skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By your logic a World of Warcraft reference is also nationalistic. Western engineers can make the most convoluted cultural references possible with no criticism but something as innocuous as naming a processor after a fictional metal attracts accusationa of nationalism.
Agreed, that blog post was pure cringe from start to finish.
The difficult part is to return to the exact position in the page. I guess that returning to the top of the same comment page is a change in one line.
There’s a certain churn to it sure, but I wouldn’t call all the development “sidesteps” I think it’s just the scope of changes that’s staggering. You knew jquery, gulp and express and you were fine, but thats such a low low bar if you take the whole of human achievement in CS. Web developers just re-experience the growth and invention of all the other branches. For example you get virtual dom with react - an idea that’s been in client side’s dev arsenal for quite a while. Webpack/esbuild are re-discovering compilers, etc.

It’s all just a process of convergence in my eyes. And if I put it in that way I can cope with it. Any new fancy library comes up - I check ok were have the ideas come from, language, environment etc. Go read that and understand the original concepts, and then watch the web dev slowly move in that direction.

To be honest it’s pace is sometimes actually frustratingly slow if anything. You can see some Ideas that have been tested and you think they would be great, but takes time to actually permeate into web dev.
>Florida, Nevada, Massachusetts...).

I don't see anything odd about those exceptions.

>Florida

Old people vote.

>Nevada

unenforced unless you're making a complete ass out of yourself like every other nuisance law there.

>Massachusetts

puritanical standards of behavior run deep.
> Wouldn't it be easier to carve a rock to a standard shape than to fit one particular hole?

Presumably you go find the closest matching rock you already have and then work from that.
That doesn't apply if you defraud the rich people. Ask Bernie Madoff.
They are not excited about any product. They're only excited by the thought of how much money they can make with it. The more money, the more exciting the product is. "This product is exciting! Why are you not excited? I'm gonna make a load of money by selling it to you!"
Only 3-4 appointments would have been considered a bad day, by this woman. You'd think it'd be exhausting but they are usually young and have a lot of energy, and 3-4 hours work is a lot less than most people do per day. The men come to them usually. For the high throughput cases they team up with another girl who pretends to be them on the phone and handles the scheduling and screening because that's also a full time job.

So within two weeks (working 6-7 days per week) it's easy to pack in like 80 different punters and there's a limited supply in most towns. Most men aren't visiting, and there are plenty of other girls competing for the business. In a big city sure you can't saturate it but there's also correspondingly much more competition and the police are more active, so some of them prefer to avoid the cities and stick to the smaller conurbations.

Most men don't share any PII. They pay in cash and may or may not use their real names. If they get "banned" it's the phone number that gets banned.
Hotwire is not really a skill. It's a tiny lib that lets your old school server rendered app feel like an SPA. There are obviously other options for your serverside code you can use c if it's up your alley.
South Korea tests first domestically made rocket as it pursues satellite launch
If you have ever read a supreme court transcript and thought "why did one of our justices ask this really obvious question", this is half of the reason.

The other half is ensuring that certain things get into the official judicial record.
This article starts with a nice premise but then devolves to one long humblebrag.
There are many skills where to acquire them you need to power through a phase of looking very stupid to make any initial headway at all. Getting through this is the difference between success and failure.

Recently, I've been learning to sing better, with a focus on my higher register. One of the reasons most people cannot sing high notes well is that you inevitably have to go though a phase of singing high notes badly (and very loudly) first. Being a 'bad singer' (especially thanks to TV talent shows) is often seen as a paragon of looking like a dumb, shameful, naive idiot who overestimates their ability and lacks talent. This is despite the fact that every good singer was once a bad one.

I've noticed this same pattern in varying degrees of extremity across many sills I've picked up over the years. It is when you are in the 'stupid' phase, regardless of what is is you are learning, you're unlikely to get any sympathy positive reinforcement from the world, before then hitting an inflection point where you get loads. Knowing that you need to push through this to succeed is golden.
This entire article reads like a vonnegut novel. Its so close to being self aware that i cannot tell whether it actually intends to be ironic.
I think this is a good observation about the impact that confidence can have on some (mine included) peoples ability to learn.
In this way, low confidence can have both the direct effect of denying you access to information that would allow you to improve, but also more sinister, it can deny you the mental ability to actually learn something, even if the information was available to you, since the learning itself will mean that there's things you don't know. Being aware that you don't know or can't do something can feel very bad if you lack the confidence in your ability to get to know or do it, and we tend to avoid feeling bad, and so may abandon the endeavor.
Interesting. In India, there is a similar bus company called IntrCity which partners with other bus owning and operating companies and just apply their name to the service.
That just means there is no shortage.
Once I've heard "never let your ego stand in the way to your goals". It does marvels, both in personal and business life.
Some of the things mentioned in the article make me think the opposite of what the article is titled. The lack of transparency into the thought process of the individual shows that there is a willingness to not look stupid by giving away reasons which might seem silly, otherwise they'd be more direct in the way they ask questions so as to also reveal their thought process.

If you care about what people think of you, perhaps you should first ask if there's anything you can change instead of expecting more from others.
I have to say, this example did make me switch my view of the author from some one who wasn't afraid to ask the "stupid" questions to being either a deliberately "just asking questions" asshole who likes to fuck with people or, to be more charitable, someone with a bit of a spectrum disorder.
That's not an especially useful comparison, though. Cuba and the UAE combined are about the same population as Wuhan, which is a city nobody had even heard of 2 years ago.

Not to discount their success but small countries will always have an easier job than larger ones, since geographic and population scales make everything harder.

I'm pretty sure you can find municipalities of 10-20 million people in China that are more vaccinated that UAE or Cuba.
Same for me. It seems to be completely broken on Firefox.
Don't stone walls in Europe use the same technique?
I couldn't disagree more. You can have both kinds in both fields. Regular straightforward coding or discovery coding. I'm currently trying to derive a timeout monad, I have no clue how and trying hours of dead ends before starting from scratch.

It hurts but it's my own pain. I decide how much, the kind, the time...

In it jobs, social interactions cause so much friction, information uncertainty, bad dependencies .. it adds to the raw effort.

That said it also helps avoiding rabbit holes too deep.
No Clip also has good documentaries on how various games were made.
Every drug dealer I've met is a part of the community they work in. Can't say that about any of the global corps.
People who jump to conclusions show other kinds of thinking errors
That's not how monopoly works
Which example?
Gizmodo tech journalist Shoshana Wodinsky on the ethics of adtech
Facebook can't hide its problems behind a new name
How curious. I thought the first one was good, the second was great, and the last was genius.
Do you fly a Gadsden flag, perchance?
This whole post just reads as a shallow attempt to justify odd behaviour and poor communication and try to disguise it as some argument against vanity (while ironically being quite vain as his tone comes off as high handed).

I wonder how many times he thought he knew better and it bite him in the arse? He did allude to it, but I suspect it far more often than he would be willing to admit.

> Car insurance: the last time I bought car insurance, I had to confirm three times that I only wanted coverage for damage I do to others with no coverage for damage to my own vehicle if I'm at fault. The insurance agent was unable to refrain from looking at me like I'm an idiot and was more incredulous each time they asked if I was really sure

This is typically more expensive as people that get third party insurance are usually newer (and younger drivers) so the insurance company will charge you more because their algorithm for determining cost will factor that in. So I don't doubt he was getting strange looks because it likely cost him more money and you don't get the obvious benefit of full comprehensive.

This and the laptop situation screams of "I made a strange request and didn't explain my motivations and then I wondered why I got strange looks".

It is just him communication poorly. Which isn't anything to brag about.

> On the flip side, the person I was living with at the time didn't want to wear the mask I got her since she found it too embarrassing to wear a mask when no one else was and become one of the early bay area covid cases, which gave her a case of long covid that floored her for months

The whole mask effectiveness isn't as straight forward as he thinks it is. His flatmate after the mixed messaging from the media probably thought it was a wash and decided to just fit in with everyone else and was unlucky as a result.

I have no idea why this guy is so popular. Whenever I read anything from him he seems completely unlikeable.

EDIT: Rephrasing.
M1 was 10 years in the making. So I wouldn't hold my breath for Qualcomm or anyone else.
That increases your exposure if many of your customers are IN China.
You're basically saying that both demand is exceeding supply (=shortage) and that demand is weak enough that supply increases aren't worth it. That's not a shortage. That's just a price equilibrium i.e. business as usual.
"What does .class.class do"

It selects elements with the class `class` that also have the class `class`. The example might be a little abstract but it could be something like `.message.highlight`, which selects all elements with the class `message` that also have the class `highlight`.

Classes are for classification, IDs are identification.
For styling you almost never need identifiers because that is not what styling is about.

<div class="message highlight">
.message.highlight {}

is much better than

<div id="highlightMessage">
#highlightMessage {}

IDs are like singletons: not reusable.
In Germany they have buses labeled with flixbus logos. It didn’t seem like partnerships.

Perhaps partners are how they established a foothold in America?
He said surgeons, not doctors.
Less brackets and free paredit support. I'm so sold.
After reading the first couple paragraphs it felt like Dan was telling stories about my life, not his, down to the detail it's almost creepy. Specifically this paragraph stood out:

Back in college, there was one group of folks that, for whatever reason, stood out to me as people who really didn't understand the class material. When they talked, they said things that didn't make any sense, they were struggling in the classes and barely passing, etc. I don't remember any direct interactions but, one day, a friend of mine who also knew them remarked to me, "did you know [that group] thinks you're really dumb?". I found that really delightful and asked why. It turned out the reason was that I asked really stupid sounding questions.

And that group of people, when they failed tests or scored badly, it was always the test that was "unfair".

I wanted to write a blog post about this very topic for a long time, but it has now become obsolete because there's no way I could do a better job than Dan. Outstanding.
This title spoke to me. I work with some very talented engineers. I often feel like I'm asking stupid questions. A couple coworkers treat me like I'm an idiot. But I don't really care. I'd rather know than have an ego.
i think you’re conflating luxury with performance and practicality. Parent probably means things like smoothness of ride, seat quality and feel, sturdiness of dashboard etc.
How about this really good app called a fucking browser
> I added more air filtration capacity when I moved to a wildfire risk area

Well, okay, but maybe the non-stupid thing is to not move to a wildfire risk area.

In general the list of circumstances where the author was willing to "look stupid" to strangers because he was, in fact, clever and seeing into the future, is mildly irritating.

Feynman's first wife put it better: "what do you care what other people think?"
>>How about conscription? I would argue forcing people to join an armed conflict is a much bigger transgression on your freedom than a vaccine mandate, would you not?

First and foremost just because government has not used its power of conscription does not mean it has relinquished said power, in fact it has also expanded that power recently where by Women will not be required to sign up for the daft, aka selective service. Failure to do so has many penalties attached to it.

So this also fails the test on if government is weaker today then since WWII.

Further still even if the selective service was abolished I am not sure that eliminates the idea of conscription given that most of the military is made up of men and women who "choose" that path in life based on economic conditions impart created by governments monetary manipulation beginning in the 1970's [1]

>>Local government can just as much restrict your individual freedoms (and arguably do) as federal government.

While this is true, it is much much much easier to escape oppressive or non-functional local governments than it is to escape federal governments. This is why unpopular laws are often attempted at the federal level because if done at a local or state level people and businesses will just move to a new state or city to escape them, we see this all the time.

So I completely acknowledge that a local government could become just as if not more authoritarian as the federal government but that would still be preferred over a totalitarian nation state. It is far easier to move from California to Texas than it is to move from the US to Europe, or Europe to the US.

[1]https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Twitch doesn't allow uppercase letters in usernames
> not well executed

Aw! :(

For the record I like Electron a lot and am usually the one to defend it on HN, but it indeed was a comment on binary size, needless duplication and copy-paste culture ;)
I use an inline svg for mine... which is really just a poop emoji.
This seems to have different result than DDG? Searching for "a320" returns mere 4 results, and anything slightly obscure returns 0.
Well, you’re not exactly comparing like to like then, are you? Graphene OS is optimised for other things than raw speed.

Fwiw, I’ve just filmed my 4a at 60Hz & imported the video in a non-linear editor & it takes 2.1s to go from a tap on the icon to displaying the HN homepage.

It takes 0.7s for curl to load the HN homepage (compression on, but ignoring CSS & images) on the same network.
Maybe.

The comment and the article doesn't advocate repetition for repetition sake. It serves as a warning against prematurely trying to "factor out" seemingly related code that can, later or in that moment, prove to not be exactly the same. This complicates the "refactored" or "improved" piece of code, as it now has to serve different purposes, maybe requiring more parameters, or a more complex state input. This further complicates the callsites of all the clients of the new DRY piece, adding complexity to the system which is more often than not worse than the original state.

It also makes everything around those places more difficult to change over time.

Since this "refactor" is often easy to spot, it tends to be abused by less experienced developers trying to improve things, or "advocates" of this practice that aren't in touch with how it can end up causing more damage than it fixes.

A DRY refactor has much higher chance to stand the test of time if you know enough about the system and how it will evolve at the time of performing it.

As with most things, it's about striking a balance. Since the internet is full of DRY! refactor! advice, this serves as a counter to the mindless call to DRY by adding some nuance.

But OFC there are instances in which code that is exactly the same is copy pasted around even if it's known one won't diverge from the other and done out of laziness... that'd be the trivial, positive DRY refactor case.
Groceries in 10 minutes: NYC has become a testing ground for ultrafast delivery
I'm assuming you caught the bit about "millions cast into slavery in North and South America". A legacy which still lives on.

Much of the stability of North America is built on that slavery (and the 100-million or so lives it cost), genocide of the original inhabitants (another mass killing of as many as 100 million), and of course, the protective moat of thousands of miles of ocean east and west.

Europe's own most stable polities are also shielded by water (Britain) and/or terrain (Scandinavia).
I'll offer an alternative "fact" for burned out web devs: there is something called a backend and the weather is beautiful. Consider moving there.
I think it is measure of time, for author it looks simple to put everything in few words instead of having long explanation, I find this typical in IT, where my coworkers all the time trying to compress explanation in fewest words possible. Maybe laziness or type of optimization, but usually back fires as other people ask you multiple questions, arising from their own point of view.
武侠 (Wuxia) culture is big in Alibaba. Everyone has a 花名 (alias / nickname) in the company. In the early days, people just picked names from 金庸 (Jin Yong)'s novels. Jack Ma's 花名 is 风清扬, who is a great sword master in one of the novels. Source: I had a short stint there.

Picking 玄铁, which also comes from Jin Yong's novel, seems rather natural in that context.

Jin Yong's novels are very popular in Chinese speaking countries and regions. Most readers won't associate them with China. I don't think it has anything to do with national pride. Culture pride? I don't see much either.
Ahh, thanks for the reassurance!
That's a pretty good record, I still have it. The opening song sounds like a marble falling on a huge sheet of glass. Quite the sound effect for the time.
Just tried OpenSCAD a couple days ago. The fact that intersection and difference operations often result in z-fighting is extremely frustrating. I read that that it was standard practice to manually account for this by "cutting more than you need". Such bandaid workarounds shouldn't need to exist. It's disappointing because conceptually OpenSCAD is very promising, but fundamental issues like this combined with the overly verbose syntax are holding it back.
We don't have it. The system I describe should be less about interacting with others and convincing them that they are wrong, and more about allowing me to explore my own ideas and find the core principles that underlie them. I'd be fascinated to have a system prompt me with questions about my position, point out where my thinking isn't joined up, tell me what my sacred cows are. Some positions I'll be able to back up with a reference to a statistic, others will boil down to "I just think it, but I don't know why". A system that points out where I use a word in two different ways, a kind-of unintended bait-and-switch inside my own head. Because so many heated debates end without resolution because both parties are talking past each other with different definitions of words and phrases. We're so hung up on specific words that we'll flip a table when someone says the wrong thing, even if there's no intended malice, because it wins the argument or gets someone blocked/banned. Important discussions descend to the level of "well if that's what I am what are you", "you can't triple stamp a double stamp, Lloyd", "LA LA LA LA LA LA".

Where do we have this system that simply lacks funding?
Surprised it mentions his film appearances, but doesn't mention The Prestige.
It’s already done. It just doesn’t have FDA approval…
What does it mean for something to exist then? Does an apple exist in the same sense that a number exists?

There is something in common between two chairs; there is something in common between a red ball and a red book; there is something in common between 21 sheep and 21 dry peas. It is _emphatically_ unclear that each of these three statements of 'existence' have anything at all to do with each other except in the most intuitive sense - that they refer to things which are as opposed to are not. At some point the bar for existence becomes so low that Harry Potter exists - really exists - because we can conceive of the idea of him. The question of whether numbers 'exist' is more than that.
So far I've only seen the originals, a DX7ii would be hard because I don't have a stash of spares for them so the first couple would likely end up as donors.
> use things like Intl.NumberFormat in the browser, rather than home-grown 'group 3 digits and insert a comma then join again'.

That home grown solution wouldn’t work in many western countries either, where comma is a decimal separator and dot/period is the thousands separator.
I don't know. It just wasn't mentioned here yet.
Having the labs make a new strain of vaccine is relatively trivial. You just change the sequence that is being replicated.
How Many Thursdays?
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Wikipedia quote, 2050...

"IPv6 was a failed standard, an attempt to.... " "replaced by more sensible IPv8..."
Customers buying from black markets have less choice.

If I want drugs, I buy the drugs the dealer is pushing.

In a legal market for sex, a customer can be more selective, so the less desired workers will lose customers.

When weed was legalized the bottom rung of the weed dealers, lost their market to stores who suddenly offered a better option to consumers.

Marginalization in the cannabis dealer scene would be poor people who sell a bit of weed to make ends meet or cheap/free weed in exchange for dealing.
Hydrogen is a big player in grid storage but Vanadium fuel cells, pumped hydro, more grid tie-ins all have a role.

As much as I’d like to believe hydrogen would be a great commuter car power plant, efficiency (and I mean well to wheel efficiency), safety of high pressure hydrogen, wear snd tear (mirai cars are not doing great after 6-7 years) need to be solved.
Given that I started this discussion I think I have a understanding of what is under discussion.

The main thesis that was/is being debated is one on corruption and the feedback loop between government and corporations. For which I contend that governments created corporations to shield these entities from liability.

you described one type of liability which excluded other types, I maintain that my original comment has a greater scope