I've read Sutherland's "Alchemy" book and that's not how I remember him framing signaling.

Long to short, while - to your point - we are not all intentionally signaling, we are as receivers of inputs are constantly looking for and translating random input into signals.

The point being, whether you like it or not, you're giving off signals. Be mindful, or not. But if you go with the latter then you might at times be doing yourself a disservice because we as humans self-generate signals.

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Surprising-Power-Ideas-Sense/...

p.s. I enjoyed the book. His is a very counter "conventional wisdom" mindset. That appeals to me.
Web Performance Calendar 2022 Edition
Are there 10k commute bikes? I doubt people take 10k pro road bikes to work
The New Obesity Breakthrough Drugs – By Eric Topol
Certainly. If instead they had 20' tall poles covered in spikes (with a gap of 2" in between so as not to impinge on public property) that would not be a question. I am glad that that is not happening!
Most of this is unconscious for the general population, the consequence of mimicry + social cues + emotional rewards. The person who shows up to Pizza Hut on a bicycle isn't thinking about social status consciously. Instead, they get slightly pitying looks from coworkers, which make them feel slightly inferior and ashamed, which makes them not do it again. The top executive who shows up on a bicycle gets no such feedback, and so they keep doing it.

You see "accidental countersignaling" from people who are generally oblivious to social cues, like folks with Aspergers or recent immigrants to a country, because the subtle feedback from other people doesn't register for them. These people tend to exist apart from the social reality and inhabit only economic and physical reality.

Articles (and comments) like this one are describing what's going on, not prescribing it. Basically nobody goes into a social situation thinking "How can I raise my social status?" The people who do come off as phonies, because the emotions involved operate very subtly and quickly and if it's not unconscious it's apparent to other people. But you can analyze the situation after the fact and describe what's going on, as well as try to train your unconscious offline to have better responses to the situation you were in.
200-300 people per episode is pretty good you should take pride in that.

I would find a way to make it easier and funner and reduce the 6 hours.

Otherwise it's a marketing success/failure.
Technology may not be as big a challenging as the businesses model.
https://tmuxp.git-pull.com/ does the same thing, but I think it's smoother to work with. It does support freezing current panes. yaml config
I overwrote Windows 10 and installed Fedora last year.

I just love Gnome.
If you want to feel relieved you could try reading the comments section when some topic you know stuff about is posted.
Identifiable ... by the way they tap out Morse code with their hand/fist.

Ham = amateur radio operator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio