skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an engineer that got shoved into this role shortly after graduating with an MSc by being the most knowledgeable person for this project.

I am by no means a rockstar in any particular field of software engineering, but I have worked on a very wide gamut of projects. This enabled me to dissect the task into the constituent parts in an attempt to reduce uncertainty and complexity.

Fwiw, I have no life, severe executive dysfunction that doesn’t allow me to stop thinking about what I am working on, and an abundance of curiosity.
> many cities were burned down in 2020

I don't ever recall seeing photos of numerous whole city blocks turned to ashes.
That's the same fan they're shipping in Steam Decks currently and won't change your Deck's sound profile unless you had one of the earlier units with a "bad" fan. I was talking about third party replacements that are less noisy while performing as well or better than the stock fan.
What to do when you hit a career plateau as a Generalist
If someone was born post-AIDS (so roughly age 40 and below), they'd have gotten to see things slowly improve until 2016, when they started sliding back.
The free tier has never been universally recognized (for most, you can only file half of what you need to file for free), and users still pile into places like H&R Block yearly.

People are less interested in important financial processes happening without their input.

Public sentiment may have shifted far enough by now that the "duty" from that deal could now be considered derelict.
Nothing amazing about. CEO retain lawyers to draft custom contracts with a company before taking offer. This is mutually agreed negotiation and neither company nor job seeker is obliged to agree to such negotiation.

No one is stopping you from trying it.
Oh yes, like my friend at Amazon who tells me he goes into the office (as required) only to sit in a booth and talk to other people who also work for Amazon in other buildings.
Design’s Journey Towards Accessibility
Show HN: Zero-Runtime, Utility-First CSS-in-JS Library: Kuma UI
I'd like to introduce Kuma UI, a CSS-in-JS library I've been developing. It allows for intuitive styling similar to Chakra UI's style props but stands out with its zero-runtime performance, ensuring your applications remain fast and your bundle sizes small.
Any feedback or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
"I'm not giving it back. I stole it fair and square!"
Should everyone just eat cake then? Nobody cares what CNN or any other org says when they can see with their own eyes that milk and eggs and everything else cost more now than they did just a few years ago.
Windows 95 was developed over several years with a lot of research and user studies. The primary objective of all this work was so that a person without prior exposure to computers could figure out how to use it. The software was designed to help the user accomplish the tasks they have set out to do before sitting down at the computer.

Today, both the audience and the objectives have changed. The overwhelming majority of the audience is now computer-literate and can be counted on to figure out how to use the basic features regardless of how poorly designed or inefficient they may be. And the priorities for many interfaces have changed, with the user's tasks relegated to a side quest.

Another factor is that Windows 95 was developed for "install it and leave it" operation, with the next upgrade coming in a year or two. Giving more attention to detail was unavoidable because you could not patch a bug a week after release. And Microsoft was offering phone support for its products, so every UI flaw would increase support costs.

Also, one of the design requirements was to fully support only-keyboard operation as a first-class access method, and a lot of QA effort went into ensuring this was true. This parallel access method resulted in a UI which was much more thoroughly evaluated for its efficiency.

Finally, I think a higher portion of people in the UI field were there for personal and passion reasons, and would have been embarrassed to have anything to do with the type of blundering buffoon of an interface that is common in today's computing.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/31/hard-assed-bug-fix...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932340
My concerns would be:

a) I think current schooling causes a good portion of the lack of motivation

b) Most kids not caring about memorizing information about Sumer or Freud seems like a feature and not a bug [Caveat that a couple things like literacy, civics, and basic math need to stay universal.]

c) I think most of highschool's value is currently sheepskin effect anyway

I don't disagree that this wouldn't work for everyone. Some kids do need the structure and routine. I just am not convinced what we have right now should be the standard that's incredibly difficult for kids to opt-out of.
What about their statement is not based in fact? Back up your claims.
Hotlink Preventor

The url /hotlink.php cannot be served.

Referrer was https://news.ycombinator.com/

You have tried to link directly to software or images from StokeBloke.com. This is not allowed. Please follow the menu on the left to find what you were looking for.

My software is accessible from the Software link.

Video software is accessible from the Video downloads link.

Blackbox 0.65.0 tarball for cygwin is accessible from the cygwin link.
Currently, yes. Allowing a user to crawl his recent history just after installing the extension is a great idea! I added it on the Discord server.
> [remote work] hasn't really been a reality the way it is today. During covid, we were forced to implement norms and tools for remote working (like Zoom).

Sorry to break it to you, but those tools were around and the companies that were outsourcing were already using them heavily way before. So that's not a factor for anything being different either.
I've been remote for 20 years now... It just gets easier every year. I see no reason to back now...
So to be safe a songwriter should just quit music, just as Ed Sheeran said he would do if he lost his case… gotcha.
Most people in the west haven’t eaten real mangoes. The US and Europe are just too far away to get access to proper tropical fruit because it spoils so fast. We get the varieties that travel well which are almost universally the worst tasting (fewer sugars for bacteria to eat and more fiber and cellulose filler). So ironically, yeah, synthetic flavors are sometimes the only place we get certain flavors - like the artificial banana flavor that’s based on the Gros Michel that preceded the cavendish.

Here in the US, due to industrialization, I struggle to find good fruit and vegetables in general, let alone tropical. They’re all picked too soon, travel too far, and have barely any flavor compared to home grown - and I’m in California! There’s a few specialized tropical fruit growers in Florida but it’s not even legal to ship much of that stuff here
The ~4 feet of rain we had this season is helping quite a bit ... I cant dig a hole in my back yard without hitting wet still. I even doubt there are any of the smouldering roots left. Redwoods are tough as long as we arent cutting them down.
While Portland wasn't burned down, it looks quite "bombed out" (and in the graffiti sense it is). Reminiscent of Manhattan in the early 80s.

It's readily apparent areas in multiple cities that were thriving pre-COVID and now you wouldn't consider being alone in at night.
It's a homeschooling program, so no.

> where she can't look up the answers on the internet

It prioritizes understanding and not memorization.

As an aside, it's always fun to read sentiments like this on an internet forum dedicated to a profession that prides itself on their googling skills.
Too many of them think they are doing us a favor by allowing us to work for them at glorious random company rather than realizing that glorious random company has no value outside of its employees.
You may want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_industry_of_Denmark
Even Windows 2k felt a little frivolous compared to the more somber Windows NT. Windows NT 4 looked alright, but Windows NT 3.51 (or whatever) was rock solid and felt buttery smooth.

Yes, there was some tearing when you played several AVI videos at once on the desktop, but anything else would have been SGI level sourcery and black arts and not expected.

Windows NT 4 felt faster than Windows NT 3, but NT4 felt jittery. NT 3 never slowed down, it was like cream.

Once I saw Windows NT 3 on a trade-show on Alpha CPUs. That felt just like the future arrived, an evil smirking corporate future which laughed at whatever I knew about optimization, 68k assembler, blitter objects and sound chips.

The future was here, and it was here to tell me that none of that arcane juggling mattered anymore. The only thing that matters from now on is raw speed, of the core and the bus.
Show HN: Job has 26,961 applicants (Linkedin/Canonical)
I feel like Canonical needs to be called out on this behaviour.

Surely out of 27,000 people you can find a few good ones?

What are they up to, beside wasting thousands of people's time?

screenshot: https://cdn-149.anonfiles.com/19laScrdze/4956a21c-1684338052/a+-+Copy.PNG

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2948680713

note: this job has been advertised for at least 2 years continuously.
Tell me again how that worked out for our manufacturing sector. Walmarts thrived, workers are poor, governments picked up the tab for their workers' safety nets, "manufacturing jobs" became a boogeyman for the successful presidential bid by Trump. That's the future we will be repeating on steroids by gutting one of the remaining ladder to upper middle class.
My biggest fear about remote work is the trend will reverse and I'll be at a huge disadvantage trying to negotiate a new position. Though everything I've read seems to indicate the trend is here to stay.

I read that Jamie Dimon's office is a fully decked out apartment on Park Ave (NYC) so for all his griping about remote work, he essentially works from home full time.
I stopped buying logitech mice because the switches wore out in all of them. Multiple mice all stopped working after maybe a year and a half? Issues like "double clicking when should be single clicking" or "not clicking at all" or "clicking and dragging getting registered as just a click". If they either fix this, or make it easy to repair, they might be able to get me back.

These were what i considered "higher end" mice, not a cheap $15 mouse, and i got tired of buying them so often. I looked around online and switch issues seem common on a lot of mice. Every mouse company uses the same switches, and they all just wear out. I switched to razer, who apparently uses a different type of switch entirely. It hasn't worn out yet but i've only had it about a year. Fingers crossed.
Since the tax reforms under Trump, the standard deduction is high enough that there's not much point in anyone else doing my taxes.

Prior to that, though, the tax code is so encumbered with all of the various exemptions and deductions and carve outs that it was easier and less stressful to have someone else do it. I somewhat recently bought a house, so the mortgage interest deduction comes close on its own to not take the old standard deduction.

There are plenty of these things that the government isn't going to know about- health expenses, state and local taxes (state would be easy enough to keep up with, but local taxes change all the time), even things like a deduction if you keep a home office.

The operating theory is that the federal government isn't incentivized to hunt down all of these things for you (or cannot legally know about ahead of time without violating your privacy), and will over-charge you by pre-filling out the paperwork.

This is where commercial companies believe (or claim) that they are doing good- they ostensibly have a motivation to provide better results than their competitors, and so will do the best job to ensure you are paying the legally required amount of taxes without overpaying.
Button switches aren't reliable, and yeah, the software is bad
This seems obvious now that I think about it, but it's absolutely fascinating regardless.
>I have literally never, as in not one single time, successfully completed a checkout at a self-service station in a grocery store without having to call a human employee over.

Sounds like a "you" problem, mate

I average maybe 3 or 4 calls/year (and I self checkout substantially more frequently than not (and across multiple stores that offer the option))
That is a clue that GPT-4 is not a stochastic parrot and does in fact possess an understanding of language and a model of the world.
This is a fun read. But I don't find LaTeX to be slow, personally. I'm working on a math text. 449 pages with hundreds of equations, hundreds of graphics, you get the idea, and on reading this article I timed a compile. On my 2016 laptop it took 20 real seconds.

Anyway, gripe aside, interesting read.
What is the point of a fork? Just don't opt in.
Many plants also need fires to repopulate. Its a huge issue.
I think we're all in general agreement in this thread. If a company gives a bad deal for relocation, it's no surprise it is unattractive. I was pointing out that even relocation assistance is often part of that bad deal.
Wouldn't it be nice if mortgages could be tied to the borrower instead of the property? Imagine that as a borrower, you could keep your existing mortgage terms when moving to new houses (assuming similar property values, etc.) and if you needed to buy a more expensive home then you'd have to get an additional loan to cover the difference or pay cash, etc.
Just for reference sake in this thread, TurboTax has around 40 million users each tax year. Around half of taxpayers use tools to file on their own. So they have around 1/4 of personal filings, and half the do-it-yourself market.

Most of Intuit's business is sheltered from the hit it will take when the IRS completes this system. They'll probably lose a couple billion in sales off the top (out of $13.6 billion the past four quarters).

You could probably take away 3/4 of their entire individual tax prep business and their overall business would still be larger than it was in 2020. I'll be interested to see if it pops the bubbly valuation the stock is carrying (~60 times earnings).
This is cool. I am still rocking an Mx Master. Good to know that when the battery degrades I can just replace that.
Itanium was supposed to be powerful, not efficient, and it originated at HP. Atom was x86. If Intel designed something new from the ground up with high efficiency specifications, I don't think it could be too terrible, and I think it would advance SotA to have real competition with ARM designs. The i860 may be Intel's last innovative chip design solely designed in house. Every advance in x86 is just another ugly monstrosity.
He might be right that it will cost a couple billion dollars.

A one time expense of a couple billion dollars is, like… I mean the public servants working on it should take it very seriously but it is a drop in the bucket, the US budget is measured in trillions. This is one of those “the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is about a billion dollars” type things, except the billion is the little one.

Edit:
I mean there are like 300 million of us, so even it it was shared equally, it is like… for the price of a particularly fancy latte we can all collectively fuck over these middleman tax processing companies, let’s do it!
What's the moral then?
Me and my partner work and we've got no cars, no kids, and rent a 500sqft flat. I'll very very happily take a 1200sqft in suburbia please.
It's the exact opposite of a fun to work on project. It would be all maintenance and constantly changing specs.
nice, I love making literally everything about race so the discussion can be completely unproductive.
What sort of hardware is the inference server at infer.tovera.io currently running on? Tnx!
Hey @dang could you please edit the post to be resolved or help me delete the post? Somehow I'm unable to edit or delete at this point. Thanks!!
> what he learns at school may not be right

Wait, you don't teach him that?
Our house should meet that standard, by what the kids have done to it.
> if you want to hire the best CEOs

It hasn't really worked so far.
2027 isn't that far away. Would you like to bet we are still fine in 2027?

What observable deterioration would you bet on?

I 100% agree our goose is cooked someday, in probably another 1,000 years and for some other reason.
Ask HN: Overwhelmed with Non-Actionable Email
I have a zapier script setup to text me likely important messages and it helps but isn't perfect and things fall through. Special filters for to surface organizational email addresses help but the 1-2 times a week I receive an important non-organization message fall through that crack and look like the ever-improving auto generated spam content.

I declared "email bankruptcy" last week for > 1500 "new" messages, scouring them as best I could for things that needed a response, but these were very few. Most messages were nonsense. Organization-wise messages that can mostly be ignored and 80% spam (my workplace uses Google's ecosystem for mail etc so spam should be filtered well!)

After "bankruptcy" I buckled down and determined to deal with each batch of mail first thing and last think each day, ubsubscribing one by one to slowly stop the problem, but the shear volume of marketing crap & process of unsubscribing etc took so long that after two days of spending 45+ minutes dealing with it I had to move on to pressing projects. On top of that it seemed like some unsubscribes immediately generated a near identical spam message for something similar, albeit a different domain, as if the unsubscribe system is just feeding those unsubscribe emails to the next marketing link in the chain in a never ending chain of spam!

How are people managing this? Is there a tool, anything, any idea people use to overcome the shear avalanche of crap without missing the important things? My boss loves me, knows I work hard and am busy, but is sometimes having to remind me to respond to something I completely missed among all this crap. I need a solutiont!

Thank you!

So here I am a week later with 400+ messages in my inbox again!
The proposed offer is to get a 4% loan on a different house in exchange for paying off the 2.5% loan on the existing home.

It's good for the bank for obvious reasons, and it's good for the borrower (potentially) because it reduces the cost of moving.
There are effective alternatives which are a fraction of the cost: ketamine (sublingual ~100mg every few days), psilocybin (free? cheap 2-3g ~4 weeks), rapamycin + ketamine also seems promising (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0644-9).
It's interesting that there are such different perspectives on whether to knead sourdough. The book linked to here recommends it, while other authors like Forkish, Prueitt and Robertson rely more on time and a small amount of "folding" rather than kneading.
I tried to do something similar, following this blog post [1] however I didn't manage due to lack of GPUs. I tried to rent 4 A100s, which is what the author is doing, but there weren't any available. I signed up to 7 different cloud providers, including AWS, lambdalabs, vast.ai, coreweave, latitude.sh, tensordock. Eventually, I settled with a few A40s, but memory requirements weren't even close.

[1]: https://www.izzy.co/blogs/robo-boys.html
Yeah exactly. Stop being a bystander to shitty company practices. A lot of them have forgotten that their employees make them profitable and scalable.
Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America
This is the purpose of relocation and signing bonuses. Give them a sunk cost to second guess both the hire and the fire.
Fully agree, to me depression is a common symptom that the system of biological processes “outputs”, if you will, when some process isn’t running optimally.

Stopped sugar suddenly? Inflammation from food you’re eating? IBS in general? Traumatic upbringing leading to entrenched “thought loops”? Undiagnosed disease?

These all and more can have depression as a symptom.

My armchair psychologist opinion is the DSM 5 category process isn’t fitting correctly to how humans operate. I believe there’s a completely different modality that has yet to be discovered (or known in mainstream science) that gives us a better way to diagnose people.

I find it nuts that you subjectively, in most cases, ask the patient if they fit in usually 3 of 5 categories, or what not, and that determines the diagnoses. Countless times it’s like “okay, what does hyper mean?” “What does intense rumination mean?”

We need a more objective way to measure these criteria.

I was diagnosed with depression for a while, tried a bunch of drugs, none really worked. Then for shits I do a neurological adhd battery and lo and behold, seems like that’s it.

Now using the correct behavioral changes leads to the depression going away, and far higher quality of life.

I know the system, DSM 5, is best we have now, but we need more innovation in this space
Good point on the timezones. Though when they say US only, I presume that they're not prepared to do international payroll even in the same timezone.
To play devil's advocate -- you have to think about bad actors though.

What if that makes someone think, I can do zero work at my job and I'll get paid regardless? Or they do a super bare minimum, being incredibly unhelpful to everyone and their whole team hates them?

Now you're going to have courts deciding what constitutes grounds for firing and what doesn't, if performance was above or below a super bare minimum, how that's defined for a programming job, etc.
> It hasn't really been a reality the way it is today

Holy hell you seem to be spamming this around.

It may not have been a reality for you and the company that you work for. It has been a reality for a lot of people and none of the 'new factors' that you used in your comments to argue that 'this time it is different' are actually new. There isnt anything new about this remote work. A lot of companies were already doing it way before, including outsourcing overseas. The new situation and trends do not change that - in fact, it makes it easier for American devs to compete by avoiding living in expensive metropolises like SF and NY. Which is helpful to those who live in such metropolises too since it would put a downward pressure on the price of everything there. Something which the real estate sector would definitely hate, I gather. Hence the pressure on the major corporations regarding RTO from that industry and the politicians they back...
I'm all in favour of increasing supply.

The issue of pets that you've picked up on seems a minor one, in all honesty. I was thinking more generally about any increased costs for landlords resulting from these reforms.

I rent in London, so Berlin doesn't really work for me as a comparison case. I'm sure it has its issues too, but it's not obviously worse. If someone were to ask me rhetorically "would you like the rental market in London to end up like the rental market in Berlin?" then I'd probably respond "err, yeah, probably".
ya, i only want to move to places where housing doesn't make sense financially. anecdotal but still
Same, I went through 2 MX Masters in like 2 or 3 years. Now I just get a cheap steelseries and cringe at the rainbow LED
This sounds kind of like Tilt and DevSpace, but for just general purpose containers. From a quick look through the website, I didn't see these features, but these would be great additions:

- File sync with the local filesystem and the container (2-way)

- Port-forwarding to localhost for debugging (I guess the DevPod way is to run the entire IDE in the container, but I love Tilt/DevSpace for allowing me to work in my local fat IDE)