skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless gas is subsidised I don't really understand how gas can be cheaper. A modern heat pump can give 3-5 kWh of heat using 1 kWh of electricity. And a modern gas generator is roughly 50% effecient at creating electricity (according to the Internet). So by using electric and a heat pump you should be able to get 1.5-2.5 times more heat from the same gas by making electricity of it first compared to burning it directly.
Resistance heat is extremely expensive to operate. Burning something is cheaper.
You really need to do a spreadsheet covering the monetary differences to validate the difference in pay. I personally do as such, and I include things like housing / food / transportation (need or own a car? Car insurance etc), hours per year to earn.

My current job was a 15% pay cut from prior. But the side benefits made up the delta- significantly less hours (so pay per hour was close to equal on a per hour basis), cheaper health and life insurance.

If you take the job can you use it as a stepping stone for a better job back home?

When you get a dis-likable job that pays a lot more, it is easy to get addicted to the money. If you take the job, I recommend you try to save 75% of your pay increase. Failure to do so will ensure you cannot afford to go back.
Huh, I had just assumed it was a voter suppression measure
Valve were definitely trying to push it, along with their other defunct products: The Steam Link and the Steam Machines.

Both those products were meant to be mass adopted, and the steam controller was meant to be the best input choice for both of them.
> sometimes starting a new airline is simpler than trying to fix an old one...

Now there's a truly total rewrite...
The bar can get very low! Look into local low prestige consulting companies if you’re really desperate for something. I worked at one after moving to the US and the hiring bar was extremely low and I was working there a few days later
> Don’t discount the physical aspect of loneliness either. If you’re like me, work is the primary shaper of your life. Work gives your life rhythm. It is the gravitational center around which the other activities in your life revolve. Then, one day, poof—it’s gone.

Exhibit A of why not to take your day job too seriously. Be professional — but that’s as far as it goes.

> Come up with a more, uh, positive reason for why you’re interviewing instead of disclosing that you were laid off.

There’s nothing wrong with being laid off. I was, last week. Saw it coming from a mile away. Told my new employer about it.

Here’s the secret for getting a job you’re happy with. Try to have competing offers. I would have had to take over a 60% reduction in salary if I hadn’t had one. But I did, and so it was merely a 37% reduction. I’m very happy with it.

This is an area where I have to give tptacek lots of credit. I sort of shuffled from job to job until he posted this nugget of wisdom, and it’s quite true. None of the points in the article applied to me because of a fundamental shift in mindset. It happened around 7 years ago.

I think the loneliness aspect is intertwined with the reason why most people don’t try to go interview while you already have a job. You see your job as something more. It’s not just a job; it gives your life rhythm.

Maybe so. But in my experience, the way to be happy is not to care so darn much about it. Do a good job. But try to get a better one. And when you’re on the market, try to get multiple.

The recent thread about the engineer who got their offer rescinded from two different YC companies is exhibit B. They mentioned that they stopped looking for new jobs after things seemed to be going well during the pre-offer phase. Don’t do this. You should be doing a breadth-first search of all possible opportunities: talk to as many people as possible, and spend your time weighted by expected outcome.
Getting laid off absolutely sucks and it could potentially happen to anyone, thus it's important everyone has some sort of nest egg.

And please... network, network, network! I know not everyone has this opportunity, but if you leave a good lasting impression and make friends with strong coworkers, over time they will get promoted to higher and higher positions making it incredibly easier to find a job when needed.
My children (8, 4) have daily chores, responsibilities, time for free play, time for screen time, and yet they manage to learn musical instruments, read books multiple hours a day, their vocabularies, linguistic creativity, and personalities grow in ways not seen in the vast majority of adults I know, and they manage to learn about scientific principles, grammar, math, music, geography, art, culture, engineering at crazy rates, social dynamics, etc. My kids are smart, but they are not so smart that they are marginal outliers. Kids manage to learn in 1 year the amount any demographically comparable adult learns in 10.
I might be wrong but I think I remember reading that the book is meant to be a love letter to the Italian city Venice and that all the “cities” are actually just describing Venice from different perspectives.

Edit:
Just had a quick look at the Wikipedia page.

> In one key exchange in the middle of the book, Kublai prods Polo to tell him of the one city he has never mentioned directly—his hometown. Polo's response: "Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice."
> when all the talking heads were saying a recession was inevitable. Sound familiar?

This is the very same recession we've been talking about :)
ISO 26262.
i would be very hesitant to even make a correlation here. the problem with dating is that it creates an environment that is completely isolated from every other activity. there is no place where you can learn about dating (ignoring movies).

the lack of confidence from dating comes from a lack of opportunity to learn how to date. dating is being treated like such a special activity that require a lot of cultural knowledge. the very fact that a date can go bad and that this has a strong influence on the relationship is a problem.

the conclusion for me is that dating itself is the wrong approach to find a partner. it would be better to pick your partner from among your friends, and then spending time with that friend is more easy and more natural. and if a "date" goes bad, it has less of an aftereffect, because not everything is perfect among friends
Spring Boot, Kafka, Non-Blocking Retries – A Hands-On Tutorial
Non-blocking failed message handling in Kafka with RetryableTopic in a Spring Boot application
> like walking through a desperate Macy's.

Such an fitting description
> “The day would not be far off,” wrote cybersecurity and surveillance expert Jim Harper, a former congressional committee counsel and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, “when a national ID is required for picking up prescriptions, purchasing guns and ammunition, paying by credit card, booking air travel, and reserving hotel stays, to name just a few types of transactions the federal government might regulate.” Again: That may be normal in some societies, but it cuts sharply against the grain in ours.

I’m not sure I fully understand the argument here. This is normal in US society. I cannot pickup prescriptions, travel, stay in a hotel, etc without a legitimate ID.

The argument appears to be that an ID issues by a state government is ok, but if it’s issued by the federal government that’s somehow, philosophically an overreach of power.

There are very good arguments against RealID. But the argument that it’s somehow fundamentally any different from what the US does today does not seem right at all.
That’s not a penalty though, if the case gets thrown out it’s just non-reward.
Too bad I can't run multiple Vms at the same time :(
Over-engineered dual core light barrier
there is no "default editor" in unix systems per se, only installed by default. whatever the user/distribution sets in $EDITOR/$VISUAL is the one being called.

vi/vim became "default" on linux distros because it was simply always available while emacs was an optional kitchen sink package and there were no other widely accepted alternatives (like midnight commander's built in editor or nano).
This is a high interest rate phenomenon. They'd be writing a very different article if written in July 2021.
Those are at least fiction. I have seen documentaries where pseudo psychology (not holding eye contact means you are lying, this or that entirely normal behavior treated as something chillingly sinister, parent deemed nit sufficiently crying) was treated as sure clue of guilt.

And gut feelings, gut feelings of detectives were literally treated as evidence in those documentaries
I don’t have words or additional literature to share but you’ve eloquently shared a lot of what I’ve been trying to articulate forever. The idea of the outdoors having become a “packaged experience”… to be experienced during daylight hours set by some municipal corporation…
>You’re going to have to grind Leetcode. Yes, even the dynamic programming problems.

Why there isn't this much problem with having to learn yet another JS framework,

get familiarity with database of the month, learn some tool like docker/k8s/ansible/vagrant/blabla or yet another proprietary toolchain like AWS/Azure/GCP

but foundational cs/programming knowledge is top hated thing, that people even call it "discriminatory for people with families" or something like that
> Where does Paul confess that he never knew a real Jesus?

In Galatians 1:12 to 1:16, Paul affirms that he didn't lean about Jesus from flesh and blood, but from God's revelation. In no moment Paul says he ever saw a real Jesus, only his "divine revelation", which is a big confession from someone who lived in Jerusalem during the supposed ministry of Jesus. Moreover, given his age he should have been himself among those who killed Jesus, but he never mentions this little fact.
Hey, author here. I get it, trust me. This post meant to encapsulate my feelings during the one year I spent unemployed. During that entire time, I was alone. I had a falling out with my parents. I moved to a foreign country where I knew no one in order to stretch my savings. I totally get it.

If you need to chat with someone, I'm happy to lend an ear. Contact info is in my profile.
> their quote was around 2.5x the costs of "put another boiler in", such that the payback period would be "literally never".

Doesn't that depend on the costs of both energy sources?

Last year I made a similar choice, albeit at smaller scale, just for one water heater. Picked an electric heater with heat pump, also cost 2.5x more than plain electric, but 1/3 the energy cost. It will take a few years to pay back ...
The thing is it’s the Gauls that are not much related to the people that drew cave art. European hunter gatherers were replaced by eastern farmers in the Neolithic.
That seems like a failure of UWP, not the applications or the market..
I thought we established we're using sledgehammers for that?
I was also without power last week for 6 hours.

I have a SEER 18 heat pump for cooling which can reverse for heating in the winter but it also has a natural gas burner. Based on the installer's advice we set the system to use the heat pump if the outside air is 40F or above and switch to natural gas below 40F.

The problem was that when the power was out the electronics in the system could not communicate with the thermostat in the house. My Nest thermostat literally said there was no system connected. I wish there was some kind of UPS to power those electronics and the blower fan.
Where is the paper?
Trying to predict future based on the past is foolish.
I will try to do my best based on what I register about our times.
My prediction is not about a 2023 specifically, but mostly about
the next 10-20 years. Although, as the rate of change grows, it might
be 2-5 years. I don't know. As i said that, here are my predictions:

1. AI will accelerate change and do so in an unpredictable way. AI won't replace coding or writing or art specifically, but it will make work with computers different. Probably, obsolete.

2. For example: why do you need Windows if you can just run on metal an AI that will behave like Windows/Android/Photoshop/random AAA game/custom CRM software?

3. As the language and reasoning is taken away, we will have a crisis on what it means to be human.

4. We will turn more away from computers and towards our bodies: emotions feelings and desires. Sex, food, hapiness, sadness, death and loss.

5. We will need fountain of youth more than anything else ever. Health industry will blossom. AI accelerated research will give us indefinite healthspan.

6. The last human job will be having experience and chanelling it to the AI that lacks body and desire as well as to other humans who will find AI created experiences too synthetic, not much relatable.

This is my, a little bit out of landish take, but we need to dream big, otherwise what's the point

edit: formatting
You dont get bonuses for delivering fixes.
While there appear to be some sources claiming nicotine does not cause cancer, it is not a closed case as far as I can tell and there appears to be evidence that it can be an aggravating factor at least.[0]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/
People, including the poster I was replying to aren’t generally writing literature when they quote it though, and they like quoting that a lot.
Concentrated sulphuric is both oxidising and acidic and does quite a good impersonation of cartoon acid.
A greener internet of things with no wires attached
Trends.vc grew to $500k ARR in less than 3 years
I don't see a need to change lisp. It does everything I've ever tried to do.

The biggest breakthrough was Common Lisp.

I don't quite understand your Emacs question. The biggest limiting factor of any lisp programming is me. Lisp is clay for the mind and sometimes my mind-clay is too dry. Lisp and Emacs don't limit me in any way.

That said, other languages "get in the way" all the time. It is nearly impossible to think of certain ideas[0] . Try merging your rule based expert system approach with your subsumption based knowledge representation system so that rules and knowledge are two surface representations of the same (lisp) structure[1].

I have no comment about Wolfram software.

[0] The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the grammatical and more verbal structure of a person's language influences how they perceive the world. It emphasizes that language either determines or influences one's thoughts.

[1] Integrating rules and inheritance networks in a knowledge-based financial marketing consultation system https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/hicss/1988...)
Hard to say how bad it will get. VCs I talk to seem to expect it to get much worse.

At the end of the day though, as long as you make sure you're excellent at your job, you'll be able to find something new in any market.
If someone received an insurance payout (ie medical expenses covered) then there was absolutely a subrogation discussion between the insurance companies of each party. Upon being given access to electronic law records, new law students are often shocked to see their names on lawsuits they never heard about. That bicycle accident at the mall when you were a kid ... your dad's work-based health insurer sued the mall's insurer to get back the money they paid to the hospital that stitched you up. Thousands of such tiny actions are filed and settled every day.
I used to be a hard Delphi/Pascal guy and still think it is much better than C for it's strong typing and overall "squareness". But I'd have a hard time going back to it nowadays. The 'var' section, magic "Result" variable and begin/end pairs are just from another age.

Programming languages have advanced _a lot_ since Pascal was created. It's core principles remain valid (safety by default, readability, flexibility). But the feedback loop between language design and actual usage is much tighter thanks to the Internet and open source.

Some things I still miss from my Delphi days are the language-level enumsets, near-instant compilation and RAD tooling (GUI builder).
This was all people knew. Most people saw programming as a branch of math. When a high school offered a programming class, it was often taught by a math teacher. The smaller colleges in my state, that were beginning to add computer science, did so by combining it with the math department.

My mom taught programming in the early 80s. She took a course at the nearby community college, and a year later, was teaching the course. Her background was... high school math teacher. She said: "Programming is just math, a program is like a proof." Fortunately I loved math and proofs, so that way of thinking wasn't an obstacle for me. Clearly we know differently now.
Is there some kind of adjustable bra that can be adjusted until it fits perfectly?

You cound then read out how it's set up and use those measured values to tailor the final garment.
> Come up with a more, uh, positive reason for why you’re interviewing instead of disclosing that you were laid off.

I don’t understand this assertion, unless “laid off” now means “fired with cause”. People are laid off all the time, for no reason other than the company wants to reduce their labor costs.

Perhaps the author is assuming that the company is also making a judgement about their skills, e.g. that they’re somehow not up to some arbitrary standard? (I think that it is very easy to make this assumption, especially when laid off the first time.)

Anyway, there should be no need to give a potential employer a reason about why you were let go other than the position was eliminated.
most shells support both emacs shortcuts and vi style commands so there are at least 2 "standards" fwiw.
Any research on Hacker News addiction? Asking for a friend.
> Whether tacit collusion—where firms effectively behave as though they are colluding without any direct communication expressing agreement

Basically the Nash equilibrium.
This post made me finally uninstall Instagram from my phone. Though the network effects makes it difficult to completely chuck it from my life. The exodus of my peer group from fb made it possible for me to delete it completely from my life and don't need it anymore. I hope something like that happens for instagram too. It was not for the lack of trying. I tried hard to transfer my friends and family to Signal and was unsuccessful. So now I'm waiting for the forces of nature to take over and hope that something miraculous happens and something that doesn't weaponise human mind takes over instead.
This was an option on some but not all phones. Most people preferred predictive texting but some people insisted it was easier for them to text “raw” since they could do it without looking.
Back in the day you'd write your own driver where need be, and compiled almost everything. I'm quite happy to not be back in the day and will take nano for editing a config file over writing C in Vim.
Hyperbole like "the coldest year of the rest of your life" is why the general public doesn't take climate change seriously. Year to year temps fluctuate a lot. The general trend is upward but nowhere near upward enough to overcome annual variance within a lifetime.
Here we go:

— Flow: The most fitting for the HN crowd. A fantastic read about the state of flow in work and leisure. Great framework for unlocking what drives the mind towards fulfillment and happiness. I liked the ideas around how "order of thought" relates to personal satisfaction. I wished it talked about the "how" not just the "what".

— Man's Search For Meaning: An absolute classic. A moving but most of all inspiring book about the experience of a man in the Nazi camps. Stoic optimism. It opened my eyes to the relationship between suffering and self-actualization.

— I Remember: A book by Joe Brainard to be found in the poetry section but written in a unique unconventional style. Accessible, playful and moving. It created a lot of noise with it came out because of its format.

— Never Say You Can't Survive: How To Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories: The book I needed to read to reconnect me to writing to cultivate the spirit.

— Carbon & Silicon: This last one is a comic book. The story is an intimate (yet grand) robot saga that expands over centuries. A battle between immortality and decay. A joy to read. It hit me hard.
I started programming c/c++ then perl/python and i hated java initially, but it actually taught me CS. Java has very mature and powerful libraries, e.g. rxjava and guava.
"As I understood it, if my (zfs) dataset is encrypted then rsync.net only sees the name of the snapshot and the encrypted data."

Prior to encrypted datasets in ZFS we did, in fact, have a stopgap measure where we would create your zpool on top of GELI devices such that it was, in fact, encrypted - but we held the keys. This was for HIPAA compliance and such things.

Currently, we run the latest stable/release ZoL codebase which includes bona fide encrypted ZFS datasets where you hold the key and we see nothing.

That being said, we do have a 4TB minimum[1] for these zfs-send enabled accounts where you get your own zpool ... so a smaller account with the (excellent) borg utility is a better bet for most individual users.

[1] https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=4e9783
Great list! Do you have any recommendations for books on inclusive design? Does any of these books touch upon the topic?
Ask HN: How to upgrade salary structure to keep existing team happy?
I run a web design and engineering studio, and unlike many competitors, I don't want to increase headcount too much. I want to keep it small (under 30 people), lean and keep working on our collective craftsmanship. In other words I want to avoid selling man-days and inevitably an outsourcing company.

We've been fortunate to end up in a place where we can pay above market rates to work with the best people. However, If we suddenly pay 1.5x to someone who just joined, it will destroy morale across all existing team members.

Upgrading all salaries across the board at once sounds a bit naive to me as it might feel as a signal of being underpaid for long period of time before (or maybe not? Thinking out loud)

Would love to hear your opinions and experience if you came through similar growing issues where you want to double down on quality not quantity of people.

Thanks!
Is the catenary example just a case of really fast computation? Using the substrate computer directly is faster than using an emulated computer atop it. A real scene renders faster than any raytracer.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that we treat the mind as an analogy with the high tech of each epoch, steam electricity computation. But Turing equivalence exists. I haven't found Roger Penrose's arguments about quantum computation in mitochondrial microtubules very compelling.
It probably sounds callous but her parents chose to move her here knowing full well she wasn’t on the path to citizenship.

Apparently it’s been like this for a long time too.
It allows you to determine the authentication method based on username. Some users may need SSO, some may need email login, and yet others may simply use a password.
> Only in retrospect did I understand the connotations that post broadcast to potential employers.

So, you wanna share with us what the connotations were? Is it just that the recruiter read "oh, you're failing a lot, you must suck"? Or is there something else more interesting to this?

I'm disappointed that this post is somewhat vague on specifics. But on the one situation that is set up very specifically, we don't get the punchline.
We did a similar assignment at University many years ago. I think it was the same assignment, one per day for two weeks. Each time in a different language.

The goal was to see how similar code is, and how little it matters which language you pick.

Obviously it's a constrained problem set (we didn't have to learn all the ins and outs of each language) but it really opened our eyes to the "commonness" of programming, and free'd us from the tyranny of "I program in x".