skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the article hints at but does not discuss is time to action. For example, a bad decision can be revisited but the time lost to indecision is forever gone.

Some people are comfortable making hasty decisions. Just because a person visited only one car dealer does not suggest a lack of prior research. A person may know exactly what they want and the price range they are willing to pay for it with features they want. The last time I bought a car I went to one dealer and told them I want these features. They called around to various other dealers on my behalf because they wanted my business and they knew what to look for.

Time to action stresses arbitrary decisions which may not be hasty (no planning or research). The goal of a well considered time to action is to act quickly but in balance for risk analysis. This means either having a remediation already available or transferring the risk to someone else in order to make a decision now consequences be damned.
Very impressive. You should also post this to the Level1Techs forum
I guess you have not been on Rio. Taxis there are famous on the entire country.

And that's a huge problem, by the way. When you are in a city you don't know, you also don't know how trustworthy the taxi system is.
People also think I'm stupid. I am, but people think I'm stupid too.

The secret is that we're all dumb as bricks - most of us just dont act like it, and so they go on being a brick. Those of us who are self aware and unashamed can be slightly less stupid on a good day. That's about all we can hope for, but it's worth it imo.
100 dollars certainly covers the cost of the hardware. These streaming devices use commodity chips and run Linux. This isn’t a crazy R&D project. The only real value-add from Roku is the software.
Granular? I'm tired of having to learn about AWS and Kube and Gradle and all the things that are outside the IDE.
> crap service

Sorry, but Uber is a 100% improvement service improvement over cabs in many areas.

I lived in Chicago for six years and not one single cab I took during the whole six years would accept a credit card, despite being obligated to do so. If I didn't have cash I was told that we could drive to an ATM or I could get out.

Not to mention that the drivers almost invariably talked on the phone the entire time. And while not the norm, I had half a dozen confrontations with cab drivers who were obviously trying to scam me with "broken meters" or obviously roundabout routes.

I haven't had a single bad experience with an uber or lyft. Most are unremarkable, which is fine. So 100% of my cab experiences in Chicago were bad and 100% of my uber/lfyt experiences have been fine or better.

Of course not everywhere is Chicago (though US cab companies generally seem to have miserable service). Tokyo taxis have world class service, and it is perhaps not a coincidence that Uber has only a tiny presence there.
I would recommend that SWEs who feel this way but still like coding try their hand at data science/data analytics/analytics engineering.

We're still early enough in the data world that it's easy to find that sense of ownership over the whole "data product." You probably won't get paid as well, although it's possible, but the pay won't be bad either.
Good US TX
Physics is the field of explaining everything in the universe. Therefore, if physics can't explain a phenomena we don't understand it, as physics is the ultimate explanation we have. I didn't say that if physics can't explain it then it doesn't exist, as you seem to think, just that if physics can't explain it then our understanding of the topic doesn't exist.
I am not a scientist so I can't pretend to understand it too well, but here is an example of a paper about it: https://www.academia.edu/17195945/O_2_pH_Multisensor_Based_o...

The dye was on a small paper disk, not in the air. It was measuring exhaled breath anyways so you weren't inhaling it.

CO2 was another interesting sensor! There is a specific IR frequency it absorbs, so we used that to sense it in real time.
This just seems like punishing the poor, very much like fines for speeding. "Rich" people get the freedom to do and say what they wish, but the poor must sit still and only convey favorable opinions.
Not totally true. I'm still asking questions from time to time to people because I'm confused about place or how to do things (I'm living in a foreign country). Depending on the context some people are glad to converse instead of being on their phones. Creating long term relationships is very hard, but small talk isn't much harder than before.
And don't forget "rule-based AI"!
I’m having a hard time telling whether you’re arguing in good faith, so this will be my last comment on the matter. Obviously there are macro forces driving down violent crime rates across the developed world. You are once again arguing against a point no one has made.

Comparing area-to-area, lots of guns to fewer guns, over the same time period, the correlations are clear both within the US and internationally.

Within the US: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828709/

International comparison: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(13)00444-0/pdf

> The number of guns per capita per country was a strong and independent predictor of firearm-related death in a given country, whereas the predictive power of the mental illness burden was of borderline significance in a multivariable model. Regardless of exact cause and effect, however, the current study debunks the widely quoted hypothesis that guns make a nation safer
Note: this isn't meant to defend Google, because their practices are shady and by no means good.

What I find interesting here is that Roku is using business practices similar to Apple and nobody seems to have a problem with it. If I told you that an app store was limiting the types of apps you could add to your device while also controlling the update process, lots of HN readers would call that out. As far as I'm aware, Roku also has a way of capturing subscription revenue as well.

By alk means call out Google for their garbage business practices. But don't let Roku off the hook either.
Goto aversion, like single-entry/single-exit and everything anyone has ever said about 3rd-to-5th-generation programming languages, addresses a concern that hasn't been relevant in decades and that most modern programmers have no context for whatsoever.

The words have straightforward meanings, unfortunately, so they've since been recontextualized into settings where their prescriptions can still be followed, but the rationale doesn't hold up at all.
Monads are very easy to explain to anyone used to reading mathematical definitions. It’s the people without a math background that struggle so much. They insist on all of these real world analogies. The problem with that stipulation is that monads are too abstract and general to have a real world analogue.

They are a fantastic and incredibly powerful abstraction though. Their mathematical properties, termed the monad laws, make sure of that.
This doesn't describe me at all? I am impressed by someone's understanding of a topic and bring no expectations to the table. Not everyone is fixated on race and gender stereotypes. This is a sad lie being pushed by people who want us to stay divided.
Fwiw there was a very recent study seeking to compare the longevity increases (in mice) from time-restricted eating vs calorie restriction. In this study, 100% of the benefit was due to time-restricted eating, none from calorie restriction. https://twitter.com/LammingLab/status/1450120927195406342?s=...
I rediscovered my joy of mathematics with 3Blue1Brown
I Raise Therefore I am
Facebook's oversight board faults its policy on preferential treatment
He was in the wrong kind of company and felt like a useless cog. In my opinion, that's a pretty thin foundation for a drastic job change.
HPC is a special industry in that regard. HPC is know to take well managed technical risks such as building custom CPUs (A64FX in Fugaku) or using less popular architectures (SPARC, Power). If one can be certain that with enough coding hours codes can be adapted to run on those platforms and they will end up faster more exotic hardware will be bought or considered.
Nation level HPC projects are not conservative, Industrial HPC maybe a bit more so.
> I’m having troubling telling whether it’s just my own halo effect or if the initial quality that experienced has started to slip a little

I've had the exact same experience and sharing the same doubts as well.

For programming related queries I'm going to Google 100% though, it understands the intent so much better. But for general queries I use Brave 90%+ of the time. But, it feels like I'm adding !g to the query more often than I used to in the beginning.
As a user, I see Google's point on this. I often get annoyed when I want to search within the system I'm using and get pushed to a global search, when I want to stay in the app. I'm sure to the app developers this is doubly annoying because it means taking their users away to other platforms. Ironically Google themselves are pretty bad about this - on any given google product it's a roll of the dice what the scope of the "search" button will be.
The headline caught my eye because I love software development. And I thought "Yay, let's see what better thing they found". Then I stumbled at the given reasons:

splitting up frontend and backend development,
loading a dependency for every problem at hand,
microservices and the explosion of frontend frameworks

It is not as if you have to do that.

I write a lot of software and I do the full stack, have zero dependencies, don't use microservices or frameworks.

I enjoy doing it and getting happy emails from users every day.

My suggestion if you love coding: Create your own world which is exactly as you like it.
As far as I'm concerned anyone that's working of virtualized GPU is doing the Lord's work.
> Communities without abuse problems never even float the idea of banning anonymity.

This implies that many communities with anonymity don't face abuse problems, so anonymity is not the root of the problem. Maybe the problem lies in the subject matter that the community handles and the sort of people that attracts.
Unrolled the thread here

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1449973547485384704.html
> The "left" that has power in the US (establishment dems) barely qualify as being left at all

So when the left does something you dont like, they must not be left? Smells of no true scottsman to me.
Dear content creators:

I don't know why people keep typing actual thoughts on Twitter: PLEASE STOP AND GET A BLOG. Nobody will read this, and this is actually important information that can save lives. Also, stop using clickbait headlines when presenting information; the correct headline for this example would be "Managing insulin levels naturally leads to longer lives with higher quality of life and less health problems".

That said, fellow HN addicts, switch to one meal a day (OMAD) like I did. My brain feels like its ten years younger, and my body more-so. Also, stop eating foods that are just made of empty filler, like refined carbs and refined vegetable oils, this also helps a ton and segues naturally into OMAD.
I think he's setting up some false choices here. Also, when I look at the interests list, 'Tech evangelism' was the first thing I thought of, not kitchen helper.

I'll also argue that after 10 years as a software engineer, if you're still just putting buttons on a page or waiting for next feature to show up on your queue, you're doing it wrong. Software engineering contains a large range of disciplines. You don't need to pick tech stacks, write code all day, or specialize in radar wheels.
Also curl'd it...good response in USA West
> I'm doubtful of that. Homosexuality was very normalized in the ancient western world, but it looked very different then modern conceptions.

Indeed... most of what modern day LGBTQ+ activists conceive of as homosexuality in the ancient world is just close male friendship.

Half the things people claim were instances of 'homosexuality' in ancient literature are just men fooling around. There are very few instances of men (or women) actually forming stable social structures with commitment in the absence of marriage to the opposite sex.

Ultimately, our confusion in this regard is due to the fact that so few men have actual friends. I sometimes go out 1-on-1 with my male friends to restaurants (often fancy ones). It's a guys night. We're all married with kids. And yet, oftentimes, people will think we're dating or something. It's weird. FFS, I went with my father to a nice restaurant, and they thought we were married. Something has gone very wrong with how we conceive of men being friends, which makes sense, because so few men have any (which probably explains the rise of homosexuality as well).
Gregory Hays’s “Meditations: A New Translation”

“Epictetus: Discourses and Selected Writings” from penguin classics
I've learned a number of languages, in my 35+ years of programming, but I generally only work with one or two at a time.

The last few years, it has been Swift (frontend), and PHP (backend).
Indeed... I'm beginning to believe that I exist in an alternate universe (colloquially known as "Europe") where insane software engineering salaries aren't normalised.
Roku even supports Airplay. Not sure who the Apple TV is for at this point.
The thing about these "drops" is people will liquidate them into real currency as quickly as possible. If the goal is to distribute a currency to as many people as possible (so everyone has a piece of the currency to use) then you have to remove any possible off ramps. But, then you run into the problem of nobody _actually_ being interested in the coin since it has "no real value" (can't trade it for USD)
I see agile as the problem here. Before agile, I would essentially 'own' pieces of the code, so I was committed to making it maintainable. Now, it's all just pieces and parts, and I'm not responsible for nearly as much, which make me fungible, and in general is dispiriting.

As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority.
Banning may not be the complete answer, but until we're allowed to shoot them, it will have to do.
The US did not bank roll the R&D and manufacturing.

The contracts were options to buy. No cash upfront.

The companies, namely Moderna, got some public funding 10 years earlier. Pfizer did not. The rest was bankrolled by the companies themselves.

If the vaccines had failed they would have absorbed those loses entirely.

And I’ve seen the Pfizer contracts. Of course they were entirely indemnified - would you sell a government an “emergency approved” product and not protect yourself from getting sued into bankruptcy if something went wrong?
Reminds me of something from decades ago in India, there was only television channel and it was state run. Early evenings were dedicated to rural areas and farmers there.

Most of them were illiterate and did not understand what plant scientists or professors were talking about re inputs or seeds or Tractors etc needed to modernize Ag.

So the format would be an interview in the middle of a coconut grove or a farm. The interviewer(usually female) would ask a question and the expert would answer. After he finishes answering, she’d turn towards the camera and go like “what you are basically saying is..” or “what he is saying..”..and she’d give the wrong details. Then the expert would interrupt her and explain it again with the correct answer. There were a lot of English words he’d use and she’d break them down in the vernacular and also in the same order as his sentence.

These wrong things repeated by her were obvious misunderstandings anyone unfamiliar with fertilizer application would make…it was probably scripted so that the answer can be ‘corrected’ multiple times and also probably reflected mistaken notions by the viewer. Never once was the viewer(here, it was the illiterate non English speaking village farmer) made to feel dumb but always as though they are learning something valuable and special.

It was like Sesame Street for farming adults. It was awesome and kept me glued to the television screen. I would memorize all the IRRI rice hybrids and probably was the only one in school who knew IR20, IR64 and IR8…and urea application rates for them.

Ask anyone of a certain age who their favourite Sesame Street character is …and you would have cracked effective communication technique for that time period.
As noted elsewhere in the thread, it's actually true in general, and has been for years. Taxis adjusted their business to compete with ride-sharing, and ride-sharing adjusted their business to stop hemorrhaging money a LONG time ago.
Our anecdata: we store telemetry per thing. After loading a month worth of data - timescaldb as hosted by their cloud ran a difference aggregation in seconds. Clickhouse routinely did it in 20 millis.

Simple avg, etc were better, but always clickhouse was an order of magnitude faster than timescale. We didn't invest a whole bunch into optimization other than trying some indexing strategies in timescaledb.

So for our use case the choice is clear.
More than that.. by the 26th they had already cancelled Chinese New Year & implemented lockdowns/restrictions outside of Hubei.
This one is pretty nasty. Getting tired of the disengagement this causes for the team. It's basically a lost day of productivity even if GH goes down for only 30 minutes. Yes, we can continue coding locally, but issues & PRs are a huge part of our daily process.

When I get back from vacation we are moving our shit to the enterprise plan. $21/user-month is really not that big of a deal when you are running basically your entire business through the product.

I do agree that it's ridiculous to assume that we can manage Github's software better than their own engineers, but at the same time our infrastructure has proven itself to be extremely reliable over the last 4-5 years. Even hosting GH enterprise on public AWS/Azure is more ideal in my eyes now, because I can control the physical region and tenancy. There is an Azure datacenter within 100 miles of many of our home offices and I can ensure that our Github stack spins up there. Minimizing the amount of internet you have to transit to get to your applications can sidestep a lot of this stormy public cloud/internet weather bullshit.
Ya, they are enabling GVT-g on all their GPUs going forward including the ARC branded devices (not just the embedded GPUs with Xe branding). They have no plans to lock out those features on consumer devices. In fact I bought a $700 computer from Best Buy that had an intel discrete GPU in it for development. :)

Ya, I have been talking with the Qubes guys. I'm trying my best to figure out how I can help them ship something with LibVF.IO but they are currently based on Xen which uses Libxl rather than VFIO which may present some challenges.
Sounds like great advice! Why should I listen to guys like Dan Abramov when I can listen to you?

In all seriousness though, this comment almost sounds like its from another language when read here on HN. Its crazy how completely wierd some parts of the internet has become.
remember internet TV was going to solve the problem of cable TV providers being anti competitive? yeah me neither.
Ask HN: Is any of the usability or social research Google did for G+ available?
While G+ was undergoing active development, there was supposedly quite a lot of research and testing being done on things like the effect of Real Names™ and moderation on the incidence of harassment and abuse, the influence of various features and UI affordances on information sharing and group formation/growth, and similar topics of interest to anyone designing or developing software with social features (such as everything within the fediverse).

With the demise/shutdown of G+, it seems that any proprietary interest Google might have in that research would be moot (though obviously the underlying data could pose privacy concerns), but as far as I know none of it was ever released or discussed publicly even in summary.

At this point, even the publicly facing discussions of features and UI with members of the G+ team are long gone from the web, and that seems a real loss to me.

Can any of that knowledge be made available in some form?
Ruby is in the post-hype phase.
Imagine if we could find a scientific explanation for consciousness, and that would lead to a ton of new discoveries. The world might become more sci-fi than we could ever dream of today.

So it is sad to see so many view this question as impossible to solve, or just give out hand wavy explanations like "computation" etc, rather than try to think about what would actually be required to understand what consciousness is.
I understand that white people would find this scary, and I honest to goodness hope that the majority of white people in this country go back to having some semblance of a successful culture, but I don't see that happening in the white culture at large, so we will have to take what we get.
Then don't use those platforms? If you need a community that is going to be prone to abuse problems then make your own platform. Politicians and government offices should know better than to be using a commercial social media as their primary platform especially when it's not even based in your own country.
What a non-article. Author is burned out by modern corporate software development so is taking some time off to code for fun. I'm going to go out on a limb and say he becomes a freelancer or does a small startup. Also, the fact he's able to get out and do nothing for a while is testament to just how well software developers are paid (also makes his reference to Marx somewhat ironic).
I sometimes feel like it is only me that suffers this - finding anything of quality on amazon is a pain. Unless I know the exact model number, chances are I'll be sold low quality stuff. I want some wine glasses, picture looks OK, reviews seem good - turn up - junk. I want to find a monitor - good luck! I want to find some light bulbs... Erm yeah, same.

Time was it was good as you knew it was cheaper than most places but that is generally totally not true now.
Speaking of fancy new chips for servers, I'm not seeing anyone complain about Amazon not opening up their graviton processors... (can't even buy one for F's sake, have to lease them via AWS)
London, uk works
>In contrast, humans are arguably the only creatures in the universe that can think.

Citation very strongly required to back up this statement. I'm not aware of any evidence that this is the case, in fact its quite the opposite.
It sounds like coding isn't the issue and its more a problem with the bureaucracy of large organizations and projects.

Those are indeed thorny issues that many people deal with and if he can find a way to still code outside of that environment then it seems like a good plan for them. I know I couldn't work in an environment like that.

There is one issue that they mention

> It comes down to a simple observation. Everything is chopped up into tiny parts making us into experts of radar wheels instead of a whole car.

I see this in a lot of environments like Vue, React etc. They all seem to me to be built by and for large organizations/groups and not a solution for single developers or small groups.

There are a lot of tools and libraries that I would love to try but they seem to be 'out of scope' for me.
Sunsetting the “basic-card” payment method in the Payment Request API