skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are conflating "giving everyone $1000 of currency" with "giving everyone $1000 worth of value"

The first one just requires changing some digits in a bank account. The second requires an enormous amount of positive work by the whole of society to generate that much value.
Nothing cements the uselessness of unit tests more, for me, than not surfacing bugs in new code and having wasted all that time preemptively debugging code that works.
Truth. Have to love yourself. This takes some work.
Visualizing Air Raid Sirens in Ukraine
Static Tweets in Astro
I don't think it is just about time management - all skills can be learned - but sadly there are a non-trivial percent of people in any organization who will simply get away with anything they think they can.

These people, for the most part, aren't any better when forced to work onsite - but it is harder for them to hide from their managers and co-workers.
Wow, thanks for the Flat OpenDocument file type! Such kind of files are much better to treat with git (i.e. human readable diffs, for instance). However, unfortunately, these files tend to get very large (200kB ODS vs. 7MB FODS). What a pity the XML itself is not less verbose.
YNAB. I've used it for a few years (since YNAB 4). The automated import and categorization of transactions, combined with envelope budgeting is all I need. About as frictionless as it can realistically get, for my use case.
Used this for a project recently - made things remarkably easier than writing all the code myself.
> Some people notice a significant taste difference between UHT milk and non-UHT milk.

You mean some people don't? They taste radically different (I like both btw).
The more I have trouble solving a problem, the more I NEED to solve it. The Witness tapped into that part of me. I loved the "you get zero help" part of it. Got to hand it to them for pulling that off without making it too frustrating or failing to realize that some part of the game is nearly impossible to get past. I don't think many game designers are able to accomplish that.

And on the flip side, I didn't find the story engaging at all. Although it could've been fine for what it was trying to do, if it wasn't so pretentious.
Unfortunately, Germany has been ruled by a conservative party for the last 16 years and they did everything in their power to sabotage renewable energy so that lignite mining could stay longer.

However, heating in Germany is a difficult problem to solve with renewable energy: You need lots of power in winter, when there is (close to) no power from solar. One solution would be excessive wind power and heat pumps that can be controlled remotely by the power grid operators.
This statistic is more striking considering the population over age 65 is 18% in UK, 28% in Japan.
I thought about this a little more. The relationship of these "people I do not like" (though some of them are not so bad) to freedom exists - it's not liberal, it's libertine. You are free to play almost any way you want. You want to play all day with little children's toys well into your 40s? Go right ahead, you do you. Watch a show aimed at the opposite sex, while stuffing your face full of custom made toothpaste-flavoured corn chips? Nothing wrong with that. Got an absolutely bonkers kink, like uh, transforming people into cakes and sitting on them? Any judgment or concern about it is met with harsh reproach.

The only sort of play that is obviously not tolerated is culture-jamming against the libertines. It's stupid, immature, in poor taste, morally reprehensible, selfish, deplorable, hypocritical, bigoted, alarmist, disingenuous, and sinful against the only commandment: "Do as thou wilt". This is our dungeon, in our fort, in what used to be your country. Go play somewhere else, and make sure we can't hear you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830530
I think for the average person, having kids might be the best way to have a positive impact on the world. Something like selling a company sounds like a bigger deal, but in 10, 30, 50 years, what will it matter? Some money is exchanged and some customers have some need fulfilled for the moment. Having kids and doing your best to teach them to be happy, empathetic, thoughtful, etc. can have an impact for generations.
Climate Change Tracker: Human CO2 Emissions
Not a solution but a way to deal with this practice: some credit card providers allow you to create virtual cards that you can cancel any time. I do this all the time with Capital One.

https://www.capitalone.com/digital/eno/virtual-card-numbers/
The ReScript Programming Language
Is there a way to charge government agency's in a way that accomplishes anything? If the faa is fined it will just be paid by the taxpayer, it's not like they have a revenue stream to worry about. And if you charge them enough to make it hard to do their job with their budget then that is just counter productive?
> The main issue I had with Mediapart (which led to cancel my subscription) was indeed the fact that on some subjects (mostly the "woke' things), they twist the facts to match their agenda.

> Regarding the other subjects, I had nothing but praise for them.

It’s weird how you noticed they are twisting facts to match their agenda on a specific topic, and somehow still think they’re not doing the same elsewhere.

Mediapart is a very unreliable source.
Well, in Italy a software dev would earn 1500€/month (anecdotal based on friends), so if you are talking about a software startup, it's not out of the blue. My salary (I'm italian living in Canada) is at least 5x what I would be making in Italy
Considering where the progress on deepfakes is at, I'm going to have to disagree on both counts of "hard to make" and "easily tell it's fake".
> I could try to focus on my hobbies, but you realize very quickly that to get good at anything, you need hundreds/thousands of hours

the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is right now. To continue with the QOTDs: today you're the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be, get started.
Google's approach to all of their services is an upgrade treadmill. They take the opposite approach of AWS who operate things like an actual service provider.

Google will change APIs and deprecate things with little to no advanced notice. Anywhere except Ads, really. The progress of code at Google is a sacred cow.

You may have found random APIs of theirs barely in KTLO status -- like the last time I used their Geocoding API 5 or 6 years ago, not a single one of their own client libraries worked according to how they were documented. Specifically the way you do auth was wildly different from the documentation and seemed to be wildly different between client libraries as well. It seemed to me like they went through three or four rounds of iteration w/ that API and abandoned different client libraries at different stages. Extremely bizarre.

If you can operate like that, then using Google's stuff is fine. You just have to be ready and willing to drop everything you're doing to fix things at any time because Google decided to break something that you rely on.
> They're fond of flashy announcements, but the hard long term work to bring them to fruition is another matter.

Quite the understatement. At the very start of 2008, the UK Government announced a whole new generation of nuclear plants[1]. The first was intended to start generating power by 2017 (9 and a bit years).

In the end, however, only one plant is being built, Hinkley Point C. It is currently only expected to start producing power by the end[2] of 2026 (nearly 19 years).

Needless to say, fission is not a solution to the current energy crisis.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7179579.stm

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-58724732
> Cloudformation was so hard to work with (at least our implementation) that replacing it with terraform was easy: the hard part was understanding what was needed and what was fluff.

I hated cloudformation when I first started using it. To get started the documentation sucks. Once you get the hang of it the docs are great and is actually really simple. I now quite like it.
If you print $1000 to lend to a startup business, and that business grows to generate more than $1000 of raw value, then that original printed $1000 (that was paid back) is not inflation, its growth.

Imagine you could print corn seeds. You print the seeds and get a whole bunch of (real) corn cobs back.
> They literally discontinued all other product lines

Not quite, as I mention elsewhere they continued incompatible low end systems, most prominently the existing business 1401 series, and used 360 technology to make the affordable 1965 1130. I would assume the same for the 1969 System 3, which eventually evolved in the AS/400 or IBM I as they call it now, which internally is still by far the most sophisticated mass manufactured computer system architecture.
According to http://www.100ll.com/ - about $6.00 to $6.70 at retail.

Looking at my own local airports ( e.g. http://www.100ll.com/showfbo.php?HashID=d0f7e0afbdcf9b9a7cde... ) the price goes higher to often over $7.00/gal, though that's for "full service" (I don't know what that means, though).
You don't want to know. Somewhere between $5-10/gallon. Normal times, $3.50-7/gallon.
Fenced Frame Element
You can price haggle with mega corporations?
That sounds like confirmation bias. I've bought a lot of milk in a variety of containers from plastic to paper to glass, from a variety of sources. There is a wide variety of flavors, it has much more to do with what dairy it came from than the container it is packed in.
That "inevitably" is doing some really heavy lifting in your post. It practically never comes for most companies.
Google pulls apps that may have harvested data from millions of Android devices
Seeking to find the truth may be something that is good for some people: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/idol-words
https://mijndertstuij.nl

Created it from scratch using Jekyll.
If you're buying your storage from Apple it is not cheap!
It depends on how the UBI is financed. If it is financed through debt or simply printing new money and increasing the amount in circulation then yes, it absolutely will increase inflation. This applies to more than just a UBI though and the reason some point to the stimulus is because it was paid through debt.

If there were no deficit and this UBI is paid through taxes or other direct revenue then there will likely be some inflationary forces but they should stabilize as the markets adjust. What we do instead of letting the markets stabilize is constantly increase the amount of money available so that the stabilization we're chasing is a moving target based on an increasingly more available, and less valuable, dollar.
My understanding is that Hindustani is more of a continuum than a single language, a sort of umbrella term for all Hindi and Urdu standard languages and sister languages/dialects.
> The current replication crisis in psychology and other fields would suggest that it's actually quite bad at it.

Not saying that you're necessarily wrong but be careful not to compare apples to oranges: There is a huge difference between fields like math & physics on the one hand and fields like psychology on the other.
Yep, you're right, this isn't a very good look. CI should be fixed now tho :).
Keeping up with HN isn’t a priority. I scan then headlines every day, maybe follow some links, maybe comment on a few. Anything truly important will surface in other places if it gets traction.

I think it helps to learn to distinguish between actionable (or possibly actionable) posts, like security problems with products I or my customers use, “new” things that I might want to know about, and the other 90% of posts that have no relevance to me. If something looks actionable or interesting I read it and then maybe take action or write a reminder with the link, or save a bookmark.
No ssh keys or anything else interesting available to the user you're running the container engine under (and containers themselves). Not the user _inside_ the container, but on the main system.
I've haven't had much milk or tried different brands...between your recommendation and the apparent milk cult:

"Who are the peoples who have achieved, who have become large, strong, vigorous people, who have reduced their infant mortality, who have the best trades in the world, who have an appreciation for art and literature and music, who are progressive in science and every activity of the human intellect? They are the people who have patronized the dairy industry."

good milk definitely sounds worth trying
Your brain is also the result of billions of years of evolutionary "training." Neural nets start from scratch.
Well fluorine for sure.
I'm the same, I loved the perfect polish of both games, they beg to be played with.

My specific issue (in both games) was that I solved later puzzles by just exploring the problem space and not understanding the logic behind them. Like just try this ... uh no that didn't work ... try that, oh good right, onto the next... I was felt deaf to whatever the game was trying to tell me, and it became endless chores with no motivation behind them.
I've got to the point where I won't subscribe to any of these publications now which makes me wonder if these tactics really work.
Also see the global warming tracker: https://www.climatechangetracker.org/

I thought this was a nice way to present the data and serves as a great reference to look up when trying to reason about the different solutions that aim to tackle climate change.
"they should have to pay" - who is "they" in your postulation? Government doesn't create anything; it's funded by confiscation of wealth from its citizens (also known by the cuter and more acceptable term: taxation).

Now if you want to tweak it to their budget should get cut the longer they take to make a decision - that's something government agencies would *actually* pay attention to. About the only thing, actually.

The executive branch only ignores congress because congress refuses to do their job. They have the power of the purse but are loathe to use it. The 17th amendment was an utter disaster enabling the morass we are now in.
I have a few apps built for macos which I sell on app store. I really like to keep app sizes small. Like if I would try to use a library and see that the app size blow up from 5MB to 50MB, I would not use it. So basically I don’t use any libraries and keep my apps in sizes of 3-5MB.

At the same time I saw some comments, reviews about my apps, that they are probably would not be good just because the app sizes are too small.
> Isn't 0.5MB 500 KB? Not 5? Or are you referring to something else

The article said that the default is 5KB but Apple uses 500KB, hence the poster is saying that even 5KB is overkill.
Couples' well-being and sociopolitical attitudes change independently ove (cont)
I believe they just fixed this (after how many years?) by moving Music.app away from webviews to native views in macOS 12.2. I wouldn't be surprised to still see a JavaScript error in there though, or maybe a Java error because it probably still runs on WebObjects.
You would probably enjoy some of Dusko Pavlovic's work: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.5542.pdf
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> None of us are or want to be sysadmins.

It's such a huge misconception that by using a cloud provider you can avoid having "sysadmins" or don't need that kind of skills. You still need those, no matter which cloud and which service you use.
Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta was once asked during an interview how did you manage to help so many people? Her reply was: "I just started with one person".

You don't need to look far to find someone who is hungry; sure many people on this orange site may not be hungry of food but I bet there are many who starved of love. It really doesn't take much to offer an ear to someone in this lonely day and age.

Perhaps it's part of my religious background but I personally find that if the foundation of one's life is based on material things, then one is in a constant state of unhappiness. I come from a country that is considered poor but Western standards, however looking back I realize that the West is wealthy yet poor at the same time. Most are just busy worshiping money, sex, status or power. It's like we forgot about our humanity.

So yes, you may not be able to change _the_ world but you can change _one_ world at a time.
Google “Ed Zitron” and read his articles.
It might not be that simple. Even if UBI is funded by taxes, UBI would be a wealth redistribution, increasing money on the lower end, generally pushing up demand for goods and services that fulfill basic needs, and lowering the money on the top-end, which is spent differently, like on luxury goods, put on the sideline as savings, or spent chasing assets. This redistribution may cause inflation too, even though the overall money supply is not increased.
Don't charge. Your thinking in normal terms. They don't care about charges or fines because they don't create money in the first place. If you want to hit a government agency where it hurts, cut their budget by the amount you would fine someone else. That is about the only thing that will get their attention!
PhD in econometrics speaking, here's my handy guide to macro-economics:

- The main variables of interest are (aggregate) real production / income (GDP/GDI), unemployment and inflation (arguably in that order)

- Nobody knows much wrt the causes, effects and future trajectories of any of these. Not professional Ivy League economists who publish in journals like AER, QJE, JPE or Econometrica, nor traders getting paid millions at hedge funds or prop trading desks, nor fringe bloggers, gold/crypto-bugs or neophytes from different fields (traditionally from physics, but probably increasingly from CS/AI/ML). Especially beware when they sound very sure of themselves, often using correct wonky economic jargon or details like the plumbing of money flows. Top academic economist are at least (usually) somewhat honest that they know very very little.

- Even if someone did know anything, 3rd parties like you or I can't distinguish the Real Truth from quackery.

- The root cause of this knowledge deficiency is the inability to run proper controlled experiments. Pretty much no theory about macro-economics is convincingly testable/falsifiable, except banal trivialities like we can't make everybody rich by sending everyone a $10M check. This will not change in our lifetime, if ever.

- All the writing on macro-economics is story-telling and catering to their specific audiences. Academics write foremost for other academics to gain a position at a prestigious faculty (and incidentally to influence politics). Crypto-bugs write to sell you crypto-coins. Fringe bloggers like Shadowstats write to get newsletter signups and ad-dollars. Most of them employ the effective mechanism that the reader is initiated to advanced/semi-hidden knowledge, which makes the reader feel better about themselves.

Given this, the answer to your question is: maybe, maybe not, who knows?
Avahi in particular is classic for how when it works it barely works. If it ever works.
If I send a physical letter to them, they have to accept and respect my cancellation. That is what I meant. Is that not the case in France?
Apple hasn't patched critical vulnerabilities in macOS Big Sur and Catalina
It's possible. Nobody can say with certainty because we don't have data on a large enough scale to say for sure. But consider this: We don't have UBI, and we have historically high inflation anyway. If we're going to have high inflation anyway, maybe we should just help people.
Reading through this thread makes me wonder, what are achievements really? If it's not something that brings something to your life and helps you or others grow, then I don't think it's that much. Sometimes those things can even be things where the outright goal failed, because what really matters is something else, excellence of character, enjoying your life and helping bring that out in others as well.

I think of someone like Steve Jobs, I remember when he was alive how much he was idolised and how everyone wanted to be the "Next Steve Jobs" now it has been some years that has passed, I feel like that light is a little less and people have moved onto the next thing they want to be, the next Elon musk, mark Zuckerberg or just some level of crazy achievement.

But I wonder what it is worth really? Even those people that have achieved so much more than I ever have, did it really matter so much anyway? If those people were not around, everyone would find someone else to idolise, if those people were not around, the problems they solved in the world would likely just be solved by someone else or perhaps they would be solved in a different way at some point in a future and who is to say that that other future is not somehow better than what we have now? Due to the butterfly effect, we just cannot know what crazy alternative realities would happen if the people that we assume have added to humanity and given so much did not exist, somehow life would have continued and the fields in which they came would be just fine or perhaps even better as something else would have come along at some point, something that doesn't have to happen now because of the work they did, you cannot know that life itself is actually better because of them. You could cure cancer, but then the next evil dictator survives cancer due to the treatment and then nukes the entire planet into oblivion.

When you think of it like this and see that 1) It is very unlikely that you would be able to achieve at that level and 2) It doesn't really matter anyway, your perspective is forced to change on these things, you start to look at just enjoying your life, doing things in a more localised way than trying to change the entire world.
This is such a mess, and it highlights how ineffective the FAA has gotten. I don't want to hear them act like this is an "abundance of caution" when this very same organization pushed the 737 MAX right through. Maybe the problem is that George hasn't greased enough palms?

Pilots WANT unleaded. It's better for the engines, but more importantly, it nullifies concerns from the general public about lead emissions causing health concerns. Which isn't to say those concerns are even scientifically valid, but given the option most pilots would gladly pay a bit more to be good neighbors.

It's just beyond frustrating to watch.
I think mylons had the perception that you were a senior engineer conducting technical interviews as opposed to a hiring manager.

Having had a fair bit of experience interviewing on the technical side, I've observed a huge variance in quality of interviewer. Sometimes you get someone who values communication, creative problem solving and asking good questions. Sometimes you get a whiz kid who gets off on playing gatekeeper and judging people as below their superior intellect.

Even a single person in the chain who falls into that latter group can completely derail a potential hire, leading to an overabundance of false negatives, IMO.
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