skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People always look at the end results, want it, but don't see how much work and practice it takes to get there. It's always the motivation to overcome the difficult frustrating parts in the beginning, that is the hardest part. This is true for most anything: learning an instrument, learning how to program something the first time, learning how to draw art, many different crafts and sports...

But as you improve, it's like it becomes more and more self-sustaining. At some point, it stops feeling like a chore and actually feels kind of pleasureful to just pick up and play something, anything, for a few minutes.

That said, I've been playing guitar for 20 years now, I have certainly improved and enjoy playing, but there's always room for improvement. And to continue improving, still has some of a frustrating element to it. I suppose that's just how it is when it comes to improvement. No pain no gain, as some people say.
8, not 6 :) [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwlZQJyKZ2A

(I am pedantic, but also I just watched Office Space two days ago.)
Regardless of the specifics of any regulation, the burden should be on the company and should err on the side of the employee’s benefit. It’s never fair to pit an individuals livelihood against a corporation.
I disagree. What you describe is Western Europe with depressed wages and less innovation and dynamic economy. You can’t regulate/unionize into prosperity.
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It's not just the chemistry, but the pack and cable cooling.
I understand the dev's frustrations. I used to run several small free software projects and the amount of entitlement from people is stunning. The number of emails I got _demanding_ that I drop everything to fix a "bug" that was someone not reading the instructions, someone calling me racial slurs because the code didn't do something I never claimed it did, and someone sending me explicit rape threats because I rejected their pull request.

I stopped running free software projects. I'll do some drive-by commits (under a nym) for libraries or tools I use that are run by someone else, but other than that, I'm happy keeping my work to myself at this point. Life's too short to let the assholes in.
> to suggest that people have a natural weight and that's the cause of this seems absurd to me

People do have a natural weight, and a fraction of people are genetically predisposed to be overweight regardless of lifestyle. But what I find impossible to accept is that somehow that number has mushroomed in the past half-century and particularly in the U.S.

I've lived and/or worked on every continent over the past 40 years, and nowhere have I seen the degree of obesity that is commonplace in the U.S. (I have not been to the Pacific Islands--I know they have the highest obesity rates there for reasons I haven't researched, but they're also a very small population). Anecdotes aside, the obesite rate in the US is nearly twice as high as some European countries (and not because people in those countries are malnourished).

It's pretty clearly the food. Living in other countries I never had to worry about weight, but as soon as I moved to the U.S. I started gaining weight right away even though I eat quite healthy. It's just very very hard to escape processed foods in the U.S. unless you 1) have money to buy more expensive food, and 2) are very conscious about it and make considerably effort to stick to fresh fruits, veggies, rice, fish, etc., no fast food, sodas, packaged foods, etc. etc.

It's also well documented that obesity is correlated with income, and it's not hard to see why, when the grocery options in low-income areas have very little healthy, minimally-processed food. Nutritional inequality is a huge issue and there's very little action taken about it. Just think about how cheap and easy it is to get unlimited refills of soda -- with a soda fountain nearly everywhere you go, compared to eating fresh food. Many people have neither the time nor money to eat healthy, and despite "be healthy" slogans, etc., nearly everything around us conspires against eating healthy (unless you have lots of $).

I'm happy that obesity-reduction pills are coming on the market because some people are naturally predisposed to gaining weight and will be helped greatly by the pills. But what I hope doesn't happen (but already see happening) is that being used to paper-over this huge problem of nutritional inequality that is the root cause of much (though not all) of the obesity in the U.S. at least.
Show HN: GPT powered keyboard for iOS device
Basically GPT-3 in your phone keyboard.
It's about learning to live smaller. Not trying to change the world, but building a small world around you. Hiding in plain sight. Etc.

Plenty of joy to be had even if you choose to disconnect from the nonsense around you.

Something about Buddhism and suffering in there as well.
Right because the one thing you associate with New York City is surplus sparking spaces.

And of course the only time you need snow plows is when every available place to put a motor vehicle has just become unsuitable for that purpose.

Seems like a lot of hand waving going on.
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well salaries also went up significantly in the last decade

as per levels.fyi Senior Principal SDE at Amazon makes about a million $$$.
Entry level salary is $168K

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-en...
I find it absolutely unbelievable that you find any amount of fault with both condemning the invasion of Ukraine and also finding extreme fault with the million+ deaths that the US is directly responsible for in the past decades.

Who wouldn't want to interview Putin? Suggesting that it wouldn't be interesting to talk to one of the most powerful and influential people on planet is just ridiculous posturing. Talking to someone isn't an endorsement of their actions. Some of the most meaningful conversations that have happened in history happened involving someone who is objectively terrible.
GLP-1 agonists are an incredibly effective pharmaceutical intervention, why are you dismissive of them?

behavorial interventions for weight loss don't work clinically. the only other intervention that comes close to the effect size of GLP-1 agonists is surgery.

you can argue that they treat the symptoms and not the disease, sure. the mechanisms of systemic obesity aren't well understood. but it's inarguable that this is disease of homeostatic misregulation, the set point is too high. which is why behavioral interventions fail.

we don't talk down to the people suffering from other diseases of homeostatic misregulation (eg diabetes) for their moral failings, we treat it. but that's how diabetes is treated now, "just stop being fat".

It is very much in analogous to where depression was 30 years ago. Now, therapy and anti-depressants are widespread and destigmatized.

The difference is that while SSRIs are only marginally better than placebo, GLP-1 agonists are _incredibly_ effective. Huge effect sizes.

I think in 30 years you're going to look back on your opinions now and be embarrassed that you were telling people to avoid a very effective and safe pharmaceutical intervention and "just stop being depressed"

I've been having the same conversation over and over again since GLP-1 agonists were approved and it's always the same. People who are opposed to a very effective pharmaceutical intervention but are not able to articulate any cogent reason as to why. It's just stigma.
> Their stock is falling

FWIW Google's still beating the S&P 500 since pre-COVID (+19% vs +14%)
It's amazing how lazy the supply siders are on this argument. Of course there's no good data-- real estate interests fight to prevent that data from even being collected. You only have to drive around major cities at dusk and see how many units have no lights on for weeks on end to recognize the magnitude of the problem. There may be data from Vancouver BC and other places that have passed vacancy taxes to address the issue. Further, the amount of construction resources that go into building luxury condos and other useless units are resources that CANNOT be used to build good housing. There is a limited supply of labor and supplies for that.
I haven't worked there, but I got the impression going back decades that Amazon is a terrible place to work. That said, I have a friend who worked there and had really only positive things to say. And he quit the valley startup where we both worked when things became rocky there, and went back to a different job at Amazon. So YMMV it seems.
This could be sped up significantly by implementing a fast path for ASCII strings. Most inputs would be ascii (even assuming the amount of emoji people use these days). You'd want to check with real-world data if its worth it though.

To conclude that the performance data shows exponential complexity is erroneous: the data sent to Wolfram Alpha doubles with each data-point because the input size is doubling, but the x-axis info isn't being supplied to Alpha. Eyeballing the data, the last 2 data points are 5.85 and 11.8, which is very close to double (11.7 vs 11.8), suggesting linear complexity.
As far as I know this is just a convenience thing so that various apps can query the preferred language - Mac OS itself only supports about 40 or so languages for system translations and third party apps will mostly only support only a few (and one of those will invariably be English). Perhaps it does a few other quality of life things like sets reading order correctly (i.e. RTL or LTR) but your menus won't be in some language that only 2500 people speak.
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If you believe that there are people who succeeded at losing weight and keeping it off, then you must necessarily believe there are people who succeeded at losing weight and failed at keeping it off, just as you must also believe there are people who failed at losing weight in the first place.

Are you proposing the people who succeeded at those two steps have something chemically the others didn't? Or what alternative explanation would you provide that explains the different outcomes?
So what you're saying is 'most art is a convincing narrative'.

The fact that a bajillion people went to see a picture doesn't make it art. It makes it interesting art. It was art the moment it was created and if had never been seen by another person even if they decided to destroy it on the spot.
A lot of recessions are relatively short, and don't affect big tech companies much in the long run: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...

Someone tell Apple there was a "Great Recession". A little thing called iPhone made that irrelevant for them.

I started my career during the Great Recession. Wasn't a problem for me. A recession is an aggregate, but during every economic condition there are both losers and winners. You don't want to overreact to every shift in the wind.
And yet

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34028087
Yeah, there could have been a lot more substance but to be honest a disappointingly large number participants here don't seem to understand that very basic principle when they engage in discussions here.

To be clear, the parent to my comment seemed to completely understand TANSTAAFL. My comment was very obliquely directed at other participants in the larger conversation who seem to think that there is no legitimate reason for an employer to ever let a single employee go because any competent business will work like an oracle and make perfect business decisions always. Any unexpected outcome must be because they are greedy corporate monsters that don't care about their employees. (my apologies for the exaggeration but you should have seen what I wrote and deleted previously :-)
Do you have a feel for if they might start hiring SDE's again before the end of the month? I was looking into them because it's right up my alley: I'm an aerospace engineer (aeronautics, flight test) turned software engineer who's worked a lot in rotorcraft.
Once upon a time, Firefox used to do that for extensions.
Google perf ratings have always been this bizarre thing where "Meets Expectations" was considered a bad review and you better get your act together. (Shame on you for just doing your job.) That curve doesn't sound too different, just new names for same old same old. Like a 1-5 where you'd be disappointed with anything below 4 but the names always had euphemistic cheerful names even when it was a shit review.
Would be interesting to know the hardcore performance benchmarks for memory handling, comparing Darwin, Linux, Dragonfly and sw-engineer's aesthetics.
Mega-trucks too:

https://investors.caterpillar.com/news/news-details/2022/Cat...
Map, filter and similar can be chained together and composed much better than comprehensions I think. I realize that it's probably not your opinion that comprehension are superior, (although it might be) but rather the general python style.

I also think that map and filter style computations can be much more powerful, there are quite a few things other than just map and filter, like count, take, skip, find, flatten, fold, map-while and quite a few more!

In python I guess you are supposed to use a standard for loop to do these things instead.
Blink's reverse debugging is implemented purely at the user-interface level. It doesn't have anything to do with the execution engine. While Blink does have near-perfect knowledge of memory, I considered doing the thing you proposed, where deltas are stored and reconstructed. I decided that it wouldn't offer compelling benefits beyond just capturing and rewinding screenshots. For Blink's use case, screenshots are arguably superior, since it preserves perfectly the UI states previously observed by the user. I understand this might not be an option for your project, since you might not have a display that's visualizing program memory and execution. In that case, I'd suggest why not build that first?
We don't need to guess what the author's thinking. we know what his first and primary argument is since he tells us directly: he thinks HBD is worth discussing because a few of its claims are either likely to be true or hard to prove as not-true. (And his cautious framing of even this limited issue is revealing enough. One idea he's very clearly not entertaining, not even in private is "HBDers are 100% right about everything!") I'm not sure what's your evidence for rephrasing "well-founded" as an expression of approval, given this previous context. The easiest way by far of reading that exchange is that the author is simply pointing to sources, not approving of them.
I just read about McLuhan in 1Q84 today. He coined the expression, "the medium is the message," talking about how we tend to focus on the content of media, and disregard the media itself. I feel like most people are wrong about most things, most of the time, but that's near prophetic for 1964.
There's a lot of words here so you took some time to write this.

Who is it for?

Why do you think this is a new/novel idea the person you are replying to, and others reading it, has/have not heard before?
Something that may be worse than non-competes is arbitration clauses and jury waivers. Heck, most employment law is heavy-handed against the employee.
> So a google employee is defending google

Who's Google employee here? Looks like the poster used to work for Google but now is working for MS.

> for using the exact same anticompetitive app store strategy apple did

At least Google does allow having a third party store, thus a third party web engine. This is a significant difference.

> should be paired with regulations that ban Google from abusing its search monopoly

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

EU is well aware of this and periodically collecting lots of fines from Google for doing so. I don't remember the EU applying the same level of antitrust regulations for Apple, though it paid a lot for Double Irish arrangement.
> fire trucks

> Would be excellent EVs. They have super low millage and you'd not have to worry about things like stagnant fuel.

Yeah, so I don’t know much of anything about NYC, but I used to live in Chicago and did some volunteer work that put me in a fire station for a few hours every few months. Fire trucks are busy vehicles. They probably would indeed be excellent EVs, but they get used a lot (even if actual fires are rare). Also, firefighters are used to plugging them in! Modern fire stations maintain good internal air quality by having an exhaust system that connects a hose to the diesel exhaust of the fire truck when it comes into the station and detaches when it leaves.

On the other hand, an extended family member is the fire chief in a small western town. Those fire trucks would be terrible EVs, as they spend days or weeks at a time out in the field dealing with large scale wildfires.
Alexa integration?
This reminded me of Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon, an excellent book from 1937:

http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/StarMaker.p...

> One night when I had tasted bitterness I went out on to the hill. Dark heather checked my feet. Below marched the suburban lamps. Windows, their curtains drawn, were shut eyes, inwardly watching the lives of dreams. Beyond the sea’s level darkness a lighthouse pulsed. Overhead, obscurity. I distinguished our own house, our islet in the tumultuous and bitter currents of the world. There, for a decade and a half, we two, so different in quality, had grown in and in to one another, for mutual support and nourishment, in intricate symbiosis. There daily we planned our several undertakings, and recounted the day’s oddities and vexations. There letters piled up to be answered, socks to be darned. There the children were born, those sudden new lives. There, under that roof, our own two lives, recalcitrant sometimes to one another, were all the while thankfully one, one larger, more conscious life than either alone.

> All this, surely, was good, yet there was bitterness. And bitterness not only invaded us from the world; it welled up also within our own magic circle. For horror at our futility, at our own unreality, and not only at the world’s delirium, had driven me out on to the hill.
OT, but apparently ieee.org doesn't respect do-not-track requests, and there doesn't appear to be a way to deny cookies
Why do you believe employers should be able to control who you work for when they're no longer paying you?

One easy test for contract fairness I learned from my lawyer is, "Would it make sense if it were symmetric?" So, e.g., would your employer also agree not to go after clients that your next employer has? Or would they agree not to hire any engineers you consider competitive with yourself while you're there and for a year after you leave?

My guess is no.
I was obviously referring to the net change in business value. Additional employees can be result in a net negative or a net positive return on investment depending on how they are utilized. That was what I was trying to communicate.
Why would you open a blog post about X not with a link to it, but a link to the author's twitter page? That has no use to many of us, who can't even scroll down through the tweets looking for a link should we feel... spelunky....
Sure, but why not have 100 dedicated servers and a million residential connections? Potential upload bandwidth is strictly larger.
Instead of thinking in terms of "everything", "everyone", etc, it may help to think in terms of bell curves and outliers on that curve.

Would you be willing to believe that, out of 7+ billions people in the world, there is at least one person whose brain is set up to constantly hammer them with feelings of hunger? (I'm not sure how a basic proposition like this could be rejected, since the chemicals and processes that govern hunger are something that science actually has some understanding of, and we also know that basically anything can go haywire.)

Next: if you can believe that one person is such an outlier, can you believe that hundreds are? Thousands? Millions? Whatever size that group is, it seems like a possible answer to your worry of when these lines of thinking stop. Perhaps some outlying group of people do actually need something more than "good old fashioned hard work and discipline", especially considering that thousands of years of people repeating such sentiments hasn't solved quite a lot of problems (beyond just obesity).
Probably more via underfunding and civil servants wanting to focus on those that need it most.
Where is it? I do not have a twitter account.
The "documentation" page lists 6 different "getting started" guides.
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

It also links to https://try.ruby-lang.org/ which has a series of quick tutorials to go through learning Ruby in the browser, without having to install anything on your computer.

I don't think "poorly documented" is a fair description of those resources.
As someone who is genuinely interested in both blockchain and machine learning, I have seen many people in the crypto space suddenly start acting like they know things about machine learning when ChatGPT came out. Many of them are repeating falsehoods or are unaware of the history of machine learning, including recent events.
This is how I feel about FeathersJS. It just feels like a really sane way to design an API
Because your torrent client will never find those dedicated servers, and instead wastes all of it’s connection slots on the Indian residential connections.

Also because there’s no incentive for anybody to seed public tracker content on servers. Your host will get abuse reports and you will not be rewarded in any way, on private sites you won’t receive abuse reports and you have to seed in order to maintain access.
I'd imagine they're switching off Apple devices too. Perhaps to a manufacturer that doesn't rivet the keyboard to the top case making it stupidly hard for mere mortals to replace without replacing the whole top case. Like ThinkPads. I did that. Even stuck a Japanese keyboard in my W520 for like $30 for funsies and extra thumb keys.
I posted on the parent as well, but I find non-competes reasonable only if they are time limited (like 6 months to a year), very narrowly tailored and affect a very small number of job openings. I think Google blocking someone from going to Bing ridiculous, but a stoping a move from being the chief of staff at Google Maps to the chief of staff at Bing maps is far more reasonable.
"Hard work and discipline" are multipliers for the output of an otherwise-balanced brain and body chemistry. But they're no substitute for fixing that balance when it is imbalanced.

An analogy: "hard work" is what your car's engine does when you throttle it up. But that "hard work" isn't going to take you very far — or even in the right direction — if the car's wheels aren't aligned and balanced equidistantly on the car's axle. This "imbalance" will mean that any power put into the system, just gets shunted into running you faster and faster in circles, and/or into "spinning your wheels" and "burning out."

Bringing the car into balance is an overriding concern. You won't get anywhere without first doing that, no matter how hard you push the engine. Once you've done that, though, then the amount of power you're pushing through the engine — your "hard work and discipline" – becomes relevant.
... hopefully the "bingo" is delayed until after the mixing process.
Rust does everything that C does while making programmer more productive. Look at what Linux Kernel hackers say about it. They are the ones who know things about C.

> Rust will not fix your poorly designed code

Nobody said it will. But segfaults hardly come from poor design. They come from accidental mistakes, lack of static analysis, and gotchas that your language offers.

> now it is harder to develop

Only if you're a C programmer who doesn't know Rust.

> and runs slower

This is plan false. Please back it up.

> it seems like somebody quite capable of writing C safely

Try using it for a week, and count for me how many times it segfaults on your face. (That is not to diminish Grigory's work, which I have nothing against.)