skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not want to write about the topic, although it is a deep field. There is something else that makes me write this comment:

There is nobody out there being an expert in his/her field without having also personal interrest. Yet - you say while you had this kind of drive which is key to be one of the best, all you got is luck. I dont think so. You describe the last 5 years as being without any success or fulfillment. This is absolutly impossible over such a long time. Nowadays, you say it is of no fun to you anymore to have this "hobby".

Well, you know which kind of people sound like this? Since i am not an expert, don't get me wrong - but to me it is textbook like depression.
Please think about checking it with a pro.. best case is i am wrong.
This applies to code review, another honor based system.
Based on the comments I think this is just, not yet implemented. But is one of the next steps for truly cross device storage.
I care about fresh food, but I can still enjoy McDonalds every once and a while.
I don't expect this view to do well here, but my theory on WFH is it's very effective for focus time, so for the first year, people could effectively work through solo work backlogs. Where WFH falls short is building alignment on larger initiatives, and that's what we're seeing. There's a popular thing you read here from ICs (I'm also an IC) about being more productive at home, but what they never bring up (and probably don't know) is if they're working on the right things.
No. No one actually knows what wastes they are talking about.
RTO is disliked by everyone. I work in big tech and everyone including the VP of my org dislikes it. It has become a formality and everyone just does whatever is needed according to policy. It is very hard to see anyone benefitting from it. The velocity has gone down and everyone knows and accepts it. I am being told even the EVPs dislike it but it is top down from CEO and everyone should just do the bare minimum required.
And, as usual, a super helpful error message that immediately gives you a hint where to start looking: online, on Google, and pray that someone somewhere had the same problem and for some reason there is some guy in the replies that knows what the actual issue is and how to solve it.

But you might as well just be an outlier and everything you find is threads from twelve years ago where some completely unrelated problem had exactly the same error code.
> It’s not as safe (std::shared_ptr is not your friend), but it’s easier to get going vs dealing with lifetimes and Rustic syntax.

Rust can be easy enough to get going if you know to use .clone(), Rc<RefCell<>> and the like. Yes it's a bit heavy on boilerplate but that's about it. Also the boilerplate is helpful since it can guide a refactoring effort to make the code a bit more efficient. With Rust, "clean" code is usually fast and safe code which is not as true in other languages.
My 17-year-old "zoomer" sister is unsure about what a browser is. She believes you need a Google app to access the internet. My millennial sisters aren't very proficient with computers. They mostly use Office and a browser. Things like VPNs might confuse them. Are my sisters a rare exception? Who knows?
I know other female and male millennials with non-software developer jobs who barely know how to use a computer.

Yep, I tried to persuade my "zoomer" sister to learn how to program, but she declined. :( She is simply not interested.
Domain knowledge matters, even at the management level, especially in industries like aerospace. Again, I assert there is very little overlap or talent lost as a result of some kind of Boeing to Silicon Valley brain drain. That's a poor excuse backed up by nothing.

There isn't a need for nearly as many aerospace engineers as there is for software development, so whatever the market works out for that is fine. Nobody is talking about mechanical engineers at Tesla, Ford, GM, Toyota, etc are not doing the same thing nor is anyone blaming silicon valley for a lack of talent in those companies. Absolute scapegoating.

Airbus and Boeing being located on different continents hardly compete for the same talent. Boeing's problems are almost entirely at the leadership level, not at the lower or mid levels. Everything else is downstream of that.

No, SpaceX cannot give out stock options because if they give equity to too many people they will be forced to go public, which Elon has said he doesn't want to do. After 2500 people own a company's stock, the company has to IPO. They just pay well.
I like this but umm yeah I can roll my own pretty easily. If you had a simple auth solution built in I'd use it!
> turn signals just telegraph your intent to make a move, giving other drivers valuable milliseconds to block your approach

You're thinking of turn signals wrong. Generally you shouldn't be using them as a request, but rather a declaration of "this is happening". If another driver can act to thwart your action in "milliseconds", you didn't have the margin to do it in the first place.
Ease off the brake pedal, the car rolls on its own, you don't always need to hit the gas to get where you're going, esp on slight inclines.

Today, the gas pedal is the only game in eTown, an ignition may be life threatening, and your car may not be allowed into Zone 4.
Disagree with your sentiment. Big tech employee for 12 years. There is substantial support for RTO, but those voices aren’t as loud, don’t advocate their positions as vocally as the rest.
Yes it was, didn't realize it had been three years already though!
Sorta? The German government and its agencies share their own instance [0], the public broadcasting institutions ARD [1] and ZDF [2] have their own Mastodon instances. There's a decently long list of German politicians and parties that can be found on a mix of their own instances and public ones [3]. The EU also has its own platform [4].
I can't speak for their popularity compared to other countries or regions, since those are outside of my bubble.

[0]: https://social.bund.de/about

[1]: https://ard.social/about

[2]: https://zdf.social/about

[3]: https://codeberg.org/open/fedipolitik

[4]: https://social.network.europa.eu/about
My current job is in robotic space exploration, on a renderer in which to immerse a robot in a virtual world. This is just play in-silico, relying heavily on immersive technology developed for video games. In evolutionary terms, play's function is to learn in preparation for real events, which appears to work out on the technological frontier too.
The Propublica map is pretty illustrative. Note that the total size of ideal US habitability doesn't change. If anything, it increases under the "extreme warming" scenario.

But its shape is dramatically different. Key areas include the Dakotas, Montana, parts of the Basin & Range provinces, Modoc County in California - basically areas where virtually nobody lives now. Meanwhile densely populated parts of the American South, Texas, Florida, and the Southwest literally are becoming uninhabitable through wet bulb temperatures and sea level rise.

The crop yield picture is complex too. It's not actually true that we're looking at 50-92% losses in California's central valley. We're looking at ~13-44% in the southern Central Valley, as well as the Imperial Valley (basically those areas irrigated with Colorado River water). Also looking at 6.5-15.8% increases in other regions of California like the Salinas Valley, Bay Area, far north coast, Modoc County. Central Oregon and Washington and the Great Lakes region stand to benefit as well - these are not areas with large current agricultural production.

Expect upheaval. Humans don't do well when some people benefit and other people die for completely random reasons.
We should not be nationalizing anything, sorry. The government should not be running companies as it takes away all natural market forces. While private ownership can be corrupt, market forces / competition can keep it in check. If anything we have seen the government's corruption fail us by allowing too much M&A destroying competition.
Ask HN: What are your data-driven methods to find a niche micro-SaaS market?
I'm asking specifically for a bootstrappable niche market, no VC.

Assume that you have found a niche market that is growing, reachable, and right in the "sweet spot" of not being too small, and not being too large, and you know the market has money to pay.

Note that my question wants a "data-driven" answer, not just your gut-level hunches. By "data" I don't mean only statistical data, but input from the market.

List (in order) the steps you would take to discover what this market needs. If you can, be specific with it and justify your approach. Compare and contrast to other approaches and why you think yours is better would be helpful.
The problem to use an unusual program is if my data will be traped in it or if I can share it with my coworkers that use Excel or Goodle Docs. There is a nice old post about it by Joel Spolsky https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/03/strategy-letter-ii...

About triying a random program: You mean launching a virtual machine with Windows, intaling the program, Excel, a thowaway Google acount, try cut&paste, close the virtual machine and burn it?
So most the specialist problems we've had that were not 'generalist hard' we've already mostly solved with machines that we don't consider complex robots.

It shape of the robot isn't the issue, the problem space of reality is. A roomba can suck stuff off a floor, it has a much harder time dealing with (or even identifying) a sock that needs moved out of the way first. To do that for all the different objects that could show up in front of you, you need a general purpose AI.
This is my primary experience with READMEs as well. I feel like this is one of those new users not appreciating the history and morphing into something they understand with zero interest in the old ways
How come? Did Google make a deal with a garbage truck company to put Street View cameras on their trucks?
You mean normal? What percentage of the world’s population do you think agreed with me that making porn is degenerate, and also that Trump is a degenerate? 80% maybe?
> 737 MAX IS 737, lengthened.

That wasn't under dispute. The question you responded to is whether they had to use the 737 brand.

And personally, I think that once you lengthen it and move the engine, it would not be weird at all to give it a different number. Even just 738 would give it better distinction than "MAX".
Lots of good advice here. I just want to mention that on the highway, the left lane is for passing only. If you're not actively passing, you shouldn't be in the left lane. This seems not to be taught very well in the United States but since you're starting from scratch you can be part of the solution. Good luck!
Good writeup, but can you point to where in the spec this behavior is mandated? I'm looking at section 8.2 of RFC 9000, and I see nothing implying a requirement to maintain an unbounded queue of un-acked PATH_CHALLENGE packets. The closest I can find is the final sentence in 8.2.1:

> Unlike other cases where datagrams are expanded, endpoints MUST NOT discard datagrams that appear to be too small when they contain PATH_CHALLENGE or PATH_RESPONSE.

But I don't read it as saying never to discard PATH_CHALLENGE packets, only that the implementation should refrain from filtering out such packets on the basis of them being too small.

So this strikes me as an implementation flaw, not an inherent weakness of the protocol.
My point above was that this is more of a social media story than anything.

I can't imagine any reasonable organization looking at this and thinking it's positive. I see an irresponsible, attention seeking social media addict with serious boundary issues - violating everything from more-or-less professional standards (again gray, perspective), to her employment agreement, to the law for clicks/likes and/or "dunking on"/"owning"/"calling out" her employer.

As I keep saying this is all very gray and a matter of perspective. Anyone in a hiring position has to look at this and think "when are we going to do something she arbitrarily takes issue with and puts US on blast with an illegally recorded conversation, stolen documents, etc"?

It's like cheating on your wife, marrying your mistress, and then her being surprised when you cheat on her. If she did it to a previous employer she'd do it to you.
I have pairs of cheap reading glasses scattered around the house, and while they are fine for reading and close work, they don’t quite bring things into focus ar screen distances. Usually when working I need both, so progressive lenses do help.
Paying or not paying tax has no bearing on what is considered community property

Yes, it does. In the event of divorce, in the absence of a prenup or postnup explicitly stating that the [83(b) stock or other income] is one spouse's separate income, the payment of taxes on a joint return is the single most important evidence of whether income is considered marital income or separate income, the legal reasoning being that a spouse would not have paid taxes on the other spouse's separate income.

It's also not clear what is "more complicated" about splitting marital property subject to an 83(b) election compared to other marital property.

The "more complicated" is in comparison to how 83(b) elections are treated if the spouses remain together. It's not a comparison to other marital property, though in general stock in a company that is not yet publicly traded can be extremely complicated to divvy up in a divorce.
Interesting, they have a web version available:

https://stellarium-web.org/

Graphics performance and quality in browsers has improved so much in the last decade.
This is a step in the right direction but it is still wrong. Yes, whatever praise or accolades you earn from work will be things you can never take with you when you pass. But the same also goes for whatever enjoyment you get from hobbies, interests or activities. You've just swapped one temporary source of happiness for another. Even if the latter is more meaningful, it is still temporary.

It is easy to suggest focusing on one's happiness but it is more useful and (more difficult) to figure out how to tackle unhappiness instead. The goal is equanimity not happiness (i.e happiness in the conventional hedonic sense). Focus on the cessation of your personal suffering.
I would have expected a hole drilled into a cave or something like that. A piece of steel attached to a deck probably won't survive 100 years, simply because someone will want to make the deck bigger or better in the intervening time and then the camera will move.

That said, that whole pitch drop experiment is going pretty well. It's not quite at 100 years, but it's getting very close. (2027). So that's 1/10th of a millenium. (I will note that the pitch drop experiment has been moved before. It's not nearly as sensitive to movement as a camera.)
Only thing Im working on is learning the lbum "Pollinator" by Cloud Rat on guitar.

That and working on calisthenics.

Im honestly at the point where seeing a computer makes me a little quesy. Im so sick of tech
100%? Is gitlab still remote? I know there are many others.

In my view and experience it works great for many companies. No massive problems.
> ...assuming that the developer isn't making up a story.

Even if the developer is a millionaire, it's proper to chip in a few bucks for free stuff that you use and enjoy. Sob story or no sob story.

But honestly, the real solution is for people to stop with this open source nonsense and start charging for their work. There are thousands of potential customers for every boutique app or code solution.

Nobody is entitled to free code, especially not the billion dollar companies who are the main beneficiaries of the hard work of open source programmers.
You're spilling the beans on that guy

That's not nice

;)
This seems topical:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoHonorAmongThie...
One thing I noticed: the movie is very careful to lay out how the betrayal of House Atreides actually works. Every other time I’ve watched a version with someone I’ve ended up needing to explain who the heck the Sardukar are.
Rented model3 in New England, drove 1 trip, paid some $33 in town for charging cost, for a distance for which the gas equivalent wood have been no more than $15. Spent time hunting for charging stations until I found the supercharger.

Came here and said EV was not cheaper to run for me, many people on here disagreed. I gave up
Wow, I just wanted to say thanks a lot for posting this. I'm in a very similar boat. I was always very focused and goal-oriented in my younger days - a bit of a workaholic but generally enjoyed working hard. A number of changes since the pandemic have left me feeling very similar to you:

1. Like tons of other people, I re-evaluated my relationship with work during the pandemic. To be honest, it wasn't easy. I think a ton of people (especially Americans) tie up their self-worth with their jobs, and during the pandemic I just felt more disconnected from my job.

2. I think a lot of folks have underestimated the psychological changes that happen from being way more isolated these days. I don't mean "shut-in" isolated, I just mean that working remote most days means the number of people I interact with in person has gone way, way down. I'm all for remote work but I won't deny that I greatly miss a lot of the energy from just being around other people.

3. Finally, I've just become really disillusioned with tech over the course of my career, which makes me very sad. I started my career during the dot com boom, and there was so much optimism about the beneficial societal changes that tech and the Internet would bring. I don't feel like all tech is "evil" these days, but I do feel that the world would be better off if all the big tech companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) just completely stopped building any new tech. Obviously that's not realistic, but it highlights my feeling that I'm not looking forward to any new tech from these companies, because more tech is going to invariably lead to more isolation, more "doom scrolling", more assaults on our attention. I feel like most big tech companies have just become the equivalent of drug dealers, just trying to hijack our brain's evolutionary attention mechanisms to addict us. "Attention is all you need" is right...

Anyway, don't have any advice or anything, just wanted to say I appreciated your post in a "misery loves company" sort-of-way, so thank you.
This is why I don't like the old saying "if you're not paying, you're not the customer, you're the product". Paying often makes you even more of a product because now you've proven that you have money to spend.
ArchiveBox – open-source self-hosted web archiving
University of California considers SF for expansion in wake of Mayor's plea
I'm with you, _pace_ the bulk of the other comments in this thread. My wife, knowing nothing whatsoever about _Dune_, saw the movie with me, and "got" every element of the complex political background - in the car ride home she asked questions and spun theories, all of which were dead-on. It's a masterpiece of adaptation, a beautiful film, and I don't get the "soul-less" critique at all. On the big screen, at least, it's alive as hell, and Paul's prophetic dreams are handled perfectly: confusing and suggestive and strange, without ever taking you out of the narrative.

It's not even like the film is "slavish" to Herbert's narrative, either, like a few people have said. Having Kynes assassinated, rather than captured, removes a fun scene, but gives the audience a first hint of worm-riding, which is narratively useful.

My only regret, which I only arrived at after my third viewing, is that the actor playing Jamis should have played Stilgar, and Bardem should have played Jamis. I think Bardem is slightly mis-cast, but he's also enough of a name that the audience would have felt the same regret as Paul does at Jamis' death.
I know it's a hard sell, but the 30 minutes to an hour to understand filesystem contexts and how to copy them from a good place isn't a lot

It's likely to little gain. I know why people don't, but it is very accessible to those open to it

The more one adheres to the FHS, the easier SELinux is
The root problem is: Management (and Leadership) don't want to learn how to manage in WFH world. It's a different approach and different mindset than in-office.

It's certainly not as simple as "look at us...we're using Slack...we're a remote-minded organization now." Tho I've seen such a naive - and lazy? - approach happen more than once.

That aside, I also sense there's pressure from above. WFH is putting commercial real estate in a tail spin. Anyone who has investments in such real estate isn't going to be in favor of WFH. These smaller forces add up.

RTO makes little sense. It the same as twenty years saying "The internet is a fad..." WFH is the future. There's no turning back at this point, is there?
Now I have to check if I've ever used "bifurcated."

Guilty pleasure: I sorta like that word /s
That's my impression as well, as an IC that transitioned to management soon after the pandemic. If you're already aligned on what you're doing, WFH is a good way to get there faster. But getting that alignment has become very difficult in the WFH world. You don't have high-bandwidth communication to lay out complex trade-offs between different people, and you lose a lot of trust that makes it possible to compromise, disagree, and commit.
all satellites viewed with the naked eye look like a "glowing dot". in long exposure images, they look like long single pixel streaks which makes them easily different than a meteor which flares wider in the middle before narrowing again as well as also changing colors.
I meant disable labeling in podman. :)
My layman understanding is 1. big, practical size robotic arms are expensive and 2. also very slow, making real training expensive and time consuming. And 3, simulations aren't high-fidelity enough to be fully sufficient for training, but they definitely can help.
Maybe you are correct. But ICs do not decide what to work on, the PMs and other leadership do. So why can’t ICs continue working from home while the “deciders” go back to the office?
I am currently doing nothing.

I've spent several years recently writing various bits of open source software outside work, and trying to get a new search algorithm published in some journal. After several rejections, I stuck it on arXiv, but I think I'm done with it.

I'm not particularly bothered by my lack of drive right now. Sometimes it's good to just enjoy life and kick back. I'm sure something else will come along that I get into eventually.
Online means it processes the items as they come[1]. This means the algorithm can't consider all the items at once, and has to try to be clever on the spot.

In my case the algorithm uswd would use the first k samples as the initial means, and would then find which of the k means were closest to the current sample, and update that mean[2].

Given that in parh tracing one would typically use a fairly large number of samples per pixel relative to k, this approach did a reasonable job of approximating the k means.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_algorithm

[2]: https://yokolet.com/2017/05/29/online-algorithm.html
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