skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it will probably double in size in a week and reach 1×1 cm in a month

TIL it takes a long time to grow a perfect salt crystal of any size.
I don't buy the distinction between the discipline-subject and the achievement-subject. Our society runs very heavily on the threat of discipline, it's just naturalized and made invisible by a bunch of intervening social structures. And it's more invisible to some people than to others; if you're working a low-wage service job, you know that you're always at risk of being made homeless, lacking reliable access to food, shelter, and medical care, and subject to being brutalized by security forces. Even people who think they're driven by achievement may well just have internalized the threats to where they can't see them as external anymore.

I know nobody actually reads Foucault, but doesn't anyone at least read the Cliff's Notes?
Such an exciting launch!
I think there’s a real use case here, especially considering how so many of FAANG+ have decided to build their own code review platforms to improve code quality.
C# was part of what survived all of that, but I mean MS's original forays into Java.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun's_litigatio...
Sort of undermined the entire payoff there. Maybe this is a rare time to use all caps: *** SPOILER ***

Also in the SPOILER reveal, you could just quote ”And it was!” to show you enjoyed the setup and delayed gratification pun w/o tipping the whole game.

‘Twas a gem though.
Is it a thick skin thing? Maybe. Rejection still hurts even though my reaction now is little more than a shrug.
This is one of my favorite read in a while. I love how it frames the question of burnout and addresses the ills of modern life. As far as my personal experience goes, I am unhappy when I do the same thing for too long. I believe that we aren’t creatures designed to repeat the same tasks over and over. People talking about the grass always being greener on the other side are right in the sense that we enjoy a change of scenery. I have to admit that I am a fan of capitalism and I believe it’s the best socio-economic model we have. However, my main critique is that it’s a theft of joy for the artisans in us. The introduction of the assembly line and the fact that workers do not feel the same pride in the final product is a sad conclusion. I get so much pride and joy out of making things. I wouldn’t be able to be the one inserting a bearing into the wheel of the car because I wouldn’t get the same pride.
> How can we achieve things with no burnout or ego-driven mindset?

I ask myself something quite similar but coming from a different place (so to say).

How can I practice detachment (buddhism inspired letting go) while simultaneously accomplishing goals?

I ask myself this because I see a relation between holding on (firmly grasping a goal; the opposite of detachment) and the perseverance of success at doing difficult things.

In my own experience it remains a fact that if I hold on on to something tightly, this is why I suffer (painful); there's a truth behind "no pain no gain". However this is quite close to "them who don't try don't fail"... so they don't suffer BUT do not really accomplish anything either.

Finally, I don't consider the ego to be inherently bad, it's a tool. IMO a problem with it is that one's self is not the only one capable of using one's ego (e.g. we all have been manipulated by someone else).
Here is a sound that sounds like either brainstorm or green needle, depending on which words you focus. Try own word combinations. I have no trouble hearing brain needle or green storm, for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okD66RmktA
Sorta. I evaluated it a long time ago and decided against ever touching it due to its remote import functionality. Apparently it's crazy to think that your configuration files shouldn't be issuing HTTP requests.
As a WSJ subscriber I'm so used to their blunt "to the point" editorial style that I find Economist articles too long winded and short-storyish. I always get 5 paragraphs in and still can't figure out what the article is getting at. Ain't nobody got time for that.
I have worked on several TS projects. None of them were good IMO. I'm not blaming TS. I've seen numerous bad JS projects also. I'm not passing judgment on Etsy's code, only sharing my experience.

You are correct, there is good and bad code written in all paradigms. My point was that the energy we (as an industry) employ marketing, migrating, and educating on new languages/frameworks/tools might yield more substantial results if we focused on fundamentals.
My reply is less harsh/dismissive than @hash9. Your last paragraph is powerful. I do think sometimes that I seriously underestimate the financial advantage that UK gains by having "selectively weak financial regulation" (my term). They are a like a Big Singapore, that pretends to be very well regulated, but looks the other way when autocrats want to buy 20M pound flats in Central London.

I expect they will try to extend their advantage in the coming years by using "selective legislation" to encourage multinational corporations to re-home to the UK. See: Unilever and Shell. This is only the beginning in my view.
I never trusted them and I'm not using their products unless I really must (a customer's Windows server, their Android PDF reader or Google's one, maybe that's it.) But yes, when one is young and exposed to Microsoft for the first time and see them behave it's easy to dismiss the tales of old bad behavior. If one is 40 or 50, it takes a lot of naivety to trust them or any similar corporation. If anybody did, they are hopefully changing their mind because of the facts of the last few years.
Throwaway for reasons that will become clear.
My eldest is 13, she had a phone from about 5 which for a long time seemed like a perfectly fine decision - it wasn't this unobtainable shiny object that only grownups have access to, it was a boring thing with no games on it, so she never had that device addiction. We have all Facebook domains blocked on NextDNS, she has no desire for a Twitter account, or Snapchat or anything else. It helps that she has a rabidly anti-surveillance-capitalism parent who can talk through the real world meaning of having one of these accounts. These days she does have a few games on there, but none of that pay to unlock rubbish. We use Apple Screentime for what it's worth (it's not worth much), but have had to restrict device use to the ground floor of the house as it turned out recently that she'd been self harming and sharing photos of the results when using it in her room. I think that's stopped now, and I don't believe it's related to actually owning the device at all - just a conduit for sharing it.

Overall I think our policies have been successful, but with retrospect I would have banned devices from bedrooms from the start.
Regexps are fairly terse and replace a lot of code, compared to most languages they probably have an information density at somewhere between 10x-100x higher (i.e. it's not rare to replace 100 lines of code with 1 regex), so I think it's fair to expect it take longer to unpack their meaning.
If you read the article the man went several days without meat in the tundra. I'd imagine there are very few plants to gather in the winter.
This is a big part of what Marx means by the alienation of labour.
> Indeed, table salt is often used in kids’ experiments to demonstrate crystallization. It’s a simple activity, but the results are disappointing.

I remember this was one of the things I tried countless times as a kid. It never worked - the books showed these nice, clear crystals but all I ever got was a crust of dried salt and maybe one tiny crystal a few mm across.

I'm sure most of those "science for kids" book authors never tried a single one of their experiments.
Regarding problems of producing royal offspring, I always liked the rumored story of how Louis XIV was conceived: after his mother Anna of Austria had experienced four stillbirths and failed to produce an heir, she fell in disgrace and was largely ignored by the king. On December 5th 1637, after 23 years of a marriage that at that point only existed on paper, the king was on his way to a hunting lodge near Versailles. Bad weather forced him to stop at the Louvre palace, where his wife was already set up for the winter. The only rooms that were heated were hers, so the king was forced to share a bed with his wife. 9 months later, on September 5th 1638, Louis XIV was born.
A dream: if Windows/Mac had a right-click “Publish to web” command, which for the first use would lead you through a setup that’s no more complicated than connecting to wifi.

I know, devil is in the details.
When trying these cloud providers I always come back to AWS, the AWS network is so good.
(2018)

Anything new since then you think?
The point of prometeo is not to obtain a "performant Python". Python is used merely as a host language for an embedded domain specific language. You could do the same thing with any other language with a mature library for AST analysis :)
In my experience, whatever boundaries are set within an agile engineering group can be overridden by the priorities, roadmaps, etc. that are imposed from above by the corporate executives. Responsibilities can change overnight as staff are reorganized or laid off by powers beyond their control.
Great job FTC/Lima. We need it and you delivered.

On a separate note. Why is it really hard for HN community to make a compliment? Yes, some companies will try to skirt around. But most of us seem to agree this is a step in the right direction and being hopeful is nice.
How does it compare to pythran? Except for the fact that it's c and not c++?
It could be, but it really depends on what level of meta one is laughing at.

If nothing else, he was defined by fixed, persistent, and permanent beliefs in direct reaction to progress and that's what supporters followed. There are some other comments on this thread that go into the weeds, but the essential point I was making was that the article missed the opportunity to provide a key insight about the cultural influence of the CIA by choosing to focus on rightist bugbears like Bannon instead of the one guy who planted the seeds of subversion in the minds of every campus activist of the last 50 years.

I'm saying the virus that that escaped from a weapons lab and derailed western civilization wasn't covid, it was Marcuse.
I've racked up many hours in Elite: Dangerous. It's an amazing piece of tech, and nothing quite captures it's sense of scale like playing in VR.

It's unfortunate to see the state of the game as the business side begins taking it's toll, such as with the Odyssey release.

At this point, I think my next gen dream game has the space flight model of Elite, the atmospheric flight model and volumetric clouds and lighting of MSFS, the simulation depth of Star Citizen, and the creativity, art direction, and company "pay it forward" spirit of No Man's Sky. All with first class VR + HOTAS support.
>> The existence of systemd and chrome have unequivocally made the world a better place.

> Whether or not that is true is besides the point. The point is that it is valid to criticise them regardless of the fact that these things were given away for free.

You’re moving the goal post. My initial comment wasn’t because you criticized him. You may do that all you like without any issue from me. My comment was responding to your claim that he was making the world a worse place because of his YouTube thumbnails.

>> You sound like someone who has never made anything independently in their life.

> Incorrect.

Prove me wrong, link me to anything you’ve independently created for others online.

>> He has chosen to make a living by providing free technical content online.

> Let's all take a moment to ponder this particular arrangement of words. Then, lets all take a moment to ponder the meaning of "free".

You’re joking right? Free as in people do not have to pay money to watch his content.

>> To support his passion he needs to make sure he can make a minimum profit otherwise he cannot sustain his work of providing you with free content.

>Why is he entitled to this? What I mean is, why should I consider his ability to do the kind of work he wants and get paid for it sufficient justification for preying on human psychological quirks to get them to do something they, rather objectively, would otherwise not do?

He’s not entitled to anything. This has nothing to do with him doing the work he wants. You accused him of making the world a worse place for styling his YouTube thumbnail in a way that maximizes the number of people who click on his video. That’s obviously silly when his videos are adding much more to the lives of many hundreds if not thousands of people.

YouTube gives everyone the ability to create custom thumbnails. Should he make one that’s all grey? Obviously not. Accusing him of psychological manipulation because he puts the effort into making his thumbnails more appealing is ridiculous. That’s like saying artists who make more appealing art are engaging in psychological manipulation. Given the option, it’s only rational to make appealing thumbnails and appealing art just the same. Intentionally choosing to not do so would be more concerning.

> But we're not paying this creator are we? This creator is "giving" us their product for "free"...

His content is unequivocally free, no scare quotes needed. Most people get value out of watching his videos. Also advertisers make money from people watching it. It’s a win-win. Not everything is zero sum. You aren’t paying just because he’s earning.
No, but only because I have an intense dislike for working in large organizations.

I don't see them as substantially different from any other FAANG level company though.
Last I heard, the backloaded equity is balanced by a hiring bonus so that the total compensation stays the same; it's just the type of compensation which changes.
Everything is unfamiliar, until one adopts it.
Uber Migrated Financial Data from DynamoDB to Docstore
I've found Hugo to be a good option.

https://gohugo.io/
I just meant that it was a bunch of fascists playing at what that really means, but yeah, I agree with your point.
Have you ever worked in the Amazon warehouse? I've been both L1 (Sortation associate in the warehouse) on the floor, and now L4 (entry level SDE). I'm not going to refute your claims - it just seems most people screaming "Think of the warehouse workers!" have never actually worked in any warehouse, let alone an amazon one.
See, if they hadn't had such an annoying deletion process, I might have come back after learning that. But I won't. I will never.
1) Fork a svelte-kit or next project on GitHub

2) Open Vercel (or Netlify)

3) Select the repo you forked

4) Add domain

You're live

If you want something blog-like: https://github.com/rodneylab/sveltekit-blog-mdx
I think this is a notable try at a strangely underserved space. Really interesting to see how code review is done in-house at FAANG+ and yet GitHub doesn’t quite get at the level
of the tools of these giants.
It appears to be more of a UI issue where the legal entity name is shown along side or sometimes in place of the URL which can be misleading.

To compound problems legal entity names are not required to be unique across states or countries so an EV certificate for a popular company name can be obtained in another geography and presented to the user on an attacker controlled domain.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/extended-vali...
I still refuse to believe ET by Katy Perry always said "different DNA". I distinctly remember it used to say perfect DNA, not different DNA. Or I've lost my mind.
What is the difference between stacked changes and branchless?

https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless

based off of the branchless Mercurial workflows at large companies such as Google and Facebook
Lambda School shakes off its brand with new name
Why are you referring to yourself (the author) in the third person? It seems.. disingenuous
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-...
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Elon said going back from Mars to Earth will be free since the Starships have to return anyway to be reused.
Will you concede that many, but certainly not all, vegans bring it upon themselves with their moralistic pontificating about those who are not vegan?
I've heard good things about https://gohugo.io/ (written in Go) and https://elderguide.com/tech/elderjs/ (uses Svelte), I've never used them though
It's good. Last time I took my macbook to their bar. I want to repair a stick key but they requested me to replace the whole bottom becasue they saw some water overthere. The final bill is about $800 USD.
Dumb question: why not drill out a couple inches of earth under the foundation on the side that isn't sagging to let it sag that way? Use a high pressure jet or something similar? I mean, those high pressure water jets they use to cut metal are cool.

The issue is getting it to settle evenly?

So you dig down on the sides and then use something: a long drill, a water jet, to open up small 1 or two inch channels. Are there high power lasers that can do this?

With the stresses, the building will crush out the small open space and... settle?
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/08/14/announcing-netlify-d...
> It’s not just the “jumping between files” that takes longer

This language you've used is imprecise and suggests jumping between files is a problem. The alternative is jumping from your IDE to Tailwind docs unless you are a tailwind expert no? This sounds like I'd measure it in seconds and not make a facile 16ms estimate so I could write 16ms > 0 and look smart...

> The dev tools often cannot save styles back to your source code when you use a build step.

... 5 seconds ago you were arguing about speed of iteration, now the fastest possible iterator is a problem because you have to manually curate what you save in the end. How is this not a problem when you're just slapping classnames onto something and hoping it looks right? You have to go back thru your save history or to git when you fuck up, again something I'd measure in seconds

> If I can view the JSX and see all the final styles on the element or on a nearby parent, it results in a faster feedback loop

> It is also mentally computing the “CSS cascade” to determine the final rules for a given DOM element, and keeping in mind all classes that apply.

I just feel like you must be really bad at CSS to feel this way. CSS should interact with a component's private structure only in that component's CSS file, it should expose styling & sizing variables thru a CSS var API, and its top-level container's style & position are the only legally targetable things by someone else rendering it. This does not leave any room for having to "keep in mind all classes that apply", that is a drawback only to Tailwind.

Anyways, I don't get why you argue in this fashion just to walk it back at the end as "faster to edit whilst writing" when you discarded the fastest possible solution because of externalities to it that you're unwilling to consider here. For example, loading up a normal component, I simply glance at its CSS file to see all styles applied to it; not so many fancy layers. This means it is very fast to resume writing it. For Tailwind, you clearly need to first build the mental model of all the styles applied and any interactions between them, and then second you need to go to Tailwind docs to see what styles are actually being applied in terms of CSS. It has a layer of misdirection that drastically reduces speed if you don't just sweep it under the carpet. "Dev tools can't autosave for you" is an absurd complaint in the face of brushing all this aside
> This is one reason I miss one-time credit card numbers.

I don't remember those. It sounds awesome.
My bank also had (and then killed off) this feature, which I used a lot for exactly the same reason (or ordering stuff from Aliexpress etc.) I have been looking at privacy.com which seems like it may be an acceptable replacement, though it has some strange sign-up hoops of its own.
Those were useful, thanks!
I spend most of my time in Emacs (Clojure/Script), but if I'm writing JavaScript then VS Code works so much better. Maybe I haven't spent enough time tweaking Emacs for JS?
The ability to quickly manage branches and reorder commits within them in Mercurial is super powerful, something that Git and `rebase -i` could only dream of.

Doing the same in Phabricator is awesome. One blocking commit PR on the bottom of a stack can easily be moved to the top or a new stack, unblocking the rest of your changes. Re-writing and entire stack due to one small change is mostly eliminated.

(Good) Tooling is a major gain in efficiency.
The title uses the spelling “VISA”. It's actually “Visa”, not all-caps.
The comments on this blog post make me cringe. Is there a correlation between Schneier followers and self-professed experts? Consider the clever fellow who has "logically" concluded that consistent password rules would constitute "putting all your eggs in one basket" and hence weaken security. Folks: a limited character set isn't a liability if you can just increase the number of characters correspondingly. If you're allowed a 64 character password, you can reduce the character set to [0-9A-F] and still have 2^256 possibilities.
It seems everyone who did not work at Amazon "knows" every detail about what it's like to work in Amazon.
No, the way they treat the lowest rungs on the ladder is atrocious.

Then there’s what they’re doing to commerce, they’re Walmart 2.0. Slowly and methodically choking the life out of every other retailer.

Finally there is Bezos, who whilst not running the show anymore is an incredibly unsettling and dislikable ‘human’.
Technically they are not a bank. They are a building society, but they are effectively a "bank" and have a few million customers.
A whole-screen refresh is slow, but typing does not require refreshing the entire screen. You can update small regions of the screen very quickly (which is what devices like e.g. the Remarkable do for writing).
I don't have an FT subscription.

Driver shortages have been reported across the EU, but as far as I'm aware, food and fuel shortages are only in the UK.

e.g. https://trans.info/en/there-s-a-europe-wide-hgv-driver-short...
I kind of agree. It's mostly automated searches for targets with known vulnerabilities or default credentials. It's fine to block it, but it's not really contributing much to overall security.

The fact is, a serious attacker isn't going to trigger an "x events in y seconds" rule, and even if they do it's not going to stop them.

People get very worked up about port scans and ping sweeps, even spending time manually managing block lists or responding to alerts for simple bot traffic. It's security theater.
i tried a similar 'experiment' once with sugar to make rock candy, failed the first attempt

my grandma saw and told me to use the rest of the string and sugar I had, enough for 12 more tries, and do them at once but in different areas of the house

only two actually grew but i learned the value of spreading risk and unknown unknowns ( much later, on reflection :) )
If you put a marble on the floor will it roll?
HELL FUCKING NO

Exhibit A: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-wor...

Exhibit B: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...