skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in the UK borrowing to buy a car is a minority thing.

The majority of people throw a few grand at an old banger and drive it until it stops working.
“They turned the power off for many and just left us in the dark” is hard to reconcile with “Mother Nature is fucking stuff up and rides it out.”

I mean, yeah, Mother Nature rode in and fucked things up pretty good. But it’s been known for years both how to prepare for this and that it’s been needed (see the FERC report about 2011). There’s pretty clearly someone to blame, and it’s the grid operators, regulators, and the politicians and voters that enabled them to cut corners this hard.
Certainly took away from the experience for me. Also the constant clapping was irritating along with the guy going "yes, yess" towards the end.

Not enough info, too much "personality" and "team work".
Waste of time watching it really.
Half a mil is not common anywhere, let alone Austin or Atlanta. I get that you wanted to flex though.
I don’t think I've ever used this sort of time jumping with code. If I'm refactoring or testing a different segment I just comment out the original for visual memory reference and refactor based on the commented segment. Once I'm done, I chuck the commented section. It's nice to have the reference so I don't have to commit anything to memory.
> then started the disk to load whatever the next response was.

In addition on some systems with smaller disks (eg. C64) needed the story file to be split up over two disks, because the story file and interpreter wouldn't both fit on one disk. So you were switching the floppy disk at various intervals as well. With the C1541 being no speed demon to begin with it was not fun. I remember being much happier playing it on CP/M and DOS machines later.
Intel discriminated against eight older workers in 2015 layoffs, EEOC finds
I’ve never heard someone talk about this before, I’m sure developing good development techniques and relying on editor auto complete would alleviate most of those listed issues.
Even when you can taste small difference, if you stop thinking that one must be is better than another, you can enjoy both the same.

You can make yourself to enjoy things just by changing the attitude. Taste is for detecting spoiled and rotten things. Almost everything else is just cultural programming.
Terrain Relative Navigation: Landing Between the Hazards
Five year olds are usually really good at cooperation (including skillsharing), and it takes many years of school to teach them that "copying is theft" and helping one another to achieve a task is "cheating".
Setting aside the fact that I ignored the guidelines because I felt that a downvote for the post I was replying to wasn’t sufficient disagreement for a) how wrong it was and b) how it ignored the point, what’s a C19 redditor?

I did a quick Google search and only came up with the C19 core magic set.

Also you could check my profile and see that I’ve been posting on HN since 2012.
I use it exactly for this. Just use typespecs as a hint to the person looking at the code as to what is expected to be passed.
And all of these points are infinitely more useful and applicable than the entirety of the article. Addressing those issues is arguably the next step toward sustainable transportation.

Non-petroleum-based plastics are becoming more mainstream, and I look forward to when they're mechanically and economically competitive enough to displace petroleum-based plastics entirely.
Damn good research!

Thanks for sharing it!
Sergey Brin: Google co-founder sets up family firm in Singapore
I'm going to stop reading these vertical farming "hit pieces" as informative about farming and, instead, informative of how worried incumbent agribusiness is about any entrants to their markets.
For me at least, I found banking to be incredible, teams of DBAs managing very expensive database servers to perfection and high scale web apps that almost always work correctly
> Do you know any?

Generally, if you get to the point where you have to scour the internet to cherry-pick positive stories, it's not a good sign.

In these situations, you shouldn't be asking if success stories exist. It's a big world out there, so you're bound to find a success story somewhere.

The real question is how likely it is to succeed, and at what cost?

I worked at a company that did a somewhat successful rewrite, although it came at a cost. In retrospect, the rewrite helped us get rid of some problems we knew we had, but it introduced a large number of new problems we didn't see coming. It also cost us the better part of a year just getting back to feature parity with the original product. From a product perspective, that time would have been better spent working on new features.
It seems likely that the author has just aged and is noticing different things about the world. And people who didn't seem like culture heroes at the time, now seem in hindsight like they were always culture heroes.

Rich people and politicians didn't used to be culture heroes? That must be why when I was growing up everyone was a fan of Nelson Mandela and Gandhi, and all the conspiracy theories were about the Rockefellers and Kennedys.

Entertaining anecdotes are okay, I guess, but not sure why it's on Hacker News?
istat menus seems to better report aggregate memory usage. I’m getting 750 mb for Safari on a clean launch with just those two tabs. (It drifts up to 850 mb and back down if I interact with them.)
Elon Musk!
It seems to me that as interest rates go down people take on more debt because their interest payment is the same. This is true of households, companies, and governments. At the same time, the price of assets goes up. As long as interest rates are going down it all works. At some point, however, you reach an interest rate of zero and a zombie economy (insolvent companies, governments and households refinancing to repay debt) or interest rates go up and everything collapses.
Oh hey, I'm glad people are enjoying SKF. Last week I was thinking that it might be interesting to port it to RISC-V, which involves maybe a certain amount of perverse instruction encoding pain, but is otherwise very much simpler than i386.
If we can’t trust the WHO to give us honest answers about the sources and dangers of a pandemic virus, I don’t see why we’d default to trusting a similarly structured organization to give us honest answers about climate change research.
Sounds like they're using software to artificially limit the capabilities when it comes out.
> It isn’t public [yet].

Ah hah. I'd like to use the code history slider plugin too. You've done well to identify a common problem many of us face.
In my 30 years of professional programming, and even with my admittedly declining short term memory, I have never felt lost without access to versions of code from 5-15 minutes ago.

Not to be harsh, but I really think that this indicates some fundamental approach issue rather than a tooling problem.

If it cannot be written on paper (or tablet note with pen) as rough pseudocode... or even drawing boxes and arrows for the visually-inclined, then the problem is not understood. Take what is understood and codify it, pushing the complexity and the unknowns to the edges. At least that reduces the complexity.

One aid I do lean on heavily though is a REPL. Load the code and do some interactive work with it. Inspect the data, test some transformations, and then write code to do what works. That's my current approach to situations that I cannot immediately and accurately write in one pass.
He had to have been sarcastic, I can't imagine a world otherwise, I'm going to upvote to counteract the downs.
Why would they fall below 20F? Aren’t they underground?
For those that use vim, gundo.vim visualizes the "undo-tree" and allows you to preview / jump to any revision: https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim
Ok, but that wasn't what the comment I was responding to was talking about at all. An equivalent example would be me saying the value proposition of guns is not that they are pretty but that they propel objects at high speed, and then you arguing that I'm wrong because criminals use them. I'm not arguing the moral dimension at all, but the mechanism.

I'm not a fan of using so much energy, just as I'm not a fan of guns. What does that have to do with discussing how they work and why people use them?
Data is the size that it happens to be for many businesses. this could easily have been a large user view history table or similar online use case that folks happened to need analytic capabilities on.
You can narrow it down by city, e.g.

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Atlanta-Ar...

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Greater-Au...

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/San-Franci...

That shows Austin median at 62% of SF, FWIW.
> Now that I've learned Go, it wouldn't be my first choice.

Funny you mention that. I worked at a company that rewrote a project in Go when it was the hot language. Go helped us solve the problems from the old language, but it introduced a new set of problems.

Later, someone suggested we re-rewrite the project again in Rust. Obviously, that didn't go anywhere.

> All I need to finish the task is about 4–6 months of free time…

4-6 months of programmer time is not cheap.

You can buy a lot of faster hardware for the price of tying up a single programmer for half a year.
Whenever your government gives you your rights back.
> Mapquest was a whole business

MapQuest didn't have a mapping API until later, and was notably owned by AOL and offered as a free product for five years by that point. They're also still a company, having not been killed, despite MapQuest's best efforts to destroy their own wildly popular product through neglect.
Agreed, but that is complete a different matter to the comment I was responding to. The point is that people don't understand why PoW is not going away because they don't even understand the value proposition of PoW cryptocurrency.
When your country collapses, you tend to find practical matters that make gold a poor store of value, unless you dissolve your gold bars in acid when the war starts.
Apple doesn't have to change it's policies when (not if) it is forced to allow people to install alternative stores. Those companies will still have to play nice with apples terms if they want to remain on Apple's app store.
In the context of database transactions, any APIs serve only as backend endpoints. For this purpose I question whether flask is the best choice. For rest API, I always go for Falcon.
How developers can get in touch with you guys for being hired?
this looks like it does that https://github.com/zabel-xyz/local-history

not super polished nor is it actively maintained but has promise
How is one of the most renewable energy places on earth a "bastion of the oil/petrochemical industry"?

The answer to the question "where else in the US?" is basically "everywhere else in the US".
(Ok, looking at your profile and your background, I must be missing something. You surely don't need 5 or 10 minute history of code to know what you are doing.) Please help me understand what I am missing from this conversation!
I think it can be argued that the set of weights of a neural network is a program, but not “the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it”.

That would mean the training set and training algorithm (and random number generator seed) would have to be distributed under the GPL, too.
I routinely use copypasta and a quick rename as basically a stash/throwaway commit without breaking editing flow. It doesn’t stick around til a real commit because my tools yell about unused references. But it lets me keep and cross-reference a previous approach without undo history or going into version control mode when I’m exploring options.
It also intrinsically relies on being exceptional.

There’s certainly many flaws, but it’s not luck that we’ve avoided coups for a couple hundred years. Seems pretty well designed and built on lots of previous successes.

My comment wasn’t so much saying US is best, but just pointing out that having idiots elected and futzing about in DC seems like not such a bad idea.
There is absolutely enough methanol in badly distilled hooch from high pectin mash to cause organ damage and death. Yes, even in this day and age.

Sauce: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5028366/
It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but I saw this linked on Twitter recently and have been meaning to try it out, so maybe worth a look?

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Wattenbe...
This is obviously a far fetched scenario you're concocting, but yes, if the market wage for your labor completely crashes, then your standard of living will decrease, obviously. Software development is not unusual in this regard.
> I can understand not wanting to write an essay every time

Thanks for that. I can understand not wanting to read several whole bunches of old moderation comments :)
I feel like this article is missing a key point: the impact of social media on cultural "heroes."

I genuinely feel like I'm talking to someone from another culture when I chat with people 10 years younger than me. Most of them are heavy into Tik Tok, Instagram, etc. Their music icons, fashion icons, acting icons, activism icons, and business icons are mostly people I have never heard about.

I think this article is an example of that: With the exception of Elon Musk and Bill Gates, I can't think of any "business" heroes that most people outside of the academic/tech social bubble would be familiar with. But for those of us inside the bubble (including the author), yeah, it feels like there's a billion business "heroes" popping up all over and drawing adoring fans.

Another interesting trend: these "heroes" seem to come and go much more quickly, moving at the rapid-fire pace of social media.

I think cultural heroes still exist. They're just fragmented into various cultural bubbles, and they come and go much more quickly. So, yes, there do seem to be less "heroes of the masses" that every person under the sun knows of. But the "heroes of the moment" seem to be multiplying daily.
I wonder if it's a case of misaimed audience?

Even though "children asking questions" may be less appealing to children than "adults asking questions", the former might get aired anyway because it's more appealing to the adults that make children's programs.
Most physical transports don't pad packets to the maximum size. Ethernet only pads if you're below 46 bytes of payload, which is smaller than TCP packets with TCP timestamps; so if you're on Ethernet and have TCP timestamps enabled (which is very common), you'll certainly see the savings from any bytes removed from your certificate; unless your TLS layer is padding out to (path) MTU.

Assuming that's in the neighborhood of a 20 byte savings, it's not very significant. Using EC keys rather than RSA keys if possible is a bigger savings. And disabling TCP Timestamps, which add 12 bytes per packet (including ACKs) would be bigger still[1].

That said, shaving off bytes wherever possible adds up.

[1] I've heard that disabling TCP Timestamps may disable receive window scaling on iOS (and maybe macos), see [2] for a report. It's also very useful to avoid problems with wrapped sequence numbers if your (bytes/time * assumed maximum segment lifetime) is anywhere near 32-bits; this usually requires around a gigabit on a single TCP connection. As the link mentions, tcp timestamps do make retransmits have different content than the original send, which can incidentally help if you have broken networking equipment on your path, depending on the details of the brokenness.

[2] https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-07-20-s3-mystery/
This is cool. I did not know this was a thing.
This. I've seen developers _think_ they lost code in Android Studio and spend hours trying to recreate it when it was in local history all along...
Then perhaps you should look at the numerous functioning proof of stake projects that exist?

I'm the top 25 market cap there's:

BNB (powering the Binance Smart Chain)
DOT (Polkadot)
ADA (Cardano)
ATOM (Cosmos)
EOS
TRX (Tron)
NEM
Seems there is a pattern in that none of the legal easily accessible drugs are particularly easy to OD on. Cigarettes, alcohol, caffeine, weed.

Prescription drugs are more controlled because easier to OD.

It does seem like acute danger is a big factor in scheduling. There’s always the argument that drugs were scheduled out of fear and bad science. But maybe as more knowledge was gleaned over the years, it just became sensible for other reasons to leave the laws as they are.

Honestly, society is better that you don’t have a large contingent of people abstaining. And the idea that people make their own choices - I think this is greatly affected by parental attitudes. So you could easily see a big jump in a few generations from changing attitudes.

When you think about the argument for decriminalization, the issue of public safety from addiction and overdose is not very much considered. Publix safety from crime, yes. But there is inevitably an increase in risk.

What’s good at least is that we have a baseline of usage and addiction from very strict drug controls. So we can always monitor if things get out of control via more legalization.
Jewelry is incredibly expensive compared to the value of the gold in it. But only when you buy it, not when you sell it.
So iconic in fact that it's the name of the annual IF awards AFAIR.
NASA’s Long Dead ‘Image’ Satellite Is Alive (2018)
More often than not, you'll get a better result (often more safely) by writing a small thing which generates the complete command lines for all the tasks which need running. Then once you are happy the right thing will be done, feed the list of commands to GNU parallel or something else which does the same thing.

Not only does this approach provide confidence before pulling the trigger, but the list of commands may be retained forever for reference / example. It's also clearer and doesn't get the reader mystified by "shell wizardry", as some people are wont to be.
If ITER proves its style to be a success (what may happen this decade, but I'm not holding my breath), we can expect a decade (about half the time of the original) to just complete the first generation of commercially viable reactors (what ITER will not be).

After that, lithium supplied T grows exponentially with the reactor usage, with a doubling time of a bit less than a decade. So, if it becomes the bottleneck (what means, if people to everything else right) you can expect some 3 or 4 decades before fusion even becomes a major power source.
I have great experiences with Falcon for backend REST APIs, and it is supposed to be great in terms of requests per second.

How does it compare to Sanic?
Huh? The various law making entities in the US are not always making maximal use of their power, it doesn't make any sense to wave your hands in the air and say that they can only do the things they've already made laws for.
I was actually in Zurich not Germany. People were genuinely confused if I asked them why they didn't pronounce it Über ("That's clearly just not how it's spelled"). As a native English speaker it's just hard to wrap my head around having they much confidence in spelling based pronunciation.
It does not do a partial FaceID scan - I had a friend unlock it for me, and she's a different gender, 15 years younger and Asian. If it does, it's completely ineffectual.
Jeff Bezos: "It's Day One."

Ah, not quite. At that early stage, the risk and opportunities are different. He wants his employees to to work as hard as if it were Day One, but he cannot offer 10s of thousands of workers the same possibilities as if they arrived on Day One.
That's pretty much what the whole thread is discussing?
Those images pull from python.org sources, see:

https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/master/3.8/bus...
My understanding of handshake is that it's an interesting auction system (though the rationale for monetizing domain names itself should be questioned), but does "little more".

There was this ICANN session a while back (streamable on zoom) with folks from both Handshake and GNU Name System devs making each a presentation about their "emerging identifiers". I found it really interesting to see how the two projects cover (in my view) different grounds.
No drug dealer wants to sell psychedelics because your customers will act like morons, get arrested, and then snitch on you in their panicked, delirious state. I've seen it happen many times.

A single sheet goes for about 400$ in most places if you have good connections, or at least it used to. That's 100 doses, which is going to take a lot longer to run through compared a similar amount of weed, for example. So all around it's bad business, but somebody like Petaluma Al was probably making a decent living.
Here's an HN post on Forth in space!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26164942
I found myself more and more often push a Pull Request just to have better visualization of the changes.
google is the same.

we all win with the services and products these companies offer, and that's why they can do that.
Lol, this could not be a more perfect example of exactly what I’m talking about. Nowhere in my comment did I say that Texas politicians are not to blame (in fact, I said the opposite) and yet here you come riding in to “remind me” of some actions that Texas politicians did that have absolutely no relevance to the issue at hand.

> You are asking everyone else to be reasonable while your own politicians viciously attack the other side and straight up lie to the American people.

I don’t personally control Cruz or Abbott’s actions. If I did, they wouldn’t be in office. But what I can control is how I react to situations, just like you can control how you react to situations. I choose to be reasonable and expect others around me to be reasonable, because that’s how things progress. It seems you choose to double down on unproductive finger pointing and playing “gotcha”, though.

That’s fine if you don’t like Cruz. I don’t like him either. But Cruz being a dumbass and taunting California has absolutely nothing to do with the issues that affected Texas this week, and you bringing it up is completely unneeded and unhelpful. Please go have your outrage session somewhere else.
IIRC that would be FAMANG, but I like FanMag.
> do you think that the CUNY school has the ability to write a spec for an administration system that handles all of the business needs and compliance requirements? Or do that and manage the delivery of those requirements?

WTF are the administrators paid for if not that? Isn't that literally their whole job?
How many of those were because the grid went down vs because your power lines came down because of ice?

They’re very different problems to handle.
But that only happens with sufficiently high relative velocities. Earth and Mars are effectively in the same reference frame.
Physicists are quite fond of redefining units so that the constants they care about are all just 1. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units).

For example, you could define mars units where the gravitational acceleration on mars is 1. Now your velocity in freefall is just equal to the time you've been freefalling! You don't even have to do a calculation!

(note: Don't actually do this. Gravitational acceleration isn't a constant when you're doing orbital mechanics.)
That's a heck of a figure you're not providing a reference or explanation for at all. Or even an explanation of what you mean by financial securities and "burned".
Like what?

With the recent defi boom and the increased trust and popularity in oracles serving off chain data I'd say that you can find a cryptocurrency project for most promises.

Not being popular or adopted is another issue.
I see no reason to worry about people possessing demons as long as the demons get their shots and are kept on a leash. legalizing demon possession would allow sensible regulations.