skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a money grab pure and simple.

This reads like a sick joke. It's like the BigOil telling California "It's unfair to demand compensation from us, because you didn't prepare for a catastrophe that we caused knowingly". California and several regions across planet wouldn't have had to think about clearing the brush or anything else if the oil companies hadn't intentionally and maliciously misled people everywhere about the consequences of burning fossil fuel like this. It's strange to frame a call for compensation as money grab when that money is blood money - how many lives were lost due to climate change? I'm disconcerted by efforts to help big companies skirt their responsibility in causing extreme and irreversible harm to the environment and economy.
> I really enjoyed the time and writing style of this!

Hi, author here. I'm glad you liked it--I don't get to hear this often. :)

> I had a bit of a laugh when the author described how they read and think too much and wanted to take action - then the solution is a club who who .. meet to talk about taking action :)

I wrote this post in a hurry because I'd have broken my streak otherwise and so didn't really spend much time on it. I just made a quick note and posted it online because I've recently started treating the blog like an open notebook rather than thinking that everything that goes on it has to be something I've thought about for ages and then executed perfectly; that helps with ignoring my perfectionism. I didn't think it would make it to HN. (I was hoping that would happen to a different post.)

All of this to say that: when I had the idea, I imagined us doing things and reporting on them, but I forgot to mention it in the post. I've added the update after seeing your comment, so thanks for pointing it out!
Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool for apps
But a song that is listened to a million times didn't necessarily take more effort than one that is only listened to once.

The goal was never to pay commensurate to the effort that was put in.
Sounds like you got a particularly bad part of Unity (and I have heard about those parts, even if they were far from my line of work). I had a wonderful team/project at Unity and while there were some who would talk politics I can't imagine any of them spending hours arguing about it on the company hour. I can't definitely say no one did, because Unity had literal thousands of public channels to grok through (there was literally a channel dedicated to asking what channel to post a question in. It's that saturated).

But that might have been because my director shielded the team from a lot of the BS up top. Come 2022, I and quite a few others of my team were laid off, and within 12 months said director was also out of the company. I don't think it helped that Johacim took a silent leave within that timeframe either.

The only agreement I have with your experience is that you do have tons of interviews. But mine were all fit into one full-time day, and it was mostly to see if any of the teams in that office wanted me. So less "5 interviews for a single position" and more "5 interviews with 5 teams, and 1-2 with directors to ask about the company".
> Phoenix 2 that will feature few good cores (Zen 5) and many crappy cores (Zen 5c).

Phoenix 2 is already starting to ship, with Zen 4 and Zen 4c cores in a 2+4 arrangement. I don't think there's anything wrong with this approach: the main downside of Zen 4c cores is they cannot clock as high, but the kind of systems the SoC is going into are thermally limited to the point that using more than two CPU cores is already guaranteed to drop you down to the clock speed range that Zen 4c runs at. Ignoring the impact on chip floorplan and just looking at the implications for software, it's more like a more pronounced version of Intel's Turbo Boost Max 3.0 (preferred cores) rather than the heterogeneous P vs E core situation. All the cores have the same feature support and same performance per clock and the same sizes for their private caches.
Coming from Spring Boot with it's 17+ level deep abstractions to Go / gin-gonic was such a breath of fresh air!
This is also why women are generally underheard.

Women are primed to not rock the boat and 'be nice', so in these kinds of discussions women are more likely to 'hide' 100% truthful statements behind these softening 'I think...' statements. And the bias you mention will therefore reject their opinions.
I have played quite a few games on Switch that have a "press any key" screen basically just to figure out which one of the possibly multiple connected controllers you are using for P1, P2 etc.

This might not sound difficult to figure out, but I'll float you a super common use-case: you have a bunch of people at your house and you connected like 8 controllers, but 6 of them end up just sitting on the couch connected but unused because people walked off to get a drink or have a chat or whatever. The games that don't require you to run around and manually connect/disconnect the controllers are the best.
It sounds like a lot of fun honestly. I tried learning and made some progress but that was a long time ago. Lots of other stuff to do and it's fairly time consuming I found.
Hi author here. Later this year after some cleanup and perf work
Could do what the FastAPI project decided to do - close all issues and open them as "Discussions". Low open issue count and hard to have a sense on what is/not working.
Yeah, just like Python, Ruby, JavaScript.
Those companies would rebuild their games from scratch before they truly disappearing. They have literal billions of dollars each, and they will long outlive Unity at this rate.
This is an incredibly poorly written article. First, cops lie more often than they don't. Second, saying that a taser, "administers a shock of about 1.9 milliamperes" means absolutely nothing. Third, errors like "Taser's are designed" make me wonder what kind of "journalist" could've possibly written this.

What the heck is going on?
City skylines is on Switch? And it doesn’t melt?
Microsoft uses C# internally and has a vested interest in making it better for all of its own developers, as well as making it good to increase industry adoption so it has a larger pool of skilled developers to hire from. Your arguments about who backs the language don't hold water.
Erlang for Excel
Using any cloud only makes sense if a) you don't know how to setup things yourself and b) your project is so big, that salaries for ops would be higher than cloud cost.

Also, be careful with b) since you still need people that know how to do stuff, otherwise, you will experience either data breach or long downtimes.

What most people won't admit when recommending cloud is that, yes, cloud has all sorts of utility built into, like data replication, backups, scaling, etc. but things go wrong in cloud as well and if you don't have good knowledge of how things work, you will be in for a wild ride.

IMO, it is much better to learn setup things yourself, even in non-optimized way and have some knowledge on what to do when stuff begins to break.
Hi, author here. I think it can go both ways. You learn there's a problem, then try to solve it, then go back to learn more to come up with a better solution.

Or you can do something, find out it's not working, then learn more about it to fill the holes in your knowledge.

> They might appreciate their efforts more if they instead decided to take action on a thing

We also need to know that there's a problem before we can do something about it. You can't fix a problem you don't know exists.
In the periodisation GP is referring to, I believe Boléro would be Modernist, not Classical. The latter [0] refers to works by e.g. Mozart and Haydn, and followed the Baroque period of e.g. J.S. Bach.

(Incidentally, I do find Classical music quite repetitive — although on the other hand I’ve long enjoyed Boléro. Curious!)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_period_(music)
> California and several regions across planet wouldn't have had to think about clearing the brush or anything else if the oil companies hadn't intentionally and maliciously misled people everywhere about the consequences of burning fossil fuel like this.

Very little of substance would have changed if they had acted differently. The main issue with solving climate change is coordinating people. The deliberate misinformation just adds fuel to the fire...
The Thinkpad z13 (gen 2) hasn't released yet, but is probably the closest thing to what you're looking for
This is going to backfire.
Of course they have IP in China. If a western firm violates a chinese firms IP they will of course take action.
It would be nice if, say, Garmin made a GPS watch that could sync via Bluetooth. It's shocking to me that there's only one on the market in 2023.
The economic incentive should be for you to create as much good content as possible. If you have a continuous relationship between time listened and money generated, then it doesn’t matter if you have one 40 minute song or 15 songs totaling 40 minutes.
Are you arguing for eugenics?
I disagree. IAM is like having a house with doors that lock. It doesn't matter how big or small your house is, you're going to want the ability to restrict who can go where and do what. It's part of basic security.

If they're not doing that, and their 1 server is talking to AWS resources, it means its using superadmin credentials. If that 1 server is compromised, can you see why that would be a bad idea?
Whether you need to party or not, you will need to consider the specific details. Smoking goes into the air. Some drugs will also go into the air. Music also goes into the air but only temporarily and it can easily be isolated.

You should not just make everything illegal, because you will need freedom of speech, too.
> I think mostly I’m just being a harsh grader here because I expected someone like him to communicate very clearly and concisely.

"The bear is sticky with honey." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i92Ws7qPTRg
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Who do you think the administrators of physical science colleges are?

EDIT: I guess you can omit "physical science", I suppose we are talking about research across all disciplines. My point remains.
> The total investment to bring this drug to market is in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars. Recouping that expense when there are only hundreds of patients in the US or thousands across the global requires a price that is far higher than normal medications.

So lets assume the drug cost 180 million to develop. There are currently 30,000 people with CF in united states. At the current price point they would recoup that cost within 2 months just from usa sales. This is a drug cf suffers would have to take for the rest of their life.

Its reasonable its more expensive than you average drug, but the $310,000 per year for these pills still seems excessive. Especially when its basically a death sentence without them so their customers are really held over a barrel.
Yes, consider ftc a placeholder for whatever agency does it.
This is an interesting take. A lot of the big artists these days (Doja Cat, Megan thee Stallion, Charli XCX, to name a few) all heavily sample.

In some cases the new hits have multiple levels of sampling; Latto’s Big Energy has a remix with Mariah Carey’s Fantasy, and both sample Tom Tom Club’s Genius of Love. Charli XCX interpolates both Hey Mickey and Robyn for her new song from the Barbie movie.
How so, maybe that just means those white noise tracks bring the most value.
It seems good: https://youtu.be/drGHqZnVHnA

But it’s not a game type that interests me, so I haven’t tried it on Switch.
I'm getting some conservative vibes from the rhetoric about 'entitlement' and calling people overly feminine, as if the caricature we call 'manhood' has a real solution to today's issues. I don't know what to tell you, none of us asked to be here. When someone uses the entitlement angle, they try to push an idea that everyone deserves less than what is being proposed. What exactly is entitled about requiring stability before having children? If society cannot provide enough opportunity to sustain stability, then they have failed the people.

Society's not entitled to a working population, or a population at all. People are more than a means to an end, and if we have to burn down capitalism to prove it, I'll get my torch!

Otherwise, why should I have children? As a man, I stand only to lose from marriage and children. The legal and social atmosphere is all responsibility, no power or freedom.
I don’t know much about the space, but I believe the situation is that the AMDGPU driver is open-source, but that there’s also the closed-source AMDGPU PRO userspace driver that sits atop it and can add certain extra functionality that (I gather) most people will never care about and which potentially performs a lot worse, so that for most users the recommendation is not to use it. Relevant reading: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU-PRO, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU_PRO.
I never understood some of the objections to inheritance. It always made it easier for me to reason about the code, not harder.
Is forming State Owned Enterprises in the desired industries with attached R&D Labs and apprenticeships impossible in the US?
> My hunch is that this club won’t work because it fundamentally is just another distraction from the goal here: which is to actually do something. Just do it.

Hi, as I wrote in the comment above: I was in a hurry when I posted this so didn't notice that the obvious point was missing--that we meet to find solutions and implement them. I've added the edit.

And, yes, the solution is to actually do it--which I realised only because I had an idea for launching a magazine and then actually did it in less than a month. It was the first time I'd ended up acting on an idea so soon after having it, which is what inspired the line of thinking that ultimately led to the idea of the club.

> I feel the underlying reason for this is due to years of the education system drilling into our heads the value of notes and memorisations for the purpose of exam taking.

I was educated in India, so I don't blame the education system (for this particular habit). I'd been the topper in school and was fond of note-taking. I still keep a commonplace book because it's my primary hobby. I love collecting beautiful passages from books and the internet and notes help me simplify concepts for others--I've been tutoring kids for years and I like being able to take information and simplify it for others.

But the habit has gone out of hand when it comes to online note-taking, as I discussed in a different post: it's very-easy to copy-paste stuff, add a million tags, and feel good about it. I've since switched to taking notes by hand ONLY--and because that takes effort, I only take notes on the things I really want to remember. And they're succinct because then I copy just the gist, which is what's truly needed 90% of the time.

> I think once you “do things” though it’s a whole different ball game.

I started doing this sometime near the end of August and I couldn't agree more--a lot of good things have happened since. Oliver Burkeman's writing helped me get there: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/justdo
> An English watershed is a line or ridge separating the waters that flow into different drainage areas, but in America it’s a slope down which the water flows, or the catchment area of a river.

The original English meaning of watershed is retained in American English in a metaphorical usage, such as "a watershed event", a turning point.
Ugh… why not not use my browser for apps. I don’t want to install extensions for all the things. I want to keep my browser to reading and downloading content as much as possible.
Your readers here on HN appreciate your having put in the time. At least I do.
>Well, most people took the job as a being-in-the-office job (before the work from home took off). Which means you took the job + commute for that salary. If you then suddenly don't have to go to the office it's not such a stretch to think you could/should be paid less.

That does not follow. I quote you a salary sufficient to warrant me to work for you. You don't get to come back and demand that you should be able to pay me less when I no longer commute when I'm still working for you. Unless the physical presence in the office is absolutely essential (which it isn't for knowledge workers in the way it is for a stocker or laborer), and the tech exists where working remote is a reasonable accommodation (which it does), then you wanting me in the office to get the job done is now something on the table for me (the employee) to charge you, the employer extra for. In no way are you, (the employer) entitled to an extra discount because I'm not driving in. Nevermind that I don't offer one of those. Though I may to have to ruminate on it.

>It's funny how people feel so entitled to their salaries and that management is there to rip people off.

It's funny how companies feel entitled to their profits and that employees are there to rip them off.

A) People are free to set the price of their time.

B) Management is explicitly there to get the absolute most out of workers with the least input. Even if that means playing dirty, (hopefully not, but I've seen a lot of it). You can say their purpose is leadership, but I've been privy to what high level management types think leadership is, and unfortunately, it ain't leadership. I know leadership. Come from a family with a lot of military background. Civillian business management theory abandoned most facets of leadership in order to cut corners, and maximize value generation. Just look at the C-Suite-to-everyone else pay disparity to see the fruits of that.
Most of the third world countries already have started the birth rate decline. They will likely stop growing around 2050.
The same problem exists though! Maybe a rich Aspenite will pay a million dollar tax, but that doesn’t solve the NIMBY problem. Oh, and they bailed for somewhere cheaper
It's pretty amazing how much data this relatively cheap device makes available over BLE, and how easy it is to access that data.

Is there a list of health monitoring devices that can be read programmatically without requiring proprietary software or uploading data to the cloud?
What kind of Bluetooth?

Most all of their current watches sync via Bluetooth to app on phone.
Current ThinkPad T14 has 7840U. This is the same width/length as my "13 inch" Skylake ultrabook (Asus UX305UA) and only 3mm thicker.

ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 has a 6850U and is ~1mm thinner than T14.

You're right though, none of them are superthin (<15mm) like ThinkPad X1 Carbon or Dell XPS 13. Maybe it's not possible to cool these faster AMD CPUs in such a small volume? Nobody wants to type on a space heater.

Edit: found these pages with complete lists, hell yeah

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/36030-amd-ryzen-7-u-laptops/

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/35985-amd-ryzen-9-laptops/
> I wish I could follow through with projects I’m not getting paid for ;)

This was a problem for me as well, but this post by Oliver Burkeman helped me take action and launch The Metronome : https://www.oliverburkeman.com/justdo

We can't act on every single idea we have, but it's better to bring at least one into the world than have several world-changing ones gather dust in a notebook.
Surprisingly, sort of.

It won't alter the underlying genetic condition, but there has been at least one case report that taking these CFTR modulators during pregnancy can improve the condition of the fetus/newborn:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156919932...

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/07/cystic-fibros...
I think that's smart, on paper at least.

What so you do about the cheap tools that turn out so bad that they cause damage?

For example, you get a cheap screwdriver, it breaks while you use it, and you end up making a hole in the cabinet you were trying to fix.

While the general approach sounds sane, it seems to me there are a lot of cases where going for the cheap version could cost a lot in collateral damage.
Just because a behavior may end up profitable for its owners doesn’t mean we should be just accepting it as a society.

Also viewing a company as just a collection of assets owned by capital can be somewhat limiting. Companies are generally made up of human employees, and many schools of thought treat employees as one of several stakeholders in a company and assign various rights to them and various responsibilities to the company for them.

Looking at it this way, the “owner” of a company can easily be described as looting the company if they are destroying a lot of value in the company for marginal benefit for themselves.
An important point is that the recent wave of globalization has been very good for poor people in developing countries outside of the US. From the perspective of US workers, outsourcing looks greedy. From the perspective of foreign workers, outsourcing looks altruistic.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief

Even with recent globalization, Americans are still far richer than most people in other countries. I believe those people matter just as much as Americans do.
No, almost none of them do, unless you can work around it with gadgetbridge on Android.

Instead they sync over the Internet.

If you know of a GPS fitness watch that syncs over Bluetooth (not over the Internet, no account required), I'd be very interested for you to name it.
Java, prints 1:

Set<File> s = new HashSet<File>();

s.add( new File( "c:/temp" ) );
s.add( new File( "c:/temp" ) );

System.out.println( s.size() );

C#, prints 2:

ISet<FileInfo> s = new HashSet<FileInfo>();

s.Add( new FileInfo( "c:/temp" ) );
s.Add( new FileInfo( "c:/temp" ) );

Console.WriteLine( s.Count );

C#, test fails:

string path = "/tmp/filename.txt";
FileInfo f = new FileInfo( path );

File.CreateText( path ).Dispose();
Assert.True( f.Exists );

f.Delete();
Assert.False( f.Exists );

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...

Languages have their strengths and weaknesses.
I mean they could simply weaken the dollar and then US manufacturing (and other) exports would become attractive again.
From my vantage as a Clojurist, virtual threads on the JVM seem to have very minimal benefits. All I can think of at the moment, is that we could have thread-safe JDBC connectors: https://medium.com/oracledevs/introduction-to-oracle-jdbc-21...
Early indications are that Zen 4c actually requires significantly higher voltage for the same clock speed as plain Zen 4 cores (though still a lower voltage than Zen 4 at speeds far beyond the reach of Zen 4c). All the savings AMD gets by targeting ~3.5GHz peak rather than 5+ GHz has been put into shrinking the core area: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/653961282
I think the biggest issue with WiMax is the regulatory requirements, at a previous project, we wanted to use wimax to link SCADA system to the field RTUs, long story short, the regulations for that band was almost impossible to meet within the project timeframe, as it falls below the 2.4ghz, we eventually had to use a mix of 2.4/5.8ghz and VHF.
Go almost instant build time is a huge productivity boost when compared to Java. You get both the solidity of a typed language, and the development speed of interpreted languages (py, js).
Yeah, they taste good and keep me sated for less calories than cereal would take. I see no need to further remove the remaining foods that bring me joy. I've lost 75 pounds so far just making trade offs to stay full with less calories and fats and protein seem to work best for that.
I have Asahi Fedora Remix, at M1 Air with USB-C adapter, that has connected:

- Power

- Ethernet

- USB-C adapter, that has wireless dongles for external mouse, keyboard and headset

With Chromium Snap and Chromecast, I cast fullscreen or browser tab to 43" LG LED TV. A little laggy, but better than no HDMI at all. Some wired remote desktop could be less laggy.

I like that M1 Air is silent and compiles fast.