skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people being unable to afford taking even a moderate amount of time off is the deeper problem. The sustainable answer is to fix the underlying economic problems - end this trickle up financial treadmill that has caused the majority to become so poor and disempowered [0], rather than creating a patchwork of allowances for specific system-legible purposes. For example bringing it back into the emotional realm - even if there were a comfortable 12 weeks of guaranteed parental leave, that itself wouldn't help a family who had lost their baby. Nor would it help someone who had to care for a terminally ill parent, nor after losing them and needing to deal with their estate. Nevermind the myriad of unenumerable reasons someone might need months off.

[0] If you cannot afford to unilaterally walk away from employment for several months, you have no economic power regardless of your churn rate. Sorry to break it to you.
As was mentioned in the comment section of the article, it would be interesting to see if this effect really exists (by trying to shift the numbers backwards).

Furthermore, I think it is a striking reminder that even (seemingly) simple data like mortality can be subject to strong bias.
In what way does the security best practices of the programming language are different?

(I've worked at a security related startup that worked with mainframes which used cobol... The security practices of the runtime do not seem to me less advanced than what we do in other languages.)
You might be thinking of this documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262452/
It's actually a myth that agrarian lifestyle was all that difficult. We have the enduring image of the farmer up at dawn, but the reality was that people completed the day's work in a few hours and didn't do much for the rest of the day.

Capitalism has changed that a bit now though.

That 30-40 year lifespan is also a myth. High mortality brings down the average, but people's lifespan has been around 70 throughout history.

As for whether people face more psychological pressure than previous generations, yeah there are plenty of people whose job it is to record and measure this stuff, and they all seem to say it has increased. This just may not fit with your boomer perspective.
> I would rather run 8,000 docker containers on it than a single COBOL application

The author surely realises that there's this thing called LPAR and z/VM? And that you don't just run a "single COBOL application" on one of these boxes?
Building Confidence in a Decision
In this case there Non-tech preview version of safari scored higher, due to a bug in the testing framework which was not correctly updating the tech preview version used.

Yet they still used the tech preview number which was much lower, in their slides

That's why there's uproar, chrome dev tools team showed the lower score which was caused by a non-updating test framework and people ran with it
They do run disc brakes because it's been forced on everybody. The weight is irrelevant when you already have to find ways to make the bike heavy enough to meet the minimum limit.
As a local of coastal Karnataka, I have mixed feeling about the Konkan railway. The Western Ghats is one of THE MOST bio-diverse regions of the world. Any infrastructure development poses a risk to a delicate ecological balance.

On the other hand, the railways have brought prosperity for the region. India needs better access to her ports and previously it used to be thousands of trucks hauling cargo through the narrow winding highway. Truck accidents were a weekly occurrence. With the roll-on/roll-off system, the trucks can safely ride the rails for a fraction of cost and emissions. This is just one of the examples.

Coming back to the flooding topic, it seems deforestation is the main culprit and the railways are hardly the major source. Just as an anecdote, the village I grew up used to be surrounded by thick, diverse forest and it is now replaced by a monoculture of cashew trees. Most of this is illegal encroaching and there was hardly any enforcement until a few years ago.
My take is that taste is a complex selection of trade-offs.

It is something we see a lot in software and (proper) engineering. I might have a taste on how to shard a database or pool connections, arrange workers off a queue. All of those come together to reflect a taste on how to build a complete system.

My taste will differ from others - the more dimensions we measure the easier / harder it is to find commonality. (This might be a lesson in politics)

The point being is that taste can be "wrong" - but only when looking at the desired goal. The goal for most art is self-expression. The goal for software systems might be monthly engagement. Its a lot easier to decide if engagement goes up and so judge taste in software design.

This does lead to the interesting point that one can "teach" taste ... through following a metric and iterating. And this is often the advice - paint lots.

But it does indicate that there is Good Taste. Its the taste that gets you to your goal. There may well have been painters like Pollock in Renaissance Italy, but they just starved to death before dripping much paint. And if there was only one "Good Taste" (what the Medici's liked) then there was a way to harness the greatest skill to that subset of Taste. Da Vinci may well have preferred abstract modernism, but he also preferred to eat.

Now it is possible for more ways to align skill with different tastes. So we have more good tastes. More groupings of trade offs.

And that is something i think we are seeing in software too.
Open Source is one huge trade off that influences other things. Sort of like, Perspective.
Chat bots are the new phone trees. Expect it to solve routing and very basic, top 5 easiest/common problems, but not much more. Also if you spam people with it and interrupt them, they hate it. It’s like the random sales rep asking if you need help when you are trying to make a decision.
What a load of shit.

Alcohol detection from your breath isn't some new, untested thing, it's been around for over half a century. And it's going to mistake a coke for a beer. Or rather, it's as likely to make that mistake as your exhaust sensor is to break, rendering your car equally "dead".
This is so not true. It is the opposite of a clusterfuck. The old ASP.NET was a clusterfuck.

It has a excellent server (kestrel), a middleware pipeline, routing system and common dispatching patterns like pages, MVC or minimal apis.

It is excellent in every degree of abstraction. Love the basics, go for kestrel. Work with http basics go for middlewares. Want to work with request and response principles and routes go for minimal API. MVC for a bit more structure. Pages for a traditional set. And Blazor Serverside if you love state.

All of this experiences are good.

I would prefer some examples what is bad here! And spare me DI.
>I don't know why, but there's a fairly strong association between being in STEM and thinking that the humanities are easy and obvious and people study them just because they don't understand STEM.

Sampling bias. The association exists because most that don't fit the stereotype keep their yap shut.

I'd say there's also plenty of STEM people that don't think humanities are easy nor obvious, but they interpret the outward appearance as something so far up it's own ass that they're just turned off from exploration of the field. But that's a popular take among non-STEM too.
I choose to hone a skill by teaching myself programming and I monetized it at an early age. Anyone can do what I did. I'm not special.
I bought a pair of AKG k171's a while ago. They've taken everything without issue. The insulation on the cable got damaged a bit too much for my tastes after a few years, so I bought a new one. Nothing wrong with that investment, It's been through approximately 4 replacement cables and one or two sets of ear pads/foam.

I'm still getting my moneys worth 15 years later!
Search the net for "systemd CVE" for meny of ressons
I agree with you on Clojure, but I'm not going to be able to get my team to adopt Clojure - unless you're going to tell me how you convinced your team to adopt Clojure! :)
Agreed. In the article he mentions that it's only fair to include tech preview features because the chrome team gets to include canary features. However, there is a clear process from canary -> production that doesn't exist with safari tech preview.
haha that was my thought as well. That's just a different way of punishing yourself!
There's Nothing Like Local Development
What if there’s no clear hierarchy of “better”? https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/non-transitive-grime-dice
So the only purpose of art is to consume it? What is this guy five?
Hi, thanks and thanks for the kind words!

I've decided for now on the limit of 1000 messages because you can always upgrade them later on and still stay in the free account. This is what I see that gives more flexibility to the customers without pushing them to subscription right away.
Health Insurance and medical care are too completely separated things.

Denying health insurance would just ensure medical bankruptcy and financial woes for anyone who was believed to have been seatbeltless, regardless of proof, since this isn't a court of law, but a "private company" decision.
I feel with you. The last time I tried to use Windows Forms with .NET Core was underwhelming.

What some people don't realize how huge the .NET sector is (at least here in Europe). A lot of businesses and public services are running on Windows Server and their pace is glacial. Our company is still stuck in the Windows Forms world and slowly transitioning to WPF and even though .NET Core has been around for a while it's truly hard to move old code to the new world.

And UI is not the only thing, which hinders us. WCF for example or windows only components (registry or auth-things) are hard to migrate and sometimes require a whole rewrite of some parts. It very much feels like the python 2 to python 3 migration, but the with the risk of Microsoft completely abandoning the old legacy tech in a few years (while python 2 apps could still chug along fine, if you're not in the mood of upgrading).
Organic solar cells with efficiencies over 17% using non-harmful solvents
It spins at ~5 Hz. 5 fps isn't great, but this is a cool idea.
All the new developments I’ve seen lately in CA are massive boxes with essentially zero yard. So it’s already like that.
Full disclosure, I am the creator of this project.

Happy to answer any questions!
You’re diving head-first into the philosophical question of what “intelligence” means, but arguing without defining it yourself. You could offer your definition if you want. You could also allow for and acknowledge that there are people who define the word differently than you, right?

Since your comment is hinting at this underlying implication, one question to answer up front is why you want to rule out factors that will improve your odds of a better outcome. Why are you resisting wisdom and emotional ability as a factor of intelligence? If people can accurately pattern match their historical lessons and/or emotions and apply it effectively to situations, that is a form of intelligence, no?

> How is “being both mentally and physically fit” a form of intelligence?

Despite people’s attempts to measure pure smartness potential, learning and education increases intelligence on every metric we have today.

Studies have also shown that exercise has a meaningful impact on intelligence, and that it can be used to treat depression.

I’d agree that being socially awkward doesn’t change your intelligence, but it can affect people’s perception of your intelligence and feed back into your motivations and actions in a negative way. Anyway, social awkwardness is something one can fix with learning and practice.

> Conflating EQ as a different “kind” of intelligence is silly.

You are referring to Emotional Intelligence? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence
My vehicles do not (and the instructions for most "keyless" starting mechanisms is the same). They will emit an active RF signal to read the key as a backup to a dead battery, but if the chip is dead the car won't start.

The backup key is for opening the door.
Great. So the zoom feature is showing information fabricated at capture time. How does that help?
Note that web-platform-tests has frequent runs of the included browsers in both nightly/dev/tech preview configurations and in stable configurations. And in all browsers there can be things which are enabled in these experimental builds which aren't going to ship in the next release. One can argue of course that it makes more sense to make all the comparisons on the basis of what's actually shipped to users, but that wouldn't have changed the story here.
> There are financial instruments like loans where you can for a fee get money which you can use now and pay back later.

If you’re poor your credit history is likely shot. Good luck getting good terms on that loan.

> Yes. I don't even have a job that pays well and I could quit my job and live for years if I wanted to off my savings.

It means your job in fact does pay well.

> you should have a buffer in case you can't work for whatever reason or something unexpected happens.

You should also not get sick, have an education, be born into a wealthy family. There are a lot of nonactionable “shoulds” one can throw around.
Many such cases. The download & run experience for Java/JRE fat client apps was also awful for so long, at least for mass consumer end users. (Captive corporate userbases could be shepherded through the steps.)
Random sales rep is a great analogy...and I suspect that was why so many people found our chatbot annoying.
You can minimize EF use by using stored procedures or raw sql statements but learning EF is the way to go imo.
Study finds that sitting more is linked to increased feelings of depressi (cont)
That's what Ivy Zelman and crowd are predicting as well [0]

Predicting future demographics is hard through, because there are so many variables. Current birthrates in America are down but immigration is compensating. However, if the economy starts faltering we could see the desire to move to America go down as well.

https://notoriousrob.com/2021/11/ivy-zelman-demographics-and...
But that's not cloud, because cloud!
It really was in earnest! I don't keep up with crypto news so just assumed this was something being worked on somehow.

Your answer would have fitted well with the thread that responded to my question!

As difficult as the vulnerabilities of PoS are to solve, at least there's nothing yet to say that they can't be solved given enough work; wheras, from what everyone is saying, the energy problem is essential to PoW as such?
> In my experience they’re also the clearest American speakers, so non-native english speakers have an easy time understanding them.

Supposedly there is some history behind this and people who want to be in the media business will actually learn to speak Midwest-style English. Can’t find the article though.
Before you try to save load time by dithering Jpegs, do something about the 10Mb JavaScript monstrosity that you're serving which is probably causing the issue in the first place.
Well, this is a good demonstration of the "products vs protocols" issue that I actually wrote a blog post about: https://snikket.org/blog/products-vs-protocols/

Much has been said about the staleness (or "stability") of Linux distro repositories. There's a reason you can't 'apt install slack', and this is one of them - many of the packages you quoted are years out of date.

Secondly, there are a great many things that implement XMPP, and not all of them are suitable Slack replacements. It's unreasonable to expect that they would be (just like not everything that implements HTTP is suitable to use for daily browsing of the web). XMPP is similarly a protocol, not a product.

To be clear I'm not saying it's your fault for starting with an "apt search", without a better idea of where else to start. That's part of the reason I'm advocating a slightly more product-led approach for XMPP these days. I'm personally focusing Snikket on personal messaging right now, so it's not a Slack replacement ( https://snikket.org/about/goals/ ).

Luckily there are many open-source Slack alternatives these days (Rocket Chat, Mattermost, Element/Synapse).

I think XMPP is further behind in this market. An XMPP-based solution would do well to use Converse.js or Movim, but that still leaves a whole lot of backend setup to deal with. For a custom solution with custom requirements it's great to have these composable building blocks available, but for a simple setup and onboarding experience, you're right - registering at slack.com wins hands-down :)
I'm not really a fan of figures glorified by either the left or right: Obama expanded black sites and took to drone bombings with a glee you'd not at all expect of his campaign platform but no one was excoriated or threatened with bans for siding with him.

This is a world gone half-mad with intolerance on all sides. Tolerance, forbearance and mercy are the values once flown by the left not this cesspit of political pageantry we stew in.

I didn't support Trump but I'd gladly hold out a hand of mercy to one who voted for him and seek to understand them with all the compassion I could muster. That's the stance we should be taking as a community.
It's wrong to emphasize high school sports. Leave kids alone please. The real role of it is to keep bullies under control and give them a chance at a college degree. The one factor in winning is age of roster. Fill the team up with 19 year olds like drop outs and truants. How can't they loose? They go on and get destroyed in college or the pros. The people there are the ones who have been passed over and have a chip on their shoulder. The higher you go, it's not about skill. It's about willingness to be ground up and grotesquely distorted.
Like many things in life, absolute universal healthcare is impossible. At limit it implies life without death and youth without aging. The utopian ideal must contend with the reality that resources are finite and accept tradeoffs.
Good point. Honestly I haven't thought that far, but taking into account that all data is bound to one message, it can be moulded in any way later on without losing it.

Speaking about longevity of the physical drives. I'm using external servers such as AWS, so in the case that something goes wrong with them I would imagine half of the world would have a bit bigger problems at that point.

Thanks for the question!
> They tend to update that page after a Safari update, which is yearly

So you very well knew Apple weren't "comparing against a one-year old version."

> And for next year's release they again pick the benchmarks that look best for them at that moment in time

They're using the exact same benchmarks as last year, and the numbers seem to be improving for Safari. May I remind you I actually checked the past version of Apple's website on the Wayback Machine?
Even if you fix those three, no parental leave is barbaric.
And an unbuckled seat belt will kill you, not others sharing the road with you.
Are they still using audiotoxic medicine that burns the cochlea hairs to deal with bacterial meningitis?

i.e. is she deaf from medicine? or from the meningitis?
Thanks for the upvotes.

I have updated my article. It seems Chase is whitelisting OSes, but they seem to allow Linux and not FreeBSD based on comments and using a Linux user agent.

Chase may not block Linux because does Chase exactly want to deal with angry Linux users on the phone, or see Linux die-hards switch to competitors. Even if 1% of customers leave and don't come back, it could anger Chase's investors.

They may not officially support Linux but the web developers allow it anyways since it's too big of a minority.

They still block FreeBSD. Whether Chase's web developers don't know about BSD or they're willing to let BSD users switch to Citi Bank, I don't know.

I mean, they shouldn't whitelist by OS, but I don't know what the reasoning of blacklisting FreeBSD is.
The comments here are great! I think a key point here is understand that everyone we work with and are around fight these types of urges just as we do. So by understanding that we all fight laziness and we all fight irrational thoughts on some level few provides huge benefit to us and leadership
Yes, just like audio software can dither when reducing the bit depth (say, from 24 bits to 16 bits per sample). It makes quantization less perceptible, by decoupling the quantization noise from the signal, which sounds less crunchy (audio) or has less posterization (images).
A version of this is also available on iOS (I think since iOS 15.0), although it only shows the RPM: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212313

This tool is also mentioned in that page, albeit briefly.
Pretty interesting that all the counter-examples named so far are those that have been domesticated by humans
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FWIW I love the app and have been using it a lot just because.

I think the real value is that it presents a novel idea of considering image compression creatively.
I believe that's how the "share song" feature of Zune MP3 players worked.
OpenAI rival Cohere launches language model API
I felt the same way ... But when you look in DSL experiences like SwiftUI their global/implicit usings and other SDK experiences it is actually also benefitial for other cases.
I have a half million users a day streaming website coded in Python. It does machine learning, uploading, encoding, dynamic load balancing, live search, comments, votes and most of the code I had to write was in django or rq endpoints.

On first load, not only the page is ready, but the video has started to auto play (including buffering), under 3 seconds. Less than 500ms on a reload.

The whole project has been running for 10 years on 7 servers. Hosting costs under $1K/mo.

And even better, the code base is a mere 11K LoC, so a single dev can manage it. And make a living out of it.

That's because:

- Python is almost never the bottleneck in a website

- Python wraps compiled languages for slow stuff. That's the whole point.

- your archi matters much more than the language you chose. Because good db providers, proper caching and optimized data fetching will be the pareto moves, unless you are google size.

- you will not code most things anyway. You are not going to code the video encoding, you will use ffmpeg. You will not recode a database, you will use an existing one. You will not code a server, you will use nginx or something else. What you will spend time on is creating logic for your clients.

So I think your are extrapolating this rare use case where your POV makes sense, and ignore the 99% of the case were, indeed, a slow language doesn't matter.

In fact, if electron success tells anything, it's that while I do value speed a lot, the market has voted.
The complaint about that video was completely valid, and it's shocking to me that technically literate people are mocking the judge's [and defense team's] apprehension about it.

The prosecution was arguing about what essentially came down to the location of 1-2 individual pixels that were present after the image had been interpolated. Basically: the pixels that the prosecution were trying to argue showed the pointing of a gun were:

1) Only apparent when the image was "zoomed" (interpolated) in exactly the manner they wanted to use.

2) Not apparent in any of the videos or photos which were taken closer to the place they were talking about.

The prosecution is depending on the idea that a computer can see more than a human can, and "enhance" a photo in such a way that shows something that nothing else does. It is absolutely ridiculous. Here is the image (linked above) which was itself cropped from a much larger image, and taken from about 150 meters away, at night, from the tiny sensor on a drone camera.
Why not? If there is no quotient, None seems like a good answer to the question ‘what's the quotient?’