skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How so? Mars has an atmosphere unlike the moon, it has water in some form and quantity and has approximately the same length of the day as Earth, plus it has gravity much closer to Earth than what the moon has.
Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why
> I've had 10 cancers in the last few years and it hasn't been very bad. They just appear and grow. If you go to a good oncologist nearby, they'll take it out. It's just unfortunate for people who let it happen and it grows and grows until it's inoperable. I mean, nowadays, I think middle class and fairly wealthy people don't die of cancer.

Is this (roughly) true? I've never heard this before, and I want to believe.
> I mean, nowadays, I think middle class and fairly wealthy people don't die of cancer.

Sounds like James Lovelock has been pretty lucky in his experience with cancer...
There are zoomer, doomer, and even bloomer variants of the “OK Boomer” meme. The author is likely riffing off of those riffs.
There are pros and cons either way. There's a lot more on Mars in terms of useful natural resources.
> "Real" negotiation takes place when there is no such equilibrium. For example, hostage negotiations, car sales, or a negotiation between a landlord and the tenant are of this sort. Maximizing your utility minimizes the other's utility, and vice versa.

Ummm, hostage negotiations probably don't have a win-win, but I think that it's at least arguable that car sales and landlord-tenant negotiations do.

After all, it's a win-win for the car buyer to have a car and the car dealer to have some dollars (lose-lose would be for the car-wanter to have no car, and the dealer to have no dollars). Likewise with landlord-tenant negotiations: the tenant wins by getting a place to use, and the landlord wins by getting money. Sure, the tenant would like to use the place with no restrictions whatsoever, and the landlord would like all the money of the richest tenant ever, but there's a point where each gets enough of what he wants to make the deal worth making.
Perhaps but in this case I turned out to correct.

I’m disgusted at myself that I can’t say something similar about my employer.
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> and Ruby is (at least to me) a far more readable

It’s funny folks pick on the “Magic” in PHP, yet overlook all of it in Ruby. I’m not a PHP guy anymore really (now Python/Rust/Java/Ruby mainly), but I’m still continually annoyed reading Ruby code. Here’s an example:

- find a method being called on a class, so want to find out details on said method

- grep through codebase, find no definition for said method

- grep through all gem dependencies, find no definition for said method

- search web, don’t find any obvious leads

- cry in despair

- finally find that method is handled by a method_missing on a dynamically generated class and never has anything related to the method name even as a string

- flip desk and go home for the day
“out there” is a pretty charitable description.

I stopped reading the article there. I am not interested in reading the crazy ramblings of someone disconnected from reality.
And completely out of touch with reality
Kickback: An Ethereum-based event management service
Couldn't agree more but I can say it wasn't just NASA. The industry as a whole used to be more aligned with engineering but this has changed considerably since, say, the rise of "Agile".
It's about as true as Elon Musk claiming he'll cure autism with Neuralink.
How do you write malloc() and exit() in C?

You don't, it has to be in Assembly or calling underlying OS APIs.

So also a nail in C's coffin.
Wow, that's along-winded way of saying "perfect is the enemy of good enough".
His response to cancer as a possible outcome of radiation exposure following from a nuclear accident is troubling: "I mean, nowadays, I think middle class and fairly wealthy people don't die of cancer."
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Moon has nothing useful on it other than H3 -- and it doesn't really make us a multi-planet species in the sense we're protected from cosmic dangers (gamma ray burst, red dwarf etc) as the moon is relatively as vulnearable as the Earth to these.
I realize in Germany yellow comes before green (and not after, like America). But it still reminds me of this Simpsons clip;

https://youtu.be/QR10t-B9nYY
Behind Amazon’s HQ2 fiasco
Telling someone they can't do projects on their own time is a different question than the ownership of said projects.
Reminds me of https://archive.vn/UpV1Y
Seriously, how out of touch can you be.
This tends to get a lot of people angry but every nominal historical communist government and its leaders were essentially fascists wearing the trappings of communism as a skin. All attempts to force it under a violent revolutions under such ideologies will essentially end the same way and it is madness to assume "this time" will be different.

Voluntary cooperatives can actually work (by no means guaranteed) but scaling up tends to be the issue.
Engineering manager is someone who has a head count and is responsible for managing it (hiring, firing, giving feedback, promoting, assigning to teams, resolving dramas etc.), while Product Manager is often a glorified analyst (depends on the relationship with the business). Given that, for managers, headcount is a way of assessing one's respectability, I'd say that EM has a higher change of going further up the ladder.
i had a plan to do this to sync all notes , but dropped it as it will take more time, thanks for pointing it out
I seem to remember a turtleneck guy that got felled by cancer. He was running a fruit company, perhaps there isn't that much money in fruits afterall.
NASA totally concurs with this approach:

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/lunar-gateway
The moon also has water and it's a lot closer. Whatever goes wrong on Mars, it might be months or years before they receive help. Building the technology and experience with something a lot closer might be a better option before moving onto bigger things.
Windows support was added in Turbo Pascal for Windows.

Turbo products were the "community/student", while the Borland were the "professional" variant with more tooling and compiler optimisations.
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This is absolutely true, and I address this as part of rule #1.

-- Below is how I mitigate that in my world, but if anyone has good strategies/tactics to handle such scenarios, please share!

Being well-informed means going in with the best possible knowledge. Of course, there's always the chance to step on a land-mine, but more often than not if you put in the work you can learn everything you need to know to frame the negotiation in a constructive manner.

Some really important points that are relevant for what I do (and may help others!)

1. Who are the stakeholders in the negotiation? Is it the person I'm speaking with, their superior, or a party much farther removed (shareholder/board member/internal influencer) that must be identified.

2. Who in their company is responsible for the information I need, if such a person even exists? Can I address the relevant questions directly to this person? (Sometimes this is as easy as sending an email and literally just asking. Sometimes not)

3. What are their high-level goals? If they are a public company you can glean a lot from their public reports and financials. Sometimes you can find out that you're basically swimming upstream, and sometimes you find out that your counterpart is basically mandated to make certain decisions.

4. Is there any visible progress towards their goals? If they're struggling to make headway, and you can identify this, you can re-focus the discussion on making their pain point go away. (This depends heavily on what you do, but for my field, I can almost always find accurate information)

Ultimately, the prep work for a serious negotiation is what we internally call CIA work. It's a lot of intelligence gathering, asking (sometimes indirect) questions to get some insights, and doing the due diligence to ensure that we're as informed as we can be. Even with all that effort negotiations still fail sometimes. But if they fail, it's usually because the type of deal that would be struck wouldn't make sense in the first place.

Of course, this doesn't apply to hostage negotiations or to what I could only describe as 'toxic' scenarios.
Sounds like the military.
In Manhattan, it is generally MUCH cheaper to rent than buy (at least in the short to mid term. $3000 in rent would get you the same as a $5k/mo mortgage.
Venezuela’s Capital Is Booming. Is This the End of the Revolution?
What an excellent post, thank you. The author discusses complex topics in an accessible way. It's gems like these that keep me coming back to HN every day.
Have you stopped buying plastic?

Have you stopped buying the myriad "cleaning" products which pollute your home and create pollution in the process of being produced?

Have you stopped buying disposable clothing and plastic trinkets?

If you are still buying these things, you are complicit in this ecocide. And now you know it, too.

Once you stop yourself, you can tell others, too.

Without making changes in your own actions, there's little you can ask of anyone else.

This is a change that will come one individual convincing another individual, one at a time, to stop contributing to the problem.

No one else will do it for us: politicians don't give a fuck, corporations don't give a fuck, regulators don't give a fuck, military doesn't give a fuck, even "scientists" are mostly in the same camp of not giving a fuck, for the most part.

We are the only ones who give a fuck, because it's our close relatives, and soon, us, who are being exterminated.

And we are feeding and building our own extermination machine.
It's not Win 7, but my father just last week downgraded his Win 10 computer to Win 8 because he - a retired engineer - is convinced that "tried and tested" means that an old OS is a more solid and reliable OS than a newer one.
Why do we seem to generate so much poop?
No. It's been a while since I read it, but I found it an unapologetic, tedious, arrogant, self-serving screed lionising pure mathematics (and its practitioners, but only the very best), denigrating anything applied or even applicable, yet basically asking the hoi polloi doing that nether pedestrian work of actually working to put food on his table.

And, it's not even particularly good in instilling some appreciation of the beauty of mathematics.

Save your time.
If you want to break a relationship, then an initial hard negotiation followed by softer ones also help a lot.
Most of this reads as "this is how it worked for me so it must work like this for everyone".

I understand he "enjoys controversy" but it's hard to take someone seriously who says things like "Oh, politicians should just ignore the protests and keep their minds straight. It will go away. It always does. They’ll find another big issue after a little while and switch to something else.", as if protests have never effected any substantial change.

Or almost worse, that the protests are inconsequential because they are organized and mostly attended by young people.
This one? https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2020-0070...

The charger is obviously the thing between your phone and the power socket. It seems perfectly clear to me.

Because the entire thing is a charger. You can't use the charger without the cable. If the cable was a separate thing, fully interchangeable, the whole law wouldn't be necessary.

And they can't in hindsight decide that the cables aren't part of the "package" because they wrote in the resolution what the motivation of this law is, which is interoperability / compatibility / interchangeability and reducing waste, and if the cable part is non standard and not compatible, then obviously you'd need an additional cable to make the whole charger simply operable. Needing additional cables is what the resolution states (several times) is one of the explicit purposes, to prevent.

They also specifically discuss that wireless charging should be common as well, because not needing a cable is even better than needing the same cable.

I get the idea that sometimes EU laws are so clear and straightforward, that Americans implicitly don't trust them and expect a "gotcha!".
Out of curiosity how do you verify these things?
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And he is infamous for refusing medical treatment until it was too late. For months he tried alternative treatments, before saying he regretted it.
This is the perspective of the younger generation. People 30+ (which is still, by far, the majority of the population), are not chronically poor.
Link for previous discussion (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8260694
Did you notice when the flight was rerouted to Helsinki? How is living in quarantine? Which people do you meet during the day? Is it clear when you are able to leave (is it the standard 14-Day policy after you landed in Germany)?
It is a point of contention if Google should optimize for saving time for the individual user, (using data only available to that user), or for that user (but using routing information of other google users), or for all users on average (but potentially to the detriment of some users to give other users a bigger advantage), or for the public on average (ie. routing cars to reduce traffic, but possibly putting google users at a disadvantage compared to non-google users).

Various cities round the world have different optimization goals as they try out different approaches.
The only time I negotiated aggressively was with someone who couldn't "read the air" about their prices.

We've had a long relationship since, and still this person can't "read the air" about pricing.

Ironically, by the end of the whole process, I realized this person could probably lower their prices by about 5-10% if they just paid closer attention to their bills and operational efficiency.
It’s say life should be more about harmony which yes, it can bring change. But change brought without consideration is just one force ruling indiscriminately over others, and that is bad.
This interview makes Lovelock seem very unwise, is that due to him or the Spiegel site? Is it a fair interview/transcript, or is Lovelock really that intellectually uncharismatic?

He sounds like many other elderly folks who are very dismissive and opinionated, for instance putting climate protests down to kids being kids... well you're 100, you definitely don't have skin in the game, how can you comprehend the mind of a 15 year old?
If a paperback is sufficiently old, it might just break apart on you. I can think of at least two that have come apart in my hands during the last few years.

I recycled them. A book once severed is going to keep shedding pages. It's fine to read once, but probably will not stand up to a second or subsequent reading. On the whole, I'd just as soon not buy books that I'm not going to look into again after the first reading.

Having said that, Crime and Punishment is not really a scarce resource, nor I suppose Infinite Jest or Middlesex. I'd bet that I could buy all three at a used bookstore for less than $30. The author may be stepping up the recycling date for the books, but by how much?
They are often not online and will only complete a few small tasks per day, because there is no threat from the boss who sees that you are browsing facebook instead of working.

And I'm sure they're worried about their friends, family and relatives that might be sick (and they can't get to). That worry will cause a productivity drop BECAUSE WE'RE ALL HUMAN.

If I were an employer, I think I'd probably give folks a bit of slack for the next several weeks.
Well media shifting in UK is tortuous (without a license from the copyright holder) -- it was briefly legal a couple of years ago, but the liberalisation was reversed -- so you'd have to be using the original media. Elite on BBC was on tape (LOAD "PROG" !), so you'd need to load from the tape. I'm not sure about the legality of emulators, as long as you don't copy without a license to make them then they should be OK; it's not something I've looked at the caselaw on though. Emulation might be ruled out by user licenses, but I think in the case of Elite, say, that they'd predate the notion of running games under emulation. Nintendo presumably wouldn't license newer copies and allow emulation.

I'd doubt that they loaded it from an original tape.

Nostalgia for old games and TV/Film is a massive thing at the moment (and probably always, going forward) but copyright law's extensive life+70 protection periods has a chilling effect on the lawful enjoyment of such nostalgia in my personal opinion.
Pesticides and herbicides are still used on organic foods. The difference is in the type of chemicals and when/how applied.
> Most business books push a singular narrative around negotiations: Go hard or go home. The advice is tied to the idea that the negotiation table is a place of conflict where one party must best the other.

Good business texts haven't emphasized this approach for a long time. The prevailing negotiation methodology has been "grow the pie" for a long time. In this approach, you're not trying to claim more of the pie directly, but rather make the pie bigger and then claim a larger overall slice.

However, this article is a good reminder that an overly strong negotiating strategy can create friction later in the deal. That's good advice, and it shows the value of good business development.
It’s not even remotely true.
Deliberate practice. Find what you're weak at and work on that.

Clean code is great, and it's definitely someone's weakness, but it doesn't sound like yours. Find out what's making you procrastinate or hesitate, and focus on that instead.

If you're procrastinating because your code is a mess, then you probably want to learn clean coding. But at some point it will have diminishing gains, like learning to type fast.

The little things that have greatly improved my productivity recently: ES6 literacy, zsh aliasing, knowing array methods by heart, IDE shortcuts, CSS animation.

Ideal productivity is not at 100% clean code & architecture, but somewhere between 40%-80%, I'd say. The more confident you are of a feature and the more confident you are in the architecture, the more you can invest in it.

There's an anti-pattern on refactoring as well. Many times you want to put a constant or config in the code itself. Sometimes you even want to ignore DRY and copy code. I also use god objects as a dumping ground for methods and then refactor parts of them into a class much later, when a pattern emerges.
By the same logic an endurance runner that trains to run 1 km more every few training sessions would end up ...running indefinitely?
They're just taking back their territory from the Latino man.

No big deal.

Latino man is bad like white man.

Women are good.
And it's been almost 10 years since that.
What I was simply trying to express is NYT would greatly enrich their reporting by linking to or mentioning or discuss others great reportings, for instance on this episode about the Aghanistan War Papers [1] it would greatly be valuable to at least have a link to the work of WaPo on the subject which was kind of lead on the matter.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/podcasts/the-daily/afghan...
Do you really own those ebooks locked in various DRMs and only accessible from specific devices?
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Premium economy between Western Europe & the States is short enough that it isn't really worth it to me, but the States to Asia Pacific is generally worth it. 14-28 hour travel is much more awful.
>is simple on the surface but actually quite the paradox

That is an important observation, on many levels. One of them is that right things do not have to fit into our logic, eg they can be paradoxical. By "right" I mean what works, not moral or something.

By shortcut I mean to get to big experiences quickly. In yoga they always talk about stability and discipline because if there is no stable enough base big experiences might be too overwhelming.
> The bad defaults you and a sibling commenter are referring to (magic quotes) are, again, from 11 years ago.

That's because the context was the state of PHP 15 years ago.
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I have the exact _opposite_ experience (at least until the .2 patch) -- waking up from sleep would put the screen at maximum brightness.
California sucks.
Yeah - Mars has great atmosphere with 95% carbon dioxide and 800ppm carbon monoxide. Home from home really however at minus 80 degrees C, global warming doesn't seem to have caught on.
I remember those times in neighboring Slovakia, many people in villages had literally 0 regard to ecology, unless it benefited them. Some people regularly threw garbage straight into rivers and streams, so they became clogged with plastic crap. Good luck eating a fish from there. Also industrial garbage was rarely properly disposed of, it was just laid to rot/dissolve out there. Nobody had any clue about long term consequences.

Industrial pollution was pretty horrible too - watching snow going gray nearby any factory or coal plant (back then we used to have proper winters with tons of snow). Or when wind blew in bad direction from huge smelters in Katowitz in Poland, that created quite a few ecological catastrophes and highly acidic rains in our national parks.
Yeah, this should be roughly the same overhead as an ADD:

LEA rDest, [rBase + 8*rPtr]

(The "load effective address" instruction computes an effective address like a load or store would, but just gives the address without doing a memory access.)
Software isn't more flexible than concrete.

Software looks as if it should be more flexible than concrete.

But it really isn't.
This was a redeeming article for me. I remember volunteering with a friend to update our university department's website back in 1997. The budget for that was 0, so volunteering sophomores like us was the best they could get. The result was a more consistent, but still fugly website. I always thought that this was because we were completely clueless, but now I realize that fugly websites was the norm back then.
For sure. more so at home than I do at work, but I have a really bad problem with laziness that I cant seem to beat.

The only time I seem to be able to pull myself together is when there is situation where there will be severe consequences if I dont do something immediately, at which point I can complete weeks worth of tasks in a day
> I feel we as an industry took a wrong turn somewhere

Git is a powerful yet complex (and sometimes confusing) tool. But imho people that are using Git every single day and yet not willing to invest some time to learn the fundamentals properly (because it's "just" a VCS) is the real issue here. It's especially difficult for people coming from other VCSs (like SVN or Mercurial). I was there once. I would probably still have the same attitude, if I didn't win a 2-day Git workshop a few years ago, which completely changed my mental model and made "advanced features" appear quite simple.

This fact (people learning commit/push/pull and moving on) creates the market for such books. "You don't want to spend 2 days on (re-)learning Git? Here's one major feature explained that you should know".
It's an invalid comparison to compare modern economics to pre-financial system trends, because the "system" was highly inefficient.

It's sort of like saying "pre-modern medicine, therapeutic bleedings were common, and therefor we should consider them again".
Apex legends, Rust (the game), PUBG and other "battle royale" games fight for it's marketshare.

TF2 has been around long enough to have the weight of history.
> Mars has an atmosphere

It does, but not much, only 1% the volume of Earth's atmosphere and it is 95% CO2.