skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone is a socialist, or high density enthusiast. Personally I want the local government to only spend money in ways that result in people being more independent of a dense centre, that allows people to have more control over their immediate environment, and less impact from neibours.

Roads and highways are worth the expense, I am not convinced when it comes to many other public infrastructure or services.
A four-stage approach for hiring women on your engineering team
I think it just quickly fell off the front page. (I think I found it on page 3.)
I hope it has js api to also do it programmatically
Let’s be honest, a lot of time with kids is quite boring.

Dads reading the newspaper at the table has been a a thing forever.

Moms reading a book, crocheting, or doing dishes/cooking while interacting with kids was common.

In the 80s, the TV was ALWAYS on in the background. Maybe the radio or NPR in the 70s?

I would say the phone is probably better than the background TV, but worse than the rest.

But being a working parent is a slog, with very little personal time. 40 hours of a job, 3-5 hrs of commute, then picking up kids, making dinner, cleaning up after them or nagging them to clean up, driving around to activities. Sitting down and scrolling hacker news is a peaceful release. I’ve driven my kids for about 4 hours today, and my day ended at 930 when they finally got home and went to their room to finish homework. Kids are a lot of work for most of the 18 years, not just the baby years.
I wonder if we'll be asking the same questions in 10-20 years with kids wearing slim AR/VR-glasses everywhere 24/7. It seems for every generation there is a subgroup that falls between the cracks.
Small nitpick: 72% of U.S. teens say they sometimes feel peaceful without smartphones.

This study carries all sorts of biases if the idea is to gauge how teens really feel without their smartphones. What it tells however is that teens have this idea that they spend too much time on their smartphones.

It would be interesting to conduct a proper experiment. For example, have a randomly selected group of teens do some activity where they are allowed to keep their phones, and another group where they are not. And then ask general questions about well being without telling them it is about smartphones, and then, see the differences. A weaker measurement could be by finding correlation between mood and whether or not a place allows smartphones or has network.

And now see if the results match the questionnaires. So see if teens really feel more peaceful (or anxious) when they don't have their smartphone, or if that's just what they want to believe (or want you to believe).
I've been in the industry for 10 years now. If memory serves I've applied to about 20 companies, had 8 interviews, and 5 offers resulting in 3 jobs. I don't doubt your experience, but it's not a universal truth of how the world works.
For me, reading papers requires deep focus. I have to have it physically printed out if I'm going to really read the whole thing.
I'm in the US and I don't see any current manufacturer lowering their price over time. They'll either have higher margins or they'll just add more features to raise the price.

Average car price in 2002 was ~$19k.
Adjusted for inflation is ~$33k.
Average car price in 2024 is $48k.

If a company was run in a more sane way where they want to provide cars at a reasonable price where the company can pay it's employees a fair wage then maybe that could happen. Instead, most US corporations pay employees as low as possible, take as much money from the consumer as possible, and have the excess go to executives and shareholders.
I also love mermaid, hopefully this doesn’t enshittify it.
>Maybe they were taking a day off work made only possible by being available.

That's not a day off work, then.

>I think 46% of parents being distracted sometimes by any of those things is not at all problematic. Maybe kids can learn to wait 2 minutes.

If you read the article and not just the HN quote, the full sentence is, "teens who say their parent is distracted by their phone while having a conversation with them." This isn't a child approaching their parent and the waiting for them to stop reading or working on a grocery list before they start chatting, this is a parent losing focus in the middle of a conversation because of whatever is on their screen.

I think we're all pretty aware, and have seen, this behavior firsthand and how distracted people are by their phones in such a scenario. You don't stop listening to your kid mid-convo just to read a sentence in a book, do you? No, you take that moment (the "two minutes" you alluded to) to come to a nice spot to pause and then give them your attention. Doesn't sound like that's what's happening here.

>We do everything on our phones.

We don't have to.
There's a fair bit of design, validation, and certification that goes into making sure a pack is safe. The spot welding and wrapping is just the final result.

Thermal design to make sure the pack doesnt overheat under normal conditions. There's the mechanical side to make sure that the pack can survive shock and vibe.

Getting packs certified to UN38.3 or IEC62133 are no small feats. Unsurprisingly, the certification process is not cheap. For 62133, we had to provide a ton of samples.
I want the year 2010 car experience with some of the EV benefits. So electric motor/battery/charging/steer and break by wire/classic dials for speed/classic climate control controls/classic signalling and lighting controls/... Maybe Carplay/Android Auto, but no tracking or operating controls that are touch screens. Also, a way to disable the display with a button.
We're talking about people dedicated to the idea of "sport" in general getting excited about kids in local communities who are already talented and driven enough to be twice as good as their peers. Sports scouts follow up on phone calls more than they discover talent hidden away in the cornfield, if you see what I mean.
Delighted to hear that!
Spruce Pine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce_Pine_Mining_District

It's the purest source, but lots of cheap PV poly is made from other stuff.
How did you transition from govt work back into tech. Ive made some efforts but never seem to be able to bridge it.
Couldn't you keep hiring surrogates until you get a premature birth?
this is far and away the best roguelike i've played on mobile. indeed, it's pretty much the only roguelike i've ever seen that has a decent mobile user experience. you can tell that the dev team has put a tremendous amount of work into making it look and feel good.
At least they weren't using Access.
This is almost certainly overblown, or at least nothing new

I can't think of how many times my parents would be reading a book or watching TV, or talking on the phone, or otherwise busy doing something when I walked up to them and tried to talk to them

I learned pretty young that they weren't going to drop everything and give me their full attention at my every whim
Possibly. It was basically the native language of Unisys A-series mainframes and I guess those are still around in some form or other.
A simple solution (probably used in many places) to this problem is to have brackets. Everybody is taxed 6.6% on its income until a certain threshold and the rest is taxed at 50%. You can add more brackets as needed. And so, there is no incentive to be just bellow a certain bracket threshold.
Let’s see, the FDA approved it, and the people opposed are an industry lobbying group…
Yeah, lack of regulation is actually a pretty big subsidy for large scale "rare earth" metal refining.
Lots of words to say "goto can be good" with nary an example of a good use of goto. Hard to judge the point without a concrete example.
Income tax isn't the only tax people pay
I often use it even in plain loops, helps me avoid nesting ( https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD/blob/3e51bacb1b74a7e... ), but for most programmers it probably only associates with `goto cleanup;` used to destroy variables allocated earlier in the scope in case of an error.
>"There's some reluctance to say it's Russia doing the jamming, though that seems to be the consensus among experts."

Why the reluctance? I do not think there is much love lost in regards to Russia.
I traveled round trip between NJ and MI last year using Electrify America with my ID.4. It was fine, no real pain points -- EA's been improving pretty aggressively in my experience, and I think we're broadly in pretty good shape.

I charge exclusively using public chargers.
I agree the results would fascinating. The perception from the other side is that rustaceans crave to be bound in the constrictive swaddling of authoritarianism. Which seems to be born out in both the language itself and the foundation.
Not sure if you have kids, but I am guilty of this.

I used to think exactly like you, especially leading up to the birth of our first. You see in restaurants the parent glued to their phone and the child happily doing whatever. It is sad, even as I think about it now - it is sad.

But, I've become more lenient/understanding over time after having children. It is simply unrealistic to be a the beck and call of your child(ren) 100% of the time. It's quite hard for me to want to play with my children for extended periods. Not sure why. It could be my mild ADHD; my desire for something more intellectual? I just get so tired when I'm with them, and after they go to sleep, I'm so awake.

I finally understood why so many people say "work is easier than being with your kids".

Don't get me wrong, I love my kids so much. It's just the idealism vs reality of parenting is very very far. I'm extremely thankful to my wife who reminds me to put my phone away, and it makes me extremely annoyed to be corrected. Obviously, I need it.

Life isn't easy especially raising kids.
Do trained dentists perform their own dentistry?
I don't think that this is always, or even more often, the case. I'll grant you that Ribbon might be an exception.

But the bigger problem is that these days, even when it is the case, by the time you get used to the new UX, it's not new anymore - and now it is on the way out, because the new crop of UX designers have yet another drastically different idea in mind (and they have UX studies to prove that it's better). But change itself carries a usability cost with it, and that is usually not accounted for at all. When it comes to desktop software specifically, quite frankly, what we had 20 years ago was already "good enough".
In the vein of goto, premature optimization, clean code, testing, etc... I think most programming dogmas -- sans of K.I.S.S/write the least amount of code that fulfills all the requirements -- is incorrect, in that it shouldn't be applied haphazardly, without first giving some thought about your unique circumstances.

I've found it better to develop an intuition for these sorts of things, by making mistakes (or seeing those of others), and going from there. In the case of goto, as the author mentions, it really isn't implemented in modern languages the way it used to be (i.e. goto anywhere in the program). But sometimes it is necessary (e.g. early exit a try-catch block, jumping to an error-handling & cleanup block in gruesome circumstances, breaking out of deeply nested loops (never having deeply nested loops is another dogma I don't agree with), in state machines, etc.).
> Say, I am happy and confident to do all your leetcode/homework assignments + 8h interviews, but I want to be also top candidate as result.

Perhaps not a 100% guaranteed one. Some interviewers just do a bad job.

For example, in some of my recent interviews, the (always young) interviewer posed brainteaser questions that have approximately nothing to do with the skillset and knowledge that the job requires.

I'm sure those questions are good for identifying candidates with very high IQ and/or familiarity with that particular puzzle. But as a very experienced developer, it really pisses me off to be passed over because I didn't answer those to the interviewer's satisfaction.

Long story short: interviewing well is a skill, and as a candidate you can't guarantee a good interviewer.
Please see my examples below.
Those are not realistic scenarios. While many people do receive some sort of housing assistance from parents, the number who inherit a home with no mortgage is tiny. And in the rare cases that it does happen, the heirs tend to be close to retirement age themselves.

Likewise, almost no one has unrealized annual capital gains on their primary residence which are anywhere near their regular income. US median household income is $75K and median single family house price is $387K. Virtually no one is seeing 19% annual price appreciation on their home.
Markets open to competition from BYD will see massive price drops.
> Also, nobody is currently suing (or particularly upset) over people making art on their home PCs

Nobody is suing because few people have the resources to sue anyone, yes, but people are absolutely upset about all the AI art that is now on the internet.

Much of which is entirely non commercial, in the same way that any other piece of online fan art is.

But hey sure, if your position is that almost all of the online AI art stuff is totally fine (it's mostly all non commercial), then great. You support almost all AI art.

So I guess that means that both fan art and AI art are basically the same anyway, using that same definition of non commercial, which was my entire point.

Also, it doesn't really matter if stable diffusion, or 1 or 2 other big companies go out of business at this point.

Their models are already available for anyone to use, and other people are training them even now.

A couple companies being sued doesn't stop any of this technology even a little bit, because lots of amazing models are available.
> Are you talking about training a human or training an artist?

Neither: I am talking about training a machine learning model. Unless that's what you meant by "artist"?

> Downloading copyrighted data at huge scales to use in your commercial software product is pretty substantially different than an art student studying a reference.

You may have misunderstood my comment. My comment was stating that there's only a portion of human art - the most recent decades of works - which are protected by a copyright. Models like Stable Diffusion could be re-trained instead on centuries of artworks and not infringe at all. So the problem described as "AI powered corporations to front-run the entire human race and sell everything we think back to us" - this problem is here regardless of whether licenses were purchased.
I don't think anything is brake by wire, even that Lexus has a failsafe mode that ultimately is a direct physical connection. No saving parts there yet.
Thanks for the correction. I know nothing of that person.
The vanishing star enigma and the 1952 Washington D.C. UAP wave
This is a pretty fascinating story from Dr Beatriz Villarroel, a researcher in astronomy at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) in Stockholm who leads the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project.

She discusses the findings in this recent YouTube video - https://youtu.be/rFQjwCgYQQo?si=Mc9dfEyCDiIuOrA-
Linus Torvalds on Gotos[1]:

> I think goto's are fine, and they are often more readable than large amounts of indentation. That's _especially_ true if the code flow isn't actually naturally indented (in this case it is, so I don't think using goto is in any way _clearer_ than not, but in general goto's can be quite good for readability).

[1]: https://koblents.com/Ches/Links/Month-Mar-2013/20-Using-Goto...
Why would you claim they’re tumours? Is there evidence showing that it’s unsafe?

Plenty of ideas are abhorrent when they’re proposed but are obvious in hindsight. For example, Ignaz Semmelweis was ridiculed for proposing that surgeons wash their hands before surgery.
Yes, but Man 2 has a 3-6% transaction cost on an already upside down property.

Why do you think Trump doesn't want to sell his properties and become a renter?
> We wAnT mOrE eXpEnSiVe RoAdS aNd hIgHwAyS aNd fReE pArKiNg GaRaGeS!!111

Yes, we want these things, because cars are overwhelmingly popular.
I use zotfile extension to automatically rename files in Zotero
What's a few inland lakes of acid residue toxic metal soup along with tailings piles classified as low level radioactive waste between friends though?

These are still being created today, not just as a practice from the 1800's.

It is the price of technology, better to address these as we progress rather than pushing them out of mind and sight and kicking the can down the road for future generations.
As opposed to eating a chunk of an animal's ass?

It's not a tumor. It doesn't grow out of control. It is carefully managed to grow as much like natural tissue as they can manage. The result isn't real muscle, but then, "real muscle" doesn't sound all that appetizing either.
Watch Australia. I feel the same way about the incumbent manufacturers and their pricing and chasing the higher end market. But BYD has come and captured a huge chunk of the EV market, and that is before releasing their low cost vehicles.
> But as a very experienced developer, it really pisses me off

as very experienced developer, should it be part of your skillset to deal with all kinds of people in the group efficiently and achieve your goal?

As future employee you can't guarantee perfect coworkers..
We had a Red-and-green macaw when I was young. He bit a lot and required a lot of attention. My dad was friends with the local zoo's head falconer and he took him in and let his teenage son train him. I visited him a few year later and he was wicked smart. He could play Super Nintendo Aladdin
My phone is permanently in that state. I only get notified if I need to be.
I’m old and grumpy but in my experience ya can’t write a performant operating system without Goto
The world is moving away from imperative programming altogether, towards functional programming. Pretty much anything that can be done with control flow can be done with data flow instead, leaving fewer opportunities for error. Data flow is a higher level of abstraction that's cleaner and easier to reason about.

If anyone reading this feels like trying something new, I encourage you to learn functional programming instead of finding creative-but-safe ways to use goto statements.
The goal wasn't so much native interop as being the universal VM for different languages. Specifically, they had an explicit requirement that pure CLR bytecode should be a valid compilation target for C++ (among other things - such as what would eventually become F#, hence why CLR also has explicit tailcalls, for example). But, of course, when you have all the necessary abstractions, that also allows for easy interop with the world outside the VM.

It's too bad that this vision was never fully realized - in part, because .NET was not open enough originally, but also because of internal divisions in Microsoft itself. If it did, we could have had the equivalent of both LLVM and WebAssembly much, much earlier.
I think you are asking why Intel had factories in New Mexico, right? In the 1980s, they were expanding and one of their criteria was being less than a 2 hr long flight away from Santa Clara. That’s how they got started in Aloha, OR, Chandler, AZ and New Mexico.
It's wasn't just the semi-conductor manufacturers either.

The PRC had the supply chain from the bottom up (to some extent funded by the western consumers and corporations), whereas the US is trying to get reindustrializd from the top down, without first building a solid fundamental. To make the tough jobs easy, you must have the easy jobs done well first.
Building more types of housing. It's simple - allow people to build, allow denser construction, allow smaller apartments, etc. Hell most of NYC would not be allowed to be built today because the apartments are too small -- yet these are the most desirable areas...
Thresholds are almost always a bad solution (in engineering or otherwise) - the only advantage I have found for them is that they are usually easier to understand than the alternative.
Re write:

static int __init init_nfs_fs(void)

line 2046 without goto. See which version you prefer? I don't see goto use as mandatory.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
That was only an example, not a rule. Presumably you need to label it if you fix the note too
Biting Off More Than We Can Chew with OLAP Libraries
Eh. The real elephant in the room with "ML and Data Science" is checks and balances. They take over as the eyes of the company. Guess what department is seen as kicking ass? Guess which department is getting most money? Most hires? Data. Data.

It's like having the local police department check on the local police department.
Foundations don't pay the bills either; see Linkerd.
We'll have to get them to promise to be honest before they fill out the questionnaire to maximize the chance they we'll get honest data. I think I read that somewhere.
Of course you have to pay it back with interest, what do you expect? But you can use that increased real estate value if you need to, without having to sell your home. And usually with the lowest interest rates available to any individual person.

A renter can not use any of the rent he or she has paid as security for any loan.
Although I think this guy gets a lot wrong on safety, he has a fairly unique perspective on the economics and practicality of ammonia as marine fuel: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarnard/2024/01/03/ammon...

China is already electrifying cargo transport on the Yangtse River, but I think true ammonia-fuelled cargo tankers are a way off.
Well, even back in my grandfather's day (he was a millwright for Ford) working on
the line required more mental skills than most people realized. Remember when Elon Musk finally gave up trying to 100% automate his factories? He said "we undervalued the abilities of humans."

If manufacturing cars is so complex you can't train monkeys, or build robots, to do it, how much harder must it be to make chips?

Making things that small, that precisely, repeatably, profitably, by the millions and billions, is spectacularly complex. And with each process node, the complexity grows even faster than Moore's law does.

Eventually, it gets to the point that even to tell somebody how to do something, you need to do it using the language of advanced physics, the kind of physics which requires you to spend studying 60-80 hours a week, for 5-7 years in grad school to learn. As the gen-X proverb goes, reality bites.
> I'm in the US and I don't see any current manufacturer lowering their price over time.

Have you checked Tesla prices over the last 12 months?
I found elixir a fun inroad to functional programming.
Reviews I saw about (arpanethack at gmail dot com) sounded much like a lie not until now you helped me to upgrade my worst semester result to upper credit I’m quite speechless thank you for your prompt service it was really top notch without traces text his mail above if in need of hacking services
They’re pretty fun and super affectionate! It’s like having a little curious buddy who wants to do everything with you, learns your routine, communicates what’s on their mind, always warns you of scary things and sounds, viciously attacks anything or anyone they think might be a danger to you, and absolutely holds a grudge if you do something upsetting.

And they’re smart enough to remember people for many years and learn how to behave differently around different people based on past interactions.

Oh and you can throw them like a boomerang.
> as very experienced developer, should it be part of your skillset to deal with all kinds of people in the group efficiently and achieve your goal?

If you know of a way to convince a 20-something interviewer, during the interview, that the puzzle they picked isn't a good way to winnow down the list of candidates, I'm all ears.

Dealing with people is absolutely a good skill for senior developers. But there are limits to how much interview nuttiness can be overcome by mere mortals.