skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great dataset. It's also available at https://github.demo.trial.altinity.cloud:8443/play?user=demo (password demo).

For a guide to using see https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ by Alexey Milovidov. It's both informative and funny.

Disclaimer: I work for Altinity.
There's a ton of solutions to FizzBuzz that do not use modulo.
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Yep, felt the same.

I cope by reminding myself that I shouldn't compare my personal knowledge with the combined knowledge of a community - multiple people here are knowledgeable about and post about different areas
With Win 11 I get Micro-stuttering which makes gaming a nightmare. I’ve given up on getting it fixed. I wouldn’t put it past Microsoft to accidentally kill their cash cow via an accumulation of small mistakes and a loss of key competence.
Sorry, I intended to say "2% more of the respondents". That was what I had in my mind when I wrote it. (In general, my opinion is that Relative Statistics Considered Harmful, they're like absolute statistics but with all the context removed, and I never intend to give them.)
Off topic but I really wish the regular old mouse and scroll wheel would work ”normally” straight out the box on fedora/ubuntu/etc. It’s really such a horrible experience coming from Windows when using the mouse is all icky not having ”proper” (Windows default) acceleration on and scroll wheel scrolling one line at a time.

Like many people I really want to make the jump but still hang on to Windows via O&O Shutup 10.
> the Land Cruiser will be passed down for many generations

Wait, what sort of longevity are we taking about? 15 years? 20?

I don't think we humans can reproduce quickly enough for that to span "many generations". :-)
Unspoken knowledge is also not one of the 5 human senses.

FSD needs the human sense that seeing a stop sign on the freeway (sticking out of the back of a highway maintenance trailer) doesn't mean what a stop sign usually means - but that stopped highway trailer, with a person holding the same sign and looking at you means you should follow it.

Should you run into a pile of gravel to avoid a baby stroller? If a loose garbage can and a baby stroller appear on opposite sides of the road and both block your path, which one do you hit? A soccer ball coming out between parked cars probably has a kid following it...

The people who have died with FSD ran into problems like these. A human would see a transport truck cab, and the wheels on the other side of the road and infer that - even though it blends into the sky - that there's a trailer in between. One of the Tesla accidents was that the side of the trailer appeared the same color and location as the sky, so the Tesla didn't see it and went under the trailer at highway speeds. The driver wasn't paying attention and didn't make it.

Sensing packages will only get you so far, human intuition for new unexpected situations is impossible to get AI to learn - at least at this point.
This laundry basket is an example of externalities being quite reasonable, though. It lasted 20+ years and that's not an outlier for items like this. I'd wager that making it out of anything else would have a worse environmental impact. Metal is far more energy-intensive. Fabric is far less durable.

Throwaway plastics are far more of a problem, although the scale of the problem is often overstated for ideological reasons. For example, we're not at risk of running out of landfill space; and while plastics in the ocean are worth fixing, but there's little evidence that they're destroying ecosystems or harming health.

Plastics are essentially a distraction. The vast majority of emissions that actually harm the environment come from other industries, but these problems are less tractable, so we get preoccupied washing yogurt cups and banning plastic straws instead.
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ has quite a backlog of good episodes but during covid the show kinda got off track.
Netherlands are flat as a pancake, yes e-bikes are somewhat of a solution to where it is a problem, but snow and sleet are something else… I’ve got kids and an e-cargo bike and it isn’t fun (braking downhill on ice with kids in the trunk… let’s just say I revert to the car in this weather.)
I really enjoy listening to Coding Blocks, especially when they're discussing popular software engineering books (DDD, Devops Handbook, etc.) which give a great overview of what the core concepts of the book are along with practical applications. They don't take themselves too seriously what with having dad joke sections but still manage to keep things informational and current. They can be pretty long so I recommend breaking listening sessions following their survey sections.
You can call it failed or success after 10 years in operation. Before that, it's still an ongoing process. Infrastructure is for the long-term.
Ah, that's what I was missing. Thanks!
Unfortunately, there’s an entire school of thinking that basically boils down to “pro-social behavior is ineffective and slows you down”. Their take is the “creative, selective” Steve Jobs was part of the myth. His real key to success was being able to push people. We are seeing history repeat itself with Elon Musk: so expect a new generation of entrepreneurs who think being a hardass is the key to running a successful enterprise.

Now, to be clear, shepherding great work out of your team is a hallmark of a good manager. But if you don’t even know what “good” is your efforts are in vain and you’d be better offer handing that autonomy over to someone who does. You cannot verbally-abuse your way to greatness.
Yeah there’s no denying that it definitely helps that electricity is a good bit cheaper in the US, making gas v. Heat pump heat pretty much on par in the northeast at least.
Many shots are left out by the time a film is finished and every shot has multiple iterations in each of many departments that touch it.

This post has an example diagram of a feature film pipeline.

https://www.gfx.dev/python-for-feature-film

Toy Story would have been more rudimentary and ad hoc, given how early it was, but this is generally the same pipeline that’s been in use even for old hand drawn animated films.
Personally I occasionally listen to the Complete Developer Podcast: https://completedeveloperpodcast.com/

To me the hosts seem pleasant and the topics relevant, it might not be the most detailed podcast out there, but it sure is a comfy one to listen to.

Also, occasionally The Changelog Podcast is nice to listen to: https://changelog.com/podcast

And the CoRecursive Podcast as well: https://corecursive.com/

The latter two have a greater variety of people to talk to, about all sorts of projects in the industry. One of them had a pretty good interview about SQLite, which was an interesting listen - hearing a bit more about how the project came to be and how it was developed.
Built a good product page with good keywords. I’ve also done some affiliate marketing which helped a lot with generating relevant traffic.

I try to write a lot of articles on web dev topics on my blog.

Additionally I built an open source file upload library (FilePond) which kind of acts as a stepping stone to the image editing solution. Easier to attract developers with a good free product. :)

Finally I’ve moved into offering free services that utilize the editor I built, I try to launch these on easy to remember domain names. They act as a demo of what the editor can do and they feature i tiny “powered by” link at the top.
> France is still well below replacement fertility despite all their efforts.

From the article I quoted:

> Since the early 2000s France has consistently topped European rankings. After two decades of decline, in the 1970s-80s, the fertility rate started picking up again in the late 1990s. Since then the country has registered scores just short of the mythical threshold of 2.1 children per woman, which would secure a steady population. Its fertility rate in 2014 was 2.01.
It might be helpful to expand the example to make it even clearer.

Until you repay the debt to your friend, you can spend the 10,000, because you hold it in your pocket. But your friend can also spend the debt you own him, for example, by asking another person to get a loan on that loan.

So yeah, "free money"! Until one creditor somewhere in that long chain asks the debitor to pay up their debt...
I'm running DeltaRay / MesoSim, the advanced option backtesting service: https://portal.deltaray.io

My decade long journey of trading:
Beginning of my career at IBM I was doing processor and system simulations (Cell, PowerPC).
We developed a simulation method there, which was published as: "Mesoscale Performance Simulations of MultiCore Processor Systems"

Meanwhile in an other dimension my uncle tried his luck with trading, without much success. I realised that simulators
and backtesters are related and that made me interested trying out trading algos.

Learned about StatArb from Ernie Chan's books, created my own version (now open source at https://github.com/tibkiss/huba-v1)
and slowly started trading it. It didn't win or lose much either. Later, I found Quantopian and extended their
engine to be able to trade live, on-prem (https://zipline-live.net). Ported my StatArb to zipline-live,
still limited succes. Finally moved to QuantConnect, similar result. Tried other algos (mean reversion, momentum),
which seemed to work better (in bull market).

Started my sabbatical in 2020 to focus on trading and to learn more about statistics and options.
I found that premium of options (theta decay) can be successfully extracted via income strategies.
The tricky part there is to not to kill yourself with leverage and learn to hedge your position.
Learned that majority of the folks are using manual backtesting using a Windows based software, what I also tried.
I realized that backtesting one year manually takes approximately 1 hour. Very useful, but super time consuming.

I decided to create a purpose built descriptor for Options Trading to expedite the process.
Bought options data, implemented the backtester using similar approach what we used at processor and cloud simulations:
Model what's really important and use good enough approximations for the rest. MesoSim was (re)born.

Shared the Service with groups of similar interest, they found it useful to expedite their options trading process.
In the last 6 months had a couple of thousand visitors and a solid set of paying customers now.

Went on and started creating content, here is one trade as an example: https://blog.deltaray.io/boxcar-ng-an-optimized-boxcar
I still remember a very kind Ukrainian TA exclaiming “Ah, vi, a true master” and letting me leave a bit before end of period having finished the into you the CLI exercise they were doing - I didn’t realize they still actively maintain this.

Do people use it a lot outside that liminal period before you learn the magic of “escape escape escape i” to get back into writing mode and start using vi like a real hacker?

;-)

(Thanks to the developers for your hard work.)
I have made my money online by specifically not trying to make money. I only work on things I'm interested in, have experience with, or am good at, and the money comes afterward.

In terms of finding project ideas, perhaps try looking beyond top-of-mind B2C ideas (e.g. a mobile app, a clothing brand, an Etsy shop selling art, etc.). Those are highly competitive areas.

Many times it's easier to make money by selling something to people trying to make money themselves. So, in most cases, B2B or business-to-prosumer.
Not sure if your question is rhetorical but... lots of people get a SE degree just to earn money and they don't even like programming. They still end up earning lots of money.
One slight different is that spending on your home will generally add value to it. It may not be necessary, and you may not get a dollar-for-dollar out of it, but it’s added value nonetheless.

I cook a lot, I personally would like a higher quality stove - I’ve killed one before because I (an)use the broiler a lot (it wasn’t terribly old), but I probably would do an NXR or something. maybe in the $2k. Or a used Wolf/viking from one of the people you mention

I’d rather buy a nice oven than a bunch of shit appliances though. People love their air fryers, over the stove microwave, countertop oven, instant pot, etc…
Have you ever tried making changes to a large, incredibly complex codebase with zero comments? Sometimes the changes you make don't have the expected results.
Everyone?

People that legitimately need to make cash payments for more than 10k represent probably less than 1% of the population. And I'd be surprised even most people that can do it would do it.
How Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) became a necessity:

New job, more stuff to do, so I got myself a 4K LG Monitor to extend my small Macbook screen.

I had set up my home office right on an interior balcony where I had lots of natural light.

That meant that the monitor brightness and contrast needed to be constantly adjusted to have the screen visible in sunlight and to not blind me when the clouds/night came.

If you ever used an external monitor, you know how cumbersome it is to adjust the brightness constantly using its physical buttons or touch controls. And macOS doesn't provide any way to change the brightness from the Macbook, unless you use something expensive like an Ultrafine or Studio Display.

So I started working on an app to automatically adjust the brightness based on the sun position in the sky.
Ever read the Coinbase of the first ever bitcoin block on the core chain?[1]

"EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

The financial system is explicitly on topic when discussing Crypto Currency.

[1]: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/0
I also wondered about the difference between doing this with young children and adult chimps.

I think it’s fairly obvious that if you gave the clear box test to a teenager or adult and said “get the treat out” they’d look at you funny and then many or most would just reach in and grab it. I think even in the black box, they’d probably look at it real hard and maybe try going straight for the treat after investigating the box a bit.

By contrast very young humans operate in “game mode” almost all the time, and are basically “playing along” with whatever game you put them in. It’s a lot of fun, and often silly.

So my question is, what about juvenile chimps? Do they also operate in game mode, or would they follow the adult chimp behavior of going straight for the reward?
> For running commands I just run ssh host command then

That's fine, right up until the point you're running a command (or a series of commands) that change things on the machine and your connection gets broken. When that happens there's a very good chance the command being executed will fail in some fashion. If you're very lucky it won't be a big deal, but depending on what you're doing it could be dangerous.

I would strongly advocate for using either screen or tmux as a matter of course on any remote server when you're executing commands on it. You don't need to do anything more with them other than just have a single window in it. You just don't want the command execution to be specifically tied to your SSH session.

At the very least, screen or tmux enables you to get right back to what you were doing with no loss of output, and at the most it enables whatever commands you were executing to finish executing without risk of broken pipes killing them mid-flow or whatever else might end up being catastrophic.
Developer Tea has been my go to wind down podcast after a long day. Thank you!
Reads as a setup for an action novel set in immediate future
You can only process so much information at a time. I like to think of my brain like a garage. If it's dirty and unorganized, it will be impossible to fit a car in, let alone another piece of junk. But as you start to clean and organize it, it's easier to take in new things.

The best way of coping is a JOMO (joy of missing out) and moderation. You don't need to know everything and you surely don't need to spend all your time trying to. It's okay to not know. That's the beauty of life.
That really isn't as objective fact though.

Just check how good France, the nuclear power country in Europe, is doing and how much they have to import energy from e.g., Germany and also nuclear fissile material from Russia (rosatom). Nuclear power needs a massive amount of water and constant maintenance, iow., not really climate-change proof and once neglected - and most HN users will know that infrastructure might sooner or later get neglected if its running anyway ("why should I pay for you if everything works" mentality isn't only a thing in IT), and getting those plants then up and repaired again is a huge work and may reduce power production on some sites close to zero for months to years.

So, no, it's not worth pointing something out that isn't as black as white as a lot of armchair energy experts would like it to make, especially done in such a gloating manner it rather seems just for fishing for upvotes or confirmation, but really adds nothing to the discussion.
Chase is indeed horrible about this kind of thing. Most of their messages look like spam or scams.
If you have no intervals, then I have no confidence
Seconded. The host conveys a genuine sense of deep understanding of Python from the perspective of users.
Prestige cars, mega yachts, private jets, and corporations that make rockets and satellites are also male jewellery.

But the article: it's repetitive and slightly rambling and reads like it was written by some variant of GPT.

The point is fair, but it's also well known to class watchers. In the UK nouveau means a gigantic new build mansion full of chrome and glass, a private gym, and plastic and dental surgery. Old means a small country estate, a Georgian pied-à-terre somewhere near the City, tweedy clothing, and perhaps some pedigree dogs. And horses.

Old money tends to underdress - sometimes sloppily - and on casual acquaintance is indistinguishable from the merely middle class.

It's not until you get an invite to the manor house that you discover the ridiculously impractical and expensive Aga stove, the collection of wildly expensive antiques whose prices are never mentioned [1], the relaxed air of charming quizzical bafflement. (Very few of these people are unusually bright or talented. But socially polished - yes.)

The visuals are not the point. Anyone can tweed, but not everyone can tweed like they've been doing it their entire lives and really mean it.

[1] A 17th century silver spoon for £5000? How fascinating!
My concern is mostly around EFS consistency. SQLite concurrency locking is only as good as EFS file consistency. I wasn't sure if you had to work around any oddities of NFS. https://twitter.com/benbjohnson/status/1360592483969810443?l...
Risky Business is a great weekly cybersecurity podcast: https://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business/
I started with open-source.

I initially created https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists, after some years it got to ~50 stars and nice overall feedback, that's when I thought of a SaaS wrapper on top of it.

So a possible path is "idea -> open-source -> monetize". I find the first arrow to be easier to execute than a direct idea to monetization leap.
This is interesting. I wonder if he’s actually working on it:

Q: If you magically had enough extra time to do one additional thing at work that you’re not doing now, what would it be?

A: Oh, I’ve got a long list. But my #1 thing right now I think would be a new version control system which the working name is Fit, it’s a combination of Fossil with Git. Uses the Fossil user interface but it uses the low-level file format of Git. So that then you can work with Fossil’s interface but push and pull to legacy Git users. And I think that would be huge.
Yeah, but man does he get some great guests from time to time. Really enjoyed Travis Oliphant and Todd Howard in addition to the ones the parent listed.
Denmark seems to be doing pretty well compared to its southern neighbours?

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
I was offered a job that had no filter questions and I declined because of that. They were clearly hiring goofballs into senior positions.
ESL speaker here :)

I think one of the "mistakes" the English language makes is that adjectives preceed the noun they modify which "leaves you hanging" until you are listening/reading the sentence until you reach the noun and can now understand the last phrase.

It seems like your error here is partially due to that.

I liked the movie
I installed the update (new)
I installed the version of Python (new)
I installed Python 3.11
I visited Brazil
I visited the river of Amazon (river in the Amazon :))
I visited San Francisco
I'm on the hardware side, so this may or may not be relevant to your question but I'll share it anyway.

I run CAD Class (https://www.cadclass.org) as well as a small 3D print farm selling custom clips and connectors for workshop equipment.

CAD Class was born out of my frustration with inadequate CAD learning resources online. When I was learning I had trouble finding a class that truly got me where I wanted to go (I wanted to develop and sell my own products). Classes I found were:

1 - Not comprehensive enough or just flat out boring
2 - Not supported by a community who could answer my questions in a reasonable timeframe in a way I understood
3 - Outdated due to software updates
4 - Lacking the right learning structure to truly advance my skillset

I built CAD Class to be the ultimate online learning resource. A kind of one-stop-shop for students learning CAD and wanting to build their dream projects.

For the print farm, I was simply scratching my own itch. I designed a few highly specific and hard to find adapters to solve a dust collection problem I was having. I realized that nobody had advertised adapters for specific equipment and that they were all generic and therefor hard to search for. The innovation here was not so much the product as it was the ease of searching for it.

Lastly, since it seems you're not sure what to make, I don't see any reason to force it. I'd suggest joining another small team or company, or simply taking a job that keeps you occupied until you come up with something you are genuinely excited about working on. I took a job with a community college teaching CAD, consulted with a few museums and startups, and wandered until I nailed down my idea. There's something to be said about keeping momentum.
"Never let a crisis go to waste"

You'll see a lot more of this.
I installed Windows 11 last week, disabled all personalization/tracking/ads settings I could find and I don't think I've noticed any ads whatsoever.
Agreed, I really enjoy his interviews with people from the industry (and occasionally other people as well). Donald Knuth, John Carmack, Demis Hassabis, Brendan Eich, Chris Lattner to name a few.
Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari.
> Humans are high-fidelity imitators.

This is true in a very deep sense, and this human desire (let's even call it compulsion) to imitate others can be used to base an entire anthropology on, as René Girard did quite masterfully. For anyone interested, I strongly recommend reading "I See Satan Fall Like Lightning".
If this was true, we'd be building capacitors instead of batteries...