skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those posts which I clicked completely out of boredom, not being terribly interested in the subject. Next thing it's 2 AM as I read each post. Lots of history and explanation of, to me, very niche systems.
Related tangent: this is why the U.S. foreign policy of "winning hearts and minds" is such garbage.

Cultures change, but at much lower frequency than the U.S. government's capability to do more than vaguely encourage.
If I ever do I'll be a late adopter for any battery driven car like this. The technology is just so unproven and filled with lurking problems. I'll stick with the combustion engine until I die.
I don't know how people can read anything in Discord. It's a chat app, not a good medium to expose any information for people to be able to check when needed.

And moving everything to reddit is not a solution either, it's a hellhole.
> There are "management" companies that will employ you full time, and draw up contracts with other clients, who pay them directly, then they take a cut of their fees, withhold income tax, and pay you the rest.

This sounds partially similar to how barristers' chambers work here in the UK. The chambers' clerks manage the barristers' contracts but also find them work, unlike in your example. In turn the chambers takes a cut of the barrister's fees (and the clerks, traditionally Cockneys with sales skills, can earn well into the middle hundreds of thousands: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-23/the-exqui...). Pupil barristers who are still in training are paid a salary of £50-100k or so, which comes out of the 'pot' that the fees go into, but after that point they have no guaranteed earnings. The barristers are obliged to take any contracts they are offered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab-rank_rule),

I think that would be an interesting model to adopt for software engineers. You would join a 'chambers' which has a good reputation, and, by accepting you as a member, they would signify that you're a talented engineer. They would do the work of finding clients - which after all isn't a natural part of an engineer's skillset - and take a cut in return. Essentially the chambers is being compensated not only for literally finding a contract, but also for the reputation which they built up over many years, which is valuable both for clients (who know they can find good professionals) and professionals (who know they can get good and steady work).
This is how I failed with my last SaaS product
Various countries left this kind of nationalism behind after WW2.
A big reason for C popularity was that for many, it came free with OS, especially in university.

In environment with less "language X is shipped by default", it had much less impact except for crossing over of developers who did work with it on other platforms (which is how Turbo Pascal/Delphi kept on significant marketshare in PC space for a long time).
Rephrasing it, with consulting one is mostly on the frontline and has to deal with all areas, so one grows into using a language to express the technical issues in ways that get the buy-in from business, specially if it is a one person team size consulting gig.
CVE-2021-38647: Omigod Flaws Could Allow Hackers to Target Azure Cloud Customers
Long time ago German cars were kinda perfection of how car could be build. But recently this company was gasing apes… How low could VW fall!? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/29/vw-condemne...
Funding digital innovation: an analysis of Scottish Enterprise grants
Teen Artists Are Making Millions on NFTs. Why–and How?
Fair enough, and I’m a collector of these things myself! I’m easy enough to find if you have questions
I totally understand that they don't want to support peculiar setups, and I get why non-standard setups are labeled as unsupported. But actively asking for your software to not be packaged, even under another name, and threatening to change the license to prevent that [0], is a whole other ballgame, and I do consider that hostile. Hopefully this was just an extreme outlier, but the desire to not have people use it in ways the developers don't like, even if they aren't being bothered with it, seeps through in a lot of their work.

Of course it's their right to steer their project and decide what you can and cannot do with their software, but it does make Home Assistant significantly less attractive for lots of people that don't agree with all their choices (and judging by the mixed feedback in this thread, that's not a negligible group).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277
Every engineer should do a stint in a call center or better understand results of collateral damage most engineers I interface with have since come from two parent affluent families and dont understand what it means to be poor is or don’t understand what the loss of a job is or if they become a manager what poor management decisions might cause.
The response is in context of someone complaining they cannot afford something.

If I am complaining that I cannot afford a private chef in my home, then the answer is for me to figure out how to earn more. Or go without a chef.

It is the same thing for a restaurant. Either figure out how to make more money (even if it means closing the business and changing your line of work, or figure out how make do without the chef).
China Is About to Test Its Thorium-Fueled Nuclear Reactor
That looks a lot like a stock market pattern (and it makes sense it does)

Do you know about any books that might expand on the subject, maybe mentioning other effects?
> There’s obviously good things provided by tech (otherwise folks wouldn’t have started using it)

The "good" doesn't have to be significant for us to become addicted. There are some upsides to smoking cigarettes and other self-destructive behaviors, I'm sure.
I agree, as a computer science and maths undergrad, the first rewarding part of category theory was in algebraic topology where we first saw examples of very nontrivial functors (fundamental group, and homology). Up until that point, category theory seemed like a pointlessly abstract way of stating obvious facts.

Even now as a research mathematician, category theory is a good tool for guiding to the “correct” definitions of things, but virtually all the work after that is “category-less” in that it is completely and utterly specialised into the problem domain.

Category theory is still a fantastic way of organising information, stating things like universal properties, and also sometimes making “abstract nonsense” arguments (which often guide you towards some nontrivial observation in a particular category). But it is certainly not the panacea that some make it out to be.
Yes, overeating is the only reason for obesity. You consume energy and breathe out carbon just by being alive. If you don't replace it with food, you will lose weight, that's physics.

The hard problem is what makes you overeat. It can be a psychological problem, some kind of unbalance with the feeling of satiety, food that is too energy-rich for the amount of nutrients it contains,...

All diets only have one goal: make your effective energy intake lower than what you consume. It can be by simply making you eat less, or by making you eat food that triggers the feeling of satiety before you have eaten too much (ex: lots of energy-poor fiber).

I think there are exceptions, some people seem to store ridiculous amount of water in their body. They are not that fat, but their body is bloated by all that water. I think it is the case for extreme obesity.
No, you don't simply "move to a new coin". ETH is currently a 420B market cap and rewards GPU miners something on the order of 13,000 ETH a day conservatively (without fees). That's nearly 50m dollars a day or 1.5B dollars a month!

The only "other coins" available to be mined with GPUs are tiny. Ethereum classic has only a 8B market cap, Ravencoin with 1B, then many sub 1B coins.

https://www.kryptex.org/en/mining-calculator
I am an extremely accomplished engineer: 40 years developing professionally, over 40 published consumer software titles, I've written from C/C++ the entire critical path pipeline for multiple animation studios... yet in a recent job interview the moron interviewer says to me mid way through "sounds like you're tech light, do you even write code?" (cue a record scratching) After questioning, this person has no idea my describing 40 years of professional coding was writing software - this HIRING MANAGER did not know any of the terminology I used describing being a key player in the transition from optical and video to all digital media productions everywhere. How to describe a successful career when that very success eliminated the reference points for what the career was, now it seems like we made the air itself as the digital media takeover was 100% successful, the young hiring managers have no idea what the world was before we (the developers who lived through the 70's to 2000's) changed everything.
“skyrocketing” is a subjective term. It doesn’t matter if it’s something consumed every day. What one person considers sky rocketing for a price will be different than another.

> Not some silly fantasy speculation good, like crypto or... overvalued stock.

Apple is not a “silly fantasy speculation good” anymore than a lumber futures contract.
Yeah, this kind of shit just isn't going to work. If I have to be told how how to maintain my fuel source, then these cars with this battery technology aren't ready for mass adoption. They just aren't.
I've been to a few of these "Hackers and Founders" meetups in Amsterdam before Coronavirus hit, and ran into interesting people who know about stuff like that. I love their strict anti-douchebag policy!

Café De Doffer or the Hacker Building might be a good place to meet up, once that kind of stuff is happening again. But I don't know when that might be.

https://hackersandfounders.nl/

https://hackerbuilding.nl/

>We were originally a group of friends who co-worked from different places across the city. We dreamt about getting our very own building so we could create our perfect work environment of likeminded people. So when the moment was right, we made that happen.

>Our group is pretty tight-knit but very welcoming to newcomers too. We have a strict anti-douchebag policy, which means we only have friendly people here who are open and welcoming.
Because the business owners took out loans assuming x labor costs, and now that labor costs are y > x, they would need to default on the loan.

No reason to not let them suffer from their erroneous assumptions though. But politically, I expect them to be bailed out.
Hard to generalize about a country of over a billion people but in many areas of India there is a strong sense of “keep money in the family” which is why they like to hire their cousins. That’s also why even marrying first cousins is so common in certain areas. In the south, about 25% of people marry their first cousin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage#India
I disagree completely.

Reddit is a terrible alternative to forums. It's hard to actually have quality conversations there as communication is by default time based e.g the later you are in thread the less chance someone will read what you have written, and it's popularity based e.g. lowest common denominator memes and predictable comments will hog 90% of communication unless the sub is heavily moderated.

Communication on forums is much longer living and discussions have opportunities to evolve into something else, which creates an environment for more meaningful communication. And if you like your memes, well there's probably a thread for that.
The word Gaswagen getting a whole new meaning
And then we can scathingly label the most hated parts 'beyond economical repair'!
If we're gonna dig up every faulty decision ever made it's not like the U.S would appear that great.
How JavaScript works: introduction to Graphs and Trees
> > The other company didn't even care to see my code even though I brought my laptop.. they just took it for granted that I can code.

> With such a company I would have doubts that I might start in a team with people who cannot code or code fairly badly.

FWIW that was a military contractor hiring for a fighter jet project. Expensive machinery and lives at stake. They must have a bar for quality, and they can't leave it to the skill of an individual contributor.
Love that!

> 8. Good software is thorough down to the last detail

That's my approach. It tends to earn me a bit of scorn, but I do it anyway.
New programmable gene editing 'OMEGAS' proteins found outside of CRISPR systems
They clearly have a fuckton because they supported the price rally all of the way up.
Various people tried but the project is not friendly towards packaging efforts.
To expand a bit - Ricardian comparative advantage argument relies on the following assumptions:

- no transportation costs

- no unemployment

- barter economy

- 100% fungible labor - farmer, teacher, chemical engineer, doctor - they're all the same and can switch between jobs instantly, and immediately attain the level of productivity within that sector

- prices are 100% determined by labor costs

- demand for various types of items is static, and never changes

- the demand structure is the same across all countries - i.e. if British prefer tea to coffee, we assume all countries prefer tea to coffee

It's not just a "spherical cow" theory, it's more akin to "if a spherical cow rolls frictionlessly down a valley described by a parabola, then it will oscillate forever". True, but useless.

Keynes, as usual, is ahead of the pack - calling out the theory's unrealistic assumptions, and predicting (in 1930s) that not the production, but the interest rates will do the adjustments - leading to persistent trade imbalances and move the economy further from full employment. Which is exactly what happened
"According to one study from the American Journal of Psychiatry, between 0.3% and 1.0% of Americans might have an internet gaming disorder."

"Gaming has also been associated with sleep deprivation, insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders, depression, aggression, and anxiety, though more studies are needed to establish the validity and the strength of these connections"

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-health-effects-of-to...
"One out of every three Black boys born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime"

You're literally repeating a White-Nationalist talking point

Disgusting
> maximal user engagement is seen as measure of intelligence.

Where do they state this? It seems like maximal user engagement = maximal profits and that's all Amazon cares about.
Same, having been a consultant for 10 years.
Lack of humidity dries out vegetation more than heat.
Machine Learning Hyperparameter Optimization with Argo
> Should we calculate deaths by pollution in general and treat them as murder? It would be an interesting reminder on what our technological society is built.

It sounds like a can of worms you definitely do not want to open. It's probably uncomputable. Sure, pollution may directly decrease people's life span. But having private cars, ambulances and helicopters being able to transfer people to specialized hospitals in emergencies directly saves lives. So does a generator providing emergency power for said hospital. Then there are n-th order effects of how our fossil-fuel-based civilization impact peoples' health and lifespans. It's likely impossible in practice to meaningfully untie all those interdependencies in order to put a meaningful body count on diesel engines. It's prohibitive to even do this on the margin.

On the other hand, a clear fact remains: diesel emissions are bad for peoples' health, and an engine that pollutes more is worse than one that pollutes less. It's an externality, just one that's hard to price on the margin.

So perhaps we should sidestep the problem and price in the externality in bulk. To the extent that a given type of pollution, in aggregate, causes health problems, we should tax it in proportion and funnel the funds into public healthcare.
> Meanwhile many disadvantaged workers - who are employed with short-term contracts[1] (or very often without contract[2], which is wide spread even though that is technically illegal) are not unionised.

Not to defend Italian unions, that have their fault, but:

Of course workers working illegally are not unionized, that doesn't mean they have no protection at all.

Italy is well known for having a subsidy for everything, including unoccupied people, who earn money from the State and from their illegal job.

Anyway, short-term workers are protected by unions, I know for sure at least CGIL has a department devolved to temporary workers or people working part time or on a short-term contract.

In Italy even cab drivers have their own unions! (plural!)
press print document, select pdf, confirm - done! arcane?
> To a dreadful first-order approximation, shouldn't it be around 5x harder to overwhelm a system which has 5x more capacity?

Not with an exponentially spreading disease. Remember the lake that double its size each day, and becomes full in 50 days: it takes 49 days to make it half-full, and if you doubled its capacity, it'd fill in 51 days instead.

In the end, it mainly depends on the (serious) morbidity rate and the transmission rate. The latter more than the former, generally: if it is any higher than one, you'll have a doubling period just like the lake (longer than a day, though) until you approach saturation (a sizeable portion of the population is infected or immune). Doubling hospital capacity will only give you a doubling period's worth of time before you have to resort to other measures that push the transmission rate below 1.

Now if the (serious) morbidity rate is so low that hospitals don't become saturated even as most of the population got infected, that's another story.
Weren't they the ones whining a few years ago about how people insisting on using Android phones (as opposed to wonderfully performant iPhones) were threatening their plans for a glorious JS-only full client-side rendering future?
Funny! I wrote the same article 6 years ago: https://www.dein.fr/2015-10-01-10-principles-for-good-code.h...
Recesssions and depressions cant happen because the US can print money? Tell that to the history books. While you are there take a look at what causes an economic turndown, it tends to come on the back of massive spending, printing money, juiced growth and wars.
While I do like Chipotle, a lot of homogenization is simply the result of efficiency. Cookie cutter succeeds because cookie cutter is what people want.

The pace of homogenization might have increased because technology greatly enables it. If you want a product just type “best whatever’s” into Reddit or wire cutter or consumer reports and you can have thousands of people’s experiences distilled down within minutes. Same thing for food and travel.

Do I want to take chances on various stores owned by various owners sourcing goods from various places?

Or do I want to get my sister a gift from Target, where if she does not like it, she can go home and return at the Target near her home.
> How to get from that to a (useful) bug report

Start by submitting the hs_err file.

> almost everything removed

It was removed from the JDK and made available as a separate module (contributed to Eclipse): https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/orb

> Which reminds me that the migration cost estimate came in at 7 figures for no clear benefits.

Most companies report a ~10% reduction in hardware costs, and more than make up for any migration costs (which are quite low these days) in under a year. See this experience from LinkedIn: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Java/JDConf-2020/Java-11-Jo...

In other words, the benefits are usually significant savings, even if you don't use any new features.
Seconded. From half a century’s experience I can confirm: kids are stupid and gullible, and will go to great lengths to achieve remarkable levels thereof - regardless of technology. Nothing has changed, it’s just different.
Like a lot of pine64 products, it's reusing the case for an existing product. Producing case molds is one of the most expensive parts of production. Every product announcements there's people finding very similar looking devices, but then ignore that the boards in the products are fully pine64 custom.

I've also had the pinenote and the remarkable beside eachother and it's not the same case, the remarkable has the large edge at the bottom and is slightly thinner. The pen surface feels very similar though.
Indeeed,

func ThrowIfError(err error) {
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}
// ....
name, err := FuncWithError()
ThrowIfError(err)
I’m living this dream, just sans the TV crew. And without any crew. It’s been a learning curve, but a year after shovels hit the dirt, we’re just about ready to move out of our freezing vermin-ridden shack into our heated luxury shack with indoor plumbing.

Fortunately, my wife isn’t pregnant… I don’t think.
The technical details:

"The exhaust emissions scandal („Dieselgate“)"

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7331-the_exhaust_emissions_scand...
If we only produce 105% of the food required to feed humanity, a 20% drop is a huge fucking deal. Food isn’t something people can just go without when there is a shortage.
It wasn't exactly classic outsourcing.

In the early 1990s, Citibank decided to outsource banking software development to India. Not an unusual decision, but somewhat unusual the approach to it they chose – they set up an Indian subsidiary (iFlex) to develop banking software for them, but also decided the subsidiary would sell the software as a product to other banks. So Citibank owned an Indian subsidiary which developed banking software both for Citibank and also for others. And then Citibank sold that subsidiary to Oracle in the 2000s, and Oracle renamed it from i-Flex to OFSS. Actually Oracle owns the majority of it but a minority of it is publicly listed on the stock exchange in Mumbai.

It isn't just one product, it is a whole suite of banking software applications. I know there are banks who have deployed just certain apps out of the suite and integrated those apps with their legacy core banking. Or, you can buy it all and use it for everything. Given Citibank is the original customer, I imagine they use more of it rather than less of it, but I’m just guessing.
Right. But to the extent the developers are doing this on purpose, as part of their business model, this very much feels like a racket.
Thanks for the actual informative link instead of the CATL press release others are linking. Sodium-ion batteries seem to have some very desirable properties over other rechargeable battery chemistries.

Has CATL substantially improved the energy density? Half the capacity on a per-weight basis than Lithium-ion seems pretty bad for EVs. Halving the range of already barely-acceptable vehicles seems pretty bad. Maybe it’s fine for short-range EVs and hybrids, but the range is one of the selling points of the Bolt.
looks like a good idea, at least symbolically.

But: upload a scan of my ID card to an untrusted source? isn’t there a better way?
Discourse or NodeBB is the real future
>>If your electrician isn't certified then a third party certifier has to certify the work after completion.

Even that has been outlawed sadly. You can't fit your own fuse board and get an electrician to just sign off on it anymore - there might be people who still do it and give you a document saying they've done the installation, but in general it's not a thing anymore.

Of course absolutely nothing stops you from doing it anyway, then having a general electrical inspection done. If anyone asks just say it was like that when you bought the house already.
> Park outside the garage in the driveway

That only works if your driveway is >=100ft long.
Huh? I think you've just missed out the last 120 years of western history. I could agree if you've said: It doesn'T get talked about enough.

See the newest class-y development: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-masking-of-the-servant-...