skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came back and tried it. My reason for entering any random text and not coming back would be because the search results are presented like Pintrest or Digg rather than an easily scannable list format--search engines use formats for reasons. Great UX--if I wanted to pass time scrolling about programming instead of Instagram.

My suggestion would be to have all your developers use your search engine exclusively. Use their feedback, you may have already come up with many of the suggestions being presented here.
> why does it exist if it has zero chance? I will answer, it does have a chance, just a small one.. and the rewards are so large, it keeps happening.

Not necessarily, a bill can have value that's computed from something other than its expected chance of passing:

1. an inexpensive sop [1] to some constituency or interest group,

2. a psychologically-pleasing expression of genuinely-held beliefs that are out of step with the consensus,

3. a decoy meant to make some other bill look more reasonable in comparison,

4. legislative make-work,

5. etc.

[1] "something of little importance or value that is offered to stop complaints or unhappiness" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sop
It actually picks you up from your starting point, and drops you at your destination.
Maybe he just recycled the STRONGER patent act?
You could use holography/beamforming to steer a beam from a DLP, although it would be just a small % of the original power.
They won't, there's no train that can transport me from Bucharest (where I live) to Northern Italy (Bergamo, to be more precise) for just 15-20 euros, and this if we decide to ignore the big time differences between a plane flight and riding the train.

I love trains and I'm still a little afraid of flying and I would love for this advent of train transport all over the continent to be true, but the reality of the matter is that the physics go against it. What will probably happen is that the lower-income people will be forced to travel way less while being promised (through articles like this one) that the incoming changes won't be qualitatively different from what we used to know before the pandemic came. The same goes for car transport, which will also start to become more and more a luxury.
https://github.com/graphistry/pygraphistry + https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf if you're coming from the api / ds side, and GNNs side is more of a "let's chat!" thing for figuring out aligned collaborations (slack/email, all good!)
Psychedelic treatment for depression hits the mark in recent trial
Our institutions of learning are compromised.

Just give it up, NONE of the previous climate disaster predictions came true. NOT ONE.
Wrong about capacity but correct about range.

I have no idea why people keep thinking that batteries would work worse for 100 seats rather than nine seats. The technology is independent of scale except in the trivial sense that you need proportionally more battery and cost since you’re 10 times larger. True the range is less, but we have built jets that can go 40,000km. We don’t need that much range to do short flights, comparable in length to the California HSR project. Existing battery technology is more than sufficient for that.
I'm completely desensitized by this kind of news now.
This sounds great in theory. But rail services are very inefficient monopolies. Here in Germany, DB Services are routinely affected by strikes leaving no alternatives. So no trains cannot replace planes unless this situation is improved.
Balaji is definitely one of the more interesting people to follow. Here are some recent threads from him:

On the Gell-Man amnesia effect:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1456611599511212034

On woke capital:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1456344147103653889

On the status of SF:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1457407377167114243
Thanks for my dystopian link-of-the-day!
At least Tim will throw out some token email about how it's some vision for the future and peace and love for humanity or whatever other bullshit he says. But at least he pretends.

Under the hood I still think Apple is better to users but maybe more hostile to developers?
Automakers effectively pulled the rug out from under their chip suppliers by asking them to severely cut production, then turning around and asking for a lot more than their original quantity. In general, those suppliers canceled their supply capacity with their factory partner, so when automakers turned around and placed new orders, those factories already sold $xx months of that factory time to someone else, making it hard for the semiconductor manufacturers to get back to their own production capacity and fulfill the auto industry’s orders.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2021/06/15/car-chip-s...
> And also pretending those things don't exist on Linux.

As in, this kind of misbehavior existing on Linux distros? I'm not aware of any FOSS operating system trying to force one browser over another except for Chrom/ium OS (which isn't what most people mean when they say "Linux")
If you end up building anything that has an online frontend, and you'd like some feedback on security or infrastructure, I'd be happy to give it a thorough look over. Send me a message at femme@femmeandroid.com.

A GitHub profile is definitely valuable, but also just being able to describe what you've built and how it works can also be a huge help in interviews. Ask questions, try things, and be curious.

There are also some really good books out there. It depends on what you want to do, but since it sounds like you're able to be pretty self directed, just skimming a number of software development and design books can really help you go from having a lot of thinks that you don't even know exist, or what they're called to at least building out a framework of what exists in the industry.

Also, watching talks and listening to podcasts can be a nice break from the reading and the programming. They can give you bite sized insights into wildly different parts of software development. If you're planning on doing tech interviews, you're going to end up talking to developers, and when I was going through that the first time, I initially found that transferring my development knowledge from a thing I read about and practiced in isolation to a thing I could talk about was difficult.

I'm always working on improving my communications skills, but I do think listening to a diverse range of people discuss tech can get you more used to talking about it. If you have meetups or other ways to interact with people about development, that's going to be the best option. Also, feel free to check out some open source communities, especially if you're particularly interested in them (or the way they're built.)

Good luck!
I did similar things many times, though not as sophisticated. Using a chair on a table as a standing desk, etc. It's fine but at some point becomes an eyesore and makes you want some proper things.
I got covid in march. I had a fever for two days, about two weeks of congestion and mucus, and loss of taste/smell for a month. I had two antibody tests done, july and september. I was positive on both. Got the J&J in setember because it was becoming impossible to do anything without a vaccine card and it was worse than covid. One and a half days of chills, fever, sweating.

Whatever antibodies I got from my vaccine will probably disappear before my natural ones. I still don't understand the point of getting people who had a natural immunity to get vaccinated. There is little to no evidence natural immunity is worse, and compelling evidence it is superior to a vaccine (see: Israel study).

I remain convinced the CDC is in bed with the pharma companies producing the vaccines.
Infrastructure is ridiculously expensive today and train is the most expensive form of static infrastructure. Roads aren’t as expensive as railways and you can always take another route in case of maintenance.
computers have become way more pervasive and basic coding actually isn't that hard. i think that maybe for all the hassles it creates when things get complicated, it may be secondary to next generation ides that make coding easier along with a general population that grows evermore tech savvy and ready to learn with each passing year.

tldr; i think it solves yesterday's problem. people today are both more willing and more able to learn basic coding skills. the hard part for both visual environments and high level languages is getting the abstractions right for the building blocks and i think it's an easier problem with the expressiveness of text.
Be surprised if this doesn't get flagged or makes it to front page
You are either delusional or drunk.
There is nothing special about this. This is the basis of all MEMS technology used in lidar. Some VR goggle designs probably contain MEMS parts too. It is disingenuous to complain about the metaverse business model while oohing and aahing over the exact same technology used to implement it.
Solution is to get rid of the traditional bike rack and have a proper indoor, locked area for bikes.
Reading the headline and seeing the image for the first time, I legitimately thought the building was cracked and broken in real life and doomed. Looks pretty neat once I realized what it really was.
Here's an article on the technical challenges of a different treed building, Italy's Bosco Verticale:

https://global.ctbuh.org/resources/papers/download/2099-a-ne...

The weight of the soil and water isn't negligible, but it's not that bad. Most plants will grow happily in a tiny fraction of their root volume in nature, as long as precise irrigation delivers water (or fertilizer solution) just as it's needed. The practical root volume is probably chosen mostly based on the longest expected fault in the irrigation system.

The tiny root system also provides a very weak attachment to the building. Bosco Verticale strapped each tree to a vertical steel cable, plus various additional restraints.
Yeah "enterprise sales".
All that stuff is still being made and polluting, "mordor" is just further away.
This is just the quoted lead time. When the cycle eventually turns, there will be an enormous wave of push outs and cancellations and those who actually wanted the full order will get the product much sooner
ok good call -- but I think number three there is most likely in practice here.. monetary license bills don't seem like a candidate for "sincerely held beliefs" to me
By recognizing this:

"This Article explores the flaws inherent in this ethics of pediatric research. Specifically, it challenges the view from ethics that the law permits parents to consent to their children's inclusion in harmful or risky research to the extent that related invasions would meet legal maltreatment standards. More broadly, it challenges the movement to increase access to healthy children for harmful and risky research on the ground that it risks two important regressions: First, in its willingness to risk harm to individual children in the interests of the group, it threatens the progress the law has made in its development of the concept of the child as an individual worthy of respect in his or her own right, a concept that imagines parents as fiduciaries and that includes strong protections against invasions of bodily integrity. Second, in its failure to assure that the burdens of non-therapeutic research are not placed disproportionately on children of lower socioeconomic and minority status, it violates the antidiscrimination principle, which has only begun to make good on its promise of equal treatment for all children."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18354870/
The Linux Kernel Boot Process
I feel like microsoft is the same but instead of them telling you what they want the OS will just forcibly switch states and just DO whatever it wants.

I'm not an Apple defender by any stretch but personally it still never feels as agressively shitty as MS products
I zoomed in on the lawyers head and as I kept zooming in, I ended up with nothing but a big void on my screen. The AI logarithms do indeed have a pretty good idea of what is there.
Advertisements are not the same as fiction media. The entire point of an advertisement is to display the product and make it appealing to the consumer, and they you do that is by demonstrating its use. If you don't want people to use your car for street racing, you don't show tens of millions of people your car street racing as an incentive to get them to buy it.

What other product category advertises with felonious lawbreaking in the same way that car ads do?
Yes, sadly it's not on sci-hub it seems :/
Agreed but Oracle is also like a third tier player at this point.
By definition yes, but you need to prove the externality is there and actually worse than your proposed tax.
Persistent Covid-19 symptoms may have other causes, study finds
London’s international station is now St Pancras, which is much easier than Waterloo. It’s closer to Euston and Paddington, while Kings Cross is literally over the road.
Would you recommend it (if so why)? Not particularly jazzed about MS given their anti-user behavior with Windows.

Is Chromium the way to go?
Accusing people of being emotional seems more like doubling down on psychological warfare than an antidote.

Once you have declared someone’s position invalid because of their emotional state rather than their logic, that person can no longer trust you to take anything they say seriously.

In effect, you are declaring yourself to be an untrustworthy interlocutor.

I recognize that you may have the goal of increasing constructive conversations, but it’s not clear how this technique is going to serve that goal, game theory or not.
Yes, wearing a lanyard knowing that people will believe you to be with that company is dishonest, and doing so knowing that it will get you free stuff is fraud. And while we're at it, yes, bribing a company rep with free stuff in hopes of gaining an unfair advantage is fraud as well.
On a high level, ETL/ELT is about sending data from your SaaS tools into your data warehouse (you are reading from different tools). Reverse ETL is about getting data from your warehouse into tools (writing into different tools). Building ELT is a fundamentally different technical challenge than building Reverse ETL. Aspects like types, rate limits, and destination state (knowing whether data already exists in a destination) are unique to Reverse ETL. Visibility becomes challenging too as some destinations have unique quirks, like API contracts where you write to them but you don’t know if the write was successful or completed until later. Writing to tools also requires references between objects (foreign keys onto existing data, like mapping Companies and Opportunities in Salesforce) that aren’t necessary in the ELT world.

From a product perspective, the UX is very different as well. Reverse ETL requires a lot more user input (ex: mapping which fields to update in a tool), whereas ELT typically mirrors data using a standard schema (without much user customization involved).

We are close partners with ELT tools like Fivetran, and you can see our partnership post here: https://fivetran.com/blog/fivetran-partners-with-hightouch-t...
Sounds a lot like the platform i've been working in for the last year or so (coming from a pretty hard code software engineering background for the last 15 years) and continually finding it surprisingly capable. Do you mind to share the name of the platform?
Here is one angle: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/08/31/stuttgart-21s-...

In short, it's very expensive and it will quickly reach peak capacity and need expansion.
The jury has been in for a while. Humans are causing climate change. We're not going to do anything about it, future generations are just going to have to deal with it.
The takeaways in this article are much more why Go's memory model becomes difficult at scale. When you're dealing with memory at Discord scale garbage collection is hard, for example on the mentioned Discord microservice:

> There are millions of Users in each cache. There are tens of millions of Read States in each cache. There are hundreds of thousands of cache updates per second.

This is something that is probably never going to be hit locally in the development toolchain. You can certainly prefer the Rust memory system to Go and have that be a valid reason to use Rust over Go for something like dev toolchains, but you're not going to hit scale problems like those mentioned in the article.
I've never seen Ubuntu be a 10th as agressive on any front as windows is. Just an anecdote.
You can use netlify-plugin-nextjs - https://github.com/netlify/netlify-plugin-nextjs/blob/v3/doc... to host on Netlify.

And of course any regular NodeJS server works with next/image - https://nextjs.org/docs/deployment#other-hosting-options
For Python you could use the pyglet OpenGL library to do both 2D and 3D https://github.com/pyglet/pyglet

For Scratch, the pen tool extension works really well. I was just doing a demo on this for an elementary class the other day.
> > It was basically a very mild flu.

> Well, yeah, you're vaccinated.

While we're sharing anecdotes, I was unvaccinated when i got Covid and my experience was also that of a mild Flu. Contrasted with my brother in-law who was vaccinated and got Covid at the same time, our symptoms were on par. Same severity and duration.
Customers don't care about the block chain yadda-yadda. The value these companies provide is the uniform and optimized (well, at least for the average) user experience.

Users don't install apps and a lot of startups (or just app developers) don't get it. Yes, users on average they will have quite a few apps on their phones (lets say ~100ish), but there are millions of apps out there. And most users will just have one app per (most) category. Not only because it's inconvenient to go and install that new app and then register and maybe enter your card details (if you don't have google or apple pay), but because it's just easier to think "food => DoorDash" (or Wolt, or FoodPanda, etc.), "taxi => Uber" (or Bolt or maybe your local taxi company), "ride => Lime", "search => google", etc.

And once you have a lot of customers, the rest is simple. (Getting a lot of customers is hard and, of course, can't happen without building the other side of the business, but that's not the point.) If it wasn't for this, there would be competing delivery companies, multiple per cities, not just one, maybe two.
It's possible! It seemed like a sensible choice back in the early 90s when the answer to making a system for global use was UCS-2. I know Java was another one that went with that decision.
Frontend developers like to change frameworks every week it seems like, so it's in my best interest to learn every framework (or at least some abstracted part of it) in order to stay employable and up-to-date.

The problem is that each framework has their own abstraction and language that you have to learn. Compare it to "old-school" Java frameworks, where things were much simpler and you didn't have to worry about egregious layers of complexity to just render a DOM.

Grumble grumble
> Ubuntu is worse?

Yes.

> From personal experience [...]

Let me stop you right there: I don't give a rat's ass what your experience is. Sorry to have to put it so bluntly, but literally every single time someone admits to not liking Linux Desktop a Linux Desktop user crawls out of the woodwork to tell them how great everything is for them like they're supposed to care. I care what my experience is when it comes to things I use.

> And if Ubuntu isn't your thing than their or a million other linux OSes.

Most of them are even worse than Ubuntu. The best ones are only slightly better.

> And that's before we discuss OSx

Which is exclusive to Apple hardware I don't like and has even worse software support than Linux, especially if you count games and I do.
I don’t love that aspect myself, but I have to point out that in Svelte’s case it is definitely not “without a very compelling reason”. The special build-time processing is the entire point of Svelte.

Though personally I’d almost prefer it was a whole new language than a “kind of JS but with some (necessarily) new syntax”
Short answer is yes, but here's why:

By syncing data to a particular field in Salesforce, you're effectively saying that the source of truth for that field is the warehouse, and not Salesforce. If you expect a human to update a field, then Salesforce is the source of truth for that field, and Hightouch shouldn't write to it!

What we typically see is that Salesforce contains data that's expected to be updated and maintained in the tool, and then other "read-only" fields coming from Hightouch.
So.. the crank doesn't charge the battery?
Mostly they're just Bing searches.
Even better looks the new OTR merge strategy, which benefits everyone. Not only the tiny monorepo userbase.
I don't really understand this one. When I want to use the internet on Ubuntu i click the internet picture. When I want to use a spreadsheet I click the spreadsheet picture. When I want to download non dev stuff I click the app store picture and then search for what I want.

I don't buy this argument that the average person can't use Ubuntu. It's easier to use than windows in a vast majority of ways without ever touching a command line.
Go is active in this space too, esbuild is a very fast JavaScript bundler

- https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
The parent post I was responding to was saying that the reason trains cost more is that that aviation was being subsidized at the expense of trains. That's just wildly incorrect. They supported that position by taking one out of context fact. I remedied that by providing the overall context.

I was not making a judgement as to whether trains should be subsidized or not. That's a whole separate discussion. But since you bring it up, I'd say that in general, transportation of all kinds provides such massive positive externalities that it should probably be subsidized. Then we can debate how much more trains should be subsidized over airplanes, but both create massive net positive externalities, IMO.
I hate it.

Some time (not long) ago I was working remotely on some software that was driven by an API on a remote server maintained by some folks in a different country. A long way from me.

Cutting a long story short I realised that the lack of control over the server was because they really did not know how it worked, or how to fix it or diagnose issues their server was having.

It was a laraval/MS-SQL system built from building blocks supplied by Microsoft. They wired all the blocks together in a GUI and look! It works!

* Putting images into a UU-encoded text field worked for images <7MB... The actual images the customers want are >10MB

* Low levels of activity it was reliable. Under load it randomly dropped sessions.

* They did not seem to know what logging was, or how to use it. I was supplying them with problem reports, carefully noting the time - and getting ghosted. I realised they had no way of knowing what their software was doing, or did. They could only set it up to do what they hoped.

* The stored times as wall clock time strings "2019-02-12T03:02:12.123" No time zone included. Time series data worth a lot of money. "What happens when daylight savings repeats an hour or skips one?" I asked. No answer. This infected the whole system. I spent a lot of time fighting dates, and was that in the past? Future? Is that supposed to be now?

Back in 1997 we had more reliable, and higher quality software, on a telehoused 486 Apache/Perl/Postgres system. But we compiled it from source and edited the configuration files by hand.

"No code" might be OK for Aunties cookie recipes, but for building infrastructure it is rot