skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I don’t have children, but have nephews of different ages.

It’s way easier to say than actually do it, since completely banning your children from devices will just make them an outcast in most of the circles. When they’re hanging out in school, or after sports, they talk about about either games they’ve played or some stuff they saw online. This is one of the cases where all families should come together or some sort of weird regulation to ban children (reads: impossible to control).

I can’t even judge, growing up I had unrestricted internet access in a shared family PC. Spammed WoW and Runescape for hours every day, and that’s what I talked about with friends. Now we didn’t have social media, but we still were on MSN and its derivatives all the time. There should be some sort of ramp up from no internet access to social media-esque exposure to the entire world so the kids would know what they’re dealing with. How? I don’t know.
And assume any number they provide to the “outside” is also exaggerated in their favor. So I assume any number provided is at least, a best case figure, or total invention.
At some point I wants to say to these backward states: may it be as you ask. Fine, turn your back on the fruits of humankind's knowledge and development. But of course, they have children; even if they do not care for them, we must.
I’m one of the co-founders of TinySeed (and a YC alumn). Happy to answer questions - we’re opening applications Sept 4th
I'd imagined Jobs more of a cider person.
How positive is the outlook for ARM given the general industry push to riscv?
It's actually 1021, after subtracting the 3 censored arrangements.
because it’s useful code? Panama is still in preview.
I think he's correct to identify monetization of links via adwords as an important inflection point. There was no coming back after that. At the time, I just thought of it as "MBAs got on the web and ruined a nice thing," but that's too crude an explanation for something that had various causes.
What I know is that MOND predicted the high redshift galaxies we're now seeing 20 years ago, and DM did not:

https://tritonstation.com/2022/01/03/what-jwst-will-see/

There are many instances like this as outlined in the paper I linked.
This works if you're already able to screen for ability and desire. Like if you know everyone you're talking to is good and you want to choose who you'd work with, going for beer is great. On the other hand, I've interviewed and even gone for beers with people that seemed great and I'd want to hang out with, but when it came to work were useless and almost hard to believe it was the same person.

For better or worse, that's why there are coding tests (for example), because likeability and competence are orthogonal traits and you can't assess the latter from the former.
having a mix of experience levels is really healthy for an organization.

streamlining onboarding and extracting the secret recipes from the seniors is really valuable

there is no better understanding than that gained by teaching

its clearly a higher risk investment, but often times that one super workhorse and brilliant jewel is the one that you helped grow

but yeah, I've had employees that just sat around learning the latest fad and left. it happens. but if it happens a lot then maybe you should look at your hiring and management

if I convince someone to come work for me, its not poaching. its life.
Yes, this is typical Benzinga.
You did — blame Google for breaking their promise to you and to users.
Isn’t this one of the exact reasons every smart person leaves the state ASAP? An entrenched royalty class running everything with heavy corruption?
Not in the same way as you and me. They can be voted out of office (if elected,) impeached, or censured, but they enjoy judicial immunity[0] for their acts as a judge. They cannot be sued for acts they commit as a judge, no matter how egregious[1].

0 - this is as close to absolute immunity as exists in the law. In fact, you could, with a straight face and clean conscience call it absolute immunity.

1 - no, seriously. They can, for instance order an underage girl to be sterilized in an ex-parte hearing and face no consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_v._Sparkman
What's the difference between etcpp and etc?
Or their actual secret to success is "Buy a bunch of bitcoin when it cost less than a dollar.", and any subsequent success is a artifact of that non-replicable starting point.
Terrible people are sometimes capable of saying things worth considering, and it's possible to consider one thing he says without endorsing or accepting other things he's said or even his personal context for the words being considered.
You might be surprised to learn that the original version of Vim (on the Amiga: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/l5j53m/the_text_edit...) was a GUI based application! Ok, it didn't have much in the way of an actual GUI, but it ran in a window which wasn't the shell/CLI window. I guess the actual reason why Vim is a console application on Linux is the lack of a "standard" GUI framework.
I have been thinking about this on-and-off since I first read this on a blog somewhere - and all I can think is that we would have regged up higher phone bills, but probably we would have had to adapt more to working not just from home, but also async and we would have been better of for it.

Probably wouldn't have saved lettering, but it would likely have made faxes far more common in peoples homes - you can't have a meeting with your boss, but you can send him an update pretty easily.

In some ways I think it was our course that we had good enough technology to do WFH, but didn't get to take advantage of that to chance how we worked.

The pandemic is a (hopefully) once in a lifetime opportunity to change and we kinda wasted it.
> It's a case where, if there aren't enough workers economics will adjust to require fewer workers, perhaps dramatically so.

Isn't that desirable? That machines do jobs that they can actually do, then humans can do fun things in life?
> How well do existing VCSs integrate with it?

Git supports external diffing tools really well with GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF, which you can use with difftastic[1]. Other VCSs are less flexible. For example, I haven't found a nice way of getting a pager when using difftastic with mercurial.

> Did you feel restricted at any point by writing a diffing tool, instead of basing a new VCS around this concept?

Oh, that's an interesting question! Difftastic has been a really big project[2] despite its limited scope and I'm less interested in VCS implementation.

I think text works well as the backing store for a VCS. There are a few systems that have structured backends (e.g. monticello for smalltalk), but they're more constrained. You can only store structured content (e.g. monticello requires smalltalk code) and it must be well-formed (your VCS must understand any future syntax you use).

Unison[3] is a really interesting project in this space, it stores code by hash in a sqlite backend. This makes some code changes trivial, such as renames.

From the perspective of a text diff, an AST diff is lossy. If you add an extra blank line between two unchanged functions, difftastic ignores it. That's great for understanding changes, but not for storage.

[1]: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/git.html

[2]: https://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2022/09/06/difftastic-the-fan...

[3] https://www.unison-lang.org/
> This would help the prospective employee to open up and relax

It's always funny to see this kind of example come up in stories about Jobs.

Contrary to whatever the specific example is intended to convey about him, this was clearly a _torturing_ issue for Jobs himself, at some level. It was not generally easy for him to open up OR relax, not by a long shot.

His personality is (broadly) similar to Tucker Carlson's, notably bouncing around this perpetual public image dichotomy of "pr*ck vs gentle guy".

So, there are just piles, even veritable _mountains_ of disturbing experiences. Wow what a jerk! Etc.

Between which, in the details you get these funny but oddly-affecting moments where you may just realize that the _aspirational_ self for these people _themselves_ is, in fact...

...somebody you'd want to have a beer with [0].

I sympathize, but it's too bad this issue is so easily talked around in its complexity.

(There's also a fascinating counterpart you can get with Mister Rogers-types, who will occasionally reveal a rather brutal tendency toward being rudely controlling toward various people in their circle, etc. Those guys are like, "relaxing or having a beer is nice...but have you ever been really intensely... EFFECTIVE?")

0. https://youtu.be/tnnd51SPqc4
I've had a meal as a first interview for a couple jobs. (OK, I got accidentally stood up at one and the second was an informal chat "interview.")

It probably depends on the industry and company but, in general, alcohol in a lot of professional contexts is probably less, ahem, free-flowing than it once was. Dinner, cocktails, maybe the odd social hour but not in conjunction with an interview otherwise probably.
I'll throw in greed as another factor. Being ambitious is fine, but being greedy will wreck a startup in no time flat. Or in the case of my previous employers, in about 13 months ...
What incentive would there be to take the risk of being the first in the market?

One idea I've been mulling is a progressive corporate tax. It would encourage companies to split up if there aren't massive synergies to justify the increased tax.
OK then quit and work for an employer that pays you more.
How do you think developers built programs pre google/stack-overflow? i.e. early to late 90's.
Either. What the best approach is depends a bit on your needs / security model.

You can e.g. something like storing the session "application user" in a configuration variable (SET myapp.rls_user =...). But if the user can influence the SQL and that's part of the threat model, you need to do more, because that could be changed by further SQL.

Another solution is to just have a session level temp table indicating the current application user.
Because recruiters.

The person with one year of experience selling cellphones who now does the phone screen needs to see the exact tech listed on a resume or they pass.
IMO clickbait title

> Gates and his then-wife Melinda took a decisive step by limiting screen time to 45 minutes for games, with an additional hour allowed on weekends. This was in addition to the time required for homework.

"Banned" sounds like zero, but they actually got 2 hours (per day?) on weekends. That's a pretty good amount.

Since when are kids allowed to have unlimited access to whatever they want? whether it be entertainment or foods. Even if there was a kid who spent too many hours reading, you'd probably be like "hey you need to go outside once in a while"
There are some efforts underway to address the people problems in the Nix community; empowering the various teams, spreading out knowledge among more people, making it easier to participate. In fact, this is a current topic of discussion; trying to better understand the blockers and address them: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/where-did-you-get-stuck-in-the...
Local documentation does not exist anymore, in a practical form.

You need the official docs plus countless other resources from other people and for a relevant version of your software.

Gone are the days a few books and a computer was all you needed.

Your compiler is spilling out some weird message? Go scavenge the interwebs for someone who figured it out or spend your whole weekend in that.
Except the story you're commenting on is Firefox getting them soon.
It’s not a Steve Jobs interview, way back during my consulting days, partners used to say the same thing, we hire people based on whether I’d go hang out with this person over a beer or not.

Tbh, it kind of made sense in consulting when you had a lot of traveling to do, spend time in middle of nowhere towns with your colleagues and hours at an airport when your flight was delayed. And I say kind of, because it instantly became a bros club and because consulting doesn’t really require any skills beyond being that person who you’d have beers with.

Coming back to Steve Jobs and the corporate bs, this kind of test makes absolutely no sense. You need pilots who can fly a plane, not have beers with you. You need surgeons who can do the impossible surgeries, not the dude who can tell the best jokes over beer. You need the engineers who can build products, not frat boys you can do shots with.

- Former frat boy consultant who absolutely hated it
This makes a lot of sense at deep tech places that don't sell to enterprises where one can put their head down and just work on technical challenges. A similar place like Mongo DB or the hardware division of NVidia comes to mind. But if you're supposed to iterate with any input from more than 2 people that isn't highly objective (technical metrics that can correlate well with product satisfaction), communication and diffused collaboration is important and necessary. That doesn't mean it has to suck. But the Netflix model you described isn't applicable everywhere and shouldn't be blindly replicated.
Some companies hire this way which always seemed stupid to me, but I agree with you.
Yes, that "article" is clearly some ad spam. And the advertised business is barely related to the rest of the article.
honestly what were people expecting lmao
Love them enough to actually aspire to own one? I sure wouldn't.

Mind you I've never actually been in one, and I suppose there's some people saying there's health benefits, so in theory I suppose it makes sense why someone would want one... But laziness is kind of the ultimate luxury in modern culture, and I hot tubs need cleaning, plus they take up space, and cost money that one has to earn.
> Without context “the bull is dead” is so useless as to be meaningless.

It’s possibly because you live in a location where bulls wandering on the road doesn’t ever happen, and where the author lives it does happen?

If, for example, the call was instead “I’m okay, the deer is dead”, I wouldn’t find it confusing at all.
Clean water supply isn't guaranteed via public infra, so ice dispensers that hook up to those are not a good option, less a lux one. I think home-wide filtration systems and heat pumps are new "lux" items for homeowners. I am not sure Teslas are considered lux items tbh, I think space and time to indulge in expensive hobbies is the more flex/lux aspect, currently.
great inspo for creators!
Related: The Really Big One

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878160

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

https://archive.is/S0GcL
Well, so much for my karma score on Hacker News. It was once over 18K, kids! No, seriously!

This is a culture I know well, although I wasn’t born into it. The vast majority of my family are Chinese but it took me 20 years really to understand how alien their culture is to me and vice versa. You have an excellent surface knowledge of face-saving culture which is already unusual in the West.

I cannot begin to explain how uniform this kind of attitude is in China, and how deep it runs. Obviously, thousands of Chinese come here every year who are better structured to handle your way of thinking, but many many of them will never learn. This employee sounds like one of them. I am not criticizing him at all. It is his obsessive application of Chinese customs that made him a success in China and probably got him to the West.

At this point, I think you have to balance what other positive traits he might have against this attitude and assume he will not change. You have done your compassionate best, but I think he’s not yet ready to accept your help.
Please explain the historic research priorities in Alzheimer's research and how they square with "encouraging novelty".

For extra credit, provide a brief synopsis of the history of stomach ulcer research and treatment.
How would that work? Is the market a town, a city, a country or the world? What about companies that supply other companies with goods or materials? What about natural and logical monopolies (eg roads, railways, water supplies). It’s gets messy instantly.
It’s not a perfect mapping with JSON. Everyone knows that stuff like functions and dates can’t go over JSON, but there are also subtler things, like the fact that undefined can’t exist as a value in JSON. I’ve seen codebases get pretty mixed up about the semantics of things like properties being optional versus T | undefined.
> Argument-from-ignorance is not an argument.

You're making it right now.

> If you haven't seen "any real plan" that just reflects your disinterest in seeing such a plan.

No. I did a full literature search and I read most of the articles in that area.

> There is nothing preventing this from being applied to Europe. All the technologies are available. It's just a matter of integrating existing capabilities, which is the surest kind of innovation.

What is "this"?

> No pipeline upgrades are needed for hydrogen for grid storage, since there's no need to move hydrogen away from the storage caverns. It can be created and consumed there.

The thing is, most of German storage is in the northern part (Rehden, Etzel, Epe, etc) due to geology. That's not where the consumers are, so you need to build a huge amount of power lines.

To give you a perspective, a fairly typical natural gas pipeline can transfer around 1 Bcf of gas per day, which translates to about 12GW of power. This is the same as the largest ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) line in the world (in Brazil), built at the cost of around $2.5B for 2400 km.

And you'll need many, many such lines to transfer power from the points of generation and consumption to the hydrogen hubs. This is in addition to already expensive hydrogen production and gas turbines.

I don't see this ever becoming cost-competitive with plain old PWRs.
Banned their kids from iPads ... but probably had an entire 24/7 staff on hand to look after/feed/entertain/keep-quiet their kids for them. This removes probably 90% of the time people give their kids the iPad (the "I just need 15 mins" thing).
https://github.com/m4xshen/hardtime.nvim

https://github.com/takac/vim-hardtime
Personally, my goal is to buy an expensive item (property/house).

house <- resource accumulation <- in-demand skills <- study

I learn what is in-demand. And then I acquire those in-demand skills. Then I practice those skills to earn the money I need to attain my goal.

But that's just me-- my goal is to earn money quickly.

This is why I focus on in-demand, popular, low-barrier languages & frameworks: python, javascript, SQL related ones.
I don't know, but I roamed around Chicago as a 15 year old in the early 1990s. What was I supposed to have learned?
In Germany it is very hard to fire people but there is a six month period in the beginning, where one can be fired without reason. Is it possible to gauge a new employee during that timeframe?
Private Eye
Fedora contributors are the ones maintaining the packages and they might have more work now if something breaks on the M1. This only "helps" Red Hat in that they can get more testing on ARM.
This thing sounds like hell on earth and it somehow got 3/10? What’s a 2, “burns down your house?”
There were actually 3 broadcasts, and if you find the third, on youtube, you will quickly realize exactly how it was done. Take note of the type of the network on all 3.
This looks shady as hell though.

What else is the candidate lying about?
A shelf or two full of books and magazines and generally much more slowly.
Preface: I'm not saying that this norm is necessarily right, rather just explaining the mechanism that I believe is at play here.

Isn't part of the issue that early on in a start-up, everyone is indispensable, and often that comes with putting in extra hours and going the "extra mile" for the viability of the company?

When you are over 35, 30 even, you are much more likely to have a spouse, children, etc., and all these command more of your time that the business wants to capitalize on.

Personally, I've seen some real rock-star engineers both at 20 and at 40, however more often than not for different reasons. Honestly, not once have I ever learned a decent life lesson from engineers around my age (I'de say I'm on the younger side), however it's been several highly memorable times that an engineer on the older side has pulled me away, given me some real hard-hitting, incredibly valuable engineering and life lessons, and changed my career and sometimes life for the better.

It's a complex world!
Moneymaking has a way of ruining things, generally speaking.
It was hard and less people did it.
It’s actually a pretty contemporary theme, but I agree not a good plot device: accuse someone of something and attempt to discredit them in the process before they can defend themselves, get their employer/social media company/affiliated parties to terminate their relationship, watch as they rebuild their live’s from rubble when as accusations are proven false.
Business advantages only exist with some degree of information asymmetry. People only want to share this over when either they are not playing the game or the market incentivizes open sharing (e.g. patent systems for innovation).

Unfortunately for business outcomes or in case of war advantages - it has the exact opposite incentive - sharing this leads to loss of market share, more competition, chances of leaks and enemy knowing about your tactics and investing in R&D.
It's impressive to me how much Vim's development has continuously accelerated throughout the lifetime of the program so far. We might think of it as an 'old-fashioned' tool, but it has really flourished and grown a lot on the last several years.
The underlying requirement of providing source to users is firm, though. How else will a reverse proxy prominently make a statement to networked users?

> prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network [...] an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
What?! How do you do this? I love magic but haven't discovered this.
Also which year of Mac Studio are we talking about here.
Exactly, when my car doesn't work I just ride one of my horses /s
You’ll need it for firmware updates.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a try!
I don't think we could build a train regardless. And the CA HSR program was idiotic from the start, based on basically fraudulent premises of potential ridership.
For some Abrahamic religions (I am not sure about Christianity), being clean and being pure are distinct concepts. There are cases when one can be pure, but unclean/dirty and vice versa; having sex fluids on you is a case of being both (depending on your hygiene preferences). If it's just you or partners fluids, then one may not count that towards unclean, but it wouldn't be "clean" for a religious thingy.