skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other great charities in this sector -

UK based Sight Savers * -https://www.sightsavers.org/

And in Australia the Fred Hollows Foundation -https://www.hollows.org/au/home

(I am not affiliated to sight savers but am vaguely related to the founders)
I don’t think it is about leftist collectivist actions. What? Is that serious? Are medical doctors immature? Most engineers of any kind are not in unions, is electrical engineering immature? I don’t get this take.

Also, some might say the jab at ASP.NET MVC is an example of what OP is talking about.
You sound a bit like my boss of the past 11 years. He's a big reason why I stick around with a company I otherwise have no attachment to. He's reasonable, he treats us like human beings first, he values our time almost as much as we do, etc. Which is kind of amazing considering he himself is a workaholic. If something goes wrong I know hes more interested in fixing it and preventing it in the future than he is blaming anyone. So even though I was probably not going to be much help, I was willing to stick around until 10pm during a software deployment that was going badly just in case something in my wheelhouse came up.
See my blog entries here (beware, something about the certificate for the web server is broken right now, will try to fix it right away):

https://www.multicores.org/blog/tag_Smalltalk.html
I’ve been thinking about this a lot as well. I think it’s doubtful that they’ll port it since MM is owned by Sony. But I agree it would be excellent.

What I’m imagining is something like Dreams that is supported by a whole editor. There’s just something about their approach that feels so much more accessible than any game dev tool I’ve come across. It’s really amazing.

Once WebGPU becomes a reality, it might even be possible to port Dreams content to the web.
Once in a while I’ll say something snarky and get downvoted. I usually delete those because I’m not really adding to the dialog. But the world is full of uncomfortable truths, software doubly so (or at least, I can see more of them). It’s humbling when people agree, irritating or amusing when they don’t. Confusing when I say the same thing in two replies in one thread and one gets 25 downvotes while the other gets 35 upvotes.

My fake internet points go up every week whether I say something controversial or not so since they’re fake anyway what do I care? I know some people do but get a grip.

At the end of the day if you understand something that other people don’t, I figure that’s a way to stay gainfully employed. I don’t like cleaning up other people’s messes for long though. It’s fun at first and on some teams I get copycats and everything goes well, more or less. I’ve maybe made the world a better place by teaching some people something new. On others I become the janitor and end up leaving. Getting “downvoted” at work does matter.
> What if Einstein lived to 500 or was still alive?

The flipside would be, what if Aristotle or Ptolemy lived to 2500 and were still alive? Would we still be arguing if everything revolves around Earth, or if fire, earth, water and air constitute everything?
> Musk can easily move the HQ out of California

And a commercial landlord in downtown SF can just as easily find another tenant to fill the space.

Playing hardball requires the other side to actually give a shit if you walk away from the table: Finding another tenant might be a hassle for the landlord, but certainly no more of one (and very likely much less of one) than Twitter moving the company HQ would be.
This is one of those ideas that continuously sounds new, but is very much already in the works. I've had run ins with NASA folks, startups, and DoD partners that are pushing on this problem.
I did it by being excited to do jobs others didn’t want. At the time, it was build/release engineering.
The rules don't apply to the wealthy. It's their world, you're just living in it.

By that logic SBF should be chilling still in the Bahamas , having paid off the authorities
> If I search for a big Canadian bank, the first page is entirely their own website and their own social media properties.

There might also be an ad for a competitor in the top position.
>I think these companies, like Apple, Amazon, and possibly Google, will see their stocks come back into favor ahead of everything else in tech. I am hedging on Google because I believe the massive advances in AI/ML that we are seeing right now may be a threat to their core search franchise

I kinda disagree with this! Google has the best AI talent in the market. And, lots of these AI advancement are coming from Google brain themselves (ICRL, ICML, etc). And, some of those languages models are already deployed in Google.

Further, I can see Google as an automotive company (Waymo) as opposed to search engine in the long term.
The Internet is television with lower production value and longer commercials.
torchtriton dep? Is this targeting LLM users like OpenAI? This attack was only discovered after a few days. I wonder if the attacker succeeded in getting something?
I think the develop faster thing is a poor argument for static typing. The refactoring piece of the equation is the most important to me. Static types provide confidence (and speed) while making sweeping changes to code.
And now flagged...
Probably goes to S2 instead of S3 deep sleep. Had the same issue on microsoft surface (running Linux on it) - i needed to tweak few kernel flags to force it into deep sleep.
I don't know Fred's predictions, but just having skin in the game does not indicate truthful or quality forecasts. It may even be a detriment to quality predictions as you reverse engineer stories to rationalize your positions or worse, try to move markets and take advantage of the result if your megaphone is big enough - https://youtu.be/jaGU0FrrXcQ.
Typelit introduced me to Maurice Leblanc's Lupin books, which are an absolute treat to read (and quite fun to type out as well). It's nice to have something interesting to type out when learning/practising proper home-row 10-finger typing (which is why I wound up learning Dvorak typing, as KTouch has a really good course for it).
So, what are some actually good options for personal blogging?

I know of wordpress, but going on a search engine and trying to find a good-faith review for quality canned blogging software is impossible. Not only that, but everything is super bloated with features/attack surface I don't need.

It'd be nice to have a blog where I could author everything in md/mmd, upload, and it's live. Image embed support is probably the fanciest feature I'd like.
I've found that simply incorporating a few miles of brisk walking into your routine with a moderately heavy backpack and good posture (no/minimal slouching or leaning forward) is reasonably effective exercise, particularly if it's at all hilly.

I think it works out similarly to low-intensity deadlifting and squatting, and becomes much easier if you also lift consistently.

As a bonus, it's also fun and relaxing.
It took me an embarrassing amount of time to fully grok what object oriented programming really means. It's one thing to have someone tell you what an object is, but it's another thing entirely to build a fully object oriented system.

I remember what made it click: I was designing an animation system, which had a bunch of different interdependent moving parts. Once I started treating each part like an object and letting it manage its own state it all just clicked. I started with this massively complex functional-like system that managed four or five different motions, but once it was broken into objects most of the code just fell off and it became a nice clean system.

I was super proud of it at the time, but it's pretty bad by my current standards.
it seems ppl become more ignorant and less into the craft … will render the field in ruin …
Many have been estimating it at well under a $10 billion valuation. Elon Musk just became the first person to lose $200 Billion.

I'd not be so quick to assume creditors are all getting paid here.
I've never had a problem with Sony cameras' ergonomics. The menu is just as straightforward as Canon's, though I suppose if one is familiar with Canon there's an overhead to switching. All I really need is the ability to map each aspect of the exposure triangle to a knob, change shooting speed, and push button AF. I never fiddle with the various creative styles or anything, I always shoot raw.

The poorer ergonomics stems from the more compact form factor: but that's part of the advantage, too. Harder to hold in the hand, but a lot easier to mount on a gimbal. In this sense, Sony is recognizing the shift towards video and are seeking to delivery truly hybrid cameras.

I think the biggest issue leading to sore hands is the weight of modern top-tier lenses. It looks like everyone these days is shooting with super fast f/1.2 and 1.4 50mm and 85mm lenses. I have an EF mount Sigma 85mm f/1.4 and that does take some effort to hold. Looking back on it I think most lenses faster than f/2.8 are overkill unless you're doing sports or bird photography. I'm often stopping down to at least that much or even f4.0. At f/1.4 someone's eye will be in focus while their nose is not, and if they're not perfectly aligned with the camera only one eye is in focus. People often cite bokeh ad a creative choice, but software has gotten good at simulating that. I find myself taking out smaller lenses more and more often just for convenience.
> Right, they bailed out corporations and threw people out of their homes. Never forgive, never forget.

So you would've preferred that the whole system came crashing down and believe that average people would've had a better long term outcome from that?
"out of spec" means that it is out of specification. It is literally not specified. You are doing something that is not specified. It is therefore an action that is out of specification. it is therefore out of spec.

If there was an utter ban, then it would be against specification and not compliant, not merely out of specification.
Physical therapy?
Do I recall correctly that UPI was part of their ploy to ban cash? Technologically interesting, sure. But hardly brilliant.
An adjacent field that was higher value. I’ve made a bit of a career transitioning fields and now work on a mix of ml and database internals at a large tech company.
Been a runner for 30+ years. I love it.

I've got 5 bits of advice for anyone starting out.

Firstly, just go. As the old trope says, the hardest bit is the distance between couch and front door. Don't even think about it, don't look at the weather, don't worry about that little voice in your head telling you how cold it is. Just get your kit on and go. Once you're outside you're on your way.

Secondly - give some focus to foot strike cadence: you'll see lots of "serious" runners talking about how 180 SPM (steps per minute) is the optimum, and it is - but even if you're just starting out, push your cadence up so it's above something that feels natural. Take smaller steps, take more of them. As I read somewhere: "make it feel like you're mincing along". Up hills, make the steps even smaller. Get a Garmin or similar - all good watches will give you a cadence display - if you can't, then just listen to a song before you go at a known BPM and keep it in your head as you run. Your running will feel easier, you'll be less likely to pull muscles, and you'll ultimately become a better and stronger runner because of it.

Thirdly - have a rhythm to your breathing too. There's lots written about this - my personal favourite is to breathe in for 2 steps, then breathe out for 3. When there's a hill, change this as needed, possibly 1 breath per step or even more if it's a steep one :-)

Fourth - stretching and warming up/down. You'll get a massive amount of conflicting advice on this. Some swear by a pre-run stretch, some post-run. Some don't stretch at all. Just listen to your body - this is good advice all round for running - so if you find that it suits you to start slow with no stretching / warm-up and to build your speed up, do that. If you're someone who finds this ends up with hurting / pulled muscles, try a mini warm-up first. Just listen to yourself, and not to anyone else.

Finally - as you get older (I'm 50), focus a bit more on strength and endurance rather than speed. Because I'm aerobically fit I could do a 7:30 minute mile if I pushed it, but I'd be full of muscle pain regret the next day. Just because I'm fit enough doesn't mean I should do it - instead I find it better to go a bit further, and force myself to keep the pace down a bit. Really it's the same advice as #4 - but it takes a bit of self control and learning to know what "too fast" is in any particular context.

Good luck out there :-)
The certain operation almost always being rotation in my experience
Learning how to program is intellectually challenging actually. Not fully understanding all primitive operations while they teach you to try to execute programs in your mind (rather than using a debugger) is madness. It was to me anyway.

When you get past that point, yea, then I agree. The intellectual challenge for most programs is gone. Not for everyone though, I have a friend working for a HFT firm. The shit he encounters is hardcore.
Once an open sewer, New York Harbor now teems with life
https://github.com/matrix-org/seshat - we’ve had it for years on desktop; just need to hook it up on mobile. it’s currently blocked behind unifying sdks, so we don’t have to do it twice in iOS & Android.
A free educational site for computer graphics
The bottleneck for orbital edge isn't software, it's hardware that can tack into an optical terminal and tolerate radiation. The edge analogy breaks down because the consumer isn't on the edge, the sensor is, and it's just a problem of doing heavy compute next to the sensor, then sending back a summary data product.

After that, networking is well understood.
The year of the predictions :smiley_face:

I think the one that's mostly going to be correct is Medvedev one [1], definitely the most interesting and credible one

[1] - https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/16074873384012062...
And thus you miss the entire point
The problems are mostly self-inflicted. Nobody is forcing them to all move to the same 5 cities and then wonder why houses are so expensive there. Nobody is forcing them to spend their lives on social media despite every study showing the negative impact it has on their mental health. Nobody is forcing them to self-isolate into echo chambers and remove key support from friends/family etc. due to misaligned beliefs or whatever excuse.

These are solved problems, so not fixing it is their own fault. But if you talk to them you'll see they don't want to solve problems, they want to be victims so they can do nothing and blame others for their own shortcomings.

I feel bad for the young people in that generation who aren't wired this way because their own peers are driving them to embrace negativity and toxicity and wear it as a badge. We used to tell people like that to fuck off, now they're embraced - it's creepy.
Same for me, I try to make it meditative in a way. I don't use earbuds or anything, just try to continue existing and moving. Sometimes identify birds. Practice talking to myself in languages I'm studying.
In races it turns into body state monitoring and trying to determine when/if to adjust pace. Check in on form. On heart rate. Pick someone up ahead to try to catch. Count down to the next gel or electrolyte tab or water station.

I've done quite a few 2hr+ runs (half marathon to marathon) and 100 mile bike rides, and after a while for me it turns into a psychological game.

Trail running, if you haven't tried it, is much more "stimulating" I might say, depending on where you are there's a lot more focus and attention required to stay on the trail, to stay upright (slipping on mud, ending up in a river), to dodge trees and rocks as required, etc. I personally find there's much more of an aspect of being "in the zone" for trail running, and especially in races, when I miss a turn and have to stop and backtrack, it becomes really obvious that I was in some kind of "flow" state and then got pulled out of it.
> Right, they bailed out corporations and threw people out of their homes. Never forgive, never forget.

Who is "they"? The fed I presume? I doubt they were directly involved in foreclosures.
Similarly the typescript courses at http://executeprogram.com are pretty good.
Steve Magness has a great book on the topic called Do Hard Things. It’s a great read, but makes extra sense for folks who run of engage in hard endurance exercise.
In countries where medical care isn't the first step to financial ruin, people have regular checkups all the time. This sort of thing could just be used as a basis for further decision making (as are health apps right now), with only things that need immediate action turning into a "go to the doctor right now".
The main thing with college degrees is simply to get your foot in the door, as one responder said, if you've got something from a community college that'll be good enough to get you into the queue in most places.

Next up, is being able to describe situations where you worked on a team doing software development, and how you handled things like unclear specifications, irascible colleagues or constantly changing priorities. Software development is a team game, we need to see how you fit into that team.

Lastly then is your technical abilities, and this might be assessed at more of a system level than a coding level. If you've got this, but miss the other areas then you'll find it harder to progress to an offer. Just my two cents from sitting in on plenty of interviews over the years.
Ship stuff.

Build something, anything, and put it in the wild. Make it open source. Repeat.

Startups will hire you.
Average life expectancy is down. Life expectancy for rich people is up, so non-rich life expectancy is dropping faster than the average.
As odd as it is, does this need a [2022] since it’s from November of last year, technically?
British Police to screen suspects for signs gambling addiction is driving crime
I spend far less time subjected to advertisements on the internet than when I used to watch TV. Near zero time, actually.

Now it is a game of figuring out the shills that are advertising, but trying to disguise their content as not advertising.
I own and use multiple mirrorless camera brands (mainly Canon, Olympus, and Nikon in that order of preference) and have at least tried pretty much all of them. Sony cameras feel like uncomfortable bricks compared to these brands.

Sony's autofocus is still the best of the best, but Canon especially and even Nikon have closed a lot of that gap in recent years. Olympus not as much, but it's still usable. Sony hasn't improved their ergonomics nearly as much in the same time period. It seems like they spend more on influencer outreach than ergonomic research. I'm also not super impressed with their first party glass, but they do let everyone make lenses for their mount so that's nice in comparison to Canikon.
The expression problem. I had vague notions of “horizontal” and “vertical” abstraction but they weren’t concrete enough to discuss or make informed decisions about.
I've caught myself being sensitive to the popular narrative when uttering my opinions, fearful of my "citizenship score". Shameful, yes. To a degree, here (yes!) but much moreso elsewhere (might be unavoidable).

Feedback is divine. Convenience is king. So let's go with the vote button. This distributed god-king is our best way to control this stuff (moderation, filteration etc).

We should not only be voting but looking at our peer's votes too. Weight votes by the voter. Stuff like that
A big one for me not necessarily for “socialism” but for questioning the bog standard capitalist narrative was seeing how the quality of content often goes down when creator monetization is added on a platform.

That’s not supposed to happen. Adding a way for people to make income is supposed to incentivize better content and allow people to invest in that content. Instead what you get is a flood of addictive and sensational / tabloid trash.

… or another way of looking at it is that you do get “better” content but better is not defined in a way that truly benefits anyone.

YouTube is the most dramatic example. The quality of the whole platform tanked hard when monetization was added.

After seeing this a few times I have started noticing it everywhere. The profit motive just doesn’t incentivize quality the way we are taught that it should. It can when the incentives align but they often do not.

Another common example is actual reductions in quality to drive more spending like engineered obsolescence or “nerfing” software to drive lock in. The incentive is to produce an inferior product since that is most profitable.

This doesn’t mean I think the answer is a government bureaucracy running everything like a single monopoly. That leads to a whole other set of perverse incentives and an inability to go elsewhere.
nothing is wrong with your certificate, it's just self signed and browsers don't support that correctly. They just show the same unsecure usual message.
> The threat of Russia's aggression affecting other countries remains.

Like what countries exactly? They can't even hold the ground they conquered in the previous months in Ukraine. Armenia already asked Russia's help and they refused - it was effectively a fatal blow to CSTO and has far-reaching consequences to the way Russia is perceived among its current and former allies.
What Twitter and others solved with micro-blogging was discovery. There was nothing wrong with personal blogs. Sure, they had a bit more setup than just signing up for Twitter and typing out some 140-word screed but they were perfectly capable. Blogspot and others made it free, you needn't even have a domain and yet people still went to Twitter to build their "brand" (I hate that phrase) and get "discovered" and then get the sales funnel going to send "fans" (also gross) to their paid newsletters, podcasts, books, etc., all of it facilitated by the algorithm and Twitter.
What fingerprints tell us about Jerusalem’s ancient artisans
Discussed recently:

Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667882 - Nov 2022 (70 comments)

Does anybody know if we can reliably rewrite bbc.com to bbc.co.uk or vice versa? It's a big hole in HN's dupe detector.
https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/src/com...

files like this make me feel like my files aren’t too long after all :)
You don’t get great light exposure when it’s cold and you have to wear tights, long sleeves and gloves
Turns out regardless of wealth generally healthy adults who make it to old age typically die from various cancers (or falling in the shower) at around the same age as the rest of the cohort.

Having large families, lots of friends, and a sunny disposition (as opposed to being an edgy communist for example), minorly but measurably increases your life expectancy.
Yup, people are way more prompt to shit on something free, than something they've paid for.

Seem counterintuitive, but people will always defend something they've spent money on. The more they've spent, the more they do.
Starting this year I'm switching from gameplay programmer to game engine programmer. I originally studied computer graphics a lot while I was in school, and I really enjoyed the time I spent working on optimization as a gameplay programmer.

As a gameplay programmer, a lot of the problem solving and work I did was insular and particular to the game. Engine development feels like a much bigger world where very similar problems are being worked on by many people all over the world. I feel there's a lot more material I need to go read.

I also want to start learning how to song write and improvise on piano. I'm starting to get some grasp on music theory finally and can probably not be totally lost when placing chords next to each other.