skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internet connection speeds, in context. Latencies faster than milliseconds are not found in home internet connections (or anywhere maybe?) and 30 second latencies in Starlink would have prevented the product from even existing or would imply faulty hardware.
[1] is the stupidest. Well second stupidest. HN's voting system is stupider. And yeah, downvotes are done in lieu of actual discussion. And they shouldn't be allowed.
It can be easier to delete the whole thing and add to zero rather than to parse the existing structure in order to subtract from it.
Funny. Just yesterday a young friend of mine was complaining about people who ask open-ended, philosophical questions that don't have anything to do with the job at hand. Some people over-analyze and then freeze on that kind of question. Doesn't mean they can't do the job.
Alcohol is perfect “cure” for social anxiety. Short acting, but very efficient. Thats why anxious people tend to drink...
Right, it's less draconian than outright prohibition and while the illicit trade will surely exist, for most people the default bias will (probably) be there.
Over the years, here is the tools that answered all of my needs.

Backend:

- Apollo Server (GraphQL, Javascript/Typescript)
- Hasura (GraphQL frontend to PostgreSQL, translating GraphQL queries directly to SQL)
- Erlang/Elixir for distributed applications

Frontend:

- VueJS + VueX + ApolloClient
- Bulma (CSS framework, https://bulma.io )

Dev environment:

- Docker + docker-compose (a single command to spin up the full stack)
- Makefile (so easy to write, automate any "long" commands)
- KinD (Kubernetes in Docker, https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/ )
- Lens (a Kubernetes IDE, https://k8slens.dev/ )

(Pre)Production environment:

- Managed Kubernetes or k0s ( https://k0sproject.io )

Deployment:

- Github + PR based workflow
- CI pipeline as a multi-stage Dockerfile + Github Actions
- CD with ansible + helm + Github Actions
David Nutt (the author of the book that was reviwed) is a professor at Imperial College London. He was famously fired as the UK government's chief drug adviser for saying that alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many recreational drugs.

I've seen his harm score chart quite a few times here on HN [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/06/25/what-is-...
The Kitten Programming Language
This is a good list of questions to evaluate. I am currently struggling with finding customers for something I hacked together to solve my personal problem.

A discord bot which warns users when they share links to pirated site and remove it. (I moderate a small discord server).

I extracted the API part and put it on rapid API to see if there is any interest because I have little idea where to look for customers and how to talk to them.

https://rapidapi.com/searchableland-no-piracy-team/api/pirac...

I have also been looking for alternatives. I searched for them before but nothing came up so I had to build a list and heuristics myself. Maybe there isn't much of a need otherwise I would find a product.
Sure I was talking for the home... most people can't afford $20.000 routers or fiber.

I'm prepared to say that unless they can cram 10Gb/s into existing fiber (without increasing fixed- or energy- costs too much) we're stuck at 1Gb/s... forever!
That's the point, you can't. They are opposite ends of a spectrum.
> A lazy programmer do not edit long files, they teach regular expressions how to edit the file in their place.

A lazy programmer uses a proper parser instead of trying to write a parser in regular expressions.
Rohit Sharma in an unique gesture SAVE THE RHINO
Rohit Sharma in an unique gesture advocated for the cause for the conservation of one horned rhinos on the occasion of Friday's IPL 2021 opening match.
“Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading
I think the greatest gift of American prohibition is that it removed prohibition from the menu completely for generations. I believe its legacy has also aided arguments against the broader War on Drugs.
> You can work for Google

Yeah and I will simultaneously work for google to not fk up the open web, for facebook to not disrupt democracy, and nestle to not goddamn force breastfeeding mothers on their shitty product.

How do you imagine a world without governments? The first thing they will do is put cocaine in their special food so you get addicted, add cheaper and more unhealthy components, even toxic ones, etc. Companies after a quite small size becomes the stereotypical paper clip AI, but instead of paperclips, it optimizes profit over everything else. A well functioning government with separation of power and without much corruption is good - it protects us from the cancerous outgrowth of companies.
This seems like reasonable discussion, but you would get far more traction if you have an opportunity to write an entire schema from scratch in the proper way.

Not having to fight assumptions along lines of improperly denormalized columns (i.e. which table is source of truth for a specific fact) can auto-magically simplify a lot of really horrible joins and other SQL hack-arounds that otherwise wouldn't be necessary. The essential vs accidental complexity battle begins right here with domain modeling.

You should be seeking something around 3rd normal form when developing a SQL schema for any arbitrary problem domain. Worry about performance after it's actually slow. A business expert who understands basic SQL should be able to look at and understand what every fact & relation table in your schema are for. They might even be able to help confirm the correctness of business logic throughout or even author some of it themselves. SQL can be an extremely powerful contract between the technology wizards and the business people.

More along lines of the original topic - I would strongly advocate for views in cases where repetitive, complex queries are being made throughout the application. These serve as single points of reference for a particular projection of facts and can dramatically simplify downstream queries.
I'd like to work on a team that uses React on the frontend, Laravel as a thin API backend.

But for personal projects (or an early-stage startup), I would drop React and just use plain old Laravel.
512mbps UP?
And then their MMO/MMORPG server gets p0wned, with everyone taking advantage of extra virtual money, adding assets to their characters for free and auto aiming packet correction.
> I finally memorized them by using flash cards and a payment schedule set up by my parents.

This was my exact experience learning to the multiplication tables in 4th grade. Although my payment was watching tv or playing video games. The only one I really learned was multiplying by 8 bc my dad made more effort for me to learn it (he was programmer).

I also use random "tricks" for arithmetic, like when multiplying 6 and 7, I'll do (37)+(37) instead because I've memorized 3*7=21 and the addition is easy with no carries
Caesar switch Europe to a solar calendar after seeing its advantage in Egypt. Egypt likely synced its calendar to when the star Sirius first appears in the dawn sky in July.

This would not be accurate over long periods of time due precession and proper motion.
So basically you do a variation of personality quiz except “informal” and then fire candidate after a month if they don’t work out. I don’t know where your market is but where I am you simply won’t be able to hire anyone with options unless you have netflix level pay or super hot domain.
The indentation rules never change. Fortunately, "SELECT" at six letters is as long as the longest first word that starts a clause, which is why when doing, for example, a "LEFT JOIN" you line up the "LEFT" and not the "JOIN, e.g.

SELECT a.foo
FROM alpha a
JOIN beta b ...

would become

SELECT a.foo
FROM alpha a
LEFT JOIN beta b ...

Any diff tool correctly highlights the only change is the LEFT.
No, but you can answer their question by linking to the doc or telling them the title of the doc to google it themselves.
I was actually thinking that you should be able to build a bot for MMOs and other kind of games that require farming with a raspberry pi or arduino acting like a mouse with a camera for image recognition. Don't know how feasible that is, but that would be undetectable by anti-cheat software.
Which is why I'm writing most of my tooling in Rust.

Deployment or installation is just one scp away.

not rewriting, just when It needs large refactoring, or is currently a mess, or brand new.
Oh. Yea we were talking past each other in this case but we do agree. I'm should have written in a more comprehensive manner about how pervasive Chinese manufacturing is on our daily lives.
Oh gosh me too!! I’m so embarrassed to do mental math. Unless I have a pen and paper or use of my fingers, I can’t do it. It feels like the numbers start disappearing from my head as soon as I start calculating.
They already kind of did, I only install PC games via the Windows store.
Ive been wondering the same thing. especially when u see what can be done with WASM in apps like Figma. I believe most of the QGIS code base is c++ so i wonder if it's just a case writing a bunch of js, wasm glue code to make this a reality...
Patents need to be discriminated based on some threshold of originality or something similar. My country even has a term for it "verkshöjd" that is applied in this context. That way you don't get trolls trying to sue Amazon for "Way to sell merchandise using a >>computer network>>."

Of course there's no easy way to distinguish _all_ patent (applications) this way but that one would not be accepted.

The issues you raise are certainly valid and reasonable but notwithstanding not the point of contention here. The trolling part is the one that comes from what is perceived as illegitimate claims/ patents.
Depends, Windows Store and the respective sandbox is a thing.
> This would be a decent point if nobody had any interest in chromium alternatives and Firefox was a new upstart brand, neither of which are true.

What? The dominance of the mobile space by one of their competitors, who pre-installs their own browser, and who advertised said browser for free on the most visited website on the planet (google.com) for years, is absolutely relevant regardless of how old Mozilla is.

And the world isn't like HN, most people don't care that much about their browsers, and don't even know what "chromium" is.
> It's insane how much flak they get for the CEO making a million dollars more after signing a deal that got them hundreds of millions more dollars a year.

What are you talking about? Hundreds of millions more per year? Their revenue [1] grew by 40m (520m to 562m) during the year they doubled their top exec salary. It fell by 90m the next year, earning them a loss for the first time.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Finanzierun... German Wikipedia has a nice table.
> I found CI deploys to be quite a slowdown. But this might just be me.

It depends how you think about it I think. Meaning, it'll feel like quite a slowdown but exists to help mitigate errors made by humans experiencing varying degrees of panic while their house is burning. In my opinion CI deploys are meant to provide consistency, not speed (although people generally experience speed ups in their deployment process when there are no longer "works on my machine" type issues that pop up each deploy causing slowdowns in new and exciting ways).

But I also think that programmers flaunt "Friday afternoon deploys" too much in either direction. It shouldn't be the end of the world but it also is just an unnecessary risk if you can help it.
I hope those separate machines are also on separate network segments without a route in between.
Does discord punish servers, which share pirated content?
I agree they aren't arguing for prohibition at all. I don't fully believe what you said about health campaigns because, for example, obesity is also really bad for people and none of the existing campaigns against it had much of an impact, as far as I know. Furthermore, if one of the key concepts was to turn cigarettes from chic to trashy, then that seems really unlikely to work with either alcohol or obesity. How do you even really know why that one particular massive campaign was successful?
Google's best interest is to vendor lock users on it's plstform and retain the maximum amount of control over Android. They won't give it up voluntarily, that's why I used the word 'forced' in my first post in this thread: now it can happen only after a binding legislation, and, possibly, breaking up Alphabet.
>Social security has a dumb design if it's supposed to be a safety net. It pays out in proportion to how much money you made.

Well, sort of. There're two bend points where the proportions go down fairly sharply (90%-32%-15%). It's extremely progressive from that point of view: those with lower average lifetime earnings get a much higher proportion of income replaced than do those with higher lifetime earnings.

Median annual Social Security benefits for 2020 are about $15K, vs. mean of about $18K., for example.

>So you do this. You give people an election between a UBI for life or social security after retirement. Current 65 year olds are all going to pick social security. Current 18 year olds are going to pick the UBI, because the net present value is higher. That means social security long-term goes away.

It makes a big difference where you set the level for UBI, and which entitlements programs you claim it replaces. Without knowing the specifics of the proposal, you can't get good numbers.

But it sounds like you're saying UBI will replace Social Security. Let's assume UBI pays $12K per year to every adult, which is less generous than a lot of numbers I've heard. This means it would replace about two-thirds of the average Social Security benefit.

Based on U.S. life expectancies, that UBI number and average Social Security benefits, I think that puts the break-even point for lifetime UBI to equal lifetime Social Security about 56 or 57. So let's say that everyone 57 or over stays in Social Security.

>In the short term, social security has a trust fund. It gets spent down to make up the difference between what existing retirees would get from the UBI and what they'll be getting from social security.

Social Security's "trust fund" was about $2.8tn at the end of 2020. That's 2.61 years of payments. The idea that Social Security is, in some sense, pre-funded by payroll taxes is completely false. It is effectively a pay-as-you-go system with a small buffer.

Under the assumptions above, you will exhaust the trust fund in less than 8 years, which is a problem as life expectancy at 65 in the U.S. is almost 20 years. So you now either have to stop funding the gap between UBI and Social Security (politically impossible) or raise more taxes.

Over to the UBI then. Social Security brings in taxes of just over $1.06tn year year. Let's just call it $1.1tn. By the way, non-benefit costs for Social Security are only about 0.05% of the program cost, so there's very limited opportunity to make gains by streamlining administration as is often claimed for UBI.

US population is about 330m. Take out the child population (about 19%; they aren't getting UBI) and the over-65 population (about 16%; they're retired and are getting Social Security). So you now have 215m people who will receive UBI.

Your $1.1tn of payroll taxes funds only about $5,100 of the $12,000 that's supposed to be paid in UBI. Payroll taxes would have to increase by 2.35x to cover the cost of the UBI, and that's before you plug the Social Security gap.

Making UBI less generous encourages more people to stay in Social Security which means your funding gap gets wider.
Thanks for the link.

FYI: I worked on the ozone hole crisis 35 years ago. That climate crisis had clear scientific measurements, and the global community united to solve it by banning CFCs, while this climate crisis is apparently pseudo-science and virtue-signalling in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion#Ozone_hole_and...
The causation is backwards!

I'm not an alcoholic but I am an anxious wreck. Single best way to make me stop freaking out at a party? Two old fashioneds.

I'd prefer to be gregarious and unworried sober, but that's not an option. (Yes, there are other approaches. This works better than all of them.)
How much time, money or reputation does it contribute to a channel?
Wow, the Geißler blog is amazing, I'm sure I'll return to this resource many times, thanks for pointing it out.
Other than facebook I can't think of a company that I would trust less with my health data than google.
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Firefox has, since incipience, faced that challenge.

Anyhow, the point I’m making is that I don’t agree that it is impossible to compete with trenched competition.

Firefox has some prior momentum themselves, they’re not quite an upstart.
Best advice I would have to give is to simply... be an engineer yourself before attempting to manage some.

The best engineering managers I've met were simply brilliant engineers, that inspired devs around them and starting managing without having the official tittle: folks would naturally come to them for guidance. The hardest part was to get them to accept that the scope of what they were working on simply went beyond one human's ability to code it himself. But I've seen them break out debuggers and debug issues right in the middle of meetings.

On the other hand, I've met handful of "career managers" that weren't qualified as engineers and, well, frankly they didn't understand the engineering and got no respect out of the organization. No wonder Nadella, Pichai and Cook are all engineers.
RaTG13 was simply uninteresting before the pandemic. It only became worth writing a full paper on after SARS-CoV-2 was discovered. When they wrote a paper about it, they also gave it a more memorable name.

> The WIV didn't stop sampling in 2013 though, and no one outside China's physical control knows what else might be in their collection.

They upload sequences to Genbank (just like they did with RaTG13, years before the pandemic), they have international collaborators, and they give talks at conferences. Tons of people know what they work on and what they have in their collection.
How do you deal with features that cannot be modeled as pure functions or are too computationally heavy to rerender on change? For example, user selections, copy and paste, ray tracing.

Also I recommend using the Rete.js library for the underlying nodes editor instead of rolling your own.
Thank you, I prefer not being brainwashed into actually believing that billionaires’ success has anything to do with hard work over plain old dumb luck and not being absolutely trash at what they do (and a “small” few million dollar from daddy here and there).
Given the very obvious context of TFA, I don't see how this is relevant. Yes, what makes something a "charity" may be confusing and difficult to define. (AFAIK Google simply has a list of organizations they think are charities) However, it's not ambiguous or confusing at all that this guy is not a charity.
Are people that are ordering pizzas from Dominio's really spending time deciding what toppings they want based on nutritional values provided by Dominio's? I would be shocked that 1 person decided against the pepperoni based on nutritional values.
Most companies have some kind of probationary period, either formally or informally.
Christopher Alexander: Notes on the Synthesis of Form [pdf]
There's an implicit assumption here that everyone is "doing a bad job" because of "perverse incentives".

But I'd argue that most 'computer nerds' have pretty deeply seated perfectionism flaws.

To take a simplified example, we tend to want perfect security, and like to prove that we're smarter than each other by understanding complicated attacks.

When it comes to running a business, though, a 10 person startup cannot afford to act like their threat model includes defending from hostile nation state actors willing to do Stuxnet-levels of effort to hack them. If they do that much work on security their product will never get off the ground.

The goal of most companies when it comes to security is never to have perfect security, but to have good enough security to stay out of the headlines.

It is like tradeoffs that have evolved in nature. You don't see organisms that maximize one feature at the expense of everything else. That energy always needs to go into competing concerns.

So sometimes as technical people we fetishize the perfect solution to some problem in the Enterprise, when actually doing that solution would be horrible for the Enterprise due to the costs.

(Of course the flip side is sometimes management only cares about window dressing the company so they can bailout with some golden parachutes and that has nothing to do with running a healthy company -- but not every example of a company not being perfect is due to deeply cynical and perverse incentives like that, but may be entirely rational).
Is there any news media that's not a mouthpiece for some group?
Assuming you're deploying to the same OS/architecture that you're working from, otherwise you'd have to rebuild (which Rust makes easy to do, but still)
We did collect calls...

Would you like to accept a collect call from senior lot? Meant please pick me up from the senior lot. At some point, collect calling became possible for third parties, and they let the caller hear the other party answer so you knew you got the information to them.
Obviously not an expert here. But here on Earth I would happily jump 1m but I'd probably break a leg from 3m.

Somebody must have decided that a 3m test flight was the best option. Maybe it's because if something fails, at least they may collect 1 picture at 3m high, and that's better than 1 picture at 1m...
Reflexive McLuhanism
> It's their place, their rules

Yeah and then what's a viable alternative? They (with Apple) can unilaterally cut your revenue stream for any made-up reason with no recourse, and yet there's still people defending mono/duopolies.
Most non-abstinents are not alcoholics and that holds true even in countries with high rates of alcoholism.

Also "most people start with 4 drinks per week" is made up. Regardless of where you put "start".
> To paraphrase Churchill: First we shape X, then X shapes us. If a defining characteristic of humanity is making and using tools, then a defining characteristic of society is being shaped by those same tools.
Pre mobile phones (but post caller I’d) my wife and I called each other several times a day just to say mushy things to each other. It was ok to ignore the call but an immediate second call meant “actually I need to speak with you”. I’m sure others must have invented the same system.

But I love ZipDial‘s idea to take it to another level.

The European idea to make receiving GSM calls free was brilliant. The US’s idea that “the person with the radio pays the extra fee” held back mobile adoption in the US by a decade.
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This was quite underwhelming, even for a dumb advertisement with spelling errors.

>"A lazy programmer writes a lot of tests, so QA junks do not waste their time."

I'm really trying to wrap my head around this sentence, but it just doesn't make sense. Also please just don't talk down to QA like that.

0/10, this site actively makes me not want to work there.
Nobody is talking about banning tear downs or reverse engineering.

Forcing someone to release their documents is a whole other thing.

Easy for you to say trade secrets are not an advantage for Apple. Perhaps you are just wrong.