skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrast to the previous president, whose appointments were all drawn from the Federalist Society. Were they the most qualified candidates? We won't know because the pool of candidates was restricted to a certain subset of the population.
He may be talking about Kindle not using an open format.
>...Also the incident in Chernobyl was 99% a political problem, not a technical one.

The Chernobyl design was dangerous enough it would have been illegal to build in any other country.
Technically, `hopping back on' you would still be violating the law because the Basic Med allows you to self-certify but the rules are the same. On the other hand you can pay for SI once and then switch to Basic Med (since the rules are that you had a valid 3rd class medical before switching to Basic Med). There are many AMEs around, talk to another one but do not reveal your plans after you get the medical.
Thanks. This is totally new to me. I guess it's the same pic for professional level designers or game designers who basically work in a CAD like environment? For example the people who design levels and scripts for games such as Skyrim.
How about the price of EBS volumes as well? I believe the price for gp2 has been $0.10/GB (USE1) since 2014 and gp3 only reduced the price slightly.
And it doesn't stop after the coal is mined, either. Coal ash and tailings are quite toxic.
I've been following monorepo support in git for many years (I'm usually the person who knows the most about tools like SCM and build systems on my team, and I spend most of my time saying "no, the hot new thing doesn't work well in practice yet", or "unfortunately it still has some significant downsides for us as a team").

Yes, the monorepo story today is better than ever, and in the last 6 months or so, a few developments have made it maybe even workable for teams like mine. I haven't seriously kicked the tires on the latest developments yet, so it's possible we're in a golden age as you say, but I'm skeptical. Just being realistic, but "better than ever" doesn't mean "good enough to use without needing significant time investment and deployment complexity cost for medium sized organizations". As an example, things like VFSforgit carried unreasonable deployment complexity cost compared to the benefit.

Ironically, the monorepo discussion reminds me of the discussions around complex architectures (SoA, fault tolerance, microservices, etc.) vs. simple architectures (file/SQL/dumb KV store and monoliths, etc.). For complex architectures, the benefits vs system size is a hockey stick, starting flat and negative, then rising somewhat linearly until it finally becomes beneficial at a certain (arguably very large) size. For monorepos, given the actually existing and available tooling, it's more of a U shape -- for tiny systems, it's great, becomes problematic for medium sized orgs who usually split repos after reaching painful size, then plateaus and slowly ticks up again when you become Twitter or whatnot. I think most of us live in the early phase or the middle phase, and almost no organizations live in the final phase (lots of developers who post on HN do though...).

I don't knock anyone who manages to do it at medium or large size with the current tools, especially if they manage by having discipline rather than having to spend a lot of time doing meta-work rather than their actual work, but IME I've found even that to not be worth it.
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I dunno, gay people are used to be ostracized for their "opinion" that other people of their gender are hot.

With a little distance it is hard to tell the difference between young left-wingers from young right-wingers. Left-wingers seem resentful that the police have guns. Right-wingers seem resentful that Trump got kicked off twitter. Either way they are resentful.
Human beings are not flowers to be sorted into a bouquet by color. It is racist to look at a persons skin color first, to decide if you will do business with them, or give them power. Lady Justice herself is depicted as blind since 1543.
Those "ghost cities" have been fairly consistently been filling in over time. Some of the originally-reported ones are by now more or less completely populated and are now just... cities.
I’ll take a stab at answering your question directly..

..I still play games from time to time, but for a while it felt like I was just falling back into the same traps. I’d play late into the night and wake up feeling like shit for work the next day.

The way I combat this is by only playing when I’ve gotten in touch with an old friend and want to share an experience with them, finding a game that I can spin up a server on and learn about what it takes to manage that sort of server or community, or when my kid invites me to play.

A healthy amount of gaming is possible, but for me I need to be able to tell myself I’m bringing some enrichment to my life by playing.

Hope this is a bit more helpful than my previous rant.
There is only one way to consistently prevent Windows Update from rebooting your machine. You must use regedit to override the process execution for the executable that triggers the reboot.

You can find instructions here[0]. This method has been flawless for three years, through multiple feature updates. No longer to my long-running processes get interrupted.

It does not disable updates, just makes the reboots be on your schedule.

0: https://lazyadmin.nl/it/how-to-stop-automatic-restart-win-10...
For what it's worth, we run "edge compute" with two separate mid-sized CDNs and pay about $0.005 per GB. This required a bit of negotiation, but has no minimum commitment and is on a monthly term. Yes, even lower fees can be had if you build your own infrastructure and pay for bandwidth on a CDR, but this is a fairly apples-for-apples case where we are not doing that.

So yes, AWS, GCP, Azure bandwidth pricing is very high. Oracle is, amazingly, the outlier with lower bandwidth pricing.
Houses got bigger faster than they got cheaper. That's on top of land going up in value.
I notice not all results have a date. That is extremely important when looking at Reddit posts, and one of the main issues with Google because old posts will show up as new.
Yes! I am also a regular guy, I actually feel a bit below average reading HN, since I live in Germany and don't earn that much compared to US or even UK salaries. But I also don't spend a lot :)

I have many (attainable) goals for when I hit 40, one of them is to be totally financially independent (passive sources of income > monthly expenses). After that I'd love to try a different industry altogether from tech, very likely starting a small, "boring" but low risk business. Not with the goal of getting rich of course. Just because I don't see myself in the tech treadmill my entire life.

But yes what to do in my old age was a big consideration for me when I pondered about having children and my conclusion was that it was not worth to invest so much resources (time and money) into children in the present when I'm still young and with energy, just for having something to do 20 years in the future. Also take into account children will eventually leave home so I'd still be on my own when I'm 60 and older, with or without children.

I have great respect for people that have children and I actually think me and my SO are selfish and probably narcissists. But we only have one life and having children is not a decision you can undo.
Then you have the people who script to scan,process the source tree (stats, debug, else) to increase leverage. I wish I had this talent naturally.
This drives me insane. Does nobody develop software for actual humans anymore?
Bit off topic, but I managed to use old reddit on windows 98 not that long ago
You said:

> to be very explicit, the renewables-only crowd reliably exaggerates the lives saved--some renewable energy sources kill more people than nuclear, even when accounting for disasters like Chernobyl.
Rackable did horrible things with the brand.

I believe HPE essentially continued only the UltraViolet series (The Xeon-based continuation of Altix series)
That talk is from 2014 and Wikipedia says wasm was announced in 2017?
This is not an advice or example to follow by any stretch of imagination, but my case was similar. As soon as my kid was born, for me the missing piece of the puzzle finally found its place.
Will Larson had a good post on this recently- https://infraeng.dev/efficiency/
They were probably posing for a photo there. Pair programming wasn't coined as a term or popularized by Kent Beck until the early 2000s and 'Extreme Programming'.
100%. I regularly point people to his video "Why Gifted Children are Special Needs." It and Randy Pausch's Last Lecture may be the only legitimately lifechanging videos I've ever watched.

One of his core messages is that we (meaning his target audience, mostly males under 40) generally have too high expectations of ourselves and place too much importance on what we're "supposed" to be doing with our lives vs what we actually want to do. Internalizing this idea has helped me move towards finding work and relationships that are more fun and fulfilling. I'm finding myself to be increasingly unconcerned with what other people think about me, which ironically has made me more relaxed and likeable.
Do you remember the name of the book and the author?
Thing is, solar and wind cost are still trending sharply down, with no floor in sight. Nuke cost has gone up. So, no matter how badly nukes fare today, they will fare much worse in ten years. And, storage cost is falling even faster than solar or wind ever did.

So, provisioning 2x, 3x, 5x solar + storage will still be cheaper than nukes. Storage in the form of transportable liquids, even where round-trip efficiency is low, is very attractive because you don't need long-term storage if you can import what you need, in a pinch, from the tropics. And, whenever the tankage you do have is full, you may sell the extra production for industrial use. The world can absorb an effectively unlimited amount of hydrogen and ammonia overproduction.
I have this same hyper competitive drive. Dungeons and Dragons somehow scratches this same competitive itch without the toxicity. There’s a cap on how much time I can play because I have to get a group of people together to play it.
What do the parameters do?
stop paying the lawyers, and this will stop happening.
That’s because Ukraine operates s300 too. Neither side can operate high altitude flights.
What exact problem are you trying to solve? I can think of a lot that this would cause.

Analyze any specific tax policy deeply enough and you’ll find that there is no way to fix something that starts off as unnecessary and harmful.
"Not horribly confusing and overwhelming for people that don’t use it regularly like Reddit, be it the old or the bad design."

My first thought was that the unrepentant bizarreness of Twitter's layout was going to be the "wall" in this case. But the idea that Reddit - a mild variation on the timeless forum format - is somehow more confusing than Twitter? No.
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> Do publicly advertised affirmative action or DEI programs have the side effect of causing qualified people to second guess whether their success was earned?

If you have status, you don't mind being known as a recipient of "affirmative action" i.e. "I picked you for supreme court justice cause your black".

If you don't have status, then you don't want it to be known you're a recipient of aa i.e. you won't see the POTUS go around to ivy-leagues and point out all the affirmative action students saying, "It's great all these students got into harvard because they're black."
FWIW, I have long wondered where all the plastic trash in the ocean was coming from. A recent video [1] from Mark Rober was very enlightening: the trash from poor communities (without collection services) gets picked up by rain and wind and flows into waterways.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXDx6DjNLDU&t=353s
As a developer, why can't I buy 5 or 6 detached houses, tear them down, and build row-houses/town-houses on the site? I could house 3x as many families and charge a lot more than 1/3 the price for those homes. Why can't I do that? That is an unalloyed good in 2022 with the benchmark home price in Vancouver approaching $2 million. It would make me money and it would be a tremendous social good.

I can't do it because it's illegal, that's why. And I would have to go to city council to have them change the law (rezone the land). And the neighbors will campaign against me and argue against density. I own the land - I paid good money for it and it's mine in every sense of the word, but the neighbors will argue that their preferences and whims outweigh both my property rights and the rights of other Canadians to have a home.
I've never actually had to dig that deep into the internals of cygwin, but you do need to understand how things are linked if you are going to distribute binaries.

Over time I found msys2 to be a better fit. In theory they're supposed to do different things, but msys2 with no cross compilation is basically cygwin but with a package manager you can use from the command line.
Git is trivial to use if you don't try to actually understand it, follow the rules, and do stuff through a GUI.

If you have something more advanced than that, there's a bit of essential complexity there that's kind of hard to get rid of anyway.

There might be some better VCS out there, but I'd only want to switch if everyone else does. Having to stay familiar with 2 different systems sounds worse than 1 mediocre one.
The basic interaction model with government should be “answer their legitimate questions truthfully, but do not volunteer extraneous information.”
Last I used Windows was Windows 7 and the terminal was serviceable but not as useful as kitty. It wasn't as fast for sure. I also don't think it used a text-based configurtion file I could edit and check into my configs repo.
I think a limit on stack/recursion/backtracking depth would be tad a bit more elegant than a timeout and would keep your code behaviour the same between different machines.
Food you eat makes you think about existential crisis?
I used Windows 95 for about 6 months before switching to NT 3.51, which was rock solid. I ended up using Windows 98 for my kids' computers, and it was fine for playing games, etc. I never did anything serious on it.
Hey Alex!

We build our own containers and still run them on Lambda. The container base image contains the necessary language runtimes so that we can execute both Node.js and e.g. Python in the same workflow.

Do you think it would make sense to add an OpenFAAS integration to Pipedream? Then it would show up when users searched for it in workflows, and have a dedicated page at https://pipedream.com/apps . Even if we just end up wrapping HTTP requests to kick off a function, we've found it's helpful because users are often searching for FaaS platforms by name when they want to integrate with them in a workflow.
>Every app will have a bunch of serverside data so IMO that's not really a consideration.

Every app will not have so much data that they can't send it all to the client. 99% of them will which is why 99% of web apps should be server side. That 1% is when you want a heavy client side app.

>Also, it cleanly segments your staffing requirements. If your app is in some way non-trivial, you can have domain experts working on the backend, and just dumping json into http responses, and have a frontend engineer who doesn't understand any of the magic work on the frontend.

You can separate frontend and backend code without introducing a client server call in the middle.

>Once you're doing this, your backend engineers are dealing with html in addition to whatever their real job is.

Why? You can still have front end engineers. They just write server side HTML templates which is hardly any different than writing JS based HTML templates.
ICAO is the certifying authority, FAA and EASA (and hundreds of other national certification bodies) have agreements that allow for the certification results done on the national level to be accepted by ICAO. I totally agree about the significance of strict standards.
Other research related to the effects of plastics that might be of interest:

[Decrease in anogenital distance among male infants with prenatal phthalate exposure]
Everywhere is different. Hamilton may be in favour of densification - I wouldn’t know - but even in Toronto, where I’m from, there’s endless pushback against densifying the single family homes that dominate much of the city. Right now I live in Victoria, and although many people and groups (including the mayor and the province) are pro-development, there’s a loud contingent of busybodies here who oppose literally any change or construction project whatsoever.
You don't understand. This is not about (circumventing) technical limitations, it's about the policy of not installing third-party apps. And I mean "install" in the general sense of "adding to your OS" - it's irrelevant whether that means downloading an .exe file, unpacking a zip folder, or running an installer. It's not a technical question.
At the time of release, they were quite proud of the animation of hair I remember.

I thought actually the film was alright, if you're into such spiritual things. But I can see, that it didn't appeal to the video gaming crowd.
While the sold data is useful, it doesn't capture nuances like "this house sold for 200k over asking and 175k over other bids because the buyer's agent mislead them and they were scared to lose." Often times a single large sale sets the bar for all future sales in the area; Zillow is a good example of how merely going off the sale history can quickly drive up prices.
Mining isn't a good analogy of crypto. Even though that's what it's called. The point is it must have some negative value to provide the scarcity.
I always thought that was a BIOS thing. This functionality was built into the original IBM PC, and was definitely a BIOS thing back then as a way to enter character codes you couldn't generate from the keyboard otherwise. I always assumed it remained the same ever since.
I was thinking the same thing, isn't ruby particularly hard to package as it doesn't support static compilation? It would be nice to just sidestep all of that with a hermetic little WASM distribution.
Russian semiconductor production – Mikron plant (video /w English subtitles)
Most people who aren't programmers expect formatting to be copied and pasted.
1. the history of democracy is very short, it's no foregone conclusion that it is the best option regardless of pithy quotes from Churchill or what we would like to believe (and yes I know that "best" and "worst" are doing a lot of work in our statements)

2. there are many implementations of democracy possible and extant, so even if we think democracy is the ideal government that is still no defense of the US
Both.

Airborne training is "safe" in the sense that they thoroughly teach you all the steps and do lots of ground training before getting in a plane. But by no means does that mean your body won't get wrecked by doing jumps.

The parachutes are designed for combat: their goal isn't a soft landing, it's to get you out of the sky as fast as possible.

I was stationed in Alaska. Wintertime jumps were a toss-up in terms of landing in a big pile of snow — or solid ice.
Damn, this is why I come to HN. This is awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to write it up.
Fighting impostor syndrome in software engineering
By 2050, humans will consist mostly of micro plastic vs organic material
Super thrilled to see two open source projects come together!
I would have some reverence for the man. This isn't someone who "just got lucky". We was working on the forefront of the internet with Netscape IPOing in 1995 and being bought by AOL for 4 billion in 1999.

He then went on to found another company that had a $1.6 billion exit just 4 years after the AOL acquisition.

He then ran a VC that went from 300mm to 2.7bn in three years.

I would say he knows something about the world. Maybe he doesn't know anything on certain topics or you disagree with him, or he has an ego. But to write him off as a "programmer who got lucky" is wrong, especially considering that the fields he succeeded in were very cutting edge. He didn't just invest in Manhattan real estate or some crap.

Some life advice, go into every interaction with people assuming they know something you don't. You'll get a lot farther that way.
> Clipboards: Try Microsoft PowerToys for multiple clipboards and much more.

I have that installed, I think? Are you talking about this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/ ?

As far as I can see, there are no clipboard things in PowerToys, currently?

Either way - I don't want multiple clipboards or history or a clipboard manager, though, I just want the Primary Selection thing from Linux. I just want any text selection anywhere to be automatically kept somewhere and allow me to paste it in on a middle mouse click. I would _love_ to be wrong, but I don't think that's a thing on Windows?
We don't need to; nuclear weapons in the giga tonne range are practical. Anything over about 200 kilo tonnes just isn't that useful because cities aren't so big, and aren't circular.
The sub-rant about every app having its own browser really rang true for me. I never gave it much thought until now, but wow, what a horrible experience. Frequently I click a link to a private GitHub repo (404!) or a news article (paywall!) inside an app and then have to clunkily "Open in Safari" to actually apply my session cookie.

To non-developers this must be even more confusing ("why am I only logged in some of the time?") Terrible UX.
The Tesla giga factory produces 35GWh of batteries per year. It would take ~14 years for a giga factory to produce just one hour's worth of storage. We need days at least, potentially weeks depending on the mix of renewables. Again, the scale just isn't there for batteries.

This is why renewable evangelists assume something like hydrogen storage, or compressed air will deliver nearly-free storage. But that's just hope, who knows if these approaches will actually be competitive.
Sophon?
Vancouver downtown (In large part, thanks to the west end) is incredibly dense. 23,838 people/km2 - the same density as Manhattan.

Once you leave the penninsula, though, it's surrounded by a lot of suburban sprawl, with small pockets of density around the SkyTrain stations. Unlike most North American cities, though, at least it has those pockets of density!
Rarely do I see people examine individual commits, perhaps because it is already established that PRs should small and branches short living.

The point about bulled list of changes is a good one.