skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comprehensive but barely worth commenting on since the same article, with convincing arguments for the time, have existed for the last 60 years at least. Here’s why (and I realize this is me commenting on it anyway):

Yes, there is a finite resource involved.

Yes, using it, whether we find more or not, makes the planet uninhabitable for the size of the human population due to it being uninhabitable for many existing species.

But is it peak gas/oil/whatever? No. It never is because currently uneconomical sources become economical. The article slightly addresses that by saying the last decade of fracking was an accounting gimmick that allowed unprofitable operations to work out okay. Uh yeh thats exactly whats going to happen with even more harder to extract and create gas.
What are the most important things you learned and what would be your core advice for someone who wants to run a solo operation? How do you schedule your time to work on your project and how has it changed over time? Thanks in advance!
It's very hard to actually comprehend any technically challenging concept without being constantly exposed to it. The more challenging it is, the more time you're going to need so it become something like second nature to you.

Take up as many relevant projects as needed to master the underlying theoretic aspects of whatever you're interested in, whether that's in math or programming. Don't get frustrated if you get stuck somewhere. You can always take a break and jump back to take a better look to any helpful readings to better understand some concept you may have missed earlier. Just make sure you're already pretty familiar with the very fundamentals first (e.g. don't expect good progress on a machine learning course without being already familiar with linear algebra - probability fundamentals.)
Qorn is a near perfect replacement for chicken nuggets.. but then I can barely tell what's in chicken nuggets anyway!
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM for one of the major reasons.
My insight might be useless as I’m still a college student, and don’t know the first thing about this industry, but this sounds like a red flag that I’d be running from rather than toward.
Modafinil.

Aside from that, for me, it's more important to memorize where on the page I saw something, and where the book or page was located. Things like web pages may get saved because of their ephemeral quality. It's unrealistic to expect to retain everything, but knowing where to find non-critical knowledge is easier.
That's a fine attitude for applied ML, but aren't you even a little bit interested in why these things work so well? It's not obvious.
Like someone else said lambdas are priced by memory * execution time - if you cut execution time by 1/2 by doubling the memory and using AOT - you got faster lambdas for free (even if it's not as high as 1/2 you'll probably still not be paying x2).
Yeah it's super rude and unprofessional to intentionally conflate first and second derivative in a headline.

This makes it seem like a meat industry hit piece.
Facebook rendered spineless by buggy audit code
"Facebook has admitted buggy auditing code was at the core of yesterday's six-hour outage – and revealed a little more about its infrastructure to explain how it vanished from the internet.

In a write-up by infrastructure veep Santosh Janardhan, titled 'More details about the October 4 outage,' the outrage-monetization giant confirmed early analyses that Facebook yesterday withdrew the border gateway protocol (BGP) routing to its own DNS servers, causing its domain names to fail to resolve."
Defense Official Said He Quit Because US Cybersecurity No Match for China
Naive question: what's the correct way of doing this when you need to cp your content to a dir like /var/www/html that your user doesn't own (when logging in as root is prohibited)? My "spooky" (and probably very stupid) method is an Expect script that lets me supply a password to sudo.
Am I the only one who remembers articles from late 2019 talking about how the crash of gas prices was going to drive all of the fracking operators to slow down operations or go out of business? This particular article seems to drag in some ill-defined and clearly unsupported 'energy cost per barrel' that seems to be off by an order of magnitude or so from the actual energy requirement for pulling up gas from a fracked well according to all other info I can find, so I am not quite sure how much credence I should give the rest of the piece.
This is basically how Google Cloud Run works if I'm not mistaken.
I've found that the disappearing item thing went away on desktop when I used a private or incognito window, so I deleted my cookies and cached browser data for the site and things seemed to work correctly after that.
I wonder how this is.

People don't Google-search them?

Bad/no SEO or similar?

"Facebook-Only" ads? Is there no other "as effective" ad platform or method? Is there some sort of cult mentality around Facebook ads [and/or ads on other platforms]?

People in 2021 just don't think "Gee, I wonder if that place has a website"? My local nobody "mom & pop" drycleaner seamstress has a website, or at least is Internet-searchable.
Without Googling it? I am not so sure.

I know a lot of guys with engineering degrees who clearly could not do that even if they have had access to much more advanced math than Eratosthenes.
IMO, May Wah has absolutely nailed the texture and taste of chicken, particularly if you season it.
Juan Browne (a commercial airline pilot) of the blancolirio Youtube channel has a great overview of what has led us here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO39nIcuPhQ
For what its worth, I have seen comments almost exactly like this 10 years ago on HN. It its very hard to predict when a real culture shift like that will happen. (I agree its an important part of the puzzle)
I think that's somewhat expected, and basically analogous to "defense in depth". The mRNA vaccines only code for the characteristic spike protein, but an actual infection can result in developing antibodies against multiple features on the surface of the virus. Both being better than either alone is reasonable result of that.

The problem with natural immunity is that it can be so variable. Some people would develop better immunity from being infected than they would from just the vaccine, but some would develop much weaker immunity from the infection.
It's a trivial amount of power and even better, we have already electrified all the components! Computers don't require us to go out and replace all the combustion engine vehicles still around. Clean up the grid and that's it.
Care to explain or add sources on this?
Or just deploy it on Heroku and call it a day?
Axie Infinity, Yield Guild Games and the play-to-earn economy
> No, you just don’t want to get vaccinated. Everything else is window dressing around that.

And I have no rational reason to, except artificial reasons created by most of governments.

> The virus will mutate and continue to do so. Eventually your immunity will weaken - will you get the vaccine then?

My immune system seems doing great job defending me from all the mutations which already took place. So I don't want to interfere, teaching it how to do the job it seems doing so great and targeting it against specific mutations the vaccine is supposed to help with.

I trust my immune system more than I trust whatever the vaccine does. I'm afraid the latter may actually weaken my immunity against the mutations to come. This, together with being pushed to vaccinate, are why I don't want to.

I never ever resisted any vaccine before and was always willing to get vaccinated against everything.

> You have no scientific or educated reasoning here and you’re just letting your ego get in the way of things. It’s ok. I do that too.

I always reasoned the naturally acquired immunity is better than that given by the vaccine and AFAIK this has been scientifically proven already.

> But the quicker you realize you’re caught up in FUD mostly planted by morons and Russian and Chinese state-sponsored democracy dividers

But I've never been interested in what do they say. Only in what humble amount of science I know + my own experience + logical reasoning/speculation. Plus the natural instinct to resist whenever pushed.
I usually need to find "usable" ways of introducing the subject I'm studying in my day-to-day life.

As for finance, eg. I'd try to read Economy mags more often, and try to explain to myself just "what the actual hell" they're saying.

This method can be very challenging when you're starting on something, but by the time (two weeks) you get to know "just enough" you'll be flying through the news, and then you can get to scientific papers on the subjects that you have interest on.

For programming, my way for it is exactly the same, but without newspapers and articles: just try to approach everything in a specific mindset.
The technology most suited to improve one's resume will be the one most in demand on the job market, and therefore also the most difficult skill to hire for...
Sure, but also many of the agricultural ingredients in the "fake meat" are subsidized too.

Perhaps not to the same degree, I'm not sure, but worth pointing it out when claiming only one is a subsidized industry.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/...
Study reveals Android phones constantly snoop on their users
TIL, interfaces can extend classes in TypeScript. [0] If interfaces could not extend classes, that would be a reason to use type programming.

Another reason could be a generic interface. If you have a lifecycle where a type is mutable at one point but immutable at later points, you could use mapped types to enforce those constraints on the class methods generically.

[0]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/MYGwhgzhAEAKCmAnCB...
I guess people need to experience a full blown blackout to get over their fear of nuclear power.
The 90% statement is both true and is one of the things that really sucks people in. There are any number of technologies that kinda/sorta work as a PoC. There's a gaping chasm between that PoC and a viable working product but a lot of people look at the PoC and can imagine what the working product looks like--and think to themselves that it's only about some refinement.
I _believe_ you can do one simpler (assuming the reader only clicks the link if they recognize it's a medium post)

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Or even if you don’t want to put in any work, it can still be quite affordable.

Here’s a 10 year old, 18,000 sq ft house in Ibaraki prefecture (same prefecture as Tokyo Llama’s house) for about $220k USD. It’s not large by US standards, but definitely sufficient for a family of 4 IMO. And with interest rates in Japan being about 1%, the monthly mortgage payment would be about $625.

https://www.athome.co.jp/kodate/1039825842/

This location looks pretty rural, but similar homes can be found all over Japan.
EDD - Epoch Driven Development

To use precisely the tools and technologies that the project started with until the end of time.
Maybe your mind cannot be applied this way. I recognize you are being proactive by asking here, but the people you are competing against do not have this problem.
Intellisense will find you a solution but it won't find you the solution.

I have learned to Google things even when I think I know the answer and I've done it that way many times before, because often there's a better way that I've been missing out on all this time.
Insecure Random Number Generation
>The BLM protesters managed to remain peaceful, didn't assault reporters, bystanders, or police, and didn't damage property. They protested, and then dispersed on their own.

Ummm no that's just false. You can easily search the amount of damage caused by those "protests". There were billions of dollars in property damage.

https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...

https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/black-lives-matter-protesters-...

https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/riots-following-george-floyds-...
+1 you are correct, the subsidies given to the beef industry are absurd given the externalities of cow farts, water usage, etc.

I don’t think that beyond burgers are very healthy but my wife and I eat them at least once a week anyways. I like a maxed-out burger with the ‘works’ without having animals die for my eating pleasure. When I do occasionally eat real meat, I prefer no feed lot beef over pork or chicken because I understand that chickens and pigs live miserable lives while cattle get to live outside and graze.
If you like this style of deployment, and you haven't looked into Ansible yet, give it a try, you may enjoy it. I had similar build processes before using Ansible and I have found it a really positive step up.
Recently I started learning how to speed read with the help of an app that quickly flashes a few words at a time.

This type of reading has forced me to re-think how I memorize or even check that I've understood something.

My current process is to stop at the end of a chapter and re-cap what I've learnt and id necessary check by reading in normal mode.
IDEA has an open source edition.

(and of course, don’t forget about Visual Studio)
Train the recall neural pathways for the scenario you envision needing the info. Active recall at intervals.

This is the only thing that really works for me.

What I have not automated is creating active recall scripts as I go....it tends to happen organically as I run through scenarios in practice sessions, eg if I want to share info verbally, then what parts do I forget, when I practice? Drill on that section, and test it out ant intervals until it's locked in. Then test at much wider intervals to maintain. (Super memo and Anki have complex algorithms, but I like to ballpark it to reduce complexity)
Right, I typically hate them. But in the context of a fully remote job it is the only opportunity I have to spend time with my colleagues in the flesh. It is also the only opportunity I have to spend time with them _outside of my home_.
there's nothing like natural immunity.
I'm not sure I agree. It's one thing to treat IT as a customer for a product or service your company offers. I don't doubt that the business also uses FB messenger to communicate for example. But FB as a consumer product doesn't offer DNS or SAML or any of these other critical services, so why would IT share infrastructure for those? That's not dogfooding.
Just use Heroku until its time to scale
Some of these plant-based meat substitutes are very high in oil and salt and sugar. They’re an effective transitional product for getting people off their meat-every-day habit, but I feel they are the start of a journey that leads to eating more actual fruit & veg, not more ultra-processed fake meats.
A lot of dev careers do fizzle out as you approach 40 but it's not necessarily due to agism. Speaking from experience, it's typically because around that time a lot of developers start shifting their priorities.

For me personally, it amounted to wanting to maximize the amount of time I spend with my family. It takes a lot of night/weekend cycles to keep up with the tech fad treadmill. When you have the choice between bonding with your kids or learning about React's most recent paradigm-shift, well, the choice is easy for me.

It also doesn't help that at 40 years old there's a good chance you're going to be hitting that regularly scheduled mid-life crisis and you start realizing that most modern software development is hard to beat for pointlessness.
In order to make a data-driven decision, where's the evidence that your hypothesis is correct?

FWIW, Norway requires at least 40% gender representation on the boards of public companies, so there's data right there. The best I can tell is "mixed", but definitely not "actually counter-productive".

I quoted "mixed" from https://www.ft.com/content/6f6bc5a2-7b70-11e8-af48-190d103e3... . One of the observations quoted there is:

> Ms Helleland says three-quarters of recruitment is down to informal networks: “Men recruit men. Men recruit CEOs that look like themselves.

I interpret that as an informal quota system for men.

There's decades of research on this topic. Either it's "well understood" now, or there's no good way to make a data-driven decision.
Sorry, but Keystone XL has absolutely nothing to do with this and the fuel that it was going to transport is the dirtiest, heaviest crude around and not gas. After a year or more of lockdown and diminished demand we are now ramping back up and supply will take a while to catch up. Nothing magic about this and anyone who claims this is an indicator for some sort of long-term consequence (like the author of the original article) is clearly reading way too much into the tea leaves they are staring at.
WorkStyle Assessment helps you better manage your team
Reference: https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/removing-meat-subsidy-our-cogn...

I overestimated; we should be paying 3x more for meat than we do at retail.
As I was writing my answer you posted yours, and I found It very very helpful.
If burgers cost $45 you’d see an explosion in cattle farming. That would put the value of a cow over 6 figures. All the crypto miners would be buying cattle at that rate.
Fair enough. Predicting the future is impossible, I agree. But speculating is fine.
To be fair, all you’d need to accomplish that without more than necessary parts for production is to ensure that the code path invoking the function is accessed via an external monitoring probe with an adjustment to SLA or SLO to account for the cold start time. Obviously not going to work for many systems, but it’s easy to forget all the side effects of the observability plane when writing applications.
I tend not to memorize in that way. Reading gives me a basic familiarity with a topic and, more importantly, helps me understand where to find information when I need it. If I use a piece of technical information regularly, I'll just keep looking it up until exposure fixes it in my memory.

However, if it's something I do need to remember and can't look up, spaced repetition tools like Anki are helpful.

You should probably ask yourself whether it's worth the effort to memorize something that you only need every few months. So long as you have an understanding of the general topic, it's not hard to find technical specifics when you need them. Being able to reel off technical details from memory is a good party trick, but I've rarely found it to be useful in daily life.
that was true for steam too, yet it still is here and stronger than ever
Study: Psychedelic use associated with lower odds of heart disease and diabetes
Payment was the entirety of the original purpose. As the original paper says, "a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash". The first sentence of the introduction starts with "Commerce on the Internet" and ends with "process electronic payments". It has failed both on "peer-to-peer" and "electronic cash". It makes no material difference to internet commerce. It has signally failed in its original purpose.

And yes, more development is always happening. Success is always in the future. Never mind that M-Pesa and Venmo and Android and Tesla all started around the same time. Uber and Lyft and Twitch and TikTok all launched years later. They all have actual success. None of them are hammers blundering around in search of a nail. None of them have to keep blowing smoke about the incredible future ahead.

But in the same way that Bitcoin is making no difference today in the real-world payment markets, none of that development is making a difference today in their equivalent markets. Colateralized loans, if they work, are 0% of the total colateralized loan market. Prediction markets have existed for more than 20 years. Adding "decentralized" doesn't make them better. Most of that "innovation" is in the category of dancing bears: the impressive part is not that the bear dances well, just that it's a bear doing the dancing.

But since you can't name a purpose, I'll just tell you: The actual current purpose of the whole circus is to enable assorted grifts. When Bitcoin got popular, that's what drove it: people seeking unearned wealth, and the people preying on the suckers with money to lose. That has kept snowballing, grift upon grift and with massive effort to create more suckers to keep the grifts going just a little longer.

Are there reasonable people caught up in this? Sure. As Madoff showed, many of the people involve on both sides of a Ponzi scheme are perfectly sincere believers. But neither their belief nor their sincerity changes the underlying truth: there is no value being created. Nobody can admit that, of course, so they just claim that the value creation is just down the road if only you hodl and believe hard enough.
Ah yeah should have made this more clear. I'm definitely not interested in doing it, just the idea of faking interviews and if it's actually happening and working widely in the industry.
The gogs fork for notabug.org
> Magic word "contracting".

Contracting will make you even more money in US too
It’s definitely not chicken…
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No need to memorize everything in this day and age. Memorization is super useful, but if it's not part of your day to day, looking it up when you need it is a more efficient use of time.

To that end, I'd instead recommend taking notes in a system that allows for full text search.

However, if you still want to memorize it, repetition will be your friend. Repeatedly reading the material will gain you familiarization with the concepts, and eventually the memorization. Spaced repetition (Anki et.al.) is the fastest, but simply reading regularly works too.
Pretty much anyone you can pay to host a database, you can pay to back it up. Amazon rds, heroku postgres, google cloud sql... pick the service that works for you, and they have some affordance for backups. Backups are something I expect, rather than something I shop around for.
> norvig.com is protected by Imunify360

> We have noticed an unusual activity from your IP and blocked access to this website.
That's a micro scale analysis. The article is all about the macro scale.

If one gas well in the North Sea runs out, you're correct someone drills another well. When ALL the gas wells in the North Sea run out, thats how you get a peak of 4.5MBE/day back around the turn of the century and now production has dropped permanently to a quarter of that around 1MBE/day.

If you have an infinite supply of something, like in some areas, drinking water, then economic activity controls water bottle filling plants. If you have a finite supply of something, like in some areas, drinking water, then economic activity has no effect if the wells are dry you don't have water. Water is very heavy commodity so trade between east of the mississippi with five feet of rain per year and California deserts with no rain, is irrational or at least very economic and environmentally expensive. On the other hand you can pack a billion dollars of silicon chips into a small moving van so world trade of semiconductors still makes sense... for now.

Also some economic activity being cyclical is "OK" or manageable. But food is oil, and you can't rationally go cyclical on food. So that's a second problem with oil. If you "let the market do its thing" with STM32 microcontrollers, you'll get a year long drought of 99% of everyone has nothing but the world will go on, more or less. Try that kind of supply squeeze with food and the government will fall within days.
Im no expert but coupled with solar panels you get more power during summer to run the AC