skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can I possibly have data regarding an hypothetical scenario? I was just affirming that many people could be skeptical of this "all aboard" imperative considering that bubbles might burst and the first ones to get hurt would probably be those who were convinced to get to code because "there's a lot of money to be made". Who knows, maybe it's even exactly this kind of "gold rush" mentality the mechanism that creates bubbles in the first place.

That said, why is it unethical not actively trying to persuade other people to program? There's a considerable spectrum between "hostile gatekeeping" and "evangelism". What about not discouraging nor encouraging anyone? How many doctors do you find "trying to get other people to medical profession"?
The confusion in many articles on the subject is because both the myth and the truth argue that QWERTY was designed to prevent hammer jams. The reason this confuses people is because anecdotally many people find QWERTY slower to find keys ergo many laymans assume QWERTY was designed to slow typing down to avoid jams (in fairness, it's not an unreasonable piece of logical deduction even if it's not technically accurate).

The reality was that typists were trained to type on QWERTY so they weren't slow typing on it. What QWERTY was designed to do was move common follow on characters further away from each other so the hammers jammed less often thus allowing trained typists to type faster than they could have on an alphabetized layout.
I agree with your edit, that was my point. When writing detection rules or automating things, I have to know that. When managing vulns or triaging incidents not so much. There are roles where you have to do one thing or all those things. The constant is that you need an ability to pick on the basics of new tech and some intuition of good enginnering and security practices.
I'm not promoting the PL/I language, although I did do significant work with it back in the day, including the Prime operating system which had huge chunks written in a system-programming version of PL/I. PL/I likely never "made it" because it's a huge, bloated language that's hard to implement, compilers were scant, and they were expensive. For the curious, here are Prime's 2 system-programming subsets, the first, PL/P, is from 1978:

PLP: https://sysovl.info/pages/blobs/prime/pet/pe-t-483%20PLP%201...
SPL: https://sysovl.info/pages/blobs/prime/pet/pe-t-xxx%20SPL%20R...

I am promoting the concept of strings having a built-in capacity and current length, and the language compiler and runtime understanding that rather than trying to use a byte array as a string. Even compiled BASIC I used in the late 70's had real strings like that.
Always think long term.
It says they aren't 5 digit primes. 2 and 5 are 1 digit primes, 31 is a 2 digit prime. Putting extra 0s in front of them doesn't change that.
> And so he suspects, happily, that the pandemic has wiped out one particular type of office: the cubicle farm.

> "Cubicles are like human chicken farming. They have always been bad for anything other than kind of factory farming kind of approach to the office," he said.

Having worked both in a cubicle and an open office, I'd take the cubicle any day of the week.

Maybe a certain type of cramped cubicle is bad, but in the company I worked for we had large desks, neck and chest-height dividers, and teams faced opposite from one another, so it fostered collaboration, while maintaining a sense of privacy.

The open office OTOH had no sense of privacy, and you could hear conversations from several desks away. Wearing headphones to block out the noise was the only way to get some work done, but there was nothing you could do about visual distractions in your peripheral vision. It was awful.

> "Put people in tiny little footprint because it takes less money than an enclosed office and we can kind of keep an eye on them."

On the contrary, the open floor plan popularized by Google et al was always loved by managers for this reason, not the cubicle farm.

> Wilkinson envisions big, open spaces with couches and cozy nooks as work stations that are not assigned to any single employee. An environment where it's easy to hang out and chat.

No, thanks. I'll keep working from home or remotely from wherever I want rather than in your open space office.
Parent isn't speaking about just qualifications, but the extent to which the government also controls supply of healthcare professions in the US, largely via its residency funding, and requirements to complete a residency program to practice (to simplify the system to a sentence).

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/america-cant-fix-its-...

So it's generally accurate to say "You cannot be a physician in the United States without the federal government's permission." (At minimum, indirectly via position funding)

And since we generally require a credentialed physician at some point for most care, that trickles down the entire system.
Mouldiness Manifesto: Against Rationalism in Architecture
Bearnaise, hollandaise, red wine reduction, roquefort cream, lemon + olive oil, salsa verde, green peppercorn, garlic butter, bordelaise, au poivre --- not saucing a steak is a wasted opportunity for deploying some of the world's great sauces.
Better stop eating cheese too. It has a bigger carbon footprint than most meats
If you don't understand all the 10s of million of line of linux code, you don't know whether you are using linux correctly.
This sounds wrong. How can a CF card be recognized as "removable"? Do CF cards exist that support ATAPI?
One of my old bosses told me, "remove the phrase 'it works for me' from your vocabulary. If it worked for _them_, they wouldn't be bringing their problem to you."

This made me realize that the phrase "it works for me" can be dismissive and condescending, and that I should spend at least a little bit of time under the assumption that I am the one that screwed up (personally, my team, or my company) until I can prove otherwise. Anecdotally, I'd say 90% of the time it is either a bug or poorly documented processes -- and those can be fixed! Only about 10% of the time is it truly users doing something stupid.
Cannabis Use Produces Persistent Cognitive Impairments
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet." It applies in business as well... (just not the killing part)
I think a lot of stuff in this thread is general proverbs rather than actual advice received from another person.

This isn't advice that I've gotten either, but also just general wisdom: never give anyone advice about anything, unless they specifically ask for it. Web search for "unsolicited advice" finds a ton of info about why the practice is annoying. I take it to mean it is ok to try to lead by example instead, or say "for solving problem X, I usually try approach Y", but maybe that also edges too close to advice.

One specific piece of advice I got that I have found valuable is that to debug a misbehaving program, instead of trying to map the misbehaviour into a hypothesis of what is happening in the code, go immediately to running the code under a debugger and incrementally (e.g. single stepping etc.) run it until you see something go wrong, then backtrack and figure out how that wrong thing happened.
that's correct, just your basic VPS running nginx
The US is pretty self sufficient but that doesn't mean they don't export
Do you spend all of your time in one room? Sorry, but I think you might be missing the spirit of the phrase above. Maybe one needs to have heard it "in context" the way I originally heard it to get the intended spirit of it? Dunno.

The idea isn't about surrounding yourself with people who are worse than you, just so you can say you are "the smartest person in the room". The idea is to focus on something and become so good at thing that you are -usually- the "smartest person in the room" on that particular topic. Which means this whole idea is only relevant to contexts that your thing is relevant. And to reiterate, this is more of an aspiration than something that's literally achievable. In reality, with a vanishingly small number of exceptions, there will always be at least one person who knows more than you about thing. And that's OK. The point is about focus and the importance of putting in the work vis-a-vis your thing.
> Myth #6b: "If you cut it open to check doneness, it will lose all its juices."

> The Reality: Again, the amount of juice lost by a single slit-and-peek is completely inconsequential in comparison to the whole piece of meat.

I think this one might depend a lot on how sharp your knives are. And most people that I know have dull knives. Thus, when cutting a steak to peek, they end up pressing it, which releases juices. So this wouldn't be a myth for most people I know.
In case it is not obvious, ample evidence already exists that this judge is an idiot.

https://www.wjiinc.org/blog/outagamie-county-justice-the-fbo...
I assume we’re talking about eventually running out of resources to make $thing, not running out of places to put old $things?

Because I just drove through Nevada and can personally attest that we are not in danger of running out of places to dig big holes to put old stuff in.
Covid-19, the disease, is a family of symptoms up to and including death.

SARS-COV-2 is a transmissible virus that causes the disease COVID-19.

In the medical jargon, disease and its causality are separate concepts (and this bifurcation honestly makes sense... There are quite a few diseases where the treatment is to regulate symptoms without any hope of doing anything to modify the underlying active agent other than wait out the immune system to deal with it). It is entirely possible for a therapy to "prevent disease" without reducing the transmission of the underlying virus that causes the symptoms that make up a disease.

It is unfortunate that because of the conflation of these ideas in the layman terms space, people misinterpreted what the vaccine was cleared to do. But blaming doctors or the FDA for that is like blaming computer engineers when users turn off their computer and then don't understand that everything in volatile memory wasn't saved to disk. "Where's my spreadsheet go? It was in the computer's memory, it should be here."
There are, if eaten raw, but if cooked, usually not so much, if there was not literal poison in the trash as well.

In either case, when you are hungry, bad food is still better than no food. (unless it is so bad, that that you puke from it, but poor people usually have a strong stomach. They have to have)
My understanding is that it’s designed to be zero-sum for someone who emits the average amount of carbon for a Canadian. If you emit less personally (say by taking public transit and living in an energy efficient apartment) you’ll actually get more back than you pay. If you are a big emitter it is a net tax in your activity.

I like that design, since wealth is highly correlated with carbon emissions. I do want to see more programs to make rental units more energy efficient, since renters tend to be less wealthy and are in less control of how much they emit. If their landlord refuses to insulate more, switch from gas heat (or worse they are stuck with baseboard electric) there is very little someone can do to reduce their emissions and any incentives from the carbon pricing just become the punitive tax critics say carbon pricing is.
That's what I do (but I got it from the first episode of "Good Eats Reloaded"), except that I go until the temperature near the center is the temperature I want for the final temperature rather than the 15℉ below that which is what that article recommends. I'm using a 200℉ oven (well, that is what it is set to...I don't know how accurate that is), and found it heats the steak gently enough that the center temperature doesn't really rise much after it is taken out.

The searing is on the hottest my stovetop can make my pan, which is about 500℉. I do 45 seconds on each side. That doesn't seem to be long enough to have much effect other than near the surface.
Sixteen hours to read Moby Dick? That recalls the old Woody Allen joke about speed-reading: "I read War and Peace in two hours. It's about Russia."
I mean aesthetic in the broader sense. For example I'd love to have rainwater capture and solar panels at my home, and maybe a composting site and garden too. Apartment living rules those out, but if I owned my own home I can probably get them going (coop boards or HOAs notwithstanding).

But like, I don't need them. Almost no one does. It's an aesthetic lifestyle choice. I'm (probably, anyway) willing to purchase a home in order to do this--and other non-apartment-friendly things--but I don't think it should be the goal of national housing policy to ensure that everyone has this option.

I can also imagine a more sophisticated tenant/landlord/housing policy that allowed tenants to do more significant things to land or structure. It's not like these things are unprecedented: leasers of agricultural land and commercial office space do it all the time. But again, I think it probably boils down to "poor, unsophisticated people rent, letting them lease your property is a huge risk, here's a thick contract and some biased tenant/landlord statues to protect landlord interests" thinking, which is definitely inaccurate.
> That's what cooperatives are, family farms are, what you owning your laptop as a programmer are.

These are just different kinds of organization within capitalism. Clubs are a thing too, you know.

These aren’t ‘solutions to capitalism’.

> It's also a silly argument considering you could have said the same before agriculture and before capitalism succeeded.

It’s only a silly argument if someone presents a solution. So far nobody is doing so.
A System that takes photos of each plane that flies over a home
Exactly the point in my strident post below, that now has a negative value unsurprisingly given the content of many of the replies here. Is it unfairly rude to challenge the ethics of what people choose to do? Is the world not shaped by what we do or even somewhat by our mere participation with what others do? Nothing will get better, and perhaps even worse, if all we care about is our own personal gain.
Fundamentally such a thing has to be possible or else natural occurrences like mountains, waterfalls, cliffs etc. would not be possible since they would collapse on themselves. Steel is stronger than dirt after all.
What is the point then? Don't we have alternative means do reduce Co2 while producing electricity?
What is a "pretty good price"? Looking at that website, the cheapest I see is around $80 for a single 8oz steak. I don't see any bulk options.
Could those billions be used to change all electrical generation facilities to not use fossil fuels? And then turn all public transport in the world to electric ones? And then private cars, heating, and so on?

Yes, that could be expensive, but you don't want to know how expensive will be to do nothing.

In fact, billions were already used in denialism campaigns by Shell and other companies, if they can use billions for that then well we may charge them trillions to mitigate what they put all of us into.

But no, the chosen way will be to blame others, try to reach a mythical net-zero and increase extraction of fossil fuels and pumping it into the environment while they last.
Yes indeed, love that too, "Click and Drop" is nice.
To be fair, those parts of South Bay are so not-dense you have to travel a mile to see anything or to get lunch.
While I admire the sentiment, jerks seem to do alright.
Ask HN: How / where to learn practical electrical / electronics?
I’ve worked in technology my entire career but when I was replacing a broken wired garage door opener with arcade buttons I realized I had no clue what I was doing.

I couldn’t tell you the difference between wires or what was happening beyond randomly stripping wires and connecting them to see what happens.

My method worked for what I figured was a low voltage / risk project , but I would like to know more and eventually be able wire a raspberry pi for hobby projects / be able to manage more complex work.

Is there a good place to start / has anyone started from nearly 0 and found some good resources?
Yeah, the blue button in each question item is only for reordering. You can move questions without clicking on them first, btw; not sure if my demo communicated that.

I.e. If you click the question item (but not the blue button), the question is visible on the right. If you click the blue button in the list, the question goes into reorder mode. Those two things are separate from each other, so you can reorder a question that's not currently active.
Can anyone guess which xkcd they intended to link to? They seem to have accidentally linked to the home page instead of a specific comic.
I have never had a "wagyu" steak (served as a steak) that I found special. It's to the point where "wagyu" is kind of a red flag for me.

(I've had A5 prepared at sushi places, and that I get, but it's a totally different preparation).
Why do you make such a blanket statement like that? According to the benchmarks page, it’s faster than its alternatives https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/benchmarks/
Yep is a big long tail to think about solving for, decades of features / idiosyncrasies in a complex domain.
No kidding:

More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it.

Being in the social strata where your rejections are effectively failed subsidies is not really the place to complain about how hard done by you are (I'm in the same class). I'd be much more interested in something written by eg a salesperson who sees constant rejection and has to handle it live, vs some academics emailing in applications and then having a toga party when they are not successful.

My advice to anyone who identifies with the article is to get out of a academia for a while to change your perspective. There is a whole world out there
terrible time. you feel like losing the game, falling behind from all new cool-aid drinks. You feel like your friends and colleagues are working on something cool, and then suddenly re-org happens and you wonder is your career on right track ?
The problem with something like Bitcoin is that there is no buyer (or lender to buyers) of last resort. This means that anyone that's even a bit extended has to sell if there's a harsh downturn. Also, there are no Circuit breakers so you can never know where the floor is. So it's sell first and ask questions later which makes the fall even deeper.

A harsh fall is happening now, it happened before and it will happen again after this. But there are just too many believers to have it go away. It might fall to a fraction of a penny but there will always be someone that believes that it will come back. It might never get back to its all time high but I know for sure that it won't go away.

Bitcoin is not like a company that can go bankrupt. Any group of people with computers and internet connections can restart it.
Ask a psych major.
$10/oz isn't much better than the price you'd get for genuine A5, is it?
Good point, that's true. But mountains also have massive bases over which to distribute the load. I assume in the context of a skyscraper, the overall shape is still very much "skyscraperish" (that is, much taller than it is wide)
I have thought about moving my personal blog onto something that isn't someone else's service. But every time I think about running my own blog server, stories like this come along.
> Roughly 12% of GHGs are attributed to meat agriculture.

The cause of anthropogenic climate change is the burning of fossil fuels, not
the raising of animals for food. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon at a rate
and in amounts that are too high for the natural mechanisms in the environment,
that normally bind carbon, to cope with.

The carbon gasses released by cows and other ruminants are part of the planetary
carbon cycle that circulates carbon gasses between the atmosphere and the
biosphere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_carbon_cycle

Plants bind carbon from the air, cows eat plants, bacteria in cows' stomachs
ferment plants, fermentation releases the carbon bound by plants back into the
air, plants bind carbon from the air. This cycle is stable, it's been going on
for millions of years, and it has never caused climate change, not of the scale
we see today.

Climate change started with the Industrial Revolution, when fossil fuels began
to be dug up and burned for power. Today, power production is responsible for
almost 75% of all carbon emissions. The vast majority of this power production
is from burning fossil fuels:

https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#sector-by-sec...

If you're concerned about climate change and you want to raise the alarm, then
raise the alarm about the continued burning of fossil fuels and the
misinformation spread by the fossil fuel industry. Misinformation that seems to
be very successfully co-opting the animal rights movement, I might add. You want
to be "on the right side of history" as you say in another comment? Don't side
with the fossil fuel industry by directing attention away from their role in
climate change.
The problem with making elevator shafts longer is the tensile strength of steel cables; a thicker cable weights more and so for a longer and longer cable more and more of the cable is only around to carry the cable itself, much the same way as increasing payload on a rocket. Thicker cables require bigger sheaves to avoid fatigue, but the sheave can't be larger than about half the shaft width. Just gets impractical.

The solution is cable-less elevators. Rack and pinion elevators seem to be used only for construction elevators, guessing NVH is not up to snuff. Thyssen Krupp has maglev elevators though (experimental): https://engineered.thyssenkrupp.com/en/multi-our-sideways-mo...

edit: Also if you go too fast it'd be really uncomfortable due to the air pressure changing too quickly. Vertical acceleration is also really unpleasant, personally I find the quickly accelerating elevators I've used to be very nauseating.
This advice is about having one specific thing for which you can say you're "the smartest person in the room". It's not about being the "smartest person in the room" in any general sense. So imagine aspiring to have something about which you are better informed / knowledgeable, even if you're in the same room with Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Nikola Tesla, Paul Graham, Elon Musk, Yann LeCun, and Grigori Perelman. Are you likely to be smarter than all (or any) of those people in general? Maybe not. Is there some specific niche which is "your niche" where you are more informed than all of them? Very possibly so.
With brown stock, you're eating bits of the bone. With a bone in steak, you're eating bits of meat that have been near the bone.

It's not impossible that it would have an impact, but there's no obvious mechanism either. (And as the author points out, there's no particular reason why, even if flavour transfer was happening, it'd go the direction you want either.)
Multi-elevator systems have been talked about for a very long time, similar to trains. The problem is still that these layover spots or crossover points take up floor space. And one bad elevator has the potential to jam up the whole system, compared to today where one bad elevator only impacts its shaft.

Manhattan actually has a parking cap; with Manhattan today, the view is that building more parking mostly just encourages people to use it, and to accommodate Manhattan's existing land use would probably require paving over Manhattan, the rivers surrounding it, and a whole lot more.
James Mattis is a legend.