skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politicians love big projects. It is much more tangible than most government programs. Your draw a line of a map and then a real change happens in the world. And this government have put much more money into infrastructure than you might expect given their ideology. In fact industry have trouble getting enough capacity to support projects like HS2. And often in less sexy areas like rail electrification, smart motorways etc.

Also in my experience the human aspect of projects is always the most difficult part. The most amazing thing about a company like SpaceX is not the technical achievement. But getting thousands of people to work together on a single goal. And arguably this kind of thing is less problematic in large projects than in the rest of society. But the effects of bad communication is far more visible and explicit. Engineering cuts through and delivers because it actually simplifies things.
Putin Cares About Only One Thing, and It’s Not Oligarchs
What happens when the job crashes?
I wonder what the license implications are there, considering that Kafka python is Apache 2 where as your project is BSD
In Italy there are now "specially licensed" farmers that can legally sell raw milk (though they are very few), it is relatively recent, till until a few years ago it was prohibited (I believe starting from the late 1980's or 1990's).

On the other hand I remember as a kid how we got fresh milk daily in a country village:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223564
> Visual query builders are a deskilling device. There's a small hump to get over to learn to write SQL queries, it's worth getting over (IMO) (there are times when I'd like to take a large existing multi-way join and see a pic of it though).

Oh, I can write massively complex queries with the best of 'em, but I like visualizing the connections seeing it all out in front of me helps me. And it's not often I need this, just the few times I do it really strikes me as odd that the tools we had for this were better all those years ago. Also, it can really help explain things to new devs.

Your PoV reminds me a bit of the old GUI vs CLI flame wars :) both have merit, it's not a zero-sum game.

> The index wizard is likewise de-skilling.

This is just really a time suck for me. It's not my primary task, all I want is the DB to be better at its job so it lets me be better at mine. In companies without DBAs these tools are very useful.
Anything that floats creates surface area for life to cling on.
Water flow can then provide food and oxygen.
Puzzlingly oxygen is not a requirement, there is even multicellular aneorobic life with methane as the CO2 equivalent.

Your system would have a significant impact on life and could cloque up, or become very heavy and sink to the ocean floor.

Based on the conservation of mass, Stoichiometry helps you to calculate carbon storage.
In sea water calcium is present, corals and mollusks or snails use it to build their shells out of calcium carbonate, which is insoluble in water. Forming the white cliffs of England and many other things over millions of years.

The calcium concentration varies alot over the oceans and depth.

If the CO2 concentration is high calcium bicarbonate forms, which is soluble in water. Rising levels of that stuff are the cause of ocean acidification.
Otherwise calcium carbonate will precipitate out, trapping the CO2.

You could calculate the excess mass you are producing this way, in form of calcium carbonate, by Stoichiometry. Just farming snails and mullusks and weighing their shells, you would do the exact same thing.
Noting that CO2 is 44 g per mol and calcium carbonate is 100 g per mol
1 kg of sea shells produced is 440 g of CO2 removed, roughly.

To certify your metrics you have to calculate a stoichiometry of your complete processes of production, deployment of sattelites, data aquisation ,...,... . If you only use green energy you can cheat a lot here.
From this you can then remove your sea shell production offset, with the mentioned mass reduction.

This total is your certifyable CO2 reduction, which you can sell to somebody to fudge his certificate.
It's funny how they're simultaneously a small fringe group and at the same time a vital element of defence.

> If the US got invaded and you wanted to throw out the fascists out of the army you wouldn't have much of an army lol.

What an absurd premise. How many servicemen do you know?

> the russians are out they can go back to making less than 5% of votes

Right, because there is no way they would draw more support after being lionized as heros.
If I build an image using the Dockerfile in the blog post 10 days later, there is no guarantee that my application would work. The packages in Ubuntu's repositories might be updated to new versions that are buggy/no longer compatible with my application.

OP's suggestion is to build a separate image with required packages, tag it with something like "mybaseimage:25032022" and use it as my base image in the Dockerfile. This way, no matter when I rebuild the Dockerfile, my application will always work. You can rebuild the base image and application's image every X days to apply security patches and such. This also means I now have to maintain two images instead of one.

Another option is to use an image tag like "ubuntu:impish-20220316" (instead of "ubuntu:21.10") as base image and pin the versions of the packages you are installing via apt.

I personally don't do this since core packages in Ubuntu's repositories rarely introduce breaking changes in the same version. Of course, this depends on package maintainers, so YYMV.
Break the Code 2 by .Tech Domains
> If you are wondering why a metadata update would make OverlayFS duplicate the entire file, it is for security reasons. You can enable “metadata only copy up”[0] feature which will only copy the metadata instead of the whole file.

[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/overlayfs...
Being 25% over budget when the programme is already extortionately expensive compared to similar infrastructure projects in other countries. And each time we do "another one" it's even more expensive than the last. There is an entire industry purpose designed for ripping off the tax payer.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220325214945/https://www.nytim...

No paywall
>with other species there is no notion of a “social construct”

That's only coming from our limited human perspectives. We can't communicate with another species at this point in time. We can't ask them about nuance in their social structures. We also can't assume that it doesn't exist because it's hard to observe.
Showing the code as images instead of text and not even with a fixed width font for code ... and I am suppose to trust that person? :)
Emacs: The Buffer Gap
In that sense you can already resell your Woodstock tickets on an open market. NFTs don't really add anything to this market in particular, so I don't get your point.
My, admittedly, personal anecdote is a torn rotator cuff caused by an identifiable injury, for no reason, reaching across to shut the passenger door with the wrong arm awkwardly and pulling against the weight too hard too fast, immediately knew there was a problem, right then called orthopedic office assoc. w/ hospital, on its campus, first I made very sure they took my insurance, was assured no treatment would not be covered. They squeezed me in 6 weeks later, saw the doctor and explained what happened. I was in a lot of pain the whole time, basically crippled and one armed. I knew I was looking forward to maybe a year of recovery before the pain really went away. I complained about the pain, but I asked about a cortisone injection. He said he wanted to X-ray the area. I still don't understand why, and he wouldn't say, I thought stubbornly, but I was in pain and irritable. I told him I didn't want the X-ray. He said he wouldn't treat me without the X-ray, and directed me to physiotherapy, which was $1000 and not covered, and they sent me a $125 bill for the visit. Took a year and a half before my arm was 100%

Few years later, no recent associated injury with right forearm, but maybe something decades ago, as a child, someone squeezed my wrist way too tight. One day 45 years later, no action or movement, sitting upright, reaching for the wheel, I feel something, idk, muscle, ligament, I do not know, told different orthopedic in the same office it felt like rubber band stretching from my wrist area to my elbow had snapped, and for the next 5 hours I could feel it snaking down my forearm as the elastic whatever relaxed, not painfully at first but then the weirdest burning scraping sensation, in a linear path slowly from elbow to wrist, I thought an elastic slowly being pulled back to where it was still anchored on one end. While it was occurring, I wondered if I was experiencing an extremely slow stroke and was feeling the blood clot drag through a path of veins in my arm. Until, unexpectedly, when the sensation finally got to my wrist, it suddenly sped up, encircled my wrist really fast, and my wrist and hand swelled suddenly in less than a second... while I was staring right at it doing nothing but wondering what was happening. This time, I acquiesces to the X-ray. Orthopedic said it didn't show anything, and maddeningly did not give me any explanation for what had happened to me. Insurance covered the $2000 in X-rays. And they sent me another $125 bill for the visit. Hand useless for a few months.

Latest thing is sprained or strained my left wrist, I think just repetitive injury. It's coming along. I don't see the need to pay $125 and see my insurance milked another $2000 to learn nothing and not be treated.

I also just want to lament that thanks to Sacklers' Oxycontin, gone are the days of getting a week or two of Vicodin or Hydrocodone for some absolutely appropriate pain management for injuries like these. Sucks. That constant pain is maddening, an OTC painkillers just don't have the ability to quite restore sanity. But cannabis helps not care about the pain, thank goodness.
I don't think they were claiming that it increases suffering. But it doesn't decrease it either. We should at least decrease suffering, or ideally, eliminate it. CRISPR does not constitute any progress in that regard. If anything, it gives more people more excuses to continue supporting the suffering.
Smooth scrolling on the PC was a particularly difficult problem because of design decisions made when creating PC expansion card type video systems.

Smooth scrolling, in general, was known on other hardware. That was either having enough CPU throughput and a display resolution combination that would allow the CPU to drive the display fast enough to make it happen, and or with the assistance of video display chips forming video subsystems capable of smooth scrolling by offering the kind of control needed for success, all while also leaving enough of the system resources available for a game to be made featuring the effect.
That sounds pretty interesting (in a sick way ;) ) Are you able to elaborate a bit more what you were doing?
"I am in this picture and I don't like it"
The more I read about quantum mechanics, the more I'm convinced that we have no idea what we're talking about.
“help endure climate change”, while beef and eating meat is one of the major contributors to climate change … This is wrong on so many levels.
Also, how much code would it take to do the same thing in python?
Valve should check that windows games they want to run on the deck should be pure win64(API)/vulkan. That with a conservative usage of the win64 API, namely a lean configuration/build of wine should do the trick.
Nvidia GauGAN2: realistic images from your sketch
This was the same with Berlin's latest (and currently last) subway project, U5 extension. While much shorter, the stations also were behind schedule, and the line operated for a few months without the intermittent stations being open.
Lol, you really need to learn to cook man.
So they are designed to be crap ? Why not produce more waste ?
I think the article assumes "all other things being equal" - so given an engineering (or sales, or marketing) capability equal to that of another business, these factors are what the author believes differentiate the business enough to be able to perform better, and especially in execution.

And I don't think this stuff is BS; "updating beliefs" is important, as many business decisions are made based on a belief - especially if your product has not gone to market yet. "Updating beliefs" is also reflective of an openness to change, and being able to cope with being wrong at times - people find it hard to find out (or be told) that they are wrong - their ego is hurt, they fight back.

"Don't do BS," specifically the documentation side of things, strikes a particular chord with me, as it's something that I've had to do recently, it goes against everything I know about writing software, so I am 100% happy to see it being spouted here!

All of the points made in the document are about execution, but they're about executing as a business, and not a "how to make your engineers perform better" guide. That said, these practices will _probably_ have your engineers performing better anyway, but you'd need to dig into how each change affects the psychology of those doing following these practices in order to understand how/why.
I work for a 10,000 employee organization ( not technically a software company but definitely an who’s customers are engineers and has a strong engineering culture ). We don’t have dedicated QA people by name, but we do have sever BAs who are essentially dedicated QA. Commits need to have test cases, then they get code reviewed, merged into erotic branch, epic branch merged into one of the dev. The. Our technical product managers generally test it ( at my org our technical product managers are highly technical and write code themselves ). Then generally we merge into test and eventually BAs test it. That’s generally how it works where I’m at currently. I’ve only ever worked for one org with a dedicated QA team
China doesn't have a Covid exit plan. Two years in, people are fed up and angry
> A bit more context, in case you are interested: he has worked as an executive at multiple companies in the past decades (CEO, CCO, CFO). As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work, even though he would love to continue working for the years to come.

Is this about finding work, or finding software/programming work. If your dad wants to find work, he's better of, in my opinion, to stick to his field. He held considerable positions in the past, what did change about his industry that's making it hard now to find work?

The market for Software developers is hot right now; but it is quite difficult to find a job as a junior. Add to that ageism and companies are really picky when hiring.

Here are things your father is probably good at: Accounting, Taxes, Employment, Customer/People relations, Signing contracts (maybe gov. contracts), Figuring commercial real-estate & local regulation, Getting a credit line, Handling a lawsuit/the court, etc... All this stuff is experience a junior dev doesn't have and probably doesn't need.

By starting as a junior dev, your father is throwing all of that out of the window. What he needs to do (if he's looking for work), is to figure out how to branch into some industry that can make use of this knowledge.
That'd be an okay but irrelevant to meat eating point if I was against supply chain transparency and stopping slavery. I am very much happy to see anyone who has enslaved anyone going to prison for the rest of their life though, and I'm very happy for companies to find alternative sources to warlords and corrupt banana republics.
That is correct. Ideally we will move to lab grown meat or just lab grown edibles/drinkables that contain all the nutrients you need and you get to choose the ratio of nutrients for each meal.
I would, but I think the premise is unrealistic. The term “suffering” itself is pretty vague and undefined. You might be thinking of just removing pain receptors in the brain or something, but there are many more sources of suffering than just pain.
Disinfected Mail Tells the Story About Old Pandemics (2021)
I've used Qt for developing a few desktop apps, a couple of mobile apps and while working on a few embedded systems.

The good:

1. Their QWidgets library is very stable and mature for cross platform desktop applications and i can still recommend it very much. I don't think there's a good enough alternative to it tbh.

2. For embedded systems in certain sectors (automotive, house appliances etc..) their QtQuick (with QML) is almost like the defacto standard. It is kind of like flutter but with a much better GUI describing language and very nice integration with C++.

3. Their C++ libraries and tools are also kind of nice when developing non GUI applications (networking, cli tools etc..), but these days C++ ecosystem has much nicer alternatives. Qt Creator is still my fav. C++ IDE though.

The bad:
1. Using QtQuick for mobile application development is fine until it isn't. The ecosystem is a lot smaller than say flutter, react native etc... So you end up hand rolling various integrations yourself.

2. The licensing situation can be a bit of a headache when developing a commercial product. For eg. You cannot easily statically link your application with the open source offering, and you need to statically link when targeting iOS.

3. Licensing can be very expensive, even on embedded systems. LGPLv3 means you need to provide the end user a way to replace your Qt libraries and for many companies, that's a no go. So even today, i see a lot of companies still using the very old Qt 5.6 (when there was an LGPL v2 offering). If you're developing a desktop or Android application or an open source application, none of the licensing headaches should apply to you though.

4. With QtQuick, Qt Multimedia etc... things changed a lot during the last 5-6 years, so a lot of times the 3rd party libraries you find aren't that useful to you or are just half baked in the ecosystem.

I'd still use Qt for my personal projects, but with all the licensing headaches i see more and more companies trying other alternatives. If you want to try out, try out QML: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmlfirststeps.html
But the race to the bottom has shown that quality goes out the window. People will eat garbage if it's cheap and companies will cut any corners they can to get the price down.

Corn fed factory meat doesn't taste at all the same as grass fed organic free-range.

I'd rather pay quadruple for a piece of meat and only eat it once a week than the crap we get for cheap every day.
Yup. The right lifestyle leads to all sorts of beneficial side effects. I moved off grid about two years ago, and since, have become leaner and fitter than I have been in my entire life, with zero deliberate exercise. I hadn’t considered my hand strength until just now, but it just occurred to me that I’ve had no carpal tunnel symptoms in at least a year, although I still do plenty of typing and fine manual work. I also do a lot of heavy carrying and lifting and digging and all the rest. Prior to this I was a desk jockey, living off processed crap - now, barely a day passes when I don’t find myself doing some kind of manual labour out of necessity. Honestly, it feels great to live like a human is built to live. We just aren’t made for the sedentary lifestyles we typically live in developed countries, and it’s killing us - and advice like “use a hand exerciser” is the absolute epitome of treating the symptom, not the disease.
Didn't a particularly noteworthy event happen during the production of the movie, "Interstellar"?

Edit:

Yes, and here is one of many stories:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophys...
I'm a bit confused. Thhe hibernate function has been available in Windows (and also Linux) for years. In Windows 10 you might need to enable it in Power Options in the Control Panel. I'm using it all the time. It's very useful for long travels for example.
20k deaths for a population of 10M in Sweden is 0.2% right? USA has had just under 1M deaths for 330M people or closer to 0.3%.

I'm not saying that Sweden did the totally right 100% perfect thing. But it seems to have done much less catastrophically horrible than many predicted at least as far as I can see.
If you invent an animal that is designed to grow muscle tissue for harvesting and isn't sentient nor suffers, you've solved lab meat, in an organic container. While many vegns grew a distaste for meat, that would indeed satisfy the vegan principle of eliminating suffering.

However, the reason farm animals are so cheap is because they are conscious, autonomous meat machines that you can order around easily.

* You do enter into another question here about whether brain dead or deeply disabled people are ethical to be eaten. Most people would say no.
It will take some time for the public to take notice and create a meaningful movement against that thing. For nuclear, it took about 35 years before we saw public protest that was more than just three potentially mentally unstable folks raving about the end of the world.
Citation for the stake numbers?
I can see it being possible, if cooking increases bioavailability
Interesting. Maybe there is something in M1 that draws power anyway.
I'm obviously not making a point against anonymity in general, so spare me the spiel.

> I don't really get the part on how selling something you own p2p makes you a third party and I don't care about the 2nd hand tickets market, I'm only intrested in a safe decentralized p2p market

The peers in this transaction are the event organizer and the person who ends up with a ticket. The ticket scalper is third party that "facilitates" the transaction at a cost. Essentially a broker that no one asked for.
I feel like there's a male birth control on the horizon every year for the last ten years. This one hasn't hit human trials yet so no point getting excited.
They fell and desintegrwte.
If the poster thinks the How is really required they can edit the title and add it back in. I've done it a few times.

on edit: changed author to poster although confusion would be surprising in this case.
Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?
I have to use Discord and Element on a regular basis (which both use Electron). They both use an unreasonable amount of RAM, and I feel this even more as my laptop is quite old and has 4GB of RAM.

I keep looking for alternatives to Electron, which wouldn't require such heavy resources to run, but my searches always seem to come up short. There are a number of solutions that are either dead or are not ready for production yet, such as React NodeGUI[0], Proton Native[1] or react-native-desktop-qt[2].

There's react-native-windows, but I'm not running Windows, and even if that did gain Linux compatibility it seems that they're quite focused on Microsoft-owned platforms.

Is "just stick Chromium into all your apps" seriously the best we can do as an industry? It's resource-inefficient to high heaven, not to mention that it's slow and doesn't integrate with the native platform styles at all. As a JavaScript developer, I'm quite surprised this is the best there is for cross-platform JavaScript development.

[0]: https://github.com/nodegui/react-nodegui
[1]: https://proton-native.js.org/
[2]: https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop-qt
Moves like this are not about improving the general conditions of the masses.

Please let's stop being so naive.
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First, poor argument: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

Second, Apple is actually trying to make sure that doesn’t happen: https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple-Comb...
I don't see any other comments about this so I'll ask: what other options are there for similar use cases? I.e. "statically typed scripting languages that transpile to Posix sh".