skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The embedded energy of a second vehicle won't be made up for in a 10-20mpg improvement, except in very very niche cases.

The lifetime amount of fuel/electricity used by a vehicle generally accounts for only half of the total energy. The other half is in it's manufacturing and disposal/recycling.

And there's additional lost efficiency than just the mileage, because you're using twice the embedded energy and presumably aren't doubling the amount of driving you're doing.

Maybe rentals or sharing schemes work in some cases, but they present their own inefficiencies, like less than perfect allocation, and transferring vehicles back and forth for each switch.

But for the majority of cases, it's much more environmentally friendly to own one single vehicle that meets all of your needs, even if it's relatively inefficient.

The most efficient vehicle for any particular person is usually the one that's already been built. (Which is why cash for clunkers was actually a bailout with negative environmental impacts, despite its branding of improved efficiency.)
The main reason I couldn't care less about spreadsheets: I have no desire to open a goddamn spreadsheet. Why didn't he just use a sqlite database or something?
Ohh, very cool idea. I'll experiment with that a bit and see how this could work.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Like daily digest of tweets?

If you could articulate it into a problem statement i.e. Like why you needed it, Why current solutions don't work for you etc. Then you can post it at https://needgap.com (My problem validation platform) and if there's enough interest then some one would pick it up for a side-project.
To be fair, it's usually pretty awkward and feels bad though. It is often very easy to accidentally scroll a bit on the wheel while depressing the third button.
Aldi has such a good relationship with suppliers, because--despite driving rather hard bargains up front--they do stick to what they agreed to pay and don't pull shenanigans.
Specifically cross compilation works just fine with pure rust code, but rust doesn't include a linker so you need to provide an appropriate one for your host/target combination (which can be a pain). Zig happens to have a linker which supports a large variety of targets, so this project makes it easy to use that during your build.
"Mama" is not really an universal word, it's mostly a western thing.

The letters seem to be universal though. E.g. for the father it's mostly b, p, t and for the mother m, n, w.
Isn't it the same as podcasts? I listen while exercising, folding laundry, standing in a commuter train, etc.
Worldle also doesn't require rule reading. I've been playing it for a week and never read any documentation. It's quite intuitive if you're not interested in nitpicking exactly what the distance measurement means.
Good luck. If you find a reliable way to find them then please shout that far and wide.

I tried about 10 different wifi usb dongles and all but one were completely unsupported or unusably unreliable (as in 5-10% packet loss, and sometimes needing unplug/replug) on OpenBSD.

All the guidance I found was "just get one with this chipset". But it's not that simple. It's usually not listed on product pages, so you have to guess.

And even the ones that do have the right chip can be very unreliable. Granted, most that I tried were super cheap. But those super cheap ones worked fine on Linux.

In the end I found one that worked properly with OpenBSD. Old and unbranded, so it wouldn't even help you.

I don't think there's a single 802.11ac USB dongle with free drivers. On Linux there are separately downloadable kernel modules, but I've found that to be a nightmare not necessarily to get working, but to keep working across kernel upgrades.

So my suggestion is to look at supported chips, try to guess which products have that chip, and buy a few. Hopefully one works.
> Too many people believe that aiming for good software quality means you need to fully adopt that new technology, whether it’s microservices, GraphQL, or distributed tracing. You’re not done until you’ve switched fully over to the ideal technology.

This. We are constantly presented with new and shiny things. And then, barely a year later, there is the next ideal technology. And the next, and the next, and the next.

We have seen this with everyhing: Languages, coding standards, paradigms, editors, organisational methodology, interview methodology, frameworks, databases, security, design basics,...the list is endless.

But here is some truth:

C is still written. As is pure JS. Imperative/Prodecural code never went away. Websites on servers we can physically touch are still deployed. People still write working implementations for almost everything under the sun from scratch. Information-Dense, slim, efficient interfaces that get jobs done are still there. As are monolithic architectures. Good 'ol RDBMS still work great. bash is still the dominant shell. grep/cut/awk are still great for analysing logs. Water still flows downhill.

"new" and "better" are 2 different words, with different meanings. Something that's new could be better. But he fact that it's new, in itself, doesn't automagically make it better. And even if its better in one scenario, its doesn't have to be better in all scenarios.
Lovelace gets a lot of attention because she grasped the cultural implications of computers approximately a century ahead of anyone else. She was also the first person in history to get bitten by the programming bug. As an inspirational figure, her practical day-to-day relevance is immaterial.
You don't really get around that with convergent applications either. That is, unless your idea of convergence is "lowest common denominator for everyone".
Eh, a company should be free to offer any bad deal they can dream up.

If you don't like it, your job is to turn down that offer.
Yes, it can be cryptic and not beginner-friendly, but it's powerful and once you know it, you know it; it will be useful for years if not decades, as opposed to some tools or frameworks du jour that are sometimes as cryptic.

The main issue is that many people try (by necessity or not) to cobble scripts together without really learning the language and its idioms. It's not that hard to really learn it though, it's basically one man page then the mandatory [wooledge wiki][1].

[1]: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
This might have something to do with CSS transitions. It's not intentional. Gonna take a look at it later. Thanks!
- people are not willing to relocate (job is remote but inside one of the countries we are operating in, which is 80)

If you hire contractors you can hire people from anywhere - you don't need a business presence.

(This message is brought to you by a contractor living in the middle of nowhere).
Ha, this is just the reality of things in Europe. I guess at least you get "free" healthcare, holidays and sick pay that you might not get in the US. Jobs in London (remote) would pay best I imagine. My role is paying London rate, even though I live in Nottingham. Previous to that I tried contracting which will pay you about twice what permanent work pays (if you have enough work), however that has been complicated since IR35.
I suspect the retail price is just there as a psychological suggestion to make you think you are getting a good deal with the credits.
The Economist always has anonymous writers.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/...
>Let's consider the major sixth.

>It is the 27th harmonic of the fundamental.

This is the problem I have with discussions concerning the harmonic series, it is presented as equivalent to the notes of the scale, even though no musician before the 19th century was even aware of it. Even in the heyday of just intonation (in theory not in practice), no theorist used the Pythagorean ratio for it, the very simple reason being that the intervals were obtained via dividing the octave and subsequent ratios. This is how it was done in the most important treatises such as Zarlino, Galilei etc, and subsequent theorist followed in their footsteps. The 5:3 major sixth differs from the ET and Pythagorean one for one very good reason: it was the one derivation that theorists actually used. Though how the major sixth was used in practice is a much more difficult question, and that was the reason for Galilei's break with Zarlino showed.

I just want to re-iterate that all these musical concepts have existed long before the discovery of the harmonic series, and were justified differently. The harmonic series definitely does not "explain fully" any ratio as this comment thread has amply shown. It is an invention of the 19th century that people have tried to bolt on to existing concepts which nevertheless requires significant contortions and even so come up deficient.

For the audience, I highly recommend reading through the first chapter of Galilei's Dialogo which presents a historical derivation of the intervals of the scale and the many difficulties attending to just intonation.

https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500437/
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I presume things like making screenshots, browsing files, looking up contacts, maintaining a calendar, reading and sending emails, calculating some quick numbers, making backups and so on.

Stuff that, regardless of your niche, is needed. Whether you are a programmer or a plumber, you'll be doing many of these tasks on a daily basis.
I think that they are referring to what amounts to scaffolding+shrinkwrap:

https://shrinkwrapcontainments.com/image-gallery/

Near the bottom of the page there are a couple photos of the Golden Gate.

Most probably they have "traveling scaffolding" for the standard parts and some specific built-on-spot structures for other parts.
I wish I was at 25%, mines at 38%!
The incentives for the government to print money have already been mentioned more than once in this thread.
It isn't completely clear to me how the optimal modification should look like. Perhaps "ticks that hate human smell and avoid people as much as they can"?

Because if we just exterminate ticks en masse by introducing DNA errors, something else may take their place.
Variants of the FSYNC story have been going on for decades now. The framing varies, but typically somebody is benchmarking IO (often in the context of database benchmarking) and discovers a curious variance by OS.

On NVMes I wonder whether this really matters, but it's a serious issue on spinning disks: do you really need to flush everything to the disk (and interrupt more efficient access patterns)?
Nassim Taleb’s ones
Wow, a veritable treasure trove! Thank you.
When building databases, we care about durability, so database authors are usually well aware that you _have_ to use `F_FULLSYNC` for safety. The fact that `F_FULLSYNC` isn't safe means that you cannot write a transactional database on Mac, it is also a surprise to me.

Note that the man page for `F_FULLSYNC` itself doesn't mention that it is not reliable: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Sy...

Having a separate syscall is annoying, but workable. Having a scenario where we call flush and cannot ensure that this is the case is BAD.
Note that handling flush failures is expected, but all databases require that flushing successfully will make the data durable.

Without that, there are no way to ensure durable writes and you might get data loss or data corruption.
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There are counter examples like Finnish. Isä for father and äiti for mother. Ofc, something like mama is here, but that is probably from Swedish.
> Video calls are most effective with camera turned on, why are you so shy or scared to show yourself?

So, I can only choose “shy” or “scared”?

Let's turn this 180deg: Why you so need to see others faces?
> She listened with something like awe in her eyes.

The issue is that you'll read a few pages like that then a paragraph using the same language to describe a tree hung with dead babies. The effect is of course quite unlike much else.
Do you really think those machines are just plugged into the mains socket in Amazon's data centers?
sorry - you're both right. I've removed it. (didn't realize that everyone gets the same country)
Pétain was a 'Marshal of France' and national hero of WWI, former Chief of Staff of the Army, former Minister for War, mentor to De Gaulle.

That's probably one of the reasons he was brought in in 1940 (at the age of 84).

De Gaulle himself was quite measured on his assessment and assigned a lot of the 'blame' on his very old age and resulting mental decay.

Reducing complex historical figures to labels like 'good guys' and 'bad guys' is simplistic and avoids facing complex and uncomfortable realities.
In other words, does a16z ask for startups to attack MS on their home turf?

There can be a niche for the product creation stage. But how does a company scale in MS's market? Sooner or later, it's a Slack vs MS Teams situation.
I thought it was a farm in Kansas. They frequently get visitors looking for people who's geo ip data said they lived there.
Sure you can defeat it using specialized tools... but at that point, you are far from "all I need is a pen" and opportunistic attacks. The tool will have to match the width of the zipper: you'll need a collection or to have done reconnaissance.

At that point, shimming the zip-tie itself is probably easier/faster (and doable without specialized tools).
I’m in a company where English is not our native language, yet we write almost everything in it. Being a second language I sometimes need to phrase and rephrase my ideas while writing them. I found that it sharpens my thinking.
I've been using Macs (both desktop and laptops) since I have memory. I've had the M1 since launch day, and I use it all day, both for work and personal use.

Why this never happened to me? Why I don't know anyone which had this problem? Why nobody is complaining as it happened with the previous gen keyboards?

I think we might be missing something in this analysis. I don't think Apple engineers are idiots.
>At my last workplace, I was chewed out for doing so because apparently I was "wasting time".

Here's more of a general cultural topic: When people say "I was chewed out at work", then what does that entail?

I'm Swedish, I'd call "being chewed out" to be asked questions on how I'm doing some part of my job, for example planning. Is this what people mean?

I'm exaggerating a bit, but in Swedish workplaces you can have a relatively light touch and still have great effect imho.
... rather than doubling both the UI dev effort and the domain logic effort.
I'm sure it is fine and has interesting features. But at first glance it's objectively a tiny subset of the features that either Elasticsearch or Opensearch has. If that solves your problem; great. But if you need a good all round solution for search I would not start with this.

The low end of the market is well covered with solutions that don't really offer a lot of features, are a bit challenged on the scalability front, lack usability, etc. Some of those have more merit than others of course than others. Things are not automatically better when they are half implemented in Rust. Lucene is an amazing piece of technology that over the years has resisted multiple attempts for people to do better in other languages. Contrary to the popular belief, it's actually pretty good with memory. Most of it is off heap memory or operating system file caches these days: it relies on memory mapped files for a lot of things. It's also pretty good with doing things concurrently. E.g. updating index files with 32 CPU cores while also serving queries is not an easy problem to solve. I've indexed documents at a rate of 500M/second on a 30 node cluster once. That's pretty amazing to see happening. I was basically saturating IO and CPUs. Indexed over a billion documents in about 1 hour.

Lucene has many issues; scaling isn't one of them.
When I'm working with someone new I pay attention to their writing for a while to see how much effort/attention to detail they put into it, and then basically match. It's the best heuristic I know for not wasting effort on writing since typically someone rushing through writing will do the same with reading.

Always a pleasant experience meeting new co-workers who care about writing though.
> I would say in the UK, all are hard to hire.

I always say that when it comes to lack of candidates there's this magical thing called "money" where if you throw more of it on the table the problem suddenly resolves itself.

Recruiters and getting your job ad in front of more people is only needed when it's a hard sell; if it's an offer most people can't refuse then you just have to show it to a handful of people before you get someone who agrees.
Long-held beliefs about arson science have been debunked (2015)
Ah, thanks! That's good to know.
> So how can we fix the system? The best way to fix the system is to prioritize websites that are there to share knowledge, not websites with their primary priority to make ad revenue.

Which makes it a shame that Google is in the business of pushing ad revenue rather than search.
I believe reaching millions of people with their sound is exactly what some people like to do. Never understood it but there are always some people like that. Especially mopeds are often severe offenders.

Not a fan of camera surveillance for such infractions though.
That's unfortunate, Although converting to epub shouldn't be an issue with hntoebook as I already use calibre.

TBH Kindle still allowing files to be transferred like any flash storage is surprising, expected it go iTuney way long back. I hope reMarkable gets USB storage done soon.
As others have pointed out, that comparison is poor. A better one is Nobel laureates per capita:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_l...

There are a good few European countries above the US.
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>expat-English

So this is a big thing in EU politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English

Regardless of skill, you're always going to have to be tolerant of others and their limitations. You probably have a couple of good people in your company with dyslexic tendencies, for example.
Even worse. On MacOS the scrollbars are invisible by default, and only appear while you scroll, plus a second or so after stopping.

So to grab a scrollbar in MacOS you first have to scroll the document to make the scrollbar appear. Then you have under two seconds to move the pointer on top of the narrow scrollbar so it expands allowing you to grab it before it disappears again.
If you're really that paranoid that you believe such conspiracy theories, then simply compile and run the source code they provide, and run that instead of the binary they also provide.

But you have to admit, it's a pretty implausible conspiracy theory, since it would be so straightforward for you to do that. Because they're literally providing you the source code WITHOUT the backdoors, which you believe they don't want you to compile and run.
> I’d still prefer a targeted ad over a random ad that is unrelated to me.

No, a million times no. A targeted ad requires my personal information being collected, and the resulting assumption of my needs may be offensive and even dangerous.

I prefer a random ad. Or better, a place where I can just search the product I want in detail.
That's ... not a fallacy. It's simply extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence in action. (Eg. if your Bayesian prior is already edukashion gud, and someone says giv muniez to teacherz, you can say yes, ok, dollar. But if someone says no no, it's a waste of resources you can say okay the burden of proof is on you now, have fun.)
You're right, but I think the hard part is still to find people to bridge the gap between the system experts and domain experts.

An extreme example would be if you're trying to introduce a logistics management system in a shop that was exclusively using pen and paper. You'll need someone with a foot in both world to even get to the point where they can look at your models and/or documentation and say "yes, it matches the business".

Or one of the participant in the project will need to become that person (ideally the client, we can dream).
Compliance with building codes <> higher quality

I grew up in a small farm house built in the 1700’s - post and beam construction, that will far outlast “code compliant” building methods of today
No, you're not missing anything.

I love tailwind, but if you don't get it, you don't get it. It won't magically make you creative and give you design skills. Go back to Bulma and Bootstrap and be happy. Stop FOMO'ing.
I'm not sure I follow your apple/tree analogy.
But I would say that Christianity is true, and that therefore other truths, no matter what their source, would point in the same direction.
So ideas (such as dying/rising gods) could potentially arise in paganism, yet still have some truth, and then be subsumed by Christianity.

I highly recommend GK Chesterton's book "The Everlasting Man", its a short read and still worthwhile even for atheists or those of other faiths as the author is brilliant.
To be fair, Wordle also doesn't require much external knowledge beyond a basic vocabulary. This is aimed at a more narrow crowd and is just a fun experiment.
That's fair, and those sorts of projects were _super_ common back in the UE3 era. That working model is also how most Unity projects are done - pick a version and stick to it.

From Epic's side, UE at this stage is pretty customisable even without modifying engine source directly. You _can_ modify the source, but it's not a requirement to make a game in UE these days; much of what you needed to modify the engine for can be done with plugins or just straight up in game code.

> These days for many projects it’s more about how much the underlying features you’re using have changed.

Yeah, definitely this. Epic in particular have also become more mindful about not pulling the rug out from under you (although it does still occasionally happen)
At first sight idea seems to be good however I'm wondering if "officially" turning OS projects into job market sieve in long term could not lead to associating contribution to OS projects with mandatory unpleasant chore. I mean - a lot of coders do like to solve coding puzzles like Advent of Code but I get impression that similar thing in the form of LeetCode is commonly hated to some degree.

Maybe it's because problems are constructed differently but my suspicion is that it may be also connected to the fact that job interviews can be stressful and not pleasant experience and humans like to avoid stressful experiences if possible.
My view on this is that, unfortunately, blue team positions are seen as entry positions. In general blue team members have little autonomy. They don't chose the suite of tools, protocols and have little mandate in a company to change a single thing since they're a cost centre.

The job is frustrating because many socs are beholden to central IT to fix even high severity issues, this generates a lot of friction. Most organizations have a big feed of alerts that trigger on everything from ransomware, to a user plugging in a razor mouse... This makes the job frustrating and boring. Contrast this to red team positions. If they're lucky they get to cowboy all through the network never asking permission after initial sign-of. And why would they? Nobody spots what they're doing anyway, as long as you don't create problems in prod.
They rely on hardware storing checksums and on protocol using checksums to prevent data corruption on all levels.
This was fun.

There were true facts like "koalas listed as endangered" and "New York Times buys online game Wordle", which were not the real headlines.

The ones I got wrong were super weird.