skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point. Because people get something out of engaging in business with Google/YouTube/Facebook/etc. they think that they are the customer and that they should be entitled to certain things. They forget that they are the product, and the company is the customer. By using these platforms you are providing them with a source of revenue for free. These companies make money off content that you freely give them.

Ad-revenue you receive doesn't even make you a contractor. It's basically like working for free and then being tossed something at the end for your efforts. There is no legal agreement or obligation to continue paying you.

It is amazing what the Internet has turned out to be. A place where big tech companies can profit off the work of others, while convincing them that they are the beneficiaries.
I would guess Adobe's? Or otherwise it's not "Liquid Mode" but a similar feature...
> I like how I can get really good, cheap and experienced devs for ‘non hip’ tech

> they rather take a pay-cut to work with the stuff they know and are good at.

The question is, are your employees aware of this?
I think the latter topic is generally more fun to commiserate about than the former. I have empathy for anyone that ernestly tries something ambitious and fails, and I'm glad the author found insight from the experience. Reading the article though, it sounds like the startup didn't really have a clear direction or momentum, tried to fix it by pivot ing to something technically "cool" without any business plan or realistic customer stories in mind, and then ultimately failed to create a sustainable business from that technology. A good lesson to learn from others rather than first hand, but not great subject matter to light heartedly banter about!
> We have a base 10 number system

You hit the nail on the head. Bases 12 amd 60 are much handier as they have more factors.
Agreed. We wrote about this and described it as having a well-balanced portfolio of technology. https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/05/30/Picking-Your-Te...
I think the difference between normal healthcare and a private health insurance is overstated in Germany. Of course you get perks, and it's easier to get appointments, but I have yet to see data that supports meaningfully different outcomes between the two systems.
> This seems mostly like a positive spin on "don't actually trust"

Yes, it's exactly what it has evolved to in some communities ("don't trust, verify"). However, people realize that totally eliminating trust is unrealistic or infeasible at best, and counterproductive or harmful at worst. Trust must be assumed initially, but nevertheless, independent verification and accountability is still a good idea, hence "trust, but verify".

I've explained the history of the quote in another comment, be sure to read it.
Blame Spring, not Java.
i see what you're saying. yelp is a testament to your point. maybe it can be priced in even if its not a monopoly
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Yes you can modify SAP, but upgrading then becomes very hard. Many companies are stuck at old versions of SAP because upgrading it, including migrating all the customizations, is very expensive and takes a lot of time.

I would consider Excel a no-code/low-code (pretty complex macros in there + vba) platform.
It's very upsetting to hear this. I've been planning a YouTube channel that discusses layman's philosophy - specifically How to be a A Happy Camper ;) and it's depressing to know that in 2020, the basic support system won't be there.
IMO these books are a bit tricky. Some will work through them. I find that I can't "Dover" very well, as much as I love the idea of their books.

To me there is always this organized mix of stuff I knew long ago, and stuff that I don't know, which still makes no sense, and which the book doesn't really go into in the desired depth.

IMHO there's a point at which you have to say "here's what gets me--I have no idea what _divide by_ really means grammatically," or some dumb statement like that. Then you take that as deep as possible and find the leverage rapidly building as you take on math not from an organized overview, but from a remote corner of the absolutely terrifying and embarrassing world of the newcomer's idiocy.

--A non-mathematician
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Liquified. So, low pressure. Aerogel insulation makes the tanks practical.

Volume on an aircraft is not expensive. Weight is expensive. Aerogel is very, very light. As is LH2.

Airports can make the LH2 directly on the spot from solar and wind power, so no need to transport or refine fuels.
> The "undesirables" can make their own websites, which are totally protected from the government by the First Amendment.

No they're not; the government has already shown itself able and willing to do an end-run around the First Amendment by e.g. pressurising payment processors to refuse to do business with such websites.

> The owners of the shadow-banning websites should also have the right to decide what thoughts are exposed on their website.

> I get to take down any flyers on my fence, even if I leave up the ones I like. Or I can vandalize the ones I dislike, maybe entirely changing their message. My fence.

If you're hosting a private website you can privately decide what goes on it. If you're holding yourself out as a public communications provider and want the benefits of section 230, you're being granted special privileges by society and you need to hold up your end of the bargain by hosting the kind of uncomfortable discussion that society needs.
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Yeah, you dissolve the plastic in a solution then take the antenna and form it into the shape you want.
It is impossible to fight cargo cult with facts, only a generation change helps.

Joe Duffy mentioned in one of his talks (Rust Keynote) that even with Midori running in front of them (it even powered part of Bing for a while), there were people on the Windows team quite sceptical that it was possible at all.

Anti-GC cargo cult goes a long way.
I get the stutter when Im anxious. I get anxious typically when I dont get enough me time. Regular doses of solitude keeps my stutter away.
Thanks for this comment! I usually read the comments before the article and though it would be a Captain Obvious advicicle with snarky comments as are the comments here. So I wasn’t even considering reading it.

Glad someone took the time to read the damn article lol

Interesting reading by the way.
I've come to agree. The fact that there are candidates that study with questions that are leaked online means that the bar ends up getting raised every year. 5 years ago the 2 pointer solution to linked list cycle detection might have been a clever thing, now if you haven't seen it then you're behind.

The good news is that you have a very material advantage if you, say, memorize the top 100 questions on leetcode. The bad news is that real life is just playing out Goodhart's Law:

> "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Including a video resume seems like a bad idea. Remember, the purpose of a resume is to get a face-to-face interview (or COVID-19 equivalent). Your video, IMHO, only allows people to form superficial opinions about you without the time commitment or interaction of an interview. They can think "That guy seems hesitant/cocky or older/younger than I expected" and form judgements without any chance for you to react and prove otherwise. I've interviewed plenty of developers who come off unsure of themselves or full of themselves at first impression until you probe them a bit. You're letting people stereotype you (with whatever personal biases they have) without any chance to get passed those biases. Also, you aren't a professional performer (probably, few people are) so what are the chances that your "performance" is an accurate representation of who you really are? Yet, you're being judged by that.

I agree with others that your resume needs to be more accomplishment driven with lots of action verbs and results statements. You want to include a sample (but not a laundry list) of interesting problems you solved and value you delivered. Employers are far more interested in that than who you are and what bag of skills you have. Granted, you need to include buzzwords to be seen by resume filters but your resume should scream "Here's the kind of great stuff I can do for you" in the first few bullet points or so rather than a technical checklist.
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If the non-profit's constitution said it could not sell the intellectual assets created from its activity, that might prevent a new for-profit from acquiring them (even a subsidiary of the non-profit), except on licensed terms.

I don't know of any non-profit which has a condition like that in their constitution. However, they do often have an "asset lock", which would require assets are sold at fair market value, not given away, profits are not distributed etc.

Seems to me, an "intellectual property asset lock" could be constructed along similar lines, if people really wanted to. It might be a bad idea, though, if the non-profit folds, or would benefit from being restructured. Something allowing contribution to Open Invention Network or similar might be better for the long term.
I feel leetcode and all these websites actually made the interviews harder. As an interviewer, if you pick a question that's too easy or common on leetcode, your risk people who just know it from having done it before.

So I feel interviewers have made their questions harder and harder. Also, leetcode has allowed them to easily find hard questions to ask.

So on one hand those websites try to prepare you to pass an interview, but they've also made it so more people are now prepared and thus the interview no longer asses the candidate talent, but only how much they prepared, thus more imaginative and possibly difficult problem now need to be asked.
Yes but, as it stands, this is a change to a PDF reader, not a change to PDF.

Of course, it's Adobe's reader. So the chances that this will lead to even more mucking about with the format are pretty high.

Which hey, for me that's job security. Which is not to say I look forward to it...

But Liquid Mode, now with more machine learning, isn't those changes. It's just reader mode for PDF.
On the fundamentals you agree with me: the goalposts shifted from telemtry to logging.

IMO they're different things. One deals with call graphs, timings, and associated baggage. The other is logs. Should we hold off on the spec for another 5 years and add datadog/prometheus metrics too?

I dont think that one spec should be all encompassing. Opentracing is great for tracing. Logs can be baggage. Memory use can be baggage. The temperature of the CPU and the current disk space is another platform altogether.

It's like saying everything in the world should run webassembly, and no other ISA matters. It's an idea! But, certainly a distraction from the benefits. Why not let tracing deal with tracing before messing with the 1.0?
SF is a wealthy city, but drive around some of the low income neighborhoods and look at the cars. They are 15+ years old and will be driven until they no longer work. These folks can't afford a new ICE car, let alone a new EV car (they don't have garage to charge anyways). These folks will be buying the used ICE cars in 2035 and driving them for another 15 years.

There will be a big enough market for ICE cars and gasoline for a while.

No doubt we'll see ICE cars disappear, but I just don't think it will happen that quickly.
So can financial failure, I would presume.
Could also be summarized as "pivoting hard is almost certain death" – bleeding-edge tech just changed the number of problems from large N to N+1. You have to basically shift the mindset of an entire company, and everybody was hired with pre-pivot skills in mind.
A blockchain-hosted fork of Wikipedia named Everipedia.org has most of these features already built coincidentally. While I prefer Wikipedia over them, I have been noticing myself use other skins/newer look wikis instead of the dated Wiki UI. Although, the load speed of Wikipedia.org is difficult to beat.
As proven by Oberon, it can be made with unmodified Go as well.

What it would be missing, and was fixed in Active Oberon, is explicit support for untraced references.
Oh yeah, I suppose a lot more moving parts in a mechanical generator, I can see it ending up more reliable than a generator.

Seems unlikely to be more reliable than a battery backup system but I bet those battery sizes aren't nearly big enough (having lived quite a weird life and having actually researched industrial battery backup systems from GE too for some reason). I can definitely see it making sense.

Main downside I'd see is that if you're talking SF, I bet you the next earthquake takes out natural gas. If it's something important like a hospital that might be reason enough to have a big diesel generator since I know diesel fuel is so dense and you can ship it by truck if you have to. I don't really know how important your datacenter is in a disaster =)

I mean, honestly I mostly looked hard at Bloom before they left stealth mode but I kinda researched the same kind of stuff that they did in grad school and I'd be totally shocked if they were operating under 350C. Probably more like 500-600C.

If they had a major technical innovation I would imagine it's around decreasing the temperature that iron is catalytically active at but the solid electrolyte still needs to be hot enough to have good ionic conductivity.

My stuff from ages ago on this vague sort of thing:
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/59228
Food allergy is one of the reasons I theorize many people find different seemingly unrelated symptoms disappear when either fasting or on a low carbohydrate diet (even things like seizures).

It alters your diet so dramatically and greatly reduces the types of processed foods you can eat.
I agree, my 12.9" touch screen is the best device for reading PDFs I could imagine. A ReMarkable is at least as good for black and white (I've tried it) but a lot of PDFs are full color.

PDF on a phone is unremitting pain. I'd rather muddle through on a laptop. I'll give this this a shot, it might help, and it can't hurt, since it's just a button you can push that says "make this thing legible, maybe".
Most of it comes from a few bad decisions in C in particular that we ended up with stuck for a very long time (nulls, badly designed array type) OSes were written to run on very different hardware from what we use now and over time the hardware was adapted to running specifically C code well. High-level languages like we expect these days hardly existed at all before the mid 90s or so, and they have been gaining in dominance ever since.
Notably, there is no carve out for factually untrue information. So you can't remove posts claiming that silver solution will cure Covid...
Thanks, that seems like the point I was trying to get across.
Google Street View of the interior of an Emirates A380 from 2013:

https://www.google.com/maps/@25.242676,55.3718716,2a,75y,38....

via: https://www.wired.com/2013/08/google-street-view-a380/
That is perfectly doable in Go.

Just like C, C++ or Rust you would need a thin Assembly help and that is about it.

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Kerne...
The one thing I hate about the waste issue is that it is nearly never priced in. "Nuclear is cheap and clean", is what many will say, but dealing with the waste will create costs for the public multiplied by a 100k years. And this assumes the public exists, knows and wants to manage these things for a timeframe that long. 10k years ago we were still in the ice age and roaming around in huts, hunting with sticks. It would be even a challenge to garantuee such a thing for a single century in the current climate and there would be 999 to go just to deal with the stuff that we made at one point.

This is purely a debt to the future generations, and as such we are very easily blue to take them, because we will not be around when it needs to be payed. If we ever realistically counted that stuff in nuclear would be completely and utterly unaffordable.

Sure thing, we could develope ways of reducing the half life time of the waste, building better and greater storage facilities that manage to stay functional 25 times longer than the pyramides, find newer cleaner ways of using the limited nuclear resources we have, etc.

This factor alone makes me unsure this really is the best way to generate energy. One thing many don't realise is that reducing production emissions alone doesn't cut it. We have to use less as well. Eat less meat, based on the methane the cows fart alone. All in all buy and produce less stuff. Which in turn would break capitalism, which we realistically won't carry through even if it would mean extinction.

Let's play with the sliders: https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org
Most people are way to optimistic about this. Technology alone will not safe us here.
The quoted text says that overhead on the kernel code was 15%, not the application.
Youtube is broken in weird ways man!
They're notable for writing the book they wrote at the time they wrote it. The book is notable in that trans people are normalized instead of being throwaways or villains. The book is quite early in my community's history, and its author is notable on that basis alone. Your dismissiveness and singleminded focus on their gender is unbecoming, and frankly kinda weird. You're not even discussing the book here, but complaining about the style of an adjacent article.
The entire new annual fleet will have to hit 100% electric before that, which is a massively steep curve.

I recently started https://tryelectricnow.com to connect EV owners with car buyers to try to have a larger, distributed impact. One ride will 'click' for most people, and they won't go back.
These places are paying $25,000 a month in rent. The additional minimum wage is so small compared to that figure.
The problem is that the PDF standard tells each letter where on the page to sit. If you need an AI to dynamically re-render the page, what good is that standard?

PDFs are good for one thing only: Printing.

I wish academia would stop using PDF to distribute online, so their documents would be easier to parse!
See Oberon, Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, Lisp Machines, Mesa/Cedar as well.
How deploying fiber more becomes economical? I expect the cost won't decrease much unlike semiconductor. So If it won't be more economical, faster replacement is better strategy.
X2Go. VMware Horizon.
Updated Analysis of UPenn 'Muncipal Fiber in the U.S.' Study
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We know how to build cooling towers. That's the $7B cost.

Why would we remove a common sense environmental regulation, when we can build cheaper better things that have less environmental damage? Why the obsession with nuclear, at any cost? What is the benefit and gain when we have cheaper better alternatives?

What was considered "cheap" in the 1980s is no longer the cheapest option. We have better, cheaper technologies.

And on top of that the US can no longer build big things. We don't have construction management competence.
How so? Wikipedia is a bad example as it is probably one of the most heavily moderated sites on the web. Social media is still 100% possible, it'll just be impossible to scale overnight as you'll have to scale moderation efforts with your username.
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NYC and Chicago are corrupt, bankrupt, overburdened disasters and they are seeing the fruits of their labors. It doesn't have to be this way. You can believe the wealthy caused all of these problems despite decades of Democrat rule, but it is truly the bureaucracy and government that brought them there.
Really? You think solar panels on the wings would provide enough power to fly?

Aircraft need concentrated energy. Batteries are nowhere near enough for anything big. Liquid H2 is the best possible fuel for aircraft, once certain practicalities are worked out, and can be produced from solar and wind.
I absolutely agree. Creature comforts are important parts of the human experience.
Are there any liquid measures (or volume units in general) odder than acre-feet, whose unit parallelepiped is furlong x chain x foot?
Amusingly only the Chinese seem capable to build nuclear powerplants these days.

I was doing some research and practically all the sites in use today were built in the 1970s...
Sure it does,

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Kerne...

https://labs.f-secure.com/blog/tamago/
You're a cool bear! Thanks for the detailed explanation!
> The Guardian started asking their readers for money a few years ago and seems to be on firmer financial footing since.

huh. The Guardian did a massive cut out of the bunch recently [1]. They'll soon start pay walling articles

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/15/guardian-annou...
Lowing taxes when they are too high makes sense. Raising taxes when they are too low makes equally as much sense. Why everyone accepts one and not the other is the core issue.
What features makes Quarkus "Kubernetes Native"?

I read through the get started guide, and could not figure out those features.
Hydrogen at atmospheric pressure is hard to ignite in uncontrolled circumstances. It wants a specific gas/air ratio.
I am sure that it's comfy but the colors choices makes it look like a hospital's intensive care ward.
There is a workable solution between anarchy and NYC. I would argue NYC is an unworkable situation that was only middling along when everything was perfect, but now that pandemic world is here, it is totally unworkable. What's gotta give is municipal bond holders, pension recipients, and the bloated and inefficient bureaucracy.
I don't think landlords not being able to make money off of monopoly of land is a big deal.

So probably at this cost.
My thoughts regarding HTML as an alternative to this:

1. AFAIK, there is no standard way to bundle a webpage containing images into a single file.

2. We have EPUB, and my experience using it has been horrible. Either the format is bad or somehow every single reader I've used sucks, and I've tried many (Foliate and the now defunct Readium Chrome extension are the ones that suck the less, but the experience is still much worse than reading a PDF)

At this point, solving the bundling problem of HTML (and using normal web browsers) seems like a better course of action than trying to use EPUB.

3. Text that always fills the width of the screen sucks if you're using a screen bigger than 10 inches.

Being able to coerce a document into a page whose border is clearly delimited (just like PDF readers do it) without having to resize windows is, in my opinion, an absolute necessity. Something like:

body {
border: solid black;
max-width: 25em;
}

Epub readers allow defining widths (or semi-equivalently: margins) but they always look bad because there isn't a visual boundary.
Fully agree :D
Not to steal the thread, but for the Go sceptics in system programming, F-Secure decided also to prove them wrong and is shipping bare metal Go for their security solutions.

https://labs.f-secure.com/blog/tamago/

https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry
There's not an easy solution to this. Landlords are typically highly leveraged. If you buy a $4 million property with 5% down, you only had to put down $200,000. But you told the bank that you would get $x/square foot.

If you lower the rent, that implies the value of the property is less than $4 million dollars. And that probably breaks a covenant with the bank. https://www.brickunderground.com/rent/do-concessions-throw-o... Landlords are more likely to give free months or other things so their advertised rent stays high.

Having a home where you owe more than it's worth is "being underwater". If you bought it for $4 million but it's now worth $3.5 million, the bank is going to want you to come up with the missing $300,000 (in addition to your initial $200,000). They might even want more since if it dropped that far, it might keep going and be worth even less next year.