skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, 5% over the last 12 years, which includes a, brief, collapse in spending. But!

Look at chart 1:

Apr2021 had 0.8% month to month
May2031 had a 0.6% month to month.

Which annualize ((1+i)^12) to: 10% and 7% respectively.

Or, a better estimate:

((1.008)*(1.06))^6=1.087

Or 8.7%

And, this doesn't include that most of the money printed hasn't been allowed to slosh around yet and instead are being used to prop up financial markets.
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I presume this would be considered fraud.
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> hear the explosions on the other side of the Earth

It is quite hard to enable them to 'hear' where on earth it is, not sure how you could hear it properly. (Language is not hearing although hearing is involved)

What's an example where it's not clickbait with a sense that's been 'enabled'?

For this article I'd consider it not clickbait if all the 'information' from ultrasonic is transferred to the ear real time or close to.
So what's the point of it then? Why add more layers of unnecessary abstraction? Why don't just use the node.js library then?
> After 12 years of software development, I've come to the conclusion that software managers are not needed.

+1

If devs are doing:

- Scoping

- Product design

- Coding

- Debugging

- Scaling

- Releasing

- On call duties

- A/B tests

- Can't cause outages

- Postmortems

- Enhancements

- Fight bullshit corporate politics

- Fight to remove blockers

- Fight to remove deadlocks

- Ultimately produce something that earns money for the company

- Write bullshit promotion docs for themselves

- Wait to be Pipped or something.

What exactly is the value provided by a manager?
Battles and kings are not garbage.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210610124826/https://www.phili...
while Deep Mind has a huge financial temptation to sell snake oil

I don't know, isn't the DeepMind founder that guy in the Go documentary? I read about him after watching the doc and he seemed to be pretty cautious about taking in investment, and he didn't seem the type to try to cash out.
This is not correct. A dollar get "created" only when it is taken as debt, otherwise does not enter the economy. Actually , the amount of dollars decreased, as people paid down debt, thus destroying the amount of money in the economy.

What you see is a supply side inflation (less goods due to supply chain interruption) and not demand side (more money).
Only if you meet the volume thresholds, which vary by country - e.g. for sales to Ireland you must register and pay VAT if your sales are over EUR 35k / year, but in Germany its 100k.
Thats from May2020 to May2021, and includes a collapse in consumption (for example fuel).

Look at chart 1:

Apr2021 had 0.8% month to month
May2031 had a 0.6% month to month.

Which annualize ((1+i)^12) to: 10% and 7% respectively.

Or, a better estimate:

((1.008)*(1.06))^6=1.087

Or 8.7% annualized inflation using the data of the last two months.
Nuclear power plants require access to cooling water for efficient operation so most desert sites aren't suitable. The type of small modular nuclear power plants you're referring to can potentially be useful for supplying heat and power to isolated facilities but basic thermodynamics tell us they won't work for grid scale base load power.
Sure, but if they can sell conservatives on blocking the pipeline, why can't they sell conservatives on a carbon tax? If anything, I think it's more likely that the carbon tax could be seen as a bipartisan win between those options.
> Which tool. Curious.

We built something similar at Mattermost, which (funnily enough) is a comparable application.

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-load-test-ng

https://mattermost.com/blog/improving-performance-through-lo...

> Isn't really just choosing which way to throw money at the problem? Hardware costs, vs. person-hours to maintain a thin client version?

That's fair, although the second option has (in my opinion) a better return on investment given by the knowledge and experience gain.
I can see the headlines already:

> Satanic video game trains children on how to shoot up their neighborhoods
Yeah, dang: We need to know what you drink, smoke, or inject.

Particularly the more choleric among us coughwho, me?cough could use some tips.
Ha - yes, you're right it sounds like a tautology. I worded my answer to reflect the absolute statement of no manager is ever needed.

"Shouldn't the creators and clients have a major, high impact role and the coordinators a supporting role in terms of decision making?"

No. The creators usually answer "how to do it". The more important question is "what to do". Both groups are important but doing the right thing is more important than how you do it.
I can't be the only who though Alexa Presentation Language
The point is that even for educated people, comparing something to the area of Kuwait is obscure and unhelpful.
He's definitely losing something. Property taxes are based on area and number of rooms. They could have found a tenant looking for the right number of rooms in their budget.
That seems to be the point the parent is making. Tautology is the the only way we can explain the way life happens to be -- it's because it's advantageous for it to be that way.
The FSD beta is way worse. You have to be much more conscious about everything that happens around you than with the "old package". Then you might as well drive yourself. In my experience it's like how it feels being in a car driven by an old relative that clearly shouldn't be driving a car anymore but you're too polite to tell him.
Unicomp was selling them for a while, if I remember correctly. I don't see them on their website anymore though (but maybe I didn't look hard enough.)
Marc Reisner's book _Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water_, written in 1987 (a third of a century ago), documents part of this experiment, including actions of Los Angeles to get water, and the rivalry between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers, among others.

I believe PBS did a 5-part miniseries with the same title "Cadillac Desert" in 1997.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118279/
How is it a conflict of interest? Their business is to price their rates correctly, so they need to measure the actual failure characteristics.

Pricing insurance is a balancing act.

If you overestimate then your rates will not be competitive.

If you underestimate then you pay out more in claims then you collect in premiums.
I'm gonna go with the unpopular opinion here: the "better approach", as in, the one that allows you to have arbitrary state coupling and take the human factor of the equation, is garbage collection.

Rust's trade-off (you get compile-time guarantees in exchange for requiring you to structure data accesses in a particular way) is perfectly valid, but it's still a trade-off. As with any trade-off, you run into the part that's traded for something else sooner or later :-).
That is the reality we live in now. Clearview is a nightmare and no one cares. Par for the course. If the NSA has been spying on us for years then why does it matter if a private company is doing it too?
Religion is the laws to let you do science at peace, and has nothing to do with how science works.
A few weeks ago, somebody on HN referenced a name for that generically-friendly, ubiquitous style of web art. It's driving me nuts that I can't recall it.

I vaguely recall that it was of a form like [Adjective] [City], where [City] was something kind of unexpected (having to do with some art movement in the past).
We used to spend effort on water management that we do not do, any longer. Those efforts had results, the lack of which isn't mentioned in "historic flood / worst ever drought" stories.

"Conspiracy theory" would be to suggest that these efforts were intentionally co-ordinated from the start to empower someone or something; I think its just normal human FUBAR politics.
Just because something was possible doesn't mean it should always be possible. I'm not saying whether it should or shouldn't be in this case; I really don't know. But it should be obvious that in the past ~100 years people have been taking far too much from the Earth without any thought to sustainability or the future. What was common 60 years ago was not necessarily right.
The standard lifespan for a roof seems to be ~20 years, though that seems low to me.
I definitely agree that (in general) devs and mgmt do not understand one another.

I think this is bc one practices abstraction while the other practices persuasion.

I see these two forces as equal and opposite. A yin and yang kind of thing.

It appears that the best orgs have these two things in balance.
Rather than assert the negative, can you state some positive facts about one or the other that makes this point clear?
That list would be very long :D

If you have some time you can look through:

- all the .enabled entrys in

- all the .disabled entrys

- https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
you make a good point but there is a refinement -- water is supplied via a water district, and there are many disparate districts. Water supply overall maybe be predominantly agricultural or industrial, but for a particular water district (and watershed) the proportions may be different. Due to the geography of California and the location of populations, some areas on Western side of the Sierras have vast water compared to population, while South Central Los Angeles is a different story. Using acre-feet per day in agricultural areas is not exactly depriving South Central Los Angeles of water for lawns and gardens.
My argument is that we need some kind of movement, some kind of change that is happening outside of us. It feels great to sit in the backyard and watch the chicken quarrel, but who has chickens anymore? It can be enjoyable to sit in a cafe at the town square and just witness life happening around you, but most town squares are losing this community side.

Since the immediate 'outside' – my home and office – mostly lacks this tiny uninterrupted movements that I describe, this continuous stream of life happening, I begin to feel isolated and turn to the screens around me. They provide a similar feeling of being connected to life, even if much less fulfilling.

Sure, I could work on changing the social life of my city, reviving the town square and planting gardens, but here, on a hacker news site, I like to dream about some technological solution that might fulfill the need of seeing myself embedded in a perpetual movement on life.
It's a nice idea, but it's not so easy for really rich people to just make a "snapshot of wealth". A lot of assets are tied up in illiquid things like re-estate, publicly traded companies, etc

I do like the idea though.
Why link to that old issue instead of just the LICENSE file? https://github.com/vvoovv/blender-osm/blob/dev/LICENSE
I really hate the Paddle UI but this is the sole reason I'm with them. As a solo entrepreneur the peace of mind is just too good.

If Stripe added a Merchant of Record service, as an optional extra, it would be game over and they would win this space.
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I agree. And then if the same devs have reduced meetings, are included in more cross dept initiatives, and included in decision making, they end up upset that their freedom is suddenly gone. Its not even just devs this is a common thing from call center reps to the top of the broken pyramid. Everyone is the linchpin in their perceived contribution to the world.
No, not even as a technicality. It is possible, full stop.
A trick that helped me was to put time limits on my apps. Then I set the access code to a random number and wrote that number down and put the paper in an inconvenient spot (eg. My basement cellar).

The result is there is just enough friction that I don’t bother going to get the number. But if ever I need access I can alway go get it.
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But the only way for the lump sum to double and the repayment to stay the same is to lengthen the loan period?
Self-driving Waymo trucks to haul loads between Houston and Fort Worth
That's not really a fair depiction though. They ban based on "wrongthink", because active disagreement of many things is considered "wrongbehavior". The end result is a reinforcement loop of the echo chamber, with a widening of what is considered "wrong"
I’ve a minor in psych so I like to think I have a bit of a non-techy perspective on this, and what’s being pushed now, forms just a segment of the overall topic of AI. It just so happens to be the segment that benefits from the technology we suddenly have a rapid increase in. There’s been great successes in areas where a degree of inference is required but this hardly qualifies as even mere intelligence, and in cases where neural nets have been deployed in more human centered tasks, or even well designed symbolic systems the results speak for themselves. What even is intelligence? I think we’re going backwards because we’re investing all this talent in this simple segment I fear largely to fatten the chip makers share price while neglecting tried and true approaches that deliver far better results but perhaps crucially have a higher operating cost … who remembers google of 2010 from whom the Internet in all her glory leapt forth, or iPhone spell check of 2015 where you could confidently batter out your messages with little fear it would make a fool of you; you’re not going to nurture a nascent intelligence if you’re going to be continually hobbling it for business reasons. I’m certain we will get there eventually if we don’t destroy ourselves before then but I don’t think the current trends portray a picture of how it will be. I think we have a long way to go ourselves before we can be worthy of creating our successor, but when/if it comes it will be a beautiful thing and we will embrace it as we would our own child.
hehe, just clicked "2 + 2" followed by pressing enter and got SERVER ERROR. HN hug of death, I presume? Otherwise either me or the tool is very bad at math.
Pick their brain.

Interview them on parts of the system they know well. Capture what they're saying in a document. Draw diagrams together. Write the doc together, show them how you go through the process.

It will show you value their knowledge, and that writing things down means valuing your own knowledge.
That’s a reasonable estimate based on architectural shingles, although 15 years is more likely in latitudes with more solar exposure throughout the year (the Sunbelt in the US). Metal roofs last longer, but have a higher initial upfront cost. Huge fan of metal standing seam roofs for longevity (40-70 year lifetime) as well as robust mount support (clipping to the seams) for solar racking.

https://youtu.be/k6mrRUZv8Ak
> Let me tell you I know why you don't see an "Amazon of Japan", apparently in here I'd have to calculate the sales taxes for every country where my products are sold through agreements of Japan-{said country}. Some countries don't even have agreements like Brazil so they are in a gray area.

AFAIK this is true for any other country, not just Japan. If you're in US, and you want to sell and ship products outside of US, you need to take care of the sales taxes and customs for each of the countries you ship.

Or you leave the burden to your customers, but they might not be happy to have to pay expensive custom to the mailman to get their package.
Much like games life is full of challenges. Games are just easier than life because their rules are pre-defined.

I was an addict gamer not long ago. I thought myself one of the very best at the game and one day it became meaningless, boring, unfulfilling. I redirected some of my gaming time to creating stuff, maintaining relationships, getting rid of procrastination (eventually), working out, making a business and attending to my loved ones.

If you cannot play games anymore and need a challenge, try programming. There's always something to master through experimentation and if you are as good at mastering programming as you are at mastering games then you will be able to build anything you think of, if its possible. I suggest Javascript/Nodejs as its the language that does everything nowadays.
Make your job disposable to you. Not for the company.
This is not available. Someone (thanks, jeff!) just posted this in the comments:

"The day I finished editing the video for the Wiretrustee SATA, the folks behind the board announced they were postponing production because of the component shortage—some parts, most notably the SATA controller chip, had increased in price dramatically, and would only be available in small quantities."

Just more rPI vapourware. Maybe repost when someone can actually get their hands on this?
> DOM snapshots

I should definitely try that the next time I'm working on this issue. Maybe I can get some kind of small example as well if possible. But replicating the problematic conditions is probably hard.
Yep, but this is more of an exception, still.
> 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.

Please stop spreading this false information. CPI absolutely does track housing: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

Now, you might disagree with the methodology used above, in which case it is healthy to discuss alternatives, or where CPI housing calculation has issues.
Yeah, it's good. Working with with learners, I always recommend his books (particularly the ES6 one) as reference once they're past the basics. He's very good and not someone who disseminates much information that isn't just practical explanations of and realistic usecases for spec. Slightly dry, but very concise. This one's [naturally] slightly more in depth, but it's IMO a necessary addendum to previous books/articles -- something that builds on them for slightly advanced usecases. Sibling comment says you'll write better code in 99% of jobs if you don't read it: I don't think that's true at all. Deep copying, for example isn't uncommon.
Perhaps. You should always keep that in mind, though, and avoid building your system tightly-coupled to any single supplier.
The TS compiler itself. It is twice as effective a use of your time because: (1) it is a good high-complexity code base, (2) teaches you about TS internals.
> What I take issue with is the lack of symmetry.

I think symmetry in this case would amount to false balance. Why even bother to frame things this way? It's self evident to most people that crank views run the gamut of social and political backgrounds; like all things in life, we prioritize our discussion of them by their perceived impact(s) on our lives. COVID denialism has more of an impact on my life than an anti-nuclear crank does.
Isn't the existence of a good motorway network also a massive subsidy to motorists?
Fingerprinting on your own sites is pointless since only third party cookies are being removed. First party cookies still work like normal.
Not necessarily from the Colorado River, but at least in California a great deal of state and federal water project deliveries are used for alfalfa, all of which is animal feed. According to some sources animal feed consumes half of the water in the state.

https://www.comstocksmag.com/web-only/livestock-production-d...
I was a good bit more productive over the first few months of the pandemic than since then, and I attribute some of that (though not all) to the fact that most of the work I was doing in March to June of 2020 was on projects that had been originated back when we were in the office, while the projects I've worked on since then were originated after we went remote.

This isn't quite about relationships because I knew the people involved before; it's more about not having information that you tend to get just from being around the office. I'm not saying this is an argument for going back into the office so much as being mindful about communication.
Note that if you are just interested in US sales taxes, and only need to collect tax in the ~1/2 of the states that are part of the Streamlines Sales Tax (SST) project, you can have your tax rate calculation, registration, reporting, and filing all done for free.

The member states of SST have agreed to pay for those services from several tax SaaS companies. (There is one catch: to avail yourself of this, you must collect tax for all SST states, even though you might be below the threshold in some of them).

The companies participating are Avalara, TaxCloud, Sovos, and Accurate Tax.

For small online businesses I suspect that a lot more can take advantage of this than you might expect. Here's a map showing the SST member states [1]. Although it is missing some big states that you probably do a lot of business in (California for instance), a lot of those big states have quite high thresholds for sales or number of transactions before tax kicks in.

Some of the companies that provide the fee SST service will also add non-SST states for a fee. If you only need one or two non-SST states, it will still probably come out cheaper than using Stripe (and will include reporting and filing).

[1] https://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/
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> I'm going to leave my shame up here but I realize it's $400, not $4000. Just goes to show you that accountants are just like regular people, and that you shouldn't rely on your accountant doing things off the top of their head not using Excel. The order of magnitude difference really shifts my opinion of it.

Fair play to you!
Their home page says 23kw in 15 rack units.

Compare that to somewhere in the range of 5 to 25kw for 42 rack units for a more traditional mix of equipment in a rack.

Sounds like it consumes somewhere in the range of 2.5 to 10 times more than a normal server that would fit in the same space. 1.5kw per RU as compared to 0.12-0.6 per RU for "normal equipment".
Exactly my feelings when I read this
I worked for a megacorp and made friends with a guy who worked in the underground data centers at HQ. He'd end up with spare equipment and ask I wanted it to play with.

He once offered me (with no witnesses) a check writing machine that was still loaded with a spool of thousands of blank corporate checks. Knowing what would be considered a rounding error with the billing & accounting systems there, I probably could have made off with a fair amount of loot. It still surprises me to this day that he didn't really realize what he had and what it could do, but then again he didn't get a lot of sunlight, so...
I assure you, APL is not bad at math. It's been around almost as long as COBOL.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
Tesla is hiring full time FSD test drivers
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I find this revealing the absurdity of the taxing systems we live in.
When a project is delivered on time, within budget, and produces the expected value for a company, it is not necessarily the result of "good management".

This is why "bad managers" survive in our industry, far too often a manager's performance is measured on the success of the projects they are "accountable" for.

I believe the responsibility of a "manager" is to provide support to the people they "manage", which can take on many forms. e.g.

- Hiring additional staff to handle the current workload at the desired cadence.

- Influencing the stake holders so the business priorities benefit their employees (and indirectly the company).

- Providing emotional or moral support to their staff.

- Being a source of motivation through exuding passion, or setting an example that their staff aspire to.
Under the "Industries" part of their webpage they have testimonials from GlaxoSmithKline, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Argonne National Lab
An NGO redeveloping an island and making 650k wires (ok, in three tranches) is not "poor" by any reasonable standard.