skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah thanks for both links! Fun to see that you also chose the filesystem :). Excited to check it out when I am back at a windows machine in a few weeks.

I actually played a bit with font games and wrote Hexagone[1] to see what writing a font was like. I didn’t leave the experience that sure what game to build so it’s fun to have some inspiration.

[1] http://eieio.games/nonsense/hexagone-converting-hex-to-rgb-w...
Perhaps that is the end game for you. My intent isn’t to say this to stir heated discussion but people have different opinions on flatpak and snap, in fact I even like snap besides the fact that you have to use snap’s store (you can’t just start your own snap repository and configure your local snapd to install from it.) No complaints with systemd, and you can still easily swap to Xorg. No idea what you’re referring to with the trouble of saving a file to ~, perhaps that’s a RHEL thing (it’s been so long since I’ve used RHEL.)

All in all, my intent is mostly just to say we’re not in consensus. I doubt a massive revolution is coming if your assumption is that it is because there’s some overwhelming majority with your opinions.
Because the entire Node ecosystem is deeply unserious. The base premise of “let’s use a frontend language which asserts that 1+one == 1one as a backend” is fundamentally flawed.

That, and the existence and popularity of things like left-pad, speaks volumes.
>You appear to be overlooking Social Security, which is a crucial source of income that all US workers pay into their entire careers. It's not just savings.

I certainly am. I was taught as early as grade school (mid 00's) that Social Security would run out before I retire. I take that strongly to heart.
Blind developer here. I could never recommend VoiceOver on MacOS to anyone. 10 years ago before I lost my eyesight I was a huge fan of Apple - everything was just working so much smoother than in Windows world. And much more visually appealing. However, after losing eyesight, I had to switch to Windows. I learned VoiceOver on Mac at first, but working with it was so unbearably frustrating,, even back in 2016 when I was trying. Here are some of my complaints that I still remember:

* Many actions work every other time. I remember that interacting with text area of terminal app was especially painful since the sequence of commands was non-deterministic.

* Hierarchical navigation model is more cumbersome than flat navigation on Windows. In XCode to access some project settings you need to interact with some panel, which has two horizontal subpanels, so you need to interact with the right one, which in turn has two more vertical subpanels, you interact with the bottom one, which has three more subpanels... The recursion depth was 9 levels, I kid you not; and making a single mistake will lead you to wrong place.

* Searching webpage in a foreign language doesn't work. Because Command+F needs to be presssed in English layout and this would open VoiceOver search window, where switching to another layout doesn't work.

* No easy way to open a link in another tab in browser - as opposed to Control+Enter on Windows.

* Too difficult keystrokes - I remember one of keystrokes involved 5 keys: Fn+Ctrl+Option+Command+Up/Down. By now I forgot what it means, but I remember that it gave me plumber's disease - pain in my left wrist from having to press too many keys for extended periods of time.

I probably forgot a bunch more. Not sure if any of these have been fixed since then. But my general impression was that Apple is not very interested in fixing bugs, but instead, they appear to care a lot about presenting shiny keynote slides every year on WWDC claiming how much they care about accessibility.

In Windows world things are considerably better. Jaws is much more convenient to use, even though I've heard many reports of them not willing to fix bugs. NVDA is open source and it is my favorite, since if something doesn't work for me - I just go and fix it myself, but in general things are rarely broken to that extent in NVDA.

Also if I remember correctly Jaws and NVDA share about 45% of marketshare in the screenreader world, while VoiceOver is about 10%. So judging from this point alone anyone would be much better learning a Windows screenreader.
Shhhh!

Don't ruin good Hype by bringing in real practicalities.
I interned at Goddard a few years back and Greenbelt was my favorite place. In the middle of a giant, hellish urban/suburban wasteland full of cars and roads with almost no walkability was a quaint little walkable village that was designed around a small central shopping/community center. I loved it. That's how we should build everything, imo.
> Meanwhile Debian doesn't suffer from any of this because it's been doing things so as to avoid these issues all along.

Except that it's clear that Debian is suffering from a manpower problem and has run into fundamental scaling limits with its current architecture.

Thus, we're seeing things like Nix and Silverblue at the OS level with Snaps and Flatpak at the application level.

I don't know what the solution is, but it seems to me like Debian is going to need to do something shortly.
> The rubber band is snapping back, though.

One can argue that the snap-back is exactly they had to offer more money to have large teams of highly qualified people.

> expectations are rising quickly

I think more reality hitting than expectations hitting.
Con:

- Dependence on a mercurial billionaire’s company for a vital service - these satellites will eventually need to be replaced. The same billionaire also operates a rival service, it will be a conflict of interest not in your favor.
Love mine! Recently resurrected my Sony player by adding Bluetooth functionality following this guide. I now use it with my AirPods!

https://github.com/formatc1702/bluetooth-minidisc
How would that change anything in regards to China having access to RISC-V?
People vote along ethnic/racial lines (look at the primary voting for Adams versus Yang versus Garcia) which means that infighting overtakes quality of governance as a priority. New York has been like that forever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall

It’s the same story all over the world where you have similar sectarian politics.
Sure, it won't be a nigerian price that gets you-- knowing about the scheme is perfect protection for almost everyone. It'll be the nigerian call center's 208th scheme that involves absolutely no princes that gets you, one you've not heard of yet, one that you're in the audience for.

I think the clearing scams are actually a really good generic one that absent knowing about them most people with something valuable to sell could fall for. If you really thought a check was absolutely irreversible then someone paid you, but then had to back out and said you could keep 10% of your trouble why wouldn't you return the payment? What are you going to do instead? steal the money and leave yourself exposed to a successful civil lawsuit and public reputation smearing?

As far as the romance scams, many aren't that obvious. They start off with simply a missent SMS, then count on you says "sorry wrong number" then they slowly chat you up. If you're lonely you might engage. Most don't send super hot photos, or at least not right off the bat. And it's "real" in the sense that you're talking to a real person. The span of these is often months long -- and I suspect that HN user (esp in highly gender lopsided bay area communities) are probably prime targets for the more sophisticated of these.

I've often seen scams on ebay that I expect could hit people on HN, exotic tech equipment at unreasonable prices, where they try to talk you into some off platform irreversible payment. Of course, a sufficiently advanced scam is indistinguishable from just a sus deal so it's hard to give examples.

Here's a recent sus deal that I've had my eye on: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256208014829 (no one should blame me if you buy it and it turns out to be bullshit!): super cheap refurb gpus with oversized memory for running language models and big diffusion models. Would make for an easy scam. Buy a bunch of dead gpus from cryptominer farms. delay for as long as possible, ship a dead gpu, vanish. Because it's an odd duck (a configuration that never existed) it doesn't exist as part of the liquid market, so it can be suspiciously cheap without being too good to be true. But if it is a scam its one with a really niche market.

> require some kind of narcissist

I think that each one of us contains almost the full spectrum of human experience to some degree, in some contexts, and at some times. At the right moment with the right setup, pretty much anyone could feel they're finally getting a break, finally getting the recognition they deserve. As I said upthread-- to lose to a scammer you just need to screw up once. Even if a scam requires you to have a character flaw it doesn't require that you consistently have that flaw, only that you exhibit it for the scammer just once.

You might think, okay well what about someone so humble that they could never fall for a scam that required a narcissistic perspective? There are scams for those too, usually where the scammer accidentally "overpays you" and then relies on your kindness and pro-social behavior to quietly return the funds before the scammer loses his job.
A labor of love, a crazy idea and well executed. Congratulations
I wish Canadians would chime in on what exactly they do when that scenario comes. Is there going to be a flood of people selling homes that have become too expensive to make mortgage payments on? Or will they just eat shit because they have no choice?
It's called "Continuous Welded Rail". More expensive in initial installation, but way cheaper in maintenance and as a bonus it has better ride performance too.
There are multiple ways in which nuclear weapons are 'precise'.

The yields are known to precise amounts - with more than 2,000 nuclear weapons already detonated both below and above ground there's a mind boggling array of technical data available.

There's data on the physical impulse of various types of nuclear detonation, and data on how much or little direct radiation is created by doping the core and surrounds.

The effects of those yields is known for a wide range of scenarios; very high in the atmosphere, above the ground such that the blast radius barely touches the ground, at ground level and below ground.

Data exists to show they essentially suck for technical engineering and canal building, they irradiate vast amounts of debris at ground level and create massive clouds of fallout, and that they flatten cities with minimal side effect if detonated high enough for the shock wave to do all the work of crushing buildings.

The precision is sufficient to setup in advance to create 'Dixie Showgirl' bad ballet photoshoots:

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/05/18/friday-image-the-...

FWiW I'm not pro nuclear war here, but it pays to be realistic about what has been achieved in the nuclear weapons domain.
> This argues that humans are evolutionarily superior to cats.

I can't follow this line of argument. From a housecat's PoV humans are a beneficial part of the local environment.

If I believed that "evolutionary superiority" were meaningful it seems cockroaches, which are far more highly evolved than humans (or body lice even more so) as they have undergone millions of more evolutionary iterations than humans (assuming ~300 Ky of humans and the relative lifespans). The comon domestic cockroach is far more adapted to the human environment than humans are!

> That being said, I honestly don't know and so I'm asking; have we homo sapiens lived longer than cats in our current evolutionary form? Or are cats more "stable" and long lived than humans today?

Good question. There are wild cats that look just like domestic cats (I saw some at the San Diego zoo and there was even a sign along the lines of "these look just like your cats at home [they did] but they will attack you the same as a leopard would"). Housecats are adapted to humans, and have done so over the roughly the last 12 Ky, since the development of agriculture. So as far as "form" goes it hasn't changed much for either species, but the cat has definitely evolved more than humans have. The last significant human evolutionary change, AFAIK, was the development of blonde hair around 4 Ky ago. I don't really understand where it came from.

Dogs have definitely evolved significantly since domestication.

BTW "maximum" is singular and "maxima" is the plural.
What changed? Is it the interest rates? The saturation of the market? The reduction of RoI? The competition that reduces available capital for whomever wants to jump?

I'm willing to believe that statement, I'm sure there can be tons of arguments made to back it up, lots of data to be seen, but there's none in this post and we're left to guess with a generic Ray Dalio economics video.

The general self-substantiation of that post doesn't blend well with its general snarky "o, sweet summer child" tones.
Most sites moved in that direction because dealing with customer support requests for folks who forgot their password gets old real quick.
A lot of sites create "buzz" with an invite-only period. That got me wondering if there's a way you could limit enrollments to groups of people -- maybe a minimum of four? -- and have them all choose a common start time for when their accounts will first go live.

Then send out the invitations at the same time, so they all log on at the same time, so there's conversations and interaction for everybody from the get-go...
Of course!

The initial release of the BOX-3 was essentially a pre-production run with ESP-BOX similar 3D printed plastics.

The full production run of the BOX-3 from Espressif with proper injection molded plastics should become available from a retailer/distributor near you within the next couple of weeks.
So let me see if I can explain this.

The Social Security Administration charges tax to Bob and then uses the money to make payments to Alice. For some years it was taking in more than it was paying out, so it used the rest to buy US government bonds, which is really just giving the money to Congress to spend on something else. Then Congress spent it on something else. It's all gone. All you're left with is a piece of paper that says the government owes itself money -- and not even as much of it as Bob was promised.

Now Bob is retired and expects his money back. But most of the money went to Alice and the rest went to Congress in 1994. There's no money. If you want money to pay Bob then you need to collect more taxes or sell more government bonds into the market.

So which of those things do you want to do? And if you want to use tax revenue, do you want it to be the regressive inefficiently duplicative social security tax or general taxes that don't charge higher effective tax rates to people who make less money?
Yes, of course, building the largest physics and math department in the world to come up with your trading strategy. Yes, there's always that option.
And AI is a mind-reader that can tell itself what binaries you want it to produce?

"Let's see now. That human obviously wants me to produce a binary for a self-driving car... or perhaps it was a binary for a game of Chess ... or perhaps it was a binary for a new version of Windows .... or perhaps .... Well, I don't know!"
"housing costs" is not supported by the article itself. It's clickbait and violates HN guidelines.

The referenced article:

https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-calif...

says:

> When asked about the most important issue for the governor and state legislature to work on, Californians are most likely to name jobs, the economy, and inflation (23%) or homelessness (20%). Fewer Californians mention the environment (6%) or housing costs and availability (6%).
Good advice. When I was young I used to just "plug in" for one constant (more or less) session all day long. I don't know how I did it to be honest.

But yeah now, I NEED breaks. Walk around, get a snack, go for a quick walk outside. Really anything to break it up. The impact is better on you mentally as well as physically.
After less than a decade of programming around 8-10 hours every day, I could barely use my hands anymore. My forarms and shoulders were like marbles. I even stopped playing musical instruments because moving my finders was torture. Vim and split keybord (Dygma Raise) was my solution. I could feel the difference right away now, almost a year later, I don’t feel any pain at all. I feel lucky because I know people who have had to have surgery.
> MOTIVATION = EXPECTANCY x VALUE / IMPULSIVENESS x DELAY

Won't IMPULSIVENESS be the same for every task, a neutral scaling factor, so you may as well remove it?
Humanity progressing in general. Tech is getting better, medicine space exploration, ai.

Sure some troubles like climate change ahead but if we don’t nuke ourselves then I reckon it’ll end up just fine
Colorado near the top in the nation for outmigration
Something tells me this won't impact the AI race, but otherwise I think you're right.
It's entirely supported by the article itself. The link you shared specifically says one in three Californians "say that their housing costs make them seriously consider moving out of the state."

I think you're just reading the wrong part of that page. (Why would the "most important issue for the governor" be the relevant statistic from that page?)

There's also an infographic linked further down which repeats the statistic (with the words "startling conclusion.")

"34% of Californians say they are considering moving out of the state due to housing costs."

That's 13 million people. (It's the first line of the article.) The subset that goes from "considering" to actually leaving the state certainly accounts for the net 407,000-person difference in people who are leaving the state versus immigrating into it.
glad it does no harm to men
I wasn't aware this was a current capability of Elm. I didn't see it advertised anywhere on its web pages or docs. I thought maybe I missed something, or if it's something only known to those on the Elm mailing list.

But it sounds like Elm is relatively easy to rewrite/reconfigure a backend to target a different language.

Thanks for the lead on Lamdera, which is helpful.
Not giving a fuck is a superpower.
The orchid obsession: How science and smuggling meet in a global trade
Autopay Is Making Us Worse at Managing Credit-Card Bills
Just boot off a cheap ssd. Improves the experience dramatically
What does he say at 8:17?[1] Arsink Overism?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/live/1UnoBfw6soI?si=R8nJ1FxdE4zBuO0i...
i recently landed a job that would significantly improve the quality of life not only for myself but my family
The Illustrated AWS Cloud: A Guide to Help You on Your Cloud Practitioner Journe
Whether or not they're orthogonal, it is that aspect that we talk about when we talk about the mistake of core serialization in the JDK. Also, whether calling constructors is necessary for security depends on many details. When we talk about fixing serialization in Java, we talk about a design that is independent of the format used for the serialized data. I understand you're that this is a different layer from the one you're interested in, but that is the layer where the mistake was made, and so that is the layer that requires fixing.
>So yes, you indeed have no choice but to treat money as important because... you've chosen to treat money as important.

yes, I have chosen to treat the ability to have a roof over my head as important. Rent in my area is 2000+ minimum so I at the very least am recommended to make 60k+ in salary to support that.

add on basic utilities (water, electricity, inernet), food above rice and beans, and maybe a little bit of premium entertainment and we're talking more around 70k+ a year. And this is all for supporting myself. If I ever want kids I either require a working spouse or to make even more money to support a full time parent. So yes, I'm talking more around 130k+ minimum. Not unreasonable in tech, but it sure does start to exceed the salary of many other industries

>What are other ways to satisfy this need without you writing useless software _and_ without money being the main constraint? Get creative!

With my current skillset? I suppose I embrace hustle culture and try to make a side income with my talents. try to make some small apps or games that give some continual income. Could also find an angle as a content creator. Both basically eat into my time since this is in tandem with full time work, so it doesn't really fix the problem.

Despite all the obsession with FAANG, I find it harder getting responses from small studios writing not-useless software. They want very experienced personell both for branding (how many new startups have you seen with pitches of "with talent from Apple, Blizzard, Deloitte, etc.") and the fact that they need someone who can architect a project from the ground up.
Thoughts on Software Engineering Experience
I have no idea where you data comes from, but the OECD tax data (the one I quoted) includes all levels of government, property taxes and sales tax/VAT.

"This indicator relates to government as a whole (all government levels) and is measured in percentage both of GDP and of total taxation."

https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm

The OECD data has the US at 34% and France at 45%.

And the idea that "the US pays more taxes doesn't even pass the sniff test. You only need to look at income tax rates, VAT, etc and anyone can tell that's not true at all.
That's very simplistic thinking. Even a small change can have many unintended knockon effects.

Here's a quick example: banning turns will not stop people making turns. It will mean only the rich can afford them.
You could just have a dude on an exercise bike powering the compressor too. A well-conditioned athlete can sustain 300 watts, which is 0.4 HP, or enough to drive something like 2.5 cfm?
Fever, chills and fatigue may all be signs of vigorous Covid antibody production
Tiny bit offtopic but is there any way to get lrclib to work with foobar2000?
https://archive.ph/LxCUM
>You can make less money than "maximum" and still have a great life.

I think the bigger assumption here is "all companies are bad, so even if I change I'm simply choosing another poison".

What alternatives do you have in mind? trying to join a startup? That means having the money/idea for yourself and pitching to investors or being experienced enough that other founders want you on the ground floor with them (i.e. going back to spending 10+ years at "not an option" BigCo).
Decentralized Twitter alternative allowing users to log in with their wallets and pay subscribers with ETH.
3 downvotes, have any of you downvoters watched the talk?
Which is why I always found it funny to see consoles using unified GDDR for CPU and GPU.

But you can optimize around the limitation (within reason) and don't have to content with a general non-specified OS.

This is why I do wonder about the path not taken with the 1T-SRAM that powered the Gamecube/Wii. It was designed purely with low latency in mind but I don't think it scaled well.
Travelling by Train in Germany
Numenta's co-founder is Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of Palm. He wrote a book "On intelligence" about how our brains are supposed to work. Is here anybody who's familiar how much of the ideas presented in the book have been found useful in AI? The article hints about this inspiration but is sparse on details (non pun really here).