skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stumbled upon the Pomera DM250 and the concept of “writer decks” by accident while going down a YouTube rabbit hole. There seems to be a huge community of "productivity YouTubers," where the implication is often that if you buy certain devices and adopt the task management process du jour, you’ll somehow become more productive.

While these devices do look cool, I find “unitasker” devices are overrated and overpriced.

And my biggest gripe with these devices including ones recommended in the comments is ergonomics. Neck and eye strain…
https://odysee.com/@tuxsudo:6/chainalysis_XMR:69 if it is removed for some reason, there are other copies uploaded.
I lost access to a YouTube account, which had my gaming videos, when they went all in on Google Plus. Somehow they messed it up and I couldn't get through the recovery process. I remember I was forced to change my password and then I could no longer log in. After that I decided I would never make a new YouTube channel again.
I bet the folks at Train & Pit Co. Couldn’t believe their ears.
Hey, it's not all bad. We all got a movie out of it. ;)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/
>If he’s wrong why does it take Herculean effort to outdo a bunch of average companies?

Inertia. It's very difficult to outrun someone who has a head start.
yes, but it will give you a misleading number (close to 0 for any workload you run in US or EU). So it is useless.
I'm fine, I'm CTO of a small game development studio/publisher in the south of Sweden.

I was born/raised in Coventry in the UK and I feel comfortable with the idea of never returning.

I find it hard to make friends, but that's a combination of being a migrant, being an adult and being considered "very intense" by many- I pour nearly all of my energy into work because on a subconscious level I am terrified of going back to those conditions. And the state of tech (and the gamedev industry) is giving me some generalised anxiety.

Truthfully, the way people talk about sysadmins and devops and SRE also worries me because that's my field of activity and people keep trying to kill off operations as a discipline...

Other than that, fine I think..

ACE 7.

P.S: that test was annoying because I hit the markers but someone worse off than me could hit the same markers and wind up with the same score. :\
its not dumbing down. most people have no clue how to write long AND clear sentences. so in practice this mitigates bad writing for most of us.
Presumably you've tried using hardware enablement kernels?

https://ubuntu.com/kernel/lifecycle

I concur with worbie, rolling release distributions are where it's at: it's the least painful way to use a desktop (reusing the famous phrase, they're the worst operating systems, except for all the others). I recently had issues with the latest kernel, but a) they were fixed within a couple of weeks, not a couple of years, and b) I simply installed linux-lts while fixes were being worked on and continued with my work.
> I published iso20022js.com a few weeks ago

And from the linked article:

> iso20022.js is the most popular open-source library that you can use to create ISO20022 messages programatically

How's that possible?
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Or the lazy/eager divide in theoretical computer science: it's difficult to study without a close investigation of topless models' bottoms.
Makes sense to locate your data center in a country or area with a low emissions electricity system and then also buy clean electricity. There are lots of good choices for DC operators and electricity providers at least in EU.
We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?
So exponential increase in difficulty, linear increase in reward. Unless the price goes exponential too! (Which was the case for a while)
Numbers go brrrt. It's the gamification of everything; lines of code written, number of tasks ticked off, number of words written in a day (often in the context of fanfictino, doesn't matter if the story is good), shades of green on github, hours slept, minutes meditated, seconds spent doing nothing according to a website promoting the virtues of doing nothing.

I mean I get it, idle / factory games are one of my vices. But I won't let it control my existence.
I assume that this was a monthly subscription cost, not an acquisition cost, in which case it is indeed not cheap for most people.
Why should Turkey accept any immigrants that have no right to asylum? Why should the spreading of economic migrants all over europe be morally correct towards any european citizen? Why should anyones hard earned tax money go towards such people and not our own? In Germany, bridges are collapsing and the train network is massively underfunded and derelict which would need a massive investment. And yet, there is no money left. I wonder what is such a massive financial drain that this can't be done.
I assume the author is good at quickly whipping stuff up with Astro, which makes it an excellent tool for the job.
> In fact, we can still see the vestiges of the "low order digits first" convention in some languages even today (for example, in German).

Also in English, with the numbers thirteen through nineteen (and, fairly well hidden, eleven and twelve)
It's amazing how much science just gets no funding to speak of. There are maybe half a dozen museums in the world whose palaeontology departments are not in a permanent budget crunch. There is no money to fund digs, to find new fossils. There is, critically, no money to prepare fossils out of the rocks. One very major natural history known to me had only a single preparator on staff: and the last I heard, that one preparator had been let go so that no fossil preparation at all was taking place, at least officially. And of course there is no money to fund actual research into the fossils that should be coming out of those rocks -- for example, dinosaurs, which you'd think would be a big win for any ambitious museum.

The part of this that baffles me is that there always seem to be untold billions to build particle accelerators. Spread the wealth, high-energy physicists!
Maybe I'm not understanding it completely indeed. To make it more clear to me, can you explain what software development process you prefer so I can contrast it with the points of agile?
Solid cable was new to me, and I couldn't find a good explanation of what it does. From my understanding, it's a replacement for Redis / Memcached.
yes. git-worktrees are great: https://piraty.dev/txt/git-worktrees-multitasking.html
Most of what I've learnt here was less from books and more from colleagues/seminars and reading research papers.

You can get a brief introduction at https://soatok.blog/2020/04/26/a-furrys-guide-to-digital-sig... (your own choice if you want that open in a tab at work or not, but there's nothing NSFW in the usual sense in there), and then read the details of each scheme in the RFCs. Some of the RFCs even talk about security implications.

"djb" as he is known in the crypto world has a good paper at https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1265 , it's 68 pages so "almost a book". He also has a lot of resources on his page https://cr.yp.to . Be aware that he is sometimes ... controversial (not racist or anything, just has strong opinions on FIPS and the NSA and has actually taken the US government to court in the past over this). He's the author of Curve25519.
In formal theory, it would be called a proof by contradiction when extended to an extreme.

Even with the "right mix", if you eat 5x the amount your lifestyle and body and mind need, you ain't ever going to lose weight or get to a healthy state. Obese people are (usually) obese because they eat too much, not just because of the type of food they eat. Heck, today both keto and vegan are considered "healthy" and they are on the opposite end of the spectrum when it comes to diet choices.

I am basically arguing that, to an extent, it's more important how much you eat, vs what you eat. Again, this is all comparative (eg. eating McDonalds burgers for the rest of your life is "healthy" compared to not eating anything at all, but that's a useless distinction).

Plenty of people in the past have eaten "unhealthy" (white bread, fried meat and vegetables) yet didn't have an obesity or health problem, because they countered that with a balanced activity (physical work) and mental load (shared responsibilities).

So my point is that you should reach that "autopilot" on the amount of the food you get, and then you can be pretty liberal in how you achieve it (obviously, don't have chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner). I do agree getting to the autopilot is where you should put your effort to.
It's a stupid notation:

> the foundation uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem

That just sets you up for the year 100,000 problem. The objectively better idea is to just parse years as regular integers, something that I'm confident people will figure out in the remaining 8 millennia until the problem actually hits.
> comply with their "no ban evasion" rule,

Fuck 'em.

What are they gonna do, site-wide ban you again? If so, VPN a third account with your real name. A fourth, a fifth. It costs them a lot to ban you for dumb reasons, and costs you nothing to make new accounts.

I'd suggest creating an email newsletter for people to join if they like your posts. It's the only way to have a reliable audience, because every large platform these days is suspect.
All illegal immigrants from Syria.
Yes, but computer performance also goes up exponentially - especially when GPUs and ASICs were built and optimized for the maths needed for crypto - so in a sense they're keeping up. In theory.
The post said that the commercial security system required "broadband Internet", which had a much higher monthly cost than the existing lower-speed Internet connection.

According to the post, the commercial system demanded a $100 monthly cost for the security services and broadband Internet, vs. $5 monthly cost for a lower-speed Internet access that was enough for the custom solution.

Therefore the reduction in the monthly expenses was worthwhile.
I was referring to the problem pointed out by the original post. that is doable with a thinkpad.

as for replacing motherboards and CPU, it is still possible on Thinkpads. the older T440p let you change CPU in its socket. Other more limited thinkpads let you replace the motherboard with a new one fairly easily (identical model). as for replacing your mobo by a more recent one, I think only the Framework allows that for now.
I hate it so much, full of wrong linebreaks. I don't need typewriter or dot matrix compatibility.
Just remember that road conditions and climate can be vastly different in the US compared to the UK.

The previous delivery vehicle[1] has no air conditioning. Which is a really big deal with how hot it gets in a lot of the US.

And if your vehicle is smaller and most other vehicles are larger and there's an accident then you're more likely to die. [2]

You may well be right that in an optimal scenario that smaller is better for delivery but the US has a wide variety of non-optimal scenarios.

I don't think the NGDV is perfect but I'm happy that USPS employees will be safer and happier.

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

[2] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/latest-driver-death-rates-h...
Not necessarily, if there's e.g. a trillion keys to try, every tried key as a 1 in 1-trillion chance to be it, so it could be found by chance after just one try.

(disclaimer, I don't know statistics, cryptography, bitcoin or chances)
Bigger question about it is: how was the climate inside kept liveable in broad daylight without air conditioning?
> The laptop is also prone to occasionally cooking itself in a bag and discharging the battery while "suspended". This might be a Linux problem not a Framework problem:

It's actually a Microsoft problem. They've crippled any kind of sleep in x86 because they want to be able to spy on you whilst the laptop is off.

Any laptop after 2013 is basically unusable.

The framework laptop is so bad compared to my MacBook that I basically never use it. As any time I put it in the bag the battery is dead the next day.

Same with Windows and Linux. No difference. The thing just will always die after a day.

I either use my MacBook or my T430 for which I can still buy replacement batteries They're the only kind of sane devices.

I hope Microsoft's push to ARM will fix all of this mess and we can leave this chapter of buggy Intel and AMD "laptop" crap behind us.
tracking issues in the repo would work well.
for example, have a dir like ./issues/fix-this-weird-bug.md , and once fixed rename it to ./changelog/fix-this-weird-bug.md . if you adhere to some rules for the metadata, you can use this to base your per-release changelog off of it (some tools already do similar)
Exactly!! we need to stop conflating "efficiency" with "success"

Being efficient at destroying the planet is NOT success

If anything we need to go slower and gentler (environmentally, socially, economically), not "faster"
European Defense – A New Hope?
Bear in mind that not everyone is a native speaker. Using simpler words ensures the widest audience.

I agree that not every piece of writing has the same intended audience, but I take umbrage at the use of the term "singleton masses".
You're conflating "efficiency" with "success"

Just say he's "efficient" at what he does (descriptive) but not "successful" (value judgment)
Just wanted to add, completely unrelated to the line of business and the moral judgement on what Mr Beast Production does, that I really cherish seeing such a well written onboarding material.
The sharpness in articulation, the consistency in the leadership vision, and the cultural undertone is of very high level.
For comparison, any tech company I've worked for, doesn't get even closer, drawing in acronyms, micro-cultures and personal interest.
Cool article. I don't think I would change or add anything there, but I have some thoughts.

To make this analysis more rigorous, you could express a utility function in terms of the different dimensions ("currencies" here) and assume that most people are generally making choices that maximize their expected utility. (Quick aside: maybe it's controversial, but personally, I think it's okay to assume that most people are acting rationally most of the time. If they seem to be acting irrationally, a reasonable first hypothesis is that you're not modeling their utility correctly.)

> Those who reject the notion of copyright altogether would likely value $I = 0, though even in this case, thinking of it instead as "the risk one takes of getting in trouble with the law" still raises $I to some non-zero value.

I think risk is actually its own thing and if you really want to assess it, it becomes pretty fundamental. Like the legal risk of pirating something means there's some probability of losing a lot more money and time, plus maybe social standing (yet another currency, honestly). However, my impression is that currently the legal risk for a consumer pirating a game for personal use just isn't very high, so it wouldn't be worth complicating the discussion with all of that.
While all languages have their own strengths I would recommend Rust. I’ve dabbled in multiple languages over the last few years to broaden my horizons and Rust is for many reasons my favorite.

Biggest reason is probably the way the language invites tests to be written, almost making them unavoidable.
How does this benchmark against Reflection, which was fine-tuned to do the same thing-- provide a detailed Chain of Thought with self-corrections, then write out a final answer?
> AC is not harmful to the planet

Scientists who studied and rank climate solutions beg to differ.

https://drawdown.org/solutions/refrigerant-management

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6QCPN6KLB8

> The ideological framing of the degrowth movement is all around us.

If growth (which itself is super vague; growth of what? benefiting whom?) was always a good thing without exception, this complaint would automatically be valid. However we're awash in ideological framing all around us supporting growth, even when growth is—yes Virginia—sometimes detrimental. An ideological counterbalance is desperately needed.

Wouldn't it be weird if growth of everything was always a good think in any scenario, forever? :-\ Maybe we should be just slightly more selective and data-driven than that...
A lot of people here (and in tech in general) are conflating "being efficient" with "having success"...

that's clearly because people in tech generally value efficiency

but we have to take a step back collectively and understand that "being efficient at producing addictive video for teens to sell ads for shit they don't need" is BAD, not a "success"
It's so frustrating. We had a reasonably okay process going on, but then another team started working in our repository on their feature completely ignoring the fairly lightweight commit message format we ask them to uphold, and they were like "doesn't matter, we'll squash merge it". But it's not even about the commit messages; it's about the workflow they have behind it, where they commit and push as often as they hit ctrl+s, which to me communicates they're just hacking around until it works.

A commit should be atomic; it should be a complete change with code and tests all adjusted, and ideally a message explaining what and why it changes. (In practice / in my line of work this doesn't happen because it's all front-end code implementing some poorly documented user story in jira, but hey).

If I'm ever involved in hiring again I'll add git usage to my list of criteria. Along with whether they can actually touch type. I can't believe that the standards have dropped so far that basic computer skills are no longer necessary apparently.
I understand vacuum grippers to be very popular in robotics so I am not surprised to find them useful for manual work as well.
Yes, it's an unhealthy one, but here's the thing: The drugs affecting this changes purchasing patterns too. It doesn't just make the symptoms go away. As a result it may very well end up having lasting changes to food consumption patterns. It'd be nice if we didn't need it in the first place, but as drugs go, these drugs seem to fix the right thing.
Thanks, I know a few writers who use it in fact! In a couple of hours I have a Say Hi call (https://sonnet.io/posts/hi) with one who messaged me to say that they used it to get out of writer’s block. :)

I think I'm a bit too attached to it (emotionally, if that makes any sense) so I procrastinate on sharing testimonials/different ways in which people use it.
It's a pneumatic pick-and-place tool (not a vacuum cleaner as I had initially assumed). And its creators really grok ergonomics:

> two foot pedals, what’s really nice is that you can use one of the them to operate the pump and the other one can be used as a “keyboard” and types the letter “n”

Yes, the letter "n" advances through the list of components on the computer, while your both hands are busy holding the tool and the PCB.

I wonder if foot-operated controls could be more widely useful. Imagine having a scroll control as a pedal, for instance. (And yes, of course the ESC key.)
You can have a very high level discussion with remarkably simple language. Plato was very good at this, but it's something you see in a lot of good communicators.

I remember I was struck reading a graduate level physics textbook co-authored by Feynman when I was a student. I was amazed how much clearer the language was than almost anything else I'd read at that level. It wasn't that it only used simple words, but it only used enough of them to be precise where precision was needed, and it took the time to introduce concepts even though they were expected to be known to the reader already, just as a refresher as to exactly what the discussion was about.

The clarity comes from the fact while we typically share opinions about what common and simple terms mean, we may have slightly different ideas associated with more complex words, especially with regards to intangible subjects. Plato's treatment of the concept of Justice is a good example of this. We all think we know what the word means, but to actually pin the meaning down is quite a task.

But honestly, Plato was dumbing it down, Feynman was dumbing it down, you should dumb it down too. A fundamental truth of communication is that you know the idea in your head better than your audience. You can't treat them as peers that understand what you are trying to say until you've clearly said it.

The problem in any communication is to get your idea across as vividly as possible.
But that's the thing, in most cases there's no review step anymore after the squash/merge has been made; while it's in a branch / MR, you can still edit the commit messages and content, but in most cases the squash and merge is an atomic, unreviewed step. Of course, maybe the merge commit should be generated, or should be filled in and reviewed as part of the main code review.
I believe it was a joke. Nobody acts professionally on LinkedIn, therefore why would that industry stay on topic?
> They simply have websites use first party cookies, send the data server side to data harvesters, tie it all to a global user profile using either identifiers from the website or from fingerprinting and then serve targeted ads.

That honestly sounds like circumvention of unauthorized access. That's just breaking software protections.
The rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia (2016)
It's true that they say that:

The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.

~ https://longnow.org/about/

but the truth is more subtle, love it or hate it the five digits are part of a campaign to encourage people to think about humans in timescales a tad longer than a few decades at most.
I don't; once the feature has been merged, how you got to that point is no longer relevant; it's noise. Git is a log of code changes, if you use it as a work log you're using it wrong.
This is simply untrue. Most of the dire circumstances of people around the world today can be traced back to European or American imperialism and increasingly financialised economies.
A Story About Escaping the Odds & a Formula for Life (Kelly)
On Linux I've configured the OS to hibernate when I close the lid instead of sleeping. With today's SSD speeds, waking up from hibernation instead of sleep only adds 5-10s. Unless you're constantly opening and closing your laptop lid, that shouldn't affect your daily routine that much
It's also an argument for a "real" healthcare system not based on tricks and extortion, where people decide themselves not some random shady agents on behalf of them, where all these changes and expenses are trackable and tracked...