skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best documentation I ever saw in a product was written by actual technical writers that worked in collaboration with the developers. If you want fantastic documentation, make it someone’s full time job.
I do this as well, I think the idea that code is physical is underrated. We've evolved to intuitively understand physical things; physicalizing something so abstract seems like a natural way to understand it.
You said India is the worlds largest producers of oxygen and vaccines, but has a lack of trucks to transport them.

Is this the same old pattern of infrastructure in colonial economies where all the transportation links are designed to move goods to seaports for export—and not for moving goods inside the country?

That would be a terrible tragedy.
G2[0] or stackshare[1].

It should be mentioned though that G2 reviews are usually pretty heavily positively manipulated via "Review for Amazon Gift card" schemes.

[0]: https://www.g2.com/

[1]: https://stackshare.io/
The Wiby [1] search engine / rabbit hole collects "old internet" sites like this one.

1: https://wiby.me/
Searched for and couldn't find the 0.4% tax, which tax are you referring to? And for others, the incoming 2022 tax is a 0.58% payroll tax.

From WA directly: "Washington state does not have a personal or corporate income tax." [1]

1 - https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/income-tax
Why writing documentation is great and you can learn to love it too
It is a great writeup. I wonder how gitlab solves this problem.
Did you open source it? Would love to use it as replacement for ts-node.
The startup scene has changed significantly the last 10 years.
Thalmic labs/north failed as a startup but they still managed to get acquired and celebrated as a success story.
It was a lot to digest, but it was also all one continuous thought.

If it was broken up, I don't think it would have been nearly as good. And I don't think I would have been able to keep all the context to understand smaller chunks.

I really enjoyed the whole thing.
India has 125 million English speakers out of over a billion people total, so yes, most Indians don't speak English. That said, I disagree with the overall assertion that a language barrier between India and global English media is the reason for unsatisfying reporting. I suspect current events are just still too murky.
Why anything real estate related, especially coming from Northern America, looks and smells so dodgy? Even right now I'm getting spam emails "You'll learn how to help homeowners
in default & start collecting checks" while never having been even marginally interested in the topic.
It's the awesome combined power of denial and selfishness. I've also had to do a tough re-evaluation of several friendships and relationships with family members. This pandemic brought out a lot of harsh truths about people's real selves. Here are some direct quotes from people I know. "We always have Thanksgiving dinner. It simply has to happen." "You can't just stop living life!" "I'm not going to let other people tell me what to do." "I am sure I won't get sick." "Play dates are OK because children can't spread it." "It's not that deadly." "You're in your 40s you have nothing to worry about, go out and live your life." "Stop being so scared." And these are all people who don't think it's all a hoax/conspiracy.
Yeah agreed. High payoff area to invest I think but it takes like, a lot of planning. It’s almost a full new department for a company.
I would like to know also.

Also note just because some companies aren't flashy with their marketing, doesn't mean they aren't doing any.
> They are fully aware of the message-passing model that backs the HDLs. To them that model is an obstacle to be overcome on the way to building circuits.

Can you expand on this? I don't quite understand what you mean by "message passing model" in the context of HDL. Signals are sort of like messages in the no shared memory sense but there is still plenty of spooky action at a distance when synthesizing.

Unless your level of abstraction is at the interconnect level like AXI, timing is always a huge pain and small changes in design can have significant downstream impact as signals are rerouted. Sure you could create a data structure that represents a complex module but it'd be a monstrosity that accepts dozens if not hundreds of closures to enable tweaks like "delay this half of the bus by n and the other half by 2n" that will have to be modified anytime there is a significant refactor that reorganizes the modules.

The core problem of applying software abstractions to FPGAs is that while HDL describes logic, it compiles nondeterministicly (to humans) into a format where physical placement and fit makes or breaks that logic. At that point, it's not really an abstraction as programmers see it but as, say, cabinet makers see it: there is a variety of well characterized off the shelf parts that they can order and they have a suite of power tools like grinders and routers to modify that part to fit their specific use case. The "arguments" or input for the abstraction have to be incrementally discovered by first grinding or cutting, then trying the part out to see if it fits, then mixing some sawdust with glue to fill in some spot, then grin or cut some more, and so on - rinse and repeat until all parts fit together correctly.
I am not sure what you are talking about. There are several testing companies, Pearson is not the only one. And states have a selection process and technical review process done by outside psychometricians.

Yes. There are places where tests were developed by the government agencies, which are not professionals. Mostly their tests lack psychometric regorious, not comparable across years.

I'm not sure what you meant "poor content". A few flaws here and there?
Thank you for your comment. I unfortunately didn't know of John Tiller before seeing this post, but I feel it's anecdotes like yours that do disproportionately more to help put color on someone than what you can otherwise just read about them on "static" sources. It brings to mind the quote from Maya Angelou, how people remember how you made them feel.
Why cover drones, and not cover let's say hackers? They would get way more funding if they said China or Russia are deploying drones in the US air space.
Yeah ok. Your opinion is akin to saying that all of DC is continuously under siege because you saw a single video of the inauguration riots.
> I'm stuck writing debugging shitty Android apps all day. Can I please go plant some forests or something?

If this was the status quo, there'd be just as many people thinking "I'm stuck outside doing manual labor planting trees. Can I please spent time doing something mindless sitting at a desk in a climate controlled workspace instead?"

Someone out there is deriving value from the android app you're debugging or else it would not be economically viable to keep paying you to do that job.
Videos are also better at transfering tacit knowledge. Stuff like little habits and workarounds people have that are important but which they don't realize need to be communicated.

For example, creating a virtual environment for a python project instead of installing it globally. This is a crucial step for things to work well, but it's so common it might be left unstated.
ah nice nice thx a lot, it will find a way into my list :)
Then you have the reverse problem where the stores or restaurants are renting their space. As the neighborhood density increases, their customer base goes up but so does rent. And since location matters, you can’t just move if you don’t like the rent prices, so they can squeeze you pretty hard. Goodbye profit margins.

In my old neighborhood there were always a few empty places because they were pricing people out, and few wanted to pay the new prices.
Then you need to compare to the (for non-commercial use free ) vmware workstation (player) as well.

- Simple OpenGL accelerated guest graphics (alternatives: intel gvt-g, card passthrough, virgl in qemu (not generally available), SPICE+qxl in qemu (not nearly as performant))

- bridged networking "just works"

- open-vm-tools enable quite an interesting array of comfortable guest integration

- disk image format can be handled by qemu-img for conversion purposes, so it's easy to migrate vmware <> virtualbox <> qemu+kvm.

The graphics part is why for desktop VMs, I prefer the vmware solution at the moment.
That's a good one - in a market which I would have thought was indeed a winner-takes-all one. The founder obviously knew better.
I go for a 20ish minute walk every day as soon as I get off the work vpn. It's a game changer for getting out of work mode and into home mode. This isn't a power walk fitness thing where I come up with side hustle ideas. It's a leisurely stroll with my dog. I often pick up the mail (community mail box) and I let my dog smell everything, and so on. When I worked in an office, I would sometimes do this before I drove home. It takes no energy, so I thought I'd suggest it.

I used to be a cook and, before that, a dishwasher. Many is the day that I look back on those simpler days, but yeah, the money. What can you do? :)
125 million english speakers is still around ~10% of the population right? So if ~90% don't speak English then saying "most" seems accurate.
That's probably not a fair comparison, there's only 20mg of the active ingredient (Tetraglycine Hydroperiodide) per purifying tablet and has expensive packaging and marketing costs.

Admittedly, I don't know how much that ingredient costs in bulk, but I bet if an agency wanted to produce it in bulk for widespread water purification, it'd cost a lot less than 50 cents/L
Thanks, yes that's true Dave Wilson's doing great work.

One other resource I actually found very helpful, pitched just right, is Musa Al-hassy's Elisp Cheatsheet. It's short but it gets straight to the detail. If he ever wrote a book I'd prepreorder it.

https://github.com/alhassy/ElispCheatSheet/blob/master/Cheat...
> And a lot of people I know, including myself, practically live in planes normally.

So you basically exist to emit large amounts of carbon?
read the entire first sentence
This was great! My summary:

A git packfile is an aggregated and indexed collection of historical git objects which reduce the time it takes to serve requests to those objects, implemented as two files: .pack and .idx. GitHub was having issues maintaining packfiles for very large repos in particular because regular repacking always has to repack the entire history into a single new packfile every time -- which is an expensive quadratic algorithm. GitHub's engineering team ameliorated this problem in two steps: 1. Enable repos to be served from multiple packfiles at once, 2. Design a packfile maintenance strategy that uses multiple packfiles sustainably.

Multi-pack indexes are a new git feature, but the initial implementation was missing performance-critial reachability bitmaps for multi-pack indexes. In general, index files store object names in lexicographic order and point to the named object's position in the associated packfile. As a first step to implement reachability bitmaps for multi-pack indexes, they introduced a reverse index file (.rev) which maps packfile object positions back to index file name offsets. This alone had a big performance improvement, but it also filled in the missing piece in order to implement multi-pack bitmaps.

With the issues of serving repos from multiple packs solved, they need to efficiently utilize multiple packs to reduce maintenance overhead. They chose to maintain historical packfiles in a geometrically increasing size. I.e., during the maintenance job, consider the first N most recent packfiles, if the sum of the size of all packfiles from [1, N] is less than the size of packfile N+1, then packfiles [1, N] are repacked into a single packfile, done; however if their summed size is greater than the size of packfile N+1, then iterate and consider all the packfiles [1, N+1] compared to packfile N+2 etc. This results in a set of packfiles where each file is roughly double the size of the previous when ordered by age, which has a number of beneficial properties for both serving and the average case maintenance run. Funny enough, this selection procedure struck me as similar to the game "2048".
A glance at some apps looks like soe low valuation is simply because changes in the android API and such.
The subsidies in this case do not exist so that businesses can exploit underpaid workers, though (and are not comparable to something like a rent-controlled apartment, where landlords are just prevented from charging so much that they'll drive out the workforce rather than actively subsidizing with things like food stamps or welfare). They exist because the US is reluctant to let people starve in the streets and die, the fact that you interpret them as an effort to "keep [unproductive] people in the market economy" notwithstanding.

The government bumping up unemployment to the point that people don't have to take certain types of jobs that rely on underpayment for profitability does not contradict that goal, which is why many people are not that sympathetic to small business owners complaining about it.
Visit on a website and you will see, it needs widescreen.

Maybe flip your phone horizontal and request desktop site?
It's also generally useless.

If you're building an open source general purpose tool, or something else meant to be reusable and consumed by the general public then sure. But the vast majority of software we write has a very definite lifecycle of birth, maintenance, and death. For the most part, one team with continuous word of mouth knowledge transfer will be responsible for it. And by the time that team has moved on, the software itself will have outlived its' usefulness. In an agile environment like this, keeping any kind of documentation up to date to be meaningfully useful is almost impossible without a dedicated team member.
My guess is only on for high grades. For good, but not great grades, I'd expect you can get a good enough idea from a high-resolution photo, and you're better off rolling the dice, knowing you're not getting a gem mint, anyway.

The other reason to get it graded is it marks that it might be valuable for when you die and family is going through your stuff.

I'd also expect CGC-graded cards to be worth less. I sold all my MTG cards except one (unfortunately, I sold the Beta Chaos Orb), but when I saw the price ($200-ish) of the one I kept, figured I'd get it graded in case I want to sell it. There were two grading companies, BGS and PSA that have been around forever, and I went with the cheapest for grading one card. I didn't recognize the name CGC. The article says they've only been grading cards for a year, and I wouldn't be surprised if people value BGS and PSA-graded cards more.
But is there any evidence that spending time outside, vitamin d etc reduces covid. April and May are peak summer time in India. Most of the states are open not in lockdown mode, but cases are growing rapidly.
> To be honest, I'm confused by the amount of air travel that is still going on. If locking down large swathes of most countries is on the cards, why is there any air travel happening? Why was there a high profile diplomatic visit to India being planned? Are the benefits from all these plane trips really outweighing the costs? We may as well be trying to evolve COVID to sneak past quarantines.
How is it acceptable to scuttle the economy in response to COVID, why are there still plane flights 12 months in to the pandemic?

I think the main reason is because air travel is heavily used by rich people and the professional managerial class.

If you look at the response, the people who bore the brunt of the pain were working class people and small business owners. The professional managerial class was mostly fine, just slightly inconvenienced.

When a politician is making decisions, they can’t really emphathiz me with your small business or restaurant getting shut down, but they do know from first hand experience, how much of a pain it would be if they were not able to fly, and all their corporate, NGO, and lobbyist buddies also know the pain that they would feel from not being able to fly around to where they wanted.
This is the system we are using. I don't have to like it. Scaling is done something like: If there is room for 4 shoe stores and there are 7 its going to be difficult for all of them until 2 close.
It is impossible to force someone to actually transmit the stored file. They can prove they have it, but you can't force them to not ransom you to get it back.
White males are more likely to be in a position of privilege, able to risk their career prospects on a risky startup. It's racism all the way down why don't you understand this?

Wow I was just trolling but this is unreal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27005608
This isn't correct. The amount of costs passed along to the consumer depends on the supply and demand elasticities of each particular market. That's Econ 101.
So it is not 10% but lower?

What would you find reasonable?
>... I wouldn't expect a house to be plumbed with PVC for drinking water ...

Manufactured (AKA mobile) homes are typically plumbed with PVC or PEX[0], and PEX is pretty popular for traditional (AKA site-built) houses as well[1].

[0] https://mobilehomeliving.org/plumbing-in-manufactured-homes-...

[1] https://www.bobvila.com/articles/pex-pipe/
Could just be the view/layout? What about forcing desktop version on mobile browser?
I agree with your assessment of Google; however, what is a reasonable alternative for a content creator who wants to publish their videos and be able to build an audience? You kinda have to go where the audience will be if you don't already have one and I'm not aware of any video discovery platforms with anywhere near the reach of YouTube. I've managed to get out of Google products almost entirely--YouTube remains the exception.

Moreover, let's say a new site comes along and dethrones YouTube. Remember that this whole mess started because of lawsuits that were ultimately ruled (or settled) in favor of copyright holders. Any player in this space will need a method for handling vast quantities of copyrighted material scanning and, like Google, will be heavily incentivized by legal precedent to have that system "err on the side of caution."

I'm not a fan of Google; but, the villain of this story is the horribly outdated and corporate-lobbied copyright system that will push any player in the video space to this kind of draconian approach.
Should we perhaps invent a standard convention for keeping issues and PR history along with the usual source code in the repo itself?
A border policy helps stop infection coming in and internal mask+stay at home policies help when the infection is already in the city. Seoul, Sydney and Melbourne all had big outbreaks. The policies they took were effective in bringing the outbreak within the cities under control.

So yes border control helps but you shouldn't also discount policies such as the 'hard lockdowns' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53289616 where people cannot leave there homes at all for any reason if there's known cases in the immediate area.
My old neighborhood was full of people deciding on their third 10 year or early retirement. Had a few old guard businesses close before people noticed the pattern. Not that the residents could do much about the cause...

I imagine them thinking, “I’m 56 and this contract basically says I’ll have to work harder than I have in decades just to keep out of bankruptcy.” And just checking their finances and then the want ads for management positions.
I found this interesting:

> [Al Putre] firmly defends the MetroCard system and its awkward swipe, on the grounds that it was far easier to maintain and thus cheaper than its alternatives: ”We got a lot out of that — the technology is 25 years old, and we’re still running it on an IBM mainframe.”
Yes, yes. But is there evidence of this still happening in recent times?

Like, has the fact science can answer most of weird phenomena diminished the formation of new religions?

(Keep existing ones out of the question as we all know changing the status quo is hard.)
Could you expand on this a bit?
In some social groups you'll get massive social status signaling about being an "entrepreneur". Admittedly it mostly comes from people who profit off the pipeline, mortgage refi officers, commercial landlords, accountants, bankruptcy attorneys, etc.

As a cash business I often wonder how much laundering goes on. Not just hard core drug money, but any time cash is handled I suspect there's some rounding down going on.
I disagree. As a one person shop that doesn't have the time for server maintenance, shifting to lamdas and fargate saved me a lot of headaches. Add in RDS and i now do nothing other than back up my database off-AWS occasionally. There are things I used to think I needed control over but really, who cares where its running as long as its up.
Honestly, just spending time reading through any good code, well-maintained repos, official CTCI solutions, other people's LeetCode/CodeWars solutions, etc.

(The absolute best way I've found to learn a language's conventions and best practices is to study all of the community solutions on CodeWars)

Then I have a list to which I add any "code tropes" (i.e. using a loop to search a collection and conditionally flip a flag outside of the loop, etc.) or useful patterns (favoring early returns, etc.). This turns into a dictionary of the vocabulary of code that I just keep adding to.

Mainly it's the act of careful, patient reading that unconsciously develops your sense of conventions and ability to visualize abstraction.
Not so sure the average high skilled worker had that much of a portfolio to get to the point that they would need to put investments into fringe investments.

And if you did things like proper art collectables or vintage rolex's. I did vaguely think about watches even looked at actual antique katanas or wood block print auctions.
> Money solves the problem of having enough kicks at the can

Lots of people don't realize learning to read the market is also a separate skill that can't be learned through working for a company. It takes time and a few failures to wise up.
The question, then, is why not have the state university build the tests and write the textbooks? Then you fund the actual creation once and can straightforwardly fund updates and alterations as needed.
>What the thing is used for is irrelevant in the end.

That's some weird axioms you have in your reasoning. It's not irrelevant. Crypto waste literally makes technological progress more expensive -- it probably already affects drug development, and decades later someone will probably publish a study on how the crypto craze delayed crucial cancer drug development programs by years.

And blaming supply is much harder, considering supply is relatively inelastic, chip fabs take years and billions of dollars of planning and construction, and they can't wholeheartedly rely on the fickle crypto demand, on the decisions of crypto stakeholders to go or not to go "proof of stake" and the like.

And that's when crypto demand shouldn't even exist in an ideal world to begin with. The whole crypto ideology of "deflationary money free from institutions and government regulations" is just wrong, not something we should want, and would end up regulated anyway. (We should want better regulated better institutions) Not to mention that this ideology is mostly mentioned to justify the unbridled speculation and ponzi-like nature of the current crypto -- nobody really cares about it, it's a "get rich quick, fuck everything and everyone" scheme for most of the crypto users.

>Most food goes to "waste" as well,

As a side effect of purposeful consumption. It's below 50% by most estimates, and considered a problem. We all need to eat to survive, need to eat well to feel good. While the computer hardware demand and waste from "get rich quick" technologies is entirely inessential, and arguably harmful.