skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8/10
I had the advantage of recognizing Sussman, Sammet and Guido. I don't think they look like killers. But I also didn't think that about Dorothea Puente and John Christie who I mistook for planguage designers :-)
> Indeed, React is mostly backward-compatible, but the ecosystem around React is not. Developers and third-party libraries will always use the latest features and architecture patterns, while old experiments will be left behind to die. This should not be a problem for small and medium-sized projects because you can adapt much more easily. But for big multi-year projects, these experiments can be a deal-breaker.

I really wanted to use React for my current project and it would have sped up development. But I was afraid of this attitude of breaking things that pervades the ecosystem. I'm using HTML + Alpine.js. It's more work, but no breaking changes in libraries so far. I'm still not sure I made the right call. Only time will tell.
Lots of plywood, especially birch, is metric-sized. You might have 18mm plywood on your hands, which would be about 1/32 under 3/4 inches.
Perhaps tangential - but what Mercedes models are you referring to? I've driven multiple recent Mercedes, A220, C300, CLA250, and have never had a real problem connecting the bluetooth on my phone. I believe all of these models have had a spin-dial media interface though - I can't stand touchscreen interfaces in cars - totally unintuitive and inconvenient while you're driving.
Can't speak to GCP. I work at Oracle on OCI, their cloud platform. ARM is on its way, based on Ampere Altra chips, which are looking really competitive.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-a...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-a...

I'm genuinely excited to get my hands on these systems, and see how well they can do. There has been so many promises of a future based on ARM powered servers, and claims about their advantages, and it finally seems like it's within reach from a performance perspective. Whether they'll meet the other expectations, I couldn't guess, but this surely has to be concerning for Intel.
Money is fungible, actually.
Newspapers, journals, radio and other publishers have to maintain some basic decency, even if they are public.
Perhaps the second sentence of the article offers a clue?

> This makes sense, as California is the most populous state in the country with about 40 million residents.
Yes of course.

Admittedly, upon burning out, it took a while for me to actually acknowledge the multiple issues I was having in my life. I still had the toxic mentality of “just push through”, and therefore a lot of the personal work I did was incremental.

The very first thing I did was reduce my workload. It was probably still too much, but at the time it was unthinkable to stop working entirely.

Sleep, diet and exercise were next. Diet was nothing crazy, but I just wanted to eat consistent meals (I was massively underweight). Unfortunately I also had to come to terms with the fact that I am part of the population that needs at least 8 hours of sleep. I really wish I could manage on less sleep, but it is what it is. I’m also not a huge fan of running, but it massively reduced the amount of depressive and anxious thoughts, so I kept doing it.

After those changes I found that my energy levels were much better than before.

The next phase was completely mental. I hated that I failed at something, and had to learn to forgive myself. To be honest, I am still working on that. Also, I was terrified of burning out again, and went through a weird phase of over thinking and analyzing everything. Turns out it was analysis paralysis. Experimentation/tinkering helped with that. It also helped me relearn how to learn, and how to enjoy work again.

A therapist probably would’ve sped up this part of my recovery, but I hated admitting that I had a problem that I couldn’t solve myself. Very toxic mentality and one I still face to this day.

I also recently started journaling. I’m not overly consistent (working on that!), but it forces me to take a step back and evaluate my mental state at the time of writing.

It’s an ongoing process, and there are probably a lot of steps I’ve missed. However these were the major goals that I had, and achieving them definitely helped. It’s very cliche, but forgiving yourself and being honest with your capabilities is crucial.

Hopefully someone reading this can take something away from this. Burnout is no joke, and it has permanently changed my life.

TL;DR:
1. Reduction of workload.
2. Prioritize physical well being (food, exercise, sleep), and being honest with my body.
3. Improve mental well being.
4. Start experimenting, and relearning how to learn/work.
I think I remember reading that auto parts included in the original vehicle have a minimum designed life of 10 years.. that includes the radio and related display components
Human fraud is not an easy problem to solve. Micropayments can enable a fraudster to commit microfrauds, and by the time someone else finds about it, it's too late. The incentive of internet companies to solve it is huge, i however argue that the best way to solve it, is with an immutable public ledger fully automated which records pseudonymous transactions. Fully automated by proof of work machines, and no human involvement in the transactions.
Obviously it's not acceptable to make threats to heads of state or ex-heads of state, but still I think that's a State Department, Secret Service and other governmental entities that should handle this decision, not Twitter.

Twitter should not be making these calls that have international relations implications.

Oh, well, they got themselves in this mess.

Dig deeper Twitter.

Once you're down to goodie two shoes, it'll all be over.
California produces a huge amount compared to all other US states. It's the 5th largest nation in terms of global GDP.

> economic data puts the
> California economy at $2.747
> trillion — bigger than most
> nations. The ranking puts in
> fifth in the world, just ahead
> of the United Kingdom, which
> is on $2.625 trillion. The
> difference is striking given
> California's population of 40
> million to the UK's 66 million.
January 2021: Twitter grew some balls.

This and the PRC Embassy, it’s like sunshine, lollipops and rainbows around here.
It’s really quite good.
Can relate. I am in cyber security and typically everything is on fire almost all the time. Haven’t had a proper vacation in aeons. A job in internal compliance is considered low stress in our field since it is mostly focused on creating risk plans and ensuring things are enforced by Ops, you are typically the driving force behind it. The pay is nicer as well.

edit : added more details
Private servers, private property, mate. Don’t ruin the moment.
How is this not foreign political interference?

The UK media has been preaching to us about dangers of Russian election interference for years at this point, but simultaneously they seem completely unconcerned that a handful of wealthy Americans how the power to censor popular media outlets, entire political movements and political activists at a whim.

The SWP is massive. I don't know for sure, but I suspect they had millions of followers on Facebook. This isn't some fringe, extremist group by any sane interpretation of those terms.

It seems we're now quickly moving on from just censoring those with extremist political views to simply censoring anyone who who dares express a non-establishment political view online.
Yes, but the cost of ratcheting down the economy through lockdowns to reduce emissions also has a continuing cost.

And no, climate change, even if we do nothing, won’t cause the economy to collapse by 2100: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/how-much-will-the-green-ne...

> “While it is true that we estimated damages as high as 10% of GDP annually at the end of the century for warming of 15°F above pre-industrial levels, the odds of a temperature change that would drive damages of this magnitude are slim,” he wrote. “In fact, they are less than 1-in-100 by our original calculation.”

It’s worth spending a lot of money to avoid a 10% GDP loss. But it’s not worth spending the kind of money you’d be willing to spend if you thought the economy was going to collapse completely otherwise.
Anyone have a good comparison of .net vs java GCs? I never had trouble with the former but Java has been terrible. I'm not sure if its just my project or having the xmx memory cap.
Try adding the word "the" in every spot, and report back when you find the right one. Hint: sentence.split()[3:4]
I _am_ that ugly, and don't do video...period

I just say I don't have a camera, but I have a headset and so far, no-one has complained.
The topic is GameStop. Life can’t be spent on your agenda principles 100% of the time.

Who thinks they’re smarter than everyone else? Am I “they”? I don’t understand this. Writing things like “your ‘profit’” is condescending by the way.

I can’t change the world. I’m not a rich man. The couple of grand I’ve made this week from GameStop and Blackberry has been nice for me personally.
> Canadian & Russian taiga and the Sahara, for example, become fertile grasslands

It'll take a lot more than climate for those areas to become productive. Glaciers have scraped away most of the topsoil in the Canadian shield[1], for instance. The Sahara desert's sand isn't a great growing medium. And so on.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield
Yeah sure, but this is also international relations, diplomacy (or lack of it), etc.
That's a thoughtful answer; thank you.
Gotta at least make an attempt to make it look fair...
I think it's relatively easy to imagine quite a few scenarios where this falls short of the rigor we'd prefer to have for such an argument.
Whoops I intro'd a bug a few minutes earlier. Should be fixed now. If still happening, do a hard refresh and it'll work again :)
Where're all the "free speech advocates" that popped up earlier this month?
Long trips might be an anomaly, but they are a common one in that every person I know takes a couple every year. So a good answer needs to exist or the whole thing dies.
You asked me to stop posting u substantive comments in response to my sarcasm, so I substantiated my claim. I also explained you are not doing anything sinister, that your actions are entirely explicable through well intentioned and reasonable motivations. Yet, this does not preclude censorship and a set of topics which are considered Things You Cannot Say. I don't believe any of this is controversial, and in fact is entirely consistent with Paul Graham's essay. There are taboo subjects, and he says the best thing is to not talk about them openly. And I would imagine if he ran a forum the same would go for the forum: go ahead and censor all the distracting controversial subjects.
Tesla isn't doing something super unique in phoning the location home.
Talking about Toyota a lot of their post 2019 models phone their location home and other data in real-time.
This is used for their hybrid models to coach your driving and make you a more economical driver.
Disabling the location tracker may not be as hard as you assume as its done on a regular basis by thieves.
Like put it in a metal box pulled by a truck?
And diplomatic channels including back channels are the gold standard for diplomatic and undiplomatic communications. Let’s not ruin a good thing by replacing them with Twitter.
There's no law you can make to force a company to do business within your borders. Especially when they start operating at a net loss.

Google is backed into an impossible corner here, and pretty much must leave.
I doubt Twitter makes such decisions. It's more like WH outsources blame to Twitter.
ZGC is the state of the art
Are you sure you can buy a 10-pack of these today, made to the same specifications as then? I think of more planned obsolesence here.
I have said a lot on this topic, just not in this thread, possibly not in this thread yet.
OK, I have to conceed your point. You can drive from Austin to Big Bend NP in an electric car. I didn't know you could now buy a Tesla with a 400m range.

Of course that longer range Model S costs $65K, not $48K. And you have to drive 55mph, with the heater off to get that range. Which, in West Texas, is 30 mph under the posted speed limit for many roads. And (I apologize for moving the goal posts) when most people get to Big Bend they don't want to turn around at the entrance and go back to the closest charger -- they want to drive around and see things and maybe vist Terlingua or Alpine or Ft Davis. Maybe they want to spend several days in the area but that's not an option in an EV. Thats probably why I've never seen one in Big Bend.

I drive out there often from Austin. I drive a 2004 Sienna which I bought for about $4000. The $61K I save by not buying a Tesla would buy me 700,000 miles in my ICE.

https://evstationslocal.com/states/texas/79834/
On reading this and reflecting on personal experience also, there have been instances where I've pushed myself and there have been instances where I've been under stress. The two are not identical sets though - relatively little overlap actually.

The pushing myself towards a goal or exceeding some benchmark wasn't generally stressful ... it was exhausting sure, but more thrilling than stressful. Other times when I've been stressed I haven't really enjoyed it as much as the pushing. I suppose one aspect is intrinsic motivation versus external factors.

The post uses mountains as an imagery to indicate pushing yourself. Even in exactly that endeavour, I've had physical struggle, but have not felt stressed but more in tune with the climb (not a pro level by any stretch) and enjoying it at the bottom of it all.

Any others who think we may be confusing "stress" with "pushing yourself"?
The cellular antennas are in the side mirrors. One hammer, one pair of side cutting pliers.
Sure, I can see that. It just triggered me a little bit that I was being encouraged to judge people so readily. Plus, the comments here didn't seem to make that connection. They mostly saw it as a particularly "hard" challenge, rather than an exposition of our own biases.
Loved his blog. My favourite post was this one on interventionism:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/goodies_and_b...

You may need to enable flash temporarily, the archival videos are half the fun.
Woh, there have been two file system creators that are murderers?
Look more closely into how gerrymandering happens and you'll see it's not necessarily a good idea for all e.g. black voters in a certain area to be lumped into the same districts, since it might neutralize an "excess majority" that could otherwise change the results on another district.
In terms of supported languages why doesn't pidgin support pidgin. Tagio tumas.
Facebook deactivated account after it advocated decentralized social networks
Two years ago I started writing an app in Swift. After a two year sabbatical, this was going to be my first app.

When using Swift, the compiler was painstakingly slow. Because of that, I tried Objective-C and it is so clear to me that I love it. It is the best language in my humble opinion. The dynamism clicked and the modern features make it a real breeze to use.

Messages are so flexible. I also love how it has “gradual typing.”

My only gripe with it is that Categories can’t formally conform to protocols—which I understand is an easy to build feature that Blaine Garst did finish but Apple never released.

I know I’m talking about the language more than I am talking about Brad Cox, but that’s because it’s the first time I really fell in love with a language. Using Objective-C to build it brings me joy. Lots and lots of joy.

Thank you Brad. My prayers to your family. May you find peace in heaven.
Thanks for the clarification, that makes more sense.

Personally, I would think microsoft would be easier to "motivate" to share given they probably have more investments in china which could be used as leverage.
My guess is Australians would continue to use a non localised version of Google. Bing and by extension DDG is awful for Australian results in my experience.
Longer statement https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1352765779410825217?s=2...
When I first saw this trending on Twitter, I tried it and found some Charles Babbage papers. I didn't click on the rest that were shown in the list of additional links under the description because I figure other people should get to enjoy the moment, too.

There are a lot of his papers there to be found.
My favorite one from my parents: "If you don't eat your dinner, you'll go straight to bed without dinner!"

I may agree with you on the not-SERPs part. In which case Google might simply decide to stop doing that.

However, it was my impression that the Australian law pretty much also forces Google to pay for SERPs though; at which point they're snookered, and my previous point applies.

(If I'm wrong about the law forcing SERPs payments, then I'd be wrong about google needing to withdraw, and I'll withdraw the point)
To be fair, that might be the current draw in stall.
Did you read the article? It is literally investigating a possible mitigation using a generic drug that is not a vaccine. I strongly suspect doctors are even treating sick patients currently, and not just telling them to wait for a vaccine.

Although, if you're instead trying to compare their effectiveness, yeah, vaccines kinda do appear to be that much starkly better. I'm blown away by how much the actual data curve looks like the dramatic XKCD cartoon version:
https://m.xkcd.com/2400/

https://www.idsociety.org/covid-19-real-time-learning-networ...
Definitely interesting. Even more impressive on their release notes of Tech Preview: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis/releases/tag/v1.0.0
In that case, it's not really CAN, it's more like CAN-tranceiver-control-signals. That may work, but would realistically be limited to only two devices, at which point it probably makes more sense to just use a protocol that's meant for short point-to-point links, like U[S]ART or SPI.
Software engineer for a large bank. Pays well enough, though not at Silicon Valley levels, but I have a house in a nice neighborhood and a Tesla and lots of retirement savings. We get 4 weeks of vacation, health insurance, 4 months parental leave, and other benefits. I don't work much overtime and don't feel stressed about deadlines. It seems like the team leads and directors above me might feel some pressure, but I'm not really looking to take on management duties myself since I already am happy where I'm at.
Energy Transition’s Half-Trillion-Dollar Year Is Even Better Than It Looks
Paywall bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20210121211456/https://www.bloom...
Why are your electron apps holding up your boot sequence?
I’ve had my m1 air for a few weeks now and going back to the trackpad on my Dell XP’s 15 feels like the stone ages... it’s amazing... and safari on the Mac even makes Jenkins and Jira fast...
A minimal amount of effort would lead to an author with very good reviews ( 5/5 on amazon)
Personally, waiting an extra 2-3s on boot is an acceptable tradeoff to save a few clicks in my morning routine. Back when I was using an ssd, I might have reconsidered since those apps would add an extra 10s to my boot time
Gigadollar-scale space projects seem like a particularly poor fit for the private industry model, though. Conventionally the idea of free-market competition is that companies stand to gain if they succeed but have to eat the losses if they fail, and so competition eventually selects the best. But we're not talking about making widgets or sandwiches or launch vehicles. Things like the ISS, JWST, etc are all one-off projects, and they cannot be allowed to fail, so competition doesn't really help and the public is left holding the bag, just like we see in the endless cost overruns of politically unkillable DoD contracts.

"Public bad private good" isn't a coherent strategy. If NASA isn't good enough then the preference should be to improve NASA rather than to insert an unnecessary layer of profit-taking for SpaceX or Boeing to do the same thing anyway.
I hope humanity is able to maintain these responsible habits to reverse the course of such potential consequences on future generations.
A former colleague made ~$200k a year basically doing storage zoning for SANs at a big NYC bank.

He basically had about 2-3 hours of work a day, mostly early morning, and studied, ended up with a masters degree and a nice resume filler — he had a nice title with a big name during the process.

He really had strong storage chops, they just didn’t use his talents. There are a lot of operations jobs like that in finance and government.
Weird question: do the Reddit users really have that much trading power vs institutional investors?
> I'm amused that Chemists / Physicists also have the word "Polymorphism" and that it means something completely different from the programming term.

Seems like a good reason to stop using it [in programming], and the technique behind it.
This is fantastic. Maintaining API compatibility is a fine art.

A fun fact: for my previous job I developed a set of libraries to make Node API development type safe and generally easy to use safely with a lot of help from the TS compiler. When I got the chance to prove it out for production use, I was tasked (well I volunteered) with porting a service that had one of the worst API designs I’ve ever encountered. It had no design, totally off the cuff for every route handler. But it was in production and critical, and API stability was a hard requirement.

A wonder of wonders: these libraries worked with almost no rework, mapped to an internal implementation that was much better to work with, and auto generated documentation that was 99% correct (I fixed the two bugs filed over 10 months).

Before I left we were planning a v2 API, and as far as I could tell literally no business logic/service code would need to change. Only the service boundaries.

And on my way out, doing knowledge transfer sessions, all the things that seemed inscrutable about the libraries doing all that work really clicked with the rest of my team. It was already doing the API translation that was the ugly part. Once they saw how it worked with APIs that were designed for use and development, nothing felt painful for the team I was leaving it with.

Planning ahead for this kind of thing is important. You don’t have to have the perfect API. You just have to have good abstractions in place for the inevitability you don’t have the perfect API.
In the Russian language they actually removed a lot of letters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthography
right, but when you leave chrome open and it always manages to use like 6GB of RAM and mess with ping in a way that opera gx doesnt
I understand and overarchingly agree - my drive to my preferred ski resort nearby is approx. 180mi roundtrip and this can be easily covered in a Tesla. I used to take weekend trips to Whistler and the increased travel time from charging would be much more noticeable, as the entire trip timeline is pretty tight as it is.

I think charging infrastructure like superchargers will have difficulty scaling up to large potions of the population owning electric vehicles. This is of course my opinion, but if there are a factor of a hundred more Teslas or equivalent on the road than there currently are, and supercharging stops regularly are 30-60 minutes, I suspect the convenience factor of supercharging may decrease substantially.
It’s odd to feel sad having never known this man, and only written in the language he helped create. Perhaps it is a testament to the beauty of Objective-C that I feel moved.

Objective-C is poetic. Its patterns and clarity are the closest I’ve come to an ecological software language: I feel like I’m gardening when writing Objective-C code.