skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I compare modernist architecture and architects to James Joyce's "Ulysses": lot of writers and critics love Ulysses but to most of us it's incomprehensible. To have any chance of appreciating Ulysses you have to have an understanding of literature and then work at applying that to the text. (I also suspect there's a bit of intellectual snobbery.)

I am not an architect but I've done a far amount of amateur studying and I find some modernist architecture interesting and/or fascinating. It definitely helps to understand what the architect was trying to accomplish. I can see why other architects--who have the background to understand--would like the examples in the original article.

But public buildings shouldn't require the general public to have a background in architecture to appreciate them. This disconnect between architects and the public is the root of the problem.
I'm in the opposite camp - I love the short object syntax in JS and the way it mirrors destructuring. I'm very happy to see something similar come to Ruby! But, that said, I think that the Ruby version is ugly compared to JS and the extra colons are noisy. I assume there's some reason why the parser can't read `{ x, y }`, as ruby is notoriously hard to add syntax to.
You should start considering the author more, cooks you like will probably sell recipes to a variety of publishers and any given publisher's quality is likely to vary wildly at any kind of scale.
The quote says "three... public companies"
A submarine cannot surface at the south pole.
It's the staggering cost of building rails. It takes an extreme amount of money, and it pays off over a long horizon.

I don't think there's enough confidence that trains will retain popularity over that long of a horizon. Climate change regulation might threaten it, another form of transportation might threaten it (i.e. flying, or underground super speedways), or remote work take off and cut demand for travel. Who knows, but I don't think anyone wants to stake billions of dollars on it.

Then there's the fact that we've passed a lot of regulations since the last time we built a lot of railways. The environmental ones are a real killer for anything that traverses a lot of terrain, because you'll inevitably end up buried in a sea of lawsuits requiring surveys.

The latest high-speed passenger rail I've seen is California's, which is up to an $80 billion budget for ~800 miles of track. I'm sure people will argue it's a bad example, but that's a massive investment, and it won't make returns until it's built. There aren't a lot of people that are willing to put $80 billion on the line in a flailing business sector, where they don't expect to see returns for at least a decade.
The building has not yet been built.
https://plainoldrecipe.com/ does this!
It's hard to accept this.
The Indicator from Planet Money podcast just did an episode on Zillow with the same thesis: https://www.npr.org/2021/11/08/1053689886/ibuyers-zillow-and...
So much more objective science and thus progress needs tenure and randomized first grants?
> I'm an EU citizen as well as an American one. If you go to the suburbs in the outskirts of Paris, you will see what I am talking about. (the so-called "banlieue")

I’ve been there, thanks, and it’s not nearly as bad as the poor parts of Chicago or Detroit where I’ve also been. You’re completely detached from reality if you think otherwise. Have you even actually been to a poor area of a large America city? You’re also about 10x more likely to be murdered in those cities than in Paris.

> The US is going to have more obvious poverty also because they are more accepting of immigrants from impoverished countries.

Bullshit, there are basically zero first generation immigrants in Detroit. All Americans pretty much. Unless you don’t consider oppressed grandchildren of slaves as Americans?!

>> Look at the average lifespan of an EU citizen that’s almost 10 years longer than an American citizen.
Laughably false. A 10 year difference would be ridiculous!

Fair, I was more thinking Italy specifically because I’m half Italian, but the average European still lives three years longer than the average America, which is pathetic considering the wealth in America.

> You can look up everything that I am talking about. The (non-European) immigrant communities in Europe are incredibly poor, but kept out of sight because European development models involve affluent city centers and pushing minorities out to the suburbs, rather than the reverse which occurs in the US.

If you’re selective about data like that, I can be selective about data too, and show you how black and brown oppressed communities in America have way worse social outcomes than the average American. What you’re saying about Europe is no different in America, it’s actually more extreme in America and more violent because of lax gun control.

> The US certainly has problems with these sorts of things, but headlines like:
https://www.newsweek.com/french-activists-39-percent-paris-t...

Yeah, you’ve definitely never worked in a major midwestern city, because stuff like this still happens all the time, the racist have learned to just not be blatant about it. All you have to do is look at the C level executives at most American companies to see it. I’ve seen it first hand when I’ve tried to hire non white people in Canada and it was a battle for me. I have no idea why you think this is exclusive to France. I get that Bay Area companies are sometime more progressive, but companies in cities like Huston or Chicago, not so much, there’re still plenty of racists.
GE Aviation's main competitor in the US is Pratt & Whitney, and PW's parent United Technologies did this same kind of maneuver in 2020. Two companies were spun off and the resulting company focused on aerospace. Then, quickly thereafter, UTX merged with Raytheon. So I expect GE Aviation will begin either a merger or go on an acquisition spree to expand their power in the defense contracting space. They are competing with other huge conglomerates like Boeing, Lockheed, Northrup, and General Dynamics. I wonder if they will try to merge with Honeywell (again). I'll bet they will at least examine it.
Very confused by the example of the "pin" operator given here - what is it for, and what is the improvement in this release?
Suppose I never want to know what my software is doing...
> or as a clear prediction that has came true in the world.

Impossible standard to prove.

> Which means I don't trust almost anything in psychology, social sciences, or quirky health, nutrition and lifestyle recommendations if they don't sound like something somebody from 1000 years ago could have done.

The myth of the paleo* = good is so dumb.
Microsoft has changed, though. WSL2, VS Code are things I wouldn’t have expected from them 20 years ago. Azure, .NET core, and MSSQL all with first class Linux support was unimaginable.

Now, they do still have a long way to go, but change like this takes time, it’ll always be a story of two steps forward one step back, and, perhaps most importantly, doesn’t happen all at once in an org the size of Microsoft. Some teams/departments are going to jump onboard this way sooner than others.
Hiya!

You can learn more about me in a few places:

* https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/about/ (probably most relevant, includes career history and podcast interviews)
* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mooreds has HN stuff
* https://github.com/mooreds which has links to most of my social profiles
* https://www.mooreds.com/about.shtml (oldschool, see .shtml!)

Hope this helps.
Why do you think I called it the "wrong" fist?
Hm. Do you think this is deliberate to filter out people with certain prejudices? Or do they genuinely think it’s a good design?
FYI: This twitter account, related to Kentik (The network observability company) often has some insights on these matters. If anyone has other sources which go deeper than the normal status sites, I am interested to learn of them.

https://twitter.com/DougMadory/status/1458090076945240067?s=...
That's a giant leap in logic. She wouldn't even save money, the company would. I doubt this was the only test they did on the steel. It might have been that from her perspective she got the same steel over and over again, and just didn't do the work, because she was lazy.
2021 toolkit for workplace wellbeing [pdf]
Hi. I'm an artist who works exclusively digitally.

Getting paid for my work is a solved problem, I can draw a thing for a client and get money via PayPal or any of the other payment processors competing with it. I have a Patreon campaign to let my fans toss money in my tipjar for me to go draw whatever the heck I want to draw. So do people who make videos and 3d work. I see them doing it all the damn time.

Neither of these methods involve a system where huge numbers of people are converting energy into waste heat as they compete to be the one who gets the token reward for recording a pathetically small number of transactions.

"Proof of ownership"? How about "I have the source file and you don't"? How about "I have an email chain with the artist that goes from asking if they're open for work, through agreeing to a contract, and multiple WIP files, to a final rendering, source file, and settling up of the finances"? Why does converting energy into waste heat in competition to be the one rewarded for recording a tiny number of transactions need to be involved at all?
I think you could run this service on CloudFront Functions, if you didn't mind using a Refresh header instead of the meta tag.

(CloudFront Functions can't generate body content, but it looks like this service works by responding with a refresh meta tag. So if you change that to a Refresh header you wouldn't need to write the body.)

CloudFront functions run on the 200+ edge locations of CloudFront and, according to the docs, have sub-millisecond startup times. So might be a viable option?
Lockdowns comfort me, knowing that I have less chance to get (and spread, if I do happen to have it) the virus if I'm not out and about.
Dividends are taxed. At the end of the day, you have to calculate your total return. And with dividends it's lower. Not worth it.
Thanks! The link you share is indeed the best one to learn more about the book.
If NFTs actually solved problems around centralization, FAANG companies wouldn't be interested in them.

Twitter isn't promoting Mastodon, it's promoting NFTs. Reddit isn't opening up its APIs to 3rd parties, it's minting tokens. The fact that the same sites that centralized the web in the first place are interested in NFTs is strong evidence that they don't see NFTs as a threat to their control.
I don't think you're phrasing your idea well. Perhaps you mean that any piece of software that allows surveillance has the propensity to trend toward being misused? It seems to me spyware is a loaded word and has its connotations. What has happened here has been on a massive scale very quickly in a way we have not seen before.

Edit: For example, remote sensors placed in a power plant or foundry where people work also would constitute surveillance. But it is in an environment where carefully calibrated machines can otherwise fail catastrophically.
There are plenty of things to control for when designing and producing steel. An important consideration for some applications is the brittle to ductile transition temperature. Some steels have a DBTT around 0­°C, which means that they loose most of their impact resistance below that temp. By adjusting the chemistry, processing methods, and post-processing methods, you can adjust the DBTT of steel down below -70°C. My guess is that they were being paid to supply steel with a DBTT below -70°C, and that the contract included proof testing. The standard testing method would be a Charpy impact test at various temperatures. It sounds like they were making complex castings, so they probably had some non-standard testing requirements.

More info:

https://www.punchlistzero.com/dbtt-ductile-brittle-transitio...

https://knifesteelnerds.com/2018/12/21/why-cold-steel-is-bri...
That would possibly work for 3D first person games that do some kind of frustum culling of game data, which is an interesting idea. But Nebulous is a 2D top-down game so its not really applicable.

That said, I vaguely remember a similar sounding technique used in the Diablo 2 map hacks of yore. I think you could simulate your character moving around somehow (locally) to reveal the entire map. There were other techniques as well.

For something more along the lines of "An intermediate's guide to game hacking techniques" look up diablo 2 hack implementations. In my unprofessional opinion that is the most hacked multiplayer game of all time in terms of variety and creativity. Examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/24h8gh/how_were_peo...

Edit - oh just remembered a fun D2 anecdote: someone was able to memory-inject a keylogger on my machine and steal my password when I attempted to pick up an item he had dropped in the game. Not fun at the time!
TL;DR: provide fake weather reports so that pilots fly into bad weather
It's an expensive paid subscription, but the America's Test Kitchen website is basically a professionally maintained cooking information index. The standards of information are much higher than a wiki (they do scientific method testing of every tool, technique and recipe). Unfortunately there is one thing that annoys me, which is that there are full page ads for their other products, even if you are already a subscriber.
It depends, will they get US subsidies?
Urrgh. We don't have a general channel for exactly that reason. We have a channel for general chit-chat that is nothing to do with work but that's as close as it gets. Anything else work related goes into subject/team/project specific channels. We even have a shoutouts channel specifically for bigging up someone who has done a good job at something.

general channels are cancer in any communication system as far as I've experienced.
Once you document it you can’t change it. That’s why internals rarely get documentation and serious thought is given to what should be a public API.
With blockchain, is it not the person who spends money to verify it gets trusted? There's no sense that the other nodes endorse the message, just that it won the auction.
Certainly an interesting account, it possibly hints at something else. Namely that lack of mercenaries were an anomaly unfortunately as forces conspire - people capable of violence and willing to take risks will want money and people with money will want other people to take the risk, and add layers of deniability.

If I recall correctly part of the reason why mercenaries were excluded from Geneva Convention protections and banned via treaties was because of massive raiding, raping, and looting from continental rogue armies after their masters lost the ability to pay for them. That sort of "wildfire" and backlash made it acceptable to the nations to agree it would be better for them to not have it, similar to partisans and Free-Shooters.

While they may technically wind up working both for and against the countries involved if they were condoned or not hints at what sorts of conditions they would prefer both them and their foes to have. There were all sorts of politics involved in the treaty.

Even now PMCs are infamously "mercenaries but under offical backing of a recognized nation as opposed to any rando with cash".

On a tangent it brings to mind a silly mental image of a cartel or street gang aiming for lawful combatant status.
I hope not -- unlike the other site you still have to go to the source to read the recipe, so hopefully this doesn't have an impact on their ad revenue.
I imagine it’s no different than an artist selling a painting they claim is one of a kind but isn’t.
As an individual I'm on Mac, and Linux for my server needs.

As a business I work with clients that run Windows for their own reasons I have no control over. I've found it easiest to develop on Windows for those clients and I welcome the option to have easy access to some tools I like via WSL2.
Thank you to share you insights about Seoul vs Busan! I never knew about the history of Busan. I have heard similar things about Tokyo vs Osaka, where people in Tokyo are comparatively less open (to random, public interactions) and more personally reserved.
great article. This seems similar to the idea of eliminating wrong answers to try to guess the right answer if you don't know the right answer from given choices.
It is actually the other way around. The book was drawn from the website. About 10% of the book is new content (not available on the website) and the other 90% was rewritten and reviewed by both copy editors and technical reviewers.

Anyway, the website is forever free and is here: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/

Cheers!
This would be more valid if crypto didn't start as something accessible by everyone (I remember many years ago mining bitcoin, successfully, on a macbook) and become an expensive toy over time.

Sure, it might go back down to being a genuine decentralised currency as it was always meant to be, but the same could be said for the old currencies that became investment vehicles like gold.

As for NFT's, I'm steering clear of them for now, but from what I know they're actually quite centralised, even though from a technical standpoint they don't have to be.
blockchain as a mechanism for doing things that are not financial speculation, scams, energy-waste-machines, etc., sure. IPFS seems like a legitimately interesting concept, as do many other things you could have on a blockchain like identity management. I want to be clear here: cryptocurrencies and blockchain are both not the same thing and should not be talked about in the same way.
That service does not get said exclusives until many years later, if ever.
Yes, I'm not justifying what she did. I am, however, curious if the requirement was "stupid" or not.
Are the filters working properly? I tried filtering for "almond flour" which comes up as an ingredient option, but got no results
Windows with WSL gives you both a "real" Linux (closer than the bsd stuff on Macs), and the support Windows gets (My mouse is still annoying to use on Macs even though the software is fully supported). I can use the same machine for gaming without shenanigans.

Its the best of all worlds. The only friction now is that Microsoft has been making the UX for Windows gradually worse with every patch in Win10. Some of it got better in Win11. If I could get a Win7-esque UX, but with the features of recent versions and with WSL2, it would be the perfect OS for me.

Now instead I bounce between all 3.
And for the countries in which they aren't differently taxed than stock appreciation gains?
There was a similarly designed building someone linked to in a previous thread that had rave reviews pre-Covid.
Ok, so you're comparing absolute numbers between things in different categories and with wildly different liquidity levels. And then I don't get how comparing NFTs to "leaving valuable packages completely unsecured outside" is supposed to help your case. And if we believe 1/3rd is accurate, the easiest crime of theft on the planet is only getting us to 1/3rd? Last time I checked, 1/3rd was significantly less than 1/2. Generally, when people say "most", they mean "50%, plus at least one person".

This is why I've muted "NFT" on Twitter. You can't get answers out of proponents without them massively shifting the goal posts.
At least with carriers we'd have more competition, now everything you mention is basically controlled by two companies. I'm not sure if that's any better.
Secure way to set up GitHub repository in shared remote machine
I'd say it is a good example of how not to take yourself too seriously. The contrast is cool too! He's achieved quite a bit and expressed it in such a cool and playful way.
You.com
This is linking to the websites in question. It's not too different than GWS, except in that it's not linking to any sites that include back stories.
Color raises $100M series E on a $4.6B valuation
Archana's Kitchen (archanaskitchen.com) sometimes, and I'm currently working through Delia Smith's cookery course book, many (all?) recipes of which are available at deliaonline.com actually. I'm also working through Dishoom's (restaurant) book, which I think is not available online.

Aside from those I don't really have go-to places, I tend to prefer to read through a few (i.e. just whatever top few results searching for the thing I'm thinking of making) for a general idea and inspiration of particular flavours, then 'wing it'. In future I'll try using Stovetop for that search :).

Edit: Oh yes and BBC Goodfood as sibling commenter pointed out. That's often where I search actually (because it's multiple author) rather than a general search engine, so if it were a Stovetop source I could definitely use it for that purpose.
I used Linux for a while and now use WSL2. The main reason is that on my hardware Windows works out of the box and Linux doesn't.

Without specifying some boot parameters I can't even boot an installation USB stick on Linux, there are some mode settings issues or something like that. And while that is fixable I couldn't get fractional scaling to work well on Linux, and I absolutely need that with my new display.

I would like to use Linux more, but I'm not very motivated to play around with hardware issues. This obviously can vary a lot depending on the exact hardware you use.
Microsoft Azure Brings the Cache with Milan-X
Have you computed how much environmental damage you personally have created?

I work to minimize mine, my home's pretty well analyzed to reduce power and consumables usage and I'm in the process of prepping for solar. How are you atoning for your burnings?
Nah, because in the circumstances zz865 describes, taking the time to do the work right would get people mad at you. They don't actually want the work done. They want someone to say that the work was done so that blame won't fall on the higher-ups.
it's just less code - instead of writing a series of buggy loops with null checks and string concatenations all over the place, you just writing a line of declaration and it deals with all that for you.
Thanks for the tip! The biggest selling point for investing in funds, is being able to set it and forget it. Never the less, it is probably a good idea to make adjustments to the fund portfolio a few times a year.
When eth was dirt cheap, you could send $5,000 overseas in 10 minutes for $2, with just a half percent of slippage on the trades to and from fiat currency and ~1% price movement up or down

Yeah, theoretically it just used $2 worth of electricity somewhere in the world, but I’m pretty sure PayPal is going to do something nefarious with the $100+ you’d have to give them for the same service
This is not his first time designing dorms: https://housing.umich.edu/residence-hall/munger/
There is a smaller version of it at UMich: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2015/07/heres_your_firs...
And of course in the NFT space you already see this with the marketplaces and blacklisting NFTs.
The building is apparently in the same mould as a highly-rated[1] one already in use at the University of Michigan. The people (graduate students?) who live there seem to like it more than any other campus housing option.

[1]: https://www.veryapt.com/Apartments-L7646-ann-arbor-central-c...
He may be partly right. The sample code is 4 years old. But the documentation is recent (at least the url linked by gp) :

After 2021 june 27 : https://web.archive.org/web/20210627204757/https://docs.micr...

Before 2021 june 27 : https://web.archive.org/web/20210414223813/https://docs.micr...