skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Programming will never go away but those ease of use abstracted layers could bring in a new crowd so to speak. Much like how graphic design became much more common place and somewhat easier to learn once photoshop became common, experts still exist but you also get people in a garage making T-shirts now when before it wasn't much of a thing if that makes sense. An easy to use higher abstracted layer of coding could do similar, and create a new kind of less technical programmer class.
>> And the energy from these flares can't be used for actually useful applications, because?

> Patiently waiting for your proposal for a better solution. Actually the whole industry is and has been waiting for a less wasteful solution since well before Bitcoin existed.

Leave the gas and the oil in the ground until it's economically feasible to utilize both for useful applications.

Some things that aren't useful applications:

1. Burning it just to get rid of it.

2. Cryptocurrency mining (i.e. wasting huge amounts of irreplaceable resources for ideological reasons to maintain a simple transaction register that can be done far more cheaply and efficiently in other ways).
Check out Hasura as well.
Value extraction may be part of the problem. Competition would take care of a lot of inefficient private sector businesses. Duo/Mono-polistic profit margins leave a lot of room for waste. Resource constraints breed innovation.

Boeing for example competes with Airbus on commercial planes, that's about it. And SpaceX is eating into their profit margins on rockets. They need to innovate to keep up with SpaceX rockets, while the 737-max fiasco is a great illustration of waste and inefficiency on commercial airplanes. If they had to be more competitive to survive, they may not have cut so many corners.
I remember being in Bangkok in mid 2000s on vacation and walking the streets looking for a store to burn a CD with our pictures/video so we could delete the memory stick and use it for more pictures (forget what format it was, might or might not have been Sony). I think we found a shop that did it pretty quickly.
My first try with iCloud, not long after got introduced, was a disaster. Test disaster only, but a definite disaster.
I turned it on, added a document, turned off, then got notified that my local file will be deleted. Forced the 'iCloud first'paradigm on me. Tried, I was scared away right away and hard.
All this after the security and privacy concern of storing my important data tied to an online account on some sort of who knows what computer location somewhere and some way, non-trasparent.
Since then I put considerable effort avoiding this shitshow, which is not easy, it bugs me to turn on at every possible occasion (updates, new installs, or just for the heck of it sometimes) on a 'small print' way to opting out, it is not a straightforward choice of yes no and that's it but work to choose the other way, confirm that I surely want to go other way. My phone bugs me logging in all the time, update and settings notifications stick permanently, f.g obtrusive.
Never ever will I consider this based on my almost completely negative experiences.
(I used only for syncing contacts but turning it off once on my phone and say yes to the question 'do you want to keep a local copy of contacts' it deleted ALL my contacts from the phone.)
Yes, in this case it was, because there’s no point in putting an infrared telescope somewhere that’s actually not in permanent shade and extreme cold!
In Blenders case, there are still several patches left to merge in and even the Blender page strictly mentions that it's early integration without much performance work done yet.
No, we didn't have any of that. There was a reason why I left this place. IT was not seen as anything that deserves more respect than the dirt on their shoes.

Even if I had introduced a standup meeting or status meeting, I don't think I could have gotten my manager to participate in that. What exactly would that have done? If you work under a shit manager none of what you suggest would have helped.
My one experience with a FOSS consortium was terrible.

I got hired by a uni explicitly to work on FOSS. The project was Kuali Student. I didn't care about the stack, the language, or methodologies. I only cared about FOSS and governance. I wanted to learn how these orgs work.

Amongst many, many other problems, Kuali is the living manifestation of Byran Cantrill's wisdom about why OpenSolaris failed: Although our team had the right to fork, we didn't have the power. So we couldn't ever fix stuff, nor feed patches upstream. We were reduced to mitigating and workarounds. For years.

I fear that humans don't (yet) we have the governance technology to make FOSS consortiums viable.

If anyone has success stories, please please share.
Going to assume that your use of "briefly" there is preceding your attempt at a short synopsis, rather than that your views have shifted again.

Personally I'm depressingly cynical when it comes to Pinker's views, looking at, e.g., https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1496685550241292293 and then thinking about how now, given modern weaponry one man's decision could basically destroy all life on earth. A few billion dead in a single conflict would be all it'd take to really mess up Pinker's trend line.
You've answered this question yourself - "Technically, a Polylith interface is a collection of "pass-through" functions, each of which delegate their function call to an "implementation" function within the component."

I work mainly in C++, Delphi/Lazarus, JavaScript. Many others as well but not very often. C++ and Delphi handle the domain just fine. Javascript - bit less convenient still easy.
I take this to be an acknowledgement that we don't know everything.

I.e.,

"These are the only ones of which the news has come to Haaahrvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discohhhvered."
The I-5 Columbia river replacement bridge just recently got a ton of funding from the WA state legislator, so maybe things are finally moving forward. However I guess delaying the project has been bickering on what to actually put on the bridge. E.g. they want to more then double the car lane count, then they also want light rail on there, and potentially even high speed rail. This feels like a classic case of overdesign.
When we exhibit behaviors. Our context is derived from our visual/auditory field processing from birth. Those waves implant magnetic field signatures on our neurotransmitter morphologies. We are almost explicitly operational in quantum activity.
Many if not all disabilities or health complications are resonant to your mind body homeostasis. Challenge the quantum spectral development process of a person you solve the aforementioned issues.
Agentnoon (YC W22) Is hiring engineer #2 anywhere in the world
Show HN: Transcrib, a speech-to-text Android app for WhatsApp voice notes
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I made a subscription based Android app to transcribe and read WhatsApp voice notes, supporting all the most common languages. It can be tried for free for 3 days, I'd love to get some feedback!
Cliché, but "Awaken the Giant Within" by Tony Robbins.

It wasn't the book itself that changed my life, it was the exposure to all of the underlying ideas & philosophies that then significantly changed my life. I know many people can't stand the guy, but his book was really powerful for me at one point in my life. I got my shit together and started to understand the origins of many of the messages he promotes.

I like to think that there's a paradox of book reading in general in that you never remember what you read, but you change because of it.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucial_Conversations%3A_Tools...
Slow inflation is manageable for an average person (or a company). Wild swings at any given point are not.
It's interesting seeing so many different opinions on the difficulty (whether it's street length, circle radius, etc). I wonder would the same people's opinions on GeoGuessr correlate or not
or the timex datalink watch that downloaded from the computer via bitbanging monitor flashes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink
“The Effective Executive” by Peter Drucker.

I’ve never even been an “executive” but have found that nuggets from this book have helped me navigate the working world for 25 years.
I will never touch CMake again for my own projects. Ever. Xmake is extremely easy to use (while still being powerful) and really just works.

The only real downside I've encountered is that it if you want to do something very specific, it can be frustrating to find out how. The documentation can be somewhat unclear or lacking at times (I don't blame the author, their native language isn't English), and there is so little content out there that Google always corrects "xmake" to "cmake" in your searches.
I remember when I was in Boston a discussion of how to expand one of the T-lines under Tufts Medical Center without causing vibrational problems for the equipment in the hospital right above.

That's a non-trivial engineering challenge.
Anybody on HN who's using this and wants to share their experience? It looks interesting, how does it compare against fish?
Random Word Generator in Bash
I'm a previous bash user who now uses fish and loves to customize everything, and compared to bash, customizing fish is a joy. Its so much easier to do, using oh-my-fish brings a great selection of plugins (admittedly lots of them are inspired or clones of oh-my-zsh plugins) and writing plugins is a breeze as well.
Melrōse, a language to program and play music
I have been using copilot for quite some time:

here are my notes

1-)I suggest every developer to try it at least

2-)It will increase productivity for sure

3-)The bugs caused by copilot will trigger a new nerve in your brain. So, it is dangerous but danger is good.
I'm sorry to hear that book changed your life. My sincere condolences to your family and friends.
You would enjoy reading the paper. They are making a few assumptions that turn out to be pretty good in a datacenter environment to simplify things. They are also using graph cycles to set clocks, which is a very different approach. My guess is that the precision of their approach comes at an accuracy cost, and the clocks are not particularly accurate.
If a cataclysmic extinction event occurred, I doubt a little bit of highlighting or underlining is going to cause significant burden on mankind's ability to relearn things. I do agree though, that if you don't own the book you probably shouldn't mark in it.
We're looking to add support for connecting with APIs and databases (and passing SQL queries to those DBs) visually so larger teams can invite their data engineers to write queries for them.
Oh, for sure. I think that's an important component in why it feels good to managers. It's like the "baby driver" toy, the fake steering wheel and console you can give to toddlers. They get to turn the wheel and press the buttons and feel very important.

And I'd add that at the end of the waterfall cycle, metrics often (and incorrectly) show that the workers failed. After all, they said they were 95% done just a bit ago, and now they're suddenly not done. It's very easy to shift blame to them.

As contrast, a lot of the effective Agile techniques don't actually fix problems; they just shorten the feedback loops so problems surface sooner. That's part of why fake Agile won out; managers didn't adopt any of the bits that would make them feel uncomfortable or expose the very real problems with how they run things.
How do I universal control my iPad from my Linux computer? Just Works within your own ecosystem, Never Works outside of it.
Getting Things Done By David Allen. I feel like everything I do is a decision and not a reaction now.
> The light cannot be hacked

Double yikes.
I don’t use it. DuckDuckGo for searching and a Mac or iOS.

Who is this “everyone”?
Thanks. I'm glad to hear that because I put effort into mobile. I thought it would be my older family members that would like it the most and use it on phones or tablets (I was right)
But more mining reduces the expected return of mining, so a miner would need marginally cheaper energy in order to break even.
And if some tool you use doesn't have completions, writing completions for fish are infinitely easier than bash
Part of. The context for this discussion is the atmosphere, lore, and art. That is independent of difficulty.

And further, it is clearly not the case in any of the soulsborne games that the difficulty is tuned perfectly for each player. If that were true, there would be no interest in SL1 runes or there wouldn't have been patches rebalancing of Lost Izalith in DS1 or summons wouldn't be an available option.
Pretty sure That is the opposite of true.

Flying high keeps you out of range of many weapons.
Windows 11. Breaking the taskbar was insulting to me. I left Windows because of this. I don't think I'll ever go back at this point, Valve, through Steam and Proton, have sealed that door for me.

Also, the fact that they decided to no longer support my ancient CPU from 2015, which I also find insulting considering that, as part of the Windows developer preview, they had no problems automatically upgrading me to a Windows 11 preview build.

Teams is also insulting for more reasons than I have time to enumerate.
Yes, the commute is the major downside to RTO, but it’s not the only one. Some people might be fine with some commuting, but dislike working in offices full time, or just in open office environments.
I basically failed because almost all of the selections were random tiny roads in subdivisions (thanks Atlanta sprawl). Got all the roads with thru traffic though!
Hijacking this to ask, can anyone suggest a Windows Explorer alternative? I don't need tabs or panes, I just want it to be fast again. (Using WinXP in a VM inside Win10 is significantly more responsive. I tried running XP explorer.exe on 10 but no luck!)
The author is a well-known crank. See post #10 here, for instance:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/strand-model-published...

Proceed with caution.
The Hithchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Catch 22. They helped me work through my teenage existential crisis.
Their systems might not be set up to easily migrate you to the same server under a different package. The customer support would not be technical enough to make that happen
What?

Your government hates you and doesn't give a fuck about you. They misuse every dollar they get and use whatever means necessary to shove it into the bank accounts of their rich friends.

Please correct me if I'm just seriously misunderstanding you. Please!

You, for some reason, believe that willfully giving your government even more money is going to actually help you and other people around you.

I'm sorry ... what?
It doesn’t change the calculus of nuclear weapons at all.
The Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association has a pretty good document[0] on current skimmers and fuel theft methods:

[0] https://apma4u.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Crompco-Update...
I didn't call it the high water mark, just a higher level of functioning & cooperation than the cold war. I think that's an accurate statement.

But now that you've raised the question, it's difficult for me to think of any stretch of decades that was definitively better, certainly not in the last 100 years. I might look far back to the Pax Romana, but that couldn't be considered global in nature. I'd argue that it's probably only at some point in the past 100 years that regional civilizations became interconnected enough for us to even consider things as a truly global system.

Please note that I'm not claiming the last 20 years have actually been good in terms of global peace, stability, accord, etc., just that it seems a bit better than the recent decades prior to that. By one narrow metric, per Capita war-related deaths, we're doing quite a bit better. Of course these things are far from evenly distributed across the globe, and it seems like wider stability sometimes relies on allowing awful things to happen on a smaller scale. And I don't think it's much consolation to those dying in conflicts to tell them "no really you should be joyed to live at a time when so few people have their lives torn apart the way yours is right now".

All of that strays from the topic of my original comment though, which again compared current times to cold war times.
The memory cards had such small capacity, were so expensive, and general backup options were so few that I have maybe low hundreds items of digital photos from the era before 2010-2015. For a long time the best backup strategy had been 4.4GB DVD, oftentimes the memory card was erased without any backup. Since then I've been storing almost every digital photo.
The polish isn't as shiny as it once was. Let's fix the Music app no? How about passwords? What about the complete failure of a window manager on macOS.

Feature bloat has plagued Apple developers to the point nobody knows how to wrangle all the gestures and interactions properly. Even a man as diligent as Steve, I suspect, wouldn't know what to do with the current state of things. He'd probably just burn it all down and start over with the front end, as is the natural order of things.
> I feel like people who say this sort of thing just have not actually played these games.

I think this is uncharitable. You can look at completion rates on Steam for some data. I personally stopped playing the xbox360 version of DS1 because the goddamn giants in Lost Izalith kept respawning (something that was mercifully changed with patches). I'd have kept going if I had the patched (and easier) game.
I never needed any of that and I'm an assembly programmer for 35+ years.

Pascal, x86 assembly, arm assembly, Python ... and sometimes even a mix of them running together.
Thanks! We're trying to build a more complete data solution. The pre-built block types are the first step, which let you setup basic metrics. We want to build connectors with custom APIs, databases, and even data warehouses, and then let teams invite data engineers to setup metrics for non-technical users in their team to use.
As a young teenager, Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World. A brilliant series of essays about critical thinking.

More recently - I hesitate to recommend it because the trilogy is unfinished, but still - Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle books have redefined what is possible with fantasy fiction, with incredible depth and subtlety and literary flourishes. It has flaws for sure, but I can't think of anything that remotely compares to it, and I've read an enormous pile of genre fiction. A real eye opener if you're doing any kind of creative writing.
> There is absolutely nothing wrong with a product not catering to everybody

certainly agree

> Even moreso when we are talking about a work of art.

why does art get special consideration?
Think and Grow Rich has been absolutely phenomenal in spearheading the mindset shift I've had over the past couple years, and I could not recommend it any more to anyone who wishes to have financial success in life.

Some may consider the book and its ideologies excessively materialistic, but I personally find that outlook refreshing especially considering the subject matter: making money; furthermore I think that take is a little baseless as the viewpoint on willpower etc. that Napoleon Hill provides can apply to far more than just accumulating wealth if utilized correctly.

All in all though, it was easily one of the most life-changing books I've ever read and I'm glad to see it's affected others positively too, cheers!
The Tao Te Ching has given me more contemplative moments per page than anything else I've read.
All-In on Renewables: A Mistake for Humanity?
The disturbing new relevance of theories of nuclear deterrence
Honestly, they are really great points he makes.

There absolutely are flaws with interviews. But if you stick with coding questions using simple datastructures non-esoteric data structures, they are the most objective, scalable and accurate method of evaluating a candidate.
Who can spot the picture that doesn't actually contain a C64?
Hi HN,
Im a big fan of Airflow and its advantages on workflow management tools. After many problems of performance on a project I try some new modern platform, prefect dagster. Very good !
And recently I read this medium blog on Kestra a new platform and I decide to try it. It was a good decision because the user experience was cool, easy, efficient and powerful. The engine seems much more advanced to me because the same complex flows are much faster on Kestra than with Prefect.
Take time to interest about and up this project on https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra
> The truth is that most US infrastructure is not required.

Would you say more? This is a bold claim.
Right. The question is, if I made a program, and for some reason they wanted to extract a fee or make me delete it or something, would a court take their side?

Because otherwise what is the utility of releasing the source code of a programming library for free? Could they argue that it was only for educational purposes or something?

Again, seems like a trap if it's supposed to be interpreted otherwise. In which case why should such a trap be legal.
Sure. And there is similarly nothing wrong with a product adding options to cater to a wider audience. I don't think many of the people asking for easy mode think that Miyazaki is a bad person. But I've certainly been called some pretty nasty things for suggesting an easy mode. What I'd like is for people to be able to express their preference without being attacked for being perceived as scrubs.
I think power to execute is definitely a big part of it. A neighborhood can't afford a major work, or organize one, so it won't, but when a government entity can afford a major work, the neighborhood often has the power to stop that. Even though the major work is likely part of a larger orchestration of infrastructure, that one neighborhood can put a halt to it.

They tried to replace a level crossing with an overpass in my city, arguably good for everyone. Well, they did argue it, and it didn't happen. Even though there is already a train line there, apparently an overpass was too much infrastructure for them.
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine

Gave me a new perspective.
Not sure if the link will work, but here's the result of clicking "Export PDF" from right sidebar only visible on wider screen.

https://storage.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/gitbook...
Collisions are inevitable unless roads are designed to prevent them.

Roads, bicycle paths, and footpaths (and railroads and canals and etc) need to be designed in such a way that traveling is safe and economic for ALL traffic participants. Not just one particular type of vehicle.

So far this policy only exists in a few countries in the world, but the concepts are slowly spreading elsewhere. Never quickly enough of course!
Seems like a patent troll trying to put their mark on obvious technology.
I think this is a question worth asking. Should we let a small number of people hold hostage over public projects?
Can most of you walk or bike to work?
I'll repeat what I said in another comment here:

What's valuable is purely subjective. That's what makes markets work. Its also why planning economies from the top down doesn't work. What seems like wasted energy or capital to you is very useful to another person. Many people (myself included) believe that a decentralized, digital, hard money that is tied to the real world through energy is extremely important. So to those people its not a waste of energy, far from it.