skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty much inconceivable to most people that Fauci committed gross malfeasance, but the evidence has only grown over time.

It's the sort of thing that would melt minds and violate the sense of reality for far too many people.
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean is a really good modern fantasy about families of monsters (based mostly on vampires) that eat books. Probably my favorite book of the year.
Perhaps the title could be better worded as:

“New insights into cell death brought on by Sepsis”
> ... if so, please share.

The CIA, NSA, FBI, IRS, GRU, FSB, DIA, MI5/6/7/8 and most every other three-letter agency on the planet. They at least act rationally, are not prone to personal grudges, and care more about keeping secrets than protecting their shareholders.
Me, I have a remake of Knight Lore installed right now :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Lore
Mnemonics (memory tricks) to help remember problem solving techniques
>I think this is true for challenging established or med/late stage startups but I keep running into seed/Series A startups or agencies

True - but if you're running into a bunch of early-stage companies, why not try to join one instead of dealing with the headache of founding one? You'll probably be able to command a decent equity percentage, and influence the product or service in a myriad of different ways. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

>Because I'm not pursuing a specific idea I'm very flexible and it's hurting my chances. I have a chicken and an egg problem between figuring out the business & finding the right people to help me with it. The advice I read online suggests focusing on the people first (since the biz idea changes a lot) but I'm not super sure about it.

There's the crux of the issue. Figure out what you want, and hopefully in doing so you'll quickly discover what you need. If you don't know what you want to build, how can people help you?

Try narrowing it down to maybe 2 or 3 different ideas, and testing the waters. Example: "I want to develop product/service ABC, and to do so I need a person with a ______ background; but if I want to develop product/service XYZ, I need a different sort of person, someone with a _________ background"

Focus on the people, yes, but also focus on what you want to build and the people will fall into place as you'll know what you want out of every person you meet.
U.S. inflation dropping to a 3% range by end of 2023 – Adam Posen says
Why do people do this? I understand the motivation behind people making endless pages of generated useless content that they then use SEO on, but this is bizzare.
Heh TBH in most cases I doubt an individual has much if any control over a) if there are layoffs, and b) if they are part of one. I've had the "privilege" of seeing the internals of a few large layoffs, and being caught in one, and from my experience they are usually tied to business decisions outside of the control of your average IC (currently interests rates are putting a major pinch on companies that hold a lot of debt for example) and performance is rarely an actual factor in who goes. In most the large layoffs I've seen the list of who is going is handed down from C or VP level execs with none of management below having any say (which explains why so many take out key resources). Only in one case have I actually seen managers select who to keep.

The whole "layoffs happen because employees are lazy, and affect lazy employees" is a nice narrative of your a business owner to keep the rank and file "motivated", but it's rarely an accurate portrayal of the situation.
I thought like that, but after using Guix and Nix I feel like those unified configurations are onto something. Launch your entire system from a sigle config file, avoid forgotten commands
There is a certain kind of person who does not believe that anyone actually has morals, and so interprets any form of having a moral compass as "virtue signaling".
Nope, I need that time to grind leetcode.
Thanks. All you say is accurate and the tension between doing the right thing vs sabotaging is real.

I’ve been basically living all my adult life like a frugal college student so that I could amass millions of dollars to get out of the rat race. However, it seems like the burnout is getting so bad that I might not be able to continue with this accumulation strategy.

At the core of it is (1) my inability to effectively deal with work pressure (2) a strong sense of impostor syndrome, which FAANG makes it even worse (3) my extremely introvert personality, being in a senior technical position at work I have to constantly interact with other people and I hate every minute of it, despite still doing it.

My ideal life is one where I have enough passive income to keep me afloat in perpetuity (working on it), and spend my time trying to build low-pressure solo online businesses that allow me to cultivate programming at my own pace without having to talk to other people except my family. Even just writing it out sounds idyllic.
The game gets really easy when you make the width of the screen as small as it can go.
But that's the thing, there is no such thing as "solvent"; there is no "account" to be solvent or insolvent. It would be like talking about whether the military is "solvent"; it's just not a thing. The only question is whether spending on a line item in the budget - whether that's the military or social security or whatever else - is or isn't appropriated by Congress.

Or if you insist on thinking in these "solvency" terms, then note that social security has never been "solvent". From day one, people who never "payed in" to the "account" received payments "from" it. That was possible for the same reason it is possible today for social security to pay out more than it brings in: it isn't its own account, its just one line item of spending coming out of the US treasury.

And there just is no political mechanism by which social security payments will fail to be appropriated. If some coalition gains enough control to pass and sign the legislation necessary to eliminate social security, they will be blamed for it by the electorate and will lose power for a generation. No political party wants to sign its own death warrant.

This all does assume the continued existence of the federal government as currently constituted, which is not a guarantee. So if what you're really saying is that you think the US system will collapse at some point before you retire, then that is actually more plausible, I think, than social security being eliminated by legislation under the current system.

But personally I also think it's very unlikely that the US system will collapse before I retire. It's just more likely than the wholesale elimination of social security :)
Notepad++ has NppCalc which has similar functionality. Nice work!
No coverage of autonoma? (or narrower view of field of logic, aka formal logic vs. electrical engineering logic)
It's not Google over there!

At the BBC, you get bonuses for showing up.
A language is only good when the zealots don't have to constantly push it and persuade people to adopt it, it happens on it's own due to it's usability and features.
I've tried to like neovim but plain vi works best for me. I've tried to like nano too.

Since you brought up JetBrains, I use no products made by them, at all, any more. I use Eclipse and I don't use a vi plugin in Eclipse.

My habit is if in bash, use vi, if in an IDE (or otherwise at my Ubuntu or Windows (work...I know) desktop), use a regular type of editor.

If I were young and never worked on old Korn shell systems or other old UNIX systems I'd probably not have learned vi and would be a nano user in the shell today.

Summary, in my brain, shell == vi, IDE\|desktop == regular editor
Netanyahu government makes West Bank settlement expansion its priority
HexFlexagons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexagon

Angle trisection tools. https://www.instructables.com/The-Tomahawk-an-Angle-Trisecti...
First AA proof I learned: Cannot trisect an angle with ruler and compass.
Hard truth #9. People won't stop clicking on listicles, so writers keep using them.
It isn't just that. It physically wears out as well.
"Laid off" should be one of the safest reasons to give for leaving an employer, right up there with giving birth to a child or taking care of a sick loved one. Layoffs from big companies are in the news now and there's rumors about how employees were chosen, but by and large saying you were laid off from some random company shouldn't mean anything other than that employer restructured and you had bad luck. Certainly you as a job applicant are under no obligation to speculate during an interview about why you specifically were let go.
If you can't describe in a few sentences what a script does that you plan to write then you have no clue what you're trying to do.
Ask HN: Has anyone taught “no code” for children?
Hi

How to teach kids to code keeps coming up as a topic on HN, but Im wondering if anyone has tried teaching their children and letting them experiment with no code, beyond scratch?

I think it would let children explore ideas a lot easier than coding

What frameworks or applications did you use? How did it work out?
At the first round of layoffs from a startup, we (the laid off, not the company) started a Slack for those affected. Subsequent rounds added more people. It made the whole thing less lonely and kept up a decent network.
I've used it with an rclone mount, it seems to work fine. See https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3641.
On Christmas Day eBay banned me for life
On Christmas day I received a nice email from eBay.

"We wanted to let you know that your account has been permanently restricted from selling because of activity we believe was putting the eBay community at risk. We understand this must be frustrating, and please know that our decision was not made lightly. Measures like this help keep our marketplace safe for everyone. Learn more about how and why accounts can be restricted.

Here’s what you should know You will no longer be able to use your account to sell on eBay and any new accounts you set up may also be restricted.
- Any fees paid or payable for listings that are ended and/or hidden from search will not be refunded or otherwise credited to your account.

You can still bid on and buy items from other sellers.

If you have any questions or concerns, or think we’ve made a mistake, please get in touch. We’re here to help"

To my certain knowledge I have done nothing to deserve this. I share an address with a dozen other people, perhaps they did something to black list our address, but I can only speculate. It is just as likely that ebay's 99% perfect automated systems flagged me in error.
The heat pump will be a 240VAC load. Consumer-level computer UPSes in the US are 120VAC.

The 24VAC transformer for the control circuitry will be on one of the 120VAC legs, but it's likely the installer didn't specifically wire it to allow partial powering of just the transformer and electronics board.
Yep, I have recommended it to many people this year and I rarely recommend books. It really has the ability to change perspectives for the better.
leetcode IS the side project 8)
It may be worth insulating it first. It cost me just about $1500 to go from effectively no attic insulation to R60 for a thousand sq ft, and besides making a massive difference in comfort it reduced energy usage by about 50%.
It should really at least give notepad as an option and strongly suggest that over vi unless you are looking for compat (compat with what?).

Tbh I don’t know why you’d want a bash for it to begin with. The only thing I miss in other shells (cmd/PS) is that you can’t make shell aliases in git.
Interestingly, chicken consumption is up and beef consumption is flat. Pork consumption is down, but remains far higher than beef or chicken.
Well, my sample size is small (INFJ: me and a CTO at a different company, INTJ: two colleagues) and my MBTI knowledge based mainly on https://www.16personalities.com. I'd still say it can fit quite well because:

- Introversion: useful for working on the kind of technical tasks outlined in the article instead of preferring to work with other people (apart from the customer success example).

- iNtuitive: coming up with out of the box, ad-hoc ideas to solve whatever new challenge is there.

> When there’s a need for innovation or a different perspective, people with Intuitive personality types can usually step up and provide a new direction. Practicality can sometimes be overrated, especially when a situation calls for serious change and “coloring outside the lines.” [1]

- Feeling: Yeah here I agree that „Thinking” types would suit better according the core theory. But when put in contrast to INTJ, I think that's the dimension which can cause someone to become a wildcard in the first place instead of a specialist: wanting to help everyone else in the company rather than focusing on more clearly confined problems for a long time.

> morale killers for these personalities may include strict rules, formal structures, and routine tasks. They may find it especially dispiriting when they’re asked to redo their work, particularly if it’s for a reason that just doesn’t seem valid to them. [...] At times, efficiency may be less of a priority for Advocates than collaborating with and helping colleagues who need a boost. [2]

- Jugding: I agree that „Prospecting” suits better according to the theory.

So overall, INTP seems to be better suited by theory. But in practice, INFJs are also drawn to the wildcard role and can get quite good at it.

[Edit]: Re-reading the article, especially the „wildcards in summary“ part is a very close match with „infjs at work“ (unknown challenges over routines, importance of impact, creative and independent problem solvers)

[1] https://www.16personalities.com/articles/energy-intuitive-vs...

[2] https://www.16personalities.com/infjs-at-work
You make a good point here.

As with everything there are winners and losers. Some built careers and companies by leveraging social media. That's in the pros column.

When I drill down into it, I think the potency is what draws me in. I sometimes feel this way on HN. "Let me check the comments". But FB, reddit, et al. are high octane versions.
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes by Levy - How Cortes conquered the Aztecs with 400 men and 16 horses.

Judgement in Managerial Decision Making by Bazerman - Things which bias your thinking and how to avoid them.

My Life and Work by Henry Ford - How Henry Ford thinks. Stories about engineering and building a company.

Homage to Catalonia by Orwell - The famous author's experience in the Spanish civil war which colored much of his work.
If you've ever shot a gun or been around guns you'd know the rapport of various guns is not always consistent. Often, it is difficult to tell the difference between a gunshot and a firework for example. Even something like dropping a wood pallet far enough away can sound like the echos of a gunshot. Backfiring from a car can sound remarkably close to a small caliber rifle. If a gunshot doesnt happen quite literally within a few dozen feet of you it's often hard to tell. Typically the way you can tell is people who shoot guns generally don't do it once. Several rapports tend to raise the probability of a gun.

ShotSpotter works in isolation because in isolation a certain noise profile is almost certainly a gun shot. Like most ML aiming to change the world it's powered by p-hacking.
Electricity offers resistive heating, and heat pumps. Heat pumps are much more efficient than resistive heating.

Otherwise, you have chemical fuel which burns, and a bit of electricity to pump it around (either by forced air or water pumps).

In terms of electrical input, resistive heating is the worst of the lot, even if it can be sourced in a carbon neutral way (unlike nat gas or fuel oil).
My feeling is that the fundamentals are difficult in their own way: requiring math, logic, creativity, seemingly arbitrary constraints. Learning the flavor of the month on stack X is often just learning their jargon, keywords, and matching common patterns one probably already knows.

All that said, sentiment against stack churn is significant and a common theme here on HN.
You're looking for a remote job. The sort of companies I'm thinking of most likely won't do remote. Maybe it's different now in the era of COVID, but I suspect they'll still be "asses in chairs, look busy" type places.

Go on monster.com (or any other job search site), type in "programmer" (or "<language> programmer" if you only have experience in a single language) and start applying. If you don't recognize the company name or what they do, that's good. If you're looking for a consultancy gig, then you probably want to look out for keywords like "government" or "client". If you're looking for a non-tech company, then you need to google the company name and see what field their in.

If you know Java, you can probably search for "Jira programmer" or "Jira developer" and find a pretty cushy gig writing those. If you know PHP, then search for "wordpress developer". If it's python, search "Django developer" etc.
They raised $6mn+, congrats. Are they going after SaaS, but keeping single Dev experience free?
Probably. It can't really go much further than:

"No, it's not our responsibility to help these people, and the system pretty decent already."

"Yes, it's our responsibility to help these people, and the system needs to be changed to support that."

No real way to move people from these positions. I guess in short it's a morality thing. Personal belief. Not so much about technicality.
Sounds cool in theory, but the question stands

How are you going to improve existing codebase / new code if you aren't aware of the foundations, tools and basic primitives?

How many problems could be solved by just usage of z3 if you were aware of it?

How many problems could be solved by applying most popular combinatorial optimization methods/approaches

instead of writing something times, times slower, but eventually hacked enough to make it work?
I ran the length of every street in Pittsburg: PAC Tom [video]
Just wondering, what is your TC? My understanding is that story works at Tier 3 companies that lack a structured interview process and are desperate for candidates (e.g. startups).
You forgot the "asking people to pay you for doing it" part.
If you pay me to work on a project, you can burn it for all I care as long as the check clears.
Even if you do need to make thicker pipes, strength in a metal generally increases with the square of the thickness, so it doesn't cost twice as much in materials to double the strength.
Translatewith.wiki: Translate complicated concepts between languages
There's just not good cycling infrastructure in most of the US. Until then, cyclists will complain about cars and pedestrians, pedestrians will complain about cars and cyclists, and so on. For every pedestrian not paying attention on a MUP infrastructure there's a Cat 6 racer.
Ha! Norwegians reduced to the status of mere mortals. How sad indeed.
what is wrong with "suppressing" votes of non-citizens?
> Playing old games is the main reason I'm excited for these types of handhelds.

Same! An often unspoken benefit to playing older games is that they are a good deal less taxing on the hardware, allowing you to stretch out the battery life. I love it.
Or not produced anymore and prices go up for legacy system maintenance. Like try to buy 4MB of EDO RAM
Really?

Are you suggesting that you would be surprised to find that companies are collecting information about you?
The Steam Deck has an excellent travel case. If I were needing to travel with it, I would find a way to attach the travel case externally to my bag. That way, it wouldn't impact what can be packed already.
How did you like the Wheel of Time? The size of the saga scares me a bit...
You’ll soon be able to talk to Home Assistant without Google, Siri or Alexa
It doesn't help that I think most women would prefer (or perhaps think most men would prefer) that their bra says 32DD instead of 40A. Especially since lots of people get sized when they're in their teens and don't adjust until it becomes really problematic.
> It is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to stick a scarlet letter on immigrants.

I completely disagree, otherwise I wouldn't have worked on the program at all.

> every legal immigrant and likely many illegal immigrants already have documents like green cards and passports they can use rather to fly.

This is true, legal immigrants can still fly. It does add more friction to some illegal immigrants and I don't think that's a bad thing.

It also helps prevent identity theft and sets a bare minimum for states handing out identity-proving documents. I've been in DMVs when the new system caught fake documents and fake licenses that would not have been caught before (having worked on both the REAL ID and non-REAL ID systems.)

> In the end, this program places the overwhelming burden on US citizens who don't already have a passport (the poorest 66% of us)

I don't think the requirements for obtaining a REAL ID are overwhelming for legal citizens and immigrants. Also, keep in mind it is the state that sets the price of a REAL ID card. The federal government even gave grants to many (all?) states and territories to implement the program.

> doing very little to actually make air travel safer.

I agree with this. I don't think it particularly improves the security or safety of flights either and wish the whole program was decoupled from flying. There are real improvements to the security of DMV's systems and their vetting processes. Especially for some states/territories that were handing out ID's and licenses like candy. Though in a whole the program has been a mess as can be seen with the numerous extensions.
Isometric RPGs advanced: Nowadays, the UI & UX do not make you want to scratch your eyes out. Mostly ;)
In normal conditions - I wouldn't be surprised if >20% of people interviewing aren't really interested in working at the company.

You need competing offers to get a good offer - so you need to interview at places you have little interest in actually working for.

I would expect a lot of these people either got a good enough offer, or good enough competing offers, or just didn't get an offer from where they actually want to work - so don't need competing offers.

Additionally, there's a lot of people that interview for practice just to keep fresh for when they do need a job, and a lot of people that interview at a few places as practice before they interview at the places they're really targeting.

I'd expect a lot of no-shows from this cohort.
I mean it’s probably just a power law distribution, right?
The book is great but pretty old now. Can anyone comment on how it holds up to new discoveries/advances in knowledge we’ve made in the last 20 years?
Thank you for the response, those are good points, I'll try to make it in that manner and then consider.

I don't think I can use it as a stepping stone back home, I've already got the skills one needs to be in top of my field. I am no mad coder, but still I can make it work the best in my area.

Thanks :)
Also, if you can't find a job in a year then maybe you need to lower your standards somewhere. Even as a self-taught, very junior (at the time) engineer it only took me 4 months to receive (competitive) competing offers.
That's one way to punish Russia
Milan Reports 50% of Passengers on China Flights Have Covid
You got any evidence for that one?
I think it's healthier to instead develop the social skills and confidence needed to answer any questions confidently while enforcing boundaries about what you will and won't answer. Outright lying can come from a place of weakness and fear which isn't good to encourage.
Word of Mouth, Proper SEO on your Website, Advertising in Dev Channels?

Basically everything other than sending me spam. Your cost to send me spam is nearly zero while my cost to sort and read your spam is rarely zero so you will be punished harshly for sending me unrequested emails.