skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about timing. Electrical engineers were some of the highest paid and most in-demand engineers from the late 80s to around 2007 or so, due to the explosive growth of quantitative finance and synthetic investment vehicles, and the fact that only physics and EE educations were providing the type of skillset in stochastic process modeling you need to do that kind of thing. Then the bubble burst when global credit markets crashed and it turned out a lot of it was castles being built on sand.

Software engineering is in a similar bubble right now thanks to gigantic influxes of VC cash trying to will future monopolies into existence, or at least convince the public markets at some point they've got a decent shot so they can cash out on exit, by undercutting service prices and overpaying developers to keep them from working anywhere else.

Whether it lasts or also comes crashing down we'll see, but historically, every bubble has tended to burst eventually. It's kind of hard to know in advance what the next one will be, especially as a teenager when you're still in a position to tailor your life's educational and career plans to trying to be inside of it when it happens.
6) We've made laws that greatly restrict our abilities to use these magical new technologies in their most productive ways.

Google Books was the canary in the coal mine. Remember when Google was going to organize all the world's information and make it accessible and useful? Then the copyright lobby attacked, and over a decade later that project (which is so obviously a quantum leap in terms of what it could do for human productivity) remains on pause (or permanently abandoned? not sure).

People today have access to an endless supply of information noise. If you want quality signal, it's still a trickle.

All the best Internet ideas now are not getting built because of copyright law.
Thanks!

I googled only 1 impl in Rust: https://github.com/dkellner/chronofold which seems to produce invalid results on some inputs. Actually the hard part (integration) is made of hacks there...

That PoC Wiki sounds really interesting and the whole replicated.cc project! Any plans on releasing it?
It doesn't really matter if Electron has code you won't use. So does your TV, your car, and your fuzzy logic rice cooker.

The OP dismisses with prejudice the only reason Electron exists or is so popular: it saves dev time and lets people build desktop apps with skills they already have. The same app will work as a website or SaaS with no code changes.

Putting Flutter or XAML up against the advantage of your whole team already knowing the platform (HTML/TS/JS/CSS) makes those newcomers non starters.
Yes. It is my sincere belief that very few people notice && care enough to figure out who to contact, how to contact them and actually do it.
Email them using the Footer contact link, or else they might not see this.
IMO Joel Spolsky kind of covers a possible answer to your question in his blog post "Hitting the High Notes"[0]. While I'm sure there's plenty of counter examples, it's important to note a wide ranging variety of discoveries and breakthroughs that have come from individuals and small teams that have. In many of these cases, that person or small team is uniquely breaking against an otherwise agreed upon convention or state of the field.

1,000 people who agree on a paradigm which may be false is not helped by another 9,000 people who agree with that same paradigm. In the era of Einstein, how many physicists accepted the traditional view of space and time? throwing more physicists at the same problem probably doesn't mean getting more Einsteins.

Potential example for today (though IANAD nor Biologists), how many scientists and researchers agree upon removing plaques as a treatment for alzheimers? how long has that theory been the dominant narrative in spite of failed treatments at removing plaques? how many individuals wanted to try/research something different but all the other grants went to people pursuing the held narrative because the grantors also held that same narrative?

There's countless of companies where scaling up # of people just adds noise and bureaucracy and smaller companies with strong-minded individuals were able to break through.

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-n...
> This “making a global inference based on the beaches we’ve personally been to” is going to be deceptive in either direction of the argument.

I've been to beaches on four continents and every. single. one. The only place you do not see[1] trash is where someone has specifically picked up there, recently. That tends to be places around resorts and people's homes. Unless someone does it out of their own goodwill or is paid to, the trash just floats up and accumulates.

There's a place for healthy skepticism, but not denial.

[1] You don't see it, but microplastics are thoroughly distributed through the ocean by this point. There is literally no way of cleaning up microplastic pollution at this point. We can only improve the optics at our scale.
> 300-megawatt (450MWh)

Why are journalists so bad at energy / power units?
You will find lots of information on this topic on this blog:
https://commoncog.com/blog/tag/learning-techniques/

Also if you want to level up your skills, and learn about learning in general, these are some books you should check:

- Practice perfect

- Peak

- A mind for numbers

- The inner game of tennis

- Guitar zero

- The art of learning
Considering that there is no point in using Firefox on iOS due to Apple restricting Add-Ons (and thus the crucial uBlock Origin), I'd say that Apple is having a similar impact to Google on Firefox's user count.
I love the explosion in whiteboard collaborative tools, but I am so frustrated how none of them support pressure sensitive styluses. Pressure sensitivity is extremely important for a natural writing experience and creation of good diagrams while giving lessons with such tools. Regrettably, even browser support for the required (standard) pointer event APIs is really buggy, so one needs to use native apps for now.
A plastic bag in a landfill is less harmful to the environment than a paper bag that costs 43x more energy to produce.

The former is trapped underground in a location engineered to prevent seepage and runoff, and will be sitting there for a thousand years where it only poses a threat to the bacteria and worms in the landfill.

The latter required a tree to be cut down and used 43x more energy, and therefore it’s waste is in the atmosphere warming our planet.
There are currently many more licensed UK drivers not working in the industry than there are vacancies.

Maybe ask why so many people have chosen to do other things such as amazon delivery or other such jobs that pay better, have better conditions and don't require regular medicals and certification, etc paid from one's own pocket?
that's what happens when most people are vaccinated. This whole thing is dumb. We know vaccines work. Let's move on to interesting and productive things.
Our industry is doing quite well (If you leave the ad-economy out - basically Google/Facebook)

Cloud computing, Open Source Software in commercially feasible way and so on. Tremendous growth and innovation is underway.

We do have a problem of wokeness, left in SF destroying the city, teacher unions hurting competitiveness of kids, police unions stopping all police reform in California.

Basically just like USSR, all the do-gooders - claiming to do good in the name of the “people” are the problem.

So, don’t be a protester - do real work, build something, be the solution. Create a small
open source project of value. This is really really hard - that’s why do many people protest instead - that is easy.
The outer banks of North Carolina has miles of beaches linked to nature reserves that don’t get cleaned or accumulate such trash. Japan is surrounded by a sea of trash due to the countries surrounding it.

Litter ends up in streams, rivers, and eventually the ocean. You can argue it’s an issue with plastics, but it’s equally an issue with trash.
It’s a great book, but seems more aligned to “doing things correctly [preventing errors]” than to “doing things at all [preventing procrastination]”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality

There is huge variability in how deaths are reported for newborns.

“Many countries, however, including certain European states (e.g. France) and Japan, only count as live births cases where an infant breathes at birth, which makes their reported IMR numbers somewhat lower and increases their rates of perinatal mortality.[111] In the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, for instance, requirements for live birth are even higher.”
The APS rules are that any member can submit an abstract, which will be printed in the Bulletin, and be allowed to either give a 10-minute talk or stand next to a poster. The abstracts are printed without regard to content, as long as they are in the right format. So they have to put the crank ones somewhere, and this is one solution.

There is a rule that the submitter of an abstract must attend the meeting to present. In the Fluid Dynamics division, there was a guy who submitted weird, incomprehensible abstracts every year for many years—but he never showed up as far as I know. You could recognize his abstracts immediately because he jammed as much as possible in there. Each abstract referred to previous ones, as if they were publications. He built his own little empire of self-referential, unreviewed abstracts. The APS handled that by (eventually) scheduling his talks at the ends of sessions so that the no-show would not disrupt the schedule. They could have banned him for repeat submissions without appearing to give a talk, but they erred on the side of allowing an obvious crackpot to have his say, which I thought was both wise and kind.

I don’t know if the current APS would be so thoughful; I hope so. I got fed up with them years ago and stopped paying my dues.
This is to balance the impact of low interest rates on money market funds to avoid them from going into negative rate territory.
> If tying (assuming there's a consistent definition the word) is such a bad idea to begin with why does it matter whether it's done by a company at 90% or 10% of market? Equality under the law should be the measure.

There is nothing inherently wrong with tying, which you might also call "bundling." Quoting from the FTC's website:

Offering products together as part of a package can benefit consumers who like the convenience of buying several items at the same time. Offering products together can also reduce the manufacturer's costs for packaging, shipping, and promoting the products. Of course, some consumers might prefer to buy products separately, and when they are offered only as part of a package, it can be more difficult for consumers to buy only what they want.

For competitive purposes, a monopolist may use forced buying, or "tie-in" sales, to gain sales in other markets where it is not dominant and to make it more difficult for rivals in those markets to obtain sales. This may limit consumer choice for buyers wanting to purchase one ("tying") product by forcing them to also buy a second ("tied") product as well. Typically, the "tied" product may be a less desirable one that the buyer might not purchase unless required to do so, or may prefer to get from a different seller. If the seller offering the tied products has sufficient market power in the "tying" product, these arrangements can violate the antitrust laws.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
And the least harmful is not to dump plastic in a landfill, but to not produce plastics at all. :) Similarly, we can put more money into research on how to produce paper/glass/aluminum/others with less energy, and also redesign consumerism and normalize bringing refillable containers to the grocery down to the household level. There's a lot that can be done that doesn't involve polluting the environment.
You're leading with energy use but that's really not the point.

The point is that plastic takes many centuries to degrade, and we go through a lot of single-use plastic. For example, a disposable diaper takes >500 years to biodegrade.

It's nice to imagine all this plastic going into walled-off landfills that protect the rest of the earth and water from being contaminated, but in practice this is a myth. US localities are seeing an unsustainably growing amount of plastic contamination in local waterways and beaches, some of it visible, some of it not.

Incidentally, this doesn't mean you need to use a single-use paper bag instead of a single-use plastic bag. Instead, use a durable bag made out of any material you like. The phrase is "reduce -> reuse -> recycle". Recycling was never meant to be the foremost part of our sustainability efforts.
> this is something I saw inside a lot of companies, especially when they get sizable funding: they become simultaneously obsessed with hiring and process

A lot of it just seems to be driven by strange attempts at optimization. For example, at my company, there was a lot of time spent on figuring out developer metrics (for all four of us on the team at its peak) and cost accountability.

On the cost accountability side, one thing that has happened three times is that the developers have been idled so the project will not go over budget in time tracking. We were still paid. We were still at work. But to keep an internal budget on track, we were told to drop our tools and sit there.
Rejection and lack of recognition, for any entrepreneur, likely hits as hard as failure: Death by a thousand paper-cuts, as it were.

> ...where entrepreneurs can generally share the fruits and failure with other investors/backers.

In practice, this isn't true though, is it? Venture money brings with it an inordinate amount of pressure to execute. Some of the pressure might even be at odds with how an entrepreneur wishes to run their firm, and often they may be forced to make difficult decisions under duress.

And when that growth slows, Venture Capitalists are the first ones out the door and treat the company worse than dead-weight. An experience like that might be on-par with the grief any business owner experiences when the writing is on the wall.

Ref: The power law in Venture Capital https://archive.is/WK96N
We need to disincentivize use of food containers that are hard to recycle.

For example: Some yogurt containers are pure plastic with paper ring around that has text/graphic. After use paper ring is easy to take off and plastic easy to recycle and better quality.

Also, I recently found that black plastic is not being recycled at all because it's impossible for current technology to sort it (because it's black).
Lacking self-respect for refusing to slave away in bullshit jobs that destroy our environment directly or indirectly, make some rich guy even richer or take place in a toxic work environment you mean?
Our processing speed is way up, but I believe our cost of energy has more or less not grown substantially.

In fact, with proper economic cost accounting like externalities as we try to deal with global warming, costs are going up.

Solar/wind are gradually starting to improve things in meaningful ways but they are a fundamentally different grid design.

Perhaps a modular LFTR reactor design can beat what Solar/Wind will settle at on an EROEI measure once solar/wind are out of their main economies of scale and techonological development curves.

But what we are entering for the next century is clearly one of resource limitations, and working much harder to more efficiently use them.
Jigsaw identification isn't same as doxxing. The issue here is the double standards, as Jonathan Cook points out:

> In finding Murray guilty of so-called "jigsaw identification", Lady Dorrian did not make a distinction between what Murray wrote about the Salmond case and what approved, corporate journalists wrote.

> That is for good reason. Two surveys have shown that most of those following the Salmond trial who believe they identified one or more of his accusers did so from the coverage of the corporate media, especially the BBC. Murray's writings appear to have had very little impact on the identification of any of the accusers. Among named individual journalists, Dani Garavelli, who wrote about the trial for Scotland on Sunday and the London Review of Books, was cited 15 times more often by respondents than Murray as helping them to identify Salmond's accusers.

> Rather, Lady Dorrian’s distinction was between who gets protected when identification occurs. Write for the Times or the Guardian, or broadcast on the BBC, where the audience reach is enormous, and the courts will protect you from prosecution. Write about the same issues for a blog, and you risk being hounded into prison.
If the goal is carbon sequestration, just skip... all of your steps, and leave the oil in the ground, where it is already-sequestered carbon.
Qovery helps Techstars startups to succeed
makes sense thanks for sharing
>Yeah but a key value system lacks all the really good things about SQL

exactly

>And locally with sqlite you don't really have to worry about latency, so you should be able to just get atomicity and consistency on the thread

for high performance read you don't need much more.

> think as with other standards bickering, ten years from now something (Canvas API) will come out that more or less replicates the technology that was already standard ten years ago (Flash graphics), with lots of people cheering for it as if someone just invented sliced bread.

flash and actionscript revolutionized the web and a lot of what we have now web tooling wise stems to the desire to compete what flash was possible since 2003.
It's different because allowing people to work for low wages gives them a chance to improve their skills and move up to higher wage jobs rather than perpetually living off welfare.
An Introduction to the `fr` CSS unit
I think there’s some merit in what you say, I’m just not sure we would agree on how to define “…large number of restaurant owners…”

This is completely anecdotal, but I know three different restaurant owners and all three of them live very very comfortably. Again, that’s just anecdotal so probably not worth much.

While I don’t think anyone would suggest that a restaurant owner should live in poverty, at the same time I don’t think we would suggest a restaurant worker should be poverty levels of poor to ensure the owner lives the high life.

If a business cant supply both its owner and workers a livable wage, then we should expect the business to go under rather than expect (or demand) the workers descend into poverty.
> If everyone in the US were vaccinated, the number of blood clots would be around the same as the number of injuries from being struck by lightening.

Yes, and if no-one in the US was vaccinated against COVID-19, then the number of blood clots would be higher than that. Why? because it seems that the risk of blood clods after getting COVID-19 is higher than after getting vaccinated

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3886421

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702...

As an argument against vaccination, "but blood clots" falls flat. I mean, even after cherry-picking this one specific harm and systematically ignoring all others, it still fails to be a valid point.
Agreed. Vaccines don't stop people from infection, they stop or reduce people from having symptoms. People will still make tests positive.

But humans can't stop their self flagellation because it gives some groups meaning to their lives and some groups make money from the chaos.

Fatalities have got to be be near zero I bet.
Precisely this. Todo lists are a great way to go through processes, but a terrible way to plan a day's or month's activity.
Science discoveries don't just happen because there are more people "competing" to solve a problem. The more likely outcome of what you're saying is that you'd only have more teams competing, sure, but to redo each other's work.
The tone of this article feels like fear-mongering. There are bioplastics which are less harmful on the environment, are compostable and sourced from 100% renewable and sustainable sources. Some bioplastics like PLA are biocompatible; sutures and tea bags are made from it. We're still in the early stages of this technology and it seems premature to tar everything with such a broad brush.
Let’s say there’s a test that, by pure chance, has a probability of p=1/N of returning an unexpected outcome. If we run that test N times, we expect on average one unexpected outcome, solely due to random chance.

I haven’t read the linked paper yet, but its authors’ argument is that they have orthogonal evidence that p in this case should be considerably larger than 1/24, so given 24 total studies on the lead crime hypothesis, at least one should have returned a negative result purely by chance.

The validity of this claim depends entirely on whether their argument that p>>1/24 is sound.
There's a subtle point in controlling process to prevent procrastination vs keeping a list of things to do in hopes that helps you ``know what to work on''.

Checklists are great at the former.
For any given atomic “skill” you can learn in the body of knowledge: Watch one, do one, teach one.
Scientific research is not a high school problem where the clear algorithm is known. A lot of approaches need to tries before valid ones are found. And for cancer a single approach is most likely not enough.
Moving a Team from Scala to Golang (2015)
Most CI tools support some notion of multiple stages and tasks; it would already be helpful if they were able to separate the output of those instead of barfing it all into one log file.

IIRC, Travis has been doing this since at least 2016 where they collapse most of the setup steps by default - and if you are interested, it only takes one click.

This of course only applies to the UI, the raw log is complete.
Because each vehicle at the amazon warehouse delivers to dozens of customers.
Hi HN,
I found this post really interesting, it's not really about golang per se, but about how to manage complexity when facing challenges.

It's the first time I read a so clear explanation of the tradeoffs software engineers have to make in the real world.
Evidence for lower rates of depression in larger US urban areas
Obviously a rushed vaccine is not going to be as effective & safe. There is no magic bullet.
another way to look at it is that cargo cult thinking is the default mode for human thinking. This is something I've noticed recently and increasingly believe to be true. The vast majority of people do NOT take the time to build an opinion from weighing multiple sources of information, looking for counter arguments etc. Cargo cult is the default mode for a civilization.
But the question was about why there was such an obsession with plastic waste. If a lot of it was accumulating at your beach, that would be all the sample size you need to form an opinion.
You've seen https://www.commandlinefu.com , yes?
Launched 2019:

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I'm so happy faggots like us have been carved out a safe space on hacker news so that we can talk about covid and suck dick.
I’ll be honest, I spend a lot of time outdoors in New England. Plastic waste is not nearly as endemic as you describe in North America. The only area that gets comparable to what you describe are waterways in major population centers such as the Charles river and Boston harbor.

Banning single use plastic is still a great way to cut down on
It would take longer to make it through the Senate anyway
Rashomon Effect
In order to make woodworking tools, you will probably want a functioning smithy.