skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar situation/concern a few years back… went to Dr and Optician got glasses, light therapy etc. No improvement and became exasperated.

What solved the mental focus for me was light movement while reading (walking on treadmill etc) and/or laying down to relax most core muscles. Second, shockingly NOT chewing gum or doing too much downward facing iPhone reading made a massive difference to my vision.

Causality? The impact of posture and/or movement on breathing has a big impact on brain focus. If you have a blood O2 meter you can test this while your are reading. Ironically the more worried you become about not focusing the more you hold your breath and the more clenched your posture. It’s a vicious cycle.

Gum was the shocker, I would habitually chew in the morning for an hour or two (mindlessly) and it turns out it was over taxing the jaw and neck muscles. This caused the eye muscles to be impacted and resulted in blurry strained vision. Cutting out gum for a week almost entirely removed my need for glasses. Lastly, I would still get blurry vision occasionally and finally narrowed it down to iPhone “texting neck”.

I’ll post a couple of refs in a minute. May be unrelated but if there’s a thread to pull on here I hope it helps.
Thoroughly enjoyable read.

Maybe if i play devils advocate it will add some value: People have castigated the high RPi cost (among others) and they are probably right about it, but there is something remarkable about been able to ship even a small number of devices with a full blown computer and a unique UI.

Maybe the more fundamental problem was not so much the hardware cost but not shipping enticing enough software to get people excited about the device?
Name all the colors
Short 1000 INTU ;)
Paul Graham (who is about 4 years older than I am (eek)) and I apparently remember the 1980s and 90s very differently.

At the time, Japan was going to eat our lunch while it simultaneously kicked our butts. Its government-academic-industrial complex was how to do things. It was the technological and industrial leader, the one everyone was chasing. (This was possibly entirely due to the automotive industry, but.... And consumer electronics had something to do with it.)

Then the wheels started to come off. In the software world, the Fifth Generation project came up with...a PROLOG machine. At the same time that Lisp machine companies were going belly up all over the US. And then Japan disappeared entirely. From what I saw and heard, the Japanese software industry became very insular and remote from the rest of the world. And then, the lost decades.

The process described in the article does a better job (and a more relatable one) at explaining what I saw than "they were Japanese", I think. But then, I don't know what the last 20 years have been like, since I haven't needed to follow the Japanese software industry. (Well, there was Ruby, but that was a pretty big mistake.)
Failing up as they say.
Easy enough to move to other clouds if it was defined in something like terraform or even cloudformation. Could even move out of the cloud to your own bare metal services pretty easily, since the various components are so well defined. AWS makes the most sense though as stated in the docs because a lot of the data being processed is in S3, and reading data from S3 inside of most AWS services is free.
It was at Puppet Labs.

I am a former employee of BladeLogic, and the founder of Puppet used to work there. In 2008, BladeLogic's largest customer hired me (Bank of America.)

BofA outsourced my job, so I needed somewhere to work, and I reached out to Puppet.

I had an interview schedule with four Puppet employees. 75% of them didn't show up. The one person who DID show up had started the day before my interview.

You can find me on LinkedIn, all the history is there.
IPv6 maybe, but Wayland's protocol choices were IMHO caused by that part of the UI stack getting nigh zero resources. So every iteration from XFree86 ended up deprecating and removing features, and Wayland turns not having features into a 'feature'; Actual standards move into Desktop environments where (some) investment was happening. The standard following economics, as it were.
In my experience, it's the logic & data flow that is not handled, and the more complicated part of frontend development. Layout & design just a part of it. The best solution in my mind is something that is bi-directional, so that code can be synced and operational in the design tool
i've literally never had any of my employers require me to sign up for social networks. on the contrary, my current employer recently made everybody take an online course on what not to say on social media, and the general gist of it was that it would be best if i never talked about work at all.

obviously i have hackernews (even though i hate it), reddit (even though i *really* hate it), github (although im contemplating moving my project to gitlab or bitbucket due to recent openai shenanigans) and fediverse for my own personal time-wasting but none of those ever intersect with my job.

i also used to have a linked-in but i deleted it because i only ever got communications from spammy job-recruiters who didn't even bother to read my profile before messaging me (seriously, they'd ask me if i want to interview for a job as a webdev, i'd say yes even though im not a web-dev because i was interested in changing to a new field at the time, then during the phone interview the same person would tell me that i'm not qualified for the job because i've only ever worked on compilers and low-level kernel/device driver stuff).
Apply at https://www.usajobs.gov/

It is the official site for US federal government jobs, including civilian jobs in military services / agencies.
This is an excellent paper, it changed my view on programming. I've written a similar essay [1], summarizing the paper and providing some case studies as examples from real-life projects.

[1] https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/autonomy/
Personally, I don't think the definition is wrong, or even misleading.

"Living" doesn't always literally mean "to be alive". For example, the idiom "make a living" refers to making enough to keep a decent lifestyle (pay for food, rent, clothing, etc)[1]. I think most people would agree that if you have no income and you live on the street, then you are not making a living, yet you are still living.

Similarly, "living" in "living wage" refers to a standard of living that is deemed decent or acceptable by some measure -- of course this will depend on some subjective determination and that can be debated. But it does not mean literally to be alive (otherwise, the living wage would obviously be $0).

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make%20a%20living
We can paraphrase "we know more than we can tell" in at least two ways:

1. "We know [the manner in which we carry out a task] more than we can tell [...but are unable to articulate the procedure by which we do it]."
2. "We [can do] more than we [can explain in writing or verbally]."

The second statement is uncontroversial. No one would say that the ability to ride a bicycle logically entails the ability to explain how we do those things in writing such that, by reading alone, someone could learn to ride a bicycle.

But this is only mysterious if you consider the second statement to be a paraphrase of the first. I don't think that it is. The first statement suggests a mystery; it's as if we are always following rules when we act skillfully, but are sometimes unable to articulate those rules.

But this is a mistaken view. Not all skillful performance is rule-governed. In fact, most isn't (statement two). And that is easy to forget, but does not require a theory of "tacit knowledge".

See also: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-how/
The "Green New Deal" was 100% a messaging bill, never intended to pass, and was admitted to be as such by those that drafted it. Just one example.

*I'd argue that most people in either party do _want_ to govern. But each one is being hijacked by loud minorities who would rather perform.
I did parse it as /time/ but re reading now I realize the comment I replied to was probably referencing the name of the domain. (This is what I get for making comments when I’ve just woken up).

But! Your reply was great, and answered some questions I didn’t know I was asking. If I had sat down and processed, I would have gotten to them, but the selling domains isn’t something I do regularly. The naming of things I’m involved in is a totally different space.

Unrelated: I struggle with people selling domain names they have no use for at inflated prices. Though, I don’t think several hundred to $1,000 is outrageous.
I wrote article [1] along these lines a few years ago. There are lots of non-comparables between Teslas and the US fleet average, although this has been getting less true over time (as Tesla released less expensive cars, and as its vehicles aged).

1: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-tesla-and-elon-musk-exagge...
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It's not the painting at issue, it's the reproduction. Photographs of paintings have copyrights that belong to the photographer. If you have access the the old painting and take a picture of it, you control the copyright of that reproduction.

I think the confusion here stems from the fact that that statement assumes you don't have access to the painting, which is the most common case.
"Dig into how it works" may take longer than rewriting or it may not. And the rewrite may (and often does) run into unexpected difficulties too.

I think it's a mistake to make the "fix the old" or "rewrite from scratch" decision up front from a position of high uncertainty about the old system.

I'd go with a strategy of starting a timeboxed exploration of the old system with the objective of understanding it better, hopefully well enough to have a reasonable idea of what it will take to fix it. Then make the decision from a better informed position. Yes sometimes the decision may still be to rewrite because you now know that the old system will be excessively hard to change but in many cases you may find out that the old system wasn't as bad as expected.
Npm does one thing particularly clever that a lot of other library / dependency infrastructures fail at: it supports multiple versions of the same library living in the codebase.

Because npm treats package dependencies recursively, a package depending on v1 of another package and a package depending on v2 of that package can actually live in the same codebase (with proper configuration; it comes as kind of a side-effect of transpilation and tree-shaking requiring the toolchain to rename symbols anyway, so the two different versions of the library just end up either properly hidden via module inclusion or in the same codebase but name-mangled to different things). This isn't foolproof (if one of those libraries leaks details of its dependency, and another piece of code tries to do `instanceof`, it's going to have a bad time), but it makes it easier to work with codebases one doesn't control.
Any particular reason you couldn’t do the same? Just replace URLs.
>Cowen in his above-linked post doesn’t want to believe that crypto is fundamentally flawed—and maybe he’s right that it’s a great thing, it’s not like I’m an expert—but it’s funny that he doesn’t even consider that it might be a problem, given the scandal he was writing about

I read the linked post. Cowen makes no statement that crypto is a great thing. Nor does the FTX scandal reflect on cryptocurrency, it was simply a scam. "Defi" also was not decentralized, not really finance, unconnected to cryptocurrency save that it was transacted in cryptocurrency, and also just scams ("If you don't know where the yield is coming from, you are the yield")

Bitcoin seems to still be operating fine. Useful, no sign yet that its revolutionary, no connection with FTX or the other recent blowups.

Maybe crypto is just a thing and neither great, nor terrible
Lots of people go base jumping. I can't explain it, and yet they do, in spite of multiple terrible crashes.
Securing your APIs using OAuth [video]
No, you would be the copyright holder of your photograph.
Link to comment about phone and gum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363566
Correct. Anytime a site ask me for an email before giving me a file, a code or download, I use something@gmail.com (the literal word something) & most of the time the site gives me what I am looking for. If they send that link in email only, then I use a temporary email.
I was curious about what stats were used for the following:

> By comparison, the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA (from 2021) shows that in the United States there was an automobile crash approximately every 652,000 miles.

The figures they are using for this are 4,954,323 vehicles in crashes (ie a single crash with 3 vehicles adds 3 to this total). This includes large trucks, motorcycles, buses, other, and unknown vehicle types, from the NHTSA data. and 3,228.8 billion miles from the FHWA data.
I think some people have already hit the nail on the head, but I wanted to chime in with a few thoughts.

There have been several news stories spun to make it seem like Canada needs more gun control. I don't know if that actually solves anything, it just forces the sales of weapons underground. Canada is already pretty restricted with guns (at least in comparison with the US), with the government wanting more and more restrictions.

The problem is restrictions hurt enthusiasts who go through the proper channels, and force bad actors to use more ingenious/underground methods of obtaining weapons.

This article doesn't even mention how/why the 3d printed firearms were seized, but one thing appears clear, the "100" is actually various smaller police confiscations.

One thing is clear, though; this article's main goal is to promote removing rights of law abiding citizens, both with firearms enthusiasts, and potentially 3d printing enthusiasts.
Try Ventusky (https://www.ventusky.com/)
Which of these hypotheticals is least bad: an AI which won't write political invective against anyone, or one which will be used by your enemies to stir up hatred against your entire team, and your team's only available response is to do the same back at the entire other side?
Link to post about breathing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24102829
Of course there is a way - you are driving too fast, which seems to be case here, albeit not insanely fast.
system UI is not a simple graphics library... that's a huge oversimplification...
> The problem is it's not clear whether or not that's possible

It's not.

Attempting to say it is is very akin to wanting a single, pre-created bridge to be able to span any valley. But valleys come in all shapes and sizes, and so too do the bridges required to span them.

Certainly, there are some parts that are the same. I think most of us complain about cookie cutter CRUDs or byte shuffling, but even in all that, there's generally some higher purpose business reason as to why the software is doing the byte shuffling that I am, or more deeply, why the software is doing the byte shuffling the way it is[2].

And honestly, I think that oversimplifies it, when it comes to the problem and the software that attempts to solve it. The problem can and often does change in software … so it's akin to a valley that shapeshifts, adds new local laws of physics, and requires the bridge to change and adapt. How changes to the software mesh with the existing software, and why that might be — is unique to the project. (And, as Naur argues, contained only in the heads of the developers, and what is in their heads is not even necessarily the same.)

[2] And to extend this with the shifting valley analogy, when new byte shufflings come along, would they benefit from this program's current design? If I need to extend the design, would a given extension work well? Are the requirements different enough that I need to consider something separate for this new requirement? etc.
It's a total waste of time. Gets almost awkward.
Experienced the same. Got quite severe.
Turned out to be a few things. Autoimmune and heavy clotting the biggest.

Changing my diet dramatically, d3/k2 magnesium, Vit e, omega 3s, and blood thinners cleared up my mind.

Also exercise is absolutely critical.
According to this article [1], the brake lights do come on. But the article is from 2021, so who knows if that is still true (or if it was ever true for all Teslas, since they only tested one).

1: https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/does-regen-braking-t...
The US government is the bloodiest, most indebted, and most imprisoning institution on the planet.

And I agree, it is astoundingly well-functioning at it.
I'm sorry, can you verify that stat? Upon a search, I see references to that number but in relation to older homeowners.
There are plenty of OSS projects that aren’t DEs.
California is popular because of its _climate_ and despite all of the batshit insane policies that have been legislated.

I'm gradually approaching retirement age and looking for a place with better climate to retire to, but everywhere I've visited - including California - has a lot of negatives that outweigh the positives of where I currently live, which (by a lot of metrics) has some of the worst climate in the nation. Despite all of that, I might still put up with additional crap elsewhere to live in a more moderate climate. Don't underestimate climate as a powerful decider for where people live.
So 23% consumption tax? Or would you be talking higher?

I'm not sure 23% would be enough to offset the loss of the federal income tax.
Q: Does Harry Potter have an even number of hairs on his head, or odd?
A: Odd

Q: What is Harry Potter's favorite planet?
A: Mars

Q: Does Harry Potter prefer Windows 3.1, or Windows 95?
A: Windows 3.1

So, yes, it's pretty cool. And caltonji is very up-front that his GPT-3 model read the internet, not the Harry Potter books. But it seems to have the same big conceptual / awareness blind spots that ~all "AI" has.

(cantonji - it took quite a while to answer that last question. Apologies if I dinged your budget.)
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/is_is/GUID-3DFFB07....

Yes, but it depends on the speed you are going

> If regenerative braking is aggressively slowing Model Y (such as when your foot is completely off the accelerator pedal at highway speeds), the brake lights turn on to alert others that you are slowing down.
OpenAI has a very, very complicated ownership structure. They explicitly call this a "capped profit corporation". What this means in practice is that they have a non-profit arm that owns a for-profit arm, and the for-profit arm has some vague and laughably high "profit cap" to meet.

Personally, it sounds like a really sketchy way to work around privacy and copyright concerns. I.e. "we're just doing non-profit research", while smuggling the fruits of that research into the for-profit arm.
Code is a tool for businesses, and while it's a tool that can enable you to do anything you can imagine, it is an expensive tool for businesses to do anything they can imagine... and how many businesses need to be able to do anything they can imagine?

The cost of code is huge, not only do you need competent software engineers to write the code, but first you need people who can translate business requirements into technical requirements... and then you're burdened with the costs of running, maintaining and iterating on that code as the business evolves.

If you could cut all of that out and instead have the people defining the business requirements design the software (through the use of a no-code platform) your business would be orders of magnitude more efficient. Historically, magical all-in-one configurable platforms (like Salesforce) were unwieldy and required experts to operate them, but that's no longer the case. The world is becoming much more mature, and businesses can achieve so much without owning a single line of code.

There'll always be technology that needs to be built, and code is a great tool for building technology, but most businesses don't need to build technology, they need to use technology. If you're opening your first grocery store, you rent a building, you don't hire architects and construction workers. The immaturity of technology has historically made that approach to business quite difficult, however, that's rapidly changing.

As Software Engineers, we get caught up in believing that because you can do anything with code, code is the right tool. That's a misunderstanding of business, though: given the choice between 2 tools, 1 that can do 90% of what the business needs and 1 that can do 100% of what the business needs but costs an order of magnitude more and has far greater risk then any rational business would choose the former.

If you spend much time interfacing with non-technical people in businesses, you'll often discover that they have an acrimonious relationship with technology in their business, because so much of the technology we build is caught up in the what and not the why. Code generation does not solve that problem, empowering non-technical people to own their business processes does.

Code generation is a tool for 2000, not 2030. I would bet my career that in 2030, there'll be less code produced per year (human authored + generated) than there is today.
The reason for that difference should be evaluated then. Is it an income thing? Car cost thing? (compare stats to non-Teslas in the same group) Does Tesla's marketing create a false sense of confidence in the car's abilities? Does the UI distract? Numbers can lie, but in general, I think the data is out there to support or reject the "fake news" narrative.
To add to the pile of random medical advice, finally getting my wisdom teeth removed helped my thinking and attention a bit.
Yes, brake lights are illuminated under any deceleration above a certain threshold, or application of the brake pedal.
The only healthcare services that deliver a significant improvement to life expectancy at the population level are vaccinations, antibiotics, and trauma care. And those services are cheap. Everything else is pretty marginal. Diet and exercise have a far larger impact than almost any healthcare interventions.
Slurring speech, mixing words and characters jumping around when you're reading. Does it also feel like you get into reading mechanically where you read each word but don't actually connect the words into sentences?

This happens to me a lot. It's stress related. If I'm really under pressure or burnt out I put 110% effort in and get stuck. That builds impatience with myself and that burns me out even more.

I go through periods when I can't learn a thing I'm just too wired on stress hormones. It normally takes a few months of doing mindless things to come back to normal. Physical work or basic repetitive admin tasks seem to be the best for clearing the burn out. Anything that doesn't require mental clarity or learning but still provides a sense of achievement.

I went from a period where I seriously struggled to learn things like one new git command to picking up functional programming in F# with ease.