skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you deal with meltdowns?

Were any of the meltdowns justified?

CBT - not everything is awful.

> I'm talking about doing the bare minimum so that I don't cause myself and the people around me extra problems.

Good to do something about it but why settle for the bare minimum to fix your life?

> For the most part I have managed to keep this away from my (shitty) job so it has not affected my (dead in the water) career.

You have a job and a career - great!

You can always get another job (and career) if you want

> But it is taking a toll on my family relations and I hate me for that.

You protect your (shitty) job and (dead in the water) career because they can fire you, but you don’t protect your family ?

> No phychotherapy please. I won't go near their arrogance.

I recommend therapy - otherwise if you want to go self-help take a look at https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Rational-Living-Albert-Ellis/dp...
Ruby on Rails.

I'm currently working on better integration with reactjs, something like this: https://www.viget.com/articles/phoenix-and-react-a-killer-co...

Then I will use react too.
This depends entirely on how quickly they get to the vehicle, but given the money involved, I'm sure they will just lobby to have the death of the dog pinned on the owner.
check this jose (personal reminder)
My attempt at RPi controlled lights: https://milek7.pl/.stuff/26gru.webm
No one ever cares about the amounts of times you've failed. You only have to succeed once. Congrats on your journey
I think the point is internal and external code reviews are two different beasts - no harm in getting an external kicking to improve the coding practices. However, with nobody having skin in the game to get external code reviews into the codebase, they will largely be ignored as “nice but we have work to do”. How could a product like this (I think I’ve seen a few) solve that human nature problem?
I laid my first lines of JavaScript(JScript, actually) in 2001, have been doing this professionally for around a decade now and I judge this blogpost as generally ignorant, but that first quote is especially so.

90%+ of the Web is just static sites with JS sprinkled on top. That has always been the case and will stay that way for the foreseeable future, because it's the most simple, pragmatic and accessible solution.
I know wine is bottled AFK. It's just that name in the software ecosystem is a naming conflict.
The housing market example is bizarre, because if you go look at San Francisco, the entire area of SOMA is dominated by skyscrapers and luxury condos that are 90% vacant. Office buildings are going vacant at an accelerated rate. Salesforce Tower has never managed to fill up on tenants. We don't need to build new housing, we just need to actually price the ones we do have so people can afford them. Stop bulldozing stuff built less than 20 years ago to replace it with even more shoddily built stuff you can sell for even higher margins. We already have the homes, just let people live in them.

"Bulldoze or not" is not a helpful axis, because it implies that the new stuff will be better. But that's not a given, and I'm very suspicious to trust the people who built apartments which are 90% empty. The analogy also helpfully applies to blockchain technology.
It probably cannot be done automatically in GTK2 apps because of API differences. GTK2 apps could call the portal API manually or put the functionality in another library.

>we should not get tricked to believe GNOME would have done this for helping someone else then themselves

Well they actually did, the flatpak API was designed to support multiple toolkits.
Thank you for sharing. Out of curiosity, how have you supported yourself all this time?
Not OP, but we're currently using Pedestal to serve Lacinia (graphql).

Previously I've used compojure and all that.

I've only done the data/backend stuff, so I've personally never seriously used cljs, and my companies would use a regular reactjs frontend.

But Clojure is definitely a joy and if I had to make a frontend I'd probably reach for something like reagent.
Sony Walkman music player docks your smartphone like a cassette player
I definitely would put myself far on the “just do stuff” side of the spectrum, but I think it’s fair that the names for both sides identify what opponents might not like. “Bulldozer” is a very apt name, because one of the key arguments in favor of local veto points is the big urban projects of the mid 20th century, when lots of interesting and useful neighborhoods were flattened to build highway interchanges.
Working with Web Feeds: It’s More Than RSS
Forget 9 to 5. Experts say the time has come for results-only work environment
Right. Solar depends on the weather and is unreliable in that respect, but reliable against mechanical problems. Nuclear is the opposite. More and less reliable.
When looking at the benchmark result and image size, it seems like this format is good at images that have horizontal structures or where the same color is repeated often. It's not good at vertical structures, including images with enlarged pixels (where one row is identical to the one above). I think the main reason for that is that PNG has a filter pass that can look at the row of pixels above, while this format only looks to the left.

Example of image with vertical gradients: https://qoiformat.org/benchmark/images/icon_512/apps-prefere... - qoi compresses to 186kb and libpng to 25kb

Example of image with horizontal structure and repeated colors: https://qoiformat.org/benchmark/images/textures_pk/mod_walld... - qoi compresses to 21kb and libpng to 33kb
There were occasional voices telling the Millennial they didn't need to go to college; and that if they did, they didn't need to borrow and spend so much money doing it... They were, to put it mildly, not well received. "Universally derided" might not be too strong.

Something to keep in mind as the accusations of "disinformation" and reassurances of "Trust the Science (TM)" fly thick and fast today.
Not exactly. VisualBasic and MS Access were pretty powerful. Something remade in the cloud with collaboration and versioning that combines those with spreadsheet like intuitiveness could get us closer than ever. Airtable is maybe leading so far.
geeked on Nextjs lately, but I would definitely give a hard look at rails7 with HotWire if I was starting fresh today on a new project.

A good static-generation/CDN hosting story would be essential for any choice I made.

Also Firebase tools: Firestore, Firebase Functions & Firebase Auth.
NextJS, Prisma, Postgres via Supabase as data store + Postgraphile connected (for GraphQL).

Some Go/Deno microservices deployed via GCP Cloud Run where needed.

On NextJS side, use React Query (https://react-query.tanstack.com) to call GraphQL & cache where needed. For CSS, use Tailwind & some nice primitive components from Radix UI (https://www.radix-ui.com/docs/primitives/overview/introducti...). Deployed on Vercel.

Tech choices are mostly motivated by how good tooling for it is in VSCode.

I'd maybe switch React Query with Relay (https://relay.dev) but Relay seems more complex.
Python allows for overloading these operators, and has dynamic types, so cannot produce the more efficient byte code on load. Most python interpreters also don't have JIT compilers that could do the optimization on the fly.
Jupe is hiring a CTO to build the tech for 1.5B humans
Angular + Angular Material + Firebase. If you make if beyond certain point on the Angular learning curve, which is certainly very steep, coding turns into easy cruising. In my opinion unbeatable for SaaS projects.
> something just around the corner, but always a decade or so away.

Is there a word for it?
RPG games are terrible, invalid engineering. Insufferable garbage. They are about as fun as watching ads on 90s television, which is admittedly possibly better than staring at a brick wall. You will never have an RPG where it feels like you're playing the "Role", because what you are really doing is trying to walk in the right spot to trigger a switch. You will always see one way to "solve" a "problem" in any given situation that was just story-told to you, but the author preconceived a finite set of solutions (i.e., one) for you that can only be expressed by stepping in a certain coordinate bound. And this is just the tip of the iceberg concerning a real RPG. Most add all kinds of useless crap on top of this: like leveling systems, grinding, and purchasing things to make your weapon better (not even talking about microtransactions. I mean getting 100 gold to get item x to get item y to get a weapon you need to get to the next area). If a game needs to be so cluttered with emulating an open world with all kinds of details (in practice, these will all be thinly-veield consumeristic nonsense like getting a flower to use to craft or trade), it better be an Epic, and took multiple decades to create, not every single game a studio churns out every year. If it is not worth your time to build an actual interesting open world with an actual meaning (aside from consume product) behind the entities in said world, it's not worth my time to explore it; i will skip through everything, installing hack to skip forced dialog, etc, like every other game.
I find how untidy that room is deeply disturbing for some reason..

We're all different, I guess.

Also didn't know WG could snoop USB, a neat trick!
There are also documentation and example IP prefixes! 192.0.2.0/24 and 2001:db8::/32.
The advantages given in the CSS section are really around:

- utility classes

- theme system

Neither of which are unique to Tailwind (which is great in itself), yet the article paints it like it's the only thing out there solving for it.
People keep saying this, but I don't get it. The majority of your possessions spend most of their time sitting idle. Even if I just look at the higher value ones: my riding lawnmower gets used for a couple of hours every few weeks, my garden tractor/snowblower even less frequently, then I've got a trailer, a truck, miscellaneous tools, etc.

I could rent every single one of these, but don't because the economics don't make sense, and the use model would otherwise lead to a lot of inconvenience.
Framing Effect
It is with complete ignorance that I'm asking this, but isn't it the case that, at a molecular level, plastics are just like any other material? That they can be broken down to such a point that their molecular composition no longer matters, and they are, once again, "raw" molecules by which other things (even living things) can be composed? What does "accumulation" even mean in that context?
The likely higher transmissibility in combination with a generally more elderly population and vaccination gaps among older individuals in some European countries (e.g. Germany) could still spell trouble.
The aviation business is notorious for being a laggard in technology adoption.

For instance they are still using leaded gas for small planes and there is no realistic plan to see the end of it.
Yes profit is the same as net income.

But you wouldn't know that if you read those two sections of the text. They use the word 'profitability' several times, without ever defining it.

Right at the end of part 2 (income statement), they say this:

"The difference (or "net") between the revenues and expenses for Direct Delivery is often referred to as the bottom line and it is labeled as either Net Income or Net Loss."

The above is true, but it's kind of hard to grasp for someone whose only exposure to accounting is this site. And the previous sentence again refers to 'profitability' without being explicit that 'profit' and 'net income' are the same thing.
Actually that is an excellent point, this is a real possibility for immigrants from the middle east and some other places
Hmm.. when you compile to byte code you could emit a single POW_MOD instruction, and then dispatch to the more efficient code if both methods remain un-redefined, or call the full methods if one or more has been redefined.
SpaceX is launching human muscle cells into space to uncover secrets of aging
A lot of companies in Germany would not use AWS if the data centers would be not in Europe. By the way tesla in Germany uses gas turbines for energy production as far as I know. So if you are big, I guess you don't pay the 'market price'.
I think the article makes a fair point but I don't think it offers anything substantial.

It's been beaten to a dead-horse that lectures or passive consumption aren't the most efficient ways to learn. Almost everyone in tech already knows that. Does the article offer anything new? Work on projects (aka direct experience). Thanks...?

Also I think the "space-repetition" advocates suffer from a similar problem to the "consume at 3x" advocates. Both are looking for short-cuts to learning. Plus spaced-repetition only really applies to superficial, trivia-related knowledge. I was one of those people using Anki for learning a new language and it was absolutely no substitute for having actual conversations with real native speakers.
Twistiest, maybe. Most dangerous, not even close

It's just CGP Grey, not NHTSA. Hyperbole is to be expected.

I know he's a darling among the chattering tech class, but it's been several years since he jumped the shark from "insightful, carefully researched, and well thought out" to "just another vlogger doing and saying what is needed to get views."
> They have systematically shut down automated recycling redemption machines

I remember these machines outside of every grocery store, and now I don't see them anywhere anymore. It never occurred to me it was a purposeful effort, but then again I never gave it much thought.

What caused the machines to disappear?
There's a movie with exactly this plot, Repo Man I think it's called.
Honestly no one should worry about endianess in 2021.
Stanford Engineers Develop a Robotic Hand with a Gecko-Inspired Grip
Time-Efficient Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training Lowers Blood Pressure [pdf]
Oh, the original topic? I didn’t consider it at all. I was just discussing copyright and how it applies to code. The Oracle/Google dust up was a great example of such ambiguity, and it didn’t help in drawing lines in the future.

As to how it works now? I agree with you.

But listen to the argument you’re making: The otherwise uncopyrightable functional code expression becomes copyrightable if and only if it is copied by another. The exact same expression, still uncopyrightable, is only free to use if independently created and only by those that created the expression, who may then restrict or license the uncopyrightable expression as they wish.

That’s where we are.
Getting Things Done, by David Allen.
Nuclear plants are "dispatchable" in the same way wind farms are "dispatchable" - you can just not feed as much of the power you are creating into the grid.

Gas and hydro are actually dispatchable. You can dial down the power you are using and actually use it later.
Yup, switched industries from software to advanced composites (like carbon fiber, kevlar, etc.) design & fabrication in 2003. Been up and down ever since, running both as a job shop and always working to design & build products.

Persistence and flexibility, always looking at new opportunities and technologies with an eye to goals (other than what is fun).

Every lap around the field gets a bit better, and now there's some real breakouts in sight.

Have confidence in yourself, work hard, and think well. Seem to have heard something about: Seek and ye shall find...
This is one of the more useful bits of advice here in my opinion.

Things like exercise, sleep, eating well etc. could go some way to coping better with the underlying issue, but by themselves are unlikely to address what’s actually going on.

The situation described suggests that feelings are not being managed very well. There could be lots of reasons why, but given the severity any quick fixes from random people on the internet are unlikely to result in sustained improvement.
httptoolkit is opensource and you can see contribute, look source code etc which is automatically superior to me.
Oh for sure, it’s been quite the change in attitudes over the decades.

It’s heartening that things are shifting, but it’s bound to be slow progress.
Yes, it matters to me because I use it often, and many directories have lots of files in them.

I do not care if the difference is 200 ms vs 250 ms, but if it is 1 sec vs 10 seconds, then yeah, it is a deal-breaker.

I did not try exa, so I cannot speak against it, nor in favor of it. It would only be fair if I used it and noticed that there are significant performance issues with it.
Yeah, I had a real hard time with this at the beginning, knowing how people behave.

Trying to be as apolitical as possible here, but the leadership flopped hard and wrong here, and…well…welcome to the endemic reality.

As an aside: the World of Warcraft model was more accurate than most would have expected.
> The real issue is the appeal to authority.

No appeal to authority here as I don't claim this as true, just interesting.

> John Huges didn't make a point; he made a claim.

Actually, he did make a point, as he provided reasoning for his claim.

> The statement implies there are more than was common at the time of writing (maybe?)

There are.

Towards a Taxonomy of Software Connectors https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/337180.337201 / https://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS865/Papers/p178-mehta.pdf

I count > 100 leaf nodes in their classification tree. Not sure I agree with all of them, and there are probably others they missed. But more than 2 is trivially fulfilled.

> Was Perl the most modular?

Hmm...Perl wouldn't come to mind as something with a way for a user to define and refine new connectors.
Nom nom nom... delicious... Coca Cola bottle.
Neventual?
5. It ships with wide array developer tooling out of the box. You will not need to install an assortment of third-party programs to manage dependencies, refactor your code, view the docs, run tests, format, lint, run static analysis, check for race conditions, profile and trace, benchmark, etc...
> I'm not a bit worried we'd go without capable search engines, without ads. Very likely there'd be donation-supported ones that are at least as good, and maybe better for some purposes (IMO Google's utility peaked around '08).

This isn't necessarily wrong. I personally use Gigablast, which is excellent and entirely independent (unlike many 'alternative' search engines it isn't backed by Google or, more often, Bing).

However, pace the problem of other minds, I am not the only person in the world, and many people enjoy and rely on Google. I think this conversation is continually falling into the trap of muddling up what you personally prefer vs what would most satisfy the majority of people, and thus achieve adoption.

It's not a good solution if most people consider it worse for their needs, irrespective of your own personal preferences, or your feelings about what other people should like.

> The free side of Youtube is a UX problem to be solved by something like torrent clients (maybe plus some RSS).

Come on. This is as near as possible to an objectively worse solution. Again, I think you're struggling to see beyond your own preferences and abilities, to how most people in the world interact with technology.

> It's plain that a huge percentage of online content could be replaced with Snake Game on an old Nokia with ~0 loss of enjoyment for the consumer.

I refer back to my previous sentence. [Also, both Snake and old Nokias are exactly as available today as they ever were, and I see no sign whatsoever of this happening, despite the clear advantages in price, battery, uptime, etc.]

> People look at the stuff but the value is extremely close to zero, in that nearly any other time-wasting activity is just as good.

I refer back to my penultimate sentence.

> Why should that be privileged over what I'd prefer?

I refer back to my antepenultimate sentence. The answer is: because you are one person in a world of seven billion, and your solution is not going to go anywhere if the mass of people don't like it.

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Look, in summary, this is not a useful conversation if all you have to contribute is moralising about the worth of other people's preferences. I don't care if you think most people should spend their time knitting or listening to Brahms. I'm trying to come up with a solution that satisfies people, and, therefore, can actually compete.
I meant that "MVC 6" is quite old, ain't it?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38109524/what-is-the-dif...
Same here, you can get some of the experience back targeting something like ESP32.
I've never had the pleasure of visiting India, so have no first hand experience. Could you expand on your point. If the government can't refuse service and third parties cannot ask for the number, how does the lack of an Aadhaar impact everyday life?

Just as an aside, I don't doubt what you're saying, I'm just genuinely interested in the mechanics.
I finally got my mail from the new renter and called and chewed them out. Had to pay the original bill.

Edit I chewed out the billing dept not the renter lol
I have certainly done this. PullRequest bought the Moonlight developer gig platform. A lot of full-time developers from Moonlight also took on gigs from PullRequest as they've been using the platform to sell their service. I'd guess most reviewers have other jobs or contracts.
And how does it work now? I remember I tried it in the old days, but noticed serious memory leaks after 30 days or so, so I decided to periodically restart the server to avoid them as debugging this stuff was a real PITA.
One big question: These "expectations" you are talking about, who's expectations are those?

Might it be possible that those expectations, and those requirements for doing "more", are not coming from the actual users/visitors to the websites - but rather from the companies owning the websites?

Because I, as a visitor of HN, come here for the IT news and the nerd stuff. I happily put up with the layout - because the sites actually meets my expectations for content. At the same time, the best, most modern, snazziest website ever... why would I go there (more than once), if there's no content of interest to me?

And that - to my experience - holds true for almost ALL visitors. They come for the content, and they put up with the layout.
And this table-based layout with spacer gifs right here, imho is a lot easier to put up with, than some desing-heavy website that's perfectly optimized for conversion, engagement and retention rates and whatnot.

I think the actual problem is, that when we talk about "expectations" and "requirements" - we talk about what the HOST/SELLER wants - not what is best for the visitor.
European alternatives for digital products
I agree with a lot of this. It is well known at this point that passive learning strategies are not effective. What the author misses is that depending on the type of material being consumed, the learner could be in an input limited or processing limited regime.

For dense textbooks it usually takes more time to process concepts (i.e. get to higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy with a concept) then it does to get the information into the mind through reading, so speed reading (fast input) is pointless. For the type of fiction books his friend is reading, 3x speed might make sense to get to the insights faster that need to be paused on and processed. Certainly the concepts need to be revisited with something like spaced repetition for deeper integration.

Spaced repetition is boring, that is one of the motivations behind Memory Maps, a learning tool that enables you to use the memory palace technique in Google Street View along with mnemonics generating AI to supercharge your memory capacity.

https://www.memorymaps.io/

https://www.memorymaps.io/main-page/how-it-works