skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never asked, but always listened, and respected whatever the employee wanted to share. I have personal (extracurricular) experience in an organization that has given me a particularly useful approach to sensitive life stuff. I also shared a lot of what I was going through (but not all). That's often a great way to "break the ice."

I saw my employees through a lot of life's challenges, like cancer, marriage, divorce, child issues, elder issues, whatever. I made sure that we could keep working as a team, even if it meant that one of the members may have had to opt out for a while.

I also withheld information from HR, that they would have liked to have had, because, quite frankly, it was none of their damn business. It did not always endear me to them. I kept secrets, and never used anything I learned to manipulate, but I did use it to optimize.

For example, I had one engineer that is "on the spectrum." He Just. Could. Not. Come. In. Before. Noon. to save his life, but often worked until 2AM.

Also, the code he wrote was nothing short of miraculous. He's possibly the best coder I've ever worked with.

HR wanted me to bully him into submission. I did not, and they were un-thrilled with me. But Japan loved him, and they held the upper hand.

It wasn't for everyone, but we made it work.

I feel that "one size fits all" solutions may be necessary for large organizations, but I had the luxury of managing a small team (never more than 10 people). Everyone involved was serious about the work, had pride in the company, and appreciated the leeway I gave them. My LI profile has a number of testimonials, and some are from former employees. To this day, we still keep in touch.

Because of the nature of the work we did, there was no way for "slackers" to hide. Everyone's work was just too visible.

As a manager, my #1 priority was always to represent what was best for the corporation. In some cases, that meant preventing the corporation from engaging in self-destructive behavior. Now, that is a classic "slippery slope," and it could have easily turned into self-will run riot, but it didn't; because I'm who I am.

Managers aren't cookies, and they can't be formed from cookie-cutters, no matter what the "HR Consultants" say.
Could be. I still think the juice won’t be worth the squeeze (is there an example in the history of comms satellites where they felt it was worth going after the much smaller EO market?). But the rumor in the industry is that they’re comin for everything. And they did just announce a new satellite platform for hosting payloads (including optical).
Oh wow, 5BX looks like it's right up my alley. Thanks for this.
I think working on an side project that would showcase your skills would be more than enough.

Any project that is data-driven, includes authentication & authorization, and a clean UI.

All with minimal frameworks, and in public eye like GitHub so they can see code quality.

I think that paired with a good personality would be a home run getting a job.
Looks like I have to pay before I can see what "Tools you will need to learn Music Theory quickly and efficiently".

https://www.punkademic.com/course/music-theory-comprehensive...
I feel this is a smallish and optimistic viewpoint.

We hit a technological inflection point near the end of 2022 after 2 decades of relatively horizontal technical progress with slight improvements. That change is AI. Suddenly the idea that AI becoming better at human tasks then humans themselves becomes a realistic prospect. This is what will change not just the next year but humanity for the next century. For the next year we will see rapid progress in AI, exploratory applications and the first heave instances of human resistance against AI.

The only other thing as big as AI is the climate. However the outcome of the climate is already well known. In all probability, the worst case scenario will likely play out but we won't suffer from the brunt of it in the next year. It's an old story and no longer interesting because we already know the bitter ending and we don't have the self control to change it.

As for crypto, stocks, recessions and the economy and stuff like that, I personally think these things aren't too important. These are mediums of economic exchange going through cycles. They are side effects of actual progress, of technology that will fundamentally change things. They are also relatively unpredictable. Mild recession for the next year or stagnation like japan for the next decade. Who knows? It's hard to say. Such predictions in either direction are equally meaningless due to the chaotic nature of it all.

Either way the biggest thing that happened in 2022 is the new progress in AI and I'm surprised the article doesn't mention it. AI is a game changer for the "macro environment" for tech.
Teen Births Have Declined Sharply over Last 3 Decades
Ruby MMO: multiplayer online programming challenge (2012)
Someone explain what's smalltalk?
"I knew this was going to happen," but he didn't do anything about it? Irresponsible at best.
There are no founders or startup employees with equity or people with significant investments in the stock market on HN? There are no cryptoids here either?
Paint with Music
> Can we maybe focus on the technology and not ideology?

It's not ideology to see that applying certain inventions in particular domains will bring more negative consequences than in the others. Even if former are more lucrative than later. It's ideology to follow hyper-capitalistic approach and pretend that only profit matters.
Ask HN: What’s your way to get rid of a hangover?
It’s New Year’s Day, and I imagine many of us overdid it last night to celebrate.

Of course, the best way to get over a hangover is to not drink enough to cause one in the first place, but assuming its too late for that, what’s your way to get rid of a hangover?
> I am not aware of an automotive parallel to a "housing crash"

New car manufacturers don't like to drop prices, but they do like to offer cash back and below market rate interest incentives. Especially towards the end of the model year. Very low cost leases show up from time to time as well.

You also see things like pausing production when supply is outpacing demand. Sometimes it's subtle like stopping the line a few weeks before the scheduled stop, or starting it back a few weeks later, and sometimes it's a month off during the model year.
Dump trucks full of unmarked non-sequential US currency
I’m not saying they should stick to the mainstream, but I’m saying that a majority will. What has changed isn’t most people’s behavior, but the internet around them, and I’m arguing it’s changed for the worse.
> I feel for the folks who live under these people.

Last year, 50% of my country literally begged the armed forces for a military dictatorship so they wouldn't have to live under these corrupt politicians again. They spent over two months protesting. Today is an extremely sad day for them.
Planet Labs captures ~30 megapixel images (usually though, these are quoted in terms of pixel size, eg. 5 meters per pixel) and has hundreds of satellites on orbit.

I don't know about Digital Globe's capabilities, but they are also in this business as are others.

Would 100 megapixels make a big difference in availability?
That one person tried not to buy it almost instantly after the ink was dry. Seems like even they didn’t think it was worth it.
Modern Fortran has a number of attractive features. Parallel programming (Co-arrays) is another gem of recent Fortran versions. Concise syntax conforming with traditional numerics makes it still a good domain specific language of choice.

In my opinion, Julia is a good successor of Fortran. In my opinion it behaves as a child of Python/Numpy and Fortran ;-)
It's sort of mindblowing that there's adults now that have never talked to someone who was in their 20s during WW2. It makes it something akin to ancient history. Even though I'm "only" 35, WW2 never felt like something that happened a very long time ago, it was something that happened to my grandparents and that influenced the circumstances and upbringing of my parents.
In that case, it's also possible for Bolsonaro to be imprisoned for multiple years on phony charges and therefore rational for him to leave, is it not?
Something in linear algebra clicked for me when I realized the infinite dimensional case is different from the finite dimensional case.
Taking the point of view of others, and learning to view a situation from a "perspective-less perspective."

It's easy to think you have people skills because you listen to others and repeat their point of view back to them before telling them they're wrong. And unfortunately you can get quite far in the business world simply by being good at demolishing other people's positions.

As a mental exercise, a few years ago in meetings I started deleting the names from the running transcript I keep in my head. "Joe said X and Jane said Y and then I said Z" was replaced with "we said X, then Y, then Z." It was a remarkably effective device to rise above the "who's going to win?" attitude and instead think about the best way for everyone to proceed as a group. I suddenly started to get what people say about meditation and removing the "I" perspective from your life. If instead of being you, you're a quadcopter hovering near the person you call yourself, it's so much easier to get your ego to shut up and start listening for once.
The perception that HN is becoming too politicized goes back pretty much to the origins of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.

There are sizeable fluctuations but I think the long-term state is stable. When too much repetition appears, users will increasingly flag it and moderators will increasingly downweight it.
The absolute amount of freight moved by rail in the US is insane. But the US is also roughly the size of Europe and is shaped so there are many population centers far from the ocean.

If you remove bulk freight it’s quite a bit of a difference but still massive.

Much of European freight goes by boat and truck without much train.
If Elon Musk called you today would you work at Twitter for twice your current compensation?
Data structures are more interesting than algorithms.
AI is detecting early signs of dementia, with an 80% accuracy
FYI: KeePassX had its last release in 10/2016 and the development has been stopped: https://www.keepassx.org/index.html%3Fp=636.html
Mob rule doesn't make for good laws. Especially in California, example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_...

Prop 13 is arguably illegal under federal law. Of course with the current court I wouldn't want to press it. After all Clarence Thomas loves Prop 13 so much that he refused to sign the majority opinion in Nordlinger v Hahn because it didn't go far enough in empowering landowners.

> No one voting for the law at the time was looking To benefit "whit people".

Again, the Fair Housing Act cares about "disparate impact". Intention is irrelevant.

(Though given that the 70s was the era of school bussing battles it's a bit of a stretch to say that people weren't thinking about race wrt Serrano and school funding)
It starts off saying here are conservatives guesses for 2023. Then what follows is nothing but conservative. France and a new 4th riche go to war? It has to be satire.
Don’t you have to sign contracts forbidding you from working with them except through the platforms?
Actual automatic transmission statistics for Europe, 2018.[1] The "80% are manual" number is out of date.

[1] https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/Europea...
It was vacated on a technicality, not a matter of fact.
Correct; I was responding to correct a conditional which started "Unless you’re in a high risk group..."
pancakes.

tender coconut water.

curds.
> Without the barriers of cars, pedestrians and cyclists may be more likely to interact with each other

Are cars a reason that pedestrians and cyclists don't "interact with each other" today?
I downloaded apps by the person we most recently hired. Why wouldn’t you?
How interesting that a bunch of tech nutcases now want to geoengineer the planet by dispersing sulphur into the stratosphere to dim the sun to 'tackle' climate change. Mind-blowing stupidity.
Those are field trials of different varieties.
It’s not at scale
Rust Atomics and Locks – Low-Level Concurrency in Practice
The valuable use cases are capital controls evasion, tax evasion, remittances to Argentina, KYC evasion, money laundering. It is truly and only a pirate currency use case. There is no dapp/smart contract/DAO construct that is fundamentally useful and can find PMF. I’d go as far to say that “Tokenomics”fundamentally destroys your ability to find PMF because it changes the incentive structure such that the biggest thing you can do to drive growth is to pump, not build.
> communist

Sorry, this is just the kind of exaggerated rhetoric that made the situation to become polarised like this.

I really encourage you to stop propagating this kind of nonsense.
In Pakistan we have LRBT, if you are looking for an eyecare NGO to support.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layton_Rahmatullah_Benevolent_...

https://lrbt.org.pk/how-you-can-help/sponsor-a-surgery/
Learning history / literature in school is important.

I was a total STEM math nerd in school. I used to frequently complain how I don't get what's the point of it, or how it's a waste of time and I'm learning nothing. I still think the emphasis of school was off, but I get the point of it now.

Stories are like code for humans. You can't tell someone what it means to be good or bad, or to give them a course in philosophy and they will become good people. But you can tell them a good story, that engages with them emotionally, and it will change their perception. And history shows that in fact, those stories being told and repeated aren't just interesting minor curiosity, but they have shaped the direction of humanity and they are driving it. A single person with a single story can change history in such a way that it would be completely different without it. And some stories about stories need to be told as a warning so that people will not fall for those kinds of stories again.
That sometimes the extreme needs to manifest in order to pull toward the middle
It's a bit more complex than that. You're right that political content isn't excluded completely, but it also needs to be moderated a lot more, because otherwise the site would be taken over by political content, and also because politicized threads tend to break the site guidelines very quickly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If anyone wants to know how we approach this, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... leads to a bunch of past explanations, though you have to scroll through some boilerplate to find them. Just look for the longer, older posts.
I am a heavy user of vim, but recently purchased a ZSA moonlander keyboard so I have easy access to a layer with arrows. I usually search to nav or do line jump them w or f, so not having hjkl isn't an issue.
Visual thinking! [1]

I had read a bit about different types of thinking but I didn't really understand it so well until I saw a kid who had amazing visual thinking capability and could visualize years' old memories in a very detailed manner. It has also been related to photographic memory according to some research.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking

Nikola Tesla's Creative Thinking Secrets: https://www.sers.si/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/angle%C5%A1%C...
I never really get a bad hangover but I have heard that some people have a drink to get rid of it.
How many of these vertical farms do we have? How long do they take to build? What do they cost to run?
> Sadly I stopped using that phone due to the early 4G shutdown in the US, and I have yet to find a good device to replace it.

A pixel with GrapheneOS or Calyx.
I'm pretty skeptical of the $50 number. GiveWell thinks it's closer to $1000 (still insanely cheap, but there might be even better opportunities!)

https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/ca...
Usually PMF has a very simple metric: are people using your product, in increasing numbers, and talking about it? (This doesn't mean you have a business, but it means you have a product).

But with "web3" so many projects had insane usage but only because the promise was get-rich-quick. The product itself had no value.

The usual signal was distorted.
Writing a habit tracker, part 1: Setting up some tools
I would have killed for a portfolio like mine. I never had that chance, when I was a hiring manager. My portfolio was designed for people like I was, when I was a manager.

However, I gave the opportunity to a few, and they ignored it. In at least one case, their ignoring it was a fairly blatant move to get me to give up. It worked.
A DIY Pulse Tube Cryocooler in the Quest for Home-Made Liquid Nitrogen
Vitamin-B in liquid form.
code is located here:

https://github.com/m-ou-se/rust-atomics-and-locks
I remember downloading shareware/freeware Pac-Man clones in the old days, they usually ran on DOS or Windows 3.1.

Some played great, some looked great, but very few of them were "Pac-Man"

The speed was off, the maps weren't the right size, and you notice little things like the ghost AI or how Pac-Man corners.

I started writing my own a long time ago, and although it's simple enough to get the basics right, there are a lot of little things that if you miss, it will just feel like a cheap clone.

This document covers the details on those things, it's great. Some things you can figure out yourself (slowing down when 'eating' pellets, for example) but the AI and cornering is a little tougher.

I give a lot of respect to the pioneers that came up with this 40+ years ago, in such early times of video games.
A priest once advised me to just take people on their word; the cognitive load to second guessing them is not worth it.
To add to that list, those I found useful to increase difficulty/load once regular pushups become to easy:

- Zombie pushups: Offset hands instead of aligning in a straight line (one upper, one lower) - alternate after a set

- Asymetric pushups: Move one arm/hand farther out than the other, try to go down to the center. Alternate sets. Use as progression to go towards one-arm pushups. Another variant is to go with symetric hand position, but lower your body towards one hand at a time (think "nipple to the thumb").

That being said, I strongly believe they are not healthy for your joints, the one-arm pushup in general feels just bad for the joints given the performed motion.
Or just a personal relationship with reality. :P
That statista link is maybe the wrong one? I don't see anything in there stating that the majority of Americans live in apartments.

> You realize any increase in cost is passed on to the tenants. How does that help affordable housing?

This is 100% totally wrong. The concept you're reaching for is called tax incidence. In the case of Land Value Tax it's fully the burden of the landowner.

Here is a mountain of data backing me up: https://gameofrent.com/content/can-lvt-be-passed-on-to-tenan...
"Allow a wage-price spiral of about 6% a year, " - Fed cannot create this wage-spiral. Fed only controls interest rates. From 2009-2016 interest rates were below 0.2% - and wages did not move.

Only employers can create this type of wage spiral - and I do not think they will do this. Employers are now looking into automation as much as possible to replace labor (supermarket checkouts, at fast foods order kiosks, online ordering, robots for cleaning hotel rooms, etc...)
HN is not just about hacking and not just about news. This is the first thing the site guidelines emphasize: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
To be honest: time. Usually I have nothing better to do next day so if I can sleep it off that tends to be the best option. Unfortunately in the worst cases I just have to kinda sit and suffer (when you’re head is pounding nearly out of your skull and you throw up at the most minor movement there sadly not much I can do).

Sometimes I try to eat and drink some water or sports drink after I get home and before I go to bed. I’ve had mixed success with that.
It depends upon what you're defining efficiency as. In terms of yield per acre, there are estimates that yield per acre can increase by a lot more [1]. I haven't seen anything more efficient energy or cost wise (outside of a couple types of plants, really just microgreens).

[1] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002655117
I plan to put effort into maintaining qwerty. I can comfortably type qwerty with upwards of 100wpm and 99% accuracy (even right after doing a session on colemak). Right now, colemak is still in the 30-40 wpm stage, but only in last 2 or 3 days have been drilling it and got 10wpm jump.
World food production needs to double by 2050?

Why? Population modelling doesn’t have a doubling in that time. I’ve read the link but suspect I need a EILI5.

https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth
I think 2023 could be the beginning of a reset in the VC industry when "the tide goes out and you see who's swimming naked". This will include everyone who championed web3, and hopefully take the bro end of the industry down a few notches. There's all these "VC" people who are the industry equivalent of those mortgage brokers or the CDO investor in "The Big Short" and things are going to be a lot better once they're exposed and cleared out
Unlike with windows or Mac, you can get android as unlocked as you want - just buy one of the brands (like Google’s) that intentionally make it super easy to unlock and install a different Android distro. And since Google releases the full kernel and drivers there are no drivers issues.

Some applications, like banking, will refuse to work on systems that aren’t locked down, but they would present the same problem to any Linux system.
I'd venture that the vast majority of journalists do not get to choose their stories and are assigned them by editors.
The difference, as the article mentions, is that you can just leave.
You can follow the same content from another instance with other rules and not be effected by any of the weird laws on the main mastodon instance.
See Phi-Sat 1 and to a lesser extent EO-1 as someone else mentioned. Phi-Sat 2 is going up at some point. I'm on a team of researchers working on this. We looked at flood detection as a case study, but as you say, almost all the demonstrators at the moment focus on reducing unnecessary data transfer. Happy to answer questions about the state of the industry/research.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-86650-z

https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr534649

Also some work on unsupervised change detection:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19437-5

But there are undoubtedly lots of other people/companies/militaries exploring. We didn't build the hardware for example, and we weren't the only experiment onboard our flight. The main differentiator is how many have actually deployed in space. It's very easy to show that you can run a model on an accelerator, but getting it in-orbit somehow, testing it on real imagery from new sensors, etc. The challenge is that most people will have to train a model on simulated data, fly a cubesat or another small platform and then re-train their model to adapt to images from orbital images. Aerial imagery models don't always transfer well to satellite images.

My take having been to conferences, and speaking to others in the field, is that there are a lot more researchers interested (as of 2022) and we'll start to see more publicly deployed experiments in the next year or two.