skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we would all want our own offices and some peace and quiet. Also the Agile industrial complex is a bunch of charlatans. Real agile is a good set of guidelines. Aside from that this article seems off the mark and self contradictory.

1. How would a change be up in an hour if it required QA?
2. How is code review important but pair programming bad?
3. How is designing systems to be testable easily a bad idea? (I understand TDD is more than just this but it also implies this)
4. How does he reconcile his thesis with the explosion of Billion and Trillion dollar companies who embrace the practices he opposes. Clearly it can work.
5. Many of his practices are great for a Sr dev. But how do you level up Jrs?
6. The knock on Googling and SO seems off. Sorry for using some of the best tech ever made for dev productivity? Sorry we don’t solder our own chips? Sorry Googles top engineers built that mostly through pair programming? (Jeff and Sanjay).
7. Must be nice to just rage quit at the slightest annoyance. I am sure he is real nice to work with and discuss architecture with too. Also explains his disdain for the social aspect.
Could be, though burning coal for heating in this century looks a bit bizarre. But I guess you could not beat how economical it is.
Whole lot of assumptions of what Toyota is, we can replace "Toyota" in your comment with most of the companies in SPY and it would sound very similar, lot of people have similar or more assumptions about Tesla, current opinion set to current submarine location.
> Can't we just target all mega polluters? I wish we could just force industry to spend a shit tonne of their profits on R&D to offset their damage, not improve their product, but improve their processes for something other than cost, efficiency, speed, and just did shit in the least destructive way possible.

Some processes are hard to do without releasing CO2. That's why there's a focus on electricity generation since that can be done without emissions.

It's the same thing with aviation: it'll be very hard to switch to alternate fuel because of the weight and energy density required. But for cars it's "only" a matter of scaling production of EVs.
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The problem with the REPL workflow is that it forces the user to track a lot of state. You can find yourself constantly trying to remember if you remembered to re-evaluate an important line. I've found that -- for anything but the simplest problems -- it's better to write nicely parametrized scripts and run from the command line.
And how practical is unmitigated climate change? These things aren't occurring in a vacuum, or just to "be PC". This is way beyond urgent and extreme action is necessary.
I like that they are colored now, but really what needs to be added is type parameter collapasing. In most cases, you want to see `::Dual{...}`, i.e. "it's a dual number", not `::Dual{typeof(ODESolution{sfjeoisjfsfsjslikj},sfsef,sefs}` (these can literally get to 3000 characters long). As an example of this, see the stacktraces in something like https://github.com/SciML/DiffEqOperators.jl/issues/419 . The thing is that it gives back more type information than the strictest dispatch: no function is dispatching off of that first 3000 character type parameter, so you know that printing that chunk of information is actually not informative to any method decisions. Automated type abbreviations could take that heuristic and chop out a lot of the cruft.
Toyota is always the slowest to adopt. I believe they were the last hold out for carplay android auto next to subaru. They would put the same 5.7 V8 in the Tundra for the next 20 years if they had their way.
I would bet you that if you operated both fans in an perfectly empty, very quiet room with a human standing next to them, one at a time, the human-perceived level of noise annoyance from the 140 would be much less due to its lower pitch.

Additionally if you use a variable fan controller to reduce the rpm on the 140 to a point where its cfm or cubic meters/hour of airflow is exactly equal to the 120, or 5-10% greater than the 120 at its default rpm, not only will its pitch be lower, but its objectively measured loudness on a decibel meter will also be less.
Amazon is hiring a Blockchain Product Lead
Americans acted the way they did because of bad leadership. A lot of people high up sowed the idea that getting a vaccine is not worthwhile and that masking up was an immediate threat to our freedom, and naturally a lot of people heard that and ran with it.

Those Americans aren’t any different from you and me: they just got their news from different sources — sources that shouldn’t be saying what they said.
I benchmarked hardware AES vs software ChaCha20, and the former showed an overall performance improvement of an end to end QUIC software stack of more than 50%. The pure crypto difference is probably even higher. That's a huge gap - even thought it might totally be possible that the ChaCha20 implementation of Ring is still improvable.

As a result of that, I asked for rustls to default to AES instead of the previous ChaCha20 default [1]

[1] https://github.com/ctz/rustls/issues/509
but is it still a poor country or just a slightly ignored post USSR small block people really knew.
Templates should be good for stablecoin and crypto industry. Transparency. Audits. Prosecution for fraud.
I've heard in the past that auto makers have EPA quotas to make that are based on the average of all of their vehicles, so they would create an electric or hybrid car just to bring down the averages to acceptable levels.

Not sure if that applies now-a-days, or is even true.
Polgar set out to turn their children into prodigies, but it could have been any field.

They all descibre chess as been what they were introduced and chose to pursue [1], but they were educated in many areas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
It's often a "marketing" distinction for some of the parasocial relationships how well those "providers" are seen at "responding to their community" and the "outlets for community engagement". It's also how many of those providers make large amounts of their revenue with "paid engagement activities" such as "shout-outs" or an illusion of affecting behavior ("I'll play the game you want me to play if you pay enough" or "On drunk nights enough micro-currency forces me to take a shot or do something embarrassing" or a wide creative range of other ideas).
45% of American households have cable TV https://www.statista.com/statistics/612660/paid-services-bro...
> Sorry we're going to have to let you go. Please clear your desk and move out of your apartment by EOD.
> I seriously have weeks were I spend a single hour writing code.

So what do you accomplish in the rest of that weeks? What does your org expect you to do? (Genuine question, I'm just curious).
I don’t think anyone who’s ever programmed with Ward Cunningham would call him a charlatan.
Yeah. Mike's "Iterate on it" [1] is a real "what's bad" post, as is OP's.

[1] https://mikeinnes.github.io/2020/06/04/iterate.html
Any lawyers in the house who could comment on their refusal to test his hands?

Can they refuse to run a test because they're afraid it might produce exculpatory evidence?
Hydrogen absolutely does have this problem. A fast hydrogen fill requires the hydrogen to be at super high pressure, a typical hydrogen station can only do three fast fills per hour. Not to mention the time you take driving way out of your road to get to the very limited number of stations, if there are any.
I map the forward/back buttons to "Go Back" and "Go Forward" in Visual Studio Code. If I cmd+click a method or variable, I can press back to go back to where I was.

Technically I used the logictech software to map those buttons to "ctrl+-" and "ctrl+shift+-" which are the keybindings for those actions.
This really isn't a big deal. I switch between C/C++/R all the time and mixing zero/one indexing isn't some huge mental burden or source of intractable bugs--you get used to it after a few days.
Isn't it weird then that there are so many stories of massively overworked workers in Japan?

I wonder if those statistics are wrong, or perhaps misleading.
The Highlander Hybrid gets 36/35 mpg, but that’s not much better than the all-gas model at 21/29 mpg. But if you drive in constant traffic the regenerative braking gives you better mileage than coasting at a constant speed (sometimes better than MPG stats which Toyota underreports), which also means less pollution on traffic congested roads.

For many families, a Prius quickly becomes impractical if you need to fit in more than one car seat for kids and carry around bulky items. Toyota’s hybrid offering is a good middle ground between full-gas and EV cars and very reliable considering how many old Prius’s are still on the road at 200k+ miles.
+1, Paul Morphy might have been the most fascinating and influencing chess player of all time.

When he was still actively playing, he seemed almost unbeatable, and nobody understood why. Somehow Morphy intuitively knew when to start an attack and when he did, it magically always worked out, while other top players at that time often saw their attacks turn into nothing and would soon lose afterwards.
It took a decade until an a dedicated studier of his game, Wilhelm Steinitz, figured out the logic behind it.
His theory of positional play changed the way people looked at chess and meant the start of the modern chess era.

Morphy himself didn't live to see this, after quitting chess he became increasingly schizophrenic and eventually died penniless and alone.
I do not understand why people think either electro or fuel cars will cause a good shift.
Ok maybe exhaust emissions will be less, but the real issues about city traffic are rush hour and peak traffic times, vehicle for 4 transports 1 or 2 people at a time mostly, no parking available in big cities, except at extortion level prices.

I do not know any solution other than an extremely well connected and efficient public transport system, or levitation capsules.

But this friction between ev and fuel hybrid etc vendors , it's the modern equivalent of when people argued whether a donkey or a horse is more practical.

All the save the air arguments are hypocritical at best, the marketing teams are targeting the lazy who should simply walk more to feel better about themselves and the environment.

The mass adaption that would save something, including many peoples health would be not driving a car, or better, walking, bycicle when possible.
Julia does have a minimal compilation path with an interpreter. You can even configure this on a per-module basis, which I believe some of the plotting packages do to reduce latency. There is even a JIT-style dynamic compiler which works similarly to the VMs you listed: https://github.com/tisztamo/Catwalk.jl/.

IMO, the bigger issue is one of predictability and control. Some users may not care about latency at all, whereas others have it as a primary concern. JS and related runtimes don't give you much control over when optimization and are thus black boxes, whereas Julia has known semantics around it. I think fine-grained tools to externally control optimization behaviour for certain modules (in addition to the current global CLI options and per-package opt-ins) would go a long way towards addressing this.
You used the term "column," which insinuates an opinion piece. All news publications have purposely-biased opinion pieces, and in the case of The NY Times, they will be limited to the clearly-marked op-ed section. And they also offer countering views, in many cases. Very different from news.
Meanwhile, China went from 6000 Compressed Natural Gas vehicles in 2000 to 6M compressed natural gas vehicles 2017.

1000x increase.

Egypt is pushing for 10% to 20% of all vehicles in the country to be CNG within 24 months or less.

What do they know that we don't?

Electric vehicles are a platform for tax dollar absorption.
This uses the official numbers for average hours worked in Japan, which are definitely not accurate as a lot of overtime is unreported (and unpaid), especially at particularly bad companies.
>TSMC Biontech vaccine deal influenced decision

that'll be really stupid to build billion dollar fab just because of that. Japan can sell/donate AZ vaccine since they have a deal with AZ and American can sell moderna which Taiwan bought. either way, it is a really stupid business decision if that's case.
In practice, 'bus lines that are not commercially viable' actually means empty behemoths running at times where nobody needs them, wasting way more fossil fuels compared to just letting people own their own comparatively tiny cars.
Wealthy people have taken disproportionately from society, so their taxes should reflect that by being disproportionately higher. I'm glad to see additional evidence, like this study, showing that there is no reason to give tax breaks to the wealthy.
Heh, fair enough! Can't say that opportunity has quite presented itself yet but one of these days I'm sure it'll happen.

Honestly the funniest experience I had with culture clash was one day at a hotel I stayed at in Takasaki. I got in an elevator occupied by a young family. As soon as I walked in, the little girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old, just dropped her mouth open, completely gaping at me the whole time we rode the elevator.

Probably not too surprising, assuming they're from Gunma or a similar prefecture that doesn't see as many foreigners.
“Frankly, they don’t know what they’re missing, because we have a strong culture,” Mr. Gross said.

um, ah, not sure that really matters that much
> Since insurance is capped at around 5k salary you will at most pay 15% of that (750 EUR) for health insurance per month in the universal insurance system.

Does the employer pay any of that? Is that the total for the entire family?
I was an english teacher in Japan for 2 years at a junior high school.

The rep from a textbook company would go to the teacher's lounge every semester, bow to each of the teacher's one at a time in front of their desks, and ask them what they wanted to order from the catalog. The teacher's could've easily put in an order online or over the phone and I imagine the salesman had to go to each school in person.
Is the hydrogen-powered fuel cell part also fair?

There was an article on HN recently on how the energy losses in the generation and distribution of hydrogen are much high than for electricity in LI batteries. For all intents and purposes it just seems like hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles is a totally dead end technology, and Toyota bet wrong.
It really really doesn’t. This is a political thing with Russia, Gazprom and our former chancellor Schröder. The aim (mostly for Russia) is to circumvent Ukraine and thereby remove their opportunity to … acquire … some of what is moved through their territory. As far as I remember Nordstream I isn’t even at capacity.

Sure from a Ukrainian point of view NSII sucks. But it isn’t even close to an existential thing for Germany. The gas dependency is temporary (<15 years) and could also be filled by US LNG. Which is why the US is against NSII

So yeah from a geopolitical point of view this is all very interesting. From an ecological point of view the net impact is close to zero
How would the phone differentiate between real gun shots, and the gun shot noises my phone hears every day from the Television I watch, or video games I play?
But the whole point of what I'm saying is that I personally use Windows for my own personal reasons. Why is it my job to provide a platform for some Linux Desktop evangelist to promote their favorite OS by arguing against my reasoning?
I think browsers should download a full copy of each bookmark (so you can still see it when they are taken down) and make it fully searchable.

Actually, I've been trying to find Firefox extensions that give a better interface to bookmarks and there doesn't seem to be one. It's like, people don't use bookmarks anymore and accept that it might as well not exist, and use something else.

It's telling that Firefox has two bookmark systems built-in (pocket and regular bookmarks) and they aren't integrated with each other; I suppose that people that use pocket never think about regular bookmarks.

edit: but my pet peeve is that it isn't easy to search history for something I saw 10 days ago but I don't remember the exact keywords to search.
I think some of the features from this were absorbed into Dotty (Scala 3) right?

One example I can think of is the Typelevel "Kind Projector" which had a syntax for lambda types. This became an integrated feature of Scala 3

https://github.com/typelevel/kind-projector

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While we're on the frontpage, might as well use this as a small promotion for Scala 3:

I'm predominantly a Typescript developer, though have written (either for money, or for personal projects) a good number of languages.

I passed up Scala 2 several years ago because it seemed overly complicated. And the (perceived/community-driven) emphasis on purely functional programming. I believe in immutability, and love higher-order functions as much as the next fellow -- but only insomuch as they make writing programs easier, and the code simpler/more understandable.

When Scala 3 was announced I went and had a look through the documentation and entry book/guide again.

What I saw was a language that was (for the most part) very intuitive. It has all the features you could ask for, and the language is flexible enough to get out of your way.

You can just as easily write OO or FP code, in a clear/concise/simple manner. I was able to take code that I would have written in Typescript, and transcribe it mostly 1-to-1 to Scala 3, with the bonus of having pattern matching and proper "Maybe" types built in.

Then come some other things that you DON'T get in languages outside of Scala. Contextual values ("given"/"using") blew my mind and are so fantastic + useful.

If you're someone who generally just wants to write pragmatic code and had previously passed on Scala due to reputation, I would encourage checking out the docs and playing with it for an hour to see if it meshes with you.

(Fair warning: most pure Scala libraries have heavy FP patterns, but I've mostly stuck to popular Java libraries and experience has been solid doing this so far)
Japan could make it easier and more social acceptable for married women to work, but I know of no country that has been able to get its citizens to have more children, once they have been reduced (on the contrary, it seems the world over women are having fewer children in just about every country, as the economy of that country becomes more prosperous).

And of course any child not born, is also a child that does not grow up to have children.
How big would the bumps be if the layers were scaled to the size of Texas? :-)
> The paper lists the top 10 polluting plants... unsurprisingly many of them are in China and India

And China isn't slowing down. Coal is incredibly cheap when there's no carbon tax or emission standards. One of the many reasons it's cheaper to manufacture in China and why North Americans and Europeans can't compete.

Time to add tariffs on goods produced by states who made the decision of going all-in on polluting power generation, and potentially apply immigration quotas to citizens of these countries.
>Older developers miss being able to focus; younger ones think focus is antisocial

I wonder how many devs can code for more than a hr without being connected to the internet. I had the pleasure to talk to some industry veterans who have been coding for more than 4 decades. It amazes me to see how they could code without constantly "needing" to be connected online and actually build stuff just by reading through reference docs and man pages.

Atleast in my line or work (web dev), lately software dev has become more of team sport where one constantly glues things together and searches online in stackoverflow, github etc to look for answers or raise bugs with downstream projects. Dev itself seems to have become more Operations ish.
I expect Germany to actually lower their CO² emissions by switching from coal to gas in the upcoming decade. It will be a way to show that "plenty of renewable + no nuclear is the way to 0 CO² emission".

Until they reach the lower limit with all the gas plants deployed, then they'll really have to think again about how they will definitely remove those plants.

Gas is really the best backup for renewable. It's cheap (for now), really adjustable (perfect for the renewable intermittence, on the contrary of nuclear), easy to deploy (not that easy with nuclear plants). The only issue is that it still emits a lot of CO²… and that you strongly depend on other countries for your energy (gas cannot be store as easily as uranium for example).
That's what they say in anthropology, and there is truth to it, but I think you could find better examples. Israel is a new country that was populated by immigrants by and large. Hasids sought others out and settled like places because they wanted that culture, on the other hand secular jews in nyc are indistinguishable from anyone else (and they too are immigrants). China adopted simplified logograms to combat illiteracy. Honk Kong was not an immigrant city and it retained traditional characters. Cities in Vietnam exhibit some cracks in traditional culture, but go to the provinces and it's still traditional.
It's a little hard to say "after 10 years" when Julia has been at 1.0 for 3 years only. And remember, that's not with Rust's niche of low-level developers, but with a niche of people who are generally not programmers, and therefore much more conservative about their languages!

It's surprisingly hard to get good data about how quickly Julia grows, but it certainly doesn't look like it's plateauing yet. It's just too early to know how far it'll go and where it will end up in 10 years.
jefft meant GP, not OP. When people complain about julia, they often get "maybe julia isn't for your use case" instead of "good point, we should fix that".
I do not have a lot of clarity on the situation so I can't provide much of an answer unfortunately. They're in a rural part of the country, and spending thousands of dollars per year on healthcare. My research showed that private health insurance is very easy to access (at ~$100/year/person) which would be an order of magnitude cheaper than their current healthcare expenditure. There's a strong possibility that I am missing material information, or that the expense has been overstated -- I only have first hand knowledge of the amounts of money sent.

As you're knowledgeable on the subject, could you give me an estimate for the costs you'd expect healthcare to cost for a family in rural Vietnam? I assumed based on the health insurance cost that the out of pocket cost for a heavy user would only be hundreds of dollars per year.