skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, so if they can’t get help, then what’s left for the rest?

It means only the top 5-10% are getting help. And probably most of them are not people but companies.
I think we're talking about very different things here.

When I say "No need to ensure the software is up-to-date, no worries about hardware outages, no need to monitor the system, etc. etc." I don't mean these things don't need to happen at some point. The idea is that it's not you, as in the customer, who's responsible for this.

If I book a Redis-DB of a given size, I don't have to care about its software version, proxies, what OS it's running on, how big the VM is, what the specs are, and so forth. That's what I'm getting at.

It's far higher level than individual VMs and it doesn't mean downtimes don't happen either. It simply means it's not you, the customer, who has to troubleshoot and fix them.
Doesn't the newest flight simulator already do this?
Does that really do anything? The entire Permissions-Policy header confuses me. Isn't that telling the browser to lock the FLoC API for that domain. So no resources loaded from github.com won't be able to call the interest_cohort() function. But GitHub doesn't serve ads, so why would their scripts be using the function? And what's the point of declaring that scripts from your domain are not allowed to use the FLoC API (Or geolocation which is the only other policy I'm aware of.) versus just not putting the code in your scripts in the first place?
just an observation: if you moved from developer to CEO without significant time as a Dev or Eng manager you have very different skills and focus. CEOs of all but the smallest companies are playing checkers; Dev Managers play chess. This isn't some sort of insult; we need to focus on individuals with distinct skill sets and characteristics. CEOs can't and shouldn't be concerned with this level of detail.

It's also uncharitable to split teams into either high-performance special ops teams vs. mediocre, low skill / low potential teams. Two trends make this distinction meaningless: GROWTH and SCALE. If these don't apply then you can totally let the team self-manage. FANG companies typically have all those rockstars you're looking for and multiple levels of technical management.
Wear management and prevention?

just like in SSD ;-)
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I grew up in PA and my siblings and I used to have Lebanon bologna in our school lunches every day. I'm not sure what there is to say about it, it's alright, sort of like a sweeter thicker cut salami. Ama I guess.
a radio also can malfunction and stop making sounds but that doesn't mean the transmission has stopped elsewhere.
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Google Meet no longer works consistently for me on Firefox MacOS M1.

It drops all audio (input/output) immediately or a few moments after joining the meet. Seemed to start happening when a new version of Google Meet was rolled out recently. But it's still broken.

I don't want to use Chromium browsers, especially since all video web apps on Chromium including Google Meet obnoxiously and insistently hijack the microphone volume for some reason.

The war against nice things continues I guess.
"Organic non-vegan almond-milk substitute"
> C (or C++) memory model isn’t really well-defined yet

To the limited extent this is true, it's about pragmatism.

In Java if the situation is that correct Java now has to be 5% slower then a new JRE is shipped that's 5% slower and some people are unhappy but life goes on.

In C++ if the situation is that correct C++ now has to be 5% slower then C++ programmers will mostly demand an "Incorrect-but-faster" setting on their compiler, and they continue to use the faster code.

So, in practice the fine details of the memory model must reflect the practical reality of the physical computers or else they're useless.
Because the “Enterprise Architect” who hasn’t done any actual coding in 15 years, and still preaches 15-year-old FUD about open source, will be openly hostile to anything that isn’t superficially related to his anointed tech stack. Which will most likely be either .NET or Java.
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That's neat! Ideas are seldom unique, and this one goes way back.

(SPOILERS)

The closest analog I was thinking of was Carl Sagan's Contact, but instead of DNA, the message was put in an even more fundamental place (seriously, if you haven't read the book, don't spoil it for yourself - it's a fantastic read and go read it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel)
I was dealing with taxes using Stripe Checkout so far, and to be honest it’s far from perfect. Worth looking around this new feature, but feel like they haven’t done much and are going to take 0.5% of every transaction!
Got it - that clarifies it.
Of course it isn't: most individuals tend to inflate their contributions' importance. There are matters of degree, though. My experience is that developers tend to overestimate more often and by larger amounts.
That's pretty interesting given that the impression in the media is that minimum wages have gone down dramatically compared to the past. But that's not borne out by the stats (there is some depression, but not much compared to the mean).

What must be going on is the average take home for non-college educated has gone down (or stagnated) combined with increased expectations -driven perhaps by the media (I should be able to have two cars and multiple phones, and go out and spend money, etc).
I think archon is referring to the fact that, in the US, there are 82M owner occupied homes, and 42M renter occupied homes, and so adding up total number of people looking to purchase a house plus those affected by (presumed) changes in rental prices due to changed in land prices, you might come to the conclusion that “half of the people are involved in housing market”.

I do not know if I agree with that reasoning, but I would say that if you are looking to purchase a new home at some point in your life (even if you already have one), or you have kids or family that is looking to purchase a home, it is very possible that you are affected by your neighbors’ buying and selling in the event that it causes you to start saving more to meet the goal of purchasing a new home. And I think a large share, maybe a majority of Americans fall into this category.

For example, if I am in a “starter home” and had a goal of upgrading to a bigger home to accommodate growing family, and that bigger home goes from $450k to $750k over the course of 5 years, then that $300k increase is surely felt and dwarfs the effects of any other changes in price in a typical family’s budget. Best case scenario is you live nearby and your starter home has increased from $300k to $400k, but the price increases in lower end homes will never make up for price increases in higher end homes.
I came expecting something for extracting higher velocity from a Scrum feature factory.

Very pleased that this is not the case. This is the most thoughtful attempt at software engineering metrics I have seen yet. Especially like the build time tracking because at a prior company, builds took 4 minutes and running the full test suite could take another 6.

We couldn't convince management that this was a problem (multiplied numbers make people suspicious, idk). This would have shown them the hours wasted per year, which would have been far more than the cost of JRebel or installing HotSwap.
If you buy assets, the seller of the asset has cash. It's a hot potato that you have to pass around for this to become true and you are never allowed to pass the hot potato to workers.

If the seller of the asset is a worker, then you have already lost.

If the seller of the asset is a rich person, then you just are back to square one as the second rich person has the inflation problem.

If the seller of the asset is a company, then it has to do something with the money as inflation erodes it, but it cannot do anything with the money because hiring people would give it to workers again, which means you lost the hot potato game again.
Someone linked the actual report, so the answer appears to be:

There's greater variance in sunshine between years than some business plans accounted for, so while average performance for a site over time, and solar PV on a nation scale is still as predicted, one individual solar business can go under if they borrow all the money up front and don't plan ahead for having a bad year or two early in the term.
> Yeah, no. I've literally read hundreds of RFCs, thousands of man pages

Well, that didn't take more than a single line: "please remember to check relevant RFCs and man pages for additional information. This system depends on DNS for round robin load balancing (etc)" :)
If you were aware that rent was covered by CPI I wonder why you wrote "Its by far the most expensive purchase in peoples lives, vital to our needs just like food and water... And I really dont agree with not tracking it in CPI."

Either you didn't know rent was included in CPI or you are making the very odd claim that homeownership is like food or water, implying you'll drop dead if you rent a home rather than buying one.
Meat prices temporarily increased sharply, but will likely subside over time with increased supplies.
>these comparisons don't really make sense over extended periods of time like this

Yeah. It's probably useful in something like a magazine article or book to give a sense for how someone in 1800 would have viewed a $20 bill in purchasing power. But you go back a century or so and the basket of goods you're comparing look so much different.

And behaviors are also just a lot different. Most middle class people in the US won't have a cook but they have tons of dining and take-out options. Just to give one example.
That's a good point. The bank might prefer a haircut to litigating an insolvency, especially if the best-case scenario for the insolvency is that they get possession of the power plant.
Charging a new owner to unlock the feature again is slightly different than charging the original owner a subscription.

However, I still see selling features as a software upgrade strictly as an alternative means* of selling upgrades. So the upgrade should be tied to the car, not the owner. The added bonus here would be that a second owner could unlock features that the initial owner didn't want.

*i.e. Tesla might decide it's better just to put the heated seats in all cars rather than manufacturing cars with and without.
> Hire cars are a bland, pedestrian experience,

They don't have to be, although he alternatives are expensive. I rented a BMW 438i convertible for a couple of weeks about six years ago. Brilliant car and even though it was a lot more expensive than the usual boring vehicles I rent it was worth it.
Thats close to our use case. We use it to sync a small amount of configuration data across a small amount of servers (2-50, depending client).

RQlite was perfect as our software is an addon for a legacy platform. We needed an easy low-access way of installing a distributed datastore.
“Higher lift” means “more work” in this context.
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Yes, I read that. That explains how to use the graph, but not how they arrived at the numbers on the graph. What methodology did they use to compare prices for goods in U.S. Dollars in 1913 with prices for goods in Spanish Dollars (or pounds sterling, or whatever) in 1635 to come up with an index?

This is one of the things I dislike about statista.com. By putting their sources behind a paywall, they create a bunch of graphs that people can throw around the internet, but hide the context necessary to properly interpret them. The misinformation potential is huge.
Stripe came up in an era when nobody in the US worried about taxes, generally speaking. That's changing now.
That's why I said it would be a symbolic gesture at best. You can't un-genocide the genocide. But I also said it isn't even that really because it's a hollow gesture.

Germany's GDP is nearly $4 trillion. Germany's federal budget for 2021 is roughly $450 billion. Giving away a little over $1 billion once, is barely even noticeable. I'm not saying Germany should offer $4 trillion to Namibia or even $450 billion. But $1 billion once, with no genuine apology, is an insult.

To contrast this consider that under the EU's GDPR companies can be fined for up to 4% of annual revenue for violations of data privacy. If Germany were a company and the federal budget its annual revenue, that would translate to $18 billion. Again, I'm not saying this exact amount would be appropriate. But if you want to buy forgiveness, you should at least inconvenience yourself to do so to show you mean it.
What does rooftop solar do for roofing replacement costs? Seems like you'd need to get some much-more-expensive labor involved than the usual roofing crew for your typical asphalt-shingle roof, and you'd have to bring them out twice (once to remove, once to re-install at the end). Thanks to hail, I'm very likely to need to replace my roofing at least twice in the lifetime of a solar installation (I'm assuming solar panels are very, very resilient against hail—if not, I guess I'll have to forget about ever doing that, period). How much more likely are roof leaks with rooftop solar? More holes in the roof (for mounting the panels) has got to increase the leak risk.
One way is to make use of AppConfig to store customerwise feature roll out plan. To save cost, add 15 minute caching on it (the thick client comes with the local application caching feature)
This is Dawkins' idea of "extended phenotype". Normally a gene's phenotype refers to its effects on the body of an individual organism posessing that gene, like hair colour or immune response.

A gene's extended phenotype includes effects external to particular organisms, like nests, deforestation, changes to the chemical makeup of the atmosphere, etc.
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The US doesn't even do chip+PIN, just chip. I have to assume the US is fine with a higher baseline level of fraud than the EU. I don't know how the economics make that work.

And online, the validation/authorization isn't any better - as long as somebody has the card number and my zip code, they can do as they please (until/unless some banking anti-fraud algo picks it up).
I build PWAs, there are main features I wish I could see on Safari/iOS.

1: Some kind of guarantee they're not going to randomly purge my assets/data to get some disk space back. I want to provide a good offline experience and not require a network connection.
2: Notifications, which has been requested for Safari every year for a decade. This is willful neglect and not esoteric new-in-chrome functionality or a security risk.

Apple did finally move WebRTC over from regular Safari to WebApp last year (Not every feature in mobile Safari is available as a WebApp). Finally! This opens up new potential. If they did the two above I'd be reasonably satisfied with the platform's capability.
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We would start bothering lesser beings, as the Q do ;)
Obviously we can and maybe should, but at what costs in order to do so? Are there better infectious diseases to invest in and focus on instead?
I bought it, thank you for taking the time to write such a good book!
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Yea the food pyramid is pretty bad, its basically a how to guide on getting diabetes. Cereals and grains have the word glycemic loads while fats and meats are the healthiest things to combat insulin resistance and diabetes but the pyramid tells you to never eat them. If the pyramid was inverted (except for sweets) it would be healthier.
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Agreed, it'll do, but I'm more of a chip chop fan myself.
Insurance companies are well suited to exaggerate risks and mislead by statistics. And they are very good at it.
The root problem here is that someone moved money/resources on the basis of an anonymous (i.e. unsigned) email. If you can't be sure where the email came from you really need to do a manual verification.
ZFS doesn't need ECC ram to work correctly. This is an incorrect but commonly repeated myth.

See: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...
I always wondered if it was possible to build an inverted company organization, where developers/engineers were formally at the head of things, and much of the administrative tasks that management works on were subbed to specialists reporting to the developers.

If you look at a lot of pretty incredible projects that often were finished ahead of schedule or with groundbreaking capability, they often happen to be led by a deeply technical person. e.g. Hoover Dam, the SR-71, etc.

If you look at CEOs of tech companies, I believe a majority of them have an engineering undergrad degree of some form.
Would this break down if you had 10 customers that would prefer the slow channel of release, but each had their own ever so slightly different desired release pace or training requirements?
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From what I’ve read, TC39 acknowledges that this is important and is working on fixing JavaScript’s deficiencies in this area:

– BigInts (arbitrary precision integers) were a recent addition: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_bigints.html

– A proposal for `Decimal` (base 10 floating point numbers with arbitrary precision) is currently at stage 1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal
Or: Given that most companies are horribly mismanaged, they completely fail to reward sensible behavior...
> A lot of developers handle EVERYTHING (including politics) in modern companies except promotions and performance reviews. There is no real need for a manager if devs are doing everything.

Which modern company does this? The closest that jumps to mind is Valve.
Execution can be interrupted, though, through debug hooks. It could be set up to yield every N instructions. [1]

There's a few caveats, though, in that this will not be called if you've called into C code. That is, you will only yield while executing code in the Lua interpreter.

1. https://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/lua_sethook
Is there anywhere that's done a deeper dive into "what you could afford" means? I want to see how few hours you could work throughout history to afford absolute necessities. And then split this based on minimum wage, average wage, median wage etc.
I love this. It's a little black and white, but the comparison is as between video game worlds and the real world. Only enough to fool the willing eye.

I use a variation of this form as 'persons whos science and religions conflict don't know enough about either one'.
Actual pre-print paper without an obviously right-leaning website touting the great parts of it: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.28.21258012v...

Particularly, the word "zinc" doesn't appear in this paper. Maybe I should publish a news article saying HCQ and Coca-Cola help against Covid-19 and link to this paper? (I'd buy Coca-Cola stock beforehand...).

The study done by the French doctor who became the champion of HCQ was deeply flawed, IIRC (don't quote me, I'm too lazy to look it up) he excluded data from patients who got this drug and died, and he was giving them selectively to healthier/younger patients, and in the end there was apparently no advantage to HCQ.

Ah the paragraph above is shameful writing, I might've as well written "My aunt heard that Covid-19 is a virus programmed by Bill Gates and spread to 5G towers!". If you google his name (Didier Raoult) you'll get both sides arguing, and you can choose who to believe is telling the truth (sadly we usually choose the people on "our side"), here's one who is critical of this guy: https://forbetterscience.com/2021/03/23/didier-raoult-fraud-...
You just pointed me to a 1,600 word article when I asked for a summary of what the project does.

This is the problem I'm describing.

It's major.

You need to be able to say what your software is for in one paragraph. Period.
The market value of stocks and corporate bonds is pretty much always larger than the book value of the underlying companies. If this is not the case you've found yourself in a 1931-type of a bargain.

The delta between the book value and the securities pricing is the estimated future profits. Now how exactly did you arrive at the conclusion that the future profits estimation is too high?
I think what tends to happen is what we saw happen in Soviet Russia and Maoist China. "They," at the top, think they know what's best for people (hoi polloi) and start "designing" for that "utopian" society, history be damned.
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This is exactly what it feels like. Worship at the altar of Science™ or else, anything else is blasphemy.
APL's greatest contribution is its semantics, not its syntax.

(Some parts of the syntax are brilliant and would be awesome if adopted by modern languages. Others ..... not so much).
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Would be better as a long graph, or as the derivative (e.g. year-over-year change).

Viewing decay graphics in this form is incredibly misleading.
>A sensible analogue would be something like aircraft software

Does automobile software development have the level of oversight that aircraft development has in terms of regulation and approval for use? I know the NHTSA approves safety with crash tests (and are currently working on AV standards) but I'm not sure it's an equivalent to what the FAA currently does.

Not to say they won't be equivalent in the future, but I don't know how well the analogue holds up if they don't have equivalent levels of quality oversight currently.
This is the test to see if your cargo is too wet to safely load. It requires a cone and a hinged plate. Perhaps $200 worth of test equipment, the lack of which causes the loss of a $30 million+ ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_table_test
I believe Apple just doesn't block it. It by default downloads all pixels (and images) for all emails so the sender cannot know if and when the reader actually opened it. It will by default show 100% open rate.
But, won't it be a problem? like some malicious actor could send lots of emails with 10s of MBs of image embeds and if Apple Mail automatically downloads it, then the storage will unnecessarily fill up. Is there a countermeasure to it which Apple has mentioned?
I have to say that when I first evaluated Stripe I was comparing it to things like authorize.net. I haven't meaningfully looked at the other available options since. Stripe is easy and known and I haven't gotten org pushback about it. So maybe just ignorance?

Thanks for sharing these options.
To quote the BLS: CPI is "a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services."

That market basket gets changed over time which makes comparisons harder and harder over time because you're buying things that were maybe "typical" for those two points in time but are very different. Imagine telecoms and entertainment costs for a typical 1970 consumer vs. today.