skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or use complex language.

That we know of. They might completely have complex language using different mediums (infra sounds, vibrations, movements, smells, etc.).
Honestly I feel like often in the UK we have no sense of community compared to the americans in basically anything. I think often unless you live in London, UK cities can feel very functional at times with people just living. Clubs and activities are not that popular and a lot of people are just sitting at home watching Netflix and drinking
Generics is a tool for library developers mostly. Do beginners often read library code?
>We have a fictional belief in "base load" power here rather than responsive power.

What are the time-frames to qualify as 'responsive power'? I can imagine a battery acting like a capacitor and smoothing out supply on a second by second basis, but big pumped hydro like snowy 2.0 can (will) provide 'base load' within 90seconds of being turned on.
More power only means they run out of energy quicker :)

Energy is the more informative metric here. You can easily construct a low-energy storage solution that generates huge amounts of power for a very short time.

The power column is only a result of the number of households and outage duration that the plant was designed for.
Elementary Algebra (1971) [pdf]
It’s not gonna be much of a backlash when content creators have so little leverage.
It is of course always in the best interest of a country to make it seem as if its military is much better organised and more well-equipped than its adversaries. In other words, I'd take such statements with a grain of salt.
Try to guess what this strange pyramid was before it was thrown
Oh hell. Where did I say anything about it having to be rewritten? I did not. I said "allowed the hungarian prefixes to be dropped", not required. And all I meant was "in subsequent work", of course changing existing code would be idiotic.

And this absolutely misses the vital point that typechecking can be offloaded from the human to an automated typechecker, so why wasn't it?

"The cost of typechecking is trivial" - not if it's done by humans.
#2, 3, and 4 indicate that you actually have some idea what you're doing, and an understanding of developers, and are _trying_ to do the right thing, which is all really good. But #1 might be sabotaging all of that.

I don't know how many product people you have, but if everyone followed your suggestion at some companies, then the developers would spend all day chit-chatting with product managers and nothing would ever get done. Even with only 1 product manager, I can't imagine that spending ~40% of the day on status updates is worthwhile. (Literally have had meetings where the answer was "status is the same as it was an hour ago because we've been in this meeting giving repetitive status updates the whole time.")

What you need to do is get to know the developers themselves - how they work, how they communicate, what their domain knowledge is, etc. Then you'll know when you need to message them. And hopefully they'll know when to message you, but you'll also learn which ones might not under which circumstances.

Some will spend a lot of time planning, achieving nothing, but then produce something well-planned. Others take a quick stab, learn from it, iterate, and refine. And there are other styles.

Some try to understand things better before talking about them, others want to talk first. Some have enough domain knowledge that they can 'be the user', while others see the user as the one who keeps screwing things up and making things difficult.

All will occasionally get stuck in that cycle of "ok, it's _almost_ done" without realizing what they don't know until they take the next step. Interrupting to ask in that case isn't going to change anything. It's just something that is always going to happen and is (or should be) factored into the long-term planning averages.

The best PMs know their developers and know when to ping and I'm happy to talk to them when they do, even if (especially if) I'm not doing well. They don't pester me several times a day, so I don't need to spam filter them.

If you're really having anxiety attacks and paranoia several times a day when you're not monitoring your developers' every move, you should consider a therapist and possibly a more easygoing laid-back job. Software is stressful, but it shouldn't be that stressful, and inflicting stress on your coworkers isn't a great solution.
There's already a discussion there: https://lobste.rs/s/tcequd/b_threads_programming_way_allows_...
Interesting. This probably is because of some hardware limitations on some older android hardware platforms.

The java.util.concurrent package was added in Java 5 and before that existed as a third party library (by Doug Lee). It contains a lot of concurrency primitives and makes use of a lot of things, including lock free instructions and optimistic locking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_concurrency
If it supports TOTP and QR codes, I'd buy one just for 2FA.
IQ predicts more than just income. It has incremental value for predicting scientific publications, academic achievement, patents etc even within the top percentile. http://adamlgreen.com/smpy/

there is also no evidence of strong cultural bias of the sort you are speculating about.
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AI technology reconstructs the beginnings of world literature
To Stop Snoring Is Easy If You Know How
And if you knew anything of what you were talking about, you would see how easy it is for an engineer to make a mistake and there is 0 auditing or oversight. Also, if YOU actually took 10 seconds, you would see all the data was un-encrypted and in plain text. So where is all this "safety" the dude is speaking of? Cloud Custodian does shit when implemented incorrectly -and that's my point. You think banks are making all this effort, but in reality, the security team is completely understaffed, often not listened to, and in the end - we find this stuff happening all the time.

There, I gave you more than 10 seconds. Trying keeping up.
As much as I hate to say this, a case could be made that recaptcha provides a valuable service in exchange for this data without which the service could not work well or would be significantly degraded.
Which body would you trust to give a dispassionate rating?
Thanks. I also needed this explanation. The article annoyingly just ends with "And of course, the improved frequency control leads to what is one of the world's most accurate clocks."
I can also recommend this analysis by Jess Hill in mid-2014:

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/july/1404136800/jes...

Quoting:

"Since 2009, the electricity networks that own and manage our “poles and wires” have quietly spent $45 billion on the most expensive project this country has ever seen. Allowed to run virtually unchecked, they’ve spent vast sums on infrastructure we don’t need, and have charged it all to us, with an additional fee attached. The spending was approved by a federal regulator, and yet the federal government didn’t even note it until it was well underway."

As you intimate, the whole AU vs state vs private interests approach to power supply leads to a breathtakingly poor result for citizens / consumers.
We had to do extensive work in pen and paper and I just found it tortuous. I wouldn’t say I disliked the language itself or the rationale (although it’s not been something I’ve reached for in my career to date).
how are "small and medium businesses" the same as "definitely ER"? To me, those are the exact opposite things.
> but then i could just test on my own phone for the same effect

If I may guess, your phone has 2 GB RAM minimum and at least 4 core CPU and therefore is much stronger than what I talk about? Like I’ve said, using Apple iPad 2 (which probably are easy to find and have 500 MB RAM) is a good start. You can’t dismiss those as being not polished enough. They are just specced less powerful than the current first world phones.

My VM suggestion is that the tests can be done on every notebook. If your page fails on that setup it’s obviously not suited for the less powered devices.
it is all unfounded speculation based on mathematica simulations and his own assertions. there is no empirical support for his arguments.
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Used to do medical billing. How is this not true? Your telling me doctors are running their businesses with just some random returns for procedures? are you out of your mind?

Also, it is true that thier is a requirement for estimates. Granted, insurance companies can turn down procedures - but like I said, if it's a competent diagnosis than it works out.

But you can just ignore all the words in my post to be dramatic, that's fine.
Julia: Come for the Syntax, Stay for the Speed
Hi, what are the message delivery guarantees with Liftbridge? I would like to replace a PostgreSQL based hand made queue system, but I need the transactional safety of a database - should I use Liftbridge?

Thank you very much for your attention!
Nothing special. I am using templates and two times processing, so the template may have `<%= (some expression) %>` and such will be evaluated before it comes to Markdown processing. With thousands of pages it does matter if the Markdown processor is fast or if it has some "built-in" processing stuff that would cause delayed creation of pages.

Using templates and selective evaluation is simple and better.
See footnote 83:

https://books.google.com/books?id=iN9Tdfdap5MC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...

It would seem there is no consensus. Clearly some scholars think he went there.
Well you can simply outlaw/fine the kind of threats or rewards that you mentioned. And before you ask how one would prove it, it is more provable than sexual harassment or advancement for sexual favors, since it involves proof.
The code formatter doesn't know anything about the author's intend. If it removes empty lines that were added to visually separate blocks of code, that's just annoying.
but it does scale beyond 80 points. why ignore all the available evidence and trust instead the Taleb's evidence free assumptions?
Check Linux man pages
Vulnerable extensions are exploited when you access websites that can abuse the holes in the extension (XSS for example). You have to visit the site that the extension targets that has the attack payload for the extension.

I think that risking this by updating manually is more acceptable than getting the mallicious code directly auto-installed as soon as it's released by the attacker no matter what you do.
that's blatant. They offer only the first levels as free, then you have to pay
If you look at the Wikipedia List of Bridge Failures [1], since 2000, the US has had 28 bridge failures, over double the next highest entry on that list. Bridge failures are big enough events that, for developed countries, there's little chance of missing significant ones so we can treat the data as mostly reliable.

Per capita, there are some countries higher like Canada. but it's pretty clear that US bridges are unusually bad compared to most other developed countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures#2000%E...
It’s the biggest threat to profiting off of speech, not of free speech. After all, doesn’t the angry mob amplify the message?
I know Forth, and I think it escapes the whitespace vs. delimiters dilemma by "cheating" in a very elegant but uninteresting way: manipulating the stack at runtime instead of munging strings and syntax trees at compile time, so that abstractions that would be macros in Lisp-style languages or relatively complicated classes, functions etc. in mainstream procedural languages can be a much simpler DSL of words that just do something to the stack and other execution state, without the burden of other concepts and representations.
People forget that the real tragedy with "fukushima" was the tsunami, the nuclear thing is a minor part of that. Seriously, over 20 000 people died from the tsunami and countless more doesn't even have a home anymore. But the fact that some people will not be able to move back to their homes are the real tragedy?
I'm not sure what do you mean by denied the rights of indigenous tribals to the lands.

It was the Supreme Court that ordered to evict tribals from forests over a case filed by several wildlife groups. A review petition filed by the Centre then led to the stay on the eviction order.

Source: https://wap.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/su...
The downside on those ones seems to be that they need to be heated (and kept at a heat) of 300-350 degrees and they are quite corrosive if there is an emergency. Not saying li-ion batteries are safe, but they and how Tesla has modularized them give me a lot more confidence to leave in an unattended location. Of course, it's all situational so there's a place and purpose for these things as well.
1 is an insightful, outstanding market need. Build it folks
What problems did you have with SQS?
> 0.0000x% chance of a major issue

Which might be okay if it wasn't for certain states whose prime directive is to cover up mistakes and issues.

Otherwise this article wouldn't exist and we'd be discussing ways to improve safety. Just look how they handled Chernobyl. It was pure luck that the majority of Europe wasn't contaminated as a result of disinformation, refusal to accept help in order to appear strong, and pure incompetence on all fronts. All followed by an unwillingness to fix the problem.

Nuclear fission power in such hands is seriously dangerous. Even Belgium is holistically incapable of safely running a nuclear plant as highlighted by Tihange.

I am completely with your sentiment but the true issue is real world handling. Idealistic scenarios don't help us.
"Due Process" takes on its own meaning to someone who has deeply studied Law. Without being a Lawyer, one could not easily define it.

To understand this by analogy, the word "Computer" might mean something with a screen, mouse and keyboard to some people, but it have a much deeper meaning to a Computer Engineer, Operating System Developer, Compiler Writer, or Applied Mathematician.

That's because the concept of "Computer" is intricately, intricately weaved around all sorts of interrelated technical concepts, and the result is something of sheer engineering beauty...

"Due Process" similarly, is intricately, intricately interweaved with many other concepts in Law. That's the "Due Process" that the Founding Fathers are talking about (they having had extensive backgrounds in Law).

To someone who hasn't studied Law, it would appear as two shallow words, but I assure you -- study Law and you will find these words have many more dimensions than their mere dictionary definitions...
If you constrain yourself to non-NDA hardware, rather than lowest-cost vendor, you've just notched up price quite a bit. Take out mass manufacturing economics, and the price seems quite economical, actually.
Ask HN: The low-information diet for software engineer
Hello HN!

I'd like to implement info my life a low-information diet as it's described in 4HWW by Tim Ferriss. In this book author wrote that hi consumes only two magazines a month (one economic and one industry related).

I'm a software engineer, web developer (backend) and devops.

What kind of valuable, low-level information resources are you recommend to keep an eye on?
he examines specific claims made by Taleb in detail and shows them to be completely wrong in every case. that can be reasonably described as addressing the substance of his arguments.

can you identify any specific problems with the analysis in that post?

discussions around taleb often have a very cult like aspect to them - a refusal to discuss specific empirical claims made by Taleb and an assumption that the critics are too dumb to understand taleb's deep mathematical criticisms.
China has the biggest hydroelectric dam in the world, I think they will be just fine (though I'm not sure it does pumped hydro - they probably don't bother).
It's an interesting study in economics (from my layman's perspective), because on the one hand they're multiplying production of batteries several times (and their competitors are also trying to keep up), while at the same time massively increasing the demand for them with both a system like this, Powerwall and the Model 3 for consumers (they plan to produce hundreds of thousands a year). It's mad to think about how they scaled that up in... pretty much the past five years (Gigafactory 1 started to produce powerwalls / packs in 2016 and battery cells themselves in 2017).
That multiple companies benefited from a loophole doesn't magically make it any less of a loophole.
In my current experience, it depends on so many factors that it's hard to say whether it's simply down to a shortage in experienced developers.

If I wanted to get a senior-level job in my local area, I can do this pretty easily. I have experience with the .NET framework, so those jobs have been available to me for years, and usually an interview is a week away from an initial application, or from one of the many recruitment emails I get. The same goes for Ruby jobs, since I have been using Ruby for about a year with public projects I can refer to.

Now, let's move that to larger companies outside of my local area. I've recently been looking at roles in London for larger companies, since I would like to move to NYC in the not-so-distant future. If I apply for a role at a big tech company I'm almost guaranteed to be rejected (FAANG, Twitter, IBM, Oracle, Adobe). If I apply for a role at a larger multinational company - the likes of JP Morgan, Bloomberg, Buzzfeed, Deliveroo, WorkDay, any investment bank based in London, IBM, Squarespace, the list goes on - and I'll be rejected. In fact, in the last month I can count over thirty rejections. This is for a developer with ten years experience, albeit at startups and agencies, but someone that has put time in.

IMO, it boils down to a handful of things:

1. Companies want to hire developers that match their criteria perfectly. I can apply for a Java role with recent, but limited, Java experience, and be rejected. This is because I'm not a Java developer. The same goes for Python, despite the fact that I've worked with Python and Django on a project last year. I'd be rejected by most companies because I'm not a Python developer, despite...you know, knowing enough Python to get up to speed quickly.

2. Companies would rather interview someone nearby. Bear in mind that I can get to London by 9 if I get the first train in from Bristol, so travel isn't a huge issue, but in my experience a lot of companies would rather interview someone that can interview on-site in a week, and usually someone a few hours away will want time to arrange something.

3. Somewhat against the first point, many companies will happily hire a less experienced person because they are cheaper. If they cannot get someone that matches the first criteria, they'll get the cheapest person.

4. Most posts on job boards are bullshit. Out of the thirty rejections this month, a few of them were for companies hiring in my exact stack, while also saying they sponsor visas. Those ads are still up on Stack Overflow Jobs, or have been renewed, but they weren't interested in me - even when my stack and experience almost perfectly align with theirs.

If you were to ask me a few months ago whether I thought finding another job as an experienced developer would be hard, I'd say no, because I am in demand in a reasonably big tech city in my country, but after the last month I'm not so sure. Many of these roles obviously get filled, so either there's something about my specific experience that turns people off, or this experienced developer shortage is down to companies wanting one (or more) of the above criteria to be met before considering a hire.
From the article, "Instead of an amusement park in which kids line up for hours to sit passively on a moving piece of Intellectual Property, what if a park just provided the raw materials for child-instigated, slightly dangerous adventure?"

In today's age of liability for designed spaces, you can see why activities like skateboarding and parkour flourish in city streets.
It seems like amazon has access to more real metrics like total kindle time per book.

But perhaps it doesn’t serve them to diverge from the bestseller model.
Look cool
For me the definition of smartphone vs feature phone or whatever is that smartphone is primarily to be used for internet whether it's content consumption or apps, whereas feature phones are primarily to be used with cellular network for making calls and sending sms.
Rotting releases their co2.

All good when things are in balance - but they're not.

To sequester the c02, you need to prevent rot.
Yes, but I didn't talk about standard users.

Also, most of my extensions are not 3rd party code and I want them to have full access.

For the rest I update them once in a while and go check

~/.mozilla/**/*.xpi

for changes with something like this.

find -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d ! -name .git -print0 | xargs -0r rm -rf

for f in ../extensions/*.xpi ; do
unzip "$f" -d "$(basename "${f%.xpi}")"
done

git add -Af .
git commit -m "Changes"
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but all his specific arguments are completely false - see the linked blog post!
My feeling is that Julia is a DSL in scientific computing, like "modern Fortran". It fills a niche. In contrast, Python (still the defacto dominating programming language in many scientific computing areas) is widespread in many domains beyond science. Does anybody confirm that? I mean Julia is a general purpose programming language, but I don't know anybody who uses Julia to write software for the web, desktop or smartphone applications, etc.
Nice - will check it out if I ever get the time.
Is there any proof or details of how they did this? 350,000,000 is a lot of trees to source, distribute and plant in one day.
This guy went wrong as soon as he thought it was appropriate to measure ticket timings in hours rather than days or sprints. The pressure in this workplace must be unbearable.
I can think of a few reasons (as a layperson). They're heavily investing in li-ion battery production, really optimizing for that one in particular.

But I think they can also produce the battery packs in huge amounts and sell them in multiple products - Powerwall, Powerpack and now this one.

And I suspect these ones are more easily manageable.
the graphs with made up data? when you look at actual data, all his claims are false.
Carbon sequestration via wood burial[1]

[1] https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0...
I think we all have him as colleague.
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For anyone not experienced with these steps, 20 minutes is really disingenuous. It'll be closer to an hour and even that is optimistic.
Ah, I thought this was meant from the attacker's perspective.
So I flew over to dwebcamp from London to wave the Matrix.org flag - and it occurred to me that it was quite similar to EMFCamp in the UK, and OggCamp too. These things exist (and neither are London based). I hear OrgCon is good too. Meanwhile, there also seem to be good hackerspace communities popping up around the UK. So while there’s scope to be better, I think the groundwork is there.
On the contrary, the requirements force companies to get clarity on what information they collect on users and what they do with it. It’s a good thing because the current state of affairs clearly shows that market forces failed to motivate companies here and they routinely damage their users’ rights. Willingly or unwillingly.
In my mind, Forth "escapes" the whitespace-vs-delimiters issue by not having variadic functions. Forth code is more or less a direct transcription of the parse tree in the same way that lisp is, just postorder instead of preorder. And if you eliminated variadic functions from lisp, you wouldn't need its parentheses either.
Still not exciting. I think we are looking for non transitivity: A+B & B+C but !A+C
What’s in an Indian name? Plenty of possibilities for analytics