skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's basically the worst thing that can happen.

For the individual, not the species as a whole. Or for the planet as a whole.

Sure, we might not lose some existing fantastic thinkers and doers, but what happens to the new thinkers and doers? If Sir Isaac Newton was still alive, would Einstein have gotten the attention he did, having to fight against a well established hierarchy of scientists built over the millennia? Would governmental seats ever change? Would slavery have ever gone away in a world where human rights would have no need to progress?
The community and ecosystem of any PL or framework is an important consideration for people needing to interact with that ecosystem in a long term way when pushing improvements or working with those in charge of governance.

A lot of people have loved rails as a project, but found important people in the community unprofessional for years - it's hard to want to invest in projects like that especially if its comparative advantage is claimed to be productivity.
I think you misinterpreted the parent comment. The banner being shown in the screenshot is being described as an annoyance, not an ad.
Going to comment here as it's on topic with books.

One should also read "Without Hot Air" [1] and "Heat"[2] to understand the math and psychology of sustainability . the Tl;dr; being we'd need to cover an area, iirc, the entire Sahara desert with solar to provide solar for humanity (ignoring the problem of distribution, cost, how long it would take to do, maintenance). And then you also have to account for the psychological effect of "green" energy whereby people end up consuming _more_ because in their minds they discount the ecological cost to 0

My main conclusion (not the authors') is that we need nuclear[3] (maybe thorium). It's the only thing that scales the way we need.

[1]: https://withouthotair.com/

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1114270.Heat

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BybPPIMuQQ (and the rest of gordonmcdowell's channel
Ah - that's a good point. Usually when people say "Hadoop", I assume they're referring to HDFS, but there is (was...) the Hadoop MR system that ran on top of it that has been almost entirely replaced by Spark.
I can share with you that my solar-powered Pi3B+ hosting yourdatafitsinram is holding up quite well, being linked to on HN - a funny contrast to the kind of systems it links to in the table.

Even a 10+ year old DL380G8 - can hold 1.5TB+ RAM and 24/48 cores and that hardware is dirt cheap on the second hand market.
I don't understand how the math adds up. If we all move to EVs, the demand for electricity will go up (a lot!) But I don't see how we're planning to meet such demand with our current power grid. Which of course in turn means that your electric bill will be in for a shock. Furthermore how will this work for emergency situations when power is out for days (think emergency services, police, etc.)? How about the military? How about portability? Being able to store fuel in 5 gallon increments in a cheap container has no equivalent in the EV world.

Maybe I'm just getting older and 100 years ago I'd have said "Well, I don't have to fill up my horse with gasoline to get him going..."
Some things you do are for survival, of course you wouldn't do those in your final hour because survival isn't a concern anymore.

If on your last day, you want to spend it with loved ones, and say, in nature or with music, then that's how you should be trying spend your life in general.

It's a heuristic, no a literal instruction book.
I'm not making the choice for anyone. Ukrainians are deciding for themselves and bravely fighting against the invaders.
And, given that perspective, you'd probably be a bad fit, so no time lost on either side. :)

What kind of experience do you have hiring? If you have a better process, that has been proven over time to work, please share.

I'm part of a small group of leaders/owners from other development shops. We meet monthly to collaborate and learn from each other. Hiring is a frequent topic and I assure you that our steep funnel and perspective on candidate ability is not a unique experience, despite divergent hiring processes.

It is true that our process could be filtering out candidates who might otherwise apply. In that case, it's most likely working as intended.
Lead exposure in last century shrunk IQ scores of half of Americans: study
I thought Mayor Humdinger, in the feature-length movie, was a swipe at Trump.

The whole point of Paw Patrol is to make an amusing show for kids, and to make money selling merchandise. The whole reason why they keep making more of it is because it sells. The only agenda is to make money. (Which I happily spend.)
I hate the tendency of social networks to amplify controversy without much context. No doubt this post will attract supposition about what happened and belly aching about Rails. But it’s just an annoying hack of human psyche that we want to rubber neck whatever train wreck is ongoing, yet we probably have deep, complicated issues in our own lives that need attention, and we can’t even debug those. Somehow we think we can voyeuristically understand and judge this situation from afar.
Is it true that “most” energy is used for heating? I don’t think that’s the case.
The core Mandiant infrastructure on cloud is run by 3 people
Im making progress towards the same lifestyle and Im surprised at how good it feels just on a personal health level. Your success is re-inspiring me to push further!
Or maybe they would think something like "Google has the best reputation and track record in terms of security than almost any other corporation".
This is recency bias.

We imposed sanctions after the invasion of Crimea too, those eventually went away. In time these will too.

I don't expect the West to be so well behaved that it can go on very long without cheap oil and gas.
No need for conjecture — Steve Jobs said as much multiple times (e.g. "Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.") One of the unintended consequences for Jobs was working with Ed Catmull at Pixar in the early 90s, who by all accounts was an exceptional manager and leader, and helped Jobs develop on this dimension.
I spent 30 minutes investigating this mystery as well, and the best I could arrive at is that this has something to do with politics but no one actually wants to expressly describe the exact positions held or why they are naughty.
For many cases of passing data between systems, I'd say the gulf is dramatically lower than it has been until even fairly recently. Support for many standard packages is just there, swapping out "read_csv" for "read_parquet" if you're a pandas shop may even be enough. More and more tools read these directly, and it opens up a whole load of better options for processing data.

> If you don't mind being old-school, the data is ASCII text, and you're tired of some of CSV's little issue, then ASCII has the FS, GS, RS, and US control characters

I have used those before, and yet I still had those characters appear in data. The only places I'd ever seen them were in the wiki page and in customer delivered data. Absolute pain to dig through and remove.

On top of that "if your data is ASCII" is something I'd be nervous about for many use cases even if it is right now.

Beyond that, then you need everyone to swap out their parsing to use those characters.

CSV is fine until it totally blows up in your face. All it takes is one "oh it's fine we'll use awk" stage somewhere or a CSV parser that isn't good enough and one person to put a newline where nobody had expected it before.
Perhaps "rejects new items" is the key - a web server that hits a certain percentage utilization only allow existing clients/connections/logged in users/whatever to connect; refuse new connections.
I knew an American Benedictine who in retirement was appointed the titular abbot of Tewksbury Abbey. In Wolsey's day, it was economically rewarding to be appointed abbot in absentia: you could collect your cut of the monastery's revenues. But of course this appointment brought no income.

(And I realize as I write this that I have no idea who appointed him. The Vatican? The English Benedictine order corporately?)
Which in turn appears to be obliquely refer to this:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/05/basecamp_political_di...

This being Basecamp (of which DHH is CTO) issuing a "no politics" guideline, which was inevitably interpreted using the prevailing ideology of "if you're not with us you're against us".
Yeah, The Common Law has been in print since 1881 where we see "felt necessities of the time" show up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.#The_...

And while it does feel uncomfortable to think that the laws of the land just come from what amounts to low to high levels of mass hysteria, it also means that we can enact and/or ignore/repeal laws which just don't work.

Imagine a law which looks good on paper and is "proved" to be "good" with stringent mathematical underpinnings, but which fails to serve the people due to some higher order outcome which we simply do not have the cognitive or mathematical understanding to explain. You had better hope that "felt necessities of the time" lets us do something else.

[Of course 'felt necessities of the time' can also do some really messed up stuff. I have no defense. I only argue that just because something happens due to feelings or mass hysteria instead of reason, mathematics, or logic doesn't mean it has to be bad. The feelings or hysteria might be coming from some issue which we cannot otherwise verbalize.]
It’s run on aws
This is an eye opening thread, to say the least
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500959074653024259
my least favorite part of building a rocket is the motor mount. It requires a handful of parts, a decent epoxy system, and is one of the more expensive parts of the airframe. I've designed a modular mount that i can pull out of one airframe and plug into another. So once the motor mount is done i can use it in all my airframes of the same diameter and motor diameter without any bonding. To cover all my current airframe diameters and motor diameter combinations requires 5 prints and adding a new one is pretty easy.

my next thought is modular fin cans. The rule of thumb for trapezoidal fin dimensions are a function of airframe diameter. I would like to be able to make one fin can for each airframe diameter and then re-use those on new airframes. With my current inventory I need 4 fin cans ( 2", 3", 4" and 7.5" diameter airframes )
As a household, we're at about 30kWh per day, exclusive of commute. The 40 mile round trip commute adds about 17kWh (110mpge electric car, 2500 ft elevation change).

I recently found a 100 watt phantom load (after the 30kWh measurement), and now the house idles at 500w. That includes fridges, water treatment + water heating, internet, LAN, NAS, etc).
Drama is bound to happen for a project that lots of people deeply care about. But this drama has never affected those of us who use Rails full-time and professionally, especially me. To be frank, you mentioned in a later reply: "I haven’t done web dev for a very long time" so your comment does sound like an overreaction.
I thought black carbon was supposed to be one of the worst contributors to climate forcing/global warming?
It's clear from your comment that you haven't seen this shortish 60 Minutes piece yet. You should. It would fairly quickly dissuade you of this theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtMbBPzqHY
The effect is weak. The ubiquity of HPV infection should show a stronger association if it were important. It could contribute to a subset of prostate cancers, but this has not been proven beyond correlation. There are other issues - HPV related cancers like cervical cancer or head and neck cancer show an age related peak and decline, whereas prostate cancer incidence continues to rise with age.

But the HPV vaccine is certainly worth having for males that have not engaged in any sexual activity.
You're right, it does and we actually did do some performance testing that relied on single-row transactions early on in development but ultimately found slightly better performance with prefix/range scans (in addition to avoiding some limitations with retries and replication IIRC).
When nations are forced to trade around Dollar sanctions for strategic resources that they need, they will use alternative currencies and alternative trade and financial mechanisms. I said nothing about the Ruble, which is a local national currency. We're discussing global reserve currency and mechanisms for global trade.

> propaganda, either by being convinced by it, or generating it

A rather cheap shot. You prove my final point about even greater pressures coming to bear on free speech and exchange of ideas.
I can't say I agree with your feelings with the rails community. I always thought it was one of the nicer and more organized ones.
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Two issues with hydro:

1) Most of the obvious places have dams already and building new dams is a combination of expensive and disruptive.

2) Droughts and water shortages make the existing hydro plants less productive. E.g. the hoover dam has some issues with that in recent years.
Why is it so difficut to find the average page load time for the most popular websites AKA wpt6 ??
Enough of those asbtract synthetic benchmarks..
> that presumably provides business value

I have yet so see a conference that provided enough tangible "business value" to recoup its costs in any measurable sense. Let's be real: It is entertainment and stimulation for grownup nerds. Which is completely fine and has value for a business – but it is very much like a music festival.
I'm not sure if declining Google search activity for Rails is the best metric.

Common consensus seems to be that Google results for coding-related concerns have gotten worse and worse in recent years, and I agree with that consensus. Are people avoiding Google, or avoiding Rails? Probably a little of both, I'd guess.

I think a mature framework like Rails will also tend to have a greater disconnect between "people searching for help" and "people actually using it."
> But in similar vein the West would prefer both rulers to spend more time working for their citizens’ economic wellbeing than on militaristic projects.

Is there evidence of that?

Suppose for a minute that the NK regime was not crazy and only tried to pursue Communism. Then they would be similar to all the other Socialist/Communist states that the West wants to fail so that it can point to them and say that Socialism/Communism doesn’t work.
Does no one else see the irony in cutting down forests, some of the very things we are trying to preserve by reducing atmospheric CO2, as a means to reduce CO2 emissions? The phrase "can't see the forest for the trees" seems very apt here.

See also: clearing land (including fragile desert ecosystems!) for solar farms vs residential/urban solar, biofuels in general, subsidizing EVs which encourage poor land use and sprawl vs legalizing denser housing and building better public transport, etc etc etc.
I don't mind the buttons for special functions, but for numbers and operators? Yeesh that's redundant. I can type 0 through 9, + and - without needing discoverability for sure. At minimum I assume the calculator does arithmetic. Buttons for special features tell me it does other things too.
The information from multiple different radar signals tracking the same objects would seem to rule such things out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBtMbBPzqHY
I suspect that people forget that undergraduate programs don’t really cover very much. This true not just for math, but for pretty much every other major. I mean, think about how little of physics you learn if you only take undergraduate courses!
Tinder “Feedback Loop” Forces Men and Women into Extreme Strategies
Would it really be an issue to run LibreOffice in a VM on a modern machine? Back in the bad old days of ten years ago, I used to run a Windows 7 VM on my Ubuntu laptop of RAM to watch Netflix. It was pretty tight with 2GB of RAM, but it worked fine.
> A heat pump installed is a year or more salary for most people if it's even an option.

I think nuance is required here. I installed what is called a "heat pump" in the US for $2500 USD this last summer. So you can see how claiming that $2500 is most people's salary for the year seems a little suspect from my POV.
When I got introduced to web development, through Rails, the drama of the day was probably turbolinks. I learnt from our instructor that many people hated it, and we promptly removed the turbolinks gem from the gemfile every time we initialised a new project. I was far too new to go dig up controversies. I regarded names such as DHH, Matz, _why, Aaron Patterson, Jeremy Ashkenas, or Sandi Metz as so infinitely smarter than me, that I could not even begin to comprehend them directly.

I'm saying all this to point out that when someone is introduced to web development, they are often so awed, humbled and overwhelmed that twitter dramas are far from their minds.
pledge() fans taking a victory lap right now.
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> Again in NYC, it costs $50/hr to bring in an armed uniformed off-duty NYPD officer to stand in your store. They get overtime and its run through the city, officers sign up for it. If you can't justify $50/hr to help shoplifting, then you probably have different issues going on causing you to close (the rent for that Rite Aid was probably $10k+/month)

That doesn’t prove much, the expensive clothes store didn’t have things that could be fenced easily for drug money while the drug store is much more convenient for that. Sure the things in the clothes store are worth more, but to a grifter looking for their next fentanyl hit, they can’t do anything with whatever they lift there (as opposed to an organized flash mob who has plans to fence the goods online somehow).

The downtown Seattle target hires off duty officers, yet their lego section is still depleted (there was a fence for legos at pike place market that wasn’t shutdown until a few months ago) and people still shoplift like crazy since the city and county won’t prosecute.
> craft that defy physics

craft that defy KNOWN physics. Remember, the Alcubierre drive, as a mere concept (and not as an execution which is yet more complicated), was invented/discovered only a few years ago.
What I don’t understand is, if there are sanctions, why wasn’t everything stopped when they started? Why did it take over a week after the sanctions started?

(I know that oil and gas aren’t sanctioned)
If we are talking about just residential climate control, yes. If you include water heating with that even more yes. People don't think about the energy intensity of heating much since most people heat by burning things (natural gas, propane, coal or wood), as opposed to using electricity. Electricity is more efficient but not always as cheap as burning things.
"Mixed use developments" as I see them in the DC metro region are only a single, limited form of truly mixed development.

Yes, we're building apartment blocks with retail on the ground level.

No, we aren't re-zoning single-family home zones into something else. At least not with any regularity.

No, we aren't dropping minimum parking requirements in favor of market forces.

Yes, we still subsidize driving through "free" on-street parking.

Looking at my neighborhood, I'm about 1.5 miles from the subway and 2 miles from the closet grocer. Not bad by suburban standards, but it sure would be nice to have a market/bodega down the block. But, it can't happen because between me and the grocer is ALL residential. You couldn't buy a corner lot and build a shop if you wanted. At least not without spending mega-$$$ on buying off politicians to update planning maps.
A neat proxy is to look at costs.

For example, imagine a solar panel that costs $1000. They probably cost about $1000 to make, roughly. There may be some subsidy that allows them to sell at a loss but it’s safe to say it costs around $1000 to make, at a maximum.

You can also presume that energy is a factor in the cost to make a solar panel. So if 100% of the cost of the solar panel is energy, then some factory spent $1000 on energy to make that panel, max.

So that’s your hard limit on how much CO2 is being produced in the production of that solar panel: $1000 dollars’ worth.
This isn't really a new concept. See the whole BDS / boycotting Israeli products idea

Israel is 20% Arab, Israel has plenty of anti-settlement political parties, even senior government members. When you boycott Israel you are boycotting the anti settlement people as well as the pro settlement people. And you are also boycotting the Christian and Muslim Arabs

This had a weird side effect when there was a boycott happening against Soda Stream, because they were made in a settlement. Well, Jews mostly don't work in factories in settlements, Palestinians do. The boycott worked, Soda Stream moved their factory to inside the green line, and all the Palestinians were fired.
i would argue height adjustment is a feature not a design and they particularly chose not to include that in their features. Also the power supplies are not huge post M1 nor were they particularly large before that. From a comparison standpoint it’s nothing like the disgusting brick and Velcro you get with most other notebooks.

I’m not pretending to be an apple defender however I am a believer of intentionality and consideration which gives them the right to design a specific way if they rationalize it.
> Also, uneconomical use of urban land.

Uh, like green spaces? Those aren't economically valuable, but they're immensely valuable to humans.
What birthrights?
Flexible Quorums for Better SuperBlock Resiliency
Some days I'm thankful not to be part of the RoR community for reasons such as these.
Quite different uploading your stuff to the platform distributing your app, rather than a "rando that is going to scan my app"
Bilingualism in countries that don't natively speak the international language of English.
It's a death by thousand cuts.
No it's not

Small nuclear war = maybe 10 nuclear warheads explode. Life on most of earth continues more or less as "normal"

Large nuclear war = thousands of warheads, humanity is wiped out
> why for the love of god would the West support Russia and not the wishes of the Ukrainian people?

First, the people of Ukraine are free to decide to do what they think is best and "we", as in the West, are free to decide to do what we think is best. Those things do not need to coincide.

Secondly, two million Ukrainians have already decided to forfeit the game outright rather than stay and/or fight. All throughout history a minority decides on war and a majority either huddles or flees. So you tell me what it is that "the Ukrainian people" wish.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30600325
https://youtu.be/Cfk2IXlZdbI

Mmmmm. Health food.
You certainly don't have to go that far back.

https://twitter.com/SCS_PI/status/1373886128177041410

Well inside China's ADIZ.

(I'd also note the article with the headline "Russian aircraft violated European airspace nearly 300 times" actually uses "flying close to NATO airspace" in the text. Russia's doing the same thing we do - fly close, violating ADIZs, and testing responses.)