skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cunningham's Law - awesome!

Thanks for educating me (and everyone else here) :)

The reference that's based on is really fascinating too: https://ap.fftc.org.tw/article/2570 (note the % of wastage chart, ~30% average, unsure how to convert but if we wasted none of that (which may not be achievable even during hypothetical 'blockade', but hey) by how much would self-sufficiency raise is interesting.)

BTW, nix23 -- this I consider one of your greatest hits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576985

LOL!
Your thoughts are nothing more than the emerging patterns of neuronal activity formed by semi-stochastic responses of your constantly shifting brain connectivity. In many ways, they are random.
When people don't havr access to you they quickly realize that never actually depended on you to get the job done.
Fascinating, I don't think I ever heard "whitegoods" before. In case I'm not alone: refrigerators, washing machines and the like, in UK English. I think.

So like this:

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk

But maybe not this:

https://www.whitegoods.com
Maybe they're right, for themselves. Most of the comments in this thread are just a remote-vs-onsite flamewar with everyone trading anecdotes about why one option is better than the other.

There are plenty of people who say they don't go to work to make friends, they go to do their job, and any kind of interruption not directly related to the work they're doing is unwelcome. Plenty of others who will go to great lengths to stay out of any conversation and work as independently as possible because "they're just there to write code" or whatever.

If it's not so wrong to say you want to go to work and be completely left alone, why is it wrong to say you actually go because you prefer the dynamics of office life and find it less disruptive than a remote equivalent?
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> I wish there was a variant of -Wold-style-cast just for pointer types.

And for reference types, pointer to members, pointer to/from integral and dependent types (which could become any of the above upon instantiation). But I do agree, with some concrete types it can be convenient.
Ah yes I heard about this tax software lobby before. It's weird in this case since it's like "money fighting money" haha
Last I checked the there were enough free parameters in these calculations to make the calculations of less than convincing. For example those 'hadronic observables' make up such a big part of the actual results that what is left over is within the error bounds anyway.

However, that was over 7 years ago, and someone else in the comments linked an article talking about the breakthroughs since then, and they seem significant, so things may well have improved since then.

Regardless, lattice QCD has always been real science and always been quite impressive. Any direct attempt to match theory with known experiments always is real science regardless of whether you agree with the methods.
Like most government programs that are "under funded" the solution is not actually more funding. The solution is doing a proper analysis of what they are doing with the money, and readjusting.

Specifically law enforcement, the root cause of almost everything is over criminalization of society, combined with "policing for profit" where cities pass all kinds of laws and then place priority of enforcement on laws that generate them the most revenue instead of public safety

This create a perverse feedback loop of violent or unpopular police interactions with the public.

Another factor in this is the way local and state government do budgeting. Police, Fire, Schools and Road (core services) are actually often the FIRST to have their budgets cut over social or other non-core services. This makes tax increases more palatable to the tax payers, as they are often willing to absorb tax increases for core services but not for non-core services. All tax money currently in most cities in fungible, so those that control the budgets can shift fund away from core services, create a crisis, then push for the public to access a tax increase to "solve" the crisis they created.
That’s why they completely open-sourced it and recently made even LTS-support of OracleJDK free of charge until the next LTS?

Sure, they do make plenty of money from huge corporations still going with paid support for java 8 (I believe it will be supported till 2030 at least?!), like banks. But it ain’t a crime to ask money for proper services.
The process is still painful.

Yeah, I know how to accept them and don't resist but it's not like I will be able to sort out my issues in a 20min session. The best I can hope is to get to the deeper issues which will be even more painful.

I personally found the combination of regular physical exercise plus reading physical books (training my concentration, helping me relaxing) the best way to stay productive. If I meditate then after physical exercise when my body is full of happiness hormones giving me a nice cool-down.
LOL did you miss the part where he said his dad has 100 employees and is one of the biggest bike dealers in the country? How successful is your company?
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I recommend people looking to understand Russian governments mindset and tactics to take look at this video by Finnish army intelligence expert & researcher. It has decent English subtitles. Quite awakening stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9KretXqJw
A step back maybe, but that's a lot of different technologies and skillsets required for a small amount of people.

One thing to always keep in mind is the 'choose boring technology' mantra; prefer using existing technology (e.g. languages, API technologies, front-end libraries) over adding new ones. Every new tech adds complexity, or another node in a graph.

Also, avoid microservices. That is, don't build microservices to start off with, because you're most likely making the wrong abstraction, and you're adding a ton of overhead (inter-service communication, logging, tracing, envirionment setup, etc). Splitting off services is fine as long as you can bring a strong argument in favor of it (e.g. performance, if one aspect of your application is hit 10-100x as hard).

But in practice, in most applications, you don't need microservices. You will need scalable services, but those don't have to be 'micro' per se. Also don't get hung up on the 'micro' in the name, size should never be a reason to break up a monolith.
In my experience, you’re right. A team of software engineers & platform engineers are doing their normal job deploying production grade models at scale. Caveat, this requires deeper or more advanced computer engineering in practice.

Devops roles are generally breaching into data engineering more and more. Again, in my case, the devops/platform team creates all the automation to move a lot of data around daily.

In terms of the model training, we essentially treat it like a supply chain where the software team is closely engaged with the model team who aren’t even really deep data scientists themselves. Just software engineers focused on building ai/ml models.
>I personally prefer a company where everyone's on site. I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.

I found that actually opposite was true in my case. Less distractions ,less interruptions and we cleared A LOT of our backlog. It turns out a lot of those "urgent taps" turned to be not so urgent, or other person being just lazy(it was faster to walk 1min than to do a 5min read on our internal docs, or just google it)
No I wasn't thinking it's a replacement, not 'directly' replying to the ancestor, just riffing on the idea. :)
It seems highly unprobable because the reach of any radiation caused by the power supply would not extend far enough to fill a room.
even though, it is extremely highly unlikely, it would more sense if you had headaches from cellular towers instead.

people are suggesting a blind test, I say, do a triple blind test.

ps. depending on the charger and the equipment I was able to hear it charging when I was young. but it is more likely to be because of how old equipments were and my family has a historic of hearing very high frequencies from almost any electrical equipment.
That's completely reasonable, thanks for the insight!
Housing is only capital expensive mostly because of land value, which comes from scarcity. Again, more folks will only raise the cost, since land is in extremely low supply due to NIMBY, regulation, and people sitting on their land as an investment.
The actual construction costs are fairly low compared to land prices (e.g., 1 part construction to 2 parts land cost, or worse [1]).

[1]: https://www.urbanismnext.org/news/land-costs-vs-construction...
A lot don't have closely working together ('two pizza') teams distributed across offices, nevermind timezones more than one or two out.

Occasional collaboration is different from day to day, and I'm sure that's why GP emphasised 'asynchronous' - doing it with your close colleagues requires a shift in how you work, async written communication not chats, PR review not pairing, etc.
You know what, I agree. My last place of work we went remote at the start of the pandemic, but I'd already had two years of getting to know my colleagues and our relationships carried on as usual when we started remote working.

I recently switched jobs, and have been to the office once (to pick up equipment and get set up) and it's a completely different dynamic. I don't really know any of my colleagues, chatting online occasionally isn't the same as meeting in person, etc. I still game a few times a week with people from my last two jobs, but I can't see the same happening for this job.

On the whole though, I do prefer it. My work relationships are probably lacking more but my quality of life is greatly improved.
Things are very rapidly going to get very rough inside Russia as well. I'm thinking that the HN community be doing something to help Ukrainian and Russian founders and hackers flee.
I thought it'd be about the old arcade game.
Username... Doesn't check out.
it was true like 20 years ago. is this still a thing ?
I know poor defective 3A+ supplies do emit some noise
> If the outcome is occupation, that is not peace.

This is not a definition of "peace" that you share with the Anglophone community in general. Are the United States and Japan currently at war?
20 minutes twice a day for 5 years is not at all extreme
I am sure that many people are not really content with the choices of their government and you have to be a bit careful to express that under certain circumstances. Only very rich people can allow themselves to not pay taxes.

I did not sanction random Americans when they invaded Iraq. It isn't entirely comparable, but that sounds pretty stupid, doesn't it?

It also doesn't sound like a deescalation tactic to me and might even fortify support for Putin if you sanction people that cannot influence the situation at all. It even lends credence to the narrative of Putin that Russians are discriminated against.
Big fan of these projects with throwback aesthetics. One thing I really commend them for is that, in my personal experience, they also remember to not carry over the positively silly difficulty curve from those older games. The games are made to look and feel like older ones, but play like a modern, well-designed title. That's crucial to making an enjoyable game.
Yes! There's this: https://shop.pocketchip.co/

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=34009
You might be right, in this scenario Putin will cling on a la Bachar al Assad
It's largely not.
The part about waiting 3 days for a reply was shocking. If you have a serious problem (with anything) get on the PHONE.
It sucks only if you care about that. Depends on the person a lot. I like what I do, it's almost an escape from the nightmares of life. I also don't have to be stressed all the time about paying bills. Not caring as cliché as it is, is truly freeing. I learn about cool stuff when not working or just watch netflix or something.
unless you have applied to go full remote.

but don't let facts get in the way of a good ideological flame war.
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If Dave is happy that's fine. But Dave gets injuries, psychosis or schizophrenic episodes, that's probably bad.
There are things like bottom trawling that basically swipes the whole sea floor. Plants and corals are destroyed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKG5sbnhvWg

But it's not visible to the surface directly.
Same. I can't speak for personal productivity, because I think i'm waaay less productive, but I don't like remote at all. The hard part these days is finding interesting potential employers who aren't trying to lure me in with the remote hook, because it doesn't appeal to me. I was happy with the old norm of on-site, but with the ability to WFH on one-off days if something came up, like expecting a big delivery or something. I didn't like open plan offices, but I liked being in the office.

I'm the kind of person who simply doesn't have a social life if i'm not already out in town at the end of the working day; I just can't overcome the inertia of being at home. So for me, working remotely has made me the most depressed, and physically unfit, I've ever been.
That's exactly what the research says.

We have, a limited amount, of executive function capacity.

People who are "disciplined" actually don't have any more.

They have good personal habits which automates all the executive function stuff.
I think you are repeating a strawman argument against microservices that doesn't always hold.

Microservices are about domains of logic and form nice clear boundaries. They don't necessarily need inter-service comms or much by way of environment setup/maintenance. We have an email microservice that was split up that way because the email logic was spread out everywhere and called from multiple apps. A microservice was a good way to encapsulate all of the email logic into a single place with a clean interface. We can make all sorts of centralised changes without affecting any of the apps. We can also scale it out as the amount of email we need to send increases.
These days, every time the elites do something in unison, I assume there is an evil agenda behind it. I'm usually proven right.
The Soviet Union managed to hang on in Afghanistan for 10 years...
I had something similar (for years) and I actually found zazen and mindfulness very helpful.

I think diving into ego death when via substances in uncontrolled settings isn't a great idea, because you can get bogged down in delusion and paranoia.

I found it helpful with zazen to realise that any judgement of whatever I was experiencing (whether good or bad / joy or fear / enlightenment or hell), was just as much a delusion in itself as much as anything else. I personally found this made it illogical to be scared by whatever is happening inside your head, because that fear is just line noise.
I consider this a great example of why systems dealing with money should be carefully engineered with sufficient safeguards in place that even reckless kindergarteners could operate with reasonable confidence they can't shoot themselves in the foot.

This is not a field where you want complexity or cognitive overhead.

I've encountered some ugly code while consulting in the payments space and had to educate and advocate (sometimes less gently than that word conveys) with developers concepts like atomicity, rollback, instrumentation, reconciliation, monitoring, diagnosability, etc. even after their creations had misplaced literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's always easy to blame the user; a good developer/architect understands how their code/systems can fail and stays on the lookout for edge cases and potential gaps.
IANA firefox dev: XUL/XPCOM = old APIs, WebExtensions = new (multi-browser) API

Quantum was the the project name to re-engineer Firefox internals, with lots of design changes, not just plugins. XUL/XPCOM APIs were dropped, as an occasional programmer I understand why, "Quantum broke my plugins" is a reasonable first approximation for most users.
Where exactly do you see "Asian design philosophy" on Japanese major websites?
Also, what exactly do you think of as "Asian design philosophy" in the first place?
Developers of terminals are moving forward to strong type (like power-shell, nu-shell etc). I think this is the future. Besides, the strong type terminal should be the base of the graphical terminal, but I don't think we need a graphical terminal.
Being alone loses its appeal fast, especially if you're also alone after work or you only have spouse+kids
I'm not saying it's the same company, I'm saying Qobuz almost certainly buys backend/licensing services from 7digital. Most do. Even Spotify used to do it.
Even just 20 minutes a day sustained over a long time (e.g. 5 years) is enough to bring life-changing effects. It isn't as benign as it sounds on paper
> local government’s bad habit of seeing every problem as a nail that could be solved by police

One of the messages that got buried under "defund the police" was "fund social services and nonlethal interventions instead".

Ironically many of the standard anti-government rightwing messages are true about some of America's many police forces. They're often over-funded and wasteful at the same time as being ineffective in terms of actually dealing with crime. Prejudice makes this worse: rather than investigating and dealing with the people actually responsible for crimes, it's easier to go round and find some people who "look criminal" and arrest them to boost your stats.
Nuke everything in few weeks? Yes, possible.

Take over hearts and souls of Ukrainians in the next 30 years? Maybe. Long-term resistance in Ukraine is now guaranteed.
Wearable artificial graphene throat that allows mute people to speak (2019)
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What is Web 3.0? Is it all hype?
Ha, I knew it! A20 Lagavulin on Silent always seems like it's down to whether you managed to get enough poison cards for it.
Yes sorry was for the one above ;)
I’m not sure most juniors starting their first job during the pandemic would feel that way. Imagine being in that situation and all your colleagues are never logged in to Slack, don’t reply to your emails until the end of the day, expect to never be disturbed, don’t attend any meetings..
You can also use a VIEW.

How does GraphQL make sure to respect table indexes? If not you get a super slow query.
Medical insurance and health care abroad for expats costs a lot less in most places, compared the to US. As a US citizen you can’t get out of paying taxes for Social Security and Medicare, just cost of citizenship the way I look at it. Not something I get too wound up over. Even if I can’t benefit from Medicare I am paying in for my parents and other people who can benefit from it, while I pay $50 for a doctor’s visit in Thailand.

You can collect Social Security while living abroad.
The highest capacity sub sea transmission cables are DC now I think. There is an interconnect between Ireland and France that is DC if memory serves.

I think it's only efficient for the largest capacity lines tho
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In the long run, even if they win (and that's a pretty big if), they'll have to:

1) Neutralize and disarm the "territorial defence" militias who currently have about 30K assault rifles.

2) Maintain police precence on a large and hostile territory.

3) Provide food, shelter, and medical aid to thousands, if not tens of thousands of people displaced by the war.

And they'll have to do that without oil and gas money, and without western medical supplies (which I assume will not be readily available anymore).
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I can understand that it is a desired and important feature. But please explain how it is essential.
Oh thanks for pointing me in the right direction. It looks like they're now shipping $20 development boards with their new chips in the Sipeed LicheeRV. 512MB of ram and linux support:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003594875290.html
yea, programs that cannot work with stdin better have a very good reason for it.
I do wonder what the critical percentage of people refusing to return to the office is for companies to offer remote as standard? I quit my old job over a return to the office policy and fully intend to never return because I deeply despise commuting, open offices, the interruption-driven culture of in-person work, and urban existence in general. I realise I'm probably a bit of an extremist in this respect though, I'd love to see a breakdown of what employees attitudes are globally.
Self-employed taxpayers are supposed to file quarterlies regardless of where they live. If you don’t you get a penalty assessed. And yes, ustax.bz told me that, but I already knew.
This is how I feel as well. I think combining meditation with good psychotherapy is almost a must. Meditation allows things from subconscious to rise to the conscious, and psychotherapy allows you to work through them and resolve them.

I would guess that in the past, meditation teachers fulfilled the psychotherapist role. But an actual qualified therapist would be much better - especially now that meditation is a relatively common aspect of psychotherapy.

In fact, it seems like there is a lot of similarity generally between the role that priests of all kinds were supposed to perform in a community, and therapists. I wonder if it would be a good idea for humanity to essentially build a secular replacement to religion like that.
How do you invade somewhere and not have contingencies for being denied the use of major roads? That's in the top three essential (and obvious!) things the defending force will do. For a Russian force you'd also think dealing with a post-winter thaw would be part of their general military strategy, it's not like Ukraine has a vastly different climate than Russia after all.
That's right, basically kitchen appliances, although fancy lads have separate utility rooms for washing machines and tumble dryers, and they often come in white so I guess the term stuck.
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Putin is assembling another Security Counsil today. We'll see how it goes, but, in my opinion, an announce of a series of nuclear tests is not off the (comically long) table.
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Digital nomads generally aren’t getting permanent residency or work permits, so they aren’t paying local taxes wherever they happen to stay. Longer-term expats and retirees will have different visas and tax situations.
Let's not beat around the bush: In Japan, "UX" as a discipline is almost non-existent.
In Japan, marketing emails are not even required to have an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom.
Which all has to do with Japan being barely post-feudal. No Japanese consumer would dare to question or criticise a famous Japanese corporation for their website design or practices. It's only OK for foreign companies like Amazon.
It's all top-down, basically. The gerontocratic leadership of these corporations barely think of internet sales as a necessity, they just budgetize it minimally against their will.
There are a few exceptions like Uniqlo, Muji, etc. but those are only possible because they also want to do business outside of Japan and therefore are forced to adopt "unjapanese" concepts.
Meanwhile the most important device in Japanese households still is not a laptop, but a fax machine.