skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to write a Phoronix article:

1) Find the latest Linus Torvalds posts on the Linux mailing list.

2) Start out with some unrelated backstory about how Linus flipped-off Nvidia once.

3) Quote extensively from the Torvalds post, without explaining what any of it means.

4) Finish up with that infamous photo of Torvalds flipping-off Nvidia, and say something generic like "We guess this is how he feels about this too".
And the rest of us. Because we pay more for stuff, we lose stores in some areas, and civilization in general is diminished.
> Instead, the researchers believe the answer is that doctors possess “superior information about guidelines” for prescription drugs — and then deploy that information for themselves. In the study, the difference in adherence to guidelines between experts and nonexperts is largest in the case of antibiotics: Doctors and their families are 5.2 percentage points less in compliance than everyone else.

After reading the title, this was my first thought.

From my perspective, as a full time software engineer, I imagine I am much less likely to follow PC troubleshooting steps in the same exact order as “prescribed” by an support person, than maybe an average joe who would follow the support guidelines strictly.
This story gives me a great sadness in my bones, hard to describe, can’t believe what we’re doing to our environment.
Not only that, but users will need to check out Musk’s account in the morning to be sure they know the new rules for the day, as there is no tolerance for slip ups.
I didn’t have to give mine. I think that’s one of those pop-ups that you can just close.
People get upset because when they do take time off work, find someone to petsit/babysit/housesit, and clear out their life savings to travel back home, they expect to find their loved one being properly taken care of by the health care system. And what they find instead is often far from what they expected.

When I heard my mother had fallen down and was in a rehab center, I of course expected her to be being taken care of, healing up, and getting physical therapy. Instead she was emaciated and barely conscious, unable to talk, appeared to be dying, but no IVs or monitors or anything. I asked why she wasn't in the hospital and they wouldn't answer me. At all. Wouldn't tell me anything, despite that I had the Power Of Attorney signed by her in my hand.

It took 3 full days before someone showed up who had the authority to talk to me. Then I found out what had happened. She had indeed fallen and had been in the hospital but had been declining. Her tests had came back positive for cancer again. So she had signed out of the hospital and signed up for palliative/hospice care at the rehab place; DNR etc. It all made sense once it was finally explained. It matched with what we had talked about years before.

But for a few days there, you can bet I was upset. In truth, the nurses there were wonderful and were doing the best they could to make her comfortable as she died. I'm thankful for them.

But not only was it not at all what was expected (fell down and damaged her leg, now in rehabilitation), they also wouldn't explain at all. There's also the side effect that the family member may be a lot older and sicker than the visitor remembers and expected.

And there's also the communication factor at the family level. People find it hard to talk about that stuff to their family members, so they often don't. They might be hearing it for the first time from hospital or hospice personnel. If they can even get those people to talk to them.

I understand why it's tough for the nurses too, to see someone encountering that, and have to talk to them and refuse to tell them anything.

The whole way we handle situations like that is a mess, for everyone involved.
Have you not been told the Good News of The Social Contract? /s
Explain the success of his previous companies without lying or references left wing conspiracies? I genuinely want to see an answer to this. Can't state things as fact that 5 seconds on Google can disprove

I already know the answers are going to be he uses his secret emerald mine to power the self landing rockets
I use "num-pee". It seems like the "correct" English pronunciation because of words like these: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-py

However, it does not surprise/bother me if someone goes for "num-pie".
Using your own stat, it is objectively probable (66% chance) that this was someone outside the US.
I don't where/when/how this myth started. If anyone from JetBrains is reading this, please asking you sales/PR/marketing team to make it crystal clear on your website so that we can kill off this silly myth that hurts your excellent brand.
Why not just build more houses to meet demand rather than try to artificially lower it?
> The content is just too good.

Considering the new bosses have a reputation for producing pure garbage media, I would expect this to change in the near future.
As companies make more and more moves like this … something tells me piracy is going to see a big uptick.
True enough. At this point I suppose I don't disagree with you, though I've also lost the plot a bit. Hope you enjoy a restful holiday season wherever you are
Ask HN: What software development book should I read over my winter break?
Hello, HN. I wanted to ask your advice.

I recently completed my first year of a two-year software development diploma. I learned Python in my first term, Java in my second. I'll be learning C in January, my third term.

To improve my skills over the winter break, I'm building a Wordle clone in Java. In addition, I'd like to read a book on software development. Problem is, there are so many books, so many topics, that I'm honestly a bit overwhelmed.

For example, do I do a deep dive on Java? Or do I focus on a more language-agnostic topic, such as refactoring or design patterns?

I have a few great books, and I'd love your input on which I should tackle first:

-- Core Java (Horstmann)
-- The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt & Thomas)
-- Refactoring (Fowler)
-- Head First Design Patterns (Freeman et al.)
-- Design Patterns (Gamma et al.)
-- Clean Code (Martin)

I'm more than happy to hear other recommendations, too. (I have a running list, and I plan to read them all and get better, little by little.)

Thanks for considering my question. I appreciate any and all feedback!
Constipation, nausea, and irritability are the symptoms I've had.

I would just think he's maybe tired and burnt out. This is classic burn-out syndrome here.
> we don’t know whether someone is near the end of their life or not

Sometimes know, but, admitting it is harder than we want to believe.

I can pull up statistics on a foot ulcer in a geriatric patient and point out that it usually (>50%) leads to amputation and that following an amputation most patients don't live a year and get called an asshole. I realized fairly quickly that the right course was to fight to make the next 12 months - 2 years "as good as possible." Organizing care and finances (dying is expensive).
Not just translated, but presumably dubbed?

I have some eastern euro relatives that owe their English skill (moreso vocab than grammar) to local-language subtitled TV/movies (too poor to dub).
You dont even need to be Human !
Sure, ideally you'd not have the CA root private key lying around in your disk though for a production use case.
That's not really true - there are natural bodybuilders/powerlifters - I'd say people like Layne Norton are likely natural and give good advice backed by multiple studies (as good as it gets although still not perfect). There's also people open about steroid use although that part is a bit more gray because of legal issues and stuff.

Even with steroids you have to know what you're doing exercise/nutrition wise to get impressive results (and still need good genetics).

But a lot of people lie about steroids, I mean look at Hollywood - The Rock claiming natural at his age is just. It's definitely setting up wrong expectations for people.

At any rate, one thing that took me a while to realize when I was starting out lifting - BB advice is specific to highly trained people/bodybuilders.

Like "you can't gain muscle and lose fat". You absolutely can if you're high body fat % and untrained. If you're getting close to 10% BF - not as efficient even with steroids - that's why they cycle bulk/lean. But if you're just getting into shape - cycling will probably mess with your metabolism.

Any professional athlete is probably a terrible role model for healthy lifestyle.
Correct. Artificial scarcity is immoral, we need to move to a system where it's not necessary to restrict people from having access to something that has a real cost approaching zero in order to collect rents.

SaaS is a perversion created by a system that cannot separate value from scarcity even though the reality is that software is infinitely replicable.
Discrete logic IC CPU (2020)
When you buy a (new) car or fridge, you’re buying 1 of 10^5 or more identical items (to the limits of industrial process control). It’s easy and cheap to test once and stamp out 50K or 1M energy stickers.

Housing stock (even tract homes) is at/toward the custom end of the custom<->mass produced spectrum (especially used housing, which is the vast majority of units) and that’s before considering the ongoing effects of modifications and substantial repairs, which happen more often to houses than appliances over their useful life.
Most people with garages don't park in the garage, they park in front of the garage. But you can still plug the car in when you're parked in front of the garage.
My takeaway is that:

- Some places don't need buildings or roads. The intersection of rich people and wildlife habitats is interesting.

- If there must be roads, like highways, we should study ways to get wildlife under or over them.

I'm curious what could be done, but just slap this on an ever-growing list in my head of "things that should change in California".
That's a big improvement over maintaining non-trivial local environments at least.
I guess then if he wasn't suspended upsidedown, and died in a day, maybe that method would have worked.
...remasters?
Conversion of tape to plastic to mp....
Newer, better(?), tech available for engineers.
Zappa [iirc] made his plastic lp's 22 minutes a side as that gave the optimum wiggle room for needles, both at the presses and domestically.
Led Zep (ahem) re-released an awful lot of original material.
> I mean, I'm sorry they're hurt and I'm sorry they're broke, but they really really should have known better.

I agree with you that it's very hard to find any sort of value in someone like Logan Paul, but at the same time I'd imagine a lot of his fans are young people who are looking for role models. In this case, they might not have been mature enough to understand the type of person they were dealing with

Also, sympathy for the victim compels people to see to it that the perpetrator is punished
How many Toyota BEVs were available to buy?

From searching Toyota only planned to make 7,000 for the US this year. And then ended up with a stop sale due to a safety issue.

Toyota sold about 1.8 million cars in the US last year. So it would have been 0.388% of their production for the US.

That’s not a failure to sell. That’s a failure to try. Every other manufacturer can’t keep BEVs in stock.

(Still ahead of Honda who currently has ZERO full EVs models for sale in the US)
Your hardware point is interesting in the sense that it represents the non-saas model, but also appears to not be working.

So I get it, they bought the hardware with a one-time purchase. The maker moved on. One day the OS moves on.

But the hardware company is predatory for not writing a (free?) driver for their obsolete hardware on a new OS?

Surely if the model is "buy once" then there's no expectation to return to the well for "software updates"?

The solution is, as you noted, to freeze the OS. Which is perfectly fine, as long as you are happy doing that.
This feels like a contract issue.

Rumor has it the issue is residuals but on the face of it that doesn't make sense. Why? Because you would expect residuals on a streaming service to have somethign to do with how many people watched the show.

If that were the case, there'd be no reason to remove it. So the obvious answer is that's not how it works. My guess is that HBO is paying residuals for having the show available regardless of whether or not people watch it. The problem then is that not enough people were watching it. That makes sense given it was also cancelled recently.

Another potential reason is the way residuals are structured. Writers' residuals decay over time. That is you might get $1000 for writing a show that you wrote a year ago and is broadast/streamed. If it's a 10 year old show you might get $100 for the same audience. Residuals for writers for streaming service is one of the big issues threatening to boil over into another writers guild strike.

Given that though, HBO might be removing Westworld while residuals are the most expensive and it could come back in a couple of years.

Yes, there's a lot of speculation here.

I agree it does feel like HBO is breaking their viewer expectations by removing one of their own originals.
> However, it does not surprise/bother me if someone goes for "num-pie".

I mean the Py comes from python where it certainly sounds more like pie.

The real question then is: How would the file ending .py be pronounced?
It depends on the public sector union. Not all of them are gargantuan enough to throw clout about.

And some of them are member run, not organizationally run. I'm on a local board of mine.
I disagree. You’re looking at old cars, but every car manufacturer sells new cars. The average non-luxury car in the US costs $42,000. Manufacturers are going to produce the product that new car buyers want.
Abstained is a who's who of communist countries or those dependent on Russia for oil or gas
Oh, I wouldn't worry. What would make a collab video cool is not dazzling people with mathematical BS, but rather visually showing the geometric and physical principles behind the splines, especially their relationship with bending elastic strips. If you want to have a chat to brainstorm (even if nothing comes of it), my contact info should be pretty easy to find.
I'm big into tennis and have worked at a very prestigious (but non-major) tournament before. I've seen some of the top guys hit and it's mind-blowing how good they are.

I've also managed to hit with some former college guys who made top 500 ATP. they are insanely good with hard serves and insanely accurate ground strokes. the difference between those guys and a top level player is night and day...scary how good top athletes really are.

Also several years ago played in a pickup soccer game with a guy who washed out of Manchester United's academy as a 14 year old. In that same pickup game were guys who at the time were playing D1 soccer, and a few had spent time in MLS academies. The ex-United guy was lightyears ahead of everyone else despite having been out of the game for nearly 10 years and having a bad knee. The guys who make it to the top are utterly incomprehensible for a layman to understand.

It's just like how if you're playing a GM in chess, and you might be a decent enough player yourself, you won't even sniff a chance of doing well much less winning. Those same GMs turn around and get effortlessly destroyed by Carlsen or other top players. It's just a different level that us civilians cannot fathom.
I guess 24x7 security for all ten kids really adds up.
Oddly enough, the person with the most insights into SBF/Caroline and prison time is Shkreli...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivqzyjfHG0

he walks through a lot of how the points are calculated.
> Better check LinkedIn (it’s professional so it’s okay)

I don’t have social media on my work computer except LinkedIn. I can’t tell you how many times a day I quickly open a new tab and head to LinkedIn (where I’m not even that personally active, mind you) to just get a quick hit of a distraction.
I'd be surprised if anyone in any large scale sport ever dominated like Bradman or will be as dominant in the future. He missed part of the prime of his career due to WW2, so who knows what could have happened if he'd avoided the interruption.

He's probably not as well known as someone like Gretzky in North America, so his name wouldn't immediately spring to mind on forums like this. In cricket, there just isn't any debate about the greatest - the only area of interest is about who comes next (Viv Richards or Brian Lara in my opinion)
And if you announce your desire to switch cars you may get locked out of your Tesla
Low dose melatonin is not a miracle cure. It can help reset when you fall asleep, but cannot help you stay asleep.

I'll still never touch ambien again, but there are many reasons that melatonin may not be enough.
> he doxxed her

Can you give a link to the source please?

> what would make you change your mind about EM

I change my mind constantly when I get more information. But my opinion of Musk is not polar either absolute evil and absolute good. When he does something good, I give him a point, when he makes a mistake, I subtract a point.

So far Elon was net positive for Twitter.

Hyperloop, I don't think this is a big deal. Musk has thousands ideas, not all of them work.

I don't care about pedo story. It was inappropriate for sure, but everyone can make mistakes. Who is without sin... I prefer people who make mistakes openly to people who know how signal virtue.

In the end, for me, it is important what you do, and not as much, what you say.
> My point is FORTH should definitely be on the list. It is pretty much dead as an actual programming language in that no one programs in it anymore.

Forth—not dead!

The Forth community just had their 37th conference a few months ago [1].

It's obscure no doubt but it's still being used and dev tools are still being developed and updated. Apparently the FedEx handheld scanner runs on Forth and it's also used to create firmware and boot loaders [2] for various embedded systems [3].

[1]: https://forth-standard.org

[2]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=loader&sektion=8

[3]: https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-apps/
I'm an American, native English speaker, no real other languages at a conversational level other than some High-School Spanish and a couple hundred words of Korean due to marriage. The further you get away from areas with familiar scripts, language cognates, and speakers, the more lost one can feel very quickly. Parts of Hungary, for example, were quite difficult even though they use Latin script, are European, and usually have lots of English speakers around.

One of the things I found that made Japan remarkable was how easy it was to get around as a non-Japanese speaker. Until you end up off the mainline tourist bits, then things can get quickly pretty dicey. I don't think the inverse is true for the average Japanese person in even the most tourist friendly spots elsewhere. Everywhere is opaque, and there aren't enough Japanese speaking tourists to make it worthwhile to add it to all of the signage and menus to make it work out.
I maintain the web monorepo at Uber, so I think I can give some context.

Monorepos allows us to centralize important dependency upgrades. E.g. fixing log4j vulns is a lot easier when you can patch everything simultaneously. Same for tzdata (2022g gave very little heads up) Auditing for npm supply chain attacks was a lot simpler in monorepo than microrepos. Etc.

Monolithic version control doesn't have to mean monolithic everything.

Our web projects can be deployed independently of each other, and we leverage tool like yarn workspace focus and bazel for granular installs and builds/tests/etc.

It doesn't have to mean monoversions either. We support multiple version of libraries, though we prefer coalescing them as much as possible to facilitate effort centralization. Finding out that your library change will break downstreams before you land the change is a feature.

We had microrepos before and the main problem is that to this day I still get some random team coming to me for help w/ some rediscovered 7 year old repo that doesn't even build anymore cus lockfiles weren't a thing back then.

At a large enough org, you'll inevitably see the full spectrum of team quality, from the really good teams to the one intern/contractor getting thrown into the deep end of some unloved ancient thing. You want a common denominator that lets you do things like patch vulns in unstaffed projects.

I've done fairly large migrations both to and from monorepos. Each has pros and cons. For us and companies like Google, monorepos work well with our organization model. For others it may not.
I think a lot just don't say they are and use dog whistles and such. They want to radicalise the "norms", and they know that the vast majority will just won't pay attention if they come out saying they're a nazi straight away.

When the Ye things happened I got in an argument with a holocaust denier on Twitter, and looking at their profile that's all they ever talked about. They never said they were a nazi, but they never gave an answer to it when I asked. It was "just asking questions".
The Sopranos is a masterpiece on all levels, if that’s going to be your yardstick there’s not going to be much left.
> he’s got nothing better to do

Isn't he CEO of 2 or 3 other companies? I know a lot of people think that CEOs don't actually do anything important; Musk is not hurting their argument.
Larger than otherwise boom bust cycles and entrenched interests (as noted above by another commenter).

Edit to add: This would not really lower demand, it would just shift it. A major consequence would be a decrease in single-family homes for rent. If there wasn't a consequent increase in single-family buyers, then this would lead to mass unit housing owned by fewer landlords (less competition).

I personally favor regulatory innovations encouraging rent-to-own or other mechanisms that encourage home ownership, while making it relatively easy to move if a job demands it. Something like automatic mortgages that a buyer can 'default' on if they need to move, but said 'default' not hitting their credit rating much as it's effectively just turning over the house in good condition to the mortgage holder to resell to the next tenant. With the mortgage payments already paid being split in some way between the moving out tenant and the mortgage company. Alternatively, if you stay until your mortgage is paid off, you own it outright.

I am definitely not a real estate or credit expert, and I'm sure such a system would be difficult to implement, but it probably wouldn't be impossible to implement.
Not lately, at a previous job we worked with Linuxes, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and Linux on 390 mainframes.

The reason I'm chiming in is to give my advice to those still dealing with these; learn vi, at least enough to edit config files. It's the only editor you can find on all of these, and you often can't install your own software.
I self-host email. And my website. And DNS. I've been doing so for over two decades now.
No browsers really "force" upgrading but maybe try Firefox ESR.
Melatonin helps you stay asleep. Ambien helps you get to sleep.
> It's painful to say, but after he died the relief my family felt from not having to fight every "care provider" constantly for every single minor thing was palpable.

It's awful to even think about it, let alone articulate it, but, that year was terribly difficult on me and even worse for my mother. My grandfather was a proud man and having people need to help him with every aspect of daily living (I'll leave the details to what I suspect is not your imagination) was undignified. By the time he passed it was obvious there was no quality of life left and death was a mercy. It doesn't have to only be a mercy for the patient.
Hey, it's Herb's site! Lots of great old computer information there, from someone who was an active hacker on this stuff when it was current tech.