skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's mainly the difference between result- and process-oriented personalities, with the latter being advocates of linting and other "formalities", and the former opposing it.

As someone in the former group, I completely agree that these sorts of things bring little value; the fact that the code works is the most important, regardless of how it looks. If your coworkers are writing code that's not working or misleading, talk to them about it.

I've got project one which insisted - the point of blocking PRs - that "Yoda style" for null checks was mandatory. Guess what? Another project I'm on, Yoda-style is prohibited, because "it's confusing". Every keystroke I'm having to wonder/worry about what context am I in, and always battling stupid red squiggles.

That sort of insignificant minutiae really irritates me. It shouldn't matter at all, yet some people love to make mountains out of molehills. (I personally use the "if(ptr)" style because it's the simplest, but I wouldn't care if my coworkers used "if(NULL != ptr)", "if(ptr != NULL)", "if(ptr != 0)", or "if(0 != ptr)"; they're all equivalent, and anyone who doesn't know that, doesn't know the language. "if((NULL != ptr ) == true)" will cause me to raise a comment, however, although not a blocking one.)
If the US didn't pay 3-4x the salary for software engineers compared to Canada, I wouldn't be here either. If China paid me more, I'd move in a heartbeat.
Damn! This explains why my company has so many senior managers. Sometimes with just one report :P
> at some point our kids might think frosted hair tips are totally cool

you shut your face sir! my hair was the BOMB when I was 14!!!
A very fair and practical judgement. May use a mac and remote to windows as some linux egpu has driver issues bout not windows. Remote vs code from mac?
I can't say much about Citus, but cockroachdb mostly works as advertised. Plus it's getting better with every release, which come pretty frequently. Support (forums/slack) is also unimaginably helpful and friendly.

There's at least 2 big caveats though:

1. Although they are very transparent about limitations / PG compatibility issues, you'll almost certainly run into things you weren't expecting (because some of the limitations are only documented as bugs in github issues, which you probably won't go through every single one of before you start). Examples:

a. No partial indexes (which can be a pain if you had a unique partial index, solution add a nullable column to the unique index) - but there's clearly work being done on this as we speak

b. Index isn't used with now() (solution, pass it as a parameter)

c. No way to tell if an upsert did an insert or update (like using xmax in postgres)

d. More obviously: no full text search or geo

2. Backup options for the community edition is limited (which I think is a generous way to describe it). If you're used to (free) Barman, even their enterprise backup capabilities are poor.

For any serious work, I'd recommend you not use the community edition until #2 improves.
Are those people the way they are due to some innate characteristics or could they have turned out differently in a different system?
The fact that Apple is scrubbing text communications and discussing certain sensitive things with developers only over the phone is supremely shady. Deleting old communications is a classic tactic employed by organizations that anticipate lawsuits and associated discovery. It's amazing that they've formulated a comprehensive set of internal business practices directed at sustaining this racket.
> a big part of the value in the economy never gets to be an explicitly "issued" money

For an appropriate definition of "value", yes, I'll agree with this.

However, I don't see how it conflicts with anything I said.

> Different forms of debts are older than any precisely defined issued money, and all the forms of debts are what actually drove the economies.

Debt certainly plays a role in how economies develop. However, again, I don't see how that conflicts with anything I said.

> the period of democracy in Athens started only after Solon abolished the accumulated debts

First, I don't think historians are in agreement about exactly what Solon did and whether it amounted to abolishing all accumulated debts.

Second, while many historians credit Solon with laying the foundations for Athenian democracy, it did not actually start until well after Solon's death, after a considerable period of autocratic rule following the seizure of power by Peisistratos. So even if we grant that Solon abolished all accumulated debts, I don't see any clear connection between that and democracy.

> sooner or later the current world will have to accept that we need a Solon-like act to end the period we're in

Meaning, abolish the accumulated debts? That's basically what the US government is doing to its debt by continuing to print money; since all of the US government's debt, and pretty much all of US private sector debt, is denominated in dollars, printing more dollars dilutes the impact of all that debt on the debtors. It's not clear to me that this is a good thing. Of course, it's also not clear to me that continuing to accumulate debt is a good thing. But while the current financial and economic system certainly has plenty of issues, I don't see how "abolish all accumulated debts" is a good way to fix them.
? there's an enormous effort to fix the blurry chromium on wayland (and by extension electron and vscode), codenamed ozone, and vscode make me painfully aware of it every day.

Afaik there's no official vscode build on ozone.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=578890
I'm not really sure about that.

Maybe I've watched Dr. Strangelove too many times, but everyone knows that flinging all of your nukes at someone kills you too (the "Doomsday Device"), so what I'd expect to see in WWIII is two things: 1) the clash of a ton of new technologies where we have really no idea what beats what, and 2) strategic, low-yield nukes used against blue-water navies and ports.
This is really cool, but I've always been disappointed that you can't generate Houdini procedural content in UE4 at runtime. It only works in the editor.
Even 5% is nothing to write home about. Still far under the amount you would get if you switched jobs.

But then you’d have to run the interview gauntlet again, and frankly that’s just so distasteful that I don’t want to.
Damn, this is all classy. I started writing html in 1996. My first job was at a boutique web shop building vertical portals in Coldfusion. Thanks for the great links. It's inspired me to put up a plain old html/JavaScript homepage again!
For messing around, Apprentice version is free and can do pretty much anything the full version (FX) can, except render in insane resolution. Also, Indie version is cheap (~$200/year).
Reminds me of the series Planetes. I would definitely be a garbage man if it meant working space and EVAs.
Forgetting macro/micro and focusing on calories, using a cheap food source, I'd need 0.75 metric tonnes of oats to do this, for 4 people. Probably doable for $750 say, I am guessing at a bulk price. Most years I'd need to chuck it.

Probably could slim down and live off half that. Or 500 cal/day for adults with more for the kids. It is survival situation after all.
One of the things persons not involved in the industry find interesting, is that in the entire history of manned spaceflight, no human has ever visited geostationary orbit.

I have talked to a number of people who were mistakenly under the impression that humans occasionally conduct repairs on telecom satellites.

Also this is the first time a (non-classified, that we know about) spacecraft has visited and photographed another satellite in geostationary orbit.
There is wheelchair access. It's called roads. In a low traffic suburb like that there's no reason roads can't be multi use. In fact in all the low traffic suburbs I've lived in that's exactly how they're used. People walk on them, ride on them, kids play on them, I don't see many wheelchairs but tons of the electric scooter things used by both the disabled and elderly.

Cancel the upgrade, send some of the money to wheelchair users so they can buy a nicer wheelchair, a flag for it, hell a new tv, whatever they want; and everyone would be better off.
Yeah - instead of one giant company whose rules we have to dealt with, we have 9. I can’t wait.

Remember they are going to compete for customers first and developers second. Developers will have to go to where the customers are.

This is not going to be better for developers.
I've heard this idea before and I think there's something to it, but it's interesting because for it to function well you generally need to first build up a big savings account which you can then use to fund expensive things, otherwise you're extremely limited in what you can do.

One variation I've heard would be for cities and states to not be allowed to issue debt, that only the federal government could do that. It would mean the local units of government (which actually run and fund most things) would have to operate on a balanced budget, and would provide a lot of robustness in the system relative to what we have now. If they needed a one-time bailout for some reason (natural disaster etc) the federal government could give funds to the local area, potentially issuing debt if necessary.

Of course that doesn't provide any protection against federal debt binging... so I'm not sure how you'd square that. You don't really want to prohibit the federal government from taking on debt - for example, the largest debt the US ever accumulated was to fight and win WW2. But maybe there are strings you can attach.

One such string that makes a lot of sense to me is the idea that you should never allow debt for operating expenses or maintenance. You would think that would be obvious and you wouldn't actually need a policy to enforce that outcome, but unfortunately it's common practice today to just issue bonds if you can't afford to maintain your municipal services.
> Ask yourself, did you provide a 40% increase in value in the last year compared to the year before?

It’s more that I’ve been providing 200% value for 40% of the cost for a while, so they have plenty of space to raise my salary significantly without losing any money.
Of course, then lid close will never work as intended. What I want is for lid close to sleep IFF no external monitors are connected, regardless of whether the machine is on AC power or not. Thank you for the suggestion, and in my actual solution, I basically programmatically switch this setting on and off based on whether or not external monitors are connected.
It's significant syntactic sugar that brings it closer to Python, but no notebook support from what I can see.

Do any notebooks support a compiled language?
I dont think you'll find a long time pythonista who thinks isinstance is good python style.
Seems more likely that populations will just move to new stable areas.
Ha! I almost forgot about having to choose a memory model when writing a program.
This is very cool! I wonder what the chances of this being pulled into Go proper is, and whether the lack of cgo is an intractable issue, which would rule it out entirely.
I think you're being downvoted for tone, but skimming wikipedia ... to my surprise it looks like you're right. 3 soldiers died (1 on the Russian side, 2 on the pro-Ukraine side) and 3 civilians were killed (2 pro-Russian, 1 pro-Ukrainian).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...
Or better yet, one HTML file. Anchor tags are still a thing, last I checked. CTRL-F, does anyone still speak it?
Humans have done something like repairs on telecom satellites... If they got stuck in LEO before insertion to GEO. Also, ISS.
Or it's people who think they'll someday make money on their app, just like there are people who think they'll someday make money on their domain name or their Mary Kay sales, but they don't.
At some point this monetization game must end and we just have to pay for things we want. If there was a search engine that met my needs I would gladly pay $15/month for access.
>But more importantly - It is no different that when Microsoft tied Internet Explorer to Windows. They didn't have a monopoly either - and you don't need one to run foul of anti-trust laws.

They did. Windows had > 98% of the desktop market.
I'd argue that porn is better for you than most of these addictive websites, and certainly better than tobacco.

You cannot convince me that the addictiveness of social media is a good thing.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . .

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistenc...

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What kind of software application is a landing page? When you call it a "page" it makes it almost seem like a document of some kind...
Don't remember the source, so feel free to ignore it.

I think it was someone reasonably credible on Twitter, not too long ago.
Not all healthcare requires MRI machines, no? Presumably most (not all, I will agree) of the marginal expense is shouldered by situations which make use of the MRI, versus those that could carry on without it (plus another small concession for those situations that use the MRI that would’ve resulted in similar outcomes pre-MRI invention).

I agree with your point generally though. It reminds me of the “websites got slower faster than computers got faster, thanks to computers” argument.
Google plans Houston office to sell cloud services to business
this is a solved problem, pin your packages.
I don’t understand the problem with being inclusive a bit. Plants could be aware, so could be all life of all the Kingdom, we kill them and we eat them for own survival.

What’s wrong with that? We’re just a bunch of talking animals. A huge bunch with complicated tools but technically still wild animals.

As for sun tracking in plants I do agree with you it’s probably not a sign of intelligence. If that’s your point, you can just point out that part.
Hire Right and Fama will now hold the fate of your professional career
If your iPad is 10 years old, then it’s an original iPad. The original iPad received its last update 8 years ago. I really enjoyed my launch day original iPad — it was incredible, just because it was such a new experience, but the hardware was severely underpowered even for the time. Laptops from 2010 are probably much better equipped to browse the web today than that 2010 iPad.

It just seems very idealistic to expect most websites to cater to a browser that hasn’t received an update in 8 years running on a processor that has a fraction of the power of any Raspberry Pi 2 or above.

Modern iPads are served the “real” web by default, further emphasizing why you would benefit from upgrading at least once a decade.
That's not a good comparison. You can actually spend the money saved by finishing construction faster. Nobody gets a check for all the supposed "saved time" when you do that math. You can't pool that money together and build a nice neighborhood park -- because there is no money.

What happens in real life is that people largely don't just stick to their same behavior and suffer like lemmings. They time shift a little bit. They find a different route. It's not magic, it's just a complex system adapting to a change in conditions.

"Dollar value of time saved" calculations are a common distraction peddled by lazy engineers who can't actually make the numbers for their project make sense and instead need to dupe the public into supporting a project they want to do.
I’ve noticed this too. When I encounter broken behaviour on Firefox, I always try to ping the owner on Twitter with a screenshot.
Nobody denies React and co. are excellent tools. The frustration occurs when people who enjoy these tools claim that, if you choose not to use them, or suggest they're not fit for a certain task, you're WRONG. In the case of React in particular, this happens a lot. Then of course the people who don't want to use a framework feel frustrated, and next thing you know it's a flame war. I've seen this happen multiple times on Twitter.
Like this site, I learned how to build a strong bike rim from Sheldon. https://sheldonbrown.com/
you mean the pornification of everything
"They are not new risks but they are specific risks."
Not asking for perfection mate. Just don't ask me for a blessing when the cure is worse than the disease.
Yea, it feeds on itself. If people get upset, that prompts more people to use it to shock them. When offended people finally get bored with it (ie they stop finding it offensive), I'm sure it'll die down. But some new thing will be used to wind up the new generation of prudes that replaces them.
How do you determine any of this?

Who gets to decide?
Gordon Hempton is legendary. I will always remember him for attaching his mics to a mannequin head.
This is a valid complaint, but the problem is that slower and less disruptive techniques are still disruptive and still often kill businesses. In many cases it would be much faster and more cost effective to give transfer payments to the businesses for their expected revenues during the closure and then just have them close temporarily to get the project done a lot easier and faster.
Who said anything about the browser? We are talking about the data, aren't we?
No, not this way. If my goal is really to push content to users I’d get a set of account and automate the sending/scraping using a device emulator. Ultimately their efforts are better spent elsewhere if this is the actual goal. In reality the goal is to attempt to keep people from reverse engineering the api so they can create a custom, ad free, client.
The experiment necessary would need create a large enough society that adopts a very low EMF exposure lifestyle from pre-birth. There certainly appears to be enough evidence to suggest some people are more sensitive to others to energy, and perhaps that has to do with natural sensitivity levels, either the "fragility" or "strength" of the characteristic's of someone's brain's neural network - more "strength" with redundancy, or more "fragility" with less redundancy, with pros-cons for each.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15789758/ - exposure to "extremely LOW" EMFs in rats caused them hyperalgesia (hypersensitivity to pain)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4946261/

https://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/fs296/en/
Opera already has a free VPN built into their browser.
Does anybody else think it's crazy that companies like Hire Right and Fama get to determine on behalf of private and public sectors whether they should hire or fire you based on some arbitrary social media background checks?

As a canadian, I tried requesting my background information from them, but the form is for Americans only (requires american SSN and address), but at the same time some Canadian provinces (Ontario) have signed up with them. So there's no way to know what they have on me or whether it's even accurate. How many applicants even know this is happening when they apply for a job?
This does not fit with my understanding of estoppel (I am a lawyer).

There are specific rules that apply to the different types of estoppel, and they would not be met where Apple is dealing with app developers pursuant to the App Store dev agreement in one case and dealing with Google under the Google Play TOS in the other case.

It might be relevant if Apple claimed that Google is acting as a monopolist by engaging in XYZ behavior, but Apple’s lawyers are smart enough not to make such an argument.
Has Firefox released a UWP version for the windows store?
My house, my rules, your house my rules
Just FYI - Brexit killed the St. Kitts/Nevis loophole for EU passports, since their association with the EU was through the U.K.
Prettier specifically annoys me to no end with this problem.

If youre adding more attributes to a jsx component later and know it you might format to multiline early. It decides to undo your work and slow you down, because some arbitrary line length.

Similarly, if you go over that line length, on something you want single line for readability of structure, it just straight up does what it wants.

Im 100% on the auto format train but it has to go the gofmt route and only apply rules that are actually important and incredibly uncontroversial.
Exactly! This article is a great demonstration of how tuned out and ivory tower much of the medical establishment is.

What are the real problems with masks? Did they bother to talk to or even count mask users? From my experience masks are inconvenient to carry, put on, and take off. Wearing them is not only uncomfortable but adds minor difficulty to breathing.

My work as a cleaner is exhausting and accounted for by the hour. Masks turn my work from miserable to borderline unbearable. Exactly how do masks effect temperature and breathing? No one knows or cares! I am convinced I have experienced several events of serious and dangerous hypoxia as a result of needed to wear a mask while working. Have any of these people bothered to quantify the risks of hypoxia while doing strenuous work and wearing a mask? Maybe ivory tower work doesn't get them breathing hard so it is okay?

Being slightly off with their marketing game might be excusable, but one would expect medical professionals to have some nonzero level of bedside manner and actual interest in not doing harm.
In the same boat here. I use a $400 49 inch curved 4k TV as my monitor along with i3wm and while I waste a lot of the space on screen to perpetually open apps I don't touch, having the ability to look at my todo list or every app I need for a project at the same time has its benefits. I just wish I could lower the height and tilt the TV upwards a bit so I'm not breaking my neck looking at the upper windows.
Ugh, you need to pay the dev fee to get your app in the app store, which is the thing we're talking about. Good grief.
Here's the twitter profile of Anastasia Opara:
https://twitter.com/anastasiaopara

I recommend following her - she does amazing things at Embark Studios these days :)
One thing I'd recommend is making throwaway email addresses using one the domains they own (I think have around a 100). That way, if a spammer gets its, they won't know your domain, and try spamming other username at the domain.
No, I'm not losing my stuff (as I might in a natural disaster), my stuff is being stolen/burned/whatever. You still failed to address my point that I believe it's justifiable to defend my property with any amount of force necessary. My perspective is simply that if one attempts to steal or damage the things of another, "Then, don't cry when you get shot." Or they could just not loot/steal/burn.
That's an interesting point but it's arguably not the same because you should be able to enforce a strict separation between parties such that it isn't possible for the people who collect bounties to create the waste/corruption that they are being paid the bounty to identify.
Available at http://archive.vn/CMY0C

A compelling read, and a good excuse to go hug your kids.
Because there are now structural incentives put in place by lobbyists to prevent public engineering. Everything has to be contracted and red taped so the bribers of politicians can inject themselves into the taxpayer money pipeline.

Its in the same hilarious inefficiency ballpark as medical. Both are built on the foundations of what should be a public service being parasitized from all sides by regulatory capture.
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This comment encapsulates in a very crisp way why people are skeptical of immigration free-for-alls. Many feel the same way you do, that it's just a method of economic extraction and they don't have any skin in the game for the long term health and viability of the host Country.
And man, did SF screw that up.
>I'd expect that a county has sufficient need to build roads that a small construction crew + equipment could be kept on staff for road work.

Not so sure about that.

Filling pot holes? Sure, and they already do that in-house. But building roads must be far less common.