skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cyberiad" is by far my favorite, whimsical, yet instructive to engineers.

"The Futurological Congress" is good, but not great; "The Congress" with Robin Wright was loosely based on it and had more of an impact for me.

"His Master's Voice" I read while still in civil service, and it hit pretty close to home, albeit it also reminded me of the bad parts of academia. I need to read that one again sometime.
Exactly. Whenever I see an article like this I think about what the world might be like with ubiquitous nuclear power. How long does the oil in the ground suddenly last you if you're not using it in cars, burning it, etc? How much easier is recycling anything when the power to do so is cheap? And so on and so forth.
I think a lot of companies are figuring out, right now, that it isn't all about money (and crappy snacks) that equal employee retainment. Mentoring and proper training in decent platforms, not to mention a decent work/life balance go a long way when you start comparing them to different company cultures.

I might grind away at Amazon for a couple of years (personally - no offense to the people that love it, it isn't for me), but that sort of job first, life second - everyone move up metric isn't for everyone. Some people are "professionals" and some people are "craftsmen"... I guess? Neither one is good or bad, they're just different mindsets and goals.

There are companies (though few, I suppose) that want "craftsmen". There are companies that want "professionals". A good company, wants both.
Ukraine vs. Russian Federation ICJ Ruling [pdf]
yes, get the browser's local time and seve a "sleeping" page.
TL;DR: Be indispensable for the role you want to be in. This may change over time.
The assertions in the Wikileaks docs are contested, and focus on a single incident when the war has had multiple.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2020/01/15/the-opcw-dou...

For example, that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack happened is not disputed by Russia; they dispute who did it.
I noticed that .nft was missing and spent about 30 minutes trying to google how one goes about registering for one and gave up. Someone else will make that killing.
... for Google [maybe]
Conventional Prompt Global Strike is intended to provide the ability to deliver a conventional kinetic attack anywhere in the world within an hour. It has been an active area of weapons research for the US for 20 years. As you speculate, misinterpretation of the launch is a concern. [1]

As opensocket points out, there are many shorter range conventional weapons used across borders. The cruise missiles of gulf war 1 or the drones of the post September 11 world.

[1] https://sgp.fas.org/crs/nuke/R41464.pdf
Last time I was job searching I got interviewed by several FAANG and accepted a job at one of them. Didn't even hear back from Microsoft.
"Stay Alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!" is a quote from Paranoia, the role-playing game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
Hmmm, and then you have to ask, for whom is it worth it?

Who might invent a bunch of time and effort in those areas?
That's ridiculous, the smartphone has changed society far more than desktop's or really any form of computer that exists. Vast numbers of people only access the internet via a smart phone. Doctor's visits across the globe, remote working from wherever you are, hand held GPS and maps, access to countless hours of entertainment, etc....
I really don't get the surprise. Data saved in chrome is saved into your Google account, whether they label this data under pay doesn't seem to be of a surprise to me at all.
Don’t dismiss a no-fly zone – we should not abandon Ukraine to its fate
There's a common thread in so many places with this. "My parent/manager/politician/authority figure should have enough power and leadership to plan for all risks" yeah... nope. "Those people in that other place with more rights and freedoms than me are happy!" Unfortunately... Nope.
Thanks, I know nothing about the BIOS and other related hardware topics. Does "extended mode" mean UEFI? I guess an introductory OS lecture is going to be helpful.
Be the best at two things, and train someone to do the less rewarding thing while you learn a new thing.
Read designing data intensive applications
Curious what made you want to learn Polish. It's not exactly a broadly spoken language. There isn't really much of a diaspora. It was my first language, but I don't really get much practice these days - outside trips to the Polish Store to pick up some suche kabanosy.
I'm pretty sure the content stopped in mid 2020, so a year or so after the sale.

And then eventually was redirected to DigitalOcean.

Also, just to add my own thought to this - CSS-Tricks is of course very loved by people who learned things there, and people who respect Chris Coyer as a designer. But, these acquisitions do have an effect on how people perceive a project, and skepticism is very high on that list.

They seem to be keeping the "Write for Us" option open, with 300$+ a pop per guest post + promotion to your project. If anything, it will become a haven for those kind of posts. If not, they might by some miracle find a really good person (dev or designer) who is willing to take on the reigns for a while. Unlikely, though.
Use managed services for any crud services like your REST api or whatever with auto scaling. Use firebase auth (free at all scales) and Firestore for real time updates and firebase messaging for notifications. You can use it for static content hosting too.

I’m still working on my idea but I ran some cost and performance simulations and this setup should work well enough at scale at a low cost that once it’s an issue I’m sure I will have enough money to hire experts to build custom solutions to fill any gaps.
What's very interesting about your comment is this:

Let's say that JavaScrip was a language for "kiddies" in 2008. Let's call them people in the age group 17-22. That was fourteen years ago, and those "kiddies" are now 31-36.

In 2008, they were in entry-level positions. Today, they have over a decade of industry experience and are lead engineers, engineering managers, &c. It's not like they "grew up and switched to adult languages."

They brought JavaScript with them, and as they recognized its shortcomings... They fixed the language and its ecosystem.

(For some debatable definition of "fixed," but the general point is that even if it was a language for script kiddies a decade and a half ago, those kiddies grew up and to a certain extent, the language grew up with them.)
Vital (the free wavetable software synth) has a preset that has all the phone tones, including dial tone and call tone. I have spent an embarrassing amount of time playing with it.
> I'd consider how much more docile the nation's of the world would have become sans nuke.

Interesting. I expected that nuklear weapons made us more docile. It's a huge deterrence for big powers to go to war with each other. I think we are seeing this play out in Ukraine right now. If Russia had no nuclear weapons, I'd expect NATO to have intervened much more directly at this point, especially after seeing that Russia seems much weaker than expected.
s/book// and you are still pretty accurate.
The FORTRAN Coloring Book is quite the amusing little programming book for the late 70s. https://www2.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/Colo...

What makes it even more amusing is that people on this forum, even if they don't know FORTRAN would find it ludicrously elementary considering it was actually the textbook for an MIT class at the time. (It was basically a programming course for non-CS/EE engineers and the assumption was basically that they had never touched a computer before.)
Makes me want to get my old 8088 XT out and hack it into the web.
Obviously its not obvious to me. I've had enough of your games, if you're interested in an actual productive conversation, feel free to reply, otherwise I want nothing to do with you.
Question: would antiproton with antielectron orbiting around it be stable as normal hydrogen atom?

Did somebody made an experiment like that?
Amazon sells ads.

The overhead for ad inventory is lower than for physical goods.

The margins are higher as well.
If you're an advocate for markets and innovation solving climate change, I'd gather you support a hefty but revenue neutral carbon tax to properly price in the harm emissions are currently doing?
Thanks! This article is pretty much what I had in mind and exactly my 500-words argument! I don't know how I missed it. This is def one of the things that made me think Cloudflare Workers were not so polished. Are you hiring? I've got many more ideas where this came from :)
What makes me extremely skeptical of "Web3" is the marketed nature of it. The terms "Web 1.0" and "Web 2.0" were never used at the time of their emergence; those labels were applied after the fact (or once things were well on their way to the mainstream).
Back in 2010, I was invited to a party in a building down at the south end of Manhattan. We were 4 blocks from Wall Street. It was a new building, my friend had just moved in. The building was for the "$400,000 a year working stiffs" of Wall Street, but that line is from 1987 (the movie Wall Street) and nowadays they all make a few million a year.

I was surprised by the relatively poor quality of the building. All the walls were covered with carpeting, but the carpeting was falling off in some places. Some of the light fixtures hung awkwardly slanted from their slots. The door knob (of the apartment) was very cheap and was already showing signs of wear.

Keep in mind, this was a new building, built for wealthy people.

Something feels broken about this culture, where even the rich cannot buy nice things any more.
Try krisp or Nvidia broadcast or one of the other AI noise canceling tools. This way you don't have to give up your kinesis
The Chinese weapon is ground launched, exactly as I stated. Sure you can boost such a weapon up above most of the atmosphere in order to get longer range, but the downside is that higher altitude flight paths make it easier to detect and counter.
I have never worked even close to any kind of industrial procurement, and I still know about McMaster-Carr, just because of how much people love using their website.

That's some good UX right there.
Climate change is leading to bigger hailstones
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If you're smart enough to learn Flutter, you're smart enough to learn Swift/Kotlin.

So, just do that.

The appeal of React Native is that you get to stay in the javascript ecosystem. If you're going to move away, move away to native.

It's a no brainer. The very premise of these cross platform tools is flawed, frankly - if you can't afford one dev per platform - your problem isn't tooling, it's money.

So, just fix the money issue.

Also, as an iOS dev - the second I see mention of Rx, Flutter, React Native or some other third party 'thing' - I don't even bother applying. Apple/Google produce enough new 'things' every year to keep everyone busy. I don't need some third party 'thing' on top of it all.
> Approaching 50 here, and no major issues dealing with project deliveries across Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, Transact SQL, PL/SQL, PowerShell, bash

Very commendable — I don't touch JS that I didn't write. Forget C++ altogether :D

I didn't mean my comment as a negative — in fact, I see all those attributes as essential so one doesn't produce junk at a fast rate just cause s/he can code for 20 hour straight and refactor endlessly. Of course I know devs older than me who are still in mass production mode and don't deliberate much. In fact, I often have to ask people to slow down and seek simpler and lazier solutions for their sake and mine further down the line.
This one is different, you logged into Chrome with your Google account and stored the data of your credit card to the same google account.

If you type your cc info into vscode with your msft account logged in and a sync option enabled then you also shouldn't be surprised if you found it into your msft account.
Doesn’t “usury” have a predatory connotation? I think just the concept of debt is what has allowed our human economy/society to develop. Nobody would ever be able to start a business without debt. (Unless you’re already rich)

Nobody would ever just hand out their capital for free. There has to be an incentive for the lender to take on the risk of default, and so we make agreements that interest be paid to the lender. Healthy, responsible lending is truly a win-win for everyone.

Usury is like payday loans and shit credit cards targeting poor college students. Things where the lender knows the borrower will be unable to pay and thus trapped forever
It was very competitive between the top two teams. And then the battle for third place between McLaren and Ferrari was good as well. I would like to see more teams in contention for points each week. Hopefully Haas and Williams are a bit more competitive this year.
Maybe things have changed since I last used it, but the styling was very boilerplatey. I didn't enjoy using it. I really liked Dart, was easy to learn.

Is there some sort of template-library/style-system that y'all are using? Or is it still one widget in another widget in another widget..?

Because if that latter then optimising for some syntactic sugar over that would be very much a game changer.
Interestingly the two biggest earthquakes in my memory in Mexico City happened in the same day. Sept 19 1985 and 2017

Every year in Sep 19 there is a city wide simulacro. And then in 2017 an earthquake happened for real.
Oh, I may have been misunderstanding the parent comment but it sounded like they were saying it was an adapter that let you put flash memory devices of some sort into a regular floppy drive.
Note that this isn’t the first time these kind of “exotic” atoms have been created.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_atom
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotonic_helium
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihydrogen
I've been using react native heavily for the past 18 months.

Because there's no JIT, Javascript is slow on mobile, especially on Android. I spend a lot of my creative energy trying to optimize the render function. I often times wonder if I should have chosen Flutter instead.

Each framework has its bullshit you don't discover until it's too late. So, I'm sure if I had chosen Flutter I'd be complaining about something else.. but boy am I tired of stuffing things into useMemo, useCallback, and stressing about the identity of things in dependency arrays.

There's some exciting stuff coming up this year with React/React Native: Hermes, React Native "New architecture", react concurrency mode (although I still don't 100% understand what this is). I hope one of these things improves the current situation.
I'm very much a novice in concurrent programming so I looked that up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...

> ...communicating sequential processes (CSP) is a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems.
> ... based on message passing via channels.

That seems like a mathematical language that could describe goroutines and channels but also seems like it could describe python's multiprocessing and queue constructs. I think of those as very different things given the (vastly different) applications. When I think of "go-style" I think of lightweight threads (I can have 1000s), where as python processes are heavy (100 is pushing it?). So maybe the specifics of the implementation have as much to do with the go-style as the abstract concept?

My understanding here is fuzzy for sure and I welcome corrections and more detail.
The first sentence was great! but the paywall stopped me short of finishing the second sentence. From what I could read though, it looks like Skunk Works has some great things in the works.
>The next round of the draft is set for May — filling many parents with dread. And previous military service is no protection: There’s a persistent rumor in Moscow that reservists could soon be called up to fight in Ukraine.

Great, expect the war to end before then. Given Zelensky looks willing to concede future NATO membership, let's hope the war ends soon.

Both sides can claim victory.

Even before this, I've met tons of Russians who left for better opportunities. We're talking about some of the best technical minds the world has ever known. It's not hard to imagine fast track immigration, every exceptional programer who moves West is a massive loss for Russia. You'll have a zombie economy completely dependent on Chinese trade.

It feels like China's the true winner here, they'll have cheap fuel and food for the foreseeable future. It'll take a very long time for Russia to reintegrate with the Western economies if ever
I can't nail down the exact date, but I believe PowerDNS 2.0 shipped sometime around 2001-2002 with pipe backend support. It allowed you to craft dynamic responses to DNS queries from any language you could get to run on Linux.
I had same problem with failed Seagate HDD. They were asking me to use their Windows-only app to diagnose the problem.

I tried to explain that I use it with a NAS and I cannot install Windows on it just to do such diagnostics test. No luck to convince the support and I had to hack some pieces of old hardware together just to run that tool. Funny enough the tool was able to tell only something like "the drive is broken". I had a much more detailed report from NAS though, with details from SMART but that was not accepted. Basically they didn't believe me and asked for a confirmation from their tool, like it's more trustworthy.

Of course I'm not going to buy any Seagate after such experience.
Interesting tangent I hadn’t considered before. However, China is testing some ballistic anti ship missiles. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/11/aircraft-carrie...

To be fair, if these become a reality, they would likely strike targets in the Pacific Ocean and South China Seas, far away from the US, but the potential to spook nuclear nations is still there.
Yes. It should be indefinitely stable as long as it does not come into contact with regular matter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihydrogen
The videos I've seen, which, probably do suffer from selection bias of what is filmable, show ukranians blasting tanks from extremely far away. Far away enough that I would reckon the tank drivers had no practical way to observe, or even counteract against the infantry,especially if they're under some amount of cover and hidden until they strike.

The guidance on these weapons seem very impressive. Most attacks seem to be hitting the tanks while they're on a highway.

The russian tanks are shitty, and have no infantry support. So its hard to draw conclusions about how his would work against a competent foe.
I don't see how this narrative makes sense, and seems to be yet another example of "4d chess". The market promptly dropped ~30% in March 2020 in response to Covid, but was then inflated with trillions of dollars of newly printed stimulus money. Which, as an aside, has finally filtered into the consumer economy causing much of the price inflation we've been suffering.

Realizing Covid wasn't going to go away and coming around to addressing Covid in June 2020 or so wouldn't have affected the market, which had already priced in Covid. But it would have made Trump an actual crisis-time leader with the corresponding popularity boost just from leading people through a difficult time - publicly validating the hardships everyone is feeling goes a long way. But instead, he dug his heels in opposition to how things were developing.

If anything, I think saying that Trump is a basic contrarian is a better predictor of his positions. The problem is that while our society has major flaws that make contrarian viewpoints compelling, contrarianism on its own does not produce useful reforms.
Yes and yes.

As far as we know anti-atoms (antihydrogen in this case) are as stable as normal atoms.

To the point where it creates interesting questions -- if antiatoms are exactly as normal atoms, why we have abundance of normal matter but not antimatter?
I would argue that this is just one way that you can pay down your debt :P
I think Concurrent ML (1991) had select before Go. Go itself took it from Newsqueak (1994) and Limbo (1995) I think. The name itself probably comes from the UNIX select(2) syscall, which first appeared in 4.2BSD (1983).
I used it in Svelte for a desktop app I wrote. It was okay. Like a lot of design frameworks I found it to be pretty rigid. However, take what I say with a grain of salt. I really like CSS frameworks like Tailwind that I can combine with something like Svelte.
What it's like to migrate a high-traffic website from Gatsby to Next.js
Ok, cool. It's not actually a bad idea. Where I am right now, shops are open very limited hours compared to north america, and while I don't agree with imposed opening hours, I do like the culture of family time / downtime. Definitely a neat idea to support it.

Edit - I know it's impossible, but I like the idea of an organized nightly or weekly shutdown of social media, it might be enough to break its hold on us.
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One of the things that would be nice is if this would mean that Bunny's Let's Encrypt support would do wildcard certs. Right now, because Bunny doesn't control the DNS, they can't create wildcard certs. I know this is mostly about the scriptable DNS, but it is also an announcement that they're entering DNS more generally.
But even within those examples, the energy use per dollar of value generated varies by large orders of magnitude.

A Simpsons SD card uses a tiny fraction of a watt hour for a half hour of entertainment (valued, in theaters and DVD rentals, at maybe $3-5). Watch the same episode on an old-style CRT TV and you're looking at 50 or so watt-hours.

A Google Search uses about 0.3 watt hours to get you the answer you want. The economic value of it varies based on topic, but if you divide estimated total yearly searches (a couple trillion) by Google's revenue ($257B), you get about $0.12. (Note that at average annual U.S. electricity prices, this electricity costs about 1/300th of a cent, showing the profit involved in turning energy into information retrieval.)

A car commuting to work for an hour consumes about 4 kWh (about 200x a laptop watching the Simpsons, and 12,000x a Google Search), but what's the economic value added? Arguably it's economic value destroyed, compared to if we could just live closer to work, because of the lost time and productivity.

That's why it doesn't really make sense to say that 'the "economy" is indistinguishable from "energy" consumption'. There are many things that generate large amounts of dollars and use very little energy, or even save energy. There are also things that destroy dollars and use lots of energy. By equating the two, you gloss over any distinction or ability to make things more efficient.
AFAIK, anti-hydrogen is very stable on its own and only gets annihilated because it quickly comes in contact with matter.

> In November 2010, the ALPHA collaboration announced that they had trapped 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, the first confinement of neutral antimatter. In June 2011, they trapped 309 antihydrogen atoms, up to 3 simultaneously, for up to 1,000 seconds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihydrogen
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