skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what I'm saying: you are _assuming_ because you want to find a "woke agenda". On the other hand, Steinbeck is also an author that a contemporary Mathilda-like kid would read, while they would not read Kipling.
This is the problem here: it really looks like that the equivalently probable hypothesis that it's not a woke conspiracy is totally impossible to imagine for some people, and this is a problem: they are deep in their paranoia.

I don't know if the reason is that Steinbeck is leftist or not. It is even possible that it is a woke agenda reason. What is worrying is that some people are just wanting sooo much for it to be a woke agenda, and the problem is that you can always turn everything into a woke agenda. If they would have replaced Steinbeck by Kipling, you would have said "it's because Kipling's books are talking about other cultures and Steinbeck talks about America, and for the wokes, it's bad to talk about America".

That being said, maybe I'm a bit biased, because so far, in a lot of cases, those moral panics turn out to be blown out of proportion: the "bad wokes threatening freedom" turn out to not defend the ideological position they are told they have. It may be the case here too: all this story may be just idiots who clumsily tried to keep the book relevant for what they think was the new taste.
Luck is involved in everything because whatever you have decided, it’s not a sure shot of winning. The decision to make the product a certain way for example, or certain timing, marketing spend etc and all of them matter
That’s not really the same thing is it, though? I’m sure you can write new COBOL programs using it, but the challenge is the old ones. And for a million reasons, they’re tied to big iron.

It’s part of the fabric of our society, but it’s still a pain to work with.
Use a different pen, maybe, or add an O-ring to the section or something. A capped pen should take weeks to dry out, not days.

Rollerballs are a decent second best - I keep them for lenders and for backup in case I'm caught without a spare cartridge. That said, they definitely don't come close to my Decimo or E95s.
> 7. be lucky
The South African rand was indeed also introduced as half a pound in 1961 (technically half a South African pound, but that had been equal to the pound sterling except 1931-1933)
He also had substantially wealthy parents if I'm not mistaken. Same with Gates and others. This is the ultimate safety net.

It's easier to take risks when you have an out when it all goes really wrong. Doubt he'd still be cleaning manure today if he hadn't had a success...
Since when do we consider single viral Tweets to be worth HN main page?
What if switching jobs came with no overhead? That is, what if you could decide one day to change jobs and you'd be going to a different job the next day? Would you do it? Sure you would. At worst, you'd find out that your original job was great and you'd go back there.

The reason I pose that question is that I've found that for me the hardest thing about switching jobs is the overhead of switching: I have to do uncomfortable things for a while: grinding leetcode, switching to a salesman mentality where I'm selling my skills, risking lots of rejection, etc. The thing is that it's always been worth the hassle. I've gotten a raise every time. I've met people I respect and like every time. I've also learned things that I didn't know existed at every new job.

If you go through a couple more jobs and find you miss your first employer then you can at least go back there with a better resume than you had when you left.
agreed - and this just reinforces one of the core themes in the article. on a long term scale, this hyper growth capitalist phase we’re in now doesn’t work. talk about a “non scalable solution.“

I get you’re talking about a more macro level issue, but at the core, capitalism is what’s driving this anti-pattern into existence. I’m not someone who’s anti-capitalism, but the fact that it takes the concern of our global GDP to consider the livelihood of people underdeveloped countries is depressing
What a heartbreaking comment to read:

> Any of us who have had at least two “successful” businesses will tell you that this quote is ridiculous.

> I’ve also failed miserably and had 5-7 business go under or never even really get off the ground.

This means that you incurred (2+) / ((2+) + (5-7)) chance of creating a successful business. This is in the spirit of the OP. Creating a business may involve some skill, but ultimately it's just a lottery. Sometimes you win only because you're lucky. Or something you lose only because you're unlucky. I apologize but I truly do think giving advise like this can be dangerous. Not everyone is as privileged and maybe a single failure can put them in life-long debt, or financial trouble, or homelessness.
This does not sound believable. Even assuming a 2 h / day commute each way, this person is working 56 h weeks with 28 h of commute? Introduce me to this poor person doing this (if they're within 50 mi of 94103) and if they have 2800 h of wages to show for last year, I will pay $1k just to talk to them for 2 h in a place of their convenience at a time of their convenience.

I think it's much more likely that people who are too poor to participate cannot participate in gainful labour in a predictable fashion, i.e. their employment is sporadic, or shifts are unpredictable, or they are seasonal labour. i.e. they are not time-constrained, they are employment-constrained.
Generally this is true, but I'd say that for certain endeavors, like math, more meaningful work happens in handwriting. True as well for various kinds of planning or brainstorming, etc.

Also, definitely more volume of work happens on a computer at a keyboard. How meaningful it is is debatable. Recent events have shown what I believe Orwell said long ago, that most of what we write is just mindless concatenation of premade phrases. Computers make that easier, but it's not obvious that that activity is where the meaning comes in to work
Yeah, it's really insane the number of bad ideas people try to make work.

All of the successful startups I've seen sounded like they could be successful. And every idea I've heard that sounded like it wouldn't be successful hasn't been.

Having a good business plan is no guarantee of success, but having a bad one will guarantee failure.
Ok, when one posts a video and got access, what happens to this video?

Will it be displayed/pushed to the others? What else can be done with that video?

Will it end of the user watching all the other users gaining Access videos?

What about privacy? I use insta for a prolonged, good puuping. Just imagine "Greetings comrade. Upload a video of what you're doing right now to gain access"

Nope. Can't imagine why one want to pay in advance (with one's time) and being restricted on the usage (not at any Situation possible)

The content is what matters. Not the access.
All of those studies were funded by Big Pencil companies...a lot of bias.
i've personally stuck with using a 15" laptop screen thus far (and a smaller one at work during pandemic). this has been mostly out of necessity of moving around and the personal motto of not hoarding stuff when you would have to get rid of it in a few months.

while i'd love to give a secondary monitor a go, even when i'd use multiple monitors at work, it would not automatically become a huge productivity boost that most people swear by. one "big enough" screen has done just fine. even our brain zones out the visual feed outside of what's in front of you, so you are only saving tabbing shortcuts when working with more than one display. so much for those swearing by keyboard shortcuts and vim dotfiles.
Anyone interested in this train of thought (pro or against) should read the Chrysanthemum Dynasty series by Ken Liu.
I mean, I take your point, but Powershell is actually pretty easy to run on Ubuntu. The catch with most real COBOL is that it’s fundamentally entangled with big iron.
I think cursive existed due to the technology of the pen required a technique that managed the surface tension of the ink.
Carry is the 20 (carried interest) and 2 is the management fee.
Legacy Software Systems: How to Live with Aging Software Architecture?
If someone say there is no luck involved they are saying they every position they take is 100% winning. 100% success rate in all decisions, sort of like a risk free investment, really no such thing.

The people you hire, there is no sure thing they can build it properly. The marketing effort, no sure shot. Absolutely every decision you make involves some luck
His family was rich he is as self made as Trump.
Another lesson is

9. If when you pitch your original idea to potential customers, if they're not over the moon about it your destined for failure.
I actually wonder if shorthand would be a useful skill for a lot of people. I never learned it (though I sort of had my own informal system) and, indeed, basically never typed until college (and never learned to touch-type) because those were things secretaries did back in the day.
I know you’re attacking my point but I think you’re actually agreeing here. COBOL is tied to proprietary stuff running on big iron, and its claims to modernity are window dressing.
>7. be lucky

You have to make absolute certain that you remember to do this step and to do it correctly, as well as at the right time, or it won't work.
I recently got earasers, mainly to make it easier to hear people over music (I have auditory processing disorder), however I have found them just to muffle everything, making the music a good level, but speech unbearable.

Is this your experience?

Wondering because maybe I'm doing something wrong or maybe I chose the wrong level of them (I think I chose the regular EU level).
This is delightful!

Maybe next you can make the object spread operator faster ;). I was recently bitten by it in a hot loop, thinking it was generally syntactic sugar. Turns out that if I know all the property names in an object, it’s far far faster to just assign them all manually.
Thanks for this summary and context!

>As someone who works on pedestrian simulation software

I'm very curious what software that is.

>Would the rate of lane formation be different in a system with different boundary conditions?

Wouldn't it have to? Given that formation is the (density * speed * wiggleness) I assume boundary variability will have a logistic relationship with density right?
Time I made a habit of drinking lemonade - a suggestion I'd have expected from my urologist, but not one I'm sorry to have run across whatever the source.
I still prefer to write out mathematical proofs sloppily (and with a lot of the nitty-gritty details missing) in a scrap notebook, then write it more nicely (filling in all details) on computer printer paper, and then (if I think it's useful to somebody) writing it in Latex. I probably write too much, but it's just the way I'm used to doing calculations and proof-of-concepts. I also like the different styles and aesthetics that can be employed in handwriting. My handwriting ranges from incredibly sloppy (when I don't really care or just want to go fast) to very, very neat.
That's not how it should be though. Its a direct attack on property rights which are a cornerstone of most successful civilizations.
I'm not worried about the DB. Less down the pipe to the browser or app means the user can get to see something sooner. It also mean less for the hardware / browser + JS to swallow.

Minor? Maybe.

Until you have users with less powerful mobile devices using less than ideal wifi / internet connections.

If work provides you with a new device (either as a company perk or because you're well paid) and you live in a major city where mobile data speeds are great these things don't matter. For most everyone else they do.

I suppose this explains why so many mobile experiences are so bad? People like you feel the user experience is "utter bullshit". Shame on you.
More people than just those below the poverty line work on weekends. Launching an app over a weekend is easy...if you've got all of the required skills a priori and the leisure time available to do so. Launching an app over the weekend isn't a viable option for people lacking either of those two components no matter their distance from the poverty line.
Seriously?

The thing about not being able to make rent is that other things suffer — like being able to move to another city or, you know, eating.
We aren't the exception to the rule even remotely. Macroevolution is eternal growth. Its been around for quite some time. Life finding ways to adapt to differing resource ratios.

I'm not handwaving away anything; i'm admiring billions of years of clear precedent.

You're handwaving away all of that precedent based on extreme pessimism and alarmism that has no basis in any evidence to date. Simply because climate change exists doesnt mean its the most extreme version cooked up by a crackpot journalist.
The benefit of parser combinators is that they allow you to write "tree shaped code" to parse a syntax that doesn't map cleanly to a tree, ex: a c-style syntax.

My argument was that if the article wanted to show off the rust parser combinators, another syntax would have done the job better.
Python is ideal for the non-professional programmer who wants to put their skills and knowledge on wheels.
It was required for me, but that didn't mean anything real. We "learned" it for like two weeks then I never used it again.
Any chance you could go a little more in-depth with what you mean? Why are the ideas so bad and what can someone who gets it recognize in them? Just curious.
> I wonder how much time is collectively 'wasted' due to kanji/Chinese characters.

There's probably research on this in Chinese educational literature. Pinyin, though now used primarily for computer input and foreign language learning, was originally conceived for use in teaching literacy to native Chinese speakers. Mass literacy in China was a particularly hard nut to crack because of the huge challenge of learning thousands of characters as compared to a small phonetic alphabet.

The ambition of replacing characters with pinyin never really developed momentum for native Chinese speakers. But the increasing use of computer input, I believe, has reduced the emphasis on years of character-writing memorisation drills in Chinese schools.
You're right, I forgot about bats! Yet I still took the time to disparage squirrels. Now I feel silly.

I guess I can fix it easily enough:

Flight(not gliding or floating) implies wings.

Wings don't imply flight.
No they're not. Just the self-admitted fact that they could afford to fail 5-7 times creating a business shows that they had more social and financial safety net than an average American. Most Americans can't just create a business, fail, and repeat it 4-6 more times.
>insult others beyond the point of harassment

What do you mean by this?
A cruise company offers remote workers to sail around the world for $30k a year
C.S. Lewis's Oxford: Where the Lion and the Witch Met the Hobbit
China very recently screwed up their entire country because The Party was too arrogant to admit they screwed up on COVID policy because they talked mad shit about how much of a better job they were doing compared to the west, and maybe they were, but their approach simply didn't work post-Omicron but they couldn't admit it. COVID itself may have been far more controlled in the first place if doctors talking about it in its early days weren't censored by the party.

I would credit China's rise to the industriousness of Chinese people more than crediting everything to the ruling regime. I also don't see them surpassing the west anytime soon because there is an impending demographic collapse even more severe that is in the west - and without the same immigration culture.
Thank you. How is this so hard to grasp?
I always use good ol' mechanical pencils, particularly Twist Erase or BiC with 0.7 lead.
I'm with you. I'm quite successful by any measure and my handwriting is atrocious. My mum would do home handwriting assignments with her left hand for me so I could play and explore nature (we lived in a rural place).

I doubt I'd be any more advanced in my life if my handwriting were better. In fact, looking back at the kids in school I know with beautiful handwriting and the ones who were messy, I don't see any real correlation. It's pretty random.
When you read word-processor, you probably think Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, not Xerox 6016 Memorywriter (thanks wikipedia) or any other type of electronic typewriter. Maybe it's a generational thing, but the only use of ワープロ I know of is for the latter (do a google image search for ワープロ, and compare to a google image search for word processor).

I'd say the expression ワープロ馬鹿 is probably very outdated.
Goodreads reviews are only useful for getting a lot of funny opinions after having finished a book.

not once have I ever used goodreads reviews for anything other than "damn, 3.6, this must be a polarizing book" before starting it.
That's an argument for learning how to print though (which I agree is necessary) rather than learning cursive.
https://archive.is/DSUTp
That was my thought, but if they don't I'd be willing.
I mean, I'm interested but I don't know I am that interested. Can you just tell me the conclusion and I'll read Liu based on that? :)
Yes, it's strange that my urologist has never mentioned it either. I wonder if this result applies to all types of kidney stones or just calcium oxalate.
I didn't study physics in university, so please forgive this naïve question. Would an appropriate interpretation of quantum physics simply be that we don't have an interpretation of quantum physics? We have mathematical equations and observations that confirm the math, but it seems that we don't have observations that give credibility to one interpretation over the others. Instead of speculating, can't we just agree that we don't know?

I'm not suggesting that we should do that -- I suspect that there's a lot that I'm missing. But I guess I don't understand why these speculative interpretations are so alluring if we can't confirm or invalidate them through experiments.
Hey, you up for a chat? I guess I'm kinda a younger version of you, currently in my early 20s, having some (life-altering | possibly-life-altering) medical issues. I liked your learnings and would like to hear more about your journey if possible. Cheers
Exactly, you need a third-party tool for better management via snapping and sensible hotkeys.

Windows, Gnome, KDE, etc. have all these things for years. Perhaps even over a decade by now?

Microsoft even go one further with Fancy Zones in their PowerToys pack which is fantastic on very large/wide monitors.

I wish Apple would add the functionality of apps like Rectangle/Magnet/Fancy Zones with some additional options such as layouts. That would be far more useful than whatever they were trying to achieve with Stage Manager on macOS.
You clearly don't know how the Tesla lockout works, can't be bothered to learn before making up your mind that it sucks, and can't even be bothered to learn after getting called out on it.

No, this will not be a productive conversation. Goodbye.
Play the cards you’re dealt

For every trust funder with a garage but in Atherton, there are 10 other trust funder with substance abuse problems doing nothing with their life

I can respect people that play their cards, I dont resent people that had a better hand
For me switching jobs always was two steps ahead and maybe one back. My first full time job had subpar pay and benefits but allowed me to take over a lot of responsibility.

After 2 years I switched jobs (thanks to a friend) to get a better salary, less pressure, but also a bit more boring, and too much paperwork.

After 2 more years the huge amount of paperwork started to really bug me. Fortunately 2 job offers came from former colleagues and I accepted the second one.

This job was really awesome and I stayed many years and did not follow up on any jobs that were offered to me.

After these years however some changes in management above me led to significant shifts in my projects and suddenly I was interested again in job offers, and this is how I ended up at my current 4th full time job.

I'm quite content at my current position, still I interviewed with 3 positions that were relayed to me by a headhunter. All 3 offers had at least one catch (the ones I did not interview with were even worse), so I agreed with that headhunter to not contact me again.
OK. And the debate about "what should we do about that massive object out there heading for Earth" would be calm and rational, and the voices saying "hey, don't worry, it's just going to be Tunguska-sized, we can ignore it!" would win out?

Please. It's an interesting question, and that's it.
Late to the conversation but in case the OP is still listening - great post and I'm totally aligned with your thinking. You mentioned my app, BrainTool, in the post (thanks for the inbound link!) so I thought you might be interested in my own rant on the topic: https://braintool.org/2022/04/29/Tools4Thought-should-use-Or...

Cheers,
No, the unit for a kilometre is lowercase „km“, not KM.
I'm reminded of the song Common People by Pulp:

"But still you'll never get it right/'Cause when you're laying in bed at night/Watching roaches climb the wall/If you called your dad he could stop it all."
Ask HN: Fellow Québec residents, what the hell is going on with the SAAQ?
Dear readers,

It appears that our provincial government's equivalent of the DMV has gone completely off the rails.

Apparently they've gone through a "digital transformation" to consolidate and modernize 40-year old IT systems. And the absolute genius project managers running it decided to do things like shut-down services for a whole month and migrate everything at once.

It has gone about as well as you can imagine. Dealerships aren't able to properly register vehicles they've sold. Physical locations have queues with wait times as long as 5-6 hours. Payments made through online banking to renew licences have not been processed. Apparently the recommendation is to keep driving with your expired licence and carry a printed off bank statement showing that you paid. But good luck if you're pulled over, you might still get the fine anyways.

I just can't even comprehension this level of technological backwards-ness and insanity! An all-at-once deployment and losing track of bank transactions? In the 2020s?! How is this even possible?

Sorry. /rant
I am not saying this to be cruel, but you have not reached rock bottom yet.

A person you loved, who was important /everything to you has left.
You are desperately sad. This impacts your life and your work /studies.

Most people will experience this in some way during their lives.
The lucky few who dont.
That does not make it any easier and nothing anyone can say can make
it go away.

This is a process.
It will take time.
Nobody can make it just go away.

The statistics are in your favor my friend.
People usually recover :)

When you do, you will still have an open wound and it will make
your next relationship a bit more difficult bur you will also be
better prepared.

However, you still have a place to live, you sound reasonably healthy,
dont have any serious drug issues, you can feed yourself, you can shower.
Dont trivialize this. This is more than a lot of people ever have.

You have hit a most difficult time of grief.

Ancient wisdom for such patches is to get drunk and f..k wh..-
This is misogynistic, wrong and does not do anything to help anyone.

Ancient wisdom from a different place would be to hang out with a
shaman and eat mushrooms or similar. (The shaman part if vital)

Now we have therapy, self-help books and even pills.

If you have the funds, possibility, ability and time, something
I have tried to go somewhere strange / different.
It can either help you, you get distracted by strange things and ways.
Or it just make you feel even more lonely and isolated.
Have you seen how a lot of people sign their names these days? I won't say I quite just make an X but it's close.