skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, at scale, a company that is significantly unrepresentative of the population from which it draws its employees surely has something wrong with it. That’s basically what these studies show (flaws notwithstanding).

But that’s got nothing to do with individual teams (unless they’re huge) which are far too small to exhibit population-level statistical behaviour. I see this claim repeated often but the sources always end up being these flimsy studies of company-wide public company reporting correlated with market performance.
This is that digital natives fallacy again. Being familiar with the latest tiktok trends is as important as being up to date on the latest Jersey Shore was 15 years ago; which is to say not important at all really. These kids are consumers of entertainment. They aren't automatically developing any skills just because the vehicle of consumption is the pinnacle of computing evolution.

Most people never understand technology, but most young people do understand the zeitgeist of their age because they have a lot of free time and a strong desire to fit in. It's just their social world and pop culture are on a phone now.
> ShowHN posts almost never make the front page (<2%)

Based on other details of analysis, I believe this means 2% of front pages posts are ShowHN. Not that 98% of ShowHN posts fail to reach front page. But the author doubles down on this confusion with flawed methodology:

> Second, and perhaps more importantly, the dataset doesn’t record the attempts made to get to the front page, i.e. all posts on Hacker News in a given day. It’s possible that there are orders of magnitude more blog posts posted but fewer that make the FP, whereas 95% of any academic paper submitted makes the front page (extreme figures used for illustrative purposes). So for simplicity, I’ll say “the likelihood of making the FP” which assumes a constant rate of conversion from post to FP across different categories.

and also doubles down on the logical fallacy in their conclusion:

> ShowHN is very valuable, but is not likely to land your product on the front page.
I look forward to the series though it seems to be leaving the Israelis out of the conversation.
Not sure if my site https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/ counts as a blog or not, as the posts aren't chronologically ordered (except in RSS).

Silly posts include visual cryptography keyrings, turning a b&w monitor colour and listening to fermentation bubbles.
My company is Matomo too and wanted to use it to track how the user uses the WebApp. But Custom Actions are deprecated and Custom Dimensions are not made for that. Do you use any analytic tool to track what the users are doing that is GRPD compliant?

I am looking for something where I can track which button he pressed, how many times, which part of the app are the most used and underused, do some funnel of the happy paths, things like that. Like not to know who is the user but really app based and how the user uses the app. Before I used to use Google Tag Manager for that. But it’s not GRPD compliant so I can’t use it.
https://blog.tedivm.com/

Most popular posts-

https://blog.tedivm.com/guides/2021/10/github-actions-push-t... - Using Github Actions OpenID Connect to push to AWS ECR without Credentials

https://blog.tedivm.com/open-source/2023/02/robs-awesome-pyt... - Rob’s Awesome Python Template

https://blog.tedivm.com/guides/2020/07/aws-ecs-with-ubuntu-a... - Getting AWS ECS to work on Ubuntu with Full GPU Support

https://blog.tedivm.com/guides/2021/11/openssh-pull-keys-fro... - Telling OpenSSH to Pull Keys from Github with AuthorizedKeysCommand

https://blog.tedivm.com/open-source/2021/11/multi-py-multipl... - Multi-Py: Multiplatform Container Images for Python Packages

https://blog.tedivm.com/open-source/2018/03/ec2details-the-m... - ec2details, the missing EC2 Instance Metadata API
There are a number of areas in the US that ban billboards, including Hawaii and Vermont.
Homepage with various projects/articles about math, computers, math, teaching. Mainly in Norwegian. https://trondal.com
https://blog.varunramesh.net/

Right now I'm working on posts with interactive code snippets that you can edit / re-run directly in the page (like a Jupyter notebook). It's based off this: https://github.com/rameshvarun/blog-cells
You're just a statistical number generator...
OK, so you're dodging the question, then.

"What to do if they ask question X?"

"Just lie, like everyone else does."

"Except you know that won't work if in fact they do ask you question X, right?"

"Doesn't matter, because they they won't ask you anyway."

Weird.

In any case it absolutely is standard practice for a significant portion of companies to go this route (especially in more traditional sectors). Even if it hasn't happened to you personally, or to people in your bubble world.
You're an outlier. Studies have shown repeatedly that monetary compensation undermines intrinsic motivation:

https://hbr.org/2013/04/does-money-really-affect-motiv

> The authors synthesized the results from 128 controlled experiments. The results highlighted consistent negative effects of incentives — from marshmallows to dollars — on intrinsic motivation. These effects were particularly strong when the tasks were interesting or enjoyable rather than boring or meaningless.
Fair enough. I've personally slowly moved to a smaller number of filesystems, but if you're actually handling snapshots differently per-area then it makes sense (indeed, one of the reasons I'm consolidating is the realization that personally I'm almost never going to snapshot/restore things separately).
You misunderstood what I meant. Prompt the LLM with the sudoku puzzle and ask it to solve it and not write python. Human can do it, LLM can not.
https://www.joshcanhelp.com/
They seem to be implying that it worked like a natural language version of archive.today.

They (the AI companies collectively) keep creating powerful tools and then taking them away.

If you give people tools, people will use them in ways you won't be able to control.
https://maciej.litwiniuk.net/

I wanted to start with "this week in review" series, but it ended quite quickly.

Now I want to publish lesson learned while building my side-project (https://humadroid.dev), which is a missing tool I wish I had when running software house year-and-a-half ago, before I sold it.

Topics considered for near future:

* lessons learned while coding it in Rails with hotwire & stimulus

* lessons learned actually sellign it to people (Open-Startup idea/movement is close to my beliefs).
Blog and digital garden, but I don't write much https://andrewshay.me/
Not without a reason, but suspecting you have a smartphone, or any other forbidden or dangerous item, is one. So in practice you’re fine if you don’t use it, show it, or brag about it.
How do you suggest website owners do that? By becoming aware, after the fact, that they can add OpenAI to their robots.txt file, and hoping for the best in the next model update? By adding a paywall? By not publishing at all?
https://startupsunplugged.com/blog/

Most recently focused on timing (the "why now" question) and unit economics.
I like that idea. You should build it!
https://lanziani.com

I write about my experience as Developer/DevOps.

It's also my personal notebook.
Windows needs a Microsoft account, and that sucks. I completely agree with you on that. The ridiculous workarounds you need to go through to set up Windows can only be described as what you get when you fire your testers for a telemetry collection algorithm. On the other hand, I've never seen someone complain about Android/iOS/macOS requiring an online account, so I can see why Microsoft is so blind to criticism in this regard.

That said, the bloatware on professional laptops is absolutely minimal. They do this nasty trick where they add Candy Crush to your start menu, but it's not even installed until you click on it. If you buy Windows Pro (the one you probably want anyway) you won't see this crap.

As for the antivirus and Outlook: don't treat modern Windows like Windows XP. Windows Defender and a fully usable Outlook suite have been part of Windows for well over a decade now. You can install Outlook if you really want to, but it's really not necessary. I'll even go as far as say that Outlook Express and its evolutions were also working just fine all the way back in the XP days.

All the machines I've seen ship with Windows 11 have come with Office preinstalled (with a trial, because Microsoft is a wallet leech) so I'm surprised you even needed to install a copy. I consider it bloatware myself because of the subscription model attached to it.
That's really cool research. Using quicklime heats up the concrete a bunch more than some other methods, and the result is concrete that fills its own cracks.
One of the older posts include a quick intro to a Zettelkasten like system. Something that provides a lot of value to me now.
https://bryanhogan.me/second-brain/
> they bring social commentary

In other words, they're propaganda. At least in the case of graffiti with social commentary, anybody can go out there and put their message up. Murals with social messages are propaganda sanctioned by the property owner, or even commissioned by the government, making it establishmentarian propaganda that pretends to be transgressive by adopting the superficial form of unsanctioned graffiti. Such murals are tacky and inauthentic; scrawled gang signs have more soul.
Startup Lisboa Rocket Program Review
This post explores my journey with the Startup Lisboa Rocket Program, its advantages, potential improvements, and its value for startups targeting the Portuguese market.
https://greaterdanorequalto.com/

Sometimes I post fun stuff, sometimes I post technical stuff. Right now, I'm nearing the finish on a post about how much I despise Unit Testing (at least the way it's commonly done right now) and an alternative I wish more people would take. It's not really a new topic, but it's not one with nearly enough traction, so I'm just doing my part.
"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison"
Does Facebook have globally-unique user handles? Instagram seems to the the only Meta property where the handle is not PII (real name or phone number).

Among Meta properties, Instagram is also the closest to Twitter as an interest-based social network (rather than limited to people-you-already-know)
what about Google books? Do they get a pass with this?
Ok great, next time I run into you I'll make sure to remind you that large language models are not intelligent as I conceive of the word "intelligent".
Makes sense though, the amount of malware extensions is... unbelievable.
Does it make you and all your peers $100 more productive each? Sounds a bit of stretch to me for code search. I don't even think I need to do a code search that bitbucket/GitHub/gitlab search aren't able to provide me every month. To be honest, I don't even think I'd be less productive even without those. Although they are helpful when discussing code that you don't have in your ide at the moment with other people.
https://www.xitijpatel.com/

Writing about my journey to $1B in 10 years as an engineer. Hope to guide others on their own journey, documenting every success and failure. It’s ambitious, but if anyone can do it, it’s me.
It's political because the people pushing for it usually are conservatives who don't like the modern ways of life and/or education. It's questionable whether they actually want to help the society or just force people into their own ways. They might even think they're helping, but actually do the opposite.

Researchers often do research based on their world view. Did these people also try to research what happens if they integrate the technology into education and teach children about the possible dangers of it, or did they focus on just whatever could confirm their world view?
> Statistically, your best shot of getting your writing to the front page of Hacker News is by writing something (with nothing to promote) on your personal website or blog.

I’ve thought about starting a blog. I’m curious if you noticed what the most popular blogging sites were while gathering your statistics?
I think the use of "sir" depends on the person's background culture. If you're from the US, it's probably too formal unless you're in the military or something, but other cultures place a higher value on respect for authority. I've had people not originally from the US call me "sir", and while I make sure they know they don't have to, I also don't worry about it.
https://uptointerpretation.com/
I would say that the issue is really one of time. A lot of hobbies are leisurely, but running a business, meeting customer deadlines requires time management, and it doesn’t help that a lot of hobbies are labor intensive.

There is a difference between knitting a scarf for a Christmas gift and making enough scarves, all the time, so that you can afford the roof over your head. And even more so if you have clients anxious about timelines.
They're selling probabilistic models, not your content (well let's hope). More akin to a search engine database.
That’s a non sequitur. Inmates have lots of things children do not have.
Highly recommend using project boxes, like tackle boxes or craft project boxes to organize stuff. I use a rainbow craft box [1] which has a bunch of smaller compartments and it works well.

1 - https://www.michaels.com/product/rainbow-photo-craft-keeper-...
https://kajic.com/

Mostly poems and paintings.
https://explog.in

I've been writing here sporadically for more than 10 years at this point, at ~1 post a year. The more recent posts took months to write, and tend to cover things I find myself repeating frequently while working with other engineers.

- https://explog.in/notes/elephants/index.html: Tips for ramping up on large projects

- https://explog.in/notes/devtools/index.html: Building developer tools

Planning to overhaul it later this year.
https://www.davidvlijmincx.com/

I write mostly about concurrency and testing in Java for the last two years now.

I do it in hope that it helps people and to connect with people who share the same passion :D
https://everything.delivery

A podcast about anything and everything that will help you Deliver Value to clients while maintaining a healthy and happy Organization.

Feedback ARE very welcome.
Honestly, steam.
I look at steam queue occasionally, I also look at "similar to this" section on a game I played (store page).
I search for tags of things I like, I also use the steam experiments (although most of them are integrated) and I make a point of looking at all games on discounts when there are "festivals" in the dedicated festival page.
Then world of mouth.

I also make a point of grabbing stuff only when positive rating is 90% or more (recent) and of things that have at least ~5000 reviews or more.
There are exceptions obviously, but this helps a lot to trim down the things I don't love, my backlog is already infinite.

I can give you a list of my favorites if you want and you can trim down.
As I said, world of mouth!
> Evolution is, like Ford, an unsentimental optimizer.

I certainly won't argue with this position, but note that evolution is a peephole optimizer, rather than trying newton's method, much less trying to optimize with a goal in mind. It does seem most people draw the wrong conclusion from the ape-to-man drawing (e.g. https://www.kindpng.com/picc/m/408-4084640_evolution-ape-to-... )

It's a random walk: each set of die rolls is continually tested on local (i.e. contemporary) conditions. You may have superior lifespan but live where people commonly die in floods. Only broad signals (e.g. ambient temperatures ranging between -10 and 40 C) really determine widespread attributes.

So what? Well 300 My of human evolution has included feedback loops uncommon and later unknown to other animals: speech, writing, and the social structures they afforded; hygene and other medical intervention; etc, and they do feed back into evolution even at the slow rate at which humans reproduce. Now we can (poorly) do genetic intervention, it's quite possible to subject humans to more rapid evolutionary pressure (most of it likely driven by fashion), with an attempt to move to goal-directed rather than peephole optimization.
if you can delegate synchronization/ordering to the monotonic clock of a single machine, then you should definitely do that :)

but that's a sort of trivial base case -- the interesting bit is when you can't make that kind of simplifying assumption
No, that's nonsense. The point of a price is to set expectations with regards to the obligations of both parties to avoid arguments after a transaction is complete. You say "give me $X and I'll give you this thing" and I can accept it, negotiate, or reject it. We both understand that this is a commercial transaction, that I'm supposed to give you money when you give me the thing, and that if I run into problems that you're supposed to give me support.

If you just give me something without setting a price then it's not a commercial transaction and I don't have an obligation to pay nor do you have an obligation to support the good or service you sold to me. Or do you believe that every time someone gave you a present actually you were supposed to pay the gift-giver based on the value of the present?
Good article. This is a great example of "AI"'s inability to extrapolate. Yes, it's able to find amazing shortcuts that no human could working in-distribution, but it has no understanding beyond that, and so can fail as outlined. I wish people would bear this in mind more as they pontificate about how we're near AGI and all that implies. It's all Eliza with just a really big set of phrases it can respond to. Doesn't mean it isn't useful but it's so much different than all the silly musings about sentience and whatnot.
https://blog.janissary.xyz

Mostly technical stuff, some non-technical stuff. I'm currently (indefinitely?) writing a series of posts documenting all the stuff I'm working on in my homelab, which has been fun.
> Which is why (shameless plug warning) I spent 12 years and $1 million dollars with my team to build it.

How much of that one million dollars dollars went to creating the confetti effect following the mouse cursor around on https://qbix.com/ ?
I'm completely new to ancient Roman civil engineering. So I ask completely innocently,could it be survivor bias?
Last time I heard (the kid’s too young still), the policy in most high schools was that you can have one as long as you don’t use it in the classroom.
>Failed Experiments

Lessons Learned. The Steam Deck is the culmination of previous iterations. Even with the flop of the Steam Machines, The Steam Controller and Steam Link have ended up as Cult Classics, and there is the possibility they'll get revisions down the line, even if they end up minor niche releases.
I someone can't be retrained, and it's not because they're being stubborn, what other reason do you have?

Is it better or worse to assume they're being a problem on purpose?

I won't say 'average' but I will say 'common enough to make changing software a huge issue'.
Not sure why you'd want to do that to your home directory usually, but it depends on what you store in it and how you use it, really.

In general, breaking up a filesystem into multiple ones in ZFS is mostly useful for making filesystem management more fine-grained, as a filesystem/dataset in ZFS is the unit of management for most properties and operations (snapshots, clones, compression and checksum algorithms, quotas, encryption, dedup, send/recv, ditto copies, etc) as well as their inheritance and space accounting.

In terms of filesystem management, there aren't many downsides to breaking up a filesystem (within reason), as most properties and the most common operations can be shared between all sub-filesystems if they are part of the same inherited tree (which doesn't necessarily have to correspond to the mountpoint tree!).

As far as I know, the major downsides by far were that 1) you couldn't quickly move a file from one dataset to another, i.e. `mv` would be forced to do a full copy of the file contents rather than just do a cheap rename, and 2) in terms of disk space, moving a file between filesystems would be equivalent to copying the file and deleting the original, which could be terrible if you use snapshots as it would lead to an additional space consumption of a full new file's worth of disk space.

In principle, both of these downsides should be fixed with this new block cloning feature and AFAIU the only tradeoffs would be some amount of increased overhead when freeing data (which should be zero overhead if you don't have many of these cloned blocks being shared anymore), and the low maturity of this code (i.e. higher chance of running into bugs) due to being so new.
https://padiracinnovation.org/News/

A blog about research in neurodegenerative diseases such as Lou Gehrig disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer diseases.

I am not a medical doctor, just a retired engineer with a strong interest in my domain.

Everyday I look at published scientific articles in those areas and I select a few ones that I summarize.

It's also a platform for me to experiment about Web technologies.
https://etodd.io

Mostly indie game development (full stack but fairly technical) mixed with the occasional work-related post about software development.
Same here, it's the only subscription I pay for, worth it imo.
Usually supporting HTTPS is combined with requiring relatively recent versions of TLS and cipher suites, for security reasons. I've been in a position where I needed to use a computer from ~2007 or so briefly and found that I couldn't access a huge fraction of websites, despite the fact that the browser "supported" HTTPS.
What Server Side JavaScript Needs (2009)
> PASCAL: may I say something that I learned, without being too big?
>
> PASCAL: A guy goes out to eat in the evening...
>
> PASCAL: after a long day in the office, whatever. Go ahead.
>
> PASCAL: He don't want on his plate...
>
> PASCAL: something that he has to look and think, "What the fuck is this"?
>
> PASCAL: What he want is steak. This is a steak.
>
> PASCAL: I like steak, you know?
>
> PASCAL: Mmm, I'm happy!
>
> PASCAL: Do you see what I mean?
>
> PASCAL: But don't get me wrong.
>
> PASCAL: I think that your brother is good, goddamned chef.
>
> PASCAL: Maybe the best I ever see.
>
> SECONDO: He is the best.
> PASCAL: Yes, but,
>
> PASCAL: this is what I have to say to you.
>
> PASCAL: Give to people what they want.
>
> PASCAL: Then later, you can give them what you want, eh?
>

- Big Night (1996)
Isn't basalt the best non-steel option all around?
The dock is not too bad an experience either. I have played RTS/strategy games on the deck using the dock/mouse/keyboard/monitor. It's a bit fiddly getting the resolution to work well on the monitor, the deck has everything optimized for its own screen size, and anything bigger than 720 makes it sweat. But it does work, and especially for older titles, it's great.

It does enough of what I wanted from my gaming PC, that I just gave my older PC to a relative.
I had a coach recently frame this as "what impact do you want to have?" and relatedly, "how big an impact do you think you can have?"

In your case the impact might be something like "to inspire others who hear the music I play". Or it might simply be "to increase my own wellbeing by taking joy through playing."

After all, there must be some underlying reason why music is important to you. So this framing can help unearth that and thus allow you to focus your efforts on those goals.