skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One sentence changed the whole direction of my life
Born and raised in an Asian family, I was always the good child, the high-achieving student, fast-tracked into an MT program. It is my dream place with exciting projects and colleagues. But last week, I ended that dream.

Working at that firm, I felt deeply how technology can shape our world. From there, my mind kept wandering with the what-ifs: what if I could build something like it, what if I could change the world, what if my life could be different?

Time passed; the clock rang, opening my eyes from a good sleep, and I found nothing had changed. The need for financial security, fear of judgment stopped me from leaving. I feel like “Ah quitting things and starting a startup are just for another rebellious person, not for me.”

But something happened.

“Your life-changing moment is just one step away.” On my way home after work, this short sentence from a random podcast caused everything around me to go blank - pure blankness.

The 'what ifs' resurfaced: what if I book a trip to the US? What if I submit my letter tomorrow? What if I stop everything and backpack to Africa? My entire life will change. There’s no more established path, no more status quo, no more “it’s not for me”.

I DO have the power to change it. I can shape and decide it; nothing is stopping me, it’s just me. With tears falling, I now feel freer than ever.

Months passed, and here I was, having a one-on-one with my manager to let her know I wanted to leave. She was happy for me, hearing that I had found the things I wanted to do.

Here I was, building the landing page for my first startup during the nights

And here I am now, writing this line on LNY 2024. Today marks a new year, and I know my life will never be the same.

And I hope it will be a great year for you as well :)
Looking at the list of bestsellers, I'm not upset that so many do not read.

(Yes, Britney Spears is still on the NYT list. I checked so you don't have to.)
Ironically, solving for your crticism leads to the criticism in the comment next to yours. They complain about a text encoding library that also reads and writes files, makes network connections, etc. This is a form of bloat. But it minimizes my number of dependencies.

So which is the worse approach?
An ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
I can confirm, DE works. Just don't breathe the stuff, which you're supposed to puff onto surfaces. Once it's there, the bugs have to crawl across it so it'll cut them up like little razor blades, or a thousand paper cuts. So satisfying.
OP was arguing that it was decreasing. Steam is a bad source of info for a lot of reasons. Meta is the largest platform and they don't release numbers. My personal feeling (Apple Vision Pro hype not withstanding) as a VR developer is that the industry is in the slow growth phase and will continue to grow as real usecases are found and hardware continues to improve year over year.
All of this sounds well and good until you see the natural conclusion of those policies to keep old people from having to pay for their dragon hoarde. It turns your city into the Bay area where no one can afford to live there except the landed gentry you've created.
Reading is an active skill vs watching something is more passive. There’s lots of pathways in your brain that intensive reading lights up compared to other mediums. And lots of studies show that you retain more information and building stronger informational connections when reading vs watching.

No one is telling you to stop watching movies or playing video games, but being a more active participant in a leisure activity can be beneficial every once in a while.
If ten thousand people have a copy of the source code for bash 5.1.4 then do you count that once or ten thousand times?

If you only count each version once then do you only count official releases or do you increase the count by 500MB when someone corrects a one character typo in their copy of the linux kernel source on their laptop hard drive?

How do you count the size of the git repositories that can check out a million different versions but only store the differences?

I think I have some very old CD-ROMs of compressed debian source code, does the compressed or uncompressed size count?
Might be relevant:

sed-chess:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37896854

awk-raycaster:
https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster
Agree. I have a friend who, to put it kindly, is more brawn than brain.

Voracious reader. Dozens of books a year, all swords & sorcery. Not really anything he could learn from.
Persons who claim asylum can file for a legal work permit 150 days after filing for asylum until their case is adjudicated. Given the backlogs that currently means for years. And of course any children they have in that time are citizens. There are NGOs that help immigrants learn of these rights and exercise them. Amazon themselves even have a program to do so[1].

[1] https://press.aboutamazon.com/2022/3/amazon-launches-employm...
Not an American.

I read a lot but I can't think of a book I read last year.

I don't think "didn't read a book" is that useful for inference about imagination, literacy, education etc., unless it's also matched by watching an enormous amount of linear or episodic television.

"Didn't read a book" might, however, be a meaningful proxy for shorter attention spans. I think it could be in my case, even though I read voraciously.
I used this tool recently to debug some issues where one of our batch tasks was using more memory than it should and sometimes OOMing in an environment where it shouldn't come close to hitting a memory ceiling.

Found the issue almost immediately with the high watermark analysis which provides visibility into the part of the codebase/call stack that allocated every bit of allocated memory that was still live at the high watermark time. Made diagnosing the issue (an unexpectedly large amount of memory required when using a method from a third party library -- xarray.merge) and remedying the issue incredibly easy.

I was very impressed by the quality and utility of this tool and am now a huge fan!
Retaliation is not common in the US. Stop spreading misinformation.

Why would an HR department from any reputable organization fire you if your wife is expecting?
APL: Inner Product
As someone who listens to a _lot_ of audio books, I'll admit that the majority of them are quite entertaining but are definitely not worth vaunting over other forms of entertainment. Most of the more intellectually demanding reading I do tends to not even come from books, but rather from things like academic papers, blog posts, and long form articles.
As you know games can be incredibly informative even though they usually aren't.

I learned history in a way that sticks much better from Europa Universalis and Total War than from books, even though those games aren't even real in the sense that you're making up a new timeline. Orbital mechanics only clicked for me when trying to land a rover on the Mun in KSP.

Maybe entertaining simulations are the second-best way to learn besides actually doing something, with books somewhere further down the line.
Property tax on owner-occupied residential property everywhere should have a "replace it with a lien against the property" option - some states have it.

The exact situation you're referring to caused Prop 13 in CA, and something has to be done before something like that gets enacted.
Avoid using energy-hungry appliances during peak hours.... ovens/stoves

We've gotten pretty good at shifting most of our use out of peak hours, but when peak runs from 4pm-9pm, it's hard to avoid cooking during that period (which, I suppose, is one reason that's the peak). Though we have shifted most of our oven cooking to a small convection toaster oven, which should save at least some electricity.
Or, perhaps, the sort of person who spends time on a website centered around reading is unsurprisingly in the top percentiles of reading amount.
I didn't think about that but now that you say that, I'm not finding any other sources reporting on it. Again, when I read a heavily biased source, I'm always suspicious of the findings. When the author asks a virtual nobody at the company (and to be clear I am a virtual nobody at mine as are 98% of HN'ers) if there are deaths happening all the time at Amazon warehouses, this is a huge red flag. Why not check into this yourself? If she had said "yes all the time" he would have ran with that as if fact. I wish she had explicitly said it so Amazon could have sued the magazine out of existence.
> It is impossible for something to be a good investment and affordable. They go against one another.

Why do you think that's the case? Many companies are a good investment, while they still provide affordable products. Something can be cheap in an absolute sense, while still providing a good return on investment.
I could see this without login in https://cuecam-presenter.com/pricing
OMG of course there's a wikipedia page for it!

Thank you :-)
The article is about Poland, which is a country in Europe. It is a bit of a stretch to blame the US Federal Reserve.
> reading scientific papers

Based on recent HN threads, sounds like a large percentage of scientific papers are pure fiction. At least books on Goodreads have public reviews and a simple star rating.

Does similar exist for scientific papers?
I do see that clicking on a build will link to the included stories. I was interested in the other direction - looking at a completed story and having build number and prod deploy date/time available. I know I can get to this info trading through the commit and build history then looking at the deploy history, but I was hoping for something easier for the business to use.

Maybe I can use the APIs to build a search where the business can plug in a story number and return this info.
When I saw the title, I thought of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MezNFE5eAp0 ("Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes") about Target's stop-loss department having so much extra capacity they will sometimes do pro-bono work for police departments, but have limited themselves to only violent crimes because the pro-bono requests got to be overwhelming to their actual day jobs
But a lot of modern knowledge is in a form of youtube videos and a lot of trash is in a form of cheap airport-kiosk books.
Because sys admins are going to risk their jobs and expose themselves to possible civil claims for damages or even criminal charges by intentionally circumventing company policy for their friends? A few might, I guess. I wouldn't , nor would any that I know.

A better 5. is probably lobby your lawmakers for stronger workplace privacy laws.
I didn't say they paid well, I said well for completely unskilled labour compared to the competition.
Historically ML is a sub field within the study of AI. So are a lot of even more mundane techniques. So, if the hit word to describe things is AI, and the shoe fits, wear it!
Heat treatment is the only sure way to eradicate bedbugs.

A neighbor fumigated five times and they still remained…until heat treatment.

Diatomaceous earth just scatters them, compounding the problem.
And Tesla, and Apple, and Amazon

“There’s a class warfare and mine is winning” WB
No, we have a strict policy of not taking pictures or video at work unless it has gone through a rigerous process and is explicitly approved. This protects company IP in the only way that should matter, but it also literally saves lives. Someone tried to bomb the building I used to work in. I do not need the layout of my site on public display, the security measures, the blast proof structures, the safe places to hide.

Sorry, whatever pictures the interviewee took takes a backseat to personnel safety. It is the paramount value at amazon, existing above any and all leadership principles.
I believe humans are not part of their diet. ;)

But they can process cellulose, starch and even mold, can survive months without any food, so it is next to impossible to starve them. Low room temperature and low humidity might help a bit.
Yes. In the US, sure. Compared to cities outside the US it is horrible. Less walkable than most, food is ok if you know where to go but nothing special and also super expensive like everything else, aggressive drug addicts wandering the streets, high crime including random acts of violence for literally no reason at all, incessant aggressive honking at all hours of the night, even when you are paying $5k a month for your 1 bedroom apartment it the apartment itself is not a nice place to live in terms of things like sunlight and ventilation, and the city itself is super corrupt. There’s a million folks in unions and other arrangements who are “grandfathered in” to all sorts of privileges that are used to secure their vote. The city has an astronomical budget, all the money is going to more or less bribe key voting blocks. It has been this way for well over a century.

The thing that NYC really has going for it is that the rest of the country is a giant suburban dystopia.
This seems like a very good anecdote in favor of continuing remote work.
If incentives are that misaligned it will never work.

The way it should work is company puts some money in, gov puts some money in. Company money still on the line to incentivise actually doing a good job, gov money just lowers the threshold a bit. If no company money on the line, they will just pretend to do the thing.
Yeah. I dont have facts, just feelings. When i read these articles, i get the same feeling I get talking to those people in yhe mall who stop you trying to sell you hand cleaner, ya know

Yes, washing your hands is good

Yes, some soaps are better than others

But I wasnt looking to buy soap, and I really dont want to spend $20 on 8oz.

I think I also have been struggling with how we in the US have lost a lot of community spaces in the last 50 or so years

Arcades are gone, malls are dying, parks have few people in them, government buildings are fortresses, small town shops were killed by wallmart, restaurants are massive chains selling microwave meals, main streets are four lanes of traffic…

I long for interesting neighborhoods with shops and restaurants I can walk to.

But even after reading these articles I am still unconvinced deregulating apartments is the answer.

Maybe I just fear deregulation since I keep hearing how the deregulation of the 80s and of the housing market was not a good thing
I get the utility of it, and probably having everything in the repo of a project in the same programming language is a benefit, when onboarding new people.
but...

Shell scripting has a long and glorious history, filled with incremental
improvement in the tooling that have proven themselves over decades.
The shell scripting languages themselves and all the awesome tools that
come along with them on UNIX.

You are 100% guaranteed to be reinventing the wheel over and over (and poorly) if you write shell scripts without a good understanding of what is available
"Off the shelf"

There are great benefits to had by using am appropriate language for
the task at hand.
yeah, the get big and move fast..
I've seen a lot of comments about how bad DataDog is because of cost but surprisingly I haven't seen open-source alternatives like OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana/Tempa mentioned.

Is it because most people are willing to pay someone else to manage monitoring infrastructure or other reasons?
And for that matter, very senior people have been fired without a second thought for taking pictures at work.
A 15k personal loan at 12% (no idea what loan rates are now, but 12% seems high enough) with a payback period of 3 years would be an extra $600/mo. Heck at 1 year its an extra 1,332.73/mo - you would still come in under median.
This has been my experience. Excepting maybe small startups, gone are the days also where a sysadmin could do something and nobody would know. These days things are heavily logged and audited, usually by software. With IaC and peer review, there's no way one person could do something without numerous others knowing.
Ask HN: Are there any cameras with a non-square pixel matrix?
I want to have such a camera which can be mounted in the middle of airplane propeller and still be able to provide a decent picture despite of high RPM. I suppose the pixels have to be placed in such a manner as an information which is written in HDD plate. I do not know how to describe that shape but bits on HDD probably has the shape which is needed for pixels of rotating camera.

Any works in this direction?
GPT4 makes it so easy to write or translate scripts, I don't care if you write it in js or bash or powershell or batch files or python or ruby or whatever. Whatever is most convenient at the time is best, and it can be very easily translated if something else is preferred later.
Tasty name! Great work :) I'm sure that was a lot of fun to build
This is so stupid. In Spain even fathers get "paternity" leave. You even get a week off if you get married...
There might be allow lists, but I fine tuned the domains manually when setting up the TV, as they may vary by region.

My LG A1 does not hardcode addresses. I also rooted it to prevent updates from doing so in the future.
Written letters are not an obsolete technology.
Old people in Texas get their property taxes frozen I believe at 65. But honestly it might be better for them to downsize into something more appropriate and perhaps free up the larger houses for families. My mother has basically just turned my parents' house into an eBay warehouse full of junk that she intends to sell one day. I can't say that I have any big problem with that at the end of the day, but if you think getting young families into housing is a more important goal for society, then it does seem like a waste.

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sore about the 10% year over year thing, particularly when I hear about how Republicans run a low-tax state or that a wealth tax is unconstitutional/infeasible. I pay my wealth tax every year, but I suspect I'm too poor for the kind of wealth tax they mean. I can at least enjoy the irony.
I wasn't ever very tempted by React when it started getting hot because I had started using Rich's component library Ractive and it was so obviously better than React
>Just in the past few years, many companies have started giving generous paternal/maternal leave policies.

Try passing these paternity leave policies as a law and see which side those companies are on then. You will quickly get a taste of reality. Capital loves to perform generosity when they retain the power to stop at a moment's notice and lay everybody off with no cause.

The 40 hour work week was won with nothing less than years of backbreaking struggle and 4 innocent lives lost at the hands of the mitary assigned to break the strike.

US workers have not won any universal workers rights in living memory. The decimation of labor unions and the CIO in the McCarthy era put an abrupt end to that.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike
From the article:

> It can also play a useful role in social coordination: when we evince being creeped out at another’s behavior, this can be a signal to those who notice that we dislike or disapprove of that kind of behavior. If it gets back to the person engaging in the behavior, it may regulate their actions as well. Few people enjoy being thought of as a creep. A sexual harasser, for example, might not mind being thought of as a scoundrel, but would not want to be considered creepy.

Further reading:

> The trend results from 2003 to 2012 showed the vast majority of crimes were still committed by men with around 88% of homicides and 75% of all legal felonies.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime
NY brokers are pretty ruthless. Our basement 2Br/1Ba apt in the Bronx cost us $2200/mo and broker got $2200 on top. And that was 15+ years ago now
Burns, Oregon (Carl's home town) and Harney County do not appear on Hacker News very often, but what an amazing place it is.

Recently, it's probably best known for the Bundy family and company taking over the wildlife refuge south of Burns.

But it's well worth a visit for some of the natural attractions, the most prominent of which is Steens Mountain and the Alvord Desert just below it to the east.

Much of it is incredibly remote - the county is more than 10,000 square miles ( 26,490 km2 - more than half the size of the Netherlands and twice the size of Connecticut ) and has fewer than 8000 people.

https://harneycounty.com/
If you're using Raycast app already, you can easily control your windows using just a few shortcuts.
I think it's a good caption? I also think it's probably not been stolen
How to Study (2023)
You mean the food chain remained intact as long as you're awake. ;)
Embracing Open-Source Alignment
> The man didn't seem to want to quit, from the context, it's possible the person did not tell the truth. He may have worked himself too hard, I've known many people that just didn't quit.

Did you read the whole article carefully? There's a detailed description of the events that led to his death, and how the company's treatment of him and of his requests and complaints directly contributed to his death.
> That's why the prefix "modern day" is added.

This is unfair to actual modern day slaves.

Have you missed the following part?

> millions of people who were (and still are!) treated as literal chattel to be bought, sold, separated from family, mutilated, raped and killed at a whim.

If you're comparing the plight of Amazon workers to actual slaves, you're playing down the plight of actual slaves.