skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need 'more' meaning. These words are windows into a world of thinking about problems in a different light. I spoke to a developer who brought up the idea of disrupting Steam. I don't think that's going to happen this decade, the discussion around the idea was a good place to integrate some thoughts about gaming networks and game sales platforms. That is a productive outcome.

The author of this article is nearly vindictive in her complete portrayal that these words are vapid buzzwords that children use to appear adult and bewilder and fake their way through a paltry corporate existence.

You take away these words and people stop thinking out loud and with each other about productive ideas, analyses, directions and workflows that come from using all of the English language and not just what The Atlantic deems is above fakery.

Articles and corporate minded speech crimes like this make being your own boss mandatory, given you want to own your own mind and speech.
Horrible popup. Unusable on my One Plus 5.
Here: https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2018/12/21/new-spline.htm...

Discussed a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18738275
The formula is wrong though. To provide a counter-example - Cunningham's Law

>the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.

Sometimes saying something wrong, may actually be more useful. Either because you're clarifying a problem or making a connection or drawing a contrast or showing someone else the path by letting them see your chain of logic.
People who are double jointed are more likely to be anxious (2015)
New Mexico AG sues Google for collecting school kids' personal data
Russian driverless tech company Cognitive Pilot sets sights on IPO
I agree with this, Clojure being hosted means you have to understand the host decently enough. This is a downside and an upside since Java and JS are large, popular ecosystems. But in some cases I wish there was the option to just compile a binary. As for now, I can’t recommend the language to people who don’t already now Java and/or JS. (Maybe WASM/WASI will open this door at some point.)
> Don't quote

ha ha ha, seriously? Even if I don't quote, go and explain 99% of my recipients they should not quote when replying ...

> Don't archive

Maybe I miss to read the irony in your message, otherwise it is useless, or we don't live in the same world. But in mine, everybody archive emails in separate folders. period Fear of discarding information, especially in the business, is a great thread.

[edited for formatting]
At first I thought pg implied you can't publish anything that you aren't sure is correct. That surprised me, since he often publishes 'minimal viable' first versions of his essays and then expands on them later (unless I am wrong on this).

But perhaps a simplistic initial draft is not the same thing as a badly written, incorrect one.
My uncle is one of those people who worked at Xerox Parc during that same era. (I'm sure he would know this person you're speaking of.)

He too is _very_ humble and reserved about the whole thing.
Modern wind turbines can angle their wings in a way that they can produce in conditions that would have required a shutdown 15 years ago.

With this storm control the turbines lineally increase the resistance and are only shut down when the wind speed reaches more than 34 m/s as a 10 minute average. That's 122km/h. [0]
The recent storm reached these levels at times, but didn't sustain them for longer periods over larger areas.

[0] https://www.enercon.de/en/technology/wec-features/ I'm sure other producers have similar technology.
I guess it was originally intended to get people to reveal their real identities. Especially for celebrities that often had fake accounts with their name.

There are some groups that take it as a warning sign for craziness. Funnily, it often seems they are onto something.
I suppose youre talking about terms of art. That's true for business too, I agree, but I'd argue that this is words/phrases like "EBITDA", "division", "tier 1 client". There's also useful shorthand like using the CEOs first name only, which happens even in Megacorps where few people have ever even met the CEO.

Corporate-speak is something different though to me - it's purpose is not to convey any specific meaning but simply to posture, which is why it's so widely hated.
I know the feeling; when preparing to write a blog post or a presentation I tend to start off with bullet points.

Mind you once I have that down I can churn out improbable amounts of text in a relatively short amount of time. The main challenge for me is to stop writing and remove unnecessary text, which is kinda hard to do given how much nuance is in code.

I mean I've been thinking of writing a post (and a knowledge sharing session with my mostly C writing, older generation developer colleagues) about modern development and I was already thinking of painting a picture of how things were 10+ years ago.
Survivor and Palindrome Dates – Weekly Challenge
> highly-automated brute force might be plenty efficient

Hasn't this been going on in one form or another for many decades?

When I was in this field (20+ years ago) I got to visit labs at Glaxo Wellcome, SmithKline Beecham, Zeneca and so on.

Even back then they were proudly showing off lab robots which allowed them to run large-scale screening experiments.

Not sure any of this stuff is quite as revolutionary as it looks.
I like these presentations of the CHM very much. Cedar is an impressive environment and it's very interesting to see where the Oberon System which I have recently become involved with (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem) got its inspirations from.
The Craft of Writing Effectively (Lecture)
Brazil Is About to Launch an Alternative to Cryptocurrencies
>Are there cheaper options?

Definitely. There is an entire ecosystem of small VPS providers below DO & co.

e.g. I'm currently paying 7 USD for a 4 core w/ 16gig ram. Modern hardware too - Ryzen & NVme.

Trade-off is you need to spend time hunting for once off deals & there is no guarantee the provider will still be around tomorrow & you never know whether it's oversold.
I love the slightly dishonest comments like this one.

Wind power caused the instability but you fault the coal for not being able to compensate for it.
What happens when you have 100 wind/solar and too much energy... Who do you fault then?

Coal is bad, obviously. But don't use that fact to scapegoat it so you can ignore the glaring problem with renewables that all electro engineers in Europe are screaming about: critically increasing instability of the grid due to improper rollout of renewables.
> This would be a lot more effective / helpful / convincing with a reference.

There is a long thread about PGP in the same blog[1].

Full disclosure: I have not yet read the post but you might find more information about the claim.

[1] https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
LiveUSB builder with ROS (Robot Operating System) installed
> The other issue that comes up again and again is self-intersecting paths. Most published algorithms you'll find don't bother to support them, which also makes them not very useful in reality because self-intersecting paths are everywhere.

Exactly this. This is the biggest challenge when doing useful stuff with curves in graphics design/3D.

Curve offsetting is a common tool to produce paths (2D), extrusions & bevels (3D) etc. Whenever the offset distance exceeds the local radius of curvature intersections occur.

When you have some clever algorithm to deal with those, e.g. clipping them out, you're then faced with offset curves that have different parameterization than the original. Try to create a patch mesh from those then.

This is a huge brain fuck and every time you think you got it worked out another edge case you didn't think about will creep up from out of nowhere.
This is like arguing that nobody should adopt the meter because each country has their local feet, yards, furlongs, cubits, els, steps, rods, lacters, and canas. I mean think about it: countries decide their units of measurements and their citizens follow it. It's freedom!

Sigh...

You're not even from the United States, so you should full well know how important standardisation is across country borders. There are literally only three countries that haven't adopted metric, zero that haven't adopted the standard 24 hour / 60 minute day, and only four that haven't adopted the Gregorian calendar[1].

So why is it so hard to accept the one consistent date format? Seriously? Why?

Tell you what: If you can tell me which day the following date represents, I'll give you USD 100. Seriously. I'm not even kidding.

03/04/05

Go ahead. Guess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_calendar
Could you elaborate or provide some link to your first claim? I'm really interested to know more.

Thanks!
The word revert, with this meaning, is still in widespread use in business in Britain too, in my experience.
Phasing out gas heating is going to be a very, very big job in the Netherlands. Replacing an energy source is easy, just place a nuclear power plant / solar field down and phase out the coal power station. Done.

However, almost all homes in the Netherlands are heated by gas directly from the source. The gas is used to heat up water in the home and pump it through radiators on the wall or in the floor. A highly efficient system. But we can't import the gas from other countries because of the calorific properties so we need to pump our own gas. Switching to electric systems in the home will double the cost for most home owners because it's not very efficient and electricity is expensive (though the government can lower taxes on it). It also means that home owners will have to convert their current system in the home and pay the price for this. But it should be a plug and play option.

An ever bigger project is switching to government provided hot water heating. That means that you have to dig up every single street in the country, get rid of all existing infrastructure (fiber, coax, power, gas, water, sewer), lay down a big water pipe in the middle, put the existing infrastructure back and repave the street. Have the hot water enter every home, redo the plumbing of the home and change the water systems. The downside to this is that instead of heating the home with 70 degrees water like we do now, it will only be around 50 degrees. You can't heat a home in the winter like that so you also need to isolate every home. And you are tied to a single provider for your heating, unlike the current system where you can occasionally switch energy provider to get a better price. People I know with this system pay more than I do with gas.

The second system is a gigantic job but somewhat cheaper overall and highly efficient. The only problem is heating the water in a central location. Near an industrial zone you can use waste water from cooling systems but if nothing is around you need a lot of electricity. Or geothermal. They are still trying to find a good way to do this.
Like TV before it, it's the dumbing down the internet.
Extensive discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368888
No raw data, no science: another possible source of the reproducibility crisis
Yes, difficult to answer, so I wasn't thinking of an actual person (similarly to how the average driver doesn't exist as a person). If you want to imagine someone, then perhaps the person who drives the president?
At the time Epstein was not a convicted rapist. However he certainly was a shady character and it is likely Minsky had every opportunity to distance himself from him. But he did not.
> As an Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Brain, I have handled 180 manuscripts since early 2017 and have made 41 editorial decisions categorized as “Revise before review,” requesting that the authors provide raw data. Surprisingly, among those 41 manuscripts, 21 were withdrawn without providing raw data, indicating that requiring raw data drove away more than half of the manuscripts. I rejected 19 out of the remaining 20 manuscripts because of insufficient raw data. Thus, more than 97% of the 41 manuscripts did not present the raw data supporting their results when requested by an editor, suggesting a possibility that the raw data did not exist from the beginning, at least in some portions of these cases.
Do you know a rough percentage for how many wind-turbines in use are modern turbines like these?
> Last smart watch that uses Tizen is shipped in 2018.

2020
Datomic really is a killer app in terms of its features, but it doesn’t seem to be targeted at solo/small teams with its pricing and licensing model.

Datascript looks interesting. I guess you get disk persistence with event sourcing?
We don't really have to speculate, since energy production data is available [0]. There certainly was a lot of energy produced by wind turbines. About the same as last week (also quite windy). But the "entire countries are working at half capacity" doesn't seem to be valid, at last I don't see a dip in power consumption.

[0] https://energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=all-sources&year=2...
By geothermal, do you mean digging 30 meters into the ground for heat/cold? I've read that it doesn't work in densily populated areas where every system is very close to each other. Unless you have one installation per street.

We also have heat exchangers for warming your home but then you have a noisy box outside your house or on your balcony.
Then his name most likely was not Alan Kay ;-)
‘Like an Umbrella Had Covered the Sky’: Locust Swarms Despoil Kenya
I read until the end and it turns out to be a nonconstructive proof via the probabilistic method!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_method
https://outline.com/https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/how-th...
Since you seem versed in these mysteries, do you have some reading recommendation for a gentle introduction to the topic?
Scrying Pen
Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo
It's got a clear brevity win over "we need to look into this to find the root cause" or "we need to perform a root cause analysis on this". This isn't the case for "resources" instead of "people", or deliberate obfuscation like the article's example of "we're happy to provide you with the paperwork to provide to your insurance company" instead of "we only take direct payments" or "your feedback is greatly appreciated" for "no" or "we have a new billing model to suit the next few years of sustainable development" for "we're raising prices"
Defender officially tells Lampard he wants to be at Chelsea for next season
I know several people who keep silent until they can say something clever, and frankly, in most group situations they stand out as being slightly weird. Keeping your intellectual powder dry is just not a socially 'giving' behaviour. What's wrong with saying something that's not clever? Within a group, it might send the conversation off in a delightfully unanticipated direction. There's more to it all than always being right. Or clever.
Or that their true intentions / feelings would be exposed. I mean, "management wanted to curtail redundancies in the human resources area, and so, many workers are no longer viable members of the workforce" sounds much nicer than "yeah we fired a bunch of people".
UserGuiding offers unique pricing for bootstrapping startups
How Epidemics like COVID-19 end (and how to end them faster)
A couple of good recent article to understand this complex problem (USA perspective): https://endpts.com/can-we-make-the-antibiotic-market-great-a... and https://endpts.com/biopharma-has-abandoned-antibiotic-develo...

Reasons are mainly: No incentive to develop antibiotics from a legal perspective (FDA), as insurance companies prefer to reimburse the cheap and generic, still working mostly "well enough" for now.

Insurers pay for in-patient antibiotics as part of a lump sum to hospitals known as a Diagnosis Related Group (DRG). Using a cheap antibiotic increases hospital profit margins, while using an expensive new drug could mean that a hospital might lose money by treating a given patient. As a result, hospitals are incentivized to use cheaper antibiotics whenever possible. This puts significant pricing pressure on new antibiotics, which are one of the only type of medicines paid for like this.
If the total population is low then you can tell them to _not_ use a heat pump.
Same. It isn't a revelation but I still liked the way the idea was put in words. Most articles I've read have less to takeaway.
I've recently saw a documentary on General Magic.
I've been working in tech for 15 years and had never heard about that company.
I think we all have a lot to learn, and should pay more respects to the giants that took us here.
And I hate it when I'm more than a mile from work!
I have first-hand experience with such a case, and I disagree. I avoided hitting a kid that I think any AI would have killed.

I'm driving southbound on Fair Oaks in Sunnyvale, approaching Arques. On the corner is a mini strip mall with a small parking lot.
Out of the corner of my eye, I see a young child, maybe 4 years old, running around that parking lot being chased by his mother or caretaker.

Now, being well off the road and out of its universe of conditions that would be considered by an AI, he would be ignored. But I just knew, somehow, that this was trouble.

The kid, thinking this is a fun, impromptu chase game, then sprints directly into traffic right in front of me. I stop with a foot to spare.

Edge conditions: it's what's for dinner. (tm)
The Oil Industry Is Quietly Winning Local Climate Fights
>> I disagree, what I would want to say in such a situation is simply "this meeting is useless, let me get back to work", but I would be percieved as a grumpy developer with an attitude.

Of course you would be. Why does it have to phrased in some extremely positive or negative way? Why not something like "I'm pretty busy working on x. If anything comes up in the meeting that needs my attention let me know afterwards and I'll arrange a time to chat."
I'm sure I've seen this somewhere already. Don't recall what country though
Ditto for correctness, importance, and strength. In effect the four components are like numbers you can multiply together to get a score for usefulness.

What is the fourth component?
The first time I read Zero to One by Peter Thiel, I was a bit miffed. Stupid shit stated poorly. The second time, inartful puffery stated overly plainly. The third time, individual brilliance stated clearly.

Many replies here would do well to read, re-read, and re-re-read with an introspective mindset. This is perhaps the best quality material I have seen from pg for quite some time. Its clarity is brilliant and the thing I liked most was the second, and to me unexpected section, full of the reasons haters gonna hate.

I speak only for myself, and this is a throwaway, so nothing personal is at stake. This is a very lucid and precise examination of the fine controls at stake in writing. Their natural tension, the details of qualification. In my opinion, which may be trash, who knows, this will be cited for years to come because it is, in fact, true.
This cannot ever work. Give it up. Only the ISO yyyy-mm-dd format is unambiguous.

If a user sees some random date, such as 3/4/xxxx, they have absolutely no way to distinguish if this is in their format or not.

If you're in the US, you might assume that this is in your backwards M/D/Y format, meaning it's April 3rd, and you'd be right much of the time.

However, if you're outside the US, then there are two indistinguishable possibilities:

It's a US server ignoring your time format, so this date represents April 3rd.

OR

It's a server correctly showing you a date in your preferred format, so it's actually the 4th of March.

At a glance, these aren't distinguishable. I easily click through 200-500 pages a day! I'm not going to sit down and try to work out which of those hundreds of pages a day, and thousands of pages a week are designed for humans, or just Americans.
Where have I been dishonest?

I literally pointed out that the "who is at 'fault'" questions depends on how you frame the problem.

> But whether you see this as a problem of coal not being able to power down quick enough or wind not being a steady power source is dependent on whether you think CO2 emissions are bad or not.

What exactly is improper about the current rollout of renewables? The missing storage (batteris, gas)? True! But this would not be a problem if we had gas plants instead of coal, which can turn on and off much quicker. So again, you could frame this as improper rollout of renewables or as coal not being able to handle the new realities of the energy market.

I actually agree with you about the issues we are facing and I see your comment as a very valuable addition to my comment, which simplified the issue too much, losing important detail. I was not trying to be dishonest.
Doubtful. I've worked in the UK for more than 20 years, and the only time I've ever heard this usage is within outsourced IT providers in India.
Exactly this. More managers need to start tracking the Work and not the Time.
Funny that you need a third-party tool to do that, isn't it.
Ask HN: Do you use infrastructure as code?
I'm thinking of scaling up my monorepo (db + frontend + backend). How do you go about scaling servers? Serverless everything or just decouple high-load servers?
Giant Phages: a discovery in the world of viruses
I like how in Kerbal Space Program, you don't crash, you "lithobrake". Like airbraking only on something with a bit more resistance.
Show HN: Simplest CV Creation App for iOS and Android with 4 Templates
they would be better off (by several orders of magnitude) just buying a bunch of lottery tickets
In Britain, Even Jails Have a Class System
UX design trends retrospective 2019
Geothermal is very geography dependent.

If you have it available, great! Otherwise, it is not viable.
Oh, so nuclear power plants amortize themselves in less than 10 years? I didn't know that!
Flask/React client for visualizing pandas data structures
Because you are not exactly running Rhombus as a side toy language, but as a successor to Racket. This requires Rhombus to eventually replace Racket. Anything less than this and it makes Rhombus a non-successor to Racket. While at the same time much needed resources to make Racket win, will go to making Rhombus happen. Even if Rhombus comes along, it won't have any of the current Racket goodness to begin with. Rhombus will take years to just exist. Meanwhile precious resources for improving Racket to a better Racket over the years will be taken by Rhombus.

Net result is a stagnated Racket, and a non-attractive Rhombus.

Plus C based languages have their winners already. Racket is a kind of a winner in the Lisp family. With Clojure it makes the only other choice. Now if you change the syntax, you are going after users who don't really care what you have to offer, at the same time, you are taking away what your existing users like.
> It is an official procedure that in the case of results on the edge, the person marking should mark an ambiguous score in the favour of the student.

The funny thing about the "almost there" argument is that what it means is the actual line is more fuzzy, but a bit lower. That is, if the "official" cut-of is 30, and teachers are willing to "find an extra point" for people with scores of 28 and 29 but not 27, then the actual cut-off is 27.

I had a prof at uni who for programming projects would say: "The deadline is 6pm on Friday. But there's a 6-hour grace period where you're allowed to be late." Inevitably someone in the class would say, "Doesn't that mean that the actual deadline is at midnight?" To which he would respond, "Yes, of course. But if someone submits a project at 12:01 and it's rejected, when they say 'But I was only 1 minute late!', I can say, 'No, you were 6 hours late.'"
I can imagine to a degree, I have zero experience with Javascript and I found the practice of getting a Clojurescript REPL very complicated.

Once I was set up I quickly became effective, though I do tend to stay within the bounds of Cljs and avoid the host where I can.