skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do people normally measure spices?

For me, no, not anymore. Recipes serve as inspiration and I rarely do more than scan the ingredients list and then go off to make something (inspired).

It's taken me a lot longer to develop a great intuition of which herbs, spices, and ingredients combine to make a great flavor than it did to develop the intuition of how /much/ to use if I know what I'm using.

The problem here is the threeish kinds of cooks:

- beginner
- experienced recipe follower
- experienced intuitive

I've been asked for "recipes" by people in camp #2 - and they don't know what to do with what I'm able to give them. Which is fair - my recipes are just a list of general ingredients, spices, and a method of cooking in my head. "These vegetables (sauté), these meats (brown), combine, these spices ("enough", go heavy on this particular one), this preparation (slow simmer for hours, like a chili), this finish."

Camps #1 and #2 want exactly the same thing, they just need varying level of specificity. Both would strongly prefer you give them exact measurements.

My guess is #1/#2 is the bulk of people who cook.

The recipe cards that everyone's family seems to have as heirloom keepsakes - those are all more #2 with a dash of #3 ambiguity thrown in to throw off any people trying to copy grandma's old recipe.

The recipes swapped at potlucks and family dinners - same. There's usually a (simpler or more shortcuty than the person might want to admit) recipe buried under there.
Isn’t this what social mapper and the social engineering toolkit are for?
And now, I own yet another domain name. At least this one is so that my kid can have a very unique email address. That’s some high quality tween cred.
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Aka why I mainly stick with .com
You know what, you're right. I thought there was an "unwrap", that's my b
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I think it's always a good idea to learn as many different paradigms as possible. It also really depends on what direction you want to take your career/what the C++ team at your company is working on. C++ will be king for high performance, real-time compute for a long, long time. I work for a VR company making a VR-specific game engine, and C++ is pretty much the only game in town for extremely high performance, real-time graphics. So if you're interested in taking your career in the direction of high-performance, real-time systems then C++ is a great language to learn.
The Millennium Bridge isn't the first bridge to have resonance problems caused by pedestrians: London's Albert Bridge [1] has signs warning marching troops to break step, and Broughton Suspension Bridge and Angers Bridge both collapsed when troops were marching across them, if Wikipedia is to be trusted.

Of course, in the case of the Millennium Bridge the feedback loop is slightly different: Soldiers synchronise their steps because they're marching, but it turns out when a bridge sways a little bit, pedestrians will synchronise their steps to the swaying - and hence to one another - even though they're not marching.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London#/media/F...
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> everything runs in green threads that can be suspended when IO would block

AFAIK the main objection to this model is that you have to write your code so that it can handle being suspended at any point. OTOH when using async-await, the only potential suspension points are the places marked with `await`.
As far as I know, this is not true. On a small scale wind has been profitable for a long time. In The Netherlands, small scale commercial wind turbines go back a long time. As far as I know there were no subsidies back then.
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> despite being the prime example of them

Quite the opposite, the main target of the original post (https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...) is JS, not C#; which is explicitly described as not having the problem: “In C#, you can use the await keyword to invoke an asynchronous function.”
author here - I can confirm that it is never not hilarious when bitcoiners, whose sole topic of conversation is the price of bitcoin in US dollars, can't think of any worse thing to say to me than "but you sell a book for money!!"
I'm not 100% sure this is what the author intends but 'based' has been used for quite a long time on imageboards as an adjective describing something that is unpopular or contentious but nonetheless correct.

> J.K. Rowling is actually better that Hemingway

> > based

From here it spread to other communities (largely non-mainstream political communities on both the left and right). Its strongest assiociation is still with 4chan (and by extension the alt-right) though.

Edit: I just noticed this is Luke Smith's project. He's an esoteric fascist with an embarrassing love of 4chan memes. So yeah, that's where it comes from.
While that’s true it’s also important not to discourage youngsters from having ideas. It’s all too common that us older, perhaps more jaded, folk will lecture others with comments like “ideas are cheap” but those ideas come from people with fresh enthusiasm to solve those problems and sometimes that enthusiasm does translate to execution.

So while I do agree with your point, we should still be encouraging ideas.
Good chuckle from someone at Cisco using WebEx every day
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> France runs a lot of totally outdated reactors, because there is not enough money available to replace them

We don't replace them because there is no political will to do so, and the green party has successfully put fear-mongering campaigns against nuclear energy.

> Even extending the lifetimes costs a lot of money, which had better be invested in a future decentralized market-oriented

And yet France electricity cost is half the price of what you have in Germany, where you will find the "decentralized energy revolution".
There is obviously some point, somewhere between ‘just running a website out of my spare bedroom’ and ‘Facebook’, where some of this infrastructure does become necessary.

It is very important that you realize when you pass one of those points.

It doesn’t help to just tell people ‘you don’t need kubernetes, you are not Facebook’

There are a lot of companies that aren’t Facebook, but they still have multimillion dollar revenue streams riding on service availability, with compliance obligations and employee paychecks on the line, and which need to be able to reliably release changes to production code every day, written by multiple development teams in different time zones, so... yeah, maybe they are a bit beyond just scp’ing their files up to a single Linux VPS.
Or SPF for that matter.
Wouldn't it be much easier to pass laws that would prohibit all these tracking scripts (e.g. GDPR) rather than writing custom Javascript for every individual website out there?
It seems to me literature doesn't self-replicate, we replicate it... And apart from the bible and such, literature usually dies out fairly quickly in the grand scheme of things.
It's already almost too late to stop climate change. If nuclear wants to be part of that push (and base load without carbon is its only real selling point apart from weapons production), it needs to be ready to turn on in the next 5 years. That doesn't seem likely to me.
I use Ansible to harden my servers, configure ssh, deploy private keys, install Docker, and start all my Docker services.
Genuine question, what would the ad trackers be able to do with runtime level parallelism in the JS runtime that they can’t achieve now? Do they do a lot more blocking calculation than I’d expect?
No problem, knowledge comes from suffering ;)
But these days there's a steel frame keeping the top storey from falling down into the lower storey, as will typically happen in an earthquake with older style homes.
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26404830.
The customer's words echoed in his mind. 'robert at lightbulb emoji dot kz, but with a real lightbulb emoji.' The clerk had registered thousands, maybe tens of thousands of e-mails into the Nordstrom Rack Nordy Rewards program, and he had seen it all, but this, this was something entirely new. This wasn't the single letter username or the overly sexual address or the gmail address with the plus sign, all mildly interesting but within the bounds of what was possible. What was normal. What was sane. This was something entirely new. The point of sale workstation has no key for the lightbulb emoji. This was the predicament. But if an emoji can be an e-mail address, maybe some other part of the computer can be a keyboard. Maybe the floor can be a table. Maybe hands can be screwdrivers. The clerk began touching the screen. Pawing at the sides of the monitor. He began mumbling as he moved his attention to the receipt printer, ripping it open, 'there's gotta be an emoji button in here somewhere.' As his search intensified, so too did the stares of customers waiting in line. In a final effort the clerk hoisted the register above his head before smashing it on the ground, bringing himself down with the machine. Associates had pooled around their coworker and were urging calm. Emergency Services had been notified and were en route, and slowly the chaos turned to calm. An associate reached out to ask the customer if she could finish ringing him up on another register. 'Sure,' he replied, 'but this time let's just use my gmail address.'
Sounds good! I just checked around a little bit and the only program I really would like to have wayland support is vscode and that seems to be around the corner. So I will wait for that and then try it out.

Thanks for explaining!
> I think there should be a subscription fee for domains in certain TLDs (especially .com)

I have a few .com's and I pay yearly subscriptions on them. And some domains in other TLDs have "premium" subscription prices which can be 10-100x higher than the normal domain subscription price.

> so that there is a real cost to holding domains. If you are using it for a business, you will have no problem paying the subscription

This sounds like it would make the cost painful, if not prohibitive, for individuals to own domains in those TLDs. Don't get me wrong, squatting is annoying. But I don't think raising the prices is the right fix, since it may end up with the side effect of making domain purchases in some TLDs only available to businesses.
It’s worth noting that Mask.io are doing a similar thing. Except they’re scraping and storing everything in an encrypted network. And when you post, you’re just posting encrypted text that your friends can then read with mask. So you’re only using the main social networks for the transport layer.

Pretty interesting idea.
As a side effect, the motion-sensing lights in my office turn off if I don’t get up and move every so often, which reminds me to exercise.
You’ve made this exact comment more than once - you seem to have a pretty personal bone to pick with Luke, given that your assessment of “alt-right unabomber” is about as hilariously off the mark as it gets.
See `/usr/include/X11/XF86keysym.h` lines 52, 55 (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/-/blob/m...):

/* These are sometimes found on PDA's (e.g. Palm, PocketPC or elsewhere) */
#define XF86XK_ToDoList 0x1008FF1F /* Invoke To Do List program */
I am amazed by the examples of proper businesses that bring value.

Uber - seeking rent on poor people (drivers) and using them as a tool to fight taxi corporations. Taxi corporations nowadays also have apps where you can order a cab and pay with it. Uber forced this change maybe but we don't need it anymore.

AirBnB - helping people who already ruin cities by owning flats/houses for passive income to ruin it even more by making it more profitable. Building a hotel is costly and ruining someone neighborhood by building a hotel is hard. Ruining neighborhood by buying off flats and making them short term rentals is easy.

Amazon - well let's not go into how much of businesses they ruined. How much value they create vs how much bad stuff they do is probably not easy to "calculate" but sucking out value from low wage workers and passing it to people who buy stuff online is not what I would call creating positive value.

Domainparkers are annoying but they are not sucking value out from poor people and are not externalizing costs to society like those above mentioned companies. Author could get some perspective, not getting some domain name is whining and people are more creative that mostly they don't need to buy off those to run business.
That does not change the fact that the French plants were built in part for plutonium production, in the 1970s.
Like digital Landlords.
I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't expect something like this to work reliably.
I agree with the other responder. However, humans stopping evolving seems unlikely to happen. For instance, right now, we have birth control. Birth rates are declining rapidly. I don't think that's going to continue. We are in the process of selecting for people who have more children. Nature will find a way to evolve around birth control.
I think it's a self-admitted description.
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A book about QM by Zagoskin is one of the more recent attempts to be open and honest in this regard. It is packed with math.
Isn't there a yearly cost to registering domains? That seems like a subscription fee to me.
There is a "subscription fee" already, which is the annual registration fee.
TL/DR: The answer depends on what you want to do. If you want to sell ads in google or facebook, you’re right to be hesitant. If you want to build Windows kernel in Microsoft or VFX in DreamWorks, I think you do need C++ even in the long run (at least couple decades).

C++ and similar unsafe languages have lost majority of the markets they once had. When I started my career in 2000, it was used for pretty much everything, people wrote C or C++ for desktop, web, mobile (PalmOS, later Windows CE), embedded (was mostly bare metal back then).

Over these 2 decades, it’s mostly gone from desktop (initially replaced by Java and C#, and now being replaced by JavaScript and TypeScript), gone from web servers (Java, then Ruby, then JavaScript/TypeScript), gone from mobile (Obj-C in iOS and Java in Android), and I think being slowly replaced even for embedded, I personally shipped embedded Linux stuff based on .NET Core.

Whenever you don’t care about performance too much, and have enough RAM — higher level memory safe languages are strictly better, IMO.

Still, there’re large areas when it’s unlikely to be replaced any time soon. Game engines are written in C++. Many low-level performance critical things like database engines are written in C or C++. C++ is all over CAD/CAM/CAE, 3D modeling and animations, VFX, everything related to multimedia (video streaming, processing, editing). And even some embedded: since you’re southern Germany, there’s probably a lot of work in automotive sector.

I think C++ is here to stay in most of these areas. When you have working set measured in gigabytes and want your software to be fast, the “have enough RAM” requirement of GC runtimes is often a showstopper. Large RAM requirement is expensive for code running on servers, and shrinks potential user base for code running on clients. There’re other things too: tooling, library ecosystem, performance in the broad sense.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong but this is not how I understand the meaning of "open source software".

So you've made the assumption that it's distributed under a source access only license, but instead of verifying that assumption, you're asking others to correct the conclusions you draw from it.
I see. Interesting.
It was a fascinating story. The simple notion that you could bootstrap, with very few assets, a car company a century ago feels almost alien.

It makes me wonder what technology we consider today"bootstrapable" that will be impossible to start in a century.
Yes, it is bad with physical land which is why governments introduce land taxes to encourage value creating activities on land.

Gold and bitcoins are not problematic as holding on to them does not inhibit value creation.
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> The point of the colored function is that the color is a leaky abstraction

I disagree with this take; I understand the point of the original “What color is your function?” as colored functions creating an impassable divide between Promise-wrapped values and sync code.

Indeed, in the end, the author mentions e.g. C# as not being colored, because even if sync/async functions are different, it features escape gates to unwrap promises and bring them back into the sync world.
> I'm sure there are others

; : for playback speed

More features and short-cuts via browser extension:

https://www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube
Everyone's also forgotten nuclear proliferation. I assume that everyone advocating new nuclear in America is also happy for Iran to build a line of new nuclear plants?
When I changed locales in Google settings from _my_country_ to US, then "test -test" returned 3 890 000 000 results
I'm wondering the same as a 31 year old, I've been cooking and reading about it since adulthood and have never come across that term.
I had the same thought. Actually a very old fashioned way of raising cash flow. Still commonly used in the fashion industry because the clothing maker normally doesn’t get paid until the item sells all the way through to the end customer.
I see your point, but I partially disagree.

> trying to mix the two fundamentally non-composable things together. You still have to do the conversion yourself.

I think the fact that you can do the conversion shows that they are composable. As I've written in the blog post, I don't mind verbosity verbosity much, as long as it gets me some control.

> The point of the colored function is that the color is a leaky abstraction.

And I think that's where the difference lies. In JS, an async function will leak all up your callstack, while in contrast in Rust, you can clearly control where the leaking stops.

> Also it's just ugly to have layer after layer of async/sync wrapping going on. So what ends up happening is that you end up preferring one color over the other. Either you try to keep everything asynchronous or synchronous to avoid the whole thing.

I think that's fair, but I haven't really had much problems with that in practice.
Facebook is kind of an interesting example, as they got pretty far into "hyperscale" with mostly PHP, memcached, and Mysql.
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Don't forget that squatters will just rise the prices to cover holding costs. Instead of $10k silly domain starts costing $50k.
The real scoop is Netflix.soy. Excellent.

https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_bought_netflix_dot_soy
What you say is entirely true. But in practice, this is for fun, no one gonna use their emoji email for anything important. But it's great to have an emoji email to give to medium when they ask for it? Isn't that great.
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> Tinder is really good at having a lot of users, and making money for itself. Very little of that success has to do with the quality or strategy of the product, beyond perhaps the implemention of dark patterns.

I find this kind of thinking a lot which is "I hate the goals of this group of people, therefore everyone involved must be idiots" and I find it deplorable.

Tinder is full of many smart people who have put out some thoughtful design decisions that are real innovations. In particular, there's an awful lot of ML that goes on behind the scenes that is showing you matches that are most likely to match with you.

They're worth learning from, as is every other broadly successful business as the problems they're solving have applicability into domains extending outside of dating, regardless of what you think of the morality of their day to day operations.
Sometimes you can add complexity to the whole stack by adding a new shiny layer that brings down complexity where you care most about it, in your user-facing UI/UX layer.

Developers can handle complexity via code much more efficiently than users operating a site or app...

Also, some of the nice developments of the recent explosion of serverless/as a service stuff, is that you can mostly try stuff for free, be happy on the free tier if you don't need scale, and use that scale when you need it without much hassle but paying the overprice of their fat margins.

Also you should probably have an ejection plan in case scale + external provider becomes too expensive, you should always have a nice idea on how to run your stack if you need it...
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It’s a very powerful way to align incentives. It results in a major reduction in political arguments and a major increase in productivity. It’s a long-term incentive, so it causes employees to take good risks for the customer even if they won’t be apparent today.

Stock is literal ownership and it eases “ownership problems” proportionate to the meaningfulness of the expected value of the stock to the employeee-owner. It’s a powerful tool for increasing teamwork.
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If I took the time to ask probing questions every time someone makes a bad first impression, I wouldn’t have time to work, eat, or sleep. My heuristics have served me well, and I’m sticking with them.
I get what you're talking about but value is in the eyes of the consumer. All these ethic concerns holding, I can tell you that my life is completely different with Uber, AirBnB and Amazon than without, and probably most people in the developed world would say something similar.
Is this what you Humans call, humor?
Why is Konzentrationslager KZ rather than KL ?
I have not tried the Django ORM. Most of my backend is REST services so I use FastAPI with SQLAlchemy. SQLAlchemy + pydantic is a bit onerous I feel.
Pretty much any "social media marketing" firm would take money to shill some ideas online. There are many ways to do so, including sock puppet accounts and paid commenters.

Every time the topic comes up here different accounts repeat many similar strawman talking points.
>So how is transport a good example of something that would somehow be better solved by nuclear than solar/wind?

Cars will charge from the grid. Nuclear can output not only a lot of energy but output it at a const rate. Wind and solar cannot do that. There are times when wind isn't blowing and sun isn't shining. There are entire seasons when wind and solar output is lower. There are multiple years where wind output is lower. That variability also means you need to over build capacity. But even with that, you're still in trouble because there is no battery technology now, or coming out anytime soon, that can store enough energy (minimum of a few weeks worth) to bridge that intrinsic variability of daily, as well as inter and intra annual variability.
I run Fraidycat in a separate Firefox profile which I don't use for anything else. If I want to hang onto a link from a feed, I'll just open it again in my main profile. I've found a side benefit in that the slight extra friction of opening a window for a new profile results in less frequent checking for feed updates, which seems like a good thing for me.

I also have my Fraidycat profile set up with the Temporary Containers extension, so that every link I open from my feeds automatically opens into an ephemeral container and nothing is shared. Doesn't protect against Fraidycat itself, but does keep things of only passing interest nicely hived off from everything else.