skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read https://edmo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2023_EDMO-Ireland... and decide for yourself whether a chain of three people quoting and restating the parts they disagree with the most managed to produce an accurate representation.
Oh, a post about web development. Yeah, it's hard to imagine anyone getting excited about that. It's different when you do academic research. Learning about machine learning tools, new computational methods to solve nonlinear models, and that sort of thing gets more fun the older you get. The more you learn about them, the easier it is to learn, which reduces the pain.
It's not about purposefully excluding anyone based on immutable traits, it's about not giving anyone preference based on immutable traits. The point is hiring people who are competent and can work together, "pursuing minority candidates" doesn't achieve that. I wouldn't want to be a "diversity hire" myself either, that's a bad position to be in, since everyone makes you feel that you are only here due to the policy, not because you have qualified in the proper way.
Thanks and love the reference to the wonderful blinking guru meditation we used to see on our Amiga
I mean more the train of thought and perspective I’m in - if I’ve spent the day reading and thinking on an angle of an academic project I’m engrossed in condensing and referencing, then hard limits in terms of clock time just don’t work for me, I’ll instead just stick with it if I can and keep grinding.

Some days I’ll have totally lost the thread and instead do nothing.

I agree with the discipline and daily practice though, but think that his is an angle on that. I’d personally prefer a word count and a target to hit and then try and hit the word count and flex toward the target. But my days are often variable - I’m not a professor running on a similar clock every day.
Do you have a source for either of the numbers? Not sure a credible source even exists for the figures we are looking for, but I would be surprised if they showed the difference to be that large nationwide. A quick search gives me significantly lower medians for the US (maybe you wanted mean?).

Even with reliable figures, you definitely cannot just "do the math yourself pretty fast". You are ignoring a whole bunch of things like cost of living differences, working hours, working environment, anything that comes on top of the "gross" like employer pension and insurance (not just health) contributions. For example, the average working hours in developed Europe is 10-20% lower than in the US[1].

Also, as others have mentioned, you can't really take one specific profession and extrapolate. The European labor market is definitely less free-market and by design slower to adapt to shifts. There is a cultural preference for more equitable pay even at the expense of the so-called meritocracy. Software developer salaries in the US have perhaps increased faster than other professions, and less so in Europe. Maybe that's unfair, but the inequality that results from allowing labor markets to move at market-speed causes its own problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...
Oklch: A color picker made to help think perceptively
I tried zsh at some point, but I got the impression that it's basically the same as bash out of the box, and you need to spend time customizing it to see the benefits. I don't want to spend time customizing my shell, I want it to work out of the box.

Fish is noticeably better than bash out of the box, with absolutely no customization. Magic autocomplete is life-changing.
fish doesn't have builtins but all fish commands are external binaries or fish functions. i think at one point early in the history of fish those binaries may have been installed on the global path so they were accessible outside of fish and possibly there was a name conflict with one of them that this script triggered.

although such a name conflict should not have happened (and i can't think of which command such a script might have used that would also be a fish command), and the global path thing was also fixed soonish. but this is all a faint memory, so i am not sure i remember any of that right.
This is the stance the EU has taken. The Surveillance Capitalism business model requires informed consent.
Also by "reader apps" I mean "reader apps with their walled gardens", like Kindle, as opposed to readers for local files. Boox's builtin reader is OK, but I've used other e-readers whose builtin reader was worse and it'd be useful to have a 3rd party one for your local files. Ironically those e-readers are not Android-based.

I know you can de-DRM Kindle books, but there are other walled gardens that don't allow you to do that easily (for me it's some Chinese e-book apps).
That's different case IMO, and the ban did more publicity than good. So where are the other cases of bans?
I've made similar considerations (as a college student) and honestly, just stick to pen(cil) and paper. Analog stuff are so cheap and so good that you won't come close to paying off the price of a e-paper tablet.

The only benefit imo is portability and ease of sharing to computer, but I find my scanner on my printer works perfectly fine and that I have trouble finding things digitally even with effort organizing

My opinion against e-paper tablets would definitely change if their price becomes much lower
Building Management System (BMS)
What’s the upside?
Well it turned into 1600 hours because I just tried to maximize the spaceship launch count to 1000 and beyond. I would still put a 10/10 score on factorio, but it still means it could be a better game, that's my only criticism, I want it to be even better. When a game is excellent it's obviously going to attract more criticism because it raises the bar on itself.

> I do feel that the collective bar has risen quite dramatically for games though (for many totally valid reasons).

Yes, it's a saturated market and it's hard to find a game I can like. It's quantity and quality, there are a lot of indie games, too many of them, maybe, but that's how capitalism works. I would rather not play games I find not good enough, than the opposite. I have a hard time getting some satisfaction from a game, I don't know why.

I spend a lot of time trying to find new games to play, and sometimes I'm just immensely frustrated that I don't play anything, or just play some stupid game like untangle. I'd rather play some very cheap indie game like loop hero or micro town than playing call of duty online even if it's free and a AAA game.

I prefer playing a game that has a lot of replayability, than finish several other games that I can play once. There are a lot of "good enough" games, but there are VERY FEW excellent games that are so good you can play and replay them again and again.

Time spent replaying an excellent game is much better than playing other new good games. That's winner take all in the industry, at least that's how I view it. "A Delayed Game Is Eventually Good, But a Bad Game Is Bad Forever".

Sometimes I feel like I'm very very difficult to please, but I like it that way. I grew up with video game magazine that gave very hard review score.
This is one of my long-term goals with my home country, South Africa. We've got the legal starting point with a progressive constitution and a reasonably independent judiciary/media. The economy could be doing better, though, and we'd need to bring equal opportunity to all. And there's a lot more in the future that could hamstring this idea. But I do believe that it's possible in my lifetime.
I have a supernote a5x, it's amazing. Extremely useful for marking up pdfs.

> Idk about hackability and whatnot but as far as a useful e-reader, note book, sketchbook, planner, it’s amazing.

You can currently "sideload" apps. It's not officially supported but the Supernote team appear to appreciate people tinkering. Adding an official means of installing apps has been in the road map for a while.

> You guys are really exploring! A kind warning, installing third-party apps on your device may cause problems, as our kernel is optimized for E-Ink screens. We cannot guarantee a good experience with third-party apps if they are installed through unofficial methods. We are in the process of adding an official app store and support for sideloading, so please kindly wait.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/wql9gm/how_to_in...
If you are Indie & building a product to solve a problem - it always help you build a community.

I run a software consulting & development agency. I shared about our revenues & goals in public. I got reprimanded by my co-founder, mentor & few other folks in my industry. For agencies - sharing their revenue, profits or metrics are not advisable.
i would also recommend the podcast called “Undivided Attention” from the same authors
I have one that I use for my grad school studies almost exclusively as an e-reader for textbooks and a notepad.

I could similarly just invest in a cheap e-reader device and a physical notepad and it wouldn’t disrupt my studies but I shelled out a little more for a used iPad for the longer than typical device support and because I’m already in the Apple ecosystem.
There are quotes from external sources offered as evidence, but they do not stand by themselves or help support the article other than reference an external source. They do not show that flat organization results in the bad outcomes they mention, only show it is possible and has happened, but that is also true for non flat organizations too.

The external sources may stand well by themselves I can not tell from these quotes.

> It quotes some professor who says it's related because “you’ve still got middle-aged, privileged white men making decisions at the top” due to a lack of safeguards.

This does not seem to depend on whether or not you have a flat structure or not. The article also includes:

> The companies may reflect the same biases as society, without safeguards to avoid them.

which is as close to a justification as the article comes to, which does not seem to apply more to flat organizations than not.

>> Then the article tries to apply guilt by association, by basically saying "Theranos was bad, so flat structures are bad".

> It quotes another professor who says that the lack of structure is what allowed theranos to avoid having controls that would catch things.

The quote from the article is:

> “meant that these companies don’t have to do the difficult and tedious process of putting into place all the systems and controls you would normally find.”

This is not particular to an organization being flat though. Flat does not me you do not have systems or and controls. If there is the a definition that makes it so I have not seen it used in the article or elsewhere.

There are trade offs between flat and non flat organizations, but I would not recommend this article form someone looking to read up on the topic.
https://oklch.com/
My comment was about Sometimes a Great Notion and not all of his books.
I hope that you are joking since you just have to press `Alt` + `S` to rerun the previous command with sudo in fish-shell:

> `Alt` + `S` Prepends sudo to the current commandline. If the commandline is empty, prepend sudo to the last commandline.

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#shared-b...
You are saying that seeking out competence will naturally lead to hiring people with varied demographics.

The comment you are replying to is saying that having demographic quotas is bad.

There's an implied disagreement about what is (what companies are actually in practice doing), but I don't see any disagreement about what should be.
Used a Linux machine for a while when my Mac was being repaired. It's not enough for professional use, unless you're a programmer or sysadmin.

- I couldn't find a good enough e-mail client, so did what every Linux user I know do and used webmail. That means you lose speed and features.

- Dual screen support for different DPI is non-existent in most distros, and has to be hacked with xrandr scripts to work in other distros.

- Audio or Bluetooth not working

- Very messy to install software. The native "App Store" wouldn't work or connect, so had to resort to shell commands.

- Lack of suitable productivity software (which you mentioned).

As long as nobody wants to offer a complete Linux solution with hardware, operating system and productivity software, then it will continue to be like this. That's the problem with OSS, everybody wants to blame each other and nobody wants to take responsibility and deliver a complete experience to users.
I'm spoilt by my Kinesis keyboard, I just can't use any laptop keyboard for a significant amount of work.
Maybe it is because that isn't an entirely true take. You don't need the AC as much in Chicago? Having lived near that region for a long time that isn't what I find to be the case. Yes it gets hotter in Texas but there are several reasons that AC gets ran nonstop for many people here. Inefficient building design is probably a big one. Also the heat is no joke even this far north. Add in heat waves and you have all the justification you need for running it if you can. I for one have had my AC running since May and I'm still too hot at home.
True. OTOH, those "$Victim_Group can't do the job" assertions are generally counter-factual. Vs. I feel far more sympathy toward the employer when it is the victim of conflicting requirements from different parts of the government - which generally have a "Who cares? - $Private_Company will be suffering, not us" attitude toward their 'Made in the GVT' f*-ups.
OK so if you're new to fish you should understand universal variables since it's a concept that bash/zsh does not have and it's actually pretty great.

When people first try out fish they want to add their global env vars and PATH configuration to ~/.config/fish/config.fish. You can absolutely do this similar to how you do it in ~/.bashrc. However, it's not idiomatic and once you get used to universal variables, you'll see that it's a lot of yak shaving you really just don't need editing config.fish.

Instead, if you want to permanently set an env var across the current session and all new sessions, run: `set -Ux MY_ENV_VAR 1` (set a universal variable, and export it to subprocesses)

That will put it into a machine-readable file ~/.config/fish/fish_variables. You can open it if you want but this way you don't need to source your rc files, open a new shell, or even open your editor.

For PATH, just run: `fish_add_path ~/my-new-bin`. It uses universal variables by default.

For some reason I avoided universal variables as much as possible for years using fish and now I think that was really silly.
>Really? I never thought that could possibly be interpreted as cost per year. I can clarify that

Well, 30k-100k is about right for the annual cost of undergrad in the US and school costs are much more commonly discussed as per year than in total around here.

>My point is that the statement that salaries can be low because university has no cost is wrong. The cost is significant even without tuition and therefore salaries absolutely matter.

That seems a bit misleading as well. Almost all of that cost is unrelated to university attendance. People incur costs for food and rent regardless of whether they're university students.
I got a single Anker 120W GaN charger with 2x USB-C and one USB-A for my travel needs.

It charges pretty much every single device I own at max power.
I’m a little disappointed that this doesn’t go into the off the shelf screens from waveshare. That’s where the fun really is for me at least. I wrote an epub reader in Python and built an eReader with a raspberry pi. I guess it’s a little less hacking and more so developing.
> Indeed, but that does not make it right or rational. Bayesian method helps keep things rational. This is pertinent because human brains are terrible at conditional probabilities.

I agree with you on Bayesian methods keeping things rational (consistent within a probabilistic framework).

I would say there are different kinds of rationality however: the 2 that I'm most interested in are epistemic rationality (not being wrong) and instrumental rationality (what works), and in the domain of business (but perhaps not other domains like science and math), we optimize for the latter. This is because not getting analyses wrong (epistemic) is actually less useful than getting workable results (instrumental) even if the analyses are wrong. In fact, some folks at lesswrong tried their hand at doing a startup, applying all the principles of epistemic rationality and avoiding bias, and it did not work out. Business is less about having the right mental model but doing what works. This article expands on this point [1]

The issue is in ill-defined (not just stochastic in a parametric uncertainty sense, but actually ill-defined) domains like business, the map (statistical models) is not the territory (real world) -- it's a very rough proxy for it. Even the expert opinions that Bayesian methods embed as priors -- many of those are subjective priors which are not 100% rational. Not to be cliched but to recycle an old John Tukey saying: "An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question." Frequentist methods are often good enough for discovering the terrain approximately, and in business, there's more value in discovering terrain than in getting the analysis exactly right.

(that said, in these settings Bayesian methods are equally as good too, though their marginal value over frequentist is often not appreciable. One exception might be multilevel regression analysis where you're stacking models.)

[1] https://commoncog.com/putting-mental-models-to-practice-part...
What makes new technology exciting, whether it's a web framework, a phone, a car, or the internet, is all the things people can do with it that were impossible, or just very expensive, before.

In many parts of tech, we've had quite the run where there were leaps and bounds from one year to the next. Innovation curves slow down though: New phones used to really be substantially better than the year before, but now the new capabilities are mostly irrelevant for most people. Even something like OS updates used to bring in relevant changes, but not so much nowadays. Web frameworks, as the OP looked at, have not been doing anything remotely revolutionary in a long time. So anyone that is focused on just one corner of tech, and only looks there, is bound to start not caring about new tech. It really is not getting better.

To remain enthusiastic, one needs to keep looking in different places, and see improvements in new areas, or jumps in places that were stagnant. AI was relatively boring in the 90s, not so much today. Even something like Java had a decade of relatively inactivity, and now there are actual, relevant changes.

So yes, it makes perfect sense to pay a lot less attention to web frameworks right now. But if what you want is relevant novelty that is likely to change how things are done, the solution is to look elsewhere, instead of getting depressed about how modern UI tech is stagnant.
Saudi Arabia and Iran? This sounds like a joke
hehe, you mean "Daniel-san", like from The Karate Kid?
>Not when the patents are tightly held by a greedy patent troll who seems to do everything in their power to stop hobbyists and hackers

That's a bit disingenuous and short-sighted view from people not knowing or understanding the industry, market, technology and manufacturing challenges. Sure, like any successful tech company, e-ink owns patents and controls a large part of the market more-or-less, but patents aren't the main reasons why the e-paper industry hasn't moved forward.

That's kind of like saying "ASML's and Cymer's patents are the reason the EUV lithography hasn't moved forward and why they have no competition."

No mate, that's not true. Just like EUV lithography, making e-ink tech displays, affordably, and at scale with good yields and healthy margins to keep the industry afloat, is hard, very hard, bordering on magic, which is the main reason they have no competition.

Turns out making minuscule pigment electrostatic particles that can quicky move around inside a fluid suspension and hold their position long enough at various ambient conditions, is a huge challenge, and manufacturing that at scale with very low defects and sustainable margins is even harder.

Nothing in their patents currently is holding back competition, but competition can't reach the scale and yields that would make enough profits to support a viable competitor consider even entering this field, versus OLED displays, as that's where thew real money is in display manufacturing right now and that's where the competition is heating up and where all the R&D money gets poured.

That's why there's been various alternatives to e-ink-like tech popping up from university research labs and being displayed at trade shows, but going from a research lab one-off prototype being shown at trade shows, to mass production at scale with good yields and profit margins, is the real challenge and is where e-ink has their secret sauce that nobody can successfully replicate.

Similarly how China has been showing off working home grown Xnm lithography prototype chips that can compete with TSMC, but reaching the yields and volumes of TSMC is where the impossible to cross cliff lies, and why people get confused and don't understand that the major challenge lies in manufacturing at scale and not just the core tech that makes the widget unique.

I'm not defending e-ink the company and their corporate practices, just wanted to shed some light on the technicalities of the subject and hopefully clear some of the FUD and conspiracies that get wrongfully spread around.
Considering the "COVID lab-leak hypothesis is a conspiracy theory" discourse was literally a conspiracy by Nature and China to prevent criticism and on a month-by-month basis more evidence of it is coming out I'm very skeptical of blindly trusting scientific institutions to accurately label misinformation from the politically-inconvenient truths.

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-re...
> As I get older ...

Top comment on the reddit post:

> Yeah. 20 year dev here.

Oh, the humanity.
The marketing verbiage stood out in this case. Typically, one's eyes gloss over it, clicking the necessary checkboxes and the submit button.

I can't really say whether the text is making explicit what we all believed was implicit (and reasonable) or just anomalous copy.
IMHO, we are not in a state of overregulation in IT. We are certainly on a path towards having more solid regulatory framework (looking at privacy, post market cybersecurity and basic no-gos like here) but the road is still long and overregulation far away. We are just leaving the wild west.

I work in medical device development, stuff like GDPR our regulatory team has for breakfast without much drama. It is normal for us, as it is for airplanes, cars, food processing, financial services, etc.
I’ve had a remarkable 2, I found I prefer paper for notes. I don’t read my notes very often, so its more the process of writing them that I ’use’. And although very good, its not the same on a rm2. Not sure waht it is exactly. The latency, the tactile aspect, maybe even the physicality of a note book or just the annoyance of using a device again..

That’s my 50 cents :)
Vaccines are effective if enough people take them. That unvaccinated young person could be what kills you. It's not a matter of saving that person from themselves. It's a matter of improving everyone's odds.
Who said anything about only? The article is about using iPad only specifically for travel. And the parent was discussing iPads in general.
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