skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even with the limitations their products are vastly, vastly better than the alternatives.

I could claim that my Pixel which lets me run multiple user profiles (each with its own copy of Gmail, Outlook, Teams settings - which I can switch while at work), run Firefox or any other browser, change default apps, change the default Home app, run a server in the background, a working voice assistant, etc - is vastly superior to anything on Apple's devices. But that would be a very subjective opinion.

And FWIW, the Pixel 7 was MKBHD's phone of the year. So I'd say your claims of Apple's offerings being vastly, vastly superious can be easily contested.
I've got a Bridge I can sell you for your Carbon Credits!
Every manager I've had apparently thinks making sure the Standards of Business conduct training being done before any other group has their SBC training done is the most important part of their business. Their second most important part is their bonus followed by lying to their employees about nonexistent funding cuts and the high-end of pay bands. I've had lots of managers, I've had managers I talk to multiple times a week and managers that I never spoke to but they all seem to have one thing in common and that's to get the most out of me with the least in return. It wasn't until I started looking at other position did I suddenly start getting merit increases and large bonuses, funny how that works.
Wework and Uber are still chugging along. If all deals flow through a few hands, then the price can quickly become “whatever we say it is”. Savers must invest.
Ctrl-W based shortcuts are especially very useful.
Uhm, my post said explicitly it impairs working memory and focus and is limited due to that. It plays a rather small role in just providing an extra push for that aha moment. But the aha moment can't come without doing the leg work of digging into the problem first, and that's hard, thankless work that often amounts to hours, if not days of time spent sober and working. The drugs and the work happen mostly completely in isolation from eachother. I just smoke at home to unwind and then suddenly the thing I'm trying to figure out at work clicks for me and I know what to do, so I just jot down a basic PoC fix and then do it properly the next day, at work, sober, when I can hold something in my head for more than 5 seconds at a time. Not sure how that was unclear from my comment.

I could certainly stand to do less no doubt, but I'm on something of a sabbatical right now(personal projects and recovering from burnout) so the equation is different.
Analytics data can easily be 90% of your data.
On the flip-side, there's no way Mastodon was a million-user service before Twitter melted down. Maybe a half million people go back to Twitter, but twice that decided to stay. For a service that doesn't live-or-die on the ad revenue of it's userbase, that's a net gain.
> For me, Google Search just doesn't seem to be getting better over the years, if anything its getting worse. I honestly feel like its hard to get what I want half the time with all the SEO spam...

Agreed, it's horrible and annoying. How are others doing improved searches?
Usually the explanation is that big high rises with cheap rent will magically appear, and landlords will be unable to raise rents, because LVT magic.

So the promise is a scenario like 1970s Bronx.

The real answer, which the GOP was able to test the waters on with the SALT cap, is for the federal government to slowly back away from supporting mortgages. 0% down mortgages with rates linked to T-Bills depend on the policy to back mortgages. As the country gets poorer, that is less relevant.
If you're on a train or a bus and staring at your phone rather than the window then you're cheating yourself out of zero effort free ideas.
I am absolutely not making that up - perhaps whatever premium light lagers you drink are better, but the UK market (which I’m more familiar with) is awash with “lager” that is barely lagered at all, and the 1-week mash to bottle or mash to tap schedule is relatively well known. I'm having trouble finding primary sources but have various secondary ones -

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/14/superma...

https://www.ft.com/content/e5a1417d-47f9-4245-a265-a66055ea8...

"the beers are produced in around 10 days." - https://protzonbeer.co.uk/comments/2014/02/26/after-cantona-...

And it doesn't seem to be purely a UK issue -

"I did a tour of a Polish commercial brewery (I want to say Tyskie, but it might have been Żywiec) and the guide said, with pride, that it takes them no more than two weeks from grain to store shelf."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/o2jqy1/comment...

And there are tricks you can do, such as using faster-fermenting yeast strains (34/70 is mentioned), pressure fermentation (which suppresses ester formation and allows you to ferment warmer, therefor faster) and overpitching for speed, centrifuging and cold-crashing to clear the beer quickly etc.

Commercial lagers are also famous for using cheap adjuncts, like rice in Bud for instance, and corn in others.

Lots of small brewers do lagers and pilseners, FYI, I've had several in the last couple of weeks (from a selection pack of local brews) -

https://blackbrewingco.com.au/products/lager
https://www.brighttankbrewing.com.au/2021/02/east-perth-lage...
https://cowaramupbrewing.com.au/craft-beer-range/

And lots of other beer styles can take longer than a few days for fermentation and conditioning, particularly the stronger stuff. NEIPAs can take 2 weeks just in primary fermentation, for instance.

AFAICT it's you that's made up the idea that smaller oeprations can't age their beer a handful of weeks weeks but the larger operations can. Not to mention all the various barrel-aged craft beers that crop up, and things like brett-saison's that can take months to ferment out fully.

So again - maybe what you are drinking is aged with care, and is made from an all-malt base, and is well flavoured with the appropriate noble hop strains. But the mass market doesn't necessarily operate that way, and you can't just pick a random lager off the shelf and expect very much care or craft has gone into it.

I'm not saying you're wrong to enjoy lager, and there are great ones out there, but it's just one style of many, and they're not all some amazing artisan feet. A lot from the larger operators are quick-churned shite.
Mozilla Web Development
MyRadar.
You want to use i3 to collapse focus management into a single temporal dimension?

I'll die defending your right to do so, but dear god your taste is atrocious. It's like you finally got out of prison and decided to decorate your bedroom window with iron bars.
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Why not? If GOD has always existed why can’t space and time?
carrot, especially if you like to really customize your things. I personally really like that I can define specific weather stations in my area.

I also have some friends who really like “Hello Weather”.
"The reward for success in most companies is to be able to hire more people"

This is because the more people you manage the more powerful you become, the guy with 100 reports is more valuable than the guy with 20 reports. Those 100 reports could sit in their chairs all day and drool but 100 is always better than 20.
I was curious so I looked at the most recent stack overflow surveys that mention GTK. They actually say you're wrong.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...

GTK has lower usage than Qt and Electron, but it's actually few percent higher on the "most loved" category than Qt and Electron. However all of them are below 50% loved. The percent GTK is above them is probably not enough to be important. And that's exactly what I'd expect: all these desktop toolkits have issues and are disliked. Electron and Qt are cross-platform so of course they would have higher usage than GTK, which has only ever really been popular on Linux. And none of it matters anyway. .NET wins it all by a large margin due to the popularity of Windows and the only other big GUI frameworks on there are Flutter and React Native. I'm honestly surprised GTK is even on the list at all, it wasn't there in previous years. I expected the list to be totally dominated by web frameworks and Python frameworks like it was before.

This is kind of along the lines of what I've been trying to communicate to you. Complaining about these minor issues and playing the blame game between open source projects is pointless. Microsoft, Facebook and Google are the big boys in town, that's not gonna change by GNOME fixing some random low-priority bug.
> I guess my solution to this problem is not very popular - I try to keep my dev environment simple enough that I don't need venv or anything like that. I find that venv or docker adds cognitive load that then needs more tools to unload, like direnv.

Good for you but this doesn't work in most scenarios, especially if you work in a company with a build process.
I've bounced back and forth between gamedev and webdev/data science. What I did before my first gamedev-adjacent job (training sims for the Army) was learn unity and openglES on android. I put together a small portfolio of POCs I made while learning and used that as evidence I could do the job.

The trick's just to accumulate proof you can do the job you want to have, then show people that proof while asking to do things for them.

Another fun trick is to never stop accumulating proof and post it all publicly on some kind of social somethingsomething as you go.

I get dms for consulting gigs through twitter without having to ask now. I haven't updated my resume in years. I just create and publish.
Samsung tried this with their DeX mode and I was deeply saddened it didn’t catch on more.
you can do eccentric overloaded training. check out flywheel machines like exerfly.
Examples of Portfolio Websites?
I'm trying to mentor someone and help them professionally with a portfolio site, but I don't really have many examples of portfolio sites to give them for inspiration. What portfolio sites have you seen that you really like?
That previous title maxed out HN's limit of 80 chars, and the new title needed to squeeze the year in as well. But I figured out a way ;)
Because I need money to exchange for goods and services in order to live, particularly in order to maintain housing and healthcare.

I would love to be paid to pursue my passions full-time, but that opportunity has not yet arisen. So I split my time accordingly between doing what earns me a living and doing what I actually enjoy in life.
can you recall anything else about the movie? its not a lot to go on if its not a major plot point
How to Turn Off Windows S Mode Without Microsoft Account [video]
tl;dw: Reboot into advanced startup mode, load the hive C:\Windows\system32\config\SYSTEM into regedit there, then change ControlSet001\Control\CI\Policy\SkuPolicyRequired under it to 0.
Reality doesn’t lend support toward your arguments. I assume you’re from a first-world country, based upon your comment.

- Google’s 2022 revenue was $250B. (We’ll assume that’s all ads.)

- 8B people in the world; we’ll assume only 4B people have internet access to the web.

How much would Google have to charge to break even?

$250B/yr / 4B people = $62.5/yr/person = $5/month/person

What does the world income distribution look like? [1]

60% of the world population survives on < $10/day ($300/month) for their household (multiple people).

We expect more than half the world’s population to pay more than 2% of their income for a single service? To put that in a first-world perspective, that’s $100/month for someone earning $60k; $200/month for someone earning $120k; etc. Does the average American spend that amount of money per month on a single web service?

Well of course, you may say, let’s charge more for those who earn more so we can ease the pain on those who earn less! That sounds great in theory, but once again, how many people do you know dropping $200/month on a web service even if they can afford it?

Back to two of your points:

1. “Imagine how different the incentives would be” - Yes, imagine, only the wealthy would have access to state-of-the-art search for the web and other services, further increasing the disparity between the two groups. Consider, maybe, that ads represent one of the greatest wealth transfers in our history. One perspective to consider is that the rich (advertisers) are subsidizing the poor (information access) via ads. That sounds like a net positive to me?

2. “Keep their memberships active with a small monthly fee” — YouTube premium exists. What do you think the uptake is on that? YouTube has provided immeasurable benefit to people across the world in the form of knowledge, resources, training, etc. Yet people would sooner reach for an ad-blocker than pay the “small monthly fee” even in nations as rich as the U.S.

What causes you to believe that people will pay even more than that for Google’s other services?

Disclosure: I work for Google. The opinions and data represented in this post are my own, and not representative of my employer.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/21/are-you-in-...
It is important that all academics in America bow down to the dictates of Islam.
Thanks! I've used Unity a little bit but will have a better look at it, I've been playing with Pygame but I guess it's better to use a proper tool to learn.

Any thoughts on Unity vs Unreal?
I think one of the biggest issues is the definitions we use.

Some developers would define mock in the wide sense, as any kind of double to replace a dependency. Other developers have a narrower definition, as doubles that verify interactions with the dependency (interaction testing https://testing.googleblog.com/2013/03/testing-on-toilet-tes...).

In this case, the author mentions mocks and spies, therefore he's referring to "interaction testing". In other words, tests that verify that the dependency was called in the "right" way. If you own those dependencies, and later you refactor them you'll also need to refactor any test that used "interaction testing". Refactoring becomes a tedious and sometimes difficult task.

If by mock, you simply mean code (written by you or by a "Mock" library) that replaces a dependency to get the right data inside the SUT for the test, but that it's not attached to the dependency implementation, then most of the issues are gone.
What does "model of excellence" mean? Sounds a bit woke to me.
I don't think you can really separate nutrition from flavor/texture. For instance, I cook dinner for my children every night. I want to cook tasty, flavorful food, but I also want my kids to receive adequate nutrition. Perhaps one day I'm at the store and see a meat substitute that's better for the environment. I think it's important to understand that, nutritionally, the substitute is deficient compared to meat.

This is a very common thing that comes up with nut "milks." You can find an endless stream of graphs and charts that highlight how much better nut "milks" are compared to cows milk. However, the graphs never ever ever include a comparison of the nutrient content. Sure, you can say adults get too much of everything, but the same is not true for children. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends 2-3 8oz cups of milk a day for children under 5. It would be a equivalent to give your children nut "milk" instead.
Line management can be good. A good executive suite can deal with finance, market development etc.

But middle managers? Motivated to get the biggest budget and deliver the smallest increment (to reduce risk), they are actively working against the interests of everybody.

Which makes sense; they have no contact with customers or investors. Just their little myopic budget-meetings and miniscule deliverable promises.

Line them all up in the parking lot, and shoot them with one bullet. To save money on bullets.
Ha, pretty sure I heard Jon Hendricks sing "In Walked Bud" live, but never had a recording of it. Thanks for the tip on that it was on Underground!
In rainy parts of the US such as the Pacific North West coast, having a thirty minute warning that it's about to rain is really handy. It can make the difference between biking home sopping wet or squeezing in between two downbursts of rain. The rest of the app was fine, but not great. It demanded constant attention as its "predictions" changed constantly.
A single laundromat in a small town isn't a monopoly because the business isn't "laundromats" it is washing clothes. They are in competition with washing machines, and, if need be, sinks.
Only in your imagination. Many great products made by none US companies are used in the US and deservedly recognized — Redis, Jetbrains’ ones, Erlang, Lua, Scala, nginx, etc.
I'm not trying to block domains from my search results because I'm afraid of spam. Google does a pretty good job of not putting spam in my search results.

I'm trying to block particular domains because I know the websites hosted on them are utter garbage, and better alternatives containing the same information exist.
Maybe no manager or director at all? Sometimes things happen in an organization in a self-organizing manner. Like people finding out who is able to help them with their problems and the word getting around.

It is actually my experience that the organizations which are able to organically evolve like this are the most effective ones.
Schwarzenegger was famously interested in water, conservation and storage when he was governor of California [1]. There are cities in the desert which capture rainwater and store it underground, but the scale is fairly small for what the large cities in California would actually need.

[1] https://www.waterworld.com/home/article/16222295/gov-schwarz...
The AP exam is uncoupled from the course and belongs to a different organization. If you fail the school course you probably won’t pass the exam.
In my experience for government:

1. Spend all your budget => equal or greater budget

2. Spend less than your budget => budget gets cut
> 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers (August 12, 2022)

Bit of a strange list. Chomsky is an influential linguist and political activist, but he's not an influential philosopher.

Edmund Gettier is not living, having died in 2021. Questionable to call him influential in any case. He had one very short influential paper, that's it.
>>>>* Lower level managers are often created from senior or valuable employees because a title change is the only way of rewarding them and using their experience

This is the part I’ll never understand. In order to give a larger (than managers) salary you will have to change the title.
Why?
> Many knowledge workers are self-managing

Based on my experience; many knowledge workers think they are self-managing because they are able to set objectives for themselves and reach those. But the lack on context means that those objectives are only loosely aligned with the direction of the underlying organisation as a whole.

Often times, this is because the general direction of the organisation itself is hard to define and/or poorly understood. When that's the case, it can be tempting to look at very "dry" numbers to measure ones contribution (My piece of code generates XYZ dollar-amount, it's the highest of the company, so I must be one of the objectively most productive people in the organization).

This is one way to contribute, but in those situation the most critical (and thus most productive/valuable) undertaking is to clarify the direction. This can be extremely hard to do, requires immense amount of work and often times the "right choice" is virtually impossible to define. Thus, the output of the people working on that absolutely essential task is blurry, at best.

When it's done correctly tho, it yields impressive results. A clear direction is set, people somehow know and understand it and you can quite literally let them figure out their work for themselves and get that often surpass what you could have hoped to get if you were involved. And like many things, doing it harder than it looks. And when it's done very well, it seems easy and effortless.
I suspect this is more a software ecosystem problem.
Wow! Never knew that existed. If I can undo 20 years of muscle memory, I'll use it. :D

EDIT: Just tried it, and Z being right next to Shift is a deal breaker.
> In the meantime, we will have to adapt to the prevalence of ads.

Yes, of course, there's nothing to be done about the corrosion of another useful medium by advertising. Suck it up, Smack, ads are holy.
I've used only 3 cars with backup cameras and none were touch screens.
And that is not really a big deal at all. We can just adjust the vaccines for the next dominant strain. We cannot simply adjust antibiotics when we facilitate antibiotic resistance by using them for trivial cases.
Ask HN: Angry at a former employer screwed me
I can’t get over my feelings of anger at a former employer and am trying to figure out what to do.

Many people have told me I should seek therapy. It was a very emotionally damaging experience.

I am strongly considering taking some sort of action. Talking to the media, lawyers etc.

I have anger flashes about what happened all the time. Like PTSD. These anger flashes can last days.

Some of the things they did I have documentation on which I have been sitting on. How do I handle this? I feel on the one hand I should try to avoid any further action, on the other hand I feel what happened was over some sort of professional line.

In particular, I believe I was quit fired or similar. They over hired way too many people then took the approach of trying to scare people into leaving rather than paying layoff fees. This resulted in me getting stuck in a bad situation for very long.
Back when I was still in college, I took a class that was called Organization of Programming Languages. We started with Ruby. I liked how simple it was, Python-like yet still expressive and clever.

We then moved onto OCaml, where we built an interpreter for a toy implementation of C. The ability to use recursion to define your problems was invaluable, especially as parsing and lexing is inherently a recursive affair.

At last, we arrived at Prolog. I had never heard of this language before, but it was intriguing. It took the declarative approach of some other languages and put it into overdrive. You're telling me I don't have to do any work, that I can just set up my constraints and the language itself would automatically figure out the solution? It was like magic to me. I've always liked Prolog and declarative languages from then on, and it taught me that computers are indeed powerful, if we merely allow them to solve problems on our behalf.

I thank your friend Maarten on the work he did on Prolog and on the influence he surely had on me through that work. May he rest in peace.
Places where it rains have vast storm sewers and you only get flooded if you build in the wrong place. Streets, parking lots, basements are all drained.
I ask candidates I interview to design a certain service. Most ask about scale, to which I like to direct the question back at them: it's going to be huge. As big as Twitter. How big would that be, do you think?

Most then suggest scale that would make the service run comfortable from a not-too powerful machine, and then go to design data-center spanning distributed service.
I don't know much but i think you are jumping too much. I don't think it is possible for a self-catalysing molecule to achieve enough complexity to begin with. When you jump to structure obviously it becomes pretty much irrelevent.
I’ve noticed this too! It’s excellent at mimicking an expert voice, and it puts me off guard.
Dudes on a cycle with big red swollen faces and gynecomastia aren't going to run 8 minute miles. HGH maybe but that's a different class of PED for different reasons.