skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds little bit like the (known) situation around cargo where it doesn't default to `--locked` and so results in surprising behaviour for many people.

This particular issue is in regard to `cargo install`: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/7169

Oh, or, I guess, it might be how the version is specified--guess we need some more details on what "compile something after it wasn’t touched for a year" entailed.
Our society isn't exactly set up for "doing nothing", either. If you're just sitting somewhere without doing anything, you might be loitering, you'll start getting funny looks if this goes on for extended periods of time.

On the other hand, if you're sitting somewhere and you're smoking, or reading, none of that seems to happen. I wonder if we're uncomfortable with other people's ability to do nothing.
I don’t think these were ever used in a Star Trek show, maybe enterprise.

Sony’s memorystick flash storage did kinda look like the isolinear chips from TNG tho, back in the days where it was Sony or compact Flash/SmartMedia, the memorysticks also won on looks I swear I think that Sony was the only company that actually cared about how things looked in the 90’s and early 2000’s until Apple under Steve Jobs went through the whole look and feel first phase.
The author has faith in their ability to make money

He has no faith in seeing their presence as validation in the project

That’s an accurate view and he shouldn’t limit that to crypto VCs, its the same in other venture capital. Crypto just helped lower the distortion field, while non-crypto VCs just still have better marketing unbeknownst to him

They all get discounted and preferential liquidity if they’re any good at deal making. That’s what you hire a VC to do

The crypto VCs are absolutely crushing it in deal flow, some of the things they negotiate are phenomenal such as perpetual block rewards that never get diluted, while node operates are all competing amongst each other for their own share. Fund performance decks are way below reality as it is very dependent on the limited partner’s time in the fund, unlike in a liquid fund strategy a private equity investor only has exposure to the positions and contracts they got exposure to from after they joined the fund and exited the fund.
I'm sure there are some women who want blank slates for men, but not the type of women I like. I like to post vacation and activity pictures, and use the text to suggest that I've got stories to share on our first date.

So many women I've met complain that they start the date with "so tell me about yourself" and get, "uh I dunno. I like to play video games." (Not that there's anything wrong with video games but at least have some stories to tell. Maybe she'll also play. Jackpot. Unless you start telling her she's not a real games.)

I do lots of things. I act, i juggle, i run marathons. The tricky part is phrasing it in a way that doesn't come off as "I'm too cool an expect you to shut up and listen."

That is of course just what works for me, and for the kind of women I like. (Talking about dating sites is a really easy topic of conversation on a first date, so I hear a lot.)

If they're telling you to be dull, maybe that works for other men with other women. But to me it sounds like a recipe for a boring date.

I try to go in with the attitude that if we do nothing more than spend a few minutes chatting nicely over coffee, it will have been fun and worth my time. That kind of attitude seems best for making myself seem worthwhile and fun, so that she wants more.
Generally you find good or great documentation where selling the product depends on it.

Apple is a hardware company, despite the money made from the app store. They don't lack for outside developers fighting bad documentation to make apps.

Poor documentation is not surprising at all; it's to be expected as there is little incentive to change.
A software bug is an error, flaw or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.

If the Rust compiler developers intend to provide backwards compatibility, but accidentally make a change that breaks that, then that is absolutely 100% a bug. You are allowed to prefer that the software you use has minimal bugs, but you are deluding yourself if you think that the Go compiler (or essentially any other piece of software) is bug free.
There has to be a name for the rhetorical strategy that goes something like "your opinions or observations are sufficiently similar to media_influencer_I_dont_like regardless of their actual origin, and thus I'm able to discount what you are saying outright". Every time this topic comes up, even when it's in a more interesting and philosophical thread like this one, the Fox News bogyman always gets trotted out. TFA is from ... The Atlantic, if you haven't noticed.
The FAANG strategy these days is to outsource all the top-of-the-pipeline generation and build a huge pool of possible talent at that stage. Then they weed most of them out through hackerrank type stuff. I think that explains why you see that.
Slightly off topic, but is anyone aware of a collection of examples or best practices for using d3 in a Vue application? I just started with d3 and I‘m not sure how to find the sweet spot regarding which DOM-operations are done by d3 and which should be handled by vue (and if that, how).
Do you really think that's a "philosophy" and not just thoughtless careless underinvestment?
> I think all of that independent creator culture is still out there

It absolutely is. You don't even have to go completely old-school and DIY youtube. There is always a way you can surf the current internet weather conditions to achieve some hybrid stance.

For instance, maybe you put some videos on YouTube, but also have deeper posts for each of those on some personal blog that you host on a server in your garage.

With this approach, you can drive traffic from both directions - People who were browsing your blog and want to watch some embedded YT demo, and YouTubers desperate for hard, written technical documentation on how to do something will have link in the description below.
I have tried just that, and the resulting code is underwhelming, to the tune of 'import antigravity':

<div id="observablehq-chart-6aa5c38e"></div>
<p>Credit: <a href="https://observablehq.com/@d3/contours">Contours by D3</a></p>

<script type="module">
import {Runtime, Inspector} from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@observablehq/runtime@4/dist/runtime.js";
import define from "https://api.observablehq.com/@d3/contours.js?v=3";
new Runtime().module(define, name => {
if (name === "chart") return new Inspector(document.querySelector("#observablehq-chart-6aa5c38e"));
});
</script>
What's happening here is that Apple is only producing, weakly, reference materials. There need to be at least three other kinds of documentation.

The one the author focuses on that's missing is the explanatory type. The sort that's discursive and provides a broader understanding of the whys and hows of the code.

Two other kinds of useful documentation that would complete the package are tutorials, of the sort aimed at programmers just starting out with the material, and how-to-guides, for programmers that have a general understanding of the material but could use examples and steps to accomplish a specific goal with the system.
> There are also DeFi projects that are based what you call "real investments" such as stablecoins, synthetic assets for stocks and commodities, etc.

All these are examples of DeFi parasitising conventional finance products. Also none of these are decentralised or "trustless". Notice how all the main stablecoin issuers have to provide regular third-party attestations assuring that the coins have appropriate backing.
Technically he just verbed the noun 'adjective'
I concur with this article quite a bit, but let's also talk about solutions instead of just problems. Projects need to get funded to pay people salaries. The current VC alternative solution to this is to form a DAO.

Recent example of a fairly successful DeFi DAO:

https://medium.com/badgerdao/badgers-in-the-sett-a-dao-treas...
Incidentally, if you are looking for a mental model around tech documentation, I haven't found a better one than this: https://diataxis.fr/ which discusses tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation.
Despite characterizing Thomas as "the most extreme" and "unorthodox" the article gives him a mostly fair treatment. Would prefer that his words were examined, especially the savior complex. Instead they are categorized and dismissed. Given the New Yorker's editorial position, these might the people who would benefit from considering his views.
> The phrase is used to shit on all things that make men, men.

No, its not, and if you think the things it targets “all the thing that make men men”, you have a very sick idea of what being a man is.

> If it was really a technical term to describe the bad components of masculinity, then there would be an equivalent in terms of femininity, since there are aspects of femininity that can be construed as toxic.

The equivalent is, as one might expect, “toxic femininity”. While it gets less attention, the attention it does get is from the exact same people who care the mosf about toxic masculinity.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-sexuality-and-ro...
Hi, rando here. I'd just like to say, "for the lulz," as is a grand tradition in the internet.

And, as an end-user? A little respect might be nice.
Since the Economist Group was almost completely bought out by the Agnelli family in 2015 it's moved to pushing a center-right Liberalism agenda. I've found the quality of the periodical has really tanked since then.
finalcut (modern C++ library for TUI with good support for mouse) uses block characters in TUI.

[0]: https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
Oh, yes, with cargo install that is the case. They just said “cargo”. That would make more sense, yes.
Idoubt google care if you use grpc for its own sake, unless adopting it for its own sake helps you migrate your important tech to google-preferred versions.
It gets even better if they just remove the company name from the job ad. You can still Google the description and apply directly.
100% of the problem is people’s desire to copy/paste code directly into their own environment, and then getting frustrated that they can’t do that without putting in a bit of effort to understand the way the Observable runtime works, and then read the code they want to copy and think about it a bit.
It's random math words put together and doesn't make sense even in isolation.
I suspect you get more nights with the rig.
> To quote Speer: "I didn't know, I could have known, I should have known."

While it's credible that the average German civilian didn't know what was going on (though they would have known _something_ was going on), Speer certainly knew: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/13/secondworldwar...
Ah yeah if we’re talking about cargo install, then sure. That would make sense.

Both behaviors can be surprising. We picked one. It happens. I am not sure myself if it was the right choice or not.
>If certainty has not been achieved, then you should remain skeptical

This is like saying you should be skeptical of all scientific claims. But such a claim is in tension with the obvious successes of science and engineering despite the inherent tentativeness of scientific conclusions. Clearly we need something more nuanced. We can draw tentative conclusions and move forward with knowledge while also acknowledging the tentative nature of said knowledge. Global skepticism regarding all scientific results is paralyzing.

>The studies that determined this used datasets from wealthy Western countries that are more ethnically homogeneous than average.

It has to be for any such measure to be meaningful. For example, if you put a toddler in a box and starve it to death, its development stops completely. But this doesn't mean that environmental influence is 100% for all phenotypes. Heritability is a blunt measure for something highly multidimensional. As such, care must be used in its interpretation. What heritability tells us is that given similar environments, what variation in measurable traits is due to variation in genetics or variation in environment. An ideal measure of heritability is a function of environment and would be proportional to the rate of change of environmental influence at every step change in environment.

Of course, such a measure is impossible and so we're left with our current blunt measure. But we can reason about some features of the ideal measure. For example, environmental influences have diminishing returns, thus there comes a point at which the rate of change of environmental influence is zero, meaning better or worse environment has no bearing on the trait and genetic variation dominates outcomes. On the other extreme, environmental influences are dominant. The relevant questions for the validity of heritability is whether the rate of change of environmental influence is steep at the current average environment. If it is steep, then it invalidates drawing conclusions based on measured heritability as the value is unstable.

But your point about Dutch average height does not bear on this. The heritability measure is blind to global average changes in quality of environment. The fact that average height grew so substantially implies that the average environment changed substantially over that period. The Flynn effect is another example, where the average IQ across the population grew substantially over a similar time period. But this doesn't have any direct relevance to the heritability measure of IQ. The question is whether current measures of heritability are stable for typical variations in environment. Regarding height, I would guess yes as calories are abundant in the western world, even among the poor.

>You are literally invoking a textbook ad hominem fallacy.

Notice the word fallacy. Identifying logical fallacies by name is to help recognize patterns of invalid arguments. Ad hominem is only relevant if the argument is not valid. But my point a vacuous conceptual framework leading to specious conclusions is a valid argument.
Luckily, there's places on this planet without hotels.
I had my first pfizer shot 4 days ago. Today I have experienced slight chest pains when I make a deep breath or roll my torso forward. I think it could be pericarditis - inflammation of the tissue around heart.

Doesn't help that yesterday I drank a bit after a very long break. Dumbest thing I did in years.

If this is really some sort of heart inflammation then no way the chance is like one in a million, it must be way more common.

I consider if maybe this is a placebo, because I was aware of heart inflammation issues, but my mind could not possibly made up chest pains on deep breaths - I had no prior knowledge of the condition.
People do microservices for the wrong reasons. There are only a few somewhat valid reasons:

1) something has different run time needs than something else. Think CPU, memory, network. Breaking stuff up allows you to make different choices here. Although I have dodged this by simply deploying the same monolith and configure it to do different things.

2) Something needs to be developed by a different team and for whatever reasons you don't want those teams to be too dependent. It's a bad reason but it's valid in a lot of companies where certain teams just need to be engineered around or where there is a fundamental lack of trust between different parts of the org chart. Conway's law is a thing. It's the most common reason to do micro services.

3) You have two things depending on each other (cyclical dependency) and you want to reuse that thing. Extracting it to a third thing is a common way out. It's true for almost any component technology. If you have two components, you'll find a reason to create a third. And a fourth. And so on. However, consider using something less dramatic. E.g. code libraries are a valid choice. Or having an extra module in your source tree.

Everything else is just needlessly/prematurely increasing overhead, deployment friction, etc. You get more things to monitor, deploy, manage the roadmap off, worry about, specialize in, etc. Big bloated organizations do micro services because they are big and bloated. Many smart startups keep this nonsense to a minimum. Of course some startups start out being over funded and bloat too early. VC money is great and sometimes requires over engineering like this (i.e. impress the suits). I've heard more than a few CTOs boast their multi cloud strategy and micro service architecture. In my mind that translates to we funnel a lot of VC money to Amazon and pay people full time to do just that. Ridiculous monthly bills and no users or traction is a common pattern in that world.
Many tor services eschew javascript because it's recommended not to have javascript enabled for services requiring anonymity/security (or, at least it was several years ago when I last checked). A lot of the sites will be very technically simple.
Oh, I observe this too. But when reading, you might come across a tidbit of information that might be useful. I am planning to follow it up with books in contrast: Deep Work and Quiet. You can think of a book as a buffet, and you pick and choose what is applicable and toss the rest.

The way how I meet people tend to be like, do something interesting then people contact me, simple formula, more introvert style.
https://alex.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-01-08-useless.gmi
“Julie Wolf at the US Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, and her colleagues conjectured that surging carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere could have contributed to the weed’s success by providing building blocks for the plant to ramp up its parthenin production.”
Is this a joke or serious? I don’t understand enough of the words after “branches” to know. I’m serious btw.
Amazingly useful. I was always using websites to do that:

- https://regex101.com/
- https://www.base64decode.org/
- https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/
- http://www.timestamp.fr/
- ...
The scientific method is just a tool of thought that encompasses one subset of human interests.

For example, the scientific method has little to no utility about whether your grandma loves you, or what love is even.

Much of a life is built around areas of thought like this. Politics, for example, is mostly preference.
There’s a program that reads the kindle clippings file and renders one random quote as my wallpaper, it runs on startup. I ended up liking it way more than I thought I would.

There's also a little website blocker that's just a list of buttons with preset websites to block and a delay for unblock, all that I tried from the web came with so much jank, complications and payments, so that's the reason for that. Also, very much worth it, a lot of the addiction in social media is really low strength, so tiny barriers like this or a chrome extension that disables yt recommendations have been very effective for me in reducing unintended usage.

A night light extension for windows that I made when microsoft's one stopped working, and I couldn't find a way to make software brightness and night light programs work well together. Both were modifying the gamma ramp, which would cause flickering in between each program's settings. I expanded it to handle monitors settings (contrast, bg) and multi monitors. There was also an attempt in having a whitelist for when specific processes were in the foreground and taking more than x% of screen space, but at the time it was kinda of a pain to implement and manual control worked fine.

An image viewer that was an experimental frameless, zoom-increases-the-window-size-when-possible. One thing that surprised me about it at the time was how much faster it was than m$'s w10 default image viewer, especially in image switching. I was using stb_image to load the different formats, but there was no attempt at optimization whatsoever.

I'm making a weight log app right now, but that's more of a "I mostly do cpp let's try doing something outside my normal programming environment". Completely gave up hope of programming this thing at a fast pace, the friction from switching environment/languages/approaches is very, very, very high. It seems now i’m in the tail end of having all the features in, some stuff takes a long time to load, like the camera module. I have no idea how I’m going to make that thing go fast, but ugh it’s shaping up okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
I'm still a bit befuddled as to why Docker is necessary in this case at all. Python has enough tools for package and dependancy management, if you're wanting to set up a remote machine for personal development, again Docker seems like overkill. I understand and fully accept that it's part of the development ecosystem, and it's good to get and be comfortable with it, but much like the suggestion for VS Code (which I use in my day to day, with many of the extensions mentioned) it seems like overkill for a beginner and overly specific for an intermediate++ developer, who should be more in a camp of "use whatever makes me most productive".
This is why I bought an iPhone 12. I had a Samsung Galaxy S8 before it and I was perfectly happy with it, except for the fact that it had reached the end of its scheduled security updates. The battery life was still good enough for my light usage, it still ran my apps without a hitch, and the OLED screen still looked great, but it had not received a proper software update in over a year and it had just received its final quarterly security patch. I don't care that much for Apple products (except for MacBooks), but it's the only phone manufacturer that actually supports its products beyond the first few years.
The author has made his book freely available : http://www.z80.info/zaks.html
> Banks make money with money, they don't make money with real use cases.

Banks make money with money + effort. They provide loans and vet the recipients of those loans, because the banks are exposed to the risk of default (at least, ideally, obviously this failed in 2008). If you want a small business loan, then you typically have to have not only a good credit rating, but a business plan. Sounds like a real use case to me.
> 2. Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

A.k.a. social capital, which is another way people of some races and backgrounds are privileged, and others marginalized. And which makes books like these utter nonsense that victim-blames the very people they are ostensibly trying to help.
Really good write up! I think the suite spot in a < 50 eng organization is either a monolithic or a microservice per domain (instead of per functionality)

Once you have thousands of engineers, then you either need extreme discipline and a huge team maintaining the "devops" pipeline that everything goes through, or, it's basically everyone for themselves and a "devops" team trying to help others setting standards, best practices and whatnot.