skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part that's often missed is the future outcome, when someone returns to this code to fix a bug or add a new feature. I believe it's incumbent upon those of us with some experience to ensure maintainability is part of the considerations.
yes if some want to live on mars or on the moon then some probably also would like to live literally anywhere on the surface of the earth. but probably more would like to live in a tiny house than in rough places like middle of ocean or sahara desert
"Though caution and slow assent will guard you against frequent mistakes and retractions; yet you should get humility and courage enough to retract any mistake, and confess an error." - it took me a while to figure this one out on my own...
Great article!

> I have read a lot of long spiels about craft that frequently end in something like, software work isn’t like other work, and we shouldn’t be judged the same way. We are entirely unique. We are the special ones.

It might comfort the author to know that even within the realm of software engineering, there are insiders and outsiders. Some of the most important engineering work was made by these outsiders.

Growing up poor, self-taught, as the only programmer I knew around me, I felt like an outsider my entire life. When I finally began to associate with other programmers... I still felt like an outsider.

Here were people from structured family units with solid life skills, a college education, large support networks, a lack of systemic trauma, and a fundamentally different understanding of the world. I've begun to find my place in this world, but the feeling of being an outsider will never fully go away.

It's of little coincidence that my favorite kinds of music and other art are often categorized as Outsider Art.

My advice... find a way into that makerspace. Open up a REPL. Software engineering might entail a specific rigid and deep understanding of engineering principles, but software craftsmanship is for everyone. Personal computers were made for the average person to enhance themselves and the world around them, and we should never forget that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art
It depends on “when” along the timeline of the project.

If we don’t know if anyone will want the product, the quality of the product is less valuable than validation of product market fit.

Later, I care much more about avoiding accidental complexity and having a great technical foundation.
ZimaBlade: A single-board x86 personal server for cyber natives
It does, a little bit. E.g.:

> He would point out risky work, bad decision making in the form of shoddy materials or shifting angles. He was offended by the trace measures left in the world that signified short-term planning.

But I definitely agree that the essay has a lot less to do with craft than you might think at first.
I don’t want to be to specific but my 10x was from a 1st line sysadmin role in a small town in England to a senior engineering role in Palo Alto. I’ve gone down a lot since moving to Sweden though, because I chose to take a role in person so I can learn the language and make friends. If I want to make more money in the future I’ll look at startups in the Bay Area hiring globally remote roles on angel.co
I used to get excited by side projects, but at this point I can't get motivated unless I'm 100% sure it'll have a payoff. That could mean scratching my own itch, or doing a proof of concept for a major change at work that already has buy-in, but side projects that are just to learn a tech stack, pad my Github or a "maybe" side hustle are non-starters.

Part of that is mild depression and part of it is early burnout, but the majority of it is recognizing that most side projects are a waste of time, and if I'm going to "waste" time I'd rather it be hanging out with my kid or playing video games.
Yeah I agree that the ‘gt’ symbol in this case could be a bit confusing, but in the context at least I read it as a way to say something along the lines of “hey, this could be something that might align with Simon’s work of making datasets easier to explore”.
One of the ways Apple managed the issues was by selling a handheld computer which could make phone calls, rather than selling a “phone”. If they’d sold something with the limited interface of a flip phone or iPod like the author expected them to, his prediction would probably have been more accurate.
They found an answer that felt right to them. The reseachers weren't blinded to the context they were working in, and their hypothesis is essentially unfalsifiable so I would take it with a grain of salt.
Me too! I would have missed out on all the fun if I had learned the answer on day one.
As someone on dialysis, this would be amazing to see. I wonder if the same immunoresponse issues would happen with this like with a transplant.

The holy grail of transplant medicine for years has been acquired immunity, where you convince the immunesystem not to attack the transplant. Still hoping we see progress there, but this looks like a viable alternative to a donor transplant.
why not use the notes app? you get in built folders and shari g options too
Really GPS, but it may not be as universal as I thought. This 2016 article says it is launching only on Android and only in the UK and Estonia.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/google-now-automatically-provi...
I bet Garmin is squirming a bit now.

As an inreach mini 2 owner and very, very infrequently a user, I hope so. My iPhone isn't new enough for this (13 mini) and if I get a new phone anytime soon it probably won't be Apple, but it'd be nice to see Garmin adjust their pricing.
Fair. Yes.

I was reading it in the style of 4chan greentexts, personally.
I've seen "train only" bases, where carefully crafted Rail -> stack-inserter -> assembly machine mazes are built in such a way that still retains 8x Beacons per assesmbly machine.

But its very weird and obscure. With such a lacking in space, you have to run multiple train types and overlap them: either having mixed trains. And there's also the issue of "leftover" pieces staying on a stack inserter (ex: Stack inserter grabs 7 items, but then the assembly machine only accepts 3 of them, so now the inserter is "deadlocked" with 4 items. But the assembly machine needs another item, so everything deadlocks and shuts down).

There's ways to fix all these problems of course.

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But the easiest way is to instead use bots and/or belts to unload into the "last mile" going into the assembly machines. (Belt/bots can also reach 12 beacons per assembly machine if you're willing to have a faster, but more costly, design. Mainly for UPS wars rather than in-game benefits.)

But yeah, Trains are obviously the best bulk transfer item in the game. And while they aren't "unsuitable" for last-leg delivery per-assembly machine, its highly complex to do so. So its just easier to use belts/bots for that unless you're going crazy with UPS or something.
Starlink recently partnered with KDDI in Japan to do the same thing for the main island and surrounding islands.

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20230831/carriers/kddi-partners-...
Microprocessors Are Tiny, but They Can’t Fit in Your Head
It's a sad state of affairs when somebody feels compelled to do this much work to determine why a pedestrian bridge (that connects two neighborhoods) needs to exist.
Fordlandia 2.0?
It is provided at service.tesla.com. Wiring diagrams, service manual, etc. Sign in with your Tesla account to get the documents that match your VIN. It's free.
No, I think there's a point here.

Part of the solution isn't just laws that require something to be reparable, but getting rid of the laws that constrain it. DMCA 1201 is used for this more than it's used for its ostensible purpose, and should have a general purpose exemption for any case where the circumvention or tool is necessary for any reason other than actual non-fair use copyright infringement.
Your last paragraph just said that if you hire people and tell them their earnings depend on $METRIC they will optimize said metric.

The argument here is which metric, or are metrics good for anything? [1]

[1] Except ditch digging and children. It is well known that 9 people will dig a ditch in 1/9 the time one person will, and 9 women will make a baby in 1 month instead of 9.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354000
> Managers always love a developer who can consistently write 5000+ lines per code per week

Managers love metrics. There's nothing wrong with metrics, of course. It's when metrics become targets that things fall apart.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
Blackhats will pay much more than $25k for this type of explot. I feel we are relying on good faith with many of these bounties.
It may triple due to a lot of things, which can include climate.
The economist has article on urban development which makes me think at least part of the problem is population growth, in particular the 3rd picture showing the population growth.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/08/14/how-to-fix-indias-...
To be honest it isn’t even a great rate for an experienced dev’s salary in London.
https://imgur.com/a/47D6MEl demonstrates, prompt is “Praying Mantis, looking out a living room window, (hyperrealism:1.2), (8K UHD:1.2), (photorealistic:1.2), shot with Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, detailed bug, macro” with 50 steps, cutting off cfg at 20 steps vs using cfg all the way through in the normal fashon.
I feel like their motivation is for some claim to keep out india and china, in a 'possession is 9/10 of the law' way.
If procrastination is the problem, I suggest the book The Now Habit:

https://www.amazon.com/Now-Habit-Overcoming-Procrastination-...
If you’re referring to the Kokanee from Kootenay, they are a land-locked sockeye. I don’t think any ocean-goers make it to Libby.
Teslas have a number of features designed to prevent this situation from happening.

Below a threshold, the car's power will reduce as battery capacity decreases.

The car will also warn you several times with a modal over the entire display telling you that you're approaching zero capacity.

If you're following a route on the navigation system, it will show you a banner just above the turn by turn instructions indicating whether you need to charge or drive below a set average speed in order to reach the destination.

Additionally, there is a small reserve within the battery that allows you to stretch your remaining capacity just a bit.

The issue here (and I blame Tesla more than the driver) is that showing remaining battery capacity in miles is horrifically inaccurate, just like it is with petrol-fueled vehicles.

Percent state of charge is always the most accurate measure to go on, just like it is on phones.

I also wish Tesla would allow drivers to disable percent remaining until a threshold is reached (like 20%) to reduce capacity anxiety.
Except the government intervenes to deliberately raise food prices all the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Price_Support_Program
No, not at all. It's more like a wind turbine that runs in a constant wind generated by the evaporation/recondensation process. More water is evaporated than condensed so that the entropy balance is always positive. It sucks in heat locally and converts some to work and sends the rest to the upper atmosphere. You can think of it as a form of solar energy that doesn't need the sun to be shining at the time or place that the engine is running, as long as the sun keeps the troposphere warm.

It can incorporate a heat pump (or an equivalent phase change cycle in some alternate designs) to increase specific power, but it is definitely a heat engine, not a heat pump. Running it backwards to make it like a heat pump would be wicked hard, and besides, no one wants to try to pump heat out of the upper atmosphere.
That bridge also took over 2 years to complete at an absurd cost after the one it replaced was damaged. While it was under construction, there was a temporary red light installed at the intersection of Magazine St. which was far better all around as it allowed pedestrians to just cross the street much closer to the only real stores in the immediate area (and a Starbucks, now closed.)

While the bridge is well-built and provides wheelchair and bike access, its location is inconvenient. It’s so far away from any of the few available amenities that many people just try to dart across the road from the park and community pool. Two people have been struck in killed trying to cross in the past few years.

Other than a single water bubbler at the BU boathouse, that only went in a couple of years ago, there isn’t a single place to get a drink (let alone buy one or get a snack) the entire 4+ mile length of the river in Cambridge from the Museum of Science to the Elliot St. Bridge, without crossing Memorial Drive. It’s unclear to me why they just don’t take down the footbridge and make the stop light with crosswalk permanent. There seems to be some issue with the fact that Cambridge itself doesn’t really have control over the road itself or the land along the River as it’s controlled by the Department of Conservation & Recreation (the “dcr”) which is a State agency.

The footbridge that I find oddest is the one across Rt. 2 past Alewife just over the Cambridge line in Arlington.

https://goo.gl/maps/8JrUQHn2j4B7TuE56

42.399443, -71.147645
Arlington, Massachusetts

I assume it has a similar story to the OP in that whatever utility it may have had has long since passed.
> imagine all the time you'd spend working on your craft in your own free time to better yourself and learn new skills now imagine using that time to do all those things and learn all those things but being able to get paid for it while working on jobs/tasks for a client.

CAn you explain this more? Maybe your work doesn't align a lot with your interests but when i'm working I feel like i'm learning and when i'm not working, setting aside learning as a hobby, that studying eventually gets rolled back into my work (which I get paid for)?
Rather than just claiming that the history is “flat out wrong”, it’d sure be neat if you provided some sources the back that up.
I wish my bank was fucked up enough to send me brownies on my birthday
Ha, then you might enjoy this anecdote: In that Tiffany video, there is a chart that appears on screen for a fraction of a second at 7:39 (the correlation "People drowning in swimming pool <> Films with Nicholas Cage"). That chart is from Spurious Correlations, and was made by the author of the bridge article.

Source: Am that author. :)
Swing states + aggressive lobbying and any industry could get their own yearly Farm Bill.

In New Zealand there are zero farm subsidies and people eat just fine. But without major structural changes to the US federal government I don't think anything will change here.
I think it's worth asking at this point if you can't find the focus or motivation to do the side project to really meditate on whether or not there's something deep inside you telling you that you shouldn't be bothering? Like you need to have what actually motivates you to do it front and centre in mind as a sort of guiding light to see what it is you need to do next, if that's not on then where are you even going with it?

ADHD meds won't help you there. You'll just end up cleaning the house way harder. Think about what motivated you in the past to get those MVPs you did out the door and think about what you can modify in whatever it is you're doing now to get that back. If that motivation from days yore is forgotten or lost somehow then it's time to sort out what you can be excited about next.
A quick search on google makes some show up [0], though it seems that the videos are no longer accessible. They are distributed in a ".ram" file which have a rtsp:// url which seems to be unreachable.

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/england/eastmidlandstoday/ican/index.s...
> free

Not for me, after signing in and prompting for my country, takes me to a page asking for 165 dollars for a one day access, 500 for a month, or 3,000 for a year.

Edit: oops, despite what I said above, after browsing around I think I found what you're talking about? Nice! TY! This is awesome! There are wiring diagrams!
Would teaching the immune system to "forget" cover this situation (along with other autoimmune diseases) too?
Looks great for use as a movie UI. For me, in real life that would be an unpredictable nightmare.
> I have realized that my executive function goes to zero if I think doing something isn't worthwhile. Not if I consciously think it's worthwhile, but if I know deep down that it's pretty much pointless. Thankfully my brain is a pretty good judge of what is worthwhile.

Thank you for putting this in writing in the way that you did. As someone who went undiagnosed for the first 37 years of their life, this is almost the exact wording I used to use to explain my executive (dys)function to my family, teachers, colleagues and friends.

Most of my teachers disliked me throughout my academic life, because while they could see the 'potential', my overall academic achievements were only ever good enough to level up to where I needed to be. However, I would win competitions and had a very high ceiling for the things I was into. As an adult I've struggled with myself a lot, but in the last 10 years I have built and sold a software company and successfully helped raise a family.

The ADHD label really made me question a lot of things for a couple of years, but I've now come back round to trusting and really appreciating that ability to subconsciously, intrinsically 'know' what is worth investing my time into and what is not. Rather than the hyperfocus people often cite, I consider that ability to be my real, true ADHD superpower.
Fifteen, if that's your metric. OS/2 1.0, which was preëmptively multitasking and multithreaded and had the Family API, came out in 1987. And XENIX was even earlier, although it wasn't multithreaded.
Zoning laws.

I spent a fair amount of time working with the Alameda (city) council a few years ago trying to get some of the Alameda Naval Base to be rezoned for some tiny homes.

The zoning laws required a minimum of a 2,000 square foot lot for a single family, and you cannot share infrastructure between lots - so you had to have a separate sewer, water, electrical system - and so you couldnt build a commmon, trench-based infra network and plant tiny homes on top of it.

The shared infra works for an apartment building, but a group of tiny homes cant be considered an apartment building/complex because the zoning laws required a single entrance to the "building" and tiny homes have separate entries, and thus cant be zoned with apartment-building-code requirements.

It wasa a catch-22 cluster of stupid rules.

I was working with Wind River Tiny Homes who has experience in zoning laws, and they said the laws were deliberately draconian in California.

There was one person on the city council, and the mayor, who sold out to Comcast when they sold the rights to all cable/tv/internet to Comcast in exchange for donations...

We need a better mechanism for building zoning controls, and for modifying/taking them out as well.

typical low-level municipal corruption a step above a PTA.
You've turned the story round from "Tim MacKinnon is a good programmer and asset to the team which the simple metrics were not tracking" into the strawman "defend people who cant do their jobs and are not an asset to the team by claiming that they are nice people".
Cygwin was great when I was on Windows. Had all the linux or posix tools I wanted including a decent terminal emulator mintty.
On the Acoustics of Cocktail Parties
> television is a very limiting medium

an picture is worth 1000 words
I don't like TOML either, but it's lame to derail a topic like this.
AI-discovered drugs will be for sale soon
100 lines of integration tests are worth a lot more than 100 lines of unit tests, so it's not a simple matter of counting LoC.

Also, solving the same problem with less code is a lot more valuable than many think. Not only are there fewer code paths to test, the system probably has fewer unnecessary constraints and edge cases to consider. How do you account for negative LoC?
It isn't wrong, it's right; because pontification of things (in a vacuum) yields no results. I cannot sell my customers Bob's ideas. All I can sell them is software that does something. The people that can do this without needing Bobs around are the people that will be rewarded.
> “These factory farms operate like sewerless cities,”

Does anyone want to tell them how septic systems work?

> generate nearly 2.5 billion pounds of waste every day [...] or spread onto crop fields as fertilizer

Vox is mad that they're essentially recycling?

> “a comprehensive evaluation is essential before determining whether any regulatory revisions are necessary or appropriate.”

I guess reason is no longer a virtue, at least to Vox, who would prefer a fully reactionary government that operates from the same level of ignorance as their writing pool.
Different priorities maybe? Are those foreign media outlets criticizing him for the same reasons people there support him?

I think what we have here is a case leaning towards benevolent dictatorship. Those are always controversial.
That's being unnecessarily nitpicky. Anytime someone helps you get started when your starter battery is dead is close enough that people will call it a "jump".

Not having jumper cables, I've "jumped" several people by hooking them up to my battery charger and getting enough charge into their battery to start their engine.
To expand upon this, even if something will make the lives of others easier or could be a profitable product, that's still probably not worth doing since once you've built the thing you still have to market it, which is frustrating if you're not the sort of person who's into that (and then you probably wouldn't be a developer). There are a lot of excellent things (software, art, music, games, etc) that end up languishing in obscurity because they didn't get marketed correctly or enough, and that can be incredibly frustrating.
If that's where the money now goes instead, then of course I fully agree with you. They wouldn't need offsetting if they could just spend the money on that instead (which is a lot cheaper per ton CO2 because it's a sham indeed)
> Teams that attempted to measure the points in good faith were stessed and most of them showed signs of burn out. They regularly worked 60 hours a week.

So in the short term, the company benefited, yeah? They got more work out of the same people than they would have if they didn't apply the pressure.

Reminds me of an old boss I had who would flat-out say that to get a project done we would "hire someone and burn them out" - he planned to only get six months of useful work out of someone, and if they were stupid enough to stick around for high stress and low pay, that's just a benefit to the company.

(I didn't last very long there either)
In many workplaces middle management has already been automated. Algorithms manage Uber drivers. Algorithms manage Amazon warehouse employees.

These companies are even more stratified than before with the lumpenproletariat doing human-mechanized tasks while executives program their lives using software we write in exchange for the unbridled luxuries like the chance to own a roof over our head one day.

It's not exactly the future I wanted.
Death on the Savage Mountain: What Happened on K2
Yes, there were already phones with touchscreens before the iPhone, but they were all using a stylus, which seemed a better choice than a finger at the time, since they were more precise. But after the iPhone came out, it quickly became obvious how much better it was to use a screen with a finger with multi-touch than with a stylus. Steve or whoever made the decisions about the iPhone obviously knew very well what they were going for and 100% deserve the success.
With something like sound, it is also possible for multiple parallel discoveries to result in something similar. There isn’t necessarily one origin.
Doesn't sound wholly different to me. Just slightly different ports & features. It's still DDR DRAM.