skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From my experience in the tech industry I can say with utmost confidence that "not smart"/"talentless" people who are determined and hard-working lead to significantly better real world results than geniuses who are lazy, unmotivated or overall not action oriented.

This hit me especially hard in university, where I went from being "the smart kid" to suddenly encountering subjects where I could no longer get by with crunching on the evening before the test and instead needed to actually have a work ethic for studying long term. The same applies to programming or learning more skills - you might need to fail more times than someone has even tried to get good at something, whether that's fighting the compiler for a new language, or reading the same material and doing exercises in a book multiple times until the dots finally connect.

> Be audacious. Most people who are talented or smart are scared of doing things. I’m not sure why that is, but it’s more often than not the case.

As far as the article goes, though, I am very curious about this point. I've also seen this and have experienced it myself, for example when needing to message someone and ask about a thing or organize something without necessarily knowing the full picture. Personally, I'd say it's almost like anxiety, due to not knowing all of the variables and overthinking things, or even just wanting to be considerate and not waste someone's time on a social level... whereas in actuality working on the issue is almost always better than just ruminating.

I've heard the expression of "You get what you ask for in life" and think that it holds true - if you want to make things happen in life, whether that's getting a promotion, getting a new job, or making progress on a project, you're unlikely to do any of those by just thinking about all of the details. Same with circumstances like running a business on some hackathon level code - that person is going to make money and eventually be able to refactor things, whereas someone else won't even launch while chasing the perfect codebase, the perfect landing page, the perfect mobile app or component library or tech stack.

> Ask your naive questions.

With the previous point in mind, this has been particularly hard, especially when you start worrying about what others will think of you for asking questions that might seem a bit basic. You should still ask them and get as many details as possible.

That can be the difference between not asking the important stuff and wasting weeks of work to hit some roadblock way down the road, or asking a bunch of silly questions in a meeting, having someone scoff at you a bit, but ignoring their attitude and realizing that the way they want their auth system to work isn't realistic, bringing that up, and saving everyone a major headache after setting them back on the right path.

Plus, in general it's good to make sure that everyone is on the same page and for taking notes, as the article mentions. On that note, do take notes whenever you can, maybe even have meeting recordings somewhere!
So, maybe someone can go and help fix their miserable mess? MB used to make awesome cars. Then they 'modernized' their interior and it became a UI mess and then they added more and more software and it became unreliable and sometimes downright dangerous. I have driven their cars on and off for decades but I'm really done with them. Highly unlikely I'll have another MB as my daily driver.
I haven't kept up with this in the last year or so, but as of about a year ago memory defragmentation was essentially absent, having been mostly disabled after users complained that it took way too long in win8.
Good faith, yes. But even talented people get in strange waters sometimes.
Did you read the story, OP has no depression but BiPolar with psychotic episodes and was previously put on epileptic medicine
I am sad that I have but one up vote. I have made a career out of some of the behaviors described here. Asking dumb questions has saved me countless bad outcomes on projects. Being bold and just talking with the people who use the tools you build. So much of these soft skills are just ignored for being able to code a freaking linked list or some nonsense on a whiteboard.
Dark reader crashes too much and too often for my liking. I still use it but I would love for an alternative to emerge.
Ask HN: Would doing a coding bootcamp be a horrible idea?
Hi folks,

About 8 years ago I got into tech sales. I was always a bit “nerdy” and interested in leveraging data/automation so a career in sales quickly transitioned into sales operations, but outside of some python and tad bit of SQL all my work has been on no code platforms (mostly Salesforce). The stuff that “real” engineers did seemed totally inaccessible to me, although that inaccessibility has diminished a little after observing the engineers at the startup I was working at.

That startup recently let me go in a round of layoffs. I saw it coming and dad been saving, so I’m entering unemployed with about 6-12 months of living expenses in the bank depending how deep into savings I dug. (Also have nobody depending on my salary as my wife just got a big promotion/raise).

Would it be a horrible idea to finally jump over the imaginary chasm I’ve built in my mind into the world of engineering and enroll in a coding bootcamp? I know in the best of times these programs were tenuous and full of questionable promises despite costing $10k+, what are they like now given the job market and impact of generative AI?

Thanks for the insight!

(For context, I’m 34 and based out of NYC. No kids.)
> Despite findings of the Cohen Inquiry, a number of myths have evolved around the cause of the Comet 1's accidents. Most commonly quoted are the 'square' passenger windows. While the report noted that stress around fuselage cut-outs, emergency exits and windows was found to be much higher than expected due to DeHavilland's assumptions and testing methods[122] the passenger windows shape has been commonly misunderstood and cited as a cause of the fuselage failure. In fact the mention of 'windows' in the Cohen report's conclusion, refers specifically to the origin point of failure in the ADF Antenna cut-out 'windows', located above the cockpit, not passenger windows.[123] The shape of the passenger windows were not indicated in any failure mode detailed in the accident report and were not viewed as a contributing factor. A number of other pressurised airliners of the period including the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, Douglas DC-7, and DC-8 had larger more 'square' windows than the Comet 1 and experienced no such failures.[124] In fact, the Comet 1's window general shape resembles a slightly larger Boeing 737 window mounted horizontally. They are rectangular not square, have rounded corners and are within 5% of the radius of the Boeing 737 windows and virtually identical to modern airliners.[124] Paul Withey, Professor of Casting at the University of Birmingham School of Metallurgy states in a video presentation delivered in 2019, analysing all available data that: "The fact that DeHavilland put oval windows into later marks, is not because of any 'squareness' of the windows that caused failure."[125] "DeHavilland went to oval windows on the subsequent Marks because it was easier to Redux them in (use adhesive) – nothing to do with the stress concentration and it's purely to remove rivets." (from the structure)[126]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet#Square_wind...
Great article. I think that music artists are still needed for live concerts. For creating music to listen to, not anymore.

Collecting, searching and paying for music is done, soon.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7-8700g-linux

Appears to work well, although I've not heard of other people having the issues that you did on the 5000 series.

I'm still on the 3000 series so my experience is older, but always very stable even when new.
I think the medicines likely reduce beta amyloid rather than get rid of all of it which if it has a prion like mechanism wouldn't really fix things.
Microsoft says Apple's new EU App Store rules are 'step in the wrong direction'
From the linked thread:
> The most difficult issue to get right is cache invalidation.

For sure, right up there with naming things and off-by-1s.
Not necessarily. I suspect the Poincare recurrence Theorem provides us with enormous durations, like 10^(number of dynamical variables), with the unit of time omitted because of utter irrelevance, or something even more horrific. It may be the case that the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not hold on such time scales but how could we ever know?
To me it feels like the Raspberry Pi Foundation hasn't met its objective of making computers accessible and affordable to everyone (especially children in disadvantaged areas). Each iteration is so expensive and previous iterations don't lose value or are made cheaper. It's more prudent to spend a bit more for a mini-pc. In South Africa, the average child from a disadvantaged background has no chance of buying a Pi.

Arduino on the other hand, open sources the hardware, meaning very cheap but less powerful SBCs from companies in China (and elsewhere).

They should be doing the same as they have the ecosystem and resources to mass produce very cheap boards, but the Pi is prohibitively expensive, and it looks like they cater to companies first and prioritise making a profit.
It'd be great to have an MTU of say 64 KiB or greater.

Although I guess you'd also need a longer than 32-bit CRC to detect all the possible 3 bit errors past 11 kB frame size. A 40-bit CRC would be sufficient, at least up to 188 kB frame size or so.
This looks really nice, I built something similar, mostly focused on podcasts now:

https://www.langturbo.com

I built something more complex before, that had YouTube content, AI shadowing tests, some built in SRS, but I chose to focus on the most important things first.

I actually started building my app due to the frustration of not finding any "intermediate level" apps. Good to see more options out there. Good luck.
if I remember correctly Dentists had more cases of alzheimer than other groups of doctors. I heard it some time ago.

If is a prion, it should resist most sterilization of dental instruments by heat on autoclave. So is obvious IMAO that this could be a way to spread the disease from one patient to other, but I'm not an expert on clinic procedures and the protocols may have been updated. This is known, or at least suspected, since maybe a decade or so.
Ask HN: Would doing a coding bootcamp be a horrible idea in 2024?
Hi folks,

About 8 years ago I got into tech sales after working on the business side of theater. I was always a bit “nerdy” and interested in leveraging data/automation so a career in sales quickly transitioned into sales operations, but outside of some python and tad bit of SQL all my work has been on no code platforms (mostly Salesforce, Hubspot, and spreadsheets). The stuff that “real” engineers did seemed totally inaccessible to me, although that inaccessibility has diminished a little after observing the engineers at the startup I was working at.

That startup recently let me go in a round of layoffs. I saw it coming and had been saving, so I’m entering unemployment with about 6-12 months of living expenses in the bank depending how deep into savings I dug. (Also have nobody depending on my salary as my wife just got a big promotion/raise).

Would it be a horrible idea to finally jump over the imaginary chasm I’ve built in my mind into the world of engineering and enroll in a coding bootcamp? I know in the best of times these programs were tenuous and full of questionable promises despite costing a lot, what are they like now given the current job market and impact of generative AI on the future one?

Thanks for the insight!

(For context, I’m 34 and based out of NYC. College degree from state school. No kids.)
Just as serious is the problem of poor quality concrete used in many buildings in china. Due to corruption, many new buildings have been built of concrete made with normal beach sand. Sand with salt causes iron to corrode and the concrete becomes brittle. It is commonly known as tofu dreg. Lots of buildings have already collapsed. If the bubble burst, and the property market collapses, it will hopefully make houses more robust in the future.
They shifted focus to B2B, with all inventory over the pandemic going to those customers. Despite the chip shortage ending a long time ago they continued to push the line that they were still suffering from it. Later they confirmed in a few interviews that they were doing 100k units a month to thier B2B customers (the reason cited was due to B2B customers livelihoods relying on it which is fair enough). There was a discussion it it at the time here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33864152

Only once the Sony production line expanded did they get back on top of B2C supplies.

Throughout the shortage their blog regularly made statements like "If you are a B2B customer get in touch, we can still supply you with Pis".

In terms of their organisational structure, the charity does indeed still exist, but as I say it's a pretty small part of their business (and yes the charity exists for business) these days. Anyone active in Pi community circles will know that the consumer and education focus is very much going away, all be it slowly but that will no doubt pick up once they become listed and profits becomes the only focus.
Correct, if your BMR lowers drastically due to sustained increased insulin levels, then you're not at a deficit. However, most doctors are not trained to know that this is what is happening. Every BMR calculator will tell you that you are burning X number of calories, but the only way to verify that is with an expensive lab test that is generally reserved for athletes or extremely ill individuals. So instead, the doctor assumes that the patient must be lying about their calorie intake.

There are "symptoms" for a lowered BMR, feeling cold being chief among them as lowering blood circulation is an easy way for the body to slow down. Mental fog is can be another sign as our brain is the most calorically demanding organ in our entire body.

This model of hormonal driven weight loss/gain is fairly new and just now being studied at scale. Hopefully as time passes, doctors will become better educated and can advise their patients on how best to structure their diet to make their bodies work for them instead of against them.

I highly recommend watching some lectures by Dr Jason Fung about the issue in depth. There are a few on YouTube that are 45+ minutes in length and describe the situation more thoroughly. The TL;DW though is this: if insulin levels are high, the body cannot release stored fat. Eating raises insulin. If you eat all the time, your body will always have high insulin levels and cannot release stored fat for energy and thus will look for other ways to equalize the calories in/out equation.

The fastest way to lose weight, is to simply not eat. It sounds so simple and obvious, yet we've lost sight of the plot in our modern world.
Is there a correlation between countries with free dental care and lower Alzheimer's rate?
>A flight on one of these grossly unsafe Boeing planes still seems to be safer than a daily bus commute to work

Not where I live
https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/transport/trafikulykke...
The air stairs thing is a _bit_ of a red herring. 737s are arguably designed to be ideal for them, whereas A320s do support them, but they're a bit taller and sometimes steeper than you'd like. But the taller A320 can and does operate with air stairs.
> misuse of any mundane service or desktop app

That's way, way over-trivializing the issue.

Self-driving cars absolutely will kill someone. The driver may be at fault for being distracted, but as long as the system allows for distracted drivers, the software is the process. See: Aviation post-mortems.

Medical equipment is another example. We do not need to go as far as Therac, there has been a number of near-misses which in the absence of independent post-mortems, are never recorded anywhere.

Drones and autonomous warfare also occupies many developers.

Social scoring systems, and taxation and payment systems, should also not be trivialized. Even if they do not make spectacular media coverage, they absolutely kill people. No indenpendent post-mortems to be seen, blameless or otherwise.
Not sure what your point is there. Owning the commercial arm is pretty irrelevent. Most businesses are owned by a holding company that does nothing more than file a return once a year.
Looks great. Tiny UX nitpick: The light/dark mode switch can be simplified. I am in one of those states already so this is basically a toggle. No need to show two options in a modal.
We live now in a world where the most qualified people are explicitly not part of the old definition of "qualified professionals"
Try a Tesla, I hear their software is tip-top!
Quite a journey:

Experience

JetBrains

22 yrs 4 mos

Chief Executive Officer

Full-time

Jul 2012 - Jan 2024 · 11 yrs 7 mos

team lead

Jul 2004 - Jun 2012 · 8 yrs

Software Engineer

Oct 2001 - Jul 2004 · 2 yrs 10 mos
I once worked for a firm that developed a small, worker owned business that was owned and managed by incarcerated folks. The business was vertically integrated with the jail and produced food served in the cafeteria. It was unique and very much relied on the song willingness of the correctional staff, but such a thing is possible.
Is the new CEO money hungry? I feel like I am missing something.
Well, where else is the foundation supposed to get the money from?
From my limited understanding the blood brain barrier doesn't really stop things. However it is difficult to transmit from one person / animal to another usually resulting from things like transplants or being injected in.
Since they explicitly mention Kotlin, I wonder how it will fare in the future with all the new Java additions. I guess at least it will remain an Android staple.
I feel that the main value of bootcamps is the networking aspect, meeting folk that could help you get into the industry. So in that respect it’s hard to replicate from a fresh state. I would recommend that you try to learn a language on your own anyway, though, if you’re interested. Python is a good choice.

I’ll also say that programming is more a mindset than anything. Willingness to learn, try things, fail, and grow. Languages themselves are also tools more than things to dedicate your life to, so pick the one that works best for your problem if it makes sense. So in that respect the wall you mention is perhaps more one the media has built up.
> affordable housing is in the interest of everybody except property developers.

it is, but it's also complicated as the problems are quite a bit different in China then in the US

the reason there was a bubble in China was because they sold (barely) affordable (apartment owned, not rented) housing to a huge amount of people while not producing it. Like they financed it similar to a snowball system. Group B buys housing but pays for the housing bought by Group A then Group C pays for Group B etc. But at some point it fell apart and people realized the housing they should have gotten "soon" isn't being build (or stuck in a partial state) and the company has no money anymore. (Kind oversimplifying the whole thing.)

To top that off there are (state build) ghost cities which have cheap appartments and acceptable building build quality, the problem is there is nothing there, no jobs(!), no supermarket, bus, people, "anything", if you are unlucky even electricity might be cut of in parts of it, (also I guess for rent not apartment ownership). (But there are also enough examples of western media reporting about ghost cities messed up because turns out just a few years later it wasn't a ghost city anymore.)

And to make that worse it's not just Evergrande. It outside of the areas with a lot of central government focus there where many cases of houses building companies which had money issues trying to pretend everything is fine by cheeping out on building cost to a point where houses build that way are basically unusable. Through from the outside it looked like there is still progress. Issue with that is, it is really hard to guess how bad it is, pro-china media most times doesn't mention it and if it says it's a rare exception and/or videos are fake, anti-china media says it's bad to a point it's everywhere, and you find little in between. And both sides are known to lie a lot.
Not close at all.
Why is that? Based on what?
> Even the most cliched blues going has human reasons for note choice and intonation other than "weighted average of other blues with overlapping description"

From what I've heard about human cognition, we come up with a word-based justification after we decide what to do, it just that the research involved a brain scanner to find this out because it doesn't (usually[0]) feel like this is what's going on on the inside.

So the real reason may well be "weighted average of other blues with overlapping description", followed (not preceded!) by a language model producing some convincing words that can communicate the mental state to other humans.

IMO, the main difference between AI and humans right now, is that humans can do human things with far fewer examples. AI has the speed advantage that lets them read all the words in the world, listen to all the music ever recorder, watch all the videos ever filmed… but are so stupid[1] that they need to, too.

[0] I do sometimes notice this in my own brain: I can have a fully-formed sentence before my inner dialogue tries to (for a lack of a better word for the internal voice) "speak" it — if I then try to skip the inner voice because I've already had the thought and turning into an imagined voice is clearly a waste of time, the part of me which is the inner voice is, for lack of a better word, frustrated.

[1] Stupid on this particular axis. Intelligence isn't fantastically well defined even in humans, is badly defined cross-species, and doesn't have a singular definition at all for machines, so it is perfectly valid to consider intelligence to be a question of "what can it do?" rather than "how fast does it learn?", for which many current AI (there's no G, so narrow AI that only plays chess is fine) "smarter than humans".
The new ones usually are.
Unexpected Ways to Stop Sabotaging Yourself [video]
I'm currently on the JetBrains Ultimate plan, because their tools are that good in my eyes. Well, maybe except Fleet, because it's a bit early in its development and it loves to eat memory for the type of tool it tries to be (e.g. compete against VSC directly).

I hope they don't mess with the recurring discounts for subscriptions.

Honestly, the idea of getting rid of the Community version would be like shooting themselves in the foot, given how popular and passable VSC with a lot of plugins can be. I'm pretty sure nobody would actually consider doing that.

Either way, for larger enterprise projects, JetBrains IDEs still feel like the right tool for the job regardless.
I really hate this argument about how your time has no value if you do something that others may consider "Solved problems.", "Boring thing to work on." or whatever argument people can come up with.

God, this is a website full of "Hackers" and all 90% of the users can think of is how to get the most money out of the things they do.
No better than this. More $ means more squatting in both cases.
The true cost of a Pi these days can end up being more than a low-end mini pc once you add in all the extras you need to make it work. Power supply, sd card, etc. For education you'll need to throw in keyboard, mouse, speakers, possibly a microphone, monitor, cables, etc.

You can easly get to $150 without a monitor when going with a pi vs a lower cost second hand mini pc which is more powerful and upgradable, and can run linux or windows. They've priced themselves out of the education market.
Wait, is Idera involved somehow?
VSCodium isn’t going to save us. MSFT LSP’s cannot be used with MIT releases of VSCode. See https://ghuntley.com/fracture