skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Click on the votes themselves. This is at 1000 points as sort of a rate limit so that only a fraction of the site can do it) and to ensure that people understand the nuance of voting better.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/established-u...

You can also get a lot of vote information in the data explorer https://data.stackexchange.com
Look for a kickball league ... they seem to be more designed for non-athletes.
Do you work for a landlord? Otherwise, the incentives here are the opposite. If landlords are defaulting, its because companies are getting rid of their office space. They are doing so because its expensive to rent office space; WFH is cheaper for employers.
I often come back to this comment on the topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20470085

"""
The Screen and the Job have displaced almost everything else is our lives. Loneliness is just a primary symptom.

The Screen, whether it’s TV, computer, or phone, has supplanted almost all social interactions. This manifests itself in things like SitComs on TV (just a bunch of friends or family hanging out) or Social Media on phones. It’s very easy to fill the social needs of right now with a Screen. But under even a minuscule amount of self reflection these are revealed as hollow substitutes for real human interaction.

The Job has completely taken over as a driving force in evaluating choices. The average person has to consider all options in the light of both the current employer and the specter of tomorrow’s. Moving across the country for a high paying job? Great! Moving to be closer to friends? That’s a career killer.

No wonder we are lonely. We make choices in the short term that optimize happiness, often at the expense of our relationships. Ghosting is not just for dates now. Then turn around and make choices in the long term that optimize employability at the expense of all else.
"""
It wasn't an abbreviation for th; it was a separate letter in its own right with its own etymology.
This is 2023 and dirt cheap flip feature phones (dumbphones) are still widely available (think pre-paid / burner). How come no-one makes one with physical qwerty?
I've worked for over 2 years on the next version of an ergonomic mouse
Hi HN,

I was laid off from the last two tech companies I worked for. It's not great, but it gave me a lot of time to work on creating the "next version" of an ergonomic mouse. I believe ergonomic devices are still in early stages and most of them look overly complicated. I'm equipping mine with a gaming sensor and most importantly, a sleek and minimal design.

I am now quite far in the development process but I am not an expert in electronics nor mechanical engineering. I'd love to hear what you think about the design itself and if you are an expert in any of those fields, it would be great to work with you in a couple of things before I launch it on Kickstarter. Thanks
Yes, I've described it in the article above as

"Climbing the skill ladder is going to look more like running on a treadmill at the gym. No matter how fast you run, you aren’t moving, AI is still right behind you learning everything that you can do."
Not OP but I hate Finder. I just want to see my folders and access them, let me do that ffs, why does that left panel hate me?
Typically these are open source projects they are referring to. EG: https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas
Because Tulane has so many tenure-track offerings?
It's also a great way to ruin trust within an organisation, if such urgency is too often used without merit.
When I click on the follow button on your instance, I get asked for my account ID.

The problem isn't the follow button when browsing within your home instance, it's when you get linked to someone else's account on their home server and want to follow them.
A long term lease is beneficial for the renter in many circumstances. They don't want to have the conditions of the lease renegotiated every year because moving a company is a lot more disruptive than moving to a new apartment. They also often don't even want to own the property. I worked a place that paid a builder to build them an office complex, sold it to a management company, then rented it back from them. Why? Because the company did not want to tie up all it's assets in a piece of real estate, and wanted to focus on their actual business.
In a different comment, I mentioned `40-50 years of momentum against them`, yes, that Germany indeed.
In my native Netherlands we're looking to build 2 nuclear plants. I doubt they'll ever be built, as they take a long time to build and the current public in opinion is mildly in favor I suppose (if that at all) but that will swing up and down over the build time.

But yes, shutting them down at this moment is at least bad timing, but the preparations for that have been going on for years apparently. I'm not a nuclear power plant operator so I don't know what is involved with extending operation once certain decisions have been made.
I was big on blackberries back in the day. It was a true productive phone. The contact hub, that concentrate all communication witha contact, dosent matter the app, I still remember walking on the streest taking calls, reading emails and sneding meetings invites on it.

It just worked.

Also Biz plans where grat because at the time where the only no limit data plan avaliable. I would com back home during a long bus riding playing poker online.
Its been a little while since I looked at Render and their pricing definitely used to be a lot simpler. Charging per user is just stupid. And then weird compute costs with plans like "Pro Plus" and "Pro Ultra". "Web Services" and "Private Services". WTF is this shit.
I read somewhere some Qwghlmian duchess was doing that centuries ago.
Who pays the corporate tax?
Something I've been thinking about lately is how World War Two is receding from our collective memory and how "archaic" it will eventually come to be seen? The last veterans will pass away within the next few years. In less than twenty years, WWII will have happened a century ago. It will be as ancient as the Franco-Prussan War of 1871 to someone who was alive in 1971, or to World War One to people today. Humanity will move into the 22nd century and WWII will be two centuries old. Two centuries ago, you had the Napoleonic Wars. In the 23rd century, it will be 300 years old. 300 years ago, you had the War of the Spanish Succession (a war only nerds know about at this point) and the Seven Years War.

Will Hitler continue to be the go-to example of prime evil in people's minds then? I'm not so certain.

Pupils in the 22nd century will read about the Enigma machine and the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, think to themselves "how primitive they were then", then send their friend a text using an unbreakable post-quantum encryption algorithm.

West Point cadets will read about how German and Soviet commanders got creative with Panzers and T-34s, then go into a virtual simulation where they press a few buttons to coordinate a multi-domain kill chain to direct a smart cruise missile from a destroyer in the South Atlantic to a tank force in Pakistan, thousands of miles away.

Aerospace engineering students will read about the V2 rockets, then start their summer internships on Lunar Base 3 (on the actual Moon).

And eventually, will they even stop learning about it?

Are there any lessons to draw here about our view of the past and the lessons we can learn from them? Our ancestors were just as creative and smart as we, they just had more limited means.
For one, assembly ceases to be a relevant detail and is replaced by other relevant details.

So, I can't code fast games in a 1984 workplace, currently, being too out of touch with assembly on a given chipset. But I also can't wave my hands at an LLM and expect a modern, fast game of the desired quality to code itself. (Even though a clip art-style result is possible, the requirements are always going to be special details)

The upwards direction example is also interesting because it's foundational to the cognitive functionality of one of the Jungian personality types. But other personality perspectives also apply to coding, which means in part that the directional, metaphorical-abstraction view can effectively be a blind spot if we map it as the preferred view on outcomes.

The most common blind spot for this personality involves questions of relevant details, and their intersection with planning for yet-unknowns. There is a tendency to hand-wave which ends up being similar to prophetic behavior. Jung called this the "voice in the wilderness" noting that it can easily detach from sensibility (rationality) by departing from life details. Kind of interesting stuff.

(Ni-dominant type)
> Linux? The fucking thing breaks down if you so much as look at it wrong. No reliability, zilch, nada, /dev/null. I don't trust Linux with anything mission critical, unless I'm paying someone monies to make sure my time isn't wasted (eg: Red Hat, Synology, Steam Deck).

From the mention of Steam Deck I'm going to guess most of the "breaks down if you so much as look at it wrong" is from graphics related stuff?

Or maybe using Ubuntu? When I stopped using Ubuntu the bug reporter came up often and quickly crashed.

However I've been using NixOS for many years now and had nearly no stability issues. The one I can remember I just rebooted and went to an old generation.

Before that I was using Debian and also had no issues, but their packages were outdated.

> So Windows is the only operating system that I can use to do everything I want to do on a computer, in the ways I want to do them, with the software I want, trusting my time will not be wasted on trivially stupid nonsense.

s/Windows/Linux or perhaps even s/Windows/NixOS for me :)
Blame YouTubers/Influencers for that, they constantly push for uniformity with "comparisons".
Samsung released a new phone?
Top phone YouTubers will quickly compare how they like the feel of iPhone or Pixel vs Samsung and how it holds on their hand, how it's matte, how it's sized and companies want to win those points. So satisfying them is a priority.
So we end up with matte black, thin, rectangles.
I have found that the suburbs are far friendlier than cities. In the suburbs, I knew a lots of my neighbors, and making friends was very easy. In the city, nobody talks to anybody. City people are just unfriendly or theyre sick of other people or something

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/how-urb...

> Four-in-ten rural residents say they know all or most of their neighbors; the shares are smaller among those living in urban (24%) and suburban (28%) areas.
The details of the technique in the article seem to be lacking. There's a bit more on the Wikipedia:

> When she obtained any military intelligence, she encoded it for transmitting by knitting using one-time codes hidden on a piece of silk that she used to tie up her hair; she would translate them using Morse code equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Latour
Cost, unlike solar, batteries and HVDC nuclear has a negative learning curve (gets more expensive over time as we learn over time to build it with more safety features, and retrofit them on existing plants) and takes too long for proper learning to happen.
> And am generally disdainful of sacrifies made to physical controls in favour of virtual ones

I agree with you with one single exception. I own a high-end blender that has a touch-screen and I think that's the one and only use-case that I have found where virtual controls win out by far. Not having the risk of food spilling into keys on a food-making device, and being able to wipe up spills quickly and easily with a dish cloth is a great application.

Other than that, virtual controls can GTFO ... especially on general purpose computing devices.
3 is the number I have heard many times from different PM's. Engineers tend to interpret a bit 'how long will it take' is 'how long will it take YOU'. So you say 2 weeks. The PM is thinking plus QA, plus rework, plus shipping. That usually is about 3x or ~6 weeks.
AFAIK some bootloader versions do not support LUKS2 format; this could make for a bad day for some people. Don't blindly follow blogs on a critical topic without more research
To be fair, Star Trek episodes focused around a couple weeks of quiet time to fix all the emergency stuff would be pretty boring. I presume Scotty gets time to go back and do it properly, given they're on a five year mission in unexplored space and the ship remains in pretty good working order.
No one has to see the boring stuff, where Scotty spends the next two weeks AFTER the emergency rewiring things to work right again, or the month they spend in dry-dock replacing burnt out parts. I can only image how the C-suite would feel if they were told they have to stop development on the project for six months to perform all the fixes and maintenance their demands for heroics cost them.
I would argue capitalism arose with the invention of money, before that humans bartered. Consumption was the aim of the barter system also, so I would say consumerism came first ;)
Sounds like sticky sessions
I'm not an expert on this topic and while I have spent some time in the US, my experience is limited.

The particular case of two highways intersecting is one thing. Go ahead and have your diverging diamond interchange there. However, I don't believe Interstate-Interstate-Crossings are the most common use in the US? See for example https://wsdot.wa.gov/travel/traffic-safety-methods/diverging.... Three crossings, none are between two interstates? Or am I misreading this?

I actually believe it comes down to this: You only need the diverging diamond interchange if you build a highway in tight spaces, such as inside cities. In particular you want them on heavily frequented entries/exits that would otherwise let traffic back up into the cities. Thus, the interchange is at or close to a location with a lot of important destinations, otherwise you wouldn't build it there.

Not having that interchange then open to traffic other than cars then clearly makes it harder to cross the highway at these places. You'll have to go up or down each of the roads until you hit an over- or underpass or crossing. In my experience, in the US, this is generally very far - as of course everything is already bigger than in other places because of parking lots.
I think this idea is dead on arrival..there's a huge mismatch between the appetite for the every day person to invest in illiquid assets (like mortgage loans secured over 25-40 years) and the market demand for such loans.

I suspect without banks taking on the liquidity risk there wouldn't be support to fund the demand for mortgages.

This has also already been tried post-20088 with the huge boom in so-called P2P lending

The same is true for interest rate risk. Generally people won't lock away cash for 5 years for a 1%/yr better yield over instant access. Banks can manage this by taking out interest rate swaps.
They provide the means to move office cost from capex to opex.
It is no exaggeration that to say that social fitness fundamentally changed my life as an adult. I had, one day at the gym, decided to try a group fitness class. I had seen the class many times. Normally at the gym I lifted weights, wearing my headphones doing my Chinese language lessons. I saw they were getting an awesome workout, so one day I went and joined them, they were super friendly and welcoming and I became a repeat customer and started doing a different class at the gym. That instructor invited me to try her class at another gym where she taught. I took her up on it and met there another even larger group very friendly, and very social people. My gym moved locations so I switched to going to the gym that I had visited. I hardly ever used the weight machines. I did the fitness classes but some do use weights.

A couple months in at the new gym I met a woman who soon became my best friend. An odd pair we made me being a 55 year old introverted redhead and her being a 36 year old gregarious French-African. But we are both engineers and love fitness. Our friendship really bonded over training for the Rachel Carson Challenge, a 36 mile hike.

And running - well that opened up and even more important social network. I started running with a small group in the neighborhood that was organized by my soon-to-be best friend, then added a larger city-wide group that another soon to be very close friend had introduced me to, and then joined the local Fleetfeet group with her after she mentioned that they were also very nice - even though they met on Sundays, which I had always treated as my Fitness day off.

The first several times I went on Fleetfeet runs without my friend was a bit awkward, as I didn't really know anyone. I am by nature on the introvert side of that scale. But running, like the Rachel Carson Challenge hike, gives you a lot of one-on-one time with people – often complete strangers. After running and talking to someone for hours, you are no longer strangers. The Fleetfeet runs usually starts at a Starbucks and then at the end of the run we would stay for coffee and a snack. You do that every week with a group of people and, like my fitness classes - if you have a social bone in your body - you're going to end up with a group of good friends.

The other thing going on in my life which was quite challenging in terms of my loneliness is that my wife has left me and I was living alone. Without my new social network, my life would've been a much bigger challenge. The amount of emotional support that I got was beyond measure. A few months into doing group runs, I talked with a new stranger who six months later became a romantic partner. Thus, I can trace my current happy relationship state to that one moment in the gym where I decided to take off my headphones and do a group fitness class.

Apologies for the long post, but your “running group” suggestion motivated me to share my story. Take off your headphones and join a fitness group! It’s a twofer as you’ll also get in great shape.
Yeah but people will still have to generate excess produce somehow in order to have something to trade for those (now cheaper) goods, and with automation taking both skilled and unskilled jobs out of the market, I keep wondering what kind of jobs will be left available for the average Joe.
The Numero Sign, №, despite representing Latin letters, apparently arose in Cyrillic usage as an independent symbol. Most languages just use No or Nr.
Interesting. Do you find you have a shakier than usual phone grip?

I know that iPhones can alert the user when ambient noise levels exceed safety thresholds, and Apple Watches can detect and alert about detected falls, and even atrial fibrillation. I wouldn't be surprised if phone accelerometer signal processing could predict something like Parkinson's disease.
Do they really get the same milage? Or are they just subject to a less stringent efficiency standard?

Higher ground clearance is usually associated with less fuel efficiency.
If I spend $15 on drinks then Ubering to and from has just at least tripled my cost of going out.

If going out with friends costs $20 a head instead of $45, more people will want to do it.
Capitalism until now has functioned on the premise that reward for human labor was a necessary component of generating capital.
I believe you've missed the parent's point: the push for return to office is motivated by the desire to save industries that are no longer in demand, like office space.
How about some pedestrian safety requirements for a start?

A lot of these vehicles are killing machines with terrible visibility and hoods as high as an adult's head.
The problem that the author identifies is real - when a manager dictates that something needs to be done, a time estimate is given, and the time allotted is dramatically shorter. That happens, as I think we all know.

The _actual_ problem, though, is more insidious. It's that the engineer then frequently accomplishes the task in the shorter time frame, and looks like a miracle worker. This reinforces the manager's intuition that the engineer is padding the time estimates and trains them to continue to behave the same way in the future. What _isn't_ apparent is what was sacrificed in order to accomplish that time schedule.

How much maintenance was deferred? How many other things had their schedules slip? These things are actual tangible sacrifices made to meet a possibly arbitrary deadline.

The other side of the coin is, maybe the deadline isn't arbitrary - maybe the Enterprise will fall into the atmosphere in the 20 minutes Kirk gives Scotty, or maybe there are auditors coming on Friday and a repair needs to be completed before then.

When dealing with other people, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt on intentions, and if I receive unexpected requests, I don't just try to provide a reasonably accurate estimate of my time, but I also ask what the driver is behind the request. Certainly they are aware of pressures that I'm not, and I also voice pressures that I am under that they aren't aware of, so that together we can determine priorities and make the right path. This also makes it much easier to communicate with the people whose projects got de-prioritized, so that everyone can be on the same page.
Ah.. that makes sense. I was sort-a stuck in the WiFi/WPA mode, where there are no explicit salts (I guess ssid names can be considered as such).
This is a step in the wrong direction imho.

What I've been doing more and more is modelling relational concepts in whatever programming language I'm using atm [0]; tables, columns, keys, indexes etc; rather than littering my code with SQL.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/cl-redb
That's very common with stateful applications. Lots of people use HAProxy or other application-aware LB's to keep the sessions "sticky" to a single app server.

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/enable-sticky-sessions-in-hapro...
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/load-balancing-affinity-persist...
Control EC2 GUI Desktop Environment from Web Browser
The RWKV people seem to have adapted a recursive model so it can be trained in a special parallel mode like attention.

https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM
FORD RANGER! But the little tiny ford rangers. Or even a Bronco II.
I would think drop ceilings go a long way to providing the extra space and access needed to retrofit plumbing.
>>It's possible to have housing with shared bathrooms and kitchens.

not with current zoning laws... and good look changing them. never gonna happen.

>> Sleeping in a clean, safe bedroom but having to go down the hall to pee is a big improvement over sleeping on the street.

Now you are talking about people that likely have no money, and thus your profitability is out the window. There is a reason why most new housing in large cities are "luxury" and not "affordable"... Affordable housing does not make money
It was the Dukes, it was the Dukes!
StumbleUpon was amazing. I feel like that was really peak internet, at least for me. I found so many weird, awesome things.
Foldable phones, canceled?
It's also a work of fiction where Spock says "we have a 13.653% chance of surviving this" but they always survive. That is, it is driven by pataphysics instead of physics, metaphysics, etc, or like looking at Batman or The Punisher for advice as to how to fight crime.

(I do wish Spock had been a Bayesian and said something like "the probability of us surviving is β(17,82)" since you kinda need error bars for your probability estimates if you are putting them to work.)
With restricted access, at controlled hours, in a shared space subject to the whims of others. You're renting them.

There are very few tools I can think of at least woodworking wise that I wouldn't "want" to afford myself. Particularly in the context that an urban home costs hundreds of thousands more than a suburban or rural one.

Metalworking or something like that, maybe, I wouldn't know.
Dependency Injection Pattern in Practice (Golang, MySQL)