skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is almost entirely unique to programming books. Take a book on electronics, and a book discussing principles and a 20 year old book will be nearly as relevant as one published today. Take a book on physics and a 100 year old book will be be nearly as relevant as one published today. That doesn't mean the fields are unchanging. Modern electronics is definitely more sophisticated and much of classical physics has been superseded by modern physics. One definitely needs more modern treatments in order to work at the frontiers of these fields. Yet the principles are less ephemeral. On the other hand, software development is much more fad driven. The most basic principles may still apply, yet the application of those principles change (sometimes subtly and sometimes dramatically) due to a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
> We use all kinds of weird units.
> Grit is based on the amount of particles that fit through an inch square.

I'm aware. But I'd say its mostly used as a dimensionless. When I argue "we use metric except for these few" I mean in the cases where the unit (a length, mass, pressure etc) is actually uttered or written.

In some cases as you note there are labels which have non-metric definitions underneath, such as sand paper particles having a never-pronounced inch definition. The same goes for some weapon calibers where you might say a ".303 cartrige" for rifle ammunition but you'd never say a ".303 inch cartidge". A lot of people probably use these labels without knowing they are using an imperial definition. And that (I'm guessing) is also part of why it survived the metrification.

> I've never seen acceleration in m/s2 outside a physics problem, otherwise it's either G or seconds to 100 km/hr.

"10s to 100km/h" is as metric as m/s2 though (But again not pure SI).
g being a constant obviously has no explicit unit, it's as metric as you want it to be :) I hear "5g" as 5x9.82m/s2 but an american probably hears something else.
Is that a rhetorical question? It sounds like an oxymoron.

Neither solar nor wind can provide base power. Unless you can make hyperefficient batteries and guarantee that we'll see cloudless skies and constant wind.
A much better analogy would be a record store that stocks good music and terrrible music, and allows the customers to make their own choices. Nobody is made to listen to terrible music.
... and this is true for basically every vendor, once you have any amount of scale. Including credit card processors. Yes, even that one with the really nice API. CDNs. Supposedly big cloud providers, but I've not used them at a scale where it was really worth negotiating (for either party).

Quick way to see if you can probably get one: email one of their competitors (a sales email address) and tell them what your average monthly spending with [current vendor] looks like, what your rates with them are, and emphasize that you're otherwise happy with them but feel like it might be worth moving if you can do significantly better on price. If you get back an offer lower than their sticker prices, ask your current vendor to match (assuming you're otherwise happy with them). Even someone who doesn't like and is kinda bad at negotiating can do that.

If they come back with no or trivial movement on price (a 5% discount or something can often be had if you just ask) and trying to sell you on features instead, you're probably too small still. Otherwise, enjoy the savings.
This seems to be relatively drama-free, compared to the last departure (off the entire moderation team https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845), or they've learned there lesson that it's better to not say anything drama-inducing if they won't give the full story.

Speaking about that, anyone know why the moderation team left by now? Has anything became public at this point or it's still anyones guess? There was some indication that some core member broke the Code of Conduct but was never "punished" for it, could this be the consequence that we're seeing after ~2 months?
so sorry about this! the link totally messed up :/

grrr.
So, once this is integrated clicking a link will have the following experience:

1) Tracking preferences overlay that will have a wall of text with "Accept all" and "Customise" buttons that would not be clickable the first few tries.

2) Then you will have a modal that asks for your e-mail address so you can receive the newsletters from the website that you are trying to understand what is this all about.

3) And now you will have a prompt that asks you if you like to receive notifications.

4) Once you are done with all this, half of the page will be covered with links and menus to the other parts of the website and when you scroll menus and overlays with call with action will appear and disappear

5) The rest of the website will be ads.

6) Hopefully somewhere there will be an image or paragraph, you will be able to find it if you still remember why you click on the link

7) if you scroll a bit too much the screen will be blacked out and a call for action(sign up for a newsletter, create account, download the app or buy something) will appear and will have hard to identify close button that won't be working the first few taps.

My point is, the Web is not a garbage because Safari lacks notification or something like that and it is not salvageable without finding a new business model.

Wouldn't be great to have a notification once the new Wordle of the day arrives? Sure. But the business model of it appears to be selling it to the people who love all the steps from 1 to 7 listed above. I don't blame the creator of the game, it's just a testament of the state of the Web business.

I prefer apps for that reason. They also seem to be riddled with full screen ads(especially the casual games are horrible) that make your phone warm BUT you get yo see a high quality screen(App Store, Google Play etc.) where you can read reviews, description and see screenshots before committing into installing the app(Unlike the web apps where you first "install" the app and then you are on your own to figure out what is this all about).

Besides the questionable practices of Apple/Google, there's barely any reason to have browsers with PWA capabilities. I would love it if the web browsers had JS off by default and load JS only when the user explicitly requests it.

Most of the noise comes from Web technologists don't want to learn anything beyond JavaScript.

I hope Apple doesn't cave and if they do, I hope they implement it in a way that improves the experience of the USER. If I wanted an Android experience, I would have used an Android phone, let's keep the iPhone experience like a iPhone experience.
I'd be interested in that! Would be a good learning experience and a way to understand WiFi more deeply. My experience so far is mostly in cellular.
Funny you should mention that, I have thought about similar things. There a few trans related discords for techies. That helped me.
We in the Rust community owe all three of them a great deal for their many contributions of software and community involvement. I owe Steve Klabnik for turning me onto Rust in 2017 with his blog post "Five Years with Rust"[1]. Five years later he is heading into a new chapter of his life with Rust. Here's to another five years of Rust evangelism and activity.

[1] https://steveklabnik.com/writing/five-years-with-rust
I might be misinformed, but my understanding is that consumer AMD cards, for the most part, do not have the required virtualization hardware at all, so there is nothing to unlock.
Not unlike Bitcoin, it's a lot of resources to dedicate to an opt-out. There's a reasonable question to be asked about the cost/benefit ratio.

Not to imply Mastodon shouldn't exist... It is the beauty of the larger open-source ecosystem that in the absence of Mastodon, someone with a chip on their shoulder about Facebook and Twitter would write it. But the market is such that it will likely forever be an also-ran, and the irreducible complexity of hosting a service online is such that even if people use it, almost everyone will be trading one master for another when they leave Facebook for Mastodon, not becoming masters of their own fates.

Which is fine. We live in a society and all.
I'm an instrument-rated pilot. I'm working on a Python library to model aircraft performance with just a few numbers specific to your airplane (e.g., the drag coefficient, and some measurements). I used performance data generated by the library to fly across the entire United States at altitudes and with efficiency beyond the POH.

Seeking other pilot-programmer-contributors: [redacted]
Koenigsegg is a company I admire a lot. They really do seem to be on the bleeding edge of tech whether it’s ICE, electric, powertrains, aerodynamics, etc… Their engineering innovations are to push the current subset of automotive tech to the next level (Freevalve, composites). Something we (understandably) don’t see in the Ford’s and GM’s.

They’re a true engineering centric automotive company, not an consumer, or “celebrity” automotive company. It’s nice.
Note also that most soda fountain syrups also use saccharine instead of aspartame. This is probably so the syrup doesn't go bad as quickly. The transition to aspartame was driven by a study that showed that saccharine caused cancer in rats. That study had issues, but it had enough of an impact that consumers looked for alternatives. For soda machines, there usually isn't an ingredient list visible to the consumer, so that pressure to switch to aspartame didn't exist. There was a class-action lawsuit a few years ago claiming harm from the fountain formulation of diet sodas being different from the same brand sold at retail, but I believe it was thrown out.
SerenityOS is a fun project. The aesthetic and feel are very reminiscent of 90s era computing, the build process for getting it running is fairly easy, and there is a surprising number of applications already available for the system including your basic GUI utility applications, a basic set of office software, and a web browser. I liked the aesthetic and goals of the project so much I actually themed one of my websites to look like the SerenityOS desktop[0].

Andreas any plans to get this OS working on bare metal? IIRC your current stance was focusing on building the system and have the community focus on things like getting it running on actual hardware. Would be interesting to see SerenityOS running on a Raspberry Pi some day, but I expect that to be a long ways away.

[0] https://serenity.video
Thank you! This is amazing! My only ask is that you bump up the default font size.
2^31 is already 2 billions ... And the average # children has to be higher
Huh, on which platform ? I tested it on Windows, Linux, with Chrome and Firefox ; it even loads on my android phone even if not particularly useful.
I'm going to try to message the admins - I don't see a "delete post" link anywhere. This is an error though.
I lift weight in the morning (1h routine) then I take a shower and rest for 30 to 60 minutes. I usually feel my body tired, almost exhausted. But, my brain feels relaxed, light, clean (not sure how to explain it). I have no idea why it happens this way but it's been working for years.
I agree. For example, I had a text that said "grandpa grandma" and it suggested "grandpa's grandma!" Clearly not what I had in mind haha. But I am very happy that in my writing, it has showed me almost 98% proper fixes! I love that part of it.
>> holding high horsepower output levels for a long time, an internal combustion engine will overheat quickly.

Every racecar in every 24-hour race. Every large boat/ship that runs at full throttle 24/7. Every large truck pulling a load up a hill. Every diesel generator that runs at full load for weeks. Modern IC engines can run flat-out for considerable periods of time. Counterintuitively, in many ways running at high power settings is easier on an IC engine than at lower fuel-efficient setting. Some pressures between parts are lower at higher RPMs. Total power/RPM is higher, but the energy involved in each rotation of a part is generally less. Oil moves more efficiently and doesn't get squeezed out as parts push against each other. And the ignition inside the cylinder is richer (ie cooler) when optimized for power rather than efficiency. Talk to anyone riding a Japanese sportbike. Those engines are far happier running flat-out on the track than sitting at idle in traffic.
That sounds really cool, I have no knowledge of frameworks but I will definitely be a beta-testing user if needed.
It has been attempted at least at the OS level. COM and the much improved WinRT are one example (WinRT relies heavily on metadata), the Objective-C runtime on Apple platforms is another (which instead accepts lots of dynamism).

The problem is that OS vendors are the only ones with enough sway to force people to use these things, and even then just barely (the Rust WinRT support is developed by Microsoft themselves).

The only entity with enough sway over every language in existence when it comes to supporting an ABI is, ironically, the C standards committee, because every language already talks C and needs to continue to do so.
The spec is so complicated that it's impossible to implement correctly (or so I hear).

I do think it would help a lot to have 5GHz Bluetooth.
Someone needs to teach them algebra
> Absolute, dynamic control of your own filter bubble might make you stupider, but you should have the right to be stupid if you want to be.

Individual users are entitled to filter out things they don't want to hear. They own their computer, they're paying for the electricity and network, everything takes place on their hardware, which is their property, presumably confined within their actual home which is also their property. The computer presents itself as a window to the world, but despite literally being billed this way by eg. Microsoft Windows, it is closer to a tapestry placed on a wall.
The fact that you care about employee development and are deliberately seeking out ways to do it better puts you ahead of most managers. I can't directly address advancement within a company, but will share some of my own experience.

I founded and led a small software development team within government that was a mix of government employees and contractors, but we acted like a startup and had a strong culture and team ethos. I was under severe constraints about what I could actually offer my team members in terms of advancement, but I tried to deliberately help them grow. I cared about them for their own sake, but also believed they would do their best work for my team if they felt valued, taken care of, and fulfilled in their desire for growth.

I did a one-on-one with team member upon hiring, and then every 6 months or so. We used these meetings for mutual feedback but I also deliberately asked about their goals and we strategized together about how to help them advance towards those goals. I was honest about the limits of what I could do. Even though I couldn't directly promote people, we often found ways to help team members learn new skill sets in the course of their work, take on more leadership, or shift into different lateral roles that would stretch their knowledge and abilities. In some cases I worked with our contractor company to pay for training in new skills adjacent to, but not directly related to, their core duties.

I also acknowledged in our first one-on-one that this job was just one of many they would hold. I hoped they would stay with us a long time, but whenever they left, we would wish them well and help them transition into their next thing. I also told them one of my personal goals for each new hire: that they would be better for the time they spent on our team.

These individuals stayed fiercely loyal to the team. Most stayed for quite a while. Many did leave for higher-paying jobs after a couple years, but it was always a difficult decision for them because they loved the team and the mission so much. When they did decide to leave, we always wrote recommendations and did whatever else we could to help them find their next opportunity.
And now you know why Russia supports Green Party in many countries. Such support can advance many geopolitical goals, from undermining the party opposed to your interests, e.g.,[1], to undermining forms of energy opposed to your interests, as here. How convenient is it for Russia that Germany could really use the nuclear power that was removed in no small part to strong opposition lead by the Green Party, and just as Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is nearing completion, tying Germany's entire economy to paying Russia for energy for the next few decades? It is not a coincidence.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-...
C is not perfect. It's closer to assembly, but you can't do anything useful without reinventing most things that is already done in C++.

C++ STD lib is not a big mess. At least, I am using it for decades. I don't know if you really used it because those who are against STD doesn't understand the point of abstractions and it's utility. They always tend to cite why would I use vector when I can create a "simple" linked list myself with pointers.
You can always use a lightning/usb-c to 3.5mm cable.
If you were here in good faith, you would know that regulation isn't an all-or-nothing proposition.
Your link is very light on facts. E.g how much cheaper batteries would need become to be competitive with gas/coal/nuclear and is that even possible with lithium batteries alone?
I have somehow not seen this post before. Thanks for posting it. I couldn't agree more. I particularly like differentiating between decentralization and federation.

The key point here is that this is something almost nobody wants. I'm surprised the author didn't bring up what is probably the most successful large-scale federated system: the POTS telephone network.

Spam calls, robocalls, caller ID spoofing, limited controls on blocking people, etc. There's a reason things like WhatsApp, FB Messenger and the like have grown so big. Many people now view the phone part of their smartphone as just a huge annoyance.
All that doesn't matter. What normies did was purchase a CD of a native application, install it and have it work basically forever; with zero need for servers or hosting costs.
Fukushima as a plant was also asking for trouble: "the earthquake had also generated a tsunami 14 metres...swept over the plant's seawall" (c) Wikipedia. 14 metres is a joke for a country where 40 metre tsunamis happen.

It is amazing how this could be built not taking high waves into account.
Did I really say that? From any given era, you can find gems and garbage.
Nonsense right back at you. Nuclear with a normal level of regulation, with the same level of up-fuckery seen in other industries, would have eventually reached a level of safety, but only after a long string of nuclear accidents (just like as air transport required large numbers of crashes to achieve today's safety.)

Would that have been politically realistic? I think clearly it wouldn't have been. So don't complain about a level of regulation that nuclear requires in order to exist at all.
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Go GDPR for the win!

I like the goal of privacy, but I won't be sad to see the ridiculous GDPR law implode.
As a stop-gap, it may help to aggressively denounce things taken out-of-context as being out-of-context.

In usual communication, we focus on fact-checking things in the context in which they're most valid, with the presumption that any contextual ambiguity'd be understood/resolved. In such scenarios, it can make sense to fact-check something literally, in the context in which it's claimed, then handle the contextual-migrations appropriately in discussing inter-related points.

But Twitter-like platforms destroy this -- short blurbs in a relatively context-free space make it difficult to be honest even for folks who'd want to be, and seems to be a playground for folks who'd want to lie under pretense of factuality.

The appropriate reaction to claims removed from context would seem to be to deny them. Not to say that the claim is false (at least, not in a context in which it'd be true), but to note that the claim isn't relevant to the current-context (at least, not without a basis for connecting it to the current-context).

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To note it, a problem with allowing folks to declare claims as being out-of-context (if they're not required to support it) is that it gives everyone a free-pass to weasel out of acknowledging anything that they dislike. So, it's unsuitable for adversarial contexts or otherwise unreliable exchanges.

Which is what I think makes debates, politics, etc. on platforms like Twitter basically garbage: it's too easy to lie if context isn't observed, and it's too easy to dodge stuff if it is.

So while Twitter-like platforms might workable for non-adversarial exchanges (like sharing pictures, announcements, etc.), adversarial exchanges on such platforms would seem structurally predisposed toward undesirable behavior.
I've often wondered about those % measurements of electricity generation.
Because of high variability balancing wind/solar is apparently tricky since rarely is storage capacity built along with the wind/solar (I kinda wish that subsidies focused on that).
So... of that 10%, how much of it is excess power that had to be soaked up wherever a place could be found to dump it, and or rapid ramping down of base generation, causing waste. It's probably a hard thing to calculate though.
Hear hear! I think we're just beginning to understand how much we can use smart chips and intelligent switching to improve performance. All you need to do is look at one of the old motors with brushes to realize how far we've come.
Well, it seems that the very vocal, very small minority are the gatekeepers to what can be widely disseminated enough to become mainstream.
The thing about improving up from 94% is, we may not magically double the power savings. But say, going from 94% to 97% may cut the waste heat in half, which means you can suddenly run the same size motor with twice the current without melting it down. So there are some nice benefits possible there.
It's a toy because it does no work.

My gaming console is a toy. Sure I can probably get google drive to load and pair a keyboard but that doesn't mean it's a real tool.

You can't even copy over movies or books! You can't buy books from anyone except Apple. You can't manage files meaningfully. You can't install useful software. Hell, I can't even get a real web browser, instead I'm stuck with safari which is basically a decade old under the hood.

I made the mistake one time of traveling with just my ipad, pre-pandemic. I couldn't even get and print train tickets in a hotel! At the time I couldn't even watch videos off a usb drive (since added).

iPads are toys. They are the fake version of a real computer you give a child so they don't cause too much damage.
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It's the good old paradox of open societies: can they actually tolerate the intolerant, or letting them operate will bring about their end?

Open societies are constantly walking a fine line in practice.